Post AcHkrck9e2KUNrCfqq by Flaky@furry.engineer
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(DIR) Post #AcHOMqgFZygFdkIUt6 by Flaky@furry.engineer
2023-11-28T21:59:45Z
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I use Windows btw
(DIR) Post #AcHOMrMR38QNka2Bdo by posrgl@furry.engineer
2023-11-28T22:09:28Z
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@Flaky but why?
(DIR) Post #AcHOMs5oKQik1JGQMq by Flaky@furry.engineer
2023-11-28T22:22:34Z
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@posrgl For the moments where I need it. Not everything works in Linux the way I want it, unfortunately. 😩
(DIR) Post #AcHOMss1RBHkQpovVw by arcanicanis@were.social
2023-11-28T22:45:43.921994Z
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I'd be curious of a list of papercuts then, because I am working on tooling up for heavier emphasis on commercial desktop Linux tech support, and want to find more of the common pain points (I already have a few myself, which I'll be putting together some scripts/tools for).
(DIR) Post #AcHS3wdBd9zwPU6c7c by Flaky@furry.engineer
2023-11-28T22:53:18Z
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@arcanicanis @posrgl Gaming wise, Linux is... near-perfect (enough for something like the Steam Deck) unless you want to record the past few seconds of gameplay (which I do miss playing on Linux), or you have a steering wheel. Steering wheels particularly aren't 100% on Linux. Mine is for PlayStation and works decently in PS3 mode but loses some features as a result while being a bit of a pain to set up regardless.Music library organisation is another. Apple is Apple so I'm not expecting Apple Music to get a Linux app anytime soon (and honestly if Cider can retain 256kbps playback and support gapless playback, that'd be brilliant) but for my local library, MusicBee is an essential app for me. It's not perfect, but it's a great program for organising my music library and nothing on Linux comes close without sacrificing one essential feature or another.
(DIR) Post #AcHS3xQ6hH86rCzgNE by arcanicanis@were.social
2023-11-28T23:27:08.624454Z
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Understood. Those are generally outside of my reach/ability then.The kind of stuff I intend to put together are:A ‘recovery’ TUI, where you can jump to a virtual TTY and have a menu to do basic recovery things (restart your WM/compositor, restart PulseAudio, kill a process using a simpler TUI, force logout of your graphical session, log out another user (if admin), etc with no command line knowledge needed)Common diagnostic tools, such as testing and troubleshooting basic things (e.g. network connectivity) and giving human readable output; also a distro-agnostic utility for getting info about a system, that a user can be guided through over the phone, versus absurdity like “type ‘ip a s’ in a shell, and see if there’s an IP address on your Ethernet interface, the interface name should start with something like eth or en”Probably some GUI for configuring persistent network mounts, such as SMB, NFS, etc (and actually system-wide mount; not just gvfs user mount, etc); versus people having to screw with fstab and likely making their system unbootable or hang at boot, or fight with figuring out systemd-mount unit syntax.
(DIR) Post #AcHkrck9e2KUNrCfqq by Flaky@furry.engineer
2023-11-29T01:10:40Z
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@arcanicanis Honestly, some GUI-based troubleshooters could be great if they demonstrably worked. Windows and even macOS are infamous for their troubleshooters not working, while on Linux the problem is easily solvable with a command, but absolutely scary to someone who has never had much experience with the command line.Case in point, someone I knew bought a System76 laptop out of my and a friend's recommendation. Everything worked mostly except for one thing: he needed to install VMware, which meant installing kernel modules. VMware's tool didn't work, but there was a patchset on GitHub that did (which is used by the AUR package). I had to hand-hold him through the process since he would copy commands verbatim!