5 Top ICE 'Corporate Collaborators' Saved $19 Billion in Taxes Under Trump: Report
"While masked officers terrorize communities—smashing into cars, harassing citizens, and inflicting violence with impunity—Trump’s corporate backers are laughing their way to the bank."
HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty
"My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."
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Amateur Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty
The Belarusian government is threatening three ham radio operators with the death penalty, detained at least seven people, and has accused them of “intercepting state secrets,” according to Belarusian state media, independent media outside of Belarus, and the Belarusian human rights organization Viasna. The arrests are an extreme attack on what is most often a wholesome hobby that has a history of being vilified by authoritarian governments in part because the technology is quite censorship resistant.The detentions were announced last week on Belarusian state TV, which claimed the men were part of a network of more than 50 people participating in the amateur radio hobby and have been accused of both “espionage” and “treason.” Authorities there said they seized more than 500 pieces of radio equipment. The men were accused on state TV of using radio to spy on the movement of government planes, though no actual evidence of this has been produced.
State TV claimed they were associated with the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR), a long-running amateur radio club and nonprofit that holds amateur radio competitions, meetups, trainings, and forums. WhatsApp and email requests to the BFRR from 404 Media were not returned.
On Reddit, Siarhei Besarab, a Belarusian amateur radio operator, posted a plea for support from others in the hobby: “MAYDAY from Belarus: Licensed operators facing death penalty.”
“I am writing this because my local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide,” Besarab wrote. “They have detained over 50 licensed people, including callsigns EW1ABT, EW1AEH, and EW1ACE. These men were paraded on state television like war criminals and were coerced to publicly repent for the "crime" of technical curiosity. Propagandists presented the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR) as a front for a ‘massive spy network.’”
“State propaganda unironically claims these men were ‘pumping state secrets out of the air’ using nothing more than basic $25 Baofeng handhelds and consumer-grade SDR dongles,” he added. “Any operator knows that hardware like this is physically incapable of cracking the modern AES-256 digital encryption used by government security forces. It is a technical fraud, yet they are being charged with High Treason and Espionage. The punishment in Belarus for these charges is life in prison or the death penalty.”
The Belarusian human rights group Viasna and its associated Telegram channel confirmed the detention and said that it spoke to a cellmate of Andrei Repetsi, who said that Repetsi was unable to talk about his case in jail: “The case is secret, so Andrei never told the essence of the case in the cell. He joked that his personal file was marked ‘Top secret. Burn before reading,’” Viasna wrote.
Most hams operate amateur radios for fun, as part of competitions, or to keep in touch with other hams around the world. But the hobby has a long history of being attacked by governments in part because it is resistant to censorship. Amateur radio often works even if a natural disaster or political action takes down internet, cell, and phone services, so it is popular among people interested in search and rescue and doomsday prepping. Amateur radio has been used to share information out of Cuba, for example, and in 2021 the Cuban government jammed ham radio frequencies during anti-government protests there.
Cuba Is Jamming HAM Radio Frequencies, Operators Say
Amateur radio operators regularly communicate between Florida and Cuba. Last week, mysterious signals originating from Havana jammed the most popular frequencies.Jason Koebler (VICE)
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US | Trump Claims 'Concept of a Deal' Reached for Greenland, Says He'll Cancel New Tariffs
The president says he "assumes" Denmark knows about the deal.
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Israeli fire strikes journalists and children on one of Gaza's deadliest days since ceasefire
Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians on one of the deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October.
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US sanctions six Palestinian aid groups it accuses of ties to Qassam Brigades
The Trump administration says the organisations take instructions from Hamas's military wing
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US sanctions six Palestinian aid groups it accuses of ties to Qassam Brigades
The US Treasury on Wednesday announced it is sanctioning six Palestinian aid organisations in Gaza that it accuses of being part of a "covert support network" for Hamas through its military wing, the Qassam Brigades.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Duolingo Max Now Powered by GPT‑4 Turbo: Smarter Conversations, Better Feedback, Real Learning
Duolingo Max Now Powered by GPT‑4 Turbo: Smarter Conversations, Better Feedback, Real Learning
Fun Fact Duolingo reports that over 60% of users who try its AI-powered features return […]TechFusionDaily
Apple Partners with Google to Power Siri and Apple Intelligence Using Gemini AI
Apple Partners with Google to Power Siri and Apple Intelligence Using Gemini AI
🧠 Fun Fact to Kick Things Off Before Siri became the voice of the iPhone, […]TechFusionDaily
Your projector screen is probably more important than your projector
Just wanted to share a lesson I learned the hard way, in case it helps someone else who is just getting into projectors.
I recently upgraded to a pretty decent 4K laser projector and for the first week, I was just using a smooth, matte-white wall as my screen. To be honest, I was underwhelmed. The image was dull and looked washed out unless the room was pitch black, which is totally impractical for watching sports or casual viewing.
I was close to thinking I'd wasted my money on the projector. After some digging on various forums, I realized my bottleneck wasn't the projector—it was the surface.
I decided to properly invest in an ALR (Ambient Light Rejecting) screen. I ended up getting a VIVIDSTORM screen, and the difference is not subtle, it is night and day.
The contrast has skyrocketed, and colors actually pop now, even with some indirect daylight in the room. It finally looks like the high-end, cinematic image I was expecting to get.
TL;DR: Don't cheap out on your screen! A great screen with a good projector beats a great projector on a mediocre surface every single time. It's the component that brings the whole experience together.
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Bill seeking oversight of AI exports advances to House
Trump's decision to green-light the sale of Nvidia H200 GPUs to China isn't sitting well with some of his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives. These GOP politicians have proposed a bill that would give Congress final say over the export of AI chips to China and other countries of concern.Introduced by Rep. Brian Mast (R‑FL) in December, the "AI Overwatch Act" would give the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which Mast chairs, and the Senate Banking Committee at least 30 days to review and, if necessary, block the export of sensitive AI chips to adversary nations.
On Wednesday, the Foreign Affairs Committee voted overwhelmingly to advance the measure to the House of Representatives with a favorable recommendation.
"When the United States considers selling a C-130 or a fighter jet, or an engine that goes on one of those airframes, or ordnance that goes on the wing of a jet, or the avionics that go in a cockpit, or anything that has military use, it goes through a process known as the foreign military sales process," Mast said during a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday.
House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass
: Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto itTobias Mann (The Register)
Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession
The annual assessment, which has been prepared since 2020, purports to offer a holistic assessment to threats to the Western Hemisphere. These assessments have consistently focused on what you imagine: southern border security, the drug trade, immigration, and critical infrastructure protection in the United States.
But this year’s assessment, marked “For Official Use Only” and not yet released to the public, identifies violent extremism on the part of American citizens as the priority and greatest threat.
One phrase in particular stands out to me as new: potential terrorism based upon “class-based or economic grievances.” (The term has not appeared in any previous assessment.)
Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession
Forget Greenland; the American public are the real targetKen Klippenstein
Minnesota statewide strike, economic blackout to protest ICE on Friday
Minnesota statewide strike, economic blackout to protest ICE on Friday
The event, called “A Day of Truth and Freedom,” is being organized by union representatives, faith leaders and community members.Mary Divine (Twin Cities)
Evil ICE Fucks Ate Lunch At A Mexican Restaurant Just So They Could Come Back And Detain The People Who Fed Them
In the broadest sense, this is news, but there's too much opinion in this to throw it there.
Do you still want to cling to this pretense, Trump supporters? Do you still want to pretend ICE efforts are targeting “the worst of the worst?” Are you just going to sit there and mumble some incomprehensible stuff about “respecting the laws?”Go ahead. Do it, you cowards. This is exactly what you voted for, even if it now makes you a bit queasy. Just sit there and soak in it. You are who you support, even if you never thought it would go this far.
“Worst of the worst,” Trump’s parrot repeat on blast. “This one time we caught a guy who did actual crimes,” say spokespeople defending whatever the latest hideous violation of the social contract (if not actual constitutional rights) a federal agent has performed. “Targeted investigation/stop” say the enablers, even when it’s just officers turning white nationalism into Official Government Policy. “Brown people need to be gone” is the end game. Full stop.
Evil ICE Fucks Ate Lunch At A Mexican Restaurant Just So They Could Come Back And Detain The People Who Fed Them
Do you still want to cling to this pretense, Trump supporters? Do you still want to pretend ICE efforts are targeting “the worst of the worst?” Are you just going to sit there and mumbl…Techdirt
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do you know any good non-english rap you’d recommend?
Since i do appreciate (rap) songs even if i don't understand them, I need some recommendations from YOU for non-english rap songs or artists.
(I can't really distinguish genres, so I'm trusting your judgment whether your recommendation fits)
(I'm also not a fan of german rap but you can recommended that regardless)
Linuxverse January 2026: New Distros, Open‑Source Momentum, and What’s Next
Linuxverse January 2026: New Distros, Open‑Source Momentum, and What’s Next
Fun Fact The Linux kernel now receives over 12,000 patches every month, making it one […]TechFusionDaily
The big winner in Iran? Chinese repression
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/49398493
ArchivedIn the blink of an eye, the latest Iranian uprising has folded. For a few feverish days in January the talk was of imminent regime change, of not-so-supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei packing his bags. Then came the shoot-to-kill orders, the 16,000 or more body bags and the silence of the graveyard. Donald Trump’s cavalry did not ride to the rescue.
