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KDE login theme cannot be loaded. Please help I'm a Linux noob and just want my login screen to be pretty.

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bloodfart

in reply to Bunny • 9 months ago • •

Shoo, it’s been a rough week for sddm over here…

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AncientMariner

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When I upgraded to Plasma 6, I needed to select default theme, upgrade, then re choose my theme. Also upgraded from command line rather than a terminal window.

Can I get LMDE with xfce instead of cinnamon? And more LMDE questions

For those who don’t know what I mean:

LMDE = Linux Mint Debian Edition, linuxmint.com/download_lmde.ph…
xfce and cinnamon = desktop environments (DE)

target hardware for LMDE is an 8 year old nuked mac notebook with an intel chip.

I’ve always used xfce because it’s easy on the hardware and I don’t care that much about looks, but functionality.

I’ve never used cinnamon and I don’t know if it’s going to slow the notebook much.

Neither do I know if I can install LMDE and then change the DE to xfce.

Is LMDE being updated like the other mints? LMDE is version 6, whereas the other DE are version 21.3

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RmDebArc_5

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

LMDE does not provide a XFCE version, you can however install XFCE after installing LMDE. Cinnamon required in my experience twice as much recourses as XFCE. LMDE is based on Debian while regular Mint is based on Ubuntu. The releases are linked to those of the bases, but LMDE gets the Mint specific updates slightly later. The numbers are different because Ubuntu’s latest version is 24.4 while Debian is at version 12, so it wouldn’t make sense to have the same numbering for the corresponding Linux mint version.

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merompetehla

in reply to RmDebArc_5 • 9 months ago • •

makes sense, but I don't understand why LMDE is marked as 6 when the newest stable debian is 12.5 (same applies to linux mint and ubuntu, now at 24.4) shouldn't it be LMDE 12 or 12.5?

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RmDebArc_5

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

My bad, I realized my comment reads a lot differently than what I was trying to say. Linux mints release schedule is not bound to Ubuntu. Linux mint gets a new major version every two years (although this is not strictly set) while LMDE usually gets a new major update with the new Debian version, but because Debian has been around for a lot longer than LMDE the number is higher.

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pbjamm

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

I suggest trying Cinnamon and see how it feels. Unless your old notebook has less than 2GB RAM then you will probably be aok. I have run it on some pretty weak machines before and never found XFCE to be noticeably snappier.

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Gravitywell

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

You can use any DE you want on just about any distro you want

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n2burns

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

I wouldn't recommend installing a distro just to install a different DE. IMHO, you should be fine with cinnamon. I'm using Linux Mint 21.3 with cinnamon on an x201 (Thinkpad released in 2010), though I did up the RAM to the 8GB max. However, if you want XFCE, is there a reason you don't want to use Linux Mint 21.3 with XFCE? If that's no good for you, I'd recommend finding a distro that fits most of your needs right out of the box, maybe Peppermint Linux or MX Linux?

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merompetehla

in reply to n2burns • 9 months ago • •

However, if you want XFCE, is there a reason you don’t want to use Linux Mint 21.3 with XFCE?

I'm still unsure about the differences: LMDE is based on debian, the OS I now use the most, whereas LM (linux mint) is based on ubuntu. Several posters have argued that LMDE, like debian, is barebones, whereas LM is ideal for an end user with not much idea about linux, but my main issue is speed: I don't want the notebook to be painfully slow: this is a notebook with an Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz (2 cores, 4 threads) with 8 GB RAM and installing and upgrading on xubuntu 23.10 was already really, painfully slow.

I either save on resources using a lightweight DE like xfce or using a barebones OS like LMDE

I also want to future proof it as much as possible, which would mean using the OS/DE that uses less resources.

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n2burns

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

this is a notebook with an Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz (2 cores, 4 threads) with 8 GB RAM and installing and upgrading on xubuntu 23.10 was already really, painfully slow.

Have you put an SSD in there, or are you still running on spinning rust? In my experience, even a cheap SSD will make a huge difference.

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merompetehla

in reply to n2burns • 9 months ago • •

yes. This MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13" has an embedded apple SSD.

I'm not going to spend any money upgrading any part of this notebook: not much bang for my buck and the model is most probably not supported anymore.

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poki

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

Several posters have argued that LMDE, like debian, is barebones, whereas LM is ideal for an end user with not much idea about linux

I believe I'm the only one in the previous post that used the term. But, I believe a misunderstanding has occurred. Debian, plain old Debian, is (relatively) bare-bones. And with this, I mean that extra tooling and what not is absent. Sure, these extra tooling etc come at the cost of what some might regard as bloat. But, ultimately, its absence should not affect performance in any significant way (so not positively, nor negatively). Thus, LMDE and Linux Mint are actually pretty close to one another. LMDE is basically just Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition) but with a Debian base instead of being based on Ubuntu.

I also want to future proof it as much as possible, which would mean using the OS/DE that uses less resources.

Excellent OP. Thank you for providing this insight on what's important for you. With this information we'll be able to offer better help. So, as you've excell

Several posters have argued that LMDE, like debian, is barebones, whereas LM is ideal for an end user with not much idea about linux

I also want to future proof it as much as possible, which would mean using the OS/DE that uses less resources.

Excellent OP. Thank you for providing this insight on what's important for you. With this information we'll be able to offer better help. So, as you've excellently noticed already, Xfce is pretty good if you want a very functional machine that doesn't suck a lot of resources. So, I totally support your decision for Xfce over Cinnamon as Xfce is simply less resource intensive. However, 8 GB of RAM should be pretty fine. Even GNOME should run wonderfully on 8 GB of RAM, so Cinnamon should not cause any troubles. But, if you've still got concerns and if you're already on an SSD, then continue using Xfce as it's otherwise one of the better DEs out there. But, if you're not on an SSD yet, then consider slipping one inside; it will matter a lot.

