boredsquirrel

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boredsquirrel OP ,

What

boredsquirrel ,

The only correct answer is udisksctl

This is what KDE Dolphin also uses. It can mount, unlock LUKS and more.

Mounts will be in /run/media/user

boredsquirrel ,

Really great. But I would love that the "edit rounded corners" would not apply to the workspace number circle and to the switches, as it makes no sense.

boredsquirrel ,

No interface has squares everywhere. I think this type of switch is VERY established.

gui switch

https://www.iconfinder.com/search?q=switch

boredsquirrel ,

Interesting!

I personally think slightly rounded and normal round is the best. But the default is fine for me.

I think you are doing really great work! Even though I would have used KDE as design reference but we all are different.

boredsquirrel ,

I think CentOS Stream, Debian or a tweaked Ubuntu LTS are good for stability and all free also as in freedom (after replacing snap with flatpak on Ubuntu).

OpenSUSE slowroll is a good model for better tested but not randomly held back packages.

Fedora has the older stable release, currently 39. It is more stable than the current 40.

As a workstation Desktop I can recommend KDE Plasma, but it is not bugfree. Plasma 5 has bugs that will not be fixed, Plasma 6 has those fixed but random other bugs and random missing features.

GNOME is unusable in many parts for me personally, but very very likely the most stable but also modern Desktop.

COSMIC will be pretty awesome. It doesnt really have bugs for me, but simply a ton of missing things. But the way they build the project, how well everything works and implements all sorts of "we have this new shiny thing" from various DEs like KDE Plasma, is really nice.

But that will take at least a year to be really finished.

boredsquirrel OP ,

I am currently experimenting with this. I dont know what the best solution is. I will add a new post about this in KDE Discuss and Lemmy.

  • system or user services?
  • common directory?
  • order of launch
  • what are the dependencies and what depends on them

It is pretty crazy that entire KDE Plasma doesnt use systemd, and I can now (after looking through /etc/xdg/autostart add geoclue, baloo and orca to the possibly unwanted processes).

boredsquirrel OP ,

Can you explain how systemd relaunches it?

I want to test converting some noncritical but annoying services to systemd services. Then I will experiment with changing all to systemd services in a VM.

But if there is some strange systemd action in there that relaunches things, this needs to be adapted too.

boredsquirrel OP ,

This will for sure come up when making something compatible with only systemd.

Even though this should also be very possible to implement in sysvinit etc.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Yes I also heard that.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Nice!

boredsquirrel OP ,

True. But that old laptop has a 1,8TB HDD (no idea that was a thing back then) and is not really used anymore

boredsquirrel OP ,

Interesting. SSD is not an option as this is not really used and has a huge 1,8TB HDD.

And it runs very fine for its job.

I wish plasma had a "energy saving mode" where all this fancy stuff is disabled. Transparency, blur, animations etc.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Hahaha no way I will overcomplicate this random old laptop. It is also not in my home but my families.

But it does have 2 drives and replacing the main small one with the OS on it would already improve things a lot.

boredsquirrel OP ,

I have a Clevo NV41 which is hillariously easy to disassemble. Worlds bettet than my Thinkpad T430 or the better T495. Not as modular though.

boredsquirrel OP ,

I know. But as you said it is rather tedious.

Is there a CLI interface for these settings like gsettings on GNOME?

boredsquirrel OP ,

Okay that doesnt matter XD

optimization for new Hardware is also important but very different from low spec compatibility.

11th Gen Intel is x86_64-v4

And you know what discussion came up when Ubuntu wanted to switch to v3 (my 2012 Thinkpad has v3)?

boredsquirrel OP ,

I have no idea as all video editors are too complicated for me and I didnt ever find the time to learn them... even though I should. And then I will use KDENlive

I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! ( i.imgur.com )

Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....

boredsquirrel ,

We have a crazy old laptop that we used to watch movies on when I was a child. That now also runs Linux Mint really well.

I think a slim Fedora KDE would also be very fine, as Cinnamon is really quite painful to use. But they have a really nice set of user friendly minimal apps.

Nothing I would recommend to people switching from other OSes though, as its just too minimal and especially Nemo is awful. Like, no link support??

boredsquirrel ,

Under systemsettings there are multiple variants for task switcher.

Can you explain what Windows does different? Its not like everyone here uses Windows XD

boredsquirrel ,

I really need to try the KDE remote desktop solutions but the need for IP addresses was always a problem.

boredsquirrel ,

Or just install with cargo, have it run unrestricted and still work everywhere. I dont think rust apps need to be flatpakked

boredsquirrel ,

Distrobox is not a good solution. But when there is an APT package, packagers can easily use their binary and create RPMs etc.

boredsquirrel ,

It is a separate Distro. I used it for running VLC already and for sure it works, but it isnt really a good solution.

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

boredsquirrel ,

Note that what you will experience is just the Desktop, as the details of the distributions are more "which one has less errors over time and not outdated or unstable packages"?

boredsquirrel ,

Linux is easier to install than Windows nowadays.

This.

Go with Mint or OpenSUSE or Ubuntu

Not this. Mint maybe, even though their Desktop looks dated and is not Wayland ready. But OpenSUSE is strange (what to use, Leap? Good luck with outdated packages; Tumbleweed? Well you are now rolling) and Ubuntu is basically dead.

boredsquirrel ,

I really like System76s work so even though never used PopOS it is very likely fine.

