General love of all things linux and the choice it provides. I prefer to hang my hat in gentoo with e16 but do like to keep up with other stuff.
@7_Stipend_Jackal Not really sure what you mean by “like Localshare”. Is that a specific piece of software, or do you just mean sharing files between two devices on a local network via whatever protocol?
I’ve played around with croc a while back just to test, seems okay.
@thingsiplay Nicely done, I like it!
For years, I’ve been using a similar(?), very simple script I’d banged together. I made it originally to track down a few out of control log files, and later changed it up for a general space freeing overview.
df -h $1 && du -ha "$1" |sort -hr |head -n25
@TheMonkeyLord #AntiMicroX is a good choice for mapping controllers to keyboard/mouse functions. I use it daily to control my computer from a flight-stick when I just want to lay back and watch stuff.
@imgel I wouldn’t consider #e16 a DE (still count?); but using that, I prefer having a frame-only window decoration. I use a simple #xdotool line in my #conkyrc to display the currently focused window.
{exec 'xdotool getactivewindow getwindowname'}
I’ve also used a combination of xdotool, randr, and eesh in the past to do tiling and arrangement.
@SeekPie Sometimes different, sometimes similar. Look into different software you enjoy using and find out what’s needed. If it’s something you can provide, and you feel like doing so, go fer it.
@SeekPie Documentation or translation assistance is almost always a good way to help.
@neogeo It’s been excellent, but again, I’m not doing very heavy work with it. Although, if I do play around with large models, it has no problem redering em. And games such as Star Citizen, Starfield, and Cyberpunk 2077, all run fantastic when turned up to 11.
@JokeDeity Seeing a device called “Bluez” trying to connect to your computer (in some undefined way) doesn’t necessarily mean it has anything to do with bluez.
@neogeo I think you may be on the right track with grabbing a newer AMD card, and keeping your old nv one just for the encoding stuff if you absolutely need it. I only do quite a bit of small drawing (mostly technical) in both blender and FreeCAD, as well as some occasional video editing in blender. I’ve had a RX5600XT since before we had proper drivers for it, and I’ve had no issues with it ever since they were in testing.
@qyron Maybe look at #e16, #openbox, #fluxbox, or #awesomewm, as they will be completely usable without any pre-configuration. Those will all give you a pretty well rounded feel for the comparison of window manager vs desktop environment. All are quite easy to hack on and decently documented. The appilcations menu for e16 should be auto-generated on first login, both openbox and fluxbox will most likely need to be generated manually, and awesome should just be ready to use as-is.
@Fredol I’ve found that many times, just disabling hinting unnastifies fonts.
@solarvector @Toyful
WiFi not working after suspend should at worst only require reloading the module, not a full reboot. This is a common thing I’ve noticed with many b43 and some old iwl cards.
@antihero, there’s a few different methods that all attack that problem in perty much the same way. The flatpak in question needs to have access to the theme/font/icon pack you want it to use.
@Cinnamon3431
Brother MFC machines are what I’ve always used without issue in linux. Brother offers linux drivers for both print and scan on their site and they’re fairly simple to install.
@linux
@binarious WOW, 4/6 sounds like some higher than average odds, that really sucks. I hope you at least gotten it all resolved, money back, or found what works for you. I had a battery swell up on me a couple years in but that’s quite common and expected in my work environment. Extremely easy fix as well as they used a common, easy to source battery.
I’ve not tried a huge sampling of different ones (3~4), but I’ve yet to run across a USB-C dock that didn’t work for me under gentoo.
The LVFS thing doesn’t really bother me as much as the still delayed coreboot/libreboot they’re working on. Most people couldn’t care less about either of those things, and they’re not a show-stopper for me, so it still remains at the top of my very light recommendations list.
@minicx I’m no good to you on that front, sorry. Never messed with timeshift. As for polkit, I’d assume you’d set it up as you would any other time.
@deepdive The ““correct”” answer is “only do root things as root” not via root. But security in more of a human problem than it is configuration.
@MashingBundle #TUXEDOComputers is what I advise for linux focused laptops.
@zacher_glachl @perishthethought I take a similar approach starting with a bare work-tree at $HOME/.cfg and add config files I’ve changed. Then throw my --git-dir and --work-tree switches in an alias for git.
As for installed programs, a simple backup of my portage world file takes car of that.
@LukeSky #lutris is good for more’n just games 😉
github.com/lutris/lutris