linux

My question is whether it is good practice to include a unique wrapper phrase for custom commands and aliases....

I’m using sunshine for remote gaming on my Linux PC. Because I use Wayland and don’t have an Nvidia I use kmsgrab for capture (under the hood sunshine uses ffmpeg)....

Hi! I’m getting a new laptop any day now and I plan on going back to Linux after maybe a decade on Windows. What works best for gaming nowadays? Is manjaro good for that? I prefer a distro with a nice name but of course that’s not the central thing. I’ll also do some book keeping, writing et cetera but I don’t think...

Where can I buy linux stickers?...

Couldn’t find the project in my browser history or Lemmy saves. I’m pretty sure it was Lemmy though that led me to find a GitHub project similar to OSTree. It sounded like it was maintained by one person and it hasn’t been updated in a long time because the author thought it was “done” and they used it frequently....

I am trying to install Fedora KDE 40 on my HP laptop alobside windows 11 on a 40 GB partition. for some reason, installation works fine but gts stuck at ‘Generating initramfs’ i cant see any other issues and USB access is fine. what could be going wrong?

The Linux ecosystem is vast and diverse, offering a multitude of distributions to suit every need and preference. With hundreds of distros to choose from, it’s a pity that most are rarely mentioned while the popular ones are constantly being regurgitated....

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Just picked up a 128GB USB A/C stick that can go on my keyring. What are some things I should put on it to have access to at all times?...

A Shell DSL that transforms into Python....

How does Linux it self or some other software on Linux address what Crowd Strike is doing for Windows?...

I have a NTFS drive for Storage, which is shared between Win 11....

I would like the Firefox profile manager to open when I run Firefox from the GNOME 3 menu, be it the DashBar or the native menu. I installed Firefox using Flatpak....

Maybe Canonical will be the next Crowdstrike

Hi, all. Finally migrated from Kubuntu to Debian 12 over the weekend. It’s working great, as I figured it would, with one exception: The system isn’t turning the monitors off after 10 minutes. It’s blanking them, but they’re clearly still on....

I am using unattended-upgrades across multiple servers. I would like package updates to be rolled out gradually, either randomly or to a subset of test/staging machines first. Is there a way to do that for APT on Ubuntu?...

What was the last version of Windows you used before hopping on over? This includes the Linux greybeards too....

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/37281970...

Sorry to be a bother, but I’m hitting a wall here, and my google-fu is not strong enough apparently. I’m trying to reinstall a Home Assistant VM on my server, (It’s been a while, and I have no idea how I did it originally). Running: virt-install --name haos --description “Home Assistant OS” --os-variant=generic...

to my shame i did not know how to customize the nmtui default colors (for the sake of my own health and mental stability). after reading a bit, i found out it uses the so-called newt backend with the whiptail app....

According to this issue, it looks like there are no plans, understandably, for making a version/fork of nsxiv but with native Wayland support....