So aside for a few wording and technical issues, something stuck out to me. Using “special” to refer to neurodivergence is a bit problematic and potentially dogwhistley because of the historical contexts it’s been used in to dismiss and look down on people. And even if it wasn’t, it’s a bit ambiguous; can someone who feels that they are in touch with their “spiritual side” consider themselves to have a “special brain”?
If you’re wondering about neurodivergence, probably better to just ask “Are you neurodivergent?” rather than using euphemisms.
Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...
Maybe we’d be warmer towards AI if it wasn’t being used as a way for big companies to steal content from smaller creative types in order to fund valueless wealth generators.
Big surprise that a group consisting of people rather than corporations is mad about it.
I checked, and according to Statcounter it’s at 3.3%. So if Mozilla did go hardball, it’d affect an insignificant amount of people.
Realistically though, I don’t follow world politics much but I assume that “blocking firefox” probably wouldn’t be the worst optics they’ve had in the past few years.
Hear me out, the big players in the Linux space I.e. Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE could release trailers commercially on TV and social media to general users who may not be tech savvy or have a “basic windows” lingo in IT....
Tbh, I’d rather they use the money to make Linux distros better. Valve made the Steam deck a winner not through advertising, but through making a good quality product and supporting the ecosystem.
I have no interest in people making Linux popular beyond the minimum required to get companies to support it. If it’s good, people will naturally learn about it through word of mouth.
Also, directly attacking Microsoft feels like they could get sued for libel or something like that.
If anyone loves old game manuals, I’d recommend the game Tunic. It’s such a charming little game and, without spoiling too much, the manual is a core part of it.
I know older titles are usually the topic in this community but a lot of the popular f2p games are getting pretty old now too, and if you’re like me you’ve been curious about some of them and even pleasantly surprised now and again....
One small thing but I’m surprised nobody points it out - the charging port location. I like using my switch/steam deck in bed or otherwise laying down, and the fact that the charging lead is at the bottom of the console rather than the top sucks. It just gets in the way and stops you resting the console on you. Whereas the Steam Deck just has it on top where you can just plug it in while playing.
I know the technical reasons behind it because of the dock and all that, but it’s annoying.
In general, I think the steam deck is better than the switch in almost every way - The switch is just an expensive ticket for the right to play Nintendo games nowadays.
Planet Crafter. Has that kind of subnautica feel to it with the satisfaction of changing the world around you. A bit rough around the edges, but worth the 15 quid.
I occasionally need to know the names of programs. I asked here about “Run as Administrator” being added to the context menu (like in Windows), and the response was basically “can’t be easily done”. an example is if I wish to edit a config file it cannot be done without accessing the terminal. Knowing the name...
I noticed that I only had 5 GiB of free space left today. After quickly deleting some cached files, I tried to figure out what was causing this, but a lot was missing. Every tool gives a different amount of remaining storage space. System Monitor says I’m using 892.2 GiB/2.8 TiB (I don’t even have 2.8 TiB of storage...
I understand that no Operating System is 100% safe. Although this backdoor is likely only affects certain Linux desktop users, particularly those running unstable Debian or testing builds of Fedora (like versions 40 or 41), **Could this be a sign that antivirus software should be more widely used on Linux desktops? ** ( I know...
An antivirus wouldn’t protect against the xz exploit. Imagine it did pull down the database of hashes and found a malicious xz binary, what is it going to do?
It can’t quarantine it, because that would break programs. It could update it, but shouldn’t your package manager be the one in charge of that? So the best it can do is notify you of the exploit… Which also feels like a thing the package manager should be doing.
I think instead of an antivirus, we should have a stricter permissions model. Certain applications can identity locations as “private” which blocks untrusted applications. So a random file you downloaded won’t be able to read your browser cookie jar or Discord session.
Random files you download from the internet should be executed in an unprivileged context which requires a “do you want this application to have access to this?” prompt whenever it does something sketchy.
Interestingly, afaik, Valve already runs Windows games in a secure container when using Proton. Fun fact.
I mean, we’re in the Linux community not a gun rights community. Downvotes should be used when the post doesn’t match the community, which applies here.
I like Flatpaks, but Mint really needs to do a better job of communicating when you should use it over debs. And also deduplicate things so the deb and flatpak don’t both appear in the list. When I was looking at the software centre thingie, my first thought was “wow this would be very confusing for a new user”.
Hidpi and waking from suspend have pretty much (as I understand it) always been problematic on Linux, especially on Nvidia. It’s getting better, but Nvidia isn’t really keen on working with open source stuff.
If you do go back to Windows, I would ask that you be open to the idea of trying it again in the future. A lot of the issues you are facing are being actively worked on, and a lot can change in a year or two.
