Oh, we do have a !talesfromtechsupport community (link). Looks like the mod is inactive and the community doesn’t have that many subscribers

Maybe we can try making a new one here on programming.dev

I’ve seen some dashboards around, is this what you’re looking for?

• https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
• https://github.com/pawelmalak/flame

Welcome!

For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.

For sure! We don’t talk enough about how much customization there is for Lemmy. There is a wide variety of mobile apps that do things in different ways, and userscripts/userstyles to customize the desktop interface. A lot of instances are also running multiple frontends, each maintained by a different dev or team.

For example, our instance is running:

• Voyager interface at voyager.lemmy.ca
• Photon interface at photon.lemmy.ca
• Alexandrite interface at alex.lemmy.ca

Many possibilities, and I’m hoping we can see community customization too someday :)

I think it’s to make it easier to write bash scripts, for those who are new or when the script is doing a more critical task

Modern Syntax

You will find many of the language features familiar, allowing you to get up and running much faster than if you were learning Bash from scratch.

Runtime Safety

It’s one of the key components missing from regular shell scripts. It can help you catch many bugs at compile time.

Type Safety

Amber ensures that you handle everything that could fail. Each Bash command and function that could fail must be handled in some way.

Usually because resources are limited, both financial and time, so people make do with what they can.

As projects grow, and as the FOSS alternatives improve, projects can switch over.

I would say to just try it out and see how it is! The live USB works nicely and you can decide you don’t like a distro and move on rapidly. There are also tools out there that let you load up multiple distros on the USB at once, and then pick which one to use when you boot up.

I went through my own struggles with dual booting Linux some time ago. If you search on Lemmy, you can find those embarrassing posts. It was my fault, I got confident and messed with ‘grub’ in all the wrong ways, before cutting my losses early and reverting everything because I had other commitments to deal with.

The good thing though is that it’s totally possible to put Windows back 100% the way it was before, even after messing up as badly as I did (I couldn’t boot into either operating system because the machine couldn’t find the boot entry). Once you’re ready to replace windows with Linux (or dual boot etc.), make a good backup with something like Macrium Reflect and you should be safe to go for it. I highly doubt you’ll make the mistakes I did, the story is to say that you can mess up and be just fine!

As for your use case:

• affinity programs aren’t on Linux from what I remember, you might want to experiment and see if you can run it with Wine or if you have an alternative (ex. Dual boot, different programs)
• Not sure about Davinci, comments suggest that it runs ok on Linux. I like KdenLive

As for what people recommended, and what I’m planning to try soon

• Kubuntu (if you want Ubuntu that looks similar to windows)
• Fedora (what I tried last time)
• Linux Mint

I wasn’t sure myself honestly, thought I’d check if someone else brought it up first

I think people get super excited to share the good news that it’s not a company behind it and all the benefits that come with that

Thank you, that was helpful!

Yea the part I found weird was that it went “mother’s sibling” but also “father’s sister”, rather than “X’s sibling” or “X’s sister”

Why is there an “or” in there, how does that help?

Going by the releases, it didn’t need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed

Security wise, I think you’re right

It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates

Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he’s doing now

More of a productivity tool, similar to Notion if you are familiar with that. If you aren’t, I tried explaining some more here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/8843380

Good note, I will edit that in

I share this criticism, it’s got so many features that it gets confusing.

What I did was start with a single page, and then added more pages from that one (I think the / key should bring up options). Trying to understand everything before starting was impossible

I didn’t use Notion much myself, but I’m hoping that AnyType and AppFlowy can implement features that Notion hasn’t. That could get people to switch

What would help though is

• painless importing from Notion, for people that already built up a lot of content there

• guides on the specific changes, similar to what Windows/MacOS or Android/iOS have for people switching over

You can probably use it to do similar things, but it’s a different format. Everything exists in one place, so you’re not using it to open and save files externally (but you might be able to export individual pages as markdown).

For example, this post today is announcing that they have implemented collaboration. Until now, people would have been using it individually for personal notes and project management.

The main function I like is being able to make objects with custom fields, which I can then add information to and sort. I haven’t used it extensively yet, but I have friends that use Notion for quite a bit

Part of the problem is that I don’t know the extent of what people might use this kind of tool for. It’s a productivity tool that has docs, calendars, databases, and other tools, but people use it in very different ways. Some people use it for documentation, some use it for course notes / planning, some use it to make dashboards, etc.

There’s probably a better way to describe it that I’m not thinking of, so I might recommend checking out the website above until someone else comes along to give a better explanation.

Here’s how Wikipedia describes Notion

Notion is a freemium productivity and note-taking web application developed by Notion Labs, Inc. It offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, and bookmarking. Additional offline features are offered by desktop and mobile applications available for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Users can create custom templates, embed videos and web content, and collaborate with others in real-time.

Anytype meanwhile is a newer open source and self hosted alternative to the above. Better for privacy etc. There’s another open source project with a similar purpose called AppFlowy

I should have added context, my bad

https://anytype.io/

They describe themselves as an “open-source self-hosted all-in-one tool”. It behaves and looks similar to Notion, and my understanding is that you can either selfhost for free or use their paid backup service