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Hey guys! Is there a way for me to force apps to treat e.g. $HOME/.config/ as their default directory to look for settings? I want to clear up my home directory because its getting quite messy and I don’t even have that many packages installed yet....

I currently use:...

I am looking for a distro that is based on Gentoo or is heavily inspired by it. I am a long-time Gentoo user and Debian on system where I don’t have the time to maintain it. I love the flexibility of Gentoo, but although my hardware keeps up, I find my self often not willing to wait hours for an update on my main machine. I am...

I seem to be noticing a little bit of a trend lately that the out-of-box experience and overall quality of “mostly should just work” desktop-focused Linux distributions has declined. Usually, you could grab an .iso of distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro etc, install it and have a decent enough platform out of the box to...

I used Ubuntu in my college for some light programming and felt really happy about it....

I have some basic experience but I wanna be proficient and have a cli based workflow; I’m currently on Arch with GNOME

Hey guys, what are the pros and cons to wayland if I intend to use my PC for gaming + others?...

cross-posted from: lemmy.run/post/15922...

I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).

My plan is to buy an NVMe today, install linux as a dual boot, but use linux as a daily driver, to see if it meets my needs before committing to it....

I’m looking to buy a new GPU. My main use case will be training and running neural nets (tensorflow+pytorch); gaming isn’t really a priority....

Basically what happens is my monitors are positioned incorrectly. So the monitor that should be to the right is to the left and vice versa. This makes using my setup quite difficult, since I have to move the mouse to the left to get to the monitor that’s physically on my right side. Can someone show me an example configuration...

It’s great to see them doing that again!...

I’ve heard of immutable OS’s like Fedora Silverblue. As far as I understand it, this means that “system files” are read-only, and that this is more secure....

Some time ago on Reddit someone poste a link to a video meme about Saitama/One Punch Man and Linux man pages....

I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven’t tried many DE’s on a laptop....

I try using Org-mode/Latex with pandoc, but end up using only Office for docx and PowerPoint.

Hey everyone! Is anyone planning to create / mod a hyprland community later on , as Lenny gains more traction ?

I’m assuming it works fine, but wondering if anyone here has any experience with it… Obviously, the HDR feature won’t work unfortunately…

I’m a seasoned Linux user, but mostly for servers and services, not really for desktop use....

I use CalDav for calendar, contacts and tasks sync and share with the rest of the family....

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I would prefer something based on Debian, like Ubuntu or PopOS, but I’m open for other suggestions as well, as I’m looking for a distro to daily-drive on my new Framework laptop.

I’m a junior backend software engineer. I use a Vim plugin on my fancy code editor. I like the command line but I’m not all in on it or anything....

Hello, recently joined after 14 years on reddit, not sure if anyone would recognise me but I was mildly active in Linux subreddits, especially /r/linuxaudio....