Posts by slash@pl.starnix.network
(DIR) Post #AykEZ3p03PMucZudJQ by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-09-30T21:48:44.518254Z
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(DIR) Post #AzBAhgzr8FcVt9ljDk by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-13T21:42:42.346938Z
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@SuperDicq I thought they were totally removing that with the new update, is there still some obtuse way to get away with it (and does massgrave still work?)
(DIR) Post #AzDqwLBn4wumzLwEvQ by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-15T04:45:22.334018Z
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@shibao dune beetley?
(DIR) Post #AzDr6WYHgepx7qJc5g by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-15T04:47:13.741395Z
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I've gone too many decades on this earth thinking the little yellow flowers and the little puff balls of seeds were different plants nicknamed dandelion and not knowing that they're actually the same plant.
(DIR) Post #AzFNFxuQjag0GnBCL2 by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-15T22:22:12.365024Z
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@lottev Some information about how you use your computer would be helpful to point you toward a project. Here are a few questions that'd help narrow the range:How much do you favor stability over features?How comfortable are you either researching solutions to problems you run into and/or talking to community support if you've got to sort something out?How comfortable are you with using the terminal? How comfortable are you with the idea of learning the terminal, if you don't already use it? (just in general, over time)Do you have a preference when it comes to one of the two major Desktop Environments, KDE or Gnome? Are you open to more experimental lightweight window managers or tiled window managers, even if that means you have to find replacement programs for common conveniences?What kinds of programs do you use in windows regularly and are open source equivalents available for many of them that you're comfortable learning, or do you anticipate a lot of stuff being run virtually at first?How much do you tend to tinker with settings vs accept defaults? Given a choice between well thought out default settings without as much choice or the freedom to tinker with stuff without as many barriers, which would you choose?
(DIR) Post #AzFUhz0YwQwJSvM4Js by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-15T23:45:42.165849Z
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@lottev Alright, I'll sift the through tea leaves a bit on these answers:The answer to the last question hints that you may end up liking KDE's design philosophy over Gnome, as the latter makes a lot more decisions for you in design language that can be more inflexible (or inconvenient to go against, at least). It is worth noting that some creative software uses Gnome's adwaita library (specifically Inkscape and GIMP) and so there can be some configuration involved launching them so the toolbars/titlebars work correctly within KDE (for me that means launching with GDK_BACKEND=x11 as an environment variable, might be different for you depending on what you go with. Easy enough to configure the shortcut and never worry about it again).There are a few paths you could do down with respect to software availability. Odds are pretty good that many of the tools you use are available, if not in repositories for most major distros, then in a containerized package format like appimage, flatpak or snap. If you want maximum flexibility with respect to native software instead of virtualized software, then something adjacent to Arch would be a good choice, since the pkgbuild format it uses allows for very wide software availability (subject to some degree of user trust) in the AUR. If instead you want an environment that a lot of devs still tend to target first, something using apt as the package manager (Debian/Ubuntu based). Then there's virtualized software as a priority- Both of the two options I've already mentioned can virtualize fine, but Fedora does put a lot of work into that stuff and tools like Distrobox are built and configured with that branch of linux in mind first.-Your answer to the terminal and support questions indicate you're not going to have issues doing stuff under the hood, so distros that try to push everything graphically are probably going to hinder you more than help (Elementary, for example) and distros that prioritize thorough documentation (Arch is well known for this) will probably matter a bit more than human infrastructure for issues you run into.