linux

Just curious to see what people are up to. I’ve been using Nixos for a while. It’s fabulous and I have absolutely no reason to switch, but part of me is itching to hop to Debian or maybe OpenSUSE. How about you?

Linux is super fragmented (and generally has been historically)....

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/16098493...

I have a few family members that I help support. For instance, I installed Linux Mint on my grandmother’s PC. She doesn’t know any different and my young cousin doesn’t understand it so he finally stopped giving it viruses. I used to use TeamViewer to take over her PC when she needed support but I got my account banned...

There exist a few linux hardware vendors (laptops, pcs, phones) out there. Is the community using them?...

Source: JetBrains’ “The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023” survey

I personally wouldn’t touch Discord with a 10 foot pole but figured any privacy-focused people who use it may want to know this.

let me land, i started working in this place and they asked me to maintain the internal linux distro as well. fine, sure....

So I’ve been running Windows on my gaming system and Linux on my laptop for Uni for a while. I chose this to discourage working instead of relaxing, or gaming instead of working. However, I am finding that I often get the opportunity to work from home and I find it easier to just use my laptop on the go (I have a dual monitor...

Does anyone have a recommendation for distros that would work well on a 2011 MacBook Pro? It’s in decent shape and as far as I know there’s nothing wrong with it. I figured I could use this as both a learning opportunity for myself and a way to give the laptop a second life. I’ve done some research the past few months and...

I was curious as to what prompts people find are the best for development? I’m looking for a change from the generic debian:...

Something tells me Fish is not a capable login shell? It was in /etc/shells, but that does not mean it’s a login shell right? Would any shell with job control be a login shell? I’m really scared to logout! Any help is appreciated....

I was wondering if anyone here has attempted the new “COW filesystem for Linux that won’t eat your data”....

Everything I read says it’s a feature enabled in what ever compositor you choose, if your compositor supports it. Why isn’t there a general purpose keybinding program like setxkbmap? Does it just not exist yet or must it be built into the compositor?...

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GNOME search can’t calculate stuff. krunner on KDE is increadibly powerful. Is there anything I can do to make GNOME’s search a bit more like krunner? at least do basic math …

SUSE, the global leader in enterprise open source solutions, has announced a significant investment of over $10 million to fork the publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and develop a RHEL-compatible distribution that will be freely available without restrictions. This move is aimed at preserving choice and...

Hey. Just for fun, I wanna make a Tumblr blog where I introduce every POSIX utility listed in IEEE 1003.1 XCU. I know about the reputation of Tumblr and I think it is a neat thing to do, some kid may stumble upon the blog and know what POSIX is....

I have about 3000+ packages installed in my system (nix-system) right now. As I search for neofetch on the internet, it seems people only have about