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Pantherina, in OpenSSH is about to change. (For the better.)

Nice no ChatGPT anymore to remember how that damn Algorithm is spelled.

Why not just call it RSB ? People, really!

Pantherina, in How to switch thr state of Fn keys?

Best would be BIOS. What vendor, what model? INFORMAATIIOOON

Engywuck, in Am I wrong to assume that docker is perfect for single board computers that relies on low life expectancy drives (microsd)?

I use docker myself on my RPi4, but the OS is on a 128 GB SSD connected through USB3. These SSD are pretty cheap nowadays and (likely?) more resilient than sdcards…

ares35, in How to switch thr state of Fn keys?
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i very much prefer Fkey the default, and i have yet to encounter a user request to change Fkey to Fn.

the worst is the models that have a sleep or airplane mode Fn key right next to the backspace and defaulting from the factory to Fn over Fkey.

cbarrick,

i have yet to encounter a user request to change Fkey to Fn.

It’s me. Hi. I prefer Fn over Fkey.

The only software I use that recognizes F-keys is htop, but it also supports other key codes.

On the flip side, I use the volume and brightness controls on my Fn keys all the time.

zygo_histo_morpheus,

My laptop has a fn lock that you can toggle, it can be very convenient to switch to f-key mode when working with some applications but most of the time I’m using volume or brightness keys.

loopgru, in I use linux for the same reason I wear fuzzy socks and sweaters

Windows doesn’t let me have a desktop cube or have my windows burn up or be torn apart by claws when closed.

Sure, I also like the GNOME workflow and the open source ethics and repositories and the like, but my inner 12 year old likes the eye candy, too.

Kyyrypyy, in How to switch thr state of Fn keys?

I personally find it rather infuriating that swapping those is made so difficult, and to this day don’t know who has more usecase for media keys and varied power buttons over function keys.

And the worst thing is, if the upper row defaults as mefia keys, and toggling Fn to be function keys by default, you also toggle numpad to the right side of the keyboard. Don’t get me wrong, I like numpad, but I quite don’t like losing half of my keyboard, because keyboard manufacturers don’t know what keys should be behind the Fn.

eatstorming,

I personally find it rather infuriating that swapping those is made so difficult, and to this day don’t know who has more usecase for media keys and varied power buttons over function keys.

Non-IT people, who, believe it or not, are the majority of users out there. I’ve stopped keeping score several years ago on how many people had asked me how to bind F-keys to something else, but at that point things were like 100% of IT people wanted F-keys, while 70-80% of non-IT asked me for help rebinding them to other things.

I’m a programmer and these decisions annoy me as well, I’m just pointing to the answer as for why some computers come with the annoyance enabled (and often make it unnecessarily hard to change it). I’m by no means defending it. If anything, I think it should be up to the OS to have an easy way to change the behavior instead of assuming what the user needs and making it difficult to change.

kerneltux, (edited ) in Switching from Linux Mint to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed very soon. Any advice?

I second raptir’s note about running zypper dup in the terminal to do system updates. Zypper’s a bit slow because it lacks parallel downloads, but it provides good info if there are any issues.

If you plan to use flatpaks, add the flathub repo with the --user option, and use that one to install. If I didn’t go that route, it prompted me to enter my password for every flatpak app with an update. I’m also a deplorable Plasma user 😜, I don’t know if the same behavior happens with Gnome software, it may be a weird Discover thing (shrugs).

Also, if you need the non-free multimedia codecs, run the following commands:

zypper install opi

opi codecs

Automates adding the Packman repo & switching the relevant packages.

Those are the main quirks I learned with Tumbleweed.

neo,
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flatpak goes system level unless you explicitly add the repo as a user no matter the DE you use, in my experience

raptir, in Switching from Linux Mint to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed very soon. Any advice?

Don’t be afraid to customize your install with YaST. You can add/remove packages before you do the installation.

You’ll need packman if you need restricted codecs for video.

Update with zypper dup as a general rule.

