KISSmyOS

@KISSmyOS@lemmy.world

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KISSmyOS,

A lightweight distro won’t help you since gaming and zoom will still consume the same amount of resources.
Whatever your distro/DE needs to run itself isn’t even a drop in the ocean compared to your browser for example.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

You cannot do the same with Snap and that’s by design. Canonical wants to be the sole gatekeeper of Linux software

Then why did they publish source code and documentation for all parts of it, so you can create your own snap store?

KISSmyOS,

Open source software would still be available packaged by the distros and as Flatpak, even if the software’s author offered it exclusively as Snap.

KISSmyOS,

Well, alternatives exist: lmms.io/download#linux

KISSmyOS,

Then I guess it’s a good thing they don’t control all other Linux distros.

Best lesser-known distribution/DE for low-end machines?

I know Debian and others can breathe life into older machines. But i wonder if there are any distros with serious optimizations that I haven’t heard of. I’ve already tried MX Linux on an old Thinkpad SL400, and didn’t see any difference from plain Debian....

KISSmyOS,

Slackware isn’t easy on resources. It needs more space than most and defaults to KDE.

KISSmyOS,

Creating a file named ~ used to be a prank to teach others not to leave their pc unattended and logged in.

KISSmyOS,

Create an alias with:
alias rm=‘rm -i’

KISSmyOS,

If you add a repo from another distro that uses the same package manager, you have no one to blame but yourself.

KISSmyOS,

Protipp: Don’t ever create a directory called ~ anywhere.

KISSmyOS,

shh, they’re still on season 4. Don’t spoil the ending.

KISSmyOS,

I actively avoid Fedora Linux.
I feel like that’s the worst name of any brand ever.

KISSmyOS,

Same. Windows-key opens the workspace overview with a global search field.
I only have the system tray and a clock on my desktop, which I can view with Windows-key+spacebar.

KISSmyOS,

Unfortunately, it has a Windows logo on it, so it’s the Windows key.

KISSmyOS,

Depends on how many cores I can use.

KISSmyOS,

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?

KISSmyOS,

A backup is only a backup if it’s not connected to the computer (ideally in a different building), so it wouldn’t be lost with a reinstall.

KISSmyOS,

Ah yes, somewhere in this drawer I probably have a couple of daily backups from 2017.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I hate moving windows around.
All windows open maximized without window decorations. Meta+WSAD moves the active window to the upper/lower/left/right half of the screen.
Meta+PgDown minimizes, Meta+PgUp maximizes. Meta+Q tiles windows horizontally, Meta+E vertically. Meta+X closes the window, Meta+Spacebar shows the desktop, Meta alone shows the workspace overview.
Fuck hunting for window borders, clicking and dragging. And fuck configuring all this in a text file.

(I use OpenSUSE with KDE by the way)

KISSmyOS, (edited )

No. I need the functionality of a full desktop environment.
And KDE’s workspace overview is awesome. One keypress and I see all open windows, all workspaces and a global search field that switches to a program when it already has an open window and opens a new window if not.
And a tiling WM on top of KDE would be pointless to me since the behavior of a tiling WM can be configured through the GUI in KDE without installing anything extra.

KISSmyOS,

reinstall virtualbox-dkms (from your repo), disable secure boot in BIOS and reboot.
If that doesn’t work, I’m out of ideas.

KISSmyOS,

6.1 is the newest version included in your OS. That’s just how Linux works.
Downloading newer versions from somewhere else is sometimes possible, but can lead to a lot of headaches, especially with packages that interact with the kernel.

If you notice you keep running into this issue and using the newest stuff is important to you, consider switching to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s the most beginner-friendly rolling release distro.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

And I literally wrote in the comment above yours to install the version in the repo instead, with sudo apt install virtalbox.
NOT sudo apt install virtualbox-7.0

It’s in the Ubuntu repository:
packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/virtualbox

Which Mint 21.2 points to according to the default sources.list:


<span style="color:#323232;">deb http://packages.linuxmint.com victoria main upstream import backport
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ jammy partner
</span>

It’s version 6.1, which is better than having no working Virtualbox.

KISSmyOS,

OK, why are you installing it from a deb file and not just from your repo?
Try that first.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I read that you installed a specific version months ago, but now installed it from a .deb file recently.
I’m asking why you don’t just sudo apt install virtualbox now?

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