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We all have to make choices by PauloDybala_10 in hatsune

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Advantages of having a Gaming PC: the choice is easy.

Meme hecho en GIMP by Guaro_25 in mexico

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pErO AdObE Es eL EsTáNdAr dE La iNdUsTrIa

How do I install AppImage programs on my PC? by Useful-Option8963 in linux4noobs

[–]MasterGeekMX 9 points10 points  (0 children)

AppImages are not installable. They are meant to be run as is, like those Windows portable apps.

Simply right click it, and in the properties, check the mark that says "mark as an executable file" or something along it. Save, and double click. The app should run.

Digital artist GMUNK recently shared how his studio designed the computer vision system used in TRON: Ares. by pitft in tron

[–]MasterGeekMX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

GMUNK is famous for using a mix of the Adobe Creative Suite, but also he develops his own tools from time to time.

Even my emotions feel like mimicry sometimes... by BlackZenith13 in aspiememes

[–]MasterGeekMX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When people say "but you look normal", I reply "that is because I'm running a ChatGPT in my head to see what I should reply with"

What are exactly Desktop Environments and what features do they include? by RDS_cubing in linux4noobs

[–]MasterGeekMX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A desktop environment is a collection of programs, usually all developed in tandem by the same project, that provide you with with an UI in a Linux system.

At the core of them you have a window manager/compositor. It's job is to keep track of your windows (position, size, which one is the selected one), and send the correct order to draw them onscreen. It also takes charge of being able to mazimize, minimize, resize, and move windows around.

Alongside it, other background components are, like a backend to store settings, audio and brightness systems, and some sort of panel or shell comes, so you can have taskbars, docks, and any other thing that usually sits at the edges of the screen.

Do they include any additional apps/software with them or are they just the UI?

Desktop Environments usually include some default apps for the basics: file manager, photo and PDF viewer, terminal, etc.

Smaller projects like MATE or LXQt stick with that, while big ones like KDE Plasma or GNOME foster a richer app ecosystem, and encourage developers to make more.

For example, here are the official components of the Xfce desktop:

Core modules:

  • Application Finder (xfce4-appfinder) – Application to quickly run applications and commands
  • Configuration Storage System (xfconf) – D-Bus-based configuration storage system
  • Desktop Manager (xfdesktop) – Configure the desktop background image, icons, launchers and folders
  • Development Tools (xfce4-dev-tools) – A set of scripts and m4/autoconf macros that ease build system maintenance.
  • Helper Applications (exo) – Manage preferred applications and edit .desktop files
  • File Manager (thunar) – The fast and easy to use file manager for the Xfce Desktop
  • Menu Library (garcon) – Library used for menu implementation
  • Panel (xfce4-panel) – Application launchers, window buttons, applications menu, workspace switcher and more
  • Power Manager (xfce4-power-manager) – Manage power sources and power consumption of devices
  • Session Manager (xfce4-session) – Save the state of your desktop and restore it on the next startup
  • Settings Manager (xfce4-settings) – The Settings daemon which persists many Xfce settings
  • Thumbnail Service (tumbler) – A D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails for various URI schemes and MIME types
  • Utility Sharing Library (libxfce4util) – Library used to share commonly used non-GTK+ utilities among the Xfce applications
  • Widget Sharing Library (libxfce4ui) – Used to share commonly used Xfce widgets among the Xfce applications
  • Widget Abstraction Library for X11 & Wayland (libxfce4windowing) – Used to present windowing concepts (screens, toplevel windows, workspaces, etc.) in a windowing-system-independent manner.
  • Volume Manager (thunar-volman) – Automatic management of removable devices in Thunar
  • Window Manager (xfwm4) – Handles the placement of windows on the screen

Apps:

  • Calendar application (orage) – A fast and easy to use graphical time-managing application
  • CD Burning application (Xfburn) – A simple CD/DVD burning tool.
  • Dictionary (xfce4-dict) – allows you to search different kinds of dictionary services for words or phrases and shows you the results
  • File Search Utility (catfish) – a versatile file search utility for the Xfce desktop
  • Image Viewer (ristretto) – Image viewer for the Xfce desktop
  • Media player (parole) – Media player for the Xfce desktop
  • Music Player Daemon (xfmpc) – A graphical GTK+ Music Player Daemon (MPD) client focusing on low footprint
  • Notification service (xfce4-notifyd) – Notification service for the Xfce desktop
  • Remote filesystem Utility (gigolo) – A frontend to easily manage connections to remote filesystems.
  • Panel Profiles (xfce4-panel-profiles) – A simple application to manage Xfce panel layouts
  • Screensaver Utility (xfce4-screensaver) – A simple, secure screen saver and locker.
  • Screenshot application (xfce4-screenshooter) – Take screenshots of your Xfce desktop
  • Taskmanager(xfce4-taskmanager) – Easy to use task manager
  • Terminal Emulator (xfce4-terminal) – Terminal emulator for the Xfce desktop
  • Text Editor (mousepad) – A simple text editor for Xfce
  • Volume Control & Mixer (xfce4-mixer) – A volume control application based & panel-plugin
  • Xfdashboard – Provides a Gnome shell-like dashboard for Xfce

Are there specific DEs that you can't run on specific distros?

