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gregorni

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Hi, I’m Gregor Niehl, a tech enthusiast from Germany born in 2007. I am generally interested in all things #Linux and #OpenSource.

I write apps for the #GNOME desktop, and am part of the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME Circle Committee.

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haeckerfelix, to Haiku
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It's not selinux.
There's no way it's selinux.
It was selinux.

#haiku

gregorni,
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@mks_h @haeckerfelix gottem /j

gregorni, to keyboard
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I just hit a new highscore of words per minute in @bragefuglseth's Keypunch! (83 wpm, by the way) ⌨️

https://github.com/bragefuglseth/keypunch

#keyboard #keypunch #GNOMEApps #TypingTest

gregorni, to Cybersecurity
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I really like the latest blog post of the @sovtechfund! It not only gives a quick overview of the basic technologies our world runs on (I didn't know what TLS was, and my knowledge of the DNS needed refreshing), but it also has a great takeaway: Memory safety is not like a silver bullet, but more like a smallpox vaccine (nice analogy!)

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/on-rust-memory-safety-open-source-infrastructure

whynothugo, to random
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What the Linux ecosystem needs right now is a solid community-maintained distribution for non-technical people.

Like, if someone who's using Windows asks me right now "which Linux can I use on my laptop", I have no answer.

My partner tried Fedora, but it was so unstable and broken all over the place that she asked me to get rid of it, even if it mean starting from scratch again.

She now uses PopOS and I've had to configure dozens of things for her that would have been trivial on Windows 7.

gregorni,
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@whynothugo I don't think we need yet another distro. I believe there are lots of distros out there that target non-technical users. Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, ZorinOS and a bunch of others fall into that category. Most people, however, aren't used to doing things on Linux, and so it's harder for them than the same task on the OS they're familiar with.

gregorni,
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@whynothugo I do think you have a point in the sense that there's no go-to-for-everyone distro right now, they all have their weaknesses, it seems, but such is fragmentation.

gregorni,
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@whynothugo What I think would help the Linux ecosystem is two things:

  • An advertising campaign for Linux in general, or for a single distro. This is unlikely to happen, because most people interested in Linux despise advertisements, but I think it would really help develop a public awareness of alternative OSes.
  • A major laptop manufacturer shipping Linux by default on their flagship or business models.
gregorni,
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@lw64 I actually don't think so. Lower-end devices don't get advertised as much as higher-end models, so people wouldn't really get an awareness for it. I think a cheap Linux device would be very popular (I'm actually looking for one to recommend to people), but it wouldn't help the Linux ecosystem so much.

This is what I think, but as long as such a device hasn't been sold, we can't really tell whose approach would work better 🤷

gregorni,
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@lw64 That is true, the userbase would grow, which is always nice.

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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I'm doing another one of my little surveys, this time to see which parts of using on the desktop are the most problematic, and the various issues people are having.

I'll make a video on these results next week, and depending on the answers, maybe I'll make more videos on specific issues, either to explain these topics, or to see how we could improve.

So, here is the form, feel free to fill it out and share it around, so we have as many answers as possible!

https://nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/index.php/apps/forms/s/aMfgfisXZopCBQ6LtCHzYzTM

gregorni,
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@thelinuxEXP Interesting topic!

(Un)fortunately, I can't take the survey: I personally have never experienced any issues that bug me on Linux. It runs nicely on my laptop, and it fulfills all my computer needs. 🤷

(I've probably found something annoying at some point, but if so, it wasn't an issue that I get annoyed at regularly.)

gregorni,
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@OmegaLimit @thelinuxEXP I just spotted them, thank you for the pointer!

bragefuglseth, (edited ) to random
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GitLab is gaining the ability to automatically follow the system color scheme, which is great! There's one caveat, though: The code view color scheme is determined by a completely separate preference, and has not been updated to follow the system as of now. This is a poster case of why Choosing our Preferences is still as relevant today as two decades ago: the more granularity you have in your preferences, the harder it is to improve your software overall.

https://ometer.com/preferences.html

gregorni,
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@bragefuglseth After all these years of working on the issue, they still couldn't get it right 😞

gregorni, to GNOME
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I'm already in love with the Ptyxis terminal. The fact that I no longer need to type toolbox enter fedora every time I open the terminal is just 🤌

#Ptyxis #Terminal #toolbx #toolbox #GNOME

gregorni,
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Also, built-in support for the @catppuccin theme, just saying…

gregorni,
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@twojays You can expand the color theme section in the preferences, there should be a small "Show more…" button

gregorni,
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@twojays It's kind of in the middle of the list, one of the purple-ish ones

video/mp4

gregorni,
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@lobau Oh! Nice workaround!

mondstern, to linux German
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I translated the @flathub #linux app #letterpress into slovenian today - except for one string

@gregorni

gregorni,
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@mondstern Thanks for the contribution!

gregorni, to Amd
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I'm not actually hoping for AMD and Intel to overtake NVIDIA in the GPU market. I'd rather see their integrated GPUs get so good that we don't need dedicated GPUs anymore.

#AMD #Intel #NVIDIA #GPU

gregorni,
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Apparently, this is already kind of the case: AMD's integrated GPUs of the recent line-ups are good enough for fluid gaming, and would probably already fulfill the needs of the majority of people. Nice! 👌

gregorni,
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@hammer_gaidin Good point!

On a small scale, this could improve our laptop battery life, on a larger scale this could reduce the average consumer PC power consumption worldwide! I didn't even think of that…

gregorni, to programming
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When a programming language's website says it's a "general-purpose language", I already kind of want to not use it, because it probably won't offer anything that I can't get in another language.

I'd like to see a world where every language serves exactly one area of programming, and is highly specialized for that area.

#programming #programmingLanguages

gregorni,
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@maveillenumerique Yes, I am 😁

I think every tool should be clear about why it exists and what problem it's trying to solve. A "one thing and one thing well" sort of mindset, if you will.

What about you?

gregorni,
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@camelCaseNick But this is a different problem. I'm not talking about the safety, convenience, or intelligence that a programming language may or may not come with. I'm simply talking about the type of programming tasks that a language is intended to be used for (AI, Game Development, Systems Programming, Data Science, Embedded Systems). In this context I find being "General Purpose" a disadvantage, since you can't specialize in any specific area, or add features that only benefit that area.

UniversalBlue, to fedora
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Homebrew is now installed for you with the latest images of Bluefin, Aurora, and Bazzite. We don't have to strongly recommend installing it anymore because it's right there!

Homebrew is a great package manager especially for CLI apps. Give it a whirl if you haven't already.

Learn more: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/brew-is-now-installed-by-default-in-aurora-bluefin-and-bazzite/1717

#uBlue #Bluefin #Bazzite #uBlueAurora #Fedora #FedoraAtomic #Linux #OpenSource

gregorni,
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@UniversalBlue Homebrew for the win!

qwertzuiopy, to godot
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Booster! Made using Godot's particle System :D

#godotengine #gamedev

A booster gate, consisting of: A ring with toon shading. A yellow circle thing inside it. And two particle effects: Little sparks being sucked through the gate and big circles marching through the gate.

gregorni, (edited )
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@qwertzuiopy Godot's particle system…

…a great system for adding particles and effects in the Godot engine… (et cetera et cetera)

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