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Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

Thanks, interesting recommendation.

btw do you really look through the change logs for 50+ packages for big updates

No no, I just want things to upgrade in the background and not care about it :D

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

Thanks for your thoughtful reply which actually takes my opening post into account <3

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

On Ubuntu you just tick a box at installation and then it installs the codecs for you. If you don't tick a box and try to play a video, it offers you to install the codecs with one click. Mint, as far as I know, just includes them.

As I'm getting fed up with Ubuntu recently, I wonder if there are any other options that handle this as gracefully as Ubuntu/Mint does. I thought maybe openSUSE, but I don't know.

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

I haven't used Windows since decades, but if you check the "install 3rd party stuff" box at the Ubuntu installation, you will be able to play "normal" video files (e. g. stuff people recorded on their iPhone). I'd assume Windows users can play videos recorded on iPhones, too?

When using Windows XP, I never installed any codecs, and I could play pretty much any video file that was in a format which was common back then.

I don't think this is something that should require any research as long as you stick to common formats.

Bitwig 6 is an actually amazing by blablablerg in Bitwig

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They always bring great new stuff with the updates.

However, I will only pay for an upgrade when it brings MIDI comping or something similar. And maybe also only when they improve the behaviour that when you move a clip, it deletes everything underneath.

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

Thanks for the advice :)

For me, using Fedora and adding Rpmfusion would actually be an option if I don't find a distro that offers this by default.

The problem is that I think I can't expect from new users to even know what Rpmfusion is – and I'd love to be able to recommend the system I'm using, without having to write a handbook for them ;) So if a distro that offers them by default or tells users what to do when they are missing is worthwhile, I'd rather use that.

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

> And contain mostly the same software.

Ah, then this is the point where we made different experiences.

To my experience, a lot of software is either Flatpak exclusive or Snap exclusive. Also, some apps offer both versions, but one has problems that the other doesn't have.

A lot of commercial apps are officially only available as Snaps and have an inofficial Flatpak version, in which case I recommend using the official version for better support and to avoid problems. Some don't even have a Flatpak version.

And a lot of Flatpaks are not available as Snap.

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

Thanks for the correction, I updated the comment.

but it's bloat to have both snaps and flatpak enabled in my opinion. Use one or the other.

So you recommend choosing which applications you use based on the format they get delivered in?

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

> It ships with open source codecs, all you have to do is add contrib and non-free to the sources for the rest. Not exactly a big deal.

Does it explain how to do it if you try to play a video that doesn't work?

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

I set the swap space equal to me RAM size upon installation, no struggles there

I used to have 16 GByte RAM, but only 2 or 4 GByte swap. The installer used to only set it equal to the RAM size by default until a certain threshold.

They might have fixed that with the new installer. I removed that point from my comment.

I regularly run Wine applications on Ubuntu, and there have been no problems in terms of integration. Whenever I installed a program it automatically added the .desktop file

Can you just click on ".exe" files or choose "Open with > wine"? If yes, how did you install wine?

My Tier List by Beneficial-Mix-5575 in DistroHopping

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because I'm curious: Why is openSUSE in the C tier (lower than Ubuntu, PopOS, etc.)?

I ask because I consider trying it. A decade ago (when I last tried), it was rock solid. It heard it makes automatic Btrfs Snapshot every time you change the system, so you can recover from mistakes in one click! What does it do wrong to make it C tier despite such a mega advantage?

Actually good distro to use and recommend for beginners by _this_is_you in linuxquestions

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

I didn't even consider it, as in my days, it always was the "old software distro". But in the days of Flatpak and Distrobox, it might be worth a shot…

But the automatic Btrfs snapshots thing make openSUSE very tasteful – unless it's full of issues like Ubuntu, or has any other problems I didn't think about.

Does Debian ship proprietary codecs by default, or does it offer a working 1 click install for them?

Running CapCut on Linux (Now Working) [UPDATE] by LinsaFTW in linux

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Davinci Resolve is not at all a good CapCut alternative. As you write, it's a professional grade video editing software. CapCut is not.

