Deckweiss

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Deckweiss ,

dd ?

Deckweiss , (edited )

I don't think it applies here, but I'd like to tell you my perspective in case you find it interesting anyway.

I am a developer and I often need relatively new versions of everything dev related.

Contrary to popular belief - I had the best experience in regards to stability with archlinux. I have it installed both on a PC (when I need to do some Blender or heavy Photoshop work) and on a thin and light Laptop (for a flexible work space and stuff on the go) - and I use both about 50/50 of the time.

To be fair, I am knoledgable in the Linux user libs/apps space and it took a lot of knowledge to set everything up in a reliable way just the way I want and need it. I'd say arch is extremely customizabe and there exists a narrow path where you can make it pretty reliable, but there are also many sidepaths which can be unreliable and break often.

After setting it up though, my maintenance times for archlinux were significantly lower than each of the following

  • Windows (Going to ~30 different websites weekly to check for new releases and manually downloading and installing them)
  • Mac (homebrew constantly breaking dependencies)
  • Debian/Ubuntu (which I was upgrading to the newest release every 6 months and it was a PAIN)

But also take this with a grain of salt, because my so. also has a pretty similar arch linux setup on similar hardware and they have more issues than I do and we don't really know why :D

Deckweiss , (edited )

For hardware stability you should check out:

https://linux-hardware.org/

Search for the Distro or Laptop you want and chrck the user reports for the other factors. I noticed that some Laptops work better with some distros than others so lock the factor that is more important to you.

For distro stability, something others have not mentioned:

Zorin OS has a pay once option where allegedly everything just works. Maybe thats interesting to consider as an option.

Deckweiss ,

They borked some features which I used and haven't fixed them yet.

Deckweiss ,

  1. I use the fullscreen start menu. I can't select search results with keyboard anymore.

  2. Inverting window colors doesn't work for me anymore, after they set the default to wayland. (I used it for app's which don't have a dark theme)

  3. Focus stealing prevention (global setting and window rules) doesn't work anymore.

  4. window positioning guidelines keep flickering in and out of existence all day, even when I don't resize any windows.

Deckweiss ,

Hmm interesting. I am on wayland for sure, but I tried to make it work for an hour yesterday.

How I noticed it:

I started an install process in pamac gui, then I tabbed to browser window and typed some stuff. Pamac finished downloads and asked for confirmation, the default being cancel and me typing ENTER cancelled it. Mouse was on the browser window and each app was on a different monitor.

I was able to repeatedly reproduce it by doing the same. I have set focus stealing prevention to high, which is described as focus only being stolen when the same type of window is active.

Is my issue maybe that both ran through xwayland? I'll have to check that later.

Deckweiss , (edited )

At least the two I care about most already have an open issue in the bugtracker, which I am following for updates.

I'll search for the other two when I am bothered enough and report them if they aren't

Deckweiss , (edited )

I am using pamac-all on archlinux, which is kind of like that. It works only on arch linux afaik. It has the repos, AUR, flatpak, and snap support.

Deckweiss , (edited )

One monitor not working after sleep - "insignificant"

Thats the true Linux nerd mentality :D

Jokes aside, can you check for anything gpu or monitor related in journalctl after the wakeup?

Deckweiss ,

I disabled the second login prompt on my KDE archlinux, since the LUKS one already pretty much authenticates me to my Laptop.

I have no clue which desktop environmen and session manager Nobara uses, but you can probably disable the login password somewhere in the settings.

Deckweiss OP , (edited )

Thats an easy modification. Just redirect or reverse proxy to the tarpit instead of abort .

I was even thinking about an infinitely linked data-poisoned html document, but there seemed to be no ready made project that can generate one at the moment.
(No published data-poisoning techniques for plain text at all afaik. But there is one for images.)

Ultimately I decided to just abort the connection as I don't want my servers to waste traffic or CPU cycles.

