>Unison is not meant for automatic jobs, at least not the versions I know. It will give you a list of changed files (and files of >which properties have changed) but expects the operator to verify and then issue the go command. If you just want to mirror >changes, pushing (or pulling) the latest state automatically rsync with a `--delete` option will work just as well.
Rysnch works when I'm not botching the command. I'm just looking for a 1 way mirror that can run over SSH automatically set to run probably on the hour in my recording dirs, and weekly on other dirs. I've accidentally erased files I meant to keep, overwritten files, etc using Rsynch with wrong command switches.
Time Machine didn't impress me at all. I ran it for a time when I first started using a Mac.
Time Machine didn't impress me at all. I ran it for a time when I first started using a Mac.
>It was (desktop environment, not distribution :)) . Now that you mention it, I've meaning meaning to ask around if a KDE4
I saw that right AFTER I hit send lol. No idea why I said distro.
>equivalent of the Trinity project exist because I too would prefer to keep running a Plasma4 desktop (mostly QML free) with a >select few KDE5 apps that I build and install myself through a customised MacPorts system.
KDE4 worked great. I cannot see ONE thing I thought was an improvement over KDE4 in KDE5. Lots I do not like about the change. TBH KD4 wasn't my favorite. KDE3 worked beautifully. I moved to KDE4 but I cannot afford a machine with 16 gigs of RAM and it defeats the beauty of Linux to require a machine with higher specs than Win 10 just to multi-task and use it for more than just tablet level operations (email, social media, basic web browsing). I have 4 gigs of RAM on this machine. It is older yes, but the laptop I bought last year also only has 4 gigs and it ran Win 10. I'm not sure how well, I used it for a conference then installed Linux. For that conference, it worked fine. I shouldn't have to run a gaming level of hardware just to do useful things with a Linux box. I shouldn't need to close EVERYTHING except what I'm working on. If I wanted that I'd stuck with Windoze. I'm going to try a couple other desktops out, but it's not urgent since Trinity is smooth as silk.
The saddest part is KDE used to be the best desktop environment to bring people who are new to Linux into Linux. It had by far the easiest interface to work with, was intuitive. KDE apps have keyboard and menu standardization which helps flatten that learning curve. Best look and feel and up until KDE4 was light on system resources. So I could take somebody's old computer, put KDE on it and start converting them to Linux. Usually before long I was putting KDE on their new machine also. I've introduced 20+ people to Linux that way. I wouldn't dare put KDE5 on a new Linux users machine. Especially not an older machine. I'm not sure what KDE's leadership is thinking, or who they are appealing too. Most Linux users reuse old hardware. Part of the point of using Linux is to not spend a fortune on a computer. Not have to upgrade that machine every 2 or 3 years. I get an average of 7 to 10 years out of my machines. Yet on a 10 year old machine I can do everything a Windoze user can do and most of it faster than they can on their sparkling machine that's brand new, has 2 or 3 times the RAM mine does and cost 4 times as much as mine did new.
I am a power user. I do a LOT of things on a computer and do a lot of multitasking. That Linux allowed me to do this is one of the huge draws for me to Linux. Windows with it's single tasking resource hungry philosophy just does not work for me and people like me. Single taskers are moving to phones. If all they do is email, social media, a little web browsing, why have a PC? A phone is something they already need. If they need a little more they can go up to a tablet. The PC is now the realm of gamers, developers, artists, musicians, power users and others who need more than just basic performance.
While I feel that there are many things the cloud is a really poor choice for, if you want to use a lot of software today on Linux it's cloud or nothing. Adobe's stuff for example. Class work not just for universities but more and more primary schools. Teachers, even auto mechanics are being shifted over to cloud apps. So you are going to have a ton of web browser tabs open. Right now on this machine I have about 10 shopping tabs open as I compare prices for a couple high dollar purchases. A couple youtube tutorials on how to do work on my Harley and a pickup. I have 3 email tabs that stay open 24/7, a couple Python reference tabs that tend to stay open a lot. 7 tabs related to web development including a couple control panels for websites I maint that stay open 24/7. A couple Ubuntu wiki tabs. 5 tabs related to grant applications. A tutorial for a cam for my motorcyle. A systarter tab, a Gimp tutorial tab, A tab that stays open 24/7 related to scientific papers on ancient migrations, A Wikileaks tab, A couple tabs on making gunpowder and a couple more tutorial tabs on making fireworks, A tab to unision while I look it over, a couple Google searches I reuse and 3 or 4 misc tabs. That's just what open on this machine. On the other machines I have at least 60 other tabs open. When I complete the repairs on the pickup and motorcycle those obviously close. The GIMP tutorial tab just changes as I need to do something else in GIMP I'll just move to a different part of the page with a tutorial ont hat part. The shopping tabs will close when I choose one and make a purchase, but as fast as I close those, more will appear as I'm doing something. My Python tabs might grow to 10 tabs for a coupe weeks as I work on something or my web dev tabs the same.
