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We are nearing the halfway mark on our Plasma 6 drive to get 500 supporting Members! Will you push us over that line? (kde.org)

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What would cause a hard drive's, in an enclosure, filesystem to not mount in PopOs?

Still new to linux hope its ok to ask here. I decided to replace one of my backup drives for the first time in 5ish years with a new 2.5" HDD meant for internal use but in an enclosure (the enclosure works fine). I formatted it in ntfs via gparted and everything went as expected, I even created a large veracrypt container file....

Just learned about AppImageLauncher (lemmy.world)

I just found out about AppImageLauncher, a package handler for AppImages. It organizes them, creates desktop files for you and handles updates and removal....

Gamedev and linux (treebrary.pone.social)

Source: reddit.com/…/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38…

[Old 1997 story] The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was (www.wired.com)

How does this coverage hold up? It was a fun read from back in my highschool days, when I was still five years from trying Linux on my own AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz. It wasn’t until 2008 that I tried again and it stuck.

Linux Poll

If you’re over on mastodon it would help if you could submit an answer to my poll over which Linux distro I will hopefully settle on...

Rock 5.0 ISOs available for testing – OpenMandriva (www.openmandriva.org)

Phew, no windows (lemmy.roembol.nl)

10 REASONS why Linux Mint is the desktop OS to beat in 2023 (www.youtube.com)

PSA: GNOME Shell replace from another TTY

If your GNOME Shell went FUBAR and you can’t reach a terminal from it to issue gnome-shell --replace(apparently this is broken since 3.30), and Alt+F2 doesn’t work, you can use the following in another TTY or via SSH:...

Is gnome going to become proprietary? (sh.itjust.works)

Questions about running Linux in a VM on Windows

Hi, I’m an old windows user who have played with linux* a few times, but never commited to it....

How to choose a computer/laptop/device that is better compatible with linux? Are there certain things to look out for when shopping?

I apologize if this has been asked a ton, still migrating to lemmy. Still stuck on crappy reddit out of habbit, but i’ve found the lemmy universe to be much more helpful....

What devices run with free firmware? (lemmy.world)

You can run a free OS pretty effortless, but when wanting 100% free software, you have to dig deeper and replace the proprietary BIOS firmware.

Are there any downsides to using Homebrew as a package manager on Linux?

I’m especially concerned about it being somehow broken, unwieldy, insecure or privacy-invasive....

Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready (opensource.googleblog.com)

[…] we have begun to mature support for RISC-V in Android.

I am trying to edit a game save with an Hex editor but it doesn't allow me to change anything, it's frustrating

I am using Ghex and Bless and both of them display the value of my gold but I cannot edit it. I am missing something?

Am I going off the deep end by considering Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite?

I recently switched my server over to running Plex and Home Assistant in Docker. I like the ease of transfer (just move my compose file and one directory where I have stored all the configs and I’m set) as well as the simple permissions management to give access to directories....