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nachtigall, in Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?
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Deepin is great too. Unfortunately it is not fully translated so that you come across Chinese quite often.

Adda, in Lemmy GUI app for linux?
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Welcome. Sure, Linux Mint’s WebApp Manager or Peppermint OS’s Ice are here for you. But jokes aside, sadly, no. Lemmy does not have a native Linux application as of now. But you can make use of the fact that the browser UI is a PWA which can be installed like a regular app as well.

CannotSleep420,
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Proper PWA support isn’t in v0.17.3 (although mobile browsers will let you add it as an app). However, PWA support was merged into the main branch. I’m not sure which release it will be a part of though.

neosheo, in Dear BlendOS, you claim to be immutable, yet you have changed a core part of the system. Curious.

Doesn’t immutable distro mean the root filesystem is readonly and programs are created with their own unqiue environment?

This post acts like the code for the OS should never change.

So if a critical CVE is reported they cant update ths OS because its supposed to be immutable?

tsugu,
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The joke here is very much just that. Immutable = not changing, therefore any update violates the idea of immutable distros.

Ephera, in What's that one feature you liked so much while distrohopping that you want it by default in all distros?

BTRFS snapshots like openSUSE and now also Fedora has it. I don’t want to use a distro without them anymore. Unfortunately, configuring them yourself is a bit more involved than just installing a package…

jcbritobr, in Ubuntu Flavors Will Stop Using Flatpak
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@winnie snap is not so mature as flatpaks yet. Dont know if its really a nice descision.

winnie,
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No, it’s not nice decision. It’s more political decision, to force Ubuntu’s own solution instead of alternative.

(I’m wondering if you would be notified for reply in mastodon?)

anders,

@winnie @jcbritobr thats usually the case for mastodon when someone replies to your post.

winnie,
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Yeah. But Lemmy doesn’t add @username to it’s replies.

anders,

@winnie
It shouldn't matter. Mastodon users should get notified when you reply to their post even though they aren't tagged in it.

At least that's the case for me on Friendica but I remember the same behaviour from back when I used Mastodon.

PoisonedPrisonPanda,

but how is this solution the best business wise?

arent the development and maintenance costs of snap are currently outweighing the income?

how can an own environment be monetized in the open source realm?

PureTryOut,
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Wait, how did you view this post via Mastodon? I know both Lemmy and Mastodon use ActivityPub but the UX and urlpatterns are quite different and client-specific. What is the format of the link you used to view this?

RedBlackUnity, in Firefox 113 Promises Support for Animated AV1 Images, Debian Package, and More
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Sick. I literally just switched from Ubuntu to Debian

shreddy_scientist,
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Just curious, what made you choose Debian over say Fedora or Arch option?

RedBlackUnity,
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No great reason, really. I’ve tried Arch before and it needs a bit more manual administration than I prefer. The goal was to get off of Ubuntu and, having never used Fedora and Ubuntu being close to Debian, I just kind of went with what I’m more familiar with.

shreddy_scientist,
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Ephera, in Ubuntu Flavors Will Stop Using Flatpak

by making it clearer about what an “Ubuntu experience” is.

The user experience will be worse, because they can’t use Flatpaks without jumping through extra hoops.

So, I guess, a “Ubuntu experience” is a bad experience. Not going to argue with that.

AgreeableLandscape,
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Ubuntu is the stepping stone from Mac/Windows to Linux. Like the tutorial level. It’s also one of the most “corporate” Linux OS vendors outside of RedHat. Of course it’s shitty lol.

wiki_me, in Ubuntu Flavors Will Stop Using Flatpak

Flavor leads (apparently) agree

Press X to doubt

Ubuntu asking its flavors to stop using something because it doesn’t is a head scratcher. Flavors regularly use things Ubuntu doesn’t, things you could argue are more intrinsic to an “Ubuntu experience”, like installers, login managers, icon themes etc. Why single out Flatpak?

IMO Canonical wants to make snap like google play, where people sell stuff and they take a 20-30 percent commission

AgreeableLandscape,
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The most popular non-Canonical derivatives, Linux Mint and POP OS, have both totally rejected and vocally criticize Canonical’s bullshit, Snap or otherwise. This isn’t going to make the fall in line, this is going to make them finally get serious about ditching Ununtu and switching directly to the upstream Debian base.

rysiek, in Ubuntu Flavors Will Stop Using Flatpak
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Now do the same with snaps.

Tiuku,

Probably the whole point is just to clear the field for their snapstore

AnonymousLemmy, in Wine 8.0 Compatibility Layer Is Out Now for Running Windows Apps on Linux

Nice, what new features does it have? Since proton is based off wine does that mean it will benefit proton as well?

shreddy_scientist,
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The article highlights some of the bigger upgrades include finalized PE format conversion, upgraded “Windows-like” WoW64 mode plus better Vulkan support. But Wine updating will still require Proton to make changes before these features are included I believe

beetsnuami, in Nix Package Manager Advice

On my NixOS, nix sets the environment variables XDG_DATA_DIRS, XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, etc. Maybe these contain what you‘re looking for? Do you have a path ~/.nix-profile/share/applications?

liberatedGuy,
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I have this line export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.nix-profile/share:$HOME/.share:“${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/}” Do I need to add anything else? I do have the directory you have mentioned.

hfkldjbuq, in Nix Package Manager Advice

Which one in specific? There are some packages which maintainers did not bother creating xdg desktop specification… you can look into nixpkgs source code to see if they are specified there or not.

I do not know if Debian is able to pick the desktop files though

liberatedGuy,
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Adding those lines to .bashrc, helped with the flatpak commands. I can run them without having to type “flatpak run”. I did this for nix: export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.nix-profile/share:$HOME/.share:“${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/}” However, I still cannot see the entries in rofi. The package is Chromium browser.

BaumGeist, in What is it with r/pcmasterrace and anti-Linuxism?

Might seem a little far-fetched, but i’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the community that basically worships conspicuous consumption of electronics with complete disregard for e-waste and electrical consumption in support of being a better gamer, a consumer identity fabricated by marketing companies, and have thus turned it into an implicit contest might not be interested in practicality, liberty, nor freely available goods unless they’re the most visually appealing

incici, in What is it with r/pcmasterrace and anti-Linuxism?

Reddit is getting worse and worse. Not sure what happened, but it started losing it’s way around 2014-2015.

deepfriedwater,

When they announced they would make their codebase proprietary it was definitely a turning point. In hindsight, you can clearly see a shift in their way of doing things from that point on.

rysiek, in What is it with r/pcmasterrace and anti-Linuxism?
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Well duh. “PC” means “Windows”, obviously.

sigh

likeaduck, (edited )

“PC” means “Desktop” /s

rysiek,
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Actually, if we’re nit-picking, it means “Personal Computer”, but the colloquial meaning has shifted somewhat since the good old IBM times to first mean desktop computers (as opposed to laptops), and then to mean non-Apple computers (including laptops), which for most people means “a computer that runs Windows.”

Which is the basis of my heavy sigh.

RassilonianLegate,
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@rysiek
@likeaduck

>and then to mean non-Apple computers

I call Macs PCs to this day becouse of those ads

planish,

It would have been anything that implements Bios enough to boot MS-DOS, more or less.

But now that’s not what anyone actually wants anymore since Windows, the thing people usually boot, wants UEFI instead. So I would say now it is probably anything that can run x86 code and boot Windows, even if it’s from System76 and meant to run Linux.

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