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ILikeBoobies, in Looking for a "couch laptop"

I used a Pinebook for that

possiblylinux127, in gamescope through the heroic launcher is WAY better than steam

Just wait until you find out about moonlight

Pierre, (edited ) in Looking for a "couch laptop"

I went with a used ThinkPad yoga 370. It still only has a dual core while the following Gen has 4 cores, so it seemed there was a price gap. It has thunderbolt 3 for when I want to switch to a bigger screen (with a cheap USB c dock) and USB c charging. Also I wanted to try a touchscreen on a laptop. I should be able to upgrade the single ram stick in it at some point. Running arch with sway without problems.

Edit: I had a x240 for years before. It was fine but I appreciate the higher resolution of the 370, even if I ended up using fractional scaling as it was just a bit too small.

adam_b, in What do you think about this?

“People get upset, especially when its an honest tier list”

Makes me question, how “honest” it really is

A few moments later

seems like a purist to me, liking only Arch + Debian

But I agree with this man’s take

anothermember, in What do you think about this?

Seems to have an irrational hang up around Red Hat based on all the hearsay going around.

mojo, in Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon?

I had a GTX 1080 and swapped to an AMD graphics card. I didn’t reinstall my Fedora Linux distro, instead it “just worked” as soon as I booted. It was very strange coming from Nvidia to have it just work lol. It’s probably best to uninstall the Nvidia drivers after that though, and make sure there’s no blacklists in your boot settings still.

Grangle1, in 10 YouTube Channels Linux Users Should Explore

One that I watch that wasn’t mentioned yet is Switched to Linux. It’s good for Linux information especially when it comes to focusing on privacy and security, but just a fair warning knowing the general Lemmy community, he does like to talk about things like politics in some of his videos (especially his Weekly News Roundups) and he’s a conservative Christian, so if that is a problem for you, you may not enjoy the channel much. When he sticks to purely Linux content his information is good, though.

pnutzh4x0r, in How a kernel developer made my styluses work again on newer kernels!
@pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org avatar

And that’s exactly what happened in your case David. Which is why I’m so happy (also because I fixed the tools from an author I like and already had the books at home :-P):

Really detailed and cool response from the kernel developer. I also found the use of the recent BPF feature to provide a workaround until a proper kernel fix lands really interesting.

emax_gomax,

That BPF workaround was so cool. I didn’t even realise you could write BPF filters in rust now. Thanks for sharing.

GustavoM, in Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon?
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

afaik, you actually need to do way LESS compared to using a geforce card.

the_q, in Copy this code and paste it in the CLI. And no, it's not a forkbomb.

Downvote, block user and move on.

Blaiz0r, in Copy this code and paste it in the CLI. And no, it's not a forkbomb.

Show don’t tell

EddyBot, in I'm trying to run VirtualBox in Linux Mint but I keep getting an error message about Kernel drivers.

if you just need software to set up virtual machines you might look into Gnome Boxes or virt-manager which don’t require external kernel modules like Virtuap Box to work

anyway these issues typically happen on Ubuntu based distros (like Linux Mint) because your linux kernel is to new for the Virtual Box version (or the Virtual Box version is simply too old)

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

Ok thanks, I might try those later if I can’t get VirtualBox working.

nik282000,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

virt-manager

I’ve used VirtualBox for years and only just tried virt-manager. I wish I had tried years ago, so much simpler and it is in my distro’s default repository.

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

I tried virt-manager but it’s giving me an error message about not being able to connect to "libvirt qemu:///system" and it wont let me install a virtual machine. I’m assuming that I’m supposed to download “libvirtd”, but I can’t figure out how to install it. I think it wants me to build it from the source but there doesn’t seem to be a guide on how to do that.

Patch,

I’m assuming that I’m supposed to download “libvirtd”, but I can’t figure out how to install it.

Try sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients in the terminal and rebooting the system.

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

It stated that they were already installed so I went through the process of re-installing them and rebooting the computer, which seems to have fixed the problem. I wont really be able to test it much right now because of how late it is for me but I was able to at least start the installation for Windows XP.

Pantherina,

On fedora its sudo dnf install qemu qemu-kvm virt-manager

Virt-manager alone is just the viewer, its also intended to be used for things like remote viewing. This would be an easy solution

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m currently installing virt-manager but I ran into a problem with Gnome Boxes where I’m trying to run a Windows XP virtual machine but I can’t figure out how to get files from my host to the guest. Apparently, I need some software to be running on the guest but the website that I need to download the software from doesn’t work in internet explorer and I obviously can’t just download it on the host and transfer it to the guest.

