Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!
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Have a look as well at #openSUSE, there is #Tumbleweed as most actual but still stable (so factory and automatic testing was passed), #Slowroll which was a delayed and hardened Tumbleweed and #openSUSELeap which is more a LTS like system. All supports KDE/plasma and still X11 pretty well.
I do like #OpenSuse's install wizard. Doesn't look very modern, however gives you a ton of settings. Being able to specify PCI-IDs and what driver to load for specific devices at setup is extremely useful! #Linux
My Family has been using either #Ubuntu (2 computers) or #OpenSuse#TumbleWeed (5 computers) - for some years now.
#Yast enabled my family members to do a lot of things for themselves without great Futher knowledge (or - gasp - the command line), e.g. installing a printer.
I told you I'm not crazy and there is a giant stuttering problem with Plasma desktop effects like alt tab and window overview, along with the tiling editor locking up the entire desktop, I'm talking with @acidiclight and he's diagnosing the exact same issue on his end, this was never a problem with the Arch Linux package lol
@linux Sharing a 'small' inconvenience I had to fix with #opensuse#slowroll (I suspect #tumbleweed is the same) - I couldn't launch snaps (spotify, bitwarden) after update - error was: cannot determine seccomp compiler version in generateSystemKey fork/exec /usr/lib/snapd/snap-seccomp: no such file or directory
The fix (I first tried re-installing, didn't work) was to:
a. locate snap-seccomp - was in /usr/libexec/snapd
b. symlink: ln -s /usr/libexec/snapd /usr/lib/snapd
Another #Linux rant because nothing ever works and the community keeps disappointing me.
Why in the world does everyone say #KDENeon works so good it's "the most reliable KDE distro ever, been using it for 48723698 years!" when in the FIRST day everything keeps breaking? I've been losing the whole day trying to fix KDE Neon, NOTHING works! I just want to play my games... :(
Genuinely thinking to go back to Windows after 7ish years of daily driving Linux... I've been getting disappointed more and more. I hoped for Linux to improve with reliability, but it never did. It just keeps breaking.
All this "high customisability" comes at a cost, clearly.
I swear, #Linux is the only OS where i have to set my cursor settings three times, at least. ( Qt, GTK, Flatpak )
I don't want to go back on #Kubuntu because snapd keeps coming back like a virus. But at this point seems like i don't have choice... Maybe #OpenSUSE will work idk... Prolly not...
I use :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux#KDEPlasma#Wayland 💜 as my Host, but enjoy playing with & learning about numerous alternatives in VMs. In the #immutable / #atomic space, two of these VMs are Kinoite & Kalpa. Whilst not yet convinced that they would adequately suit my use-case as potential future Host Arch replacements [coz i'm an inveterate tinkerer], i nonetheless find them fascinating.
In my Host i actively shy away from #Flatpaks, but have come to accept their necessary role in immutables. However IMO the single project that transforms the potential viability of immutables for me is the magnificent #Distrobox. Using DB in both VMs then allows me to create an #Arch container in which i can avail myself of the large range of Arch repo apps, & also once setup in it, all the cornucopia of the #AUR goodies. It's a brilliant combo.
That said, my mind now turns to another essential requirement for me. My default browser is :firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly. Though it's available in the AUR, i much prefer downloading it direct from the Firefox site, extracting it from the tar, then moving it to /opt/firefoxnightly/. This is elementary in Arch, but checking now in my VMs, i'm somewhat surprised to find that both Kinoite & Kalpa seem to have made their respective /opt directories immutable along with the rest of the root directory. I'd certainly have hoped that considering the usual uses of /opt it would have been exempted.
What then do experienced Kinoiters & Kalpans do here? Do you "fight the system" to force Nightly into opt, or do you merely decide to run it from your Home directory?
OpenSSH in openSUSE also seems to be patched to link to libsystemd, thus linking to liblzma. Hence, Tumbleweed should be affected. 😔 #openSUSE#Linux#liblzma#lzma#xz#ssh#infosec
Well. Seems I have to reinstall #OpenSUSE#Tumbleweed. I tried restoring as many of my custom #KDE theme settings as I could remember before retrying to upgrade to #Plasma6. It didn't help. Colors being screwed I get, but why are so many things are straight up missing. Volume widget? BT widget? Whole sections in the Plasma Settings are just gone. ???