linux

I am currently using Freefilesync Flatpak, but that app is not great at all. I dont want weird archives or anything, just to copy my filesystem to another drive....

Original message from the Vanilla OS Discord announcment, from @mirkob1:...

I have 500gb SSD and need to basically uninstall Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 to install Baldur’s Gate 3. I want to buy new SSD, but my money is a bit tight right now as I’m saving for my degree’s tuition fee....

Are there any CLI tools like zoxide that allow to quickly find recently opened files by fuzzy search instead of directories?

I’ve been involved with Linux for a long time, and Flatpak almost seems too good to be true:...

I have this laptop getting tired sitting in a drawer and asks me to work 🤪...

I recently started using and love it but I’d like it more if I could see some of my GPU stats....

Just recently started using thunderbird to see how it would help managing múltiple Gmail accounts. Has anybody used the app version? Is it good? Bad?

Still new to linux hope its ok to ask here. I decided to replace one of my backup drives for the first time in 5ish years with a new 2.5" HDD meant for internal use but in an enclosure (the enclosure works fine). I formatted it in ntfs via gparted and everything went as expected, I even created a large veracrypt container file....

I just found out about AppImageLauncher, a package handler for AppImages. It organizes them, creates desktop files for you and handles updates and removal....

Source: reddit.com/…/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38…

How does this coverage hold up? It was a fun read from back in my highschool days, when I was still five years from trying Linux on my own AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz. It wasn’t until 2008 that I tried again and it stuck.

If you’re over on mastodon it would help if you could submit an answer to my poll over which Linux distro I will hopefully settle on...

If your GNOME Shell went FUBAR and you can’t reach a terminal from it to issue gnome-shell --replace(apparently this is broken since 3.30), and Alt+F2 doesn’t work, you can use the following in another TTY or via SSH:...

Hi, I’m an old windows user who have played with linux* a few times, but never commited to it....

I apologize if this has been asked a ton, still migrating to lemmy. Still stuck on crappy reddit out of habbit, but i’ve found the lemmy universe to be much more helpful....

You can run a free OS pretty effortless, but when wanting 100% free software, you have to dig deeper and replace the proprietary BIOS firmware.

I’m especially concerned about it being somehow broken, unwieldy, insecure or privacy-invasive....

[…] we have begun to mature support for RISC-V in Android.

I am using Ghex and Bless and both of them display the value of my gold but I cannot edit it. I am missing something?