But Zorin, hell no. It is a randomly patched outdated GNOME and their installer is Buggy.

Just use Fedora with Dash to panel and you have a better experience.

boredsquirrel ,

On Windows, Rufus is better. On Linux, use Impression Flatpak, or the KDE IsoWriter, or FedoraMediaWriter, all better than BalenaEtcher.

boredsquirrel ,

The installer is actually pretty easy, even though a bit strange in some parts, really stable.

Like, better than Calamares in my eyes.

But yes, on Fedora you basically need

flatpak remote-delete -y fedora
flatpak remote-add flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

And on NVIDIA good luck, I would honestly just use uBlue there.

boredsquirrel ,

just use Debian.

If you only get your stuff from homebrew, Distrobox of Flatpak, yes.

Debian has severely outdated packages, like 2 years old on Bookworm. I would never recommend anyone to run outdated software.

Not every software vendor publishes LTS releases. Firefox, Thunderbird all fine. But the rest is randomly frozen, and this will result in unfixed errors for years.

boredsquirrel ,

Its an electron app and has ads. But for sure it works.

Fedora media writer also has only a few buttons and has mac and windows versions too.

boredsquirrel ,

Just download the iso from your browser? Strange bug though.

boredsquirrel ,

It is important that you get fixes to packages that occured in the last like 2 years.

It is generally not really nice to run outdated software, even though it works kinda well.

If you use Debian you really need to use Flatpaks, and Mozillas PPA for regular Firefox. Then yes, probably a good OS.

I started on MX Linux because some strange Distrowatch bump. My IT support told me my Nextcloud version was outdated, and I didnt know Flatpak back then.

boredsquirrel ,

Dont know if I understood that sentence.

Testing packages is fine. But randomly stopping updates from upstream maintainers makes no sense. If you develop the software you can freeze packages. Or if upstream has dedicated LTS/ESR variants. But not if you dont.

boredsquirrel ,

I mean software devs release software when it is ready. Fedora also is semi-rolling and especially the older release has some form of held back packages.

But knowing "my distro ships packages with some random frozen number and these issues will simply not be fixed in a long time" is not really helpful.

Also, people dont know this from anywhere. Android, macOS, Windows all have separated software that is officially maintained and uses the latest stable version. Only Linux distros use this strange packaging form.

So I think using Flatpaks is way better, as they are often officially maintained. A lot of them are not, but they manage the separation from the system very well, so you actually run the latest versions without any chance to break the system.

boredsquirrel ,

Browsers are just bundles of lots of internetfacing software. Not the only one by far, but for sure a big part.

boredsquirrel ,

Only Appimages are that messy, and Flatpaks are way better. Not managing software at all is pretty horrible.

I think macOS has a store though, but not much software is there. Same as on Windows.

boredsquirrel ,

Fedora has 2 versions supported, the current release and the old release. It is pretty modern in packages, but this is normally not a problem at all.

I never used the old release but that would give more stability. On the atomic variants this means though that you dont get automatic updates, as using latest will auto update when upstream sets the new version as latest.

boredsquirrel ,

True, but Aurora/Bluefin dont have WINE preinstalled.

I wouldnt run WINE stuff on the system, but that is likely less complicated, as using Bottles means you cannot really use a Windows program to edit stuff on your system by default.

boredsquirrel ,

No. This button is completely uninformative and enables only proprietary but free stuff like Chrome, Jetbrains, Steam and NVidia drivers.

It does not

  • enable flathub
  • enable rpmfusion

I use Fedora and I know what I am talking about. The KDE people are currently adding the same "add external repos" button to the Plasma welcome screen, at least something.

But you still have

  • "flatpak apps" but from the wrong source and sometimes broken (just imagine how confusing this is for new users. Having "the flatpak alternative" but its also wrong.)
  • no flathub
  • libavcodec etc. that interfere with ffmpeg
  • no nvidia drivers
boredsquirrel ,

Oh nice, didnt know that.

I am not sure how well that works, as NVIDIA drivers need a karg and a blocklist of nouveau.

ffmpeg needs to be installed mit --allowerasing

While yes for sure flathub apps have support, you still have a preinstalled Firefox and a flatpak remote that both dont have the nonfree stuff. This is just very confusing.

But btw Firefox RPM has support for user namespace sandboxes, allowing process isolation. So just using the official Flatpak is not a real solution.

boredsquirrel ,

Yes but again, Flathub Firefox has no process isolation with user namespaces. Something not easy to understand, but it simply removes a big security layer (between browser and processes, and between processes). It also adds the security layer between browser and OS, so not that easy.

Have a look at bubblejail, that is far away from plug and play poorly. But it allows to sandbox the browser like flatpak, but allow user namespace creation (a syscall) to also isolate processes.

Ublue is Fedora Atomic without legal restrictions or strange decisions.

But they also deleted their old website, so the only easily installable versions are Bluefin/Aurora (GNOME/KDE) and Bazzite. Which are also opinionated but I think in a good way.

boredsquirrel ,

Btw for running Davinci resolve try this project

It is not exactly tested but allows to pack the software into a container, making sure it works forever if it works.

boredsquirrel OP ,

This means there are C functions that are documented and used, but insecure.

In Rust there is simply an enforcement of certain conventions, which will make code cleaner and prevent a whole class of errors.

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