Linux

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17460395

After 3 years in the making I'm excited to announce the launch of Games on Whales, an innovative open-source project that revolutionizes virtual desktops and gaming. Our mission is to enable multiple users to stream different content from a single machine, with full HW acceleration and low latency.

With Games on Whales, you can:

• Multi-user: Share a single remote host hardware with friends or colleagues, each streaming their own content (gaming, productivity, or anything else!)
• Headless: Create virtual desktops on demand, with automatic resolution and FPS matching, without the need for a monitor or dummy plug
• Advanced Input Support: Enjoy seamless control with mouse, keyboard, and joypads, including Gyro and Acceleration support (a first in Linux!)
• Low latency: Uses the Moonlight protocol to stream content to a wide variety of supported clients.
• Linux and Docker First: Our curated Docker images include popular applications like Steam, Firefox, Lutris, Retroarch, and more!
• Fully Open Source: MIT licensed, and we welcome contributions from the community.

Interested in how this works under the hood? You can read more about it in our developer guide or deep dive into the code.

Is there a PDF viewer/reader that supports JavaScript like Adobe Reader?

For example for D&D I use the MorePurpleMoreBetter character sheet that uses tons of JavaScript to automate many things.

Right now I'm using the Adobe Reader snap package that runs it via Wine.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18711947

[The author assumes] a high-level understanding of how text rendering works, for example, what shaping is. If that does not sound familiar to you, you might want to review State of Text Rendering (2009), and Modern text rendering with Linux: Overview (2019).

Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

WAIT!

before you start commenting that TUI musicplayer xy is the best, my priorities:

must have:

• support for m3u playlists (synced to Android with Syncthingy) should autodetect them in a single folder I use also for the music files, and read/write them
• support for viewing all files
• support for custom music directories
• support for deleting music files
• Flatpak OR clutterfree on KDE

would like:

• Pipewire output
• nice simple GUI
• modern, clutterfree design OR customizability
• subtitles, cover images, etc.

I used G4Music which looks awesome and has minimal playlist support. It works really well but it cant write to the playlist. It is blazingly fast, and I made an issue, offering a bounty for write-to-playlist support.

I found Lollypop, the old GTK UI is way better than the Qt alternatives, while still kinda ugly. But it seems to tick all boxes, apart from Pipewire support.

What I tried:

G4Music

• UI perfect
• no file deletion
• no playlist addition
• no playlist creation

Lollypop

• UI is bareable
• pulseaudio, no setting at all
• playlist support including writing to! You need to enable it
• lots of internet stuff for artwork and subtitles
• sane defaults

GNOME music

• does not detect my .m3u playlists
• slow
• needs pulseaudio
• settings are a joke
• no folder view

Strawberry

• UI is horrible and not customizable enough
• no Pipewire support
• no .m3u detection
• cluttered, no UI zoom possible
• system icon theme is not applied

Clementine

• like strawberry but different?
• more online stuff
• interface less customizable
• cursor broken on the Flatpak

Amarok

• Strawberry in even older?
• bloat?
• retro-development status

MusicPod

• UI hides too much stuff
• no playlist support
• no filesystem hierarchy support
• strange Ubuntu look, but good UI, fancy background
• no podcast backup file support (so Kasts is better for that)
• but pipewire support!

Plattenalbum

• no playlist support
• otherwise looks great

Resonance

• modern, GTK4 Libadwaita, UI is damn lit
• freezes, fills up the entire RAM (scans every title at once!) -> not optimized at all, made system freeze and needed to hard shutdown.
• no playlist support?
• no pipewire support?

Melody

• uses soon EOL GNOME 42 runtime

Amberol

• beautiful but too minimalist
• why are there soo many GNOME music players??

moosync

• very nice UI
• electron: tiny cursor on Wayland, no Pipewire support
• plugin support for Youtube, Spotify (using librespot) and LastFM
• local playlists seem broken

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17805640

Let’s talk today about kernel crashes, or even better, how can we collect information if a kernel panic happens on Arch Linux and on SteamOS, the Linux distribution used on the Steam Deck.

TIL about WOAM

Works On My Machine!

A huge pain, that is removed when using containers and ostree/image-based distros.

Of course if Microsoft undermines standards' interoperability...