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  • Easiest way to change distros after having settled comfortably into one?

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  • I think you chose well with Mint. It is based on Ubuntu, but has a track record of stripping out Canonical's nonsense, and if said nonsense should ever become impractical to remove, Mint already has a contingency plan in the form of their Debian Edition.

    Someone said that LMDE is behind in various ways,

    Someone on social media is always echoing the meme about Debian being unusable due to old packages, but roughly 96% of the time, that person turns out to be poorly informed and driven by an unhealthy addiction to quickly rising version numbers. Try not to give their opinion much weight, despite how loud and repetitive they are.

    including NVIDIA graphics drivers

    Why would "non-tech-savvy seniors" care what version of the Nvidia driver is installed?

    Edit: To answer the question in your headline, putting the /home directory on a separate partition tends to make switching distros easy.

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • It originally did not. Then it did for a time. Now it does not.

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • Global, and Linus.

  • Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux

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  • The value of Personal Package Archives (PPAs) is that anyone can create them.

    Only Debian developers and Debian maintainers can create a Debusine repository. That's not "PPA-like" in any practical way.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • Via uses 8 spaces in a tab (at least for me), while geany uses 4.

    You know that editors let you change their defaults, right?

  • Suggestions for first C project

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  • Good idea. :)

  • Suggestions for first C project

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  • How about a network protocol client, like HTTP, DHCP, SMTP, STUN, IMAP, DNS, DHCP, etc?

  • Torvalds On Linux Security Modules: "I Already Think We Have Too Many Of Those Pointless Things"

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  • GUI library for C?

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  • Some Linux users will have a theme for Gtk apps that make them look somewhat like their desktop's native apps, but they often still look out of place. And Gtk has long had a habit of breaking those themes in minor version updates. And modern Gtk pushes client-side window decorations, which completely defeat window manager functionality that is native to non-Gtk desktops, making the app not only look terrible but also not behave correctly. And even if a perfectly matched theme existed (I have never seen one), the inputs for common controls won't be the same as native ones, so the app won't operate correctly.

    In other words, nope, what you are referring to does not solve the problem.

  • GUI library for C?

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  • They asked for a GUI library, not an inflatable whale.

  • GUI library for C?

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  • I’ve heard GTK programs don’t look great on Windows,

    They don't look great anywhere, not even on Linux, unless you happen to be using a Gtk-based desktop.

    However, Gtk does have one thing going for it: the API is native to C, so it is easier to work with in that language (and easier to bind to other languages) than something like Qt would be.

  • This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law

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  • This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law

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  • I think it would be fair to say that if you're forbidden to fix it, you don't truly own it.

    Keep it up, sister!

  • what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?

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  • This looks handy for naming projects. Thanks for sharing.

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function

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  • Most astonishing for me, that it’s still called Master bedroom and bathroom, which has that direct origin.

    The word master does not originate from slavery. If you study the etymology, you'll also find that it significantly predates slave, and has more than a few meanings that are not even remotely related to slavery.

  • Go proposal: Secret mode

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  • The package is experimental and is mainly for developers of cryptographic libraries, not for application developers.

    Seems to me that any application that accepts password input should be doing this. I wish more languages offered a reliable way to do it.

  • Electron apps

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  • On KDE Plasma, I would stick with Kate and hide/disable some the fancier interface features. It might seem like overkill, but since it's built from common components that other KDE apps use anyway, the effective resource consumption will probably be light. And Kate is quick.

    On a Gtk desktop, you might try Mousepad. This is what I used before moving away from Xfce.

  • Electron apps

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  • Scintilla my beloved

    (This is the text editor component in Geany and Notepad++)