I currently have an AMD video card (6700 XT) and Wayland support is excellent. Also, multi-monitor support in Wayland works perfectly.

So what's your experience with Nvidia's 555 driver in Wayland? Those using it in conjunction with KDE 6.1, what's your experience with multi-monitor VRR? I ask about VRR because I heard that multi-monitor VRR in Wayland is still problematic.

This is for my own curiosity if an Nvidia video card could be considered as an upgrade option.

Hi everyone,

I am very new to Linux/GNU amd I have moved from windows to Fedora workstation 40 with GNOME a few moths ago.

I have been blown away how easy everything have been to migrate but there is one thing I can't migrate which is proton drive as they don't support Linux 😡.

I decided to follow some advice online and set up a windows VM in GNOME boxes and install proton Drive then I can copy/mount my files leaving the VM to sync my proton drive.

I have insralles spice on both the Host and the Guest OS and can copy filed to the VM but I can't for the life of me work out how to get from the VM.

I am probably being stupif but please be gentle I have only been using Linux for 2 months.

Thanks in advance.

I have a desktop and a steam deck. I would like to setup some old games I have on disc on the desktop. Then compress them and decompress on my Steam Deck without doing the full install again. I understand that with wine/proton prefixes they should be installed to a "fake c:/ windows hierarchy" can I just compress that and copy to a different Linux machine? Does it save which proton version was used? If I use something like Lutris or bottles can I import into them?

Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEGXL yet? Are we Rust yet?

I’ve gathered a meta-tracker for the adoption state of futuristic technologies.

Hello Linux community. How are you guys?

I am writing to ask if anyone has ever heard of TUXEDO Computer, since I want to buy one of their laptops.

To be specific I am interested in buying the InfinityBook Pro 15 - Gen9 - AMD at 1350€.

Following the specs:

1. Display:

   • 15.3-inch IPS panel
   • 2560 x 1600 resolution (16:10 aspect ratio)
   • 240 Hz refresh rate
   • Matte / non-glare finish
   • ~500 nits brightness
   • ~100% sRGB color gamut

2. Processor:

   • AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
   • 8 Cores / 16 Threads
   • Max 5.1 GHz
   • 16 MB L3-Cache
   • 54 W TDP

3. Graphics:

   • AMD Radeon 780M (integrated)
   • 12 GPU Cores
   • Max clock speed: 2.7 GHz

4. Memory:

   • Up to 96 GB DDR5-5600 MHz
   • 2 SO-DIMM slots
   • Dual Channel support

5. Storage:

   • 2x M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slots (PCIe 4.0 x4)

6. Battery:

   • 99 Wh Lithium polymer battery
   • Up to 10 hours battery life for office work

7. Ports:

   • 1x USB-A 2.0
   • 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen1
   • 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen2 (with DisplayPort 1.4 and Power Delivery)
   • 1x USB4 (40 Gbps, DisplayPort 1.4, Power Delivery)
   • 1x HDMI 2.1
   • 1x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
   • 1x SD card reader (SD/SDHC/SDXC)
   • 1x 3.5mm audio jack

8. Networking:

   • Wi-Fi 6E (Intel AX210)
   • Bluetooth 5.3
   • 1 Gigabit Ethernet

9. Webcam:

   • 2.0 Megapixel (1920 x 1080)
   • With privacy shutter

10. Audio:

    • 2x integrated speakers
    • Integrated microphone

11. Keyboard:

    • White backlit
    • With number pad

12. Touchpad:

    • Glass precision clickpad (121 x 73 mm)

13. Build:

    • Aluminum chassis (lid, base, and bottom)

14. Dimensions:

    • Width: 34.2 cm
    • Depth: 23.8 cm
    • Height: 2 cm

15. Weight:

    • 1.6 kg (including battery)

16. Operating System:

    • Choice of Linux distributions (including TUXEDO OS)

17. Additional Features:

    • Kensington Lock slot
    • TPM 2.0 (via fTPM)
    • 180° display opening angle

18. Power Supply:

    • 100 W USB-C Power Delivery

Do you guys think it is ok for a 1350€ laptop? Here is the link to the store page if you interested having a look.

