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avidamoeba, 9 months ago

Search for access panels such as water shutoff valves.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Any beginner guide that advises against Ubuntu does disservice to beginners. It’s doing the opposite of helping beginners get into Linux. Ubuntu is still the easiest on-ramp to Linux today by far, despite anyone’s feelings about Canonical. Avoiding it harms Linux adoption.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

So much for the legendary hardware support of Linux!

Edit: Forgot “/s”, but look at this lively discussion!

avidamoeba, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I doubted. I checked. Check passed.

<span style="color:#323232;">$ sudo apt search liboobs 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sorting... Done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Full Text Search... Done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">liboobs-1-5/jammy 3.0.0-4 amd64
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  GObject based interface to system-tools-backends - shared library
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">liboobs-1-5-dbg/jammy 3.0.0-4 amd64
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  GObject based interface to system-tools-backends - debug symbols
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">liboobs-1-dev/jammy 3.0.0-4 amd64
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  GObject based interface to system-tools-backends - dev files
</span>

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Where snap?

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

Parent comment is right. The body of documentation generated for Ubuntu by the community is an enormous asset. It’s one of the important side effects of it being the most used distro.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

This is not 2005 when the vast majority’s experience with interactive UX on a screen was Windows. People today operate Android, iOS much more so than Windows. Thus they are able to grok multiple OS chrome paradigms without much difficulty. And then the OS chrome is rather simple and therefore learning it doesn’t cost much or yield significant benefits should you have gotten that knowledge for free. Therefore the argument for choosing an OS based on its chrome is as shallow as the chrome itself. The difficult stuff is things not working due to defects (bugs), finding solutions and implementing them and that’s where the OS choice yields the highest benefit. On that front few options beat Ubuntu LTS other than perhaps Debian, but Debian isn’t novice-friendly.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

For 17 years now… Main machine hasn’t been reinstalled since 2014…

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Windows used to break all the time, Microsoft was evil, that Ubuntu thing showed up.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

I don’t know what’s available in Europe, but I’ve used Pluggable and StarTech dongles. They both work fine with Ubuntu without configuration. One of them is a Class 1 device, the other one Class 2. The Class 1 receiver has much better range and better connection stability. So the only useful thing I have to say is - look for a Class 1 receiver if you want the best range possible.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Sounds like the decisions about what to make, how to make it and for whom to make it are done by the people doing the work. 🤔🫢

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

Is it? I’ve been on Debian/Ubuntu since 2005 and I’ve never seen anything on-screen whenever I’ve gotten a kernel oops.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

Unless you make your host OS read-only, it itself will keep writing while running your docker containers. Furthermore slapping read-only in a docker container won’t make the OS you’re running in it able to run correctly with an RO root fs. The OS must be able to run with an RO root fs to begin with. Which is the same problem you need to solve for the host OS. So you see, it’s the same problem and docker doesn’t solve it. It’s certainly possible to make an Linux OS that runs on an RO root fs and that’s what you need to focus on.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Removing snap is somewhat unwise. Ignoring it is the safe way to go. Ubuntu might ship a system component you’re not aware of via snap. If you kill snap support you may end up with a broken system. To avoid headaches, simply ignore snap.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Yes. However the level of difficulty increases.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Solving problems is what becomes more difficult. There’s rarely issues with the happy path. The further away you move from mainline, the more components are different, the fewer of the solutions on askubuntu.com work by simply copy-pasting them. A novice user has no idea what the solutions do and why they don’t work. Instead they have to keep trying other copy-pasta hoping some would work. At best taking longer to solve it, and at worst some copy-pasta breaking something on their system.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

While you’re right, this expectation is unrealistic. Not only is it unrealistic for novice hobbyists, it’s unrealistic for people who use Linux to do other things, not for the sake of using Linux or learning its innards. For example my family members who use it for work an leisure. They couldn’t and won’t be bothered with learning how hibernation on Linux works. They want hibernate to work. The have me to make it work for them but folks who don’t will go to askubuntu.com, grab a well upvoted answer and copy-paste it straight into a terminal.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

My espresso machine runs Ubuntu. 🎤🫳

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

XWayland

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Use a package management system that supports this use case.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

In short, it’s difficult. You have to be careful to only use themes that are are tested to work with your version of GNOME. That’s why while using GNOME, I’d stick with whatever stock theme variants come preinstalled. At least you get a few accent colors on Ubuntu. You can always change your wallpaper. 🥹

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Qt with C++ is a spectacular environment to develop UI apps in. Coupled with QtQuick it’s even better. It’s perhaps only outclassed by Flutter. As others have mentioned, there’s lots of inertia behind GTK+. There’s also past issues with licensing which made the OSS community prefer GTK+ to Qt.

I’ve no idea what’s involved in using Qt in Rust but people starting new UI apps in C and GTK+ today are likely doing a disservice to themselves and the larger OSS community that could contribute to development and maintenance.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

If you encounter problems you can’t find information on, do Ubuntu LTS next and use askununtu.com, help.ubuntu.com and wiki.ubuntu.com. The existing documentation and the largest community is what makes this the easiest option. Once you gain XP for a couple of years that XP is transferrable to Debian.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

I was joking. It’s not abandonware, however it’s an atrocious development toolkit compared to Qt.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Did they finally switch to Qt?