Once I master how to make fireworks next month I'll probably reopen my blacksmithing tabs, or it might be casting lead bullets for blackpowder or making black powder blanks so I can take part in recreation groups of the old west and Texas war of independence. Or I might need to figure out how to do something in Audacious that I've never done before or a tutorial on remixing techniques as I fine tune mixdowns.
That's just Chrome tabs. I also tend to have music software open, a couple players to listen to my tunes, I use another box for jukebox, a tag editor might be open if I'm doing mix downs and stay open until I've mixed and tagged everything. I might have CIMP open working on something or Kdevelop or several text tabs tweaking/fixing HTML or doing a quick Python script. If I'm working on a writing project I will have 50 Kedit tabs open. One of the nice things about moving to Trinity is I get Kedit back. Kwrite crashes on me constantly and doesn't autosave. So I lose everything I haven't saved if the power goes out, it crashes, etc. Kate is a resource monster and won't allow me to tear tabs off so I can have 10 tabs that I flip back and forth between as I reference other chapters, character sheets, etc. Kedit is really light on resources, I've had 140 Kedit tabs open before on my writing desktop. No resource hit, since Kedit has such a light footprint. Anyway you get the idea. I actually USE my computers. I am always juggling projects. Looking into volunteering for the Trinity project. Doing documentation, some package maintenance. If I do I'll have 3 or 4 Chrome tabs devoted to that which stay open 24/7 plus various kedit and when needed word processors open.
More so PIM and email that's pretty much gone to the cloud or phones. I keep my PIM info on my phone. Back up to a Google drive. That way I have it with me nearly 24/7. PIM is or should be a super low resource task. You have a phone number, name and a tiny amount of other data. It takes up virtually no space. There's little more to do with it than search and sort. So the app should also be tiny. I like so many others gave up on Pop3 long ago. It's STILL not sent using decent encryption. The password is almost always sent in the clear as there's no standards for sending it encrypted. M$ does it one way, Thunderbird another, Kmail another, each with varied support for the 4 or 5 obsolete encryption schemes. In the cloud I have access to the same emails anywhere, on any machine. SSL might not be perfect but the average twerp wannabe hacker isn't going to crack it. That is assuming your ISP supports anything but Outlook, which is getting tough to find nowadays. Outlook changes it's protocols every so often for no particular reason and when it does, you cannot download your email until your mail server gets updated to support Microsoft's latest stupidity. You are lucky to even get help with the Pop3 settings any more. You ask most tech support folks what their pop3 server is, if your lucky they escalate it. Most of the time they refer to a document that hasn't been updated in 5 years and has incorrect information or are totally baffled by what you mean by pop3 and insist you install Outlook or they will not talk to you. Last time I helped my Dad set up Thunderbird it took 3 calls and 2 hours to FINALLY get all the info I needed to get his Thunderbird working. Pop3 and desktop mail's days are numbered.
KDE could become a web developer's paradise. Could cater to artists and musicians, there's a lot of directions KDE could go. I just don't understand the logic behind trying to make it into an expensive stationary phone. Especially at a time when people are desperate for an alternative to Win 10, which is not very popular even among Windoze fans. Recreating Windoze's system requirements makes no sense to me. If you cannot run KDE on a machine that CAN run Win 10, something is wrong and that's what's happening right now. Desktops are not going away, but they ARE filling niche needs as Joe Q public switches to just having a phone to save money and avoid the frustration of using a desktop. Worse the expense of buying a new one every 2 or 3 years just because the old one is now too slow. This isn't the 90s. We are coming out of a 12 year depression that devastated the US economy with ripple effects around the world. China is in a recession, Europe struggling, Asia not exactly thriving. We are barely climbing out of a world recession and Covid-19 wrecks the economies of most of the world.. Riots and protests, trade wars, and soon shooting wars. People don't have the income for high end machines to just do stuff they could do on their phone. A lot of people in the US right now are wondering how they'll keep food on their table and a roof over their heads.
Now is the time for Linux to strike. It's free, and a good distro and desktop manager runs on older machines that people can get from wealthier friends, buy at a pawn shop or cobble together from dead machines. A machine that people in 3rd world nations can use for something besides basic stuff. A replacement for expensive Windoze systems on cash strapped city, state and federal governments. KDE can lead the way on this.
