Linux

Naked self-interest disclaimer: I want the best config for the --output option, one that sorts downloads into folders, respects playlist order etc., and never ever displays the string NA, no matter which extractor is used (I mostly use youtube and bandcamp).

I was talking with a friend about Linux, getting him interested and all that. He was taking to it. I told him about Flathub and since we were in front of a computer he just instantly searched it in the URL bar and figured it was a .com address. We were both caught quite off-guard when a different type of site appeared hahaha. Flathub.org is the correct Linux related site but can be easily mistaken for porn

basically something like smarttube but on linux

I want to sound like Louis Griffin

Just switched Zorin for Win11 on my kids computer (yes, it did hurt and still does 😭). His friends play Fortnite and he felt left out. Windows is the only option if he want to play?

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I’m trying to get into QubeOS. Coming from Graphene on phone and its compartmentalizations, I expect an easy transtition. But holy shit, theres like a qube for everything: usb qube, network qube, file manager qubem..etc.

I understand LUKs can be used to encrypt your data. But what would prevent somebody plug in a USB with and just wipe my drive?

I’ve got a refurb laptop coming to me soon and I’ve been wanting to mess with immutable distros for a while… I have no idea what sort of specs the laptop has.

I realize this is impressionistic but for the sake of the conceit:

It had Windows installed and it was taking up 3 partitions or something so i destroyed its recovery drive and i probably need to start fresh with just Linux

I’m working on a window switching tool for Wayland that’s kinda like Alt-Tab. However, it seems like there’s no compositor agnostic way to do things like:

NVK currently supports Kepler (GeForce 600 and 700 series) and later GPUs up to and including Ada (RTX 4000 series), as well as consumer Blackwell GPUs (RTX 5000 series).

Hello, hello!

Does anyone know of any apps that let you use speech-to-text-to-speech as a translate-as-you-go kind of fashion? Kind of like a voice changer but compatible with TTS engines.

Hi everyone!

I’ve distro hopped quite a bit over the last few years. I’ve realized recently that I tend to gravitate toward KDE Plasma as a desktop environment, but I don’t take advantage of the customization as much as I could.

got a great deal at an estate sale, i9-9900k, 32gb ddr4, rtx 2070 for $350.

*NOTE: i have only used linux for about a year or so and im not a power user, im basically a tired windows user but i know more stuff than most beginners i feel like? like not a lot more but a little bit * so when i don’t have anything open my memory usage is like 4-5GB out of 16, which makes it pretty bad when i want to play games (even minecraft can make it so my pc use 99% memory so i have to hard reset, although i might have fixed that) and/or when i want some demanding theming things (like a live wallpaper). “Background services” is using like 4GB and “baloo_file_extractor” is using like 1GB out of the 4. I have done a tiny tiny bit of research and ive found out that baloo is a file indexing thingo, but idrk what file indexing is used for so i don’t know if i should disable it

How to get windows to not do disk checking or ruin my bootloader when i add a linux partition on the same drive. I don’t like the windows panicking when there is a linux partition on it and doing a variety of things, even if its not on the same ssd it STILL does disk checking but I have not seen anything worse than that on the same partition, but I need the space.

I need to map network shares from my Synology NAS and also from a Win11 Pro desktop. There are just so many variations on how to do this. All I need to do is map drive letters to shares on startup so they are always available.

So preface, I am extremely OOTL with the distros. I have my Fedora box for work and its been running just fine for 5 years now. Before that i am an Arch btw user with i3 config riced to the max. I wanted to get actual work done so i stuck with Fedora and have not attempted any other distros.

EDIT: Ended up going for Kubuntu anyway. Installed it with separate / and /home so in case they want to explore more there’s the option.

Hi, I will be writing petition to my government (Poland) to try to get them to ban Windows at schools. I believe it should be illegal to force children to use systems that are paid and use children’s data for AI and advertising. Maybe you will do it as well? Let’s end this insane practice.

I am looking for good options for an elderly relative which has some onset of slight dementia, but is still living alone (with assistance).

I was reading on the web that clamav is not an “endpoint antivirus solution” but at the same time its called the best antivirus for gnu/linux and gnu/linux servers. Is worth for a desktop/personal computer?

Somewhat of a PSA for Qt users:

I came across an Apple iMac Retina 5K 27-inch (2017) for a really good price, how well does linux work? Specs:

the one I use is kega fusion, downloaded from flatpak, last updated in 2009. Being that old not all controls work correctly anymore.

Im using framework. my home networks isnt safe (it belongs to my family and google) and i would like to use the internet in public uncensored. someone also has a virus (they will not remove it dont ask why i do not know either) I know qubes is for security but Tails isnt for me. any reasonable ways to make Qubes private in my situation?

i tried tails but google still tracks me and its not for me since the police arent coming after me and the amensia and only being on usb is a bit annoying. i just thought there would be a lot more privacy

I’ve been using Mint for a number of years and I encrypted the drive. An annoyance is I have two drives and the second one needs a different encryption and needs to be mounted seperately when I log in (besides if I tell it to automount with a saved password) I’ve been looking to change distros and finally chose one, this time though it uses BTRFS. I read over a number of differences but am not technical enough to know what it all means.