• csolisr@hub.azkware.net
    1·
    1 day ago

    A surprising amount of KDE apps have Windows builds - most importantly for me, KDE Connect. Barely any need to use Windows Phone Link anymore!

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        Looks nice, starred it so I might remember when I get the parts for my ThinkPad that (hopefully) will resurrect it (no screen, no booting, beeps that either indicate “motherboard failure”, or "failure of some other kind), CPU temperature control seems to work at least, one of the worst coil whine that seems to be temperature dependent -> this indicates me some kind of capacitor failure).

    • Nyadia (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Yeah it’s a real bummer that Foobar2000 doesn’t run natively on Linux, but I’ve heard it runs well through WINE. The same can’t be said of MusicBee though, which even WINE can’t get running smoothly on Linux. Honestly, MusicBee and Exact Audio Copy are the only pieces of Windows software I’ve yet to find a native Linux alternative for that I’m satisfied with.

      Edit: Apparently nowadays MusicBee runs better through WINE than it used to? I’ll have to try it out.

      • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
        4·
        6 days ago

        MusicBee works perfectly via Wine, and it’s a major part of my digital library. Without MusicBee my MP3 player would be worth 1/10 for me.

        But you can’t just take the installer and double click it, you need to follow these steps (naturally replace the directories):

        Install Wine Staging and Winetricks

        Create prefix for MusicBee and .NET

        Bash:

        WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ wineboot –init

        Install .NET 4.0 and corefonts

        Bash:

        WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks --force dotnet40 corefonts

        Install xmllite and gdiplus

        Bash:

        WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks xmllite gdiplus

        Set Wine to Windows 7 compatibility mode

        Bash:

        WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks win7

        Install .NET 4.8

        Bash:

        WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/  wine $HOME/Downloads/ndp48-x86-x64-allos-enu.exe /q

        Install Music Bee

        Bash:

        WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/  wine $HOME/Downloads/MusicBeeSetup_3_6.exe

        Downloads needed:
        This specific version of the .NET Framework installer

        You might see warnings about WoW64 mode, experimental flags, etc, just ignore them and keep going and MusicBee will work.

  • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    I have to use windows for work, and Windows Explorer annoys the everloving hell out of me.

    What idiot thought that the “Home” folder and the User folder should be the different?

    And regularly, when “Home” hasn’t loaded I’m halfway done typing the address in the address bar “//someletters/adv” for example, it will decide to clear it to let me know I’m “Home”

    You might have made my life just a little bit easier.

    • eRac@lemmings.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      Another annoying one is that the address bar obfuscates the folder path if you start at Documents, Photos, etc. If I want to get to my user folder without a shortcut, it makes sense to hop to Documents and go up a level, but up a level from Documents is the useless Home directory.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    104·
    7 days ago

    The thing that really annoys me with Linux file explorers is that none of them have a “sort by extension”. They have sort by type, but it’ll mix .jpg, .png, .gif and .webp together, for instance.

    • Keegen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      7 days ago

      I just checked and Dolphin very much has that feature, the wording in English might not be exactly the same as I have the UI in my native language but I found it in the hamburger menu under Sort by>Other>File extension.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        The Sort by → Type also doesn’t group together image formats, at least…

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        6 days ago

        Lol goddamn, I haven’t even been using Linux that long, and I read the comment and was like “extension? Like a Firefox extension? Huh?”

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      Well, apparently that is a thing in Dolphin, but if what you actually want is e.g. to just move all .png files, then I prefer to use the Filter bar (Ctrl+i or the fourth entry in the hamburger menu). You can just type “.png” into it and then it hides all entries which don’t contain that substring.

    • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I dunno, on GNOME49 it seems to me like Nautilus is doing it by file extension. Like yeah, it’s still type, but it’s sorting the extensions alphabetically. There’s also an extra column for “Detailed Type.”

  • stebator@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 days ago

    Great! Dolphin is also better than macOS Finder. I would replace it with Dolphin as well.

    However, Windows Explorer in Windows 11 still excels in one area: it doesn’t have a header, and the tabs are displayed on the header, like in Chromium.

    It’s also annoying that all KDE Dolphin tabs have that red [X] button. Sadly, the KDE developers reject great PRs like this one: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/269

    Who even presses those [X] buttons? I always use the Ctrl+W shortcut.

    • blave@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      the most recent version of Finder is… a bit weird. I like all of the tools and functions it has, but it’s a huge departure from the previous version of Finder, and I’m not a super-fan of some of the feature implementations. but, if you’re used to using Finder for a lot of work, you won’t feel too out-of-place.

      I haven’t used Dolphin in over a decade, so perhaps I’ll check it out.

    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
      2·
      7 days ago

      Still excels? I don’t recall windows explorer ever being good at anything!

      You are saying you like the tabs in the header, so at the top. But Dolphin lets you split, which would make that not make as much sense.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 days ago

    I actually like the Windows file explorer. Used to be my favorite, before Dolphin. Nowadays I’d say Dolphin is slightly better overall, but could still use a change inspired by Windows or two. For instance, I really like the drive view on the Windows file explorer’s home page.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      7 days ago

      In the newest versions, idk about older ones, dolphin lists all attached drives with a progress bar to show how full they are on the left panel, not too different from what youre suggesting, just built into the sidebar instead of a “my computer” type page.

      • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        It’s nice, but I just really like the Windows’ design of this feature. Not really anything functionality-related. Honestly, I wish I could just have the file manager from Windows Vista or 7. I don’t even need tabs.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    Really? That’s awesome! Hold on, I need to go install it on my one PC that still runs windows.

  • blave@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    I don’t know how much of this is going on now, but in the early days, one could run a variety of linux apps in windows with the correct runtimes installed. this may be how WINE came about?

    • osugi_sakae@midwest.social
      4·
      7 days ago

      Just FYI, WINE is for running MS Windows software on Linux, not Linux software on MS Windows^1. As others have mentioned, I think cygwin was sort of the reverse-WINE. Also, I think KDE made a push to get their apps running on MS Windows because QT was cross-platform.

      I was using WINE to play StarCraft back in like 2000. I think it predates running most Linux software on MS Windows, except for a few big, multi-platform packages like Firefox (back when it was still Netscape, then Mozilla Suite (don’t remember what it was called), then Phoenix, then Firebird (right? the same name as a database, so they had to change it, iirc). Those were usually developed for each platform specifically, not just for Linux and then run with an emulator.

      ^1: not trying to be snarky or anything. just put it in in case you didn’t know or maybe had a brain fart. Or maybe I’m wrong about the origins of WINE.

    • Nailbar@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      7 days ago

      Was it cygwin, or something? I vaguely recall running an X server on Windows so I could display remote Linux gui apps locally.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    7 days ago

    Good news is I could install this without admin priveleges at work. Bad news is that while it can see my onedrive folder it behaves very badly with onedrive, click on a folder and it just dissappears. It did the same thing with Google drive as well. Since cloud is where all my data lives it’s not usable currently. =(