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1 • Q&A (by Vinfall on 2024-09-02 01:57:31 GMT from Hong Kong)
Good to see other mentioning good old moreutils. Sponge is really useful, no more pipe redirection.
FWIW "convert" command is deprecated in IMv7, you should simply use "magick" or "magick convert". I just came across it literally yesterday. Of course a "convert" alias for "magick convert" would still do the trick. It's also worth mentioning you can do batch operation in ImageMagick using "mogrify" command (e.g. "mogrify -format avif *.jpg").
2 • imagemagick (by Kevin on 2024-09-02 02:12:41 GMT from New Zealand)
I suppose that ImageMagick was unravelling into a support nightmare, so they 'refactored' it to the new version 7. In doing that, it seems they tried to make everything now go down one single funnel marked 'magick'. I can sort of understand what the goal was ... BUT:
1. every v6 script broke on updating to v7
2. the 'documentation' is mixed, not even confusing (it is beyond earning that kind word)
3. there is no _useful_ hint on converting v6 to v7 commands (spotty, incomplete, incorrect)
In the end I found some things would just _not_ convert to v7, so I resorted to GraphicsMagick alongside, just stick 'gm ' in front of most (again, not all) imagemagick commands.
Newer is not always better. What a mess. Many hours wasted and nobody to bill for them. Maybe its a business model:
1. make something awesomely useful
2. get everyone addicted to using it
3. change the ground rules
3 • Suggestion? (by Kryzstof on 2024-09-02 04:19:04 GMT from United States)
I think it would be beneficial in the oncoming months to publicize options for people to leave windows once 10 goes EOL. Not so much for people here, but for those who search for that type of thing. Might drive even more people to the website, too, out of pure interest! I know that is why I have find this site and it's the best Linux catch-all site around!
4 • Vanilla OS (by nobody on 2024-09-02 04:51:29 GMT from The Netherlands)
Missing the option, "Didn't try and never will" :)
5 • Suggestion by Krytof (by Michael Tucker on 2024-09-02 07:42:24 GMT from United States)
Great idea.I have some experience with Linux, but my g/f has win 10 on two of her computers, and cannot upgrade to 11. Recommendations on the best distro for former Windows users would be great.
6 • Suggestions (by Pete Bigwood on 2024-09-02 08:01:11 GMT from United Kingdom)
Yeah Linux Mint ! Have used it since the days of the Fluxbox edition,9 or 10 I think. Never let me down. Running it on a late 2013 iMac at the moment ,no trouble. Even recognised the Broadcom WiFi card !
7 • Suggestion: (by dragonmouth on 2024-09-02 11:37:02 GMT from United States)
I would recommend PCLinuxOS, either the "official" version or any of the community spins.
8 • Suggestions (by Vevagib on 2024-09-02 12:02:29 GMT from Italy)
@3
Coming from win10... I would say Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. Once you get a little more experienced... Devuan 5.0 'Daedalus' KDE Plasma (rock stable and already uses Wayland).
9 • Suggestions (by Trinidad Cruz on 2024-09-02 13:35:46 GMT from United States)
Linux Lite is still the most new user friendly. Very stable and has some nice utilities for new users.
TC
10 • Breaking News - KDE with Popups! (by Nokde4me on 2024-09-02 14:20:10 GMT from The Netherlands)
The KDE project becomes more successful and popular. As the number of users increases, so do the costs. The KDE project risks dying of success if more money is not raised as the software becomes more popular. For this reason, the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop will display a request for donations, "free of charge [and] with no strings attached!"
Fortunately, KDE Linux accounts for less than 1% of the PC market. Imagine if Linux and KDE were 80% like Windows... You wouldn't be able to find the desktop under all those "cry for donations" popups.
https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-in-plasma/
11 • KDE with popups for donations (by Avas on 2024-09-02 19:44:26 GMT from Italy)
@10
Unfortunately, KDE Linux accounts for less than 1% of the PC market. Unfortunately, KDE (unlike GNOME) does not have RH/IBM funding, so - once a year - it will ask you for an optional donation. Where's the problem?
