Did a bit'a readin and thought #OrcaSlicer looked like it had a few nice improvements to #SuperSlicer. Their GitHub releases page had a file called OrcaSlicer_V1.6.4-beta2_Linux.zip so I figured I give it a try. I was a bit concerned when I opened that zip and found it contained a file called OrcaSlicer_ubu64.AppImage, but hey, it's an AppImage right, should be fine...nope. First run from cli just to see what it spits out and what'a'ye know, error while loading shared libraries: libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37. A quick sifting through the AppImage contents and guess how many .so files it had in it; yup, not'a one.
What's the point of making an #AppImage / #Flatpak / #Snap if you're not gonna include the required libraries to run it?
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In the world of Linux, few debates have stirred as much controversy as the battle between the traditional System V init system, often known as SysVinit, and the newer systemd.
systemd is a system and service manager, first introduced in 2010 to replace the traditional System V init system. It was designed to improve boot-up speeds and manage system services more efficiently. Today, systemd is the default init system for many popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Despite the name, systemd is not a daemon. Instead, it’s a software suite that provides a number of system components for Linux. It
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In the world of Linux, few debates have stirred as much controversy as the battle between the traditional System V init system, often known as SysVinit, and the newer systemd.
systemd is a system and service manager, first introduced in 2010 to replace the traditional System V init system. It was designed to improve boot-up speeds and manage system services more efficiently. Today, systemd is the default init system for many popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Despite the name, systemd is not a daemon. Instead, it’s a software suite that provides a number of system components for Linux. Its goal: to standardize service configuration and behavior across Linux distributions.
Personally, I have no preference at all. It’s there, and I use it sometimes when I need to change or troubleshoot something. My take on it really is that Linux has many options and therefore there will always be differences of opinion, just like we also have for all the “best” Linux distros. When do you ever hear Windows users passionately debating for or against the Yellow and Blue version of Windows? You don’t, because they don’t have those options. And for macOS, of course, Steve knows best…
I think most newer Linux users have not really experienced the pre-systemd era, and also probably don’t delve much into where systemd is actually changed much. With modern Linux there is less and less reason to delve down into systemd unless you are in the habit of experimenting, learning, pulling things apart. But sometimes the topic flares up, so it is interesting to hear a bit about what and why.
the major problem with systemd is that it was pushed by lennart pottering when he was working at red hat, and little by little it is phagocyting (extending and embracing) the entire system. He'd already made a name for himself when he built an overlay to alsa that created more problems than it solved. so red hat has a stranglehold on mass distribution, and surprisingly ibm buys red hat and closes down red hat enterprise's sources.
if you add the attack launched by windows with WSL and the FSF's , the "woke" attack on free software (free as speach), linus and stallman. it stinks.
that's what needs to be explained, not that it's easier to have a unified system that allows a single person (or company) to produce for all systems. if you're looking for a unified system, go to windows or apple. don't try to make linux the next windows or apple.
from my point of view, to send a signal to ibm, you need to eject pulsaudio and systemd from distributions. It's not about being simple, it's about being free AND independent.
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@Danie For Linux, whatever, Devuan GNU, Void Linux or Alpine exists. Or FreeBSD. My personal worst case is SailfishOS on the mobilephone, there is systemd for sandboxing.
As the old saying went: Friends don't let their friends run Windows, or Systemd. 🙂🙃
I find it both hilarious and sad that so many people confuse the 'init' process and what it really needs to do with all the other things that modern systems must run to provide all the fancy features we expect of them today.
As is that article seems, at least to a Linux outsider such as myself, to present a rather narrow, limited, and system-centric view of the greater problem.
NetBSD all the way for me, at least anywhere where I have to or want to work on the code!
