There’s Photogimp

Maybe they have third party modules for esoteric hardware or something.

Info Center is good, but getting the information into a forum post isn’t easy. With inxi, it’s just copy and paste. Just one simple example where the terminal is better.

Tell me how to gather this information from the GUI. Plasma for preference please.

>>> inxi -exzz                                                ±[●][master]
System:
  Kernel: 7.2.8-200.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 16.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.5 Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma
    Desktop Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Intel Client Systems product: NUC8i7BEH
    v: J72992-303 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Intel model: NUC8BEB v: J72688-303 serial: <superuser required>
    Firmware: UEFI vendor: Intel v: BECFL357.86A.0056.2018.1128.1717
    date: 11/28/2018
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 2S
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-8559U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1132 min/max: 400/2700 cores: 1: 1132 2: 1132
    3: 1132 4: 1132 5: 1132 6: 1132 7: 1132 8: 1132 bogomips: 43198
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
    vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-U GT3e [Iris Plus Graphics 655] driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting gpu: i915 resolution:
    1: 2560x1440~60Hz 2: 2560x1440~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 26.0.3
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics
    655 (CFL GT3)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 drivers: intel,llvmpipe surfaces: N/A
    devices: 2
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
    xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  API: ALSA v: k7.2.8-200.fc44.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.9 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 00:1f.6
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 1-10:3
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 5.1 lmp-v: 10
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.81 TiB used: 920.76 GiB (32.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU800NS38 size: 119.24 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: Q300 size: 894.25 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD
    size: 1.82 TiB type: USB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 116.66 GiB used: 18.42 GiB (15.8%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 442.1 MiB (22.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 20.1 MiB (3.4%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-4: /home size: 893.82 GiB used: 246.53 GiB (27.6%) fs: xfs
    dev: /dev/sdb1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 827.8 MiB (10.1%)
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C pch: 49.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.2 GiB used: 9.3 GiB (29.8%)
  Processes: 357 Uptime: 1d 3h 26m Init: systemd
  Packages: 7 note: see --rpm Compilers: clang: 22.1.8 gcc: 16.2.1
    Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 inxi: 3.3.41

It’s fine here too. Firefox on the website.

One simple command vs:

Go to your start menu

Search for program name

Click on it

Scroll down about half way

Click the <Button>

Enter <Some text>

Click the <Button>

Click the <Button> in the popup

And if that’s done in Gnome, does it help a KDE user, Xfce, Mate? I think not. And that’s if the gui handles the problem at all.

Of course, the command comes with an explanation of what it does.

Be careful with the AUR. Anybody can upload anything and there has been a lot of malware attacks of late. The best advice is to learn to read pkgbuilds and always check them before installing or updating something from the AUR. If in doubt, ask in the forum.

It’s more complicated to describe how to do something in a gui and it will only work for one environment if it’s set up the same way.

Well, there’s Asahi Linux but that’s pretty much your only option for Apple silicon. I have no idea how good it is as I’ve never had Apple hardware.

Apple even went so far as to develop their own processors to try and stop people extending the life of their products using Linux.

Windows doesn’t work!

I didn’t say in one sitting!

Where are you that the engagement toilet isn’t a thing?

Or you have to give a shit about playing shitty games. Any way, Linux still wins.

Conclusion: Linux wins

Ah. The memories and trauma of Winmodems and Linux!

At this point, it’s a tradition!

We used to call it a carbon interface error.

The date shown in the error message is yesterday.

It still wouldn’t be an open format.