Yay Linux!
This screenshot reflects a happy moment but also Cpt. Picard's deep discomfort being around children. Just felt I had to say that; it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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Welcome. May you live long and prosper... With Linux.
Holy shit this is a 100% meme right here!
It's the feeling that keeps on giving too. Learning and working with a Linux distro is full of little victories, even if they are sometimes a little more hard fought than a Windows resolution.
I can only imagine it's how people feel when they perform a minor repair on their car or bicycle without taking it to a workshop and getting hosed for a three figure wad of cash.
Just this evening I learned the value of dpkg and fixed a broken Chrome install that had been bugging me for weeks if not months, and it's a skill I can use again in future.
"After using Linux for a while I suddenly realized that the software is on my side."
--- unknown Linux user, roughly 2014
I find I have a much larger reservoir of patience for open source issues vs. corporate software. It's easier to give it the benefit of the doubt when I'm not secretly suspicious that the latest issue might just be more spying and locking down of features I used to own.
Even in my most troublesome situations, they are less frequent and quicker/easier to resolve than my Windows hurdles.
I've lost so much time of my life dealing with Windows breaking, blocking, being randomly fucked on basics, requiring insanely complex workarounds to keep the engine running.
It is definitely the harder OS. But ya don't realise it until your first drive of a Linux distro. Then it becomes clear as day and you feel like you've been cutting off your foot to spite all the bullet holes you shot into it.
As a noob there were four things that sucked worse than Windows so far:
Properly mounting a NAS so file pickers in programs don't shit themselves or refuse to see it. There's no GUI feature even in KDE for this task. Should not be like this modern day. Mounting anything properly is annoying here.
Whatever the fuck KDE Wallet is doing prompting me for a password to mount a secondary SSD every login despite trying to make it not do that with guides. On going.
Learning about .pacnew files in etc, but meld thankfully takes the edge off dealing with diff.
Getting gud with all the gaming tools and compatibility tools to the point I'm proficient enough to mod most games again.
Not bad, all things considered. You're right that it's harder OS overall to learn. Still, I'd say I broke stuff on Linux about as often as I did bending Windows 9x and XP to my will growing up. Managed to make SDDM not start automatically by mistake dealing with .pacnew my first time.
To do: go through restoring one of CachyOS's system recovery snapshots even tho nothing is broken currently so I actually know how if/when I really need to.
Properly mounting a NAS so file pickers in programs don't shit themselves or refuse to see it. There's no GUI feature even in KDE for this task. Should not be like this modern day. Mounting anything properly is annoying here.
Oh man, looks like I have a bunch of googling ahead of me.
etc/fstab is my hint.
Basically I had to make a folder in mnt and then add this upcoming line manually. Fun fact! It doesn't like spaces, thus 040POOL. Idk why but an underscore didn't work either. I didn't know this at first and wanted to slam my face into my keyboard by the time I got it working.
Confirm it works with terminal command:
sudo mount -a
Then reboot and see if it automounted:
mount | grep nas
"nas" is whatever you called the mnt subdirectory you created.
This is a very fucking stupid process vs right clicking a folder on my NAS in Windows and mapping a network drive so it gets a storage device letter. However, it's fun to rant about.
I hear you so hard on this one. I’ve been running Windows Enterprise with a tonne of fixes in GPOs for too many years now. I’ve been using Windows since the beginning. Thankfully I’ve also used Unix, Linux, and macOS for almost as long too.
I’m shitcanning Windows in a matter of weeks, even taking time off work to focus on it. I have one remaining Windows box (gaming workstation). But not for long.
And the crazy thing is, with the sorry state of Windows 11, my Linux systems are actually more stable.
Remember, it's canon (to me) that LCARS is based on Hanna Montana Linux.
While doing the world building for a very Trek-inspired story I’ll probably never finish, (I’d originally planned the story ad a Star Trek fanfic, but later chose to make its own universe), I jokingly claimed the ship’s computer of the AAS Alan Turing was running something like Linux 126 LTS in ~2500.
(I have to have my organization call starships “aero ships” in the story because my organization is called A.M.P.E.D, and I don’t think I could take the acronym of “AMPED Star Ship” seriously.)
Back in the XP days, you could download a OS skin called System47. It turns the desktop into LCARS with voice commands.
I’d appreciate some help from the Linux folks. I’ve used Unified Remote with my living room PC for years and years. I was told that KDE Connect was a drop in replacement but the remote input has a 1-2 second delay from touching my phone screen to the cursor moving. Any way to correct that?
iPhone and Bazzite for context. It also did it with regular Fedora. I imagine it has to do with iOS but I looked up the issue and I haven’t seen a real solution.
That's weird. Never had that. Hope you figure it out. Good luck.
Another thought to consider, but not the first one to consider. If a software behaves differently than another there is a decent chance it is how it is coded and not just how it is configured. If you can't get a reasonable latency then you get to experience the real power of Linux. Options. Someone has experienced the same thing as you and has coded a real solution. When it comes to the name brands (KDE, GNOME, ect), you will see ironically the broadest range in quality. But if you go on the AUR you will find software that does one job an one job only. The only way that software gets know is if it works and works well.
I'd try these next:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/anyremote
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/unified-remote-server
Integration with a DE is for Apple people.
Never used iphone or kde connect. But here are some random thoughts:
- Connect devices to same access point. Bypass extenders.
- Update both devices.
- Turn off power saving features in your phone and for the app.
- look at firewall rules.
Solid suggestions, thank you.
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Connect devices to same access point. Bypass extenders.
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PC is wired and phone is connected to that AP.
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Update both devices.
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Both are updated
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Turn off power saving features in your phone and for the app.
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I believe they both are but I will double check.
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look at firewall rules.
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This could be it. I’ll do some reading on that.