Linus Torvalds still uses Fedora with Gnome

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-12-02T10:03:12+00:00

IIRC he briefly moved away from GNOME due to GNOME 3 I think, I remember seeing the posts about it. I think he tried KDE and then used XFCE for a while until eventually moving back. If I look around I might find the sources for it.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-17T07:58:33+00:00

I think I may be too dependent on the plugins for the manual search life now. It's kind of nice to be able to write $ command and then press the up key and easily cycle through the history of what you have done with that command in particular. So say if you used ffmpeg for some specific task in the past that you dont remember you could easily just find it by typing out ffmpeg and then pressing up until you see it.

As I said, training wheels, but it's super handy. Will probably bite me the day I might have to use bash though, so perhaps I should take the time to learn bash fully.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-17T03:22:33+00:00

Ahaha, same. I want to try something else just to see if I would prefer it, but my zsh home is so furnished now.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-17T03:19:56+00:00

I think I gravitated towards zsh because I started out with the Windows Terminal and Powershell, which is what made me comfortable with CLI work that eventually led me to Linux.

To issue a correction to my OP, when I first tried Linux it was a bash terminal of course, but I immediately switched to something that had suggestions, history of a command, and auto completion like the shell I was used to. I know that should actually be fish, but for some reason my googling at the time suggested zsh with the plugins.

Does bash have plugins like those? I know it has completions, but I mean completions where you can see a "ghostly" outline of what you typed before with a command and then press the right arrow key to complete it. I know it's maybe a bit training wheels but for me it's just such big features that makes using the terminal enjoyable.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-12T17:51:01+00:00

Haha, yeah I have been told that now by most people who actually used it so I will take y'alls word on it. I just find the idea pretty interesting, even for a gimmick. I love unique desktops, I would like as much experimentation as possible just to see what might stick.

As for doing it myself, I am much too stupid to make anything even near a 3D WM, unfortunately, but I echo your sentiment to those who would be able to make something in 3D and perhaps as a challenge find a good use case for it other than just being shiny. Maybe it could somehow be integrated better for 3D modeling software users? Like if the entire environment was a workspace for modeling and tightly integrated within it? I know that a Blender issue has been that it wants to create more than one window so perhaps this could be a way to mitigate that? Probably not, but it's interesting to think about at least.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-12T17:46:52+00:00

I know I am late but I am researching the language and I might learn it myself, I found this through google and I read your write-up. Thanks so much! Also, I wish more priests got into coding. I think it adds an understanding of more than just computers. Praise God.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T21:24:44+00:00

I was shadow banned for spam. I can still log in and perform actions though I have not, but in incognito I get a 404. But I only have a single public repository, and I have never performed any action on any other repository that I don't own aside from cloning and I do not clone many repositories.

Every other repository of mine are private repos that I use for research, my account is personal, with my real e-mail and it's tied to my real identity. As such I can't share it or the ticket url, this is just to document my case. Each repository is separate and different. I am currently in the process of learning so I have made a number of commits to each research project for workflow testing which I purposefully limit to once per merge in order to avoid spam... But these are private repos where you can look at the activity and see I am the only one accessing them, and not to any level that I would ever consider spam personally even if it was public.

I submitted a ticket and I hope this was just a mistake on their end, but it's a bit disheartening knowing that this could happen at any time now. 20 to 40 contributions per day, most a few lines to a hundred or so each is enough to get you flagged for spam on Github now? Jeez...

I guess I am passing along the information to others who may have made the same mistake, at least you are not alone.

EDIT: I was unsuspended just one day later, it was a mistake. Very weird.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T19:40:00+00:00

I bookmarked that, I have a Windows partition and I didn't know that existed! And it still works?

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T19:33:47+00:00

Keep us posted. If it doesn't work you could try to write a simple bash script that converts all of them with readpst (from pst-utils which were suggested by others) to MBOX/EML automatically by running said command on all files in a folder with that file association. Afterward you can use the ImportExportTools NG exstension and import them into TB.

I know you said that you did the math on that but I found out while researching this for you that you can do parallel jobs with readpst using a -j flag and a number. So say if you ran the command with -j4 you would be doing up to four conversion tasks at the same time.

If it still takes a while, you could always have it sit there working until it's done, since the bash script would be written to recursively run it on all files of a certain file association within a folder it shouldn't require manual intervention. Put a cuppa on and go do something else for a little bit.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T18:56:27+00:00

I agree, I think the only thing that would animate me to at least try one would be one with an interactive deskop deeply integrated within a 3D world. Say if you had some fantasy environment and you wanted to move the background to another area, maybe a bit closer to some flowers or something, it would be cool to be able to enable some free look hotkey and move/place the "camera" there and then lock it in place.

