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Hi I’m looking for a retro style desktop environment (or maybe just some skin or something) for my Debian workstation. Preferably something that looks like Mac OS 9.

when i boot my computer after having run an update, my primary monitor (which should be at 1920x1080) is stuck at 640x480. interestingly, when i reboot and change nothing, it fixes itself until i run another update....

I have a hdd attached to my server. It’s sda but has 2 partitions so sda1 @16M and sda2 @3.6T It defaulted to being in the location /media/devmon so I kept that and it worked for ages. Suddenly the data is gone. I had files located here: /media/devmon/4tb_drive/kiwix/zim and that directory is now empty. But I put the drive...

See title; I’m considering it, but the courses bundles are expensive

UPDATE (13:40 ET / 2024-07-05): Got the connection working via SMB. Literally the only thing I changed was moving to a credentials file rather than specifying credentials inline, so … I’ll be trying to figure out what mystery affliction prevented the connection before. Leaving this up because there are a bunch of great...

is there a bookmark manager like jabref for linux url bookmarks?...

So, I have my desktop configured with two drives, one has a regular windows install on it that I need to play games with my brother. That works fine....

CVE-2017-5226 is a issue with bubblewrap that allows a program running in a sandbox to excape and get the same privileges as a the parent process. I recently discovered this by mistake and it is fairly concerning to me. I believe it applies to Flatpak as Flatpak uses bubblewrap under the hood....

back when I used ubuntu derivatives I used privoxy and edited the config file to route all my traffic through tor....

I’ve installed a new battery on my laptop, but to my surprise, the percentage of charge in the battery is at 0. Here’s the upower diagnostics:...

I am running Linux on my macbook pro and it has a Broadcom BCM4360 wifi card. Problem is that the driver for it is proprietary (or more accurately, mostly proprietary with some of the source code available), quite outdated, and I couldn’t get it to work with Linux kernel v6.9.5....

Hello. I recently created a notification daemon which uses eww widgets for its front-end display. So if you are already using eww, give it a go....

I’m looking for a Fedora 38 workstation iso. I cannot seem to find one. Fedora 40 doesn’t seem to want to play nice with my surface pro 7. Any help would be appreciated.

I’ve been on Linux for close to a year but I’m still kinda a newbie and the past 40 something hours have been really testing me....

The cursor randomly enlarges every now and then. Anyone else experiencing the same problem? If so, have you solved it?...

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So I’ve been playing Forza Horizon 4 for a while without any issues using a XBox One Controller via Bluetooth. First i used Proton experimental and later Proton GE. Absolutely no problem....

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?

Maybe Canonical will be the next Crowdstrike

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i want to share audio over network so that i can use my tv as a wireless speaker. so i chose obs studio to make a stream out of my system audio coz i had it installed already. i went to settings -> output (advanced) -> recording (custom) and set ffmpeg output to output to url and set the url to udp://192.168.43.87:8081 and set...

I have Fedora and Windows installed in the same drive in my laptop. The drive has 512GB and it’s divided so that each OS has 256GB. Fedora’s partition is encrypted using the option it shows in its installer....

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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 watched this video where they talked about how someone installed Linux on their Google drive. Like, installing everything in Google drive, not finding some Google client. Storing the /* in Drive....