“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”
- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations
The filter preview feature seems really nice!
Honestly, Inkscape is at the very least almost as good as Illustrator - call me deluded but I find more intuitive in many cases.
Now if only GIMP could actually have some money pumped into it and a sane UI… 😒
How are you guys pronouncing this?
Personally, I’ve found it sounds kind of nice when said like “Loon tea”.
That’s why I’m starting to prefer LTSC.
Definitely smiling Bashir just for all the weird voices Data did.
I think distros at least do some stuff beyond repackaging the latest software, namely default configurations (or lack thereof).
For instance, technically Debian has the packages to do SELinux, but it’s Fedora (and OpenSUSE, I think?) that actually come out the box with them.
They are also continually improving, if slowly, their package managers to improve the experience of sourcing new software, as seen with work on apt and dnf.
You are right overall that new distro releases have little meaning any more. If anything, I think they are a good method for managing the upgrades to new software; when a release comes out, breakages can be addresses all at once and solved for a couple of years, whereas rolling release requires a person to be vigilant and repair breakages more often. That is not to pan rolling - I use Debian Testing on my desktop. As much as I like newer software, though, I am thinking of staying on Trixie after it becomes stable, as I get tired of applying updates all the time and then something breaking that is incredible difficult to diagnose.
Yeh, something is borked with your network settings. The port that’s connected seems to be trying to connect over IPv6, but unless you’re doing something weird, it should be IPv4 It should be in your network settings GUI.
Maybe Netrek?
I’ve seen that one before! 😁
That’s the one I prefer - the game’s public domain and has many variants. It was a fan game originally written in BASIC for the PDP-11, I believe, and has been ported many times.
I think MPR goes beyond boring. I think it’s an anti-masterpiece - designed to drive any viewer insane.
They systematically build you up with that Star Trek hope, only to knock you down and step on your head.
The only kind of redeeming moment is that sort of “We will go on” moment with the Areore at the end. Honestly, despite being a satirical Star Trek species in an otherwise terrible episode, the Areore were kind of fun and I wouldn’t mind seeing them again.
Smile, of course. I reach it, brother!
If ip a shows your NIC, I’d recommend checking your networking settings (you can do this via GUI in your DE’s settings) to see if everything is set correctly e.g is automatic DHCP enabled? (It seems so, based on the error messages. That’s just an example.)
I had a situation the other day where my laptop ethernet port was being assigned to an oddball subnet that had no network connection. As it turned out, I had set the port to share internet in order to set up a Google TV (my dorm network requires a MAC address, but the TV had an old version where you couldn’t get the MAC address until after TV setup, which required a network connect) and had never reversed the setting.
I somewhat agree. I don’t hate Chakotay as a character. I guess what I mostly am complaining about are the faux-Native American lore ones where they failed spectacularly at representation.
Definitely yes.
That’s not necessarily the problem here.
Normally, Fedora would boot on both types of systems, too. However, OP wants to copy an already-existing UEFI install or at least the config to a legacy system, not (necessarily) to find a distro that could be installed from a normal live installer on both boot types.
Thus the Nix recommendations, as theoretically, one centralized config could be copied between systems to create a similar environment on different systems.
I just discovered the source of all your problems by reading your previous post.
The Surface Go 1 is a UEFI system. The Acer Aspire 5737z is a legacy BIOS system and thus can’t boot UEFI partitions. If your Aspire was a UEFI system, what you did probably would have worked just fine - no need for a special snazzy distro (no offense, NixOS users).
I’m actually extremely surprised no one noticed this before me.
From here, you have a few routes:
What themes do you have installed, and which theme are you trying to switch to? Also, can you confirm what distro and DE you’re using as well as any major customizations so I can try and replicate the problem in an Arch VM, please?
Before I continue, you should probably specify your budget explicitly.
With that said, almost anything older than a few years should do what you need to just fine. I have a Lenovo Yoga 710 from 2016 that works decent, and had an old Fujitsu Lifebook from 2010 that wasn’t too shabby as well. Heck, I once booted Linux off a cheap piano black Toshiba laptop originally made for Vista.
Just choose a random old laptop and you’ll most likely be good.
Besides cheating and choosing a Star Trek novel, I can think of several.
Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl might not be a bad one. Almost no matter who I chose, I’d have a comfortable life style.
Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn would be miserable to live in, but if I was a character with allomancy, that might be acceptable.
I find that I’ll do the bare minimum in GIMP (like that one healing extension), and then I’ll copy what I have over to Inkscape to do the rest.