Do you have a program to help you count sheep to fall asleep? Asking for a friend

I spent about a decade as a KDE developer.

KDE has this mindset where if someone wants to implement something they think is cool, and the code is clean and mostly bug free, well – have at it! Ever wonder why there’s 300 options for everything?

Usually (because there’s a bunch of people trying to optimize the core for speed and load times and such) this also means that the unused code-paths are required to not contribute negatively to things like load times. So a plugin like this that doesn’t get loaded by default unless enabled, and thus doesn’t harm everyone else’s performance. It also means that if it stops working in the future and starts to bitrot, it can be dropped without affecting the core code.

Nope, haha. OpenSuse is old.

This is an amazing graph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

OpenSuse comes from Suse which comes from Jurix and Slackware. There’s a dotted line from Redhat, because of the use of the RPM format, but that is as far as their interbred. Many people consider it one of the OG distros.

Arch sprang from the aether later, but one could argue it owes Gentoo for its concept (also a dotted line there).

Debian is an OG. It, Redhat, and Suse are approximately the same age.

Slackware on the other hand just keeps going.

I thought GCC dropped support for compiling to the abacus?

I concur. It is also relatively unmolested in terms of fucking up KDE programs.

I remember when Mandrake was a young distro – a redhat derivative – and they (gasp) chose to compile for i586 instead of i386. People were like VROooooOM! And a bunch of other people were like: why would you target CPU instructions that not everyone has?!

tl;dw?

Probably someone’s pet project

I was about to date myself and say “there’s probably a dcop interface exposed”… But there’s probably a dbus interface exposed. You could write a script and plug it into a cron job or similar to tell it to adjust the background every hour or so. There are some nice dbus exploration tools available so you can discover the correct call to make.

If that doesn’t work, the hue is probably stored in a human readable file somewhere in your .config folder. You could probably have a script adjust the value in the file directly. Might take plasma a little while to notice, but it likely will.

Much sinusoid, very wave

I’m sorry you had a bad experience. I’ve used it as my daily driver with minimal effort post installation on multiple occasions, usually on work laptops where time spent tinkering is time wasted. I’ve found it to be a good choice in that context. I now own my own business, and OpenSuse has allowed me to repurpose older laptops as workstations for my employees with minimal effort.

The only actual pain point I’ve seen is setting up a wifi enabled printer … required that I change my firewall zone so the printer could be discovered. And that only required a few minutes to figure out. The fact that the firewall is set to a more secure default is probably a feature, not a bug.

OpenSuse Leap or even Tumbleweed. After getting the media codecs up and running, and remembering to set you firewall zone to “home”, you’re pretty golden.

Does CTRL-ALT-ESC still work in Wayland (assuming KDE, might be desktop dependent)

Most of them have the app name in the config file. And the config files are largely human readable. Sort of self documenting.

Why not just back up the whole folder though?

MATLAB is basically a UI wrapper around Fortran’s BLAS and LAPACK – change my mind. ;)

Insist they index from 1. Like God and Fortran intended it. ;)

What’s the weirdest one you’ve tried? Most challenging? Have you found any really cool defining features in any distro?

For example GoboLinux and NixOS eschew the Linux file hierarchy standard (FHS), and that becomes their defining feature. But many other distros have some other defining feature. Slackware uses tarballs as package management and oldschool init. LFS has you build from nothing. Etc.

meow

I’ve got it on my three windows machines – all of them required for various work tasks where Linux doesn’t make sense. Been using it in that context since circa 2012 when you still had to install it with the KDE on Windows installer. I was actually surprised to see an automated update on windows. Very nice!

I don’t have time to work on KDE anymore, but perhaps drop me a current donation link?

Just saw Kate update for me on my windows machine today. New welcome screen and some pretty significant UI updates. Keep up the good work!