Linux

I've been using gimp for years as a Photoshop alternative. Tons of tutorials, and I've always been able to do what I needed.

Its great that there are alternatives for those who want them!

Yeah, I just use Krita for the basic things.

For me GIMP is easier to use than krita, pinta, or any other photo editor on Linux....

How is it different from Krita? What does it do that isn't done by FOSS?

Especially since MacBook don't come with Nvidia cards. Still frustrated with dual booting windows whenever the drivers brake for gaming.

KDE Plasma and Gnome are different desktop environments. Kind of like the GUI of the desktop.

Which is best is a matter of taste. I prefer KDE because of its customization options and better virtual desktop support.

I'm a software developer (my background), I was always kind of interested in it, but primarily the fact that Apple stopped giving my 2015 MacBook Pro OS updates, including security updates, which forced me to do something.

And yeah, Plasma or GNOME is pretty much how the OS looks like.

Pictures are probably better than a thousand words here:

• https://kde.org
• https://www.gnome.org

That or inkscape

😅 Nothing to do with that ideology!

Fun fact: I used emojis to reproduce and report a bug in the Lemmy web UI. That's why the ⚡s are there.

And thanks.

I know that it's a hack. A really bad hack TBH.

But I wasn't able to get it working differently.

This is the service code I'm using (yes, I know... It's very bad, especially the pinging):

while :
do
	if [[ $(ping 192.168.178.1 -c 3) ]]
	then
		echo "pinged"
	else
		if [[ $(lsmod | grep brcmfmac) ]]
		then
			sudo rmmod brcmfmac
		fi
		sudo modprobe brcmfmac
		sleep 250
	fi
	sleep 15

done

When closing and opening my MacBook, it's necessary to execute sudo rmmod brcmfmac and then sudo modprobe brcmfmac. Only executing the 2nd command is not enough.

@MonkderZweite@feddit.ch

Your first 2 paths under /etc have a description like this:

kernel modules to load at boot time.

The problem I'm having is that I have to reload the module when the laptop was closed and reopened.

So, I think, the first 2 paths won't work, right? It's not boot time?

Something like the 2nd path was described in a tutorial about getting started on a MacBook with Linux. I remember it.

But the path you described does not exist on my system.

I have a path /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/, do you mean that one?

This contains 1 file (probably created by me in the beginning) called lid_wakeup_disable:

 #!/bin/sh

# /lib/systemd/system-sleep/lid_wakeup_disable
#
# Avoids that system wakes up immediately after suspend or hibernate
# with lid open (e.g. suspend/hibernate through KDE menu entry)
#
# Tested on MacBookPro12,1

case $1 in
  pre)
    if cat /proc/acpi/wakeup | grep -qE '^LID0.*enabled'; then
        echo LID0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup
    fi
    ;;
esac

Do I add rmmod brcmfmac; modprobe brcmfmac; (without sudo) at the bottom?

I'm thankful for any help to get rid of the service.

Yes, I'm using VSCodium, but Visual Studio is of course totally different regarding features.

At the moment, I don't have the hardware to run games... Will try it out next year..

If you are trying to avoid MS and liked Atom, there's also https://pulsar-edit.dev/

You probably couldn't game very much on a macbook. Maybe you could on the more expensive variants with Radeon Pro graphics, but those aren't your typical gaming GPUs.