jollyrogue

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The *nix desktop space.

Year of desktop Linux is when? 😆

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Yes, but not to Texas.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It still weirds me out thinking how mega fauna existed much more recently then we think. Like we could be chilling sloths, or, you know, running in fear, but now the largest animal I encounter on a regular basis is my neighbors fat cat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Let’s bring C into this discussion if we want to talk about overused languages which aren’t fit for purpose. 😂

The ergonomics of Rust are better than C and C++, and programmer productivity is the metric which really matters.

Rust is compiled, and compiled languages are easier to deploy. Especially statically compiled languages like Rust.

Ada might better, but it needs to be updated.

Ada compiler development is also tied to a company which is moving to Rust, and the gnat toolchain developed by Adacore is “Open Source”, eventually, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don’t have a reason to move away from the Fedora defaults except for monospaced fonts.

Terminal wise, terminus is my default. It’s so clean, and it looks good without anti-aliasing.

Roboto Mono is my current preference for monospaced fonts.

Adobe Source Code Pro and JetBrains Mono are good alternatives as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Mineral and Rainer Maria. Pretty solid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Another reason to get out of this state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gui to manage firewall. which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?

Which which one?

I use firewalld regularly. Firewalld isn’t a GUI, and it’s a wrapper around Nftables and/or iptables depending on the distribution.

I haven’t tried opensnitch.

Desktop icons. you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?

Not having to use a Gnome extension to get desktop icons. 🙂 Although, other DEs aren’t much better.

Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade. manually, or even automatically? if it's the first, check out DKMS

DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That would be Windows.

For server config management there are lots of tools. FreeIPA and Ansible will do quite a bit, but when getting into stuff to manage Linux desktops fleets there isn’t a lot of endpoint management out there.

Fleet Commander is the main effort out there, and then Red Canary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

There really isn’t.

It’s only every so often with extensions, and every release reduces the number of extensions I use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I forgot about easy integration with iPhones. Tethering requires extra steps and I haven’t tried pulling files off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

Support for auto cloud sync from vendors, or just auto cloud sync of setting between devices.

DE stability. I keep a Mac around for times when Gnome is kind of broken.

cmd shortcuts which don’t interfere with app shortcuts.

Powerful desktop Arm chips.

Gui to manage services.

Gui to manage firewall.

Easy fleet management tools.

A real terminal services and Remote Desktop solution.

Desktop icons.

Tighter userland security.

Tighter OS security. Mostly dm-verify and fs-verify.

Tiling support. (There are extensions, but I need to experiment.)

Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.

Base and extras being cleanly separated.

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