So that’s what it means to think outside the box. I’ve always wondered.

Absolutely this. Too many people think that because you use some open source software from some fascist dev that “obviously you’re fascist, too”.

Bigotry: obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Hating on Hyprland users that know what’s going on but still really like the software fits this definition. Plus, isn’t the biggest kick in the face having the exact people you hate use and enjoy your software?

This is exactly why I switched from PolyMC to Prism Launcher. The PolyMC dev was a fascist prick and an anti-gay/trans activist. His fear was that PolyMC was “going to get taken over by the gays due to the name having Poly in it (as in polysexual)”, so he started banning all the devs who disagreed with him or even made a joke about it.

Those devs forked the project and, to rub salt in the wound, made the icon rainbow. But guess what? Its the same software. They forked it because they still liked it and wanted to use it. The software itself had absolutely nothing to do with the dev.

I love list launchers, but I just can’t stop using Kvaesitso. It has a list mode for apps and one optional dock for your first x amount of favorites. But it really shines when it comes to widgets. Swipe up to go through a widget list.

I need to have my two coffee timers and one tea timer widget as well as my step counter and audiobook player, so I need something with widgets and Kvaesitso does it so well.

Same, but rather than not wanting to pay its more like I can’t afford to pay.

That is quite a while, lol. To be fair though, there are an insane amount of lines in most packages. Quietly adding a brief line in a seemingly innocent features package is like hiding a needle in a haystack.

Its easy to overlook things when you have a pile of packages to review during every routine. Its especially true if they missed it the first time, since its easier to review changes in a package rather than go through the whole thing again.

I used just plain command prompt for a long time when I was on Windows, but I did find a nice one called Tabby. The only problem is getting it to run as your default terminal.

Yeah, I’ll pass. If I want a GameOS I’ll just go SteamOS, Arch, or Nobara. I donate to things I like and leave if they start grabbing at my wallet. I know donations are slim in most projects and its a major problem, but cryptocurrency is not the answer.

Lutris, Steam, and Retroarch will cover everything I need. No need to reinvent the wheel.

Wow, nothing is sacred anymore. Luckily the only people I ever play with these days are my nephew, his girlfriend and my girlfriend.

We’re all local so we just play modded java on LAN and I host the server straight from PC. His girlfriend’s family lives downstairs from us so they can jump on even if we’re not home.

I do have a friend a couple hundred miles away who wants to play, so I might have to look into just getting a secured Bisect server running instead of hosting.

Yup. It was THE app to use way back in the day. Before that was Ventrilo, but setting up a Vent server was a pain in the ass. I got it working once, but it was a lot of port tinkering and giving out my IP to trusted friends.

Skype made it so easy to just click and call or else make rooms for your guild in whatever game you played at the time (my poison of choice was Ragnarok Online).

Then Skype changed hands, started monetizing, pushing Windows pre-installs, and would even watch conversations to make sure no one was using the app for sexual purposes.

It was an installation to two different PCs. I don’t think it has to do with NixOS rather than the installer software.

When I looked around on the web for solutions I found these tricks on a bug report, so at the time it had already been reported.

I agree. The whole situation went completely different in my head, tbh. I’ve tried to get my 65 year old step mom to switch. If she does eventually, I’d set her up with what she needs and give her a run-down.

I was thinking more along the lines of an “up a creek without a paddle” situation where you have the local Linux buff put it on and then start messing with stuff on your own.

See, that’d make more sense to me. In my mind I was seeing someone just installing Linux and poof, that’s it, you’re on your own.

I should change my statement then; just installing Linux for someone is a bad idea. Stepping them through the small basics as you go is a good idea.

Plus, the first step to learning Linux is figuring out how to install Linux.

If you can’t do the easiest part of Linux you’re going to have a bad time with the rest of Linux.

Edit: Well, wait up. Doing it for someone is one thing, teaching them enough to get by is another.

The way the post is stated, my brain went, “here’s your PC with Linux on it, bye.”

If it fails again, try these two tricks:

1. Install without swap and create a swap manually later.
2. When the installer gets to creating the swap, which iirc is about 49%, spam swapoff in your terminal.

I installed last October and had to do this, so it could be fixed now. For some reason NixOS mounts the swap immediately after creating it, which bugs the install process.

You have to be prepared to dive deep into configs and set a lot up yourself if you want to get into any tiling WM, but the payoff is crazy customization with nearly every shortcut designed by you to fit your needs. Its something you do if you want to be keyboard-centric. If you know how to touch type, it’d be well worth the time invested.

I went as far as making my own waybar in CSS on NixOS using home-manager. Crazy stuff, but its not too hard once you can understand what you’re looking at. Which honestly doesn’t take long at all. Bare minimum a couple weeks, really (unless you go NixOS and want to learn Nixlang and home-manager, then I’d say a month or so learning time).

I think any active community would be more than happy to help, tbh. The thing about the Linux community is that we love troubleshooting. That’s half the fun of Linux, honestly. I would pick something more active over something more specific. Some of the communities here have latest posts dated weeks ago.

Ahhh, I see. There should be others that have run into the same issues you have. Don’t give up! I’m sure you’ll run across something that works.

Linux is a great community to be in. I will say that before it rose in gaming popularity, there was a lot of gatekeeping, though. But in the end, 99% of Linux users are just people that go, “I KNOW this can work, and I won’t stop until either I break my system or I figure out how it works.”

This is very true, but iirc Obsidian has a community plugin that solves this. Just checked and its called Relay and even has offline editing. Not sure how its set up, because I know that Obsidian sync is a paid service.

I’d love to move off of Obsidian to a MD editor that’s completely open source, but I’ve tried them all and nothing tickles my fancy. I just love the plugin community for Obsidian. But that’s why I’m working on Neovim, because the plugin community there is HUGE.

Curious, I checked for Neovim collaboration solutions and found this.

Its a shame, I used to love OpenOffice and used it a lot. That was years ago. Now I use LibreOffice solely for Excel or else my resumes. Book writing I use novelWriter; notes I use Obsidian. What can I say, I love my markdown editors. I’m currently setting up Neovim to handle all my MD writing needs, though. I’m happy with my MD editors, but it gives me something to do and I like the idea of having one application handle it all.