[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

By making that comment you did engage with it... Not commenting at all would have been disengaging...

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't advertise on the premise that Windows is a horrible, privacy invasive OS. Even though it's true that would easily be grounds for Windows to claim defamation and pummel the entire thing into the ground with legal fees

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

That makes a lot of sense when you put it that way. For some reason I never factored that individuals were extending apps for their own use cases lmao

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like Linux alternatives often falter by trying to offer as extensive of a feature set as the proprietary options. GIMP would be better if it simplified it's menu's and focused on offering a strong central feature set, then expand on that core over time to offer a powerful workflow of it's own.

I noticed this especially with FreeCAD, which is trying to do like 12 things for some reason? Just offer intuitive parametric cad and focus on it. We don't need OpenSCAD inside FreeCAD because OpenSCAD is already it's own thing for example.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah that is wild. Back on windows I had a three monitor setup at one point and honestly rarely utilized the whole of it.

Ever since moving to Linux and learning about virtual desktops I have never felt the need for more than one monitor. So I could hardly imagine the need for seven beyond novelty lol.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Awesome, I will look more into that!

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I setup a micro PC with Ubuntu and plugged it into my TV for media streaming, and was just wondering if there was a way to optimize the experience for non KBM

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Any modern distro.

There are GUI methods for adding repositories to every major software center to my knowledge, and it isn't very hard.

Kate, and other modern file editors are more than equipped to handle some config files, that's probably the simplest thing ever.

There are multiple GUI front ends for samba.

Don't comment on the usability of Linux GUI if you haven't even tried in the last 20 years like seriously

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is for the sake of combatting the commonly held belief that you can't do anything without the terminal in Linux.

Progress on the accessiblility, and GUI centric applications and functionality in Linux has been huge in the last decade or two. It is now entirely possible to use a Linux system while rarely needing the terminal. And if you have someone techy helping set it up for you then it is possible to never have to.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Would not mind at all if consoles got lumped in and forced to allow alternative app stores

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This makes a lot of sense, though I can't help but think about the fact that all these distros were once brand new projects that people had to go out on a limb and try out before they became what they are today.

Though I also guess these projects had more official dedicated support.

In any case, I won't be the one going out on a limb for a while now lmao

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I reckon if I go about trying to game again I will just go ahead and rebase to bazzite. Seems the easiest route

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Rebasing is easily one of the coolest features of the atomic suite. I will definitely look into bazzite more in the future, just wish I knew about it before all this lmao

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Crapped my system (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This isn't me asking for help or anything, I already replaced it with fedora kinoite. I just felt like talking about this ridiculous venture of mine.

So a couple weeks ago I started hyper focusing on cities skylines, but played on my Xbox. I learned that mods and all kinds of fun custom content was available on PC so I tried to play on my system. Problem, my laptop has an rtx 2070, but I was running fedora kinoite and couldn't figure out how in the world to install nvidia drivers.

So after a bunch of searching around I give up and decide to try installing a "gaming" focused distro in the form of endeavour os. It was awful.

Maybe I am weird but the x11 rendering didn't feel good at all, the lack of some default applications, as well as a bunch of apps I didn't know the purpose of. (This one is my own fault since they have a kde spin, but I remembered why I didn't like gnome) and finally today it froze in the middle of an update and hard rebooted, no longer able to launch.

Worst part, I didn't do a lick of gaming on the thing cause I moved on to Borderlands 3

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