I'm reinstalling linux and thinking of switching distros.
I've been on Mint for years and it's ok but feels a bit bloated and like too many choices have been made for me to a lowest common denominator.
I'm someone who does a lot of work using a computer, but whose work is not computers. I want the computer to just work. I'm not afraid of the terminal but also I have no interest in memorizing all the commands I would need to make using it for everything convenient.
I tried installing Arch yesterday, and although I eventually succeeded I will never do it again and have no interest in maintaining that level of knowledge, really having to install NetworkManager and grub myself was a step too far especially as I don't know enough to choose alternatives.
Also vital software for me is only available on Arch through the AUR, which I guess might be ok.
Thinking of trying plain Debian with xfce or sticking with Cinnamon, or maybe Manjaro, again with xfce or Cinnamon.
If you would like to help financially support the development of a new Wayland compositor for Xfce, you can do so by contributing funds via our #OpenCollective accounts.
These contributions will help pay for the funding of longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.
"We, the Xfce team are excited to share some great news!
After careful consideration, we’ve decided on a meaningful way to use the generous donations from our community: funding longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.
This initiative will utilize a significant portion of the project’s donated funds, but we believe it’s an important investment in Xfce’s future.
The goal is, that xfwl4 will offer the same functionality and behavior as xfwm4 does, or as much as possible considering the differences between X11 and Wayland. Using xfwl4 should feel just like using xfwm4 on X11. We even plan to reuse the existing xfwm4 configuration dialogs and xfconf settings to ensure a seamless transition.
Xfwl4 will not be based on the existing xfwm4 code. Instead, it will be written from scratch in rust, using smithay building blocks."
"If you’re interested in the detailed reasoning behind the project or want to explore all the technical details, check out the issues and the work in progress source code."
Someone was wondering about color emoji support in terminal using #OpenBSD. I never really checked before but on 7.8, it does work OOTB.
This is #Neomutt inside a #tmux session ran from #Xfce terminal. But it also works in plain #Xterm; since you have it render UTF-8 characters with DejaVu Sans for example.
A list of email items. 3 of them have colored emojis in their subject.
Po emigracji z pol.social wypada się przedstawić, toteż czynię tu #introduction.
Jam jest Jezus Michał (czyt. "Jezus, Michał!"), pan #kot twój po trzykroć, i #mikol. Mieszkam w okolicy miasta #Poznań, gdzie #kolej z reguły funkcjonuje, więc wyznaję zasadę "każdy powinien mieć sieciówkę" i filozofię #BezSamochodu. Na koncie mam 38% polskiej sieci normalnotorowej (wg. viaduct.world), ale pracuję nad tym. Przy okazji włóczę się po lasach, i uzupełniam #OpenStreetMap.
W "wolnym" czasie męczę #WolneOprogramowanie. W roku 2010 wpadłem w pułapkę i dołączyłem do współtwórców dystrybucji #Gentoo. Tam zajmuję się wszystkim po trochu, aczkolwiek główne tematy to #Python, #LLVM (za jakie grzechy…), #Xfce. Czekam na #JihadButleriański.
Obok tego uprawiam retorykę na #AntyKapitalizm. Cenię #SłowaNaOpak i konkretny #suchar. Od kilku lat dręczy mnie #cukrzyca, mam też stwierdzone spektrum autyzmu [#autyzm]. A, zapomniałbym — "Nie potrafię ciekawie spędzać czasu" (nie, ja nigdy nie zapominam).
Hey, folks!
@xubuntu needs some help. If you've always wanted to help with an Open Source project, and you're a fan of
@xfce and Xubuntu, this would be a great time to start contributing.
Check out
@bluesabre's blog post and then check out the Xubuntu contribute page:
Gente, nos últimos meses tenho usado o #GParted para formatar minhas mídias de arquivos e ele tem matado todas. Estou com um saldo de dois pendrives e um HD inutilizados.
Uso um aplicativo CLI para formatar pendrives, por terminal, que funciona maravilhosamente, mas não tentei ainda com HDs e SSDs.
You may recall a document on the creation of a new shared event between GNOME and KDE and today we have the people who proposed the event on the show #Linux#Podcast#OpenSource
@pietrodc0
@ilvipero
Basically in a course I am taking, I have to find global challenges and implications of a digital topic. So we turned to piracy in the end because it has been here for a while (and lets face it, I was biased and its my favorite topic.) and has its qualities and some drawbacks which need to be discussed in a topic like that. With ...
You may just be right about that. I swore by PKZ204G.EXE for years until someone mentioned WinZip to me. I thought, "What is this trash?" and never gave it a second thought until I stumbled across WinRar - "Oh this might make rar'ing stuffs up to send to the priv tracker really easy!" It did! but.... It also handled unzipping gzipped tarballs too which was nice when I wanted to checkout stuffs on a Windows box. I think I started running WinRar back with wYnd0z3 XP, or maybe NT 4. I honestly can't remember, but I quickly learned that by simply right clicking on archives and using the context menu that you don't get the nag, so that's typically how I used it.
I don't use wYnd0z3 anymore, or at least I should say, that professionally, I keep abreast, but here's a horror story I should probably share here; it's privacy related, not so much having to do with copyright and licensing issues, but rather.... Well, more than just the ownership of your data. You, are the product, and your very identities are I believe, at risk, more and more each day. Here goes:
So I wanted to replace my old lappy, the WiFi radio was quite obsolete, couldn't connect to many new WiFi networks - especially many new or newly remodelled Starbucks and it's easy to move Slackware to a new box, but I insisted on having a 17" monitor - I just like the real estate; and I could get a good refurbed Xeon powered Dell with a boatload of memory for a reasonable price.
