Anyone know what happened to the old BunsenLabs distro?
BunsenLabs was my favorite Linux distro back in the day. For years I’ve kept some of their old config files, &c… To use on my own version. But more and more they’ve become broken as things progress ever onward. I was just wondering if anyone knows what happened with them and if they may have moved on to other similar...
GCC embraces web technologies with one (1) line of CSS.
Among the 15~ million lines of codes in the GCC source code, there is a single CSS line....
Is a reinstall required when switching from Intel to AMD
Hi all, I’m switching motherboards. No dGPU. Going from an Intel MB to an AMD one. I have my root partition on an nvme and the home one on a 2.5" sata. Do I need to reinstall, or can I just move the drives from the old MB to the new one without a problem? Figured since both Intel and AMD drivers are both baked into the kernel...
Things like this turn people off from Linux
I run Mylar on my Xubuntu server to manage my comic collection. I found out recently that there’s a tool that can convert the embedded .jpgs to .webp to save space, but it only works on cbz files and not cbr (zipped vs rar for those who don’t know). I wanted to convert all of my cbr to cbz so that I could run the tool on all...
Questions about Zorin
Recently I am considering more and more moving my primary pc to a Linux distro. Somewhat for privacy issues but also to have more control over my system and to reduce the amound of advertising that windows keeps cramming in my face. Specifically I’m looking at Zorin. I was wondering what thoughs people here had on it....
Buying new CPU
I have finally ditched Nvidia and I have nothing but praise for my AMD gpu. Now im in market for new CPU and I kinda want to do same with Intel, since I was on intel my whole life....
Excluding KDEConnect, how do you send and receive SMS on your system?
What do you use to send and receive SMS on your computer? I’ve tried KDE Connect but found it too buggy to use daily.
Asking for guidance on managing dotfiles in a declarative and 'immutable'(/read-only) way across multiple systems
Incoming long post, please consider reading at least the following TL;DR before commenting....
multi-boot, Encrypted Volumes, My struggle
Seriously you guys. I love tinkering. I never give up. I feel like I’ve failed here, having used about 4 promising tutorials found online. Just can’t make it all play right....
Use a single gpu for wine and vm pcie pass-through
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What distro to choose in parallel to steamos
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Which filesystem should I use for stable storage?
Hello everyone. I’m going to build a new PC soon and I’m trying to maximize its reliability all I can. I’m using Debian Bookworm. I have a 1TB M2 SSD to boot on and a 4TB SATA SSD for storage. My goal is for the computer to last at least 10 years. It’s for personal use and work, playing games, making games, programming,...
Plasma 5.27 - GTK apps - fractional scaling - X11 Italian
I’m running the latest plasma with X11 (Arch). Fractional scaling is working fine with all the qt based apps but I’m experiencing size issues with gtk apps (Lutris or VMware for ex.). Fonts are rendered ok but scaling is not correctly applied to window and icons (titlebar is too small). Is there some kind of workaround?...
System76 values and ethics (Opinion)
Please don’t flame me too bad, I understand that although privacy and libre software are important to many in the Linux community, my opinions may be outside the scope of consideration for some and I respect that....
What is your favorite terminal emulator.
I’m reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.
Why do I have to re-download kernel packages everytime?
Hey, I am using Fedora Linux 38 with the 6.4.13 kernel. I have had this problem for quite a while now. Everytime I run sudo dnf upgrade and there’ an update to the kernel, dnf downloads the kernel and related packages (kernel-modules, kernel-modules-extra etc.) but cites a md5 mismatch and then re-downloads it. This time it...
Going from nvidia to amd
As many already know, nvidia is not the best choice for linux and amd is always recommend when it is brought up, so here id like to ask an equivalent to my graphics card in amd, i know nothing about amd and dont really know where to start honestly....
home-manager to install gui applications on non nix-os distros
I'm trying to use home-manager to install software on tumbleweed so that if I ever move to a new machine, I'd be able to install all of my software again by just running home-manager switch. For my terminal applications like zellij, zoxide, eza etc they installed and work fine....
External drive encryption question
How should I do it if I want to......
Linux Chat Room links
edit: I like matrix.io more than discord. I will try to stick with matrix.io but yeah, discord has more people in it though :(...
Pipewire vs PulseAudio, general question
What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?
Steam disk write error on Debian 12
When trying to install games on an ext4 external drive I get a disk write error from steam. Whenever I reset the permissions on the drive to both read and write, not just read, steam immediately reverts that whenever it’s opened.
Any idea how I can make a tmux alias for ssh?
I have a nice bash alias for tmux which opens a new window and directly ssh to whatever I specify...
Tips on running multiple distros together on my laptop?
Hello all, sorry for such a newbish question, as I should probably know how to properly partition a hard drive, but I really don’t know where to start. So what I’m looking to do is install a Debian distro, RHEL, and Arch. Want to go with Mint LMDE, Manjaro, and Fedora. I do not need very much storage, so I don’t think...