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v0.1 was released recently

I found this article/guide from 2016 by chance and I was wondering if anyone knew any cons for using GRUB

reason I'm asking for cons is cause I have a favorable bias towards GRUB so I thought it might be good to see what potholes might exist before going all in

I was wondering if anyone here has attempted the new "COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data".

It's supposedly has been stable since the start of 2023. I'm willing to give it a try on Arch, but before I do, I'd like to hear if anyone has faced any issues with it.

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 9.0 is now available.

Title *X11

This would be a great development for new contributors!

There was a discussion on LWN.net about it

More details in the official announcement

If all goes well, we can release the alpha by the end of March

Now Available on NixOS!

COSMIC Terminal joins a long list of COSMIC DE projects that have been packaged for NixOS! While COSMIC DE will be the flagship desktop for Pop!_OS, it's designed and architected for distros to build their own custom, branded user experiences. Details for distro packaging will be released at the same time as the alpha.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8098358

KDE set up their own Lemmy instance and has an active KDE community [relative link]

This one has bitten me every time I have installed either Ubuntu or Lubuntu on a Mac. This post is now the one I refer to each time should I forget the three steps it takes to resolve this problem. Depending on your situation, you may only need two terminal commands and a reboot.

GNOME search can't calculate stuff. krunner on KDE is increadibly powerful. Is there anything I can do to make GNOME's search a bit more like krunner? at least do basic math ...

Hi all

I have an Alpine container on Proxmox that we use as a Zabbix Proxy. On it there is a PHP script (no web server). When I ssh in with my normal user account and run the PHP from cli, it works great. When I su to user root (for testing) it works fine. But when I su to user zabbix, I get:
Class "PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet" not found

This a problem because it will be Zabbix that triggers the script once a day. I get the same error whether zabbix triggers the script, or I trigger it from cli.

I have other ash, php, and python scripts on the proxy that run just fine when Zabbix triggers them.

The require statements at the top of the script don't throw an error:
require $folder . "/phpSpreadsheet/vendor/autoload.php"; use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet; use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Xlsx;

The error happens farther down when it creates a new spreadsheet in memory: $spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();

I had to use Composer to install the phpSpreadsheet library. I was getting a bunch of file & folder permissions errors but I'm certain I've covered that as this is not a file permissions error. I even reran composer as the zabbix user to check for permissions.

From googling I've found that the zabbix user is a "service account" as opposed to a user account. I used "su zabbix -s /bin/ash" get a cli going so I could test running the script directly. Running env shows that the Zabbix user's HOME directory is "/dev/null" Beyond that I'm not sure what differences there are between the accounts, or what would prevent a php class from loading.

Any help is welcome. Thanks.

I've never seen it being shown here, so I thought I'd make a post.

I've never got into tiling window managers, there's a hurdle to get into them because I have to decide first which one I'll look into. I have to spend time without knowing if I even want it. And the first impressions weren't that awesome to jump over the hurdle. I was "satisfied with basic tiling" or super user friendly, minimal workload, tiling things. Usually, I played with awesome tiles or forge and they are great.

I stumbled upon PaperWM which extends the view to the side. It automatically appends windows to the side and you can scroll through them. You can do a lot and I still need to figure out how everything works but it's at least fun to explore it. I'm on GNOME 45 and so far I haven't seen any bug.

I have a file with content like this:

item({
     ["attr"] = {
        ["size"] = "62091";
        ["filename"] = "qBuUP9-OTfuzibt6PQX4-g.jpg";
        ["stamp"] = "2023-12-05T19:31:37Z";
        ["xmlns"] = "urn:xmpp:http:upload:0";
        ["content-type"] = "image/jpeg";
     };
     ["key"] = "Wa4AJWFldqRZjBozponbSLRZ";
     ["with"] = "email@address";
     ["when"] = 1701804697;
     ["name"] = "request";
});

I need to know what format this is, and if there exists a tool in linux already to parse this or if I need to write one myself?

Thanks!

Usually, I'd run the app from the terminal.

I'm trying to refresh the online calendars in gnome's calendar gnome-calendar or org.gnome.Calendar but nothing happens. It shows a check mark as if it was successful.

edit: I just reinstalled the calendar via software from flathub and cleared the cache. The app is now unresponsive. I can't uninstall it anymore. reboot.

edit2: after a reinstall, calendar still has the outdated information. Even though I deleted everything. Evolution has the latest data which means that sync is working.

https://github.com/FriederHannenheim/cthulock Hey everybody. I'm releasing my new screen locker for Wayland which you can easily customize using the Slint language. Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments.___

Other Arch Flavors I've tried (some are no longer with us) include:

• ArchBang
• EndeavourOS
• Manjaro
• Chakra

So with that out of the way, I've found my Garuda experience incredibly painful. From messy repositories (Chaotic-AUR plus their own stuff), to an overly involved upgrade process (when using the helper) - the distro screams of a team that has no freakin' clue how to maintain an actual distribution.

It's basically Arch on hard mode with so many settings rolled into their own packages which need to be removed before customization.

Then we get to the purported performance enhancements and, honestly, this is the worst performing distro I've ever used, by multiple miles. I'm not sure if its the scheduler settings, or something with the zram settings - but this distro hitches and hangs constantly. (5950x, 64GB of Ram, Samsung 980 Pro drives, NVIDIA RTX 3080Ti - NOT a weak machine by any standards)

I'd normally chalk it up to compositor issues on Wayland (yes, I prefer Wayland and it works fine for most Arch derivitaves even with Nvidia). However the performance issues even crop up on basic terminal commands on a TTY with lots of weird hangs and lags.

The ONLY thing that was easier on this distro was installing the various Proton GE builds and other specialty stuff found in the Chaotic-AUR. But given the above, it's definitely not worth it when one can configure an Arch box to do the same things without all of the problems.

Perhaps I'm not doing something right? Given all the praise for this distro, perhaps it shouldn't perform like this?

To be completely and utterly clear - I'm an advanced user trying out these distros for fun and discovery. I can indeed "just use a different distro" but wanted to give this one a fair shake before moving on.

Status bar == waybar, eww, polybar, etc.

I checked Their repository, and its last release was about 3 years ago, with only three 1/2 years old issues still open. And Wikipedia also confirms that.

Is this project still actively maintained or developed? Does anyone use it or recommend using it?