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Updates regarding the IndieLand / The Completionist charity fraud allegations in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people here are bending over backwards to justify the behavior.

They collected money for charity. Didn't donate any of it for YEARS. Money that could have helped funding research.

I don't know US law, but I know that's just wrong.

Dual Boot Best Practices? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

NTFS is the standard for Windows. Nowadays Linux can handle reading/writing NTFS pretty well, but you should probably use the very established ext4 or maybe btrfs for its partition.

Vote on the new KDE Plasma 6 Logo in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Actually, hexagons are the bestagons

Armello studio lays off over half its staff and 'indefinitely' pauses development on its ongoing early access game because 'almost all funding and investment has evaporated from the videogame industry in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

For anyone who.ließ the setting, check out the Anime Spacebattleship Yamato 2199. It's fairly recent and there's an older one as well. This game is highly inspired by it.

Made the switch to KDE in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I like 90% about KDE, GNOME and XFCE.

Depending in my changing needs and preferences I switch between them.

If I ever find the perfect DE (or maybe WM), I'll let everyone know.

Threads Is Coming to the EU in December in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, let's switch from the dumpster fire that is twitter, to the competitor that didn't launch in the EU, because it has horrible privacy practices.

The internet in 2023

What dock do you use in Wayland? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only the KDE/latte part of my script was relevant to the topic. Xrandr is X11

What dock do you use in Wayland? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I use scripts that change my display setup (xrandr), the active latte profile and my audio output.

The command to switch the latte profile

qdbus org.kde.lattedock /Latte org.kde.LatteDock.switchToLayout Monitors

You can just create a profile for every scenario once and switch between them.

13" or smaller Linux laptop - best replacement for aging chromebook? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How about a used Thinkpad? Like the X280. 12.5". Touch. Depending on your region you can get a pretty good deal if you are OK with some scratches or other faults

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What Tweak, Program, ... changes a Desktop Environment from unusable to great for you? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have used Linux on and off for 15 years. I consider myself a casual user and stuck to the mainstream DEs (mostly KDE, XFCE and some Cinnamon). Gnome has been a hurdle for me before and after the big version 40 changes, I couldn't get my head around how they handled the workspaces and workflow. At some point I I tried out an extension hat changed all of it.

Material Shell

It moves the workspaces to a vertical panel and the programs onto a horizontal panel. In a workspace you can view the programs full screen or tile them.

Several Programs inside a Workspace. It's basically they same way Gnome works. However for some reason it just makes sense in my brain. No idea why. (I'm looking at WMs that work in a similar way atm. Maybe I'll take the plunge away from DEs at some point)

Has such a small change ever saved a Desktop Environment for you and is essential if you ever install it?

Just install EndeavorOS lol in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I used EndavourOS for a while until I realized I didn't use any of the distros features after the installation.

archinstall is basically just a text menu with the same option as a GUI installer.

I ended up with a vanilla arch install with my preferred DE. Drivers installed, network configured. Ready to go.

Ways to pirate albums? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Discovered beets a few weeks ago. Tagging, organizing, converting, ... You can specify all of it in a config file and just add a new album and it handles everything for you

Is there any point in using NoScript if you already have uBlock Origin? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Arkenfox has some info on common extension and their use in their Wiki

Especially the "Don't bother" section is interesting and can slim down your used extensions considerably.