is the nouveau project mostly dead? how continuous is development on it?
its trello page shows no sign of life, issues that are years old with no recent activity exclusively
are tiling WM good only for terminal?
I only tried a tiling WM for a few days several years ago. I am ok using the terminal but not everything can be done easily there. In the screenshots of people setups, there are always fancy terminals. Are tiling WM good also for other GUI a part from terminals?
When is Cinnamon 6 expected to drop and is it an automatic download?
Any Advice? Ubuntu on Panasonic Toughbook. (lemmy.world)
Hi everyone, Linux noob. I am installing Ubuntu on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-33. I was wondering if anyone had advice regarding drivers as the toughbooks have quite a few I/O ports, dual cameras, cellular antennas, and attached keyboard etc. Any advice is appreciated or even resources on where I could go to learn more about...
As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?
Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.
Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (ludditus.com)
This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I’m not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I’m sharing it.
Poll: GUI framework for widgets/apps in Wayland (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Hello everyone! I’ve been playing around with Wayland for a bit and was hoping to start learning some more about it. For example, I would be interested in making a lock screen, similar to Swaylock, as a toy project....
Just moved to linux
So I’ve been wanting to try to move to linux for the past few months but have been waiting to be done school, so I could the MS office suite behind me. I’m mostly writing this to share my experience for people who are considering switching....
How do I get virtual sorround sound working?
You have heard the story “I have moved to Linux (arch btw).”, well… this is also my story. Anyways I have problems with my headset’s virtual surround. I realized that almost all of the drivers are just simply not working on Linux, but also that there are a bunch of alternatives. I have a HyperX cloud 2 (it was cheap),...
Got two shit tablets for free, want to install mobile linux distros on them. Any reccomendations?
Hello! I’ve got 2 alcatel 1T7 tablets completely for free from my internet provider some time ago, didn’t use them at all because the thing is lighter than a rasppi. Want to tinker on it now, thinking of installing a linux OS for more freedom on what to do and also to degooglify the tablet. Any recommendations on OS...
Linux doesn't serve birth time attribute over NFS
According to this Phoronix article, Linux should support the birth time attribute in the NFS server since 5.18. However, it doesn’t show up in the stat output when looking at the file through the NFS mount, or elsewhere (at least, the Dolphin file browser and also a macOS client):...
Stat command shows birth *after* modify time?
Any explanation on how this happens?...
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/50 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
This week in KDE: un-flashy important stability work (pointieststick.com)
The Wine development release 9.0-rc2 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
Waydroid and the DRM issue | How to play DRM protected videos on Waydroid?
I managed to install waydroid after a long and rather stressful installation process, but now that I have installed it, I am realizing that since Waydroid doesn’t come with DRM software (or malware) installed with it, it won’t play no videos, which is one of the reasons I installed it. Is there a way I can run drm protected...
This week in KDE: un-flashy important stability work (pointieststick.com)
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux...
why hasn't canonical embraced, extinguish and extended microsoft??
if microsoft is loving linux and open source just to extinguish it, then why doesn’t canonical or other linux company do the same but for all microsoft services?? something like this:...
#126 New Apps · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
The TuneD Project - Tuning Profile Delivery Mechanism for Linux (tuned-project.org)
TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux. It:...
KDE Ships Frameworks 5.113.0 (kde.org)
Techniques and methods for obtaining access to data protected by linux-based encryption (doi.org)
Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available. (kbin.social)
Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....