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We misunderstand the strengths of the commons of tools and not knowing how we play to our strengths.
Free software today is usually promoted through big brands like libreoffice, gimp or firefox. These are successful in terms of branding, but is not playing to the strengths of the commons. In the commons, we move away from the walled and towards the interconnected.
The strenghts doesn't lie in bloated and branded tools, but rather in the small tools that anyone can make if they have some spare time. We need to reframe away from the bloatedness to the caresome. Where the tools are easily made, available by birth and easily tinkerable.
And we need towards the descriptive instead of the branded. Towards letting words dictate tools instead of tools dictating words.
Today operating systems revolves around the branded, bloated and wasteful. The lokening is to move towards operating systems that inbosoms the caresome and descriptive.
Trying to set up clamonacc to watch /home, /tmp and /storage (where I mount other drives). It keeps failing due to ERROR: ClamInotif: could not add element to hash table for ... that causes ERROR: ClamInotif: issue when adding watch for /home/lojcs and ultimately ERROR: ClamInotif: could not watch path '/home/', Invalid argument passed to function.
The initial error was triggered by the steam folder, empty cache directory of starship, firefox cache directory, my 'Games' folder and after that I stopped excluding the directories. I don't see the point in having on-access scan if I need to carve out large chunks of the filesystem to make it work for reasons I don't understand. I don't see anything common with those directories or what makes them different than the ones it has no problem watching.
Has anyone successfully set up clamonacc? This is like the 3rd time I'm trying in the last couple years and it never works.
Basically want something with decent performance and durability. Cost matters, but I'm not trying to hit rock bottom. I'm particularly wondering, is an HMB-type PCIe SSD ok combined with a SATA adapter? I think HMB is supported if your machine can use a PCIe or NVMe disk directly, but I'd be using an older Thinkpad with a 2.5" SATA slot at least for now. So I'm wondering if I'd lose a lot of performance if the SSD combo doesn't have its own RAM buffer.
I see good deals by today's standards for PCIe SSD's at of all places, Office Depot.
Thanks.
I'm experimenting with raidcale. I'm trying to find some client apps for Linux and Android.
So far, I have:
Desktop
- Calendars: GNOME Calendar
- Contacts: GNOME Contacts
- Tasks: Errands
- Journals: Unknown
Android:
- Calendars: Probably just default Calendar app
- Contacts: Not sure yet
- Tasks: Tasks.org or jtx board
- Journals: jtx board
Apps working with VTODO seem to be common enough, but does anyone know desktop apps that work with VJOURNAL?
Todo application for those who prefer simplicity. - GitHub - mrvladus/Errands: Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.GitHub
What's your usecase for the journals? That might help direct the discussion.
For work I use Outlook with caldavsynchronizer, but I've stepped away from those kind of Journals and now I'm tracking things in Logseq
For time tracking for work I'm using other tools too.
My use case is I want to write text and I want that text to be synced from my phone and laptop. I want to deploy the minimum number of services.
I've already deployed Radicale and I'd rather not have to maintain anything else.
I realize I can deploy something else just for notes, but I really don't want to maintain something else.
One thing I've had troubles with when trying to implement accessibility is in web dev. There's so many attribute tags and I think a few different software based standards as well? I'm not entirely sure. The documentation on it felt a bit hard to follow and implement. Then I'm not sure how to go about testing it fully either without having those proprietary softwares either. I'm on an all Linux machine and the only accessibility software I know of is Orca and it's so and so last time I tried it.
While I slowly figure that out however I make sure to follow tag recommendations and keep things in sections, only one h1 tag per page, descriptive and short alt tags, and so forth. At least that helps a tiny bit.
Web is a bit easier than native since the browsers handle all the platform-specific details across all common platforms, and you mostly just have to follow some guidelines that aren't overly technical or arcane. Some examples:
- Use ARIA roles where appropriate
- Ensure sufficient contrast between text and background colours. Should at least meet the WCAG level AA which is a 4.5:1 contrast ratio, but ideally meet AAA which is a 7:1 ratio for body text and a 4.5:1 ratio for headings.
- Ensure you use <label> tags for all your <input>s, alt attributes on all images, title attributes where appropriate (e.g. on <table>s to describe the data contained inside the table), etc.
If you use Firefox, its developer tools have an "Accessibility" tab that can audit for common issues - things like missing labels on checkboxes and radio buttons, colours that don't meet WCAG contrast ratio requirements, etc.
It's a good time to learn more about building accessible sites and apps given it's becoming a legal requirement in some jurisdictions. For example, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) goes into effect later this year, and it mandates that sites and mobile apps for various industries (like ecommerce, airlines and other transport, media streaming, social media, banks, and some others) meet accessibility guidelines.
I’m on an all Linux machine and the only accessibility software I know of is Orca and it’s so and so last time I tried it.
It's probably worth spinning up a Windows VM to test in NVDA. It's one of the most popular screen readers and probably the most popular open-source one, but only works on Windows since it deeply hooks into the Microsoft Speech API, accessibility APIs, and and other Windows APIs.
ARIA roles provide semantic meaning to content, allowing screen readers and other tools to present and support interaction with an object in a way that is consistent with user expectations of that type of object.MDN Web Docs
Edit: I was able to recover my partitions by creating new partition starting and ending from same exact sectors.
I was copying files from my previous installation to my new Gentoo installation. After I was done. I ran wipefs on /dev/nvme0n1 thinking it is my old nvme drive which is connected through usb. I am in disbelief. Lost all of my configuration files. My perfect installation of gentoo. Just gone. How do I never make such mistake again? Thankfully I had backup of passwords file. Rest is gone. I am sad.
On-screen keyboard was already mentioned, but there are some other small things that might be useful for some:
Reboot/shutdown without having to login (Your husband/wife/partner can shutdown your computer without first having to login and be greeted by the porn folder on your desktop...nah seriously, this can be useful at times when your turn on the computer, get called away and someone else can easily shut down the computer after you didn't return for some hours)
Keyboard language selection before password entry. Very useful in multi-language households/companies.
The WM selection also allows kiosk-like behaviour in special cases...like you don't start a WM but start in kodi media player for a movie evening or you create your own WM session file for a single game that runs as soon as you login.
I don't know whether it's me or my hardware, but display managers seem to absolutely hate me. I've tried quite a few, and I've always encountered some sort of issue within a few days. Even on distros that install and set them up automatically for me.
Since I'm the only user of my computers, I've set mine up to log me in and startx (well, now the Wayland equivalent) automatically, bypassing DMs altogether. If I decide to experiment with other window managers/desktop environments, I just change the line in my bashrc.
Ottawa is looking to off-load costly, seldom-used mobile hospitals bought by the federal government during the pandemic for over 200 million dollars.
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More of a thought exercise/game than anything else. I saw the news that 486 support was getting cut from linux, and I was curious just how cheaply someone could replace a desktop 486 system with something new (provided the device had all the connectivity they needed).
Rules:
I suspect that SBCs and other arm devices will be the most common suggestions.
I personally know about the Raspberry Pi Zero which can be had for ~$10, and with all the added accessories necessary to make it a full computer (usb splitters, usb power, usb to rj45, storage) it costs around ~$35. Not bad at all but I'm pretty sure we can do even better!
Why must the device be new and still in production? The current devices that are currently in production/new both at that price point (sub 40$) and more expensive (up to 3000$) are consumer grade garbage that will last at most 2 years. They're not repairable, not durable, not built well etc. I personally use a GNU booted Thinkpad X200T /T500 and a GNU booted ASUS KMCA-D8- both running Parabola GNU+Linux-Libre splendisly with the proprietary wifi-card replaced. The cost of the X200T was about 30$ and the T500 was about 20$. I understand that you might not care as much of freedom to get either the X200, X200T, T400, T400s, or T500, but it is important to understand that most of the operating system components you are runnning were made with freedom in mind. If you still don't want to sacrifice performance for a cheap, libre experience, then just get a newer Thinkpad. It's not as libre, but they still could be found (more easily) for very cheap prices. But keep in mind the newer you get the shittier it's going to be. I still suggest the models I reffered to though- esspecially if you want to tinker. You can remove about every component and replace it, and you can replace the BIOS with a fully free bios (GNU Boot).
By the way, most operating system distributions based on Linux as kernel are basically modified versions of the GNU operating system. Richard M Stallman and contributers began developing GNU in 1984, years before Linus Torvalds started to write his kernel. Their goal was to develop a complete free operating system. Of course, they did not develop all the parts themselves—but they led the way. They developed most of the central components, forming the largest single contribution to the whole system. The basic vision was theirs too.
In fairness, the GNU project ought to get at least equal mention.
gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.…
gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html#gnulinux
gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
Stop looking for cheap new stuff. Buy cheap used stuff. I got a high quality Thinkpad T530 for $99. I got a T15 Gen 1 as well but honestly is worse than the T530 even though it's newer.
My friend got a used computer with a 4th Gen i5 and a 970 for $45. Old but gold. We upgraded the CPU and it runs everything great.
Stop contributing to e-waste and buy used
Linus Torvalds sees “zero real reason for anybody to waste one second” on them.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
Actually, most devices today run an amd64 kernel (amd or intel cpus in typical desktops or servers) or arm (phones, some modern notebooks). Those architectures never supported 486 cpus.
I assume, the code removed is in the x86 branch, excluded when compiling for other architectures. As others said, I guess this is mostly about maintainance effort and testing.
(But then i don't know much about the kernels. Maybe there's some interplay between amd64 and ~~x64~~ x86 architectures.)
See Teams/Releng/AppOrganization#29 (comment 2434981)GitLab
In this case it's more of a switch away from the last cool new thing. Totem (like Music) was built around a media library navigated from within the app. By default Totem doesn't even support opening videos from the file manager, which is something you would probably expect of a video player. It also crashed for me when I tried using it as intended so I'm not surprised to see it replaced by an app that really is just a video player.
That said many apps get replaced not for feature reasons but just by being GTK3, and they tend to get replaced by their own forks to GTK4 (such as the upcoming replacement of Evince). Why their devs choose to upgrade toolkits this way I cannot say.
Curious what folks are using to organise their remote connections? I liked WinSSHTerm and have tried replacing it with Remote Desktop Manager, but it seems a bit broken (fonts look terrible in a terminal, sftp doesn't work, RDP sort of works, but it's not great).
RDP is not a must. Folders, ssh, key auth, sftp and scp are the main things I'm looking for. Currently considering Remmina but though I would check if ppl have strong views on this topic before trying the next app.
I'm using cinnamon with mint 22.
❯ cat ~/.ssh/config | grep 'Host ' | awk '{print $2}'❯ ssh $(cat ~/.ssh/config | grep 'Host ' | awk '{print $2}' | fzf)
Meh. ssh<space><tab><tab> does the same.
Also, useless use of cat. And grep.
awk '/Host / {print $2}' ~/.ssh/config | fzf
I've been noticing an influx of users with anonomized usernames (ie: fjdasklfpudiosa722104891fdaf20j.srv.us).
As a moderator this concerns me because it immediately triggers a 'this is a bot or nefarious actor' instinct. Is there any reason not to be wary these accounts?
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The problem is that most of the 'spam' comes from official things like websites that you've signed up to and didn't realise would also include dumb fkn emails periodically. And they don't always do it right away either. I've had emails suddenly start arriving from somewhere that I signed up to like a year before.
Personally, my spam mitigation is to have one email address for signing up to shit with. Then these assholes can email me until they're blue in the face and I don't care because the only time I ever visit that inbox is for verification. And then I have another email address for personal use that never gets used because who uses email for personal use these days?
