This is one of those things that I'd come across and went "huh thats pretty cool" then promptly for got about, so this is a nice reminder about distrobox haha
I'll have to go back and mess with it, such a cool tool to have
This is one of those things that I'd come across and went "huh thats pretty cool" then promptly for got about, so this is a nice reminder about distrobox haha
I'll have to go back and mess with it, such a cool tool to have
Unless I'm misunderstanding, that's all related to those KDE packages. I'd say if you're a heavy user of Plasma or apps relying on those KDE packages you might as well enable it.
Up to your comfort level though, personally I don't mind for stuff like that. On KDE's community site they have this showing what telemetry is collected for Plasma.
For most people using a tiling window manager is something they want for their whole user experience, not just for tiling terminals haha
The Valve one has been the most exciting for me. AFAIK Valve has been thinking about the issues with Windows controlling PC gaming since Windows 8 first came out. The Steam Machines were a flop at the time but in recent years they've been able to maks big moves for Linux gaming and instead of giving up has been doubling down on the importance of it.
Haven't really felt the need to. On Linux ad blocking + common sense has worked out fine. When I was still using Windows I just relied on Windows Defender since around the Windows 8.1 days, but either way my time downloading .exe files from sketchy sites is long behind me.
It's been refreshing that my lemmy subscription feed is purely related to my hobbies and misc interests and makes me want to come back more often. my main reddit feed has been so full of unnecessary filler for a while now, im actually getting more value out of browsing here instead
But yea idk if the habit of adding site:reddit.com to searches is gonna go away any time soon lol
I'm still able to on Relay. The dev announced he has to move to a subscription model but its still free for the time being and seems to work fine still.
Yeah, its a bit much. But hey, it's something that brings a lot of the users here together. Common ground to get conversation going and gets the new Reddit refugees interacting with content on here. After a while it'll probably die down but it's very much at the forefront of new users' minds.
You don't gotta know how to code to use Linux. Maybe some basic skills in scripting will be useful as a tool but other than that it's more about learning how the system is laid out and where to go to do things. Just becoming familiar with doing things in a Linux environment
If you already own the game on Steam just use Proton. It ran perfectly fine for me through various proton versions over the years (whatever was the latest at the times I played) or proton expiremental. Before they dropped native support I would typically run the game through Proton anyways as it performed much better than the native Linux version at the time.
Otherwise using Heroic game launcher should be fine. Prior to Heroic getting popular I saw that people were installing Epic Games Store via Lutris and that ran Rocket League fine too.
Even when you're not intentionally plagiarizing, Turnitin may catch something that could screw you over when the assignment is submitted. Sometimes you have a chance to see what Turnitin analyzes and resubmit the assignment but OP is saying they can only submit it once so they want to use the Grammarly checker first.
I've gone like 5 moths without updating a laptop on Arch before and the only thing I had to deal with was updating keyring first
On many popular distros there are graphical apps preinstalled for that. The distribution maintainers have repositories with common packages to make it so that you can open an app store and install programs from one place rather than going to different websites and downloading installers.
Arch Linux
I remember having a lot of fun with Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time a few years ago.
You have up to 4 players (iirc) manage a spaceship which is essentially a platforming area. It gets pretty hectic (in a fun way imo) managing the different equipment on the ship and piloting it around while dealing with obstacles and enemies.
I've had a Pixel 5a and currently have a Pixel 7. Have enjoyed them greatly. The 5a was a bit mediocre overall, camera performance wasn't that great & it got a bit slow over time. That being said, the clean OS experience and integration was always nice and it was perfectly suitable for my needs at a good price.
Now that I'm using my Pixel 7 as a daily, the Pixel 5a is holding up pretty well with GrapheneOS as a backup phone / media player.
Pixel 7 has been really nice to me. Interface is smooth, camera is nice, everything just works essentially. And getting the latest Android pretty quickly is a nice feeling. My only gripe is that Google's SoC is still a bit lacking and battery life isn't the best, but I hear the current Android beta has some promising battery life improvements.
Overall I've been having a good time with them. Still kinda miss my Nexus 5x tho, that thing was sweet...
That's just how people are in general regardless of platform
I don't think there are any CoD games on switch yet anyways so yeah 0 people are playing on switch haha
I didn't have a specific plan for how I wanted to use it but having it around encourages me to use it.
Because of the Steam Deck I was able to kick back with it in my hands and be like "eh why not start Yakuza 0 I've had it in my library for a while" and now I'm set on playing through the whole series since they're remastered on Steam these days.
Also is nice to have it around for whenever I wanna kill a bit of time and run some roguelites or other casual games. But overall it's made it much easier for me to drop in and try out my backlog of single player games since it's so easy to start playing even if I'm not in the mood to sit at my desk.
I've also found fun use cases like leaving it in its dock and using the touchscreen to trigger Soundux soundboard with the audio routed to my main PC. Or using obs websocket to control OBS on my main PC from the Deck's touchscreen, kinda using it like an impromptu Stream Deck (lol). All around fun to use as intended and also find cool ways to utilize it when I'm not gaming on it.
Discord cant stream desktop audio at all on Linux aside from sharing a tab's audio if you're using Discord in a web browser. There are custom clients (like discord-screenaudio which OP mentioned) capable of doing this to some extent but they're based on the web version of discord and lack features / can be buggy. Also these options don't have hardware encoding so any fast moving content will become a choppy mess for the viewers.
