linux

Just saw a post of a novice user asking why are there so many package managers....

A friend might let me install Linux on his secondary laptop he uses for university. He’s not a tinkerer and wants something that just works....

Once upon a time, ripcord was my favorite to use, unfortunately its been dead and dormant for over 2 years now. Id love to know if anybody knows any similar client (for example: be it in having custom design, or being super lightweight)...

apologies for coming back with another question so quick, but im at a loss im trying to get a plugin that lets you show live translations of what you are saying on stream. I found a few but…its not working to say the least....

Nautilus, the Gnome file assistant manager, sucks utter donkeyballs. Let us make an unordered list of the ways:...

In short, after a Linux kernel update (6.5.8-200.fc.x86_64 on Fedora KDE), I can’t use the top button of my pen on my tablet. This is really affecting my digital painting workflow!...

Is it possible to copy paste with QEMU?...

Performance is basically the same (in microbenchmarks), they went as far as preserving the use of red black trees for an apples to apples comparison, but it’s going to improve security as binder runs inside every process....

Source: reddit.com/…/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38…

From nixCraft

Learning the terminal. Found this nice android app: “Linux Command Library”...

[For reference, I’m talking about Ash in Alpine Linux here, which is part of BusyBox.]...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7333426...

I have some locally stored media i was copying between drives and one mkv file gave this error error reading ‘video1.mkv’: Input/output error and only copied 176/256 MiB; the copied file plays the video only up to a certain point before abruptly closing; I can play the original file fine albeit there is a noticeable hitch at...

I recently swapped my hdd with an ssd and performed a fresh install of fedora, When I went to reinstall my flatpak application it is requiring me to install gigabytes worth of dependencies and libraries, I am in a Data crunch and I still have the old files; is it possible to just copy the dependencies over and which files am i...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7252206...

From nixCraft

I’ve got a reoccurring issue with all of the home servers I’ve ever had and because it happened again just today, now the pain is big enough to ask publicly about it....

While HDR support is still not really there yet on Linux, there’s a lot of movement on it now (and plenty of it thanks to Valve and work on Gamescope) but it seems KDE KWin may gain early initial support for it.

Yet another win for Systemd.