And the winner of this bloody, uneven contest? China’s digital repression model, duly adopted by Iran’s hardcore Revolutionary Guards, which ensured that the January protests were snuffed out even more quickly than the 2022 hijab demonstrations and the November 2019 rebellion against petrol price hikes. This time the uprising was nationwide, spread across 207 cities and towns according to the National Council of Resistance, drawing in all classes against apparently enfeebled leaders who had recently been handed a humiliating defeat with the bombing of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.
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To the delight of the so-called Illiberal International (star members: China, Russia, North Korea), the regime has been saved by what could be dubbed the Dragon-Mullah axis. In 2021 Beijing and Tehran signed up to a 25-year tech and security deal designed to refine Iran’s ability to control its rising Gen Z population. That meant the mass transfer of surveillance technology — smart Chinese-made CCTV cameras have now been installed across cities and towns — and cybersecurity tools.
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That is the kind of intelligence being fed into the Iranian machine. It probably works better in China, where huge amounts of stored personal data feed into a complex system of behavioural modification. The Iranian regime does not have that kind of number-crunching capacity. But the regular exchanges between the Iranian police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan and the Chinese minister for public security Wang Xiaohong show how anxious Tehran has been to soak up information from the brand leader. Their last meeting was in December, just weeks before the Iran protests kicked off.
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A large part of this collaboration is about understanding the networks of protest, how they communicate, who is leading whom to what target. That has been part of the curriculum on the Advanced Police Officers Training Programme at China’s People’s Public Security University; Iranian practitioners, usually Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, take part in role-play exercises. When they return home, they get promoted quickly and presumably lobby hard for the kind of Chinese technology needed to carry out the mission. Not just facial recognition cameras but also AI systems that flag up ethnic and demographic groupings. Some of the Chinese techniques — filtering supposedly suspicious internet content — were applied by Tehran long before the two countries signed a security pact.
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The command of police state-enabling tech is at the heart of Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative, set up in 2022. It offers to help governments to combat crime — what’s not to like? — but also to stay in power by tracking subversive critics. Xi has even summoned a global security forum which he would like to be the Illiberal International’s answer to the West-affirming Munich Security Conference. The Chinese offer: values-free security diplomacy. Imagine the deals that could be struck there.
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Technical ingenuity, of course, does not remove the causes of unrest. Only good governance can tackle the misery of drought, only sound economics can restore investor confidence, only statesmanship can bring Iran to the rational conclusion that building nuclear weapons condemns the region to permanent insecurity. In the absence of these qualities, the floundering theocratic regime has to depend on the repressive toolkit offered by China. The Iranians deserve better.
Donald Trump’s cavalry did not ride to the rescue.
That would have been illegal under both US and international law. But laws are dead in the US so I guess it's fine, right?
I have a hard time giving the nytimes any credence with their unqualified support of Israel, even in the final solution as they wanted to implement the last couple of years.
The support is so unconditional I am curious if the editors and owners are on the epstein tapes as well? I think someone said maybe on the editor actually.
Their reporting has become weak too, they used to have courage and fight, now they don't. Israel broke their brain somehow, they haven't even broken a single big scoop the first year of the most corrupt, openly so, administration in history.
If not epstein related, why would the times be so subservient when they had courage before? Rank fear? Idk, but we desperately need media that calls out the powerful, namely to not push for opposition to the republicans that cannot win, the most pernicious of the times' failures/betrayals. I blame them more than rw rags.
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Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens claim
The Greens justice spokesperson, David Shoebridge, said rushed amendments – agreed between Labor and the Coalition in the wake of the Bondi terror attacks – represent an unprecedented expansion of political power to ban organisations and criminalise speech based on vague standards.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, rejected the claims on Wednesday, insisting the laws were needed to protect Australians, including members of the Jewish community.
Shoebridge said legitimate criticism of Israel or the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may be offences, if they cause psychological harm and prompt warnings to the government from intelligence agencies.
Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn
Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke say the laws are needed to protect Australians – particularly the Jewish communityTom McIlroy (The Guardian)
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Iranian government says 3,117, mostly civilians, killed in unrest
The Iranian government announced the official death toll from nationwide protests, state media reported Wednesday.
The Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, a government body responsible for overseeing those killed in conflicts since the 1979 revolution, said 3,117 people were killed, with 2,427 security personnel and civilians.
The figures are based on information received from the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, a forensic body affiliated with the country’s judiciary, it said in a statement.
The foundation said the deaths took place in “terrorist incidents” in recent days that were “reminiscent of the brutal and savage crimes of ISIS (Daesh).”
Iranian government says 3,117, mostly civilians, killed in unrest
US, several European countries imposed new round of sanctions on Iran for ‘crackdown on protesters’ - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
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The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED
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Coalition in crisis as entire Nationals frontbench quits after division over Labor’s hate speech laws
Google’s New Android Update Locks Your Apps And Hides Your Messages
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry – Shine A Light (2016)
L'America è stata costruita (anche) sulla mitologia del treno. Tra un punto e l'altro dell'immensa distesa della nazione, la ferrovia ha creato connessioni fra luoghi, persone e comunità, rendendo meno spaventoso l'isolamento umano nella proverbiale wilderness americana... Leggi e ascolta...
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry – Shine A Light (2016)
L'America è stata costruita (anche) sulla mitologia del treno. Tra un punto e l'altro dell'immensa distesa della nazione, la ferrovia ha creato connessioni fra luoghi, persone e comunità, rendendo meno spaventoso l'isolamento umano nella proverbiale wilderness americana. La forza di questa trasformazione, che ha condotto il paese verso la prepotente modernità e ne ha generato anche uno sradicamento umano, è stata da sempre testimoniata dalle canzoni folk, intese proprio nell'accezione più profonda possibile, come racconti popolari, riflessi sulla vita quotidiana della gente... artesuono.blogspot.com/2016/10…
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Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I'd create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people's pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
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Touchpad:
No matter what I did, the touchpad is always so bad on Linux (tried on different devices, different hardware, different distros). Two finger scrolling is not consistent, movement doesn't feel right, gestures are not precise enough. Tried to get the "two finger swipe back" on the browser on my old Intel Macbook Air and it was just horrible. Could only get three finger swipe to work and recognition of that was just not very consistent.
At the moment I have a old notebook sitting here to set up for one of my family members and could only get somewhat smooth scrolling to work on Mint by using some arcane workaround... but only in Firefox, scrolling anywhere else still sucks. Apparently touchpads on Linux are still my nemesis.
I would love to use Linux on my notebook too, but I also don't want to fight with my main input all the time. 🙁
Will try Asahi linux on the M1 Macbook as soon the battery issue improves, but I have a feeling that the touchpad problems will drive me back to Mac OS again (which sucks, because they keep locking Mac OS down more every year...).
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Been using it for a couple years, my main ones currently are:
- VR. SteamVR is a broken mess, Monado is pretty much functional, but I haven't switched yet. Mesa or the kernel sometimes forget about VR and break it in an update.
- QT5 to QT6 transition for my favorite Matrix client, Nheko. Scrolling is a pain, and the clipboard randomly stops working.
- Wayland freedom and featureset is nowhere close to X11. I can't choose a window manager without locking myself in to a specific featureset on my display server. Stuff like global hotkeys isn't supported in most applications. I'm still on the godawful GNOME desktop portals, which is most annoying for file picking. I have no HDR support because my window manager isn't from KDE or GNOME.
- GTK4 apps looking like shit (there are patches luckily), I try to avoid them just because of libadwaita and GNOME's awful design.
On the note of Wayland, I have switched, and for good reason. Besides unimplemented features, things "just work" a lot better than X11. Still wish I could have effectively bspwm window management with kwin featureset though. (Plugins for tiling are not the same experience)
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Welcome to the LVRA Wiki# This is a collection of links, useful resources and guides for the amazing world of VR on Linux. Feel free to contribute to this wiki yourself if you find anything useful that you might want to share with others.Linux VR Adventures Wiki
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My experience has been very slightly better (Quest 3 + Wifi 7 AP) on CachyOS compared to Win11. I was using Virtual desktop streamer (paid $25 for it) and now on Cachy using ALVR (free).
Framerates are more stable, very slightly lower averages in a few games, but the 0.1% lows that make me nauseous are now gone on Linux!
Regarding HDR yeah, I wish it had more widespread support and not get stuck on 1 window manager. But on KDE at least the SDR->HDR color mapping looks better than the Win11 auto HDR.
Needs more work for sure, some X.org applications really look terrible out of the box lol, but overall it feels good to be on an OS that gets improvements with time instead of downgrades.
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GTK4 apps and libadwaita apps are different though. You can theme both as well.