Imagine a country made up of flurbs and blorbs. Flurbs make up the majority of the government and don’t recognise the existence of blorbs.
You are writing open source census software, do you include blorbs?
If you do, you get labelled a blorb sympathiser and the government stops funding development. Maybe throws you in prison.
If you don’t, you get labelled a member of the Flurbian autocracy and are orchastrated from the hugely blorb open source community.
If you add a togglable option, you’re still seen as sympathetic to the Flurbs because you are participating in oppressive regimes. And also supporting a blorb uprising by making them think they have a voice. Staying “neutral” is still picking a side.
So basically, you are forced to pick from a number of options based on your political (or strategic) view.
Played it a while ago and had fun with it - would recommend if you like city/base building games.
Did fall off late game with the “factorio problem” of having huge bases that you need to micromanage and build manually (so called because Factorio is the only game which I think fixes this problem; a lot of games I keep wanting to blueprint things).
Also, it took me the longest time to realise that you were allowed to run paths underwater…
“Linux” doesn’t support secure boot because it’s distributed as source rather than binaries. As far as I’m aware Linux actually has special handling for secure boot (there’s a kernel mode where it refuses to load unsigned drivers).
Also, I think as part of the secure boot spec, implementations are required to let you enroll your own keys. Whether that’s still true or if it even works on many motherboards is another question.
Anyway Unbuntu (and thus Mint) should take care of the signing for you. Although when I tried it didn’t work, but that could have because I use a fancy gamer kernel rather than the default.
I thought I’d chuck windows on my gaming laptop an Acer nitro 5 from last year, to see how it’s going do some bits I can’t on Linux VR, certain multiplayer games etc....
I’ve installed Windows on a system I’ve built myself, and I’ve had so many problems…
Firstly, did you know what Windows doesn’t allow you to install it on a partition that isn’t the first one on the drive (under certain circumstances)? It also doesn’t give you sensible error messages that that’s the problem.
I also had to install audio drivers from the disk that came with my motherboard (the ones on the website didn’t work).
I don’t know if this was this system or some other one, but I’ve faced the whole “no network card drivers so can’t download network card drivers” issue.
Recently I made the controversial decision of booting Windows with an external drive plugged in, so it decided to reorder my device letter mappings and break a bunch of shortcuts.
And of course, there’s no resource like the arch wiki, so you’re basically left on your own to fix things.
Windows may or may not be easier to use, but it certainly isn’t easier to install and fix.
Is the bridge actually being discontinued? People have been saying that a lot recently but I’ve not seen any evidence for it, and not in the linked article.
I’m annoyed that they don’t support SMTP, but realistically they actually can’t unless they have the ability to read your email, which they don’t.
I think it’s a good way for people to release software for Linux without having to deal with specific distro stuff (which historically has pretty much been “just provide a .deb for Ubuntu and a .tar.gz for other people to figure out”).
I’m hoping that it pushes for more people porting stuff to Linux because it’s a single target that gives you access to Steam Decks, Chromebooks and desktops.
I don’t think it makes sense for things that aren’t desktop applications such as servers or libraries, just because those tend to be open source, don’t need to be that up to date and benefit from tighter system integration. I see it as something that sits on top of other package managers rather than replacing them.
For Flathub? Eh, if they turn out to be bad we can just all move to another server, we’re not snap. :P I’m willing to bet that someone has already made a flatpak repo for Citra and Yuzu.
On my system it is called “Network Time”, but it might be called “Get current time from the internet” or something on other distros. Might be worth turning it off to see if it fixes things - maybe something on your network is sending incorrect time information?
I’ve played Ace Attorney and the writers put a lot of love and personality into the characters. I’d be sceptical if an AI could get close enough to any kind of writing style to “kill” writing in games like that.
Honestly getting fed up of AI doing a mediocre job of creating art and then people claiming it kills whole industries because it’s the “in” technology.
I’ve messed around with Linux before, mostly in VMs, but I’m looking to switch over from Windows permanently on my laptop because I think Linux is cool. Most people in this community talk about pros and cons of this distro or this other distro, but I’d like to hear your opinions based on entirely subjective factors....
Yeah, it’s very much one of those “steep learning curve” distros, and requires a lot of background reading and perhaps a bit of functional programming knowledge.
For secrets storage, I’ve been using agenix, but you can probably get away with just putting the secrets as plain text files in /var/secrets or similar.
Having / and /home on separate partitons is something you can do, and something some people recommend (it allows you to reinstall your OS or try a new one without moving your personal files around).
It’s not that hard to set up, but it’s easier with the terminal. Are you comfortable with using the terminal and command line?
