Which distro do you find the most visually appealing?
It’s in the eye of the beholder, of course. But it would be great to see some solid recommendations.
Immutable distros recommindation?
I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I’m choosing a distro to hop to....
Help choosing distro for old EOL Chromebook
I have an Acer Chromebook R11 which has reached End of Life and won’t receive updates (which is insane, I bought it new four years ago). I have checked, and my model is now fully supported by most Linux distros....
Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/26 & 27 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Nobara Linux Inconsistent Boot Problem
I recently an install of Nobara Linux and there seems to be an issue during boot. Sometimes it fails to boot correctly and the screen looks glitchy with random noise and colors with no obvious way to move past it, forcing a manual shutdown via the power button (a couple times it seems to have failed complete and the system...
Cannot start spotifyd.service (i.imgur.com)
All my ducks seem to be in order and the correct configs in the right place. But i keep getting this message. As you can see the file exists. It is not empty, but systemctl cannot find it. Any help would be very very appreciated....
Help with disabling mouse movement on key press
I’m using Debian 12 from a fresh install (with Wayland). The mouse I’m using is an Azeron Cyro keypad. Azeron does not offer configuration software for Linux, but the device has onboard memory and can be configured via Windows or windows emulator. Importantly, what I’m trying to achieve here is not possible on Windows...
Bazzite/any immutable distro question: every user duplicates app installs
Just installed Bazzite and it seems to work well so far....
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - June 2024 (news.opensuse.org)
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for June 2024. This month was busy with events like the Community Summit in Berlin and the openSUSE Conference, but a number of snapshots continued to roll out to users. Developers, system administrators and users receive updates designed to enhance your experience and ensure...
How to exclude flatpaks from TimeShift?
Which folders and files do I need to exclude from TimeShift?...
/media or /mnt or anywhere ? Discussion.
Where should I mount my internal drive partitions?...
Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures (cacm.acm.org)
Tailscale/synology/NFS remote access
UPDATE (13:40 ET / 2024-07-05): Got the connection working via SMB. Literally the only thing I changed was moving to a credentials file rather than specifying credentials inline, so … I’ll be trying to figure out what mystery affliction prevented the connection before. Leaving this up because there are a bunch of great...
[Bazzite] Fedora Kinoite Duplex Printing Issue (support.brother.com)
Hello! I use Bazzite Linux with KDE, and I’m having some issues with duplex printing on my system....
Running a business using linux
I’ve run a small business for over 10 yeas. I use linux. I’m grateful to the community and I use FOSS where possible....
Developing on Aeon with Distrobox (www.youtube.com)
A video from openSUSE Conference 2024 about using distrobox on openSUSE Aeon.
Getting IP address for LXD/Incus for ssh
Does anyone here use LXD/Incus? What do you do if you want to find the IP address of an instance, but incus list does not give you one? I am not sure what would be stopping one from being issued since that is how I have found that information before....
Follow up from late Linux 90s post
This is a follow up thread as I saw some posts regarding games being used on Linux such as ports from Loki....
[Bazzite] Important announcement regarding system updates [Action needed] - FYI (universal-blue.discourse.group)
Creating importer: Failed to invoke skopeo proxy method OpenImage: remote error: cryptographic signature verification failed: invalid signature when validating ASN.1 encoded signature ___...
Microsoft & Qualcomm -- Blame for Broken Arm Promises? - YouTube (youtu.be)
Is it possible to replace the wifi card on a Macbook pro 11,2 (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)? If so, are there any compatible wifi cards with open source drivers for Linux?
I am running Linux on my macbook pro and it has a Broadcom BCM4360 wifi card. Problem is that the driver for it is proprietary (or more accurately, mostly proprietary with some of the source code available), quite outdated, and I couldn’t get it to work with Linux kernel v6.9.5....
Booting Linux off of Google Drive (ersei.net)
Reviving a TUI podcast manager shellcaster -> hullcaster (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17218011...
Why do you still hate Windows?
I realize this is a Linux community, but I was wondering why you still hate Windows. I mean, I love Linux, but I will not argue that it’s more convenient to the average person in most use cases to use Windows, I recently had to switch back to Windows and I realized how convenient it all was and how I was missing so many things...