linux

New Arch Linux user running KDE....

As you may have seen from other posts on planet.kde.org, KDE’s annual Akademy conference is over and people are starting to blog about their thoughts on it!...

A brief tutorial on “How to make Conky work on SwayWM” and I presume on other Wayland desktop systems, as well."...

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 15 to July 22.

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6745537...

I wanted to post all the workaround and configs I needed to make Linux Mint work on the Lenovo Legion 5i Pro 2022 so others who need the help can find it on a non-reddit source. This will also be helpful for when I inevitably hop distros or break my system because I am a crazy person....

Like, to make folders/categories/collections of them so you can collapse groups in the sidebar?

I got a Lenovo Ideapad recently—which is a particularly awesome graphics latptop/tablet combo, by the way—and threw KUbuntu on it. Everything went smoothly, and their official site was especially helpful in getting Windows 11 off of there and KUbuntu on it. It’s responsive, light weight enough to be portable but heavy...

With the increase popularity of the linux desktop and the steamdeck, will new viruses and malwares be developed for linux systems? should we better use an antivirus?

I cant be the only person who wants all of my terminal applications to use same color scheme. It frustrates me that almost all terminal apps seem to set their colors with no respect to the 16 I chose for my terminal palette. I understand that more than 16 colors are sometimes useful, but additional colors could easily be...

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/501388...

Update: The guide on github has been updated and has addopted a different method. Notably, it: A) still accomplishing my goal of avoiding running the process inside as root. B) uses the linuxserver.io image rather than the syncthing/syncthing one (my method does not allow for the linuxserver.io image to run), the linuxserver one...

I want mpv to continuisly play files in my music videos folder even when i pick a new one

In reaction to the recent announcements by RedHat, AlmaLinux is shifting focuses slightly:...

From Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD...

So I know my way around Linux pretty well. However I never really got the gist of the difference between Snap, Flatpak and Native packages....