Deckweiss OP ,

The nobots module I've linked bombs them

Deckweiss ,

Anybody knows what arch package I need so that the install button on the kde pling store works? I want the cat. I've installed ocs-url but it just gives an error saying invalid

Deckweiss ,

When I hit 'get new widgets' I get an empty window with no results. When I type something in the search box, nothing comes up. Has been like that for years.

When I hit 'install from file' I can't select the tar.gz which you get from downloading.

So I am either missing some module (which is possible, because I installed a minimal kde plasma, instead of the big meta package) or something else is wrong.

Deckweiss ,

Here is a solution:

https://libreddit.lunar.icu/r/archlinux/comments/rlpaj9/pulseaudio_redirecting_audio_file_to_input/

Deckweiss ,

Well, steam deck os is from valve, a big player.

The majority of users don't make any fuss about it.

Deckweiss , (edited )

You answered it yourself in your post.

It is subjective.

I think the concept applies more to whats preinstalled and less to what you yourself install

To illustrate, personally I think:

Ubuntu is bloat, because when I used it it was a hassle to remove everythink I knew I never would use.

Archinstall without template is not bloat, because there is nothing installed that I would not use.

But archinstall with for example the KDE Plasma template is very bloated and it is a pain to uninstall what I don't need because of the meta packages.

Deckweiss , (edited )

Despite the cores and the ram, the weekly updates on my arch are starting to compile shit for over 30 minutes and I am starting to think about what I can uninstall or whether I should set up my own arch repos that do the compiling out of sight.

Deckweiss , (edited )

Thats a very bad recommendation for a first time gamer.

The game tries to be very immersve so there are nearly no tooltips and no ingame written tutorialization.

That means you have to be very game literate (know a lot of gaming specific tropes and conventions to understans whats toing on and what to do).

Deckweiss ,

I think other peoples suggestions are great already, so I want to contrast them.

I'll suggest some of the good old free software games that got me into Linux way back before steam even ran on it:

  • Cave Story
  • Super Tux Kart
  • Battle for Wesnoth
  • 0 A.D.
Deckweiss ,

You can always take a look at https://linux-hardware.org

It is a collection of user reported systems. So you can filter for your cpu, high speed ram and look which kernel versions it works with.

The ui/ux is a bit shotty, but you'll get the hang of it after a while.

Deckweiss ,

is are

Deckweiss , (edited )

By default waydroid uses an x86 android image. Most games are not build for x86.

I have followed this to run an arm android image. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#ARM_Apps_Incompatible

With that, I was able to install all apps.

Deckweiss ,

timeshift is pretty good, but bootable btrfs snapshots are even better

Deckweiss , (edited )

I'm (deliberately) being listed as Windows, because some websites are cancer when they smell your Linux.

I honestly don't remember what happened, but I remember raging at it about 7 years ago, before changing the user agent and since then I've always done it like this.

Deckweiss , (edited )

I have an Epson eco-tank ET-2850

Running it on archlinux, over wifi.

It took a couple of hours to set it up by trying out different packages, but ultimately both printing and scanning work.

And I like the fact that it doesn't use cartridges, you can fill it up with some cheap chinese liter bottles of printer ink.

If you get a laser printer, put it in a well ventilated area. They emit particles that are considered harmfull with frequent exposure, but are probably completely harmless in a home setting with a properly ventilated room.

Deckweiss ,

I thought you wanted it to be more american

Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

I have a Ryzen 3 1300X at the moment and it's always had this soft lock freezing bug on Linux. I used to dual-boot Windows on this machine and Windows never had the same problem, so I think it is an issue with the Linux kernel (I've also replaced nearly every bit of hardware that I originally built the PC with, except for the...

Deckweiss ,

ltt made a video recently-ish showcasing a multi threaded arm cpu desktop. Not sure how availabe that is to the market though.

