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Hello everyone! I know that Linux GUI advanced in last few years but we still lack some good system configuration tools for advanced users or sysadmins. What utilities you miss on Linux? And is there any normal third party alternatives?

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[–] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well KDE had this awesome process management tool, I think it was called ~~System Monitor~~ or something. You could tune process priorities with IO and CPU. They deprecated the tool though, I think because nobody wanted to port it to QT6

EDIT: It's not System Monitor. I can't recall the name, but there used to be an app that let you set niceness / priorities of your processes.

[–] intelisense@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

System Monitor is very much still alive, and I'm pretty sure it is updated to Qt6. I was using it only yesterday on Plasma 6...

[–] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're right. I can't recall the other utility's name. System Monitor is fantastic, but I just wish I could set the niceness and all that like you could on the old utility.

[–] intelisense@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That would indeed be a nice feature. I'm sure they would welcome the suggestion!

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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would like something to change my monitor output at a system level, for example I could emulate a CRT screen or decide my aspect ratio. Something like RetroArch shaders but in a more high priority level.

[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I personally would like a systemd gui. There have been several attempts in the past, but none is maintained.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

SystemD is far too much of a poorly thought through mess to have anything like a sane GUI configuration, it doesn't even have a sane textfile based configuration. We're going to have to wait fir SystemD to crumble under it's own weight and be replaced with multiple, simple, cleanly designed components before we have any hope of a sane config again. Sort of like we used to have before a certain someone/some company (depending on how conspiratorial you're feeling) decided to come along and muck it all up.

/rant

Thank you for coming to my Ted ~~Talk~~ Rant. You may gather I dislike SystemD quite a lot.

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[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Its far too convoluted. A systemd gui for... DNS? Boot services? User Services? tmp file management? Everything?

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Everything! And a virt-manager like tool for nspawn! And for the faux-cron jobs! Make it as byzantine as systemd itself

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[–] pathief@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only thing I miss from Windows is Voicemeeter. God, I loved that thing. I miss it so much.

Handling the audio and adding what were once simple things like noise supression has been a really really shit experience.

[–] oshu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been using linux for over 25 years and I don't understand this post. One of the strengths of linux is that you don't need a gui to do sysadmin.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I'm 30 years in, and I came to mention I haven't used the GUI since ~97.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

For sysadmin stuff? Or for daily use?

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

7-Zip,on windows it was powerful and i loved it there is a port p7zip but it has not been updated since 2016.

[–] user_naa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes. But if you really need it, it works great under wine.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

currently using Engrampa but thanks ig.

[–] sem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm missing a lightweight (not like Thunderbird) contacts app, that can work with CardDAV and allow me to see, search and edit my contacts.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's wrong with gnome-contacts?

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