What little text editing I do, I usually do it with vi.

So I just came off of using Plasma 5 for a few months. It's not bad. It's not as in your face about everything as 4 was. However, dual monitor support seemed a little flaky.

@Dashrender said in Introducing NHSBuntu, UK's Ubuntu for Healthcare:

@scottalanmiller
I agree, though I also agree with the others I don't think it will matter for them in the slightest.
They will simply abandon doing updates on these as well.

Very likely.

@black3dynamite said in Korora 25 Freezing on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro:

@scottalanmiller said in Korora 25 Freezing on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro:

@Dominica said in Korora 25 Freezing on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro:

The test with Gecko Linux is working great. No issues like before, sleep works fine. Fingers crossed, but it looks good.

It's looking so good, I might switch my desktop!

Are you using static or rolling version?
Have you tried the cinnamon version?

Rolling (based on Tumbleweed), and no, not in this case.

@Kelly said in How would you run Windows applications in your preferred Linux Distro?:

So we have a business need that requires we run Microsoft Office. This is not on the table for discussion of whether or not that can be changed.

With that out of the way, how would you all handle that in your preferred distro? We're looking at running Fedora/Ubuntu/Korora on Dell laptops, but we have to have MS Office because we have to be able guarantee the output we produce is viewed by our government customers exactly as we create it.

Running a full Windows VM is an option. I've wondered if there is something the equivalent of Parallels, where it exposes guest applications to the host OS, for Linux.

Any thoughts, questions, etc.?

there are 2 options: wine or full vm with windows licence. according to the hypervisor your use there is a mock up to add win apps to the linux menu when the VM is running in background.

in my experience wine is basically broken. anyway you can have a look at the compatibility list

here where the installer of MS works or not
if apps work has to be searched through the DB

talking about number of packages, this has always been my reference:
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

if a distro has it packaged it is quite sure they have anything 😛

both debian and suse have it.

Done

@jackcpickup said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:

@scottalanmiller said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:

@jackcpickup said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:

Really like Fedora with KDE Plasma atm. Trying Deepin on my laptop too

Deepin is surprisingly good.

Love the look of it and my touchpad feels pretty good on it. Nextcloud client isn't proving very stable atm though, having to configure it again. Followed your guide setting that up (top result on Google!)

NC has been totally stable for me on Deepin.

@scottalanmiller said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@Dashrender said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@coliver said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@DustinB3403 said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@coliver said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

I've never had a great experience with it.

It always tries to search online first for things that I know are on my local system. It irks me too. Like if I'm searching for Putty, it brings up an advert for it, rather than the local application!

Others have said that as well. I haven't had that experience.

I've had both experiences. Though lately it's worked as desired - local first, then online.

that's what's weird, I've had both too... side by side on machines installed the same way!

yep - I use Clonezilla to deploy machines - it's weird that they act differently.

Good to see. Probably adds a little performance boost as well, newer compilers normally do.

@EddieJennings said in Laptop and Korora:

And now I wait. 🙂
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Awesome

About the laptop, not the waiting.

@NerdyDad said in Fedora time limits for kids:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora time limits for kids:

Fedora or Korora? Korora is probably a little nicer for a non-power user.

Either or. I've not set on a certain distro yet, as long as it's a fedora derived.

Korora has a lot of spit and shine.

Stuff on Wine rarely runs as well, it's the native stuff that really works.

Actually, I got it working with bumblebee-project installed. It did not work in Korora 25, but seems to be working in 26.

I prefixed the wow-64.exe with optirun and it just worked. Great framerate too. I just need to work out the mouse capture part yet. But that's not a big deal since I don't play that game much anyways. It was just easy to test with because it's on an external drive. Hopefully it's not like that in NMS.

My cpu fan is still running full speed from the glxgear test, even though it's way cooled down by now. A reboot may fix that, though.

I hope Fedora 26 stays just as it is. "Works" great so far. More so than 25.

My Linux is better than your Linux.

@JaredBusch dumb question: did you check all services are up and running?

systemctl status | grep hv │ │ └─10000 grep --color=auto hv ├─hv-kvp-daemon.service │ └─563 /usr/lib/linux-tools/4.8.0-49-generic/hv_kvp_daemon -n ├─hv-vss-daemon.service │ └─577 /usr/lib/linux-tools/4.8.0-49-generic/hv_vss_daemon -n

on my ubuntu machines the fcopy is always down. don't know why... but I do not need it.
May be somthing is not running and hyperv badly detects the event

The Scale partner solution that people are thinking of is Work Spot. And no, it does not automatically create the VMs it's more of an access layer.

@jrc said in Linux Permission Assignments:

To me a group is a collection of a certain type of user and is then used to streamline permissions to certain resources. EG Instead of giving read permission to Cathy, Joan and Frank, you can just create a group with them in it, and give that group read permission thereby simplifying your job.

I cannot for the life of me think why you would want a single user group with the same name as the user in it. Are there permissions that can only be assigned to a group rather than directly to the user?

What am I missing here?

Setgid creates group specific permissions for files in the directory with setgid turned on.

Having a group id also lets you do things like have root own a file and be able to modify it but let apache and only apache read it.

Edit: I see Romo beat me to it with the links. I didn't read them until just now.