People are now having "Install fests" for Windows instead of #Linux, after becoming completely overwhelmed trying to navigate the 107 setup screens (which include 14 pitches for various services and subscriptions) required for a successful Windows installation.
The Fedora Quality Team is joining Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!
Much like other Test Days, the goal of this week is to put Fedora through its paces and catch as many accessibility related issues as we can for our disable users. If you want to put your advocacy to action, consider participating!
The Accessibility Test Week runs from Jun 19-25, starting tomorrow.
Oh, man, so I’ll be writing a proper review of the new #StarLite#Linux#tablet but initial thoughts…
Emotional brain: I love this thing! The screen alone is amazing. Just gorgeous! 2,880×1,920 @ 200% is perfect. Feels amazing in your hand in portrait orientation.
Rational brain: Has basic usability issues.
• Can’t use encrypted drive without external keyboard • GNOME on-screen keyboard unusable • Front camera is crap • Back camera not recognised (?)
@JackTheCat It means Ubuntu (and likely any other distribution that defaults to GNOME) is broken on tablet computers.
But things like this happen in the Linux world. Basically all major Linux distributions are also currently shipping with a broken screen reader, making them inaccessible to people who rely on one to use a computer.
So, first issue, popovers (eg., drop-down menus, app menus, etc.) don’t work on GTK 4 apps (like System Settings in GNOME) on touchscreen devices. Three-year old bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1523
I guess that means tablets are not currently supported under GNOME.
Going to see if KDE Plasma works on touchscreen Linux tablets.
#Linux distros: the gateway drug to a world of terminal commands, endless customization, and questionable desktop environments or apps. Enter at your own risk. But one thing is clear: you will not return to the old OS once you start installing Linux willingly on your Thinkpad.
lnav is a terminal-based log file viewer (TUI) for #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, and other #Unix like systems. It combines the functionality of tools like tail, grep, awk, sed, and cat into a single interface. It also allows you to run SQL queries against your log files to build reports and offers basic support for Linux containers like Docker. lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/lnav-linux-unix-ncurses-terminal-log-file-viewer/
As for distros, my favorite distro is probably always going to be #ZorinOS. I have an old #Thinkpad and wasn’t able to run #Firefox on it well, but it’s because #Firefox has a minor memory leak issue or something on #Linux and the laptop is so old that it doesn’t have the overhead to handle it lol
And so, after less than a day, the next phase of my #ROGAlly journey begins. Let's see if a #Linux alternative OS can fulfill this device's potential, because I really do think it has great potential. . .
Hrmmm, secure your OpenSSH server, you must, young Padawan. Three simple steps to follow, there are:
00) Password Authentication, a weakness it is. SSH Keys, use you must 01) Root Login, a vulnerability it presents. Restrict it, you shall 02) OpenSSH, updated it must be kept
Microsoft has recalled Windows Recall until it is ready. Meanwhile Open Recall might be what you have been looking for? It works on #Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Folks, just a quick apology, I was wrong: I just heard that GNOME’s screen recorder is apparently only meant to be used to create low-quality recordings to be added to bug reports.
(Apologies for assuming it was a professional-quality tool. The screenshots it takes don’t look bad so I just went and assumed the screencasts would be usable also. My bad.)
So please don’t use it to create any actual screencasts or anything. (You can use OBS if you need a real screen recording tool.)
Here’s a better list of what’s affected when you change the frame rate of an existing project:
• Guide locations are wrong (offset by a certain amount). If there was a way to group all guides and move them together it would be a five-second fix (or if Kdenlive did this automatically so they were correct to begin with). As is, it’s a laboriuous process of moving each guide separately.
PS. One thing that caught me out: the default project setting was for 1080 resolution at 25fps. Make sure you set it to 30 (or 60 if you’re a gamer, I guess) if you need to and not get caught out like I did as changing the FPS on an existing project throws out all your timings for effects, etc.
If you’re working in Kdenlive, guides are your friend. As are the razor, slip, and ripple tools (take a moment to really learn them and you’ll save yourself a lot of time).
Also, the alt+arrow keys for navigating between clips on the timeline and ctrl+arrow keys for navigating between guides.
Finally, useful filters: Everything in Motion, Volume and Dynamics (audio fades, etc.), Alpha, Mask, Keying → Obscure (pixellate sensitive stuff).