Ex-technologist, now an artist. My art: http://www.eugenialoli.com I’m also on PixelFed: https://mastodon.social/@EugeniaLoli@pixelfed.social
It doesn’t matter if we “people use it in new projects”, but rather, we often have to compile stuff that use them. So they need to be around, regardless of how bad they are. Just last week my husband had to compile two emulators that used autotools.
A Cirrus Logic, on VLB on my 486DX/40, with 4 MB of RAM, and a SoundBlaster card. December 1994.
Rubicon was excellent. Most of the other shows mentioned here are actually well known, but this one truly is a deep cut.
Usually this is a problem of permissions on the mounted-folder. Even with the jellyfin server you need to change the permissions to get the server to see the mounted folder. I expect it’s similar with kodi.
The oldest I have is from 2009. It’s quite old. It came with 4 GB of RAM. That’s how I was buying computers back then, with enough ram. We have to go back to 2006 to find me buying a computer with 2 GB of RAM. I got my lesson in 1995, shortly after having bought my first PC, a 486DX/40 with 4 MB of RAM. 6 months later Windows95 came out, and I couldn’t run it, it needed a minimum of 8 MB. It was swapping like hell. So I got my lesson early on. Now, I buy new laptops or computers with minimum of 32 GB of RAM.
I’ve been running Mint and Debian on old hardware too. A Macbook Air 2011 and one from 2015, and a Mac Mini 2014. Mint works great on them AS LONG AS you have at least 4 GB of RAM, especially since it can install the broadcomm wifi driver. Lots of screenshots and images from them here: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/media
Huge sci-fi lover here. But at the same time, colonization of space for humans is possibly impossible without avatars. The human body evolved here, and it’s a vessel that works here the best. To colonize other worlds, it’s more economically viable to send machines, create biologically synthesized new species (taking dna from local species there), and then transfer consciousness to them. Similar with Avatar, but without having to have the spaceships arrive in the planet full of humans. Humans remain on earth, and they project their consciousness somewhere else, in an instant due to entanglement.
It falls apart really, so it becomes a bit like scrambled eggs. I personally leave it to take some color underneath, so it doesn’t break too much. Make sure you fry it with butter and not with regular oil for best color/consistency. Finally, serve it with a dollop of honey.
My sentence above explains it. The source is available, the distros provide binaries in their repos, but if you want the latest version, the creator only provides paid binaries. The GPL allows for that. Same for ZRythm.
My understanding is that Resolve is not using ffmpeg on linux, it’s using its own codecs.
On the topic of audio production, here are your options:
Commercial DAW apps available on Linux: Traction Waveform Reaper BitWig Studio Presonus Studio One (beta) Harrison MixBus (based on Ardour) ReNoise (tracker/daw hybrid)
Available sources but commercial binaries: ZRythm (currently in beta) Ardour (can be found for free on the repos of most distros)
Completely free: LMMS (recording live instruments is available via the latest nightly build, but no vst3 support) QTractor Stargate MusE Rosegarden Traverso (active again this year) Ossia Score
Audacity (audio rec/editor) MilkyTracker (tracker) SoundTracker (tracker)
Hydrogen (drum machine) Cecilia (audio signal processing) Mixxx (live DJ)
To get these working, install pipewire-jack on your distro and enable some audio group privilliges, so you don’t get cracking sounds. There are tutorials on how to set that up. Also use the qwpgraph app to create audio connections (otherwise, you might not hear anything coming from your speakers on some plugins/apps). My favorite free daw on Linux is Ardour. Reaper if I want to get more involved.
There are a number of native Linux plugins that should be prefered, but if you want to run specifically Windows plugins, you will have to install Wine and then Yabridge. Yabridge acts as a bridge between the .dll plugin files in a Wine environment (that is setup as if it’s Windows), and serves .so Linux plugins that Linux DAWs can understand. This is obviously quite flaky. Different versions of wine will support different plugins. Sometimes, a plugin works, you upgrade wine, and it no longer works (but some other plugin now works, that didn’t used to be fore). Some people are happy though with yabrdige and wine. I find it a pain…
I’d suggest you go with Fedora, so Resolve works easier than it would on a Debian-based OS. Also, Yabrdige is currently broken on ubuntu. The dev said he might fix it by the end of the year, but who knows. I’m personally ubuntu-based and I’m still telling you to use fedora to get that stuff working for now. Although, you might want to try the UbuntuStudio flavor. It might have some of that stuff fixed.
