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On Ubuntu (and probably other distros as well) it’s as easy as going to Settings>Accessibility>Reduce animations and then turning it ON. This seems to apply to most applications, like firefox, discord and spotify....

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 15 to July 22.

I have seen lots of talk about tuxedo and system 76. But not any about think penguin brand. Are they any good?

Hello! I use virt-manager as frontend for KVM, and I’d like to set the mouse movement mode to “absolute”, that should fix weird mouse problems in the VM for certains applications (games at most: minecraft mouse lock does not work with the default setting). If I go into the VM settings, under “Mouse”, I get:...

My friend was running firefox on linux mint, and it froze and he used xkill to kill firefox. But still it shows up in htop ps -aux. He tried to kill it multiple times but it didn’t work. See the pictures for explanation. We had to kill power to shutdown, even systemd can’t stop that process....

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 07 to July 14.

The context is that I found out that Firefox stopped supporting MacOS Mojave and Sierra, and it seems to me that not long ago Google stopped supporting Chrome on Windows 7....

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I use the MX Linux distribution (Debian-based) as my dual-boot. Recently, I’ve started building a new PC, the crux of which will be a Radeon RX 7900xtx GPU. Since it showed up before everything else, I crammed it into my current PC to replace a GTX970 to test and play around....

I’ll need to mirror print stuff regularly (flip across the vertical axis), and I’m trying to make the process convenient....

I am using Ghex and Bless and both of them display the value of my gold but I cannot edit it. I am missing something?

I’ve tried searching around and stuff but I couldn’t find a working solution...

I’ve come into a 2018 Intel Mac Mini, its got an i7 and I’ve upgraded it to 32gb of RAM. I feel pretty constrained on MacOS as I mostly just game. How function are eGPUs under Linux? I’m pretty comfortable on Linux, its what I use on desktop daily. But I’ve never tried anything with external graphics on it. Xorg seems...

Linux has made significant strides, and in 2023, it’s better than ever. However, there are still individuals perpetuating a delusion: that desktop Linux is as user-friendly and productive as its mainstream counterparts. After a few discussions on Lemmy, I believe it’s important to provide a clear review of where Linux falls...

I have an SSD from a PC I no longer use. I need to keep a copy of all its data for backup purposes. The problem is that dd reports "Input/output error"s when copying from the drive. There seem to be 20-30 of them in the entire 240GB drive so it is likely that most or all of my data is still intact....

Hello! My old laptops hard drive packed it in, so I got a new one and now need to flash drive an operating system on it. I think this is my time to give Linux a proper go. I tried it before for my gaming PC but switched for a cracked Windows key because I was young and not bothered to learn....

I tried making it work, but I failed to. Can someone post a screen of a working rule set up for it?...

Is it possible to burn the live iso of tails on a partition of main drive and boot into it from the grub , i already tried using dd but it always ended up corrupted and unmountable i tried to boot the partition from the grub command line but it cant even read the partition. Is it even possible?

Title. Bought a new Logitech G502 Hero mouse, and it has a button that is meant to be a “DPI Shift”, which is to say that while held it sets the DPI to a value, and when released, returns it to a previous state....

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I have just installed the tmuxinator 3.0.5 ruby gem with gem 3.2.5 and the –user-install parameter, and to my surprise the gem was installed to ~/.gem/ruby/2.7.0/bin/....