I paid my sins, father! Now all my MacBooks are on Linux! All of them!

Perhaps you just don’t know Arch well then.

I owned only MacBooks and not pre-built PCs, so it’s the same for me. Never bought a single Windows license, even the OEM one.

I was worried there might be some weird bugs, as all my other clients are on v2. But so far, I haven’t noticed anything wrong.

So it’s purely some kind of a mix of cargo cult and just the will to have the newer updated software everywhere. That makes little practical sense, but I’m still with this illusion of newer = better, on a subconscious level, I think. Plus, I wasn’t sure everything is correct as it is not updated for a long time, I thought perhaps some Debian repos ingrained into my Fedora!

Yeah, like, Blender devs being: ‘we implemented HDR on Linux. Windows? You can implement it yourself, if you want.’

Source: The real change log of some year or so ago, but I cannot find the link quickly. Here it states the Windows is supported too now.

What a nice way to say sudo rm -fr /

I can say about the stability, as I use Syncthing extensively and the version 2 since day one. It had the database issue, perhaps upon migration, which lead the program to crash on my Raspberry Pi 2B with 1 GB RAM. At some point I noticed the issue, removed the database and let it rebuilt it cleanly, which did the job and fixed the issue. Plus, I made a swap partition just in case. Haven’t seen any other issues after that. That was DietPi distro, based on Debian.

I had no issues like that on Arch, but my Arch desktops, laptops, and servers are more powerful, perhaps they handled the migration better. I expect that this was some bug that was fixed later. Fedora still syncs, but I wonder when would they update the repo, or if that’s me that wasn’t attentive somewhere and I need to change the repo. Maybe they follow the topic closer.

Oh Windows did mess with me a gazillion times in 2000s, when I was a poor kid with just one HDD, and tried to dual boot.

Uncle Ben taught me the hard way, through his nephew, Peter. I was still a kid, but I knew: big power, big responsibility.

I don’t understand why Syncthing is still not version 2 on Fedora. Did I do something wrong? Did the repo changed? Apart from that, I agree, I really like Fedora on systems where I don’t want to mess with the system. But I do want to mess with my systems, that’s the point of Linux for me now :)

I had this too, but I use ctrl + r all the time (with fzf), and really have no need for that many aliases.

A friend advised me to sell mine when the GPU prices were crazy, I could get like $200 for it, or a bit more (years prior to that, I bought it for $150 from another friend, used, he tried to mine some Etherium with it). I was lazy, and perhaps the friend was right, I could buy something better for the price now. But I’m really satisfied with the card and feel no need to upgrade any time soon. Runs everything I want.

I do sudo pacman -Syu as a ritual each time when I start my computer or laptop. Like, the very first thing after the system is booted. So far so good, been doing that for 7 years.

True. Yet, I hate it as a server too. I use it only on SBCs, but not pure Debian, but Armbian. Otherwise, on an X64 machine, I’d go with Arch.

For me Debian is the worst distribution I ever used, excluding Ubuntu (that’s the primer of trash distro). I mean, it must be good for many people, but I just cannot stand it, it’s always obsolete and always breaks on me. I tried to love it for like ten or more years, no luck so far. So its logo is the least annoying thing to me. Their website shows too. Like a competition of ‘we’re a huge community, look, nobody can make a website here!’

Well, do you know any Linux distro with a not super ugly logo? I have no idea, perhaps Red Hat is quite cool, the rest being a competition of ugliness with no sense. Arch has some sense, and is not that ugly, but it’s not something aesthetic. I think Ubuntu’s logo is quite cool, it even has some sense, but that’s the only good thing I can say about Ubuntu.

I have never used anything CAD, neither I can tell much about Blender (but I’ve heard only good things about it). But I don’t think we’re necessarily need to pay people to achieve good things. Look at Photoshop. I’ve been using it since about 20 years ago, and I see very little progress, it got only worse. Yes, there’s new functionality, but come on! A trillion dollar company, two decades … is that the best they can do?

