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possiblylinux127 , in [SOLVED] Fedora 40 won't boot with Kernel 6.8.10 or above

It looks like it is booting fine to me. If you get to systemd the kernel is at least mostly working

Eyck_of_denesle , in End-rs : A notification daemon for WMs using eww for their widgets

Why not ags? It’s superior to eww in every way.

IsoSpandy OP ,

Well there is a simple answer to it. I didn’t know about it.

The project looks quite cool though.

That’s the beauty of FOSS. You can do whatever the hell you want to your system. Fuck up the kernel if you so wish.

PS, I looked into the wiki and it is really cool, especially since it uses a proper language. I will try it some day but for now… I am totally burntout setting up eww. Maybe on my next rice I will give it a go.

Eyck_of_denesle ,

I was in a similar situation like yours. Eww is very time consuming. It’s language is weird. Ags on the other hand has excellent support, documentation and other important features like SYS tray module. It also supports typescript along with js.

toastal , in LibreWolf or Mullvad Browser? Thoughts, comments, concerns?

Hardening aside, I like that LibreWolf actually lets you turn on JPEG XL.

tun ,

How can I do that?

toastal ,

IIRC it might be on by default (tho this would hurt anonymity if you can request JXL files & stock Fx cannot), else open about:config & search for “jxl”. Upstream has kept this flag—toggle on or off—only working in Fx Nightly.

themusicman , in Can I use 1 hard drive and timeshift for 2 pcs?

Not sure whether timeshift supports multiple systems per partition, but I’d be very surprised if you couldn’t create separate partitions for each PC

dr_jekell , in Can I use 1 hard drive and timeshift for 2 pcs?
@dr_jekell@lemmy.world avatar

A partition for each one the drive should work alright, but it may turn to custard if they both try to access the drive at the same time.

WeebLife OP ,

It won’t be an issue for both PCs to access it. I’ll try making another partition. Thanks!

dr_jekell ,
@dr_jekell@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not so much both computers being able to access it.

From what I have experienced Timeshift tends to lock a drive when it is doing a backup.

If computer 1 is doing a backup and computer 2 tries to start it’s backup it may fail without you noticing.

Giving each computer their own partition on the drive should alleviate the problem.

WeebLife OP ,

OK, thanks for the clarification. I wasn’t planning on having them using the drive at the same time so I shouldn’t have any issues.

Pacmanlives , in Can I use 1 hard drive and timeshift for 2 pcs?

Just read up on Timeshift and that should be do able. I would just point them to diff folder names the host name. If your doing BTRFS snapshots it’s a little harder but still do able. You can look at the native send-receive support in BTRFS. I have never used it myself but it worked really will with ZFS

WeebLife OP ,

OK, thank you.

WeAreAllOne , in Linux Mint

Check maybe you have run out of space in your boot partition. Maybe you have to remove old kernels.

xilona ,

Best advice! +1

lord_ryvan ,

I’ve never had this, at best that Mint refused to update the kernel if it was full but never booting issues

nostradamnit , in Linux Mint

if you type exit, it should re-enter initramfs with the exact error, probably a disk error. If so, it will tell you to run fsck on a specific disk.

Check this Ask Ubuntu question - https://askubuntu.com/questions/137655/boot-drops-to-a-initramfs-prompts-busybox

eezeebee OP ,
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

This seems to have worked, got my desktop back. I did fsck on something like /dev/sda9 then answered yes to fix a bunch of things. Thanks for your help.

nostradamnit ,

Great to hear that it worked :D It is a very common error condition.

Tehdastehdas , in Linux Mint
@Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world avatar

Mine did that when I chose not to format the “/” partition when installing.

MonkderDritte ,

Didn’t have the tooling for the fs?

Btw, i’m native german, why is it “didn’t have” and not “hadn’t”?

Tehdastehdas ,
@Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world avatar

No, can’t be lack of anything, it was the regular Mint 21.3 installer image overwriting Debian on a normal ext4 formatted partition. Nothing should have gone wrong. Reinstalled with formatting on, and it started working.

“Hadn’t” means “had not” (not done in the past), not “had not” (lacked possession). I’m Finnish and might be wrong.

Corr ,

Replying to say this is correct regarding the grammar

ziviz ,
@ziviz@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Adding even more grammar, you could use “Had no”, for lack of possession, like

It had no tooling for the fs?

CallOfTheWild , (edited )

Native English speaker. I started to write up an answer but the more I dig into it the more confused I am.

The subject and predicate need to agree for a sentence to sound normal. “It hadn’t” uses “had not” as the predicate which implies past action and needs a verb to sound normal.

You could say:

It had not installed the tooling.

Or It had not verified that the tooling installed correctly.

In it “It didn’t have” the predicate is “have” so a noun can follow and sound normal.

You could say:

It didn’t have the tooling.

Here is where I’m becoming confused.

Usually you can remove negatives and extra words to clarify grammar. In the sentence “It had the tooling” the predicate is still “had” but it doesn’t imply action so a following noun is fine. Also the sentence “It did have the tooling” is grammatically correct but sounds wordy and would probably be found in a legal document or technical write up. Why does the grammar change when you add a negative? “It hadn’t the tooling” sounds ridiculous but logically it should be fine if “It had the tooling” is fine! This is driving me crazy.

