@n_dimension no no, BiT isn't abandoned. i still use it weekly, like it, & am looking fwd to the planned Feb [iirc] release of the next version.

#BackInTime #DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS

@backintime

@lonewolf6969 In regard to #Gentoo, it's even more of a lifestyle choice nowadays: users now have the option of using pre-compiled binaries, thus compiling everything is no longer compulsory.

#Linux #LinuxWomen

@rikviergever

i'm in straya, not europe, but am avidly anti-merka anti-orange anti-fascist et al. i have three pooters here.

• old clunker media pc: #LMDE
• laptop: #Fedora #Kinoite -- really hoped to put #KDELinux or #Kalpa on it, but neither copes with its old HW [2011 dell xps15, no uefi]. Kinoite is lovely, but i'm unhappy to use a merkan system, so once i find another atomic immutable compatible with it [i have run numerous mutables on it over the years, but nowadays want an immutable on it], i will replace Kinoite.
• main tower: triple-boot Arch KDE + Fedora Kinoite + SparkyLinux Cinnamon. Same comments here for Kinoite; not the uefi bit though, as tower is uefi, but both Kalpa & KDELinux atm "demand" a drive to themselves, so i might need to buy another SSD. In meantime, my daily boot is again Arch, after a few months of daily Kinoite.

@gael @linuxmint @SUSE @murena @kde @ubuntu

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
:archlinux: :kde: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma :linuxfedora: #Kinoite
:linuxdebian: #SparkyLinux :linuxopensuse: #Kalpa :kde: :linux: #KDELinux
:firefoxnightly: #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab

#USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch

have used, & enjoyed, #kdiff3 as my default graphical diff app in all my various distros, having first discovered it in my default boot, :archlinux: :kde: , years ago. it has been quite an up & down ride though, coz when it works it's excellent, but over the long haul it has broken many times, partly or completely. for the past week or two it's been pissing me off again. though it launches, both standalone & when invoked from #Dolphin, as soon as i click the icon to begin the manual diffing, its GUI freezes & has to be closed. trying several recent versions via downgrade hasn't helped, & reverting its config file to default also hasn't. i've finally lost all patience with it, so have removed it, & now my default diff app is #Meld... which is a pity given it's GTK. i still have #Kompare installed, but only use it for simple things, given it is barely configurable & flexible compared to the other two. sassen frassen rassen.

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
:archlinux: :kde: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma :linuxfedora: #Kinoite
:linuxdebian: #SparkyLinux :linuxopensuse: #Kalpa :kde: :linux: #KDELinux
:firefoxnightly: #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab

@thomasadam Zealots arguing... don't want to understand the other's point of view; they simply assume that nobody could possibly have a valid argument against the thing they support, and therefore they must simply hate it because it's new (or because it's not new).

To take the example of systemd, some people dislike it because they can only access the logs using a program, rather than looking at the logfiles directly. And I do think that's a valid point; it reminds me of the horror of the MS-Windows Registry. So I get why they recoil. I personally am completely fine with systemd, but I'm not going to say "Oh, they are just stuck in the muds" if they don't like it.

#LinuxWomen #Linux

been several months now since i gave Tower her 3rd-boot, being her first atomic/immutable, :linuxfedora: Kinoite, to supplement her 1st-boot :archlinux: :kde: , & her 2nd-boot :linuxdebian: SparkyLinux. have been using Kinoite daily. am now conflicted...

• really pleasant to use, a great UX 👍
• really wish it was not merkan 👎

imo, i hope hope hope that project banana, aka, KDE-Linux :kde: :linux: reaches Beta asap, at which point i might well replace Kinoite with it... not only, but bigly part of my desire, to eliminate as much merkanism from my pc as possible, such is my abhorrence & disgust with that failing fascist state of murder, invasion, violence, & skyfairydelusionism.

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
:fedora: #Kinoite :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
:debian: #SparkyLinux :opensuse: #Kalpa :kde: :linux: #KDELinux
:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab

#USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch

@unfa i abandoned it mid-last year. the two things it had going for it [one actual, one promised], they later abandoned ( #webpanels , #treestyletabs). its terrible random habit of losing all tabs on restart [peeps complaining for well over a year of it], & then the Dev's initially just idiosyncratic UI design concept warping into simply silly, then entirely killed it for me.

