aktenkundig

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[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Great answers already, I'll not repeat them. One thing I want to mention though is the interoperability of the Linux applications. Things work together well. With Windows (up to 10 at least, I haven't used windows much in the last years) applications are mostly their own silo. In KDE it's quite fluent. E.g. gwenview, the image viewer offers to open an image in krita, gimp, etc. It also offers an option to add a folder to the "places" list in dolphin (the file manager). Dolphin lets you quickly (F4) open and close a terminal at the current folder within its window. Small things like these make the system feel coherent.

The other big thing for me is the plethora of great apps you have out of the box. And the ease to install new ones without worrying whether you are the product.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

Some spontaneous thoughts Linux:

  • Awesome development environment
  • Awesome software management (apt, zypper, etc)
  • Great choice of desktop environments
  • Gazillions of distros (comes with need to make a choice) Windows
  • Great support for Nvidia drivers
  • Great subsystem for Linux
[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

After all, it took nearly 50 years of advocacy from groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving to stigmatize driving under the influence. And it took nearly that long for drivers to get on board with wearing their seatbelt

So, change will come when the respective generation of drivers dies.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Incidentally I installed this App from F-Droid a week ago, along with Ultrasonic and Tempo (both subsonic apps).

I haven't decided yet which one is my favorite. Overall, I like the interface of Power Ampache 2. The home screen is a nice addition, which ultrasonic lacks.

My biggest gripe about all three ist that you cannot do multiselect or swiping of songs, to quickly enque a subset, e.g. of an album, or create a playlist in such a way.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

The partition running full did prevent me from updating the system. That surely can be somehow fixed. But with time and skill being limited resources in my life, it doesn't mean that it is unimportant.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

KolourPaint works very well for me.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, those are the same reasons I chose tumbleweed. Plus the rolling release.

I hope you made your system partition large enough. I had about 20G for / (excluding /home), which used to be enough for kubuntu, but quickly ran out of space on tumbleweed. I assume because of the Btrfs snapshots.

I reinstalled tumbleweed on a larger partition. Then couldn't install the proprietary codecs, because of an error I couldn't resolve.

Installed it a third time recently, now it runs smoothly.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago

Here's what you actually need to know:

 

Looks like the project is in good hands and will make gentle steps forward.

These are actually important. The "holes" show you that there is no (spurious) whitespace on that line.

Using it for years now, works like a charm