Same experience, thought desktop on linux was behind because I started on Ubuntu with GNOME.
Luckily tried XFCE on someone’s Debian install and realized GNOME just kinda sucked.
Even GNOME 2 was a pretty standard DE, 3 and 40+ just took a weird nosedive where they enforced their idea of the perfect DE, despite it breaking a ton of rules about good UX and removing a bunch of former features.
XFCE + Compiz was 100% worth the effort of doing it once and then being able to just copy to a new device.
Waiting for XFCE to complete their Wayland transition, and I’m gonna upgrade to Wayfire.
That being said, yeah I give KDE to basically everyone else new to Linux lol
Voice pack should work: https://github.com/Findus23/voice_pack_dreame
As for oucher, you’d probably have to write your own program or script depending on how Dreame’s bump works. For Roborock it watches a logfile for bumper events, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you can find something similar in Dreame or even something like /dev/sensor1 that you can poll.
Haha same! FIrst thing I did was make a soundpack and install oucher so it makes funny voicelines when it bumps into objects lol.
Yeah on Roborock at least, dunno if they changed distros for newer robots though.
Getting visibly annoyed whe you find out you can’t easily run mainline linux on some proprietary piece of hardware like a phone or smart TV.
But hey at least my robot vacuum runs on Ubuntu by default lol.
KDM users when they’re asked to toggle between infinite GTK themes instead of between “light” and “dark” themes.
Thunar >>>>>>>
This would be funnier if it were emacs since that’s the one that has a metric ton of plugins for all of these
Sounds like a rockchip board like orangepi haha. It’s funny because they actually have some killer hardware, but documentation on kernel drivers and DTB boot chain is sketchy at best.
Terminal emulators are bloat, real arch users use the real teletype (tty) as intended lol
I recently realized I forgot to use reflink copy on an XFS filesystem and ran duperemove which freed ~600GB of data
Brand spanking new Kali linux after it was redone from Backtrack.
Thought I was cool for 5 seconds until I saw the Kali forums tearing into the thousands of idiots like me who hadn’t touched Linux before but somehow managed to jump through the sketchy Debian installer to load an OS with a metric ton of offensive security tools that none of use knew how to use.
Eventually played with Ubuntu for home use, disliked it, tried Debian which was nice for server, saw Linus Torvalds uses Fedora for user friendly experience, and ended up there.
Sorta related but these “next gen” FSs are pretty overrated on the performance benchmarks lots of groups like Phoronix do every kernel release.
BTRFS lags behind a ton compared to XFS, even though XFS was originally designed for large file throughput on servers.
Even EXT4 beats BcacheFS and BTRFS on several irl load benchmarks.
Only thing I’ve seen actually keep up is F2FS which iirc is the default on Android these days.
The Debian 6.12 kernel trying to find modules for your fancy new hardware:
I remember someone here made a detailed list of how lots of the early linux FOSS stuff was essentially ripoff of unix software lol. I think XFCE was originally a knockoff of CDE or something with XForms. Now it’s the de facto performance DE and the default on Kali.
Wait till you try fish or zsh loaded with all the fancy plugins lol
Edit: realized you meant in the sense of hot swapping flavors after I typed out a whole explanation lol. Should start recommending niche distros and collect package managers like trading cards lol.
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yum = dnf, dnf is just the newer version which was rewritten several times.
apt is a weird attempt to “upgrade” apt-get with better user interface without messing with the compatibility of apt-get used by scripts and whatnot.
Both of these are dependency handling package managers which do all the magic of installing required subpackges when you want something.
rpm is the underlying system package manager which deals with the actual task of installing, removing, and generating packages in the .rpm format. It is analogous to Debian’s dpkg which uses the .deb format. It’s usually not used by the end user unless you need to play with a package directly like with a .rpm or .deb file.
Hence why some distros (or people) have their own dependency package manager, like zypper on OpenSUSE (rpm) or Aptitude on Debian (deb).
Although I think Aptitude might just be a fancy wrapper for apt lol.
Believe it or not, NTFS isn’t, but Windows is to keep ye olde DOS compatibility lol.
They technically already did this with Android which all ship custom kernels and closed source driver blobs.
Of which Google successfully lobbied the government to keep foreign competition out, which has lead to the soft death of AOSP as everyone else has forked into a new OS or accepts google’s terms to use their gapps suite.
Best thing about Linus is that he immediately tells these megacorps to f off every time they make a PR with even a remotely questionable purpose.
If they really want to achieve something technical without scrutiny, there’s FreeBSD right there. Implement it and make a future PR if it actually improves something.
Otherwise, critical choices within the Linux kernel will affect everyone, and could very easily lead to abuse without any proper moderation.
Google already has a hit order out on JPEGXL simply because they know that AVIF will save them on cloud storage cost, so they’ve effectively banned it from the browser space since they own Chrome and have enough leverage over Firefox.