LETS GOOO

At least something good happened today

I still havent transitioned to debian (still have win10 as main), I’m just booting to them from an external drive, so I can simply wipe the root partition any time I want to try a distro :)

Once I settle with a distro and manage to set it up the way I want, I will probably fully switch to linux (and maybe keep an image of my win10 os to run in a vm)

Storage wasn’tmy biggest issue (besides, I have 1tb internal ssd). It was that flatpaks couldnt communicate well with the rest of the environment. So I resorted to using flatpaks mainly for closed source apps that I wanted to isolate.

BUT, as I was making a script (https://github.com/BlastboomStrice/3rdPartyAutoUpdater) to automate github/gitlab/etc. updates (because the debian repo doesnt have them or they are outdated), I realized that I was essentially making a small scale version of nixos package manager.😆

So, now I’m very tempted to use the nix package manager and maybe do a full switch to NixOS (I’m not very advanced though, I havent even tried Arch, so ughh).

My mood concearning what distro to use on my laptop is rather volatile😅

Yeah, I see what you mean.

I initially thought about using flatpaks for almost every non-core app, but then I found out that 1) it’s hard for flatpak apps to communicate with the rest of the system and 2) for a 10Mb app, 1+Gb might be downloaded. So, I’m trying to avoid these too🥲

Also, some packages dont even have flatpaks, so I grab packages from github (and installing .deb packages on testing may lead to failed installs due to missing dependencies…)🥲

I see I see, thank you for you quick reply. This tempts me even more to use sid, hmm.

This is a different question from the original post, but do you happen to know what to do when listbugs warns me that a package has bugs? I suppose almost all packages have some bugs to some degree. Should I just avoid them on Sid? Or should I check how bad the bug is (if it belongs to a serious category) and decide whether to update it?

Ok I got my answer😬😅

Thanks🧡

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To not keep you waiting any further, I want to let you know I’ll probably not do that. Besides, I havent ever edited wikipedia.😅 I havent even tried the program yet. Thank you creating this, if I check the program in the future I’ll see what I can do.

(I suppose you have talked to the appropriate wikipedia mainteners, right?)

Also if anyone else sees this and adds it, please let us know.

I dont understand😅

I think the “launcher” part in the name is a bit misleading. I think it is as you describe it.

Oh thank you

For somw reason there was an option, but soon it was gone(??)

I think I did something wrong and the option to use umu through lutris disappeared, lol. I’ll have to tinker with them.

I had the same issue and I cant understand why…

I’m probably gonna end up using these (in layers)

wine-ge/umu-launcher -> bottles -> OpenGamepadUI

(I’m not very sure what umu launcher should do and if it replaces wine-ge)

Yeah, I think the lutris, bottles and heoric developers all work together on umu and will probably try to integrate it on their apps

I think that was the purpose of the name lol

I wasnt awarw of that, hm

After messing a bit around with bottles, lutris and heroic, I think I had most success with bottles.

Now there’s umu launcher in the game too, I’d like to use it in bottles/lutris somehow

I see I see

Also, just noticed that your name is debian guy.😆 I guess it makes sense :)

Heyy, I’m too in the process of moving from windows (10) to debian :) (though I’m very new to linux, but not new to open source software)

I was surprised that notepad++ didnt have native support for linux and while I tried many stuff, indeed I couldnt find a real replacement. I have kinda concluded that I will either use bottles with wine to run notepad++ (takes around half a minute to open) or use Geany and try to customize it as much as I can. (There are also Notepadqq which is kinda dead and NotepadNext which is still in very early stage.) I’ll probably go with Geany and chech on NotepadNext if it evers becomes good enough.

I had a recent post about running windows stuff on linux and people gave me some good advice here: https://mander.xyz/post/18701186

Edit: I just found Textadept, might check it later (found it from a comment under this video).

Hihi, glad it motivated you🤭

I’ll plug another post I made this summer, to help you with spotify compatibility on deemix:

https://mander.xyz/post/16863069

Btw, I see those Arls last for a day or so now (at least if you download stuff), but I think they get updated very often :)