It's more than just another init daemon. Listed among "pro" traits in the article is "Respect for the Unix philosophy." The opposite is true. It's no longer "Do one thing and do it well," it has become "One ring to rule them all."
so many people confuse the ‘init’ process and what it really needs to do with all the other things that modern systems must run to provide all the fancy features we expect
there is a gap between what companies and geeks think about fancy features expected and what is really expected. there is a bunch of people that want look and feels but they have macos or windows. Let's keep linux safe of those craps to keep linux users happy instead of trying to convert those who do not care about privacy or freedom yo import their feelings in our systems.
is it interesting that people thinking about how to import windows users or companies (lennart with pulseaudio and systemd OR de icaza with mono) BOTH work at microsoft now? are/were they friends or ennemies ?
According to Richard Stallman, Facebook is a “monstrous surveillance engine” and tech companies working for patent reform aren’t going nearly far enough.
W.r.t. "fancy features", I don't think the vast majority of the past couple of iterations, nor the current iteration, of software developers have any capacity whatsoever to implement those features in an elegant, efficient, and well structured way.
For example Linux has (primarily, in most distributions) ended up with GNOME, which is arguably a bigger horror show on the inside than anything Microsoft has ever produced.
If Gates and Jobs had paid more attention to the innards of the Xerox Star then maybe we'd be in a slightly better place today, and maybe the likes of systemd would be entirely unthinkable to the vast majority of developers, but that's blue-sky dreaming.
Check the ref, Stallman was talking about using systemd. As noted he uses it everyday.
I have been using it too, for eight years now, with no issues and quick boot times.
It's free software, you can download and read the source code, use it, modify it or fork it if you like. You are also free to use something else if you prefer.
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So, you know how every time folks shift from Twitter to Mastodon, there’s always a bunch of grumpy peeps?
They’re all like, “Mastodon doesn’t have all the fancy-schmancy features Twitter has!”
Well, here’s the deal, my friend: you’re here in the Fediverse because of one particular dude (Elon, we’re looking at you) who went ahead and bought Twitter.
But guess what? The Fediverse ain’t up for sale, my friend. Nope, not happening. It’s a fortress of decentralization that can’t be conquered by cash.
So, while we admit that the Fediverse may not be the smoothest ride right now, let’s get some perspective, shall we?
The beauty of this place is that it’s immune to all the craptastic ways Elon messed up Twitter. He can’t lay a finger on the Fediverse—ever!
So, kick back, relax, and enjoy this wild and untamed oasis of online freedom. Elon-proof, forever!
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So, you know how every time folks shift from Twitter to Mastodon, there’s always a bunch of grumpy peeps?
They’re all like, “Mastodon doesn’t have all the fancy-schmancy features Twitter has!”
Well, here’s the deal, my friend: you’re here in the Fediverse because of one particular dude (Elon, we’re looking at you) who went ahead and bought Twitter.
But guess what? The Fediverse ain’t up for sale, my friend. Nope, not happening. It’s a fortress of decentralization that can’t be conquered by cash.
So, while we admit that the Fediverse may not be the smoothest ride right now, let’s get some perspective, shall we?
The beauty of this place is that it’s immune to all the craptastic ways Elon messed up Twitter. He can’t lay a finger on the Fediverse—ever!
So, kick back, relax, and enjoy this wild and untamed oasis of online freedom. Elon-proof, forever!
There's something about the method that Friendica uses to generate timelines that I find really compelling, and that doesn't seem to be talked about much.
Friendica's timelines are "post" centred, with replies appearing as a tree attached to that post, in a similar way to Facebook. It's distinct from the more Twitter like method common on most of the #microfedi platforms, in which there is no real difference between a post and a reply.
The reason that I find this framework so compelling is that it means you always have context and full conversations in view. If someone you follow replies to someone else you follow, the whole post and all of the replies appear in your timeline again, with full context at a glance.
Similarly, when you're reading your timeline, everything is grouped together. Everyone in your timeline that replied to a post is there on that post with full context. And if you're not interested, it's trivial to just scroll past.
Compare this to Mas
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There's something about the method that Friendica uses to generate timelines that I find really compelling, and that doesn't seem to be talked about much.
Friendica's timelines are "post" centred, with replies appearing as a tree attached to that post, in a similar way to Facebook. It's distinct from the more Twitter like method common on most of the #microfedi platforms, in which there is no real difference between a post and a reply.