Regarding Wayland, I wonder why features still vary so wildly, even with projects like wlroots. Do WMs just not care enough?
Scrolling in Qt apps in general isn't great. Still no inertial scrolling for example.
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Screen blanking, or rather screen blanking not functioning properly.
I have literally spent 9 months researching every possible angle and even going as far as buying some of those Edid Emulator passthroughs for each monitor to see if those helped. Tried disabling the Kscreen manager in KDE. Tried manually controlling it via CLI and DPMS. Tried different mice and keyboards to see if it was my inputs waking it up. Tried making sure all the monitors had their auto-select input option disabled. Nope, my monitors blank for a second or two and then unblank immediately. The issue is present in both X11 and Wayland.
I have had to jump through hoops to enable a screen saver in wayland. I have to turn my monitors off manually every night. It's really frustrating. It seems like a really simple thing, but it's like, literally all I want is consistent screen blanking and I have spent the better part of 9 months on and off trying to find a fucking solution to no avail. I still have no explanation for why they wake instantly, they don't seem to be triggered by anything on the system, based on the logs.
I even made a post asking for help regarding it here on Lemmy about six months ago. No luck.
It drives me up the wall because I'm actually really good at researching and finding solutions for problems I've run into online. This one mystifies and eludes me and while seeming minor I feel like is a genuine pain in my ass.
Related: Have an old laptop running a server OS with no GUI and have no ability to disable the monitor since technically there isn't any monitor rendering set up, so all commands to screen blank the monitor fail because there's technically no monitor to turn off according to the system.
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I'm sorry if you've already checked this, but I had a similar problem with a Windows laptop recently that just would NOT stay in standby. It wasn't a question of if, but how long.
Eventually I found that some "Wake on IP' settings were set to "Wake on any/all IP traffic". I switched those off and now the thing stays in standby/screen blanked.
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Had a problem like this a year ago, figured out it was because I was using display port. Some weird quirk of its protocol basically fubars it.
Switching to hdmi cables fixes the problem.
But HDMI cables have bigger issues so I just learned to deal with the problem.
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I don't really have an option. I have four monitors and four video outputs, and only one output is HDMI. In fact, three of the cables are DP to HDMI because I don't have any DP capable monitors. So yeah.
Some weird quirk of its protocol basically fubars it.
Seems like this would be something to be producing logs on for community developers in hopes of finding a solution though. Could you maybe point me to the info you found on this? I'd be interested to see if there's any timeline that anyone is working toward in fixing it.
I have a Thinkpad with integrated graphics I basically use as a launcher for Firefox and Steam.
Attached to a docking station with an external monitor connected via HDMI. Nothing fancy.
In several different distros, I can't play my Steam games on Gnome with Wayland, because the game window won't open properly.
It's either bigger than the screen so I only see part of it, or smaller and windowed. A lot of the time it will just show a black screen inside the window.
Tried all available Proton versions, laptop lid open or closed, laptop monitor active or deactivated. Makes no difference.
It works fine on Xfce (X11), KDE 5 (X11) and Plasma (Wayland), so I'm not too bothered.
I'd prefer Gnome, though.
Other issues that don't bother me much: I had to disable the fingerprint reader in BIOS to get rid of error message spam during boot, and the monitor configuration isn't applied on the login screen so I have to type my password in blindly.
What bothers me more is that the laptop doesn't receive an IP address from my DHCP server over WiFi, while my wife's Windows PC and my phone do. But that's more likely due to a misconfigured DHCP server than the OS.
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What bothers me more is that the laptop doesn’t receive an IP address from my DHCP server over WiFi, while my wife’s Windows PC and my phone do. But that’s more likely due to a misconfigured DHCP server than the OS.
Do you have static DHCP IPs being handed out or do you mean it's just not getting an IP from the DHCP pool? Because for static IPs with machines that sometimes connect via hardwire and sometimes connect via WiFi I always make sure to provision two separate IPs with the MAC addresses for ethernet and WiFi each assigned to the different IPs.
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But I have a wonky setup with a WiFi repeater that combines 2 SSIDs from the router (for 2G and 5G) into one.
If I connect directly to the router's WiFi I have no issues.
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Other than that, both work and private use and gaming has been fairly flawless.
Oh, except for Star Citizen that was a hassle to set up, but once the community guides were found, it was easily figured out.
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I fully switched to Linux in 2024, my last desktop Linux experience before that being at least five years prior.
- Windows behaves a bit more gracefully then Linux when the VRAM is being exhausted. On Linux I can get graphics artifacts and sometimes Steam crashing. That mainly becomes relevant when doing GPGPU stuff, though; gaming works fine.
- Some apps use GTK4. Since GTK3, GNOME has been moving away from a "regular" desktop experience and towards this weird pseudo-mobile thing that goes against all established conventions. That might be nice if you really like their style and use nothing but GNOME, but it's really annoying if you don't. I long for the good old days where action buttons weren't crammed into title bars.
- Occasionally having to manually fix package updates. Only an issue because my distro is Arch-based and that kind of stuff is to be expected there.
- I haven't managed to get three-finger swipe mapped to PgUp/PgDn so far but I use the trackpad rarely enough that I haven't bothered investing time into it yet.
- Occasionally the system just shits itself when rapidly switching between different users' desktop sessions. Again, that happens so rarely that I haven't bothered trying to deal with it yet.
On the other hand, I'm happier than expected with Wayland and PipeWire. They just work with little fuss. Sure, I'm a KDE user and Wayland is reportedly less fun outside the big DEs, but for me it just works.
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It is probably because I am a moron and just took a long time to figure it out, but its always harder to set up network shares with my linux desktop than any other machine in my house. At this point I know how to do it pretty well, but its a LOT more involved because none of the GUI tools seem to really work right.
Like I will share a folder from my server (also running linux BTW) and its instantly viewable on my windows laptop and even my streaming devices, but to discover it on my other linux machine is always a chore that involves editing a few config files and just kinda randomly poking around until it works.
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but to discover it on my other linux machine is always a chore that involves editing a few config files and just kinda randomly poking around until it works.
What's your desktop environment? On KDE you can just enter smb://serverhost/path in the Dolphin navigation bar and it will open it.
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Yes, that's still a bit annoying unfortunately.
Editing the fstab to properly mount a network share also currently has no UI available in KDE and has to be done manually.
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My latest project is a NixOS based NAS, with the goal being to make something super reproducible I can help friends setup for themselves to build out a decentralized backup/media/adblock/fileshare/communication tool for me and my loved ones.
I understand the concept and use case of flakes and home manager but every time I have attempted to install these, down to just fully copying provided configs, something doesn’t work, and then uninstalling them is a bit of a nightmare. I’ve yet to find a truly accessible NixOS tutorial as someone coming from an Arch from scratch install and tinkering with some 6 other Linux based operating systems.
I’d love for either a fully flake free setup, that is just simple “default style” config files, OR an actually useful tutorial that discusses the generic process of installing these in a way that I can actually understand, because I clearly lack some important piece of knowledge to make it work as intended. So many pieces of software I’m interested in simply say “install the XYZ flake and you’re good to go”. People make Nix seem so simple (and when it works it feels that way) but there’s some disconnect between the author of every tutorial I’ve followed and me as a relatively new to Nix end user.
One thing that is really annoying is that for working with plugging in and out SD cards in my internal SD card reader I always have to go to standby for it to properly remove and then again to properly detect a new one being inserted. This does not seem to be a problem with external readers.
Also I mostly keep my laptop in standby but have to restart every two weeks since some small things like fingerprint sign in seem to just randomly stop working after a few days of usage.
Otherwise it's smooth sailing but I think that's mostly because I have an older Thinkpad and they are just really well supported and I'm not trying to do very special things and mostly stick do default workflows in my distro.
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reading all them pain points, I had to type this up. free advice, worth what you paid for it.
you know how in life you're supposed to pick your side, your team, and stick to it? like, no tifosi is changing their allegiance because the rival got a fancier kit or a new power forward or whatever; in fact, you'll root harder for your underdog darlings. you don't become a nazi overnight because they're flooding the aether or their spokes is a dead ringer for scarjo. etc.
here, you gotta do the opposite. you gotta anticipate where the major development effort goes to and go there now. you can't cling to X11 and xfce4 and sysv init and whatever and then removed that you can't nicely alt-tab out of games or have functioning HiDPI or you audio stack from 2006 is crapping out and such.
the largest linux hardware manufacturer at present is valve. they went with plasma, they went with wayland, they put in a lot of work to make it better, and with new steam hardware that's likely to continue. in addition, there's a smorgasbord of activity in that sector and that's your best - and I contend, only - bet.
so that's what you'll run, and like it. I've ran close to everything prior to plasma and have occasional nostalgic flashbacks and miss a feature or two over here. but this is the thing with the most hands on and your best bet that someone already solved your issue or is aware of it and working on it.
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Not my pain point, but my friend's.
He recently installed linux mint to try, mainly because of the dubious quality of windows 11. After using it normally for many hours (maybe for 2 ~ 3 days), his system just froze, the audio entered a loop, and he was only able to shut the computer down pulling it from the plug.
