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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Plasma 6 settings GUI more capable than windows settings idk wym. Only thing I've had to edit in the terminal in the last several months has been automount on a hard drive.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

    Only thing I’ve had to edit in the terminal in the last several months has been automount on a hard drive.

    I just use gnome disks for that. Tbh, that's the only thing I use gnome disks for.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Do they support stuff like managing the bootloader or systemd services by now? So far the only thing I ever saw going that deep was OpenSuse's YaST Settings Suite.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    Idk man i just keep my system up to date and call it good for the most part. I COULD dive into low level system stuff but I've rarely has a reason to. I do my tinkering in Godot, or off the computer.

    Point stands, better interface and more functionality than Windows' hot mess.

    Should note that yes, system stuff like display, fonts, all kinds of other stuff. But super users will always default to command line and there's always a little issue here and there after certain updates to tinker with.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Desktop Environments are decoupled from the underlying system. It makes switching DEs very easy but integration sucks.

    I needed to flush dns on my Ubuntu machine. I googled it found a command for an older version. But of course the underlying stuff changed since then and that command doesn't exist anymore.

    The command to flush dns on Windows has been the same for decades. On Linux half the stuff I learn is going to be obsolete in a couple of years and that knowledge can't be carried over to other Distros because they do it differently.

    I also had to manually build and install a driver for a very common realtek wifi chipset that is not even new.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

    This is the reason I sometimes come back to the BSDs, they just feel more coherent as a whole.

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

    Yeah, I've definitely grown to like TOML, especially after spending hours trying to edit a giant (nested) YAML file...

    I didn't realize the indentation in TOML was purely aesthetic.

    This

    [servers]
      [servers.alpha]
      ip = "10.0.0.1"
      dc = "eqdc10"
    
      [servers.beta]
      ip = "10.0.0.2"
      dc = "eqdc10"
    

    equals this

    [servers]
    [servers.alpha]
    ip = "10.0.0.1"
    dc = "eqdc10"
    
    [servers.beta]
    ip = "10.0.0.2"
    dc = "eqdc10"
    

    which equals this

    {
      "servers": {
        "alpha": {
          "ip": "10.0.0.1",
          "dc": "eqdc10"
        },
        "beta": {
          "ip": "10.0.0.2",
          "dc": "eqdc10"
        }
      }
    }
    
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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Yeah, some distros have GUIs for system settings, like openSUSE and Mageia, but advanced users will often even take that as a reason to not use those distros, because they themselves don't need that on their system. And because not many advanced users use these distros, it's hard to recommend them for noobs, because it makes it more difficult to find help resources. Kind of a stupid situation...

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

    "I open bottlecaps with my mouth, so i don't go to house where they have bottle openers."

    [–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Nowdays Windows horse has the same head but it basically never even had a butt at all (or third party butts at some point).

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

    reminds me of the one time I tried to configure a proxy on fedora KDE and then realizing most apps don't even use the inbuilt proxy settings and there are three separate ways to configure it that are only accessable via the terminal and it is pain

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