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ik5pvx, in What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop?

You might be able to reset the root password by booting to single user, or using a rescue usb.

That said, you could take the chance to try one of the BSDs.

alsimoneau, in Manjaro OS

I’ve been using Manjaro for about 7 years at this point. I’ve had issues maybe 5 times, and nothing I couldn’t fix.

Synthead, in [Solved] BSOD on Windows VM after update

My least favorite thing about Windows, above all things, is that it’s extremely difficult to discover what’s wrong with it. People just try random things until it works in most cases.

tubbadu,

Yeah it’s terrible, not a single error code to search for on the web…

Synthead,

Why search for error codes when your operating system has every opportunity to tell you what’s wrong?

drwankingstein, in What is the state of Multiseat in Linux today?

It’s honestly not that great, you can mash together a working setup but it’s a pain put in the most polite manor, I would probably just use VMs

Pantherina,

Right, using some hypervisor and running 2 VMs would be a traditional way of doing this.

drwankingstein, (edited )

well, I’m not sure traditional is the right word, multiseat has been used for a very long time. It used to be a bit better supported. The issue is that since the migration to wayland, it has become… a lot less supported. It is still possible, but most of the guides are x11 guides for a reason.

EDIT: I should say I hope seatd at some point could support multiseat but at the current time I don’t think it has any facilities to, systemd-logind / elogind do support multiseat, but I dont currently use them

Gobbel2000, in One of these 6 will become Plasma 6. Wallpaper Which one do you prefer?
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The hexagon minecraft one is neat.

voidnutcracker,
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Gave me catan vibes

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

3rd is a game?

tetris11,
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Godus?

dabaldeagul,
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Godus doesn’t use hexagons, right?

grinceur, in How to switch thr state of Fn keys?
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on my laptop there is a Fn key combinasion to switch between them… btw i don’t think it’s possible to trigger this from the Os side of thing, it is tied to the firmware…

Rustmilian, (edited ) in How far away is GIMP 3 from GIMP 4?
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Within 500y

tetris11,
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lightyears you say?

Holzkohlen, in How far away is GIMP 3 from GIMP 4?

Who cares? I am fine with the way it is, I am just going to be annoyed with the UI being updated anyways. I am still annoyed by the thunderbird update cause now dark reader takes a second to give me dark mode emails.

Pantherina,

Dark reader works? I am using dark background light text and that doesnt work, also some addons are not yet in the Thunderbird store. I can recommend ublock origin with custom *.zip *.mov filters, essential

Thunderbird got better, even though advanced filters are now gone? Not sure when.

But modern Toolkits are important especially for Wayland support

deliriousn0mad,

Ok I admit I never thought about using ublock on thunderbird but it sounds interesting, could you explain what advantages it and those filters give? As far as I know TB already blocks some elements within emails for security and privacy purposes

Pantherina,

Yes Adblocking is often not needed and may slow down your TB. But people putting filenames with *.mov and *.zip in them would mean you click them and actually open URLs, as these are now registered TLDs. A very stupid idea of Google

WalrusByte, in One of these 6 will become Plasma 6. Wallpaper Which one do you prefer?
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Middle right and bottom right are my favorites

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

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b9chomps, in Made the switch to KDE
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I like 90% about KDE, GNOME and XFCE.

Depending in my changing needs and preferences I switch between them.

If I ever find the perfect DE (or maybe WM), I’ll let everyone know.

InstallGentoo, in why doesn't GNOME have a mascot??

Apple doesn’t have a mascot, so gnome doesn’t have one either.

01adrianrdgz,
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the little apple with the bite??

cujo,
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That’s a logo, not a mascot. A logo is a mark that denotes a brand, the apple with the bite taken out for Apple, the footprint for GNOME, the stylized and colorized G for Google…

A mascot is a character that acts as a face and a voice for a brand. The gecko for Geico, Tony the Tiger for Frosted Flakes, Flo for Progressive.

Many brands looking to keep a serious, “sophisticated” brand aesthetic eschew mascots in favor of simple logos. GNOME follows suit with that trend. Nothing wrong with it, in fact I think it works quite well for them. If they were to adopt a mascot now it would be… Strange.

featherfurl, in why doesn't GNOME have a mascot??

I feel like every larger open source project that doesn’t have a Tyson Tan designed mascot doesn’t have one because they refused to let him make one for them.

I agree that this is a sad thing, but I guess not everyone in the Linux world is into furry waifus.

01adrianrdgz,
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wait really?? So Tyson Tan designs a lot of mascots?? I think his characters are very cute!!! I will not allow him to make my mascot, not because I dislike his art, but because I like to make everything.

turkalino, in Made the switch to KDE
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I tried GNOME for all but three minutes until I found out that you could be scrolling along with your mouse wheel and oop, a slider suddenly appears under your cursor, steals focus, and now your mouse wheel is moving the slider before you can notice where it used to be.

What an awful default choice for UI/UX behavior.

Anticorp,

That has never happened to me in the many years I’ve been using Gnome.

KISSmyOS,

I used Gnome for half an hour when I noticed I can three-finger-swipe left/right to switch workspaces and swipe up/down to open and close the overview. I’ll never use anything else on my laptop!

TheGrandNagus,

That is not a UX choice, not default behaviour, and has not happened to me ever, after a decade+ of use.

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