I’m about to try Ubuntu again.

I switched to Fedora for a few months, and really prefer it over Ubuntu . Clean Gnome. dnf is great. Useful COPRs. It just makes sense. But in my Sisyphian attempts to switch to Linux as my platform for music production (with my existing paid vsts and sound libraries), I hit one brick wall too many. Things that worked no longer work. Things that I could never get to work remain unworking.

So, going to try Ubuntu. I dislike snaps. I dislike the twisted Gnome UI. I will say the Ubuntu fonts are nice though (I actually imported them into Fedora…)

The further I stray from a default install, the harder it is to maintain going forward. Fingers crossed for Ubuntu.

The only success I’ve had to connect to my wayland desktop was with Gnome, (at the time, it only worked if I was already logged in, though there was an extension that let you overcome a locked desktop). Once in, it worked well. Sort of. Had no luck with KDE, though that may have changed. VNC gave me no end of difficulty so I gave up.

All in all, a bit of a fiasco. YMMV - I’m sure my own incompetence was to blame (but should it not be… easier?)

Hi there - I’m fairly certain I’ve tried this but it doesn’t give the desired visual feedback you get with multi-cursors or in the example I’m showing.

Ah. So no option with visual feedback…? Wonder if a plugin exists that can help there.

It would be faster to just select every end of line and add spaces and then do the edit & Trim later.

Bottom line is that the functionality doesn’t seem to exist in any useful way. Wish it did. I think Ultra Edit, notepad++ visualstudio and mssql mgnt studio must have spoiled me for other editors (in this respect). Even Geany does this (but oh, so janky…)

Unfortunately, that will just skip over the short lines contained within the the block selection, which is exactly what I’m trying not to do (hence the initial question).

Thank you - it seems that this will only be possible with a wrapper script (which was going to be my next course of action). I can definitely use what you’ve written here as an accelerator, though!

Thank you for the response. I’m not sure I’d have any idea how to create a function for this at this point. Lack of support for this feature is pretty much the main reason I’m shifting away from vscode. (Also looking at nvim as I want a more powerful go-to solution for CLI editing…)

Certainly frustrating - it was my most used feature when I was coding SQL extensively…

I’ve got that, but I want the container home prefix to be named, dynamically, after the container upon creation as a subdirectory of a container home prefix ‘parent’ directory I’ve already created.

Desired outcome -> All dbxs get homes in a subfolder of ~/dbx in turn, named after the container name I provide upon creation.

So… a container called ‘utility’ would automatically home itself in ~/dbx/utility, and one called ‘archtest’ would go in ~/dbxarchtest, etc.

As it stands, the config gives each container the same home directory (albeit separate from the host, so at least I’ve got that…)

Not being able to see the source code of extensions, and having them loaded and executing remotely really ought to be a non-starter, but for some reason we find ourselves ok with this?

Maybe there are checks and balances? I really don’t know - but I certainly don’t know what they are.

I’m actively exploring alternative cross-platform editors for this and other vscode usability reasons.

Vscode remote ssh is clever, to be clear, and in many cases is ideal. But it seems to me that they really need to ship an out-of-the-box extension that does edit over sftp with local caching as a fallback option. Notepad++ does this and it’s great.

I know that there are a bunch of 3rd party extensions that seem to do this but most seem a little bit janky as you dig in to it. This needs to be an official Microsoft extension.

In general, I don’t want my IDE running or depositing anything on my servers that I haven’t explicitly asked for, especially if a main goal is to simply edit config files easily via a familiar editor application. Basically a ‘leave no trace’ philosophy (for the sake of predictability, consistency and control, not for any nefarious reasons).

(that said, remote ssh with vscode server is fantastic - but only when I actually want it).

Give portainer a try. It’s actually pretty good for getting a birdseye view, and let’s you manage more than one docker server.

It’s not perfect of course.

Unfortunately no luck here. Same issue even when setting --unshare-all flag. I suspect I need to try a different approach.

It’s not the flatpak that’s the issue, it’s all the other stuff surrounding it that I need to contain. Much easy, potentially, if they are all in the same environment.

Thank you! I just read that and assumed audio wouldn’t. I don’t have warm fuzzies about this.

That said, I’ll give it a go.

Thanks - this gives me a few leads.

I know that I’m not getting a full sandbox - that’s ok. Ultimately I’m trying to get bottles running in the hopes of getting a semi-contained environment for me to test out yabridge and getting reaper to load the vsts without crashing. (Reaper is the easy part, the plugins not so much…)

A modicum of isolation here (even if not complete) will help me figure things out. Obviously, if I need different kernel/flags the host will get it too.

If I unshare-devsys, will that disable audio? (I’m still trying to get a clear picture of what’s shared and what isn’t with distrobox/podman (with docker, it feels a bit more straightforward, but I’m not sure docker would be the right choice here…)

I’m really enjoying Fedora (just switched from Ubuntu and previously Debian). More current than Debian, doesn’t have Ubuntu’s canonical baggage, and more stable than Arch (nothing wrong with Arch, it’s just more bleeding edge than I want for anything other than experimenting. YMMV. And Arch documentation is fantastic - I use it to help unravel issues/find solutions on other distros after a bit of translation and sanity checks).

Fedora is well inside the Gnome camp but it’s basically unaltered so you feel freer to tweak and make it your own. (you can obviously run any environment you want).

Not sure if Red Hat’s nonsense will infect Fedora down the road but I can switch it up if I feel like it later. (for a server, I’d just do Debian or possibly Ubuntu.)

Unfortunately, my main machine remains Windows with WSL. Too many things (of what I need) just won’t run on Linux…

Pfblockerng on pfsense is very powerful.

I’m waffling between that or just setting up a bare git repo. Am prepping a VM or two to explore the pros/cons of each approach and to dive into the implications.

It’s funny - this project idea seems to free bubbling up everywhere this past week. I’m sure I’m seeing the consequences of search algorithms, but on Lemmy, it’s nice to see what is a definite and pleasant coincidence.

That is the next item on my to-do list. I’ve already installed my own gitea container to run at home. Yes, I could use a public repo (set private) but I wanted I learn how to do this and besides, I wanted to cast a wider net for which files to store but not worry about inadvertently publishing something with passwords embedded…