Deckweiss ,

Maybe in 2 or 5 years

I swear I've been hearing that since Ubuntu first switched to wayland in 2017 (and then promptly reverted back to xorg)

Longtime Arch user, first time Debian enjoyer

As the title says, I've been using various flavours of Arch basically since I started with Linux. My very first Linux experience was with Ubuntu, but I quickly switched to Manjaro, then Endeavour, then plain Arch. Recently I've done some spring cleaning, reinstalling my OS's. I have a pretty decent laptop that I got for school a...

Deckweiss ,

I agree about plain english in the package manager.

Years ago I wrote a script (now unmaintained) called "human Bash" where I wrapped a bunch of my commonly used commands in english words.

Some examples (parameters in cursive):

  • "please install minecraft "
  • "please update"
  • "search package by command ifconfig "
  • "search file by name /home/user/Downloads *.pdf "
  • "search file by content p_color "

and so on.

But since then I moved on to gui tools entirely.

Deckweiss ,

The big thing though, is the peace of mind. Knowing that I’m on a fairly basic, extremely stable distro gives me confidence that I’ll never be without my computer due to a botched update if, say, I take it on a trip.

This I find a very weird statement. Perosnally I use arch on a laptop for work and I never ran into the scenario of not having a working laptop always ready.

  1. I have btrfs snapshots pre and post update that I can roll back to

  2. I update my packages every friday in the last hour of work, where I can roll back or do the required manual intervention in peace

  3. When I have an important time period where I judt don't want to deal with it, I just don't update anything. At some point I had everything out of date for 7 months due to a big and stressful project. Once it was over, I updated as usual.

  4. Nothing ever broke since I started doing it like this and following the arch news.

And for that I get way more packages, no missing out on the newest features and it is way easier to install anything not in the repos/AUR by creating my own PKGBUILD so that I have updates - than manually installing it on debian from make and it never updating.

Deckweiss ,

please was basically a more complicated alias for sudo :D it originated as a meme on twitter I believe

Deckweiss , (edited )

I think point 3 is an extreme measure because I make my living with that device. If it ran debian/ubuntu, I would still apply all the above points due to that circumstance.

I also use arch on my gaming pc, where I update blindly (still with btrfs snapshots) and the only time in the 6 years of that archlinux installs lifetime when it didn't function afterwards was during the grub update.

I used ubuntu for 2 years (and then plain debian for another 2 years) before arch, and for me it broke on every release version upgrade (do-release-upgrade). So once every half year. (And yes I followed the proper procedure. And yes it may be better now compared to back then.) As I found no way of fixing it, but I wanted the newest release, I reinstalled ubuntu/debian every 6 months, while keeping the home dir.

I guess if you are fine with staying on LTS for 5 years, it is indeed very stable, but if you want to have up to date features - arch was way more stable than Ubuntu or Debian in my personal experience.

XPipe status update: A new fast terminal launcher, a better file browser, performance improvements, and many bug fixes

I'm proud to share a development status update of XPipe, a shell connection hub and remote file manager that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local machine. It works on top of your installed command-line programs and does not require any setup on your remote systems. So if you normally use CLI...

Deckweiss , (edited )

I love the app, I have been using it in a personal setting and I think you deserve to make money from it.

As I was thinking about purchasing a professional license to support you I noticed an issue.

The the 1 year update limit for the "one time purchase" option is extremely preditory and annoying.

This is especially bad because it is hidden in the faq and the pricing overview itself suggests the opposite "Receives regular feature and security updates (See details)" without a mention of a 12 month time limit.

The only real option for a user is then to buy it every year over and over again... which is contrary to the wording around it, that it is a "purchase once" transaction.

I suggest the following:

  1. Make it a full yearly subscription option, which would still be attractive because it is cheaper than monthly and call it such.

  2. Create a real one time purchase option for professional individuals for ~300€ and include all future updates.

  3. Seperate everything by creating a one-time pay for unlocking features and a subscription for receiving updates and clearly label them as such and make both slightly cheaper, since one doesn't include the other. Also allow for either yearly or monthly payment for the update subscription. But that seems like the most unusual and confusing way to go about it.

