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Hominine, in What's your experience with bluetooth audio?
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So I’ve recently moved over to using my Pixel buds pro almost full time and am hoping you stoke a convo here to revisit.

KDE Connect affords us the ability to fire off commands from a phone to do any number of things. One use case of mine is to disconnect/reconnect Bluetooth devices from the desktop since it is greedy and tends to bogart my earbuds when playback stops on other connections. This has worked pretty well so far but with that in mind, I have only just started playing around with things and so I look forward to refining the experience with other utilities.

That said, I find Bluetooth is buggy on almost every OS out there (Android is constantly in what feels like a state of repair…)
Best of luck!

UntouchedWagons, in What's your experience with bluetooth audio?
@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

I installed fedora 38 on my lenovo thinkpad t14 (now running fedora 39) and aside from one easily fixed issue bluetooth works perfectly. My gaming pc running windows can use my laptop as an audio device via bluetooth which is pretty cool.

humanplayer2, in Best distro for Lenovo Carbon X1
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Did you check if there is a bios setting related to suspend, and that it’s set properly?

chicagohuman, in Using GNOME Flashback makes Ubuntu more customizable!!

I’d love to see a side by side comparison between this and vanilla Gnome. Also MATE. Also Gnome2

NOOBMASTER, in Using Linux for the first time

Try Zorin OS, it has cool design, and is pretty stable because it has an outdated kernel and stuff.

free, in Cleanest way to maintain AppImage installations?

I just have a keybind to open file manager of the app images 🤷

Euphoma, in Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

When I used wsl, it felt fine. There were some problems with running more GPU intensive tasks, but being able to use linux-only software while I was restricted to Windows was pretty good.

smpl, in qcow2 images not shown as dynamic but max size?
@smpl@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

My best guess is that you forgot the -f parameter to qemu-img.

Pantherina,

Hmm. Maybe? This would be a virt-manager but though, as I stopped bothering with CLI and just use that again

KillSwitch10, in NixOS 23.11 released

Can someone please point me to a repo with a nix configuration for a desktop setup with a minimum of KDE? Bonus points for it being more like Fedora.

Euphoma,

There’s an installer that makes a basic config for you where you can choose KDE as your DE.

bbbhltz, in Using Linux for the first time
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

If you go with Alpine, the general setup instructions should be OK and similar to other distros.

Get the image on a USB, boot from USB, run setup-alpine and choose system-disk mode. Possibly encrypted if you think you need that.

After install you’ll be dropped to the terminal again.

There are some post install notes here wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation#Post-Insta… but you can run setup-desktop and get it to install a usable Xfce desktop, for example.

The LXQt DE is a good choice for older devices. The wiki has a guide for it but needs a slight update. It should still work but may require switching to edge.

Puppy Linux is a fine choice too if your computer is a little on the old side. Lite, Peppermint, Trisquel, antiX, and a slew of others are worth looking at.

bizdelnick, in qcow2 images not shown as dynamic but max size?

I did not use virt-manager for a while, but probably it allocates the whole virtual disk by default (i don’t remember for sure). Try to create it manually and ensure that checkbox “allocate the whole volume” is disabled. You can also do this with qemu-img create command (see man qemu-img for options).

bizdelnick,

BTW it is possible to compress existing qcow2 images. Before that I recommend to run fstrim -a inside the VM. Then shut it down and execute qemu-img convert -cp old_image.qcow2 new_image.qcow2 && mv -f new_image.qcow2 old_image.qcow2.

Pantherina,

Thanks!

Pantherina, in How safe are my data if my hard drive isn't encrypted?

Community in the text?

Guenther_Amanita, (edited )

Crosspost. Click on it and you’ll land on my original post.

I didn’t want to duplicate it. You can always suggest me how to make the crosspost more visible, I just did it how my client set it up for me.

radioactiveradio, in Laptop not working after installing nimdow

Ctrl+alt+f3 put in your user and password and remove the window manager or install some other one until you fix it.

PerogiBoi, in What dock do you use in Wayland?
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Use an auto-hiding panel instead and add a taskbar so that your running programs are there. I use that with KDE Wayland and it works well and is highly customizable.

GravitySpoiled, in Add YOUR city to the Gnome weather app [Solved]

Afaik the problem is solved within the code. I remember having compiled the app myself. It’s just a matter of time that it’s solved.

BUT it’s weird that this is so low priority to all gnome devs. It seems like noone cares about the correct weather. The source of weather is also not really perfect.

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