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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28037255 > Hey hey people. Relatively new Arch user here, but not new to Linux in general. I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma on this HP laptop from 2013, and I've been enjoying it a lot after spending a long time on Mint/Cinnamon. > > But, I've noted that KDE is a bit slow on this machine, and is probably a bit too much. Earlier today, I decided to try out something lighter, and installed LXQt on it as a second DE. The experience was *okay,* with much improved responsiveness, a nice customizable retro look, and overall simpleness that still did the job mostly. But I also ran into a few issues that probably had to do with having two different DEs on the same machine and user. One thing in particular ended up annoying me so much I went back to KDE: The Discover app would just *refuse* to play nice with setting a dark theme on the rest of the environment, even when I tried setting it up with qt6ct. > > So now I'm considering going to XFCE instead, as I probably should have done from the beginning. I just wish it had Wayland support already (I know it's being worked on). Do you have any suggestions or tips for me in regards to this? I'm sure a lot of people will recommend their favorite tiling WM which I'm not sure I want to get into. > > > Also, other than that, upon returning to KDE, I found that my Discover would crash when trying to update Flatpaks (the only thing I install through it) and started thinking this experiment somehow broke it.... but it's Flatpak itself that seems to have an issue today. Might have to do with the latest curl update? Dunno if I should make a separate thread for that. > https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-discover-broken-with-latest-curl-update/21475
So, I was told you can take any distro, pair it with any desktop environment, and badda bing, badda boom, unique linux in the room! And a few years ago I tried getting into linux, and it didn't work. I didn't like ubuntu. I want something that's basically like Windows 98. Closest thing I found was TwisterOS. Well, I had some issue with one program, and I'm an idiot on linux. Have no clue what I'm doing. So the guides tell me to update the thing. So I do that, and the fan in my case stops working. Aye-yi-yi! I never got it to start working again, and I just said screw it, I'm not dealing with this. Put it in a drawer, and haven't touched it in about a year. Well, now I'm think I'll just start fresh. Install a new distro, and since Ubuntu seems to be the one with the most support, I'll use that. Then I find out that LXDE visually is more in line with what I want. So I figure I'll slap on ubuntu, slap on LXDE, and then install retropie. And hopefully the fan will work again. So I start researching this LXDE, and the home page wants you to download the desktop environment already baked into a DIFFERENT distro! Wait, hold on. Am I wrong in thinging you can just download a desktop environment, and slap it on any distro? Because it might be me. I have no clue what I'm doing. And even though this is lemmy, when I searched for "Ubuntu Help", there's no community named that. There's also no community named "Linux help". Which I find very very odd. Lemmy of all places you'd think would have a linux help community! This place loves linux. Does everyone just always know what they're doing at all all times? Or am I just going crazy? I feel like I'm walking blind into a forest and bear traps line the ground. I have no idea how to even start this process....
[Here is the needed desktop file](https://github.com/boredsquirrel/Linux/blob/main/Desktop%20Entries/org.kde.dolphin.desktop) Place it in ~/.local/share/applications/ Right click the Dolphin icon and select a profile!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20329962 > Linus has released the **6.11 kernel**. ""I'm once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out."" Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files, support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write operations in the block layer, the dedicated bucket slab allocator, the vDSO implementation of getrandom(), and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries ([part 1](https://lwn.net/Articles/982034/), [part 2](https://lwn.net/Articles/982605/)) for more information. >
[Here is the guide as text](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/hdctools/+/master/docs/ccd.md#making-your-own-suzyq)
www.phoronix.com
The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-level, they are going a bit further down the stack now to develop forks of several APT components that power package management on Debian/Ubuntu systems.
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linked from: https://programming.dev/post/19267200 > In its current plan, the EU commission intends to cut €27 million in funding for Free Software. The article has a link to a questionnaire that you can fill out and express your opinion about the plan. I believe non-EU citizens can participate as well.
radicle.xyz
Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.
Linux maintainers are unwilling to get rust into the kernel, so some rust folks decided to start writing a new kernel with same ABI. This allows them to make new architectural decisions. An example being their "frame kernel" (something between a monolithic kernel and a microkernel). If I may say, it's more legible and the tooling is way better, right off the bat.
