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  • garrett@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Is there a Windows 10 inspired launch menu?
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    2 days ago

    Yep, ArcMenu (@ https://gitlab.com/arcmenu/ArcMenu which is the maintained one, last updated days ago instead of years ago) has a ton of different layouts which can mimic any version of Windows, and so much more.

    screenshot of ArcMenu layout settings, with the "modern" category expanded

    When using GNOME, use the “Extensions Manager” app (from Flathub) to search for “ArcMenu” and install it, then you can configure it there in the Extensions Manager app as well. In the ArcMenu configuration, go to layouts and select the modern group to see something like the screenshot above. (The previews are generic wireframe sketches; the result will look much more high fidelity.)

  • garrett@lemm.eetotechsupport@lemmy.world•Where are my files from Windows 11?
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    25 days ago

    For what it’s worth, you are supposed to be able to access documents stored in OneDrive in Linux. (I haven’t tried it myself; I’m just aware of it.)

    Basically: Go to GNOME’s settings, then select online accounts, and sign into OneDrive.

    Here the same instructions with lots of details and screenshots: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/set-up-onedrive-file-access-in-ubuntu (Nothing in that link is Ubuntu specific. This applies to other distros too, like Fedora, Debian, Arch, Mint, etc. — as long as you have GNOME 46.)

    Other desktops have to use various other options, but aren’t natively integrated: https://linuxstans.com/microsoft-onedrive-on-linux/

    Of course, once you have access to files like this, you’ll probably want to copy them locally and back them up yourself.

    (I suspect Microsoft was trying to make it so people don’t lose their files, ironically, by handling document storage themselves? It’s still absurd that they do this so aggressively.)

    My favorite backup software is Pika. It’s powered by Borg, has a friendly UI, and supports both local (including USB drives) and remote locations. https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup

    Deja Dup is also good and uses Duplicity behind the scenes. https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.DejaDup

    There are a ton of other backup solutions too, including Vorta (another UI for Borg) and a bunch of command line tools, like rclone, rsync, etc.

  • garrett@lemm.eetoPhotography@lemmy.ml•Looking for linux workflow ideas
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    5 months ago

    darktable, hands down. It has a learning curve, but it’s a pro app and app pro apps have learning curves.

    The linear pipeline is great, masking is superb, and the app keeps getting better every release.

    The one downside is that darktable is not opinionated by default (so raw files look a little flat to begin with, without doing anything), but it’s customizable that you can even change that with auto applied presets. On the other hand, it does let you do what you want to do with an image, versus fighting with defaults (which is what it’s like to edit something in Lightroom, if you want to diverge from what it suggests by default).

    There are a bunch of great tutorials on YouTube and you’ll want to check out https://discuss.pixls.us/ too. Create an account on the Pixls forum, read some threads, try out some “play raws” (where people post their raw files under a CC license and then lots of people try their own take at editing it and post their edit).

    Rico Resolves has a half hour getting started video for darktable 4.6 at https://youtu.be/ucjAmTMIEOI

    Anything from Bruce Williams https://youtube.com/@audio2u and Boris Hajdukovic https://youtube.com/@s7habo are both great too, and more people are posting darktable videos all the time as well.

    The documentation for darktable is actually very good as well. Do not skip it. You don’t have to read it all, but try reading the intro parts and going back to it when you want some reference on how a part of darktable works. https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.6/en/

    Some tips:

    • You can right click on sliders to get a special UI and you can also enter numbers (often even outside the bounds of what the slider would normally permit).

    • Modules will be applied in the best order regardless of which one you work on first.

    • There are some somewhat redundant modules, as darktable did start out as a “display referred” workflow (just like most all of the other raw editors everywhere) and moved to a “scene referred” (aka “linear rgb”) workflow, which provides better editing, improved color handling, vastly better tone mapping, and so on. If there are two similar modules, try to go with the version that has “RGB” in its title. Older modules still exist mainly for older edits. (You can also change darktable back to the old display referred workflow in the settinfs, but I strongly suggest to not do this. Scene referred is much better.)

    I used to shoot film and do darkroom stuff years ago. I’ve used Aperture on OS X. I used Lightroom on OS X and then on Windows. A few years ago, I switched to darktable on Linux… and darktable has gotten so, so much better each release. When I switched years ago, it was more or less a Lightroom competitor (with some advantages and disadvantages). But darktable is really amazing software now, and can give you much better results than Lightroom, when you know how to use it.