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Mnem667, in Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update

Now it’s just the Neighbor of the Beast

CubitOom, (edited ) in How do I get Nviddia drivers to work in arch?

The best thing about arch is the wiki.

wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

That said, on a laptop, you will likely need prime, optimus, or bumblebee depending on your CPU/GPU.

Liz_thestrange,

I’m looking right now on optimus, and it’s seems like it’s what we need, we’ll be testing it as soon as possible, thank you very much!

dario, in What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

I am waiting for dynamic buffering and variabile refresh rate being both merged in mutter. Wine on Wayland is also pretty exciting.

S410, in recommendations for lightweight window managers for an old netbook
@S410@kbin.social avatar

Almost everything that's not Gnome can be considered lightweight, to be honest.

Cwilliams,

Maybe except KDE

clmbmb,

No. S/He’s right. Anything (including KDE) is better than gnome.

florge, in recommendations for lightweight window managers for an old netbook

Could try openbox, its old but works. Highly customisable but still lightweight.

Cwilliams,

Since Wayland is lighter than X.org, LabWC could be another option. It is not fully compatable with Openbox, but most Openbox configs work on LabWC

scytale,

+1 for openbox. It’s fast and lightweight.

AlolanYoda,

I liked messing around with openbox but I’m very aesthetically challenged so I never managed to make it look good. Any tips?

florge,

Find someone else’s config that you like online.

halm,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

A bit late to the party, but especially for an older machine I’ll take Openbox any day. I still have some low range 2015 laptops running just fine where something like KDE would choke them up completely.

danielfgom, (edited ) in Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

I typically never downvote anyone. I’ll up upvote a post if it’s saying what I was already going to say.

I don’t even check vote counts, not my own nor others. I’m just here to share opinions, others and mine.

I couldn’t give a dime as to whether people up or downvote me.

I don’t think it’s a healthy system. And I agree, as Linux users we should support community and different opinions, not squash them. The disagreements can often lead to a better solution for all.

makunamatata,

Same here. Does not make a difference, and it is amazing that people’s egos are hurt or happy about it somehow. But upvotes and downvotes is what drives all other social media: egos want more likes, more subscribes, more “friends”, they want that tribal approval. I find the fediverse to be less infected with FOMO. Drama doesn’t go long around here, doesn’t stick because there are no stupid algorithms feeding more FUD. I am starting to believe that this is where the top 1% of the social media hang out and chill. Here there are people that stick around for interesting conversations as opposed to “look at me”.

1984, (edited ) in Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

I just post what is true to me. Let people downvote. But yeah, lots of downvotes sometimes because some topics are just “we must all agree or else”.

Large instances are like reddit now, yes.

jlsalvador, in SOLVED: Is there a way to enable the systemctl switch-root command after initrd.target in systemd version 255? (Arch Linux)

Maybe this functionality was replaced by the next thing?


<span style="color:#323232;">Automatic root filesystem soft-reboot: systemctl automatically reboots into a new root filesystem located at /run/nextroot/.
</span>
12510198,

I just gave it a try on my system and it worked just like it did before! Ill have to change my scripts to mount to /run/nextroot instead of /mnt, but i am very relieved that it is still possible. I was having trouble with it all morning. Thank you so much for your reply! It is much appreciated!

gomp, (edited ) in Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

Just reinstall :)

Copying back the files to the right partition/directory works, but if you didn’t backup the owner and permissions for each file it’s gonna be a pain to restore those.

After reinstalling, you can compare your new system with your backup to see what changes/configs you had made

superweeniehutjrs, in Laptop with long runtime

Framework. They even have a factory seconds store, if you don’t need a perfect screen.

Vilian, (edited ) in What are the differences between linux distributions?

what else?

fedora is usually more updated(newer packages and newer kernel) and it uses zram, ubuntu use swap from default, and ubuntu push snap, fedora, like others, come with flatpak pre-installed

Just wondering if there could be a way to “simulate”, lets say ubuntu on fedora.

distrobox

Strit, in Systemd timer unit
@Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show avatar

the timer has no idea if it was triggered during last boot. It only has the context of “this” boot, so it will do it right after a reboot and set a timer to start the service again after a week of uptime.

So if you reboot every day, it will trigger the service every day, even though you set it to weekly in the timer.

So it’s up to your .service file to determine if it has been run this week or not.

LainOfTheWired, in Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack
@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol avatar

I wonder if this effects coreboot builds like heads as they allow you to use external devices like a nitrokey for verification when you boot

milicent_bystandr, in Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

So, does this affect dual boot systems, if e.g. Windows is compromised, now that malware in the efi partition can compromise the Linux system next time it boots? Yikes!

I suppose in principle malware from one OS can attack the other anyway, even if the other is fully encrypted and/or the first OS doesn’t have drivers for the second’s filesystems: because malware can install said drivers and attack at least the bootloader - though that night have been protected by secure boot if it weren’t for this new exploit?

elscallr,
@elscallr@lemmy.world avatar

It would effect any UEFI based system regardless of OS from one of the affected manufacturers (which is basically all of them).

milicent_bystandr,

But I mean, this attack can go cross-OS? I.e. a successful attack on one OS on the dual boot machine can, via UEFI infect the other OS?

Nyfure,

Yes, it can execute code regardless of OS installed because it persists on the Mainboard and loads before any OS, making it possible to inject code into any OS.

millie,

Aaa! Name thief!

milicent_bystandr,

Don’t worry, I’m just on standby.

dan, (edited ) in An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows
@dan@upvote.au avatar

“cross-platform” but it’s not available for the most popular developer OS (Windows) 🤔

Edit: most popular OS as per the Stack Overflow dev survey: survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/-most-popula…

raunz,
@raunz@mander.xyz avatar

My kinda cross platform 🤘

eager_eagle,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

most popular among c# devs

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Across all devs that fill out the Stack Overflow survey: survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/-most-popula…

eager_eagle,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

which is less responses than all linux distros + WSL

offspec,

Even without WSL it’s basically the same portion of people using windows and using linux for personal use.

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