In conclusion. Email is for signing up to things and collecting trash that I'll never look at.
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😆😂🤣 Uuuuhh... Aaaah... I normally generate a random password and use it as my username for most services. Like even my bank.
This is because I've realized the username is mostly useless and is just a handle for my account. It doesn't matter to me if my username is jsmith, meow123, or kekxbek. In fact, it's easier if I don't have to come up with something novel or cool.
I'm a real boy. I promise. Not a malicious bot.
Although... If I were a malicious bot, that's exactly what I would say! 😲
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Is there any possibility to have something similar to X11 forwarding using Wayland?
I have to edit some big config file and would be great to have that functionality back.
This is the big issue. It breaks a lot of X11 features. Remote desktop via VNC or RDP should still be possible. Another is ssh and sftp. Edit the file on the client. Another go all in with command line. Nano is easy. Emacs or VIM more powerful but harder. Screen is a useful command line tool too.
Interested in what others suggest.
I need to install an OS for someone whose first impulse upon seeing a screen is to touch it, because they are young and their first assumption is a touchscreen.
They know their way around Windows and Windows is probably tought to them at school, so Windows might actually be the smart move…
but I fucking hate it.
Is ZorinOS or similar polished enough that I can leave it to someone whose tech literacy is centered around Roblox, TikTok and evading parental locks? I don't want to normalize the Windows-bullshit. But I don't want their first Linux-experience to be frustrating.
So @pewdiepie says you should install Linux. But what are his reasons? In this video I'm digging in. Let's react to his video together! My Game ❯ Get the source code: https://github.com/heavyelemen...PeerTube.wtf
He made an edgy/abhorrent¹ joke years ago for which he apologised and Lemmy is even worse than Reddit so people still lach onto that.
¹ Whether it was just edgy or much worse than that I leave to the reader to decide. The joke was that he paid some guys in Africa to make a sign saying ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’ or something to that effect. This one of the things that likely contributed to adpocalypse on YouTube.
Well buddy it's a bit more than that. Personally, I'm not holding it against the guy maybe he's changed so I'm not gonna freak every time I see him but pretending that's it is wild.
The man in anger called some guy the n-word. No joke to it. Straight up, I'm angry so I'll call this guy a racial slur. This, along with the constant (and it was constant) skirting with racism and Hitler which were framed as jokes made it clear that it wasn't just a bunch of jokes. Wearing a military uniform that was as close to the Nazis as possible, constant talk of a final solution, jokes about 'them', German speaches, zieg heils, dog whistles, and alot more were commonplace in his videos at the time
You don't just randomly shout the n word in anger for the first time on live stream.
The guy was obviously going down the pipeline a d people still don't like him because o that. Not one joke but a constant stream of them along with a very telling instance
I really like its format over Dolphin's, I find it much more intuitive. It shows the whole filetree from root and double clicking a folder just expands the it further. This is different than how Dolphin works, which only shows one folder at once like how Windows does in the main windows of File Explorer.
I think I might be autistic.
Specifically qBittorrent used with Debian and KDE. Not sure of it looks different elsewhere.
Introduction Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the Trifecta Tech Foundation The change will be…Ubuntu Community Hub
sudo is MIT also (or something that looks like MIT at least). sudo.ws/about/license/
The more critical part wrt license is real coreutils which they also want to replace.
Sudo is distributed under the following license: Copyright (c) 1994-1996, 1998-2025 Todd C. Miller Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright…Sudo
Where is the problem when something mit-licensed is in core utils?
Edit: sudo isn't even a core util.
Please let me know if there is already an accepted way to do this.
Early in the install process, you'd have a field to type a hostname of a local machine that you'd like to install like. The installer would download an "Install facts" file and install the new machine like the model machine.
The "install facts" file is created at install time. it contains things like timezone, language, percentage of disk space for each partition (to handle disk space of differing sizes) Optional files selected, username/password for root and for first user - anything needed to make the install a two click operation.
Note that this would be a full new install - not a clone of a machine that has been in use for a while.
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.nixos.org
For Debian there's Preseed, for Arch there's archinstall, for a Fedora/RHEL there's Kickstart, for Alpine there's setup scripts, for distros with fully manual installs, you could just write a script?
Automating your install is something any sysadmin and mainly any distro developer will quickly reach towards, so it is something almost certain to exist.
Though, if I understand you, you'd want that to be "sourced" from an existing system, yes? I can see the use of that...
Learn more about Fedora Linux, the Fedora Project & the Fedora Community.Fedora Docs
I use Mac as my daily driver for my work and personal machines, but for gaming I use my Playstation 5 for online or supposedly AAA games (think Call of Duty or Helldivers 2) and I use my Steam Deck for more indie titles. I've got some Linux experience, primarily via my old Mac Mini running Proxmox with mostly Debian VMs and messing around briefly with NixOS.
I love our Steam Deck, but it does feel a little underpowered, the battery isn't as strong as it once was and I don't love the docking experience with the official dock.
My wife is really into Civilization and similar games and I'd love to setup a desktop connected to our TV to use with a keyboard and mouse on our LG CX. Although I'm tech savvy, I'm not great with knowing what hardware/software to get. It's especially more complicated with the looming tariffs and trying to make sure I don't overspend on something I don't need.
Looking for some guidance on hardware and software to setup for this living room gaming desktop. It's only purpose is to play games, primarily from Steam and it should have hardware which would benefit speed and performance for the type of games I'm going to list. Obviously we want the graphics to be good, but I don't need a beast RTX 5090.
What are some hardware and software recommendations in today's financial climate for playing these games on Linux?
What other accessories would you recommend for couch based keyboard and mouse gaming?
Honestly the game I'm most eager to get into is Dwarf Fortress, but for my wife it's having a smooth experience with Civ6 (she was playing the Switch version for far too long!)
This is a partial list of some of our libraries and wishlists. As you can see, some of them are more graphically, memory and processor intensive, but a lot of them are low performance indies.
How's couch co-op these days? From what I remember, it's more common in older console games.
Do you have any recommendations, retro or otherwise?
It's in a great state if you look back and play old games.
I recommend getting comfortable with emulators. Using them isn't immediately straightforward, but with a bit of experience they become easier.
Some games I'd recommend just off the top of my head are:
Star Wars Jedi Power Battles
Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga
Resident Evil 5 & 6
Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 (1 goes up to 2 players, 2 goes up to 4)
A Way Out
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (short, but fun)
Legend of Mana is absolutely spectacular and any gaming duo would be delighted to play it.
Dynasty Warriors is good for some mindless fun, but don't be fooled by how many games they have; they're all pretty much the same thing.
I think Super Mario Wonder is actually 2-player, but I haven't tried it yet. I plan too, though.
Super Mario Bros U goes up to 4 players and you can play with the Cemu, the Wii U emulator.
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You're right that couch co-op games are mostly on consoles. Thankfully we can play console games on PC for free.
So why not adorn your desktop with a floral background?
Over the past few months, I haven’t had any significant amount of time to either sit in Blender and create or engage in other creative pursuits for that matter. But the other day, when the sun was shining and the bumblebees were gently buzzing around the garden, I got the idea to photograph some of the flowers that had blossomed. When I later looked at these creations, it felt only natural to add them to my Wallpaper git-repo.
For full transparency; I am not a photographer and these pictures were taken with a mobile phone.
These images are some of those found in the "Nature" folder. All wallpapers in the entire repo are CC:BY — free to use, share, and modify as long as the creator, in this case me, is attributed.
A place where I upload creations I deem worthy of being called a wallpaper. They are free and released under CC:BY - FoliumCreations/WallpapersGitHub
Seems like you're a photographer, comrade!
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On Linux, Control-C and Control-V don't work for copying and pasting in terminals. The Control modifier is used for its original purpose of inserting control codes. Instead, terminal apps require an extra Shift modifier, like Control+Shift+C.Mark Stosberg
My current setup:
~/.bashrc
stty intr \^x
bind -f ~/.inputrcset bind-tty-special-chars off
set colored-stats on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set show-all-if-unmodified on
set completion-ignore-case on
set completion-query-items -1
set page-completions off
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\C-h": nop
"\C-s":"\C-asudo "I honestly don't remember what each config line is for, cause it has been so long ago. And probably you don't want all of that. Probably best to throw it into an AI and let it explain it line by line.
I found this handy snippet to enable these keys in GTK 2 and 3 (not sure of the equivalent for GTK 4 but I guess that's the one which has been updated anyway): forum.colemak.com/topic/1438-d…
Unfortunately I've found this whilst I'm not at the right computer so I haven't been able to test them.
Edit: I tested this and it doesn't appear to have helped.
I've got a whole bucket full of old hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and I'm starting the process of backing up as much as still works to a 4TB drive.
It's gonna be a long journey and lots of files, many prone to being duplicates from some of the drives.
What sorts of software do you Linux users recommend?
I'm on Linux Mint MATE, if that matters much.
Edit: One of the programs I'm accustomed to from my Windows days is FolderMatch, which is a step above simple duplicate file scanning, it scans for duplicate or semi-duplicate folders as well and breaks down individual file differences when comparing two folders.
I see I've already gotten some responses, and I thank everyone in advance. I'm on a road trip right now, I'll be checking you folks recommend software later this evening or as soon as I can anyways.
There's BeyondCompare and Meld if you want a GUI, but, if I understand this correctly, rmlint and fdupes might be helpful here
I've done similar in the past - I prefer commandline for this...
What I'd do is create a "final destination" folder on the 4TB drive and then other working folders for each hdd / cd / dvd that you're working through
Ie
/mnt/4TB/finaldestination
/mnt/4TB/source1
/mnt/4TB/source2
...
Obviously finaldestination is empty to start with so it could just be a direct copy of your first hdd - so make that the largest drive.
(I'm saying copy here, presuming you want to keep the old drives for now, just in case you accidentally delete the wrong stuff on the 4TB drive)
Maybe clean up any obvious stuff
Remove that first drive
Mount the next and copy the data to /mnt/4TB/source2
Now use rmlint or fdupes and do a dry-run between source2 and finaldestination and get a feel whether they're similar or not, so then you'll know whether to just move it all to finaldestination or maybe then use the gui tools.
You might completely empty /mnt4TB/source2, or it might still have something in, depends on how you feel it's going.
Repeat for the rest, working on smaller & smaller drives, comparing with the finaldestination first and then moving the data.
Slow? Yep. Satisfying that you know there's only 1 version there? Yep.
Then do a backup 😉
The way I'm organizing the main backups to start with is with folder names such as 20250505 Laptop Backup, 20250508 Media Backup, etc.
Eventually I plan on organizing things in bulk folders with simple straightforward names such as Movies, Music, Game ROMs, Virtual Machines, etc.
Yes, thankfully I already got all my main files, music and movies backed up. Right now I'm backing up my software, games, emulator ROMs, etc.
Hopefully that drive finishes backing up before the weather gets bad, cuz I'm definitely shutting things down when there's lightning around...
Since Some of you guys asked about more details of how I migrated the entire school's infrastructure into Linux Mint, I made a small neocities website where I retell the story with a bit more details as much as I can remember them, took me around a week to make it so go have fun there and enjoy (the website is under the AGPL license, if you are interested you can check out the source code under "License" in the website or go here github.com/Ace120C/my-personal… )
there is more things to improve upon so lemme know if there is anything I should be adding etc.
once again, cheers!