Thank you for reading.

I'm 43 and not really starting using Linux. I've dabbled with distros on and off over the years, but I never made the full switch because work always had some program or policy that just wouldn't play nice with Linux. With all the crappy Microsoft decisions, bloatware, and ads I decided to try and use Linux exclusively on a personal device, and I'm absolutely loving it!

I've been working with Ubuntu as my main distro, and I've also been playing around with distros on a Raspberry Pi. To really challenge myself, I installed Linux on an old Surface Pro 3, and guess what? It just works! I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the setup was and how well it performs.

I missing any key steps or tips to make the experience even better on a Surface? Any insights would be greatly appreciated. I was planning to buy a new tablet that runs Linux but this is working better than expected. I'm really enjoying the flexibility and control Linux offers and want to keep this momentum going.

I have read up and tried plenty, just looking for some perspectives out there specific to your tablet experiences.

EDIT Thank you for all the suggestions and insights! I'm going to continue using the Ubuntu build for the next few months. Still lots more to learn, but I'm excited to see how this goes. I have everything setup I need to function as a Linux only tablet experience. <sigh of relief> no more dependency on Windoze.

I was going through my old stuff and found an Xbox 360 controller and the wireless PC receiver that was once a requirement before the bluetooth-enabled controllers. I remember using it when I was a Windows user but I'm completely stuck on how to use it under Manjaro. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2013/2013-09-27-initramfs-required/2013-09-27-initramfs-required.en.txt?id=a79dd69b0cca439bc0c483c9193c79e0554819d0

how easy is it to install arch? (no anarchy/archinstall)

Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris pre-installed, HDR support, BORE CPU scheduler for smooth and responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools for your gaming needs.

I'm new to linux and have been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) for the past few days. I was using Vivaldi on Windows 11 and I loved it so I decided to also use it on Mint.

However the problem now is it "stutters" a lot. videos stutter, even typing (like right now) it just randomly stutters and pauses. Also sometimes it simply won't open a new tab. So I don't know if this is common with Vivaldi or what.

I'm open to using a different browser as long as I can port over my passwords and bookmarks from vivaldi. is there a better alternative?

Thanks.

EDIT: so it wasn't the browser, it's the nvidia drivers. the 535 driver is causing it to stutter, tried switching to nouveau drivers and while it solves the stuttering it tanks gaming. tried installing the 550 drivers and it bricked my system. recovered and just going to deal with the stuttering of the 535 for now.

This is bothering me for years now, my backup script always takes everything with it, taking forever to finish.

I initially used the --exclude option, but this is rather restrictive, cluttered the script and still had the excluded directories. Then i discovered -X/--exclude-from but same result here, weird globbing and still fails. So i hacked a negative list via fd's --ignore-file and tar -T/--files-from together. But tar still includes files and directories not on the fucking files.tmp.

So i'm not sure if it is a bug in Arch's GNU tar or if it's maybe a parameter in the wrong position, tar can be removed there. This is my current code ```

tar -cf - -X "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/backup/ignore "$INPUT" -P

fd . -Hi --ignore-file "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/backup/ignore "${INPUT}" > "$_tmpfile" tar -cf - --verbatim-files-from --files-from="$_tmpfile" -P \ |pv -tapes "$_fssize" \ |compress >"${OUTPUT}.$_ext" ``` INPUT is $HOME in this case.

And if anyone has a solution that works on busybox tar as well...

I wanted to try Bazzite but for some reason the download from bazzite.gg is very slow (around 1-2MB/sec) and also fails at some point, every time.

Does anyone know this issue? Is there a torrent for Bazzite that I am not aware of?

I study math at uni and I was shocked realizing all my teachers use ubuntu on both their laptop and work desktop

>For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with this GNOME Shell merge request for being able to disable X11 support too.

back when I used xubuntu I used gmusicbrowser.

