AndrewZabar

joined 1 year ago
[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

In my experience with new hardware, it's always been Ubuntu that works it perfectly where everyone else is like "what's that? I don't know that hardware"

A while back I got a new laptop and the audio hardware would only work with Ubuntu which is fine because that's what I was already using on the previous hardware. Ubuntu with KDE is a very solid setup.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, methinks this will be one of those alerts pretty much everyone will be like "yeah, yeah, I know" and click to silence those notifications.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah basically what I meant.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yyyyeeeah, all ideally. Things don't always go ideally. Something will always happen. That's the truth no matter what, and I'd think it's best to eliminate externals as much as possible. That's my position. No actual right or wrong here.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So it's the default. Big deal. You can change that when you start the app first time. If that gets them funding that's not a horrible price to pay. Also, that's not money getting influence exactly, that's a transaction. "We will pay $x to get this status." Not the same at all as "I donated lots of money therefore I get to say how you develop the software."

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Honestly I've been saying for some time that Mozilla's resources would be much better spent making Firefox a soft fork of Chromium

No no nonononono. The moment you do that you become at the mercy if whatever they choose to do, including changes that will sabotage you. There are examples out there such as Novell, who should have made a Linux-based client OS for the Netware architecture. For the longest time prior to a brief period where they had their server GUI (sloppy, inefficient and barely completed as it was) that you literally could not do any GUI-based configurations without a Windows client. How is that not begging for the competition to screw you every chance they get?

Firefox stands on its own and that's how it needs to be.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone seems to have missed or ignored the pun. 😄 I liked it.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That's exactly the worst way to prioritize. Money should not be influence. That always works out worse in every example in the history of everything.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I typically search distrowatch for any need. Just use search filters. You’re likely to get the most comprehensive list in this way.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have numerous machines and use several. On my main, KDE because of all the customization. Widgets, window styles, colors, themes etc. It's really like exactly how I want for maximum efficiency and productivity.

I've got gnome on my hybrid notebook and my transformer pad because gnome with Wayland is amazingly compatible with touchscreen.

I have one machine running Elementary which has the Pantheon DE it's kinda like Gnome with modifications.

And finally, I have an older system so just for efficiency, LXQt.

I do enjoy trying out different ones and especially more esoteric ones that I occasionally come across.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It’s fine I think I have what I need.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I have no fear the way it was stated seemed to imply that's where the root had to point. Glad it's not the case. Seemed odd to say the least but it was referenced absolutely so that's what I thought. Not a problem.

 

Hey all, I was about to setup uBlock Origin in chromium, when I saw the notice that it may soon be ended due to not following best practices, etc. I looked this up and some articles and posts state that Chrome is discontinuing content blockers / ad blockers soon. Will this apply to the chromium app in Linux?

Other than for testing purposes, my usage of Chromium is for the ability to make some sites into webApps. I just like some to be isolated with their own window and icon. The standard response I see to pretty much anyone is that they should switch to Firefox and stop wanting the webApp. I saw some comments that Firefox does not and will not implement webApps due to some security issues (?? not sure why). I don't understand how it is difficult just make a standalone window with a custom icon choice. I see no reason that has to compromise anything at all, but I am not a developer.

I'm getting off-track here. So, is Chromium going to go the way Google wants it to go for Chrome? It was my understanding that Chromium is kind of an offshoot and not just up to Google in terms of its course. Will we be able to use extensions that Google doesn't want, and have to get them from a new repository instead of the chrome web store?

Any insight on this would be appreciated, thanks.

 

Hey, so I know you can tap on a dock icon to launch the app, but when the dock is more than full and requires scrolling to shift the icons, this still cannot be done with the touch screen, based on docks I have tested. I tried the built in docks in Gnome on Pop, Ubuntu, and also Plank. None respond to an attempted drag via the touch screen.

Are there any less widely known ones that do? Are there any plans to bring this functionality to the dock in Gnome?

 

Hey folks,

So, I have an old school iPod I got from someone it’s sweet and I want to put my music on it. Is there a decent app in Linux that will be able to do the sync of music? Or is it able to be just copied to like an external drive?

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WINE / PlayOnLinux (www.playonlinux.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AndrewZabar@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hello all, In a previous installation I was able to successfully use PlayOnLinux to run a few Windows apps. My most recent system, though, is not liking it. Currently on Kubuntu 24.04

WINE is present and up to date. However, when I tried to install PON from either Discover, or using APT, the app crashes immediately. I never even get to the GUI. I read on the page for the app in Discover, numerous others complain about this exact problem.

Anyone know about this and how to resolve it?

I included the link to the app's website because there are numerous versions and it states you need to use the correct one. I don't know what those different variables mean, so could someone please advise? (deb files, Cosmic, Trusty, Bionic, Xenial.... etc. I don't understand these).

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

Thank you to anyone who can assist.

 

Yeah, so I have a notebook with Kubuntu 24.04.
I have Night Control setup for warmer color 8:00PM-8:00AM

Oftentimes I go to the computer to do something and I see it is in the wrong mode. I’ve not seen any pattern it’s just arbitrarily not switching over.

My lid close action is just turn off screen; no sleep mode (problems). So usually I am opening the lid and start to use the machine and then notice this.

Is this a known issue? Or does anyone else have this problem?

SPECS:

Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-40-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7535U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 14.9 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: Zenbook 15 UM3504DA_UM3504DA
System Version: 1.0

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