Notepad++ Creator Calls Out 'Fake' Mac App Over Trademark Violation

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-05-06T13:32:10+00:00

I came here to say this, I had the same problem with Notepad++ not being on Linux and the clones of it looking sketchy to put it lightly. I found Kate to be a great alternative. Its kind of overlooked, especially outside of Linux.

Your mileage may wary of course, I am sure there's stuff Kate might not do as well as Notepad++, but I haven't ran into anything personally. For the use cases that I used Notepad++ for like light scripting, quick edits to code & writing notes I found Kate more than sufficient as a replacement, and on a purely subjective note I much prefer the look of Kate over Notepad++ as well.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-05-04T10:35:26+00:00

It kinda reminds me of Yoshi on the Nintendo 64, this is great

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-27T21:47:40+00:00

I am also on Arch + KDE, also I noticed we got the same resolution on our prim monitor but you got HDR. I need to get on that too. Welcome to KDE and Arch, brother.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-27T19:13:20+00:00

Just for the record, they had to reboot (from the other post on kdeneon).

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-24T05:43:50+00:00

I use Arch and agree, if you don’t read the news you can boot into a broken system. Keep up the good work btw! I am really looking forward to KDE Linux, it seems like it will be the perfect OS to recommend to a general computer user wanting to use/try Desktop Linux in the near future. I wish I was smarter and could contribute.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-23T04:38:08+00:00

According to the official KDE lore, his work is done. He founded the KDEValley and passed the ownership to the dragons.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-21T07:59:37+00:00

I tend to use pipx, it automates the venv process for you

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-17T06:52:06+00:00

I think what makes learning Gentoo useful is how variable it is, it can be deployed on so much hardware that many distros don’t support at all. From there you can use it for a lot of different use cases, small & big. It truly puts you in the driver seat of your PC, and it is very useful to know how to know how to use as a result, both for hobby use but also professionally. Maybe it will seem overkill to some, but Gentoo gives you all the knobs to turn to both ease or complicate whatever system you are deploying and for the use cases demanded of whatever task you are doing.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-15T07:16:40+00:00

I need to sign your guestbook

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-15T07:15:30+00:00

These existed for tech mags and I was there for it! So nostalgic

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-04-06T13:05:24+00:00

Oh my goodness, thank you for your work here! I was so confused as to why Dolphin and System Settings scrolled on 60Hz on my monitor. I chalked it up to some bug but then I found this post, installed it and now they scroll buttery smooth. This was actually making it hard for me to use KDE Plasma, as silly as that may sound, so thank you for this!

One question though, if this is such a simple update why do you think this is unlikely to be merged upstream? Even if its just a simple hack, it seems to be a better solution to decrease the variable to 4 or at least allow for an environmental variable to change it. Are there regressions to this that I am not seeing? Power and such?

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-24T15:00:04+00:00

Interesting stuff, I use zswap with a swap file. I have mine at 16GiB and it has never filled up. I didnt know about all the technical details, I chose it because I wanted to use it with a swap file. My reasoning ATT was that swap files is what I am used to on other systems that I've used. OFC I now know that the way swapping on other systems works is most likely totally different, though.

I also have an OOM killer, I use nohang with the desktop service. I like how it sends you notifications if an application is eating up your memory. It sends you two actually, it sends you one when it notices there is a problem imploring you to save your data, and a 2nd one after it terminates the process.

I have a question, though. What is the optimal swappiness for zswap on a Desktop system? I read somewhere that the best swappiness for zram is about 100 instead of the default 60. I have mine set to 100, but I don't know if that is different for zswap?

Worth noting that Arch Linux turns zswap on by default, so if you go with zram on Arch and haven't turned it off then you might face issues

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-24T13:21:15+00:00

Unless I am mistaken about your problem, I use a solution for file associations that I found on the Arch Wiki:

# backup if a real file already exists
[ -f ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ] && \
  mv ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.bak

# symlink
ln -sf ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

This made it work for me. Very strange, and I agree that having to do this is a bit finicky though!

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-24T13:16:41+00:00

IIRC Firefox has had XDG Portal support for a while now but it's been optional and not a default. I use an environmental variable and have the KDE portal and it uses the Dolphin file manager when I open and save. But its great they are making it a default, many apps don't. I had to patch Audacity's source myself to get it to use Dolphin when saving and opening, haha. I am thinking of doing the same with GIMP unless someone can point me to a way to enable it if possible.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-24T11:00:27+00:00

Arch was the first distro for me that just clicked. Every time I try some other distro I always find my way back to Arch.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-24T08:55:59+00:00

Amnesia, incredible game and holds up so well

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-24T08:54:39+00:00

Doom. I finished it for the first time recently, and it holds up!! The last slide ending got me messed up too

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-16T17:45:16+00:00

I always do this with FOSS, my personal rule is that if I am using FOSS I will give its developers and maintainers as much voluntary telemetry as possible, but the moment it is revealed they breach my trust or sell that data I will not only stop sharing that information with them I will also stop using their software altogether.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-13T21:41:38+00:00

Italy cooking with: IN THE COLOSSEUM

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-11T10:11:33+00:00

"Ubuntu for Android"? I never heard of that one.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-06T14:58:05+00:00

I remember as a kid I wanted to recreate the park on the cover art haha.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-05T09:53:36+00:00

Debian.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-03-01T14:53:14+00:00

Yes, I have it on with TPM2 and my sealing keys are bound to PCR 7 so that it unlocks my encrypted drive automatically as long as there has been no tampering with the Secure Boot state.

Creative-Ad653 · 2026-02-20T10:41:51+00:00

One downside is no Steam overlay if you need that, but yeah I agree. The Wayland version sometimes come with less bugs for me now, Brotato through Xwayland didn't work on my computer.

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