#FirefoxNightly with #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #TreeStyleTab + #SimpleTabGroups = 💃🥳🎉💯✅👍
.
#FirefoxNightly with #NativeVerticalTabs and #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #SimpleTabGroups = 💃🥳🎉
.
#FirefoxNightly + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #Sidebery = 🥳🎉
.
#DropbearPooterising #LinuxWomen

Currently exploring the possibilities of actually making my own dictionary databases in dictd format - I didn't realise it was so simple! (Well, not entirely simple; there is some wrangling with sed scripts required for pre-processing).

This was prompted by the dearth of dictd dictionaries available on #Gentoo, and the subsequent discovery that there used to be more but those have mysteriously vanished; and that likewise a number of the dictionaries on #Debian have vanished also.

I have now added the Websters Unabridged (from #ProjectGutenberg) to my collection. Currently cruising Project Gutenberg to see if there are other interesting dictionaries I'd like to add.

#Linux #LinuxWomen #Dictionaries

quite tickled today to have finally stumbled over the #TreeStyleTab "settings within the settings" view, in which at last i've been able to greatly narrow the Pinned Tabs' width, to fit many more into a single row.

#sidebery's had this option plainly available in its settings for yonks, & i always felt it weird for #TST to lack that similar granularity. no more need i ponder, the fault was mine, for not burrowing deep enough.

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
:fedora: #Kinoite :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
:debian: #SparkyLinux :opensuse: #Kalpa :kde: :linux: #KDELinux
:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab

@tipjip there is a way, but it's very conditional on:

• exactly how they use their pc [eg, just emails & browsing, or masses of proprietary windoze apps]?
• your own willingness to dive into some one-off intense work

Here i'll not bother you with details of how i did stuff, just a list of what i did, coz you might have no interest, so just as a big picture fyi:

• for a year i was preparing dad [88 y/o] conceptually for the need to change
• he kept putting it off, unwilling to think about it
• finally with the #EndOf10 Oct cut-off imminent, he began to relent, but it was clear to me he held some completely irrational fear of changing, & was feeling miserable about it all
• "our" plan had been to reformat his SSD to either Fedora KDE or Mint [possibly LMDE], then create a VirtualBox VM for an unauthenticated win10 install that had NO internet access, for his fav greetings card & other arcane proprietary windoze apps
• mere days from our agreed date, when i became fully aware of how very miserable & afraid he had made himself about this, i conceived a complete flip of the project
• we would retain the awful win10 as his "real" OS [yuck], but i would forcibly remove all extraneous win apps he never used, then use the win10 firewall to prohibit ALL remaining programs & processes from touching the net
• i created a VirtualBox Mint VM, which via said win10 firewall i did allow net access
• Mint VM ran Firefox & Thunderbird, for all his email & browsing needs
• all his other daily stuff continued to work for him in the odious win10, eg, office 2013, solitaire, greeting cards creation pgm, various other crap... all of which had no internet access
• he was as happy as larry, but then certain issues arose...
• VirtualBox proved to be extremely unreliable, causing many freezes of the VM, & very high RAM usage otherwise [one time then freezing win10 itself, & corrupting a TB file i later needed to fix]
• looking for a way to retain the overall project objective, but eliminate VB, i discovered, enabled & setup a native win10 Hyper-V VM [again, allowing it net access via the FW], in which i created a new Mint VM. overall RAM use dropped, & momentarily this looked like a viable solution... til i realised it is not possible to share clipboard nor folders from Host to Linux VM, rendering it entirely useless. 🙄🤦‍♀️
• then, i discovered [mere days ago] WLS, win10's native Windows Linux Subsystem, set it up [again, allowing it net access via the FW], created a Fedora CLI, via which i installed Fedora's FF & TB, which run "natively" direct from the ordinary win10 start menu. full folder & clipboard interoperability. RAM use has plummeted dramatically.
• this is our present solution 🎉 🥳💃

so, it can be done, but it's a bit of effort to get there, & won't be for everyone. fyi.

#DadsPooterProject #DropbearPooterising #LinuxWomen #EndOf10

@itsfoss
Migrating from #Debian to #Gentoo.