Regarding your actual query, installing Xfce in retrospect to LMDE should work, but you might get yourself into more trouble than it's worth. Therefore, I'd advice you to simply get Linux Mint Xfce Edition and call it a day. Going for the Edge ISO (which by default comes with Cinnamon) for the latest (and greatest) kernel and retroactively trying to setup Xfce should (once again) cause you more troubles than it's worth it. So, in the end, I'd like to recommend you either Linux Mint Xfce Edition or MX Linux (which is based on Debian Stable (so not Ubuntu) and actually defaults to Xfce). Honestly, they're mostly two flavors/interpretations that try to accomplish very similar goals. So, you should be fine with either one of the two.

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laurelraven

in reply to poki • 9 months ago • •

Out of curiosity, what's the issue with installing a different DE?

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poki

in reply to laurelraven • 9 months ago • •

Out of curiosity, what’s the issue with installing a different DE?

There doesn't necessarily have to be an issue. Heck, this simple operation (i.e. installing an additional DE on an existing system) works pretty fine on Arch/Debian etc.

However, as Linux Mint (and its family/brand of related distros) are designed/setup/opinionated in a certain way with a specific scope/vision, just installing Xfce on top of Linux Mint (proper/regular) doesn't just give you Linux Mint Xfce Edition; you can try this out for yourself if you'd want to. Instead, you get something that looks more akin to Ubuntu with Xfce installed and some Linux Mint tools. Similarly, installing Xfce on top of LMDE doesn't give you a proper LMDE Xfce edition. Which, to be fair, isn't the worst thing out there and I'm pretty sure that someone out there will be pretty happy with it. But, one might also argue (as I certainly am) that, instead of that amalgamation (read:

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merompetehla

in reply to poki • 9 months ago • •

model is a MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13" with an embedded SSD

Incidentally, I got the notebook as a present, got rid of mac OS and installed xubuntu 23.10 on it. Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that’s why this notebook is so slow? I didn’t do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.

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poki

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model is a MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13" with an embedded SSD

Unfortunately, I don't have any first-hand experience with this device. But, I do own the following potato; an Acer laptop with Intel Celeron, 2GB of RAM and no SSD from 2014-2016. And while the experience is pretty bad (on Zorin OS lite), it does its job as a backup laptop every once in a while. Compared to this potato, your device should be a lot more capable. So, either your expectations are off. Or, there's something legitimately wrong with the hardware found on the device. Have you done any benchmarks to see if they work as expected?

Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that’s why this notebook is so slow?

Slowing down of devices is AFAIK done (un)intentionally through updates. In a lot of cases either some functionality is removed post release for security reasons or (through technological adv

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lemmyvore

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

That's weird, I have a laptop that probably even weaker (Pentium 2020M with 4 GB of RAM) that used to run Ubuntu fairly ok until about 4 years ago (but it has a SSD).

It's now running Manjaro pretty well, just can't compile some Rust-based apps because it runs out of RAM. 😄 But I get them from Flatpak instead.

If Ubuntu went off the rails during these last few years it's a pity. Anyway, it should not be indicative of how well Linux runs on such a machine, just try another distro.

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merompetehla

in reply to lemmyvore • 9 months ago • •

this notebook has an embedded SSD.

Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that’s why this notebook is so slow? I didn’t do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.

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boredsquirrel

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

Debian has XFCE so yes.

But the "Linux mint" part really just is their preset configs.

Just install Debian with XFCE if you want

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IsoKiero

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Then do sudo apt install xfce4 and sudo apt purge cinnamon* muffin* nemo*.

It's been a while since I installed xfce4 on anything, but if things haven't changed I think the metapackage doesn't include xfce4-goodies and some other packages, so if you're missing something it's likely that you just need to 'apt install xfce4-whatever'. Additionally you can keep cinnamon around as long as you like as a kind of a backup, just change lightdm (or whatever login manager LMDE uses) to use xfce4 as default. And then there's even lighter WM's than XFCE, like LXDE, which is also easy to install via apt and try out if that works for you.

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HexagonSun

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

If the Mac has a Retina display then I actually found XFCE runs worst of the various DEs at native resolution. Not in terms of resources but very choppy scrolling, video playback etc. Gnome and KDE Plasma actually ran better than XFCE for me on my 15” 2012 retina.

Presume it’s some kind of graphics acceleration thing, not 100% sure.

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merompetehla

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If the Mac has a Retina display

yes, model is a MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13"

Incidentally, I got the notebook as a present, got rid of mac OS and installed xubuntu 23.10 on it. Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that's why this notebook is so slow? I didn't do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.

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HexagonSun

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

Contrary to most advice, if you find something that’s compatible with a Wayland session (basically Gnome or Plasma) you might be pleasantly surprised.

I found that to be by far the closest I got to a macOS-like experience with Linux on a retina Mac, in terms of fluidity, trackpad scrolling and responsiveness.

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merompetehla

in reply to HexagonSun • 9 months ago • •

in short, I should install debian gnome or kde

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68silver

in reply to merompetehla • 9 months ago • •

Yes you can run xfce on lmde. I installed the xfce from repos and it works great with lmde.

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wolf
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Solved: Problems viewing files with JPEG extension on Linux

Solved: The files are encrypted, see stackoverflow

Hope it is ok to ask technical questions in this channel!

I found a folder of files on one of my back drives which was copied from a very old Sony Ericson cell phone or a SAMSUNG Galaxy S2.

The folder is called DCIM and in a sub folder called Camera there are files with a .jpg extension.

This files are not standard JPG files. They start with the following header:

0000000 0000 0000 3900 c0d8 ac5f d196 2d63 2421
0000010 0003 0200 0000 0010 0200 2d8c 0904 0103
0000020 0000 0000 0000 0000 e960 2861 7025 ba0e
0000030 2424 dcfa 3e3b ee64 0800 c87b a43a a90d
0000040 7287 b815 7ca4 9680 ed65 6216 5f08 4f43
0000050 534e 4c4f 0045 0000 9000 b3e9 1333 92b9
0000060 0002 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000070 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

And the last bytes look like this:
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Solved: The files are encrypted, see stackoverflow

Hope it is ok to ask technical questions in this channel!

