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Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

cycloptic wrote: post #59
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Again, there are solutions to these problems and there are people who are working on making it "nice" for whatever your definition of that term is. ...which is irrelevant, because the original poster I was responding to is saying that the current standard is nice, and I was disagreeing.

So just to be clear, what would be relevant to you and what could be done to solve this? Since you already knew about AppImages and consider them a solution, could we say your criticism is essentially that not enough applications are using AppImages? (And if you were wondering, I am not associated with AppImages in any way, I'm just another person trying to talk to you about problems on Linux)

I am not interested in this discussion, as I have had it dozens of times (probably hundreds over the past 20 years) and find the effort tedious.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by cycloptic »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #61
cycloptic wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So just to be clear, what would be relevant to you and what could be done to solve this? Since you already knew about AppImages and consider them a solution, could we say your criticism is essentially that not enough applications are using AppImages? (And if you were wondering, I am not associated with AppImages in any way, I'm just another person trying to talk to you about problems on Linux)

I am not interested in this discussion, as I have had it dozens of times (probably hundreds over the past 20 years) and find the effort tedious.

Me too, that's why I'm asking about ways we can solve it for real so we can avoid the circular discussion. I've seen a great many people complaining that the Linux filesystem is "broken" but putting forth little effort to communicate their requirements or fix things. Please, let's be better than that.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by Thev00d00 »

GuB-42 wrote: post #7

I also love coding on Linux, but there are shortcomings. Not enough to make me prefer Windows, but enough to make me wish for something better. Generally, Windows has better GUI-based tools. The big one being debuggers, I really miss debugging in Visual Studio (C++). But more generally, Windows tends to have a better selection of IDEs, database editors, version control GUIs, etc... I love command lines and text edito…

CLion is great for C++ on all the platforms

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by naavis »

profsnuggles wrote: post #48
cbpowell wrote: post #40

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Assuming you really want to know, try SharpKeys.

https://sharpkeys.en.softonic.com/ looks so scammy, and I have ublock turned on... I can only imagine how it must look without that. I'm sure it's fine but why do all windows tool s always get hosted on the most scam looking websites? When I'm stuck on windows I use https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ctrl... Of course adding setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps to ~/.xinitrc seems way easier to me. But…

That Softonic site is probably totally unrelated to the original developer. This is the legit site: https://www.randyrants.com/software/

It's also on GitHub: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by wrinklz »

Love the choice of window managers and desktop environments in GNU/Linux. I love i3wm and XFCE. I fully utilize my screen(s) real estate (automatically), and everything I need is at my fingertips.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by cycloptic »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #58
pizza234 wrote: post #52

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ok, you're referring to package management. if you talk about configuration files, well behaved packages will differentiate removal and purge; the latter will remove configurations and data. > [0] https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/amd64/keepassxc/filelist what's wrong specifically with that? based on the list of files, the package is well-behaved, as it's placing the files in the expected locations (I personally did…

As I said, what's wrong is that organizing files in this way is that it necessitates something like a package manager to keep track of which files are associated with which applications. This is not a "nice" way to organize things, it's a needlessly complicated one as evidenced by the operating systems, both current and historical, that don't do that and don't need a package manager. > Windows, for comparison, is hel…

I don't see how the current MacOS is any different from Linux there. For end-user applications you can have the user download an app bundle (equivalent to AppImage) or get it off the app store (equivalent to flatpak/snap). For random open source libraries and utilities, you still would want to use Brew or Macports, which are package managers.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by waych »

chr wrote: post #25
GuB-42 wrote: post #7

I also love coding on Linux, but there are shortcomings. Not enough to make me prefer Windows, but enough to make me wish for something better. Generally, Windows has better GUI-based tools. The big one being debuggers, I really miss debugging in Visual Studio (C++). But more generally, Windows tends to have a better selection of IDEs, database editors, version control GUIs, etc... I love command lines and text edito…

If Windows is a good GUI, how do I reliably swap caps lock and control?

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys has reliable key remapping. Also has decent window tiling.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

cycloptic wrote: post #66
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I said, what's wrong is that organizing files in this way is that it necessitates something like a package manager to keep track of which files are associated with which applications. This is not a "nice" way to organize things, it's a needlessly complicated one as evidenced by the operating systems, both current and historical, that don't do that and don't need a package manager. > Windows, for comparison, is hel…

I don't see how the current MacOS is any different from Linux there. For end-user applications you can have the user download an app bundle (equivalent to AppImage) or get it off the app store (equivalent to flatpak/snap). For random open source libraries and utilities, you still would want to use Brew or Macports, which are package managers.

It's been a while since I've used a current (post-MacOS9) Mac. It used to be the case that the vast majority of applications were Application Bundles.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by wayneftw »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #46
Enginerrrd wrote: post #17

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Honestly, it's weird that Ubuntu has the reputation that it does. I still conceive of it as a "user-friendly" distro in the back of my mind, but my experience is that it constantly finds new and interesting ways to break. Compare that to Arch, which was a PITA to setup once, but since I have, I've had one minor thing break on an AUR package and that's it. But Arch has the reputation as the one that breaks on updates.…

Yeah. PPAs are such a user-unfriendly alternative to the AUR, which just has everything . Also, Ubuntu (with GNOME), Kubuntu, and Xubuntu (but not Lubuntu...) recently switched to some new crypto greeter (the thing you put your password into to unlock your encrypted drive at boot) which glitches out very badly. On every other boot, it flickers between its graphical facade and the underlying CLI prompt, and single key…

Sticking with an LTS/Recommended kernel has served me well in Manjaro. Currently I'm running 5.4.95-1.

Last year I was running a 4.x kernel but I began having an issue with some piece of software (I forget) that, when I researched it found everybody recommending a switch to a 5.x kernel which fixed it immediately for me.

Switching kernels indeed is extremely easy!

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Post by profsnuggles »

naavis wrote: post #64
profsnuggles wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://sharpkeys.en.softonic.com/ looks so scammy, and I have ublock turned on... I can only imagine how it must look without that. I'm sure it's fine but why do all windows tool s always get hosted on the most scam looking websites? When I'm stuck on windows I use https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ctrl... Of course adding setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps to ~/.xinitrc seems way easier to me. But…

That Softonic site is probably totally unrelated to the original developer. This is the legit site: https://www.randyrants.com/software/ It's also on GitHub: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

That is way better. Annoying that it wasn't in the first few search results for me.
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