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llothar, in New Fedora Slimbook 14" joins the Fedora Slimbook 16" - Fedora Magazine

Yes, finally something better than 1080p!

alt, in Switched to Linux, don't know what to do

Thanks everyone for your replies, I’m really interested in KDE Plasma now.

I agree that KDE Plasma should satiate your desire for customizing the look and feel of your system. But, note that KDE Plasma isn’t properly supported on Linux Mint. Therefore, consider switching to a Distro in which it is; e.g. the KDE Flavors/Spins of Fedora, openSUSE or Ubuntu.

radioactiveradio, in Basic fonts

Comic neue, must have for all the important legal documents.

radioactiveradio, in Sell Me on Linux

Two words “No Advertisements”

the_third, (edited )

I mean, who would have thought 10 years ago that this would one day be a valid reason to switch away from the OS with the biggest marketshare. Weird times.

nayminlwin, in Sell Me on Linux

It’s a rabbit hole, you have to get fairly deep into it to start reaping some “benefits”. Even if you start with something easy like cinnamon mint, there’s a small chance it might break something on major upgrade. But it’s generally fairly easy to fix if you have some grasp on the system.

The best way to learn would be to just install something like arch or debian in a VM but do everything in manual steps while trying to understand what every step’s accomplishing.

nyakojiru, in This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording
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I want to play Diablo 4 in Linux with good performance.

ozanozdil,
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@nyakojiru @MazonnaCara89 so i want to play cs:2 without performance disruption

mhz, in Basic fonts

Dejavu is the right font for me for both ebglush and arabic letters.

sharkfucker420, in What is the best distro for gaming?
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Probably steamOS but I’ve never used it

Arch has been perfect for me but I wanna try void

phil_m,

Skip void, try NixOS :P (my colleague switched from void too)

Patch,

Valve haven’t released Steam OS for use on non-Deck hardware yet. So you can use it on a Deck, but not on a gaming PC.

Schorsch, in 2in1's or tablet recs. for linux please.

About a year ago I was lucky on eBay, winning an old Acer Switch Alpha 12 for ~95€ including shipping. I think it was released about 2016.

Even if it shows a lot of signs of wear, it is still a very good device. I received it with Windows 11, but of course I didn’t want use it like that. 4 gigs of ram aren’t enough for that anyway.

So I installed Fedora. (Had to rename the uefi boot entry for it to boot from disk. This is described elsewhere online but if you read this post and wonder how to do it, please dm me and I’ll be happy to help.)

Now this is my primary device for when I’m away from my desktop PC. Gnome is stunning on 2-in-1s IMO, much better than Windows would ever be.

Hardware wise everything works just fine out of the box, apart from the rear camera which isn’t recognized, but I wouldn’t use that anyway.

Honestly, the Switch Alpha 12 is the poor man’s MS Surface and I think it’s a shame that Acer has apparently given up on this device class. For now I’m happy to use this pc for as long as I can.

phoenixz, in This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording

Any indication on if and when the desktop cube will return ?

Knusper,

Apparently, that will arrive with Plasma 6.

It says "Version Fixed In: 6.0” here: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438883
And the last comment in there, does also specify so.

Apparently, this is now part of kdeplasma-addons, so this might be in a separate package, which may not be pre-installed by your distro. I really don’t know, if it means anything, but Nate felt it worth mentioning here: pointieststick.com/…/these-past-2-weeks-in-kde-wa…

phoenixz, in This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording

Awesome,.all of it!

Can we now also focus on stabilizing everything? For the past 5-10 years, my personal KDE experience ws either features disappearing (i still mourn my Desktop cube) or just random shit.not working for years. I got to the point where a few months ago I seriously started to consider cinnamon, what are you doing to me?

andruid,

That was the last couple releases tbh

GravelPieceOfSword, (edited ) in CUPS mirror image printer setup

Mission Accomplished! My printer driver now has a MirrorPrint Option, and selecting it enables Mirror Printing. For convenience (since I don’t see a client side option to flip mirror printing), I have a doppleganger of my regular printer, and I named it MirrorTest - screenshot below. When I need a mirror print, I just send it to the mirror printer.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/4be9b08a-01a2-4d67-871a-2caa391bff6d.png

Actual Changes

Here’s the relevant excerpt (added) in /etc/cups/ppd/MirrorTest.ppd (I added this UI option right below the Toner option). Excerpt adds a MirrorPrint Toggle (boolean) to the printer defaults setup. When enabled - the printer will print in mirror mode.


<span style="color:#323232;">*%=== Mirror Printing ================================
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*OpenGroup: General
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*OpenUI *MirrorPrint/Mirror Print: Boolean
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*OrderDependency: 110 AnySetup *MirrorPrint
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*DefaultMirrorPrint: True
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*MirrorPrint True/MirrorPrint: "&lt;>setpagedevice"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*MirrorPrint False/Normal: ""
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*CloseUI: *MirrorPrint
</span>

For further convenience (making sure that a new printer installation didn’t mess up my custom changes, I also updated the relevant ppd file in /usr/share/cups/model/. Whenever you add a new printer - CUPS will use the corresponding model ppd as a base, and it will apply any settings changes from configuring default to the copied ppd file in /etc/cups/ppd/your_printer.ppd.

Hope this helps if someone else is also looking to do something similar!

TechieDamien,

Wow, CUPS is way better than I previously thought and I thought it was amazing!

GravelPieceOfSword,

It is certainly useful for some use cases such as network print servers (I have a dedicated lxc container on the network to do this) and custom conversions of pages (during my digging, I learned about companies using a CUPS network printer to watermark every document being printed).

I’m not an expert by any means: it is definitely a useful tool in certain cases, but oh man… the documentation was a bit hard to figure out for me!

AndyLikesCandy, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android

Ugh I don’t know which is worse. Next timeline, portal gun.

Holzkohlen, in What is the best distro for gaming?

It’s Garuda Linux shilling time. Seriously tho the distro does not matter when it comes to gaming (at least not much)

oscardejarjayes, in Switched to Linux, don't know what to do

Use it to install gentoo or Linux From Scratch

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