linux

I’m looking into advanced distros (like arch) and slackware is fascinating. Is it still supported/used? If you’d like to comment an alternative distro, please do.

Bought a new brother laser printer (fuck hp inkjet), decided to print something on Windows. Typical Windows could detect the printer even though it shows up in the network section as a device. Downloads and install barebone driver from brother website still refuses to work. Logged in to Linux mint 1 second later “New Brother...

I’m looking for the opinions and experience of unbiased Linux enthusiasts whose daily driver uses an arch based distro....

Problems are related to where distrobox is stashing a clblas and openblas package. It’s on the base system too, further complicating searches. I’ve tried all kinds of stuff with no luck. I hate the massive find command’s obfuscated ancient API of a full sized ANSI language specification. Python or C is easier than that...

I hopped from arch (2010-2019) to Nixos (2019-2023). I had my issues with it but being a functional programmer, I really liked the declarative style of configuring your OS. That was until last week. I decided to try out void Linux (musl). I’m happy with it so far....

Is there anybody whose had experience with both?...

Appimages, snaps and flatpaks, which one do you prefer and why?

With lots of things being developed through web technologies, and many things being web-based so that it is cross-platform, will operating systems still be relevant?...

I’m able to set the default terminal using dconf-editor at this path:...

I’m pretty new to selfhosting, but one thing that I know to take seriously is log collection. Since there are a lot of different type of logs (kernel log, application logs, etc) and logs come in many different formats (binary, json, strings) - it’s no easy task to collect them centrally and look through them whenever...

Yeah another post about backups, but hear me out....

I had a hard drive die today. I shut it down and pulled the drive from the computer, but it didn’t boot and I still couldn’t SSH into it to figure out what was wrong. Finally had to setup a monitor and keyboard to figure out Ubuntu was in emergency mode because the mount failed....

So I’ve set up pop os, everything went smoothly. But I have a problem - My pc is set to turn screens off after 15 mins, also to lock itself. But when it does that, my monitors shut down for a second, then start again so I can see it’s locked, then after few seconds monitors are blank but not turned off, led indicator is...

I have a partition on a remote computer that I mount to my laptop via sshfs. That partition serves as network storage and thus has a lot of pictures and videos on it. But it does not have thumbnails for those. I have installed ffmpegthumbnailer, but that did not fix it. I’m on Ubuntu 23.04. Any ideas?

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j/k its not a forkbomb. But it does (intentionally) make your PC sweat....

I remember in older Android releases I could enable high priority banner mode for my work emails. They would stay on top of the screen as persistent banners until I manually dismissed them. Is that still a thing?...

After booting my PC today, my middle monitor is yellow all of the sudden. It’s a TV, and the TV UI is not yellow, so it seems like a Linux thing. I’m running Debian 12 with Gnome. Night light is disabled… Does someone know what might be wrong here? (I’ve been running Debian for a month)

I am trying to rebase fedora silverblue to the image given by universal blue so that I have much better hardware decoding and encoding support(I am on a amd system). Unfortunately it fails without the following output :...

I just installed Debian and it came with Gnome Version 43.6. However, I would very much like to give Gnome 45 a try. How can I do this?