linux

Title. Mainly asking for the library side, but PC cafe is also interesting to ask about....

I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

I have a partition that is set up like the following:...

Is there a security risk with enabling autologin when you have disk encryption with LUKS enabled? If anyone gets hold of the PC, they have to enter the password needed for decrypting the disk.

Who are these for? People who use the terminal but don’t like running shell commands?...

Hello fellow Linux enthusiasts!...

From his website stallman.org:...

I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

So I am trying out fedora silverblue and recently rebased it to uBlue to get access to hardware decoding for non-free codecs and for some QoL improvements. Before rebasing, I used to get both system updates(update to image that silverblue is based on) and flatpak updates through the gui package manager(gnome-software in this...

Finally migrated from Windows to Linux. For anyone wondering, what is the state of Linux as your primary OS for home PC\laptop in 2023....

Hi all :)...

if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?...

(This is a half-rant half actual question)...

I’ve lost everything and I don’t know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn’t pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?

Despite being a heavy cell phone user for more than 25 years, it only recently occurred to me that vertical navigation on most phones is inverted when compared to traditional computers. You swipe down to navigate upward, and up to navigate downward. I recently spent time using a MacBook, which apparently defaults to this...

I used to read DevOps’ish, but Chris is no longer making it. Are there any other interesting newsletters, blogs, etc resources related to...

hi all, I am running KDE neon 5.27.6, im confused why I am receving a genaric Failure: Module initialization failed when running...

edit: hey guys, 60+ comments, can’t reply from now on, but know that I am grateful for your comments, keep the convo going. Thank you to the y’all people who gave unbiased answers and thanks also to those who told me about Waydroid and Docker...

Hello! I have a bunch of photos all mixed together, and I’d like to sort them out in order to better find the ones I’m searching for without loosing half an hour. I was thinking of adding custom tags to each image (manually), like “my dog”, “trip to Paris”, “my friend X” etc. I’d like this tag system to be...

A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s...

As a user, the best way to handle applications is a central repository where interoperability is guaranteed. Something like what Debian does with the base repos. I just run an install and it’s all taken care of for me. What’s more, I don’t deal with unnecessary bloat from dozens of different versions of the same library...

Hi I’m relatively new to Linux. There’s talk about updating, say from Fedora 37 to 38....

I am using the ‘Forge’ extension for Gnome 44/43, and have used it on arch, debian and fedora. on all of these distros it has the same annoying bug....

I’m currently using an HP with Windows 11 and WSL but I’d love to switch to Linux, proper - at least just on my development machine. I’m standard LAMP, though I also would use Node and Rails, too....