The other alternative on Linux is to just route the app's audio into your mic source. Others will hear it but it will come out as if its your mic so even those not watching the stream will have to hear the stream audio unless they mute you.
But the article is talking about unsupported Chromebooks being sold through Amazon and Walmart. Google isn't selling the unsupported Chromebooks on their own web store.
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of the post. Mindustry is awesome, I got so addicted to it for a bit haha
I would from time to time. If posts from a sub annoyed me I'd unsub. But even the subs I still enjoy had gone down in quality over time. Whether its bots stealing comments, bots reposting recent popular posts, or something that looks like a discussion only to see its a long thread of 3 people arguing relentlessly over semantics. So starting fresh has been nice.
The only ones I keep up with regularly are the Jupiter Broadcasting shows. Linux Action News is great to keep up with notable things going on. Linux Unplugged & Self Hosted are great to put on in the background while doing housework or going on a walk. Well-edited along with fun off the cuff conversations, the guys hosting those shows have a good sense of humor and play off each other really well
Droidcam is a pretty decent option too for using Android phones as a webcam, that's what I've used on Linux to accomplish similar things. Just run the droidcam server on the Steam Deck and either connect to it from the phone via local IP address or over USB.
For some reason it infuriates me that they compare ChromeOS to "other Linuxes" as a plural when they could've just said Linux distributions
Ayy I got into Bloodywood a little while back, they're pretty sick. Haven't gone through a lot of their catalog but cool to see them mentioned, seems like their fanbase has been growing a ton over the past year
I pretty much just use my switch for Nintendo exclusives at this point. For the games I do own on both I tend to prefer the Deck's input options and flexibility in that regard more often than not.
I think most people who are already using windows will just stay on 10 for as long as possible rather than switching. I had a friend still using windows 7 by the time 11 rolled around. But once 10 hits EOL maybe the momentum will convince more of those to switch to a Linux distro
Maybe if this was a completely isolated situation it makes more sense but it seems hypocritical to say something like this while their government is actively bolstering the great firewall to prevent Chinese citizens from accessing stuff the rest of the world has access to
They are "going hard" the way I see it. Without Valve doing legwork behind the scenes and collaborating with anticheat developers we wouldn't even have Apex Legends running on Linux like we've had for a year and a half. They've been talking about wanting to use Linux as a viable PC gaming platform to escape Microsofts lockdown of their platform since the days of Steam Machines when Windows 8 and the new store app were giving bad signs.
Either way Valve would be silly not to provide a compatible way to use Windows on the Deck. Even though the situation is much better these days, they know very well that a lot of enthusiast PC gamers would be dismissive of the Deck if Windows couldn't work properly on it and that word of mouth would bring less confidence in the product.
Yeah i feel that. It takes a while, once you're settled in and have done a bit of configuring to make a tiling wm work a specific way then it starts getting harder to go back. I would flip flop between KDE Plasma and either i3 or sway for a long while but eventually my sway config got to a point where I just prefer using it full time as I have to put in more work to make Plasma behave the same way.
That being said i still keep Plasma installed in case i get an itch to just use a DE like that for a bit. Or to check out updates for it.
How so? Flatpak has other contributers it's not excludively a Red Hat thing. It's also not exclusively used in RHEL. How does the Red Hat stuff affect the Flatpak ecosystem as a whole? You're just saying it does without any context
Depends on what you need. Personally, over the years I've been inclined to at least try a FOSS alternative when available and have found some really cool projects by doing that. It's also cool to see those projects evolve over time and trade blows with the "official" apps they're competing with.
However in some cases it just might not be practical to do so, especially if the alternative isn't mature enough to rely on. I'd say at least take a look at the alternatives and give em a fair shot.
I will mention in the case of projects like WebCord you're essentially getting a cut down version of Discord, with some extra features added in some cases. Basically custom clients like WebCord have to be based on the web version of Discord (essentially what you get when you open it in a browser) and because of that will be missing features like Krisp noise reduction and hardware encoding for video which can be dealbreakers for some people. Those features and some others are only available with the native Discord app which alternative clients cannot be built on top of. So there's a hard limitation there as to how much these alternatives can accomplish.
There are others like Ripcord which are entirely custom clients, not just loading web Discord and modding it. But something like Ripcord will be missing a lot of features that even the web version of Discord has, so not really an option unless you just need basic voice and text chat stuff.
I don't have an answer for you unfortunately but I gotta say thanks for mentioning LosslessCut. I've been using video-trimmer for quickly clipping stuff from long videos and it's had a lot of issues for me, no idea how losslesscut slipped past my radar. Gonna give it a try when i get home :D
Out of curiosity, did you download the nvidia drivers with the distro's package manager or did you go to nvidia's website and do there installer thing? When I had an nvidia card I had plenty of problems over the years but I specifically remember that using the installer from nvidia's site caused all kinds of hell to break loose haha
Hmm just tested cause I was curious. I guess it depends on the site?
Firefox and chromium still prompted me with "are you sure" using CTRL+W on gmail and lemmy but closed without confirmation on Twitter
I cannot read the phrase "them bones" without that song playing in my head haha
Easy config with archinstall script if you want to choose options from a list when installing
Scary but hey at least Reddit isn't handing out the info so easily in this instance