Any fellow Linux users on here?

[Judge]

Made an interesting discovery last night. One of the routine apps I use through Mint's repository is an Internet Radio service called "Goodvibes". I downloaded this one as a "system package" which usually has less a likelihood of problems compared to Flatpak.

As strange as this may be, whenever I turn this app on, it makes my event log go nuts...citing Nvidia errors. Investigating the verbage of this error it seems benign enough, but geez, so much is cranked out in the log...it's ugly. Here's just part of it:

[drm:nv_drm_master_set [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to grab modeset ownership

Simple point here. I just deleted the app and downloaded it again from the repository, but using the Flatpak version. It generates no errors in the log at all whenever activated. Usually it's Flatpak that is more likely to be troublesome. Go figure...

However this app is always troublesome like a few others when using third-party Gnome or Cinnamon modifications, especially the Mac style ones. Causing a small number of apps like Goodvibes, Timeshift, and even Nautilus with root authority to be displayed in light instead of dark mode.

Very disconcerting to have 95% of your Linux interfaces all in an attractive dark mode of black to grey shades, and suddenly your turn on just one particular app and it's dark text on a white background. Ugh! The one drawback when trying to make the maximize/minimize buttons look identical to a Mac.

I found a better substitute Internet Radio app called "Shortwave" which while it won't display the Mac style buttons, it will still render dark mode. Which is ok by me. It's just frustrating that some of the other more critical apps like Timeshift alwasy show up in light mode with these third-party modifications. But "Goodvibes" causing so much log activity, what's up with that? And a native "system package" download no less! Weird.

Sadly while there are a tiny few alternate Mac-style mods out there for both Gnome and Cinnamon, they all seem to have this one shortcoming when it comes to a few apps unwilling to comply, showing up in light mode instead of dark mode. I keep looking for newer mods that might have overcome this issue, but so far with no luck. And the same happens with Pop!OS22.04 using Gnome as well.

Added: Last night I discovered something similar is logged for just accessing a .PDF and opening the Linux "document viewer". Weird. Wondering what else makes the event log go bonkers?

 

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Sadly while there are a tiny few alternate Mac-style mods out there for both Gnome and Cinnamon, they all seem to have this one shortcoming when it comes to a few apps unwilling to comply, showing up in light mode instead of dark mode.

Isn't that actually consistent with Mac, not being able to customise anything?

 

[Judge]

Isn't that actually consistent with Mac, not being able to customise anything?

Funny to think that while I used Macs both in tech school and on the job, I never had time to consider customizing the interface. But then in tech school that was a "no-no" anyways. Reminded me of a student who was expelled for "tampering" with Macs.

Actually you can customize a Mac, but not on the scale of what one can do with Linux.

 

[vergil96]

I use both Linux (for work) and Windows (for work and home).

Last weekend, on a DOS command prompt, I typed two commands separated by a semi-colon (Linux style) instead of by an ampersand (DOS style) - something like "delete oldfile; process newfile" when I should have typed "delete oldfile & process newfile".

The result was that DOS executed the first command as if the semi-colon and everything that followed it were arguments to the first command and deleted my "newfile". That "newfile" was an 83GB file that took me over a day to download.

I learned a painful lesson about paying attention the OS I'm using.

file recovery?

 

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The result was that DOS executed the first command as if the semi-colon and everything that followed it were arguments to the first command and deleted my "newfile". That "newfile" was an 83GB file that took me over a day to download.

I never noticed this post early enough to be of much help, but Vergil is right and you should be able to recover the deleted file. There's all sorts of programs that attempt to do this, by far the best that I've used is a little Linux program called TestDisk. There's a second program inside that package called Photorec that is superb at recovering individual files even if they've been partially overwritten.

 

[Nervous Rex]

I never noticed this post early enough to be of much help, but Vergil is right and you should be able to recover the deleted file. There's all sorts of programs that attempt to do this, by far the best that I've used is a little Linux program called TestDisk. There's a second program inside that package called Photorec that is superb at recovering individual files even if they've been partially overwritten.

Alas, this wasn't in Linux. I was (erroneously) typing Linux commands in DOS on a Windows machine.

If you delete a file in Windows Explorer, you have the chance recover it from the recycle bin. But if you delete a file in a DOS command line, it doesn't use the recycle bin. Also, the file was 83GB, so it would not have been saved in the recycle bin anyway.

Since I use Linux (Ubuntu) for work, I am more familiar with Linux commands. I use Windows on my personal laptop for small programming projects here and there, but it's a hassle to mentally shift gears.

 

[vergil96]

little Linux program called TestDisk.

Seconded

 

[vergil96]

Windows File Recovery - Microsoft Support

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[Nervous Rex]

Windows File Recovery - Microsoft Support

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Alas, this wasn't in Linux. I was (erroneously) typing Linux commands in DOS on a Windows machine.

I've done this many times, mostly for old people that have taken their laptop to a tech and the tech has wiped their drive and reinstalled everything from scratch. Bye bye family photos.

Use a bootable Linux USB stick, most of them are "live desktop" versions these days which makes life one hell of a lot easier. I usually go with Fedora or Ubuntu because of the size of the repository available.

Boot from the thumbstick, install testdisk, use testdisk to recover files from the windows drive.

Do not recover files to the same drive you are recovering from - you'll be overwriting what you're trying to save. Recover them to another USB drive instead.

 

[FilterFreq]

I've done this many times, mostly for old people that have taken their laptop to a tech and the tech has wiped their drive and reinstalled everything from scratch.

I hate when techs just do a whole bunch of malarkey so they can upcharge for it. I've played enough "backup life saver" to know that it's the ones who make the most bank, too. Meanwhile the real backbones of the tech industry are like, "Hey, I'll do it for a few beers, and I won't delete all of your stuff".

The corporate world is such a joke sometimes

 

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Meanwhile the real backbones of the tech industry are like, "Hey, I'll do it for a few beers, and I won't delete all of your stuff".

My official rate for people in my community was 2 beers an hour. I told them that I couldn't possibly charge more than that because computers and alcohol aren't a good mix.

After I left the tropics I recommended a tech in the city to a lot of people, a really nice young bloke from Sri Lanka that was good at what he does and about as honest as you'll find. A few people told me afterwards that when they take a computer to him and tell him "It's Linux" he straight away asks them if they live at Dundee. I had well over half the community out there running Linux because it meant they had less problems and I didn't have to keep coming back as often.