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  • As much as I like the idea behind Pine64, make sure you understand what you're doing - their devices usually need some time before they're useful, they might underperform, etc.
    On the other hand, they're usually priced well for what they offer, and I think the ARM model of new PineTab might look better than their usual new offerings. Make sure to find out, how polished it is before you buy.

  • Hyprland is a toxic community
  • It's the moderation staff's responsibility. Sorry for nitpicking, I understand in this case it's likely the same people.

    I just get triggered when I hear that an open source software developer should have any responsibilities at all (maybe apart from some extreme examples), and I wouldn't like this idea to stick in anyone's head.

  • Phosh now available on Arch Linux
  • It would be a nice feature, if Phosh behaved a bit different in landscape mode; it wastes too much vertical space, especially using Firefox to browse the web is a disaster. Maybe the top and bottom panel should share screen space at the top instead (each half of the screen); or they should be on the sides instead...

  • Phone for Ubuntu Touch
  • I own OP6, on Ubuntu Touch it has an annoying bug with shutdown (see my other reply here).
    On mobile Linux, though, it's quite close: camera is missing, GPS is a bit finicky about SIM card you use, I did not seriously test battery life yet. I plan to give it a proper try to daily drive it soon.

  • Phone for Ubuntu Touch
  • The entire idea of Ubuntu Touch device support, was to be based on Halium. It's a bit different than regular mobile Linux (outside of Droidian, of course), where mainline is a requirement.

  • Phone for Ubuntu Touch
  • It won't be much of help, but I have a few devices:

    • Xperia X which so far works well, except that it feels like the phone's internals are a bit too slow for today's standards, so even if I will use it for the time being, if I were yo,u I would pick something more powerful.
    • OnePlus 6 which would be very cool (especially that it's one of the best phones for regular 'mobile Linux' so far), if not for shutdown being bugged, which results in time getting reset on every boot. But it's fast enough, and I hope the bug will eventually get a fix.
    • last time I tried PPP was not good enough, but it's been ~2 months ago and support was quite fresh. Might need to check again.
  • I realized why I enjoy Linux so much and why I've stuck with it all these years (slight vent)...
  • I looked through the posts.
    Explanation of the issue: the userspace implementation of OpenGL for Xorg, called GLX,does not work, maybe it isn't loaded. From what I see, /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/libglx.so is no longer included in nvidia-utils package, the new name for it is probably libglxserver_nvidia.so

    Did you have any lines with (EE) in Xorg.0.log?
    Do you see if this log says, if libglxserver_nvidia.so was loaded correctly?
    Wouldn't hurt to check, if nvidia kernel module is loaded: lsmod | grep nvidia
    Maybe reinstallation of nvidia-utils package could help, although I am pretty sure this was done already when you removed and added nVidia driver again.

    Feel free to PM me, whenever you give it another go, even if it's half a year from now :) I'll do my best to provide you some advice.
    ('nv' is an old driver for old nVidia cards, you shouldn't look in that direction, it's normal that it doesn't load, if nvidia driver does)

  • I realized why I enjoy Linux so much and why I've stuck with it all these years (slight vent)...
    • KeepassXC should just work, if the browser's key was added to your KDBX database successfully. Other than that, I am surprised.
    • Yup, the motherboard clock thingy is a consequence of Windows storing local time, vs Linux storing UTC. It's a minor thing to fix in any of these systems, though.
    • Shortcuts thingy - never had a problem, although I did have a problem with KDE's keyboard shortcuts to run a program, which may be related workflow and maybe both were/are broken.
    • KDE Connect is surprising, as at least for me it worked flawlessly
    • The reboot thingy must be related to Linux Mint. I saw similar thing in EndeavourOS. One nice thing that some distributions implemented, is the ability to apply updates when you poweroff - from my point of view it's a less annoying solution than what you describe.
    • I can't comment on the 'cherry on top' one without more details.
      I had a somewhat similar issue on my work laptop a short while ago, when I installed a program, which included a bugged XML settings file, then ran system update. When the updater tried to rebuild some caches (related to ie. icons, MIME etc.), some programs which use these caches simply stopped working. Reinstalling all packages with apt was the only thing that helped, to this day I do not even know all of the parts of my system that were broken.
      But this was one of these issues that happen once per 5 years, and leave you scratching your head and asking "what the hell is going on here?". The difference from Windows is that in Linux, you can have a high understanding of system's internal modular components (at the cost of time needed to learn it), and regular system issues can be identified after a few minutes of Googling.
  • IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
  • I think the beginning sets the context - a history of business models related to Unix, and later Linux + Open Source software. It's important to learn from it.

    It also shows that the challenges of the clash between capitalism and software freedom are constantly evolving, and presents how our battles were won (or lost) in the past.

  • Lightweight touch-capable distro
  • Oh, and as for the touch UIs, not much luck if GNOME doesn't work well enough. KDE can be made to run well with touch input, but for me it needed some work to configure it. But I liked it afterwards.

    There are Mobile Linux UIs (which might run better on tight resources) but I am afraid they might not be good for multitasking on a tablet screen.

  • Lightweight touch-capable distro
  • Mobile Linux distributions for smartphones might offer some hints on how to tackle your problems - these apps are created in a convergent way, which makes them work well on laptops, tablets and PCs alike. Look for an alternate file manager, for example, to replace Nautilus. Check out https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/

  • What is your opinion on GNOME 3 and 4? Why do you like/dislike it?
  • What do you think about using a keyboard-based workflow: hit Super button (or click on Activities) to make the fullscreen menu pop-up, then write the first few letters of the app name, and finally hit Enter? Search-based workflow is my favourite way to navigate app menu, on GNOME and KDE alike.

  • open source alternativ to firetv, chromecast, steam big picture, Plasma Bigscreen
  • Maybe it's obvious, but how about Kodi?
    It has support for CEC (for utilizing your TV's remote through HDMI), of course there are other input options as well.
    There's plenty of plugins to support online video services. Needs some work to configure them, and sometimes it requires maintenance when a plugin stops working, but I was in general happy with the way it worked while I used it for a few years.

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