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dsemy , in Lobotomizing GNOME

dconf can also be configured with text files (with a format similar to ‘.ini’ files), although enabling this support isn’t trivial, and it’s not the most well documented feature.

I also used to run a ”lobotomized” Gnome, but TBH I found it easier in the long run to start from a minimal base.

stsquad , in Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

What does the AUR get you that a:

…/configure --prefix=(pwd)/install make make install doesn’t?

ralC ,

Installing dependencies automatically mostly

bonfire921 ,

It gives you a lot of convenience, auto updates, and dependencies. While it is nice being up to date by checking the git and making it by yourself it is much more convenient to have a package manager for it when you have many Make packages

Titou , in what is the best privacy distro?

Tails

oscar , in I've upgraded my GPU. And could use some help...

When does it hang? If it’s after you log into your user, you could try to instead when on the login screen open a shell by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2, uninstall Nvidia drivers and install mesa drivers. Or maybe at least investigate further.

empireOfLove OP ,

yeah it hangs way before the login screen. It basically hangs immediately after exiting GRUB and goes directly to a flashing cursor.

elltee explained it above.. MX Linux’s stable distribution is on kernel 5.10 and I need kernel 6.x (part of their advanced hardware support release) to get AMD RDNA3 drivers. So I’ll most likely be doing a full reinstall unless you know how to replace kernels in place.

INeedMana ,
@INeedMana@lemmy.world avatar

I have no idea what MX is but maybe you could just compile your own? It’s not that hard. If you’re going to wipe the system anyway, it’s an opportunity to mess around a little and learn

Just remember to

  1. backup old kernel AND initrd
  2. have a rescue usb in case it completely stops booting up
  3. choose modules that are used for your hard drive and filesystem as built into the kernel, just in case
  4. you should be able to copy the CONFIG of the old kernel in the repo and use it (as the wiki proposes)
  5. remember to sleep
empireOfLove OP ,

Not sure I’m feeling adventurous enough to be compiling my own kernel at this stage in the game. I might do that for some of my homelab machines as an experiment but my main computer really needs to be drop-in and go with full stability.

targetx ,
@targetx@programming.dev avatar

You should be able to boot into runlevel 1 easily and upgrade the kernel using the steps someone else already mentioned. No reason to reinstall the entire system.

gbin , in Your best terminal aliases

Interesting, git do support aliases too. “git st” etc What is .load.sh?

phantagom , in Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?
@phantagom@klingon.nl avatar

Brew on Linux?

ono , in LXD is now under Canonical

I wonder if this means LXC (which seems neglected lately) and LXD will soon be maintained by different people.

InverseParallax , in LXD is now under Canonical

Used it once or twice then stopped, prefer raw lxc or even just manually creating namespaces if I want control.

Never quite understood the point, the additional polish seemed fairly minimal from a utility pov.

They should take over proxmox or something, give themselves a complete story.

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

The point is that you want management, easy ways to create images, backups, move container between hosts, orchestration, network management and sometimes not only container but also virtual machines. LXD does it all very well and if you don’t want those resources you might as well use systemd-nspawn.

They’ve taken over Proxmox. Not sure if you’re following but they have now a WebUI and the entire solution is magnitudes better than the crap Proxmox has been offering.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, bullshit. The minimal interface that Ubuntu offers isn’t even a pimple on the Proxmox front end, and doesn’t touch the filesystem, clustering abilities and backup solution that’s the equivalent of Veeam IMO.

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

There you are, calling bullshit on my post while deleting your own where you clearly demonstrated close to no experience with LXD and its clustering capabilities. lol

The minimal interface that Ubuntu offers

Once again your ineptitude is palpable. Ubuntu doesn’t offer anything, the WebUI is a part of LXD.

And yes LXD’s WebUI released “yesterday” is objectively better than Proxmox and it does touch storage and clustering.

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InverseParallax ,

I haven’t been following, but that’s actually good to hear, proxmox needs a better ui.

LXD, I suppose for the migration, but for any more complex orchestration I think you’ve moving to k8s or something more serious, LXD just has an odd “not enough but too much” feature set for me, I like things either push-button, or let me do it, this is kind of both.

TCB13 , (edited )
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

for any more complex orchestration I think you’ve moving to k8s or something more serious

I guess it depends in your use case. If you’re taking about “regular” applications LXD/LXC might not be your best fit. LXD/LXC seem to very good for the more low level infraestruture related solutions. In contrast, whatever is typically deployed with k8s that is mostly immutable very reproducible and kind of runs at a very high level.

LXD is more about what might power that “higher level” layer, more about mutable containers, virtual machines and very complex stacks that you can’t deploy with docker most of the time. As excepted people with those needs greatly leverage cloud-init and Ansible in order to get the reproducibility and the automated deployment capabilities that the Docker “crowd” usually likes.

InverseParallax ,

Ah, ok, understood then, it didn’t fit my use-case or workflow, it works for others, my bad, appreciate the correction!

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Not a correction, it has its uses :) I would never deploy a web app and its API, database etc. using LXD, makes no sense, k8s is way better for that.

Mount_Linux ,

I do that with lxd, but I have written ansible playbooks (almost like dockerfile? ) to automate the lxd containers. You could probably write some automation for scaling as well, but not something I’ve done, I have just opted for high availability with ceph & keepalived. Whatever works for your use case :) I do use some docker, but this is still nested inside lxd…

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

I also do playbooks to deploy stuff some stuff with LXD, but my end users only like Docker so, I kind of setup the infrastructure that allows them to deploy Docker on top of LXD containers that are deployed using Ansible.

tabby ,

I don’t know if I want a project as cool as Proxmox owned by the “you will use snap and you will like it” Canonical

x2XS2L0U , (edited ) in KDE connect on xfce?

I used it on i3wm without problems. Just install and use it

InverseParallax , (edited ) in DEBIAN 12: More Relevant Than Ever as a Linux Desktop

Its my main workstation and it’s pure debian: everything you need, and it just works.

Using an amdgpu and it was probably the easiest install I’ve ever done. No snap bullshit either, kde came up first go.

Debian is taking the unique approach of “not shooting themselves in the dick by trying to push features everybody hates”.

Hizeh , in what is the best privacy distro?

How does Void Linux rate on the security and privacy front compared to the top recommendations in this thread?

IncidentalIncidence , in Anyone still using Sailfish OS ?

I kind of wish I had played with ROMs and stuff earlier. I still like the idea, but I don't use it because I use mobile payments so much that it would be a PITA not to have that working.

suprjami , in Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux
@suprjami@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

This makes no sense to me. I’ve had h264 decoding on Firefox with VAAPI for years.

SteveTech ,

Mozilla has finally blessed Intel graphics hardware with the open-source VA-API video decode stack to enable that hardware acceleration by default.

Think it’s enabled by default now.

But yeah, I’ve also had Firefox with VAAPI working with Intel Arc for a while too, I just had to set some stuff in about:config.

ScotinDub , in Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux

As a layman, what does this mean roughly? Videos played on youtube will use more GPU than CPU?

I_like_cats , in Wayland Protocols 1.32 Brings Three New Staging Protocols

Good to see that wayland protocols are still being worked on. If only they would merge ext-layer-shell

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