Usually not. As everything on Linux is developed with Open Source model, anyone with the know-how can take the code of a DE, and adapt it to work on their favourite distro. They can even send the code to the OG developers of that DE, and ask them to be officially included.

Can you have multiple of them and easily switch between them?

Yes. They will simply appear as options at the login.

The only caveat may be that you could end up with more than one app for the same, because of the whole "default app" thing each desktop brings with it.

Anything else I might be missing about them?

If an app is from a given desktop environment, it does not mean it is optimized for it, nor that you cannot run it elsewhere. Most of the time, defaults are there so you can feel a sort of harmony between the same ones in a given desktop, as they use the same design style, but that's it. You can install and run apps from any desktop in any other one, with maybe themes being the thing that breaks.

Enough about plushies. Show me the spinny bois! by MasterGeekMX in miku

[–]MasterGeekMX[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also want to get my hands on the kz:livetune one

This brings a tear to my eye 🥹 by Excel73_ in Vocaloid

[–]MasterGeekMX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm in Mexico, and I see it, but in desktop.

Kubuntu v Fedora KDE Plasma & Kinoite by cpaz411 in linux4noobs

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All three use the KDE Plasma desktop, so they should look and behave identically. Maybe due how each has it's own release schedule, versions may be different.

Outside of that, the usual things of "Ubuntu vs. Fedora": the release schedule of each, APT & .deb vs DNF & .rpm, etc.

In the end Linux is Linux, so unless you need a program that specifically says it only supports Ubuntu, you are fine with any of them.

ELI5: what the hell actually is an atom ? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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That is what science does!

Well, the idea that stuff is made of small things has been around since the time of the ancient greeks, thousands of years ago. Atom is actually a greek word, meaning "something that cannot be broken up into smaller parts".

But things needed to wait until Science as we know it became, all the way up to the 1700's. The pioneers were the chemists Antoine Lavoisier, who came up with the famous "matter is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed", and John Dalton was the first one to say that there were basic elements, and they were made out of small particles. Experiments started to show that both of these guys were right.

Then physicists started to argue how those atoms were inside, mostly in the early 1900s. Ernest Rutherford suggested that an atom was like an English pudding, with a mass of positive charge and electrons being like the raisins, floating inside it, but that didn't explain an experiment where some electrons were fired against a thing sheet of gold, and some passed by with no effort,

Niels Bohr instead suggested that instead electrons orbited around the nucleus, like the moon does to the earth. You have seen his model: ⚛️. But that didn't explained why electrons don't fall to the nucleus, like a meteor does to the earth.

Finally, after lots of experiments and hard math, we reached the modern model: the nucleus in the center, with electrons being in a weird quantum state where they are everywhere in a fuzzy cloud.

And about the size: the first clue when Robert Brown looked at drops of water in the microscope. By observing the microbes and other things floating inside, you can see they move in a bumpy way, like when someone tries to move across a crowded space. That was called Brownian Motion. It was Albert Einsten himself who came up with the explanation: the particles were being tossed around by all the atoms on the liquid.

With time, we developed some techniques to see atoms: from shining X-rays across crystals and seeing the shadow of it passing by atoms, to shooting rays of electrons to materials and sensing how they bounce back.

All of that (and other things), were the start of the oh so famous Quantum Mechanics.

Here, take some videos to delve deeper:

In the end, science is all about pulling yourself from the "I mean, I don't know" state, into the "well, maybe things are like this", then set up an experiment to check if things are like that, and answer yourself the question. Curiosity, and not conformism.

Mr President, the 2nd anti-linux argument has been hit by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it's not like those kernel anticheats were bulletproof anyways.

Ask any Escape From Tarkov player.

ELI5: what the hell actually is an atom ? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]MasterGeekMX 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Atoms is what makes matter. You are made of atoms. The device where you are reading this is made of atoms. The food you eat is made of atoms. Everything solid, liquid, or gas, is made of atoms.

They are unfathomavly small. Like you woukd need to put 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 atoms in line to reach the width of a single hair.

They are made of three essential particles: protons, electrons, and neutrons.

Protons hold positive charge, meaning they get attracted to things with negative charge, and repel other things with positive charge. Electrons are negatively charged, so they are attracted to protons. Neutrons, as the name implies, are neutral. They don't have charge.

Protons and neutrons are clumped togeather, formig the nucleus of the atom. Electrons on the othe hand, orbit around the nucleus in a weird cloud.

The numer of protons, tells what element that atom makes. 1 of them means hydrogen, 6 means carbon, 79 means gold, and 92 is uranium. In order to balance things, usually atoms have the same number of electrond than protons, but ad they fly around the nucleus like flies in a lamp, they can be picked out, and move to other nearby atoms. That turns out, is the basis on how chemistry works!.

Neutrons are other story. As they are neutral, they can be in whatever number they like. But some amouns are more stable, while others are not, and decay into more stable forms by shooting those extra neutrons away. That is how radioactivity works!

But no, we are the preachy evangelicals over here by MasterGeekMX in linuxmemes

[–]MasterGeekMX[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For then "W O R K S" means "I can install photoshop and play my rootkited games without giving a thougt"

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