• Gork@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I remember being endlessly entertained by the rotating cube animation between workspaces in the old Beryl implementation.

    I told my wife, “but does your Windows do this?” Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, “I don’t care.” And that was that.

    I shall tell this story to my grandkids.

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      “but does your Windows do this?” Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, “I don’t care.”

      Wow, that sums up my Linux life pretty well actually

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        Does your Windows do this? *doesn’t crash*

        But seriously, yesterday I cloned my main partition to a new laptop into an LVM volume on LUKS. Because I did not have any way of putting the new NVMe and old SATA SSD into one machine, I just used netcat over an ad hoc network.

        nc -l 10000 > /dev/main/root
        

        on the new Laptop and

        cat /dev/sda3 | nc 10.31.69.1 10000 -q 0
        

        on the old one. Worked perfectly. Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots.

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          Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots

          More like do that in Windows with any tools. It doesn’t like being moved to different hardware one bit.

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            The only problems with my Arch install were

            • /etc/fstab, which I forgot about because I didn’t read the whole install article again
            • custom configs (notable conky) because i8k is not available and all interfaces changed
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                I’d guess many distros would’ve had errors with preinstalled and configured helpers. Debugging them would be a pain

                Gentoo, LFS, Arch etc. are installed manually, so one typically knows their system very well, including packages and configs they might have to hard configure interfaces etc. in

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        1 year ago

        I do a lot of desktop screen sharing through Teams and I’ve only had one person over the years say “what the hell is that?”

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      I think I accomplished a similar effect on my first linux distro a long time ago with a program called “compiz” (iirc). “I’m so frickin 1337,” I whispered under my breath. Nobody cared except me, though, lol.

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              Yep, same! Some of my friends have told me it’s a bit “silly” for me to have it enabled - but there’s plenty of bad things that occur on a daily basis in my life, I do not think there’s a single problem with having some wobbly windows as a small vice to enjoy haha.