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plumbercraic

@ plumbercraic @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • Live (Animated) wallpapers programs for linux

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  • After seeing this thread, and the Linux wallpaper engine repo, I think I'm gonna boot into Windows and record wallpapers I like as videos, then set them as backgrounds in linux. I'm gonna be on x11 until cinnamon updates to waylan

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  • Recall

  • Debian is a snail and its shell

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  • Not exactly advanced, but I missed the super+P shortcut when switching from desk and monitor to sofa and TV. Made a couple of one line shell scripts that call Xrandr then bound them to keyboard shortcuts.

  • Let's skip this one

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  • Let's skip this one

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  • It will never stop being weird seeing Drew in memes

  • Issues with dual booting windows and linux mint.

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  • I just finished doing this a few minutes ago and I had better luck. I left my drives plugged in. Booted to mint USB. Made sure I knew which drive was the empty one using the Disks app. Ran the installer and chose the option to erase disk instead of alongside. Set my BIOS to boot from new disk, and grub let's me choose between windows and Linux.

    My laptop on the other hand, was not a good time. It shipped using the raid controller, so mint couldn't see the second drive. And windows freaked out at the change of disk controller and I couldn't recover. 2 operating system installs for the price of one 🫠

  • What is happening in Norway, and how do we spread it?

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  • There are dozens of us

  • Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧

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  • Mint cinnamon 21, then upgraded to 22.

  • Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧

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  • I wasnt thrilled about upgrading to win11 - it adds an irritating layer of stuff that I didnt want or need. The ads and telemetry bugged me too. I was probably going to reluctantly upgrade at some point though.

    But then recall was announced and I realised how much worse it could get. Been really happy with the switch to Linux.

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  • Just did a timeshift then upgraded and it went perfectly. Had to disable a ppa but the upgrader even did that for me.

    I only recently came over from Windows and am very impressed - most Windows upgrades go less smoothly than this.

  • It wouldn't be the same without him

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  • That's really wholesome - thanks OP

  • What are some good TV series crime/drama/thriller?

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  • Yeah agreed. The distance between marvel and 12 monkeys is like the space between Johnny Cash and Billy Ray Cyrus

  • Do you know any mobile games that don't suck?

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  • You Must Build a Boat and Triple Town are simple but excellent. Slay the Spire is incredible - can't recommend it enough.

  • What are some good TV series crime/drama/thriller?

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  • Legion is news to me - will add it to the list. Thought silo started well, but got boring and misandrist. Severence was great - i hear there is a second season coming.

    Raised by Wolves I quite enjoyed. And s1 Altered Carbon.

  • What are some good TV series crime/drama/thriller?

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  • Dark matter looks great - cheers. 12 monkeys I loved, maybe worth a watch again sometime. I've had to resort to comics and books to get my sci fi fix 😅

  • What are some good TV series crime/drama/thriller?

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  • What are some good TV series crime/drama/thriller?

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  • Dark was amazing. True detective s1 o f course.

  • Why do you still hate Windows?

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  • I... Don't? But I've used it since 3.11. It's incredibly usable software, when it works. Switched recently because even I have my limits - that win11 recall even made it as an idea at the table is enough to make me jump ship. The ads in win10 pushed me to the limit, but recall is insane unless they're literally gonna give away free hardware and software. I paid for that damn computer and bought a license - wtf. It's not Microsofts hardware to datamine or put ads on. Paid for things with ads in them that also keylog and screen scrape and datamine can fuck all the way off.

    Saw the netbsd video posted on lemmy recently and dude said he was offended at the lack autonomy he had over his own hardware in ms and I kind of get it now.

  • People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

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  • I've been a lifelong ms admin, and always stuck to their desktop environments because they "just worked". Often use Linux on containers, devices (handhelds, rpi etc) and webapp servers.

    That win11 recall stuff though is a step too far. So I looked at which distro was likely to be easiest to use and just as you say - mint is the overwhelming consensus. And now it's my daily driver. I needed to learn a few new tricks, but the mint forums are filled with windows refugees so finding forum posts is easy (e.g. I thought had a problem with my "task bar" not my "panel" but since others called it the same thing I found what I was looking for).

    My biggest reason for staying on windows was that I could search for something and almost always find an answer - that's become worse over the years IMO (often get these useless forums posts when they're basically advising the user to reinstall with five paragraphs of pasted/generated text). The mint forums are genuinely friendly and helpful, and searching them is as useful as searching for win stuff used to be.

    I don't know if "this is the year" but I can't imagine I'm the only one who has had enough of the MS ecosystem. My experience has been great so far, and I hope there are others who give it a go.