A couple killer apps, like a better web development platform. WYSIWYG without all the junk Dreamweaver includes and Dreamweaver's heft price tag. Musicians have long been ignored by Linux. The closest you have is Ubuntu studio which as a spin has some nice ideas but it's really not a plug and play desktop for musicians and Gnome's brutal resource requirements just do not work. You need a really high end system thanks to Gnome's heavy footprint. A musician's distro needs a RT kernel, drivers for breakout boxes, converters for popular DAW formats to open source formats. A set of tools. Linux already has most of them, though it could use a better DAW package. It'll also need better integration of Jack which most Linux audio software uses. Ubuntu studio has made some inroads there. But most of the time if you open up Jack it kills everything else, which is extremely annoying. For example, I might do a quick drum track on Hydrogen, save it off as a wave file, but Audacious cannot play it until I kill Jack. So I throw it in there, then want to tweak it. I have to restart Jack, make my tweak, export the track, then kill Jack, so I can hear how it in Audacious or import it into Audacity and add in another track I've already recorded. If I want to bypass my break out box and go straight from my effects box or tweak or save the settings on my effects box I have to use the Mac as there's no drivers for any of my effects boxes on Linux. VST support is so so on Linux. Thus the necessity of a Mac for recording. Yet so many musicians would LOVE a black box magic making recording machine. Port a good DAW or improve existing DAWs and fix up a distro and you have just that. Artists suffer under Linux. There's not even a good paint app. You have to open up GIMP and it's rather obscure settings just to create a very simple meme or flyer. I can name a dozen other nitches Linux could fill but none of them are going to work if you clobber the system resources and demand a min of 8 gigs to have a usable machine. I've got 4 gigs on this machine and can't run KDE5. It;ll freeze up on me a half hour after I get everything opened and I have to do a cold boot or wait an hour for it to unfreeze long enough to close 2/3rds of the stuff I have open and limp along with a machine that lags from hell and locks up if I start opening stuff up again.
Phone app development tools and especially IDEs. A gamers framework built around QT that interfaces with existing engines. Most of all, a low footprint but lots of useful functionality. KDE3 had that. Sure the graphics were a little blocky compared to today, but you can't tell me those graphics improvements take THAT much system resources. KDE needs to be lean, great at multi-tasking. There are so many niches KDE could fill and bring people to Linux. Gnome's GUI is just not user friendly and a resource monster. Not an option. The other desktop managers lack the pizzazz KDE and Gnome have in terms of how pretty they look and native app support. I think KDE is really missing the boat and it's hurting Linux in general. KDE is the only desktop manager currently in heavy use that I feel could challenge Windoze head on and win over Windoze users en mass.
>I have no experience with it (I think I moved to Mac too early and never got to use the MSDOS apps like PC-Shell sufficiently >to grow a dependency on it (like I did with vi, for instance). I might give it a try. My Dolphin5 build works fine on Mac but I >always stumble over the fact you can only drag any file from the Finder to Dolphin; the other way only works for local files
>(because the Finder doesn't know about protocols other than file://). Doing things in a single split-screen window would >prevent the error.
I like Krusader because I'm not a fan of drag and drop but sometimes it's handy. Especially moving stuff too and from apps that are designed for drag and drop. When I want to copy I want to KNOW I am copying. drag and drop you don't know if you moved or copied or accidentally dropped them into a subfolder, etc. Krusader has buttons you can use for copy, move, etc. But it also supports drag and drop with just about everything on Linux. Not sure what it'll be like on Mac. Dual pane default with tabs. You have keyboard shortcuts, menu or for common tasks buttons you can use. It's really clear what pane you are in, and asks you if you really want to move to xyz so you get a chance to say yikes didn't mean to do that before it starts happening. You can delete to trash or delete delete. View or hide hidden files with 2 clicks. Shift panes around, switch to icon & preview modes, though default is list view and it's a far superior list view in my opinion. I really like Krusader. It's one of the must have apps in my opinion. I can do complex manual sorts, dir comparisons, SSH to other machines, open a CLI and have it integrated down at the bottom, whole lot of compact functionality. The appearance might seem archaic at first. It grows on you quickly as it gives you an excellent clean compact overview of everything. It's also pretty customizable. So you can fine tune most of Krusader to how you want it to look and act.
I did start with DOS. Then moved to Windows NT 3.51, then to Linux and NT 4. I kept a Windows box around for recording and Skype for several years then shifted over to a Mac for that. XP was the last Windows OS I ever ran on any of my machines and that was briefly. The 3rd time in a year I had to do a wipe and load on a 3 year old XP machine I boght a Mac, put Linux on the XP machine and haven't looked back. I'm on my 3rd Mac now. Kind of hoping to rehab the Mac I retired due to dead fan and because it was 5 years old and too slow to run latest Mac OSX. If I can find the right CPU fan, and put Linux on it, I might be able to give it a 2nd life. Not with KDE I won't. It only has 4 gigs of RAM.