Somebody who paid more attention in English class will have to correct me. I guess we’re just going with " English is weird and it sounds better that way".

therealjcdenton , in Is there a text editor/notes app that adds Unicode symbols?

Kate…?

domi , in [SOLVED] Fedora 40 won't boot with Kernel 6.8.10 or above
@domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

This sounds very similar OP: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/…/119111

Doctor_Rex OP ,

Thanks for linking the thread, I spent a whole day looking through fedoraproject threads, don’t know how I missed this one. Again thanks.

Mwa , in Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

Man i hope linux becomes more popular

lazycat ,

I see multiple posts on reddit everyday asking for advice for migrating to linux. I think linux userbase is increasing a lot since Window’s questionable recall announcement.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

And the valve steamdeck But some people install windows on it which defeats it’s linux purpose

blind3rdeye ,

Nevertheless, Valve’s work with proton has pretty much crushed the argument that Windows is needed for games. That use to be a major sticking point, preventing people from leaving Windows - but now not so much.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

If you play games that requires anti cheat It’s gonna be harder to switch

masinko ,

A lot of mods are also windows locked too.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

Oh

MonkeMischief ,

Nexus mods is working on a Linux client which is really exciting! Also Steam Workshop works on Linux. This covers a ton of use cases.

Not saying everything is 100% perfection, but it’s easier than ever to switch, and only getting easier.

I imagine “Windows locked mods” would probably also benefit from just disconnecting the internet and keeping it set up just the way one likes it, since MS is gonna drop Win10 soon.

That’s the case with WMR VR headsets. Sadly don’t see those getting cracked to work on Linux any time soon. :(

masinko ,

I just saw the news for Nexus mods like 20 minutes after I posted that. Hopefully it can be integrated well soon.

But yes, over time, things will continue to get better. Even Nvidia finally started working on open drivers for their GPUs.

dustyData ,

Almost all anti-cheats work on linux or offer linux integration or builds. It’s the scummy unethical publishers who run the typical games that uses anti-cheat who refuse to pay engineers to make the minimum effort to support linux. Because it would undermine some of their bullshit claims used to manipulate their players. Fortunately for some people like myself, the typical game that requires anti-cheat is not a game they would want to play anyways.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

Ohh okay I have never seen a anti cheat that supports linux

BeMoreCareful ,

Also vr support

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

Halflife alyx?

BeMoreCareful ,

There’s some other good ones too, but fair point

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

I just found out halflife alyx is windows only but maybe proton

BeMoreCareful ,

VR as a whole is pretty borked on Linux so far.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

oh okay

TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe ,

I feel like both “people who install windows on the steam deck” and “people asking for advice for migrating to linux on reddit” are just vocal minorities which you encounter on the internet but don’t really influence the Statcounter’s results in a meaningful way. Generally (from my view) it’s the kids who got a steamdeck for xmass and the coders who use ubuntu for work influencing the numbers.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

true and the kids want to play their favorite game but they cannot on steam deck or its hard

TheDuckPrince , in Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%

If only linux gaming and thermal became more and more robust, in few year I will switch too with pleasure. Adobe suite can still be a problem but not for me anymore at least.

bouh ,

Playing on Linux for a year now. I wouldn’t say it was flawless, but a lot has to do with me learning how to do it correctly. Like using steam and heroic game launcher, trying a different version of Proton or wine, and it’s beginning to be very easy now that I have the right recipe so to say.

TheDuckPrince ,

Good to know, the main problem is that a good % of gamer doesn’t have time to a tryhard with different version of things, drivers… I have skill to setup a linux gaming machine but I don’t have time to do this. If Linux gaming becoming more and more straightforward (not as windows but similar, starting from gpu driver), more and more ppl could ditch at least windows second partition.

bouh ,

I must be clear that the problem is not that it rakes time to do the things if you have the right recipe to do them. It takes time to find it when you make a mistake.

The good way is simple: you need a system that’s well updated, so debian stable is not ideal and that was my first mistake. You need to use Proton on steam, or heroic game launcher for gog. And that’s it.

The setup for these things is straightforward, simply follow a guide for your OS.

Things got better and better in the last 2 years, and they’re still improving. I would argue that today Windows is not better. People learned how to install graphic drivers on windows, and any setup on Linux now is not harder than that.

autotldr Bot , in Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A change proposal has been filed by Red Hat engineer Miro Hrončok for retiring Python 2.7 within Fedora 41 and to drop packages still depending upon Python 2.

We do not wish to simply orphan the package, as we are afraid it would not receive proper care if taken by somebody else.

If there are potential maintainers interested in maintaining Python 2 in Fedora beyond Fedora 41, they can talk to us and demonstrate their ability and will to take care of Python 2 by joining the maintenance early.

Users who need to run their application in Python 2 should do so on a platform that offers support for it.

Developers who still need to test their software on Python 2 can use containers with older Fedora releases or unsupported CentOS/RHEL versions."

The F41 change proposal still needs the approval of the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo), but it will presumably proceed – well, assuming GIMP 3.0 finally releases this summer so as to not block the Python 2.7 removal.


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Granixo , in Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7
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What i really look forward to is that the FD41 LXqt spin uses LXqt 2.0

flubba86 ,

Oh nice. I used lxqt a couple years ago while I was taking a break from KDE Plasma. I liked it, light and fast and simple. I didn’t know v2.0 is coming out, I’m definitely going to try it.

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