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Knusper, (edited ) in Custom shell prompt tips and tricks?

I can recommend Starship.

NoisyFlake,

Definitely! Much more user-friendly and expandable than configuring PS1 manually.

This is what mine looks like.

alphapuggle, in Is an unknown supervisor password for ThinkPad bios an issue if I've already installed linux?

Try this

bios-pw.org doesn’t explicitly say it supports any Lenovo products, but I’ve had luck using them with Dell products before. No clue if this will work for you or if it’s a generic article meant to suck you in and grab ad revenue.

dylanmorgan, in System76’s Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Really Nice Linux Laptop

Goddammit, I didn’t need a reason to upgrade my laptop (I have a carbon X1 running Fedora and the failure to suspend drives me bonkers).

Chais, in Is an unknown supervisor password for ThinkPad bios an issue if I've already installed linux?
@Chais@sh.itjust.works avatar

You can either try to contact the seller and ask for the password or just erase the UEFI settings by shorting some jumper or something. There should be instructions how to do that for your specific model.

TangledHyphae, (edited ) in Linux holds more than 8% market share in India, and it's on the upward trend

We really need more marketing of Linux itself. I run ubuntu and run Cyberpunk 2077 natively, with a wireless gamepad… It’s all out of the box, I don’t know why people are afraid of it?

Edit: It does take about 30 seconds to load things into VRAM, but still worth all of it.

ftatateeta, in Linux holds more than 8% market share in India, and it's on the upward trend

Why is linux so popular in India?

embed_me,
@embed_me@programming.dev avatar

I can speculate:

  1. Engineering is very popular in India and computer programming is one of the courses that is common to all disciplines. Our professors recommended installing Linux.
  2. A few years back, Dell would sell budget laptops with Ubuntu preloaded instead of Windows. Although I can’t find any right now.
  3. Back around 2010s, in my state edu. board, we were taught about Ubuntu in high school and had Linux Mint installed in our school computers. Although the material was very shallow and designed short-shortsightedly, it helped introduce Linux and FOSS to lots of us.
Rhapsodicjock_108, (edited )

Government departments are slowly ditching windows because everything they need to do can be done on Linux without malware attacks and every application screaming “buy me!” every time you open it.

Also educational institutions (at least in my State) do give basic Ubuntu training. I learned Gimp ,Inkscape and Libre office as part of my curriculum.

And we love free stuff.

andruid,

There is also the reduction of dependencies on non-democratic institutions for the government to function! The America first policy held by the US for a few years triggered a lot of planning from governments to increase their ability to sovereign from the states.

the_lone_wolf,
@the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml avatar

Bcz being seen as a hacker is cool

markkdark,

Because they are smarter than the West and less likely to use the biggest “scam” called Windows. Linux is also suitable for less modern computers and useful with excellent FOSS software.

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

India is a country with a huge population India is also a third world country where people. 1 computer is probably an years wages for most Indians. And alot of linux distros run well on older hardware same goes for eastern europe and africa or so I hear plus engineering is very popular over there as embed put it himself

yoz,

Probably lots of devops and network engineers

dvtt,

Probably because Microsoft made newer versions to of Windows unusable on the cheap, older machines that are common there

danielfgom,
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

Because it’s free. That’s the beauty of FOSS software. But only is it user freedom respecting but also often free of charge.

In third world countries like India where only a small percentage can afford a Windows licence, Linux can thrive. And once people see it can do anything that Windows can, and far better with no security concerns, plus they can modify and build upon Linux, they tend to adopt it with passion.

If you’re starting a business in India and have little money but need an OS to run your business, Linux can do that for you for free.

LeFantome,

I suspect it is a combination of its being free, working well on older hardware, and the tech literacy in India.

Software development and engineering are important aspects of the Indian economy. Linux is arguably the best platform for that kind of work, especially in the cloud. Tech support of those kinds of systems require the same skills.

Given how well Linux runs on older machines, I consider low Linux penetration a hallmark of rich countries.

In my own household, Linux goes on all the older hardware ( including Macs ). That has really extended the length of time before hardware needs to be replaced. It also means that, over time, the percentage of active equipment using Linux has increased.

drkhrse96, (edited ) in Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max!

It’s interesting as a comparison to M3 now and at different power limits. I’m hoping it may hopefully benefit the asahi project also. As a windows product I don’t think it’ll be good at all unless Microsoft has a Rosetta like emulation layer that is nearly as good as Apple. Without that this product will not do well.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

Microsoft has a pretty good translation layer, it’s the hardware x86 acceleration that most windows ARM chips lack, that Apple’s CPUs have.

Tranus, in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)

Not having a dock is one of my favorite things about gnome. I actually use an extension to hide the top bar too. There’s just something so satisfying about having 100% usable space on screen. I get all the info back in the win-key overlay, so I don’t really need that stuff on screen at all times.

Neon,

win-key overlay

explain please

Tranus,

When you hit the windows key (aka meta-key or super-key) it brings up the app launcher. You get a dock at the bottom with pinned or running apps (like a taskbar), and all of your open windows are presented in a sort of mini-version that lets you switch between them or move them between workspaces. There is a search bar that you can immediately type into to open any app with a .desktop file. There is also a button to bring up the app grid which shows your apps kind of like a mobile device’s home screen.

Neon, (edited )

That’s what you meant with overlay!

I was confused because an Overlay is something like a Tooltip.

I personally would call this an Overview

Anyways, thanks for your answer! :)

jcdenton, in New Plasma 6 Default Icon Theme Looks
@jcdenton@lemy.lol avatar

Kinda hard to tell with the symbols due to the white on light blue

technologicalcaveman, in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

I did a 360 and walked out the theater.

eager_eagle, in CLI tools to quickly find recently opened files by fuzzy search?
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

fzf + Ctrl+R

then I type part of the path, basename, or just my CLI editor and browse the recent commands.

d3Xt3r, in CLI monitoring with GPU overview

Just use a terminal multiplexer to split your screen (so you don’t need a separate tab), and then ceate an alias/session file with your monitoring programs so you can call it with a single command.

Like @muhyb, I too use btop and nvtop, and this is how it looks like in zellij: https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/2e8ad660-f844-4df2-b5ce-aebb0d61d918.png

Kidplayer_666, in The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution (including Linux)
SuitedUpDev,
@SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl avatar

I wish I could give you more upvotes because you deserve all the upvotes

LouisGarbuor,

I was wondering where the dankpods would be

SaltyIceteaMaker, in Linux holds more than 8% market share in India, and it's on the upward trend

Year of the linux desktop confirmed?!😱

Atemu, (edited ) in Filesystem mirroring: best backup tool?
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

I dont want weird archives or anything, just to copy my filesystem to another drive.

For proper backups, you do want “weird archives” with integrity checks, versioning, deduplication and compression. Regular files cannot offer that (at least not efficiently so).

Pantherina,

Ok thanks. Fedora already uses BTRFS, would that work?

Atemu,
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

Even with btrfs “weird archives” such as Borg’s or restic’s are preferred for backups.

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