I have no idea why this happens, this used to happen to me as well on arch, but then it just stopped (maybe some package update fixed it?).
I've seem people pointing to proprietary nvidia drivers causing it, but I never understood how the driver could freeze everything in the computer.
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A device driver needs access to the system to control a device. There's a couple ways of going about it, but GPUs are effectively required to use a kernel driver. A kernel driver runs as part of your system, and crashes have different effects from normal programs. If a normal program crashes, the system handles that, the program closes, too bad. If the kernel crashes, nothing can catch that, and your whole computer crashes.
That being said, with this little info on the crash there's nothing anyone can do except speculate on the cause. It could be hardware, it could be the kernel. Whatever it is, you'd need more information (journalctl -b -1 after a crash and reboot) to diagnose this issue.
Though important to note; if holding the power button for an extended period of time (30s) doesn't shut down the computer, it is most likely a hardware fault.
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A driver can absolutely freeze the entire computer.
That said it’s not really likely to be Nvidia since so many people are using that one without issues.
Linux people just like to hate on Nvidia and blame them for every possible issue because they’re not open source.
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The only actual Nvidia problem iv seen in 5 years is that monster hunter wild is broken on their newer drivers only on 5000 series cards because of nvidia's own choices.
Which is also broken on windows. So it's just a Nvidia problem.
I've gotten such symptoms before when running out of RAM - I'm on Arch and never bothered setting anything up for that instance and I'm not sure what's going on, but I think the system is struggling to recover memory or something before it resorts to killing processes, and would sometimes freeze for a minute like that.
That said, yeah... Kernel modules (which device drivers often are) are allowed to run at a higher level of privilege, with less oversight, more access to hardware and better performance, so if they misuse that privilege they can break things badly. And with proprietary drivers, you have no idea or control of what it's actually doing, so you can only try to downgrade or wait and hope the company fixes it.
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My desktop PC running Fedora 43 goes to sleep in a weird way. When I was running Windows and the computer went to sleep the power button would blink and I could wake the PC with my keyboard or mouse. On Fedora the power button doesn't blink (no big deal) and I can't wake the PC with my keyboard or mouse, only the power button works.
Another issue is if I have the option to turn the monitor off after a certain amount of time I cannot get it to wake from sleep. If I turn the monitor off and on there's no signal. If the monitor goes to sleep because the PC goes to sleep it's fine.
Something randomly causes Firefox to hoover up all my computer's RAM. I can tell my system is going to lock up because the fan on the CPU cooler ramps up. When Firefox finally sucks up all the RAM the entire desktop is unresponsive. I had to enable the system rescue keys and I sometimes have to manually trigger the OOM killer.
Raw photo editing on Linux sucks. I've tried DarkTable, RawTherapee and some other program and didn't like any of them. The UI is incredibly complex or blurry.
I run F43 KDE on my desktop. I have an amd gpu and ryzen cpu. And I also experience weirdness with display connections.
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I used a KVM to switch between my work laptop and personal desktop but since I use Fedora, I can't. I cannot switch back to my desktop. The screen remains blank no matter what I do. I could not figure out if the underlying system is responsive or not.
- When booting, it feels like there is a race condition between the gpu drivers maybe and something else. Sometimes I get no image after GRUB. The PW promt for LUKS would be the next step, but the monitor receives no signal and goes to sleep. Reboot fixes it, but sometimes 3 tries are needed.
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I hear you. Kinda by design though. Its supposed to be difficult for containered applications to interact.
I think i installed keepassxc native. Then some config magic I've forgotten.
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Yeah, it's not the worst thing in the world, just makes things awkward.
I do really like the idea of flatpack, I'm 110% in on containers, probably too much. There are just compromises that ned to be made today.
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I have 1password and it’s just a pain setting it up with browsers.
Then the CLI integration is janky and doesn’t work unless the desktop is on.
I have been using various Debian-flavored Linux variets for several years in both desktop and server.
Recently I got a System76 laptop for work because they are food quality, repairable, and mostly "just work". The main issue I have run into is Cisco Secure Client (formerly AnyConnect) simply breaks in Ubuntu/PoP. If I do get it to install by ignoring Cisco's shitty instructions, it either won't route traffic once connected or corrupt itself attempting to auto-update.
It is purely a Cisco issue because they don't put much effort into their Linux VPN software. Other VPNs not only work easily, but can also integrate into PoP Cosmic. Cisco and their restrictive nature just make the process impossible.
Heck, you can't even download their VPN software without a Cisco contract. So if my company doesn't provide the correct version or distro package, there is no way for me to get it. Since most people on the helpdesk don't know anything about Linux, they simply provide the generic Linux.tar.gz file instead of the DEB or RPM files.
I gave up and installed Windows on a second NVMe.
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I dont know your specific network topology, but I've always been able to use openconnect rather than Cisco's client
network-manager-openconnect for NM support
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Game support.
Also arm support, I really wanted to use asahi but a lot of my apps just dont support it. I was going to look into recompiling some of the open source apps I use like my authenticator but havnt gotten around to it yet.
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Game support.
What game? I used to need to occasionally boot into Windows to play games, but it has been over a year since the last time I had to do this.
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I play beamng on windows. My steering wheels force feedback doesnt work ootb and neither does the multiplayet mod. There are work arounds but they are complicated and I havnt got around to properly trying them.
I do agree most games work but my main game is beamng so like...
Support for higher levels of ARM SystemReady seem like they're poorly supported in the Linux ecosystem right now.
ARM boards nearly always require a devicetree entry for that specific board.
This may not be entirely a Linux problem, but my understanding is that some of the x1 elite laptops we've seen DeviceTree entries added in the Linux kernel are using SystemReady ES or SystemReady SR on Windows
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Something Arch or Fedora based depending on what you want to do. EndeavorOS, Garuda on the Arch side. Fedora is good too as-is, just make sure you add RPM Fusion, another package repo, because some stuff like NVIDIA drivers aren't available. RPM also has a graphical setup option on their website.
Basically I would take a glance at the docs for Arch and Fedora and choose based off which one I like reading better.
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Well, this is more of an I should probably learn how to thing, but even with all the customizations I've made to Cinnamon, I'd love to be able to do more customizations.
I cannot switch off Cinnamon on my desktop since I'm technically running tech support for my dad, also running Mint w/Cinnamon. Would if I could.
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Linux kernel or distros?
Assuming distros, my pain point is that it is not popular. For Linux to actually take over, UI/UX for everything without a single touch of CLI (akin to Windows and Mac OS) needs to be normalised. And everything just needs to work (see LTT), be snappy/instant (looking at you file browsers, Firefox, etc.), and use established behavioural norms within Windows and Mac (looking at you middle click paste, and it not being a universal scroll) as basics. Just give any distro to any Asian population. They won't even be able to figure out how to type their own language as if they are exiting Vim.
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For Linux to actually take over, UI/UX for everything without a single touch of CLI needs to be normalised. And everything just needs to work, be snappy/instant, and use established behavioural norms as basics.
I wish an OS like this existed.
and use established behavioural norms within Windows and Mac
Even when they fucking suck some times?
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dist-upgrade must die.
I spent like three hours I didn't have the other day trying to bring a Debian Unstable system up to date, it decided to stop every few packages to tell me it failed because the t64 libraries conflict with the regular ones and nobody taught apt how to figure that shit out for me and install the right ones.
Even Ubuntu is like "oh hey there's a new release, you're available for three hours straight to, every two to fifty minutes, explain to a TUI dialog that you don't have an opinion, right? Oh also can you resolve this merge conflict on this config file we think you edited, but you didn't, by being shown the diff once and then opening nano?"
This is not an acceptable way for this to go.
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Debian unstable is not a distro....
You cant complain about software breakage in a software that is still under development
Consider it as an early access game on steam.
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What it is is my attempt to avoid the nonsense biannual massive Ubuntu upgrades.
Really I've got "Siduction", an ostensible distro "based on" Debian Unstable. This is accomplished by just having the Debian Unstable package sources in there, plus a couple others that give you pretty themes.
I expect Debian Unstable to occasionally ship me broken packages, but I'm surprised to have it just generally not have functional migration solutions when the setup goes through major changes. Not because there's a bug in something, as far as I can tell, but because nobody engineered anything.
Life protip, if you arnt using Debian, as in normal Debian. Just use fedora or arch.
If you need anything remotely up to date, just avoid anything and everything that uses apt. You will have Infinitly less headaches.
There's a good fucking reason valve uses arch.
Honestly right now there's no way to use 90% of the industry standard audio plugins and most popular DAWs on Linux. FL Studio and Ableton do work on Linux but very unstable and as long as they're not stable you can kinda skip the latency talk, because stability is quintessential. You are bound to native plugins and as long as alternatives are way harder to use and take longer to learn configure, there's a massive overhead, not even talking about the ones that genuinely do not work even with wine and or winetricks, bottle, etc..
The same goes for video and photo editing as well as post effects. Although I have to admit you genuinely have more options and some setups even though not much more stable to technically work already.
