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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Compatibility is the only real issue anymore (opinion/discussion)
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    3 days ago

    In the professional space:

    Add Altium, KNX, pspice, LTSpice (luckily works in wine), and for us electronics/electric guys lol.

    Linux is a 3rd class citizen in ANSYS simulation tools. Slow updates, old UI, etc… On Linux. Pretty much only used as a simulation node for kicking on sims from windows.

    Pretty much all architecture software

    Many ERP systems desktop apps

    Not to mention a lot of companies use active directory for access control + sharepoint

    Web apps suck, but have been very helpful in Linux compatibility in the enterprise space since the devs only have to care about 1 set of production builds.

    At my work, software guys and mechatronics PLC focused guys get away with Ubuntu (saleae is great), but for electronics and mechanicals it is not even worth it to dual boot.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•I Tried Running Ubuntu on My Phone, Here's How It Went
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    11 days ago

    While true, in order to get Linux mobile more mainstream, you have to have great google compatibility just because of the sheer volume of people that have to use google calendar for sync with family and friends and/or have gmail as a primary email. That’s just a shitty fact of life. Baby steps.

    However, indeed you are completely right that at the current time there are probably a very low amount of people wanting to use it right now that are completely reliant on google.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Where Do You Guys Throw Your Local Git Repos?
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    15 days ago

    ~/workspace/git

    That way I can also keep other stuff in the same “workspace” directory and keep everything else clean

    I have a Code, simulations, ECAD, and FreeCAD folder in the workspace folder where projects or 1-offs are stored and when I want to bring them to git, I copy them over, play around in the project folders again, then copy changes over when I am ready to commit.

    I could better use branching and checking out in git, but large mechanical assemblies work badly on git.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What desktop enviroment do you use and why?
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    16 days ago

    KDE for my main PC. Pretty with floating panels, KDE Connect, QT apps are often the best apps in their class and are perfectly integrated (FreeCAD, krita, okular, kdenlive, vlc, dolphin, etc…) And konsole is also very full featured.

    I don’t know what KiCAD uses, but it also seems very well integrated into the KDE desktop unlike most gnome apps.

    XFCE on MX Linux for an old Intel Compute Stick to keep it very usable.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•How to find what's eating 100% of just one core?
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    18 days ago

    “Critical” as in not really needed.

    It is very bugged and constantly runs even if it isn’t doing anything. It will also max out your disk IO for hours at a time with an HDD for larger game storage.

    I have had it off for 1.5 years across 3 OS installs and have never had a problem with stuttering or shader related problems in that time. It is really not needed anymore for 95% of games since the Linux async solutions were merged.

    Maybe if one uses severely out of date kernels it is critical

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What is your linux backup strategy?
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    1 month ago

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    Kopia backup to secondary HDD

    • Pictures (phone photos backed up to my server via immich)
    • workspace (git repos, ECAD, MCAD, firmware, etc…)
    • qmk layout
    • Documents
    • vim folder with bundles
    • ebooks

    KDE vaults stores on secondary HDD

    Soon I will set up kopia to also back up every via SSH to my server and then small size essentials and important docs via google drive

    I need to set server cloud backups too, but haven’t had the time…

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linux rule
    291·
    2 months ago

    Capitalists making use of and profiting from socialist programs and structure is a tale as old as capitalism.

    Pharma as an example. Crowdsourced research, government funding with money from the people only to be bought by a capitalist corpo where they do the last 10% of the work by industrialization, jack up the price by 1000x, and take 100% of the profits and don’t even pay back their fair share in taxes, and then get a state-sponsered monopoly for an outrageous period.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Is Linux (dumb)user friendly yet?
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    2 months ago

    Depends. If someone is gaming with new hardware, don’t use a distro that doesn’t update the kernel quickly and regularly.

    Almost every problem with hardware on mint is solved by going through the process of updating the kernel or switching to a distro with up to date libraries.

    It’s fine for a lot of people, but it doesn’t “just work” outside of the use case of only browsing the internet and word documents.

    This is coming from someone who used mint for 4 years. There was about a dozen times where the software on the software center was so out of date that it simply didn’t work and I had to resort often to using random ppa’s which often broke other things. Definitely not user friendly.

    That being said, Cinnamon is probably one of the most user friendly DEs for people switching from window. It is very nice.