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    [–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Addendum: I reinstalled the GTK portal because I was desperate, now I can't even use that UX abomination because who the

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    knows

    (As it turns out, the cause was a previous attempt to get xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser to work - I'm just going to sneak this edit in here and go die in a corner or something)

    [–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ah yes, something being broken because of your previous attempt to fix it.
    That's a certified classic.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

    It's not even that, I wanted to try using Ranger as the file chooser because Dolphin would freeze up if it ended up in a tmpfs mount point... which I can deal with if the only alternative is the default GTK file chooser.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    My recent DNS issue agrees with you. smh

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    My package manager has 400+ updates, but I can’t install them because some packages are conflicting, and I don’t have the willpower to untangle that mess.

    ~~I use arch btw~~. I use the arch-derivative Manjaro, btw.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ~~First time?~~

    jdk-openjdk vs jre-openjdk? archlinux.org mentions it, although the workaround it provides is fake news and also results in pacman complaining about conflicts.

    I just removed stuff, abused pacman --nodeps and prayed that my backups would be sufficient to restore my inevitable fuckup (no fuckup happened, somehow). Try that at your own risk though...

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I think I’ll just switch to something more user-friendly again. When I installed Manjaro, I thought I liked tinkering. But since then I’ve started working and just want to get home to a functioning computer.

    I appreciate the effort, though.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    Arch and Manjaro tend to have that effect on people, it's understandable

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    I feel this, Fedora filled the gap for me. I needed more current software, but if that isn't a priority Debian is amazing.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Manjaro nowadays has become a hassle. It used to be really solid around 5-6 years ago. I had it for 3+ years. Then it started breaking a lot. I switched to EndeavourOS 1.5 years ago, been solid since. The jre/jdk issue was pretty painless to deal with as well.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    The jre/jdk issue was pretty painless to deal with as well.

    What’s driving me away is that I have to deal with it at all. The command just fails and leaves you to google the solution. That’s annoying and unnecessary.

    I know now that Manjaro isn’t the OS for me if I’m not willing to do that.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I ran into this on Manjaro today too. Definitely don't have the capacity to sort it right now

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    have a manjaro desktop (with cinnamon) at the office that gets used daily. haven't seen this here.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yay, I’m not alone. :'D

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Same - it is probably why I will change soon. Manjaro has been a bit too flaky I think. Still nice, but annoying with things like this.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Join us in glorious GarudaLinux land. I swear they don't pay me to shill this distro every other day.

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    @OP, join us in Tumbleweed land. I tried arch btw but it drove me crazy. I don't have endless hours on end to spend on DIY when I am in a hurry to get things to just workβ„’. Tumbleweed with KDE is a refreshing take on the bleeding-edge rolling release distro with sensible defaults and much less teeth gnashing. With arch btw I felt like the whole thing was held together with duct tape and prayers. And I'm certain whatever I did in arch btw, there's an "ackchyually, ..." guy who is going to say that that was wrong.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    Sigh... Another day on lemme, another distro to try lol

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Tried tumbleweed on my laptop, bog standard install with only defaults, first update with the GUI, completely deleted all grub configurations but gave no errors or warning on the GUI. Happened twice in a row.

    Updating for CLI with YaST had no issues. Wanted to love it, but got a bad taste literal minutes after install.

    I am fine on Arch, but I just wanted less hassle and ended up with more hassle. Maybe I will try again soon

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah this is true. Arch has lots of small and weird package bugs and breakages it drives me crazy and I used to daily drive that shit (well, both arch and artix) for about 2 years. Changed all my machines over to Debian (used it as a server before) and my life quality has gone nowhere but UP!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    i went the way of endeavor os back when grub broke and i'm really happy with it

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'm the same way. I just started using Linux and Landed on Pop!OS. Tumbleweed is high on my short list of things to try, but I finally got everything working, and boy is it working well.

    I think the reason is my hardware profile is extremely similar to Pop!OS products, so I just happened to land on something per-optimized for my system out of dumb luck. I'm frankly shocked at how far linux has come. Lutro is what we've been waiting for on game installs for better than 20 years. Steam integration is of course nice, but I hate using game stores and hate being locked into that.

    Anyways, been a cool experience so far.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Great stuff, welcome to the Tumbleweed club, we meet at the dumpster behind Wendy's every Tuesday. I tried Pop!_OS for a while and was quite impressed. However I have an irrational disdain for GNOME and Ubuntu so their derivatives are out for me. I hereby declare OpenSUSE and KDE the cool kids club. Tuesdays, dumpster behind Wendy's.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Which Wendy's? Would suck to go to the wrong one and end up sitting there all alone.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    lol... the KDE crowd seems really devoted, and intent on snagging a new convert. I'll give it a shot I'm sure. But I'm definitely saving an image of this just in case.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    I just got Tumbleweed set up on my laptop after trying Fedora for a bit. Funnily enough, the thing that made me check it out is CentOS 7 coming up on end of life and needing to find a new distro to switch to for servers. Obviously, would use Leap on the server side, but the rolling release cadence of Tumbleweed was very appealing (have used Arch in the past, but had trouble keeping up with it...). Still feel like I am only using a fraction of what I can with it, though

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

    Also why for fucks sake does firefox do it's own mime type management and does not respect default applications set on system level!

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I dont understand this. I just let it open explorer.exe

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    At the expense of missing what could potentially be a deadpan ironic comment, I would like to divert your attention to the name of the community this meme was posted on

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

    I don't understand. I read this on edge.exe.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Had to nuke xdg-desktop-portal recently. AGAIN. Because they keep introducing a regression that causes all the GTK apps to run at a snails pace and totally ruins the desktop experience. I HATE xdg-desktop-portal. This has happened at least twice before. They can't seem to get their shit together. I wish I could just be rid of it entirely.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    While it is causing me a ton of headaches, I'm thankful that it gives the user a choice of desktop utilities... I just wish I didn't have to hunt env variables and config files that may or may not be completely ignored.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    I love Firefox and it's my main browser on laptop and mobile.

    But as a KDE user, seriously, fuck it. It's a mess.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

    Firefox nightie? What, did new merch just drop?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I wasn't planning on installing another browser (ignore the post's title), and joining a Matrix chat for technical help is the last thing I would do due to me being socially awkward...

    I appreciate the advice though

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

    My brother it's a matrix chat not a public speaking event

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    lynx superiority

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Firefox is not a GTK application by the way. They use their own XUL/XPCOM framework and are in the long-running process of porting everything to HTML/JS/CSS.

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