-Finally, stability. You rate it as important, but you also can probably debug issues without a tremendous amount of trouble so it's a matter of time saved and convenience. The big remaining question related to this is whether you want to try something with an immutable filesystem or if that would be a hassle. I'll give some suggestions for either one.So in short: Not committed to a particular DE, but might prefer KDE in direction, portable package format support is necessary, prioritize the ability to tweak stuff and run containers/virtualize, and wide native package support. These traits (and admittedly some bias from me) point toward either something based on Arch or Debian. Your use of creative tools especially leans me toward distros with a rolling release model (push changes fast instead of prolonged testing) since a lot of those tools often like to sync up with recent video drivers, which lately have made a lot of changes. That pushes Debian/Ubuntu away a bit as a priority. Fedora has some immutable distros that might work ok (Fedora Silverblue), but also defaults to Gnome. I personally use Garuda, which is based on Arch but uses btrfs filesystem snapshots that you can load straight from the bootloader so that if things get unstable you can usually roll back to a working system. That might work for you, with the caveat that when using containers you would want to use podman (docker's daemon doesn't play nice with btrfs). Another distro that lines up under Arch would be Endeavor, which prioritizes being lightweight and pretty close to the vanilla Arch experience (very flexible, but pay attention to the necessary maintenance when updating). Finally, there's a pretty early distro that's affiliated with Garuda called Shani that is probably worth your attention. Shani is immutable by design, Arch based so you'll get system updates quick, and the main compromise is that pkgbuilds won't be available- Shani depends on the flatpak format only for native packages, but a major plus is that it's also built around supporting containers so distrobox and other tools are included preconfigured and you could pretty quickly set up other packages you need to run in those containers. So that's the first one I'd look at, Garuda behind that if immutability is a step too far.
(DIR) Post #AzHFPLMUUrhEIPBZEO by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-16T20:03:41.132671Z
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Got a new (old) phone. On the one hand, cool, new phone. On the other hand, lots of work to do migrating stuff. Also Lineage/microg hasn't built off the newly released lineage 23 yet so I may as well not even bother until that happens (or Iodé, which I might try since I didn't realize that project was connected to lineage/microg and is mostly identical)
(DIR) Post #AzHFpMLXSULosY95Bg by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-16T20:08:23.165109Z
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@Cara The Man Who Was Thursday except everyone else is a vampire plotting against all the other vampires.
(DIR) Post #AzIE0B0RxJQk8wGtpg by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T07:22:38.365176Z
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@solidsanek mine are never anything so fancy, hard plastic double wheels
(DIR) Post #AzIEENQmYdNGjRMM3E by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T07:25:12.328249Z
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@solidsanek mine didn't roll until I ended up getting one of those plastic mats that bite into the carpet for them, now they're downright annoying sometimes
(DIR) Post #AzIF2Ygcz3YE7ThRAG by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T07:34:16.608401Z
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@kaia can you stream it though? Imagine piping that feed into OBS with an overlay, what a cooking show.
(DIR) Post #AzIFZkRuGubS9mdjwO by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T07:40:16.390265Z
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@coolboymew well technically the the gba player existed for the gamecube so it still kinda works
(DIR) Post #AzIFlY2iDxOL9cTxIW by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T07:42:24.467034Z
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@sun no, I like ArmagetronAD too much to let it go.
(DIR) Post #AzIG143LUdVAmAB2qO by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T07:45:12.499803Z
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@piggo @kaia slop is the current meta, it's fine
(DIR) Post #AzJA7qO6IFlJr0h7dg by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T18:13:52.704125Z
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@mer unfortunately the tidalpunk future probably wouldn't work out for you either, plenty of shade but high tide is a bit of an ordeal and there aren't many places to escape it
(DIR) Post #AzJALaTYFcMkYdnVQG by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T18:16:23.938163Z
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@SuperDicq 15 minutes of cel shading a day
(DIR) Post #AzJLBaojE1KEDW8iqO by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-17T20:17:50.170388Z
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(DIR) Post #AzYxv2lQsRQXYM637I by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-10-25T09:12:29.116340Z
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@volpeon sounds like an opportunity to make a dozen tiny pizza slices and gain an army of smol friends
(DIR) Post #B0NscLkW5UCPLTbBtw by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-11-18T22:43:23.124339Z
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(DIR) Post #B1PmMkF0eWNRpLX3z6 by slash@pl.starnix.network
2025-12-19T18:34:51.658136Z
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@All_bonesJones Xbox shown up by the Nexbox