12 • PCLinuxOS (by Magical on 2024-09-02 23:00:57 GMT from United States)
I distrohopped from 2000 to 2007 when I ran across PCLinuxOS.
Been running it since.
This last month I was able to install FreeBSD for the first time with kde and am giving it a shakedown run for awhile. Oh, I still have PCLinuxOS running on my main hard drive. That is the only OS on my main drive. I have a dozen other hard drives to play around with.
I was finally able to get my wife off of WinXP awhile back and installed PCLinuxOS for her on her computer. She has another computer up in her music room running Win10 and she told me the other day she wants to install Mint on that hard drive win 10 goes EOL
13 • KDE Plasma (by Kevin on 2024-09-03 04:06:24 GMT from New Zealand)
@10 ... v6.2? Less than 1% take-up? Two new pieces of info for me.
I thought KDE and now Plasma were quite popular as a desktop. You have the KDE Neon project and several distros have it as their main desktop or one of the shortlist - eg Manjaro. It is full-featured, unlike some of the 'lighter' desktops. I find those others are missing things I have grown used to expecting as a standard part/feature of a Linux desktop.
Unfortunately Gnome have been dumbing down their UI and their applications. Take the creatively named Nautilus file manager. Now they name it 'File' - are they aping Apple but badly - and no dual-pane, which is a complete show-stopper for me right there. Then the archive manager cannot extract or add files by drag-n-drop any more - another dead stop. So Gnome has become useless and looks very amateurish today.
Version 6.2, hey? I saw the announcement for 6.1 and thought, with me running a rolling distro, that it should arrive soon. Well, months on and my desktop remains on 6.0.5. By now I start to assume there must be a problem with 6.1, and lo and behold we now see 6.2 released. Hmm...
14 • suggestions. (by because, reasons on 2024-09-03 06:30:40 GMT from New Zealand)
I suspect most Linux distributions, if your use case is web browsing, g/email, youtube, basic text editing, and basic audio / video processing / consuming, would be a drop in replacement for most windows users. Emphasis on the "most"s in that statement.
However, most windows users have likely never burnt an ISO, investigated changing the bios / UEFI boot order, or even run a virtual machine. For many installing a new operation system may be a bridge to far, and will just hold their collective noses and continue with windows.
Those distributions that require kernel compilation probably not so, but then, some Windows users might just be prepared to try Gentoo or Arch and friends off the bat.
15 • Trying Vanilla OS (by Jim on 2024-09-03 09:29:56 GMT from United States)
i love my current OS and have used it for amost a decade (2015). I have no desire to try other OS's or distro hop. Sometimes it is best to leave well enough alone.
16 • openbsd (by rhtoras on 2024-09-03 13:44:09 GMT from Greece)
Openbsd is my backup sollution for when linux dies. Linux in the systemD era is in a comma situation. It is dead and alive at the same time. It is happy to see openbsd growing but i have to assure everyone: growing big menas big troubles too... a mid situation is the sweet spot...
i like how they handle security, how they add free software, how they maintain/support consolkit instead of elogind... (i use elogind but i'd prefer an elogind free experience anyway). The whole spirit is: it's just works... the installer is quite similar to the one of Alpine linux. So if you have installed alpine linux in the past it won't be that hard i assure you.
But to be fair don't expect an mx linux experience. You have to set things up yourself, which is a good and a bad thing at the same time. Because you have to see for yourself what you like but on the other hand this consumes time which sometimes does not exist!
17 • @6 Suggestions - Win 10 EOL (by Geo. on 2024-09-03 18:47:07 GMT from Canada)
I'm switching my family over to Zorin. Best of luck everyone.
