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I seem to be noticing a little bit of a trend lately that the out-of-box experience and overall quality of “mostly should just work” desktop-focused Linux distributions has declined. Usually, you could grab an .iso of distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro etc, install it and have a decent enough platform out of the box to...

I used Ubuntu in my college for some light programming and felt really happy about it....

I have only used mint,pop,and nobara on my pc,I tried vanilla but didnt like it, Is there any good ubuntu based distro thats easy to use? I can use the terminal fine,I also want gnome 44

Hey there. Just started my journey with lemmy and am not so much a fan of using it in a browser. Is there some linux app I might try? (I use arch btw.)

My mom has a business and mostly uses Windows and Mac OS X; I mentioned Linux because it could help save money....

sigh...

I made switch back to Windows some time ago, but I notice I use open-source programs anyways and I do not enjoy modern video games which is why I think about switching back to Linux. Below is two issues holding me back from switching right away;...

I want to mirgrate my Nextcloud instance from a VPS to server in my home. I run the Nextcloud AIO Docker container, which uses Borg backup. The backup repo is about ~70 GB....

I was wondering if anyone could tell me where the location for the icons-only task manager settings file is for plasma? I have a number of custom icons I’ve made, and it appears that the default mouseover/hover effect does not work with them. For icons I have not changed, the icon “lights up” or gets a wash over itself...

So a week ago I wiped my SSD and tried Kinoite and Bazzite. I switched mostly for a fresh Wayland experience with Plasma and also so that I don’t spend too much time tinkering to solve some minor issues ( well it didn’t go as expected)....

I have some video files which have stereo audio tracks that were created from a mono source. I think the mono signal got sent to the right channel and not the left because when I created the files in OBS I forgot to select mono audio recording. When I play the videos all the sound is on right side only. Hope that makes sense…...

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Just switched over my windows 10 gaming rig to PopOS, and have gotten it to work pretty well, with some minor bug squashing....

I have created a network namespace to separate connections through a VPN, and it runs as the same user account as I use for everything else; however, it is not able to play music/use microphone...

Some examples from mine setup:...

I followed all steps: I disabled network manager’s automatic search for networks with sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager.service, I executed sudo ip link set wlp4s0 down as well, sudo macchanger -r wlp4s0 returned [ERROR] Could not change MAC: interface up or insufficient permissions...

ubuntu xfce 23.10, macchanger and ip (cli applications from the repo)...

I just got a Solo 2C+ NFC, but when I hold it up to the back of my phone, the web browser launches and loads solokeys.com. It doesn’t seem to do anything as a security key....

I am using vnStat to monitor network bandwidth on a Debian host that has several Docker containers. Because of the containers, there are several interfaces in addition to eth0....

I was wondering if anyone else has had luck configuring SVP with MPV on wayland (AMD). I followed the archwiki wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mpv...

So, instead of this:...

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/linux/t/834931...

Hello, I wanted to use hyprland on fedora silverblue but I couldn’t find any image. I found this image however when I rebase to that image it drops me into rescue mode after reboot. :(...

Short term: I’m trying to automate transcribing a list from:...