I didn't mind that my new lappy arrived with Win 11 pro pre-installed, I needed to beat on that OS a little bit, not too much though, since it wasn't too dissimilar to Win 10 and I soon kinda shelved it, taking time to decide upon whether to install Proxmox VE on it, move my still quite snappy, warm and fuzzy Slackware -current install over to it, or re-purpose it as a Debian Forkey platform. I had spent only a few weeks with it here and there, and aside from seriously intrusionary particulars that I really detested, like being even worse than that of Win 10 was at resetting defaults that really pissed me off, there's nothing new that it offered me to learn that I couldn't get from launching a VM of it anyway.
So it sat... and sat... maybe three months or so? I was busy and in no hurry to retire a laptop running Slackware that still screamed after being moved from three previous machines in the past decade. One day I decided to go to a Starbucks where I knew my laptop couldn't negotiate the WiFi encryption and didn't want to bring my portable WiFi Puck with me so I grabbed the Xeon. It was truly a dream after all.
I had some simple stuff to do, mostly reading and writing up some reports and the last couple of times I fired it up I had been asked to install updates, but I, like so many others when there's no critical reason apparent, procrastinated.
So I ordered my coffee, took a sip, sat down, and fired up the Xeon beast. WTF? Bitlocker lolwut? No! No bitlocker! I don't use that crap. I do my own encryption. Wait! WTF? Key? There's no key God Dammit, I've never activated Bitlocker! Oh, I can sign in to my mAcR0sFot account and recover.... Well, that's just fricken' great to know but I've always known better than to do anything but a local or domain account - NEVER a mAcR0sFot account!!!
Okay, I guess that's kinda like the bad ending of an old film noir flick from the 40's that you wished had spent just three minutes of treatment developing the tragedy or happily ever after, instead of just abruptly saying, "The End" right before the lights in the theater come on. But not in my story.
Homey don't play dat! There wasn't anything that wasn't already on my NextCloud server that was even remotely important to me, except perhaps having to reinstall Thunderbird and waiting for my IMAP server to sync to my new MUA.
Debian it is. I still love my #Slackware lappy the way it is and I don't need a mobile #Proxmox box when I can just use stuff already built in or install #VirtualBox. So I whacked the mirrored SSDs and wiped the smaller one, switched from RAID to AHCI and other adjustments in the BIOS, installed #Debian Testing from a netinst.iso on USB with #KDE#Plasma and #Xfce, and Boom Shakalaka BOOM! 💥 Mic Drop! 🎤
I am truly going to miss WinRar, but I'm not going to miss #Windows at all. I'll still have to see it and fix it several times a week and continue to convince people to ditch it, but yeah, I've been really perturbed with Microsoft ever since they had the audacity to release Win 95a on my birthday, with yet more trash to come for the next 30 years, and if there's anyone out there who is even slightly entertaining the thought of suggesting, "Well, it was something you did - you know it. Windows wouldn't just do that".... It's actually well documented that it really will do that to you, and what's coming down the line is even worse, but I think they're saving the truly abominable stuff for after their campaign to recycle (destroy) 100 million perfectly good PCs and laptops.
I do believe it's time to ditch Microsoft Windows, truly, and I made half a career on it teaching the MCSE program for them and building large scale enterprises in Fortune 500's with Microsoft products. The #Linux and #BSD desktop is mature enough and straight-forward enough to install that it's actually much easier than installing Windows nowadays, and #FOSS applications abound that are bundled in with distributions that are are intuitive and familiar enough for anyone to use out of the box. But I'm just talking here, right?
Watch This Video that actually references #Bitlocker actually activating itself (Going back to 24h2 and June 2024, especially on 'pro', but also affected 'home' variants too).
Oh, yeah, #WinRar - handles .zip, tar.gz, .rar, arj, etc., etc., yeah it probably is the most pirated product ever, lolz. And the main point is that the publisher (devs) don't really make much of a fuss over it because it drives corporate sales of licenses, lolz - Thanks for bringing that up!
@DerReparierer@Endof10
Linux ist bestimmt cool. Als Windowsnutzer würde ich mir eine fertiges Paket wünschen, das mir eine Oberfläche zaubert, die im wesentlichen so funktioniert wie unter Windows gewohnt. Um den Übergang zu erleichtern, mit Office.
Ich verstehe die ständig wiederkehrende Frage nach einem möglichst #Windowsähnlichen#Linux nicht.
Gerade die User die sehr wenig technische Expertise haben, erkennen den Unterschied zwischen #Windows und vielen #linuxdistributionen doch gar nicht. Bzw. höchstens an der Optik.
Egal ob #cinnamon#XFCE oder #KDE. Sehr viele Desktops haben ein Bedienkonzept das nicht weiter von Windows weg ist. Als verschiedene Windows-Versionen von einander.
Ich hab schon Leuten #linuxmint installiert, die gar nicht bemerkt haben dass das kein Windows ist.
Xfwl4 - The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor ( alexxcons.github.io )
Xfwl4 - The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor ...
Xfwl4 - The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor ( alexxcons.github.io )
We, the Xfce team are excited to share some great news! ...
Project on implications of Piracy (need opinions articles and ideas)
Basically in a course I am taking, I have to find global challenges and implications of a digital topic. So we turned to piracy in the end because it has been here for a while (and lets face it, I was biased and its my favorite topic.) and has its qualities and some drawbacks which need to be discussed in a topic like that. With ...