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  • ijhoo@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
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    1 month ago

    Pulseaudio was introduced in 2004. How come it took almost 20y for it to be replaced if it was that bad?

    Implementation, being what it is, improved the situation compared to alsa and other things before it. Again, while not perfect it made things better for everyone.

    It’s funny that this is a thing attributed to poettering as bad since things before were way worse… why not throw Sticks and stones at those people?

    I really don’t get it.

    And all of these things are optional. The fact that distro people and companies select them is because they solve real world problems.

  • ijhoo@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
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    1 month ago

    Is it really breaking it? As far as I’m aware, it’s more like gnu. It has components and you can select what you use (here meaning distros and packagers).

    People mistake this for a monolith because it’s all named systemd-thing. Integration, like you said, was and is needed. But what if all those separate utilities and services are actually disconnected and speak some protocol different to pipe? Does it make it less unixy?

    And poettering is an absolute good guy here. Pulseaudio wasn’t perfect, but did it improve things compared to what was there before? Sure it did. Even now, pulesaudio protocol is used within pipewire and it works just fine.

    Perfect is the enemy of good. And while all these tools might not be perfect, they are the best in the Linux world.

  • ijhoo@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Researching making the switch from Windows on my main PC and I have questions.
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    2 months ago
    1. Dual boot should be ok. If and when you decide to fully switch, I’d say it’s better to do a reinstall. Messing with partitions always comes with disclaimers. A bit advanced topic if you are interested: when you resize partition usually data needs to be moved, depending what you do with it, so it will wear your ssd; also you should be aware that you must install windows first, Linux second because windows doesn’t really play well with others and be sure NOT to format EFI partition when installing Linux.

    You have alternatives to dual boot: VMs. Run Linux on bare metal, then boot up a VM if you need something only windows can provide. Gnome has a new VM tool incoming.

    1. No idea for audio, but Photoshop has alternative, gimp. Wether you like it or not, it’s another story (people I know really really hate that one). For digital art there is a tool called Krita that runs on kde. People really enjoy using it.

    2. NTFS has one thing that Linux doesn’t really like - it is case insensitive. Linux normally works with case sensitive filesystems. There was recently a rant by the Linux overlord about case insensitive filesystems, so you might want to stay clear of it. It’s ok to use it on a thumb drive though.

    Edit: minor typing fixes

  • ijhoo@lemmy.mltoKDE@lemmy.kde.social•About Plasma’s X11 session
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    2 months ago

    Any effort in this area is too much since it is for sure wasted. Even Bugfixes. If people want to use it, they should have stuck with plasma lts or use an lts distro.

    I know I’m not majority with this opinion, but plasma 6 should have dropped x11. Plasma 7 should drop xwayland.

    Not only does this make sense effort wise, but it prioritizes future and not past development.

    Valve can stay with older kwin version and/or support move to Wayland with SDL improvements and whatever else is needed. Not that they lack resources… Also Vulkan.

  • ijhoo@lemmy.mltoKDE@lemmy.kde.social•About Plasma’s X11 session
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    2 months ago

    Why still use WordPress when KDE has its own blog?

    Can you guys make a blog account to one of the most known KDE people that he can write his personal opinions there? This post really should be on kde.org.

    Gonna be down voted to oblivion, but doesn’t matter, here goes:

    Rgarding x11, this is a shame that it hasn’t been dropped already. Investing time and effort into a sad story instead of investing into improving Wayland session and apps. This kind of behavior is known in the corporate environment as sunk costs.

    It’s a shame that KDE is always a follower given a huge advantage in Qt toolkit.

  • ijhoo@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•Need Help Switching Dad to Linux
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    2 months ago

    Don’t know how to help you with those vdi problems, but here is an out of the box thinking: tell him to ask a neighbor.

    I have a similar situation so i got a hetzner VM and set up wireguard connections from both ends, so that vm serves as a hub/router. Then you can just ssh into the machine via vpn and do an update, upgrade or whatever.

    If you stick with Ubuntu lts, it will require very little maintenance.