Thrickles, (edited )

If you do enable the packman repo, expect intermittent dependency conflicts when running zypper dup. When it happens, wait a day or so for repos to update.

Edit: spelling

k_rol,

Yep I did learn to do the same thing. Too bad they don’t explain that when installing Thumbleweed.

canadaduane, in Very low resources but reliable Wayland Desktop?
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Keep an eye on Pop COSMIC. It isn’t ready yet, but I’d give it 4 months and I think it would be a great match for something like rpi.

Pantherina,

Right, pure Rust must be fast af. And it doesnt look as shitty as the rpi desktop

Joelk111, in One of these 6 will become Plasma 6. Wallpaper Which one do you prefer?

I like middle left and bottom right. Top left would be alright too - kinda generic, but I like it better than any windows default background.

onlinepersona,

The hexagons do look nice. I wouldn’t mind having all of them though. They could rotate at every boot.

barbecue_sprinkler, in Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November

My guess is that most gaming Linux users have a dual boot setup and play games on Windows.

woelkchen,
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My guess is that most Linux gamers tracked by Steam have a dual hardware setup with a Steam Deck and a Windows desktop PC/notebook.

VerseAndVermin,

Doesn’t it show +0.05% Arch? I was under the impression SteamOS was tracked as Arch. So if 0.15% is a blend of Arch and SteamOS-Arch, it seems to be growing in quite a few ways.

woelkchen,
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I was under the impression SteamOS was tracked as Arch.

No, that’s not the case. A separate listing for SteamOS leads by a lot. If you install pure Arch (or another distro) on Steam Deck or for whatever reason install and launch the Flatpak version of Steam, those won’t get counted as SteamOS but otherwise it’s pretty clear how big the installed base of SteamOS is.

VerseAndVermin,

Ohh, okay. Thanks for explaining it to me. I misunderstood.

AnUnusualRelic,
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I used to keep a windows drive to run steam. But it honestly sees very little use nowadays.

Mostly I boot it every few months to see what shenanigans Microsoft has pulled with windows. Other than that, it’s just sitting there. Everything I play runs in Linux.

I run Tumbleweed btw.

dinckelman,

If not for games like Destiny, I wouldn’t even need that. Literally everything else I play runs great on Linux now

Quereller,

Not anymore. I don’t even bother to check steamdb, games run anyhow flawlessly under Proton experimental.

(OK, maybe check if the game runs well before buying it)

barbecue_sprinkler,

Wel yeah, single player games almost almost work flawlessly. However games with kernel level anticheat are generally not playable on Linux.

9488fcea02a9, in What's your experience with bluetooth audio?

Pipewire and debian stable here

BT audio works like 99% of the time. Then there’s that 1% it just stops working for no apparent reason and you spend an hour googling why without finding any answers. And in the end, unpairing, forgetting the device and the re-adding it fixes the problem in 2 mins

Overall very happy once i remember the quick fix

outbound, in What's your experience with bluetooth audio?

Bluetooth works great. Debian w/ XFCE (pulseaudio). But, there is some config on a fresh install:


<span style="color:#323232;"># apt install blueman pulseaudio-module-bluetooth  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># nano /etc/pulse/default.pa  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">add:  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">load-module module-switch-on-connect  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># nano /etc/bluetooth/input.conf  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">change:  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">IdleTimeout=0  
</span>
NiaTheCat, in How can I switch back to wayland on Manjaro GNOME?
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    JackGreenEarth,

    It just lets me switch between GNOME and GNOME classic

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    JackGreenEarth,

    Yeah, just now I changed it to true and then I did the gdm reboot command, but the other command still said I was using x11.

    iamonabike, in Other dual panel file managers similar to Krusader?

    You can have dual panels in Dolphin…

    HouseWolf,

    I’ve been made aware, Guess I’m still to Windows brained I still automatically assume I need a completely new program to get features I wanted >.>

    jlow,

    It does get a bit of getting used to (esp having only one sidebar) but I’m quite happy with Dolphin in dual panel mode.

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