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poinck , 2 days ago

It is nice to see improvements to the file chooser, but why do buttons look so different from all other buttons in Gnome? What was wrong with the less rounded buttons?

poinck , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

This is so wrong. Especially the assumption that almost no one would want to have more than 1 DE installed.

Most DEs have their own configuration which don't conflict.

If the maintainer of a distribution has their shit together library incompatibility is no issue. Even on Gentoo you have to ignore everything portage is trying to tell you before you get in trouble.

In the past I even ran two DEs at the same time, sort of. You could start an xfce-panel while using enlightment or good old classic windowmaker.

Later I used Gnome and running my own fork of dwm in a nested Xserver. With wayland this option hasn't gone thanks to Xwayland.

If systemd is correctly set up for it, you get a different seat for every DE, no matter if some seats are hosting the same DE or a different one. I am not sure what will happen if you have several graphical logins with the same user, never tried it.

poinck , 9 days ago

I recently switched to gnome-web (epiphany) from qutebrowser because it has gotten better in the past months. If a page makes the browser slow, I blame the webpage. In most cases, I can avoid the shitty webpage.

But still, I hope it catches up for the instances I have no choice and open a different browser for a specific webpage.

poinck , 10 days ago

I have a blocker for Friday afternoon meetings.

poinck , 10 days ago

"I cannot attend EOD daily today, I have to get the kids from school early."

poinck , 12 days ago

It goes on like this:

What

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This?

poinck , 14 days ago

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.

poinck , 16 days ago

That's why they are only half the length. ^^

poinck , 18 days ago

Does Fedora atomic use a rolling release model?

poinck , 17 days ago

Thx, that was what I needed to understand Fedora atomic a bit better. Cool concept!

poinck , 24 days ago

I care.

poinck , 29 days ago

Had to do this on Win11, it worked.

poinck , 1 month ago

What you can find in dconf is well organized compared to what is inside of the regedit hell.

poinck , 1 month ago

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.

poinck , 1 month ago

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.

poinck , 1 month ago

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. (:

poinck , 1 month ago

VSCode has theme support; there are light themes, that are not so bright and dark themes that aren’t that dark.

I prefer a very dark gray, a very good font (Iosevka, tuned to my needs) and an appropiate font size (because wearing glasses).

I hope, I never get this senior title. It is complete BS to me. And I am glad, that my junior status is gone for good and I have a job title that does not try to tell something about my expierience!

poinck , 1 month ago

It needed many reinstalls! So yes, many times, indeed.

poinck , 1 month ago

With Gentoo, you can choose any live-iso, open a terminal and start installing. (:

poinck , 1 month ago

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.

poinck , 1 month ago

What about time on a different planet? What would be a common time"zone" for Mars and Earth?

poinck , 1 month ago

Ja, bitte erklärt es mir. [=

Disclaimer: I use gnome-console as my terminal emulator; switched from gnome-terminal ~2 years ago.

poinck , 1 month ago

But sometimes Copilot just uses too much words to present the answer, so I use ChatGPT which can be personalized.

(Maybe it is possible with Copilot, too, maybe I have to ask how to do it)

poinck , 1 month ago

Meanwhile in Gentoo: Still compiling.

Oh wait: binpkgs, update is done and I don’t have look at NixOS anymore. [=

poinck , 1 month ago

Why miss it? It is still there.

poinck , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I think mine is at least over 15 (hl2150n released in 2007). It had 4 toner replacements so far. It gets used less and less. It could be that I still did not print a single page in 2024, don’t remember.

poinck , 1 month ago

I see at least two problems here:

1. Don’t pull on the cable, pull on the plug.
2. Use EU power sockets, it is safer, more like :q! when existing vim and unsaved changed you made to the file are lost for sure.

poinck , 2 months ago

Android is crap and Linux is better not mentioned together with it. I want a true Linux phone with gnome-shell as a user interface!

Sadly existing phones don’t fit in my pocket and have a very bad battery life.

poinck , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I see scaling problems on Windows 11 (work PC) almost everywhere, in new dialogs and the older stuff. My own Linux box with Gnome has no issues; only webkit-gtk produces blurry fonts on some pages when my minimal font size conflicts with font-size of the page. This is a problem of the specific web page, I guess.

No HiDPI display here, btw. My old monitor is still good enough and fonts look awesome.

Disclaimer: I wear glasses and cannot see pixels where others might notice them. I increase font sizes everywhere, so font hinting has more to work with and everything looks sharp to me.

Only Windows manages to make it worse. ^^

poinck , 2 months ago

That reminds me that 1440p is probably the worst resolution on a laptop for me. 100%: everything too tiny. 200%: not enough space to fit everything. All in between tends to get blurry.

I’ll wait for a affordable 4k monitor that has the same features like my current one. And the old needs to fall apart first before I get a new one.

poinck , 1 month ago

You must have very good eyes.

poinck , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

While this is very funny, I think with PHP you can achieve error traces like in Java, nowadays. And no, I am (not) a senior PHP developer. ^^

Edit: I used PHP-4 ages ago and now I am relearning >=PHP-8. Not sure whether junior or senior.

poinck , 2 months ago

I salute you.

But which version?

poinck , 2 months ago

Did you think of testing security updates on a staging environment before going in production with it, if you suspect in can break things?

I think there is no excuse to apply security fixes wich have a CVE number.

If you are on Debian stable unattended updates are not a problem.

poinck , 2 months ago

This sounds so horrible, I would consider finding a better employer. I hope, you are not stuck with them.

poinck , 2 months ago

Would a desktop CPU (Zen3) also benefit from these improvements?

poinck , 2 months ago

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.

poinck , 2 months ago

There is; it is the one without “on Xorg”

poinck , 2 months ago

Gnome Classic is a good option for older people who did not grow up with computers but learned to use Windows at work. The traditional look helps them to find the programs they need while everything else is modern.

And it helps the younger people helping the older ones, because under the hood, all is new and shiny. (:

poinck , 2 months ago

Anyway, Gnome classic works with wayland, because it is just a set of extensions.

poinck , 2 months ago

I think it is very useful because of that, because that way you can omit dependencies that would be installed otherwise.

And maybe it reduces the risk of having bugs and security problems in the software that you use tied to certain features of it you don’t have compiled in.

poinck , 2 months ago

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. (:

poinck , 3 months ago

This website consists only of ads, why bother sharing it?

poinck , 3 months ago

On the desktop I am safe from most ads, but on mobile some pages are more pain than others.

poinck , 3 months ago

I wish Mlem would just open it in the DuckDuckGo browser, there some content can be seen, but it is very busy blocking it all.

But, it still stands, it is just too much, this page is just completely broken!

poinck , 3 months ago

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. (:

poinck , 3 months ago

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.

poinck , 3 months ago

Granted, they have config files, but they suggest using the gui for beginners. I don’t know. WTF!!

Using multiple nginx servers can increase robustness and ease deployments. I never wrote anywhere that I would use one server for one application. In fact, I do the opposite thanks to nginx. But there is a point when someone wants to split up different types of web applications, for instance some of them need node, the others need php or something entirely different that would conflict with the other two. This way configs can be changed during a deployment in production while others don’t need to be touched and unaffected services are not interrupted not even for a very short time.