Pantherina, (edited )

Yes this seems to be a Gnome Boxes Flatpak problem. I like that it works as a flatpak, but unsure if this can be fixed, I think its a known limitation.

Oh yes, the spice guest addition. This will be needed on every Spice VM

Try this bat script from Github

Or the program they are referring to

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

So I tried virt-manager but it’s giving me an error message about not being able to connect to "libvirt qemu:///system" and it wont let me install a virtual machine. I’m assuming that I’m supposed to download “libvirtd”, but I can’t figure out how to install it. I think it wants me to build it from the source but there doesn’t seem to be a guide on how to do that.

joshcodes,
@joshcodes@programming.dev avatar

Are you using a package manager or downloading everything from virtualboxs website? When I installed virtual box earlier today it all worked fine so that’s why I ask.

vortexal, (edited )
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

I installed it through apt with just sudo apt install virtualbox-7.0. I also downloaded the deb file from their website but, at least when installed through apt, it just ignores it and uses the version from Mint’s repository anyways.

Edit: Because I just checked and you can’t install it directly like that anymore, I first tried installing VirtualBox a few months ago, with an older version of Linux Mint. When I tried installing it several hours ago, it was with the deb file but for some reason apt still selects a different version when it actually installs it.

KISSmyOS,

OK, why are you installing it from a deb file and not just from your repo?
Try that first.

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

How much of my comment did you read before replying?

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I read that you installed a specific version months ago, but now installed it from a .deb file recently.
I’m asking why you don’t just sudo apt install virtualbox now?

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

I literally stated in my comment that you can’t install it like that anymore. The reason why is because you get an error saying “E: Package ‘virtualbox-7.0’ has no installation candidate”. This means that in Linux Mint, you have to install it via the deb file.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

And I literally wrote in the comment above yours to install the version in the repo instead, with sudo apt install virtalbox.
NOT sudo apt install virtualbox-7.0

It’s in the Ubuntu repository:
packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/virtualbox

Which Mint 21.2 points to according to the default sources.list:


<span style="color:#323232;">deb http://packages.linuxmint.com victoria main upstream import backport
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ jammy partner
</span>

It’s version 6.1, which is better than having no working Virtualbox.

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

I kind of wanted to be using the newest version but I’ll try the old version to see if it works.

KISSmyOS,

6.1 is the newest version included in your OS. That’s just how Linux works.
Downloading newer versions from somewhere else is sometimes possible, but can lead to a lot of headaches, especially with packages that interact with the kernel.

If you notice you keep running into this issue and using the newest stuff is important to you, consider switching to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s the most beginner-friendly rolling release distro.

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

No, in addition to having a broken UI, it’s still giving me the same error message. https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b610ef5a-b960-4115-9dc1-1819d2172658.png

KISSmyOS,

reinstall virtualbox-dkms (from your repo), disable secure boot in BIOS and reboot.
If that doesn’t work, I’m out of ideas.

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

I already tried that yesterday and it didn’t work. It’s not that big of a problem though because both Gnome Boxes and virt-manager are working fine. So I wont need VirtualBox anymore.

Pantherina, (edited )

Yayy, I have the same problem.

Try a


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd
</span>

I dont know how manual everything is in Mint

Also add your user to thr libvirt group


<span style="color:#323232;">groupadd libvit
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER
</span>
aksdb,

Just FYI, if you want to enable and start, you can use systemctl enable --now ….

ssboomman, in Copy this code and paste it in the CLI. And no, it's not a forkbomb.

Why tf would anyone run a random shell script on their machine? You don’t even need an RCE anymore you just need a dumb ass on social media.

NeoNachtwaechter, (edited ) in Can someone ELI5 why some apps need to support X11/wayland?

Imagine the whole thing like a graphics card that is in a different PC. Your app wants to draw it’s content on the remote screen. Only it’s own content inside it’s own window. This is not screen sharing. Your app cannot touch any other apps.

X11 is the connection between your app and the remote graphics card. It may be the local card as well, it is the same.

Technically, a wm is not needed. The app and X11 would work anyway.

Shouldn’t window managers abstract all that for the software

The wm does not interrupt or change any communication between the app and the screen. It amends it with decoration and control buttons etc. for example it draws the window borders around the app’s own window area.

TheFriendlyArtificer, in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration

Ubuntu: If it wasn’t created here, we want nothing to do with it.

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