Notices by Eugenia L (eugenialoli@mastodon.social)

I'm happy with Debian-Testing as my main desktop, but there are times where it can get tricky with the updates that are "held back". Never had a real issue tho.

On the other hand, Linux Mint has been a rock, it acts predictably, and it has mostly sane defaults. The fact that they're adding boot and services pref panels etc, clearly makes it even easier to use. Only thing missing now is a parental controls app to seal the deal for every household.

#linux #opensource #foss #linuxmint #debian

Running Affinity Studio on my Linux Mint tonight. It works with a little work on Lutris. Let's hope they'll release a native flatpak/appimage, so users have it easier installing it.

Personally, I'll still use Gimp for my scanned paintings, but it's good to have options.

#affinity #affinitystudio #photoshop #adobe #linuxmint #linux #lutris #gimp

Top open source graphics apps, in no particular order. Replace your Windows apps with these!

1. Gimp (raster manip)
2. Inkscape (vectors)
3. Krita (painting)
4. Blender (3D)
5. Scribus (DTP)
6. Darktable (photo editing)
7. Natron (compositor)
8. Kdenlive (video editing)
9. FreeCAD 3D
10. Friction (AE-like anim)
11. Synfig (vector anim)
12. QCad/CAM 2D
13. Pencil2D (anim)
14. Pixelorama (pixel art)
15. Handbrake (video transcoder)
16. Cura (3D printing)

#foss #opensource #adobe #linux #graphics

Literally me. 11 successful installations of Linux in my area so far, with zero complaints, and I will be doing a 12th soon.

#linux #operatingsystem #foss #opensource

@dansup any plans to publish your apps on f-droid? I currently run a Murena e/OS phone (running a LieneageOS version of Android) that doesn't support anymore the google store (it's an older version for that phone, so the google store hack they used to use doesn't work anymore). Since pixelfed/loops are open source afaik, it would be nice to be on f-droid too.

@dansup @activityrank I really don't want "personalized" feeds. I want tags: "newest, best of year, best of all times". Personalization is what led to the fall of culture, because no one shares anymore common art (movies, music) with anyone else. Everything's personalized, so it's a culture of one. This should not come to activitypub. Social media on activitypub should operate how social media operated around 2008-2015, before the algorithms took over.

One more screenshot of the classic MacOS 8/9 theme under XFce. Honestly, from all the themes I've done, this one I enjoy the most. It's rather convincing because it doesn't use docks or launchers that all modern OSes use, so it feels different.

#linux #opensource #xfce #foss #mac #macbook #macos #macintosh #theme

#0ad is possibly one of the most advanced #foss games. It's a multi-platform #RTS historical #game, and there's currently an appimage for #Linux users found at #github (in case #flatpak isn't to your liking).

Plays really smoothly, although it eats my 2015's #Macbook Air's battery (running Linux #Mint) for lunch. We're talking that it has about 30 minutes of overall #gameplay before I need to recharge. CPU utilization is at about 50-60%. @play0ad

#gaming #opensource #games #linuxmint #strategy

I don't understand why #QCad is not very popular in the Linux community. It has a free, GPL version that is way more put together than LibreCAD. In fact, LibreCAD is a fork of QCad from the late 2000s. QCad has way more features now, and most are free.

Sure, there's FreeCAD too, but that's more about 3D CAD, and it's more difficult to learn & use. QCad is a good starter 2D Cad/Cam, especially if you're coming from #AutoCAD 's UI.

#linux #opensouce #foss #cad #freecad #3dprinting #librecad

I really dislike all these distros moving their support to Discord and not installing an online, searchable forum. If it's not searchable via a search engine and free to read, the answer does not exist in my book.

#linux #opensource #discord #foss #techsupport

I don't understand this. G__z_a has been the most used hashtag on mastodon today but no post using the word as a tag is showing in the "Explore" feed. It's as if there's no discussion about it in the most popular posts, which is very unlike at how mastodon has been in the past. I'm not crying foul, I just don't understand this new development. Is it a fluke?

#action #activism #mastodon

Our home is empty without her. It feels like we're living in a void. Minime was with us only for 3.5 months, and yet, she brought us something we never had: the joy of a child. I can't believe she was taken from us so soon. When I rescued her, it felt like fate. That she's going to heal us from a life of loneliness, be with us for a long time. And yet she was gone so soon? It makes no sense. It's not fair. I freaking hate existence right now. To exist is to suffer.

#cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon

LabPlot is a free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software. It has a graphical user interface, a command-line interface, and an interactive and animated notebook interface. Appimage available to try: https://labplot.org/

#linux #opensource #foss #datavisualization #labplot

New major version, v1.5, for the #Tahoma2D animation app. It works well under Linux, minus the fact that it doesn't launch from the app menu (you gotta use the terminal or a file manager to navigate to its appimage). Overall, impressive app.

Another similar app, Synfig Studio, also has major new features on their dev branch.

#linux #opensource #foss #animation #2danimation #opentoonz #krita #animator #blender

@dansup I love loops (uploaded a video already), but maybe pixelfed needs some love too? Paragraph formatting is not saved in pixelfed's web version as of late.

There was a singular moment in 2015-16 where Bernie Sanders could have been the Democrat Elect instead of Clinton. He was sabotaged, and along that, so was democracy in the US, as it opened the gates for Trump and all that ensued afterwards.

The future (and present) in the US is oligarchy, not a democratic republic. It's just that now it's going to be completely in the open, and legally elected for it. The dream is dead.

#politics #uspolitics #BernieSanders #trump #donaldtrump #elonmusk #musk

A reader suggested one more professional Adobe Acrobat Pro alternative, PDF Studio Pro. Installation went without a hitch on my Linux too.

#pdf #acrobat #adobeacrobat #adobe #linux #opensource #foss #office #libreoffice #onlyoffice

Shutter Encoder is a new free GPL app (donationware optionally) that is a front-end to ffmpeg. It's kind of like Handbrake, or Avidemux, or LosslessCut, but with a lot more ffmpeg options exposed. Available for Mac, Win, and Linux.

#linux #opensource #ffmpeg #foss #video #videos #videoeditor #handbrake

@sungo @djsundog There's a difference between tinkering, and software that is meant to be useful. If your code was supposed to be tinkering for your own curiosity, or as tutorial to others, then sure, it doesn't need a structure.

But if that software was supposed to do something useful, then the corpo-construct is needed to ensure just that. Otherwise, it's just gaslighting users that you might made a, let's say, CAD app that's useless. People don't have time to waste on useless things.

FreeCAD 1.0 is out, and the binaries for various platforms are now available for download too (yesterday they released the source, but today binaries are available too). After 22 years of development, it's now a very robust app that competes head to head with heavyweights in the CAD space.

#cad #linux #opensource #foss #freecad #3dcad #engineering