EDIT: The post is in the blogs tab, as now the latest button takes you to the videos tab instead
Contribute to Ace120C/my-personal-website development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
You did great. Infinite scrolling is a meme and sucks more often than not.
Pagination is almost always the way to go for people whose brains aren't rotted from twitter/instagram/tiktok.
I've been feeling gushy about my setup lately, I think I've finally found my home on Linux. For decades I've distrohopped each year and never was really happy with it all, but Fedora Atomic has changed that.
The kicker? Your user configs and home files are never changed when you 'image hop'. It always feels like you just installed a fresh distro whenever you upgrade, and the performance benefits are noticeable. You don't have to tinker and do the same changes over and over, its all handled for you by rpm-ostree.
10/10 this is the future of Linux. I hope for a future where I can rebase entire Linux distros while maintaining my configs with one simple command, but for now, Fedora Atomic is fantastic.
It really depends on the game. Old games often run better on Linux than on windows. Check protondb to see how supported the game is, may be a driver issue. Old Nvidia parts use proprietary drivers which suck in comparison to old AMD parts which use open source drivers on Linux. New Nvidia parts use open source drivers, though these drivers are new and still having the kinks worked out. Sometimes laptops even have specific proprietary drivers that must be used for the laptop which can break compatibility with Linux or reduce performance. I'm pretty sure Intel is in the same boat, it's proprietary.
Personally, for games I enjoy, I saw a small 5fps performance increase over windows on a newish desktop.
For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to "remap" keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, and pressing alt + k simulates the arrow down key.
Secondly there's XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.
None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there's Espanso, but it doesn't support keyboard shortcuts yet.
AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. - autokey/autokeyGitHub
I'm using Wayland right now, but tentatively.
Right now there's an issue in WoW where sometimes when I move my mouse and left-click, the camera jumps to a different position, usually trying to look up.
Only happens on Wayland and it's fixed temporarily by switching between windowed and fullscreen mode. The problem comes back sometimes when alt-tabbing and refocusing the game.
There was a bug in KDE recently where some menus weren't properly appearing on Wayland, but that seems to have been fixed after my latest update.
At the beginning of this year we noticed that the Deepin Desktop as it is currently packaged in openSUSE relies on a packaging policy violation to bypass SUSE security team review restrictions.Matthias Gerstner (SUSE Security Team Blog)
that has barely nothing to do with packaging standards, and packaging policy violations..
Compare this: debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
With this single page: en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packa…
In case you think "but those policies are not needed, they are superfluous" (like some Arch devs). They are not. Packagers send their fixes upstream, and then, other distros, with lower standards, consume the already fixed upstream releases, and sometimes pretend that this work was not needed nor present, not realizing that all distros benefit from it even if your policies are more relaxed.
There's a reason why the Deepin Desktop Environment was never part of Debian, and only available via their own ppa repositories, even if the Deepin distro is based in Debian.
In #2795 there are some discuss about the BLOBs in Ventoy. For a long time, I devoted my limited spare time to adding new features and fixing bugs and didn't get around to considering this. It shou...GitHub
A blatant lie, we see 600+ who do care on the linked page. github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
Who lets malware infect them because it's unpaid?
Let’s indeed hope that they back it up with action. Better late than never. Though, I wonder what “guarantee” you’re referring to.
Any "action" that does not result in guarantees isn't helpful to solve this. So again, what I care about is guarantees.
For example, one way to "guarantee" that there's no code that's unaccounted for would be to achieve reproducible builds that can be rebuilt and obtain always the same binary bit-by-bit. So if the binary blob resulting from compiling from clean source matches the one offered then that's proof that the distributed binary was built cleanly and there was no malware being slipped through.
The issue is that this wouldn't just be a Ventoy problem, but also an upstream problem, since all projects Ventoy depends on would need to be, themselves, reproducible. So this wouldn't be an easy task, or even a task that Ventoy should do on their own, imho.
FWIW, slightly over a month ago, someone started working on a solution.
I definitely wouldn't trust that either until there's guarantees. Again, I only care about what guarantees are offered. It's not about who is the one managing the github account and/or what subjective reputation that random anonymous person might have.
The problem isn't the existence of precompiled binary blobs either, so removing the binaries is not solving the issue. The problem is in the traceability and what guarantees we have that the final collection of compiled binary blobs that ultimately is offered for download (and we do need binary blobs for download ultimately) is actually corresponding to libre/open source releases without potentially malicious code.
~~The conspiracy theorist inside of me would like to think this is related to the return of Ventoy’s maintainer. But I digress…~~
I don't think the maintainer went away. I've seen successfully maintained projects with much slower pace than this, specially projects for which stability is important. Last Bash commit was in 2024 and I wouldn't say it's unmaintained. Ventoy had a release 3 months ago.
Also, would it be bad if that was what triggered the interest to work on it? I mean, the post straight away mentions the github issue where that fork was advertised, and it implies that it's in that issue where they noticed that people have started to care about the blobs. So it could well be that they saw there's people who care enough to spend their time working for it (ie. they even made a fork), so why not open the doors for them? It does not have to always be drama.
An alternate ramdisk for Ventoy. Contribute to fnr1r/ventoy-cpio development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/21842806
Recently came across this magazine from the Linux Format on a second hand vintage shop and obviously had to go for it! These magazines are still produced these to this day btw. However, when I went to linuxformat.com after receiving my magazine to check out some of their other ones, I saw that they were in fact just celebrating their 25-year anniversary and have put out a digital version of the very magazine I bought - for everyone to view digitally!Their announcement:
25-years ago in this month of May, back in 2000 (just after the giant Y2K meltdown that flipped every plane upsidedown) Linux Format was first published. To help celebrate and remember this momentous pinnacle of publishing prowess (and while we still have server access) we'll be popping out a few classic issues of Linux Format in PDF format. As we already have it to hand here's issue LXF001 with a very young looking Nick Veitch.
The magazine can be found digitally at: linuxformat.com/files/pdfs/LXF…
Either way, I had no idea of the timing but thought it was a fun experience and worthy to share here. Enjoy a step back into memory-lane!Have a great rest of your day!
I used to subscribe to Linux format! I got the back issues on exactly/Exact Editions too, so for a while I could also view every issue on my android tablet. Those were the days.
I don't even know if Exactly is still around anymore.
Edit - nope, I was thinking of New Humanist magazine, oops. But I did used to get Linux Format through the door. I remember they used to have rackspace ads on the plastic weather cover
Like y'all keep posting about it, praising it and what not.
But the dev is a fascist, the discord server is a fascist bar, and the project thus is fascist.
I've met people who were harassed, I browserd through now deleted messages of Vaxry using slurrs and more.
So I wonder is if the people who post constantly about it know and are complicit, or just don't know and would act otherwise?
i'm not on wayland so i can't try any of these, but there are lists you can browse from (wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayla… for example)
you are setting quite restrictive and arbitrary limits
well supported
what do you mean?
with smooth animations
what counts as "smooth animations"?
if your message boils down to "something which looks really good to me and that has a discord i can go into and ask for help", you may have set the requirements tight enough to only include hyprland, but that's not a valid excuse in my opinion to avoid boycotting problematic developers
I agree they're restrictive and arbitrary reasons and they're also the preference of every single hyprland user has for chosing it. You have a different set of arbitrary reasons for setting your system up the way you like. It's called a "preference".
In order to fulfill this preference, is it ok for me to fork hyprland and call it something else? Or do I need to rewrite hyprland's functionality from scratch and pretend it was all my idea? Can I reference hyprland during the rewrite or does it need to be clean room? Should i make a fork available for people who disapprove of the hyprland devs? But what if I'm not a good enough person? Oof, just noticing, i forgot to check the ideologies of each maintainer of the thousands of packages in my system.
I think it's possible that the boycott idea makes more sense in a capitalist setting than a communist one. The reason we stop supporting JK Rowling or Chick-Fil-A is because being a customer directly translates to their success and thus the success of their ideology. But no one is making a profit from developing and maintaining a Linux package. In fact, typically the more people use your package, the more thankless work falls on you.
I'm simply interested in having control over my PC, and the FOSS community exists to exchange learnings and code to enable each other to do that. And like all of science throughout history, there are problematic people who contribute useful ideas, and I think we would be cutting off our own noses to reject them just because they come from people we otherwise disagree with.
i've been having problems with xfce where themes with rounded corners show a black box behind the whisker menu and even with the following code in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
}#whiskermenu-window { border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-shadow: none; border-image: none; background-image: none; outline: none; }
searches on duckduckgo returned nothing but after a few months with this problem i found a solution on google on the zorin os forums
the modifications:
first, in the gtk.css file:
__#whiskermenu-window frame>border { border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-shadow: none; border-image: none; background-image: none; outline: none; }_
then in the whisker menu properties, turn the opactiy to 99
no idea how or why this works but it just works 😀
By default it's at 100. I slide it all the way to zero and here is the result:Zorin Forum
PeerTube has a new update for their mobile app, the Mastodon team is growing, and more.
The News
PeerTube has officially launched their apps as a v1, some four months after the apps became available in beta. Some new features include the ability to log in with an existing PeerTube account (up until now you'd log in with a local account that only existed in the app itself), commenting from the app, and playlist and channel management options.
Mastodon announced some updates on how their team is evolving. The organisation is currently in the process of setting up a Foundation in Europe. Mastodon is also growing their team, and the organisation now consists of 15 employees. Mastodon's news update is a followup on their announcement from January 2025, in which Mastodon said that current CEO Eugen Rochko would step down. A new CEO has not been announced yet by Mastodon. In the previous update, Mastodon also said that they would need a €5 million annual operating budget. There are some new team members related to fundraising, but Mastodon has not made a clear statement yet on how exactly they will raise the money needed for this budget.
Evan Prodromou of the Social Web Foundation has published a first version of places.pub. It is a service that "makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as ActivityPub objects." The goal is for other fediverse software to integrate with places.pub to have a standardised way to refer to geospatial objects via ActivityPub.
A follow-up on last week's news regarding the Fosstodon server: the server administration will be taken over, with an update and introduction by the new admin here.
The Links
A recommendation algorithm for PeerTube videos. It is a browser extension that records your PeerTube viewing history, and uses that to generate recommendations to watch.
PieFed development updates for April.
The fediverse statistics site FediDB is getting an update, and can now be self-hosted as well.
Talking Protocols With Evan Prodromou - FediHost Podcast.
How To Make Your Mastodon Feed More Algorithmic - FediHost Tutorial.
Ghost now gives blog authors the ability to block users.
