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alt, in Linux-hardened and Flatpak, Distrobox, Podman, Docker

Basically, you want to not disable kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone.

For a temporary solution that has to be redone after reboot, there is sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1.

For a lasting solution, consider echo kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-enable-unpriv-userns.conf.

In either case you’re foregoing security for the sake of convenience/functionality, so I understand why you would rather not act upon either of them.

I don’t know what the solution is that would be analogous to installing bubblewrap-suid. Perhaps, it’s worth exploring the projects found within the github page of Awesome Fedora Security for some pointers.

kia, in change my mind: Ubuntu does the same thing as Android

Hidden terminal? Locked down root user? Troll post or do you not know anything about Ubuntu?

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

no!! I’m not a troll, but Ubuntu uses sudo commands instead of root. And using root is not encouraged… I’m sorry!!

Euphoma,

Sudo is root. It executes commands as the root user on every linux distro.

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

yes I know, I’m sorry. I love both Android and Ubuntu!! And you can get sudo in Android, but it can void the warranty of your phone.

phx,

You can potentially get sudo on Android, but the ability to do so largely depends on the device. I guess there may be some devices which run on Linux and lock the user out from installing their own version or accessing super-user, but that’s a lot less common.

I would say that Android is not Linux, but it is based on Linux. The ACK is a based on the core Linux kernel, but with additions that aren’t found in mainline and a fairly different userspace and lack of a GNU C library. They’re more like cousins than siblings at this point.

RealM,
@RealM@kbin.social avatar

Troll post or shill, same account recently asked "why do people dislike google, they're only doing legal data saving for stuff you search" and then ignored every bit of legitimate croticism that was handed to them.

Makes no sense to interact with such an account.

Xirup, in Today I discovered Garuda's BTRFS assistant and it's a total game changer.

Interesting, I didn’t know it existed outside of Garuda. Thanks OP.

Holzkohlen,

Same. I even use Garuda and I never actually touched that thing. It’s all preconfigured and I just let it do it’s thing.

Patch, (edited ) in Linux on a 2in1 for Uni

Slightly sideways suggestion is the Star Labs Starlite, which is a tablet with detachable keyboard/touchpad stand. This might meet your requirements.

Defaultplace,

I agree, this would be the perfect device. Sadly they didn’t put a digitizer into the screen so thee is no stylus support apart from the capacitive ones.

Neon,

I’m pretty sure it supports mpp2.0 though?

Patch, (edited )

If you’re after something for digital art this probably isn’t it, but for note taking and basic handwriting it should be alright. They sell a specific active stylus themselves, so it can’t be too useless.

shibbityshooby,

Another thing to consider is it might be worth getting a cheap $50 Wacom tablet to plug in for that, I’m running a non touch laptop and that’s what I’ve grown quite satisfied with however I mainly use it at home.

kzhe, in change my mind: Ubuntu does the same thing as Android

Who likes Ubuntu? Snap is terrible & they’re forcing it down our throats in a way that is reminiscent to Edge on Windows.

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

I love Ubuntu so much :3 and I’m very happy that Canonical has worked with Microsoft and Google, Linux is becoming a liked kernel and operating system!! ^u^

Prunebutt, (edited ) in Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering

To give the org credit, they found and fixed the problem – a typo in a script, apparently – but as a result, the sequencing of the demos was disrupted and the result was a little confusing.

I’m gonna quote this, the next time my boss asks why we need a thorough testing culture.

Edit: Also: language servers and static code checkers safe money, so don’t hassle me about why I need to config neovim while clocked in.

pastermil,

config neovim while clocked in.

You’re supposed to do it on your free time, like over the weekend, instead of spending time with your loved ones. Duh!

PullUpCircuit, in change my mind: Ubuntu does the same thing as Android

Are you talking about mobile OS? I can’t imagine using Android as a desktop.

The biggest differences are the available packages and the that Android is typically heavily locked down to prevent user access.

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

Android isn’t locked down, because you can download things from the internet, get new apps, even if you can’t access the Google Play Store!! and you can run the terminal.

conciselyverbose,

If you, as the owner, don't have root, it's extremely locked down.

