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  • Average Debian system update experience:

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  • Do you have a powerful/decent/not-too-old enough PSU?.

  • what app can I use to see my android device on my debian 13.0 xfce as another directory / plugable external disk?

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  • Thunar and: sudo apt install gvfs gvfs-mtp

  • Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.

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  • Good F#$%^ riddance.

  • In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options?

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  • Textadept!.

  • Which program is the one that surprised you most that it is available on Linux?

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  • Bash. It has enabled me to automatize a lot of sh*t I wouldn't do just because it would take me a lot of time/efford to do. There's a LOT you can do with a few simple scripts, a few examples:

    • Remove files I don't need (images, rip/conversion logs, empty folders...).
    • Compress and optimize folders of photos recursively.
    • Apply watermarks to photos recursively.
    • Convert filetypes (flac2mp3, pdf2cbr, webm2mp3,web2jpg...).
    • Configure input devices (keyboards, mouse, graphic tablets).
    • Autorename files (spaces to _, . to _, _ to spaces...).
    • Remove audio from videos recursively.
    • Remove audio/subtitle tracks from videos.
    • Download images/videos/audio from websites.
    • Update appimages automatically.
    • Update/cleanup system/repos.
    • Use different theming for different applications.
    • Mount iso/bin... images.
    • Extract zip|rar|tar.gz|.... files automatically.
    • Modify pdfs.
    • Get the weather for my location.
    • Get stats from my PCs to be shown in panel applet.
    • Alias program names to ones of my choosing.
    • Open CUPS config in firefox.
    • Refresh font caches and other management tools I don't care to remember.
    • Fix permissions.
    • Make a backup.
    • Restore a backup.
    • Copy files safely (rsync).
    • Change volume level.
    • Install all the packages and configs I need to make the OS/apps behave/look the way I like.

    ...you name it...

    ...in most cases just by typing one word in the terminal. It was kind of a mindblow coming from the crappy window$ crappysystem eons ago.

  • What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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  • Practice.

  • SteamDeck drawing setup (Huion HS64 and Krita)

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  • I got these: Moko foldable and Plugable bluetooth. I highly recommend the second one because 1. Normal layout and 2. It works with usb cable, so you can unlock LUKS or get into bios if you need to. The moko feels better to type on but you have to deal with the layout (just give it time) and it only works via bluetooth (usb is charge only), so no LUKS prompt/bios AFAIK.

  • SteamDeck drawing setup (Huion HS64 and Krita)

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  • I got a wacom intuos s (pug & play) for that reason, after having a couple of huions. Opentabletdriver only gave me problems (constant crashes and unstable functionality). I'd recommend you a foldable bluetooth keyboard for jams (check for one that work in usb mode too if you want to input the luks password or something like that). I've been using the deck as main pc for the last 6 months or so with debian, docked most of the time. Not a bad setup for the money.

  • My Openbox Experiment - Ditching the Desktop Environment?

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  • I've been using openbox only for the last 20 years or so and I loved it. For the last 3-4 months I moved to labwc...and again, I'm loving it. I've never felt the need for a full desktop.

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  • Nothing beats playing just what you want, when you want, whether or not there's internet available and at the highest quality you can afford. Quodlibet/Rythmbox, ID3 and puddletag FTW !!.

  • Inkscape at 21 is growing up and getting organized | Inkscape

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  • What desktop enviroment do you use and why?

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  • Have they finally moved to Qt?

  • What desktop enviroment do you use and why?

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  • I should have said I was speaking about debian. Other distros may use different defaults.

  • What desktop enviroment do you use and why?

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  • I started playing with linux (ubuntu and a macbook [I know, the worse combo possible]) around 2006 or so. I tried some linux distros before, but just for fun, never as a daily driver. I come from the times of DOS and even a little before that (amiga 500, commodore 64, spectrum...[I feel old]) . After some time with ubuntu, I found out ubuntu was bloated and quite slow, so I gave debian a try and never came back after that. Among others, I tried crunch and bunsen and while I liked them, I got a few ideas from them and applied them to my vanilla debian installs. I usually install debian testing netinst and a script I made to install/customize packages/apps/etc. A debian install (testing netinst from usb pendrive) from 0, usually takes me about 15 min.

    I've been testing out arch since I got a steamdeck as a replacement for my main PC a few weeks ago but I don't think it's gonna stick. I've got a vanilla arch install running but it's way too cumbersome to reinstall/maintain it. I have to say, arch feels lighter. I will probably take another look at it sometime.

    Wayland is neeeeeaaaaar!. LabWC is the closest to openbox I've found. I just hope it is as snappy and stable as openbox is always been. The config is pretty similar and the way it works (as little as I've tried it) is also quite similar.

    About eyecandy and so, I have to say KDE and Gnome looks better everytime I take a look at them, but I feel like I have to be waiting for them to complete the tasks I ask of them, they don't feel as "immediate" as openbox (KDE is getting there) and since I don't use a compositor, games always run as expected (I'm talking X11 only). I've read about KDE/xfce running great so many times, but I had microstutters in games and or less avg FPSs while gaming, and switching to openbox just fixed that. I found out that disabling compositing in xfce also fixed that... but in that case I'd just rather go the openbox way. Openbox/lxde/lxqt can be pretty/ok/nice too:

    About the "desktop" concept, I just need a panel, a file manager and a terminal, all the applets KDE has feel redundant, slow and way too much windows>8-alike. I like windows 98 functionality better (do as I say, let me alone, don't pester me with notifications and applets and crap everywhere). For example, I have always hated the "safe remove drive" applet from windows/kde and so on. I just go to thunar, click on the eject icon close to the drive... and done.

    Sorry for the long post, and of course this is my own experience, to each their own...etc. Just use what you like/works for you and mix it however you like (one of the best things linux has).

    Excuse my english (not my mother language) and I'm quite sleep deprived.

  • What desktop enviroment do you use and why?

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  • AFAIK, lxde uses openbox, and lxqt uses xfwm.

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  • After trying mostly everything, I always come back to my "custom desktop": (openbox + xfce4-panel + thunar + xfce4-terminal + dunst) .. for the last 15 years or so. It doesn't get in the way, is fast AF, it takes very very little ram/cpu (4.5 Mb !!) and it has everything I need (even tiling via keyboard). It's VERY customizable and it does as I tell. No crashes, no weirdeness. It just works. I will probably move to labwc in a future, just because.. wayland. And now I'm about to use it on a steam deck... it's gonna be fun.

  • What is the proper way to install Vulkan drivers in Linux Mint 21.3 with an AMD GPU? (I think this issue is solved)

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  • I had that warning too with a r9 270x and if I remember correctly it was because radv didn't have official/full support for GCN =<2, so what they're saying is something in the line of... it may break. In my case, it worked beautifully gaming with proton, etc.

  • What is the proper way to install Vulkan drivers in Linux Mint 21.3 with an AMD GPU? (I think this issue is solved)

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  • You're right, I don't have mint/ubuntu installed nor that kind of hardware (anymore), so I can't give precise instructions. I was just like: see that you're not missing any of these packages/repos/firmware and adapt it to your needs. I had to deal with a laptop with dual gpu (intel+amd) and it was such a pain in the ass to get it working. I think you needed to have n packages installed, add grub flags, configure X11 to use amdgpu and blacklist radeon and even when I had it working, the amd gpu was only compatible with a limited amount of vulkan instructions so I had graphical glitches and games breaking. Old dual gpu setups are just a nightmare.