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KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to linux in Based KDE 🗿

Can I use MS Office natively with that?

Not the full suite, natively. You can install it via PlayonLinux, which works well without fiddling, or you can use Office 365 on the web.

Also, can I use it as a non-techie lay man in a way that is similar to the way most office bottom-feeders use Windows?

Yes.

I know there is Open Office but I am lawyer and the free office alternatives just don’t have the rich formatting options I need to do my job. I have tried and they just won’t do.

Open Office is deprecated. You can use LibreOffice which is free. Or WPS Office or SoftMaker Office, which run on Linux and are 100% compatible with MS Office, but cost money.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to linux in Based KDE 🗿

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux is in fact KDE/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, KDE plus Linux.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to comicstrips in "Symptoms" by Chris Hallbeck

I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have “network connectivity problems”.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to linux in Just install EndeavorOS lol

I love how their official “support” page links to a website that includes this:
www.steubentech.com/~talon/desktop/

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to asklemmy in I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

I’m sure as fuck glad my therapist is a human and not a Chatbot.

Also, psychologists will be needed to design AI interfaces so humans have an easy time using them.
A friend of mine studied psychology and now works for a car company, designing their infotainment system UI so that people can instinctively use it without consulting a manual. Those kinds of jobs will become more, not less in the future.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to linux in Just install EndeavorOS lol

My “I don’t have time for this” moment came when I tried to set up Nextcloud on Arch:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nextcloud

Meanwhile on Slackware:

<span style="color:#323232;">Configuration
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(1) Add the following in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  Alias /nextcloud "/srv/httpd/htdocs/nextcloud/"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      Options +FollowSymlinks
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      AllowOverride All
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Dav off
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      SetEnv HOME      "/srv/httpd/htdocs/nextcloud"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      SetEnv HTTP_HOME "/srv/httpd/htdocs/nextcloud"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(2) In /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, enable mod_rewrite and PHP by uncommenting
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"LoadModule rewrite_module ..." and "Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">then restart httpd.
</span>

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to linux in The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix

That brings me back to my first PC build, 20 years ago, using parts my friends had discarded cause they were too old.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to linux in TIL

In my town’s school classes during Covid lockdown were held in Microsoft Teams. But there was a severe lack of IT knowledge. In the beginning, for some reason all participants ended up with moderator rights, so kids kept kicking the teacher out of their lecture.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to movies in Backing up DVDs to mp4?

On Linux, you need the libdvdcss library in order to rip protected DVD’s with vlc.
For legal reasons, it can’t be included by the distros directly but there’s usually a documented way to install it.

On Ubuntu, this is:

<span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt install libdvd-pkg  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
</span>

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to linux in Window snapping

OP runs Cinnamon. But if you’re on Gnome, this one does:
extensions.gnome.org/…/tiling-assistant/

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to linux in Kubuntu freezes after putting password in login screen

df -h

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to linux in ISC DHCP Client and Relay End of Maintenance

When I updated Debian Unstable 2 days ago, it forced me to uninstall isc-dhcp-client in order to upgrade network-manager.
So I looked up the reason and found the ISC’s blog post. I shared it here thinking it might be interesting to some, since Debian’s packages are the basis for a lot of other distros that might be affected soon.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to linux in ISC DHCP Client and Relay End of Maintenance

Neither GNOME nor Plasma depend on NetworkManager, do they?

Not directly, but distros may choose to create a dependency.

On Debian, installing recommended dependencies is enabled by default and disabling them can lead to all sorts of errors and missing functionality.
gnome-shell recommends gnome-control-center, which recommends network-manager-gnome, which depends on network-manager.
So unless you go out of your way to install a very minimal system, it gets pulled in.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to comicstrips in The Door

I don’t know what’s behind the door, but it isn’t the EU.

KISSmyOS, 9 months ago to linux in ISC DHCP Client and Relay End of Maintenance

I mentioned dhcpd (the ISC DHCP server demon), not dhcpcd, the unaffiliated DHCP Client demon.