• Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I don’t really agree, I’d recommend something KDE based instead since it’s more similar to modern Windows. Probably actually something like Aurora would be good to recommend since it’s immutable and not easy to screw up. And it comes with Flathub built right in.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been recommending bazzite. Mainly cause if they haven’t migrated yet, then it’s a great stepping stone cause it’s a complete out of the box experience and the default layout kinda mimics windows.

    • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I’m struggling with Mint today. The Bluetooth handling of my headphones and earbuds is dogshit. It connects and then immediately disconnects, shows Error: Unknown error, and I have to unpair my phone and desktop PC from the headphones to get them to pair properly.

      Also I’m looking for Mint versions of Green shots and Fancy Zones that have close functionality to those windows apps, and I haven’t found anything suitable yet.

      • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I’ve also not had any Bluetooth issues, but I’ve not got Bluetooth integrated into my machine.

        I use a cheap USB dongle for it. Maybe that could help? They usually cost less than $10 (though this was pre-AI tech prices).

        Obviously there would just be a fix for it (and maybe there is), but his is a good placeholder/fallback solution.

        Or indeed another distro might be the way. Though yeah that’s a PitA too.

      • Cantaloupe877@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’ve had issues with my headphones disconnecting too, it may be my kernel version. If you are looking for a screenshot utility, flameshot has served me well.

        • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Flameshot is pretty good, but Greenshot allows me to single click capture a region without confirming to save. I use that workflow to zip through service calls, capping remote screens, sections of log files, config files, ect and have them save somewhere where I can go and review or mark them up later. Press PrtScrn, mouse down, drag, mouseup, done.

          Having to go looking for the save button and click it is a small additional step, but it still adds time to that workflow where I might be capturing a screenshot region once every second.

          • Cantaloupe877@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            The buttons in flameshot are all over the place, but when saving I tend to use Ctrl + S or Ctrl + C. There isn’t a single click capture though, and my old screenshot software that I used called ShareX had that, and I’ve missed it since switching over to Linux.

        • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          I stick to a slate and chalk, never had any driver issues or updates break anything, and it’s full resolution and never needs charging.

  • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    Thank god the skirt comes standard no matter the distro, I thought I was weird

    • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I ain’t no coder, but right now I’m wearing ankle socks and very soft and comfortable sweat pants while running Fedora Atomic Budgie and drinking tea.

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    I’m sitting here pondering how it is that there’s so much overlap between coders and femininity. Is there a connection between the habits of coders and a desire for comfortable stockings? Am I just seeing a small sample size (due to this being Lemmy)?

    Or, perhaps, is it simply the spirit of our coding foremothers calling coders back to their ancestral roots?

    Either way, carry on, you lovely people. Rock those socks!

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I think it’s that with software everything is malleable and nothing is fixed. So it would appeal to someone who wants to change their environment or self.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I’m sitting here pondering how it is that there’s so much overlap between coders and femininity.

      sitting on your ass all day and typing isn’t exactly lifting bricks or hunting elephants

  • maria [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    can there maybe be socks which like - go above the waist up above the the torso - and above the shoulders -

    for windows 11 pro users?

    /j.,… but I would like those socks still

  • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    NixOS user, Rust programmer, and bagpiper. The socks go higher than S, but usually get folded down below the knee. And they’re not rainbow, that wouldn’t match the outfit.

      • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        How is your Qubes experience, if you don’t mind me asking? I always loved the idea, especially since some of my work are different cybersecurity/pentesting projects, where both the separation of trust/data and the ability to quickly run templated environments per project sound super useful, but I never really got around doing it.

        Do you daily drive it? I’m also pretty much a gamer, and while I could imagine it on my work laptop, I’m not sure if it’s feasible when gaming is one of my main focuses on PC. I can kind of imagine that a virtualization-based OS would be terrible for gaming.

        • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          41·
          3 days ago

          I daily drive it for non-preformance tasks on a star book mk VI (coreboot, ME disabled). You can do things like GPU pass through, by qubes doesn’t recommend it because of how insecure accessing vram can be (I think, someone will correct me if I’m wrong XP).

          For larger tasks like games or CAD, I have a desktop with a 5950x and a 5700xt. That runs proxmox on Debian (headless). I decrypt it via dropbear-ssh and login via proxmox’s web interface. From there I can start 1 for four VMS I setup which have access to most of the machines resources including all but two threads 30ish GB of ram, and a full 5700xt. I used a VM running on this machine to beat Cyberpunk 2077 @ 1440p mid-high settings with above 60fps, that being said that was back when my host OS was gentoo, and pre-dlc when 2077 was a little lighter on hardware.

          Haven’t gotten it to run that good since, however my play through of system shock (2023) has been p good so far.

          • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            That’s actually an impressive setup! I’ve been mostly gaming on desktop Bazzite, but usually just connect through Sunlight/Moonlight from a laptop in bed. Never really considered a proxmox setup.

            I might look into it, that sounds pretty useful. Already have an old desktop I sometimes use as a server, with older GPU and some RAM, so it would make for a great test environment for this kind of things.

          • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Yoo Starbook, I’m unironically considering one of those Starlabs laptops, but sadly the standard starbook is sold out.

            I’m a little sad they don’t offer openSUSE, Fedora, or Arch options, but there’s an option to buy them without any OS. Is there a reason they recommend a particular range of OSes as suitable for the starbook?

            And how are they for gaming? Think like Stardew, Paradox games, and so on.

            • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Using qubes so can’t say much for gaming, but I imagine it’d be about as well for any similarly spec’d ultrabook. I think they test those listed distros for compatibility, but I ran qubes on it since before they listed it as an option.

              Actually in the middle of rma’ing the board for bad power circuitry (after 3 years), well see how it goes before I reccomend it. That being said the new lemur pro from system76 isn’t made out of plastic shit, but instead magnesium alloy, so that actually looks promising as an alternative.

              I’ll let ya know how I make out with the repair.