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I picked up a laptop a couple of months ago for the purpose of setting up Linux on (I chose NixOS for stability) to go with my existing desktop. It’s an Infinity E15-5A165-BM (Infinity being an Australian local manufacturer of gaming laptops) which features a Ryzen 5 6600H CPU and a GeForce 1650 GTX....

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Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....

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Here are the folders that I want to share with my Windows 10 VM (guest):...

so, I have a weird problem with a Dell Latitude 5285, that’s a 2-in-1 with a detachable keyboard akin to the MS Surface Pro 5. it has an i5-7300u, 16 GB LPDDR3 (on-board), 500 GB NVMe, 12.3" 1920x1280 3:2 touch screen....

Short term: I’m trying to automate transcribing a list from:...

I’m playing with a couple of routers and comparing proprietary to open source on the same hardware. I miss my .bashrc functions and aliases… and compgen, tree, manpages, detailed help, etc; the little things that get annoying when they are missing....

How good would the experience be with a linux phone and an external camera?...

Hello all, I’ve been distro hopping a lot lately and have a long term goal of settling on one distro for the family laptops....

Hey there! I just reinstalled fedora and noticed my fn keys 7 to 12 do not work. The rest do their jobs, but i cant change brightness and airplane mode anymore....

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Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate....

Preferably a dongle, but Bluetooth is ok as well. what wireless headphones do you use? thanks for all suggestions!!!...

Phoronix: www.phoronix.com/…/KDE-KWin-Triple-Buffering-MR...

Besides Libre Office, what other programs/solutions exist in the Linux world for writers?...

Aside from being based on Fedora 39 now, KDE is now the official desktop environment replacing GNOME. The reasons why are in the article....

I have a rule for vscode: bspc rule -a Code follow=on desktop=‘^4’. If I manually move one vscode instance to another workspace, work in that and than drag’n’drop smth (or any other action initiating popup menu), dialog will appear on 4th workspace rather than on current one. How to fix that?...

I had sound working fine with one problem: the center and rear right channel were swapped....

I have been having such a difficult time getting a 2018 Dell Latitude 7930 to run any Linux distro stably. Maybe there is something obvious I am missing or maybe it really is dying hardware that’s the root cause of the issue....