I’ve been using gimp for years as a Photoshop alternative. Tons of tutorials, and I’ve always been able to do what I needed.

Its great that there are alternatives for those who want them!

Yeah, I just use Krita for the basic things.

That’s why way back in the day they had GIMPshop and why there’s PhotoGIMP now.

For me GIMP is easier to use than krita, pinta, or any other photo editor on Linux…

Yeah, switched to Photopea

How is it different from Krita? What does it do that isn’t done by FOSS?

+1 for Rider. It’s very good, although you do have to pay JetBrains for a license to use it. The Early Access Program gets you free versions of the software

The rare case where ‘dead’ has a comparative.

Especially since MacBook don’t come with Nvidia cards. Still frustrated with dual booting windows whenever the drivers brake for gaming.

Try Void. I was aiming at Arch as well, but then I stumbled upon Void… never made the switch to Arch.

KDE Plasma and Gnome are different desktop environments. Kind of like the GUI of the desktop.

Which is best is a matter of taste. I prefer KDE because of its customization options and better virtual desktop support.

I’m a software developer (my background), I was always kind of interested in it, but primarily the fact that Apple stopped giving my 2015 MacBook Pro OS updates, including security updates, which forced me to do something.

And yeah, Plasma or GNOME is pretty much how the OS looks like.

Pictures are probably better than a thousand words here:

• https://kde.org
• https://www.gnome.org

That or inkscape

😅 Nothing to do with that ideology!

Fun fact: I used emojis to reproduce and report a bug in the Lemmy web UI. That’s why the ⚡s are there.

And thanks.

Will it replace Photoshop?

I know that it’s a hack. A really bad hack TBH.

But I wasn’t able to get it working differently.

This is the service code I’m using (yes, I know… It’s very bad, especially the pinging):

while :
do
	if [[ $(ping 192.168.178.1 -c 3) ]]
	then
		echo "pinged"
	else
		if [[ $(lsmod | grep brcmfmac) ]]
		then
			sudo rmmod brcmfmac
		fi
		sudo modprobe brcmfmac
		sleep 250
	fi
	sleep 15

done

When closing and opening my MacBook, it’s necessary to execute sudo rmmod brcmfmac and then sudo modprobe brcmfmac. Only executing the 2nd command is not enough.

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Your first 2 paths under /etc have a description like this:

kernel modules to load at boot time.

The problem I’m having is that I have to reload the module when the laptop was closed and reopened.

So, I think, the first 2 paths won’t work, right? It’s not boot time?

Something like the 2nd path was described in a tutorial about getting started on a MacBook with Linux. I remember it.

But the path you described does not exist on my system.

I have a path /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/, do you mean that one?

This contains 1 file (probably created by me in the beginning) called lid_wakeup_disable:

 #!/bin/sh

# /lib/systemd/system-sleep/lid_wakeup_disable
#
# Avoids that system wakes up immediately after suspend or hibernate
# with lid open (e.g. suspend/hibernate through KDE menu entry)
#
# Tested on MacBookPro12,1

case $1 in
  pre)
    if cat /proc/acpi/wakeup | grep -qE '^LID0.*enabled'; then
        echo LID0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup
    fi
    ;;
esac

Do I add rmmod brcmfmac; modprobe brcmfmac; (without sudo) at the bottom?

I’m thankful for any help to get rid of the service.

Yes, I’m using VSCodium, but Visual Studio is of course totally different regarding features.

At the moment, I don’t have the hardware to run games… Will try it out next year…

You probably couldn’t game very much on a macbook. Maybe you could on the more expensive variants with Radeon Pro graphics, but those aren’t your typical gaming GPUs.

If you are trying to avoid MS and liked Atom, there’s also https://pulsar-edit.dev/

I don’t support Linux fanatics who insist that Linux is for everyone and anyone. It is vastly different (IMO in a good way) than your typical Windows OS but once you spend some time figuring it out, following “cumbersome” installation instructions might take no more than 5 minutes.

This article is on the other side of the spectrum. Presenting the Linux desktop as a “collective delusion” is, at least, disrespect to all the people who struggle to make it real.

I know people who switched to Linux as their main OS and claim to be more productive than they were on Windows because they can adapt the desktop experience to their workflow and there are no unnecessary distractions like popups and ads that Microsoft likes to overuse in their latest OS versions.

LibreOffice is just good enough for most paperwork with good MS-Office compatibility (neither I nor anybody I know ever had a single problem in years).

Of course there are drawbacks, but most of what the article mentions are purely over-generalisations, distribution-specific quirks or “I can’t be bothered to spend 5 minutes to learn something new” type of arguments. In Linux, the time you spend learning something new is a good investment.

Finally, I myself am a computer geek who likes to meddle in programming. For me, using anything else than a *nix-based POSIX-compatible system (except, perhaps, for Haiku) would be a nightmare.

Linux is not a religion. It’s a tool, and you should always pick a tool based on whether it can perform the needed tasks and whether you are comfortable with it, without fanaticism. And Linux is objectively better than Windows in some respects, and vice versa. So, if I were to follow the author’s logic, the Windows desktop would be as much a collective delusion in my eyes.