KISSmyOS

@KISSmyOS@lemmy.world

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Window snapping

Hey guys, I’ve been running Mint on my home computer for a little while now and I’m having a great time, however there’s one behaviour from Windows I’m missing. When you hit win + arrows to snap the currently focussed window to the left or right half of the screen, windows will present a dialogue to select a companion...

KISSmyOS,

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

Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives

Are there good Microsoft word alternatives that support Linux (I don’t mind closed source)? Libreoffice is meh and only office is quite good, but are there any better ones? Also, is there a way to install word on Linux using wine? When I do that my laptop just overheats and loses internet connection.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

Softmaker Office uses .docx natively, so you don’t have compatibility issues with Word at all.

Its UI is also very close to MS Office. It’s a drop-in replacement for current MS Office.

KISSmyOS,

Debian: “Stop complaining, she calls me Old Ubuntu.”

KISSmyOS,

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,

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,

https://i.redd.it/fobgewge9u271.png

KISSmyOS, (edited )

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, (edited )

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, (edited )

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

KISSmyOS,

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

KISSmyOS, (edited )

And again, a distro chooser guide that completely fails to mention OpenSUSE, despite being a full-featured desktop OS supported by the second biggest corporation in the Linux world (behind Red Hat), with a history that goes back longer than Debian’s.

I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

I know it’s not even close there yet. It can tell you to kill yourself or to kill a president. But what about when I finish school in like 7 years? Who would pay for a therapist or a psychologist when you can ask for help a floating head on your computer?...

KISSmyOS,

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,

It does.

KISSmyOS,

I also should have been more specific. You wrote “Please tell me it fixes scaling issues on Wayland” so I did.
I have no idea what issues got fixed.

KISSmyOS,

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

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I don’t know but non-serious developers use Slackware.

KISSmyOS,

Instead of linking to articles full of buzz-words, can you explain what’s the difference between this distro and Fedora Silverblue?
I’m guessing the “spirit of Ubuntu” means they took Silverblue and preconfigured some stuff.

KISSmyOS,

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,

Super-key -> t -> Enter

If that doesn’t work, you’re not using the terminal enough.

KISSmyOS,

Watch out, the KDElves won’t like that at all!

KISSmyOS,

Edge = Chrome + popup ads for Microsoft services

KISSmyOS,

Billionaires should be guillotined, then eaten.

haha, just kidding 😂

…unless? 😏

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I was banned citing rule 1 (no bigotry, racism, etc) for posting a meme about how modern cars are too big, too expensive, and send all your data to China.
Apparently because my meme implied China Bad.

KISSmyOS,

Gentoo has stages? What’s the end boss like?

KISSmyOS,

Gnome is the worst desktop environment, except for all those other DE’s that I’ve tried from time to time.

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