what does this mean for Flatpak?
should i be worried installing these two? what does it mean though?...
Vivalidi 6.8 released (vivaldi.com)
[Question] Manjaro, out of curiosity question, does the image on boot has any security implication regarding logoFAIL?
Hi everyone :)....
[Question] Using DD to make a backup of an OS drive?
Would this work or would I have problems:...
Linux and public awareness (ads, trailers etc)
Hear me out, the big players in the Linux space I.e. Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE could release trailers commercially on TV and social media to general users who may not be tech savvy or have a “basic windows” lingo in IT....
Building and distributing binaries
It’s been a long day and I’m probably not in the best state of mind to be asking this question, but have you guys solved packaging yet?...
Smallest Security/Privacy Focused Distro Help?
I’ve been doing some scouring and my search results are coming back confusing. Usually either incomplete information, or some kind of sales spam, so I’m reaching out in the hopes of recommendations for actual linux users and fans. I am looking for a very small, tiny even, security/privacy focused distro. I don’t mind doing...
Zed Decoded: Linux when? - Zed Blog (zed.dev)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is so buggy you can't install the OS [video] (www.youtube.com)
HN Discussion...
Is anyone using VMware under a Wayland host?
I’ve been using VMware Player (free version) for a while now and it’s been working fine. Recently I switched to Wayland and VMware’s grab input behavior broke. The guest gets most keys correctly but Alt and Super are intercepted by the host. Clicking on the vm also gives me a remote desktop popup on the host prompting to...
Throwback to DistroTube supporting "Gun Rights" (www.youtube.com)
EDIT: To clarify, I do not support this channel and the stated opinion regarding gun rights!
No wifi on Linux Mint. Macbook pro 2017
Finally decided to convert to the penguin. I have live booted mint from a usb, without installing it yet, on a macbook pro 2017. But none of the WiFi networks in my apartment are showing, except for a few weak ones. Help a newbie out :)...
NVK is now ready for prime time (www.collabora.com)
(SOLVED) Linux Laptop Gets Stuck on Black Screen After Suspending, No Way to Use Unless Restarted With Power Button
Recently bought a new laptop that comes with an AMD Radeon gpu and installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed on it which I had installed on my previous laptop as well but never had issues with suspending and resuming. However, with the new laptop, I am unable to resume after suspending or closing the lid unless I force it to shut down by...
Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits (arstechnica.com)
I made a mistake **RESOLVED**
last year when I went back to Arch from Manjaro, I made a critical error. I’m not sure if I was just tired when partitioning things off or what. but I made my root only 20GB instead of the 50 that I had intended. I know in a lot use cases that’ll be fine, but in mine, not so much. with steam compat taking up 1-2gb and...
What are your thoughts on a possible NixOS without systemd?
I like the idea of nixOS and will definitely try it in the future to see how portable I can make the setup be (hopefully a couple of files that can configure the entire machine)....
[Resolved - now using Onboard] Any recommendations for an on-screen keyboard like the one that Windows has. The one that comes with Gnome is annoying to use... (lemmy.world)
It pops up and down from the bottom of the screen when I don’t want it to
Is anyone using awk?
Studying and awk came up....
I need some help with linux energy management and hibernation
Hi there!...
Bored With Bash? Change the Default Shell in Linux (itsfoss.com)
Using Linux for the first time
I’m going to replace my host os on my shitty laptop with Linux specifically puppy Linux or alpine Linux from scratch and I need to know how will I get started and make it easier for myself, I use a HP notebook 540
Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper Review (www.phoronix.com)
Not that this is a surprise to some of us.
Non-root user that (suddenly) has elevated privileges in a specific command (only). [Have I been hacked?]
Title. Long,short story: creating or editing files with nano as my non-root user gives (the file) elevated privileges, like I have ran it w/ sudo or as root. And the (only) “security hole” that I can think of is a nextdns docker container running as root. That aside, its very “overkill” security-wise (cap_drop=ALL,...