An open source 2D animation suite that can compete with Toon Boom Harmony. I bought an (expensive) perpetual license for Toon Boom Harmony years ago, and then they moved to a ridiculously overpriced monthly subscription model and deactivated my license, essentially ripping me off for hundreds of dollars. So ever since then I’ve wanted something to come along and put them out of business.
I like using qemu with quickget personally for quickly setting up VMs. You can literally just be like quickget ubuntu 24.04 or whatever and it’ll do all the setup for you.
It can do Mac and Windows VMs too, but they take a little bit of fiddling.
Ubuntu in general I find tends to fixate on one particular thing that not many people are asking for (Unity, Mir, that “convergent phone” thing they were doing for a while, now Snaps) and let everything else stagnate until they get the thing to be almost decent, then they dump it and go chasing after the next shiny object.
I can see why it would be a bit troublesome to base a distro around. I assume that’s why Mint keeps that LMDE version running as well.
I hate to say it, but Linux in general is not great for art stuff in my experience. There’s some good stuff like Krita and Blender, but I’ve found that Linux is generally very twitchy about graphics tablets, and some stuff like Toon Boom/Moho for animation just has no real equivalent in Linux (and I haven’t had any luck getting those to work in Wine so far either.)
One of the strangest phenomena that I’ve encountered when occasionally using Windows is that sometimes there’s a problem that’s so stupid you can’t smart your way out of it. As an example: when trying out Windows 11, I made a restore point after a fresh install so that if I fucked something up I could roll back to a clean install. I then fucked something up and thought “no worries, just roll it back.” I then discovered that Windows only keeps one restore point, and manages it automatically by itself, meaning that when I fucked up, it decided to take the state of the machine immediately after I broke it and overwrite the clean restore point with the broken one and at no point asked or informed me that that’s what it was doing.
Like how do you even begin to deal with an issue like that? The only solution I know of is to pre-assume that everything actually made by Microsoft will behave in an idiotic way sooner or later, and to replace as much of it as you can with third-party solutions as quickly as possible immediately after a fresh install, but anyone new to Windows/not a tech person has absolutely no way of knowing this.
Oh sorry! In Linux there are different ways of formatting your drives, kind of like FAT32 and NTFS in Windows, if you’re familiar with those? Anyway, ext4 is like the old reliable in Linux, and btrfs is the newer one which I think is the default on some distros now.
Anyway, if you open up Konsole and type lsblk -f it should tell you which one you have. I don’t think you can change it without reformatting and starting over though.
There’s a preview version of union in Plasma 6.7 I believe, although it’s a bit bare-bones IIRC.
Are you using btrfs by any chance? I think copy-on-write can sometimes cause delays in Dolphin. Mine doesn’t always update the free disk space right away when I delete a file, for example.
I always felt like Canonical had a big problem with going all-in on something they thought was neat (the Unity desktop, Mir, that thing where phones and desktops were supposed to merge, now Snaps) and letting everything else stagnate, then getting the thing they were working on to the point where it was almost good, then dumping it and going after the next shiny thing.
But yeah these days I think things like Pop!OS and Mint are better Ubuntus than Ubuntu is.
I think one of the main hurdles for Linux is having to break habits and do things differently, and occasionally just accepting that there are some things you can’t do (like playing games that have certain anti-cheat things enabled etc.) As well as the occasional “well I could probably make this work eventually, but is it worth the effort?” kind of situation.
There’s nothing especially I miss from Windows, although I’ve been mostly Linux for 15+ years now so Windows is the other, weird OS to me these days lol
Without giving too much info, I had to use it as part of a legal process a while ago, it’s what the solicitors use to verify ID so I didn’t really have a choice but to use it. But my thinking about using things like GrapheneOS etc. isn’t necessarily to be 100% anonymous online, it’s more to just minimize the amount of info they can get out of me.
Yeah there is: https://lemmy.ml/c/unixporn
Bibata Modern Ice here!
Good. As a European person using Linux in Canada, I refuse to engage with any extra nonsense on my computer just because some American states are being idiotic. Even if it’s just one extra click, I’m not doing it just because California says I should. Get fucked
I’ve been using Vim for 20 years.
I only opened it once and I haven’t been able to close it yet
I use a yubikey on my laptop, but I use it to make it even harder to log in. It’s set to challenge-response so you have to have the key in and enter a password to unlock LUKS. Bit overkill but it was more just to see if I could do it lol
It’s like magic too, because any new weird kind of package manager I add, it’s just picks it up and starts updating it. It can even update Windows apparently.
I use an unholy blend of paru, Flatpak, Docker and AppImage apps (no Snap!) with Topgrade to update it all.
Last time I checked it seemed like it wasn’t quite there yet in terms of features, but admittedly that was a few years ago so I’ll have to give it another look. Thanks for the reminder!