Introducing controls for who can interact with you in the fediverseGhost (Building ActivityPub)
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I had a bunch of issues setting it up to work on my laptop, but now that I have I would like to compile all the bits and stuff together into one guide!
source: copr.fedorainfracloud.org/copr… and github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issu…
downloading:
SEE GITHUB ISSUE SECTION “DOWNLOAD DEPENDENCIES”
(I can’t post the links!)
installing:
cd ~/Downloads
sudo dnf install \
python3-elevate-0.1.3-3.20240124git78e82a8.fc41.noarch.rpm \
python3-keyboard-0.13.5-3.fc41.noarch.rpm \
python3-pyv4l2-1.0.2-3.20240124gitf12f0b3.fc41.x86_64.rpmsudo dnf install -y opencv opencv-devel opencv-python
sudo dnf install -y v4l-utilsBettridgeCameron on GitHub is the holy saviour with this fix:
dnf install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/python-ffmpeg-python/0.2.0/8.fc41/noarch/python3-ffmpeg-python-0.2.0-8.fc41.noarch.rpm
remove non-beta howdy (it doesn’t seem to work for Fedora 41+)
sudo dnf remove howdy
sudo dnf copr remove principis/howdysudo dnf copr enable principis/howdy-beta
sudo dnf —refresh install howdydevice-path: use ls /dev/video* or v4l2-ctl —list-devices to see all device paths and test each of them using sudo howdy test (for me it was /dev/video2)
settings to change “freedy237” recommends:
(note that howdy-beta uses different words e.g. “abort if” rather than “ignore”, make sure you have howdy-beta! This stumped me for a while)
detection_notice = true
timeout_notice = true
no_confirmation = false
suppress_unknown = false
abort_if_ssh = true
abort_if_lid_closed = true
disabled = false
use_cnn = false
workaround = input
certainty = 4.0
timeout = 10
device_path = /dev/video0 # Replace with your detected device
warn_no_device = true
max_height = 480
frame_width = 640
frame_height = 480
dark_threshold = 80
recording_plugin = opencv
device_format = v4l2
force_mjpeg = true
exposure = -1
device_fps = 15
rotate = 1sudo howdy add to add a face.Name it anything you want, I go with names like “glasses” and “no-glasses” since…I wear glasses. Some random person on GitHub with a multi-monitor setup has it set to looking at different monitors. Whatever you want, doesn’t really matter.
You can use sudo howdy test to check if it works. A red outline means it’s an unrecognised face, a green outline with the name means it is a recognises face. no outline means not a face. Also check that whether it is a “dark frame” or not vs a “scan frame”. You might need to set the dark threshold higher using config. (this was an issue I faced as well, for me 80 works)
sudo nano /etc/pam.d/gdm-password
add: auth sufficient pam_howdy.so
a similar thing can be done for gnome’s password pop ups (e.g. when installing an app) by going to “polkit-1”
sudo nano /etc/pam.d/sudo
add: auth sufficient pam_howdy.so no_confirmation
sudo chmod o+rw /dev/video*
sudo chmod -R o+rx /usr/share/howdy/dlib-data
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/howdy
sudo usermod -aG video gdm
sudo chmod 666 /dev/video*
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib64/security/pam_howdy.so
create “howdy.te”sudo nano howdy.te
add: (as seen on fedora copr repo)
module howdy 1.0;
require {
type lib_t;
type xdm_t;
type v4l_device_t;
type sysctl_vm_t;
class chr_file map;
class file { create getattr open read write };
class dir add_name;
}
\#============= xdm_t ==============
allow xdm_t lib_t:dir add_name;
allow xdm_t lib_t:file { create write };
allow xdm_t sysctl_vm_t:file { getattr open read };
allow xdm_t v4l_device_t:chr_file map;checkmodule -M -m -o howdy.mod howdy.te
semodule_package -o howdy.pp -m howdy.mod
semodule -i howdy.pp
Hey! I was installed howdy(3.0 beta) on my Fedora 41,but I trying upgrading Fedora 42.howdy requires the python3dist(dlib).As a result,I can't update Fedora 42.Howdy and Fedora 42 incompatible?GitHub
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/29210689
Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583
I tried it about a week ago but since i have zero interest in alternatives to systemd or gui tools I find its easy to just install something that uses the things i want by default.
If you enjoy having that extea option and managing it with gui tools then im glad mx works for you, but it seems overcomplicated with no practical benefit to me.
What can sysv do that systemd cant anyway?
It appears to be an unauthorized provider.
Addy aliases are temporary email addresses (aliases) that forward messages to their primary email account. This can help protect a user's real email address from spam, unwanted marketing, or potential data breaches.
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Get a domain and link it so you have your own domain addy.io . It's not very hard.
You can use the domain for other things too.
How does it defeat the purpose?
The domains have nothing that is traceable to you.
What's the issue? Don't do esp. Use your words.
Board: Minisforum BD790i X3D
OS: EndeavourOS
I purchased a motherboard from minisforum, it's a mobile-on-desktop (MoD) board with the chip directly on the board,
I love it, my build runs amazing, super small and everything i ever wanted
However the one thing that doesn't work is audio
The device in my audio list is "Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller Pro"
Pipewire seems to work and playing a video attempts to play audio on that, but the audio never makes it put of the jack.
Not even static just... nothing.
And yes, I am using the jacks on the back of thr motherboard and not on the case itself.
The manufacturer's response was "Install Windows and let us know if it works" which does irk me.
My hypothesis is that the pins are not mapped correctly, and that Windows does something to pre-configure pins and the linux kernel doesn't do that in the same way so I've been trying hdajackretask to try and fix it however no matter how I set it up I never get any audio at all.
I've asked on 3 different forums, no replies beyond another person saying try it on Windows.
The only thing I can find out line that might be something useful is downgrading the kernel to 6.7 worked for someone, but I don't think that's the best option for someone who wants basically 1-step-from-bleeding-edge because that's over a year old and I'm unsure of the ramifications of downgrading.
I would really really appreciate any help in actually trying to iron this out because right now I'm using Bluetooth earbuds and it's terrible.
The 6.6.x kernel series is LTS and should be fine as a downgrade target (6.7.x not so much so). Unless there's something specific from the newer kernel versions that you need to drive that system, there shouldn't be any issues. I'm still on a 6.6-series kernel.
That being said, you could try troubleshooting this from the bottom up rather than the top down.
First, use lspci -v to verify that the device is being correctly identified and associated with a driver.
Next, invoke alsamixer and make sure everything is unmuted and your HD audio controller is the first sound device. The last time I had something like this happen to me, the issue turned out to be that the main soundcard slot was being hijacked by an HDMI audio output that I didn't want and wasn't using, and that was somehow muting the sound at the audio jack even when I tried to switch to it. A little mucking around in ALSA-level config files fixed everything.
The driver that appears is "snd_hda_intel", the intel part is apparently just what they decided to name it, doesn't matter that the board is centered around an AMD Chip
I've disabled the other two devices I have
"Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio" and "Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio Controller"
The former is for Audio through my GPU(?)'s HDMI which i didn't even know was a thing
The latter I thought might be the one I needed but apparently its for the hdmi of the board itself
I will try your advice with alsamixer and see if I can get anything out of it
Update: Alsamixer I flipped everything off of mute, some things were muted, I also disabled auto-mute but nothing changed.
Audio from youtube tries to play out to the right card but I have no idea what's wrong. I'm back to my hdajackretask idea and messing with that
Thinkpads have long had first tier linux support, in fact many models have shipped with linux for at least a decade (?), checking that is a really good way to be sure, but you're going to be fine with W, P, T, X lines, many enthusiasts make light work. They were deployed (might still be) to Red Hat kernel devs for a long time, which helps things along. Fingerprint drivers tend to be proprietary and hit or miss, but passwords work.
Honestly learning to install linux yourself, and configure it to your liking, is actually, imo, a really important path to learning and you're likely doing yourself a disservice avoiding it. It's part of the avoidance of vendor lock in you want. Installation is surprisingly easy now, start with something simple, Mint is often recommended these days, find a decent, recent, youtube and you'll probably be up and running in an hour. Find the apps you need for your workflow (which will take considerably longer). Get familiar with the terminal. Best thing you can do after that is burn it down and install a new distro, leaving any mistakes behind, keeping your list of apps. Arch if you want to get really deep into it, or Fedora / Bazzite are good choices and very stable. Best of luck.
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help! Find someone to help you.
Plus, the first step to learning Linux is figuring out how to install Linux.
If you can't do the easiest part of Linux you're going to have a bad time with the rest of Linux.
Edit: Well, wait up. Doing it for someone is one thing, teaching them enough to get by is another.
The way the post is stated, my brain went, "here's your PC with Linux on it, bye."
I might have agreed 10 years or so ago, but Linux has changed and this is entirely dependent upon the distribution and use case. Linux will hold onto the image of being a "difficult" OS for some amount of time of course, but I really don't believe that is necessarily the case any longer.
I installed Mint for my parents who are in their 70's ~4 months ago, showed them how to run updates, configured automatic backups, and I haven't heard a peep since except for the few times they told me they liked it a lot more than windows because they feel like it's a lot easier to find where stuff is. They can browse the internet as needed, work in Libre office as needed, get to all of their emails as needed, etc - they have actually 0 problems with it meeting their needs.
The same could be said about Windows. It's a bad idea for people to use Windows without installing it themselves because they are dependent on MS and the OEM that installed it for them.
Better that they'd be dependent on someone that cares about them than soulless corps that just want to exploit them.
Hi all,
The quick and dirty questions is: Which distro should I try next?
I tried Debian X11 and Fedora with Wayland, but I did not have a great experience with them for my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro RTX3060. I installed proprietary drivers on both systems since people say that they're better than Nouveau, but the framerate stutters even in simple browser game.
I use some software to slice 3d models for printing, and that one stuttered too. I tried various fixes but none of them worked, and I'd really like to switch to Linux from Microsoft for my daily driver.
What distro can I use to have a better experience? Any advice is welcome, but please make it as specific as possible and if you can, address why that distro would be better than Debian 12 and Fedora 42.
Thanks in advance!
Distros are a red herring. I used debian 12 (first gnome, then xfce) for more than a year with no problems, and the current version of Bazzite is also problem-free for me when it comes to nvidia prime (apart from a KDE-specific memory leak). Basically, this should be easily fixable without a fresh install.
I don't know what distro you're on atm, but set up prime-run and try running programs with that.
I also recommend going onto the uefi and disabling secure boot. You can get it to work with proprietary nvidia drivers, but it's a bit of a process and unless you really need it you might as well leave it off for now.
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Today, our not-for-profit (Framasoft) is proud to present v1 of the PeerTube mobile application, 4 months after its first release! It's the work of a ...JoinPeerTube
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very cool BUT it has synchronous image loading T_T
loading the instances list destroys my fps
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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/29207242
PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.
If you are curious about PeerTube, we can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.
The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!
If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:
- Report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
- Submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
- Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
- Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.
If you want to follow the PeerTube project:
- Follow us on Mastodon/BlueSky/Reddit (or here, on Lemmy).
- Subscribe to our newsletter
Here, we talk about PeerTube, both the decentralized video hosting network, and the on free/libre software it’s based on.Framacolibri
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When do we get that version on F-Droid?
Also, is the body text just a low effort copy-paste of what Peertube is? We know that... And there is a news article about the new version which could have been copy pasted instead: joinpeertube.org/news/app-v1
Today, our not-for-profit (Framasoft) is proud to present v1 of the PeerTube mobile application, 4 months after its first release! It's the work of a ...JoinPeerTube
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Documentation of PeerTube, a free software to take back control of your videos!docs.joinpeertube.org
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You should be able to use Obtainium with this link to download directly from their git source and stay up to date.
Edit: Changed source link.
Get Android app updates straight from the source. Contribute to ImranR98/Obtainium development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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How is that even possible???
If he wanted to, couldn't spez just buy it, and make it serve as a redirect to reddit? I don't understand how SOMEONE hasn't bought/used this domain for fediverse purposes.
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There's a difference between knowing my baker is a nazi and being unaware of it. It's morally wrong to be knowingly supporting a nazi, whether it's by buying their product or by donating to them directly doesn't matter.
It's true that bread stays bread regardless of the baker's political stance. But it's not like the nazi baker is the only one in town. Just get your bread from a different baker. Bread is bread. The point of alternatives is that you can pick your source, whom you want to support. And that's what OP is suggesting.