The reason that I find this framework so compelling is that it means you always have context and full conversations in view. If someone you follow replies to someone else you follow, the whole post and all of the replies appear in your timeline again, with full context at a glance.
Similarly, when you're reading your timeline, everything is grouped together. Everyone in your timeline that replied to a post is there on that post with full context. And if you're not interested, it's trivial to just scroll past.
Compare this to Mastodon, Misskey etc and their forks, where you tend to only see one branch of a conversation, and often have the same conversation showing up in your timeline multiple times depending on who is involved.
It's an option for interacting with timelines that I'd love to see implemented in other FediVerse platforms!
Just something as simple as the little Link to source button(?) on each post that Friendica has would be quite welcome in any of the other interfaces. But maybe one that links to the full thread or at least shows the original post.
If you open the ""source"" links for each your Akkoma reply, Seph's Friendica, and Ada's Mastadon, you get three different flavours of the same conversation. Absolute ridiculousness!
That's the main feature, i use friendica. I had a Twitter-Account for years... never used, because i always missed the context... That's why i used facebook before the fediverse... because i need context and space to make short or even very long ansers... in one posting. That's also, why i use friendica.... looooooong answers... and images inside the text.
For the vast majority of #Mastodon users, Mastodon and #TheFediverse are one and the same. It was hard enough for them to comprehend that Mastodon isn't one website for everyone and everything, a monolithic service like the #birbsite. And they won't get #Pixelfed or #PeerTube into their heads until their timeline is being bo
For the vast majority of #Mastodon users, Mastodon and #TheFediverse are one and the same. It was hard enough for them to comprehend that Mastodon isn't one website for everyone and everything, a monolithic service like the #birbsite. And they won't get #Pixelfed or #PeerTube into their heads until their timeline is being bombarded with posts from these; probably not even then.
It gets even worse with other microblogging or macroblogging services which, unlike #Plume or #WriteFreely, don't mimic classic blog platforms. It's too easy for the average Mastodon user to take them for Mastodon as well.
I'm on #Hubzilla. Something which, I guess, even the majority of #Friendica users has never heard of, even though it's the direct successor to Friendica, and both had the same creator. For typical Mastodon users, especially those who came in from #BirbSocial, it's just as incomprehensible as Friendica.
Generic example of a dialogue between a typical Mastodon user and me (look at my original post for more text formatting):
"Oh wow, how can you write such long toots?"
"I'm on Hubzilla."
"Oh cool, so their admins must have raised the limit."
"I'm not on Mastodon, I'm on Hubzilla."
"Still cool to have such a liberal instance."
"Listen. I'm not on Mastodon. I'm on #Hubzilla. An entirely different project than Mastodon which is also four years older than Mastodon. You can read my posts on Mastodon, but I am not on Mastodon."
"Buh... but... how..."
"The magic of the #Fediverse. It doesn't only connect Mastodon instances with one another, it also includes wholly different projects."
The same people may have had posts from #Pleroma, #Akkoma or #MissKey in their timelines without noticing, at least not if these posts were short enough.
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a
decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.
@defcon42/Mirko I think it is also a matter of taste as well as habit. I myself also find the microblogging view very confusing because the context is missing and the text tidbits all get jumbled up.
But for those who like it, Mastodon or other microblogging software is certainly a good choice.
It's just a pity that many of the services are not made known to the outside world outside the Fediverse. There are also many people who use or have used Facebook, Google+ and the like. But it is hardly known that there are alternatives in the Fediverse that go in this direction and have more or different functions.. @m@thias.hellqui.st @Ada
I came to the Fediverse on Mastodon. I'm an admin on a Calckey, Friendica and Lemmy instance and maintain accounts on them all. I still have my original Mastodon account too, though I don't use it much anymore.
The reason I make posts like this is because it's the diversity that excites, it's the fediverse that excites me. It's the fact that it's open and expanding and people can find whatever experience they're looking for.
I want people to share my excitement about the future of the Fediverse, whether they're on Mastodon or another platform!