18 • Vanilla OS (by Dazmo on 2024-09-03 19:13:29 GMT from United States)
I tried and really like the concept of Vanilla OS, but I found it not quite polished enough yet for a daily driver. Being as this is their first release with Debian, they'll need another release cycle or two before they really have something stable enough for me, but I'm hopeful for the project's future.
19 • openbsd last resort? (by Gufum on 2024-09-04 12:19:52 GMT from Italy)
@16
"Openbsd is my backup solution for when linux dies. Linux in the 'systemd era' is in a coma situation."
Why should Linux die from systemd disease? There's Devuan, Slackware, Antix, Salix, Gentoo, Crux...
20 • Is Linux Dead? (by Bart on 2024-09-04 13:25:35 GMT from France)
@16
Is Linux dead?
Switch to GhostBSD (desktop) or FreeBSD (server).
21 • Using Android phone USB tethering with Linux (by USB tethering on 2024-09-05 01:50:18 GMT from Singapore)
I switched to using USB tethering on an Android phone to access the internet on my PC recently.
I was able to get around 280+Mbps while testing the connection speed on Windows 11.
While running MX Linux(my main OS), I was only able to achieve less than 10Mbps. But using the same phone as a wifi hotspot, it can reach more than 250Mbps.
I have also tested the same on PCLOS and got the same results as the MX Linux test.
Searched for solution on this to no avail.
Anyone has any solution on this care to share?
Thanks.
22 • BSD vs Linux as Linux dies (by Otis on 2024-09-05 14:47:34 GMT from United States)
@20 etc... There's a clone of systemd being developed for BSD. It's going to happen, so we'll be seeing non-systemd BSD distros down the line.
This is the danger of systemd; it makes developing and maintaining distros easier and less time consuming, so it's attractive to open source developers across the board.
We must, therefor, support the non-systemd devs/distros as much as we can. We won't win, but we'll always have our non-systemd distros, Linux and BSD... I hope.
23 • BSD (by Jesse on 2024-09-05 14:58:50 GMT from Canada)
@22: " There's a clone of systemd being developed for BSD. "
No, there is not.
" It's going to happen"
It isn't.
Years ago there was some talk in the FreeBSD community about whether it would be a good idea to adopt a clone of launchd (macOS's service manager) and it was quickly shot down as a bad idea. No one in the BSD communities wants systemd.
24 • BSD with Systemd (by Otis on 2024-09-05 18:19:16 GMT from United States)
@23 I disagree (not 100% strongly with great conviction).
".. don't be surprised if FreeBSD writes their own semi-clone that does most of the same things and implements a good part of the interface."
That was in 2019 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395331.
I just see this as a very very strong possibility. It is stated there on that site (and around the various interwebs) that it's a legal issue at this point (Debian).
Honestly I do see some dev out there or team coming to the challenge of implementing systemd-like behaviors in BSD.
25 • Vanillα (by Gentleman Finn on 2024-09-05 18:56:29 GMT from Denmark)
Good review this week Jesse, and well done on keeping a diplomatic and constructive tone.
Vanilla has a long way to go before being useful. As it is right now, they should mark it 'alpha' as being super frustrating is clearly all it's good for at the moment. I like that they're trying to be something else than just another clone of something else but come on - releasing an unfinished product like that is just silly. I wonder what they were thinking.
As for BSD, I think it's a breath of fresh air. It's almost like running linux in the early days; there are quirks here and there but the philosophy is more appealing than what we're currently seeing in many linux distros.
26 • VanillaOS Android VSO (by Subayu on 2024-09-06 05:11:21 GMT from Indonesia)
The android vso is not enabled or installed by default, we as a user have to enable it manually through terminal by entering vso android init command. after we enter that, the previous apks that we sideload will automatically get installed and appear to app menu.
27 • Immutable distros (by Pomme de Terre nouvelle on 2024-09-06 12:18:51 GMT from Germany)
There are some immutable distros out there that already do what Vanilla tries to do, so we know it is possible. I, for one, am running Aeon (formerly openSUSE Aeon), which appears to be the most advanced of the batch. Take a look.