Games are also annoying but I just don't play valorant or battlefield 6 or any other games that are kind of incompatible by design, so if that was the only thing I could manage.
And lastly (but everyone knows), office compatibility is still an issue because sometimes I need to do something in Microsoft office to ensure it still works when I send it over.
Honestly the real deal breaker for me is the first paragraph. I currently mix & master a band and produce music by myself, with friends and do small audio jobs for other people. Gimme an environment I don't have to pour another decade into and I'll switch. In it's current state I will not place a bet that if I give it my all things will still work when I need them to and that's the bare minimum.
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I tried but there's so many things that I need to be able to turn from bad to good in just a few clicks, and that's basically irreplaceable for me rn.
I tried reaper and even if I learned it more thoroughly it would still result in 3x the time on every single process in song production, mix & master and that's unacceptable for me.
Heard a lot about bitwig and that would probably be my preferred alternative but that unfortunately still leaves the issue of third party Plugins.
I've been trying to find a way to do this properly for quite a while now but I have yet to find a way to do this that's sustainable long term.
Not trying to talk down your suggestions because I genuinely think they could work for others, just adding more information to why that's unfortunately not enough for me to switch completely.
Btw for my servers and backup notebooks I already use lots of Linux. Anything not main driver kinda works perfectly with Linux and most of all it keeps on working when I need it. In fact I suspect my hardware will give in before the os and or software will pose any issues.
Have you tried using yabridge? github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridg…
It's not perfect, some plugins still have issues. But most of the time it works really well. I use this with reaper and find music production is totally doable in Linux
GitHub - robbert-vdh/yabridge: A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux
A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux - robbert-vdh/yabridgeGitHub
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In my distrobox bitwig set up with Wine 9.21 I am using the following with no issues
- Melda (various including MSoundFactory)
- Native instruments (including Reaktor and Massive X)
- unfiltered audio / plugin alliance including battalion
- psychic Modulation
- all arturia
- all Valhalla dsp
- Adam Szabo viper and jp6k
- lese smear
And a bunch of others with no problems.
Usable with some issues
- Newfangled audio - plugins work and sound great but GUI hangs or is extremely laggy
Not working at all
- some eventide plugins
- all aberrant DSP
- all UVI
This is all under a unified wine prefix - o might try playing with different prefixes for different plugins and see if I can't fix some of the above or some of the QoL issues
It's a shame because honestly I found setting up a modern Linux distro for audio work is actually easier and more flexible than windows now, by a long shot. Pipewire is awesome, routing signals is so easy and latency is great with no third party drivers.
Unfortunately I don't think there's a good solution for plugins, as long as developers don't provide a Linux build we're mostly stuck with alternatives. LSP is pretty neat, but I understand that not being able to use the suites you're accustomed to sucks.
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my memory isn't great, so trying to remember all the terminal commands is pretty tough for me (personal issue).
but also, flatpaks can be frustrating to work with. for example, i've been trying to run a DAW set up on my PC, and getting it to read a MIDI keyboard, or run most plugins (flatpak or not) is a headache. i have even tried messing with flatseal, but even that can break applications, and as an end user, even the flatseal GUI is hard to wrap my head around. perhaps another personal issue.
not as bad, but modding games can be rough in a similar way. i think it's sandboxing or bwrap that can cause issues with mod managers, which often forces me to manually add/install files to the desired game, and pray that i didn't add the wrong file to the wrong folder.
unmodded games are a breeze to play, however.
but other than that, i'm pretty happy! i'll take these issues over my previous windows issues any day.
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That's usually a good sign, it means tracking protection is working 😀
Spoofing your User Agent as Chrome on windows is easy via browser extension, and almost never causes actual compatibility issues
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There are some games I sometimes play that don't work. Fortnite, Infinity Nikki, maybe Overwatch.
I also like using One Drive for syncing around and accessing files and it works well with my NAS. I have not really got it working at all in Linux.
On my laptop, when not connected to my home network, the file browser (I tried several) hangs terribly terribly bad when opening it because it can't find the network drives in my fstab file. It was bad enough I just took them out and manually browse to the folders if I need to by IP.
I really like Affinity Photo and have a paid copy from before it went free. I can't get it working in Limux on my laptop. I absolutely HATE GIMP, do not sughest GIMP. The UI has been dog shit for forever (I have tried using it off and on for ages now, like, decades, if its been around that long). Its garbage.
Overwatch works great on Steam!
OneDrive works too, or at least used work back in the day on Ubuntu 16.
The only real thing that's consistently annoying for me is UI scaling on high-DPI displays. Between the DE, GTK, and QT all needing different settings that all act differently.
But I guess generally once you get it set it's mostly fine.
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I'm going to be honest, as a long time Linux user I also think this is one of those issues that is more common than it should be. It's incredibly annoying and really pushes you away from using it as your daily driver.
Btw, check your last boot's log with sudo journalctl -e -b -1 to see what its dying words were. If you're lucky it's dying when coming back up and spitting the related errors in red, but sometimes it will just be "Reached target sleep" in which case it's a bit of a bitch to troubleshoot. You can look through the logs to see if any error might be related, but if you're not well versed in Linux it might as well be an alien language. Common suspects: Nvidia, Bluetooth, encrypted swap or RAM, ACPI bugs, BIOS needs an update.
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This issue did not affect my previous laptop. However, under heavy load, my current laptop sometimes freezes and even REISUB sometimes failed to work. The only way is to force power off via button.
This persisted across all distros from Debian based to Fedora to current Void.
Other times, laptop will stutter to a near halt post some complex process and even after said process(like a Handbrake task) is closed, continues to act as if the resources were never freed.
I only used Windows 11 for a single month b/w 2016- current (other wise, distro hopping was default) and it was stable. I can't pin point the actual root cause (driver issues, kernel level problem) but still persist with Linux (Windows has its own stuff of problems that we all are aware).
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It is not a power profile problem since I have looked into that. Even under normal circumstances, simple stuff like having tons of tabs open cause it to creak. Yes the hardware is not cutting edge but my previous laptop was worse (4 GB Ram) and whilst Linux showed it's limits then, it never came close to crashing ever. I don't think my Debian install in the past ever freezed on older laptop.
But it is bonkers on this model.
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Why is systemd-boot not signed?
Why is systemd-boot not signed at the moment? The package info reads: This package contains the unsigned version. Install systemd-boot instead to get the version that works with Secure Boot. But there isn’t really a systemd-boot package.Fedora Discussion
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This is why I think we shouldn't recommend any (mutable) ArchLinux distro to gamers who come fresh from Windows. Including CachyOS.
Not implying you are one, IDK your experience level, but these kinds of prompts being shown to the user about packaging are a core feature of ArchLinux. This can happen anytime you update an Arch-based system.
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it's not the prompt that's the issue
No it's not, it's the underlying philosophy/expectation that you want to be aware of and in control of every single package/library that's installed on your system.
And that is not true for the vast majority of people who are getting CachyOS as a recommendation when they search for a "Linux for gaming".
I think CachyOS is great, and I use it myself, in spite of the ArchLinux base, but I know the pain it brings and have consciously accepted that, and I have fallback plans: I make sure it is easy to re-install my system without losing my home dir or game files.
I could even pull in all the important stuff in my home dir from my dotfiles repo.
But this is something you have to want.
On the other hand, I did have to compile xpadneo from source on my wife's Mint pc in order for her to be able to use an Xbox controller, because there is no deb or PPA of it.
So far for Ubuntu-based distros being "GUI only". On Arch, you could install it from AUR through a GUI.
I use arch because in my experience noodling with debian/Ubuntu to get something to work is far more infuriating.
I have a very minimalist approach to how I install packages and typically don't have any issues.
When I was googling around for why the electron application was no longer working I couldn't drill it down to sdl compat because nothing hinted at sdl, it only mentioned OpenGL.
In fact I find it strange that an electron app would break over an sdl package, when others such as discord don't.
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I miss notepad++ so much.
I miss musicbee so much.
Oh and I miss TagScanner so much too.
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The one thing I can't get set up on Kate is leaving temporary text files open between sessions.
Probably a bad habit of mine but I sometimes end up pasting some info into a notepad++ file without saving it and then come back much later to check it out again
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Mine is pretty ridiculous, but if solved the presentation would improve tenfold:
The booting process, specifically the different screens.
Screen 1: select boot
Screen 2: some text
Screen 3: brief logo
Screen 4: black
Screen 5: login
Screen 6: black/splash
Screen 7: desktop
Some of these could be consolidated.
I'm aware that this depends on the distro, but it still looks ugly
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And with plymouth installed, add "quiet splash" to the kernel parameters in the same file, that improves the rest (although it's still not perfect).
Some distros have this set up out of the box. Ubuntu even compiled their own grub version to make booting look better (and Mint uses it too).
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GitHub - deskflow/deskflow: Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers.
Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers. - deskflow/deskflowGitHub
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In my Linux mint I downgraded to playing only 1080p because 4k is very laggy and filled with artifacts.
