Berny23

joined 1 year ago
[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

I use MPV as movie and general media player with my custom config as well as auto-crop and URI copy/paste scripts. It works better than any other media player I tried in the last 10 years. I only use VLC for DVD menus, but it sucks even at that task, because the cursor gets stuck and the menus lag even when playing from SSD folder.

I use Tauon Music Box as music player because of its design, easy playlist/library customizability and Jellyfin integration. I also pay for spotify and use spicetify with custom skins if the songs are available there.

Kröhnkite as real auto-tiling solution with KDE Plasma.

But I'm on Arch btw., so there is not much default software apart from what the KDE meta packages contain.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

It uses amazingly low resources while gaming. Never had such a thing on Windows back then.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

I implemented Duplicati as a fast, easy and adaptable backup solution at my workplace. It's itself running as a docker stack on every node in the swarm. Even migration to new servers is possible, because it can restore file permissions and ownership too. Just give it access to either the volumes path of the host or just the whole host file system.

Can be accessed via web interface, password protected. I actually recommend the image by the linuxserver community instead of the "official" for a simple, no-config deployment that starts up in seconds. Just add a data volume and your host bind in your compose file and that's pretty much it.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A good power supply by a well-known brand instead of the cheapest. Because if it blows up, all other PC components are in danger of breaking and this can result in data loss.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 74 points 2 months ago

Pirating of otherwise unavailable media.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is still my favorite game ever, regarding story, world-building, characters, music, graphics, quests and overall gameplay.

But it's a bit weak on combat mechanics, there I prefer Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

Well, probably depends on the tools used to uncompress and compress the files. Some old releases just unpack hundreds of GB without stopping.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago

Everything Everywhere All at Once

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Use Bottles with the Sandbox option enabled (and sound enabled). So, native performance but without access to files outside the Wine prefix (virtual Windows folder where the game is installed) and without network access. This way, you don't have to worry about games phoning home, containing a crypto miner or ransomware.

Also, forget about FitGirl repacks on Linux, most don't unpack correctly.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, this took a bit of time and patience. But now I have all the tail weapons.

Walk backwards in medium distance to trigger its flight attack where it swoops down at you. Dodge to the side, run near the tail and quickly roll underneath it, far enough to stand still on the other side for a moment. The last part is important, if done correctly, the dragon will always try to crush you with its tail. You should be near it, but not take damage. Now you can get a few easy hits on the tail.

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm using both Boost apps, Boost for Reddit and Boost for Lemmy. This way, I can only differentiate the networks by their post quality.

Reddit is bad to mediocre, full of memes and karma farming

Lemmy has few posts, but feels closer to the user

 

It is the only file in there.

 

Link: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

For podcasts and radio, you'll need another program. But this is the closest any player has come to the Windows-only MusicBee masterpiece. Via Wine, I've been using MusicBee since I switched to Linux a few months ago, but it was tedious to set up.

Tauon Music Box has the best search I've ever seen, just type anywhere and start playback with left click or jump to song/artist/album with right click. It also has a great way to write filter and sort queries for custom libraries (the same as playlists here). F5 shows the current cover and song name in "fullscreen" with a frequency spectrum visualizer.

Screenshots from my library with custom settings:

I also consider using it to play my audiobooks, because you can separate playlists to scan separate folders and not get music and audiobooks mixed.

 

I chose Debian 12 as a solid and stable base. Which of these shipped DEs is the best for this particular laptop series and Windows 10 like user experience?

GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, Xfce 4.18

Don't know the exact laptop model and year, but here are some specs: IdeaPad, only HDD, DVD drive, shipped with Win 8 or 10 (I think), unbearably slow on Win 10 currently

Use case: office, web, movies (not streaming), things for non-tech-savvy users

Personally, I'm using Arch btw with KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland, so I would prefer this over other DEs, but Debian still ships version 5. Has anyone experience with performance on an old Lenovo laptop with any of the listed environments?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I tested it a bit in a VM to get familiar with pacman and yay. Latest KDE Plasma 6 and more snaps in Ubuntu's future are the main reasons I want to switch.

As I don't use a separate home partition, I have an extra drive with BackInTime home dir backups and virtnbdbackup snapshots.

Is EndeavourOS stable enough for everyday use and would restoring home with BackInTime just work (as root user)?

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