What is/was your distrohopping journey?
For me it was:...
Gaming vs Regular Distros
TL;DR: Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro? Or is it more of a “this is the least work” to get setup?...
Wireguard self hosting - Some tricks I don't see mentioned in too many tutorials
I just finished setting up my Wireguard VPN “server”. In this post I want to spread some information, I could’ve found useful but which didn’t come up in most of the Wireguard tutorials....
Audio with pipewire not working
Hi everyone...
KDE often not sleeping when idle
I have KDE set to Turn Off Screen after 5 minutes and to Sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. This works when I first turn on the machine, but eventually stops working after a few hours of general use (mostly Firefox, VS Code, and some Steam games). Sometimes the screen isn’t turning off at all, other times the screen turns...
State of S3 - Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore (blog.jeujeus.de)
In this article, I aim to take a different approach. We will begin by defining a laptop according to my understanding. The I will share my personal history and journey to this point, as well as my current situation with my home and work laptops. Using this perspective, we will explore the current dysfunctionality of the standby...
Is it possible to parse a rss reader through ffplay?
Title. Basically, a lower panel that shows the latest news, etc (fetched from a rss link or a sequence of rss links) while scrolling left (ala CNN). Why? I’m trying to make a “smart clock” of sorts that shows a live stream, a real time clock and -also- the latest news – all crumbled together in a single screen....
CentOS Stream & Hyperscale SIG showcase (aka. "how to make Enterprise Linux suck less") (www.youtube.com)
I found the talk really interesting, especially how CentOS-Stream means SIGs can fork the hell out of it....
Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the distro I was looking for was the one I've used all this time]
I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....
In a nutshell – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 162 – Firefox Nightly News (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Linux Mint Will Hide Unverified Flatpaks in Software Manager (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Setting up a swap file on top of using swap-to-zram for Hibernation purposes? (Fedora 40)
So here’s my situation:...
How Linux-Based Firmware Boosts Performance in Routers and Networking Equipment (www.linuxjournal.com)
7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing (www.howtogeek.com)
AMD Hiring To Improve Their Linux Driver/ROCm Installation Process Across Distributions (www.phoronix.com)
A screen recorder in the Browser?
I wondered, Browsers work really well, are already there anyways, have all the GPU stuff etc already dealt with. They also have portal support so Wayland works great....
I deleted windows and installed linux (youtu.be)
Not op but thought this may be interesting
Run Flatpak apps by search filter or through fuzzy finder menu (gist.github.com)
I wrote a simple script in order to help someone in a recent reply from me, to make running Flatpak applications from terminal easier. After that I worked a little bit on it further and now ended up with 2 completely different approaches....
How do I create partitions on debian 12.5 to install other distros in the same M.2 SSD?
I’d like to install linux mint xfce 21.3 and xubuntu 24.04 alongside the already present debian 12.5, but I don’t know if I have to create the partitions before installing or if I’m guided to create the partitions while installing....
Schenker shows off a Linux laptop prototype with Snapdragon X Elite at Computex 2024 (liliputing.com)
Manjaro or Pop!_OS for (Nvidia) gaming on Steam?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16149785...
Security considerations between Xen vs KVM?
publication croisée depuis : lemmy.world/post/16156662...
Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Now with Firefox support) (github.com)
is there an arch Fork where I can compile every package myself?
In order to be able to Further configure my system, I am looking for a fork of my current OS (artix with openRC as init system) in which i am able to compile every package from source in order to Further configure it with make flags. I am currently not using gentoo, and because the packages in its default repos are only updated...
Your Experience with Linux, BSD etc
The fact that you get a full OS for free, customizable and no crappy forced in features that you don’t want is amazing....