Periodic reports, Linux and User Agents
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10615572...
Something to ruffle some penguin feathers: The Unix Hater's Handbook (web.mit.edu)
This is a 1994 book about the many woes that Unix derived systems brought to sysadmins that were used to other solutions. Considering the number of commands that Linux still uses, it’s definitely worth a read.
Switched my Parents to Linux
I’m visiting my parents for the holidays and convinced them to let me switch them to Linux....
Looking for a good tablet PC distro
I just inherited a handful of Samsung Series 7 Slate PCs that I’d like to rebuild to be as “tablet-like” as possible for a few non-technical friends and family. They power up but arrived with non-functional Windows 7 installs. They’re Intel Core i5s with 4G RAM and 128G SSDs, so they should run pretty well under any...
Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)
Happy 1704067200 seconds since 1970 (lemmy.world)
Booting up Libreboot T440p laptop with Windows 10 (No NVIDIA GPU Requried) (vid.puffyan.us)
For the longest time, I thought you couldn’t boot Windows on Libreboot.
Steam not launching games - no idea what to do [Solved]
This may not be a Linux specific problem as I had the exact same issue earlier with Windows 7 and it’s one of the reasons I installed Linux in the first place....
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way (jade.fyi)
Happy new year of the Linux Desktop!
A Gamer's Descent into Linux Lunacy (Switching to Linux) [video 48:15] (piped.video)
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)
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Working instructions for OpenRazer on Fedora Silverblue?
Probably a longshot, but hoping anyone here might have working instructions on getting OpenRazer running under Fedora Silverblue. I recently picked up some Huntsman V2s and while OpenRGB works for basic control, I’d like to see what other options are available....
Easy way to try out a bunch of different DEs?
I’m planning on moving (back) to Linux from Windows, but I’m not sure which desktop environment I want to use. What’s the easiest way to try them all out? Just do a bunch of dnf/apt installs? Is there a distro or project out there that makes this easier?...
How do you use your tiling window manager?
Tiling window manager users: how exactly do you use yours?...
How to make your own custom ublue image.
this is going to be my personal experience of making custom ublue image. hopefully you will learn something from it....
Blender 4.0 Problems pls help ;-; (lemmy.ml)
I recently switched from Windows to Manjaro because i tied it for some time on my laptop and really liked it....
Can't connect to some specific wifis
Hello evryone, I need help with this annoying problem where I can’t connect to some specific wifi even though I’m entering the correct password....
Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
KDE 6 Megarelease - Release Candidate 1 (kde.org)
Help with dbus after archlinux upgrade
I noticed on startup my computer is saying “Failed to start D-bus system message bus”...
Introducing Spiel (blog.monotonous.org)
A new speech API for the free desktop stack that hopes to improve upon speech-dispatcher and implement more speech options to better fit the different text-to-speech needs of today.
NixOs why? (lemmy.ml)
Hi everyone, someone can explain, in simple words, why considering to switch on NixOs over other distro? And the use case? I think would help a lot of people (including me) to understand it better :D