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Which graphical system utlities you miss on Linux? (lemmy.world)
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Hello everyone! I know that Linux GUI advanced in last few years but we still lack some good system configuration tools for advanced users or sysadmins. What utilities you miss on Linux? And is there any normal third party alternatives?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I really miss Microsoft AD configuration GUI.

Wait, no, that sort of group you have to make through Entra, formerly Azure admin center, wait no they actually wanted a SharePoint site for the group, wait no you can't do that through entra even though you can see the groups, you have to do that through O365 admin center, wait no you can only make a SharePoint aaand teams group there, you have to click more -> SharePoint admin center and then create a new group there, but not the default, you have to click "show more group types", but where can you modify the members of this group? Oh you can just go back to O365 admin center to do that. Now you want to make some small access changes to the force-created email for the group? Oh well you have to go to Exchange admin center for that. Wait, not Outlook admin center? No they are named different things just to make it easy.

Now someone who made an event involving the group is on holiday so I have to remove it, I can do that from exchange admin center right? Well actually the easiest way to do that is to log into Exchange from a power shell terminal through the GUI pop-up and terminal commands. But wait, the search for the event actually doesn't work there ever, even with the exact name? I guess I will give myself rights to the calendar, reboot Outlook, go to the calendar, remove the event, go back to the terminal, remove my rights to the calendar, restart outlook.

Actually, I don't miss Microsoft sysadmin tools.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

IrfanView. Nothing comes even close. I would probably move to Linux if not for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Irfanview!

It's FAST, it's SMALL, it's PURE POWERRR

I never understood why there isn't anything even remotely close to it in Linux. Kde has Gwenview which is awful slow, bloated yet barely has any features at all.

There is a way to run it through wine but that is awful. Cane e start a GoFundMe for the dev to make a Linux KDE release with Deb and rpm files? I'll happily contribute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

For real! Every time I spend real periods of time with Linux (and a random year with a MacBook Pro a friend wanted to get rid of). It always hits a point where I need to view images and can't find anything that matches IrfanView. I have tried XnView and it is way too much with regards to the UI and features I don't need. The most frustrating thing (and this applies to most others I tried) is handling going through a folder of images that are different resolutions. IrfanView has the option to both scale the program's window based around the image size, and also be set to scale images if the are larger than my display resolution.

It is a very weird combination of those two things that drives me nuts. There are settings in XnView that kind of work but break. Like it might adjust the image that is large, but then the program's UI will not shrink to fit a small image (the window will just stay large and have large black borders). Or it will shrink the window to the width of a large image, but not scale and the height will still require scrolling up and down to see all of it. The funny part is that I don't even look at my saved images all the time. But shit is like a hard slam on the breaks at high speed.

I did end up just dealing with the kind of weird clunkyness of running it via WINE while on the Mac as it was my only PC at the time. Which was still better than not having it for my use-case. Just weird how it has been the only image viewer (with mid-level editing options) that has "felt" correct ever since I first tried it out over like 17 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Pretty sure any one using YAST is confused right now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Maybe simple and easy to use GUI Firewall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Portmaster?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks. I will try all the suggested options and see which one is more convenient. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I use csf which isn't GUI, text only, but the configuration is so straightforward and simple that it's been my default for years now on server and desktop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks. I will try all the suggested options and see which one is more convenient. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You should try gufw. Great for simple setups! For more complicated ones you could use opensnitch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks. I will try all the suggested options and see which one is more convenient. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The only thing I miss from Windows is Voicemeeter. God, I loved that thing. I miss it so much.

Handling the audio and adding what were once simple things like noise supression has been a really really shit experience.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'd like some kind of visual task scheduler instead of having to read up on how to do cron jobs every time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

People still use Cron?

Use systemd timers which are very easy to configure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And do systemd timers come with a GUI?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

You really won't need one, but your username says you specialise in great suffering so you won't want one.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 hours ago

Dystopia is having to learn a whole new system and manually punch in commands in VIM instead of just entering "0400" and clicking "Every day" in a GUI simply to run a scheduled backup because some cyberpunks think it's cool to stare at the black and green terminal emulator into the early morning and think that everybody else enjoys doing the same so we really don't need a GUI.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

I've completely switched from cron to systemd timers for everything. I feel like they are a lot easier to remember and keep track of! Plus, getting logs for free is pretty nice as well

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Something to help visualise BTRFS volumes & sub-volumes (ie, free-space, etc)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

regedit.exe, my favorite GUI app 🤣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can use regedit on Linux via wine!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

You could try gconf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

...what would that even do? Linux doesn't have a registry, does it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wine as Windows layer has small registry for Windows apps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, that makes sense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

You can also open registries from windows install with it.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

I'm willing to entertain the possibility that the linux world may be lacking in some things, but I'm pretty sure "configuration tools for sysadmins" is not one of them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I generally don't miss anything graphical, once I learn how to do something from the cli I rarely feel the need to do it graphically anymore as it's usually a lot slower

The obvious one would be Photoshop and paint.net of course but krita does the trick

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

afterburner. i'm unable to oc my nvidia gpu :(

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I've recently gotten into using cockpit. I just wish it was as expansive as openSUSE's yast.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A GUi for SystemD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Just yesterday I saw one on Lemmy but I don't know if I will be able to find it again.

Found it! https://lemmy.ml/post/23671806

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

SystemG ^sadly^ ^doesn't^ ^exist^

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

With the ever increasing complexity of systemd, the GUI will quickly get in par with Firefox in lines of code 😂

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Setting per game frame limits and undervolting AMD GPUs is a lot more complicated than on Windows

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