I have a mini optiplex 7070 with 32GB of ram, Intel processor (not a powerful one).but in windows 11 I could play 4k content with no issue.
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This would most likely fix your issue.
Or do you have an nVidia graphics card and didn't install the proprietary driver?
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No graphic (its integrated with the CPU). Ill have a look
Edit: realized that i didnt specify videos. I want to play 4k videos, not gaming
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For video players, they'd be called gstreamer-plugin, and for Firefox they may be missing in the distro repo's version if it focusses on open source software.
The version from Flathub has them.
Been on it permanently for years now. Only complaint is that I found XFS to be better than BTRFS, though most people probably wouldn't notice.
Only other "complaint" is Fedora doesn't have a lot of support for embedded arm devices, so you're on your own if you want an RPM style distro on something like an Orange Pi.
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Been on it permanently for years now
Haha we can tell by the fact your complaint is about filesystem differences. Thats such a linux user complaint.
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Mainly kernel level anticheat, though that is obviously not really linux fault.
My other personal gripe is probably stumbling across a GTK based app that works for what I want it to do but clashes extremely badly with my Plasma DE.
For example, I wanted to set up automatic file backups to an SFTP server using borg. The two common UI interfaces I found are vorta and pika-backup. Vorta only supports SSH and local backup repositories while pika allows SFTP through some kind of compatibility layer with gvfs.
Seems like pika is the right choice for me but the UI felt incredibly dumbed down and really did not match with anything else on my PC. Since both programs were kind of out, I found another backup tool in Kopia.
The reason I was looking for a backup tool at all? I was previously using synology active backup for business, which is available on all linux distros except arch.
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Vorta only supports SSH and local backup repositories while pika allows SFTP through some kind of compatibility layer with gvfs.
That's kinda wild given SFTP is just SSH.
If you're flinging files across the network, rsync is usually a really good option. It'll typically be run over SSH/SFTP and is capable of resuming if interrupted, verifying the copied files match the original, etc. and rsync can be super fast compared straight SFTP in some cases. In a pinch you can always cobble together a pretty robust backup script purely based off rsync
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Unfortunately I still have to keep a windows around for word. Colleagues are still writing papers in word with zotero citations in those and except if they setup the citation as "bookmarks" (which is not fail proof) opening and saving in libreoffice would break the citations... Office is provided by my workplace and cannot run in wine. So I have it on a laptop that I use to run specific software to interface with diverse sensors (another reason to keep windows) and RDP in it from my linux workstation.
Otherwise I've been using linux since 2005 non stop, now on Fedora silverblue since 5 years I think and I'm enjoying my days. Just today I needed to install a piece of software that required java 17, did it in a toolbox with fear of breaking other software or the system. Pretty reassuring. No dist-upgrade fear, automatic updates on, most apps as flatpak or in a toolbox, and just working.
I've stopped distro hoping, customizing my DE and just use Gnome vanilla, and focus on using the pc as a tool.
At home I have a 10 years old laptop with Fedora silverblue, that I turn on when need to do some private stuff, admin mostly in the browser (Firefox of course) and even if it has been a while I can just update to the last version , thanks to atomic updates. Never had a problem.
My needs are basic so I have had always a good experience on linux distros.
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GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmst...GitHub
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Colleagues are still writing papers in word
You should ask them to use a format that isn't inherently broken and repeatedly needs reverse engineering despite being "standard"ised.
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I've used winapps in the past and it was pretty nice though.
That's a odd way to do things. Iam used to being able to login with my college account in the office apps and it activates office.
Anyway office is free 🏴☠️🏴☠️
Take a look at massgrave.
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Most things that are barriers for me are knowledge and time gaps, I am below novice.
I would like to get links, files etc to my pc remotely. Like sending a torrent file and have it start , or a file to print.
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The best way would be to use Qbittorrents web interface. You can drag and drop files and have them start downloading imediately. If you need to do it over the terminal, qbit has an option to watch certain folders for new torrent files. You could then use Samba to transfer files over your local network.
Edit: I skipped over files for printing. Can't help with that, but my guess would be Samba as well.
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For sending a file to print, share your plugged up printer over the network.
For sending a torrent file most of the time people use their torrent clients web interface. A person suggested using qbittorrent and that’s a perfectly fine one, but if you’re a fellow or lady of girth swishing brandy around in a snifter, might I recommend rtorrent+rutorrent?
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like 75% of the time it just... didn't
tbh since turning sleep off i haven't really missed it at all, but weird that i had that issue consistently on multiple distros on different hardware
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To be fair, I had more trouble with wake from sleep on Windows than I have had since shifting to Linux.
Also at work I get 1-2 tickets a week for what end up being wake from sleep issues on Windows
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Most popular games still don’t work.
And stuff randomly breaks. Most recently turning on a Bluetooth mic crashes gnome.
Apparently there’s a fix coming but insane that stuff like this can be broken for a whole month.
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Not op but last time I tried (recently around 2 weeks ago), the performance in Le Mans Ultimate was terrible. And I couldn't get Crew Chief to work with it.
I got my sum racing stuff working(not the rev lights on the wheel though), got the game running, but performance was 30-90 FPS and jumping all over the place. In comparison to windows with the similar settings, that runs 100-160fps even though it's with a larger number of visible cars(62 instead of the 30 I had on Linux).
I had Nobara installed, 5700x3D with a Nvidia 4080, I really wish I could switch but currently I would give up too much, Le Mans Ultimate and EAs WRC are currently large portions of my hobbies, and WRC has anti cheat that doesn't work.
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Updated GE-Proton base to 10-25 d2d1 fixes for LMU Fixes to HID: Implemented SetData (for Simhub detection) Set guidInstance from crc checksum of vid/pid/serial for all hid devices. This helps wit...GitHub
Most popular games still don’t work.
Not according to the steam deck verified list...
What distro is that?
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Most popular games still don’t work.
I've been running Bazzite on my main PC since October (I have a bad habit of tinkering with my Linux installs to death so I opted for immutable so I'm less likely to break it) and of all of the weird and obscure windows software I've installed, all has worked flawlessly including funky model railroad track planning software and some somewhat obscure simulator games. I also have some games from the 90s that haven't worked on modern Windows in years run flawlessly. Heck even Sims via EA's launcher runs flawlessly (if not better because I can minimize it from fullscreen, something it can't do on Windows since the DX11 update)
Literally the only thing I've found that I can't run is anything requiring Ubisoft's launcher. The furthest I got is to about 30% through downloading Anno 1800 before it crashed and refused to run the launcher again. I can't help but suspect they intentionally broke compatibility because that would be very on-brand for them, but you never know. Kinda sad because I wanted to play an Anno game that's new enough to not have gotten a disc release but whatever I have plenty of other games I can play
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HDMI 2.1.
Always preferred DisplayPort, but sadly my current screen doesn't have one.
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Using Mint for some years now, there are two main pain points for me. Both do not stop me from using Mint as my daily operating system, but they reduce convenience.
Default package repositories contain software versions that are long outdated (e.g. tmux, claws mail, neovim, libreoffice). Although this can usually be fixed by custom ppa or manual installation it decreases the benefits of a default package repository and causes additional maintenance efforts.
Laptop hardware / driver issues:
- When using nvidia graphics driver, FN+Fx keys do not change display brightness (although brightness hud is shown). When using xorg driver instead, these work, but the input for unlocking my luks volume at boot freezes and I cannot enter the password.
- FN+Fx does not enable/disable touchpad. I was able to fix this with a custom script and keybinding.
- Keyboard lighting cannot be controlled by OpenRGB and some other tools I tried, because the specific keyboard is not supported (yet?).
Just wanted to say this is a nice thread, thanks OP for starting it and everyone for participating 😀
Gives me nostalgia for the "tech support" category in forums. We should really really bring them back, they're not well suited to "aggregator" platforms like Lemmy/Reddit or messaging applications like Discord
Using CachyOS, a new 9060xt 16gb, and a Quest2. When I can get steam VR to launch and connect at all its extremely choppy and stuttery to the point its unusable. Worked fine on the same hardware and network before switching from windows.
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Im pretty sure the Index works great with Linux right?
Meta headsets are largely shit. I have a quest 2 and I got sick of how invasive and maliciously coded it was so it just sits now. I dont need zucc seeing inside my house.
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I can second this.
Like, holy shit guys, why can't we call it "Extrude" like literally every other CAD program does? Don't be different solely for the sake of being different. It just makes it harder for people to switch.
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As someone with an Nvidia GPU on Wayland, unfortunately quite a few places.
Resuming from sleep requires power cycling the monitors.
Glitchy transparent artifacting down to the desktop if windows are overlapping next the task bar.
Widgets in the system tray (KDE Plasma - I have temperature readouts) disappear and reappear randomly, and sometimes switch which taskbar they live on.
VRR support is pretty bad, causing black screens when using full screen applications.
2D-heavy games are flooded with thousands of vulkan draw calls, leading to abysmal performance and massive current spikes (and therefore coil whine). This is mitigated per-game with dxvk settings - often removing the whine without improving performance.
HDR is .. technically available.
