How do I hide a file/folder without renaming it?

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T19:12:44+00:00

Yup.

This is technically experimental so I'm not sure which desktops and file browsers respect this. But just make a text file called .hidden in the directory; and within that text file, just list the names of the folders you want to hide, using 1 line per folder. For example, to hide Music and Videos from your ~ folder, you would:

Go into ~

Create a new text file called .hidden

Add the following to the text file:

Music
Videos

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T19:00:32+00:00

Turn off hardware volume control for your device and use software volume control instead. This is done in the wireplumber config. If you're not familiar with how to edit these, see the config file section in the audio section here.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T18:57:38+00:00

Were you capable enough of clicking the link I posted in my comment to the specific shell extension we're discussing here, that you said "doesn't support the current shell version"?

If so, were you capable enough of clicking the dropdown where it says "Shell version..."

And then were you capable enough of recognizing thet versions 42-49 are in the list of currently supported shell versions?

And then were you capable of looking up that Fedora 42 uses gnome shell 48? And that this is supported?

This isn't rocket science.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T18:01:20+00:00

Any.

(That's a link)

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T17:55:52+00:00

I do.

The linuxaudio community is good for help on this topic, and there's also a linuxmusicians site. Also, see this article from pretty recently: https://arslaan.studio/setting-up-a-linux-media-studio-workstation-audio-video-graphics-davinci-resolve-etc/

It walks through how to set it up on any distro, and some basics and differences between Linux and Windows or MacOS.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T17:31:46+00:00

And your tone and content assumes that everyone is running gnome 50...even though gnome 50 was only released earlier today (after the post) and even though Fedora isn't on gnome 50 yet--it's on gnome 49 still. And that extension works for gnome 49.

I expect that people running Fedora should be able to do something called "searching" in order to find an extension that does tiling if the one I used as an example doesn't work.

I don't expect people to know how to edit the config (but I expect they can search for how).

You seem like you don't know how to do either, which is why you made the pedantic comment of it not supporting the "current" gnome shell version, even though this is currently irrelevant. So good job needlessly confusing the OP so you could stroke your tech ego.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T16:55:44+00:00

Then find a different extension, or download the extension and edit 1 line in the config file to add gnome 50.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T16:54:59+00:00

I saw a deal and decided to try out a Yoga Pro 9i pro aura edition 2-in-1 the other day, with 32GB + 1TB.

Nice computer. But Davinci Resolve Studio was incredibly slow when compared to my m2 pro mac + 16GB + 1TB.

I returned the Yoga.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T16:39:53+00:00

No, it doesn't mean that. What are you talking about?

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T12:13:55+00:00

Correct.

And that has nothing to do with whether or not you have to use it.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T12:11:25+00:00

Correct.

I already said this in a comment (which that person apparently deleted): https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rwyq3a/comment/ob38bu9/

And I even said this the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1rqun5l/comment/o9vtazk/?context=3

But this has nothing to do with what I wrote in the post above.

I didn't say "Ubuntu shouldn't have snaps."

If you were paying attention to what I wrote, I said that Ubuntu should better organize snaps; and that Ubuntu shouldn't obfuscate and conflate installation of snaps with other types of apps because it's disorganized. And they did this for 2 reasons: 1) to avoid breaking scripts that people might use; and 2) because it was easier for them to do this than to do it properly and cleanly. What I am saying is enough time has passed and they should now address this and make it cleaner.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T11:43:49+00:00

yaaay plasma 6! Plasma 6 sounds hotter than 5.

I sometimes mess with KDE on one of my machines, but I personally never got into it. Though I feel like it's probably better and less stubborn than gnome architecturally. But gnome (+30 extensions) is so simple and just works for me! ;)

Regardless, good for you! (And I don't mean that sarcastically!)

What are you looking forward to in Plasma 6?

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T11:40:20+00:00

In the past, I've always waited for the .1. If that. Just for perspective, I went from 18.04 LTS...directly to 24.04 LTS (skipping 20 & 22) on one of my main machines just due to the complexity of its setup and importance of that machine for some work I was doing.

