How are you all just swapping OSes all the time like it’s nothing? I have so much shit to configure.
*Install OS for the first time ever*
cd ~/.configgit init*commit changes, push to repo x100000*
Being a Linux newbie that idea did not even cross my mind. MIND BLOWN. In all seriousness, though, are there ever user secrets in ~/.config? It seems like a crazy & genius idea at the same time.
(I keep them in two Restic backups)
Welcome Linux newbie :)
There can be secrets in .config and so you need to be deliberate about what you commit while also ensuring that your .gitignore file is properly filled out to exclude the files which would have secrets that you don’t want to be portable. This requires a bit of work and you will, in the process, learn about how every single application that you use stores its config. You typically don’t want to just
git add ., though this is a lazy/simple option and can be acceptable if you keep your files and backups secured.This kind of configuration will also encourage you to not just hit the ‘install plasma-apps metapackage’ button and be more deliberate about the software that you install as you will need to individually address the .config files for each application in your settings repo.
I’d recommend against using Github. First, remember that “the cloud” is just “someone else’s computer”. Trusting anybody (esp. Microsoft) with critical data is a bad idea. So, sync to a location where you create your good, secure primary backups. The kind you put on a disk in a safe deposit box.
This is undoubtedly more work than simply re-configuring everything when you fresh install. The payoff is that your system’s configuration will be portable and as consistent as possible across all environments and you can safely try new configurations with the trust that you can use git to revert any changes in case you don’t like them/it breaks something.
If you want to do even more work you can maintain a separate set of dotfiles for your desktop machines and the machines where you only interact via terminal. Things like tmux config/plugins, bash/zshrc files, useful scripts and the contents of .local/bin (which is where your user’s executable scripts primarily reside) so you can ensure that your remote environments are consistent and equably capable.
For more reading/search/youtubing on the topic, these kinds of repos are commonly referred to as ‘dotfiles’ or ‘dots’. You will often find people who customize applications that share their dots (more common in the ricing community). Some projects are essentially glorified dotfiles (NVChad for nvim, for example).
Additionally, if you have more complicated setups that need to drop files into system directories or just in multiple unrelated directories, you can add GNU Stow which basically lets you store all of your dotfiles, binaries, system configurations, etc in a single directory (which you make a git repo) and you configure GNU Stow with the locations where these files need to live and it puts the files there, via symlink with a single command. Stow is an added level of complexity, likely more than most people need, but if you interact with a lot of new machines and need a quick way to configure them all in as much depth as possible… this is one of the ways you can do it.
Is he fine if it wasn’t for my amount of severe or services.
If I don’t host any homelab stuff on it it’sd be super fast
Most of my stuff is hosted on my server but even just on my desktop I have to install/log in to everything. It’s a few hours of effort at least.
Same
I’ve been having that classic moment for the last 3 months since switching at home:
“Can you hear that?”
“What?”
“Silence.”
PipeWire not working?
a Linux
Just for clarification: with these style of posts, am i supposed to read the bottom one first? I can’t remember when these types of posts came into circulation, but I’ve been puzzled about them ever since. It’s like the first/top line is sometimes the punchline, and i feel like i spoiled a joke or story by reading it from top to bottom.
The user that screenshooted it had the bottom post selected, that’s why it’s bigger. However, top to bottom is the normal chronological order, see how they mention the other one to respond in the second and third posts.
Sometimes screencaps of xitter posts look like the repost the original post is below, and the repost’s comments are above. It’s really annoying, and makes it hard to tell on other screencaps where it should be obvious that it’s read top-down.
That happens when someone “quotes” a tween instead of responding to it. This is not twitter technically tho.
Right, but it creates this situation where now it isn’t always obvious at a glance that a screencapped conversation should be read from top down. That’s why the commenter above had to ask.
In honor of this week of the Linux desktop I updated my Arch system. Will update again for the next week of the Linux desktop. Keepe in the loop!
Do you only update once per week? Doesn’t sound very Arch.
I’m not lazy I’m, uhh, mitigating supply chain attacks.