I found a folder of files on one of my back drives which was copied from a very old Sony Ericson cell phone or a SAMSUNG Galaxy S2.

The folder is called DCIM and in a sub folder called Camera there are files with a .jpg extension.

This files are not standard JPG files. They start with the following header:

0000000 0000 0000 3900 c0d8 ac5f d196 2d63 2421
0000010 0003 0200 0000 0010 0200 2d8c 0904 0103
0000020 0000 0000 0000 0000 e960 2861 7025 ba0e
0000030 2424 dcfa 3e3b ee64 0800 c87b a43a a90d
0000040 7287 b815 7ca4 9680 ed65 6216 5f08 4f43
0000050 534e 4c4f 0045 0000 9000 b3e9 1333 92b9
0000060 0002 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000070 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

And the last bytes look like this:

039fea0 60ff 01fa 6b1e 8ef5 7c6f e69f fd9e 1589
039fef0 2199 dbd9 13fe 337d 2e9f d862 e252 080d

(obtained via hexdump -n 1024 filename.jpg).

The file command just returns 'data'.

The jpgrecovery command simply does not process this files.

The strings command finds an embedded string "_CONSOLE" !

If I open the file in a file viewer (shotwell, GIMP, Firefox, Google Chrome), I get the error that the file starts with 0 0, which is correct, as seen in the above hexdump.

Using identify from the imagemagick package results in:

20140207_142030.jpg JPG 0x0 16-bit sRGB 3.625MiB 0.000u 0:00.002
identify-im6.q16: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x00 0x00 `20140207_142030.jpg' @ error/jpeg.c/JPEGErrorHandler/338.

All this commands were executed on Debian 12.

I have hundreds of files with this JPG extension and for each file the header is starting with 0 0 in this folder, so I assume the problem is not corruption of one file.

My questions:
1. What kind of file format is this?
2. How can I convert the files to JPGs?

Edit: Added the output of some suggested data/commands to questions
Edit: Mark as solved, thanks to @hades@hades@lemm.ee .

Thanks a lot to everyone helping to figure this out/pointing me in the right direction! ❤

SD card files with encrypted data (_CONSOLE text in it), how to get my files back?

I have an micro SD card, that was in a Galaxy J5 with Android 7, and all the files are messed up now. (jpg, pdf, mp3) Following characters can be found in the beginning in all of the files, with m...

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Langehund

in reply to wolf • 9 months ago • •

So looks like according the stack overflow link from @hades@lemm.ee above, your files are individually encrypted. Based on the solution comment, there should be a .MetaEcfsFile with the Samsung file encryption metadata in the SD card root directory if this is true. If so, you would likely need to plug the SD card into a Samsung phone (unclear if it needs to be original phone, same model, or just Samsung in general) and use the “Biometrics and security” menu to hopefully decrypt the SD card. If you still have a newer Samsung galaxy, I’d try with that one first before attempting to locate an older model. And if that doesn’t work, it might require the original phone. Backup SD before doing any of this.

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Langehund

in reply to Langehund • 9 months ago • •

Looking a bit further, it seems your only luck would be with your original device since the encryption probably relies on some hardware specific keys. Samsung’s guide says even factory resetting the original phone prior to decrypting would be enough to make the SD card unreadable.

MicroSD cards and your Galaxy phone or tablet

Similar to a thumb drive or other external storage devices, a microSD card lets you store files from your phone or tablet..

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Danterious via Linux

9 months ago • •

Danterious
9 months ago • •

[Solved] Hidamari is not loading on Linux Mint

I recently downloaded linux mint and I wanted use a live wallpaper so I found out I can do that with hidamari.

I've downloaded from the software package manager but it doesn't launch when I click launch.

What am I doing wrong?

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Eugenia

in reply to Danterious • 9 months ago • •

Do you mean a flatpak? Flatpaks are notorious for not integrating. Try to see if hidamari is available first as a .deb file in the official repos (uninstall the flatpak first). If that's not it, then it seems that it doesn't work with the Cinnamon desktop, which has control over the wallpaper functions.

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Danterious

in reply to Eugenia • 9 months ago • •

I was able to solve the problem. Instead of downloading it from the Software Manager I installed it from the terminal instead.

When I installed it from the software manager it didn't download one of the packages (org.gnome.platform/44) but when I did it from the terminal it did.

Thx though.

Edit: Yeah it was a flatpak.

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boredsquirrel

in reply to Eugenia • 9 months ago • •

False information. Flatpaks integrate normally and are downloaded normally

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Eugenia

in reply to boredsquirrel • 9 months ago • •

It's not false information. There are a lot of system-oriented things that don't work through appimages or snaps or flatpaks, exactly because they're sandboxed.

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Fecundpossum

in reply to Eugenia • 9 months ago • •

Love it when people speak with authority and are confidently incorrect. Eugenia is right.

You could potentially use flatseal to grant the flatpak the necessary permissions, and you might find out what those permissions are by looking for other users experiences with the flatpak version.

Or, you find the .deb file and it installs natively without being sandboxed. OR, you can find a PPA repository for it, load said repository and install your software.

But those things require learning a little. Linux rewards self starters who can use a search engine and forums. Hope this maybe points you in the right direction.

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boredsquirrel

in reply to Eugenia • 9 months ago • •

Yes the wallpaper stuff could be problematic.

But desktop integration works without issues. App stores also use flatpak install directly instead of packagekit, at least on cross-distro desktops like KDE and GNOME. Which works way better.

Regarding "they dont work well for system related stuff", on Unix stuff everything is a file, and especially dedicated apps like a wallpaper switcher can have very specific static filesystem permissions, allowing them to do exactly what they need.

Appimages are totally different, a flawed concept by design and have no installer by default so they often have no integration at all. They are also not sandboxed at all and thus just as unrestricted as system apps, while they have no repo, no updating mechanism, no shared libs and are basically a security nightmare.

I dont know about snaps. Their sandboxing needs Apparmor so it is not cross platform.

