During an upgrade of Debian Unstable, 4 packages related to grub were held back and didn’t get updated.
That triggered my autism, so I thought I’ll just remove them and reinstall them right after to resolve the issue.
Removing them required setting a flag to override a block specifically built into apt to prevent removing them, with a bold, red warning text and everything.
When I tried to reinstall them, one of the packages failed to install cause it required a dependency in a version that wasn’t in the repo yet.
So grub was broken.
I considered just leaving the PC on until the issue was resolved in the repo, but then I figured the Stable branch would be the better choice for me so I nuked and reinstalled.
Arch updates breaks Arch without even my interaction
“without my interaction” may be the issue.
Some Arch updates require manual interaction. This is then mentioned in archlinux.org/news/.
When I ran Arch, I wrote an alias that pulls the latest Arch news via rss into the terminal before the update. I think I used newsbeuter, but yay has this functionality built in as an option now.
Heya folks, some people online told me I was doing partitions wrong, but I’ve been doing it this way for years. Since I’ve been doing it for years, I could be doing it in an outdated way, so I thought I should ask....
OpenSUSE (and probably some other distros) have it built-in, you just have to activate it. If yours doesn’t, you have to install a program that does it or configure one manually.
If your home is smaller than 2TB, it’s not an issue.
And if it’s larger than 2TB, then why the hell is all that data on your /home SSD and not a separate HDD, NAS or file server?
I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....
If you need Windows-specific programs, you need Windows.
However, “need” is an overused term. Think about what tasks you want to accomplish, not what software you want to use.
Linux has software available for all tasks a computer can do. Some are sub-par and some aren’t widely used which makes professional collaboration impossible.
But for most tasks and most computer users, Linux-supporting software is perfectly fine and sometimes better than the Windows equivalent.
It’s not messed up, though. It’s just set to a different value.
If the exact amount of paragraph spacing is important to you, you can either set it before you print, share the file as PDF or use a proper layouting software. This isn’t a Linux issue, you should do the same when sharing a file with someone using MS Office.
Because opening a Word document in a different MS Office version than the one it was created with can also mess it up, but somehow businesses deal with that.
Your yardstick for a usable desktop system is “every detail and default setting in all software needs to be exactly the same as on the Windows equivalent”.
So by definition only Windows can ever be a usable desktop system. No matter how good anything else may be.
You’re missing the point, if you get a document from a MS Office user you can’t simply view it or print it and assume the result will be what the user intended it to be.
You’re missing the point. You can’t assume that even if both use MS Office, either. Cause one of the users could have changed a setting, or use Office Online, or Office for OSX, or an older version, all of which aren’t fully compatible.
MS breaks these things all the time between versions too, without even telling you they’ve updated your Office.
Again, if layout of your end product is important, don’t share .docx files.
I actually don’t understand the issue people have with Snaps. The main gripe seems to be “It’s controlled by Canonical”.
But why is it an issue that Canonical controls a source of software for their own OS? Isn’t that the same with every distro’s repository?
How would they trap everyone in the ecosystem?
This isn’t Apple, there’s a gajillon other ways of getting software you can use on every single linux distro.
No. Currently Firefox is the only browser that can run Spotify and Netflix on my machine. Neither Chromium nor Epiphany do that.
Firefox needs to stay functional for “normal” people who consume DRM media, use Google and visit Websites that break if you block their trackers.
Otherwise its market share drops to zero and webdevs will stop testing for its engine, giving Google full control over the web.
There are more than enough options out there for people who want full privacy.
The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest....
Just think how many times they broke extensions without any regard for the individuals using it.
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
It’s the job of the Gnome developers to update and improve Gnome.
It’s the job of the extension developers to update their extensions when there’s a new Gnome version.
And it’s the job of your distro’s maintainers to keep the versions of Gnome and the extensions in the repo compatible.
If you install Gnome from your distro’s repo and extensions from Gnome’s website, YOU take on this job.
Just install your extensions from your distro’s repo and you won’t have any issues.
I am not interested in computer and tech stuff so 95% of lemmy’s content is on my block list.
That way, sorting by new is the only feasible way to browse.
This is probably a dumb question but what is a better way to send a link to a song to friends without using Spotify? I don’t use Spotify anymore so I don’t like going back to that website just to copy a song link so people could hear it. I know I could send something like a YouTube link but I’m trying to degoogle so I...
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It's almost like a zombie movie for them (startrek.website)
One single partition for Linux versus using a partition table?
Heya folks, some people online told me I was doing partitions wrong, but I’ve been doing it this way for years. Since I’ve been doing it for years, I could be doing it in an outdated way, so I thought I should ask....
How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?
I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....
Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate (9to5linux.com)
Canonical lifts lid on more Ubuntu Core Desktop details (www.theregister.com)
Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit (feddit.de)
GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure (foundation.gnome.org)
The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest....
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FOSS alternative to... Sending Spotify links?
This is probably a dumb question but what is a better way to send a link to a song to friends without using Spotify? I don’t use Spotify anymore so I don’t like going back to that website just to copy a song link so people could hear it. I know I could send something like a YouTube link but I’m trying to degoogle so I...