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Xorg – Wayland Transition Thoughts… (lemmy.sdf.org)

Some thoughts, details, resources on transitioning from Xorg to Wayland

December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC (blog.system76.com)

openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/50 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)

ZFS Swap on Linux

One for those running #ZFS on #Linux systems. I realise that you can’t have hibernate aka suspend to disk on a swap in the encrypted zpool but if you don’t use hibernation then is it OK to use swap using the likes of the command example below to set it up in the encrypted pool?...

This week in KDE: un-flashy important stability work (pointieststick.com)

The Wine development release 9.0-rc2 is now available. (www.winehq.org)

KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway (www.phoronix.com)

How to use a analog microphone plugged into Realtek ALC1220 chip in PipeWire

I got a microphone connected via a XLR adapter to the rear mic jack of my mainboard. The audio dialog of KDE seems to detect that, as does not mark it as not connected (which it does for the front mic and line in). But selecting the audio device as source does not produce any useful sound. What makes you sure that the mic work,...

Switching to Debian on my gaming pc

Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my...

why hasn't canonical embraced, extinguish and extended microsoft??

if microsoft is loving linux and open source just to extinguish it, then why doesn’t canonical or other linux company do the same but for all microsoft services?? something like this:...

#126 New Apps · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)

Best daily use Tips for Desktop Linux, that make life easier but are not well known? (itsfoss.com)

There are many Distros out there, but what they all do is make useful and modern systems....

KDE Ships Frameworks 5.113.0 (kde.org)

Techniques and methods for obtaining access to data protected by linux-based encryption (doi.org)

Optimising Ubuntu performance on amd64 architecture (ubuntu.com)

Wayland Learnings & Tutorials (eirenicon.org)

For those interested in a old geek’s slow learning process… here are some Wayland transition documents I have published both to share and HELP ME remember ‘thangs’....

Things You Didn't Know About GNU Readline (twobithistory.org)

Fedora 40 Will Enable Systemd Service Security Hardening (fedoraproject.org)

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What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)

It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.