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Good morning my dear friends :) Well - could the next year be a great time for open source operating systems? Linux has been on a slow-but-steady and very successful rise for years, but as of August it's at 4.5 percent of the global desktop market sharing . This is awesome - imagine - If it...

Hello everyone, I’m thinking of switching from Fedora to an Arch-based distro (CachyOS or EOS). Ultimately, the reason for this decision is the fact that I want to dive deeper into Linux and I feel I want something new. Fedora has given me a few RAM, packages and performance issues which I...

What? In this tutorial we'll be creating a desktop shortcut (aka. *.desktop file) which will point to some item of interest such as installed documentation or web site link etc. Motivation There is plenty of useful documentation already installed on your Linux system, the default directory...

I really am not that deep into Linux and all that stuff, but it was enough to atleast setup a Remote Server with a Desktop enviroment, and user that for game servers and other stuff. Since some weeks there is a problem, because of that i have completly fresh installed ubuntu 22.04 and also...

Hi, I looking for a Tiling Window Manager that provide me with sort of v-stack layout from DWM which has a single bind to quickly swap windows between master and stacked area BUT the stacked (right) side should be presented as a grouped/tabbed layout (one window focused). Here's a more...

For me it's LMDE6, I love how stable it is, I have now 70 days of uptime and it's still as fast as on the first day. trough linuxmint repo, I get the latest cinnamon packages and firefox etc. trough flatpak I don't really miss any software. Also the base system is as robust as debian stable...

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Hi, I have 64GB of RAM and actually need only 32GB. What and how can I run software in a RAMdisk? Which program would you use? How would you accomplish this? I am ln LMDE6, if that helps. Maybe I can run Brave in RAM? If yes, how?

Hi, I mostly let my PC running 24/7, but now when I let my PC running for ~24h my Displays go dark and my Mouse and Keyboard don't do anything. no CTRL+ALT+Del. No CTRL+ALT+{F1, F2, F3, F4, ...}. My PowerLED on my desktop is running also the Keyboard and Mouse LEDs are on. That's very unusual...

Hi, I use Cinnamon with Nemo File Manager and want to execute a script in rightclick of a file. How would I accomplish this?

Hello everybody! While I was browsing mastodon i've found this very interesting project which nobody even seems to know the exsistence of. It's called Kera Desktop and it seems to be a graphically pleasing desktop enveroinment We should definitely check it out. What do you think of this?

Hi, since there are much Distrohoppers and people messing up their installations and starting over or made a new install because a new version came out; I wonder how old your Filesystem / Installation is. For Example, I stopped Distrohopping, settling with Linux Mint How to check the age? stat...

Hello there, I am looking to build a custom pc I have never done so before so this will be my first time. I heard Microcenter is a good place to find decent prices for parts. Looking at ones on amazon that fit my needs as a reference because I don't know how to pick parts from scratch I came...

Hi there, The Question is pretty straight forward. How can I make the TV with FireTV be handeld from Linux as an External Monitor? cheers

I have a long list of missing amdgpu firmware files. I also have a longer list of installed amdgpu firmware files which were automatically installed as I had no idea they were there until I looked. There must be a way to get firmware updates, but I have no idea how to get it to work. I prefer...

Hi, I am looking for a solution to find *.desktop files created on an Ubuntu, Debian or Linux system in general based on the values in the "Keywords=" field. When I search for Linux launcher find keywords .desktop entry I find a lot of hits, e.g. Add check for missing keywords field in...

Hi ! I'm using Linux Lite 5.4 and since yesterday, I cannot access my desktop. The boot goes as normal (I removed quiet splash from the grub file to make sure it was ACTUALLY loading) but right as when it's supposed to start loading the desktop, the white text blinking indicator or whatever it's...

This info isn't easy to find on the internet, so I decided to share the solution here for those who don't know it and have come across the same problem. It's about desktop environments that use programs from other environments, which was my case - I'm using Cinnamon with a few programs from KDE...

Hello! I am a graphic designer and UI designer with some fresh ideas for a desktop environment, better than the ones that that are out there IMHO. Who wants to help code?