I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
Download xz Utils infected distro version
Hi ! I want to demo the backdoor usage and would like to install a unstable/test version of a distribution (possibly Debian or Fedora) that had the backdoor (v5.6.0 or 5.6.1 of xz/liblzma and patched openssh for systemd notification)...
Suggestions for filesystem.
Hello all,...
Uuh grub? (programming.dev)
nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?...
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Windows is hell, i need to do something
Yo linux team, i would love some advice....
Raspberry Pi Connect: an easy-to-use way to access your RPi remotely, using just a web browser (www.raspberrypi.com)
Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (www.redhat.com)
The tl;dr is: pretty much Silverblue for RHEL
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System Extensions from Flatpak – Happenings in GNOME (blogs.gnome.org)
Help me choose a distro/stay on NixOS
Disclaimer: I know there’s a lot of questions and posts like this but generally they’re aimed at noobs. I consider myself an intermediate user, and I know generally distros don’t matter much and you can have anything another distro has on any distro but I’m looking for something a little “specific” that better suits...
G-Hyprland | Garuda Hyprland | what is new in it ?? (youtube.com)
forum.garudalinux.org/t/…/36387 - Garuda Linux “Bird of Prey” (240428) released.
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Testing if VRR is active and working
I recently updated to fedora 40 and enabled the experimental setting to get VRR running. But I am an idiot who has been playing at frames rates between 30-60 on screens without VRR for almost all of my life so I can’t even know if VRR is actually working or not. Is there some rest I can run to see if VRR is functional¿? If...
SparkyLinux 2024.05 released (sparkylinux.org)
Opinions on KDE Plasma 6
is there a download manager for Linux that just works? (libreddit.oxymagnesium.com)
Something as simple and as convenient to use as internet download manager...
How do THESE guys use Linux? - Linux for Noobs EP 0 (www.youtube.com)
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KDE Plasma needs stability (www.youtube.com)
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System76 DKMS Drivers for Silverblue
I need some help figuring out how to install all the DKMS drivers, and firmware manager, firmware daemon, etc on Silverblue....
My /var/tmp folder is endlessly stacking up on "container_images_storage_xxxxxxxxxx" folders? (slrpnk.net)
The issue at hand: My /var/tmp folder is stacking up on literary hundreds of folders called “container_images_storage_xxxxxxxxxx”, where the x’s present a random number. Each folder contains the following files called 1, 2 and 3 as seen in thumbnail. Each folder seems to increase in size too, as the lowest I can see is the...
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Can someone explain Universal Blue (and images based on it) to me?
I think I get the idea of Fedora Atomic (Silverblue, Kionite, etc.), but I do not get what uBlue is about....
Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust (Interview) (www.youtube.com)
Very interesting and understandable explanations of low level architecture and filesystems, namespaces, userspace, kernel functions, drivers etc....
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General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.4 Stable! (almalinux.org)
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SSH login without user name? (docs.gitlab.com)
I was reading GitLab’s documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user’s name it is associated with....
KeePassXC 2.7.8 Improves Bitwarden 1PUX Password Import and Passkey Support - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
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Help updating to Fedora 40
Hello, I’ve installed Fedora 38 (KDE spin), about the time it came out and need a little help updating it....