Now, debian 12.5 netinst came with quod libet installed and it can handle 60k files so far.

note that my music collection is stored in 4 different SSD.

If there is anything better than quod libet, what would it be?

Without other usb devices the keyboard works immediately. With them it takes 5 ish seconds for it to start responding. This is regardless of which device is discovered first (which I can manipulate), it seems to just wait for all of them. Is there a way to make it not do that?

Edit: This is specifically about linux boot. It otherwise works fine in bios / bootloader

So it's no secret that some parts of the army in the USA and my country (UK) sometimes use legacy software like DOS for niche roles as they're robust including older versions of Windows.

But.. where does Linux fit in this? It's a kernel OS that's used in top of the line supercomputers, workstations, medical equipment and weather stations.

I imagine some aspects of this would be military secrets but how do they use it? I know that Linux was used for certain space projects with NASA but I'm talking about army applications.

TLDR : Does the penguin OS power shooty shooty machines and tanks

> When I refer to Linux, I am referring to a computer with the kernel and other software that makes up a Personal Computer.

I like to think that Linux is great, and always will be, a Personal Computer. Windows, I will always remember it being the best thing for business’s as Microsoft pushes licenses and such business related features.

I switched to Linux in 2020, Ubuntu, and slowly learned my ways around, and understanding how everything works, but most people don’t have to now, it’s so simple to get started.

is there a bookmark manager like jabref for linux url bookmarks?

I use Jabref for papers and books. I group and rate them and keep track of reading status. There are a lot of websites that also provide valuable information but firefox' bookmark manager can't be used to rate sites or make comments. I can manually add links which is cumbersome.

Is there a similar tool like jabref for internet links?

In the optimal case it would take firefox' bookmarks and work with them such that I can bookmark a site with Ctrl+D and do all the site related work within that manager.

edit: Bonus, if it automatically fetches the article to preserve it

Sup penguin people.

I’ve been running various flavours and variations of Ubuntu for a while. I find I have to nuke and reset my laptop every 6ish months because things eventually stop working or I get weird bugs.

Recently I’ve been having this on and off problem where the computer just shows a black screen after turning it on. The only way to fix this is to tap keys repeatedly until a console shows up and it seems to kick the computer into gear and log in. Other times I have to restart 2-3 times before it logs me in.

I’ve had a lot of small issues like that (like having to jiggle the volume knob in the sound mixer to get sound working) and I’m wondering if switching to an immutable distro (like bazzite) would solve this apparent config creep.

I have a Steamdeck and it’s been solid and stable ever since I got it. I know it’s running an immutable distro and after researching a little bit it sounds like they can be more stable.

I’m no power user but I play some steam games and run a local 7b LLM and like to have a virtual machine or two for Windows XP emulation for some retro gaming.

Anyone have any opinions? What are your thoughts on immutable distros (like Bazzite)? Pros? Cons? Success/doom stories?

Just like the title says I want to turn an old tablet of mine into an ereader.

The tablet in question is samsung galaxy tab 3 in which I installed postMarketOS.

I installed the console version, and once everything was set up I ssd into the machine and installed the following packages :

