linux

I used to use sway as my tiling window manager, i really liked it, but one day it stopped working, the mouse didnt show up, and now it doesnt even start up, i tried everything, but it didnt work, so i wonder, is it compatible with that graphic card?

Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?

For a long time, I’ve just put on DejaVu fonts and been done with it. Generally good enough Unicode coverage for me. But I know it’s been years since DejaVu’s been updated, and I wonder what’s very common today....

I spend a lot of time creating system diagrams for presentations. I always use Inkscape to draw these diagrams. However I ran into a scenario where I wanted to animate them. The animations I’m looking for are dead simple. I want to be able to fade in, fade out, and slide basic shapes. The way I worked around it this time was...

I’ve been messing around with podman in Arch and porting my self-hosted services over to it. However, it’s been finicky and I am wondering if anybody here could help me out with a few things....

So, in order to avoid typing “flatpak run”, every time I need to run a flatpak program from the terminal, to have gui programs installed using nix appear in my applications menu(rofi, in this case), and to avoid typing the entire path to my .local/bin, I had added the following lines to my .profile:...

I’m considering picking up a cheapish laptop for development, with the intent of installing Linux on it. Typically it’ll be Java development or other stuff in docket containers. Is there a best chipset to pick for Linux or are they pretty much identical these days?

I am new to Linux. I just got my hands on an old server machine with Internet to set up a media server and installed a fresh version of Ubuntu. Ultimately, I hope to use it as a headless unit but as I am a newbie, I put the GUI version on. I am having an issue getting it to display at all....

I’m updating foundry to a version 11 and it broke an ass ton of my assets cause they’re all “verified version 10”...

I installed some software and I think afterwards I was navigating through CLI and noticed that some directories or some files in some directories had single quotation marks around the names. They don’t appear in the GUI. How do I get rid of them? Do I have to use a recursive command to delete the quotation marks for the entire...

I want to remove xfce from my debian 12 system. What is the best way to do it?

Hey guys. I’m new to Linux and I’m running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon. Yesterday I have f*cked up. I was testing things in users and geve myself standart priveledges insted of Admin ones I had from beggining and then restarted PC. I then tried log back into users tab and change myself back to Admin but even tho the password is...

Hello, I have a rather complicated need to use a gre tunnel and I am having difficulty getting it working. The tunnel is between my home server and Oracle VM. Below is a picture of the topology with config....

Ranting, especially on work made by the community* is bad, i know but my frustration comes because it has not be like that. systemd is bloat, madness …...

First off, sorry if this isn’t quite the right community, I did try posting on !pop_os but didn’t get a solution. You can see that post here...

As the title says, FF seems to selectively forget cookies and thus requires me to constantly re-login....

I know I can use Google’s voice typing in Google Docs but is there a more convenient, system-wide options available?

I’m playing tekken on pc, and my keyboard unfortunately has a limit to how many keys can be pressed. So I’m trying to fix this by using xbindkeys and xdotool to map the combinations to a key press. This works unless the combination calls for pressing more than one key at a time, and I think this is because there is a very...

I’m looking to finally use Linux properly and I’m planning to dual boot my laptop. There’s enough storage to go around, and while I’m comfortable messing around I’d rather not have to run and buy a new device before school while fixing my current one....

I’ve noticed in the Linux community whenever someone asks for a recommendation on a laptop that runs Linux the answer is always “Get a Thinkpad” yet Lenovo doesn’t seem to be a big Linux contributor or ally. There’s also at least six Linux/FOSS-oriented computer manufacturers now:...

Update from this post from the other day: What to know before Dual Booting Windows + Linux?...

I’m using Arch Linux for 2 years. I subscribed to Arch’s mailing lists and I check my mails daily. I use flatpak instead of AUR....

Hey everyone!...

[EDIT]: Audacious does this, but Audacious doesn’t view the file as a playlist rather as one file, I wish this could be changed, I don’t know it might be. [\EDIT]...