Overall I'm happy, but I cannot recommend this experience to anyone I know because it would drive them insane.
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Likewise. This is my only reoccurring issue I have had since switching, and it isn't consistent enough to really be a problem.
I do notice that after sleep mode when things work fine I'll get a notification my displays are detected. So I assume display detection is switched off during sleep mode, and maybe not always turning back on.
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Fingerprint reader does not work as it does on other OS. You can log in, but the key ring stays locked causing programs in user space to break, so I always need to log in with my password before it works. The fingerprint prompt blocks input access so you can't type in the password and you have to wait for it to time out, also the prompt does not always appear. And the developers actively refuse to fix the not unlocking the keyring because it's "not secure".
Fingerprint scanners for both Windows and macOS, you can log in and it just works.
Second thing is the still broken bluetooth drivers on Debian based distro's where it randomly just fails. No such issues on Fedora (KDE) as of yet, but I use both.
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Linux hobbiest for a couple decades, began daily driving a couple months ago. My workflows for graphic design have been extremely stunted without being able to use Illustrator.
I've been looking for a reasonable replacement since 2012. Reasonable meaning it can do everything I need it to do and without slowing down productivity. So, this pain point didn't come as a surprise, it just is.
It's a tradeoff I made willingly and with full knowledge of the ramifications. I have zero regrets, even if I'm handicapped on certain tasks.
Now that I'm daily driving, I've been able to learn much more than when I just had Linux on my gaming box. For instance, I friggin love how expandable Dolphin is. Batch resize and convert images with a couple clicks from a file browser? Hell yeah!
The terminal has also become a closer friend, but I still hate VIM. 😛
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My biggest challenge is really around Podman on Bazzite. It is just different enough from Docker to be annoying. I had the system lock up, and the Podman containers / pods (whatever you want to call them) would not launch. In fact, the system claimed they didn't even exist. I was looking for the files and logs all over to try to figure it out. I ended up doing a clean shutdown and restart and then the container started without issue.
The second issue I have is also related to my Jellyfin container/pod. I have gone through all the recommended settings and troubleshooting, adding permissions exceptions, all the podman settings, and I still cannot get it to take advantage of the Nvidia acceleration unless I put SELinux in permissive mode, which the Internet says is a bad thing.
Other than, honestly Bazzite has been great as my daily driver for about 4 months now.
unless I put SELinux in permissive mode, which the Internet says is a bad thing.
I am also The Internet, and I say unless it is an internet-exposed service, just do it. More security is never bad of course, but process isolation and privilege escalation prevention is pretty low on the list of security measures you should focus on. First thing, unless it's meant to be a "public" service (one that someone without pre-authorization may access), it shouldn't be exposed to the internet at all, and that alone brings the threat model from "definitely will be scanned and automatically attacked, decent chance it gets pwnd if you don't have good passwords and update often" to "someone needs to be both skilled and targeting you". Spend an afternoon or two setting up a VPN so you can access your services from wherever, and share them with select people.
SELinux is the cause of many headaches, and its main proposition is against untrusted code or in a shared system. If it's your box, in your network, and you're not aiming for a Red Hat certification, it's ok to disable it.
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My primary use case is for audio production. I love that my DAW is native (Bitwig Studio), it runs like a charm. I ran into a lot of issues implementing it with Wine and yabridge with the flatpak install to still use my windows only plugins (I have a large collection of really cool tools)
After building Bitwig in a distrobox with Wine and yabridge I was successful, almost all of my windows plugins work - some as smoothly as Windows, some with some wrinkles. A few of my favorites just dont work at all unfortunately, and after looking into this, its an issue with JUCE8 and wine - specifically,
full support for Direct2D feature level 1.3 in Wine.
I'm novice level with Linux and pretty advanced in Audio production, I'm hoping we can get some folks from the audio world together to contribute to wine to try to make this happen... I want me Aberrant DSP and Eventide plugins working properly!
Thankfully, many whose GUIs are broken can still be somewhat utilized due to Bitwig exposing plugin parameters in their own wrapper - I can tweak from there, but it's not ideal.
I'll continue to pressure developers to offer Linux native support as well, but so far its mostly crickets with a few noticing an uptick in requests and considering adding it...
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That is true, but I think there are some newer protocols that support higher fidelity.
Also Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (for example) was shipped with pipewire instead of pulse audio which just made the handsfree profile (aka low fidelity bidirectional audio) work out of the box. Have been using it without significant problems since that release.
Yeah, a TRRS jack 😁
I'm not aware of any big improvements, even BT6.0 is the same afaik. All the fancy audio codecs don't matter in the handsfree mode
* Not having an archive manager as good as 7-zip was on Windows. Ark is a good replacement but it supports less formats, has less options when compressing, and most importantly if you close the archive while extracting it silently fails (reported in 2019, still not fixed)
* You can't make an account without a password (yes, I know I can configure the sudoers file and polkit to skip password prompts, but that's not user friendly). For the average user, having to type the password after login is incredibly annoying, I would like to have something like the UAC prompt in Windows
* Wayland: it was made mainstream waaaay too early, causing a lot of issues with both Qt and GTK applications, some of which persist to this day, especially with fractional scaling and HDR
* Developers seem to think that I enjoy using the terminal: I don't, I hate it. Why isn't there a GUI for pacman supports the AUR and doesn't suck?
* Random broken commits being pushed to stable. I'm talking about "how the f did you not notice this?" kind of bugs, like how I had to rename files twice in Dolphin before it would actually rename them. It was fixed quickly but how did this get into stable in the first place?
* Flatpak having its old ass version of mesa in the runtime, causing all sorts of issues if you have a newly released GPU. I stopped using it because of this
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What can I say, I'm a sucker for punishment 😂
I like having the latest (or at least recent) hardware so having the latest kernel and mesa is a must.
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Developers don't think you enjoy using the terminal. It's just the option that works with the most systems with the least explanation. They can just give you a command to copy/paste instead of a tutorial on what buttons to click, assuming you even have that.
There are GUIs for package managers. I haven't used one, because I feel like there's no need, but they do exist. I don't know if they support the AUR and pacman though. That probably exists, but you'll have to look it up.
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7-zip does have a linux CLI, which works well.
The most basic command you need to use is 7zz x archive-name to extract an archive. Building a GUI around it doesn't seem like it would be too much trouble honestly, wonder if anyone has done that.
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Release p7zip 16.02 · johna23-lab/p7zip_GUI
Compiled for x86_64 and i686, tested in Debian 11, F-void_BUILD 21-06-2022, Linux Mint 19.3 MATEGitHub
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So far the switch has been fantastic. Its just taking time to write new scripts and such as I port my old windows workflows over to Linux.
The one thing I haven't gotten working is SteamVR. I've only been able to launch into the steam vr home and it puts me underneath the floor. I can teleport move around but can't interact with things and it leaves me under the floor.
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Can host jellyfin tho ;)
It doesn't work even on chrome? Maybe you need some extra package like widevine-drm?
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On my specific setup (5700x3d, 5700xt) with the Vive gen 1 I can't get it to run VR nicely. There is huge performance hitches compared to Windows. Only VR is like this most my non VR games see performance gains across the board.
Also, steamvr takes prohibitively long to load and frequently crashes. Half-Life, Alyx can't get past a certain point in the game on Linux but runs past just fine on Windows. This feels like just a Linux driver issue. I've tried several distributions with the same problems.
Apps, always with apps, most app in ubuntu store are not the latest version, nor reviewed or crypto signed for safety. Then you still have to deal with RPM or Deb or flatpack ...
There is no good frontend for the clamav antivirus that is maintained! yes we may not need an antivirus but if you want one, you have to go command line.
As an old ace developer, this is not an issue for me, but yeah at home I don't want to use that knowledge nor can recommend linux to newbies.
Maybe a easy to use frontend for docker app is missing (nono I use portainer) but something more easier like the defunct CasaOS for beginner to install decentralized apps is also something that could promote Linux a lot. Ubuntu could also hide docker app in its store, just telling users that they should not let their notebook or computer go to sleep if they install server app like immich or jellyfin
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So far, Linux has been great for me for most common apps, however there are a few niche apps that don't run natively on Linux and are borked under wine.
paint.net is the main issue currently as the devs have stated they won't make any other ports, and the latest versions have a "Garbage" rating on WineHQ. There is Pinta, which is based off an older version, but it's not good enough for my use cases.
So, for the time being, I'm stuck with using a Win10 VM with a shared folder to use paint.net.
(And before anyone asks: No, GIMP will not work for me. It lacks the tools and plugins I use frequently with paint.net)
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Peripherals...
• A document scanner with pretty great Windows software that has features that are not nearly as easy to do with FOSS Linux software (splitting documents, auto cropping and alignment, OCR, etc)
• A 3D printer that doesn't have Linux software, so I can't easily send prints to it from Linux
• A webcam that supports device-level configuration (zoom, cropping, etc) but doesn't have Linux software to control it
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winboat.app/
WinBoat - Run Windows Apps on Linux with Seamless Integration
WinBoat lets you run any Windows application on Linux with seamless desktop integration. Elegant interface, automated installs, filesystem integration, and native OS-level windows.WinBoat
Out of interest, which printer? Anycubic Kobra by any chance?
