Iām setting up FDE and wonders which one is better. āLVM over LUKSā or āLUKS over LVMā? Or something else? Does one is definitely better then the other? What are your preference?...
It depends where you want your encryption. If you want all of your LVM volumes to be encrypted at once then you want LVM over LUKS. If you want volumes with different encryption, or no encryption, then you want LUKS over LVM. You can also do LUKS over LVM over LUKS if you must but thatās kinda dumb.
LVM over LUKS is more common as generally people want to encrypt everything.
I use ZFS native encryption, so I guess thatās closer to LUKS over LVM for personal preference.
I don't think #Plasma6 is ready for prime time. When I open apps, the title bar goes above the screen space and I can't move or close the app or use the menus.
Or disable the -testing repos and reinstall the offending packages. Itās in extra-testing and kde-unstable, with the latter being 2 revisions newer than extra-testing. So clearly theyāre fixing some issues.
So far, I have to say that my #KDE#Plasma6 experience sucks.
The theme I was using doesn't work. The icons all suck. EventCalendar, which was synced to my Google calendar is dead. Vivaldi looks like crap. The panel at the bottom of my screen is floating up probably 100 pixels, leaving useless space below it, I can't find a way to sink it to the actual bottom of the screen. I had increased all my font sizes because my eyes are bad, they have all shrunk and changing the font sizes and the interface percentage doesn't fix it.
Also gotta keep in mind this is a major release. Itās allowed to break stuff, and the very first release is bound to have some bugs. Weāre far into the Plasma 5 lifetime, a lot of the quirks have been ironed out.
It literally just came out, of course a lot of things havenāt been updated for it yet. Most peopleās distros donāt even have it yet, addon authors donāt even know their addons are broken yet.
Correct. Nouveau is the kernel driver, like amdgpu for AMD, and mesa is the userspace driver that provides OpenGL and Vulkan, where NVK is the Vulkan driver for NVIDIA cards. Technically you can have multiple drivers installed at once, for example on AMD we have AMDVLK in addition to RADV, both open source, one managed by AMD the other by mesa. Old game needs a patched driver to work? Yep, you can wrap that in a Flatpak and make it work.
The kernel driver doesnāt do anything with Vulkan, it just provides all the stuff to configure the hardware like enabling monitors, setting their resolution, setting up memory, sending commands. It mediates access to the GPU. What commands get sent to the GPU is generated by the userspace drivers, like NVK, specific for the GPU. The GPU doesnāt really speak Vulkan by itself, thatās why we have to compile shaders for example: except instead of compiling for x86 or arm, you compile for whatever instruction set your GPU supports.
It might be possible to make it work with the proprietary kernel driver or the new open-source one from NVIDIA. And NVIDIA could in theory also make their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers compatible with nouveau, but I doubt that will ever happen.
Question about the order of FDE steps with LUKS and LVM
Iām setting up FDE and wonders which one is better. āLVM over LUKSā or āLUKS over LVMā? Or something else? Does one is definitely better then the other? What are your preference?...
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default (www.phoronix.com)