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Have things changed for Linux phones?

Source: JetBrains' "The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023" survey

let me land, i started working in this place and they asked me to maintain the internal linux distro as well. fine, sure.

they run a modified ubuntu with cinnamon on top.. i thought ok interesting choice. no problem right? wrong!

i never noticed since i never used cinnamon much but its missing a shitload of features that regular users expect and that are present in gnome.

some of it its silly,sure. but it has been a challenge, ill just list a few.

• you cant duplicate your bottom bar on all screens...

• if you customize your shortcuts and then add the "window group list" applet... it takes over the shortcuts....

• there is no logout trigger in dconf(WHYYY???)

• no automatic tiling options can be added(afaik)

• you cant switch your audio source from the systray icon...

• tried to remove an applet and now i have a green rectangle in the middle of my screen with no obvious way to remove (see pic)

• we had to manually modify cinnamon because it wouldnt handle multiple users and gdm at the same time(like WHAT???its fixed now upstream but jeeesus)

• the issue tracker is a warzone, i opened multiple issues and only once got an answer(the issue above) and theres like 1.6k issues open

we really tried but i dont think we can deploy this much longer, it doesnt seem worthy considering almost none of this is an issue in gnome. im getting tired of getting a ticket and having to reply "well this would work on gnome but on cinnamon we cant,though titties"

to my understanding cinnamon was chosen because more similat to windows but this is not worth it imho... what do you think? have you used cinnamon in professional environments or just stuck to gnome?

I have about 3000+ packages installed in my system (nix-system) right now. As I search for neofetch on the internet, it seems people only have about <500 packages. Am I doing something wrong?

Please share your experience with me and others.

I'm intened to give it a try on my next server coming next year.

Please DO NOT COMPARE with other distros. I didn't ask what is better or the best for a server.

Thanks

I have a few family members that I help support. For instance, I installed Linux Mint on my grandmother's PC. She doesn't know any different and my young cousin doesn't understand it so he finally stopped giving it viruses. I used to use TeamViewer to take over her PC when she needed support but I got my account banned because they believed I was using it commercially. Oh well!

I have Tailscale installed on the computers. This gives me SSH access. What would you suggest? RDP? Something else?

While selecting GTK theme when i get with a light theme.Everything works fine but when I set a Dark theme like nord-darker dracula etc.Then that indicator of what is on focus became invisible.

Is there any dark theme for which it is working fine? Is there any way to change colour of indication from black to white?

I just came across a very useful tip for those of you who are looking to migrate your VSCode extensions to VSCodium. Instead of removing VSCode altogether, you can simply link the folders and keep both editors installed on your system.

Here's how to do it:

1. Install VSCode and all the extensions you want to migrate.
2. Copy the extensions folder from VSCode. You can find it by going to the VSCode settings and searching for "extensions".
3. Install VSCodium on your system.
4. Move the extensions folder you copied earlier to the VSCodium extensions folder. You can find it by going to the VSCodium settings and searching for "extensions".
5. Finally, you can remove VSCode if you no longer need it.

By following these steps, you can easily migrate your VSCode extensions to VSCodium without losing any of your settings or configurations. And if you ever want to switch back to VSCode, you can simply unlink the folders and continue using it.

I hope you find this tip helpful. Let me know if you have any other tips in the comments below.

I personally wouldn't touch Discord with a 10 foot pole but figured any privacy-focused people who use it may want to know this.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/4558241

It contains some breaking changes.

I've set up WireGuard on a VPS.

A client on Linux desktop works with no issues.

The one on an android phone too, but not completely. Namely, TX and RX get updated, "handshake" and "last connected" with a phone on a server gets updated too, as well as on a phone itself. However, I can't open any single website.

However, Telegram, for instance, works well. Another android app too, it appears. But all the rest of the apps don't, not do the Firefox and Chrome.

What's the matter?

There must be some way they can EEE linux.

To filter out high-pitched sounds on Linux using PulseAudio, you can use a low-pass filter. A low-pass filter allows sounds below a certain frequency to pass through while filtering out higher frequencies.

For MPV, you can apply a low-pass filter directly when playing a media file. The command would look like this:

mpv --af=lowpass=f=3200 yourfile.mp4

In this command, f=3200 sets the cut-off frequency to 3200 Hz. All frequencies above this will be filtered out.

For a system-wide solution, you can configure PulseAudio to apply a LADSPA low-pass filter to all audio. This process is more complex and involves installing and configuring the LADSPA plugin. The exact steps can vary depending on your system configuration and the specific LADSPA plugin you choose to use.

Another option is to use PulseEffects, a powerful real-time audio processing tool that works with PulseAudio. PulseEffects allows you to apply a variety of filters and effects to your audio, including a low-pass filter. You can adjust the cut-off frequency of the filter to target the high-pitched sounds you want to filter out.

Remember that filtering out high frequencies can affect the overall sound quality, potentially making it sound muffled or dull. You may need to experiment with different cut-off frequencies to find a balance that works for you.

This is more of a public note to self, but if anyone else had screwed up fonts, default cursors, and missing minimise/maximise buttons in flatpaks on KDE Wayland, put this in your /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/kde-portals.conf:

[preferred]
default=kde;gtk;
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Settings=kde;gtk;

Then restart xdg-desktop-portal.

Source: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474746#c12

Apparently this will be fixed in 5.27.9 releasing on the 24th anyway, but I've tried so many different 'solutions' and this had been annoying me for weeks.