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tech-savvy geek and queer disaster(I also hate capitalism and have a general interest in social sciences)

  • Distro for a new user

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  • Atomic distros by Universal Blue build proprietary codecs into their images

  • Distro for a new user

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  • Maybe Aurora by Universal Blue?

    It's based off of Fedora Silverblue, so it's atomic, rock solid and basically guaranteed to work (more secure by design as well). But uses KDE Plasma instead of Gnome and has a bunch of improvements here and there, including proprietary codecs and Nvidia drivers preinstalled (latter depending on the image you choose)

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  • The partial unannounced update broke my installation, which is why I finally ditched Nobara for Bluefin

  • Your Favorite Open-Source Project Might Be in Trouble

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  • Exactly; a lot of international organisations are already located in Switzerland, so there shouldn't be many gripes with that (also means you aren't at the whims of a global empire in self-destruct mode)

  • Android keyboard

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  • I've been using it without major caveats since October last year. Even tried the proprietary swiping library you can install (it uses the Gboard one iirc, but OFC it can't do shenanigans since it's isolated by the app and not connected to the internet)

  • Linux distro recommendations

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  • Doesn't seem like anyone mentioned it yet, so I'm gonna chime in: Bluefin-DX by Universalblue might be worth a look.

    It's a special developer version of their already interesting and rock solid atomic distro, meaning it's not rly meant that you do much with the OS part of the filesystem (I'd recommend you read up on it, since I can't explain it that well) It has VSCode preinstalled (you can replace it with VSCodium tho with a simple command IIRC) and allows you to spin up virtually endless Linux environments where you install your additional programmes that aren't available as a Flatpak (you can still use them in the CLI, DW)

  • FUTO License, an alternative to Closed Source

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  • sure, keep insulting people with principles while buying into proprietary software being "open source washed" (for the lack of a better word)

  • FUTO License, an alternative to Closed Source

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  • Every time this licenses comes up I have to repeat myself: It's source-available proprietary (free)ware; "source first" is "open source washing" at it's finest

    From an old comment of mine:

    [...] It strips you of the options the four essential freedoms provide.

    IMO ["but protecting muh devs and making it financially viable as a for-profit"] is not rly an argument. Libre software is free as in freedom and not necessarily free as in beer. You could license it under the (A)GPL, charge for downloads in the Play store or for compiled binaries on ur website and ask for donations on F-Droid.

    You could even do a freemium version where some features are locked in the binaries you distribute and need a license from ur website or smth (for those who don't want to use Google Play). (iirc SD Maid 2/SE does this)

    sauce

    E.g.: AFAIK the QT Framework (which I don't particularly like) is dual licensed, making it both Foss that ppl have to contribute back to and viable as a for-profit

  • Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive

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  • Running a community-centred nonprofit is inherently more efficient resources-wise than paying managers and execs piles upon piles of cash in a for-profit scheme

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • What else? "Ignorant and inexperienced consoomers" doesn't sound very nice...

  • Your guide to moving away from Google Docs and finding a new Office Suite!

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  • Love the FUD around Onlyoffice lmao

    "Every person from insert current enemy of the West is inherently evil and should be judged by their ethnicity. Everything they touch is inherently bad and should be avoided. You say it's a proven and transparent FOSS application that's one of the best suites right next to Libre office if not better for ppl switching off of M$ Office? Sorry, evil Ruzzians tainted it with their touch, means I have to downgrade it's visibility and mark it in red" seems to be the mentality behind that

    least xenophobic/racist liberal

    Edit: apparently ppl don't know how free and open source software works... (usually, like in this case, you don't have to pay for it!) Also the company is Latvian, AFAIK some of the staff is just Russian (newsflash, many Latvian citizens are Russian).

  • SOLVED GNOME extensions stopped working after upgrade to Fedora Workstation 42

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  • valid, I just feel like Gnome is a rly solid base for me, with one of the most intuitive workflows and consistent designs out there

    the ecosystem of apps is just superb too

  • How much of a pain is it to install Nvidia GPU drivers, really?

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  • Nowadays it's easy AF pretty much everywhere. Sometimes there are simple GUI tools that get you there with just a few clicks. Hardest it will get is having to look it up in a wiki for the distribution you are using (if it doesn't have them preinstalled) and then following simple step-by-step instructions

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  • My first was Ubuntu 14.04. and then 16.04. at school 💀. as early as 2015 iirc

    Though Blackbox or Kali might be a contender too (one of the distros my father had installed for fun)

    I had rly cool CS teachers, which also administered our infrastructure

    then we used Linux Mint in the "Linux" club run by one of said teachers

    For personal use, my first one was Manjaro in 2018 (I switched to it with a Windows dual boot, I got rid of Windows entirely in 2020 I think?). Somewhere I switched to Endeavour OS, tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my laptop and eventually settled on Fedora bc of the Grub fiasco Arch had. Am using it to this day.Though it's in the form of Nobara on my desktop; I also plan on switching to Bluefin eventually

  • SOLVED GNOME extensions stopped working after upgrade to Fedora Workstation 42

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  • I get you, like "been there, done that"

    Nowadays I have like 10 if not 15 extensions (most of which are not essential to my workflow) and they make the already wonderful Gnome base just better for me personally

    this is why I usually wait with recent distribution upgrades, another upside is: it saves me a bunch of headaches too since – by the time I do upgrade – all the little bugs have usually been fixed

  • Fedora 42 installer defaults to btrfs? What's everyone's opinion or experience on that?

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  • On Fedora, Btrfs has been the default for years now iirc. It's modern and rock solid too (as long as you avoid Raid 5/6) and has some features I can't live without nowadays:

    • Copy-on-write (prevents file duplication)
    • Snapshots (your systems broke? most easy rollback you will ever experience is with Btrfs in combination with Timeshift)
    • on-the-fly compression (I'd recommend "--compression-force=zstd:3" as a mount option. Last I checked Fedora defaulted to using the lowest compression level, which is not the Btrfs default, making you lose some gains. FYI about the "force": btrfs by default checks whether a file is compressible or not, this is redundant with zstd, which does the same thing but quite a bit faster AFAIK)

  • I have used Windows all my life, and I have some questions.

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  • I (unfortunately) have to heavily recommend against using Nobara, especially if you have an Nvidia graphics card. It's an amateur distribution in the original sense of the word and also lacks a large community, neither does it have a company behind it.

    This leads to a lack of proper QA and testing in general. It's OK but I would not recommend it to anyone

    If you want to go with a "traditional" distro, go with Linux Mint, simply the most solid out there. I'd also recommend you check out Bluefin, it's atomic (meaning that you are basically guaranteed to always have a working system, even after upgrades) and quite modern

  • SOLVED GNOME extensions stopped working after upgrade to Fedora Workstation 42

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  • This is why – if you want to keep your extensions – you wait with upgrading to a new Gnome version until your extensions support it...

    AFAIK there is no stable extension API, leading to breakage with every version upgrade

  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • Its' lead dev is also so full of himself, it's insufferable