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  • XFCE + Compiz

    The unholy combination of accelerated 3D graphics and performance, all without the stupid drawbacks of wayland.

    Runs much lighter than KDE even with all the 3D cube and windows stuff enabled.

    Extremely customizable as well. XFCE already does a great job of UI/UX, it just lacks a compositor to add flare (xfwm4 has no animations, only some blur effects).



  • mlg@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldTerminating a process
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    6 days ago

    Actually no, it’s just that the programs on Linux usually accept SIGINT, SIGTERM, etc pretty gracefully. Some are even smart enough to handle it on a thread hang. SIGKILL is last resort.

    Lots of Windows applications like to ignore the close request because Windows doesn’t have signals and instead you can only pass a window name to request exit which is the same as clicking the close button.

    So any hung software won’t respond and you have to terminate it.




  • mlg@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world`systemd` is all you need
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    8 days ago

    Systemd ignored my calendar override for the builtin raid scanner, so every week my server would chug to a halt to scan the entire array.

    In true systemd fashion, the documentation could not explain this behavior, so I had to make a full copy override instead of a merge override because reasons.




  • This is why lots of software has started adopting SSPL license which doesn’t actually fix the problem and isn’t a FOSS license.

    I still think a new license scheme should be considered though. Giants like AWS and Google have been profiteering off of FOSS for way too long now.

    AGPL has been deemed generally successful in this regard because it has been upheld in court cases and forced companies to comply, which it seems to work pretty great for SaaS.

    The problem is these giants will usually just choose a more permissive alternative anyway. Both MongoDB and Redis have forks that they can use, and GPL itself is permissive enough for private forking being legal.



  • mlg@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldWeww lawd he's a coming
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    12 days ago

    I know people are gonna say it’s all relative and we all see the past through a golden lens, but tbf the last major genocide was in the 90s, so a whole new population of young people are getting to witness the deepest horrors of humanity in all its glory, and in 4k UHD thanks to the evolution of technology.

    Imagine telling someone 30 years ago that we’d be getting DIY video guides on how to survive in a combat zone, or being able to easily access a massive amount of media showing people getting shot, bombed, stabbed, sliced, and burned alive for existing.

    Don’t you all love the future.