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knowingly supporting a nazi
First, criteria for what one considers a nazi are open to interpretation and nowadays the bar is ridiculously low. We have a bicycle kitchen cooperative in Croatia where almost all of us volunteers hold leftist views, but there's an occasional boomer known to say problematic stuff as a shitty joke, or a grandma shows up with her son's bicycle that has one of the many Croatian totenkopf variants which the kid put up using same protocol as Marge with a potato. We never refuse to help them. I also engaged some of them in conversation and when you get down to the bottom of their exclusionary views you often find they're decent people with good moral compass and the stupid jokes or totenkopf stickers are adopted wholesale through the media or because of a personal tragedy.
Just get your bread from a different baker.
Sure, the free market will fix it, very American thinking. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Croatia is a good example because our fight for independence in the 90s saw the attempted rehabilitation of actual nazis from the 40s as freedom fighters and Croatian patriots, which means that (still, nowadays) whenever boomers have a celebration with alcohol, there'll be some singing about the superlative exploits of actual nazis. It's just the way our society currently is, it's still our society. The only way to change that is to engage with them and show them you hold a different opinion and are still a relatable human being. I have a feeling most lemmy users would just cancel their entire family if they were Croatian.
First, criteria for what one considers a nazi are open to interpretation
Sure, as much as Elon 'weird dab' was...
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The other day I saw someone on lemmy calling some other user a nazi because he didn't want to support .ml
And they suggested that if they don't want to support lemmy developers they should "go back to stormfront".
There surely is an abundance of people calling other nazis just because they disagree with them.
internet tribalism is my faaaavourite ❤
do you really need to start fights with people that are striving for the same goal, just because you have differing opinions on other things? do you think that different political parties should never work together?
my opinion is otherwise
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The idea there should be some definitive, canonical domain for the Fediverse is somewhat at odds with the core tenents of the Fediverse itself - decentralisation, and no single point of ownership or control. And on that basis, we absolutely should not care about a particular domain, or assign any level of 'specialness' to it.
I understand your worry - that some 'bad actor' could buy the domain and do something anti-Fediverse with it and mislead the public, but my response would be to simply not worry. The strength of the Fediverse is that we are diverse and unbothered by whatever nonsense some centralised platform is trying to pull. We don't have a profit motive. We don't care.
People who want to find the real Fediverse will absolutely still find us, all on their own, regardless of who owns some random domain 😀
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I've got these things locally available in the $50-60 range. This being a generic brand, I imagine a buncha those are available globally. Anyone tried 'em, do they work OK with modern desktops (gnome, plasma)? Touch? DP-Alt or are they DisplayLink? Do they have PD?
Sellers are helpful nada, same with youtube videos, just marketing fluff.
Bought a 9 incher for server because I sucked at remoting in.
Fairly delicate but it was like 40 dollars. It is serviceable and serves the need. Am able to complete simple tasks via the touch screen. It kinda spazzes out with multi selecting/ touch but again 40 dollars.
Cords are fairly obtrusive but never bugged me. Solved by getting on that's mini hdmi but didn't like those from experience with pi
Can turn it off with a little switch in the back which it's mostly off. No issue on power up. Quicker than my dells honestly
I realize this is the dumbest setup but it works 🤷
I have a 7 inch touchscreen monitor that I place in front of my screen and I put YouTube music on their with visualizer. I'm pretty happy with it but I obviously don't use it to do any work
Mine has HDMI and USB c. HDMI for video and audio and USB c has to be plugged in for touchscreen functionality
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
[Container]
Image=ghcr.io/kieraneglin/pinchflat:latest
Environment=TZ=CHANGEME
Volume=CHANGEME/config:/config
Volume=CHANGEME/downloads:/downloads
PublishPort=127.0.0.1:8945:8945
So I found I had 2 problems. First, I have a Name= line instead of a ContainerName= line in there. Second, diagnosing all this is impossible when theres no shell for that account. Turn on a shell (/bin/bash) for the user, fix this thing, activate it, disable the shell (/bin/nologin), drink heavily.
I ended up with:
-----/fuckingarray/homes/pinchflat/.config/containers/systemd/pinchflat.container----------
[Unit]
Description=PinchFlat container
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Image=ghcr.io/kieraneglin/pinchflat:latest
ContainerName=pinchflat
UserNS=keep-id
Volume=/fuckingarray/homes/pinchflat/pinchflatdata/config:/config
Volume=/fuckingarray/homes/pinchflat/pinchflatdata/downloads:/downloads
PublishPort=8945:8945
Environment=TZ=America/New_York
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Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss #OpenSource
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I was following this article from 2023 itsfoss.com/libreoffice-ribbon…
But great to known that this is way easier now. Thanks for hint
Missing the good old ribbon interface of Microsoft Office in LibreOffice? You can get it in LibreOffice as well. Here's how to do that.Sagar Sharma (It's FOSS)
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I'm thinking about putting Linux on my MSI laptop.
First how does Linux handle 2 video cards. CPU Intel and a discrete Nvidia 970...
Can Linux work the light up keyboard? ( I game in the dark lot.
External monitor hooked to the display port?
Last what would be the best noob friendly distro to use. Haven't played with Linux in 10 years and really don't have time to tinker now
MSI Sword 15 here, with Intel + Nvidia, In my personal experience is runs almost without issues using Manjaro as a Distro (have not tried other distros on this specific machine).
Your experience could be different depending on your specific laptop model and how recent it is.
Keyboard lighting and fan on/off works without issues, the only 'Fn' key that does not work apart from the one for MSI windows software is the one to block the trackpad (and I just configured another keyboard shortcut for it).
~~Using Wayland, I can not use an external monitor connected to the HDMI port on the Nvidia card (No idea if it is fixable now, haven't looked on it recently), but with Xorg I can run an external monitor in the HDMI port and extra ones with a dongle on the USB-C (so far tried with 3 without issues)~~ Edit: I can use multiple monitors without issues on Wayland as of my last test.
Friendly distros recommended these days as far as I know are Mint and Zorin if looking for something Ubuntu or Debian Based, Apart from that there is Fedora or Arch based distros but may need a bit more knowledge and getting used to.
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If you enjoy using Linux and believe in our mission, please consider making a donation.www.linuxfoundation.org
Looking at Debian's release-critical bugs, you can see that Trixie is close:
Testing now has fewer critical bugs than Stable, and the number is dropping quickly.
About 200 bugs still need to be fixed to get the number down to where the previous releases were done.
Maybe you can help? Bugs blocking the next release can be as simple as missing translations for the upgrade instructions.
Trust me, at that point there won't be any explaining possible 😁
We've been burned by a lot of distros in the past and right now it all boils down to using Debian and RHEL, everything else mostly failed at some point or will not uphold the stability guarantees. Even containers with Alpine fucked us over once with the musl DNS issues and a few other missing parts...
I burned and tried different distros and all of them the DVD reader laser was moving back and forth like mad and loading and install was so slow that it impossible to continue. Tried 2 different readers.
Fedora Silverblue: the optic reel was moving like mad and loading was so slow that it triggered the anaconda text installer
It stayed there for hours so I desisted
Elementary OS 8: Same as Fedora Silverblue but at least could load the wallpaper installer UI. Not possible to load live OS
Lakka OS: Lakka state on their site DVD's can' t be used anymore for their images lakka.tv/get/linux/generic/
Yeah I know USB thumb drives are like £5 but I wanted to have my silly little fun with my discs and newly bought burner. I remember when I started using linux distros didn't had this kind of problem and live versions could be used, slow but usable.
Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution based on RetroArch that transforms a small computer like a Raspberry Pi into a full blown retrogaming console.www.lakka.tv
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The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…www.phoronix.com
I want to change the key mapping of Shift+Backspace to Delete.
Running xmodmap -pke gives me (among other lines):
keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace BackSpacekeycode 22 = BackSpace Delete Delete Delete Delete Delete~/.Xmodmap and run xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap. Apparently, this worked in part. When I run xev and press Shift+Backspace I get:KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x300, subw 0x0, time 133664788, (484,630), root:(584,799),
state 0x0, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x300, subw 0x0, time 133665052, (484,630), root:(584,799),
state 0x1, keycode 22 (keysym 0xffff, Delete), same_screen YES,
XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 119
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7f) ""
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7f) ""
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x300, subw 0x0, time 133665116, (484,630), root:(584,799),
state 0x1, keycode 22 (keysym 0xffff, Delete), same_screen YES,
XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 119
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7f) ""
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x300, subw 0x0, time 133665444, (484,630), root:(584,799),
state 0x1, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: FalseBut xev seems to be the only application that recognizes Delete. In Wayland applications I get only Backspace, no matter what modifier key (Shift, LeftAlt or RightAlt, LeftCtrl) I press. In Firefox (an X application) there is a change. Now, Shift+Backspace does nothing. I suppose this is because Shift+Delete does nothing as well. The KeyPress event of Shift_L seems to block Delete from being obeyed by applications, which is unfortunate when Shift is part of a key combination that maps to Delete. How can I undo this block of Delete? How can I make the key mapping work in Wayland and X applications?
Try keyd or kmonad. I do all my key mapping on the keyboard itself, so I can't vouch for either.
discuss.kde.org/t/remap-keys-o…
Kmonad is a software that can be run on MacOS, Linux, Windows, reject the need of complible keyboardSo Kin Pui (So)
Malicious Go and PyPI packages use Gmail and wget to exfiltrate data, wipe Linux disks, and hijack crypto credentials.The Hacker News
The Go programming language allows developers to fetch modules directly from version control platforms like GitHub.
This is absolutely not just specific to Go.
Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go. Contribute to Jguer/yay development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Hi all,
I recently installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, and am using the GNOME desktop (x11). From time to time I play a game called survev.io . It's a browser battle royale game, not hard on graphics.
I have an Nvidia rtx3060 and have the proper drivers installed. I checked using nvidia-smi and Firefox is using the Nvidia gpu.
The issue is that the game runs smoothly until I press a button or move the mouse. Then the framerate decreases significantly and it becomes unplayable.
I already tweaked the following settings in Firefox to no avail:
- gfx.webrender.all = True
- enabled hardware acceleration
- layers.acceleration.force-enabled = TRUE
- gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled = true
And now I'm out of ideas. The game itself isn't too important to me, but other browser games do the same, so it's a wider issue I want to solve.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Firefox mobile is chromium?
Edit. Had a . and not a ?
matrix is #room:matrix.org and @username:matrix.org
why does lemmy use !room@sh.itjust.works or @username@sh.itjust.works ? it looks like email.
i like the matrix version better
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Matrix was influenced by the traditional URI schema approach however they also used an inverted URI to have the most significant segment be the first segmont. This is why it has a prepended segment followed by a : and then a URL.
The relationship the URI is describing is homeserver owns user and traditionally we might go homeserver:user I'd argue it is obvious to just invert that into user:homeserver. See Java, dotnet, etc reverse dns naming conventions.
A matrix room is not at a URI, it is on every homeserver that participates in the room. I am not talking about Lemmy and its garbage entirely incorrectly semantic URI scheme. Matrix rooms are globally uniquely identified, and so the room URI only describes the idea of the resource of the room. room:homeserver.
The prefixes are an obvious and neccesary evil for parsing them out of unstructured text. A requirement for most users.
ActivityPub and related went "fuck everything, fuck reason, the web is fucking amazing" and came up with their own flavor of stupidity. Emails use an ancient first attempt at a URL. A URL. What does the URL do? It is explicitly intended to tell you which server to contact. People are going "yeah but email!1!!" entirely moronically ignoring historical context.
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For anyone who can't read that many words at once: URI means identifier and URL means locator.
