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Varyag

@ Varyag @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Certified foxgirl enjoyer. Weeb, but hasn’t properly watched anime in ages. Gamer of incresingly niche subgenres. Aficionado of racecars, mechas, fighter jets, and any other vehicles you can think of. Lives in the wrong side of the planet compared to all my friends. Made way too many Fedi accounts

  • Is there a programming specific distro?

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  • All of them? I've always liked (and preferred) Linux for dev work, as I'm just so comfortable around working with the commandline and installing packages that I might need. For that end, any of them would work, you'd just need to set them up with what you want. If you wanna be "cool" and "hacker" you could install Arch and install every last package manually handpicked, or you could go with the most bog standard Ubuntu or Fedora or OpenSUSE. All of them work, it's only down to your tools. If you like Kali, stick with it.

  • Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed

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  • In the modern age, we all need to be our own archivists, saving whatever we can from a perpetually burning Library of Alexandria. This is why pirates are a community, each one saves a little bit of history that matters to them, and then we share.

  • Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed

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  • access to everything that isn't bogged down by stupid licensing deals, too. so many things just disappear because someone wants someone else to keep paying for that one song they added in a single episode 15 years ago.

  • Looks like we are using Linux in university

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  • Welcome to CompSci university! Hope you enjoy your stay. There will be lots of maths. When I did my degree, it was my first experience with Linux too, and it was great. They eventually taught me how to install it myswlf on my laptop, and all of the student network PCs ran Debian. I later became part of the sysadmin team as my internship work, and learned a lot there. Now, 11 years later, I'm still a Linux diehard and much prefer working on it, and have been transferring my gaming over to Linux too.

  • Anyone having trouble with Zotify and the like?

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  • I don't know either, and I haven't been able to use spotify_player in a while, either in my Linux or Windows machines because of that. Already ended up accidentally resetting my Spotify password 2-3 times trying to solve that.

  • What alias do you have to update the system from terminal?

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  • May I ask why? I'm a recent Arch user, and yay seems just fine for me so far. Haven't looked into paru much yet. Is it because it's made on Rust, or are there more/better features?

  • For anyone wanting to play G.A.M.M.A. on linux

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  • Oh shit thanks, I was literally thinking about options for that earlier today. I've been playing a lot of Gamma lately, and I've been thinking about how to transition my gaming PC to Linux. I have SO MUCH old and esoteric shit installed that I'd have to figure out.

  • Removing Windows. Choosing a new daily driver for a gaming PC

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  • I've been thinking the same thing lately, and based on my recent Linux usage on my other machines, I would probably pick something Fedora based with KDE. I've been using Arch on my "work" laptop and it's been really fine and fun, but also a LOT of work (especially when I break something myself). Having a ton of very up to date packages to install, plus the AUR and Flatpaks to shore up anything that might be missing makes for a very "compatible" system. And of course, the freedom and courage to set it up just exactly the way I want.

    I used Linux Mint for several years, it's the one I can say I'm most comfortable with. If I had to set up another low power laptop or a computer for a family member I'd either use that or MX Linux. They just don't break. I have also tried Fedora for a short time, and it made me start liking KDE Plasma, and it was honestly the easiest one to set up for Steam out of the box. And it had more in variety and more up to date packages than Mint, and also easily augmentable with Flatpaks for what's missing. OpenSUSE was similar, but the package manager was excruciatingly slow, and there were no good mirrors for fast downloads, dropped that very quickly.

    Although, overall from your past experience in the post and other responses in the thread, I think you'll do just fine with Kubuntu. You're already plenty familiar with how to use it and how to set it up the way you need it to. I've been considering Nobara for my gaming PC as basically a better Fedora, but I'm afraid of projects with so few people taking care of them fizzling out in a couple years, and it's not as simple as just replacing it with base Fedora if that happens. So yeah, my personal choices would be Arch, Mint or Fedora. But my case is not the same as yours.

  • I have no idea how to react to this.

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  • Ahhh, true freedom!

  • The longer I play games on arch the worse the framerate gets.

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  • Not on my Arch laptop, no. That one has an AMD Radeon card. My gaming PC has NVidia but I haven't tried it there yet.

  • The longer I play games on arch the worse the framerate gets.

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  • Yeah you are correct in assuming that NVidia drivers do not play well with Wayland. It's on NVidia's side to unfuck their drivers, which they haven't in a while already. I think there's open source drivers that work better for that? Think they're called nouveau, look that up. Might even be related to your gaming problems.

  • Current XFCE setup

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  • Ah that's great, I'm literally setting up my own XFCE today after a couple of adventures trying out other potential interfaces and ripping out all the traces of the original KDE Plasma that I had before on my Arch setup. That took quite a bit of work and now I have to re-theme everything, including SDDM!

    I am absolutely stealing a few things from your config, like the themes and icons.

  • Highly enjoyable things require concentration too

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  • Fuck. This is me with music production about a month ago. I produced exactly 5 seconds of music trying to learn it after several days of endlessly learning about it.

  • Snap out of it

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  • They've been doing snaps for a few years already so it already seems like they're keeping up with this bullshit (in fact they're putting more and more stuff there) It's already the reason people stopped recommending Ubuntu to new users and instead go for Mint or Pop!OS

  • NSFW

    you can't do me like this

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  • welp, guess I'm keeping this thread open for tomorrow morning when I get to fixing this. Hopefully by then things will be more fixed upstream...

  • Unacceptable

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  • You sure it isn't the finance and management guys leaving at 4pm and earlier while developers are expected to work past hours and even at home?

  • How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use

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  • oohh that is nice, I think I'll swap my nano to that.

  • Battlefield 1 will now include EA's kernel-level anti-cheat, making the game unplayable on Linux

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  • It's a game about WW1. It came out a few years ago, before Battlefield V iirc.

  • Why I Prefer Minetest To Minecraft - YouTube

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  • It's open, it's free, and it's fun! It's got a ton of mods and custom games to make it whatever you want out of a voxel game. That's everything I need.

    Shoutouts to the Asuna game.

  • I love piracy and seeders

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  • We all need to be our own archivists in this day and age. The internet isn't forever, it's a constantly burning Library of Alexandria. I'm glad you found your lost media again.