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20 hours agoIt’s horrible, you have to type “<package manager> install nvidia” and not make any typos at all or it won’t work. The horror, I still get flashbacks.
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Hm, maybe I ought to look at it again then. Thanks for the tip.
It’s only good for phone photos though. If you also take pictres with a camera, it doesn’t have any clear way to handle those.
One of the first slackware (so many floppies) on my mighty 486 DX 50. Linux wasn’t at 1.0 yet at the time.
Linux (many versions) has been my daily driver ever since, with windows as a gaming backup a lot of the time. I still have it on a single machine in a small partition because of VR :‐/
In my experience KDE on OpenSuse and probably Fedora are rock solid. The first and nowadays probably also the second (which has moved to first tier instead of being a sub-distribution) are considered reference implementations of industry strength distros.
My thought would be that you’ve added something slightly broken to the mix which breaks KDE. It can happen. Linux is complicated, KDE is also complicated, what annoys one desktop can be ok with another. If you want to figure out what the problem is, you’ll have to go through your various system logs to see what fails.
1·5 days agoI think they meant wi, wii and wiii.
2·9 days agoThat depends a lot on when they started.
When I first installed a distribution where the base system only came with nano instead of standard editors, I was very confused (and very disappointed that this whas what they’d come up with as a “friendly” interface).
Systemd won’t be done until they port libre office to it dammit!
I never really used its find function. Whenever I searched for something, my first idea would always be to open a shell.
It’s a bit silly since kde spends so much energy indexing stuff though. I really should give it another try.
2·13 days agoI don’t drive often, living in a city and therefore not owning a car. But when I drive in the countryside, I use my blinkers whether there’s someone around or not. Just like I stop at red lights whether there’s someone else or not, etc. I just do what’s supposed to be done. Not having to wonder if there are others is one less thing to thing about.
I’m still waiting for the release of 100% A1 written software.
(Spoiler: when it comes, it will have been heavily edited by meat popsicles).
You mean I can’t just
import * from *And be done with it? How inefficient!
There are several shell scripts that I’ve written in even less than ten days!
It certainly worked and was full featured, but the interface wasn’t very good. Having to edit the network interfaces to configure them wasn’t good UI for example (the partition editor works the same way). It also took until my second install (that was quite some time ago) to figure out that I could pick what software I wanted to install.
Anyway, a lot of things could be made clearer for first time users.
So, you’re into bird movies?
US people like to give everything a different name. They often repurpose names from elsewhere thus bringing much confusion to online spaces. It’s their thing.
Is the US administration aware that there are international laws? And if so does it care? It doesn’t seem to care much about the local ones.
Kmail, Thunderbird, Evolution. That’s pretty much it.
There’s always some weird niche client somewhere but it won’t be a hidden gem. Although I guess you can always use Pine (or rather Alpine nowadays) if you want to appear ubergeeky.
The nice part is you won’t have to go through all the bother of getting up and getting ready.
After about 30 years of Linux, here’s my take on your questionnaire. Not sure if it’ll add on what many others have said.
The one thing you have to remember is that Linux is not a replacement for Windows. It’s a completely different operating system that lets you do the same operations in a different way. It can however run some of the same software thanks to a number of very clever hacks. That being said…
Significantly, no. Some things won’t run, especially games that require deep anti-cheat hooks in the system. An awful lot of stuff will run fine thanks to the incredible work done by Valve.
Short answer: no. It often relies on software tools that won’t run as easily. Sometimes, yes.
Sometimes there’s a functional equivalent in the Linux world, or you can get the Windows version to run either in a virtual machine or in a pseudo-emulated environment (Wine or bottles).
Yes. they can be written specifically for Linux. Or they can be written for Windows and will work in Linux, sometimes (it’s hard to get the translation layer right).
Every distribution manages this. It works by itself and is typically much cleaner than in Windows.
The structure of the software in Linux (and the fact that it mostly comes from one source (the distribution) makes for a smaller target than in Windows where it comes from all over the place. Antivirus aren’t used.
They’re the same as in Windows (the codebase is the same, the OS “glue” is specific). Other than the occasional bad release, they’re usually OK. Linux is currently transitioning to a new display system, from X11 to Wayland, and nVidia is a bit behind on Wayland adoption. However, all three GPU makers typically work fine whether you use X11 or Wayland.
Even voluntarily, that wouldn’t be easy to do.
Honestly, it doesn’t really matter. They all install the same thing in the end. Just pick something mainstream and well documented and not something obscure.
Note that for X or Y reason, a given distribution may disagree with your hardware. It’s the problem when everything is very specifically designed for Microsoft’s OS, around specs that aren’t fully publicly disclosed. If that happens, just try another.