This is cool, but I will be honest, I kind of want to promote alternatives that are Linux friendly,

This is cool, but I will be honest, I kind of want to promote alternatives that are Linux friendly, even if just wrapped web apps, than run VMs, with RDP and all that nonsense.

Aantheas 1tb hhd is like 30 bucks now

oxeleis•6/8/24, 8:20 PM

Still, if it gets to it, imma invest on ssd from now on, hdd is suffering

Ddannymate Maybe logistically but audience-wise the kinds of people who use Adobe/Office an...

wolfyreload•6/8/24, 8:22 PM

Maybe it would make sense have Bazzite specific documentation for it but it's going to be quite a challenge to make a ujust automation for it. However, I am definitely going to test this out... I didn't know about this project

DDaegalus This is cool, but I will be honest, I kind of want to promote alternatives that ...

dannymate•6/8/24, 8:24 PM

I agree. I actually run a small community dedicated to that kind of thing. It's about providing options. Once they're on Linux then it'll be easier for them to try out alternatives.

My brother needed Office for work and used a tool called Cassowary, which is both the successor and predecessor to winapps :p. Once he could get settled into Linux it was possible to look at alternatives that could get him away from it. We settled on Obsidian + LanguageTool Extension + Pandoc.

dannymate•6/8/24, 8:25 PM

The recommendation comes from experience getting people to switch to Linux and more recently Bazzite.

Aantheas Hey that's not bad

oxeleis•6/8/24, 8:26 PM

Well, looks like it all turned out fine

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dannymate•6/8/24, 8:26 PM

I also run a small game dev community and asked about the Bazzite DX image but didn't get any takers :P. I did have some initial ideas about the various niches in the game dev space. For example those who go for minimal game sizes. But they weren't fleshed out so I didn't comment

Ooxeleis Exactly, and im too autistic to NOT risk it all in favor of finding shit out

antheas•6/8/24, 8:29 PM

Hey just the right amount of acoustic to test it out and have a gf

oxeleis•6/8/24, 8:31 PM

Exactly, the sweet acoustic spot

PizzaV•6/8/24, 8:31 PM

why does the taskbar not change color

PPizzaV why does the taskbar not change color

Valerie•6/8/24, 8:36 PM

Send a screenshot of your plasma style

VValerie Send a screenshot of your plasma style

PizzaV•6/8/24, 8:36 PM

global theme?

PPizzaV global theme?

Valerie•6/8/24, 8:36 PM

No, plasma style, it's further down in the list

VValerie No, plasma style, it's further down in the list

PizzaV•6/8/24, 8:36 PM

PPizzaV Click to see attachment

Valerie•6/8/24, 8:37 PM

Use breeze

PizzaV•6/8/24, 8:37 PM

thanks

Ddannymate The recommendation comes from experience getting people to switch to Linux and m...

DaegalusOP•6/8/24, 8:37 PM

Totally fair. The friction that exists, even with tools like this, usually lets them more easily.ove on from them after the switch. So I get it.

Can you link me to the community, I would like to help out when I can.

I just think there might be some difficulty getting all the virt stuff added ontop of gaming stuff. But possible

Ddannymate I also run a small game dev community and asked about the Bazzite DX image but d...

DaegalusOP•6/8/24, 8:38 PM

Well, we are getting a Bazzite DX

PizzaV•6/8/24, 8:45 PM

how do i make the taskbar icons centered

antheas•6/8/24, 8:46 PM

I don't think there's enough slack to add dx components to the core image

antheas•6/8/24, 8:46 PM

The guys are talking about sysext

antheas•6/8/24, 8:46 PM

But it's still theoretical

Aantheas The guys are talking about sysext

oxeleis•6/8/24, 8:47 PM

Sext?

antheas•6/8/24, 8:48 PM

U wish

oxeleis•6/8/24, 8:48 PM

Lmaoo

Ooxeleis Sext? 🤨🤨

Ellis•6/8/24, 8:49 PM

Reminds me of ptxychtichs sounding like an STD

legally defined as sound•6/8/24, 8:50 PM

i've bought a steam controller for my llgo >:3

GrimRaptor•6/8/24, 8:53 PM

whats a good global theme for kde

DDaegalus Totally fair. The friction that exists, even with tools like this, usually lets ...

dannymate•6/8/24, 8:58 PM

Well worst case documentation would be good. (Which I don't mind writing if required).

