Building RHEL and RHEL UBI images with mkosi - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
Debian 12: how do I get Gnome Files to display preview thumbnails/icons for large video files? Right now it just shows generic icons (lemmy.world)
OpenSuse TW + Gnome Appreciation Post
I switched from Linux Mint which was the only distro I have ever used to OpenSuse Tumbleweed two weeks ago with the vanilla Gnome DE that it ships with and I just wanted to say; What an amazingly complete, modern, and productive combination....
(Blog) Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Stable, some clarifications (vanillaos.org)
How to use a portable SSD for a travel OS with Linux?
Hello! The TL;DR is:...
What's your favorite music player on Linux? (lemmy.ml)
Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It’s also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I’m curious what other people are using these days. What’s your favorite player?
What's the best way to have a .bashrc that I can use throughout systems?
So, I just found out about a programme called SynthShell which kind of does the work for you and gives you a nice looking shell, the thing is that this also creates some config files and other stuff in my system, instead of just one .bashrc file to edit. What would be the best way to learn to have a nice looking bash where I can...
Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?
I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...
Friendly reminder
This is your annual reminder to do a snapshot (timeshift or whatever you prefer) before doing relatively minor changes to your system....
Linux tablet?
What’s the best tablet to install Linux on? I am looking for something affordable (under $200) and light just to use a PDF reader with MEGA sync.
Linux Hijinks (reddthat.com)
So, like I needed any more projects or any more computers, but I bought a receipt printer and two POS terminals. Both are Celeron J1900 I think at 3Ghz, 128G hard drive and I’m not sure of the memory. All that cost me a whopping $45, so how could I resist? Right now we’ve got the POSBANK unit working, you can see me updating...
Messed up my fonts (sh.itjust.works)
Hey all. I’m using arch linux and after trying to fix my fonts to get nicer icons etc. in the terminal i’ve made a mess 😔 Any ideas on how to uninstall all the fonts and start fresh?
How do I have Japanese fonts displayed in Fedora?
I just installed Fedora and I’m trying to figure out how to make it display Japanese fonts, by default it displays kanji as Chinese characters, I installed some fonts but still no change, how do I change this?
Did deep sleep broke for anyone else recently or is it just me?
I was running KDE Neon on ThinkBook 15 G2 and had deep sleep working after adding mem_sleep_default=deep to GRUB_CMDLINE. It worked for a while until it didn’t. I didn’t do anything other than running regulat updates. Since couple weeks back, when going to sleep, it shows BIOS Recovery progress bar or something and restarts....
Is there any way to emulate aegis authenticator (fdroid) on an ubuntu based computer?
ubuntu 23.10...
Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)
Where did you learn partitioning? And do you need a guide everytime you install a distro?
I have been using linux about 4 years now and in that time i’ve done a bunch of installs. Lately i’ve been setting up luks and lvm, but each time i install a distro ive set up bodhi and nixos with this setup but the issue i have is that each time ive done it i’ve had to follow a guide....
Help on BTRFS setup
I’m attempting a new install. I want to use btrfs with swapfile....
Scribus 1.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released as a Major Update (9to5linux.com)
Linux Containers From Scratch in C (www.lucavall.in)
Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way (jade.fyi)
Thoughts on this? (futurology.today)
Hello, world! - A technical overview of the software powering bgammon.org (bgammon.org)
Is there such a thing as split-screen grep?
I want to run a command and see all of its output on the left hand side, while simultaneously searching/grepping for particular lines on the right hand side. In other words, I want a temporary vertically split screen in my CLI, ideally with scrollback on each side of the split, but where I expect the left hand side to be...