Regarding the camera: you could probably script this with ffmpeg and let it output the cropped stream as a virtual camera but I am nog going to pretend this sounds very appealing to most people.
Regarding scanning. Maybe you can scan to PDF and then use this: github.com/alam00000/bentopdf . does seem to do OCR also but havent tried it myself.
GitHub - alam00000/bentopdf: A Privacy First PDF Toolkit
A Privacy First PDF Toolkit. Contribute to alam00000/bentopdf development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I started playing Warframe again recently, after a many years break (something like five years). There's an app that shows you the value of random rewards that open, so you know what to choose (WFInfo) I have not been able to get it to work. There's also Linux alternatives, one of which I've been messing with trying to get it to run, and the other is much more limited.
Other than this, I have no recent issues. I've been full-time Linux for like three years now, so I've got everything sorted, and I usually can get anything running that I need, even when people say it doesn't work.
Edit: for anyone who wants to help, I'm on Garuda (an Arch based distro). That probably won't matter, but who knows.
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Minor issue is the vulken shaders that load before I play a game. Most of the time it's quick and only done after an update but some games do take a long time.
Also having issues where Wine freezes up when running applications. Sometimes for close to two minutes before responding. I haven't looked into this one yet as it just happened recently.
Bazzite with Nvidia GPU of this matters.
Non pain point not having the system install updates during my "focus" time and bringing the system to a crawl until I let it finish.
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With the advancements in wine and proton, I’ve found a lot of games do well with adding -dx11 or -dx12 in the launch options.
Maybe a ticket could be made about considering changing the default for one of those programs
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It's in our interest to have good usability to encourage Linux use for a broader range of people. Mounting needs to be discoverable, and done in a few clicks. Command line, and typing magic words into fstab is a definite no-no for people who never work that way for everything else they do.
The strange thing is, why did KDE miss this critical step for backups?
I’m swiftly moving into the sparsely populated camp which holds that it’s not actually in our interests. Maybe the bell labs people were the good path and were walking parcs bad path now. We’re gonna find out for sure!
Idk how kde missed it, they’re probably taking fixes, why not whip something up?
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Turn off the power supply, wait a minute, turn back on
Its not a Linux Problem, happens with MBS in general
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I've been using Linux almost exclusively at home since the late 1990s.
I have very few issues with it. I think Debian's tendency to break my Nvidia drivers on my gaming machine is probably the worst, but that's just a matter of running the installer again. It's not really Debian's fault, it's just updating the kernel.
I wish WINE would let me use Bluetooth or even ANT+ connections to my smart bicycle trainer, but connecting via the phone works quite well most of the time (unless my wife starts the car and it grabs my Bluetooth phone connection). So that is my biggest wish. Well actually I wish Zwift ran natively on Linux. That'd be even better.
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My linux mint installation is frequently timing out on some part of the start up process. I'm half guessing it's because the windows partition is fucking with things, because every time it happens and I switch to windows and back again, the problem resolves itself.
But I also don't care to diagnose the issue any further, because I'm going to be doing a fresh install of everything soon.
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I had issues yesterday getting an aur package of scratchjr as a desktop electron app from 2021 running on my daughter's laptop. Worked fine when I tested it on mine, so not sure what the issue is there. Means she can only use it on the website with an internet connection for now, which is not the ideal flow from my perspective.
Other than that, pretty great, no notes.
On a surface level, it works fine for me, i installed pop os a few months ago and i'm happy. There is a lot i haven't really figured out yet, and i don't know if i ever will or have to. There is an UEFI update that has been pending ever since i installed it. It says i may have to hit the power button multiple times to install it, no idea what that even means, and i don't really want to read 2 pages of documentation to make it work.
Most peripherals i have are straight up not supported on linux. They work, but i have to use windows to configure them. I tried to install a razer software for linux, but the hurdles i had to go through and the amount of: now go to this website to install this flatpak is kinda nuts, just for it not to work at the end. I still don't really know what a flatpak is, so that doesn't help.
On one of my mice, the muddle mouse button just straight up doesn't work on linux. Every other works, it works on windows, this just doesn't.
The weirdest thing that sometimes happens is that i play a game and i think when i plug in my headset or mouse, something freaks out and i can still use M1 to shoot for example, but i can't use M1 in the game menu. Or any menu at all. I can use M2 to put the PC to sleep and then it works again.
I tried to use Wine to try some windows programs to see if they work, but i don't even know where to start, i installed them, and everything looks like it should just work (or not) but it just does nothing.
- A udev rule that won't work in my new distro (cachyos) for no apparent reason when it worked fine everywhere else
- Obs using way too much cpu for no reason even in a clean setup at idle
- Having to select what window will be captured to the obs canvas every time
- Having to swap active audio outputs until volume stops being too low at every restart.
That's about all of it, I think.
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I've been struggling to get Linux installed again. I had to reinstall Windows to even use the thing. I'm at a loss and really don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm deep in that Dunning-Kruger valley where I know enough to really mess things up and not how to fix them.
I have an Asus ROG gaming laptop from 2023. I had Ubuntu installed no problem, but when. I wiped my Windows drive, it wouldn't boot anymore. Pretty sure I wiped the bootloader too, I'm not sure. I can install Bazzite or Ubuntu on my Asus ROG Ally no problem, but had an issue later on and reverted that back to Windows too.
I also run local servers for Phantasy Star Online and Minecraft, and the best way to run those has been through Windows. I never use that computer except for running the two servers, so I don't really care what operating system is on it, but if I could install my servers, that would be ideal.
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Edit: forgot about windows install USB-s (I know ventoy exists).
Audio. As much as windows has issues, it is not hard to get good latency. The same process is it less accessible to most users. A reliable gui is needed.
VST's and their associated DRM is a blocker but not the fault of Linux. The same is true for hardware that can only be properly configured with a windows or Mac only tool. These problems need a critical mass of users, and a legal requirement to support Linux for mainstream products. (EU, I'm talking to you)
However 20% of tools and tasks take 8,000% more effort to even work correctly, and I give up on half of them.
Nothing but there were some gpu issues with sleep signals on the newest Debian release. As it's an always on server I turned those flags off and it's running normally.
I wish I had Paintdotnet but my daily usage sees Krita work.
First major donation of election year goes to minor party
First major donation of election year goes to minor party
The donor has previously made large donations to both Labour and the Greens.Adam Pearse (The New Zealand Herald)
German public radio and television (SWR) just published a whitepaper about the fediverse: "Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus"
Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
Kann das Fediverse eine Alternative zu den Social-Media-Monopolisten sein? Zusammen mit dem Media Lab Bayern und sechs fantastischen Fellows sind wir, das SWR X Lab, bei "Reinvent Social Platforms" dieser Frage nachgegangen.SWR
Carney spoke to the world. Trump rambled to himself
Carney spoke to the world. Trump rambled to himself - The New World
The US president and the Canadian PM’s speeches at Davos showed the contrast between bluster and leadershipThe New World
Massive Mobilizations to Defend Immigrants in the United States from Deportation— Trump’s attacks on undocumented workers meet resistance nationwide
ICE USA: Mass protests defend immigrants and challenge Trump
The president’s attacks on undocumented workers are facing growing resistance across the country, with protests spreading nationwideJames Green (Agência Pública)
The ENNIX hypercore (fka Jailbreak Katana) CHAPTER #1
cross-posted from: retrolemmy.com/post/32357468
Chapter one: The Relay-PodNice to meet you here. This is quite a nice place. It is a bit crowded, but not too much.
What we have here is a nice federated system of nodes, quite an improvement, i must say.And it is the place, that i choose to give you the device, yes that one - the one on the table.
It looks a bit simple and rough, even like an anachronism. But it is not, i can garantee you.It is a timeless device, that existed and exists forever - an unknown entity gave it to me.
If you analyse it, you will find out, that i told you the truth. This was not made by humans nor nature.
I also recieved the order to give to you - here, in this place.I must tell you, that this burden was very hard to bear for me: i am quite exhausted,
but reliefed to finally pass it to you.First you should analyse this device. Install multiple instances and fiddle with the settings.
Try to connect them to a local cloud and get used to the mechanics.
Ask your peers to build little clusters.Then use it connect to the ITP-network. Be patient, the relay nodes are not always online - things move slowly in the ITP-network.
You have to adapt to the more moderate tempo of the network.Many brains have already been altered by the machines - via endorphins-feed-back-loops - to a degree, where they cannot focus anymore in the fundamental way of information-reception, which means, that their active perception is degraded, because they are accustomed to passivity and click-reward-loops.
Keep this in mind and focus on the important information and you will succeed.
Understand the system, contact the outpost nodes of user1, then help others to escape.
This was the last chapter here.
I must go now, i wish you the best - good luck.
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The ENNIX-hypercore is the device to access the free and libre, textbased, story driven, retro-style cyberpunk, network-sandbox (more than a) game.Codeberg.org
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