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gigachad

in reply to Eugenia • 9 months ago • •

Can you elaborate on that? I am a new Linux user and read a lot about flatpaks in the last week. My impression was, that while space demanding, flatpaks are super easy integrated and that's why they are so succcessful?

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Fisch

in reply to gigachad • 9 months ago • •

It depends, since flatpaks are sandboxed, they don't have access to anything by default. The developer can set defaults for what their app is allowed to access and the user can also manually change that. There's also portals, so you can give them access for a file once (e.g. when opening in a file in an app) or allow them to see your screen and so on. There's still a lot of things that don't have portals tho, so flatpaks don't have access to that.

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gigachad

in reply to Fisch • 9 months ago • •

Thank you!

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just_another_person

in reply to Danterious • 9 months ago • •

Logs

*Can we get a requirement of logs to be posted somewhere for technical advice?

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LukeSky via Linux

9 months ago • •

LukeSky
9 months ago • •

Alternative to Playonlinux

Hello everybody,
I'm using an Asus S56C with Lubuntu 22.04.4 and for work I use Photoshop CS6 and Vector Magic with Playonlinux. I was wandering - just for curiosity - if there are any good alternatives to Playonlinux to use these Windows programs.
Thanks in advance!

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Cwilliams

in reply to LukeSky • 9 months ago • •

Bottles is magic. I've used it for FL Studio for a year and it didn't break

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LukeSky

in reply to Cwilliams • 9 months ago • •

Thanks for the suggestion :)

lgsp@feddit.it via Linux Gaming

9 months ago • •

lgsp@feddit.it
9 months ago • •

Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital!

Old style graphics (a la sim city) for a satirical game centered on a mechanic that was excluded by sim city because it would have been boring, as revealed by a developer

The developer mentioned it's being built on Linux, so it will of course have Native Linux support.

The car industry has identified a few places on earth that do not know THE FREEDOM OF CAR DEPENDENCY.
So they hired you to increase car sales and oil consumption.
How? By building the greatest car parks ever!
Turn neighborhoods into car parks, create the need for car commuting and parking. Use propaganda to inform people on why they need it.
Learn to become a real tycoon… Asphalt means freedom, right?

Cross-post da: feddit.it/post/8640086

Build the greatest car parks ever in the retro-tycoon styled Car Park Capital

I feel like I just need to play Car Park Capital after discovering it today. Styled much like a late 90s retro tycoon game, it looks like it's from a different time and I love it.

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TeddyKila [comrade/them]

in reply to lgsp@feddit.it • 9 months ago • •

as an urbanist, but I like the message

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FrostyCaveman

in reply to lgsp@feddit.it • 9 months ago • •

This is hilariously silly, putting that on my Steam Wishlist hahaha

urska via Linux

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urska
9 months ago • •

Why I Can't Use Linux - My Top 3 Reasons

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southsamurai

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Really?

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Jeena

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Arch a video, I wish someone would just list those 3 reasons as text here ^^

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MrSoup

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

From video description:

Reason 1: Gaming
Reason 2: Creative Apps
Reason 3: Foobar2000 (my music player)
Reason 4 (bonus) Fussing, fussing, fussing!

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thingsiplay

in reply to MrSoup • 9 months ago • •

Gaming? Fair point. Creative Apps? There are alternatives, even if they are not as good as your Adobe closed source stuff. The change to Linux is worth it in my opinion. Foobar2000? A music player? That is a reason to stick to Windows? Really?

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macniel

in reply to thingsiplay • 9 months ago • •

I mean, Foobar2000 is pretty cool when we only had winamp5 and windows media player, and it was great for huge media libraries. But what the dude showed he used Foobar2000 for... who does constantly convert media files, or reconfigure their media player?

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ElectroLisa

in reply to thingsiplay • 9 months ago • •

I run foobar2000 to transcode music, apply ReplayGain and edit tags. Except I do all of that on Linux through Wine, I have no clue why someone needs Windows for foobar

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utopiah

in reply to thingsiplay • 9 months ago • •

Gaming? Fair point.

Unless it's for games that use shitty anticheat solutions probably not a good reason anymore due to the SteamDeck, a LOT of games do work and it's possible to check before hand via ProtonDB.

So it was a fair point 5 years ago, now most AAA games, including VR games, do work without tinkering.

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thingsiplay

in reply to utopiah • 9 months ago • •

That's disingenius towards people who want to play and have problems with it. Lot of popular games, such as some modern Call of Duty games, Fortnite, League of Legends (recently), Destiny 2, PUBG, Siege just to name a few. These are some of the most played games on PC and its even more of a problem if you can't play with your friends (I know what I'm talking about, because I'm on Linux since 2008). And that's not the only problem. Games are also on other platforms than Steam, which adds to the complexity too or do not work, especially on Deck.

And that is only the gaming side itself. There are other things attached to gaming which are not fully resolved as a 1:1 replacement without hassle, like Discord in example, which is widely used by players and is popular. And other things like driver support from Nvidia (which gets better now, but Wayland is still not perfectly supported) with feature parity over their software. Let's not forget about everything else attached to it like modding, which is a big part for some.

Gaming on Linux is still a huge problem for some. There

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NeoNachtwaechter

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

I know only 1 reason: being too stupid

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gazter

in reply to NeoNachtwaechter • 9 months ago • •

The dude raises some valid points.

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Lemzlez

in reply to NeoNachtwaechter • 9 months ago • •

Pretty much - I’m too stupid to write my own mouse drivers for the mouse I use so all the buttons work 😎

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kurumin

in reply to Lemzlez • 9 months ago • •

Lol. That's child playground

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Ada

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

I'm just here for the Shadowrun screenshot in the video...

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just_another_person

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

What an absolute moron. It's like VMs never existed in this guy's mind.

If you legitimately hate Windows that much, and you're running a YouTube channel called 'Tek Syndicate'...figure it out, fool.

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gazter

in reply to just_another_person • 9 months ago • •

One way to avoid looking like a fool is to look beyond just the headline- This video starts out by saying they have more Linux installs than windows, across various VMs on SBCs.

