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I’m your regular end user. I use my computers to edit text, audio and video, watch movies, listen to music, post and bank on the internet…...

Hi, I’m having issues with the file picker on my arch system. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all. If I press “Upload file” in a browser, nothing happens, no window pops up. It doesn’t work in other apps either when that happens. It sometimes starts working after a restart. Does anyone have any ideas? Let me know if you...

I have 2 screens attached to my EndeavourOS (KDE Wayland) PC. The secondary is HDMI the primary is Display Port. The boot menu and boot messages all appear on the primary display, but once the login appears the password entry defaults to the secondary. How do I force it to default to the primary?

on my last post I wrote device is a redmi 9c. Turns out it’s a redmi 10c and the custom ROM I wanted to install xdaforums.com/…/rom-13-unofficial-lineageos-20-0-… won’t work....

I am aware of the switches you can pass to each app to make it use native wayland, but is there any way to do it globally?

I was thinking about using graphene OS, but I’ve read some lemmy users dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising and the pixel 7a you’re supposed to install graphene on because it’s from google (an advertising company)....

I can’t seem to get it to work. I always get these errors in the terminal when running the spi flash tool that they recommend:...

most guides I found online are for windows based computers and those that even name linux are outdated....

Git repos have lots of write protected files in the .git directory, sometimes hundreds, and the default rm my_project_managed_by_git will prompt before deleting each write protected file. So, to actually delete my project I have to do rm -rf my_project_managed_by_git....

Hey everyone, I wanted to give my feedback with Linux on a new CoPilot laptop....

I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years....

Whats your fav kanban board for linux (and android)?...

Hi everyone, I got my e-drum kit to successfully work in reaper, using yabridge for the VSTs. Shortly after, I found another way in which linux audio is different than windows. While using reaper, I am unable to play audio from any other source. Through research, I discovered that it’s because I’m using ALSA and that I need...

Hey, I wanna know your preferred laptops, used is better and to run Linux on it. Something with at least 16gb and 512 SSD is good. Budget range. Thank you!

Linux Mint as been in development for over 15 years. Its good for them to get some press coverage and positive attention....

Hi everyone :)....

I use VLC,Keepass,Kdenlive and few other QT Apps on my sway setup. So, wanted to configure their themes from Sway. I installed qt5ct and qt6ct and did export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct in bashrc and .profile. While runnin echo $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME it is showing qt5ct but it is not working showing that error message that...

Would this work or would I have problems:...

target OS is debian or linux mint

I like used Thinkpads. I bought a T430s off eBay and used it for several years. Recently I got a T570 from work. It had a screen issue, so I bought a new screen. That didn’t fix it so I bought a new mobo, but it has a loose drive connector so won’t boot. Just now I killed it for good by putting an nvme in a sata slot lol....

How do I restore rofi to the default config files

According to the archwiki article on a swapfile on btrfs: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Swap_file...

I’ve been trying to find a linux programming similar to Rufus to flash images of OSes on a thumb drive....

I want to extract and process the metadata from PNG images and the first line of .safetensors files for LLM’s and LoRA’s. I could spend ages farting around with sed or awk but formats of files are constantly changing. I’d like a faster way to see a summary of training and a few other details when they are available.

Hey,...