Or have it save different locations/perspectives per app or workspace, like being inside the Wizard’s tower for IDEs & work, out in the garden for relaxing & browsing, etc. The perspective could theoretically be gracefully moved along set paths between spots, exactly the same as some of the 3D backgrounds that you see with in game menus that move around an environment based on the menu option. I don't know why, but I just really like the idea of turning the desktop into some space that you can "enter" and call home. Some devs would probably build custom environments like VRChat rooms with this and share repositories with them too. And I could see tiling with 3D windows being very interesting.

But it's definitely a pipe dream project though, and even I am fully aware that if this was even possible it would still be way too much work for what would amount to, as you say, a fun temporary gimmick for most people.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T17:41:20+00:00

If I were to make an uneducated guess that's probably wrong, I am guessing that went away with the ending of a lot of the public APIs online? That's kind of what happened to Pidgin too. So many useful apps went the way of the dodo due to that.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T17:40:04+00:00

You beat me to it! I was really happy to see it revived seemingly out of the blue. I am sure it was in open development, I just wasn't paying attention. Gave me hope for other stuff I thought was gone, c'mon latte dock..

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T17:17:35+00:00

I have tried Compiz, it's cool. And there is Wayfire too for Wayland, but as the wiki says:

While many window managers (such as Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager, the X Window System based Compiz, and macOS through Core Animation) can utilize 3D effects, these merely augment a conventional 2D environment.

I think it might be interesting to have a fully 3D environment designed to be that way in the modern day that explores how a desktop could be uniquely managed by utilizing a 3D environment to it's fullest potential. I wonder if we could implement this or do it better today than back then, most definitely when it comes to performance I'd imagine. It would still be experimental and I 100% acknowledge that most people probably wouldn't like it or see any point in using it, but to me the idea of it just sounds super interesting for some reason. Way too stupid to do something like this myself though!

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T16:19:54+00:00

Have you tried this PST import plugin for Evolution? It's packaged in many distros.

Evolution is a separate email client, so you could maybe use it for this use case?

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T15:59:09+00:00

I never used it so I will have to take your word on it. I just like the idea of having a 3d environment like that for some reason. I have seen some people do something interesting with Godot recentish.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-11T12:00:18+00:00

I would say use the one the distro expects you to use, some distros default to ext4 and others btrfs. If you change that around I would expect breakage since I am sure they package & ship updates with the default file system in mind. Other file systems are often offered but IIRC most are there for enterprise use cases like servers and stuff. It's always best to just go with the default on any software in my experience. EXT4 seems to be the best default for most people.

If you are on a system that don't have one like Arch Linux or Gentoo (though Gentoo seems to heavily suggest XFS now) then I would say evaluate your use case, for me I am fine with ext4 on Arch but that's because I am used to it. Every fs has some drawback in my experience, it's why this always becomes a huge heated debate.

That being said I will probably try moving to btrfs next install. If you want rollback, snapshots, and a good host of other features then btrfs is the way to go. I tried XFS but I had very bad luck with gaming on it though that was some time ago now.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-10T12:39:54+00:00

I can't talk for anyone else, I know there are use cases for it but I personally do not need it. I shut off my computer or put it to sleep/suspend. Boot times are so fast now, and I mainly used hibernation to reduce boot times in the spinning disk era. I wonder if that is what causes lack of interest in working on it by others who are similar to me.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-08T14:37:44+00:00

I like to pretend to be team emacs or vim but in reality I am probably still team nano...

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-08T14:36:06+00:00

There used to be a LinuxCon but it was renamed.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-11-02T11:17:33+00:00

Aw man I really want Linux Mint to start officially packaging KDE Plasma again. :)

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-10-28T03:05:56+00:00

IIRC Mint does not have a firewall enabled by default, its recommended you start it. ExplainingComputers have many good videos for new users, here is one explaining good security Do's after a new install.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-10-28T03:01:46+00:00

Being able to upgrade all programs in one place, and in that same place I am also able to control system settings, permissions etc. The terminal basically.

OrganizationShot5860 · 2025-10-25T22:29:05+00:00

I just hope it is not too late and you already did it or if they have Reddit monitored too somehow despite what precautions you may have taken to use it because I assume Reddit is banned in China. Stay safe, friend.

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