jfx

joined 2 years ago
[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Tried Manjaro and Opensuse for a presentation machine lately: issues over issues, that just shouldn't exist on new installation (problems with USB disks, input). Came back to Debian asap because Debian, weirdly, "just works (tm) now.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 10 months ago

Actually, if Linux/BSD/... doesn't work the way I want it to, I can always tweak it. Win or Mac? Tough luck. So Linux's usability is always there, whereas the proprietary OS's quickly hits a very hard, annoying wall.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 1 year ago (29 children)

Soo, booting your computer from someone else's computer?

I mean we've had thin clients and PXE for ages?

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DDG has also gotten much worse since the introduction of AI features.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

It used to be somewhat better: Corel Linux and Creative apps existed...

 

Does the Nextcloud SyncClient (Android) work on any ereader? I'd love to use it to snc my books and notes, but the blueish interface does not display at all on my monochrome eink tablet. Does anyone use Nextcloud successfully on a b/w device?

 

Does the Nextcloud SyncClient (Android) work on any ereader? I'd love to use it to snc my books and notes, but the blueish interface does not display at all on my monochrome eink tablet. Does anyone use Nextcloud successfully on a b/w device?

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the info! Otherwise I would have missed the deal. The affinity suite is the best thing since Photoshop 5.0

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I had the Mandrake Powerpack that came with two books. I basically memorized the entire console handbook while on the loo...

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Gretlat that they're making progress! aTM windows still flicker or fail to show content. I'd love to use it in production later this year maybe ...

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am dependent on a couple of programs I run via wine - and wine still isn't directly compatible with wayland and buggy with xwayland...

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

It's actually worse! Last jan Microsoft bricked the entire fleet of laptops in my company with a borked generic driver update. It overwrote the sd reader's vendor driver blocking all storage access from working whatsoever. From one week to another more or less all devices refused to boot. They basically killed our entire company for half a week, until IT could walk people through efi-disabling the sd reader in every laptop (recent industrial models mind you) just because windows had pulled in the wrong driver. So... no - it's not great at all with automatic driver installation in windows ...

 

An old grudge: i actually love KDE Plasma, but rely on a plethora of remote Samba shares for work.

Gnome/gvfs makes it so easy to integrate them in the file picker/nautilus and performance is great. On KDE kio (or whatever that is called now) always caches a copy first, which takes forever and prevents many applications from writing to the files correctly.

I'd love to be using KDE again. Is there anything I can do to get better/faster/more reliable samba access?

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