cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50837564

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america/#monthly-200901-202607

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP

Cloudflare stats also seem to support peaks of 15% usage but around 9-10% on average. In the United States alone, the market share for Linux is nearly 12% now for the whole month and Cloudflare stats suggest peaks of up to 25% (!) Linux desktop usage on certain days and times.

The trendline suggests this is just the start. When will companies realize they cannot ignore Linux anymore?

I'm looking into learning Chinese!

So I set up a pinyin IME. I think it's the fcitx5-chinese-addons one. Worked pretty well... until I realized it was giving us simplified. And I can't find a switch to put it into traditional mode. There's nothing in the menu. The "configure simplified/traditional chinese conversion" button in the settings uh... just doesn't work.

So I tried rime.

Worked beautifully! Until I went to poke its settings and it had none. It did have an "open user dir" button... and... it's FULL OF YAML. Nope. I'm not putting spaces for indentation in our configuration files. Out the window you go.

Then I tried chewing. It uh... it's definitely not pinyin.

This really should not be this hard... how the heck do we type traditional chinese with pinyin (without being forced to use YAML)?

(OS info: we're running Debian stable/testing (stable on laptop, testing on desktop) with KDE, and fcitx5 as the input method system. We've already got mozc for Japanese and that was infinitely less of a hassle.)

(edit for People From The Future: if you have this issue and you're on a Debian-based distro, install fcitx5-module-chttrans)

-- Frost

And they're just... not agreeing to not do that? because they seem to think KDE's native input settings should be nuked and replaced with Only fcitx? Guh.

But you can go to input method settings, configure addons, Wayland, uncheck "allow overriding system XKB settings" (it's the only setting in there for us) and that fixes it.

https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/1261

Argh.

-- Frost

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63530151

Just started dumping data from my individual SSDs onto an old laptop one by one so I can reformat the drives as EXT4 instead of xFAT or FAT32 or whatever I had it as before. I wasn't aware that EXT4 was better suited for (and exclusive to) Linux until recently, and I'm still new to it. Is it much more efficient on storage space or something?

Like I said, I've been copying files to and from an old laptop that holds onto them while I format the drives, but this laptop is old af and takes several hours to copy 1TB, so I often leave it going while I sleep. I woke up this morning to no errors or anything, but the files copied to the drive were ~600gb worth when they were ~800gb before. Surely there isn't that much of a difference? Any idea what could be causing this?

Source

KDE will be 30 years old this year and Katie updates her look!

KDE is all about innovating and moving forward, but Katie hadn't changed her apparel in more than 10 years.

Now, sporting an orange hoodie and leggings, she's ready to spring into action and stomp on all those pesky bugs!

I've been a long time openSUSE Tumbleweed user, it's a cool distro with a lot of ease of use. I got used to the flow of openSUSE Tumbleweed, of navigating it's update process, and generally enjoying the speed of zypper. However, I find myself really loving the flow of Garuda Linux (an Arch-based distro) that takes the sting out of using Arch. As it has a lot of scripts and tools designed to make Arch management not as difficult. While you do learn about how Arch functions because the Garuda explains why every tool they provide is necessary and what it does in terms of managing the system. It also helps that a lot of the preinstalled wallpapers are dragon and bird related...As those tickle a part of my brain that is causing me to realize that I do have an anthrosona which is developing kinda fast (I suppose that 42 years of not thinking about it catches up with ya, ROFL).

The reason why I even did is because I was running Artix Linux on my laptop (this is based on Arch Linux and systemd free) and learning how to configure my installation there...Before learning instead of using vanilla Xorg as a fallback, it's Xlibre (dude behind it, Enrico, he's off his rocker). Which is a shame because I was learning about Runit, and how to configure services...It was slightly advanced for me, but the command structure was relatively easy to learn. It didn't expect too much from the user, while still being functional as fuck.

I tried to install straight up Arch on my laptop, that failed, Garuda Linux did succeed (as a temporary measure). As I wanted to have a working laptop, until I could decide to put something that updates slower on it. It was a good thing that I discovered how painless Garuda Linux is, and it will only help me understand Arch better, in the future. I do wish that in the future Artix Linux abandons Xlibre, as it is a cool concept.