With the card thing, just as a shot in the dark, are you using HDMI or Displayport? I know that older versions of the HDMI spec had trouble with high resolution and refresh rate monitors. But I think the propriety driver is just recommended nowadays for Nvidia in general.
KDE and Gnome both use the same drivers, so if it’s the same underlying distro (I’m not that sure about the Fedora side), the same instructions should just hopefully work.
Welp, it’s finally happened. Windows 10 has become so bloated, slow, and spooky that I finally have decided to bite the bullet and set up a VM on my linux Mint partition. Do you have any suggestions for a virtual machine? My PC is a relatively basic mid-range business laptop, 8gb of ram, no GPU, only a few years old. I’m a...
We all love FOSS. Lately, many of us have expressed their disarray at hearing stories of maintainers quitting due to a variety of factors. One of these is financial....
I’m sure it will be easy to agree on a split, since any split of existing money will be more satisfactory than splitting non-existent money.
Isn’t “how do we fairly distribute wealth” one of the hardest problems we’re still trying to solve as a global society?
A fund that gets distributed to open source volunteers (or contributors?) sounds good on paper (and I think it’s something we should strive for), but whoever is unlucky enough to actually try to formalise it is going to have to deal with a lot of shit and drama.
Quite the unpopular opinion, but I just wanted to post this to show the silent majority that we still exist. We have reached a point where voicing criticism against wayland is treated like the worst thing ever and leads you to being censored and what not. The red hat funded multi year long shill campaign has proven to be quite...
Of all the social injustices in the world that you could devote time and resources into, you’ve decided the best one is “Some Linux systems use a different program to draw graphics”…
Like, just use a distro that uses XOrg if you still need it. Then feel betrayed 3 years down the line when they switch over to Wayland without you noticing.
Requiring a login is enough of a misread of the market to kill interest in the product, but looking through their marketing materials, some other stuff jumped out at me.
Like on Mac, Warp for Linux is built fully in Rust and all graphics rendering is done directly on the GPU.
I’m sure it has fallbacks, but I wonder how it will handle environments where the gpu is broken and cpu rendering is being used…
And like on Mac, Warp for Linux supports zsh, bash and fish out of the box. It’s compatible with your existing shell setup.
I mean, yeah? I expect a terminal emulator to be able to support anything that has a stdin, stdout and stderr. The fact that it only lists three shells is concerning to me… Is it trying to do anything fancy with those shells? Will it respect .zshrc and powerline?
The input works more like a normal text editor (including mouse support) and has in-built completions, syntax highlighting, and support for multiple-cursors.
If you actually want those features, that’s your shell’s job. Not your terminal emulator. And presumably if you need these fancy features you’ll just use a normal text editor to make a shell script.
Warp’s integrated AI…
Don’t care. Let me turn it off or I’m not using your product.
[The terminal is] an unusually text-heavy and obscure interface.
You’re marketing a terminal emulator to Linux users who are going out of their way to change their terminal experience. They likely aren’t going to agree with you dismissing the command line as “obscure”.
It’s a space where you can save your most important parameterized commands as reusable workflows you can search, share, and run on-demand.
This is just ~/bin and git with vendor lockin. Excellent value-add.
Mint. Because apparently “task bar and start menu that looks like gnome 2 and/or xp” is heresy in modern ui design (although maybe kde would also work? Had some papercuts that put me off it last I tried though).
Also, it turns out that getting a full time job really kills your desire to tinker and mess around with your personal system. I just want something that works.
I wouldn’t worry about wayland vs xorg at this point. There are reasons to prefer one over the other but, as a new user, if it works it works. And if something is broken, it’s easy to switch between them (I assume it’s an option in the login screen?).
I’d just recommend whatever your distro defaults to, because that’s what they think works best.
Same as systemd if you stumble upon an argument about that at some point. It’s something the distro has made a decision about and taken care of, so it’s not something you have to choose.
As for a tip: On Linux, the “app store” (I think it’s called “Discover” in KDE?) is actually pretty good compared to Windows. If possible, applications should be downloaded from there rather than directly from websites.
Aqua Nautilus researchers have identified a security issue that arises from the interaction between Ubuntu’s command-not-found package and the snap package repository. While command-not-found serves as a convenient tool for suggesting installations for uninstalled commands, it can be inadvertently manipulated by attackers...
Wait… Snap packages aren’t manually verified? Why Canonical? Doesn’t every other Linux package manager have their main packages repository manually vetted?
If I Use Windows, I Delete My Channel (youtu.be)
Linux users survey! (pad.tchncs.de)
To get an idea of this community, and to try the cool CryptPad Survey feature, I created a pretty big Linux usage survey!...
The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)
Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...
Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship (theintercept.com)
Linux and public awareness (ads, trailers etc)
Hear me out, the big players in the Linux space I.e. Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE could release trailers commercially on TV and social media to general users who may not be tech savvy or have a “basic windows” lingo in IT....
