Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - November 25, 2019

Welcome to r/linux rants and experiences! This megathread is also to hear opinions from anyone just starting out with Linux or those that have used Linux (GNU or otherwise) for a long time.

Let us know what's annoying you, whats making you happy, or something that you want to get out to r/linux but didn't make the cut into a full post of it's own.

For those looking for certifications please use this megathread to ask about how to get certified whether it's for the business world or for your own satisfaction. Be sure to check out r/linuxadmin for more discussion in the SysAdmin world!

_Please keep questions in r/linuxquestions, r/linux4noobs, or the Wednesday automod thread._

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Are we Wayland yet?
https://www.swalladge.net/archives/2019/10/14/are-we-wayland-yet/

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pioneer space sim a nifty little Linux free open source program (also on PC and mac)
https://pioneerspacesim.net/

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Rick is running Linux, with some incredible huge disk size!
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The CDU, Germany's ruling party, has passed a resolution to uphold the FSFE's "Public Money? Public Code!" initiative
https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191125-01.en.html

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Bye Bye Microsoft Office. Hello LibreOffice
https://easydns.com/blog/2019/11/25/bye-bye-microsoft-office-hello-libreoffice/

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Kdenlive 19.12 beta is out

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https://preview.redd.it/i1ajbyy7uv041.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8903a59be0149d1c128da1b5c43f68a34fd3835d



kdenlive 19.12 beta is out with many bug fixes and improvements. The highlights include:

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* New audio mixer
* Bin monitor redesign
* Performance and usability improvements
* Many Windows fixes
* Master effects
* Re-implement scrolling trough compositions.

Check it out and report any issues:

[https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/unstable/kdenlive-19.12.0-beta1-x86\_64.appimage](https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/unstable/kdenlive-19.12.0-beta1-x86_64.appimage)

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A story about how Sokibi uses LibreOffice and other FOSS to spread knowledge and love in Indonesia
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/11/25/community-member-monday-sokibi-indonesia/

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A wiki version of The Linux Cookbook

Here is a wiki version of "The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use" by M.Stutz. See: [https://handwiki.org/wiki/Linux:Start](https://handwiki.org/wiki/Linux:Start) It can be updated (and extended!) on this wiki under the design license terms.

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Linux has always been very popular with programmers for cross compiling, hardware and software designers, open source developers, certain computer hobbyist, and for non-profit organizations. Are those users ever likely to stop using Linux, even if Linux stops being used a major everyday OS/Kernel?

At least, if things stay the same.

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KiCad Joins Linux Foundation to Advance Electronic Design Automation
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2019/11/kicad-joins-linux-foundation-to-advance-electronic-design-automation/

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TIL: OpenMoji is a totally FOSS emoji set
https://blog.emojipedia.org/openmoji-a-free-and-open-source-emoji-set/

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Moving gnome-shell's styles to Rust
https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/moving-gnome-shell-styles-to-rust.html

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Clight 4.0 has been released

Hi everyone!
I finally managed to release a huge update to [Clight](https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight) last sunday.
It took really long (almost 1yr) but I am really proud of its new capabilities.

## What is Clight?

Clight is a C utility that aims to fully manage your display; its main feature is to turn your webcam into a light sensor: it captures frames from webcam and uses their detected ambient brightness to update your screens (both internal and external ones, thanks to [ddcutil](https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil)) backlight level. By the way it supports ALS devices too!
Note that backlight-to-ambient-brightness curve is customizable through clight conf file!
Moreover, it can change gamma temperature at night/day (or at fixed times), dim your screen and set screen dpms levels; it supports setting keyboard backlight too!
It is highly customizable, in nearly any aspect and it offers a nice dbus interface.
Finally, it supports org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver API to automatically pause dimming and dpms while eg: watching a movie.

It uses a dbus system service, [Clightd](https://github.com/FedeDP/Clightd), to accomplish all of that.

## It seems great, but will it eat my battery?

No, it won't.
Webcam frames are clustered; you can set different timeouts on AC and on battery.
It should indeed improve your battery life because it should avoid wasting useless power for high backlight levels when not needed.

## Ok, you have my attention. What's new?

Clight 4.0 spots a full port to [libmodule](https://github.com/FedeDP/libmodule); moreover it now supports different settings for DIMMER fading/leaving transitions.
And thanks to Clightd 4.0, DIMMER now works everywhere (on wayland and tty too)!

