Cwilliams

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Options:

  • Linux Mint (Awesome first distro, but more out of date)
  • Pop!_OS (Great for gaming, based on Ubuntu)
  • Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite (Maybe later if your interested in immutability)
  • EndeavorOS (Maybe later once you understand the value of the AUR, more bleeding edge)

Don’t use:

  • Ubuntu (bloat, snaps)
  • Manjaro (Don’t get me started…)
Cwilliams,

Options:

"Must Try" distros and DEs?

Hey folks! I’m getting a fresh laptop for the first time in about a decade (Framework 16) in a couple of months and am looking forward to doing some low-level tinkering both on the OS and hardware. I’m planning to convert into a “cyberdeck” with quick-release hinges for the screen since I usually use an HMD, built-in...

Cwilliams,

It’s like Arch, but x10. People think Arch > Any other distro, Wayland > Xorg, Hyprland > any other DE, Rust > C, etc

Cwilliams,

Literally

Is it possible to use Google Drive reliably?

I’ve been using Google Drive in Windows for about a decade and have a good workflow. I recently transitioned to Linux but cannot seem to reliably connect my drive to the filesystem. My work provides unlimited Drive space and since it’s for work I have shared directories with coworkers that I need access to every day. Hence,...

Cwilliams,

It appears that this only supports Google Cloud storage buckets, not Google Drive

Cwilliams,

For X11, BSPWM was my daily driver. (before I switched to Sway, then Hyprland)

Cwilliams,

Well in that case, you could look into Plasma Big screen, which you could control from your phone with KDE Connect

Cwilliams,

Been trying to get my friend into Linux, but he uses a MB. Maybe this will finally do it for him

Cwilliams,

Is XFCE good on Touchpad gestures, though?

Cwilliams,

M$ is the best abbreviation for Microsoft yet

Cwilliams,

I used to download my music with NewPipe and listen to it on Musicolet, but since then, i just gave up and got a cracked spotify client

Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)

To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors,...

Cwilliams,

This might get me to switch to Gentoo. I just broke my Arch again, so this is the perfect time…

recommendations for lightweight window managers for an old netbook

Hi, I’ve got an old netbook from Samsung that has an old Intel Atom CPU (Intel Atom N455 1.66 GHz). I installed Arch on it and am now thinking of a suitable window manager. I tried Hyprland (kinda expecting it to not work really) whick didn’t start at all. Before I had Debian with Gnome, which technically worked, but...

Cwilliams,

Since Wayland is lighter than X.org, LabWC could be another option. It is not fully compatable with Openbox, but most Openbox configs work on LabWC

Is linux good for someone tech illererate.

Now i’ve been considering moving to linux. I don’t have much of a history using a computer and find it tougher to use than my phone. But I also really appreciate the foss movement. I’ve currently got an old laptop running windows 11 I think and it would prolly speed up with linux too. But I’m afraid I’d fuck smth up...

Cwilliams,

Beautifully said

Cwilliams,

Lol that actually works so well

Cwilliams,

Why is Grey not on Lemmy yet?

Cwilliams,

Malwarebytes for me, but same thing

Cwilliams,

I don’t know what linux is but it can’t be worse than Windows.

Lmao

Cwilliams,

Personally, I’ve never had an Arch update break my system. But it’s probably only a matter of time

Cwilliams,

But how long did it take you to get there? I think the point he was trying to make is that GIMP has a steeper learning curve. If you’ve never used krita/pinta/etc, but you gave a lot experience with GIMP, then yes, GIMP will be easier

Cwilliams,

Yep. LM or Ubuntu is my recommendation to newbies

Cwilliams,

Even if Ubuntu does start doing slightly sketchy things, they’ll still be a million times better than Windows or MacOS

Cwilliams,

I wonder if this technology could be used in OBS’s screen recording?

Cwilliams,

Do you have any resources for doing Btrfs snapshots? I already use Btrfs, but I’ve never really caught on to the whole snappshotting thing

Cwilliams,

I presume that only works if you use spice, tho

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