Shame about the deadpan narration, but this #FlexiArch system is very elegant engineering.
It is a clever new way of building pretty and durable #arch #bridges using a #flatpack system. (IKEA victims, relax: no screws or bolts involved).
FlexiArch was invented by Prof #AdrianLong of #QUB, who was also the father-in-law of #NorthernIreland's Alliance Party leader #NaomiLong ... who is herself an engineer.
Perhaps it is time that I do some more distro-hopping. Although I thoroughly enjoy using Linux Mint, this is the second time in the past week that I've wanted a more recent release of some of the software I use than what is in Mint's repositories. First, it was the latest version of LibreOffice. I was able to switch to the Flatpack version without issue. Now, I find myself wanting to use the latest release of wine to run some windows-only software that I use for my job.
#linux #LinuxMint #linux_distro #wine #flatpack #LibreOffice
@miekg Oh... I feel you are an expert there :)
My path have started from gentoo with emerge with later various distro hops, like OpenSuse Ubuntu Mint Debian, etc.
But deep dive Gentoo I liked the most, since it had the least issues with packages. The reason I've never came back there, is a compilation time.
I remember how I built KDE for more than 20 hours (Celeron 2.4 in early 2000s).
After many years in MacOS (right now it's also a primary OS, Arch is only on a big PC), it's really confusing that many things are not available without hacks.
In MacOS Homebrew made it so simple, it's hard to accept that Linux may have so many complications with a package distributions.
It looks like snap or flatpack should fix this issue, but they don't. Many things from snap don't work or do not available, flatpack the same.
Installing Homebrew in Linux does not feel right.
#gentoo #emerge #opensuse #ubuntu #mint #debian #macos #homebrew #snap #flatpack
RE: https://en.osm.town/@mdione/116144659844252409
It also has #LibreWolf from #Flatpack, even when even Debian has a semi official way to install it; see below.
I also wonder if the user needs to know the source of the package. Would it be important to know later?
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Got #GeforceNow via #Flatpack running on @CachyOS using https://gist.github.com/Edu4rdSHL/7a477bad90379e638d544252583d37f5.
Then I can launch the app on the dedicated GPU using __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia flatpak run com.nvidia.geforcenow
My issue is that the XBOX 360 (bluetooth) buttons' mapping seems to be correct on https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad but it's completely messed up in the games.
I tried to deactivate the Steam Input option but it doesn't help.
What a wonderful time it is to be a Linux user now. Games run almost natively (I played Stardew yesterday, and even my mods worked), and the app store looks neat and stylish, and it's not useless, unlike the Windows store. A golden age is beginning.
I remember when I was a kid, I installed Ubuntu as a second OS. It was version 12, I think. And I remember the app store back then was incredibly useless, with really bad apps, like something out of 2005. I think it was called Snap, right?
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