Random Dent

Yeah same here, I’m a tinkerer so Plasma is perfect for me. No shade to anyone who uses GNOME or whatever else though, I like that we have options for everyone.

Yeah I do miss Latte Dock. I’ve managed to get my docks pretty much back to where I had them using Panel Colorizer though.

For me it’s pretty important because I want my computer to feel good to use, so I’ll spend quite a lot of time making sure everything’s set up the way I like it. In terms of GNOME vs KDE, I’m definitely a KDE person. Not that I hate GNOME or think there’s anything wrong with other people using it, I just don’t get along with it personally. For me it feels like there’s too much stuff in GNOME that should be part of the core DE that relies on extensions, which tend to break with updates so there’s always something that’s not quite working.

Same here, just plain Arch (BTW). I also don’t mention it IRL unless someone asks, and they never have lol.

I’m in a similar boat, as a 2D animator. Which admittedly is pretty niche but if Linux had something like Moho Pro or Toon Boom then I could delete my Windows partition forever. You can do 2D animation in Blender, but IMO it’s not quite up there compared to a dedicated 2D software like Toon Boom Harmony.

I think Linux has a sort of built-in failsafe for that, in that it’s so fragmented. I’m sure that if a critical mass of people start using it then enshittification and nonsense will start to creep in in places (as with everything, more people come > corporations follow trying to make a buck > they slowly poison and ruin everything) but there’s nothing to stop someone just spinning off a different distro that works only for nerds.

• Types in username and password

“Perfect! You are now logged into your computer. Enjoy your desktop!”

• Nothing happens. Try to log in again

“You’re absolutely right, I failed to log you in while claiming you had actually logged in. Good catch! I’ll log you into your system now. Have fun!”

• Nothing happens

When thou must press F12 to enter thine boot menu, thou must not presseth F12 only once. Only by pressing F12 a multitude of times and with great speed mayest thou enter the holy menu.

I used to work as an animator and now I have that lol. It’s hard to watch anything animated just for fun because my brain wants to take it apart and analyze it.

I’ve used Cura in Linux, can confirm it worked fine for me.

I’m lucky that I work from home (have done since before the pandemic) and pretty much all my work is done in a browser, and my bosses don’t care what I use as long as the work gets done. So I just work on Fedora on my regular desktop.

No worries! If you do decide to go that way, these are the guides that got it working for me:

Wine: https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-scapple-for-windows-activation-under-wine/47254/5

Bottles: https://joe8bit.com/blog/running-scrivener-on-linux

I understand why it doesn’t exist because it’s pretty niche and a shitload of work, but I wish there was a a really good dedicated 2D animation software similar to Moho Pro or Toon Boom Harmony on Linux. That’s one of the only reasons I’m still keeping Windows around.

Also as a side note, don’t trust Toon Boom. I bought a perpetual license from them that was super expensive, and then they switched to a subscription model and turned off my perpetual license.

My somewhat convoluted solution is using Scrivener 3 in Wine. Takes a bit of setting up but works really well for me now. Also it’s not a dedicated screenwriting software (it’s designed for novels I think) but it has a screenwriting mode which does everything I need it to.

Mine used to be like that, but now my home folder is rehabilitated by turning ~/Documents into a hellhole of accumulated junk instead.

You can also just make a file called .hidden and paste the names in there and it’ll hide them, that way it doesn’t mess up any paths/symlinks etc. Or at least in KDE/Dolphin you can do that, I dunno about other setups.

Saturn’s butt is made of Bitcoin, got it.

I’m trying to think of the last time I heard news about something to do with the internet getting better instead of worse, and I’m genuinely coming up blank.

• Meta by itself just opens the launcher thingy in KDE so I can search for an app.
• Meta + T = Open terminal
• Meta + E = Open Dolphin (this is a Windows holdover, Meta + E opened Explorer but it’s kind of hard-coded into my brain now)
• Meta + F = Open Firefox

I think that’s all of them.

I can see the UK doing this, they love to implement ludicrously restrictive and impossible to enforce anti-privacy laws. My working theory is that they’re lobbied to implement them by IT consultancy firms, who then get hired to consult on, say, banning VPNs, take 10 years to investigate it at eye-watering cost to the public, then go “Yeah turns out you can’t ban VPNs, I don’t know what the previous government was thinking” and then use that money to lobby the new government to ban encryption or some other nonsense, then repeat.