Is it only me, or do you find all those "I deleted Windows"-posts annoying too?
TL;DR: I wonder why we always have the same 2 posts as top posts of the day. They appear a bit unnecessary and mildly annoying to me....
What if I paid for all my free software? (www.cynicusrex.com)
I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?
Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.7 - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
Ruffle (a open source re-implementation of adobe flash player) reviews improvements made in 2023 (ruffle.rs)
what's a normie KDE distro?
Looking for a normie KDE distro that works out of the box and is stable without issues.
Silverblue: Run ostree updates at shutdown?
Fellow Fedora Immutable users, have any of you automated your system updates to occur at shutdown? If so, do you find it makes a practical difference?...
Podman Issues
I’m currently trying to run distrobox with podman. I’m getting the following error: Resolved “debian” as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/shortnames.conf) Trying to pull docker.io/library/debian:12… Getting image source signatures Copying blob 1b13d4e1a46e done...
Lazarus hackers now push Linux malware via fake job offers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024 Is the year I will commit to ditching windows
2024 will be the year I finally be the year I ditch windows....
Running Firefox & Thunderbird through a webserver?
There is KASM VNC, which easily allows to run whole Desktops or single Applications through your Web browser....
Villa: Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL? (lwn.net)
Luis Villa writes about the recent ruling in the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL-violation lawsuit against Vizio, wherein the judge refused to agree that the SFC lacks standing to sue.
I finally nuked windows
I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...
Gaming Latency on Linux: Gnome vs KDE Plasma (www.youtube.com)
saving and restoring arbitrary sessions including terminal and GUI --- impossible?
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/9585677...
What is going on with /sys/kernel/notes ?
Any thoughts on why cat /sys/kernel/notes gives me:...
Flatpacks - installing within Distrobox?
Hi there - I’m trying to make use of flatpaks, but keeping them isolated from my host (as I need to experiment with a bunch of settings and I don’t want to bork my host environment. Again.)...
This week in KDE: auto-save in Dolphin and better fractional scaling (pointieststick.com)
Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s - Ceph (ceph.io)
Energy Efficient X Compositors?
Hi! I’m currently using XFCE on my laptop, I was previously using Compify as my compositor (XFWM is quite rough), but stopped when I noticed I could no longer get through the day on one charge. My battery life doubled when switching back to XFWM. So I was wondering if anyone knows of any X compositors that have a focus on...
Hans Reiser on ReiserFS Deprecation (ftp.mfek.org)
creating an alias of a command with plenty special characters
Hello all, I wan to create an alias of this command: alias dockps = “docker ps --format “table {{.ID}}t{{.Names}}t{{.Status}}t{{.Ports}}””...
Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol (www.phoronix.com)
The Linux DMA-BUF protocol for Wayland is widely used these days and supported by multiple compositors for negotiating optimal buffer allocation parameters between clients and compositors. The current fifth version of linux-dmabuf was marked as stable with it working out well and no need for any other changes before removing the...
What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?
I’m personally using NewsFlash at the moment, and it’s perfectly fine, but its borders are completely incongruous with my theme, I assume they’re based around Gnome and I’m on Plasma, so I’m looking for a new one and was wondering what people here use?...
Help w/ crash (lemmy.world)
Any advice on where to go from here? This console was running dmesg -w to try and catch an intermittent crash… And this is what I got. I am using an el cheapo USB wifi adapter that I’m suspicious of....