@Ada @defcon42/Mirko @m@thias.hellqui.st To me, it sounds more like some #Mastodon users, especially those who came in through the #TwitterMigration, actually can't stand there being something else in the #Fediverse than their beloved Mastodon. When they caught their first glimpse of the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, they reacted much like the people of Krikkit when they caught their first glimpse of the universe beyond Krikkit: "It has to go!"
They make themselves and each other believe that Masto
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@Ada @defcon42/Mirko @m@thias.hellqui.st To me, it sounds more like some #Mastodon users, especially those who came in through the #TwitterMigration, actually can't stand there being something else in the #Fediverse than their beloved Mastodon. When they caught their first glimpse of the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, they reacted much like the people of Krikkit when they caught their first glimpse of the universe beyond Krikkit: "It has to go!"
They make themselves and each other believe that Mastodon is superior to any other Fediverse project in just about any regard imaginable while apparently completely refusing to learn about those other projects. They're supported in their belief by mass media only ever writing about Mastodon and the number of Mastodon users.
However, mass media only write about Mastodon because they simply don't know a thing about the rest of the Fediverse, and they didn't know a thing about Mastodon until the #TwitterTakeover had actually happened, and the second wave of former #birbsite users had come flooding into Mastodon in such numbers that it was impossible to ignore even for those who act as if #FLOSS doesn't exist.
As for the numbers of Mastodon users, they're so high because I guess more than 90% of all Mastodon users still don't know that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, because they have never heard of anything else in the Fediverse. Mastodon was pretty much the only Fediverse project advertised on #BirbSocial when this was still possible.
There are various reasons why Mastodon users don't spread across the Fediverse in masses. None of it is because Mastodon is superior to everything else because, truth be told, it isn't. I'll come to this later. One reason is, again, that the vast majority of them still don't know anything else. Another one is because it was hard enough to get used to Mastodon after years of using #Twitter, and they don't want to get used to yet another platform. And another one is that it's hard to move from Mastodon to something else and take your account or at least your connections with you.
Another reason may be because people don't need anything beyond microblogging, and that's what Mastodon does. Now, sorry for all those of you who fight tooth and claw to defend Mastodon against the competition, but #Akkoma does microblogging, too. With extra features beyond Mastodon, some of which Mastodon users have been pestering Eugen Rochko to include in Mastodon for ages (e.g. "quote retweet"). All while being more lightweight and requiring fewer server resources than Mastodon. Oh, and it federates with Mastodon.
Other Fediverse projects aren't even competition for Mastodon because they specialise in something else. @Pixelfed specialises in posting pictures, much like #Instagram. @PeerTube specialises in video upload and streaming, not too dissimilarly from #YouTube. #Plume and #WriteFreely specialise in distraction-free traditional blogging, much like #Medium. #Lemmy specialises in groups and posting and discussing news, much like #Reddit or #HackerNews. You can't claim that Mastodon is better at each of these things than these platforms.
And then there are the jacks-of-all-trades which are usually filed under either "macroblogging" or "like #Facebook ". They weren't launched to have something that goes beyond Mastodon because their history reaches far back before Mastodon. Mastodon was launched in 2016 (and not 2022 like many believe). #Friendica was launched in early 2010, even before the crowdfunding campaign for the development of #Diaspora started. And in that early stage, Friendica, then still named #Mistpark, was vastly more powerful than Diaspora* ever got and also vastly more powerful than Mastodon 13 years later.
#Hubzilla, created by the same man as Friendica, is the most extreme one of them all. For starters, it eliminates the need for multiple accounts by having multiple independent channels with separate identities on the same account. Each channel can have multiple profiles like on Friendica so you can present your channel differently to individual contacts or groups of them and differently again to the general public.
It can do micro- and macroblogging with 50,000 or more characters and just about everything that can be done with #BBcode (italics, bold type, underline, lists with bullet points or numbers, quotes, code blocks), and you can embed as many pictures as you want in your posts where you want them instead of them automatically being attached to the end of the post.
