I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it

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[–] 167 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Also, updates.

"hey computer! Update!"

"Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?"

"y"

"ok... done!"

πŸ‘Œ

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  • [+] 135 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (21 children)
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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They discontinued that native app and have a kinda broken pwa. But open-source community delivers.

    https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    We shitpost on Lemmy and start flame wars about vi vs. emacs, X11 vs Wayland, sysvinit vs systemd, snaps vs flatpak, etc.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    All of those wars have long since ended.
    Neovim, Wayland, Systemd and Flatpak have won.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In Emacs I can annotate pdfs.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    who the fuck does that in a text editor??

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Would agree, but Wayland is still broke on nvidia 2060 mobile (got the laptop before I switched to Linux and it doesn’t have integrated graphics either *cough*HP*cough*) so I have to stick with X11 for now… *sigh* I really wanted to try out SwayFX and Hyprland too

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Would agree, but Wayland is still broke on nvidia 2060 mobile

    Frankly mint/wayland flat out does not work yet, combine that with the fact that cinnamon still does not have triple buffering for their desktop animations, and its a very annoying desktop experience for anyone coming from windows/mac where most of these issue were solved 20 years ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's not a big deal via terminal but for me and probably the average user, a decent update UI is superior. I want my computer to remind me like once a week and then update with one or two clicks. Updating via terminal does not appeal to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    And this happens too. I get a little tray icon saying 'do updates' and I tap that and all my applications whether fwupd (firmware), flatpak or rpm updates are there and I click 'go', including the most recent nvidia drivers. In my case, KDE 'discover' does this for me. I'm so lazy as to not want to bother running the three terminal commands (dnf, fwupdmgr, and flatpak).

    Meanwhile, under windows, I do that, but then it doesn't do my firmware, so my hardware vendor has their own updater (which also suggests driver updates that Microsoft does not suggest), but if I use those then I still miss out on decent nvidia drivers, I need to go to nvidia to get those updates. And pretty much every application is then independently telling me time to update something or another in a never ending parade of 'update me now' icons in the tray.

    Meanwhile it can be greatly mitigated in Windows by opening up a terminal and doing a winget update. Except it keeps offering up this one Office update that hangs with a blank terminal in my screen, and it still misses half the stuff..

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Getting me silenced by the mob of mods is just what a dirty Linux user would do.

    Removed Comment: Windows has winget upgrade --all. Fucking cultists.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Guess what I did last night? I spent 4 hours working on getting PSD, XCF and KRA thumbnailers working in Mint. It took custom scripts to be written and each one required different commands because KRA files are just a zip file so you have to extract that and grab one of 3 possible preview files that might exist inside that zip and make that the thumbnail, while in gimp files you cant just use convert command, even convert[0] will only turn the first layer into a thumbnail and thats completely useless. And to top off all that, I finally got thumbnails working in gnome/nautilus but Only the XCF thumbs will generate in cinnamon/nemo (I still have no clue why that is) but I cannot just switch to gnome because there is technically no gnome variant of Mint so gnome doesnt work 100%... etc etc etc

    Linux is still not there, this stuff should be simple and automatic. If a 20 year professional took 4 hours to get this far, the average user will give up immediately. Yes Mint is still my daily driver, but seriously thumbnails should not be this much work.

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