techno hippie

see c/UGEM for UnderGroundElectronicMusic. :) (I was going to set up something like that when saw someone else had already requested to make it. Good stuff. Populate it.)

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Cake day: October 29th, 2023
  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLinux@programming.dev•Okay why is your distro the best?English
    9 days

    It works well enough for now. Some things were surprisingly simpler than I expected them to be (e.g. gaming thanks to Heroic Launcher and Steam).

    I was thinking more with regards to the multiple recent AUR malware attacks. I hope you’re staying safe, staying on top of the situation, not letting Arch bite you.

    Note for the Linux-curious potentially reading this: I had sufficient experience with Linux Mint and Ubuntu as well as test runs of Arch before committing to it. DO NOT SWITCH DIRECTLY TO ARCH LINUX FROM WINDOWS. Try Mint first (or Bazzite, I hear that one is great for gaming but have yet to try it myself), and preferably using VirtualBox before committing to a switch.

    Note for the linux-curious potentially reading this: You’re Linux curious, that means you have what it takes to try any distribution of Linux. Curiosity. YOU CAN SWITCH DIRECTLY TO ARCH LINUX FROM WINDOWS. It’s rare, but it does happen. Some now famous linux youtubers did just that. It will take a bit more reading to be able to get up and running, but you’ll be running all the more fast and sure-footed from the education the experience gave you.

    ;)

    Oh heck, Arch isn’t even that hard and involved to install any more. Go for Gentoo. :) Come, windows refugees, all! Skip the Ubuntus, Mints, Suses, Fedoras, PopOSes, AntiXes, Zorins, elementaryOSes, LinuxLites, PCLinuxOSes, Soluses and whatever windows refugees flock to these days, and shoot for the moon! Heck, even try LFS! (Okay, don’t. I’ve gone too far now. LOL).

  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLinux@programming.dev•Okay why is your distro the best?English
    10 days

    For your curiosity,

    There’s also decibellinux. (Formerly known as Gentoo Studio) [Edit: aw. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/decibellinux.org?proto=https is currently down. … It’ll be back again.]

    It’s not a full studio, just audio production focused (… so install GIMP, MyPaint, Blender, Inkscape, KDENLive, freecad, etc etc etc as needed).

    Install as a stage4 gentoo install, following its instructions. It’s a little more fiddly and involved than Ubuntu Studio, offering all the gentoo advantages, like useflags, better availing more fine grain choice, and a little more opportunity to learn more about the system.

    … As well as being great for [audio] creative tool discovery, and convenience of having [nearly] all the tools out of the box, just like Ubuntu Studio.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLinux@programming.dev•Okay why is your distro the best?English
    10 days

    Ah, so you think your distro’s not the best. (jk).

    As a recovering/relapsing distroholic, I feel like these threads are great for discovery. (And whimsical fun. Because you’re right, that it’s not a contest. So knowing this, can engage with the question playfully.)

  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLinux@programming.dev•Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix; timeline since 1990 showing the most important distributionsEnglish
    10 days

    Was going to look upon this with a hard critical eye… but found myself softening into nostalgia, thinking about where I started… On suse, just before suse offered gnome as equal player; just before xfce4 became a thing… and I remember the XFCE devs did not like me reporting bloat as a bug, even though it had gone from snappy fast to a clunky crawl. n_n

    And IRIX there too… I was on IRIX before GNU+Linux. Long time ago. Still very fondly remembered, wishing for an IRIX revival, more than just Nekoware and Mogrix and pirix. But, it’s HP that are sat on the IRIX IP, right? Good luck.

    Anyway, distractions aside… cool chart, though, my faves are not there, by the criteria they’ve used to choose which to show. It’s a mite odd… Not just DEs, not just distros, but an odd filter of distros by DE importance… I suppose it’s laudable to attempt depict.