For photography, use Darktable. For raster editing, use Gimp 3.0-alpha (the 2.10 version is not that good for people coming from photoshop/windows IMHO as it lacks adjustment layers), and Photopea on the web browser. For vectors, inkscape, or online, boxy-svg.com.
For an After Effects clone, there’s a brand new app, Friction: https://friction.graphics/
For a video compositor, if you’re not going to use Resolve’s Fusion, there’s Natron (Nuke clone ui-wise).
For digital painting, there’s Krita.
For 2D animation, there’s Krita & Friction above, but also Pencil2D and SynfigStudio (latest version .appimages on their respective sites).
I’m not familiar for apps regarding web design though. There’s Bluefish for html editing, and you can use sublime-edit for other code-writing.
For Office, LibreOffice comes by default in most distros, however, the highest compatibility rate with MS formats is via OnlyOffice. You can download an .appimage on their website for free. That app will let you create proper PDFs too (with forms etc). To run appimages, download them, right click to go to their file properties, and there make them executable. Then double click them to run.
For 2D CAD, use QCAD (you can download it from their site, and then remove the .so files it directs you to, to turn it from demo/evaluation to the completely free version (that’s missing some format support, but otherwise fully functional). For 3D CAD, there’s the RC2 version of FreeCAD.
And for 3D stuff, there’s Blender. Latest version available on their site in binary form.
Finally, if you’re not doing highly advanced color grading, or you don’t need your videos to be color managed, then both Kdenlive, and Shotcut are very good, hassle-free video editors. You can download their .appimage file for latest versions from their site.
I never understood those who buy on the hype of wireless-everything (that includes my own brother). Wireless is, and always will be flaky, even under a great OS implementation. Implementation is lacking on your kernel/distro, but even if it was done perfectly, you would still get the occasional problems, because, physics. This is is not seen as clearly with wifi or bt, but try to connect to a wireless monitor instead. There, you will see the problems 100x fold. It’s flaky. So it’s best to always be wired. Ethernet, usb etc.
Depends on the computer I run. On fast computers (more than 5,000 passmark cpu points), i use gnome on whatever distro. On mid-speed computers (1000 to 5000 points), I use linux mint with cinnamon. On very old computers (400-1000), I use debian with XFce.
Users with an UID below 1000 are not shown in the user list on gdm (that’s the login manager you’re using?).
Most tech people actually use macs, because corporations prefer them for their tech employees, while the normal employees usually use Windows. Very few corps support linux on the desktop for their admins – even if their infrastructure is all on linux.
Well, in theory open source is immune to all that. However, the country a project is registered at, matters. That’s why the RISC-V project, for example, took its headquarters from the US to Switzerland. For that exact reason: so no country could strong arm it, especially since Chinese were the major contributors to the project (Switzerland is not 100% neutral, but it’s more neutral than other countries).
I blend 2 eggs with a banana, and I fry it as if it’s a pancake, with butter. It doesn’t hold together, so it keeps coming out as if it’s weird scrambled eggs. But it’s delicious, the healthiest kind of pancake (with a drop of raw honey afterwards).
No, Cinnamon with LMDE it’s slower than XFce on Debian. These laptops were slow and some had only 2 GB of ram.
Everyone is replying as if the OP is asking about normal live environments, but I think he’s asking about having Linux actually fully installed on a usb instead of the ssd. In that case, most of the replies don’t apply. However, Mint has a way to install itself properly on a usb drive. Boot with the burned iso, insert a second usb drive, unmount it, and then install on it (you choose it during installation). It has to be unmounted first.