Hey all!

I currently utilize Debian and used KDE Plasma on my old computer as a Plex server, RetroNAS, and also run protonVPN when i need to use it for downloading files for Plex to server on my network devices. The only problem is, I have to leave a keyboard and mouse plugged in for when i need to use it, but don’t have much space in the corner it stays in.

I happen to work for a touch screen company and have a glut of touch screens laying around my home office and I’ve got a VESA mount in the corner this PC lives in, and one of my spare touch monitors can go there. Unfortunately I’ve had trouble with touch friendliness with Linux distros. I’d love to find one that can support my usage needs with just the touch screen. So an on screen keyboard, and support for scrolling web pages (Wayland?) and other scrollable areas would be stellar.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a distro that would be great at this kind of thing? My PC uses an intel chipset with integrated graphics, if that matters.

Hello! Sorry maybe for this beginners-question: do I need dedicated anti-virus / anti-malware software for my Linux System?

I'm not using my laptop for anything shady: no filesharing, no pirating, etc. Just the usual boring bit of work or streaming or surfing the web. Do I need dedicated safety measures? Like ClamAV for example? I read a bit about it but there where mixed messages, where people said it's not needed.

I'm running Linux Mint and Cinnamon on a laptop since a few months and couldn't be happier with an operating system. Everything works fine and until now I had no trouble at all (besides this little annoying bug, where my touchpad gets randomly set to "deactivated", but this really is a minor issue and maybe just a "stupid user"-Problem).

Before I suffered through decades of windows. But no more!

Hello, I came across zram recently and I'd like to know if I should use it, my laptop only has ~4GB of ram, and for the most part it'll only stutter when I open multiple programs or a game, so would zram be adequate in my case?

Also, would the compressing and decompressing have a significant impact on my cpu?

> This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > >📬 Help / Discussions > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.

I use PCLinuxOS as my primary Linux OS. They are a bit conservative to adapt new updates until they are sure of stability because of rolling nature. KDE is still at 5 there. Heard about Neon and wanted to try KDE 6. I find that they have adopted Windows style approach to updates where we need to reboot to apply the updates and we cannot do anything on the system while the updates are processing. Recently managed to install Fedora because I heard that their EFI is secured or something and can survive clobbering by Windows updates in a dual boot setup. But they also seem to have gone with offline updates.

Are offline updates necessary due to them using SystemD or is the Linux world in general moving in this direction?

I recently spent some time browsing my favorite website, Distrowatch.com, where they provide weekly news updates on the latest developments in the world of Linux distributions. This week, I noticed that a new distro had been added to their list: SDesk. Given its intriguing name, I decided to take a closer look and discovered that it utilizes a programming language called 'Blue'.

What caught my attention was that to use this Blue programming language, one must pay $131! As someone who values open-source principles, I found this surprising, especially since many Linux distributions are built on the idea of free and open collaboration.

Other websites also features links to a previous GitHub page for Blue, which was removed. Without knowing the original license used by that project, it's unclear whether using paid-for programming language in an open-source operating system would be legally acceptable. As I'm not a lawyer nor an expert online, I'd love to hear from anyone who might have insight into this matter.

To me, it seems counterintuitive for a Linux distro to incorporate proprietary programming tools that require payment to edit or modify code. This goes against the fundamental nature of open-source collaboration, where code is freely shared and repurposed. It's an interesting development, to say the least what are your thoughts?

dead-github link https://github.com/SteveStudios/Blue

--edit also when finding the link duck duck go said it was GPL V3 !

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I have always been afraid to install Arch because they tell you it is difficult to install and unstable. I want a simple system following the KISS philosophy and install only what I need, which is little. I don't need anything from the aur repository, for now. Just a year ago I installed Arch and there it is, no problems and doing every day pacman -Syu. It has been a real discovery for me, it's the only distribution I've had this last year that hasn't crashed. I didn't expect it, but Arch has made me change my opinion and pay less attention to the opinions of "youtubers" and more to my own experience. In your experience of use, has Arch been stable in its operation?

Hey guys, so I installed Bazzite on my 2nd SSD last weekend and I've installed some games and searched through the OS to familiarize myself with it, but I still have a few questions about Bazzite and Linux in general that I'd like some help with! I've used Ubuntu and Linux mint in the past (2014ish) just to mess around with but never fully switched. I'm having no problems with gaming, all the games I've tested work fine and I have the latest Proton GE installed already.