#Linux #LinuxWomen

@itsfoss :linuxfedora: #Kinoite is my Tower's newest, & 3rd, boot. I am enjoying it so much that nowadays i only return to my 1st-boot, :archlinux: :kde: #ArchLinux #KDE #Plasma, on Sundays to do its weekly updates. My poor old 2nd-boot, :linuxdebian: #SparkyLinux #Cinnamon, now seems to get any attention from me every blue moon or so. mind you, today i learned that the excellent Sparky Dev has added #Cosmic to their repos, so sometime soon i shall add that & who knows, maybe i might then spend more time in good ol' Sparky?

#DropbearPooterising #LinuxWomen

@kingtor well fwiw, i'm a "fediverse type", & i continue using my desktop Linux :firefoxnightly: with daily delight. i laugh about, often at, the many panic merchants volubly screaming to abandon ship now. so much operatic hysteria.

// Droppie 24/3/25: Disable all fucken AI:
user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false);

#DropbearPooterising #LinuxWomen

@rob Well, yes, but no.
I've reached that point several times... and then left it again when I find I can't install the (version of) software that I want.

#Linux #LinuxWomen #Debian

@kerravonsen oooh, oooooooh! another Conkier!! 🎉 🥳💃💜🐧@SeaFury@aus.social

#Conky #Linux #LinuxWomen

@rob ha. i can see your point. i have a slight twist though on your theory. in my case, i did not reach a point recently of choosing :linuxdebian: , but instead decided that i am now too old fat & lazy to still "enjoy" needing to do the various little bits & pieces to keep my :archlinux: all ticketyboo, so decided to go #immutable #atomic for a quieter life. hence, lappy now is single-boot Kinoite, & tower is now triple-boot Kinoite / ArchLinux / SparkyLinux. so my details are different, but i think i do get the essence of your sentiment, & agree. fwiw.

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
:linuxfedora: #Kinoite :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
:linuxdebian: #SparkyLinux :linuxopensuse: #Kalpa :kde: :linux: #KDELinux
:firefoxnightly: #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab

@pheonix but did it really?

Windows 11's hardware requirements sent millions of perfectly functional CPUs to the landfill

ofc for months & years leading up to Oct 2025, lots of pundits were predicting this would happen. however we are now past that date, so when i see peeps still repeating the old prospective claim, my desire for objectivity kicks in. do we have actual factual evidence that the terrible hardware armageddon did happen? 🤔🤷‍♀️

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
:fedora: #Kinoite :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
:debian: #SparkyLinux :opensuse: #Kalpa :kde: :linux: #KDELinux
:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab

Hello to other Fedora Kinoite users. Do any of you pls know how to install the #Oxygen #GlobalTheme, or at least these individual parts:
- Application Style
- Window Decorations
- Icons
- Cursors

I use those by choice in my tower's ArchLinux boot, but in my Kinoite boot this theme is absent. My online search attempts for a solution have not helped. Ta 🤞

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
​:fedora:​ #Kinoite ​:archlinux:​ ​:kde:​ ​:plasma:​ #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
​:debian:​ #SparkyLinux ​:opensuse:​ #Kalpa ​:kde:​ ​:linux:​ #KDELinux
​:firefox_nightly:​ #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab

i have a ginormous collection of browser #bookmarks, going back decades. am now pondering the efficacy, or not, & efficiency, or not, of trying to convert my browsing to a #tag-based paradigm rather than bookmark-based, similar to the success i experienced a year ago when i converted my #Thunderbird email history from complex folder hierarchy, to #tags.

anyone already trod this path, pls?

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
​:fedora:​ #Kinoite ​:archlinux:​ ​:kde:​ ​:plasma:​ #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
​:debian:​ #SparkyLinux ​:opensuse:​ #Kalpa ​:kde:​ ​:linux:​ #KDELinux
​:firefox_nightly:​ #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab

@gperson@social.linux.pizza How do you do Wayland #remoteaccess?

In my tower's Arch Plasma boot, like you i only use the Wayland session option, ignoring the X11 option.

In my tower's Kinoite Plasma boot, being Fedora there is no X11, only W.

My lappy also runs Kinoite. It is impossible to remote access it using FOSS from my tower, afaik, because neither #RustDesk nor #AnyDesk yet support a Wayland remote pc.

I don't understand why more users are not worried about this.

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
​:fedora:​ #Kinoite ​:archlinux:​ ​:kde:​ ​:plasma:​ #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
​:debian:​ #SparkyLinux ​:opensuse:​ #Kalpa ​:kde:​ ​:linux:​ #KDELinux
​:firefox_nightly:​ #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab