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Atemu, in Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?
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WDYM by “overheat”?

possiblylinux127, in How is your experience with Fedora as a server?

I wouldn’t. If you must use Fedora use it in a podman container on top off something more stable like debian

Haven5341, (edited ) in Is there an easy way to set up an email client so you get system notifications in GNOME once you receive an e-mail?

gmail

I don’t know much about Gmail but I’m quite certain, that you only have to enable IMAP/SMTP in Gmail settings.

protonmail.

Install the Proton Mail Bridge and connect to the IMAP/SMTP server on localhost (ports 1143 and 1025).

Does anyone have a simple way of solving this problem?

I had only minor problems getting the above to work. Anyway., for Protonmail there is ElectronMail. It’s available as Flatpak too and it minimizes/starts to tray.

shapis, (edited )
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I can get the clients to fetch the e-mail atm, the issue is what I wrote above, is there a simple way to get thunderbird to fetch them from the moment I turn the pc on and give me notifications about it?

Haven5341, (edited )

is there a simple way to get thunderbird to fetch them from the moment I turn the pc on and give me notifications about it?

Sure. You can autostart Thunderbird and keep it open but I haven’t found a way, where Thunderbird closes/starts to the tray and for some odd reasons the developers seem to think that users do not need this functionality which makes the whole email client unusable for a large part of the potential user base.

I can get the clients to fetch the e-mail atm, the issue is what I wrote above,

??? You wrote:

Who the heck knows how to get evolution/geary to play nice with business gmail/protonmail.

shapis,
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Right, I wasnt as clear as I should have.

As of this second I have all 3 clients I mentioned fetching e-mails while they’re open. However none of them fetch e-mails in the background, and geary/evolution seem to just… break sometimes and I have to redo the process to add business gmail/proton accounts to it.

My main issue is the fetching e-mails in the background though, it doesnt feel to me as if it should be something that difficult or niche.

Haven5341, (edited )

geary/evolution seem to just… break sometimes

That’s weird. I run Geary myself for a couple off accounts and so far it does the job perfectly and without hiccups.

Anyway. You may try birdtray as written in one of the other comments but I’m pretty sure I tried it at least once and for some reasons wasn’t convinced. YMMW

shapis,
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Do you get background notifications with Geary?

Haven5341, (edited )

Do you get background notifications with Geary?

Yes. If it helps: I run it under Gnome. Maybe you need some extra service running?! I just checked and on my machine - in addition to Geary - there is the evolution-data-server running among others (evolution-source-registry, evolution-alarm-notify, evolution-calendar-factory, evolution-addressbook-factory).

shapis,
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the developers seem to think that users do not need this functionality

Weird.

saccharomyces,

Birdtray might be what you’re looking for. I’ve only used it on windows, but for me it gets thunderbird out of the way but able to be checked and used immediately.

github.com/gyunaev/birdtray

eager_eagle, (edited ) in KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session
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I really want to use wayland - and even though maybe I shouldn’t I still do on my laptop - but man… on Plasma 5 that thing is borked. And I’m not even running on NVIDIA.

Whenever the system wakes up from sleep or an external display reconnects all open windows are gone and the system enters a weird state which forces me to reboot. How was “all windows are lost when the compositor crashes” not something fixed in the early days, is beyond me. That must make even developing for Wayland unnecessarily difficult/annoying.

Quazatron, in Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?
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In addition to the basic hardware care (checking for dust, reapplying thermal compound if necessary) you can run powertop to check what is keeping your CPU awake when it shouldn’t and take steps to purge unneeded services or resource-heavy applications.

LunchEnjoyer,
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Thanks wasnt aware of this resource, will get it :)

s38b35M5, in Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?
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How do you mean that its overheating? My GF says the same about her laptop, but its just cooling itself off. Does yours freeze or start slowing down a lot? Are you monitoring temps and see that they’re beyond your CPU acceptable range (usually 90C, IIRC)?

LunchEnjoyer,
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Yeah, the system totally slows down quite a bit, everything from the browser to my IDE uses quite a bit of time to load.

LostXOR, (edited )

Can you hear your laptop's fan speed up when it's overheating? Linux on my old laptop couldn't control the fan speed so it was always overheating. When I figured out how to manually set it to maximum, it overheated much less.

Hexagon,

This could also be done to the RAM filling up and/or high I/O activity of the disk. I suggest to investigate these possibilies as well

s38b35M5,
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If you are seeing temps out of spec for your CPU, its not unheard of for thermal paste to dry or even shift if the laptop has been through some chassis strain. Could be worth a careful examination.

Diplomjodler, in Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?

Depending on your skill level, it might be worth opening it and checking the internals. Cooling system works, airflow not obstructed, etc. Probably also worth checking the thermal compound of the processor. But that’s not something a beginner would be happy to try. Maybe take it to a repair cafe, if there’s one near you?

Bo7a, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

Did you move files to an NTFS shared drive? Proton + ntfs is flaky as all hell in my experience, and the problems are impossible to troubleshoot.

dynamo,

No, the drive has been ext4 encrypted with LUKS from the start.

Poe, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

Try using an older version of proton?

dynamo,

didn’t work

Cwilliams, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software

Even if Ubuntu does start doing slightly sketchy things, they’ll still be a million times better than Windows or MacOS

drwho,

And how many respins of Ubuntu are out there that just have their own repos? Quite a few, as I recall.

ares35,
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canonical has already crossed that 'slightly sketchy' line.

A_s_h_k_a_n, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?
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@luthis

There will be so many forks trying to continue a Kernel based on linux and i think a few will succeeded! We may use arch kernel or debian kernel in the future.

AMDIsOurLord, in AMD+Wayland+dual monitor = Screen flickering

It could be some weird sleep behavior bug, or since it’s KDE, it could be another of the 5 gajillion daily bugs of KDE

nothendev, in Basic fonts

Monocraft JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono everywhere. Like. E V E R Y W H E R E

superbirra,

lol after being exposed to it a bit because gitlab.com I’ve decided it’s my best font forever <3 I’ve configured it everywhere a monospaced font is used including gitk and termux on my phone hahaha so cool

Pantherina, in cheapest new computer running linux &lt;$500

Clevo NV41xx

Corebootable, great machines, intel i7, okay build quality, replaceable parts everything.

Nobacustom sells them branded and with coreboot and everything included. Sometimes you may get one used somewhere.

ryannathans, in I created a shitty Python script to manage multiple SSH connections because I couldnt find a decent one

Wrap a nice ssh config manager around kitty ssh sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/ssh/ and it’d be pretty slick

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