I consider myself to be quite computer-savvy and tech-savvy in general, but Linux is making me question just how good I am with computers 😅 But it's honestly a lot of fun to be new to an OS and having to learn things again, feels like being a kid again and exploring everything about my old Windows 98 pc. I'm still using Windows 11 on my primary drive, but the goal is to eventually get comfortable enough to completely switch away from Windows since I don't have any games that require it.

My first question is, how do I install programs from outside the "discover store"? I can get the Plex app through the built in app store, but the Plex media server app isn't on there so I have to download it from the website, which gives me a .rpm file. I'm probably being dumb, but double clicking it just brings up an error message in the discover store saying it couldn't open the file.

I think I'm supposed to use the boxbuddy app to install it? I'm not sure. I'm not scared of using the terminal if I have to, and I'd actually like to get more comfortable with that anyways. Switching to Jellyfin isn't an option because my mom and brother use Plex through an xbox so I'm sticking with Plex for now.

Also, outside of the built in discover store, what's the best way to install programs? I know that Bazzite is built off of Fedora Atomic which is an "immuteable" distro so I can't directly install apps to the system without using rpm-ostree and that's apparently not recommended unless absolutely necessary according to what I've read.

I have a Logitech G502x plus mouse but piper won't recognize it, solaar works fine though. I can still configure my mouse in Windows when needed but I'd like to be able to do it in Linux as well, any ideas why piper won't recognize my mouse? I also have a Razer blackwidow v3 and I'm not sure what software to use to configure it in Linux.

Another small but annoying issue I'm having is with Firefox granting the RES (reddit enhancement suite) extension permissions, when I try to use it to expand a v.reddit link for example, it pops up a window asking me to "request permissions" but when I click that it simply brings me to this link without actually giving me the option to grant the permissions. On Windows I get a little popup near the extensions in the top right corner and I can simply grant the required permissions, but it's not doing that for me in Bazzite.

What are some cool programs in general to check out? My main use case is gaming, I don't program or do any work on my PC but I'd like to explore just for the sake of exploring! Also, what's a good way to familiarize myself with using the terminal? I've used the terminal on Windows quite a bit in the past, but only for basic things like unlocking a bootloader on Android and sending a ROM to it, back when I cared enough to root my phones. How would I, for example, pull a program off of github and compile it myself if needed? There's a program on github called gHub GUI by ysph that I'd like to check out, would be nice to be able to configure my mouse since piper doesn't seem to recognize my mouse.

What are some general best practices that differ from Windows? I don't really know how to narrow this question down, apologies for it being so vague.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can offer me some advice!

After my previous post (here: https://lemmy.world/post/16593726 ), I took some of the advice I got and switched over to Bazzite for the time being. After some very minor tinkering, Elden Ring launches and runs great other that a very tiny amount of stuttering.

Played for a few hours today, then went to get RuneScape set up with one of the community launchers. I had good luck with nmlynch94's launcher on previous distro's, but this time no textures would load unless the camera was moving. I uninstalled and switched to the other one (red-dragon I think?) and the game wouldn't launch at all. After a little bit of back and forth uninstalling and reinstalling it, rebooting, etc. with no changes, I gave up and uninstalled everything related to the jagex launcher. Everything was working fine at that point still, shut everything down after browsing the web and listening to music like normal with no issues and now Bazzite won't launch at all. Almost every try ends up in it freezing at

"Booting 'Fedora Linux 40.20240619.0 (Bazzite) (ostree:0)'

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Once, it booted to the lock screen then froze. I have things set up and would prefer not to have to do a fresh install, but I'm not quite sure what to do. I have been unable to find much help searching the web. Does anyone have any insight for me?

Edit: Got it to boot from the ostree:1 option rather than 0, but it froze up within ~90 seconds. Shut down and it seems to be refusing to boot again.

Edit: Well, it booted up and I'm back to Elden Ring. No freezes or anything. Not sure what I did, so I'm still concerned.

I've used Openbox as a minimal DE replacement for years, with Tint2 as panel and pseudo launcher. When I switched to EndeavourOS a couple of years ago Rofi came pre-installed along with those as window switcher, search and app launcher.

At the time it seemed superfluous and I just flat out uninstalled it, but now I'm coming around to maybe ditching Tint2 (and the stodgy old JGmenu that EndeavourOS uses) in favour of using Rofi as a search based launcher and menu.

I can imagine it'll be an abrupt transition but my question for the more seasoned Rofi users out there is, what should I look out for and what are your immediate caveats?

I recently bought a used Canon Pixma Pro 100 and I was trying to get it to run on Linux, given that it's the only computer OS I've been using since forever.

