Debian is still the best at being Debian. I rate it the least likely to give me any unpleasant surprises.
kbal
I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Mostly I just install Skyrim mods manually because I’m insane I guess, but for some games I like to run Mod Organizer 2 under proton. Your whole linux filesystem can be made accessible to windows programs, not sure if it is by default. But anyway since we’re talking steam games here the game itself normally will be in the same place as usual, as far as windows programs know.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork8·5 days agoIf they go through with this I’ll switch to Hannah Montana Linux.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•[blog post] what it's like to live with as much foss software as possible9·6 days agoYou’re not really living with as much free software as possible until you’ve installed all of the 103818 packages in debian.
#!/bin/bash # Recursively rename everything in the current directory as necessary # to make it match the case of filenames in Skyrim’s “Data” directory,
from=`pwd -P` to="${HOME}/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Skyrim_1.5.97/Data" tmp="/tmp/skydata_index" filez="/tmp/skydata_from" IFS=' ' match_case() { cd "$2" find . | grep -v '^[.]$' > "$tmp" cd "$1" find . -maxdepth 1 | grep -v '^[.]$' > "$filez" for j in `cat $filez`; do if ( grep -i "^${j}$" $tmp ); then name=`grep -i "^${j}$" $tmp | head -1` if [ "${name}xx" != "${j}xx" ] ; then mv "$j" "$name" fi fi done # going recursiv find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -v '^[.]$' > "$filez" for j in `cat $filez`; do if ( test -d "${2}/${j}" ) ; then match_case "${1}/${j}" "${2}/${j}" fi done } match_case $from $to rm $tmp $filez
Hm, someone claiming to be Vaxry says it’s real, it’s not April fool’s day, the link is to the domain that’s on their github page, it’s still up however many hours later… well that was unexpected.
(Apparently it’s Dave Cutler, who wikipedia reminds me is the crazy VMS guy “known for his disdain for Unix.” Apologies to both of them.)
Is that Donald Knuth? If so, “three guys taking a photo with Donald Knuth” might be a better title.
True enough — but for those few who enjoy such things I must point out that debian makes kernel builds very easy to do. When mesa gets too old there will usually be a backport.
Come on debian, maybe we can make it back into the top 5 when trixie gets an official release.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?5·16 days agoautokey — a recent “autohotkey” sort of thing for linux. It comes to mind since I recently had to find a replacement for the one I’d used previously which died of bitrot. Mostly I just use it for app-specific key remapping for Firefox so that I can disable its ^W which I only ever hit accidentally when it was possible.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•GNOME introducing stronger dependencies on systemd209·19 days agoGNOME continues its long journey from being the one-time linux standard to a occupying a quirky little niche for masochists and corporate IT departments.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced123·19 days agoThis would’ve been great news to hear about if not for the stupid opinion about DEI being included to completely undermine any faith we might’ve had in the competence or judgement of the person responsible.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•Linux Kernel 6.14 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.1511·20 days agoI am a debian user, and was just wondering whether to try 6.16 now or wait until next week.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes7·26 days agoTo counterbalance the dryly pragmatic lack of enthusiasm for software freedom shown in this article, here’s another bit of writing from a recent covert to linux with fewer technical details but a more emotionally satisfying approach: https://alisonwilder.com/not-the-linux-audio-post-you-want/
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes3·26 days agoIt’s in Ubuntu, but if you go to the OBS website it doesn’t mention that and tells you to use their PPA instead.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes61·26 days ago- finds a bug
- can’t figure it out instantly
- reinstalls entire operating system.
Yep, definitely a Windows user. One who would go out of his way to use actual Google Chrome rather than Chromium. He seems to be starting to catch on, by the end of the week. I wonder if he’ll keep going.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•10 Advanced Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Used (Part 3)5·1 month agodu -sh * | sort -h
is a thing I type frequently.
kbal@fedia.ioto Linux@programming.dev•10 Advanced Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Used (Part 3)4·1 month agoThere’s someone out there to whom the existence of
ping -i 30
is news.The idea of using
file
instead oftouch file
— orcp /dev/null file
if it already exists — is new to me, though it doesn’t seem all that useful.
Worst of all, root access is often granted to humans — a species known to be vulnerable to the most idiotic phishing scams you could imagine.