(playing my games on linux)
I’m doing my part!My nvidia card doesn’t work properly on linux :(
Which card? There’s a few distros that handle installing the drivers for you (Nobara and Bazzite spring to mind)
If it’s an issue of outdated hardware it can be tricky but doable. I have an old Thinkpad with an Nvidia Quadro K2000 that I got working with MX Linux without too much hassle
very impressed with linux gaming now
my last try was 10+ years ago
games are literally running better on my (getting) tired desktop, and I play Grim Fandango on a Ryzen 3 laptop with 4Gb Ram which could barely boot windoze
With bony hands I hold my partner,
on soulless feet we cross the floor,
the music stops as if to answer,
an empty knocking at the door.Not only games, but programs too. Ive been able to find exactly what ive looked for, or something just as good for now pretty much all the time.
And yeah games are running better than on my win10 pc.
I play Grim Fandango on a Ryzen 3 laptop with 4Gb Ram
Grim Fandango Remastered, right? 'Cause it’s not exactly impressive if its the original, give-or-take WINE maintaining compatibility with old Win9x libraries…
I’ve been meaning to get around to playing that game for almost 30 years, and the remastered version for 10.
yes, re-mastered. It was on sale for like $3
I had heard about it back in the day, but never played
How is it? It’s a point and click isnt it?
it’s lucasarts’ best point and click, except maybe LOOM. it’s funny, it has heart, it’s not too obtuse. my wife who really only got into stardew and a few other games loved it
Been using it for a couple of decades now. It just keeps getting better. You can’t say that about many things these days.
Honestly, this is such a great idea. Get the IT team to create a bootable distro with all the apps the average user needs. Have a video they can watch to get the basics down, have IT available to install one-off software.
At the end of the week give people the choice to keep going or go back to Windows/Mac and get feedback.
Try again in a couple of quarters.
Most people use web-based apps anyway.
If they’d tried this while I was still doing tier 1 support I’d have burned that place to the ground by lunch time.
Tier 1 support exists to encourage you to finish your education so you can get a job that lets you create problems for Tier 1 support.
There is a right way to do this and a wrong way. I’ve seen it done the wrong way plenty of times but I’ve also seen this done the right way.
Most recently, there was a push to get rid of Microsoft Word, etc. and we were moving to Google Workplace.
They made it clear that there would be training available throughout the transition and that approvals for exceptions would require division head sign off (essentially the VP).
The day of, there were signs everywhere for how to get help. Extra people were hired to help people migrate. They were trained to get people out of Microsoft and into Drive. Prizes for best report. Slack channels, office hours, helpdesk, and even in person questions.
Company put their money where their mouth was.
It was the best case I saw of a company actually understanding how much of a pain it was going to be and doing what they could to lessen the burden.
Compare that to another company I worked with that went from Macs to PC. “You figure it out.” And IT support went off-shore.
So yeah I get where you’re coming from. But if an IT department handled a roll out the right way, I would volunteer for help desk.
Tomorrow, I will pick up a second, empty, work notebook. I am part of a small group that implements a user driven Linux support in our 6k employee group.
We will make it more then a week, I promise :)
On my PC, for some time now, every week is “week of the Linux desktop”. My user experience only got better since I ditched microslop.
wait this week? fuck i have two things i have to do first and one of them is run a backup, the other i remember being life or death big and i haven’t had my coffee yet and don’t want to think about that scale of problems until i’ve had my coffee. oh i remember i have to design and manufacture another prototype. fortunately i have all the measurements i need finally. coffee first.
Pride flag yet excluding laptop users.
/s
The L in LGBT is for laptop
i am confuse i thought it was Lettuce Gay Bacon and Tomato
Got it wrong, L is for lalaland
Starting my third week of the Linux Desktop. I’ve never been so happy to switch DE’s as I am this time, and without a dual boot option for windows to claw itself back. Goodbye forever, Windows. My new DE is Fedorable
I could definitely get far more work done on Linux than anything else.
I run a dual boot.
Love that it functions so well on my current PC, as my last one didn’t run Linux particularly well, and I love having the option to do anything private off-Windows.
I do too. But on the couple months since I switched I only booted to windows once just to check if it was really that slow (it was). Now it’s been so long I fear the updates and boot time.
Yeah, if I didn’t need to use it I wouldn’t. I hate it.
It’s amazing because I’ve been a Windows user my whole life and never really had a problem with it until around Windows 11 time. And how I just hate it.
Same. I didn’t even worry about Linux until a year ago, and was willing to put up with the buggy dual boot for two months before wiping it. Luckily I got a new laptop last fall and it works perfectly on this one. I LOVE Mint and prefer it over Windows for nearly everything.