From what I've seen, there are no official drivers for the printer and gutenprint doesn't support it. There is an alternative, called Turboprint, which is a paid proprietary software for Linux that seems to fully support the printer.

Well, I would never settle for a proprietary software solution, even though I wouldn't mind the least paying for software if it was FOSS.

A solution is clearly within reach, since others have done it. I am just wondering how hard it would be, and what would be the steps that I could take to come up with a solution. I've done some reverse engineering before, so I know it can range from straightforward to arduous and time consuming. I wonder if this would be too complicated and if I would be better off setting up a QEMU Windows virtual machine with the drivers (that is what I've tried and it works well) while I work on finding a proper solution. I'm now trying to extract the useful part of the MacOS drivers and see if it would work using CUPS. (this part was edited from the original post to address an originally inconsistent phrasing).

I would really appreciate if you could help me with this!

Below I have some further context, some background and references:

1- A post on the Canon community forum says that: >Unfortunately the "Pro" series of printers aren't supported, but if you don't mind paying a little money then check out Turboprint for Linux.

2- The printer doesn't seem to be supported by generic drivers, according to an Arch forum user

3- Another Linux Mint Forums user confirms that it doesn't work on Linux and suggests a printer driver wrapper

4- Dpreview users unanimously say the solution is either Turboprint or Windows VM, according to this post and this other post

5- A printerknowledge user links a post that seems to contain instructions on how to get the printer working on Linux, but it appears to be a dead link

Update 1: I found this link on stack exchange explaining how to extract ppd from dmg MacOS images. I extracted the ppd file and all the resources from the official MacOS driver provided by Canon. Now I need to replace MacOS-specific paths to something valid on Linux. There are three or so entries that I need to configure. I will update this post as I make some progress on adapting the drivers to Linux.

I use BackInTime (which is basically a front end for rsync) for backups, and I run one every night at 1 AM. This is on Linux Mint Cinnamon. If the computer is locked/the monitors have gone to sleep (computer isn't suspended), when the backup begins the monitors turn on, and will then stay on all night. I don't want to waste the power or wear out my backlights.

How can I stop it from turning the monitors on, or how can I get it to turn them back off?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17012596

> While Plasma 6.0 was all about getting the migration to the underlying Qt 6 frameworks correct (and what a massive job that was), 6.1 is where developers start implementing the features that will take your desktop to a new level. > > In this release, you will find features that go far beyond subtle changes to themes and tweaks to animations (although there is plenty of those too), as you delve into interacting with desktops on remote machines, become more productive with usability and accessibility enhancements galore, and discover customizations that will even affect the hardware of your computer. > > These features and more are being built directly into Plasma's Wayland version natively, avoiding the need for third party software and hacky extensions required by similar solutions implemented in X. > > Things will only get more interesting from here. But meanwhile enjoy what will land on your desktop with your next update. > > Some of the new features: > - Improved remote desktop support with a new built-in server > - Overhauled desktop edit mode > - Restoration of open applications from the previous session on Wayland > - Synchronization of > keyboard LED colors with the desktop accent color > - Making mouse cursor bigger and easier to find by shaking it > - Edge barriers (a sticky > area for mouse cursor near the edge between screens) > - Explicit support eliminates flickering and glitches for NVidia graphics card users on Wayland > - Triple Buffering support for smoother animations and screen rendering

Hiya, got a very small, but annoying issue with this mouse. Every time I put the computer to sleep, and wake it up again the scrollwheel will barely scroll on websites and applications. To fix this i just have to turn the mouse on and off again, but am still wondering what causes this to be an issue or if there are any known fixes for this?

Appriciate any suggestions!

I've been hoping to get Elden Ring up and running before the DLC comes out, but I haven't had much luck so far. I am a newbie to Linux, currently running Debian 12 w/ GNOME, Ryzen 9 3900X, GTX 1080 Ti.

I have tried every proton version and plenty of suggested launch options with slightly varying levels of "success", but the best I manage to get is Proton GE with no launch options and the game launches, flashes black, then white and then crashes, the whole time with the game's custom cursor. Most other combinations get me a black screen before launch, no launch, or nothing (but steam says its running for a minute).

I believe my video drivers are all up to date, but I am a newbie, like I said, so I'm not confident I didn't miss something. Has anyone else been running into this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Update: I installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers and now only get a black screen or frozen terminal when I launch my PC. I'm currently in recovery mode and attempting to follow troubleshooting guides with no luck. "ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run 'nvidia-settings --help' for usage information." Is one of the errors I keep getting, but I only get part of the help dialogue, the rest is cut off. nvidia-smi just froze everything. Would it be a good idea to just go back to my installation media?

