Linux

WAIT!

before you start commenting that TUI musicplayer xy is the best, my priorities:

must have:

• support for m3u playlists (synced to Android with Syncthingy) should autodetect them in a single folder I use also for the music files, and read/write them
• support for viewing all files
• support for custom music directories
• support for deleting music files
• Flatpak OR clutterfree on KDE

would like:

• Pipewire output
• nice simple GUI
• modern, clutterfree design OR customizability
• subtitles, cover images, etc.

I used G4Music which looks awesome and has minimal playlist support. It works really well but it cant write to the playlist. It is blazingly fast, and I made an issue, offering a bounty for write-to-playlist support.

I found Lollypop, the old GTK UI is way better than the Qt alternatives, while still kinda ugly. But it seems to tick all boxes, apart from Pipewire support.

What I tried:

G4Music

• UI perfect
• no file deletion
• no playlist addition
• no playlist creation

Lollypop

• UI is bareable
• pulseaudio, no setting at all
• playlist support including writing to! You need to enable it
• lots of internet stuff for artwork and subtitles
• sane defaults

GNOME music

• does not detect my .m3u playlists
• slow
• needs pulseaudio
• settings are a joke
• no folder view

Strawberry

• UI is horrible and not customizable enough
• no Pipewire support
• no .m3u detection
• cluttered, no UI zoom possible
• system icon theme is not applied

Clementine

• like strawberry but different?
• more online stuff
• interface less customizable
• cursor broken on the Flatpak

Amarok

• Strawberry in even older?
• bloat?
• retro-development status

MusicPod

• UI hides too much stuff
• no playlist support
• no filesystem hierarchy support
• strange Ubuntu look, but good UI, fancy background
• no podcast backup file support (so Kasts is better for that)
• but pipewire support!

Plattenalbum

• no playlist support
• otherwise looks great

Resonance

• modern, GTK4 Libadwaita, UI is damn lit
• freezes, fills up the entire RAM (scans every title at once!) -> not optimized at all, made system freeze and needed to hard shutdown.
• no playlist support?
• no pipewire support?

Melody

• uses soon EOL GNOME 42 runtime

Amberol

• beautiful but too minimalist
• why are there soo many GNOME music players??

moosync

• very nice UI
• electron: tiny cursor on Wayland, no Pipewire support
• plugin support for Youtube, Spotify (using librespot) and LastFM
• local playlists seem broken

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17805640

Let’s talk today about kernel crashes, or even better, how can we collect information if a kernel panic happens on Arch Linux and on SteamOS, the Linux distribution used on the Steam Deck.

TIL about WOAM

Works On My Machine!

A huge pain, that is removed when using containers and ostree/image-based distros.

Of course if Microsoft undermines standards' interoperability...

To be clear, I don't blame the poster of this comment at all for the content of their post – this is accepted as "common knowledge" by a lot of Linux sysadmins and is probably one of the most likely things that you will hear from one if you ask them to talk about swap. It is unfortunately also, however, a misunderstanding of the purpose and use of swap, especially on modern systems.

As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space.

With the new code from Meta, a swappiness argument is supported for memory.reclaim. This effectively allows more finer-grained control over the swapiness behavior without overriding the global swappiness setting.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23400246

Creating importer: Failed to invoke skopeo proxy method OpenImage: remote error: cryptographic signature verification failed: invalid signature when validating ASN.1 encoded signature ___

I was banging my head against my keyboard for an hour thinking that I broke my system until I saw this.