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  • For the longest time people wondered: how do bees fly and don’t bump into each other? There are so many of them!

    To find out, people used high speed cameras, and then they were shocked by the fact that bees actually do bump into each other.

    Isn’t it ridiculous that we just take our assumptions on something we have no idea about as facts?








  • vort3toLinuxIt's time to move to Linux - YouTube
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    25 days ago

    I wish I could switch to Inkscape, but it’s not there yet.

    It is really good lately and only getting better, but there are 2 major issues I have with Inkscape.

    1. Tabs (as in, tabulation, the \t character) in text objects. You can find workarounds, like splitting your text into multiple objects and aligning them on your canvas, but it’s just not as good as being able to align your text using proper text alignment tools. Tabulation doesn’t work in Inkscape because it’s not in SVG spec, AFAIK.

    2. Object styles. Again, there are workarounds, but they’re not as good. Can you create a text style called “numbering”, use it to number a lot of stuff in your document, then just change font family (or make it italic, or bold) all of the numbers at once by changing the “numbering” style? I don’t think it’s currently possible. Sure, inkscape is not a word processor. But can you make an object of style “banner” with a blue gradient fill, orange 2 px stroke and 50% transparency, use it multiple times, then when you need to change from blue gradient to red gradient just change the “banner” style? Again, there are ways to achieve this, but if you do this kind of stuff, inkscape is just not ready to replace your tools.

    Don’t get me wrong, I really want to switch to FOSS all the way and wait for these things to get implemented. As soon as they’re there, I’ll be the first to make the switch. But it’s not now, unfortunately.

    If I’m wrong, I’ll be happy to stand corrected.






  • vort3toLinuxDecision of Next Os
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    1 month ago

    Arch never broke for me.

    Unless you seek trouble and do stuff without knowing what you are doing (like blindly copy pasting commands from internet into your terminal), it generally just works.

    It’s not as good as those distros where all packages come preconfigured for you to work nicely together, so if you want to build a custom system (like, choose your DE/WM/panels/widgets etc), you have to configure all of that to intergate nicely. But you could always just install KDE and everything is pretty stable there, same as in any other KDE based distro.