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/20674426

> I edited the "humorous" thumbnail. I apologize if I offended anyone.

> https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.11 > > Release notes > > The Wine development release 9.11 is now available. > > What's new in this release: > > > > - C++ exception handling on ARM platforms. > - More DPI Awareness support improvements. > - Various bug fixes. > > >

To get an idea of this community, and to try the cool CryptPad Survey feature, I created a pretty big Linux usage survey!

The data is anonymized and the content encrypted on the server. I plan on publishing the results.

Have fun!

It works on hardened Firefox on a phone, but the experience is better on a PC.

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live results

Just curious on how people here organize their files and if you use something like Stow to manage a messy home directory.

I have a couple of Surface tablets that I'd like to put Linux on if possible. The one I want to try first is a 5th gen Surface Pro. If all goes well I would then try it on a Surface Go 2 and hopefully could keep the cellular access.

What resources are available for doing this? The little I've read so far makes me think that it is a buggy process and maybe not worth the effort involved.

Edit: It works now and I have no idea why.

Hi all. I'm trying to connect my bluetooth headset to my desktop but scanning for devices, with KDE Plasma or bluetoothctl, doesn't show any devices. My phone isn't found either. I'm dual booting Windows and everything works fine there. I'm using NixOS. My bluetooth dongle shows up as "Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)". Here's what I found on systemctl status bluetooth

Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.39 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/faststream_duplex Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.39 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/opus_05 Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.39 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/opus_05 Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.39 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/opus_05_duplex Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.39 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/opus_05_duplex Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: src/gatt-database.c:database_add_chrc() Failed to create characteristic entry in d> Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: src/gatt-database.c:database_add_service() Failed to add characteristic Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: src/gatt-database.c:database_add_app() Failed to add service Jun 13 20:08:47 vpc bluetoothd[848]: src/gatt-database.c:client_ready_cb() Failed to create GATT service entry in local> Jun 13 20:16:49 vpc bluetoothd[848]: src/profile.c:record_cb() Unable to get Hands-Free unit SDP record: Host is down

Any help is appreciated!

Covered last week on Phoronix was a new patch from Intel that with tuning to the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver was showing big wins for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" performance and power efficiency. I was curious with the Intel claims posted for a couple benchmarks and thus over the weekend set out to run many Intel Meteor Lake benchmarks on this one-line kernel patch... The results are great for boosting the Linux performance of Intel Core ultra laptops with as much as 72% better performance.

The patch posted last week for the Linux kernel tunes the Intel P-State Energy Performance Preference (EPP) value for Meteor Lake in the default "balance_performance" state. Adjusting the EPP value from 115 to 64 was enough to show a 19% improvement in performance for some workloads and up to an 11% performance per Watt improvement, as shown by the patch series. A similar patch was also posted last week for using those same values with upcoming Intel Arrow Lake processors.

My mini ITX motherboard doesn't have as many USB ports as I'd like. I've also decided 2024 is the year I try to kill off all my USB micro devices and replace them with USB-C (sorry PS4 controller). So I'm going to go Bluetooth as much as it makes sense (because of the limited USB ports), and use devices that charge over USB-C

For communication during gaming over discord I've been using a Logitech g933 for about 8 years with the USB receiver, so that's on the chopping block.

I'm quite happy with the sound quality for music I currently get out of my Bluetooth headphones. A2DP gives a really great experience. Using those same headphones as a communication device with Discord for both recording and playing audio is really awful though as it kicks back to HFP/HSP. So I was wondering if it's possible to do a dedicated Bluetooth microphone? And more importantly: does connecting a micrpphone-only device over Bluetooth still need to be in the HFP/HSP profile to work?

To be clear: my goal is to be wires-free for my audio solution, while having both a high quality audio output to hear my beloved gaming companions AND to have a high quality (or at least clear quality) audio input so my beloved gaming companions can hear me. The microphone built into Bluetooth headphones is generally shit and sounds like being on a cell phone call from 1999, even when using it on an android or Windows machine that gave custom Bluetooth stacks that don't fall back to HSP. That's why I'm interested in using a dedicated high quality (probably condenser?) microphone, I'm just unsure if that high quality makes it back to the computer when connected through Bluetooth.

From the last couple hours of searching and reading I can only seem to find information regarding Bluetooth recording+playback combined headsets and the A2DP/HSP stuff. I can't seem to find anything about regarding dedicated microphones quality over Bluetooth.

