• witty_username@feddit.nlEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Having switched to linux, np++ is one of the programs I miss the most.
    Inb4 ‘just use [insert software here] instead’; yes I know alternatives to np++ exist. And I know wine exists. I don’t miss np++ enough to go that route

    • Australis13@fedia.io
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      15 days ago

      Just for the benefit of other readers, Notepadqq is one of the alternatives for Linux. However, there are a few features I really wanted from Notepad++, so I have installed it using wine. No problems there. Hopefully some day we’ll see a Linux release.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      I’m in the same boat. I ended up giving up on the Linux options and using a Notepad++ snap package, but as it runs in WINE it has some quirks that I have not figured out yet.

      As an example I chose to hide the menu bar while I was trying to get a dark theme looking correct, and now I have no idea how to bring the menu bar back, because wine takes the [alt] input that would usually bring the menu back up.

      I’ll probably end up just deleting and reinstalling the snap. But I’d rather know how to bring up the alt menu in emulated programs in wine - in case it happens again.

        • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          15 days ago

          Thanks for the suggestion. That combo seems to bring up window options for Wine’s workspace. I’ve purged and reinstalled the snap now which does skirt the problem.

  • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Just a note on the efficacy of activist messages in FOSS.

    In the Aughts, I was learning to play with microcontrollers. PIC microcontrollers were free as well as the JAL language. I ordered a hardware programmer from the Dutch guy who created JAL: Wouter van Ooijen. Probably my first purchase online. There was a statement in the license, to the effect of, the language could not be used to develop arms.

    Looking back, that was a turning point for me. I was machining arms for a living and continued to do so for years. It got me to thinking about what it was that I was producing with my hands. Weapons for killing people.

    I thought about it a lot. All these things I was making with blood and sweat being used to kill people. Running machines on night shift gives you time to think.

    His statement was, at minimum, at least partially responsible for me changing my mind. I grew past the bad religion and far right ideology that I was taught.

    I’m going to send him a thank you note.

  • Davel23@fedia.io
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    16 days ago

    That headline is pretty confusing if you only know Don Ho as a Hawaiian singer.