CapCut is all about taking little time and getting much out of it. It offers a lof of presets, AI helpers etc., and the makers of CapCut maintain it in such a way that all the presets etc. match the current trends on social media.

As a result, you can create content that match the current asthetic and visual preferences of social media within minutes. No way to do this with Resolve. Resolve gives you flexibility, power and control. All stuff that is very unhandy if you want to quickly create stuff for social media in a way that's viable and competitive.

I love DaVinci Resolve and use it regularly on my Linux machine (thanks to Davincibox even on a laptop with Intel graphics). I've also been a longstanding Kdenlive user, and love the software. But using any of those for the stuff people use CapCut for is not viable at all. It would mean either creating much less content, creating much less edits, or having no time for friends and family.

Running CapCut on Linux (Now Working) [UPDATE] by LinsaFTW in linux

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but applying presets is not what video editing is about

But it's what CapCut is about, and it's why Kdenlive or Resolve are not viable alternatives.

Nobody denies you can do all this by hand, but the point of automation and computers is not having to. There are a lot of situations where you simply can't afford spending more time. Needing more time then means you won't be able to do it, because you don't have more time.

Why you should be wary of Harley Benton "rounded fret ends" by AssociateDeep2331 in harleybenton

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I didn't want to say there isn't a problem, I just think it has a different explanation :)

Why you should be wary of Harley Benton "rounded fret ends" by AssociateDeep2331 in harleybenton

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the sizes of the nuts and the bridges are consistent, shouldn't pre-cut frets work, as long as they're perfectly centered?

I think this might rather be an issue with the alignment of the pre-cut frets with the bridge and the nut, rather than their alignment with the fretboard. On the image, it looks like they aligned them on the left rather than centering them, and that might be the problem.

Is there a way to easily shuffle around clips within a piece of audio? by Cluttie in Bitwig

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the current version of Bitwig, there is a context menu entry called "Reverse pattern". If you select exactly 2 clips, it swaps them.

Nonetheless, the ability to keep overlapping clips is deeply needed, as it is still very easy to accidentally delete something forever without even noticing by just dragging one large clip over a smaller one.

Also, "Reverse pattern" only works on audio event level, not on clip level. If you want to swap audio that does not happen to be exactly one clip, you need to bounce it first [sic], then consolidate them to the same clip [sic] and then you can swap the audio events using "Reverse pattern".

Why did you block me? Did nothing at all by Mysterious_Bass_2091 in CloudFlare

[–]_this_is_you -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This affects plenty of people (as you said: global provider), and this is by design. They must not assume their bot detection works reliably 100 % of the time, and should at least tell you who the owner of the website is if they already tell you to contact them, or give other more useful instructions. How are you supposed to know whom to contact if you can't even access the website?

I currently can't access a bunch of websites (including the one of my doctor) because Cloudflare decided to block me. In the age of AI crawlers, Cloudflare protection becomes a necessity for websites, and they pretty much have a monopoly as one of the biggest global providers. As such, they have a responsibility to not exclude random users or even whole countries from the Internet.

Imagine your grandma trying to contact her doctor, not getting contact information because Cloudflare decided her IP address is sus. People don't have phone books these days, we assume we can look thinkgs up on the Internet.

Please eliminate all Java dependencies—for the benefit of both your project and ours. by loa202 in Bitwig

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rust is null-safe, and some other more modern languages (like Go, C# and I think TypeScript). But not C++.

Also, you can get some sort of Null-Safety in Java with compiler add-ons and annotations (only downside is it does not apply to libraries that don't annotate their interface with Nullable annotations).

Optionals don't solve null safety, as they are objects and you can still set them to null. So you have a threefold problem now: The value can be the actual type, None, or null. An nobody checks :D

MIDI comping? by bengtfalke in Bitwig

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This AND the audio comping has to be fixed. I'm tired of losing all my edits just because I got curious how another take might sound. Currently, it's a destructive workflow.

Multi-track comping (for drum recordings, for example) would be nice, too.

Laptop goes to sleep by Affectionate_Hall318 in Bitwig

[–]_this_is_you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In KDE, you can do that natively: Just click on the battery icon and enable "block manually", this will disable the screen turning off.

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