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how to move to a new computer? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks, I can't think of it as anything but duke nukem forever now. Your comment made my day.

Why I Can't Use Linux - My Top 3 Reasons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wow yeah, your position sounds awesome. I guess if I were in an indie studio I could be in charge of the engine or like, dev environments. I've found such benefit in doing gamedev on Linux, even if targeting Windows via cross-compiling, it's so much faster and nicer. But what company would be willing to hire an intern to move over their whole workflow... not happening lol.

Why I Can't Use Linux - My Top 3 Reasons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I am very serious about using Linux exclusively. I have ported/rewritten all of my university's course materials in my past two years of gamedev studies and made them available for others. But the time has come to do an internship and I have yet to find a single studio I could be at while still using Linux. I feel like I reached a dead end tbh

Life as a teen without social media isn't easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is a good option for most of it, as the bridges seem quite solid. Sadly it won't make up for calls (some courses have extra content in the form of "Discord Stages" which is like a big video call).

Life as a teen without social media isn't easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I can echo the frustrations expressed about social media becoming a necessity as it becomes the primary channel for communication by an institution. Both my university and student dorm use exclusively Discord to communicate events, exams, and general announcements. I don't run Discord on my phone and due to this I have come close to missing several important things, if not for a friend letting me know. I'm not sure what if anything could be done to change this...

Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Awesome news! Really miss the tab groups from Chrome, really the only thing haha

Looking for FOSS GitHub Client in c/android
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation! Using it now, works great. Do you know whether development ia continued anywhere? It doesn't look to have been updated in many years, but F-Droid doesn't mark it as unmaintained.

Looking for FOSS GitHub Client in c/android
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Something I can use to browse GitHub repositories, reply to and create issues, and get notifications for issues on my own repos.

Looking for FOSS GitHub Client in c/android
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Do you mean Obtainium? I use it to download apps not available on F-Droid, but I can't use it to actually browse/use GitHub. I will clarify in my OP :)

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Looking for FOSS GitHub Client (linux.community)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/android
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I've been looking around for a good GitHub client on my degoogled phone, but have had trouble finding a still-maintained one that's ready to use. I find that I just default to opening URLs in Fennec, which is far from ideal as I have to load the whole website (and it's quite laggy on my Pixel 3a). So I turn to Lemmy: what GitHub client do you use?

Specifically, I'm looking to browse GitHub repos (view code, issues, forks, PRs) and use it (reply to and create issues mainly).

Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do too. Envision has an option to install "WiVRn" which I found worked way better than ALVR.

Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I play VR on Linux, it works surprisingly well, especially via Wayland. There's an app called Envision that sets up basically everything you need for you. Unlike a few years ago, I had to do no fiddling, it just works.

What web services do you subscribe to? in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What does a hosted RSS provider give you over a normal client? I use Nextcloud News (self hosted) but I don't really know the benefit over just using an RSS app on my phone (besides syncing my list I guess).

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NixOS for gamedev (linux.community)
 

Hiya! I'm following a gamedev degree in university. It's been a major challenge doing it from Linux, as everything is Windows stuff (.sln Visual Studio projects, DirectX API, excel graphs...). However I've gotten by by making my own tools and dipping into WINE when it gets too difficult. I'm replacing my laptop due to hardware faults (never buying from ASUS again) and my Framework 16 preorder should arrive in a month or two.

I'm considering trying out NixOS. I currently have Arch on the laptop because it makes it easy to get recent versions of libraries and compilers. However, I've had lots of issues due to inconsistent setup (SDDM theme randomly disappears, KDE apps have black text on dark background, video encoding does not work) and I figured having a declarative config might allow me to set things up better and more consistently. I do have a few worries though, given this is new to me:

  1. Installing proprietary software. For certain courses I unfortunately have to use software like Unreal Engine, Maya, Houdini, Unity, P4V, and a few others. I read NixOS has difficulty with running random binaries. I also could not find an UE5 package in nixpkgs, which Arch does have.
  2. Building binaries. I know nixos does some weird stuff with libraries and binaries. I need to be able to do normal stuff with binaries, and perhaps package and distribute them. It'd be really nice to be able to try out different compilers for my CMake/C++ projects also. Can NixOS do that easily?
  3. VMs. I will be doing dGPU passthrough for testing assignments before handin. I assume this is no problem but it requires some weird stuff so I want to be sure before diving in!

Am I better off just setting up a brittle Arch install again, or is NixOS worth the plunge?

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[Question] ActivityPub Blogging Platform (linux.community)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse
9 comments fedilink
 

Hi! I'm looking to publish a blog that can be discovered through interactions on the fediverse, and potentially displays replies as comments. I had set up WriteFreely and, though it is missing the replies feature, it seemed pretty well-made. However, when I tried to publish my post, pressing "Move to [blog name]" made it disappear. It's still in the stats page but clicking on it shows "This page is missing." It seems really buggy, hasn't had a release in almost a year, and my post would be lost if I hadn't made a backup. Are there any other good options for publishing a blog?

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