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Hello together. I try to use a systemd path unit, to monitor a directory structure. But as of now, I was only successful for the top level directory. The unit should be triggered, if a new file is written to either the top level of the monitored directory and also, if there is a new file in any of its subdirectories. I don’t...

I recently opted to move from XFCE to KDE Plasma after hearing so many good things about the KDE desktop environment. While I like the desktop interface/experience a lot more on KDE, there is one glaring issue… I can’t remote into it....

I decided to yay resolve-davinci but it takes a WHOLE DAY to build(Building CXX object). Why? I have Ryzen 7 1700x and its usage is only up to 25%

If I have Linux installed on an SSD and I plug it into a Windows computer (a PC which I did not use to install linux onto the SSD), would I be able to use linux in that PC from the SSD?

I’ve been using linux for some time now, i would still say i’m quite a noob but i’ve tried different desktop environments, for my experience i found GNOME to always be suited for me, anyway i heard many good opinions on KDE and i would love to try that too, i’ve tried cinnamon before and couldn’t really see myself...

Hey all, I had a frozen screen during the latest update and am left with a kernel panic on boot, so I want to restore my system from an external hdd using a live usb system. I tried that using timeshift and following this guide ostechnix.com/how-to-backup-and-restore-linux-sys… and now it seems I only have an empty /boot...

Reading Robert Love’s Linux Kernel Development. I’m just a hobbyist. I’m familiar with hardware manufacturers listing CPU cores that each have two threads....

my copy of Vivaldi seems to be terminally broken but everything i have tried to remove doesn’t work. after using the scudo purge it is still in my start menu and it stills boots up in a broken state...

I tried reinstalling the plugins several times, including neovim itself and I always get this...

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I have the unique pleasure of waiting as /usr is copied back to my Ubuntu SSD after offloading it to a sea of spinning rust to save some space. Surprise surprise Ubuntu keeps almost everything in /usr these days and it didnt boot :l but hey, at least BusyBox in initramfs has my back for times like these. Can i mount a specific...

Is it too early to give this a go as a new Linux user? From my research online Asahi is my option but it’s still very limited.

I got an old Windows 7 laptop that was going to be thrown out and decided to put Linux on it (see previous thread here). Most people suggested I go with the latest stable version of Debian, so that’s what I installed. I’ve mostly used Windows, but I do have some experience with Ubuntu....

As the title says, FF seems to selectively forget cookies and thus requires me to constantly re-login....

I’m on Manjaro Linux with Gnome. When I attach a USB HDD to my laptop, it mounts as /run/media/username/uuid. But for some reason, it is mounted as root and not with the owner set to the currently logged in user. For that reason, I can’t create new directory’s on this HDD, after I attached this to the laptop....

I was wondering if either of the two Kyocera printers ECOSYS FS-1320MFP or FS-1220MFP were Linux compatible....

Is there some software I could use in gnome to emulate emacs prefix keys?...

Hey guys, not sure if this is a good place for this, so let me know if this post would be better suited elsewhere....

suppose I enable CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y and CONFIG_CMDLINE=“…”, but I also add a cmdline using efibootmgr via -u option, which one takes precedence and gets executed?...

I have Emby installed for my movies and TV series and it like Trakt list items under the first letter of a show or movie title after the word The or A is at the beginning. Example “The Calling” will be listed under the C’s cause both Emby and Track ignore the and a at the beginning. Issue is Dolphin will list it under the...

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So I’m using Fedora 38 with KDE Plasma I recently installed with one line I found online, and I was wondering if it were possible to remove GnomeShell. I tried using the command sudo dnf remove gnome-shell, and it gave me Error: Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: gnome-shell...

I’m using EndeavourOS. I installed btop++ as well as Disk Usage Analyzer. Both give me different disk space information....

My bachelor’s in software engineering starts in quite a few months...

Hi all, just wanted to post this here to help my community grow. It can be found at https://lemmy.zip/c/linuxscripts Please help this community evolve into something everyone can use....