That's a great list, thanks. But what I mean is applications that aren't limited to the terminal / ASCII / ncurses. I've updated my question to clarify that.
Unsure what are those acronyms, but one text-only Linux program I can't recommend enough is ncdu: it helps managing storage in your system, as well as, indirectly, browsing your files.
Generally studio/mixer/DJ audio tools like audacity or mixxx will probably do most stuff like this.
But they might be a bit overkill, I think you could just use two instances of VLC.
Change "stereo output mode" setting, to left on on instance and right on the a second instance.
I'm not sure if this will blend left and right signals before output though I'd guess it probably would.
I just got a Framework and everything works out of the box in Fedora. Battery life sucks, though. I only get about 6.5 hours out of mine, but I also have the 55Wh battery and not the new 61Wh one. I'm planning on upgrading as soon as they make the battery upgrade available on the store, though 10% more isn't really going to be enough for me to say this thing has good battery life. There's allegedly a BIOS update in the works that's supposed to help with idle power draw, so I'll see how that shakes out, I guess.
I was into Linux back then when Valve launched TF2 for Linux (this was in 2013) in the end I broke Linux Mint (I don't know how but it stopped loading) so I said Fuck it and returned to Windows, after all I wanted to play all games, not only TF2
Recently I wanted to return to Linux since gaming is finally a thing and I had to constantly fix stuff...
-First of all If I changed between windows and linux, the motherboard clock was constantly changing. I had to fix it
-KeepassXC (the browser extension) could not connect with KeepassXC for some reason their windows counterparts worked flawlessly
-KDE somehow look uglier and less customizable than the KDE from 10 years ago
-The system tray kinda sucks
-Having the programs to run at system start up does not always works by changing the settings (you have to put a shortcut in a special folder)
-I never managed to make KDE connect to work properly(I connected my phone and Linux, but I never managed to receive the phone notifications on the PC)
-The OS was asking me to restart after every boot almost daily because it got updated (back then Linux asking for a reboot was a rare sight)
-and the cherry on top, one day the software stopped working and I did nothing weird. I could not use KeepassXC, nor steam, nor blender, etc... I asked for help first here and then on the official OS forums and nobody could find a fix other than "delete everything and reinstall the OS". Is something I could do, but is a pain in the ass. I'll have to fix everything that I already fixed again, I'll start receiving security emails because someone logged into my accounts (yeah, me, from linux), I'll have to configure everything again, etc...
I'll like to get rid of windows for ever, but is not easy
KeepassXC should just work, if the browser's key was added to your KDBX database successfully. Other than that, I am surprised.
Yup, the motherboard clock thingy is a consequence of Windows storing local time, vs Linux storing UTC. It's a minor thing to fix in any of these systems, though.
Shortcuts thingy - never had a problem, although I did have a problem with KDE's keyboard shortcuts to run a program, which may be related workflow and maybe both were/are broken.
KDE Connect is surprising, as at least for me it worked flawlessly
The reboot thingy must be related to Linux Mint. I saw similar thing in EndeavourOS. One nice thing that some distributions implemented, is the ability to apply updates when you poweroff - from my point of view it's a less annoying solution than what you describe.
I can't comment on the 'cherry on top' one without more details.
I had a somewhat similar issue on my work laptop a short while ago, when I installed a program, which included a bugged XML settings file, then ran system update. When the updater tried to rebuild some caches (related to ie. icons, MIME etc.), some programs which use these caches simply stopped working. Reinstalling all packages with apt was the only thing that helped, to this day I do not even know all of the parts of my system that were broken.
But this was one of these issues that happen once per 5 years, and leave you scratching your head and asking "what the hell is going on here?". The difference from Windows is that in Linux, you can have a high understanding of system's internal modular components (at the cost of time needed to learn it), and regular system issues can be identified after a few minutes of Googling.
Yeah, is the OS I installed this time. Mint did not did that, at least 10 years ago, but I wanted to try a different distro.
So, is not a trend for all distros? Maybe I'll try a different one next time. I want to stay as close to Arch as possible (but I'm scared of Arch itself) because SteamOS is based on Arch so maybe I'll install Manjaro next
I can't comment on the 'cherry on top' one without more details.
I still have it installed (I'm pissed/frustrated and still have not made the reinstall), I check from time to time if an update fix it, but no luck to this day
I looked through the posts.
Explanation of the issue: the userspace implementation of OpenGL for Xorg, called GLX,does not work, maybe it isn't loaded. From what I see, /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/libglx.so is no longer included in nvidia-utils package, the new name for it is probably libglxserver_nvidia.so
Did you have any lines with (EE) in Xorg.0.log?
Do you see if this log says, if libglxserver_nvidia.so was loaded correctly?
Wouldn't hurt to check, if nvidia kernel module is loaded: lsmod | grep nvidia
Maybe reinstallation of nvidia-utils package could help, although I am pretty sure this was done already when you removed and added nVidia driver again.
Feel free to PM me, whenever you give it another go, even if it's half a year from now :) I'll do my best to provide you some advice.
('nv' is an old driver for old nVidia cards, you shouldn't look in that direction, it's normal that it doesn't load, if nvidia driver does)
The KeepassXC-browser stuff is most likely from when Ubuntu started pushing snaps. For a while this was broken, and even if you installed Firefox from a PPA instead it still wouldn't work due to a default AppArmor policy blocking the connection.
I dualboot to play games with anti-cheat. There are so many counterintuitive design choices on Windows, it’s seriously fucked. They have removed options which used to exist. WHY?! It’s not a security risk, it’s just a basic feature. I don’t understand.
I've used KShare for a while. Not sure if it's still under active development, but it's the closest thing I've found to ShareX, and works well enough for me
There's a few, but I really like Gnome Screen Recorder if you're using a gnome-based distro. I've also used Peek before which I believe has shortcuts as you said. To install Peek if you don't have the repository on your distro.
Hell yeah! I haven't tried Mint in awhile, it was my first foray into a Linux distro and I wasn't quite ready at the time, mostly because gaming on Linux wasn't where I needed it to be. It sure was a beautiful distro though!
I love that Linux has taught me how to debug programs and since open source is more common in Linux environments, if there's a problem then I can fix it myself rather than waiting for the developers to patch it.
Oh yeah, and PC Express and all the groceries stores are such bullshit! Galen Weston... heads (of lettuce probably) will roll!
On the old NVIDIA driver, if you’re brave, they’re still available and on Arch(-based) pretty easy to install. I used some old desktop GeForce 6xx with it last time around 2020 and it worked for basic stuff, like desktop compositing, OpenGL games or even some WineD3D. Don’t expect it to run anything somehow modern. And yes, with the driver you’re limited to X11 session.
If you also have iGPU and it’s switchable, the only option to somehow achieve offloading (switching the graphics dynamically) would be through unofficial methods like Bumblebee.
Also, graphics that old should have some support in the open source Nouveau driver, that will probably be loaded by default on most distros. If I’d be stuck with such chip, that would be my first thing to check if it isn’t enough for my planned use-cases.
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