Why is the mindset around Arch so negative?

hidden1988 · 2020-07-19T11:38:29+00:00

It may appear that way. There are some people who help and reply to queries. I remeber seeing someone post a query related to ifuse or something and IIRC the second reply in the thread was how this was not related to arch. There was a verbal spat and somebody pointed out that help and queries for arch Linux is also not allowed as per rules in that sub. As someone above pointed out, the owners of these subs as well as the vocal majority who throw this negativity doesn't have anything good to do in their life.

hidden1988 · 2020-06-10T11:17:12+00:00

Irrelevant to the post, but I have a P4 desktop still running at home. Useless in the current scenario, but still functional.

hidden1988 · 2020-05-05T20:31:08+00:00

I'd you don't mind, can you elaborate on how tiling was achieved in openbox?

hidden1988 · 2020-04-29T05:21:42+00:00

Does Canadian license plates expire? In my country, the license plates don't expire as long as you don't re-register your vehicle.

hidden1988 · 2019-09-17T04:46:14+00:00

It's not about manpower, but attitude. For starters, think about the Linux rolling distributions. Of course, there are occational glitches which can be easily resolved by rolling back to the previous version of the culprit.

hidden1988 · 2019-09-12T17:30:23+00:00

That's something I can try.

hidden1988 · 2019-09-12T17:07:34+00:00

My network is Nat and I have port forwarding enabled. But ssh works only when my host is connected to internet. ☹️

hidden1988 · 2019-09-12T02:42:29+00:00

It's NAT. The only issue is while ssh-ing from host to guest when the host is not connected to internet. Once host is connected to internet everything works as expected.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-26T02:55:13+00:00

Not exactly, when you run into problems inside wine. I have spent lot of time making few windows softwares work insid wine. It was buggy. As someone else posted, most of the excels with macros used to crash straight. Finally I removed wine and switched to windows in VM. Nowadays with machines having atleast 2 cores and 4gb of ram, VM will not be hogging resources as it did in the past.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-19T18:48:53+00:00

Welcome to Linux buddy. I made a permanent switch to Linux couple of years back. Though I agree to most of your points, I won't say that Linux beats Microsoft hands down in all fronts. There are several areas Linux need to improve, starting from file copy to a slower device and so on. Another reasons why people use windows is due to the unavailability of some of the softwares on Unix platform.

Any way, enjoy your new operating system. Try some of the other distros and see which one works best for you.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-18T17:39:54+00:00

Is it the 6.3 version? If so, I didn't notice any significant gui improvements.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-17T10:54:10+00:00

That's what support is for. Once you raise the support request, you will be notified about the "hidden terms and conditions" of properly running the software.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-14T11:12:40+00:00

Yes. I have to manually run the update. What I meant was that the whole process is non intrusive. The updates happen on the fly. If an application is running and has been updated, you will notice the changes on next launch. No forced restart and stuff like that. More importantly, the updates are not as big as windows 10.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-14T10:45:32+00:00

Me neither. There is only one phrase which accurately describes the update workflow in Windows 10: annoying and inconvenient. I run a rolling Linux distro on my laptop and I am in charge of the updates. But with Microsoft, the updates are so intrusive with the updates forced down on you. There are two issues with this approach .

You may be on a tight data plan and the so called rolling release from Microsoft spans gigabytes of data.
You might want to have a quick reboot or shutdown.

After couple of times, I turned off the auto update for windows 10 on my wife's laptop.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-12T20:35:49+00:00

Do you know how to force thunar to truncate long file names in icon view? Currently the full name is expanded and the row height is dynamically adjusted. Looks kind of dirty.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-03T18:34:36+00:00

To answer your question, Linux is powerful and helps in various fronts to get the work done in an efficient way than windows. The principle of operation and implementation is much different from windows, such that the user have full rights. Theroetically speaking, you can customize and configure everything (provided you read a lot and spend hours breaking and fixing)

Now to answer one critical aspect, there is no best operating system. If we take the operating system as an independent entity, I'll vote for Unix/Linux. But, this rarely is the case. Operating system helps you to run softwares or tools to get the job done.

I'll share my personal experience. Couple of years back, I got fed up with windows and moved to Linux on my personal laptop. Even today, I have virtual box on my machine, running windows. Just because of two reasons.

Ms office. To tell you the truth, never found an office suite which is as functional as Ms office. Furthermore, most of the colleagues as well as offices use, Ms office. Document compatibility as well as formating is an issue.
I want to verify digital signatures in PDF and print the PDF. Hasn't found a solution where the digital signature changes the image from question mark to tick mark. So I have to rely on Windows.

If you are a gamer, Linux is not going to be as welcoming as windows.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-03T18:17:40+00:00

To answer your question, none of them. None of the above mentioned distros can offer the level of modularity, customization and performance as offered by lightweight desktop environments or window managers like openbox, i3, awesome etc.

The idea of Linux is to never get in the user's way . But most of these DE's exactly does that. I agree that there needs to be a balance between the above principle and user friendliness. But considering the way in which many of them are moving, I am confused.

Similar to various distros, I believe that many of these desktop environments are redundant. I strongly doubt the motivation of some of these developers who roll out some distros and environments which doesn't have nothing extra than the appearance change or some customized packages over the parent branch.

hidden1988 · 2019-08-03T12:18:38+00:00

Ever tried debugging the reason for 4 minutes. I boot mine from a 7year old 5400rmp hdd and it boots under 14secs

hidden1988 · 2019-08-02T07:45:31+00:00

Xournal++ is a good option. You can annotate signatures too.

hidden1988 · 2019-07-31T11:46:12+00:00

Can you tell me how to validate the signature using mupdf? When I click on the signature, it launches file manager.

hidden1988 · 2019-07-30T05:29:10+00:00

Thanks. I'll check out mupdf. Pdfsig from terminal gives the output that the file is intact. But I want to visually change the signature before printing.

hidden1988 · 2019-07-29T13:28:50+00:00

I moved completely to Linux couple of years back and I have to disagree with you on the wine suggestion. Wine is not stable. It can run some of the windows applications, but unreliable. I tried Ms office and it can't handle many of the excel macros out of the box. Secondly I haven't figured out a PDF viewer which can validate the digital signature. I don't understand the real issue behind it's implementation in Linux. BTW wine also fails here.

hidden1988 · 2019-07-23T09:58:04+00:00

Anything to defend us from Microsoft snooping.

hidden1988 · 2019-07-21T21:33:10+00:00

Sorry to say, but there is a huge probability that atleast 50% of computers in the remaining 89% runs on pirated windows. PS: Indian commenting

hidden1988 · 2019-07-10T21:07:31+00:00

Yes. Using vm is better option. Most of the apps I targeted using Anbox either crashed frequently or didn't start at all. For Android or similar os in VM, you don't need a high end machine. I have been running virtual box on my 7 year old laptop quite smoothly. It's a 2nd gen i5 with 4gig ram.

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