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?
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...
It’s not about someone sniffing your passwords, it’s about reducing your attack surface. If you use su then the entire session has root privileges and any piece of software you run could do system level damage if it has a bug. Using sudo limits the privilege escalation to just one command.
Not for every one. For example, I still get random black screens with only mouse trails, windows disappearing, and videos not playing properly. Why yes, I do have an Nvidia card, thank you for asking.
Normally you’d just run sudo apt install … but in this case you are adding a new repository so you have to follow the extra steps of adding the signing key and so on first.
I am looking for programs to put animated wallpapers on Linux, the ones I know for now are: Xwinwrap, paperview and komorebi. If you know of another program that can do this, leave it in the comments so that others can read it and give their opinion about the program.
I’ve tried running Plasma 5 on Wayland occasionally but due to having NVIDIA card there’s always been bigger or smaller annoying issues so I always reverted back to X11.
Yeah, I tried it again this morning and got a black screen with mouse trails. I also have an Nvidia card and will give it another go when Plasma 6 comes out.
It wasn’t on Linux on but on a Vax Unix machine in the early 90s. We were an IBM shop but the accounts department got a Vax to run their new software. Obviously we were expected to look after this little box with no training. Things went quite well until it started to to run out of space. I found a huge file called vmuniz iirc and couldn’t see anything using using it. The file was deleted and the job was done. Until we rebooted.
What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?
I’m wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/01 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
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?
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...
Thoughts on this? (futurology.today)
New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?
mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux...
Live (Animated) wallpapers programs for linux
I am looking for programs to put animated wallpapers on Linux, the ones I know for now are: Xwinwrap, paperview and komorebi. If you know of another program that can do this, leave it in the comments so that others can read it and give their opinion about the program.
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/51 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Kate KF6 Status (kate-editor.org)
What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?
For me it must be kde plasma 6 and the wayland driver for wine....
This week in KDE: DMA fence deadlines and lots of bug-fixing (pointieststick.com)
KDE Plasma 5.27.10, Bugfix Release for December (kde.org)
https://redstrate.com/blog/2023/11/my-work-in-kde-for-november-2023/ (redstrate.com)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/47 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
How do I get rid of excessive password prompts, with the least amount of lost security?
I understand they are important and are what makes linux relatively secure compared to windows....
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/46 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?
Hello Penguins,...
This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording (pointieststick.com)
Stupid things you've done that broke your Linux installation
Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”....
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/45 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution (including Linux) (www.spacebar.news)
Linux Poll
If you’re over on mastodon it would help if you could submit an answer to my poll over which Linux distro I will hopefully settle on...
This week in KDE: Plasma 6 Alpha approaches (pointieststick.com)
These past 2 weeks in KDE: Wayland color management, the desktop cube returns, and optional shadows in Spectacle (pointieststick.com)
This week in KDE: Plasma 6 features (pointieststick.com)