Authentic Link's Awakening Game Manual (lemmy.world)
Won an original Link’s Awakening Game Boy manual on a Goodwill charity auction. Had to share the nostalgia.
What free2play game are you currently hooked on?
I know older titles are usually the topic in this community but a lot of the popular f2p games are getting pretty old now too, and if you’re like me you’ve been curious about some of them and even pleasantly surprised now and again....
What are the best proprietary/paid apps for linux?
And why do you use them?
Which file system do you recommend for Linux?
Just a simple question : Which file system do you recommend for Linux? Ext4…?...
Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld
Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks....
Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
Easily find program name from context menu/without terminal?
I occasionally need to know the names of programs. I asked here about “Run as Administrator” being added to the context menu (like in Windows), and the response was basically “can’t be easily done”. an example is if I wish to edit a config file it cannot be done without accessing the terminal. Knowing the name...
Need fighting game advice
So, j want to get into fighting games, mainly the der street fighter games, and advice on how to get good....
non-Euclidean filesystem
I noticed that I only had 5 GiB of free space left today. After quickly deleting some cached files, I tried to figure out what was causing this, but a lot was missing. Every tool gives a different amount of remaining storage space. System Monitor says I’m using 892.2 GiB/2.8 TiB (I don’t even have 2.8 TiB of storage...
Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Will antivirus be more significant on Linux desktop after this xz-util backdoor?
I understand that no Operating System is 100% safe. Although this backdoor is likely only affects certain Linux desktop users, particularly those running unstable Debian or testing builds of Fedora (like versions 40 or 41), **Could this be a sign that antivirus software should be more widely used on Linux desktops? ** ( I know...
Throwback to DistroTube supporting "Gun Rights" (www.youtube.com)
EDIT: To clarify, I do not support this channel and the stated opinion regarding gun rights!
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Free software wisdom (pointieststick.com)
Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?
I’ve been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia)....
Thoughts on the game Timberborn (store.steampowered.com)
Has anybody given this game a try? I’ve been considering it for a while, but money is tight. Curious if it was worth it....
I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?
Thx in advice.
Rant: My recent experience of trying to install windows for gaming and why I'm really thankful for Linux
I thought I’d chuck windows on my gaming laptop an Acer nitro 5 from last year, to see how it’s going do some bits I can’t on Linux VR, certain multiplayer games etc....
Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version (news.itsfoss.com)
What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)
How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
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A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree (re: Verbal Verdict demo) (www.404media.co)
Excerpts:...
Neat factor
I’ve messed around with Linux before, mostly in VMs, but I’m looking to switch over from Windows permanently on my laptop because I think Linux is cool. Most people in this community talk about pros and cons of this distro or this other distro, but I’d like to hear your opinions based on entirely subjective factors....
GeForce Now adding ads for free users. (feddit.nl)
I finally installed Linux, but I'm having a mixed experience
Hello I’m Doctor_Rex after 2 posts asking multiple questions I have finally installed Fedora KDE 39 on my desktop....
VM suggestion for gaming?
Welp, it’s finally happened. Windows 10 has become so bloated, slow, and spooky that I finally have decided to bite the bullet and set up a VM on my linux Mint partition. Do you have any suggestions for a virtual machine? My PC is a relatively basic mid-range business laptop, 8gb of ram, no GPU, only a few years old. I’m a...
Love FOSS and want to donate? Here's how we can do it
We all love FOSS. Lately, many of us have expressed their disarray at hearing stories of maintainers quitting due to a variety of factors. One of these is financial....
I dislike wayland
Quite the unpopular opinion, but I just wanted to post this to show the silent majority that we still exist. We have reached a point where voicing criticism against wayland is treated like the worst thing ever and leads you to being censored and what not. The red hat funded multi year long shill campaign has proven to be quite...
Warp for Linux, Rust-based Terminal
Warp is the modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster....
Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down?
Which one(s) and why?
How to choose your first distro - A guide for beginners (flowchart + text post)
So, you’re new to Linux? Welcome to our community!...
I'm ready to install Linux, but I'd like your opinion first
Hello I’m Doctor_Rex I’m the OP of this post:...
Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [The Register] (www.theregister.com)
First Look at Ubuntu’s New ‘Desktop Security Center’ (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Snap Trap: The Hidden Dangers Within Ubuntu's Package Suggestion System (www.aquasec.com)
Aqua Nautilus researchers have identified a security issue that arises from the interaction between Ubuntu’s command-not-found package and the snap package repository. While command-not-found serves as a convenient tool for suggesting installations for uninstalled commands, it can be inadvertently manipulated by attackers...