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Im very paranoid about getting into piracy and im not sure if i should or it or not but there are so many things i want that i cant afford....

EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You’ll hear no complaints from me!

I used Ubuntu once a few years ago but had compatability issues so I went back to windows. Not a great programmer but I’d like to learn. I’m not looking to do much gaming beyond DOOM2 and factorio. Mostly looking for privacy and a way to get back into programming (I have this pipe dream of learning Assembly). I’m not to...

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Most applications provide you configuration files that are data / text based. Whether it is toml, JSON, yaml or some other format, you are usually defining values for pre-determined keys and that’s all....

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4274796...

I recently ran across SpiralLinux - GitHub page, and found the concept of how the maintainer is packaging it very cool....

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Researcher bags two-for-one deal on Linux bugs while probing GNOME component • The Register

After booting my PC today, my middle monitor is yellow all of the sudden. It’s a TV, and the TV UI is not yellow, so it seems like a Linux thing. I’m running Debian 12 with Gnome. Night light is disabled… Does someone know what might be wrong here? (I’ve been running Debian for a month)

Celeste is a GUI file synchronization client that can connect to virtually any cloud provider....

My Logitech G Pro wireless does not work unless replugged at every boot. Is there any workaround/fix? Or is it a persistent bug? I’ve been experiencing this across multiple distros and wireless mice...

… and I absolutely love it....

OK so on windows my soundblaster x4 can output both the spdif digital output thing and the analog audio to my headphones at the same time and use the volume knob to adjust the volume of them so one gets louder the other quieter....

Today, in coordination with Ilya Lipnitskiy (the maintainer of libcue) and the distros mailing list, the GitHub Security Lab is disclosing CVE-2023-43641, a memory corruption vulnerability in libcue. We have also sent a text-only version of this blog post to the oss-security list....

In xfce (thunar) i see window where i enter the root password and can use the ssd...

I’m not sure how accurate StatCounter is, given that most Linux users use adblockers. However, according to it, Linux has almost a 14% desktop share in India.

Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text....

For now I found calcurse (calcurse.org), which also supports synchronization with Google Calendar. But I’m wondering what other text-based calendar apps you are using?