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Vittelius@feddit.orgOPto Gaming@beehaw.org•Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone9·15 days agoTurns out people need villains with faces. And the gaming industry wasn’t personable enough to truly hate.
Not necessarily. Both have their drawbacks. It takes longer for new hardware to be supported on Debian and setting up a Nvidia grafics card is more complicated
You should try pangolin. It uses Traefik instead of Caddy under the hood but it automates approximately 80 % of setup. It’s what I use for my setup.
Vittelius@feddit.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn LinuxEnglish2·19 days agoDistro: short for distribution. Linux is not an operating system. It’s a piece of technology (specifically something called a kernel) you can use to create an OS. Those Linux based OSs are referred to as distros. We are usually not calling them “Versions” because the Linux Kernel is also frequently seeing updates and that would just cause confusion.
Debian and Ubuntu: Popular distros. Ubuntu tends to be a bit more user friendly than Debian and was the default recommendation for new user for a long time. In recent years its popularity among enthusiasts declined because of a series of unpopular decisions, mainly the adaptation of something called snaps which is not completely open source and takes a bit more time to launch apps than alternatives. Debian on the other hand really values stability. Updates arrive less frequently than on other distros but undergo really rigorose testing.
You are right. I’ve corrected my comment
There’s also qobuz for your more mainstream music needs. And you can always use a YouTube downloaded like yt-dlp together with a music tagging tool like MusicBrainz Picard.
Vittelius@feddit.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•Is the Gnome Background Apps UI a complete Mess or do I miss something?2·1 month agoI could be completely wrong, but the fact, that you stated, that Telegram doesn’t receive messages without the tray icon leads me to believe that they are doing background services wrong. Because the status icon in the tray is supposed to be exactly that. The service itself shouldn’t be tied to that.
Vittelius@feddit.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•Is the Gnome Background Apps UI a complete Mess or do I miss something?English8·1 month agoIs the new UI broken or are app developers just not implementing it into their apps or what’s wrong with the current situaltion?
Both, kinda. The new UI relies afaik on xdg-portals to get which apps are running in the background. Therefore only flatpaks should show up; but they should show up automatically, without any tweaks by the devs.
Also the UI only displays that an app is running in the background. It can’t communicate any type of status information.
Vittelius@feddit.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•Which (Lenovo) notebooks to buy when coming from Apple Silicon?4·3 months agoI stand corrected
Vittelius@feddit.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•Which (Lenovo) notebooks to buy when coming from Apple Silicon?18·3 months agoThe Linux support of Snapdragon SOCs for desktops and laptops is unfortunately severely lacking. Qualcomm pledged to provide upstream divers, but then the Windows drivers turned out to be a mess and the Linux version had to wait. It is nowhere near production ready. Most of the hardware enablement work is currently as far as I can tell being done by German OEM Tuxedo Computers because they are working on a Snapdragon powered laptop that ships with Linux. But even their work was impacted by Qualcomm stalling (the linked blog article lists Christmas 2024 as their target release date and that didn’t happen).
There used to be a Kodi/XMBC skin for that but development on that seems to have been abandoned years ago.
Depending on your use case Kodi might be a better fit for your HTPC as it tightly integrates with Jellyfin and also has a Spotify plugin. And some skins work generally the way the xmb used to work - they just look very different
Vittelius@feddit.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•Why doesn't the Linux subreddit leave Reddit already?4·3 months agoLinux is the third option. As far as many normies are concerned the second option is macOS
That’s how you get a Boing
One thing to make your girlfriend’s transition easier: you can reconfigure the UI to be more similar to more recent versions of MS office. The first time you open it, there will be a popup that brings you directly to the relevant settings menu. It’s not one to one but the major options are going to be in similar places after you changed the UI.
Bazzite:
- Fedora based, so newer libraries
- Atomic updates, therefore doesn’t break on updates
- Steam and Lutris are preinstalled
Since you are already familiar with the Steam Deck, I would go with a distro (that’s Linux-speak for version) that uses KDE Plasma, as that’s the desktop environment used by Steam OS. My recommendation therefore is Bazzite or Aurora. Both OSs are developed by the same team using the same core technology. Bazzite is more “gamer focused” (a.k.a. they are pre-installing steam) while Aurora targets more of a developer audience. But I would argue that the differences are, at the end of the day, mainly cosmetic. Aurora is still pretty noob friendly and you could still develop on Bazzite.
Both systems are “Atomic” which basically means that a system update can’t screw up your system. And if you screw something up, then you can “rebase” the system which reinstalls the OS but keeps all your data and installed apps*. It uses flatpak with flathub as its appstore so you have the same apps available as on the Steam Deck.
Now for the downsides: Some apps are a bit harder to install. Mainly apps that need deeper system access such as vpn apps can take a couple more steps to install here than on other distros. There is also no live system. Many distros have a “live mode” where you can test the system before installing. This allows you to check if your hardware is supported. Aurora and bazzite don’t have that.
Lastly the userbase is growing, but other disros such as Mint are still more popular. You therefore might find less specific documentation and tutorials on the internet for it than with other options.
*Technically it’s more complicated than that, there are edgecases of apps that don’t survive a rebase, but don’t worry about that.
Vittelius@feddit.orgOPto Gaming@beehaw.org•#StopKillingGames Update: Netherlands passes threshold12·10 months agoA UK petition is in the works. It might take some time until that goes up because your election a couple of months ago reset a lot of work, but it’s comming
Vittelius@feddit.orgOPto Gaming@beehaw.org•#StopKillingGames Update: Denmark passes threshold as initiative reaches 1/3 vote milestone9·10 months agoYes there was one but the Tories didn’t have anything to do with it closing, at least not directly. If an election happens all open petitions are closed as a matter of process, because “it’s a new parliament”. And then you need to resubmit.
Vittelius@feddit.orgOPto Gaming@beehaw.org•#StopKillingGames Update: Denmark passes threshold as initiative reaches 1/3 vote milestone9·10 months agoA UK petition is in the works. But it might take a month or two until that goes online.
You could replicate this workflow by replacing iCloud with Nextcloud and Time Machine with Timeshift.
The iOS app for Nextcloud allows the automatic upload of photos, you just need an account with a Nextcloud provider (or just host your own instance).
Timeshift is preinstalled on a bunch of distros, including Linux Mint, and can be installed on all other major ones. See https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift for details.