Group handling in Hubzilla is much easier than list handling in Mastodon. You never have to type the name of a contact to find them. You can edit contacts and add them to groups or remove them, and you can edit groups and add or remove contacts, all with a few mouse clicks. And while Mastodon shows a maximum of four lists on the main page, Hubzilla will give you easy access to all your groups.
On top of that, you can have
very fine-grained access rights control with pre-definable contact roles
forums (just like Friendica, Hubzilla has #Guppe built in)
more elegant macroblogging with articles which, in addition to BBcode, support #Markdown
simple webpages (or not so simple if you're the admin of a hub, and you can expand it further)
wikis (I'm not even kidding)
a public calendar
a virtually unlimited number of private calendars with #CalDAV connection
a virtually unlimited number of address books with #CardDAV connection
a file server with #WebDAV connection with its own access rights management which also ties in with the Photos and optional Gallery app (Mastodon drops your pictures somewhere, Hubzilla lets you upload them to your personal cloud space where you can access them whenever you want)
All with one run-of-the-mill Hubzilla account. And once per channel, separately.
And as if that wasn't enough, Hubzilla introduced the #Zot protocol and with it a concept named #NomadicIdentity.
Mastodon and Friendica let you have multiple accounts, even on separate instances. They also support migration from one account to another, and unlike Mastodon, Friendica lets you take all your content with you. Hubzilla (and #Streams, the successor of its slimmed-down successor, still created by the same guy) goes even further: Not only can you easily move from one hub to another, you can have channels on multiple hubs and automatically keep them fully in sync! If one hub goes down, it doesn't matter because you've got everything on all your other accounts.
Last but not least, both Friendica and Hubzilla federate with almost everything that moves, even far beyond the #ActivityPub Fediverse. This could be Diaspora*, this could be #GNUsocial, this could be #Wordpress blogs with or without the ActivityPub add-on, this could be RSS feeds (and they both generate feeds themselves, so this is bidirectional, too), this could even be Twitter until the API is shuttered. Friendica even used to federate with Facebook until Facebook put rocks in the way; this is the only connector that Hubzilla didn't take over.
The obvious downside is that for someone who just came in from the #birdcage, all this is utter overkill. In fact, people who are used to Mastodon may find Friendica borderline unusuable due to its many features. And Hubzilla is so infamous for its own clumsy UI capitulating before its sheer power that even Friendica users find it hard to use, fresh converts from Twitter to Mastodon even more so.
Some design decisions may be hard to understand for outsiders. Converts from other Fediverse projects to Hubzilla regularly fail at something as seemingly similar as connecting to users on other ActivityPub-based projects until you tell them that ActivityPub is an optional app on Hubzilla that has to be activated first because Hubzilla concentrates on Zot with its Nomadic Identity.
Also, just because these projects offer so much power, that doesn't mean that everyone needs it. If you do, it can be convenient to have it all under one login. But if all you're looking for is a bit of microblogging and online socialising, you don't need to drag a CMS and a full-blown cloud server with all bells and whistles along with you that just clutter up the UI. In that case, projects like Mastodon and Akkoma win because they're more approachable.
And while Friendica, Hubzilla & Co. can do threaded discussions and even have something like forums, Lemmy can do this more elegantly because it specialises in it. While you can use Hubzilla's private calendar feature for event planning, it's easier to do the same with #Mobilizon which, again, specialises in it. Or you can host podcasts on Friendica, Hubzilla & Co, but you can host them better on #Funkwhale and even better on #Castopod.
Wanting the Fediverse to be only Mastodon hinders development, namely the development of new projects within the Fediverse that may be able to do all-new things that we haven't seen in the Fediverse yet. Things that, sorry to say again, you'll never be able to do with Mastodon.
P.S.: For extra kicks, don't just read this on Mastodon. Open my original post; there you can see what Hubzilla is capable of, and what Mastodon strips away.
