linux

For the past few months I have been working on a simple windows notepad like text editor. It’s nothing special, but when I first switched to linux I looked around and it took me a while to find leafpad. Unlike leafpad however, Janus uses gtk3, a much more modern toolkit then gtk2, it can display and modify binary data, and it...

For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy....

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i did update my machine with pacman -Syu. after rebooting, i cannot login. i con see this error Failed to start Virtual Console Setup a tiny second right before log in screen. i had to capture it in slow mo to able to read it. i attach the image below....

I’ve been using fedora but I would like to try something new and I think about arch linux but I don’t know if it’s good for gaming. What do you think?

Where would I look for a list of what network chips are supported in any given kernel? I’m looking to build my first computer designed from the ground up for Linux and want to be sure that the Ethernet port and WiFi chip will work without needing to do anything special.

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Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

Back in October I bought myself a new shiny SSD to finally make the first step of leaving behind Windows....

I’ve got this idea in my head that I want a tofi based sound board that I can summon on a button press (and maybe fuzzy find through)...

Anyone ever have cryptsetup just start hanging after entering password on boot? This seems like it’s going to be a fun issue to try to resolve…

I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about CachyOS recently. Has anyone here tried it? It seems interesting and I might give it a go (currently on EndeavourOS) on a spare drive in my PC.

I often hear folks in the Linux community discussing their preference for Arch (and Linux in general) because they can install only the packages they want or need - no bloat....

I host a few small low-traffic websites for local interests. I do this for free - and some of them are for a friend who died last year but didn’t want all his work to vanish. They don’t get so many views, so I was surprised when I happened to glance at munin and saw my bandwidth usage had gone up a lot....

can someone else use my machine as a router to forward traffic to anywhere else on the internet?...

I haven’t made the switch yet, and I want to know if Linux can run my favorite games.

Either pxe netboot or usb or installable. Immuttable or not. Ramfs. With a host selector or fully auto login ?...

Hello, I’m a bit new to advanced linux and programming stuffs… Can someone explain me why compiling exists and what this process does and how to do it in the principals situations (I’ve heard that you can use the “makepkg” command). Thx to everyone who replied.

I’m using bluez and blueman all updated and i get this error when connecting to multiple devices(DS4 controller, phone, earbuds). It says Connection failed: No audio endpoints registered. I have tried extensively to solve this but I can’t seem to find the issue. I’m using arch linux. I’ve also used bluetoothctl to try...

The OnePlus Watch 2 has 2 chips, and basically runs a lightweight OS while keeping the hungry one in very very low power, and only powering it up when necessary....

Hi, I would know what are the differences between the vm-designed Kali Linux ISO and the “normal” one. Yes the vm-designed one is as “vm ready file”, already configure and all the stuff… but what are the real differences, for example it says on the website that the vm one is isolated, but is this already not the case...

The only game I have ever played is FIFA on a PS4. Now I have a gaming laptop but have no idea how I should go about playing games on Linux. Appreciate your help in advance!

i tried to get kde plasma on my fedora, when i booted it up there was just a black screen. i couldn’t type any commands either, it was toast...

I’ve installed Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 6 on it, but the widget system tray is not working as intended… Does someone have a solution? THX https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/83a1f69f-5670-4261-b04e-0884ba732cab.png

Hi all, I don’t know if this is the right place to post this…let me know :)...