I wonder what someone has to do to have worse looking font rendering on Linux. I find the font rendering on Windows worse in every regard and inconsistent (size). On Linux I just set hinting to slight and anti-aliasing to greyscale and all my fonts look nice. Same font with same size on Windows (VSCode is the only program I use on both OS) looks slightly blurred; only the fact that my work display has a higher pixels density makes it ok for me.
Try Niri (a linear window manager), I have tried it already for a short time on a seperate computer. It is very good! I just not got around configuring it for my main machine, yet.
And I need to test how well Xwayland works, because I need it for Steam and some games.
With Gentoo, you can choose any live-iso, open a terminal and start installing. (:
Would a desktop CPU (Zen3) also benefit from these improvements?
Sadly, a true story. I asked 2 days ago. The answer was no, because they want to standardize the work environment. /:
The package manager portage is simply the most flexible one I have ever used, especially with the new binary repositories; it beats deb and dnf/rpm by far in my opinion.
Ommiting features of installed software with the help of useflags can make it more stable and secure.
I think it is "criminal" not wanting to use Gentoo as a daily driver. But this is just me and my opinion doing only honest stuff with it. (:
I know at least one person who switched back to Windows but claimed there was no choice. Maybe the people arround that person making the switch to Linux initially does matter. And if they are (still) Windows users, it can happen at the first sign of trouble; especially when they are stubborn Windows users.
Guys, there are people out there Windows is the only OS they want to use despite all the problems.
Your cat is silently laughing.
But, nevertheless, I would have thought that Debian could not be crashed so easily. Have you tried another window manager?
No, I don't. I saw it on Flathub; will install it from there.
If you don't play the latest game titles with DRM you should be good to go on Linux: Steam runs great in a flatpak sandbox.
I don't know how compatible mono is with dotnet. Interestingly, some game launchers need it and protontricks can handle many issues. Have look at protondb. Back to work: Someone needs to confirm whether MSSQL server can be run on Linux, but I am almost sure that you won't be able to run the gui of it. But you can connect to it using DBeaver (Java-based) or a VSCode plugin. As for C# development on Linux, I don't know.
I wish I could switch to Linux at work, too, but standardization of work environments seems to be the problem. I would even consider Ubuntu 22.04 LTS if my employer woul allow it. Last time I asked, time was the real reason. Time savings in the long run, currently don't matter. I will ask later and if they still tell me, it's too risky, I will look elsewhere.
Our dev setup doesn't even have the constraints you have for your work. It is all docker-based with Ubuntu Linux containers. It would run faster on Linux even if we could switch to WSL2. And I would argue, that Linux is more standardized than Windows.
I hope you get your stuff running on Linux; market share needs to go up so that all the managers don't fear it. (:
I never used a spin-off of a unique distribution of GNU/Linux on my own computer, except the dark Ubuntu times. It seemed right at the time.
Now, I don't see why I should recommend a distro that tries to be easier on new users when the original has sane defaults and is closer to upstream regarding all the tools and software bundled with it.
Here are my recommendations for new users in that order (regardless of their computer knowledge): Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Slackware, LFS. Friends can help with the installation and should consider easy maintainability when dealing with users who just want to use it.
My personal preferences are Gentoo and Debian.
Evolution here. I will likely never go back to Thunderbird.
Thx, I will try that. When configuring my kernel I saw it and left it in the default config "active" (I was upgrading to the latest LTS kernel today). I did not check how I can interact with it as a user, yet.
Does it also restore the content of unsaved files of the application? If not, I'll prefer systemctl hibernate. I wonder, what this new feature is for. Gnome had it in the past, MacOS has it, but I don't see what the use case is.
I recently switched back to Evolution from Thunderbird, because the threaded view is more reliable. I miss the good label management and filtering a bit, but is not impossible to use them in Evolution. And Evolution is native to Gnome, which I prefer.
You could try Niri. I have tested it with a ~10 year old notebook with a 1st gen Core i5 cpu.
But, even newest Gnome runs smooth on this machine.
I agree with the author: Only GUI config? WTF!
If a gui does make the configuration harder then it is a bad tool for the job. Your claim is partly, that OLS makes things easier. I think, the struggle with the gui config illustrates that it doesn't. If cannot debug a problem with that gui or do not know what an abstract gui setting does, then it actually pretty bad.
Btw. Nginx configuration can be separated into seperate files and through proxy_pass seperated onto seperate servers.
I have made very good experience with Steam installed from flatpak. Only my loved browser "qutebrowser" seems to be abandoned in the flathub-repo. It takes so much time to compile it on Gentoo, so flatpak is a very good fallback for programs with painful compile times.
Thx, that was what I needed to understand Fedora atomic a bit better. Cool concept!
I wish gnome-builder had a better vim-mode, I would use it more often over VSCode.
Does Fedora atomic use a rolling release model?
Have you heard of Svelte? You can write everything in Typescript or Javascript. It runs on top of node and SSR is made very easy.
I used Inkscape a lot on PDFs with forms and broken layout. The beauty of it, you can fix other problems, too, use your own font or change the font of existing text. (:
This was a fun one! Now, I use Gnome, after I discontinued my own fork of catwm called ocelot (but this was a tiling wm based on dwm, anyway).
"I cannot attend EOD daily today, I have to get the kids from school early."
Annoyingly so, how can one disable it?
Exactly, this is the reason I use Gentoo on my Zen3 12c w/ 32gb RAM. Smooth and clean. Nothing should stutter below 60 FPS or lagging when I hit a key on the keyboard.
Would you say the for Gentoo?
Yes, it even works through flatpak-sandboxed Steam. I had to install a GE-version of Proton to make it work in the early days, but I guess it will now work with the default Proton version shipped with Steam.
It needed many reinstalls! So yes, many times, indeed.
Gentoo user here. I look at system load while compiling. (: But most of the time I can use my PC while portage is doing it's job.
I have a blocker for Friday afternoon meetings.
Thx for the reminder; I need to do that update.
Why miss it? It is still there.
Can confirm, I only configured some visual changes, font, minimal font size and alike.
Only problem I have with it is, an increasing number of webpages tell me, my browser is outdated and rarely some pages don't work correctly.
I am thinking of moving to Epiphany (gnome-web) some day, but I may start missing the vim-like interaction with qutebrowser.
No, I don't think so.
It just takes a bit longer for some to grasp certain concepts of a programming language. If I think I need more time I try to solve an issue for my own projects first. When I need a thing for work, it won't be the first time anymore I see a particular problem and deal with it faster.
I consider myself an average programmer, but I am also proud of the programs that do some valuable things for me and I can rely on. You can always go back to your old code and optimize it as soon as you learn new things.
I have respect for those who seem to program only at work and don't show when they are in trouble (stressed because of deadlines), but in the end their code works, too, after it came back from the second review.
Same here, I even don't have ll in my vocabulary, although it seems to be a default on Debian based systems.
I can't remember ever having a glibc related update problem. eselect news is always there for me. (:
I only have rarely a perl update related problem, but usually solvable with a world update. And since there are now binpkgs I only compile what has differing useflags from the selected profile. Portage has never been better!
On the desktop I am safe from most ads, but on mobile some pages are more pain than others.
I think, I should switch to Codium for personal projects. Let's hope there is a binary package on Gentoo.