They’ve let their site certificates expire a few times and told their users to set their clocks back to get around the issueand they’ve accidentally ddosed the aur a couple of times with their package management tools.
I tired Linux a few times in the past, but didn’t really start using seriously until 2019. I love poking around old OSs and distros, and I want to spin a few up in some VMs my next free evening....
I started with Corel Linux, moved to Mandrake and then began an 18 year distro-hopping journey. To keep it interesting, I rolled a d100 on distrowatch.com and installed whatever I landed on. About 6 years ago I landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed and haven’t hopped since if you don’t count a brief dalliance with endeavour on my laptop.
My favourite DE has got to be Cinnamon, as much as I like KDE and XFCE, I prefer the simplicity of cinnamon where as in KDE has a bit too much of everything in the customization scene and XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right....
I have been using Arch Linux with i3wm for around 5 years for work, on my ThinkPad. I am fairly comfortable with pacman and setting up a distro. I have previously tried Mint, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Elementary, and MX Linux, all for the same use case (Work: where I need a browser, Slack, and a MongoDB GUI)....
Yes you can but you often see the terminal used when helping people online. This is because it works across desktop environments and mostly across distros, however it does give the impression that the terminal is needed.
So i downloaded opensuse iso on my pendrive with ventoy, but during installation I’m getting errors due to not matching 5SMD code or smh like that, is there a any way to install system to get a fixed iso?
In addition to what’s already been said, Canonical have a history of starting grandiose projects and then abandoning them a few years later. See Mir, Unity, and Ubuntu Touch for examples.
Alpine Linux is often recommended in similar circumstances. I’ve never tried it so can’t say how it is. Of course you could use Debian with a light WM.
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
The first distro I tried was Red Hat 5 back in the late 1990s but I never got a GUI working so I guess the first one I used properly would have been Mandrake iirc. These days it’s Tumbleweed.
The same risks apply to any software proprietary or open source which is why Microsoft have the following in their licence agreement:
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.The software is licensed “as-is.” You bear the risk of using it. Microsoft gives no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this agreement cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, Microsoft excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. FOR AUSTRALIA ONLY: You have statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and nothing in these terms is intended to affect those rights.
LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to U.S. $5.00. You can’t recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.
Knowing that and knowing that themes can have code is two different things though. I wasn’t particularly surprised as I thought (maybe wrongly) that global themes just installed all the other bits which would require code.
A theme is software and software has bugs. While this one had a pretty dramatic effect, you take basically the same risk with every program you run. This, along with hardware and user errors are why backups are so important; they change a disaster to an inconvenience.
My friend works for a company which requires her to use Microsoft specific application, she didn’t really want to switch to Win 11 and choose to just use Wine Linux package and install a 2016 version of MS office on her Linux laptop. That’s all well and good, but this company she is working for servers other clients at...
The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn’t yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default.
Also went back to x11 because of vscode flickering and redrawing badly. I’m not sure whether it’s an nvidia problem, a vscode problem, or a kwin-wayland problem though.
Plasma 6 landed in opensuse. However, I recommend to do it in tty because if you do it in plasma the upgrade will be incomplete because the shell will crash in the middle of update without installing all. In case this happen to anyone, just reinstall plasma 6 pattern and it will go without problems
I tested it a bit in a VM to get familiar with pacman and yay. Latest KDE Plasma 6 and more snaps in Ubuntu’s future are the main reasons I want to switch....
What is your favourite shell to use
What’s your favourite to use? Mine is Fish due to its ease of use and user friendly approach....
Systemd 256.1 Maintenance Release Fixes Home Directory Deletion Bug (debugpointnews.com)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/24 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
[Question] Manjaro, out of curiosity question, does the image on boot has any security implication regarding logoFAIL?
Hi everyone :)....
Nostalgic Distros?
I tired Linux a few times in the past, but didn’t really start using seriously until 2019. I love poking around old OSs and distros, and I want to spin a few up in some VMs my next free evening....
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/22 & 23 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes (nichegamer.com)
What is/was your distrohopping journey?
For me it was:...
Favourite DE
My favourite DE has got to be Cinnamon, as much as I like KDE and XFCE, I prefer the simplicity of cinnamon where as in KDE has a bit too much of everything in the customization scene and XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right....
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/21 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
This week in KDE: Triple buffering and other sources of amazingness (pointieststick.com)
Newish user migrating to Linux
I have been using Arch Linux with i3wm for around 5 years for work, on my ThinkPad. I am fairly comfortable with pacman and setting up a distro. I have previously tried Mint, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Elementary, and MX Linux, all for the same use case (Work: where I need a browser, Slack, and a MongoDB GUI)....
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What are the best proprietary/paid apps for linux?
And why do you use them?
Announcing Agama 8 (yast.opensuse.org)
KDE Ships Frameworks 5.116.0 (kde.org)
Can You Use Linux Without the Terminal? (How to Geek article) (www.howtogeek.com)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/19 & 20 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey released (forum.manjaro.org)
Kinda broken linux iso
So i downloaded opensuse iso on my pendrive with ventoy, but during installation I’m getting errors due to not matching 5SMD code or smh like that, is there a any way to install system to get a fixed iso?
Windows is hell, i need to do something
Yo linux team, i would love some advice....
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/17 & 18 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that really means it (www.theregister.com)
Ubuntu Snap Hate
I’ve gathered that a lot of people in the nix space seem to dislike snaps but otherwise like Flatpaks, what seems to be the difference here?...
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/16 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
How do you say SUSE? (m.youtube.com)
I always thought those whoe said susa instead of soos are wrong....
KDE Gear 24.02.2 (kde.org)
KDE Gear 24.02.2 (kde.org)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/14 & 15 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Longtime Debian user, looking to branch out.
I use Debian flavors for my daily drivers. I have no complaints, no real desire to switch it up on that front....
Explicit sync (zamundaaa.github.io)
Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE (fedoraproject.org)
Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y' (learnbyexample.github.io)
Did you know that Vim has an Easy mode? It’s the hardest mode for those already familiar with Vim 🙃
openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March (news.opensuse.org)
Dynamic wallpaper changer lost
Hey guys,...
Your first distribution
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
User Beware: The Fine Line Between Content And Code | Hackaday (hackaday.com)
A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click (www.mikrobitti.fi)
google translate
Can you tell excel sheets which were created using a pirated version of MS Office?
My friend works for a company which requires her to use Microsoft specific application, she didn’t really want to switch to Win 11 and choose to just use Wine Linux package and install a 2016 version of MS office on her Linux laptop. That’s all well and good, but this company she is working for servers other clients at...
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/11 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet (www.phoronix.com)
The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn’t yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default.
Opensuse kde plasma 6 upgrade
Plasma 6 landed in opensuse. However, I recommend to do it in tty because if you do it in plasma the upgrade will be incomplete because the shell will crash in the middle of update without installing all. In case this happen to anyone, just reinstall plasma 6 pattern and it will go without problems
Advice on switching from Kubuntu to EndeavourOS?
I tested it a bit in a VM to get familiar with pacman and yay. Latest KDE Plasma 6 and more snaps in Ubuntu’s future are the main reasons I want to switch....
What's your favorite terminal?
I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?