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People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?
  • Are media codecs hard to install on Fedora? I haven’t daily driven Fedora in a while, but last I remember it was one of the top-level categories in GNOME Software. Click it then install all the things. Although I suppose if the user didn’t know what a media codec is that wouldn’t help them very much

  • Your Experience with Linux, BSD etc
  • I started on Ubuntu if I recall correctly, then made the jump to Fedora at some point. I think Manjaro was in there too? That was my first exposure to KDE Plasma

    At some point I installed Arch in a VM and then I was hooked. These days I daily drive Arch with Hyprland (apps and whatnot provided by Plasma)

  • Hard drive clicking sound
  • Of course.

    You don’t have to drop everything you’re doing to get the data off, it’s not like the drive has minutes to live. However, you must unplug it and stop using it until you have time to move everything off of it

  • Help getting Ubuntu with KDE to sleep
  • Make sure power management is properly configured on the Nvidia card.

    I had this exact issue on an MSI motherboard. What ended up being the fix for me was changing the “Wake Up Event By” toggle in my UEFI. It was set to “BIOS”. Changing it to “OS” immediately fixed all the issues I was having with suspend

  • Is it worth buying the Mac keyboard for a dedicated Linux PC instead of the windows one?
  • Keychron is very expensive (you’re paying extra for the “slickness” factor of the board in my opinion), but so far the product is quality.

    The optical switch has very linear travel. If you prefer a more tactile feel, the other option for switch might work a little better

  • Whats your thoughts on Ai in your terminal?
  • Command suggestions can be provided by the shell too for what it’s worth. fish ships with autosuggestion and autocompletion. For zsh, you need a separate plugin (but it’s well worth it)

  • What I've Learned This Week
  • This is really great info! I never knew Multipass existed, thanks for sharing.

    For macOS, Homebrew can be used to selectively replace certain parts of the coreutils with the GNU versions

    Edit: On reviewing the script you mentioned, that’s exactly what it does. It uses Homebrew to replace all the coreutils in one go

  • What DEs are people using?

    I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.

    Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon

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