/t/ - Technology

>>700 don't let him lie! release your chains of closed-source oppression! open your mind to the truth of open-source software! install linux mint today and be forever changed for the better!

>>699 i actually tried out linux mint for two months but for what I need to do it just became too much of a chore especially when it came to applications I needed for work, nothing but respect to users though it just isn't for me

>>702 >too much of a chore especially when it came to applications I needed for work Do you not have a work laptop for work-related stuff? That's my experience, at least.

>>703 i work from home and the only thing provided to us is the adobe suite, I've tried making the switch to open source alternatives but nothing else feels as streamlined

>>704 also just to add to this, i do use a ton of open source software every day such as OBS, thunderbird, blender, and calibre. i've just found that software such as GIMP, kdenlive, inkscape, etc just don't mesh well with my workflow. I do still want to experiment with linux in my free time (ill probably get another ssd to dual boot) but as of right now its not a huge priority ... sorry to derail thread hehe

>>702 Despite I'm a main linux user for almost a year now, what got you want to try Linux Mint? Most applications you want to use are from Windows?

>>705 no worries friend. honestly i still use winblows on my main PC, even if i do have linux mint on my work/college laptop. software is a tool, use whatever you'd like. i'll still shill for open source software when possible but use what works for you!

>>706 what made me want to make the switch was how malicious microsoft has gotten when it comes to privacy and data collection, not to mention the lack of support for older hardware with these newer versions. linux and open source software has definitely come a long way and I'd like to make the switch eventually once my use case becomes more viable

>>708 >Privacy and Data issues That was part of the reasons why I never upgraded my PC to Windows 10 or 11. I was a main Windows 7 user until 2023 for Linux Mint as my first distro. The first week of Linux was painful due to poor knowledge and fear of not reaching my standard about Linux. After that, I'm very satisfied with it and I'm glad that I did not went to use newer Windows.

istg I posted here before but I don't see my desktop :[

>>739 dude that looks awesome :O

>>739 Fonts too tiny.

>>739 i rly like urs

>>739 Hey, that looks so good :) What theme and icons are you using? Also, which music players is that?

>>215 A black screen says a lot about you. Like you might be a psychopath, for example The only wallpaper that says nothing about you is the default one

>>878 Pf, I too use black screen as my i3wm wallpaper because it's zero distraction. Though my recreational account has a cool futuristic wallpaper.

Here's mine! I am slowly but surely moving into greybeard territory with the software I use LOL :-D

>>883 is that nyxt?

>>884 Yep! :-) It is pretty nice to use, the devs are working on getting it running with some new engines as well to in the future it will be even more performant.

>>883 Hey, I'd recognize that art anywhere. I've had the same Cirno desktop background for fifteen years or so, but I use tile-anon's designs for my IRC client and some other stuff. Good taste, mate

>>332 I wanted to try dual boot for a while, but I'm scared it'll fuck up my main OS's data if something goes wrong

>>886 Thanks! I've always enjoyed using tile-anons stuff since it hits the comfy vibes I want from my system 😁

>>94 >obriezka a teplé ponožky.jpeg Czech? Slovak?

>>883 That's a lot of memory

>>886 >>883 good to see people still enjoying tile anons work

It's nothign special

i did this several months ago (or maybe more than a year) and then i havent had time to make more ricings. its ok for me anyway.

Got tired of ricing and in general of the "build your own DE" experience made of non interoperable components that constantly break because its author decided to. KDE just works. >hahaha krashde Works on my machine.

>>928 Although to be honest I miss the tilling WM experience, and no, the KDE tilling scripts aren't the same thing.

>>929 use i3wm with lxde never did that though i3wm with i3bar and picom combination is sweet

>>930 I don't like manual tilling managers. I used dwm in the past though. I use KDE because I can configure things through a GUI, even though I can do it on the CLI, I got tired of it. Or for example connecting to a wifi network, I don't want to open the terminal. Also I use wayland only because it allows me to replace the GTK file picker with the Qt one. Each time I see the GTK file picker it makes me want to neck myself.

>>930 >>931 I thought about lxde, maybe I will try when its wayland support becames more stable.

>>931 >even though I can do it on the CLI, I got tired of it I configured my i3wm years ago and never touched it since except some changes to startup scripts here and there to accommodate changes in my workflow. >Or for example connecting to a wifi network Depends on how often you change them. Even if you do, wpa_gui exists. As you wish ofc, but I prefer to keep it as simple as possible without having to use my butthole.

>>928 >LibreWolf Good choice

>>934 I hear it's on decline though. Maybe it's time to go for mullvad browser, but reproducible builds take 999TB of space and also they install in /opt which is a retarded take. I share /opt across multiple installations and their approach is obnoxious. System packages should go into /lib. /opt is for me. I SAID FOR ME

>>415 whoa sick where did you download that weborb from anon???

I finally transferred from Mint to Arch after using Linux for over a year. I'm trying out Trinity DE since I love old UI.

Oh yeah every linux newbie has to come through the Arch linux phase. Glad you're liking it, and I hope you're wise enough to despise systemd and move away from it asap

>>947 I'm well-aware about other distro that doesn't have systemd like Artix (Hell, I even tried it out before Arch). I didn't do as much though but time will tell though.

>>947 I don't really see what's too bad with systemd anymore.

>>949 It's a ticking bomb malware. Putting aside it's abhorrent design, systemd is not an init system, it is a """base OS""" that is meant to bring about a lockdown of linux ecosystem so jews can take hold of it. And what does it do? It basically implements windows on linux or whatever. Goys like you won't notice a difference because in terms of using your goybrowser (chrome, yes?) there is truly no difference. You just fail to see the broader picture either because you're dumb or just stubborn. Systemd is sweet poison if it's not opposed linux and its freedom will basically be done for good. They are doing with linux the same thing they've done to browsers. There are literally no browsers on the market. Firefox is barely stumbling along and all other browsers are chromium based. And firefox is owned by google, mozilla being a proxy company. Just put off your pink glasses already.

>>952 The Linux kernel has a 2000 line (toplevel) Makefile and is above 20 million lines of C code but you are not complaining about that.

>>952 meds

>>953 Because it's a monolithic kernel are you dumb? By the way linux codebase is a mess it has more vulnerabilities than there are starts in the universe. >>954 >redhat jew tries to cover the tracks Fuck you morons.

>>955 Ok but you do realize that systemd also has a lot of tasks right? Linux' POSIX implementation relies heavily on the init system, this discussion has been had before though. Can you like, stop rambling about systemd? Find other software to whine about, this one got boring.

>>956 No, systemd IS ticking bomb malware, I will not keep silent about it. Everyone who's got two braincells and doesn't work for redhat must know that by using systemd they make software freedom one step closer to demise

What desktop environment do you use?

i3wm is the best one if you're not up to spending a year or two doing deep meaningful configuration like you would with awesomewm