Matrix does not mix the roles of its URIs beyond the ability to attempt to reach that homeserver through NOT ONLY DNS but also through routing between homeservers. Matrix, unlike this garbage, actually wants to support ephemeral clients and such as well.
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"Dynamically compiled" and dynamic linking are very different things, and in turn dynamic linking is completely different from system calls and inter-process communication. I'm no emulation expert but I'm pretty sure you can't just swap out a dynamically linked library for a different architecture's build for it at link time and expect the ABI to somehow work out, unless you only do this with a small few manually vetted libraries where you can clean up the ABI. Calling into drivers or communicating with other processes that run as the native architecture is generally fine, at least.
I don't know how much Asahi makes use of the capability (if at all), but Apple's M series processors add special architecture extensions that makes x86 emulation be able to perform much better than on any other ARM system.
I wouldn't deny that you can get a lot of things playable enough, but this is very much not hardware you get for the purpose of gaming: getting a CPU and motherboard combo that costs $1440 (64-core 2.2GHz) or $2350 (128-core 2.6GHz) that performs substantially worse at most games than a $300 Ryzen CPU+motherboard combo (and has GPU compatibility quirks to boot) will be very disappointing if that's what you want it for. Though the same could to a lesser extent be said even about x86 workstations that prioritize core count like Xeon/Epyc/Threadripper. For compiling code, running automated tests, and other highly threaded workloads, this hardware is quite a treat.
I'm unsure what is going wrong and not having any luck finding a command or file I can tail to figure out why it's having so many problems finishing. Last weekend I tried just installing mint to some unused space on a drive but that seemed to get stuck in the same place. This weekend I'm using the "install alongside windows" option in the installer with the same behavior.
This is being installed from a USB drive into an nvme SSD and I'm really lost s to why it would be like this after more than an hour. Any advice on how to figure out why it gets stuck is appreciated. Hoping to transfer some files over after this is done and then reevaluate if I want/need the windows partition.
I had issues with mints install a while back. Turns out that it was my flash drive failing during the install. I used a newer one with bigger capacity and it worked fine. Not sure if tried a different USB but it's worth a shot.
EDIT: based on your comments you probably have a different issue. But this might help someone else.
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It's run by the main developers of Lemmy, and they're both authoritarian communists (which I just got from Wikipedia as I'm trying not to use the pejoritve "tankie").
Anything that could be perceived as speaking down towards Russia, China, maybe even North Korea, ends up with your comment getting deleted and your account banned for a period of time.
They started Lemmy because @dessalines got banned from Reddit. The backwards thinking is that people shouldn't be banned for speaking their minds, yet their instance is the absolute worst for that.
By avoiding .ml you are helping Lemmy be what it should be -- a decentralized, user owned, user moderated place with sensible decisions behind the scenes.
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Yep that's pretty much the long and short of it. People will say, if you just stick to the technical topics then you're fine and they'll ignore you. Which is true to an extent. But you should not have to. And most people don't want to popularize places like that to begin with if they knew.
This part is a small tangential nitpick. What Russia China North Korea Etc have is not communism. They may call it Communism. But what is important to note is that one is uppercase and one is lowercase. One is an adjective that describes a stateless classless society. The other is a noun often used to refer to a tightly controlling state with a strict regiment class structure between the political and non political classes. Honestly I think the term communism is beyond Rehabilitation. Though I would still like to try and see it differentiated from the noun.
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I was a poor young man, I refused to pay $100 to put windows on a hard drive I had installed into a hand-me-down desktop.
I found linux and made it work, through thick and thin.
As a lazy jackass i somehow got skyrim to work through wine via copied and pasted terminal commands. wintetricks and all, i found it wildly difficult. Playing was almost as thrilling as seeing it work.
I have only ever attempted to make a linux ISO bootable drive through windows that one time, more than ten years ago.
My wife was given a laptop with windows 11 installed and I wanted to install firefox.
what, the actual fuck, is "S" mode?
ctrl-alt-t "install that shit"!
A computer should not come with a subscription baked in. That's trash.
The issues i get through linux come from my failure to understand it and/or the walled gardens it hasn't found its way into yet.
The issues I experienced this evening on windows were there by design.
Thank you to all of the homies that make the weird and sometimes uncomfortable linux/ open-source community work. You guys are the shit.
The issues I experienced this evening on windows were there by design.
That's exactly what has kept me loyal to Linux. When I do have an issue, at least no one designed the issue on purpose to abuse me.
Playing was almost as thrilling as seeing it work.
This is GOLD!
Or don’t, I’m not your father. The situation Sometimes, you want to get a very specific part of a command output. The classic problem is to get the IP address of an interface.Laser's cool website :)
Hi everyone,
I'm going to use Debian with lxde on my machine and I'll need to use Filmora for video editing. Has anyone already tried it? Any problem during installation/use?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks to all!
Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called... what exactly?
Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta's (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? 💡
Anyway, the start to a listing:
1) Threadiverse
2) Forumverse
3) (The) Verse
4) Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
5) Something else?
Serenity Firefly Quote Painting Painting by Michelle EshlemanPixels
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IIRC Lemmy and Mastodon PMs are different and incompatible. If you can receive PMs from Lemmy users then you should be able to receive auth codes. Currently @rikudou@lemmings.world is adding both Lemmy and Mastodon PMs here: github.com/ismailkarsli/lemmy-…
Also software other than Lemmy and Mbin needs to add ‘roleName: Administrator’ to their user webfinger requests. This is because ActivityPub doesn’t have a standard way to expose user roles.
I’m thinking of adding another ways of verifying like DNS based verification but still not sure. Any recommendations are welcome 😀
Federate Lemmy/Mbin communities automatically between instances - ismailkarsli/lemmy-federateGitHub
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This week, it finally happened. I think it’s the first time in 20 years that a hard drive has died on me without warning. And it was also the first time I was using an NVMe drive, but that could be a coincidence.
The drive was still under warranty (barely a year and a half old). I even had a spare lying around. But the true cost of restoration is, of course, my own labor. My planning had not been perfect (for such a remote event, as I had judged). However, it was easy enough. I simply installed NixOS from a USB loader and downloaded my configuration from my backup on my NAS (daily rsync jobs to the rescue). I also downloaded all the important files for my home directory. Then, it was simply a matter of adjusting a few things in the configuration file, rebuilding the system, and voilà. Well, except for a few things that didn’t work quite right for some reason and had to be manually fixed, but nothing major.
However, next time I want this to be even easier. It’s probably overkill to install a RAID controller and have multiple drives running in RAID1 or RAID5, but the restoration process is still too much manual work. I was thinking of regularly backing up my main drive on the block device level, so I would just have to swap out the drive and restore the delta from the backup. I’m not quite sure if that’s feasible or a good idea. For my personal system, I have to balance the investment of preparing for a disaster with the likelihood and impact of such an event. This seems like a good trade-off, but I would be curious to hear how other people prepare for drive failure.
I noticed while updating my system just how many packages I have installed that I don't recognize.
I tend to think that minimalism is better for security, so I'd like to remove any packages that I'm not using, but this is a bit of a scary task.
Does anybody have a safe method for reviewing and purging unused or bloat packages while obviously making sure not to accidentally remove important dependencies?
I'm on arch btw.
Just leave it. Either they do something in the background. Then you'll get issues when they're missing, and you'll never know which package is missing for what.
Or they don't do anything, then they just take up a few MB of disk space.
"Cleaning up" is the most sure-fire way to destroy your OS, and absolutely not worth anyone's time. Trust me, I've made that mistake multiple times.
Or don’t, I’m not your father. The situation Sometimes, you want to get a very specific part of a command output. The classic problem is to get the IP address of an interface.Laser's cool website :)
You're welcome! And actually, even this approach can yield surprising results... As in have you heard of deprecated IPv6 addresses before? Well I hadn't until I realized my interface now had one (it actually didn't anymore when I wrote the post, I used the jq command on old output, not in a pipe). Which made my DynDNS script stop working because there was now a line break in the request URL that curl rightfully failed on.
Edit: also despite what the title of the post says, in not an authoritative expert on the matter and you can use whatever works for you. I see these posts more as a basis for discussions like here than definitive guides to do something the correct way.
As in have you heard of deprecated IPv6 addresses before?
Definetly not 0.o
It's really hard to actually believe that a problem like this hasn't got a 1-word-command + flag solution yet. I mean you could ecxpect something like
ip -6 -i eno0And yes, totally agree on the edit part! It's always nice to at least no about all the options that exist and smb found out hustling the same struggle like me 😁
This is my sister's old PC and I want to bring it back to life. But it seems to struggle even on lightweight distros.
It's an HP All In One 19-2114 with following specs.
CPU: AMD E1-2500 @ 1.4GHz with integrated Radeon HD 8240
RAM: 4GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz single channel
Storage: Samsung EVO 1TB SSD
The Radeon gives me headaches as it has screen tearing on Linux and fails to boot on Haiku unless I choose fallback graphics
BunsenLabs Linux is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktopwww.bunsenlabs.org
I'm excited you're giving Linux a try!
There are a ton of excellent ressources online for learning about Linux, how to make it your own (a practice commonly called 'ricing'), or fix errors you may encounter. These are explored further in the links below 😀
If you made it this far through my wall of text, I'm delighted by your curiousity.
Two Linux "introductory videos" I'd like to share are respectively from Nick@thelinuxEXP Linux isn't (just) better, it's also more FUN! and Brodie Robertson's Linux Resources Every New Linux User Needs Odysee YouTube
Linux can be overwhelming at the start so here some resources that every Linux user needs to know about if they want to understand LinuxOdysee
tldr:
What reliable, up-to-date, linux distro would you recommend a gaming softwareengineer and privacy enthusiast?
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Hey all,
I know this is the age old question, but I would like to ask it anyway.
I am currently switching from windows to linux on my main pc and am on the hunt for a fitting distro. I am a software developer and used to working with wsl, debian servers, etc. I selfhost a bunch of things and know my way around the linux commandline and would call me privacy enthusiast that uses a lot of FLOSS software. I also do occasional gaming but I guess that should work on any distro with enough work.
My thought regarding a few distros:
- I like to live on the edge of time and therefore have the feeling that debian based distros (although being very stable) are too "old" for my liking.
- Ubuntu - Canonical is out for me.
- I also looked at fedora, and liked it, but after reading more and knowing it is backed by IBM and that is US based I am not too sure anymore. I ideally would want to have something independent. Although being backed by a company promises continuous work in the future (with the risk of becoming bad).
- OpenSUSE tumbleweed seems promising (german origin!) but also quite intimidating as it is apparently mostly targeted towards power users and I am not sure if it fits an all purpose desktop pc.
- Arch based distros seem great as it contains all the newest packages and is infinitifly customizable. But the KISS nature of arch and the (as far as I understood) high effort to get everything running is a bit intimidating when switching from windows. But I also do like the fact that it ships with only the bare minimum and not anything bloated.
Further more I somehow think that using a base distro (in comparison to a fork of a fork...) is more ideal as they receive updates, etc faster. But that is just a feeling and I couldn't argue more precisely about it.
Regarding a DE I am definitely going KDE.
I would be very happy for some tips, opinions or pointers in the right direction to continue and finally get rid of windows... Well at least mostly. I guess i will keep it in dual boot as I do play a few games that unfortunately won't run on linux.
Thanks in advance already!
I wish I could install EOS on my M1 Mac... I know threre is Asahi linux, but maintenace and updates have slowed down & stopped?
