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I'm planning to replace my laptop this Black Friday season, but during my "pre-shopping" I noticed a disturbing fact: Lenovo seems to have quietly dropped most Linux devices (at least laptops), as you can see here: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops/ "49 results", says the...

Yesterday I dove into Bash prompt customization. Having emerged from the other side, I'm interested in seeing if anybody else has custom prompts in their shell. To start things off, here's mine: An overview of the components of this: 0. A battery indicator that shows if the battery needs...

A while back, I resized the EFI system partition on my work PC (yes, I know, it seems to be the one that I mess up the most) from ~100 MB to ~300 MB using KDE Partition Manager, since it was full. However, I just realized today that it is not being detected as resized by the kernel (although KDE...

The other day I was messing around with Samba settings in YaST on my work PC trying to get logged into our Windows network. In the process, I managed to bork my network settings so that Plasma's network widget shows a connection without any internet access. VirtualBox VMs can access the 'net...

I have openSUSE Tumbleweed installed on my work PC (and, for that matter, my personal laptop; but I'm talking about the work PC). The openSUSE installer created/used the existing (I forget which it was) EFI system boot partition. That partition filled up for some reason due to updates, and I...

Check out this beautiful-looking distro: https://www.jingos.com The site says that JingOS will be available starting January 31st. Read Jason Evanghelo's article on JingOS here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2021/01/18/this-new-linux-os-sure-looks-like-it-was-designed-by-apple/

Today is the birthday of Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language. He is 70 years old. Thought that some of our resident programmers might find this interesting.

I had an eye-opening experience the other day which has served to increase my dislike of Ubuntu's snaps. [Part 1] Snaps have pros, but they have more cons. I can attest to the fact that they look ugly, since they don't match your system theme. They also take up lots of disk space, and some...

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764 Your thoughts?

I found Howdy a few weeks ago while browsing GitHub (that's what programmers do instead of Twitter). It is supposed to be a Linux alternative to Windows Hello. I installed it on my laptop yesterday in order to try it out. My impressions so far: Easy to use if you are familiar with the terminal...

I found the NanoPi/FriendlyElec ZeroPi today and I'm pretty impressed. For $10 you get Gigabit Ethernet, USB and MicroUSB, and microSD storage on a 4cm x 4cm board. Does anybody have any experience with this board? P.S. I'm thinking about getting 10 or so and making a Beowulf cluster with them.

Programs like these are the ones that make Linux the better choice for the average user: GoldenCheetah - "Performance Software for Cyclists, Runners and Triathletes" Power Tab Editor - a guitar tabulature editor Spotify-Qt - a Qt-based Spotify client Otter Browser - A browser recreating the...

I'm preparing to don SCUBA gear and dive into the Qt documentation (Yikes! Will I survive?), but I thought that it might be a good idea to know what features I want to learn about first. To that end, I need a project to work on. So I thought that I would see what software people think Linux...

I'm considering installing a rolling distro on my laptop in place of Kubuntu and I'm wondering what the main differences are between Arch and Void. I dug up the following already: Arch has more packages (?) Arch is more bleeding-edge Anything I'm missing? Also, if Arch has more packages, are...

I am trying to find a list of all the desktop environments available for Linux. I already have a number listed: KDE Plasma (my personal favorite) GNOME LXDE LXQt Mate Unity (old, I know, but there is work being done) XFCE Cinnamon Deepin Pantheon Enlightenment UKUI (from Ubuntu Kylin) Budgie...