This might be good. Hope you enjoy what I made.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16356895

> I hope this software is useful to those who feel they need it. > > Available on codeberg: https://codeberg.org/MarshReaper/GuardianSecurityCenter/releases/latest > > ! > > This is a client that makes use of the ClamAV packages available in most repositories. It is made to replace ClamTK and check that box for people wanting to use Linux. > > Some features are still in development, so not for production use just yet. But, you can run a quick scan and update signatures which is basic enough for most users. > > I saw a video DistroTube posted and it made me a bit confused. It was about the Kasperky being offered on Linux. If you have seen the comments you would understand. > > Anyways, this had me remember people I know ask me about anti viruses on Linux. I tried ClamTK, but it is very unintuitive and has a somewhat broken workflow. > > I hopped on Godot and searched for an image of a popular antivirus software. I then made the software using the pretty layout that many people are used to. > > I learned some things about Godot and I hope others will too with this project. Enjoy! > > Also, if anyone could help me find the best way to distribute this software that would be great! (flatpak? repos? it requires administrative privileges)

I've been using Merkuro Calendar and Kalk, and they're fine, but I'm using i3wm, and they got some weird problems like missing icons.

hi,

My company gave me a laptop for work and after some time they will give it to another person when I quit the company so I want to make sure I don't leave any of my data behind so which command should I run to delete my home directory to delete all the data?

is it just rm -rf /home/myname

I'm not trying to start a war here, just wondering what your takes are. They pretty much have the same concept of lightweight desktop, but with different toolkits.

I'm a KDE person myself, but I've had experience with XFCE.

I've tried LXQt in the past but never really gotten into it, perhaps the timing was just not right.

TL;DW

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find with grep

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find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep -l "somename" '{}' '+'

run a command for each result individually

find . -name "*.txt" -exec basename '{}' \';' | column

case insensitive

find -iname "SoMeNaMe.TxT

file or dir

find -type f find -type d

define file owner

find -user Bob

define file group

find -group wheel

by permission

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find by size

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I just had extreme pain with this.

Apart from broken PDF tools, GIMP 2.99.x is already really nice. I recommend the Flatpak from flathub-beta.

The 2 big browsers dont seem to support arithmetic coded JPEG at least in PDF!

They will simply display blank pages!

Example PDF

Lets do a list

Tools that are broken

Linux

• Firefox / Librewolf (RPM)
• likely Chromium (see below)
• Scrivano (Flatpak)
• QPDF Tools (Flatpak) (and I suppose qpdf too)
• Rescribe OCR (Flatpak)
• JPEG2PDF (Flatpak, displays correctly but broken image pipe)
• Arianna (Flatpak, not sure if supports PDF)
• NightPDF (Electron/Chromium, Flatpak)

(I dont recommend that software but it works for that purpose. See my list of recommended Flatpak apps here)

Android

• Mull (Firefox Android)
• GrapheneOS PDF, Cuprum PDF, MJ PDF (Chromium Webview)
• SavPDF (maybe also Webview)

Web

• pdf24.org (webservice)
• StirlingPDF (Docker/Podman container)

IOS

• Safari PDF viewer (iOs 16.7.2)

Software that works

Linux, Flatpak (likely also native package)

• KDE Okular
• GNOME Evince (Document Viewer)
• Inkscape
• Libreoffice Draw
• PDF Arranger (libqpdf 11.9.0, pikepdf 8.15.1)
• Bookworm 1.1.2
• KOReader
• Sioyek
• CorePDF
• gImageReader

Android

• muPDF
• Collabora Office
• KOReader, Librera, Orion Viewer (all dont support modern filesystem permissions)

Lets report some issues?

I've ran into this situation multiple times at my current and previous jobs. I really want to avoid Windows and use something better, but I can't live without two external monitors.

On Windows, it "just works". I don't have to do anything.

On Linux (I tried Linux Mint today) it doesn't work. First, it only connected one of the monitors, the other one did not register. Then I switched to a different cable from the computer to the docking station and it connected both screens - however, they were locked to 30fps. I could not make them work at 60fps (and this is a major dealbreaker, I cannot live with 30fps).

This isn't really a tech support question, I'm more trying to understand what fundamentally causes this situation. Why is Linux still struggling with pretty basic functionality that Windows does with zero setup? Is it the vendor of the laptop and docking station that aren't properly supporting Linux? Or is it some other problem?

Lina is Live again!! As promised I cought her stream much earlier this time. 🐸 \ As usual, here's her steam account just in case you'd like to gift to her, as she's currently testing as many games as she can and fixing bugs. Proof From Her Previous Live Stream \ ! \ As always, you can just ask her to show you it on live.