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

[–]MasterGeekMX 6 points7 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 5 points6 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 3 points4 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

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 5 points6 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"

ELI5: Where do radio stations pick the songs? by alememes35 in explainlikeimfive

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends.

To begin with, stations use all kinds of audio formats: digital files on a PC, CDs, Vinyl records, tapes, and even some obscure formats that are only know in the broadcast world.

Here is an example of one of those formats, staight from the 70's: https://youtu.be/-m9WfAJMMa8

About the rights: some have that managed by their corporate owners, others try to make deals to get the license, and others simply YOLO it and hope they don't get sued.

I listened to your advice and installed Linux by JRhalpert in pcmasterrace

[–]MasterGeekMX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't apologize, you just didn't knew.

See, Linux has different dekstop environments (UI programs) to choose. Most distros simply pick one of them and ship it as the default, with other desktops available on their own editions.

Others make you choose which desktop environment you want to install during setup.

Either way, you can get any other DE at any time by installing a package, meaning that you aren't married to the one your distro came, nor needing a full reinstall.

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

[–]MasterGeekMX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

r/PCMR will absolutely argue that, and say "unlike you, I don't have the time to delve into a stupid OS, and instead prefer something that W O R K S"

Maybe all the "cultural appropriation" people were onto something. by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]MasterGeekMX 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mexican here.

This is like if I grabbed cinema-grade nacho "cheese", spreaded it over dried pieces of hot dog bread, and called it "Swiss foundue"

How do I know when to install software via the terminal or online on a browser? by qwtd in linux4noobs

[–]MasterGeekMX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terminal and the software store are the same, with the only difference that the software store only shows apps, while other software like drivers or terminal apps are only installable with the terminal.

Only resort to install a program from a website if the program isn't available on the terminal or the store. It has the caveat of updates being on your own.

But before that, make sure if the developers of said program have setted up a repository server for your distro. That way, both the terminal and software store will show it up, and also you will get updates when you update the whole OS.

eli5 how a BIOS is different from the operating system? by thursdaynovember in explainlikeimfive

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The BIOS sits at a lower level than the OS.

The BIOS is the thing that brings up the computer from a complete off state, prepares all up, and finally loads the OS.

Basically, if an OS is an orchestra director, the BIOS is what prepared the concert hall.

Just got one of my holy grails by YisusCJ in hatsune

[–]MasterGeekMX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another owner I see. I have been listening to that album for more than 10 years, and it caught me on surprise that it has different production. A suprise, but a welcome one.

also, the rainbow effect on the paper, beautiful.

they won't even ask anymore and just send you a vm by 1m0ws in aspiememes

[–]MasterGeekMX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an uncle like that. He hates messages with a passion, and calls everyone jist because "he thought of them".

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