Distro Picking
Hi! You may be sick of these posts by now, but I have been having a very hard time selecting between three distros; that being OpenSUSE, Fedora, and Linux Mint. I have tried linux in the past, I did debian with cinnamon and ran into some issues, so I ended up sheepishly reinstalling windows and getting AME10. I want to give it...
Vanilla OS 2 Orchid will be released "very soon" (discord.com)
Original message from the Vanilla OS Discord announcment, from @mirkob1:...
New Plasma 6 Default Icon Theme Looks (invent.kde.org)
Filesystem mirroring: best backup tool?
I am currently using Freefilesync Flatpak, but that app is not great at all. I dont want weird archives or anything, just to copy my filesystem to another drive....
Best Linux distro for gaming on a crappy integrated graphics old PC?
I know the “best linux for gaming” is probably one of the most common questions, but I have heard that some distro can have issues with some hardware, I have a crappy old PC with an integrated radeon R7, which distro would you recommend?
Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)
I really like gnome and how it looks. However every time I try it I find myself in need of more functionality and so I install a bunch of extensions. For example I can’t live without a dock and some sort of system tray that shows which apps are running in background....
My ubuntu installation broke completely
I think that installation was originally 18.04 and I installed it when it was released. A while ago anyways and I’ve been upgrading it as new versions roll out and with the latest upgrade and snapd software it has become more and more annoying to keep the operating system happy and out of my way so I can do whatever I need to...
Help troubleshooting issues with Sony WH1000MX5 playback
This is not strictly a Linux-issue as I reproduce this issue under Windows 10 as well (but can not reproduce under Android or macOS), but I will be using Linux for any troubleshooting and I wasn’t sure where else to post this....
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.
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....
Is gnome going to become proprietary? (sh.itjust.works)
CLI tools to quickly find recently opened files by fuzzy search?
Are there any CLI tools like zoxide that allow to quickly find recently opened files by fuzzy search instead of directories?
Linux Distribution Timeline (upload.wikimedia.org)
A really neat graphic I randomly stumbled across on Wikipedia....
Your chosen desktop Linux defaults?
What are your ‘defaults’ for your desktop Linux installations, especially when they deviate from your distros defaults? What are your reasons for this deviations?...
Rock 5.0 ISOs available for testing – OpenMandriva (www.openmandriva.org)
Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git (groups.google.com)
For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git....
Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit (feddit.de)
The best RAID setup for internal HDD and does it actually make sense to use it all for gaming?
I have 500gb SSD and need to basically uninstall Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 to install Baldur’s Gate 3. I want to buy new SSD, but my money is a bit tight right now as I’m saving for my degree’s tuition fee....
systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support and New Tool To Spawn VMs (www.phoronix.com)
Can flatpaks be installed and accessed from another partition on the same drive?
My laptop seems very finicky with linux and enjoys periodically freezing. Some distributions are more stable than others and I’d like to keep testing other distributions without reinstalling/ downloading/transferring all my apps and steam games constantly....
I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?
Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! sankara-salute
If only more Linux programs followed sandboxing best practices... (i.imgur.com)
Phew, no windows (lemmy.roembol.nl)
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:...