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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldDesktop PTSD
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    10 days ago

    On KDE, I’d recommend getting a KWin Script for tiling. Krohnkite is what people use currently.

    It’s not as buttery smooth as dedicated tiling window managers and it can be a bit glitchy at times, but it is better than one might expect and significantly easier (and likely less glitchy) than trying to get bspwm to work in Plasma.


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoGames@lemmy.worldMarathon is delayed
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    19 days ago

    I could imagine that they didn’t want to do something called “Destiny 3”, because people would expect that to be better than Destiny 2, which is virtually impossible, if you’re gonna start over from scratch, with how many years of development have gone into Destiny 2 by now…


  • Yeah, the wording is confusing. A long time ago, there was no paid software, there was only software where you got the source code and other software where e.g. it was pre-installed on some hardware and the manufacturer didn’t want to give the source code.

    In that time, a whole movement started fighting for software freedom, so they called their software “free”.



  • It’s just the normal “Pager” widget, configured to show application icons.

    I find “minimap” more descriptive for what I’m doing, because I don’t minimize, nor stack windows, so if a window exists, it has a location.
    Which is also ultimately how I use this thing. Imagine a large desk where you need to jump between topics every so often. You’d put related sheets of paper next to each other and leave a bit of space between the groups. Sheets of paper are just application windows in my case (I will open one or more windows per task, I don’t mix tasks together based on application like people usually do). Well, and my desk also happens to be very long, so I can comfortably fit a minimap for it in my panel.

    And because I really like multitasking, I’ve actually got multiple desks, in different colors:

    For these, I use Plasma’s Activities. The different colors are done by having a transparent panel and then setting the wallpaper to different colors + telling Plasma to use the wallpaper for determining the accent color.

    In this screenshot, you can also beautifully see a workspace with 5 Kate windows, which is genuinely where I shoved a bunch of notes, for me to sort through them later. 🙃



  • I get to use Linux at $DAYJOB and I have a rather customized KDE setup (basically window tiling, 20-80 workspaces, a workspace minimap in the panel).
    Usually, I’m surrounded by other nerds, who’ll ask about it occasionally, but you know, they’ve heard of or used Linux before, they know that some crazy things can be done.

    Now, yesterday, I was in a call with the legal department. I started sharing my screen and explaining my relatively simple problem. And the guy took longer than I expected to respond, which made me quite self-conscious, whether he needs time to process my explanation …or rather what in the fresh hell I did to my computer to make it look like that. 🙃






  • I mean, it really isn’t hard to write an application, which won’t work on Windows or macOS. For example, I have a little utility, which adds a text file into a folder underneath ~/.local/ and opens it in my default text editor via xdg-open, so that I can easily jot something down. Both of things are currently implemented Linux-only.

    In this case, I could’ve pulled in two libraries to do those things with Windows/macOS support. But it’s also an incredibly simple application. If you build something more complex, there’s a good chance that no library exists and that you still need to make assumptions about the OS.

    Of course, a complex applications is likely to be useful enough, that someone wants to use them on Windows/macOS and then contributes support (and pinky-promises to the maintainer to regularly test on those platforms). That’s the other vehicle how lots of open-source applications do support a multitude of platforms.

    But yeah, it’s just not quite as much of a given as your comment makes it sound…




  • I don’t have much experience with IPv6 yet either, but as I understand, the primary benefit is that you can get rid of a lot of the crappiness of IPv4, which you might just deem ‘normal’ at this point, like NAT and DHCP. It does happen quite a bit, for example, that we’d like a unique identifier for a host, but with IPv4, you need to store a separate UUID to accomplish that.



  • At $DAYJOB, we’ve been working on a service which uses Raspberry Pis as edge devices. And our product manager – bless him – has made sure we’d have enough hardware budget and wanted to buy only Raspberry Pi 5, so we’d have really good performance.

    And I think, we really befuddled him with our reaction, because you know, normally devs won’t say no to good hardware, but because our software happens to be efficient and Linux is efficient, we’ve just been like, eh, a Pi 3B+ is already a lot beefier than we need it.
    We had to explain that to him like five times before he actually started to believe it. 🙃


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldThat is the way
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    1 month ago

    Oh yeah, I wouldn’t use that for scripts. I wouldn’t use zsh for scripts either.
    I mean, I believe, it’s generally compatible with bash, but just throwing a shebang like #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash into the first line of the script will make it execute with sh or bash, even when you run it from zsh.