It’s pronounced just like gif, right?

No mention of Cantata, nor acknowledgement of Amarok’s recent revival. Whatever the reason might be for those omissions, this article doesn’t do a very good job of representing the state of linux music players.

No mention of Cantata, nor acknowledgement of Amarok’s recent revival. Whatever the reason might be for those omissions, this article doesn’t do a very good job of representing the state of linux music players.

I don’t think I agree about it being more confusing than “tech”, since the latter has become nearly synonymous with “tech stocks” and “consumer electronics” in popular news and media. The word itself invites more of the problem.

Fair point about the lack of renaming.

Thank you.

Sadly, the financial world has trained much of the population to think “technology” means “anything vaguely related to computers or businesses that use them”. As a result, various technology communities are flooded with uninteresting posts that really belong in stock market and business news categories. (This drove me away from the one on lemmy.world.)

I wonder if naming this one c/technologies instead of c/tech would make the difference more clear, and intuitively encourage staying on topic.

Oddly enough, Notepad++ doesn’t really have a full featured native Linux alternative

Geany and Notepad++ are built on the same text editing component.

https://www.geany.org/

See also: https://playterm.org/

The qualification was established in the first sentence.

And nothing about my comment suggested being upset or trying to force a view on anyone else.

Good day.

Did you mean to reply to someone else?

Because your comment makes no sense as a response to what I wrote.

This is why I buy 3-button mice. A wheel is too fiddly to be a suitable replacement.

For example:

https://3dconnexion.com/ca/product/cadmouse-pro/

https://www.contourdesign.com/collection/contour-unimouse

You haven’t said what model it is, but if it’s a model 2B, it can be a pretty good 1080p media player with LibreELEC 9.2. A newer model might do well with the current LibreELEC version.

https://libreelec.tv/downloads/raspberry/

There is something more infuriating about people putting open-source project communities behind a Discord ToS-wall.

Mint is based on Ubuntu, which has a Hardware Enablement Stack offering newer kernels. I would expect that (or maybe something Mint-specific) to take care of it.

Tree-like hierarchy is used all over the place, including computers, because it’s a useful and easily understood way to organize information.

Why can’t I have a file in two folders?

You can. man ln

Why does one have to be a “reference”?

I don’t know what you mean by that. If you mean a link target, it doesn’t. A file is canonically identified by its inode (or equivalent), not where it appears in a directory tree.

Why can’t I filter for files that exist in 3 folders with X extension?

You can. Common tools like find can do this, as can some file managers like Dolphin, and various indexing tools.

If you mean to ask why that sort of indexing/filtering isn’t built in to most filesystems, consider compatibility: Practically no software exists that would know how to take advantage of it. Also consider what it would mean for a filesystem to filter by files that exist in 3 folders if that filesystem doesn’t use folders. :)

(BTW, that “extension” concept doesn’t exist in most modern filesystems. Any .xyz suffix you see in the ones that don’t come from Microsoft is just part of the file name, with no special meaning. Some programs try to guess at content type based on common file name suffixes, but that is unreliable and has nothing to do with the fs.)

Since you’re interested in this topic, though, maybe have a look at different approaches to data storage that have been tried over the years. To get you started:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system#Database_file_systems

According to the Debian Wiki, merely having a salsa account is not sufficient.

When you login on debusine.debian.net with Salsa for the first time, if you are a Debian developer or a Debian maintainer, then a Debusine account is automatically created. The username of that account is your primary email on salsa.debian.org.

To verify if you are a Debian developer, it relies on the group membership exported by Salsa: if you are part of the debian group on salsa, then the account is created and it is added to the Debian group on debusine.debian.net.

To verify if you are a Debian maintainer, it will query nm.debian.org to know if that salsa identity is known to be a Debian Maintainer. If yes, then the account is created and it is added to the Maintainers group.

Edit, to address the last line in your comment:

The value of Ubuntu’s PPA service is it gives anyone a managed and hosted repository and a multi-architecture build farm, for free, so you don’t have to self-host. Self-hosting Debusine would not be comparable.

If a self-hosted Debian repository is all you want, that has been possible forever, using any of a variety of tools.

By copypasta, I meant that you are bulk copying posts from other communities.

And apparently with no regard for the veracity of what you’re re-posting.

You already posted copypasta about this, two days ago, and it’s still false.

Only Debian developers and Debian maintainers can create a Debusine repository. That’s not “PPA-like” in any practical way. The value of Personal Package Archives (PPAs) is that anyone can create them.

I think you chose well with Mint. It is based on Ubuntu, but has a track record of stripping out Canonical’s nonsense, and if said nonsense should ever become impractical to remove, Mint already has a contingency plan in the form of their Debian Edition.

Someone said that LMDE is behind in various ways,

Someone on social media is always echoing the meme about Debian being unusable due to old packages, but roughly 96% of the time, that person turns out to be poorly informed and driven by an unhealthy addiction to quickly rising version numbers. Try not to give their opinion much weight, despite how loud and repetitive they are.

including NVIDIA graphics drivers

Why would “non-tech-savvy seniors” care what version of the Nvidia driver is installed?

Edit: To answer the question in your headline, putting the /home directory on a separate partition tends to make switching distros easy.

It originally did not. Then it did for a time. Now it does not.

Global, and Linus.