GAMMA gained 2 new modes: long-transitioning, to change gamma in a similar way to redshift/Windows (very slow), and ambient-gamma that will set current gamma level based on ambient brightness.

BACKLIGHT curve is now even more customizable with up to 50 regression points!

Moreover, users can now customize Clight' behaviour thanks to custom modules: you can write your own modules that will be runtime loaded by clight, wiki page explaining the concept and with a couple of examples: https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight/wiki/Custom-Modules.

And really lots, lots more! Have a look at: https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight/releases/tag/4.0.

I hope you'll enjoy using it at least how much I am enjoying developing it :)

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Last night's commit gave me more pleasure than last month's salary!

Hi r/linux,

I couldn't help but share this... the absolute joy of writing something that's so rewarding in itself.

I added this [commit](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/commit/e6f9d6d2d0a6213ef90759ce46375ff6436c0f21) recently to integrate `rclone` with `nnn`. Once done, I tested some cloud accounts I haven't accessed in years.

I mounted box, dropbox, mail.ru, google drive, yandex, mega, pcloud on my Linux box at a keystroke... I didn't know I've like TBs of free cloud storage till I checked the available spaces in the `nnn` help screen!

I was considering buying a new storage in Christmas. Realized I have more than enough in the cloud!

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digital will, sort of... looking for input

Hi,

I would like to give my family a chance to deal with my hardware, what's on it and my digital life in case I get hit by a truck or meteor next week.

I'm neither depressive nor has anything happened - I'm fine, just hoarded enough stuff, accounts and things I can't just explain without reason to my not-so-tech-savy family. I also kind of think I have the necessary skills to build such a thing, but maybe that already *is* a thing and I just don't know what to look for.

What I aim for:

* provide access to accounts (using pass, this should be relatively easy with a cold storage gnupg key)
* provide access to the files on my NAS (same as above, add a user or just dump an existing user & password)
* delete some files on my NAS (that's one of the things I would really like to avoid triggering by accident)
* maybe preparing hardware for sale, as this might happen - like a second stick which deletes just everything. Not everything lives on encrypted blockdevices.
* for computers which are not my NAS, I only need some sort of factory reset; they don't and probably will never need to be accessed. Maybe keep it locally for each one - that is something I am unsure about.
* things I haven't thought about yet, cloud stuff maybe.
* activate all this with a message in my will (which should be placed and found in a usual manner...)
* delivery of final instructions by mail? Because it seems sane... can't possibly encrypt this, though.

And activate by maybe putting an USB stick or a yubikey in one of my boxes, which should still work if the box has been moved (because the message has been delivered or seen too late). In any case, using a passive device lets me put that in a safe deposit box and not touch it while I update the pandoras box. Using a generic storage device will let the concept survive USB specs to come, but that's just theory crafting, maybe waste of time to think about (I should have enough time to migrate everything across devices).

Given I don't assume to need this next week, but in many years, I probably can't rely on say systemd or udev (who knows what drives gnu/linux in 10-20 years), but more on some sort of universal noscript, a trigger (which might again be udev) and a possibility for a dry run (for development and regular testing).

throwaway, as I don't want my friends to know about the killswitch in my house (I'll need a copy for testing), as I'll talk about that openly.

Thoughts?

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QuickAccess 2.0.3 - global menu to open folders and run commands

**QuickAccess** is a program running in the background providing a global menu to quickly access user defined folders and their subfolders as well as creating and running custom commands.

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Now it can run custom commands besides opening folders.

[Showcase](https://reddit.com/link/e1yzot/video/di0y62m1o1141/player)

[Gitlab Repo](https://gitlab.com/g-fb/quickaccess)

[Flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.georgefb.quickaccess)

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Flacon - Open source .cue splitter. Spread the news, its really useful and much more fluid than sound convertor
https://flacon.github.io/

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Purism's contributions to Linux 5.4
https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-contributions-to-linux-5-4/

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Krita Weekly #5
https://krita-artists.org/t/krita-weekly-5/1367

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What's your favorite non-flat desktop or icon theme?

I feel like our desktops are currently awash in flat themes (Materia, Arc, Numix), so I'm curious to see what else is out there. Personally, I'm on Ubuntu MATE and I just use the default Ambiant theme

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