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  • Those apps aren't helpful sadly. The best way to learn programming is by making things. The apps can make you think you're learning syntax, apis, OOP, a language, or other concepts but the second you're asked to make something or apply your knowlage it's all useless.

  • My best tip is not to worry too much about distro. I like mint, but it's not too different from PopOS or ubuntu. They're just some nice starting points.

    If you look at a few and like how they look or feel, you should know the majority of that is the desktop environment not the distro. Meaning you can change it out without re-installing or losing all your apps.

    If you like linux mint with cinimon, but want to try out xfce, then just go into the app centre, search 'xfce', install it, log out, select xfce, and log in. Nothing is lost and you can go back at any point in time. Same with plasma, gnome, lxqt, etc. (PopOS uses Gnome with the pop shell).

    Only negative suggestion would be to avoid arch based distros for the time being. They assume a bit more knowlage and break much more often. I use EndeavorOS but I understand that life isn't for everyone

  • True dev. New release right before going into the deep ocean. Take that "don't push to production on a friday" cowards

  • Hear me out buddy, just block the community entirely based on reporting on the guy. That's what this is, no need to whinge about it.

    What did you expect from this community? A blank community with nothing posted? Weird shit man, just block

  • Sorry you're getting downvoted to hell, good article. Just so people know, the guy in the article uses a terminal multiplexer too, and is simply talking about some limitations. The titles clickbait and it starts off quite critical but that's to be expected in this day and age

  • Don't have a subscription myself but I did find this page: https://forums.toonboom.com/t/toon-boom-on-linux/2911/17

    To summarize, people say it'll work with Wine which you can use bottles to configure. They also suggest using harmony instead too as that has a linux version specifically. However, on ubuntu you'll have to install some libraries and use KDE plasma if you want a reasonable UI (for some reason).

    Looks weird to implement, and expensive to buy a new version in order to use it. Sorry. You should try running it through wine though if you can and again, bottles is a great program to make that easier if you go that way

    As for clip studio paint, looks like using wine with it can be hard and depending on the update, kinda trash. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=15102

  • Don't have a steam deck, but I do run a pretty similar linux setup on my regular PC.

    Great info with a tool I've not seen before, thanks for sharing.

    A few further tips:

    you can use any other BitTorrent client other than transmission. If you use it on windows, it's likely it'll also be available on linux too. I like Qbittorrent personally.

    You likely don't have to use lutris to add the installer. If you already have wine installed, you should just be able to right click the .exe and open it with wine. To help a bit with where to place the game, the Z: drive is your normal linux file system if you want to change install location, which I reccomend to make finding it easier

    Always say no to updating or installing directX versions. We don't need them here.

    If you have issues like it stopping half way through, try pressing the "limit to 2gb of ram" button.

    Of course, check protondb if you find any problems.

    Sometimes, like with RE4 adding the game to steam as a "non-steam game" can be a good idea. In steam, it's on the bottom left, a small plus button. No idea on the steam deck how to do that though. You may have to go into properties and force comparability. Of course, do so at your own risk.

  • Apologies if I'm a bit ramble-y, I've recently caught covid.

    Just a few simple partitions. I have one for EndeavorOS, one for Tumbleweed, and a third intermediary that I auto mount on both. That one houses a few applications that both need access to, I just added a bin folder before adding it to the path on both. As long as nothing there is system critical it'll be fine

    You definitly could get away with just two partitions though if you just want stability, and auto mount your partitions onto each other for ease of file transfer of you want.

    it's not really different than duel booting windows, and works quite well

    I also have a fourth 70gb partition for a macOS virtual machine as that's much quicker than a qcow file but that's a bit much, to be fair

  • Glad this was found due to the open source nature of vscode, who knows how long something like this could have festered if someone malicious found it via decompiling and reverse engineering.

    Open source is great at finding vonurabilities fast and fixing them, but I can understand the idea behind closed source code taking longer to find but longer to become public, and be fixed

  • For Iceland specifically, though for other nations this program is already in place. About 240,000 canadians have done this so far, going to 38 different countries which is impressive. This expansion will grow if both nations see value too, next year it might be 240.

    So yeah, the headlines a bit misleading, but it's brought to attention a pretty cool program

  • I use EndeavourOS and OpenSuse tumbleweed myself, and I'd caution you about using endeavour. It's a great OS that I personally love but there will be manual interventions you'll have to keep track of, and implement. Maybe twice yearly. Like the grub issue, or the repo migration for two recent examples.

    OpenSuse tumbleweed however is a rolling release distro that's more stable, takes little in the way of manual interventions, and is quite sleek out of the box. I use it as a work partition for freelance dev work personally.

    I love endeavour, but it can take some more babysitting than other distros as it's essentially just a really good graphical arch installer

  • Honestly why not? You'll be dead, what does it matter what you do in your final hours? I'd just carry on as was. If you're religious, then death is just the next step, and your last day won't mean much. If you're not, you're about to cease existing, what would it matter to you then.

    Just relax, eat chips, and doom scroll your way to death