KDE: update icon thinks I have a light plasma theme (imgur.com)
Since I upgraded all my devices to KDE 6 I have this weird issue with my laptop and media PC. The software update icon that sits in the tray and starts Discover seems to think I’m using a light plasma theme. It’s only this one icon, and it’s the same for all icon themes. I do not have this issue on my desktop, which has...
Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations (www.phoronix.com)
Niri, the scrolling WM, now supports touch input
NixOS for gamedev
Hiya! I’m following a gamedev degree in university. It’s been a major challenge doing it from Linux, as everything is Windows stuff (.sln Visual Studio projects, DirectX API, excel graphs…). However I’ve gotten by by making my own tools and dipping into WINE when it gets too difficult. I’m replacing my laptop due to...
Bluetooth signal strength problems in Linux Mint
I’ve been having some issues with my network card on my new Minisforum UM690S. The issue is related to both WiFi and Bluetooth, but seeing as I have now a cabled connection for internet (and it will stay that way), I am really just in need of solving this for the Bluetooth-issue. I’ve been trying to figure out how to solve...
Is the snapshot, I rolled back to using Snapper, still taking space?
A few months ago, I rolled back to a previous btrfs snapshot using Snapper. Now I am constantly running out of space, no matter how many packages I delete and I’m wondering if that is the reason. The snapshot list looks like this:...
LibreELEC setup?
How much experience do you guys have with LibreElec? I’ve been playing with Kodi on and off for years and years, but am looking at this to replace a fleet of rokus at the house after the recent terms debacle. Anyone have recommendations for UI and usage tweaks to make it easier for the family to use?...
VMWare black screen after installing all updates with Fedora Linux
So I’m trying to play around with Fedora in a VM with VMWare Workstation Player (v17.5.1) but I’m running into a problem I don’t know how to solve. I use the Fedora 39 1.5 ISO file which is the most current version that’s available for download and after installing it in the VM everything works fine. I setup the install...
Speakers don't work on Galaxy book with Linux.
I have a Galaxy Book (2017) that I recently installed Kubuntu on and discovered that the speakers don’t work, after some research it seems I’m not the only one who had this issue. Others have been able to fix the speakers using sof-firmware and verb lists, I’ve tried using lists for ALC298 but it still isn’t working, I...
How do you use NFC with a SoloKey?
I just got a Solo 2C+ NFC, but when I hold it up to the back of my phone, the web browser launches and loads solokeys.com. It doesn’t seem to do anything as a security key....
Help needed: State of graphics stack on linux for Gaming (OPTIMUS laptop)
This probably was asked countless times already, but given the amount of possible combinations of all the hardware and software, this is probably not surprising....
How YOU Help With Quality (pointieststick.com)
This week in KDE: a deluge of new features (pointieststick.com)
The truth about linux having 15% market share in India.
I am from india. These numbers are inflated due to our population and government and health sector office pc using linux (ubuntu). These office pcs just require a chrome browser and all the work is done on the browser Nobody here cares what os they use in their office pc. I don’t see anyone here switching to linux on their...
Niri release 0.1.3 - the horizontally scrolling tiling wayland WM (github.com)
GitHub - omegaui/linux-voice-control: Your personal, fully customization, Linux Voice Control Assistant. (github.com)
What does your desktop look like? (share.jackgreenearth.org)
Here’s mine. No inspiration at all taken from a certain California based company’s OS ;p...
Resticity - a cross-platform frontend for restic
https://github.com/ad-on-is/resticity...
What's your favorite terminal?
I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
Is it possible to do a Wayland only install of EndeavourOS?
I have some issues since updating to Plasma 6, so I’m thinking of doing a fresh install today. Is it possible to install just Wayland files, no Xorg?
Plasma 6 may arrive next week in openSUSE (lists.opensuse.org)
From Dominique Leuenberger at Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2024/10...
[Tumbleweed] Latte-Dock gone in zypper and local?
Hello, I just startet up my PC and Latte-Dock seems to be gone, not only my local installation, but also the package from zypper. Does someone know whats happening here?
This week in KDE: a deluge of new features (pointieststick.com)
Wine 9.4 Released (gitlab.winehq.org)
The Wine development release 9.4 is now available....