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Is there a Linux based OS for public computers, such as at a library or a PC cafe?

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

What's your preferred DE?

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

Need help with making Linux my home (lemmy.world)

I’m starting to get ads in my Windows notifications so it’s time I move....

Move Partitions Around? Reinstall Fedora onto a combined partition after a format? What is the protocol here?

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

This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters (pointieststick.com)

What's the point of terminal file managers (mc, ranger, nnn, etc)?

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

Which is better: Linux or GNU/Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Why Linux is portrayed as a Penguin?

Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon (www.phoronix.com)

Why You Can't Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10 (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

If you’re confused why you can’t currently download Ubuntu 23.10 despite the fact it’s been released (and blogs like mine are telling you it’s out) there is a reason....

Calling all Linux enthusiasts! Help us create a comprehensive guide to Linux firewalls and security!

Hello fellow Linux enthusiasts!...

Ubuntu 23.10 is out (ubuntu.com)

Release notes:...

COSMIC lock screen will be customizable with themes (fosstodon.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/280126...

odd scaling issue with lmms (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

All my applications scale perfectly fine (in that they just don’t change their scale factor when moving from monitor to monitor). But somehow lmms scales very weirdly. The main monitor shows the program way too large (like in the photo, that is fullscreen) and my side monitor shows the application in slightly too small scale...

Ex Red Hat CEO is now the interim CEO of Unity (unity.com)

Richard Stallman has cancer

From his website stallman.org:...

Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on GNOME (CVE-2023-43641) (github.blog)

Today, in coordination with Ilya Lipnitskiy (the maintainer of libcue) and the distros mailing list, the GitHub Security Lab is disclosing CVE-2023-43641, a memory corruption vulnerability in libcue. We have also sent a text-only version of this blog post to the oss-security list....

EndeavourOS Moving to KDE Plasma by Default (endeavouros.com)

EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You’ll hear no complaints from me!

Why is Debian the way it is? (blog.liw.fi)

Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It’s thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of the...

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