28 • add line at start of a file (by loepard on 2024-09-06 21:53:41 GMT from United States)
Use sed
sed -i '1s/^/line_to_be_added\n/' file
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| • Issue 1136 (2025-08-25): CalyxOS 6.8.20, distros for running containers, Arch Linux website under attack,illumos Cafe launched, CachyOS creates web dashboard for repositories |
| • Issue 1135 (2025-08-18): Debian 13, Proton, WINE, Wayland, and Wayback, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, KDE gets advanced Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tools |
| • Issue 1134 (2025-08-11): Rhino Linux 2025.3, thoughts on malware in the AUR, Fedora brings hammered websites back on-line, NetBSD reveals features for version 11, Ubuntu swaps some command line tools for 25.10, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA support |
| • Issue 1133 (2025-08-04): Expirion Linux 6.0, running Plasma on Linux Mint, finding distros which support X11, Debian addresses 22 year old bug, FreeBSD discusses potential issues with pkgbase, CDE ported to OpenBSD, Btrfs corruption bug hitting Fedora users, more malware found in Arch User Repository |
| • Issue 1132 (2025-07-28): deepin 25, wars in the open source community, proposal to have Fedora enable Flathub repository, FreeBSD plans desktop install option, Wayback gets its first release |
| • Issue 1131 (2025-07-21): HeliumOS 10.0, settling on one distro, Mint plans new releases, Arch discovers malware in AUR, Plasma Bigscreen returns, Clear Linux discontinued |
| • Issue 1130 (2025-07-14): openSUSE MicroOS and RefreshOS, sharing aliases between computers, Bazzite makes Bazaar its default Flatpak store, Alpine plans Wayback release, Wayland and X11 benchmarked, Red Hat offers additional developer licenses, openSUSE seeks feedback from ARM users, Ubuntu 24.10 reaches the end of its life |
| • Issue 1129 (2025-07-07): GLF OS Omnislash, the worst Linux distro, Alpine introduces Wayback, Fedora drops plans to stop i686 support, AlmaLinux builds EPEL repository for older CPUs, Ubuntu dropping existing RISC-V device support, Rhino partners with UBports, PCLinuxOS recovering from website outage |
| • Issue 1128 (2025-06-30): AxOS 25.06, AlmaLinux OS 10.0, transferring Flaptak bundles to off-line computers, Ubuntu to boost Intel graphics performance, Fedora considers dropping i686 packages, SDesk switches from SELinux to AppArmor |
| • Issue 1127 (2025-06-23): LastOSLinux 2025-05-25, most unique Linux distro, Haiku stabilises, KDE publishes Plasma 6.4, Arch splits Plasma packages, Slackware infrastructure migrating |
| • Issue 1126 (2025-06-16): SDesk 2025.05.06, renewed interest in Ubuntu Touch, a BASIC device running NetBSD, Ubuntu dropping X11 GNOME session, GNOME increases dependency on systemd, Google holding back Pixel source code, Nitrux changing its desktop, EFF turns 35 |
| • Issue 1125 (2025-06-09): RHEL 10, distributions likely to survive a decade, Murena partners with more hardware makers, GNOME tests its own distro on real hardware, Redox ports GTK and X11, Mint provides fingerprint authentication |
| • Issue 1124 (2025-06-02): Picking up a Pico, tips for protecting privacy, Rhino tests Plasma desktop, Arch installer supports snapshots, new features from UBports, Ubuntu tests monthly snapshots |
| • Issue 1123 (2025-05-26): CRUX 3.8, preventing a laptop from sleeping, FreeBSD improves laptop support, Fedora confirms GNOME X11 session being dropped, HardenedBSD introduces Rust in userland build, KDE developing a virtual machine manager |
| • Issue 1122 (2025-05-19): GoboLinux 017.01, RHEL 10.0 and Debian 12 updates, openSUSE retires YaST, running X11 apps on Wayland |
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