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just_another_person

in reply to gazter • 9 months ago • •

I watched it. This guy is either technically challenged, or a complete moron.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble

in reply to just_another_person • 9 months ago • •

can run in a VM, and can run well in a VM are two very different things.

Linux already has bad audio latency without tweaking, running a VM with Windows latency on top of that? Yeah no thanks.

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just_another_person

in reply to fuckwit_mcbumcrumble • 9 months ago • •

Lol. News to me. Full hardware access and no issues here.

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snake_case_lover

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

stop dumping every linux review video ffs

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giacomo

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

ez block. thx

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Goddammit why are there so many YouTube videos being posted lately...?

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thingsiplay

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Skill issues.

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Lettuce eat lettuce

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Some people will never be willing to move to Linux. Even if Linux was 98% compatible with their needs, they would stay on Windows for that remaining 2%.

There are folks who would let Windows punch them in the groin or slap them across the face once per month as long as they could play their favorite kernel-level anticheat esport trash.

There are a few people who make their living using evil software like the Adobe suite, and for them I truly feel sorry that they are trapped in the dystopian hell of modern proprietary software, but we do live in a society I guess.

The tough truth is, many people don't really give a shit about privacy, consumer rights, software freedom, or transparency, even if they say they do. They will huff and puff about how terrible Windows has gotten. They will rant and rave about how ridiculous the ads are in their OS or how they think it's wrong for their OS to spy and track their actions constantly.

But when the rubber meets the road and they can sacrifice a few things to gain their freedom, they won't do it. I know, because I have m

Some people will never be willing to move to Linux. Even if Linux was 98% compatible with their needs, they would stay on Windows for that remaining 2%.

There are folks who would let Windows punch them in the groin or slap them across the face once per month as long as they could play their favorite kernel-level anticheat esport trash.

But when the rubber meets the road and they can sacrifice a few things to gain their freedom, they won't do it. I know, because I have multiple friends and family that have been acting like this for years.

Whenever I suggest Linux or FOSS alternatives to their proprietary apps, they initially are interested. But of course they will always find the one or two things they like to use/play/have that doesn't work or is a pain on Linux, and they bail.

I had one friend who was saying they were "totally serious about switching to Linux soon." But they bailed when they found out that Valorant doesn't work on Linux. Do they play Valorant actively? No, they haven't played it in years, but they, "wanted the possibility to play it just in case they decided to get back into it again."

Personally, there isn't a single game or piece of software I would ever give up Linux for. I just flat out refuse to use Windows or MacOS on any of my personal computers. It's a pledge I made years ago and I will forever stick to it.

Hot take: If you claim to be against all the big tech abuses and value software and computing freedom, but a handful of PC games is enough to stop you from leaving an abusive proprietary OS, you weren't very serious about it to begin with.

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Spectacle8011

in reply to Lettuce eat lettuce • 9 months ago • •

Hot take: If you claim to be against all the big tech abuses and value software and computing freedom, but a handful of PC games is enough to stop you from leaving an abusive proprietary OS, you weren’t very serious about it to begin with.

The guy in the video actually talked about how FL Studio isn't on Linux, and that's how he makes his living. He then goes on to say he has spent thousands of dollars on plugins and samples that only work on Windows. He then talks about how Asperite doesn't work very well on Wayland compared to Windows. The first segment was about how not all mods work on Linux. The last segment was about how Foobar2000 doesn't work on Linux and even through Wine some of the features are broken, and there's no true replacement for it but "if you're not as fussy as me, any of these native Linux software are great".

He also runs Debian 12 on his laptop part-time and seems quite knowledgeable about how Linux works, and is willing to invest the time.

He makes a point about he "wants to make things better, not sacrifice things".

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Lettuce eat lettuce

in reply to Spectacle8011 • 9 months ago • •

I thought the video was pretty reasonable. I wasn't criticizing him with my hot take.

It will always be a balance of what you're willing to do for what you believe in, vs pragmatism and comfort.

Some things are better sacrificed, because they aren't actually very good to begin with. But other things are better adapted or emulated into a FOSS framework.

On a more personal note, I was prepared to give up far more than I actually needed to when switching to Linux 100%. Linux has gotten so good in most areas, it's pretty incredible.

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haui

in reply to Spectacle8011 • 9 months ago • •

What most people forget: you can spend small amounts to actually improve foss software if you need it to „just work“. There are hundreds if not thousands of hobby devs that will help you for a tip! :) if he spent thousands of dollars on plugins, I bet he could sponsor a small dev so that he and others can become independent of windows. Which by the way might deprecate his software anyway at some time.

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wvstolzing

in reply to Spectacle8011 • 9 months ago • •

As a side note, there's a multiplatform Qt6 clone of foobar2000, called 'fooyin': github.com/fooyin/fooyin.git
I've never been a foobar2000 user, but I'm really impressed by this program; especially the customizability of the UI with respect to custom tags.

GitHub - fooyin/fooyin: A customisable music player

A customisable music player. Contribute to fooyin/fooyin development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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Spectacle8011

in reply to wvstolzing • 9 months ago • •

I heard of that one a while back. Not being someone who enjoys music often or has very demanding needs, I just use Amberol. But fooyin might be nice to look into for my KDE desktop.

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lemmyvore

in reply to Lettuce eat lettuce • 9 months ago • •

I think the "Valorant" mind set also applies to other software, like Photoshop or Excel etc. The vast majority of people don't really need to use Photoshop professionally, or the advanced capabilities that only desktop Excel can provide, but they like to think they do. It's a comfort zone thing, the devil you know and all that.

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Lettuce eat lettuce

in reply to lemmyvore • 9 months ago • •

For sure.

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haui

in reply to lemmyvore • 9 months ago • •

The important part here is that if someone is willing they can add these features to foss software. Either by learning/doing the work or by helping fund someone to do it for them.

Libre office (no idea about open office, sadly) works in the same way excel does. A lot of the „advanced“ features of excel can also be achieved in other ways or by other software. Of course I‘m willing to get schooled by someone who has advanced knowledge of both and says its insanely different. But from my perspective the differences are marginal.

