Printer setup being confusing on EndeavourOS
I have a laptop with EndeavourOS KDE installed with printer drivers. I disabled my firewall, and tried to set up a Brother MFC-9130CW printer. Oddly, both the KDE printer setup program and the EndeavourOS Fedora (probably?) printer setup program only detected a driver version of it. I had to open up the CUPS web panel, and it...
Defending abuse does not defend free software (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....
What Linux options exist for passkeys?
I see Google and Apple really embracing passkeys lately and I’m trying to understand the hype, but it can be challenging. I also see that Bitwarden and 1Password are embracing them too. As far as I can tell, passkeys are just key pairs that behave like FIDO2 tokens (e.g. my yubikey) but are backed up to some cloud and usable...
whats bes and why: github, gitlab, codeberg, etc.
Bookworm – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS (www.raspberrypi.com)
Best trackpad for Linux?
Is it Apple’s Magic Trackpad? If I dual-boot Windows (for work, I swear!) does it work equally as well across both?
Microsoft published a guide on how to install Linux. (programming.dev)
Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on GNOME (CVE-2023-43641) (github.blog)
Today, in coordination with Ilya Lipnitskiy (the maintainer of libcue) and the distros mailing list, the GitHub Security Lab is disclosing CVE-2023-43641, a memory corruption vulnerability in libcue. We have also sent a text-only version of this blog post to the oss-security list....
How To Upgrade Raspberry Pi OS to Debian Bookworm from Bullseye (9to5linux.com)
Fedora Sway Gets Sassy (lemmy.ml)
Found this gem in one of the config files for Fedora Sway:...
VLC 3.0.19 Improves AV1 HDR Support with Software Decoding, Fixes Linux Issues (9to5linux.com)
Kubuntu Linux 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) (cdimage.ubuntu.com)
How and Why to Get Verified on Mastodon (cassidyjames.com)
Why is Debian the way it is? (blog.liw.fi)
Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It’s thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of the...
Requesting folder encryption recommendations
I’m vaguely interested in having a few different encrypted folders on my computer, with different passwords on each. I don’t have any particular strong requirements. It’s more of a velleity; mostly just to try it so that I know more about it....
What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?
I have an old wireless ball mouse with a sync button, can i make it work?
I have an old microsoft wireless ball mouse, i have the dongle but it has ps/2 connectors (i know about ps/2 to usb but i dont want to use it as the dongle is big). Is there way to use a usb wifi card(tp-link) as the reciever and make it work?
Raspberry Pi OS Is Now Based on Debian Bookworm, Supports Raspberry Pi 5 (9to5linux.com)
Why laptops with linux mostly use unknown distros?
The average person dont like linux, and if they buy a linux laptop the reason is because its cheaper than the windows one. So why manufacturers still use unknown distros (like lenovo with endlessos) and not something like ubuntu or mint?
What is the most secure linux os for torrenting and such?
Im very paranoid about getting into piracy and im not sure if i should or it or not but there are so many things i want that i cant afford....
EndeavourOS Moving to KDE Plasma by Default (endeavouros.com)
EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You’ll hear no complaints from me!
I had a dream about windows and have decided to setup Linux on my laptop. What distro should I use?
I used Ubuntu once a few years ago but had compatability issues so I went back to windows. Not a great programmer but I’d like to learn. I’m not looking to do much gaming beyond DOOM2 and factorio. Mostly looking for privacy and a way to get back into programming (I have this pipe dream of learning Assembly). I’m not to...
Richard Stallman has cancer
From his website stallman.org:...