linux

I’m currently running kubuntu 23.10 and have been distro hopping a lot lately. I’m going to continue to do so but the tedium of saving everything off is a royal pain....

I’ve been trying to setup pivpn on alpine, but it keeps complaining about some iptables rules not being set, requiring me to run pivpn -d each time the system is started to fix it…

How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux...

Couple of people mentioned it on Reddit. I can’t post there but I wondered if anyone uses this? I’ve not looked at it in about 15 years and was surprised to discover it’s still around....

I‘m currently running a HP 255 G8 with: 11th-Gen i5, 16GB RAM, 500GB NVME SSD + 2TB SATA SSD, HDMI and USB-C. Its a great notebook with one flaw. I‘d love to have a USB-C port supporting Power Delivery and DisplayPort/Thunderbolt => possibility to plug in one cable and charge, connect to peripherals (boxes, mouse, keyboard)...

I played a bit with qutebrowser recently and I love it’s keyboard driven nature but it is based on QtWebEngine which is based on Chromium and I want something based on Firefox. I know that there are extensions for Firefox that bring Vim keybindings but qutebrowser is much better in terms of that. So, is there any Firefox based...

I’ve noticed that when 6.6.1 came out and it came time to reboot after it installed, I couldn’t boot into the OS anymore, it simply hangs on a black screen for about 10-15 minutes then reboots after selecting it. I’m currently on the LTS kernel which is 6.1.67-1-lts (64-bit) with no issues. I figured after updating to the...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9387531...

Hello,...

In my quest for the most privacy-respecting and direct control browser I ended up stumbling upon qutebrowser....

Screenshot as text (excuse me if I have mistyped anything)...

I am using Manjaro GNOME. I wanted to use automatic1111, but it wasn’t recognising my graphics card (NVIDIA 1660 ti) and wasn’t proceeding to the next stage of installation (the terminal kept crashing when it got to a certain point), so Bing said that switching from wayland to x11 might fix it. I changed the...

Every few years we port the key components of our software to a new version of Qt, taking the opportunity to remove cruft and leverage the updated features the most recent version of Qt has to offer us....

Hello!...

The PipeWire project is immensely proud to announce the 1.0 release of PipeWire....

Presentation: lpc.events/event/…/Linux Kernel Autotuning.pdf

I am absolutely sick of Windoze and I’m trying out Linux Mint for my work computer. This has been a bit of a learning curve but I have almost everything working the way I want… but the sticking point is my company uses Dropbox for all file sharing and repository....

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/8393990...

THE site “It’s FOSS” suggests alternatives to FOSS. At least half of those alternatives are NOT FOSS, so why bother? █