linux

I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about CachyOS recently. Has anyone here tried it? It seems interesting and I might give it a go (currently on EndeavourOS) on a spare drive in my PC.

Each time I try AMD graphics, something is fucked for me. Back with fglrx, fglrx just sucked, so I used Nvidia. Then I had an AMD right around when they finally had opensource drivers, but it was still buggy as hell. So I went with Nvidia again (first a GTX 790, then a GTX 1060). In the meantime I had a new work notebook where I...

Anyone ever have cryptsetup just start hanging after entering password on boot? This seems like it’s going to be a fun issue to try to resolve…

The beta versions of Lubuntu and Kubuntu 24.04 are out, showing that there’s room to improve on the standard Ubuntu formula. The beta announcements for Lubuntu 24.04 and Kubuntu 24.04 don’t reveal quite as much information as the Lubuntu’s alpha-test announcement did. The Reg FOSS desk looked at the two Qt-centric remixes,...

I host a few small low-traffic websites for local interests. I do this for free - and some of them are for a friend who died last year but didn’t want all his work to vanish. They don’t get so many views, so I was surprised when I happened to glance at munin and saw my bandwidth usage had gone up a lot....

I haven’t made the switch yet, and I want to know if Linux can run my favorite games.

My friend works for a company which requires her to use Microsoft specific application, she didn’t really want to switch to Win 11 and choose to just use Wine Linux package and install a 2016 version of MS office on her Linux laptop. That’s all well and good, but this company she is working for servers other clients at...

The OnePlus Watch 2 has 2 chips, and basically runs a lightweight OS while keeping the hungry one in very very low power, and only powering it up when necessary....

can someone else use my machine as a router to forward traffic to anywhere else on the internet?...

Electron is a widely hated framework on Linux, but what about the alternatives like Neutralinojs?...

Last night I was nearly tearing my hair out trying to get a crappy inkjet printer installed when I turned to ChatGPT for help; 5 minutes later it was done (driver issues)....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14581344...

I wrote a blog post about my experience with the Minisforum V3 AMD Tablet, focusing on how Linux/Fedora/KDE works on this device and how Linux performs on the tablet devices.

Either pxe netboot or usb or installable. Immuttable or not. Ramfs. With a host selector or fully auto login ?...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13038090...

Hello, I’m a bit new to advanced linux and programming stuffs… Can someone explain me why compiling exists and what this process does and how to do it in the principals situations (I’ve heard that you can use the “makepkg” command). Thx to everyone who replied.