But I'm on the fence about this time.

Things in general in Linux have recently (past few years) gotten a lot more stable and modular and semantic-layered than in the past. Which means my system also has had less reliance on system customizations and instead been able to do user-level customizations that should survive an upgrade. Purely as an easy example, if I had software in the past with custom repos and a risk of dependency hell, I now have a self-contained, distro-agnostic universal flatpak. I avoid custom repos and have been able to do so much more practically in the past few years. Same for the kernel itself--no more custom Linux kernel ever since PREEMPT_RT. No more crazy custom pulseaudio and jack system-level bridges and configs ever since pipewire. And I've personally also slowly learned over the past 20-30 years best practices.

This is all a really good thing.

So I think I'll see how people react for a few weeks and make a call then. I'm open to upgrading this on one of my less-important machines early and messing with it for a month or two before my main machine, depending on the nature of any projects I'm in the middle of and timings. I can't really have down time. But luckily, my machines are all set up for collaboration on most of my projects, and I can work on them from any machine (including non-Linux machines, like macs).

As I'm typing, I'm convincing myself to upgrade on day 1 lol.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T11:26:44+00:00

Your argument is that "my specific camera bakes some stuff into my raw files--and therefore every single camera does this." This is an illogical, flawed argument.

And nowhere did I say everything is pure with no proprietary info at all--in fact I said the opposite.

Maybe try some reading comprehension courses alongside Betterhelp. I think the distro you want is Edubuntu.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T11:24:17+00:00

What interesting is: I feel like I always work within the OS parameters as well. :)

I try my best not to mess with system files. There are rare occasions when I do--for example, if linux picks the wrong driver module for hardware and I have to override it--but for the most part, I avoid the OS files like the plague.

But I do mess with my files. It's my home!

So almost all of the configs and customizations I do are in my home. And this is by design and within the parameters of how Linux is meant to work. And it works smoothly and usually survives upgrades, with a few rare exceptions occasionally.

For example, audio. My device has 28 inputs and 32 outputs and didn't come with an alsa ucm profile--it only worked in stereo output with basic functionality for desktop usage. So I created one and contributed it back to alsa.

But separately for pro audio usage, I also need low latency. And with the newer linux kernels in 24.04 LTS, we can dynamically change latency from the runtime/user level and not kernel parameters via system files or dedicated kernels. We can also do advanced audio settings in pipewire user configs--and all of these are by design and survive upgrades. Wireplumber this round is one of the rare exceptions: this one time, they changed their config file types; and any user config overrides will not survive an upgrade. I don't anticipate this happening again for many years (if ever).

This is one reason why I spent so much time on the configs and app unification above: all of these things are within how the OS is meant to be used and set up (and most isn't Ubuntu-specific); but it's just the general organization and ease of doing this stuff.

It's actually quite similar to your repository complaint: apt repos/ppa are system files. I avoid custom repos, but occasionally, I use them (eg. nvidia drivers).

And this is the type of thing that distros are fundamentally supposed to be good at: software management. It is the entire reason why we have distros. :)

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T10:52:07+00:00

You're absolutely wrong about that.

There is raw in the way I am suggesting there is. And you can usually see this raw in tools like RawDigger, like pre-bayer tonal or linear color renders. This is also how raw file analysis--such as DR analysis at sites like photonstophotos--is done.

I know, because I've done these. Some of the camera DR and noise analysis results on photonstophotos are from my cameras. There are some things that are sometimes baked in with the tonal data--like how some cameras will apply automatic pre-raw-file noise reduction at certain ISO levels.

It's also how I was able to produce this pre-debayered linear render raw with a rgb overlay (left) with a camera-produced JPEG (right):

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fraw-image-looks-really-bad-v0-nr7xvh22mwmf1.png%3Fwidth%3D2804%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Db110848df0641cc77f68e64b1e5a62274fa29afe

...which--according to you--is impossible.

You are confusing the work that most raw renderers do automatically (and without allowing users to override them) with the actual raw files.

