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  • I always recommend Fedora or Debian these days. Eventually you get anything running with those.

    But yeah, Ubuntu makes it easy for nvidia, but is also has snaps.

    Anyway, I would always go with a main distro instead of something that is based on them. You’re just a bit closer to upstream. That’s at least my opinion. So far, it did not fail me.



  • I use rgdal in R to avoid doing statistics with QGIS. But for thematic maps I find it very useful. And for nicer looking legends on maps I use Inkscape.

    The true power of open source for me is, that you use many programs together to achieve a result that can beat closed source software. It is sometime more work to do so, when you aim for near perfection.







  • poinck@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldOnly me?
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    Awesome. After many years of vim-use I learned about CTRL+n as well. A game changer.

    And while we’re at it, I also installed vim-nox to be able to use vim-snippets with utilsnips to TAB for even more joy of programming with vim. [=






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    I have noticed, people just leave their chair when I arrive. I sit down, do the thing they did themselves the whole time without getting it to work and it starts to work at first try. Sometimes, idk, what they were doing but they are happy to carry on.

    This happens more often on Windows than on Linux. Linux users seem to have more real problems. ^^ On the other hand, at my place there is a lot more Windows than Linux on desktops.




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    I use the normal arrow keys in vim to navigate, but I love all the other neat features and I propably only know <20% of them.

    And maybe on a 40% keyboard with custom layout every key is very near. My arrow keys are very custom placed, btw. I have 4 of the same keyboard (Planck), because I am so used to my own custom layout and layers.


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    the four of us. I have a desk job but 1/3 of my tasks require manual labor.

    I don’t look online in advance what there will be to eat in the cafetaria, but I know what I like and quickly decide on site, sometimes based on the shortest queue. Most of my fellow workers look at the menu in advance and then still need a lot of time at the cafetaria to actually decide for it. Maybe they enjoy the lunch break more? Idk.


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    I do this when asked for my ticket in public transport. I’ll wait until they are in front of me. When they walk away before I am ready, I put my ticket back so that they have to come back and wait until I am ready. I think, public transport should be free and financed only by taxes. I may have helped people who just forgot to get a ticket or need to catch the train quickly and still waiting for the app to validate their ticket.

    Only for longer trips accross the country I prepare my ticket in advance. I can’t explain it.