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submitted 3 days ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev
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[-] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Can we stop using completely ambiguous and ungooglable names for software? Granted, Teams is still the worst offender.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Yay, another one.

Seriously, why do we need 100+ different audio players?

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 2 days ago

Don't worry, COSMIC will make (or probably already has made) one too.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

vlc is always one of the first things I install on any machine of any OS. Who even uses the built in media player?

[-] DepressedMan@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Imho, mpv is better. It has better support for AV1, is faster, and has no problems with audio, but VLC has a better interface with more options. I made the transition from VLC to MPV a few months ago and don't regret it.

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

That's neat but can we fix the issue wear gnome crashes with full VRAM? KDE doesn't. Same set up

Have you submitted a bug report?

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I want to but don't know how or what commands to run to see what the issue exactly is. But I've tested on my 1650 and my Rx 5500. If you have 4GB of VRAM and try to game gnome does not like that. On KDE it will slow to a crawl but won't crash.

Just submit a bug report saying that the DE crashes when you exceed your VRAM limit. If they need more info, they'll tell you how to get it.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Same exact thing here.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 3 days ago

I think this is a general Linux problem. My laptop hard reboots, although it hasn't since I massively upped the swap.

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

This is different. I'm talking about video memory. But yeah systemd oomd is shite. It works sometimes, when it does it takes a while of waiting before it does anything

[-] Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 3 days ago

So their video player should be named "Nits".

[-] Uncut_Lemon@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

It looks very underwhelming. Do Linux Desktop Devs ever actually managed a collection/playlists or even listen to music on their machines?

[-] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Decibels seems to be an audio player to playback individual files, like maybe a voice memo or single music track. I personally use Gapless when I want to play music with shuffle and playlists.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 0 points 2 days ago

In case you didn't know, nowadays GNOME goes for maximum simplicity.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago

Which is kind of ironic given that the gnome desktop has a bit of a learning curve.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 1 points 57 minutes ago

Well many people consider MacOS easy to use but it still has a learning curve if you're coming from Windows. Same goes to GNOME. It's not a Windows or MacOS clone so it does need some figuring out.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago

I'm sure it's very nice but tying an audio player app, or a text editor, an rss reader, or any other such tool to one specific desktop environment is an unbearably stupid idea and makes me think that both Gnome and KDE have made a seriously wrong turn somewhere.

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago

It's not tied to Gnome, you can install it wherever you want. https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Decibels

I was annoyed that Gnome didn't have a very basic "sound file player", everything polished wanted to be something more, like support for music libraries, etc. I downloaded a single wav file, I want to listen what's in it, there was no perfect app for that.

[-] LorIps@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Decibels has already existed for ages. I use it as my default audio player for random sound files and Gapless for albums

[-] kbal@fedia.io -1 points 3 days ago

"It's not tied to Gnome"

        ID                                            Branch               Op           Remote            Download
 1.     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.08                i            flathub           < 156.3 MB
 2.     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.08extra           i            flathub           < 156.3 MB
 3.     org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264             2.4.1                i            flathub           < 976.5 kB
 4.     org.gnome.Decibels.Locale                     stable               i            flathub            < 25.9 kB (partial)
 5.     org.gnome.Platform.Locale                     47                   i            flathub           < 386.5 MB (partial)
 6.     org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Greybird                    3.22                 i            flathub            < 91.8 kB
 7.     org.gnome.Platform                            47                   i            flathub           < 384.1 MB
 8.     org.gnome.Decibels                            stable               i            flathub           < 144.2 kB

Proceed with these changes to the user installation? [Y/n]: 

That's a lot of megabytes for a simple audio player.

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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