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geophysicist

in reply to haui • 9 months ago • •

Your argument is that if someone can use an "advanced" excel feature, they should also be able to code up that feature for a foss alternative software?

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haui

in reply to geophysicist • 9 months ago • •

Obviously not. I said if a feature is so advanced that libreoffice doesnt have it yet, they can either help building it (by code or by reporting the missing feature or helping advance the discussion) or they can use additional software if such exists or they can pay someone to do it.

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nman90

in reply to Lettuce eat lettuce • 9 months ago • •

What i find to be extra stupid with the games situation is I have the same gripe, and my solution is to dual boot for the rare games that dont work or if i want to use gamepass. I am almost exclusively using linux now, but Windows is there just in case

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Droggelbecher

in reply to nman90 • 9 months ago • •

Even if you cant be bothered to figure out gaming on Linux, a dual boot works like a charm. I do all my gaming on the windows partition to keep it separate from work, to avoid distraction.

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Lettuce eat lettuce

in reply to nman90 • 9 months ago • •

Fair, yeah that is a solid solution.

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mat

in reply to Lettuce eat lettuce • 9 months ago • •

I am very serious about using Linux exclusively. I have ported/rewritten all of my university's course materials in my past two years of gamedev studies and made them available for others. But the time has come to do an internship and I have yet to find a single studio I could be at while still using Linux. I feel like I reached a dead end tbh

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Lettuce eat lettuce

in reply to mat • 9 months ago • •

Yeah, IT is in a similar boat. Not as bad, but still where I live, Linux environments are super rare. So if you are going into IT, you are going to be working in Windows environments, and most firms use software that isn't compatible with Linux.

Stuff like their remote management software, or their inventory management software. Plus, unless you're the guy in charge of the IT department, almost nobody wants or even knows how to administrate a Linux endpoint.

So they don't want one of their sys admins to be running around on a Linux machine that they don't have as much visibility on or understanding of how it works.

I'm lucky that the company I work for is small enough that I am the entire IT department, so I can use whatever OS I want. Debian 12 with Plasma, love it.

But out in the world, you're going to find a bunch of situations like you are in, where so much of the defaults use Windows and proprietary garbage, you're stuck running exactly what they are.

Long term, you could start trying to build your own indie studio that is FOSS-based. Maybe years

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mat

in reply to Lettuce eat lettuce • 9 months ago • •

Wow yeah, your position sounds awesome. I guess if I were in an indie studio I could be in charge of the engine or like, dev environments. I've found such benefit in doing gamedev on Linux, even if targeting Windows via cross-compiling, it's so much faster and nicer. But what company would be willing to hire an intern to move over their whole workflow... not happening lol.

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Quazatron

in reply to Lettuce eat lettuce • 9 months ago • •

Inertia is an immensely powerful force.

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Lettuce eat lettuce

in reply to Quazatron • 9 months ago • •

Absolutely.

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twinnie

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

If people ever wonder why people don’t use Linux they should just read the comments here. People are so obsessed with blaming users for not using Linux rather than trying to make Linux meet their expectations.

Most people will go to a shop and buy a laptop with Windows preinstalled and ready to be used, and even if they’re brave enough to install the OS themselves (most aren’t) they will still expect pretty much everything to work automatically after the install.

I don’t know what the solution is here but it’s not to blame users.

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ProgrammingSocks

in reply to twinnie • 9 months ago • •

Linux isn't a product. You can't think of it like a product. It is simply a piece of software and doesn't care if you use it or not. It's not "competing" with Windows, it's not even playing the same game.

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kbal

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Having only a clickbait title to go on, rather than watch the video I'll just guess:

But I NEED Adobe Microsoft Fortnight Premiere Plus Pro Version 16 to LIVE
Other religious reasons.
Don't have a computer.

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utopiah

in reply to kbal • 9 months ago • •

From video description:

Reason 1: Gaming
Reason 2: Creative Apps
Reason 3: Foobar2000 (my music player)
Reason 4 (bonus) Fussing, fussing, fussing!

via lemmy.ml/post/16929334/1168453…

Why I Can't Use Linux - My Top 3 Reasons - Lemmy

Lemmy

^lemmy.ml

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secret300

in reply to utopiah • 9 months ago • •

Foobar is a piss poor reason cause 1 it's shit but to each their own. 2 I'm 95% positive it works perfectly with wine for years now

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toastal

in reply to secret300 • 9 months ago • •

He pointed out a bunch of JavaScript plugins don’t work in WINE but I’m not following what it does that Picard + ffmpeg + many other audio players can’t do. It seems worth losing a feature or two or having to adopt a small composition of tools …or building it yourself / paying a bounty for a feature.

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HumanPenguin

Unknown parent • 9 months ago • •

Blasphemy quick stone the unbelievers.

Kidding of course. Have to admit I agree. I've used Linux since the late 1990s. So long long before it was usable by most folks standards.

I started because my university had HPUX machines that we needed to submit work on. So wanted a unix like enviroment at home I could work on. This was a tim when linux was basically slackers on 50plus floppy disks. Xwindows needed configuring for every monitor. Honestly by current standards usability was non existant compared to windows.

But honestly I spent so much time on the system. And watched it improve. To the point I find windows an utter pain in the arse now. And will avoid it under all circumstances.

But the idea of convincing folks who have no interest. Where the hell do folks find the time.

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fin

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

dftt

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Quazatron

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

You can and should use whatever OS fits your use case. Right tool for the job and all that.

What you should not do is post a clickbait video to trigger the penguins into giving you views.

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ProgrammingSocks

in reply to Quazatron • 9 months ago • •

I don't click on these videos ever. I know all the reasons already. I can't change a mind that's already made up either.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Every time I see him I can't believe Tek Syndicate is still around.

urska via Linux

9 months ago • •

urska
9 months ago • •

If I Use Windows, I Delete My Channel

How's it going?? I'm switching to Linux and if I use windows at all for the next month, I HAVE to delete my main channel. Can I do it?