For good reasons though, hope the mainteners are doing okay. And wish them luck
Thousands of users wanted it, so Firefox delivered it. Tab Groups are now live to help you declutter and stay organized while browsing.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
I never intended to insult you, I was merely explaining how my ADHD manifests.
I made the incorrect assumption that you were coming from a more neurotypical perspective, and for that, I sincerely apologize, but nowhere did I insult you. If you took this as an insult, again, my apologies.
Yeah, I just checked the logs with journalctl /usr/bin/Hyprland. You won't believe what it said.
``` [LOG] Hyprland PID: 7331
[LOG] Hyprland Version: 0.48.1-dev+ (git commit: feedbeef4dead)
[LOG] Built: 2025-01-27
[LOG] OS: Arch Linux (Stallman-Approved* Edition) *Approval pending code audit
[LOG] GPU: Intel Integrated Graphics (Trying its best under ideological scrutiny)
[LOG] Monitors: 1 AOC (Currently displaying philosophical paradox)
[LOG] Running on XWayland: Only for non-free blobs (shame!)
[INFO] Initializing Hyprland... Preparing for purity inspection.
[INFO] Loading config from /home/user/.config/hyprland/hyprland.conf
[INFO] wlroots: Initializing DRM backend.
[WARN] Ambient Freedom Levels detected: 98% (Dangerously high for proprietary hardware!) Source seems localized to... desk peripherals.
[WARN] Analyzing visual input field... Multiple instances of stallman_visage.jpeg detected taped to monitor bezel and desk surface.
[ERROR] Potential Purity Overflow detected! Excessive whitespace concentration in peripheral visual field identified as 'rms_white_liquid_anomaly'.
[ERROR] Specifically correlating anomaly with:
- Photo ID: RMS_Laptop_Rocks.jpg (High concentration near shirt area)
- Photo ID: RMS_Boat_Ponder.jpg (Moderate concentration, background water reflection misinterpreted?)
- Photo ID: RMS_Desk_Stare.jpg (Critical concentration, direct optical path to sensor)
[ERROR] Compositor attempting to render scene, but framebuffer contaminated with recursive 'freedom.h' includes apparently leaked from white pixel data.
[FATAL] GPU context lost. Reason Code: 0xDEADRMS (Driver unable to handle ideological load). Possible short circuit caused by concentrated freedom particles (aka 'white liquid').
[LOG] Received signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at address 0x474E554C494E5558 (ASCII: GNULINUX)
Backtrace:
#0 0x... intel_dri_bo_map() <-- Mapping failed, possibly due to freedom interference
#1 0x... CRenderer::renderScene() <-- Scene contaminated
#2 0x... CCompositor::renderFrameForMonitor() <-- Monitor displaying pure ideology now
#3 0x... main_loop() <-- Loop couldn't handle the truth
#4 0x... libc_start_main()
... (stack trace obscured by what appears to be... beard hair?)
[CRITICAL] Hyprland Crashed. SIGSEGV. Probable Cause: Exposure to concentrated doses of Richard Stallman via photographic prints. The 'white liquid' (high-intensity whitespace/purity) from the photos appears to have overloaded the rendering pipeline. Recommend shielding hardware or using less ideologically charged desk decorations.```
Wanted to share an anecdote (I hope that's OK). I jumped to Linux on my gaming pc last August (Bazzite) and I've been having a blast. Almost everything works either out of the box or with a minor tweak (the tweak being updating Proton). But I am the sole linux user in my D&D/gaming group, so obviously this is the source of some of our banter.
Last night, we decided to play some Valheim. Bought it before switching to Linux and never tried it, so steam had to install some compatibilty stuff. But once everything was installed, it too worked like a charm (surprise surprise). We were having fun, sailing around on our ~~crappy raft~~ mighty longship and striking a nice pose while doing so. I decided to take a screenshot, but didn't know if there was a keybind to disable the HUD, so I asked the two more experienced Valheimers with whom I was playing. Neither of them knew it by heart, but one of them looked it up. He said: "It should be Ctrl + F3". I tried it and it didn't work for me, but it did for him. "Wow, imagine playing on linux where nothing works" our other friend chimed in (jokely, don't worry). Our first, more helpful friend said: "Maybe try Ctrl + Alt + F3?" So I did. Then, my whole computer froze, just as we landed on the edge of a dark forest with our raft. I thought: Oh fuck what did I do this time. Pressing again didn't help, but after about 20/30 seconds, I was greeted with a shell login. Now I could hear my friends and the game in the background again, and they could hear me, but all I saw was a shell. I decided to log in, and still only got a shell. So, as my friends were frantically fighting a skeleton, I was searching for what on earth happened, and, more importantly, how to fix it.
Thankfully, I wasn't the first idiot to start pressing random buttons on their Linux system, and someone had this exact issue years back as well. I had a quick read, and learned that apparently the Ctrl + Alt + Fx buttons switch between virtual terminals. The post on the Ubuntu forums mentioned needing to switch to terminal 7 (Ctrl + Alt + F7), which also didn't work. But trying the other buttons, I found that the desktop environment is on terminal 2 (at least on Bazzite/Fedora).
And the funny thing here is that, even though I was essentially gone for a full minute, maybe a minute and a half, my character was fine, my Linux naysayer friend had died to a skeleton, and I had learned something new about our great OS 😀
It is possible that you are running the windows version. You can find out in properties of the game. If the 'force compatability tool' is checked, under compatability, it will download the windowns version and run it through compatability layers. Otherwise you might have just seen the dialog about precompiling shaders.
Worth noting that sometimes developers make a linux version of their game, but neglects maintaining it. In those cases it is preferable to just run the windows version with comp layers. I think the linux native valheim version is alright though. Good devs.
I've had a VPN running on my server via Wireguard for ages with no issues. A couple of weeks ago I finally got round to setting up Tailscale so I could access it remotely and again it worked fine without any issues. I rebooted my server this morning and while I was out I realised I could no longer access it, once I got home I discovered everything else was working fine it was just inaccessible over Tailscale.
After some troubleshooting I've come to the conclusion that if Tailscale starts first the other VPN's routing entries take priority and Tailscale doesn't work. If Tailscale starts second then it seems to work fine. As far as I can tell I have a few options for fixing this but I'm not sure what would be the most recommended. The simplest solution is probably just to disable Tailscale from autostarting and start it manually, however I'm likely to forget that at some point and will probably only notice when I'm out and can't access the server to start it.
If I add the following to the Wireguard config file this solves the issue: PostUp = ip route add 100.64.0.0/10 dev tailscale0
PostDown = ip route del 100.64.0.0/10 dev tailscale0
However in that case if the other VPN tries to start first it just fails as the tailscale0 interface doesn't exist yet, so all I've done is reverse the order I need them to start.
I could also edit the wireguard or tailscale service files with before or after targets, that would be fairly simple to do but I think its not recommended to manually edit package provided service files? The tailscale one specifically says its meant to be read only.
The final option I can think of is to disable the tailscale service on startup and then create a systemd timer to start the tailscale service with a slight delay after boot. I think this may be the best method as I can't see any downsides, but maybe I'm overlooking something?
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Hey everyone!
I just bought a Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen2 and I am greatly disappointed, after installing Arch on it it's overheating a lot even when I only have Firefox open. During my research buying this laptop I also made the mistake of not checking if the RAM can be upgraded and now I'm stuck with 8 GB of soldered on, non-upgradable RAM.
Anyways this is why I'm turning to you, I spent hours upon hours researching trying to find the perfect laptop to buy before settling on this one, and since the result was so catastrophic I figured why not ask around in the community a bit.
I was only going to buy a used model since my budget isn't that big. The laptop is intended for browsing and some (Java) coding, so it doesn't need to be extremely powerful. The main use case is for a small laptop that I can use on my lap on the couch or in my recliner to browse or do some coding while using (Arch) Linux.
My MUST have requirements are:
- 13 inch screen (max 14 inch)
- Touchscreen with at least Full HD (1920x1080) resolution
- Good/ perfect (Arch) Linux support
- Good cooling/ doesn't get super hot
Ideally the following requirements should also be met:
- Touchpad buttons with dedicated middle-mouse-button
- Backlit Keyboard
- Bright screen
- Upgradble RAM or alternatively 16 GB RAM version available
I intend to spend around 300€ max used, for reference I paid 190€ for the L13 Gen2 with 94% battery health.
I would prefer a laptop that isn't older than 8th/9th Gen Intel and equivalent AMD. I would be open to models with Intel and AMD chips.
I am so grateful for anyone who sees this post and comes up with some suggestions, after hours upon hours of research I am a bit exhausted and desperate for some community suggestions.
Have an awesome day everybody! 😀
For context, I just installed Fedora Workstation and I am dual-booting alongside Windows.
For some strange reason, download speeds are hovering around 200 KB/s, and sometimes randomly dropping to below 70KB/s. This occurs when I boot into either Windows or Fedora. Before installing Fedora, my speeds were usually >50MB/s, sometimes a couple hundred MB/s if the network isn’t very busy. This might be an issue with network drivers being weird since I’m dual booting, or maybe I need to manually install drivers for Fedora.
(for comparison my phone, using the same network, has >100MB/s download speeds)
EDIT: I’ve updated to Fedora 42 and network speeds are now in the MB/s again. Not sure what happened. Now it seems that when I install from “flatpak-1” rather than just “flatpak” speeds are great. Also, dnf install has good speeds now.
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Don't believe so, best that's currently available is skimming through the video to look at the slides.
Here's my short summary of the presentation, I tried to denote what's being worked on (open PR), what's kinda being done (WIP), and things stuff they'd like to be done in the future (wishlist). May be somewhat wrong.
* Flatpak is stagnant
* Red Hat is working on a better way to preinstall flatpak apps (open PR)
* Flatpak should is slowly moving towards OCI and away from ostree (more tooling available, don't need to maintain their own tools)
* Better permission handling that is more backwards compatible (open PR)
* Should directly use Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio (WIP)
* Allow user namespaces in flatpak sandbox (WIP)
* Move dbus proxying into dbus brokers (wishlist)
* Improve network sandboxing (wishlist)
* Improve drivers handling, currently drivers need to be built for each runtime, could cause issues if using EOL app on new hardware (wishlist)
* Work on portals directly improves flatpak
Should directly use Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio
I hope they plan on keeping pulse for the foreseeable future. Pipewire is great and all but pulse is very entrenched, I still maintain quite a bit of systems that are pulse only.
Haven't seen the video, I'm only commenting based on the summary in the comments.
It's good that flatpak is switching to OCI containers. Hopefully that will end the flatpak's dependency hell. This week I was looking at flatpak as a way to publish my app and found the user experience (user is the app publisher in this context) quite bad. Could be skill issue obviously.
I thought I could just look into a database of flatpak runtimes, pick the one with the software I need, add additional packages and be done with it. Unfortunately it is not that simple.
First of all as far as I know, there is no "database" like archlinux.org/packages. You have to download the runtime and then search /usr/include/ or /usr/bin/ to check if particular piece of software exists in it.
Adding additional packages is also quite difficult. There are these runtime extensions which are like "baby runtimes" for special software like ffmpeg, java, etc. They kinda suffer from issues similar to the issues of the runtimes. And unlike in regular distros where you can get a package for almost anything, here you don't have the luxury and have to bundle that not so popular dependency.
I hope that with OCI I will be able to just provide the binary, a link to the base image and a list of dependencies to install and be done with it.