@linuxfurs

How many of you guys use Solus OS as a daily driver? I recently migrated from Mint and have loved it so far

We're on Debian testing(+unstable) and running into update issues. apt upgrade doesn't touch anything, and apt full-upgrade wants to upgrade 2 libreoffice packages, not touch the 341 other upgrades, and remove the main libreoffice package.

How cursed of an idea is it to just sudo apt install $(apt-mark showmanual)? That looks like it would upgrade everything, while just removing a couple hopefully-inconsequential system libraries.

-- Frost

systemd recently pulled some shit, adding a field to store people's birthdates because of a new California law. (It's not the field itself that's the problem, it's how easily they're jumping to comply with shitty laws.)

This has our whole friend group rightfully freaking out. I'm pretty glad that it's now normal to be uncomfortable with systemd, it makes me feel a whole lot less weird. I do wish the circumstances were better though.

Anyway, since we switched most of our machines (all our physical ones, not our VMs/LXC containers/VPS though) to OpenRC a little while back, I figured I'd (do it again in a VM and) document the process for anyone who wants to jump ship too. Hence, my blog post!

(Unfortunately if you're on Arch it sounds like you're a bit screwed unless you get your init system from the AUR and write all the scripts yourself. I have no idea about Fedoraland.)

-- Frost

I wrote a blog post that'd be relevant here, and I was about to post it, but then remembered that a lot of subreddits don't like "self-promotion" stuff. There's obviously no money or spam or anything involved, but still. Is it frowned upon to post your own blog posts here, or should I go ahead?

-- Frost

This is very stupid. Like, really, really stupid.
You know how composite video uses those simple red and white "RCA" cables for left and right sound, and yellow for the picture? The only thing special about component or composite cables is the colour on the ends of them, so if you run an audio channel down a yellow "video" cable it will still work, and vice versa. I know it's possible bc of those cheap cables that have a headphone jack on one end, leading to composite video and mono sound on the other (because you have to sacrifice one audio channel for the video if you're doing it that way).

I want to send a shitty composite video signal out of my shitty laptop's headphone jack to plug into a shitty old CRT so I can use it as a secondary monitor without buying a video converter that would likely do a worse job then my laptop anyway. Also, since I have a spare audio interface, I can shoot the video signal out of a different hole so I don't even have to sacrifice a sound channel.
I wonder, has anyone tried to write a program like this before? If it exists, I have no clue what to search for to find it, and it's such an absurd thing to spend your time doing, but I want to try this idea so bad.

I'm trying to run OneShot on Linux, Debian 14 testing to be precise (wow, it's been years... last played 2022, apparently).

It won't run though. Might be because the included libraries are too old? But if I try renaming them and using system ones, it still breaks?

Error creating window: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

This still happens if we use the Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout).

Anyone got ideas?

(Yes, I could just use Proton, but Oneshot does some fourth-wall-breaking stuff and I'd like that to work.)

-- Frost

I heard a PeerTuber I follow talk about controversy around "Rust" as a dangerous cult or something, but that she thinks people should put aside their "petty grievances" and focus more on what good the project will do for Linux. I'm out of the loop, but I think Rust is a programming language, right? Anyone know what this whole thing about a cult is? I want to be filled in on it, because it seems important.

I'm sure there's a name for this function, but you know that thing where your screen is constantly being captured but it only gets saved if you tell it to, and then it'll save the last minute or however long the buffer period is? It lets you capture cool moments in games and stuff? Yeah, that. Is there a way to make OBS do that? If not, does anybody know of an open source application I can use for that? It'd be really useful and fun.
Thanks!

It will be awesome next.

I talk about my history with Linux and KDE and what I've done over the years, going through my work as a documentation contractor for KDE until I reach the current state of KDE onboarding docs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40932805

https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342272

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37750293

Generated via ublue's countme script https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Here is Fedora's upstream graph to compare:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/4682879

Today KDE is 29 years old and we are celebrating kicking off our yearly fundraiser. Donate and make KDE's wishes come true.