There are a few you can get root, but they're the exception, not the rule, and having to jump through hoops for it is still a locked down OS.

theshatterstone54,

Here’s a task for you: Create a new file called “Unlimited_POWER” in /

Do that both on Android and Ubuntu using the built in or preinstalled terminal, and no external devices. No new software installation. Just this task on a fresh install.

Granixo,
@Granixo@feddit.cl avatar

Oh but there is. (Chrome OS)

PullUpCircuit,

Oh, I forgot about Chromebooks and ChromeOS. They are similar, but there are significant differences.

ChromeOS is based on Gentoo. It is centered on keyboard and mouse input, often with touchscreen.

Android is its own flavor of Linux, entirely centered on touch input.

While I think it might be entirely possible to install and remove packages to have one act like the other, we are comparing a different Linux flavor against Android.

Also, my answer is probably generic enough to answer OP.

Quackdoc, (edited )
@Quackdoc@lemmy.world avatar

it’s not accurate to say android is centred on touch input. Android has some of, if not the most diverse input options, mouse and keyboard works fine, also there is a large library of apps compatible with remotes/gamepads. While that might be how a lot of people normally interact with it, android is very well developed to be diverse

Quackdoc,
@Quackdoc@lemmy.world avatar

android as desktop works pretty decently actually, it can be quite nice when you set it up, especially for lower end hardware, and ofc, if you need more flexibility, you can run linux in a chroot and use x11 to bring the screen to the android env. or go vice versa and use waydroid in linux and your desktop, then simply swap out when you dont need it. (though waydroid can be harder on low end hardware)

db2, in change my mind: Ubuntu does the same thing as Android

If you go far enough out then Windows, Android, Linux, iOS, WebOS, QNX, Tizen and goddamn TempeOS all do the same thing. Reductio ad absurdum.

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

I know but both Ubuntu and Android do it for a purpose: Include as many people as possible, most people like Ubuntu but dislike Android. I love both, because they are the pillars of open source along with Debian.

db2,

Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I’m with you about Debian, but Ubuntu lost their way a long time back and can duck off.

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

the Linux leader from my Linux usergroup uses Debian 11 with Xfce so technically he is being classic. I use Ubuntu with GNOME, it’s the best for both beginners and pro.

KISSmyOS,

What the hell is a “Linux leader”??

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

the person who organizes the Linux speeches and does other things including the website and posters. I sometimes help him get posters and other stuff done, it’s a community!!

PullUpCircuit,

Are you in a local user group, like a Linux club?

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

yes!!

PullUpCircuit,

I remember these being suggested to me as a newbie a long time ago.

Please continue to learn! It’s great to bring new perspectives to play.

I kind of answered this elsewhere in the thread, but here is my answer to you.

If you are referring to basic OS level functions, they are super similar, but they are also wildly different.

Ubuntu is based on Debian. It is centered on keyboard and mouse input, often with touchscreen. It uses a Canonical kernel.

Android is its own flavor of Linux, entirely centered on touch input. It uses a heavily customized AOSP kernel.

While I think it might be entirely possible to install and remove packages to have one act like the other, they have wildly different kernels.

Here is a pretty lengthy write up on the subject by Richard Stallman.

theguardian.com/…/android-free-software-stallman

nik282000, in Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

Easy mode: LMDE/Mint. They are all geared towards a good user experience and trying to keep you out of the terminal. I would recommend them to any new Linux user.

For a slightly more advanced experience, Debian with XFCE as the desktop. The installation is slightly less friendly and they expect you to be familiar with using the terminal and tinkering with the guts of your OS from time to time but you can have a ‘lighter’ installation with less background services. (I run Debian on all my machines so I have a bias towards Debian and LMDE).

noodles, in gamescope through the heroic launcher is WAY better than steam
@noodles@lemmy.world avatar

Gpu selection?

terminhell,

Probably intended for laptops

noodles, (edited )
@noodles@lemmy.world avatar

No, i meant there should be an option to select which card gamescope will use The game will run on the dgpu but gamescope uses the igpu which should help solve problems with nvidia cards, btw gamescope has an option for that


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I think it would be nice having it in the gui

spencer, in What do you think about this?

