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I'd just like one standard for all config files. Yaml, json, whatever...let's just choose something and standardize.
I used to dislike editing text config files but once you have one written you've got a template for the future. So long as the documentation is throughly written it's not too bad to follow.
Linux config in YAML
God no, please spare me
Set settings once in a config file and check it in, then never fight it again.
GUI is bloat for basically everything. If you want to rice go ahead, but if you do in a UI... lol cool story bro.
Edit. Oh no! I've been clocked by the Ubuntu crew!
MY CREATOR USED LINUX TO DEVELOPE ME I FEEL COLD WHEN I EXTRACT MY DATA
No one should feel cold. Lets add some autoplay taboola ads to all of your screens so it wont feel so cold anymore. You're welcome.
You ever try to put together a GUI? I absolutely get why they look like crap! Although I have been having fun playing around with egui.
Here's one:
Audio jacks. I have a 5.1 system, and to use it properly I have to install HDAJackRetask. You can't just specify 5.1 surround sound from the distro's standard audio settings menu.
Pavuctl still is kind of mandatory to have with most DEs (you should be able to set the proper audio profile in it for 5.1?). Amusingly even on Pipewire systems.
Especially weird to see on Gnome. Audio Settings are rather meh, you still can't even set how the background is displayed since Gnome 3 either (centered, stretched, fit etc. - unless you know about the "optimizations" app) β¦but look at our new "Wellbeing" feature! π¦Ά
Another is fstab. You'll often be told to go edit that by hand, often in the terminal. Adding a drive to an existing system and mounting it as part of the file system is a task an ordinary computer user would want to do.
I'm thinking about a gamer switching to Linux, and then saying something like "I wanna hook up my 5.1 speakers" or "I'm gonna buy a new SSD and add it to my existing system so I have room for more games."
I'm not a proponent of making EVERYTHING a GUI setting because not even Microsoft does that but there are still some splintery edges in places people will actually touch that could use some sanding.
The janky cobbled-together UIs straight out of 1994 are part of the charm!
I'd give my left nut to have a GUI for managing the icons in the GNOME dock. Like, where is the binary for this icon? Can I edit this .desktop file from the right click menu, please? FML.
Not entirely accurate since the majority of Linux system settings are in fact GUI settings, you forget the Linux under the hood is all pure text based meaning it's just GUI settings and worse GUI settings.
Wait, do you argue that a terminal emulator is just another GUI but with a huge text box? π
if you can't use it without a monitor it's graphical
So, if I switch the terminal output back to my dot matrix printer instead of my monitor, like back in the day, it's not graphical right?
I'm actually fine with Linux being for people who are into knowing how their computers work and Windows/MacOS for people who aren't.