Notices by TintedKiwi (tintedkiwi@mastodon.social)

@itsfoss My experience with their new GTK app is mostly fine. I’ve not had any crashes or issues that prevent me from using it. The app is now included in the Arch Extra repository which is cool.

It did occasionally “forget” that I was signed in. Contacting support was a waste of time; just giving me the standard “Arch is not a supported distro” line. The AUR package was using the Ubuntu deb package 🙄

They should work on improving the startup; it takes a few seconds before anything is usable.

@nixCraft Truth. I would love to learn and use Python and Rust but we use C# and the .NET stack at work and I don’t have the time or energy atm to learn new languages and their frameworks.

@itsfoss Building AUR packages in a chroot with Paru and then adding them to a custom repository.

@nixCraft Don’t forget about the robot companions/partners

@nixCraft I always used the mainline precompiled kernel from the distribution repo’s. Nowadays I compile my own via linux-tkg, which really simplifies the process.

@itsfoss I disable secure DNS in the browser as I use NextDNS with DoT via systemd-resolved.

DoH support is being worked on, though they could use more contributors.

@itsfoss I prefer using drop files in /etc/sudoers.d

My top 4 tweaks are:
- Set rnano as the default editor
- Disable the sudo lecture
- Allow sudo access for users in the wheel group
- Enable insults 😝

@itsfoss I tend to prefer Arch repos > AUR > Flatpak.

Don’t really care for AppImages, they usually have an AUR package available.

I will never have snaps on my system. Of the two, I have chosen Flatpak and am sticking with it.

@itsfoss Good, we need less dominance from Google and M$

@itsfoss I need to get some t-shirts…

@itsfoss 64GB on my laptop 😎
Idling at 2.42 GB on Arch Linux KDE

@nixCraft This is pretty cool, Arch needs something like this for pacman; ILoveCandy doesn’t come close to this 👀

@itsfoss Me just patiently waiting over here for Linux support 😞

@itsfoss MPV :sickmeme:

@itsfoss Any game that has kernel-level anticheat is an automatic no buy from me. Very soon I will have migrated the last of my data to Proton Drive; and then the SSD with Windows on it will be physically removed from my laptop.

If, for some odd reason, I need to use Windows in future; it will be via VirtualBox. I am at a point where I go out of my way to stay on Linux at all times.

@itsfoss Notesnook is awesome, I’m in the process of moving over from Obsidian.

@nixCraft I had a similar experience a year or so ago trying out Gentoo on a 12 year old laptop. The Wi-Fi driver was removed from the upstream linux-firmware package at some point. Turns out the awesome maintainers put it (and other drivers for the same family of chips) in its own package. That was an awesome feeling when the wi-fi started working on an otherwise e-waste laptop 😎

@eff @zoracon Everything will be abused by someone at some point. Doesn’t mean that we can’t have nice things because we fear how it will be abused.

@itsfoss 🍿

@itsfoss KeePassXC FTW