Moving to a Linux distro for dev
I’m a long time Windows user who has experience with WSL. Last year, I needed a laptop for university, and out of laziness, opted for a Macbook since, although they’re expensive as hell, are reasonably reliable....
Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
OpenBSD Desktop - x61.ar (x61.ar)
Linux kernel Rust coding guidelines are heretic.
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3....
Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal
Hi friends,...
oh no 😧 (youtu.be)
A Blog to Satisfy Your Monthly COSMIC Fix(es) (blog.system76.com)
Are we (linux) ready for Arm devices?
Are we (linux) ready for arm devices like snapdragon elite X? Asahi runs on mac os with arm chips and the software somehow runs better than macos itself?! Is the softwares packaged for arm linux different? Is there much softwares available for the arm platform like softwares available for the intel/amd chipsets?...
Stable, consistent workstation recommendations?
First, thanks for reading and commenting....
Zed editor: Linux when? (zed.dev)
In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who’s been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed’s Linux version and how it’s taking shape
It's not about “Flakes vs. Channels” — Samuel Dionne-Riel (samuel.dionne-riel.com)
#AsahiLinux: Fedora 40 now available for Apple M1/M2 machines! (social.treehouse.systems)
Fedora Asahi Remix 40 images are now available on asahilinux.org! 🎉...
sharing my simple wireguard kill-switch for Linux
In light of the recent TunnelVision vulnerability I wanted to share a simple firewall that I wrote for wireguard VPNs....
Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0 (news.itsfoss.com)
Announcement: I have created a new Samba community
I have created a new Samba community on lemmy.sdf.org...
[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
libwacom and Huion/Gaomon devices (who-t.blogspot.com)
Packaging Davinci Resolve into a Flatpak (github.com)
Davinci Resolve is known to be extremely picky about hardware and software. It officially only supports CentOS which doesnt even exist anymore lol....
Caps lock is slow on linux (lemmy.kde.social)
Hi all, I have already asked this question on the KDE forum and didn’t get many responses really, so I’m coming here for help. Any idea how to fix the caps lock key and make it work faster instead of THis? Thank you
I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! (i.imgur.com)
Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....
Finally made the move (lemmy.world)
Just don’t ask how long it took to get my dGPU working properly :D But thankfully, there were a bunch of helpful folks with tips!
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)...