Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: Geppeto35yes, but some more than others. If any, Thatcher, Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet, etc. are on the top list.

Am not British or anything, but putting thatcher in that list seems a bit extreme?

Pinochet was her guy, so if he's on the list, then why not her?

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I'll never forget my first 'experience' (?!) with Linux. I must have been 1993 (or early 1994) at the latest. I had a friend whose father was a math professor; at his home office he had a nice 486 with a DOS partition, as well as a Linux partition. On this PC he'd let us play games (mostly Civilization).

One day we somehow borked the DOS installation (it must have been a stupid minor mistake like deleting CONFIG.SYS while trying to adjust SoundBlaster IRQ values or something like that). I convinced my friend that if we formatted the harddrive, and reinstalled DOS, everything would be fine.

... and that was the end of the poor guy's dual-boot setup.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedjeThen you have OpenSuse, which is both old, and and been around a long time. But at the same time, what distributions are based upon it?

Maybe because it is already awesome and any change would impair it 😄

openSUSE did go through pretty big changes fairly recently, and with successful results. The SUSE company seems to be doing very well also, after a long period of uncertainty.

There's a kind of 'spin' on openSUSE called 'Gecko Linux', which isn't really (& doesn't claim to be) a derived distro or anything; but I've heard really good things about it, re: the default repo/package selection, settings, etc.

I've decided to go back to Tumbleweed last week, and I think I'll stay here for the foreseeable future. I wanted to switch (back to) KDE; & Fedora caused a bunch of mysterious lock-ups; so I used that as an excuse to distro hop again. I've used Tumbleweed on and off ever since it came out; IMHO, it's what any rolling distro should aspire to be. (Seriously, it's got all of Arch's advantages, and none of its BS.)

OpenSUSE is.. different. It's one of the more unique distributions, how they handle repositories, and their default choices. Then you have Yast, something that everyone thinks they need, until they get further into configuring a Linux machine, and then decide it's not something they want. Been a while since I tested it out (maybe a year), but due to a previous job and the nightmare of it... I tend to stay away.

Yeah I don't like yast either; in fact I think it complicates things needlessly. I remember yast's defaults getting in the way of my manually edited config files in the past; though I'm happy to report that this time around it looks like I've successfully ignored it altogether. (It may have been a decrease in my linux-stupidity, or the fact that they ironed out some bugs.) But at least for non-professional use (I'm aware that using this stuff for *work* introduces complexities that simply don't exist when one is dicking around at his own leisure), I really don't think differences between openSUSE & the redhat/debian/arch families are significantly greater than the differences that already obtain between those families. (& nowadays they're all alternative interfaces to systemd anyhow. :woot:)

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedjeThen you have OpenSuse, which is both old, and and been around a long time. But at the same time, what distributions are based upon it?

Maybe because it is already awesome and any change would impair it 😄

openSUSE did go through pretty big changes fairly recently, and with successful results. The SUSE company seems to be doing very well also, after a long period of uncertainty.

There's a kind of 'spin' on openSUSE called 'Gecko Linux', which isn't really (& doesn't claim to be) a derived distro or anything; but I've heard really good things about it, re: the default repo/package selection, settings, etc.

I've decided to go back to Tumbleweed last week, and I think I'll stay here for the foreseeable future. I wanted to switch (back to) KDE; & Fedora caused a bunch of mysterious lock-ups; so I used that as an excuse to distro hop again. I've used Tumbleweed on and off ever since it came out; IMHO, it's what any rolling distro should aspire to be. (Seriously, it's got all of Arch's advantages, and none of its BS.)

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Quoting: Mal

Quoting: Guestwhat's the point of providing a windows 11 layout? Not even windows users want that. The first thing I see them doing is to try to find the setting to put it back in the corner.

Uh... Old people already accustomed to that windows if I had to find a use case.

When I "forced" my father to linux I gave him Zorin and it made the transition smoother since GUI issues are factored out. After the conversion is done it's surely possible to move on to more functional interfaces.

No one's accustomed to the w11 layout yet, though.

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Tangentially related, but I've recently been bitten by this, so it might be worth mentioning: When you install flathub on a fresh system, make sure the $XDG_DATA_DIRS env. variable is set before you run anything. As far as I can tell, unless you've already had flathub configured, this variable is undefined at the time of login; flathub tells you to reboot (like a windoze user) so that it gets set up; otherwise things might break or fail to launch. (Mine looks like: $HOME/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share)

FWIW, I've used Flatpak for Thunderbird & GIMP w/o any problems.

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Quoting: BeamboomI've never really understood the anti PA vibe, thinking it must rather be of historical rather than current reasons.

Yeah me too; I suppose it's bad rap from the early days that received a boost from the Lennart Poettering hate bandwagon after systemd allegedly ruined everything. Similar to how people still complain about dependency resolution issues in rpm, which haven't been much of a problem for the past decade.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: wvstolzingSure, I meant latency over the network, even through ssh.

SSH across the LAN? Since SSH is encrypted traffic, I would assume that would only add to the latency?

It does; my point is that the latency is tolerable over ssh.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: wvstolzingAbsolutely; & with a bit of tinkering, even the latency is tolerable for things like video chat.

I have zero issues with latency on pulseaudio for all normal uses including gaming, conference calls and netflix. And obviously it's not notable on music playback.
The sole reason I use Jack for is music production, where one wants a very low latency. But in all other settings I don't even notice there *are* any latency at all. To be honest I think one has to be extremely fixated on detecting latency in order to be bothered with it.

Sure, I meant latency over the network, even through ssh.

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Quoting: BeamboomI played around with Pulseaudio some years ago, and that system actually is really sweet, so much more than just a layer for local playback. I'd say it's primarily designed for networked playback, you can route any source to any playback destination (or destinationS in plural) and have the livingroom stereo play from your basement PC etc. Or all the speakers in the house playing the same, for that matter. :) It's a cool solution!

Probably very old news for some, but I was amazed at the features when I discovered them. :)

Absolutely; & with a bit of tinkering, even the latency is tolerable for things like video chat.
I love that you can just ssh tunnel the 'native' pulse socket from some other user's /run/user dir; & use it like a local sink.

I haven't tinkered much with Pipewire yet, but I hope it keeps this 'network transparency'.

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