Awesome talk by Jay Lacroix: about his life from a poor boy walking to a payphone in the rain, to call Microsoft to unlock his Laptop - to a Linux sysadmin who uses the time frame for all his certificates as a motivator, because he has ADHD!
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/19007507 > For context: > I've encrypted the swap partition with: > ```bash > cryptsetup -v luksFormat /dev/${DEVICE} > cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/${DEVICE} swap > ``` > > And what I want is for the user to be able to enter their password only once to decrypt their root partition which would contain a keyfile to then decrypt their swap partition. > > Does anyone know if this is possible? > Just thought I'd ask to see if anyone's done this already > > ### Links: > - [Dm-crypt Unlocking - With a keyfile embedded in the initramfs](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Device_encryption#With_a_keyfile_embedded_in_the_initramfs) > - [Dm-crypt - Automated unlocking and mounting](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_a_non-root_file_system#Automated_unlocking_and_mounting)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13008257 > SUSE just open-sourced a typeface :)
I've tried every tutorial I could find. From symlinking the desired terminal to gnome-terminal, or using the update-alternatives command to using the gsettings command to set the default terminal. Nothing works. What is the definitive way to set the default terminal for this GUI action? And why is this so hard to do?! I'm on Fedora if it's relevant.
H1_SD is the name of a MicroSD card I'm connecting, it does connect a second later, but it's annoying to keep dismissing this error every time. I am also getting it with regular SD cards and USB Drives regardless on which USB Port I've connected it to, and which format it's been partitioned too. NTFS, exfat, fat all respond similarly. **EDIT** Welp, I was able to brute force a "fix". There appeared to be an issue with the Nemo configuration between 21 and 22. Not sure what the issue was specifically, but deleting the users ~/.config/nemo and a reboot fixed it for me.
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/15787798 > [Archived version](http://web.archive.org/web/20240829085549/https://ofb.biz/safari/article/1240.html) > > Naomi Wu has disappeared. Perhaps she has been disappeared. That’s not rare in China. > > [...] > > The proximate cause of her apparent disappearance, as Jackie Singh explains in detail here, was a discovery that Naomi Wu, an experienced coder, had made. It seemed that the cute little cellphone keyboard applications developed by the Chinese company Tencent, and used by just about everyone, were spyware. They could log keystrokes, and did it outside of even very secure applications such as Signal, so things that were sent securely could be “phoned home” by the keyboard app itself. > > It seems, though the evidence is coincidental, that this was one too many cats let out of the bag, and the Chinese communist government of Winnie Xi Pooh acted quickly, with the results (probably understated) in the Tweet quoted above. > > [...] > > The silence has been deafening. People on the internet, especially young, enthusiastic websters, have long been thought unbelievably shallow, in it for whatever they could get out of it, and unwilling to take a stand on something important unless there was profit in it for them. We needn’t think that anymore — now we know it’s true. > > What can be done? [...] Our government won’t lift a finger even for American citizens or very well known Chinese figures trapped under the thumb of the Disney-character’s evil lookalike, or the Uyghurs, unless there’s some political gain to be had, such as with the tattooed LGBT WNBA player who couldn’t be bothered to leave her dope at home during a visit to Russia. > > [...] > > China was afraid that silencing Naomi Wu would make the government there look bad. Let’s prove them right.
Should be a very common issue KeepassDX + KeepassXC, Android to Linux. Synced with Syncthing. I do a change on the password manager on one device and on another, Android killed Syncthing again so now I have 2 files, one called "sync conflict". Both files have some new change, I need to keep both. When using the import feature in KeepassXC, I think everything is duplicated. This would be the best place to do this. Any idea how to merge them or at least show the diffs? Displaying all entries, without folders, sorted by date, could also already help. ## kinda-solution In KeepassXC, bottom left, "all entries". Alternatively, search for "*". Then sort by date. This helps to compare the most recent changes, and copy them over to the want-to-keep version of the file.