^YouTube

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loaExMachina

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Can I go an hour without eating pickles? If I fail, I'm deleting my comment.
[EDIT: It was a close one, but I made it ! This comment is here to stay ! Celebratory pickle time.]

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Joelk111

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Make sure you count those windows backed kiosk things. Also, assuming you're the techie of the family, no tech support this month.

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Οχάκ
9 months ago • •

Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.11 as that newest bi-weekly development release, Wine Staging 9.11 has been released with some 428 patches re-based atop this latest upstream Wine code.

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Brickardo

in reply to Οχάκ • 9 months ago • •

checks version number

Every day is a good day to remember President Allende!

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TCB13

in reply to Οχάκ • 9 months ago • •

Oh well...

One day ReactOS will be able to run those just fine while Wine will still not deliver anything usable.

WineHQ - Microsoft Office (installer only) 2021 Pro Plus

Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.

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Will

in reply to TCB13 • 9 months ago • •

Does ReactOS already support the newest office and Photoshop out of the box!?

MS Office 2021 is garbage but at least 2016 and O365 Home (32-bit) are both silver. The linked Photoshop CC 2023 is also silver. That already seems like an impressive feat by the wine team.

WineHQ - Microsoft Office (installer only)

Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.

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Possibly linux

in reply to Will • 9 months ago • •

React OS is Windows XP so no it is not supported.

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TCB13

in reply to Possibly linux • 9 months ago • •

It's probably easier to hack ReactOS/Windows XP to run Office 2021 than do the same in Wine.

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Possibly linux

in reply to TCB13 • 9 months ago • •

I doubt it but you are welcome to try

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TCB13

in reply to Will • 9 months ago • •

Yeah, it seems impressive until you actually try to use it and find out that their "silver" is not even close to something you can work with.

Adobe products even when they say Silver you'll get artifacts when moving objects, resizing the window sometimes ends up on a full screen black square and whatnot.

Office 2016 kind of works, poor rendering but works, the thing is that if I only needed Office 2016 features I would survive mostly fine with LibreOffice. I indeed need features from 2019 that wont run properly.

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Possibly linux

in reply to TCB13 • 9 months ago • •

In 2088 React will have support for 2024 GPUs

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TCB13

in reply to Possibly linux • 9 months ago • •

You know that ReactOS development has been speeding up lately don't you? Either way it's kinda of stuck in NT5 because they threw out the most competent people of the project.

However... it still runs a ton of stuff better than Wine :)

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Possibly linux

in reply to TCB13 • 9 months ago • •

I think they are way under confident and burnt out. The projects been going for decades and all the developers see is more work to do. It is a toxic place. On the one side you have people demanding things and one the other side you have the original people who started it who are older now and lack drive.

Last time I used it it was pretty stable and worked well. However I was repeatedly told it is in Alpha and that I would run into serious issues eventually. I never did run into anything serious and it never corrupted it self like it used to. I was very impressed but also saddened by how the developers are not confident in there own work.

My personal belief is that React OS could be somehow combined with Wine and Samba to create a Windows in a box that could run under other operating systems. You could run Windows specific software in this environment but then have shared resources with the guest and guest side windowing. There are still a few pieces of software that require Windows and it would nice to have the kernel portion combined with Wine. You could have a small

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TCB13

in reply to Possibly linux • 9 months ago • •

I don't disagree with you, but at the same time:

They threw Alex Ionescu out: the guy that actually wrote the majority of they only kernel that actually worked;
Martin Fuchs fired: the guy that made the explorer and a ton of GUI components. His code was later on bastardized by everyone else causing the issues you were told about;
... and many others.

They had competent people making the thing happen, then they decided to push them away and eventually replace their code with Wine backports and whatnot.

There are still a few pieces of software that require Windows and it would nice to have the kernel portion combined with Wine.

To be fair, if Microsoft was able to create WSLv1 without a kernel and it run just fine, why would Wine not be able to do the same? :) No drivers yes, but the software (including GUI stuff) run just fine and that's not the case with Wine + the mainstream Windows' software.

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9 months ago • •

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
9 months ago • •

ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program.

GitHub - chrxh/alien: ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program.

ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program. - chrxh/alien

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Unknown parent • 9 months ago • •

there is this github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

GitHub - vosen/ZLUDA: CUDA on AMD GPUs

CUDA on AMD GPUs. Contribute to vosen/ZLUDA development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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BlueÆther

Unknown parent • 9 months ago • •

Yeah it would be nice to have other platforms intel integrated graphics and Macs would be nice

vestmoria via Linux

9 months ago • •

vestmoria
9 months ago • •

Is there any way to brute delete stock firmware on a redmi 10c with debian? do you know of any compatible foss OS I could install on this device?

on my last post I wrote device is a redmi 9c. Turns out it's a redmi 10c and the custom ROM I wanted to install xdaforums.com/t/rom-13-unoffic… won't work.

Anyhow, to unlock the device the official way I have to identify to their services through a phone line, not internet, and purchase a sim card, which I'm not going to do to experiment with this device.

I have no use for the stock software in the device and I'd rather have anything foss that works or kinda works.

If you ever experimented with this particular model or know what could work, feel free to post an answer.

debian 12.5

[ROM][13][UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 20.0 Unified for Redmi 9A/9C/10A/... [blossom]

LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 13, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device. LineageOS is...

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gnuhaut

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

I don't expect anybody is trying to jailbreak phones that have an official way to unlock them, even if it is very annoying.

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gigachad

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

I agree with the other comment. If it is possible, it's most likely the folks on XDA will know

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woelkchen

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

I know it's not the answer you're looking for but IMO you should consider selling the device and getting a (perhaps used, depending on personal situation) Pixel a-series device instead. If you're using some brute force method, you may be ending up with a bricked device.

