[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

It should work normally, there's even cinnamon applets for controlling it from the panel

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 11 months ago

Another nice-to-have is KDE Connect, it connects your desktop with your phone to sync notifications, send files, control media playback, use as remote input, share clipboard, send commands, and more

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 11 months ago

BONUS: here's some command-line toys that are not useful or necessary, but are just real fun to take a look at especially if you're new to linux:

  • cmatrix (does the matrix code rain thing)
  • cowsay (ascii cow with speech bubble)
  • sl (steam locomotive in your terminal)
  • cbonsai (generate bonsai tree)
  • neofetch (this one is actually very useful and will print system information in an aesthetically pleasing way)
[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 11 months ago

Here's some creative software that replace the functionalities of Adobe software & more.

  • photo editing: GIMP
  • vector images: Inkscape
  • drawing/painting: Krita (GIMP also fine for this)
  • video editing: kdenlive
  • 3d modelling, animating, etc.: Blender
  • audio editing: Tenacity (Audacity fork made after the buyout without telemetry)
  • DAW: LMMS
  • media player: VLC or mpv

if there's any other specific software you're looking for a FOSS alternative to, don't hesitate to ask. You always have more options on Linux than you'd think.

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

the Integrity-Vision presidential ticket will heal the nation

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago

now what the hell did i do to deserve being called a lib by the illest horny villain, MF COOM?

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 84 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much smuglord

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Thanks Hexbear (lemmy.sdf.org)

Hopefully this is an appropriate community to post this in--I just want to thank the users on hexbear.net for being by far the best posters of the entire fediverse.

Each day I open Lemmy, it can be very hit or miss whether or not any given community has new content that I enjoy, but Hexbear posts are consistently funny, interesting and thoughtful.

I know that Hexbear is subject to being comically villified for reading books and having pronouns by several less progressive instances on Lemmy at this point, so I just wanted to let you guys know not to let the haters get you down and that your posting prowess does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.

P.S. I can't help but smile every time I see that emoji of the smug character with crossed arms.

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

source: stonetoss

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

stonetoss is a nazi

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

NixOS has snapshots built in as well but I've never had to actually use them to recover anything because Nix packages are built in isolation from one another, and their dependencies are declared, so packages can't break each other when installing or upgrading them.

NixOS is also an immutable distro, which prevents accidental bad changes to the system. Tumbleweed is very friendly and stable compared to many other distros out there, but it's still vulnerable to accidental breakage in the same ways most other distros are. I think the cherry on top for the average joe using Nix compared to OpenSUSE, however, is just the fact that the Nixpkgs repository absolutely dwarfs OpenSUSE's.

Luckily, if you prefer to stick with whatever distro you're running already, but want the power of the Nix package manager, you can get the best of both worlds and install just Nix (without NixOS) on any distro.

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

+1 for Nix. In my case I switched from Opensuse Tumbleweed to NixOS about a year ago. Before NixOS I had spent years distro-hopping fairly regularly just in an effort to find something that was atleast moderately simple to setup/troubleshoot, (I'm no developer, and my Linux technical expertise really only covers the basics) and that would be resilient to the careless tinkering I tended to do in general.

Using NixOS on a daily basis has been a complete pleasure. After experiencing the sane-ness of a declarative system I'll never go back. As of late, NixOS seems to have been growing steadily in popularity, although most of its userbase are experienced developers, businesses, and almost no Linux beginners. This is understandable given its current state and reputation as an advanced distro, but I am of the opinion that--if a GUI software store for nixpkgs and a GUI program for editing the system's configuration options were developed--NixOS could quickly become one of the most desktop user-friendly distros available given its underlying immutability and unrivalled stability in general.

[-] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

If you have any additional software which you are looking for FOSS Linux alternatives for, feel free to list them. Your options are much greater than most people coming from Windows expect them to be, and many of us have already spent a lot of time deep down the rabbit hole of finding quality open-source software alternatives, so we can surely point you in the right directions.

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