I’m genuinely curious why the whole Linux Design Tools thing gives an impression it was designed by only incompetent people. Perhaps no designers are interested in Linux or open source systems, since they don’t understand open source. But I believe the whole thing relates to that ‘just for fun’ book I’ve been reading like 20 years ago. The idea is that you want to do something, and you do that. I have some hope that macOS liquid fiasco would make some designers to consider other systems. But having a solid experience in design, I think you have to be very committed to using Linux. I’m struggling daily, and I know I could install macOS (most of my hardware is from Apple) and be done with most tasks. But I think long-term and I believe in open source systems. They have this huge advantage of nobody fucking with you by changing anything any moment. So, me, I’m trying to learn Gimp, and you know I like it in many places. But the interface, come on. Since you guys cannot / unable to just copy the most popular tool on the market anyway, why not make some okay-ish interface then? Really, what’s stopping them (I hope) is there are not many volunteers with the design experience. I could join the forces, but honestly, being like over two decades with Linux (on and off, but mostly on for the past 7 years), I have no idea where to start. I understand that I need to analyse some design tools first, understand their logic, find the pain points, and then somehow get the decision making people to listen to you.

As a demonstration, look at some Gnome File Manager (aka Nautilus) design decisions: they say they don’t want to implement ‘new tabs by default’ feature because it’ll clutter the settings, and they don’t want to have too many options there. While I agree, good strategy, they implemented some idiotic options already. My opinion, they could remove all of them. Will they do that? Of course not. Do they think in terms of UX, user workflows? I thought they do, and I like Gnome’s design decisions here and there. But some are just … it looks like there was no proper thinking put into the work.

I’d love to contribute, but generally, that takes a lot of effort. And for what? As a designer, I’m trying to avoid getting idiotic interfaces, so I’m trying to skip them altogether, with imagemagick and whatnot.

Are Gimp developers even aware their interface is the absolute worse? Are they aware GTK-3 rewrite that took them over a decade or how long, is quite overdue? I believe they are. For Gimp, I’m quite positive about their future, I hope they are too popular, even despite the name is quite idiotic (yet quite descriptive) for English speaking countries. Like come on, rename that shit, redesign that shit, perhaps you’d get more people using it, and more donations as a result.

Sometimes I think that could be a viable business strategy to start some image (ie raster) editor or vector editor, as Gimp is the worst UI wise, Krita is somewhat ok, but no Wayland, and it doesn’t look like they’re even planning. Inkscape is usable for basic svg editing, but I don’t know, it’s difficult to compare to even Adobe Illustrator CS6 (which works in wine by the way) of 20 years ago, not to say about Figma (that’s a very high bar, with billions of investors’ dollars, I understand). I have no idea of After Effects competitors. I guess Blender can be utilised somewhere. I don’t know about Houdini, perhaps it has Linux build, I don’t remember. If not, I don’t believe Linux community would get there any time soon, but Blender might have some chances some time in the future. I’ve heard good things about Godot. But that’s pretty high bar, all these tools, for an average Joe.

All the design tools, for some reason, they lack some collective understanding (do they though? Maybe they are aware) that they need to improve their UI first, as it’s borderline pathetic quite often. Is it too difficult to actually copy the proprietary competitor? You don’t need huge R&D, they did that for you, didn’t they?

Well, so, perhaps you’re right on the money issue, but I think they need to nurture some design culture, by inviting motivated people into the community. It shouldn’t be too difficult to improve those things by copying. That might be not the best thing to do, but better than what we have now.

If anybody’s involved reading this, I’m interested in improving the things, but I have no idea where to even start. I don’t have much resources jumping through the hoops, but I can be somewhat resourceful on the interfaces front. Ping me please, either here or waltesweiss at Google’s Mail.

Hey, I was hosting the entire Servarr stack on a Raspberry Pi 2B, and it was working no issues. But I removed it, as I did not really utilised it.

Design tools are getting better. I find Gimp usable with PhotoGIMP plugin, Inkscape being somewhat useable for basic svgs made for web (mostly icons), blender is great, but I don’t know it yet, so cannot comment properly. It’s getting there, just slowly. I made a bunch of one-task scripts with imagemagick and it’s a breeze! It’s very easy with any GPT. So it’s not that bad as it was a decade ago like.

I like Gnome too, and I think their settings done via terminal is genius. I know Apple has it too. I have no idea who invented this first, but I love it. The pro user can tune the things they like, but an average user don’t need that many configuration options.