@jupiter_rowland @peertube @m Thanks guys.Having joined essentially as part of the #TwitterMigration in early Nov, I do want to say cut us some slack 🙂 and that some of us *do* grasp the potential of the #Fediverse and take to it like a "duck to water" 🦆 ... but still it takes time to expand one's social network worldview from a very locked-down Twitter micro-blogging/chat view, to a whole new #Fediverse dynamic? It's a journey, and #Tumblr moving onto the #Activitypub may be a huge sign of things to come
Keep promoting the opportunitites e.g. @ada has got me interested in moving onto CalcKey in future, and I'm looking for an additional platform for an occasional longer piece. Perhaps Medium (with add-ins) or perhaps #Friendlica or ... or ... choices?😎
Mass/mainstream media struggle to even conceive of a non-commercial/non-advertising revenue driven platform *at all* so tbh even #Mastodon sends their minds in a headspin eg. this kind of article?
If you can live without comments, you may take a look at #WriteFreely. Or if you can live with on-and-off developer activity and the recurring feeling that the project will be abandoned, try #Plume which does have comments and a built-in image hoster for your convenience. Both use Markdown, by the way.
Essentially, anything that's labelled something with *blogging and that isn't Mastodon can do longer pieces. #Hubzilla even has an "articles" app just for that which comes with the side-effect that mobile Mastodon apps will always open links to articles in a Web browser and show them like they're supposed to look. But you always have some distraction around the text whereas WriteFreely and Plume are at least as plain and clean as Medium.
@jupiter_rowland Thanks, I had #WriteFreely on my list to look at for this ... will look at the other options too 👍
Even Calckey seems to have a hundred additional options vs Mastodon and it's taken me 5 months to uncover in Mastodon I can follow a group of hashtags in a column eg (Cats + Caturday+ CatsofMastodon), but only if I use the Advanced Web Interface ...
I mean there's a LOT to unpack "here" in the as it's totally (totally) not a Twitter replacement despite the MSM calling it such, which is just plain wrong
@defcon42 (Mirko) :fediverse: Yes, certainly there is a large target audience for whom #Mastodon is the appropriate choice. Those who like microblogging with the essential functions and like the way it is displayed are well served with it. But for months now there are calls from (new?) Mastodon users complaining and wining about what Mastodon can't do and demanding that the developers should finally implement it immediately (quoted posts, groups, chats, more poll options, more list functions, etc.). All the functions, which are then so painfully missed, are possible with almost all other text-oriented #Fediverse softwares, partly even with Mastodon-Forks or even with another instance, which e.g. increases the character limit (there are also public ones).... Show more...
@defcon42 (Mirko) :fediverse: Yes, certainly there is a large target audience for whom #Mastodon is the appropriate choice. Those who like microblogging with the essential functions and like the way it is displayed are well served with it. But for months now there are calls from (new?) Mastodon users complaining and wining about what Mastodon can't do and demanding that the developers should finally implement it immediately (quoted posts, groups, chats, more poll options, more list functions, etc.). All the functions, which are then so painfully missed, are possible with almost all other text-oriented #Fediverse softwares, partly even with Mastodon-Forks or even with another instance, which e.g. increases the character limit (there are also public ones). Who points out that there are already some alternatives and that they can try them, often gets aggressive reactions (not from you @defcon42 (Mirko) :fediverse: : Who is satisfied with Mastodon, that's good. But from those who explicitly want something else, but don't want to hear that (exactly) that already exists)? What exactly the background of these reactions is, I do not know. Possibly it plays a role that through the media coverage the expectation was created that people here may join a Twitter only without Musk, that they can consume passively? And that then overload occurs when it is seen that there are many more possibilities? That the Fediverse is not equal to Mastodon, but that it is much much more @m@thias.hellqui.st @Ada
@Ada That is exactly what I think every time I use e.g. #Tusky or another #mastodon focussed app: "Where does this post come from, where is the #context?
Connecting the #Watchy to WiFi was pretty easy. Didn't have to use the buttons to type in an SSID & password. It broadcasts its own AP, so I could set it up in a browser.
🐧 I wrote a new blog entry listing all the changes I made to turn the Lenovo Yoga 370 into my mobile GNU/Linux digital painting device. It's long because it contains detailed instructions for beginners. I hope it is helpful.
