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Writing program

Besides Libre Office, what other programs/solutions exist in the Linux world for writers?...

What's your experience with a touchscreen laptop on your distro?

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Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)

To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors,...

Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support) (github.com)

I've started building a TUI for Lemmy (files.catbox.moe)

I’m not sure this is the right community....

Laptop keyboard unresponsive - I think my (unknown) laptop is affected by the kernel Zen IRQ regressions - how do I work around this?

I picked up a laptop a couple of months ago for the purpose of setting up Linux on (I chose NixOS for stability) to go with my existing desktop. It’s an Infinity E15-5A165-BM (Infinity being an Australian local manufacturer of gaming laptops) which features a Ryzen 5 6600H CPU and a GeForce 1650 GTX....

Using Ubuntu 23.10 with QEMU/KVM. I want to share 3 folders with Windows 10 (guest) but only one is showing up

Here are the folders that I want to share with my Windows 10 VM (guest):...

Dual Booting Windows 11 and Fedora Silverblue / Kinoite - how to shrink my Windows partition and where to go from there? (kbin.social)

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eGPU docks?

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Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs (www.phoronix.com)

What is the point of dbus? (lemmy.world)

Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....

Nobara 39 Officially Released (nobaraproject.org)

Aside from being based on Fedora 39 now, KDE is now the official desktop environment replacing GNOME. The reasons why are in the article....

Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) (pointieststick.com)

need help fixing a hardware problem using linux

so, I have a weird problem with a Dell Latitude 5285, that’s a 2-in-1 with a detachable keyboard akin to the MS Surface Pro 5. it has an i5-7300u, 16 GB LPDDR3 (on-board), 500 GB NVMe, 12.3" 1920x1280 3:2 touch screen....

I didn't know where else to ask this, if there is another comm i should ask please lmk. Do you have any suggestions for wireless headphones i can use with linux?

Preferably a dongle, but Bluetooth is ok as well. what wireless headphones do you use? thanks for all suggestions!!!...

FN keys 7 to 12 not working properly (fedora 39 on Framework)

Hey there! I just reinstalled fedora and noticed my fn keys 7 to 12 do not work. The rest do their jobs, but i cant change brightness and airplane mode anymore....

KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)

Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate....

Experience with KDE on Fedora?

Hello all, I’ve been distro hopping a lot lately and have a long term goal of settling on one distro for the family laptops....

KDE KWin Merge Request For Triple Buffering (invent.kde.org)

Phoronix: www.phoronix.com/…/KDE-KWin-Triple-Buffering-MR...

linux phone with external camera?

How good would the experience be with a linux phone and an external camera?...

Firefox 122 Enters Public Beta Testing with Improved Built-In Translation Feature (9to5linux.com)

Do you mount an embedded Linux file system to the workstation and use your host scripts or do you SSH/SCP and deal with the limited shell commands?

I’m playing with a couple of routers and comparing proprietary to open source on the same hardware. I miss my .bashrc functions and aliases… and compgen, tree, manpages, detailed help, etc; the little things that get annoying when they are missing....

Which distro in your opinion is the best for virtualization (Windows 10 on either KVM or VMware), stability, and speed?

[Question] Some questions about BSPWM tiling manager

I have a rule for vscode: bspc rule -a Code follow=on desktop=‘^4’. If I manually move one vscode instance to another workspace, work in that and than drag’n’drop smth (or any other action initiating popup menu), dialog will appear on 4th workspace rather than on current one. How to fix that?...