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Friedrich Hayek's Ghost said:
OnlyOffice is close enough in UI that I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't sued over it
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It just had an overhaul update (OnlyOffice 9). It now has markdown support and it's even more similar to Microsoft, enough for me to download all the installers in case they sue them for it and force them back to use ugly FOSS UI's again. I simply refuse to use LibreOffice again because it's so ugly and janky, especially Calc.

God I hope that one day FOSS software is made by some professionals and not larping nerds who don't know shit about what computers are actually for; To assist you IRL and not be busy work that takes longer time to fix/maintain than the actual task..
 
snowdunes said:
It just had an overhaul update (OnlyOffice 9). It now has markdown support and it's even more similar to Microsoft, enough for me to download all the installers in case they sue them for it and force them back to use ugly FOSS UI's again. I simply refuse to use LibreOffice again because it's so ugly and janky, especially Calc.
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The last time I used a spreadsheet it was actually just Gnumeric and all I was doing with it was previewing the content of a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame. I'll bite; why does Calc suck?
 
Belisarius Cawl said:
Mint has been a happy medium for me. I had to install Vim from source (before I switched to Neovim) and it looks like the only other major thing I had to compile from scratch right now has been R.
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I'd like for there to be an in-between of Debian and Arch, which has the stability and overall structure of the former but the relative freshness and availability of packages of the latter. Debian with a desktop environment is a very clean base without too many extra packages preinstalled where Mint has too many, but Arch has too little and you have to fuck around with it more to get it to that "just works" state. Plus, Arch is Arch, and Debian is Debian. Shame they actively defend a chomo but hey, at this point you might as well go full Ted K with how fucked software is nowadays.

Anyways, lsfg-vk got some official recognition from Lossless Scaling's dev in the recent patchnotes:
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Betonhaus said:
I just need something that I can just copy the direct download path for a specific file, while changing the name the file downloads as
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Do you? I haven't used it for a while, but I believe the MyJDownloader browser extension allows loading up files to download.

As for changing file names.. JDownloader's pretty flexible. You can't cover things off by setting up rules to direct your YT video rips into one directory, and your porn into another?
 
Slav Power said:
I'd like for there to be an in-between of Debian and Arch, which has the stability and overall structure of the former but the relative freshness and availability of packages of the latter. Debian with a desktop environment is a very clean base without too many extra packages preinstalled where Mint has too many, but Arch has too little and you have to fuck around with it more to get it to that "just works" state. Plus, Arch is Arch, and Debian is Debian. Shame they actively defend a chomo but hey, at this point you might as well go full Ted K with how fucked software is nowadays.

Anyways, lsfg-vk got some official recognition from Lossless Scaling's dev in the recent patchnotes:
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I mean I use Debian testing with flatpaks for anything I need to be fresher. I know it's less than ideal but it works okay. I've contemplated running my own apt repo for some of the apps I need to be on more recent version of/can't get via Debian repos, might actually bite the bullet on that one day if my flatpak fatigue gets too high. Ultimately unless you want to make your own packages or add another persons repo you're doomed to a dual package manager solution for this mix of stable and fresh I think, since they're antithetical. Either that or use nixOS where the cure is worse than the disease.
 
KillaSmoke said:
I know its not Linux, but does BSD get much love around here?

I've got a freebsd server I run a zfs NAS off of. I don't really do anything fancy or complicated with it. But anytime I ssh in to do some maintenance, I remember how much I like BSD, and that I should figure out a project I can do to have an excuse to play with it more.

I can't quite put my finger on what it is I like so much about it. They've got great documentation, and that's definitely part of it.
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+1 for FreeBSD. Don't let the CoC or other drama discourage you, it is 99% performative. Open is great too but a bit too slow to use as a main OS.
 
Has anyone tried installing Xlibre on Linux Mint? How difficult is it to do? And you'd need time shift to revert, right?
 
