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by lproven 1y ago
I always preferred XTree to Norton Commander, and I was a heavy Norton user in the 1980s. Delighted to find there are some Linux versions!
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by lproven 1y ago
Orthodox file managers seem to be very much a thing across the Eastern Bloc. I moved from England to Czechia in 2014 and was amazed to discover almost everyone used them. My first job in a Windows company, it had a site licence to Total Com
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by lproven 1y ago
I found this in another thread, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222705 I thought it deserved its own submission. Important disclaimer: I do not use Emacs, and I won't until ErgoEmacs is the default UI. CUA
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A CEO's Guide to Emacs(web.archive.org)
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:-D
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by lproven 1y ago
Currently it's very limited, but the BeTrusted Precursor is in the ballpark: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor I wrote a little about it today, as it happens: https://www.theregister.
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by lproven 1y ago
Dana "Nanoraptor" Sibera designed a tower C64. In an ideal world, that's how a PC-cased C64 would look, complete with its keyboard: https://bsky.app/profile/nanoraptor.danamania.com/post/3k47g..
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by lproven 1y ago
Crystal Quest was a legit all-time classic game. I remain amazed that, nearly 40 years after I first played it, nothing else has ever reproduced its precise control mechanics. It's already 25 years or so ago but in the early 20-teens
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by lproven 1y ago
Very interesting. Thanks a lot for this! I will experiment and see if I can get it working. I use older Thinkpads with Optimus switching, so using the Intel GPU is not opotional: it is always on, but the OS offloads GPU-intensive stuff to t
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by lproven 1y ago
Very interesting. Thanks. I will indeed have a look, ASAP -- but I hope this version is a little more tolerant of non-GNOME/non-RH hypervisors, or I won't get far...
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by lproven 1y ago
We should go back to static linking. With CI/CD generating new packages is trivially easy. Then we can throw out all these fancy packaging tools like Snap and Flatpak, all the fancy half-done COW filesystems like Btrfs, all the fancy h
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by lproven 1y ago
I feel this is a false equivalence. Atomic updates are not the same thing as backups. Backups: my file is gone, overwritten, corrupted, I accidentally deleted contents I want... but my computer is working, so I will retrieve a copy from my
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by lproven 1y ago
Being #2 with tens of millions of users is OK, you know. It doesn't mean you've failed. Sure it's less popular. It came in under 20 years ago, competing against an entrenched superpower that was already nearly 30 years old ba
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by lproven 1y ago
> So it's basically a SteamOS sibling, just without Steam? Excellent summary. Yes.
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by lproven 1y ago
I thought I spelled it out clearly. Let me emphasise the executive summary: 1. KDE was first. 2. KDE used to enjoy significant corporate backing. 3. Because of some companies' actions, mergers and acquisitions, etc., other products gai
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by lproven 1y ago
IMHO a summary a few paragraphs long of a decade of events in a complex industry must simplify matters. Sure, there was overlap. Lots of overlap. You highlight one. Novell bought SUSE, but that was after Cambridge Technology Partners (II
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by lproven 1y ago
> Gnome OS these days uses A/B updates with dual read-only /usr partitions and verified boot in the mold of https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html . Hang on. I have to say [[citation
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by lproven 1y ago
> I guess I'm confused on what the difference between "being the most popular Linux DE" and "being the default DE of the most popular Linux distros" is. You put the things in quotation marks but I do not see thes
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by lproven 1y ago
> If I'm able to do everything I can in my regular arch Linux installation No, you can't. If you want Arch but with snapshots and rollback, Garuda Linux does that by default. It is not immutable, though.
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by lproven 1y ago
Yes. The ChromeOS way. There's no package manager and you can't install, remove, or upgrade packages. You get whole-OS image updates from the distributor, just like iOS or Android.
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by lproven 1y ago
I agree. I can imagine multiple use cases... * A complete multiwindow console environment you can access locally or over an SSH session * An extremely low-resource multi-app session for very low-end devices, such as a Raspberry Pi Zero or t
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by lproven 1y ago
Hmmm. I mean, I agree it'd be interesting . But useful ? Compared to basically any form of GUI be it X11 or Wayland, the resource usage is I would think on the order of 1% as much, and maybe less.
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by lproven 1y ago
I totally agree. I use Tilde myself, which is very close. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde I have written about it: "Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976" https://www.th
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by lproven 1y ago
> It actually looks a lot what KDE is shipping here No, it does not, in any way whatsoever. GNOME OS does not have dual root partitions, Btrfs with snapshots and rollback, atomic OS updates, or any of the other resilience features which
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by lproven 1y ago
> It's got an NVIDIA K1100M. The latest proprietary driver supporting it is 390 which is not supported by Debian 13. It was by Debian 11. Tell me more, please. Does it only have an nVidia or is it dual GPU and switching? Because I
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It is. https://opensource.google/projects/chromiumos https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/
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by lproven 1y ago
> Because Chrome OS is offered on low-cost laptops that are unsuitable for office work. ChromeOS Flex exists, it is free of charge, and it runs on more or less any x86-64 computer, including Intel Macs. Nordic Choice got hit with ransome
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by lproven 1y ago
> 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userspace That's what the Raspberry Pi Desktop did. It's the Pi project's x86 OS, a drastically cut-down Debian with LXDE. It was pretty much the smallest full-desktop distro I've seen. (Ex
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by lproven 1y ago
It looks impressive but it duplicates a tonne of existing functionality from TWIN, which has been around for about 25 years or more. https://github.com/cosmos72/twin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by lproven 1y ago
> WordPerfect competed heavily with Microsoft Word back in the DOS days. Ha! I'd say it was more accurate to say that MS Word tried to compete with WordPerfect. It was only with the rise of Windows that Word became a contender, an

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