The community isn't on discord. It's a forum with a large gaming audience. I take more a guerilla approach. I have my little corner that I use so whenever a thread comes up with something bad, like Google being bad or Microsoft being dumb, I post the relevant alternatives and point people to my little corner of the forum for further discussion. It's been quite effective in conversion I think. We get some cool people coming in.

If you want to see the thread I don't mind DMing it to you though.

dannymate•6/8/24, 8:59 PM

I can only handle so much volume :p

linux_doggo•6/8/24, 8:59 PM

does anyone here have a reliable way to share files between a windows guest and linux host

linux_doggo•6/8/24, 8:59 PM

i tried to use virtiofs/winfsp and even following guides step by step, they dont work

linux_doggo•6/8/24, 9:03 PM

i'd be happy to use my network to transfer files, since i have my own router in my room

linux_doggo•6/8/24, 9:04 PM

wireless bandwith isnt an issue, but virtiofs just is not working and its starting to piss me off

dannymate•6/8/24, 9:09 PM

One other thing I've found people worry about is Linux compatibility with their laptop or future laptop. I'm not really a hardware guy so I don't know off the top of my head the various laptops other than the Linux focused, XPS, Thinkpads or Framework. Does anyone know a list of known compatible laptops? Or is that something that needs crowdsourcing.

linux_doggo•6/8/24, 9:10 PM

is hardware compatibility with linux really a problem nowadays

linux_doggo•6/8/24, 9:11 PM

other than the obvious, nvidia, ive never ran into any hardware compatibility issues on any machine

dannymate•6/8/24, 9:13 PM

There's various small issues. Certain thinks like speaker amps, fingerprint readers etc. On a couple lenovo laptops there's a kernel issue with the standby working every time. Beyond that there's peripherals that may not be fully featured.

dannymate•6/8/24, 9:16 PM

Obviously "Windows Hello" IR camera logins don't work on Linux (Howdy doesn't support atomic as yet). I think it would be cool to have a ProtonDB style list of hardware, workarounds and that kind of thing

dannymate•6/8/24, 9:18 PM

Regardless though if it's a Major issue it is something people worry about. You're never really certain what may or may not work when you install Linux on a laptop meant for Windows.

Ddannymate Well worst case documentation would be good. (Which I don't mind writing if requ...

DaegalusOP•6/8/24, 9:19 PM

Forums are even better. Love forums. Dm me the link

Ddannymate One other thing I've found people worry about is Linux compatibility with their ...

DaegalusOP•6/8/24, 9:21 PM

It's all up in the air. The bigger the following for a brand, the better the support. Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus all have good support. Even if it requires efforts like this discord. There is enough people where there are Linux focused devs that start contributing and figuring things out.

Obscure brands are a crapshoot but also tend to use generic stuff that works mostly.

In general these days, it's either custom shit from the big guys that needs extra code and kernel stuff, or Nvidia

DDaegalus It's all up in the air. The bigger the following for a brand, the better the sup...

dannymate•6/8/24, 9:49 PM

I think that's the issue. When we're talking in broad terms to someone if they should switch to Linux there's that caveat of "Assuming your laptop doesn't have issues with Linux" (which I literally just copy pasted from someone else) because of that custom stuff. If we had something more concrete we could instead provide an action to do instead, i.e. Check if your laptops supported here ->. That's what I do when people ask about game compatibility and it makes my life way easier.

A big barrier to a lot of people is the effort of research. You place a pre-researched list in their faces they're more likely to actually follow through. Path of least resistance stylee.

dannymate•6/8/24, 9:49 PM

Obviously ProtonDB style hardware list easier said than done of course

Indigo•6/8/24, 9:50 PM

hey am I being silly because when I try to type on my system with bazzite it just kinda stops typing sometimes, deletes a character, and then retypes it like half a second later

antheas•6/8/24, 9:51 PM

Unless you buy a business laptop Linux support is a crapshoot

Indigo•6/8/24, 9:51 PM

I thought "oh i'll update my system", and when I went to do that, it has just kinda frozen the process without actually doing anything

Aantheas Unless you buy a business laptop Linux support is a crapshoot

Indigo•6/8/24, 9:51 PM

or a jailbreakable chromebook

antheas•6/8/24, 9:51 PM

Just like there is one Linux kernel, we should focus on buying certain laptops

antheas•6/8/24, 9:52 PM

And have great support for those

antheas•6/8/24, 9:52 PM

Manufacturers put a lot of validation to make sure their laptops work with windows

This is cool, but I will be honest, I kind of want to promote alternatives that are Linux friendly,

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