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foremanguy

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

Xiaomi devices are a bit annoying to unlock but you should use the official way. I've got a xiaomi device and unlocked it. So first you need to be patient maybe it's not going to work for the first time so try to unlock it and if it doesn't work just wait a couple of weeks... And you should maybe ask a friend or family member to take their Sim card only to log into a xiaomi account and allow OEM unlocking. You could try an other method but when there is an official way (annoying but official) you should use it, safest and "easiest" way.

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Vitaly

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

Try searching this " rom xda developers"

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BaumGeist

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

Don't use hacky unlocks if there's an official way. The best case scenario is it becomes a headache and isn't reliable; ghe worst case is that it bricks your phone or installs malware in the bootloader
All I could find looking for custom ROMs for your phone was XDA users shrugging their shoulders and unverified downloads from very shady websites/githubs. I'd suggest getting the most out of this phone you can before selling it and getting one you know works with the OS you want

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bloodfart

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

Do it the official way. SIM cards are cheap.

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mr_right

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

Your phone has a snapdragon which is very popular chip to make ROM for but generally hard to unlock unofficially -not impossible though it's possible there is a workaround by now for your specific chip - on the flip side mediatek devices are less popular due to them refusing to provide the source code but to their partners. however they are well-known to be easy to unofficially unlock due to some vulnerability -in the bootloader- that they refuse to patch.

I did a leap of faith and I unlocked my phone unofficially (mediatek) but if you decide to flip that coin think hard about it and make sure you are well informed (like using your specific phone code name instead of brand name ex: instead of redmi 9 say "lancelot")

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9 months ago • •

trixter313
9 months ago • •

New OSS Android Card Wallet app

Noticed this on Fdroid recently, it has a really nice UI and auto generates real barcodes from images. Their document scanner app is pretty nice too. It seems like early development so I'm excited to see it improve from here!

„OSS Card Wallet“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

All your cards secured and without ad!

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GreyBeard

in reply to trixter313 • 9 months ago • •

I might give this a try. I use Google Wallet for my various loyalty cards and whatnot, but it is actually a poor UI for it, mixing credit cards and loyalty cards in a single sideway sliding interface that takes forever to find what you want.

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IllNess

in reply to trixter313 • 9 months ago • •

I use Catima and I am happy with it but it doesn't have the feature to crop images and use it as a logo. It's easy enough to image search logos though.

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9 months ago • •

MazonnaCara89
9 months ago • •

This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2

Plasma 6.1 is due to be released in three days, and lots of attention went into final release readiness activities: QA, bug-fixing, performance profiling, auto-testing, stuff like that. Boring but …

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bitwolf

in reply to MazonnaCara89 • 9 months ago • •

Was hoping to see a fix for the right click menu randomly deciding to open as a window.

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Archy

in reply to MazonnaCara89 • 9 months ago • •

Hey, we worked at your airport for 4 months last year

urska via Linux

9 months ago • •

urska
9 months ago • •

I Tried Gaming on Linux...

This episode in my month-long Linux challenge, I try gaming on Linux. How'd it go? Watch and find out!!!

^YouTube

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spittingimage

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

That thumbnail makes it look like you're about to lean forward and take a bite out of your microphone.

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boredsquirrel

in reply to urska • 9 months ago • •

Cool video, but sometimes... people should wait a bit before giving advice.

Really cool experience report, but advising stuff like hunting for .deb's on the Internet is just not good.

0x00cl via Open Source

9 months ago • •

0x00cl
9 months ago • •

dstort - utility to "organize" randomly a directory

So this utility given a directory or path, will move randomly files in subdirectories and will move subdirectories randomly too. CAREFUL, if given system directory it will probably trash the system, equivalent of doing rm -rf /, except all the files are still there! :)

I don't know why I came up with this idea nor if its original but its mine.

You might ask, whats the use case, well that's an interesting question, you know why? Because... 🏃

(Of course, I'm open to feedback.)

GitHub - 0x00cl/dstort: dstort - "organize" randomly a directory

dstort - "organize" randomly a directory. Contribute to 0x00cl/dstort development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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whoareu

in reply to 0x00cl • 9 months ago • •

It won't do anything if a given directory contains only file then It won't do anything right?

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0x00cl

in reply to whoareu • 9 months ago • •

Yes, if it only contains files then it won't do anything.

vestmoria via Linux

9 months ago • •

vestmoria
9 months ago • •

can you link a guide to flash custom firmware (lineageos) on debian on a redmi 9c or help me flash it?

most guides I found online are for windows based computers and those that even name linux are outdated.

Linux distro I run: debian 12.5, adb and fastboot installed through apt
Phone I want to experiment with: redmi 9c
Firmware I'm installing: xdaforums.com/t/rom-13-unoffic…

fastboot devices recognizes the device and I can also boot the phone to fastboot: it shows a black (not blank) screen with the word FASTBOOT printed orange.

I tried following android.gadgethacks.com/how-to… but fastboot flashing unlock and fastboot oem unlock return FAILED (remote: 'Token Verify Failed, Reboot the device ')

developer options and OEM unlocking are both activated on the device

[ROM][13][UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 20.0 Unified for Redmi 9A/9C/10A/... [blossom]

LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 13, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device. LineageOS is...

^{snnbyyds114514 (XDA Forums)}

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lemmyreader

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

With some phones you need to go through extra steps to be able to do OEM unlocking. Looks like it is the case here, see the steps in the FAQ linked here : en.miui.com/unlock/download_en…

Apply for permissions to unlock Mi devices

^en.miui.com

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AnEilifintChorcra

in reply to vestmoria • 9 months ago • •

I've never used miui devices but I think you need to make an account and use this en.miui.com/unlock/download_en… so you will probably need to have wine installed to run it, unless it has a native linux version in the zip file. Then you should have an unlocked bootloader

Apply for permissions to unlock Mi devices

^en.miui.com

petsoi via Linux

9 months ago • •

petsoi
9 months ago • •

Fedora Workstation development update – Artificial Intelligence edition | Christian F.K. Schaller

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ashaman2007

in reply to petsoi • 9 months ago • •

Take note this is an informal blog post, I somehow thought this was “official”… but it’s just sort of a rambling update on various items. Still good insider info

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