Betonhaus said:
Has anyone tried installing Xlibre on Linux Mint? How difficult is it to do? And you'd need time shift to revert, right?
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If it's packaged appropriately, you ought to be able to revert it using apt. But I see no evidence of it being packaged yet.

https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/xserver/ Xorg Debian packaging sits in this repo. It shouldn't be far from working with Xlibre. When packaging is built appropriately, it should be as easy to install as dpkg -i *.deb.
 
analrapist said:
If it's packaged appropriately, you ought to be able to revert it using apt. But I see no evidence of it being packaged yet.

https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/xserver/ Xorg Debian packaging sits in this repo. It shouldn't be far from working with Xlibre. When packaging is built appropriately, it should be as easy to install as dpkg -i *.deb.
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I mean like compiling from the source code directly from the GitHub source. Brave AI seems to think I just need to uninstall a couple packages (from a Wayland or TTY session) then compile it from source, and recompile the Nvidia drivers if needed.
 
Betonhaus said:
I mean like compiling from the source code directly from the GitHub source.
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The problem with DIY Xorg builds is that they touch a LOT of places on your distro in distro-specific ways, which is why I default to expecting proper packaging. Generally, if you have the competence to DIY an Xorg install like this, you won't need others to tell you how.
 
If you care that much about using Xlibre as soon as possible, it will be easier to switch distros to something like Open Mandriva that already packages it, but I repeat that it's a better idea for you to wait until it's out of beta because there will be breakage and you will need to troubleshoot.
 
volatile puar said:
If you care that much about using Xlibre as soon as possible, it will be easier to switch distros to something like Open Mandriva that already packages it, but I repeat that it's a better idea for you to wait until it's out of beta because there will be breakage and you will need to troubleshoot.
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I was just planning to install it and see how well it works then roll back using timeshift. It would be a pain having to update it manually every time anyways
 
Belisarius Cawl said:
The last time I used a spreadsheet it was actually just Gnumeric and all I was doing with it was previewing the content of a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame. I'll bite; why does Calc suck?
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The appearance is pretty dated, and nothing special to look at even by contemporary standards. It also has some small incompatibilities with Excel. Most of the major formulas (SUM, AVERAGE, et cetera.) work fine, but some of the ones people consider advanced have syntax differences or, worse, no equivalent at all. If you're just trying to do a home budget or something like that, it's fine. If you're trying to do anything heavier, you'll probably run into a problem at some point.
 
Friedrich Hayek's Ghost said:
The appearance is pretty dated, and nothing special to look at even by contemporary standards. It also has some small incompatibilities with Excel. Most of the major formulas (SUM, AVERAGE, et cetera.) work fine, but some of the ones people consider advanced have syntax differences or, worse, no equivalent at all. If you're just trying to do a home budget or something like that, it's fine. If you're trying to do anything heavier, you'll probably run into a problem at some point.
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When I do anything heavier I just use pandas or Tidyverse packages
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?
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Switched to SLS after getting tired of (and getting flamed by) Jolitz and his broken BSD shit.
What was it like? It was great. Never had to interact with Jolitz or his faggot friends any more.
 
Slav Power said:
I'd like for there to be an in-between of Debian and Arch, which has the stability and overall structure of the former but the relative freshness and availability of packages of the latter. Debian with a desktop environment is a very clean base without too many extra packages preinstalled where Mint has too many, but Arch has too little and you have to fuck around with it more to get it to that "just works" state. Plus, Arch is Arch, and Debian is Debian. Shame they actively defend a chomo but hey, at this point you might as well go full Ted K with how fucked software is nowadays.

Anyways, lsfg-vk got some official recognition from Lossless Scaling's dev in the recent patchnotes:
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Wouldn't that be fedora, or maybe opensuse?
 
Betonhaus said:
I was just planning to install it and see how well it works then roll back using timeshift. It would be a pain having to update it manually every time anyways
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Install it in a VM. QEMU is very easy to install these days (you can just ask Grok or Chatgpt how to install qemu and you only need to run like 4 cli lines) and then mess around with fresh VMs to your heart's content. You dont need hardware passthrough for this unless you also want to test the drivers, and that is still easier than potentially messing up your bare metal install.
 
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