While I find that I agree with his takes like, 55% of the time, I do agree that Debian and Arch are basically the S-tier distros. So many of the other ones are basically just opinionated Debian or Arch, and while those can be useful when you’re getting started, I’ve found that for the long haul you’re better off just figuring out how to configure the base distribution with the elements of the opinionated ones that you like rather than use those distros themselves. Also, RIP CentOS. I would have put that in a high tier before the RHELmageddon (not top tier mind you, but it had a well defined use case and was great for that purpose).

luthis,

I’ve been using Arch for years and can’t pull myself away because everything just works. Whats the difference between arch and whatever the derivatives are? I don’t even know what distros to arch are the Ubuntu / mint to debian

F04118F, (edited )

EndeavourOS is easy-mode Arch. You get a liveboot with XFCE and a graphical installer with quite some choices, from a wide selection of desktop environments and window managers to the init system and filesystem. You get pacman and yay, with the AUR preconfigured.

Manjaro is the easiest way to break Arch. It has its own repos which are just Arch but 2 weeks behind. This causes problems when (not saying if) you add the AUR, which is not 2 weeks behind but in sync with Arch main repos. Thus causing breakages due to migrations not happening at the same time.

Garuda is not as widely used as Endeavour and Manjaro, but from those who’ve used it, I’ve only heard good things.

I am using EndeavourOS Sway Community Edition. Was nice to have a starting point for my first pure WM and my first Arch install. The Sway Community Edition is looking for maintainers but I am a bit disappointed by some things in upstream Sway and am not sure I want to stick with it long-term yet. Might try Hyprland at some point.

Papercrane,

Ah ok i gues si can understand it makes sense that if you really wanna learn linux you gotta be ready to get your hands dirty aka figuring out how to configure the distribution. Maybe its just very overwhelming because a beginner doesnt even know what you can / can’t configure. But probably everything

spencer,

Yeah basically all a “distribution” is is a selection of software and configurations, and they distribute (hence the name) that software and configurations as a bundle. It definitely can be daunting to learn all of this at once as a newcomer, but on the other side of that coin I’ve seen many people begin their Linux journey on a “beginner friendly” distribution who come to see that distro’s configs as default and need to unlearn/relearn many habits as they progress through their journey. I think, too, that often people who are immersed in the Linux world don’t have a great perspective on what is/isn’t confusing for a new user and often end up obfuscating things with other things that are just as complicated, if not more.

Eeyore_Syndrome, in Is asus rog strix B55-F gaming wifi ll atx am4 a good motherboard for linux? (known problem?)
@Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works avatar

You didn’t say what CPU you are choosing. 5500X3D and 5700X3D are literally around the corner. But for gaming the 5800X3D would be best in slot for AM4.

You also didn’t say If you live near a Microcenter:

Elephantpurple7603,
@Elephantpurple7603@sh.itjust.works avatar

My CPU is already support I checked my hesitation was just for the motherboard

520, in change my mind: Ubuntu does the same thing as Android

No.

  1. They have user interfaces designed for completely different use cases and input devices.
  2. Ubuntu doesn't really hide it's terminal.
  3. Ubuntu in no way has a locked down root. A simple sudo command is all you need. In a typical Android phone, is MUCH harder to get root on.

Android and Ubuntu are much more different than you realise. From the technical details to Google's monopolistic practices. Honestly it is shorter to list what they have in common (basically the Linux kernel and a tiny selection of GNU utilities)

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

wait if Android has GNU utilities, does that mean it’s GNU/Linux, I read somewhere that Android is Toybox/Linux.

520, (edited )

It has some GNU utilities. We are talking a very small selection indeed. Some might even be completely different implementations compared to the typical GNU toolbox.

We are certainly not talking entire toolchains.

ptz, in change my mind: Ubuntu does the same thing as Android
@ptz@dubvee.org avatar

I don’t like Google’s Android or Ubuntu. lol

But I do like Android (AOSP) and Debian a lot though.

technologicalcaveman,

I like Calyx and Gentoo. They've been nice to me.

davel, in change my mind: Ubuntu does the same thing as Android
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

You’re basically saying that virtually every Linux is the same, which to a certain extent is true and to a certain extent is not true.

Basically you haven’t said anything.

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

what I’m saying is that Android is a Linux distribution for mobile phones, whether it’s locked down or not depends on the developer!! Which is why Puppy Linux is also locked down and lightweight.

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