I go to a programming school, where there were computers running ancient windows 8 and some were on windows 10, they ran really slow and were completely unrelaible when doing the tasks that are required, those computers in question had either i5-4750 (I think?) or i7-4970 so running windows 10 with all its bloat was not going to be an easy task for em, so long story short I decided to talk to the principal about it explaining why linux is so much better than windows and gave him reasons why linux will be better for us for education and he agreed after considering it for a bit, he let me know that some students play roblox or minecraft in middle of the lesson and he asks if linux would stop em from doing that, I stated that as long as they dont know how to work with wine/lutris or know any specific linux packages that run windows games on linux they should not be able to play in the middle of lessons.
he gave me the green light to do it, so I spent like 3 days migrating like 20+ computers to linux (since I had to set them up and install some required applications for them)
in the last day where I was doing a last check up on the PCs to make sure they are in working order, there was a computer having a problem of which where it didnt boot, I let the principal know about this to get permission to work on it, he said yes, so after some troubleshooting I realized the boot order was all screwed, so since Ive worked with arch before I knew how to fix it, I booted up linux mint live image, chrooted, and fixed the boot order and computer went back to life, prinicipal came in checked on everything to make sure everything works, told me to wait for a bit, and then came back and paid me for his troubles (was a bit of a surprised since I expected nothing of the sort), the next day I came to school, sat down, turned PC on, noticed something was in the trash bin, opened it, found "robloxinstall.exe" on it, told the principal about it, he was pleased with it, so now 2 weeks later he seems now to be confident about linux, as he told me there is another class he is considering to move to linux.
so my question here would be: does this mean linux now is ready for the education sector?
(considering now, that I got a win win situation, I get to use an OS that I like in school, students gets to focus on the lessons instead of slacking.)
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How would I check that?
Edit: actually, Lemme just rtfm
I'm thinking of switching to Linux as my daily driver after trying it out both Fedora Workstation and KDE using Live USB, but I'm wondering if I should consider other distros besides Fedora. I've heard of openSUSE, is that decent? Not many people really mention them. Linux Mint is great, but I don't like Cinnamon all too much.
What's a good desktop-agnostic distro that lets you easily swap between the two?
edit: Woah, it seems that you're able to swap between DEs from the login manager as long as you install both. Okay then, new question, for a beginner friendly distro, should I go for Fedora, OpenSUSE, or something else?
edit 2: a bit more information about my device and my preferences...
On KDE Plasma vs GNOME, I would like to try both out and see which I like better long-term. KDE Plasma seems a bit more familiar (closer to Windows 10) whereas GNOME is a bit more different but I'm open to using either.
I'm running a laptop with an Intel i7-1360P. It's one of those 2-in-1 convertible 360 degree hinge laptops.
I would say I'm open to learning how to work with the terminal and customising the distro a bit, but I don't want to do anything too out of my scope. I don't want to spend too many hours setting it up, I'd rather have something that works mostly out of the box 😁
I want a stable distro as in I don't want to break my system after an update, but still want something up-to-date though. I'm open to rolling release distros, but to my knowledge those are usually less stable with more breaking changes than fixed release options.
edit 3: just installed Fedora Workstation and it works really well! Multi-touch with my trackpad works fine and everything runs smooth. File read/write speeds were also strangely a bit more consistent (on Windows it jumps between <100KB/s and 60MB/s whereas on Fedora it’s consistently around or over 45MB/s…weird…)
My only issue right now is that the touchscreen doesn’t work anymore, how do I install the drivers for that?
edit 4:
Touchscreen and even rotating the screen when the device works now after an update :DDDDD
now I’m slowly installing my programs again…
I want a more stable distro, so I'm not considering the rolling release options (like manjaro and EndeavourOS). I've also heard that not many people like Ubuntu because of snaps, why is that?
edit: are rolling release distros stable enough (e.g. will it randomly crash/have weird issues?) and is it possible/easy to roll back to a previous version if there's a breaking update
I’ve also heard that not many people like Ubuntu because of snaps, why is that?
Well, people don't like snaps for a number of reasons, because they are forced on users, bloated and slow, Canonicals themselves are quite shady, systemd, etc.
I would rather use several different types of packages than trust one that is tied to a shady company.
Posting this since quite a bit has changed since I last posted about this on !technology@lemmy.world.
Here's a rough breakdown of the current status:
This should be enough to boot Linux with just what's built manually, but I haven't tried that yet.
Secure Boot is just done by using a pre-built bypass package. I'll deal with that later.
Having more people testing this would be nice. 😀
Cheers
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The GenP subreddit got banned on Reddit. We can only take a guess as to why(I seriously don't know, please let me know if you do).
But regardless, it brings up a serious question. How will big corpos and nations force their control on lemmy and other fediverse communities?
Places like reddit, twitter, instagram and even "fediverse" bluesky cave to demands from corporates and countries all the time. But what happens when the real fediverse platforms get attention?
How will they ban, sabotage and coerce instances and communities to cave into demands?
I know lemmy and other fediverse platforms are still very small right now, but I believe it's only time before the sabotage begins. Instagram stepping into the territory tells you how scared zuck already is.
And How will we get around this?
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Which notebooks are recommendable when coming from Apple Silicon-MacBooks in terms of runtime and efficiency, preferrably for Fedora or Manjaro with KDE Plasma? For now, I am looking towards Lenovo T14(s) or X1 Carbon - mixed use scenario including simple media (photos, cutting 1080p-videos, media management, Office & mail) stuff? Still love the "Lenovo"-brand and its keyboard and look 'n feel so this vendor would be my favourite.
Can anyone of you here recommend Snapdragon-devices yet which would be the best comparison as it's also architecture based on ARM? Both Fedora and Manjaro have ARM-builds so I hope that the Snapdragon-devices could get along with my desires here...
Thanks for any input!
Nope. I wish it was really that simple. Check this page for compatibility wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lapto…
Also check linux-hardware.org/?view=compu…
"non-working webcams" sounds like a plus IMO but I get your point.
P.S theres a reason I used "almost"
Believe this is one of the few vendors left making and distributing Linux magazines still(?). Would be interesting to hear what peoples feedback on these are, whether its this one or another. Seems like a fun monthly delivery to get!
Source;
magazinesdirect.com/az-single-…
Buy a Linux Format Single Issue directly from MagazinesDirectwww.magazinesdirect.com
I loved Linux Voice back when it was still published. They had a series of articles on writing your own kernel in x86_64 ASM that I followed and ran on QEMU back when I was a philosophy student. It really cemented my interest in tech and now I do that for a living.
Edit: Linux Voice folded into Linux Format sometime around 10+ years ago
Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications - vinifmor/bauhGitHub
Just realised this, most mastodon users who have had experience with groups think they are just bots that auto-boost any posts they are mentioned in.
This is kinda annoying me.
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watty doesn't like this.
Hashtags are designed for anyone to post to, with no control over who can post to it.
Communities can be moderated, often have rules and an actual community/culture behind them.
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Good point.
Does moderation action fediverse well from Lemmy to the twittoverse?
Any interest in this:
LJL is a job creation language that takes a job file, gathers items mentioned in its various lines and here-documents, and generates a runnable .deck file (short for "deck of cards").
The .deck file is a complex Bash script that creates a log spool and several temporary files in /tmp/. It automatically cleans up scratchable files after the run. The log file contains the output of each step, including any program results.
Any questions about it? Any suggestions?
Hey !
I bought a game on steam, but I cannot install it on lutris as it's not even listed...
It's a windows only game. Is there a way to play it? Am I doing something wrong?
The game is Wednesdays : store.steampowered.com/app/274…
Thanks!
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It may be too much to ask but here it goes:I have temporarily installed LMDE6 on an HDD where I had a bit of free space, worked with it, experienced Steam with Proton and now I am convinced: I want to move to Linux from Windows for good.
Have another disk, an SSD in which most of the space is taken up by the Windows C: partition.
Would like to move Linux there after shrinking the Windows partition a bit more than what it currently occupies now.
I have tried to do this with Paragon on Windows, but after restarting no change can be seen, despite no error being presented.
Tried from Linux with GParted but all attempts end up with an error when running ntfsresize.
So
1. What do I use to do this and how do I do it safely?
2.How do I move the content of my current Linux partition (less than 50 GBs) to that disk keeping the bootloader and everything else working? And what filesystem is best to use?Thank you in advance for your help!
Others have pointed out what may he going wrong (drive locked due to Windows fast startup).
A slightly different tack - dual booting windows and linux on the same drive is a bad idea. One reason is the messy boot set up which can cause issues with windows not booting or linux not booting, or either/both fighting over the boot partition. It can get to the point of using repair disks to repair one or the other or both. It can be managed but make a mistake and its a real headache to fix (I say that as someone who has been their and done that and learned the lesson)
If you want to switch to linux but keep windows "just in case" and have a desktop I'd get a new SSD and use it as a dedicated linux drive. SATA or even better an m.2 card if your motherboard has the slots.
A separate drive is far better as linux can be the drive booted by the BIOS and then Grub can then point back to your untouched windows drive to boot it when you want. If linux updates it won't affect windows, and if windows updates it won't affect linux. Also if you have a drive failure you won't lose 2 OSes and all data in one go.
Personally I have 5 drives in my PC - easy expansion of storage is a big benefit to a nice full size PC. I have one largely unused windows drive, and 4 ext4 drives.
I do have 2 M.2 slots available.
Is there any hardware specification I should be pay attention to when buying for exclusive Linux use?
If I was to install one more home partition from the LMDE installation USB, would it automatically fix things for me in Grub or would I have to fix things myself before or after?
If I was to install one more home partition from the LMDE installation USB, would it automatically fix things for me in Grub or would I have to fix things myself before or after?
If I understand you right, you want to install two additional SSDs, one for Linux root (system), probably ext4 formatted, and one 'home' for your personal data?
If that's the case, the boot loader GRUB is going to be installed onto the system SSD and will usually automatically detect the Windows boot loader on your current, Windows only, hard drive. If it didn't, you need to toggle an option in GRUB's configuration file and run update-grub again.
For your home-partiotion on the other SSD, there exist two options:
1. The home partition is Linux exclusive, probably ext4 formatted (this doesn't work with NTFS), and all your data will be stored there. Yet, afaIk, you need to install an ext4 driver in Windows to access the data when you're on Windows.
Documents, Downloads, Pictures,... ) are mounted one by one using bind in /etc/fstab to their Linux counterpart.Edit: I've forgot to mention that, first I created folders named Documents, Downloads,... on the new partition before being able to mount them in Linux.
After copying the data in Windows from the old folders to the new ones, the old folders can be deleted and replaced by hardlinks to their new counterparts using the Windows command line or PowerShell.
Just a possibility: Check if the m2 slot is for disk. There are many boards where there are WiFi exclusive m2 ports. For disks there are also m2 sata and m2 nvme port variations. You need to find out what yours are. Consult your motherboards technical documentation if in doubt. If the BIOS can boot from it, Linux can too.
Edit: that beeing said I never encountered problems with a similar setup ( I boot from Linux on nvme m2 then there is a combined windows /data disk)
Hello
After about a year working on Fediforge, I have finally launched it. Fediforge provides managed hosting for lemmy and there will be added support for other fediverse platforms(Such as Mastodon, Peertube and more) in the future.
A little info on the setup of Fediforge.
- Hosted on servers from OVH + Colocrossing and are located in east USA(Around chicago)
- Automated backups of database with 10 days retention
- Replicated s3 storage for media files
- Active monitoring of all instances hosted.
Let me know, if you have any issues, ideas or feedback(and optionally add it here).
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