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Why is Gnome fractional scaling 1.7518248558044434 instead of 1.75? (unix.stackexchange.com)

TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism (en.wikipedia.org)

how do i transfer files via usb c cable from a pixel 6a (grapheneos) to linux mint?

How do you use your tiling window manager?

Tiling window manager users: how exactly do you use yours?...

Linux in the corporate space

I made this post because I am really curious if Linux is used in offices and educational centres like schools....

Looking for LogoFAIL on your local system – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes (blogs.gnome.org)

Raising the Bar: Introducing the new App Metadata Guidelines (docs.flathub.org)

Writing Docs with Kate - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)

GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)

Just found about the BORE scheduler from solus. Anyone know if it actually improves responsiveness for desktop use? If so why is it not used more? (github.com)

Screenshot tool for GNOME + Wayland

Can you recommend me a tool compatible with GNOME and Wayland, that allows taking screenshots with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring?...

Old ass chromebook distro recommendation [request]

Background: I’m not “new” to linux, but this is my first year daily driving it. I have been running Mint on my main PC for a little over a year, and I love it....

Solus 4.5 Released (getsol.us)

The Solus team is proud to announce the release of Solus 4.5 Resilience. This release brings updated applications and kernels, refreshed software stacks, a new installer, and a new ISO edition featuring the XFCE desktop environment....

The 6.7 kernel has been released (lwn.net)

Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the...

Linux Ubuntu Dual-booting horror

Any and all help would be so greatly appreciated. I’ve been battling with my laptop to be able to dual-boot Ubuntu Cinnamon and Windows 10 for about four days now. I’ve probably gone down five or six different rabbit-holes of troubleshooting, GRUB command-line fun, reinstalling and updating the BIOS, trying and failing to...

Help with laptop buying decision

I’m looking for a new work laptop and I’d like to jump to Linux at the same time. I was hoping to get some input from here because I’m still undecided!...

I'm Done With Windows, Are you? (youtu.be)

Why would you still want to use strace in 2023? (media.ccc.de)

Interesting watch. strace is your friend before the deep dives imo.

Visualizing ext4 (buredoranna.github.io)

[Update - Resolved] Debian 12: how do I get Gnome Files to display preview thumbnails/icons for large video files? Right now it just shows generic icons

Link to the original post: lemmy.ml/post/10090913...

Zorin OS 17: Linux for Windows Users | ExplainingComputers (www.youtube.com)

I used mokutil a while back but now it's preventing me from booting into other OSs. How do I properly disable it?

I need to reinstall Linux Mint but MOK Management is preventing me from booting into the live CD. I tried looking for a solution online but (assuming I did everything correctly) I couldn’t find anything that actually worked for me. How do I properly disable it?...

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