Foobar2k runs pretty well on Wine, so you could always try that. If anything - I miss Foobar2k a lot too, nothing else compares to it.
The only thing I find containers useful for is quick deployments for servers. Run multiple game servers with a Debian container and they work like a charm. Not that running it normally is bad, having them separate from one another is nice. Eats up less resources to (at least I think).
If you don't mind running a dedicated media server, Jellyfin works pretty well. There's desktop jellyfin media player you can use to interface with it and it looks good in gnome. I dabbled in rhythmbox, clementine, and the like but am most pleased with jellyfin currently.
My music collection is already on my NAS, so that is an option. I will look into that.
The fucking canceraids of snaps (or even flatpak from what I can see) is awful, and distros pushing it on you is worse. My favorite as someone who takes a lot of pictures is that no image editing or rawfile processing software I've used - let me be clear, NONE of it at all - asks for the 'removable storage' permission, so it can't talk to an SD or XQD card, and none of them have the slightly different sandbox permission to let it access network storage.
Maintaining software packages is the distro's purpose. Containers encourage arcane, nonportable, broken, overcomplicated software development practices. "Who cares how hard it is to set-up? We have CONTAINERS for that."
Might be an easy transition then. If you use ubuntu server 22.04, the stable build is currently borked. Nightlies are working though.
What the fuck? Not being able to load or import from a media card makes photo software fucking broken. I guess in some sense it is the fault of the package maintainers, at least when it comes to Debian/Ubuntu. Some of that shit gets so out of date that it breaks dependencies. My VPS running rtorrent/rutorrent and some retarded issue with the curl3/curl4 meme because of it.
Correct. I looked up the bugs people file on this and the snap people go "Oh just turn on this permission" and you can't because although you can attach a permission as a user to a snap, it won't work unless the signing key for the snap asked for it in the first place.What the fuck? Not being able to load or import from a media card makes photo software fucking broken. I guess in some sense it is the fault of the package maintainers, at least when it comes to Debian/Ubuntu. Some of that shit gets so out of date that it breaks dependencies. My VPS running rtorrent/rutorrent and some retarded issue with the curl3/curl4 meme because of it.
Also
>no hardware acceleration
Like GPU acceleration? Lol, for my pirated version of Lightroom I have to disable GPU acceleration otherwise it glitches the fuck out and I don't enjoy the 700 millisecond delay in preview rendering. If I wanted to stay in 2003 I wouldn't have bothered getting new hardware
Free as in "I'll run the .deb/.rpm/.whathaveyou" rather than stuff that belongs in walled garden ecosystems, thanks.
systemd vs. SysVinit is like the fucking car analogy of the Linux world. More than 2 init systems exist, some of them a direct result of this development. Containerization isn't bad by itself. However, all of its current iterations are terrible. The runit of containers isn't here so, as far as I, a user, am concerned, it is bad. Coming Soon
, just like Wayland and its compositors.I applaud your optimism. So far, making things easier for developers only led to wider adoption of sloppily written bullshit using Python or NodeJS.
This is the main problem. Permissions need to be more easily configurable by the end user and snaps should be able to request more permissions if they need them.
I was having a real good day until I remembered that's exactly what I sound like.
Many days later and I still can't get it to detect anything TB. Seems like the board is shot since even windows won't detect anything on the bus. At least it's still waranteed.