You can do either one any combination of those three, or come up with something else entirely but please please please fix this predatory scam-like pricing mess, so that I can feel relaxed and happy (instead of angry, annoyed and disgusted) when I am thinking about giving you my money.

Deckweiss ,

Thank you for the reply.

I am familiar with the model, but I always found it very slimy and offputting, even if it is properly explained and worded (which it often is not to trick people). It is a model more suited for fully proprietary apps I feel, or at least I personally never saw it on anything (partially or fully) open source. I don't think it fits the spirit.

Regardless of your decision, thank you for developing this helpful app and I wish you all the success.

Deckweiss ,

Sorry about the editing. I am always writing like that, where I re-read and improve the text until I am happy. I think I edited this one about 8 times... haha

I am of course just one user with my own preferences, so other options are up to your own judgement.

I think I'll get the yearly professional license for now and in a year or so I'll check out if there are any new options.
(will buy next week, just fyi so you don't think I lied lol)

And again, thank you for your hard work. I really love using xpipe.

Deckweiss ,

I've read through the pricing and the FAQ and I find it very clear and easy to understand now!

Deckweiss , (edited )

It doesn't matter much what Linux you use. Rather what is your desktop environment? (KDE Plasma, Gnome, sway etc.)

On KDE for example there is a shortcut to restart the compositor, which might fix your issue.

But in general you might have luck "restarting" it by switching the tty. You do that by pressing CTRL + ALT + some function key between F1 and F8 (the standard gui tty number depends on the distro). Try to switch to a non gui tty and then back.

For example, on my distro I would do:

  1. CTRL + ALT + F1
  2. CTRL + ALT + F2

but on yours it might be F7 or some other.

Deckweiss ,

Additionally, it terminated all gui processes. Which the windows shortcut mentioned in the question doesn't.

Deckweiss ,

https://linux-hardware.org/

You can search for your device there.

Deckweiss ,

Don't panic, thats just me running it on PC, laptop, worklaptop, pinenote, pinephone, steamdeck and in multiple VMs for experimentation. (and don't forget my randomized fingerprinting setup in the browser)

Deckweiss ,

Not great tbh. But I made it work for my usecase somewhat.

As a huge tinkerer I like it over the Remarkable2 which I had before and which was a huge pain to customize.

But I wouldn't recommend it to normal people.

Deckweiss ,

https://lemmy.world/comment/8047127

Hardware is pretty solid, software is extremely lacking.

Only buy one if you want to develop for it.

Deckweiss ,

I don't get it

Deckweiss , (edited )

Ah well... Guess I'm lucky that it doesn't bother me.

I use different languages with different style guides and my IDE autoformats everything properly with the click of a button so I don't think about naming strategies at all.

Are there any Windows-exclusive programs you use?

I had to test/fix something at work and I set up a Windows VM because it was a bug specific to Windows users. Once I was done, I thought, “Maybe I should keep this VM for something.” but I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t a game (which probably wouldn’t work well in a VM anyway) or some super specific enterprise...

Deckweiss ,

https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux

I have been using this on linux during my studies. But there are also newer versions "packaged" by other people on github.

I'm sure the rest of the adobe suit can be installed in the same way with some tinkering.

My experience using Fedora Atomic (Budgie) for a month or two. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )

I would just like to preface this. This is the first blog post I've ever written, so please please please give me feedback if you can. I also didn't intend on it being here on Lemmy, but Hugo is quite a complex tool that'll take some time for me to understand. Webdev is not my cup of tea....

Deckweiss ,

I agree, but want to add my personal experience.

I used ubuntu since version 11 and it used to break on every major release upgrade for me. So I ended up reinstalling every half a year, because I wanted the new software features.

Since I moved to arch a couple of years ago, I definitely had to learn a lot and find out what the most stable setup and set of tools is, but since then I have been running it without any hiccups for over 3 years on my gaming pc, my work laptop and recently on the production server of my personal business (yeah I know lol)

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