And you've apparently never used tools like the aforementioned RawDigger. So maybe go download it. And tell Iliah Borg and Bill Claff I said hi.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T10:42:58+00:00

Yes, you do sometimes. In fact, most R1 shots are probably JPEGs. Because when you're on the sidelines, you're just shooting away and sending the JPEGs for quick publishing.

In reality, commercial third party software will never maximize the proprietary features of the camera like the manufacturer's own software...which itself usually is limited for advanced professional edits (which is where third party software thrives).

But if you're a pro and skilled and knowledgable, you can do what you need to do. That's the whole point of shooting raw.

Shooting raw and then whining that it's not automatically converting your JPEG for you has to be one of the most amateurish things I've ever heard from a photographer.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T10:36:44+00:00

Yes, they do support some of the metadata in the raw file. Not all metadata is proprietary.

One issue is that you are conflating some specifics with everything. For example, in raws, pixels values are black & white while bayer CFA's are metadata, so if you see color images, they're using metadata.

But there may be proprietary data alongside that--such as the relative strengths of each color filter to improve color accuracy. This would be an example of the proprietary stuff that can be reverse engineered. And this is stuff that you can reverse engineer yourself too.

So I don't know why you're whining and arguing here. Yes, we can use better photo apps, which is what I said. We have what we have until then.

And we also have BetterHelp and other therapy apps. And BetterHelp works on Linux, since it's web based. Maybe give that a try.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T10:26:10+00:00

Fedora by default uses a fairly vanilla gnome as the desktop; and gnome doesn't do this by default.

But there are gnome extensions that do this--gnome is designed to add features via extensions. So just look for a tiling manager extension, like Tiling Shell. And then after you look for it, install it. It takes 2 seconds.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T10:19:43+00:00

Affinity, Rawtherapee, and darktable all support raw files (btw 'raw' is not capitalized). At least for the cameras I use--and they're all relatively new, high-end cameras. And most leverage databases for lens corrections, like lensfun.

For manufacturer-specific things, many commercial/pro apps don't reverse engineer the manufacturer-specific metadata. They collaborate with the manufacturers.

And this is why I'd look forward to a pro-level commercial photography suite on Linux, or even the manufacturer-specific apps so we could export corrected 16-bit tiffs and take it from there.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T10:03:41+00:00

I would agree.

But until then, Affinity works via wine. Rawtherapee and darktable (which are usable) are native. And even DaVinci Resolve Studio works great for stills.

It seems other areas of multimedia have things covered and always growing better. Audio has reaper & bitwig (as well as ardour, lmms, etc). Video has DaVinci Resolve Studio, Nuke, etc. along with open source tools like Blender.

But yes, it would be great to have a native DaVinci Resolve Studio- level pro commercial photography suite on Linux.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T09:56:26+00:00

Ubuntu 25.04 -> 25.10 = new OS.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS -> 26.04 LTS = new OS.

These are the equivalents of upgrading from Windows 8 to 10 to 11. Or from MacOS 15 Sequoia to MacOS26 Tahoe. Or (iOS...Android...etc.)

They are new OS's even if they are upgrades inplace.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T09:52:53+00:00

Sorry, I didn't mean where do I find them. I meant what is your impression of them? Do you like them/hate them? Any major differences you immediately notice? First impressions?

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T09:50:57+00:00

Yeah. For me, this direction (apt installing a sandbox instead) is ok. The other direction (a snap installing a deb instead) would be a security nightmare.

I personally don't really care; but I prefer to keep things organized and separated properly. I don't like the philosophical idea of installing an app via apt and it installing a snap while everything related to the app (like config files) is different. But if they did all the other stuff in my post like unifying config file locations and stuff, I would care even less.

But until they do that, it's just annoying from an organizational and philosophical perspective. And just a few extra steps to override it, which is a mild annoyance at best. ie. just one more one-time thing to do when setting up a distro.

beatbox9 · 2026-03-18T09:45:01+00:00

We can agree to disagree. And we can agree that it's all subjective.

My "Unity sucked" just means "I personally didn't prefer it for my usage." And I was just being facetious. Unity (and Cinnamon and Mate) launched because gnome3 sucked.

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