greetd, greetd-openrc, cage, fuse

Downloaded koreader app image into /bin/

Activated the greetd service

rc-update add greetd default

and configured /etc/greetd/config.toml with the following

``` [terminal]

vt = 1

[default_session]

command="agreety -c sh" user="greeter"

[initial_session]

command="cage -s -d -- koreader" user="me" ```

and rebooted the tablet, however I am still stuck with the login prompt no matter what I do.

Any tips on how fix this or a other way I could accomplish my goal?

Update

Got autologin working by ditching out greetd and using agetty, and a simple fortune command to run on startup.

After this I went for the kill and tried to install KOreader using flatpak, due to App Images not playing alright with Alpine. However I noticed something there is no arm build of KOreader for linux arm so my plans were cut short.

Will try to compile KOreader to linux arm if not successful will just put a nice UI and use the little guy as a portable hacking machine.

New update

KOreader was mess to compile so I looked for alternatives and found out foliate which fits my criteria (opds, epub and pdf support) and is in the alpine repos.

Played around with cage and got the thing somewhat working, however no virtual keyboard support for now, figuring that out now.

I’m looking for a Fedora 38 workstation iso. I cannot seem to find one. Fedora 40 doesn’t seem to want to play nice with my surface pro 7. Any help would be appreciated.

I've tried using my incredible (british) brain using Google to see if these open source titans ever engaged in a battle of "friendly conversation" with one another.

I was always interested what Stallman thought of the angry but smart finnish man who gave us the robust penguin kernel that breathes life into older machines and powers supercomputers for the weather.

The same with Torvalds thoughts on Stallmans GNU involvement and him as a person.

This is because you sometimes had different organisations in the FOSS and OSS community that take on different meanings so I wanted a better idea if these chaps ever spoke in an interview together.

TLDR : Does finnish man like bearded GNU jesus man and the same vice versa

New GNOME dialog on the right:

!

Apple's dialog:

!

They say GNOME isn't a copy of macOS but with time it has been getting really close. I don't think this is a bad thing however they should just admit it and then put some real effort into cloning macOS instead of the crap they're making right now.

Here's the thing: Apple's design you'll find that they carefully included an extra margin between the "Don't Save" and "Cancel" buttons. This avoid accidental clicks on the wrong button so that people don't lose their work when they just want to click "Cancel".

So much for the GNOME, vision and their expert usability team :P

I have tried Linux as a DD on and off for years but about a year ago I decided to commit to it no matter the cost. First with Mint, then Ubuntu and a few others sprinkled in briefly. Both are "mainstream" "beginner friendly" distros, right? I don't want anything too advanced, right?

Well, ubuntu recently updated and it broke my second monitor (Ubuntu detected it but the monitor had "no signal"). After trying to fix it for a week, I decided to wipe it and reinstall. No luck. I tried a few other distros that had the same issue and I started to wonder if it was a hardware issue but I tried a Windows PC and the monitor worked no problem.

Finally, just to see what would happen I tried a distro very very different than what I'm used to: Fedora (Kinode). And not only did everything "just work" flawlessly, but it's so much faster and more polished than I ever knew Linux to be!

Credit where it's due, a lot of the polish is due to KDE plasma. I'd never strayed from Gnome because I'm not an expert and people recommend GNOME to Linux newbies because it's "simple" and "customizable" but WOW is KDE SO MUCH SIMPLER AND STILL CUSTOMIZEABLE. Gnome is only "simple" in that it doesn't allow you to do much via the GUI. With Fedora Kinode I think I needed to use the terminal maybe once during setup? With other distros I was constantly needed to use the terminal (yes its helped me learn Linux but that curve is STEEP).

The atomic updates are fantastic too. I have not crashed once in the two weeks of setup whereas before I would have a crash maybe 1-2 times per week.

I am FULLY prepared for the responses demanding to know what I did to make it crash and telling me how I was using it wrong blah blah blah but let me tell you, if you are experienced with Windows but want to learn Linux and getting frustrated by all the "beginner" distros that get recommended, do yourself a favor and try Fedora Kinode!

edit: i am DYING at the number of "you're using it wrong" comments here. never change people.

I was planning on installing windows to my new ssd for a dualboot, but I noticed that windows installer didn't allow me to select the disk. I learned that it just installs to the drive that is marked as M2_1 in the bios. I thought that had something to do with boot order initially, but I'm not sure about that now. If it is boot order, my second ssd doesn't even show up in the boot order menu So:

1. Does windows install to whatever is second in boot order or whatever is marked as M2_1 in the bios, and
2. How can I edit this to prevent windows from nuking my main linux partition and using the empty ssd, and after the install, how should I make sure both drives are available to boot into?

Motherboard is MSI MS - 7E10