Lovely writing, as always, and a great source of information for newcomers too! I will be looking for the display calibration device (second hand, as you said)
it is sick... Since my comment i have read it (your post) second time, then i realised that it doesnt matter that i would NOT use it in your - artistic - way, but it would be great tool to make notes in my homeoffice. Now these laptops used can be found for about 250€ so - for me - it is better option then (for example) reMarkable - for ONLY homeOffice use. AND without any other subscriptions and closed software shit.
@elfi Thanks. I also have a Surface Pro 3 here, but be careful: the N-Trigger (not sure if I spell it) tech of the stylus is super laggy and slow. That was one of my fail test on Linux , along with a Samsung tab Pro. Device with a stylus well built-in for low input lag are actually rare. A lot of devices with "toy styluses" around. I hope yours is a model that will have a good support!
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in reply to Danie • • •the major problem with systemd is that it was pushed by lennart pottering when he was working at red hat, and little by little it is phagocyting (extending and embracing) the entire system. He'd already made a name for himself when he built an overlay to alsa that created more problems than it solved. so red hat has a stranglehold on mass distribution, and surprisingly ibm buys red hat and closes down red hat enterprise's sources.
if you add the attack launched by windows with WSL and the FSF's , the "woke" attack on free software (free as speach), linus and stallman. it stinks.
that's what needs to be explained, not that it's easier to have a unified system that allows a single person (or company) to produce for all systems. if you're looking for a unified system, go to windows or apple. don't try to make linux the next windows or apple.
from my point of view, to send a signal to ibm, you need to eject pulsaudio and systemd from distributions. It's not about being simple, it's about being free AND independent.
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Adam Hunt
in reply to Danie • • •The Ubuntu Diaries Part II
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tom s
in reply to Danie • • •Greg A. Woods (another old account)
in reply to Danie • • •As the old saying went: Friends don't let their friends run Windows, or Systemd. 🙂🙃
I find it both hilarious and sad that so many people confuse the 'init' process and what it really needs to do with all the other things that modern systems must run to provide all the fancy features we expect of them today.
As is that article seems, at least to a Linux outsider such as myself, to present a rather narrow, limited, and system-centric view of the greater problem.
NetBSD all the way for me, at least anywhere where I have to or want to work on the code!
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in reply to Danie • • •herve_02
in reply to Danie • • •there is a gap between what companies and geeks think about fancy features expected and what is really expected. there is a bunch of people that want look and feels but they have macos or windows. Let's keep linux safe of those craps to keep linux users happy instead of trying to convert those who do not care about privacy or freedom yo import their feelings in our systems.
is it interesting that people thinking about how to import windows users or companies (lennart with pulseaudio and systemd OR de icaza with mono) BOTH work at microsoft now? are/were they friends or ennemies ?
Adam Hunt
in reply to Danie • • •Stallman on systemd
"I know it's free software, so ethically speaking, it's not an issue – it's just a convenience question." - Richard Stallman (2015)
It should be noted that Stallman uses Trisquel which has used systemd since 2014.
Stallman joins the Internet, talks net neutrality, patents and more
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Greg A. Woods (another old account)
in reply to Danie • • •W.r.t. "fancy features", I don't think the vast majority of the past couple of iterations, nor the current iteration, of software developers have any capacity whatsoever to implement those features in an elegant, efficient, and well structured way.
For example Linux has (primarily, in most distributions) ended up with GNOME, which is arguably a bigger horror show on the inside than anything Microsoft has ever produced.
If Gates and Jobs had paid more attention to the innards of the Xerox Star then maybe we'd be in a slightly better place today, and maybe the likes of systemd would be entirely unthinkable to the vast majority of developers, but that's blue-sky dreaming.
herve_02
in reply to Danie • • •@Adam Hunt
stallman on red hat's... could be
Adam Hunt
in reply to Danie • • •Check the ref, Stallman was talking about using systemd. As noted he uses it everyday.
I have been using it too, for eight years now, with no issues and quick boot times.
It's free software, you can download and read the source code, use it, modify it or fork it if you like. You are also free to use something else if you prefer.
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in reply to Danie • • •Adam Hunt
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