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Hey everyone, I have 3 seperate SSD's, two 2TB SSD's and a single 1TB SSD that has Windows 11 on it. I'm running Bazzite OS on one of my 2TB SSD's, and I used to have Windows 11 on my primary 2TB SSD but I just wiped it to install CachyOS on it so that I can have 4TB of total SSD storage for games on Linux. My current set up is the 1TB SSD has Windows 11, and the two other seperate 2TB SSD's have Bazzite and CachyOS on their own drives.

My primary OS at the moment is Bazzite, and has been for about 6 months now, but I finally stopped being lazy and copied over everything from my old 2TB Windows install to the new 1TB Windows install and then installed CachyOS on the now free'd up 2TB SSD. But after installing CachyOS on what used to be my primary Windows drive, I no longer have access to booting into Windows. I keep a Windows partition for things that don't work on Linux.

When I go into my motherboards boot options, I'm presented with 3 options. 1. Bazzite (default boot option for me) 2. CachyOS 3. UEFIOS which only lets me boot into CachyOS. My Windows files are still safe and accessible on the 1TB SSD so I know everything is still there, I just don't have a way to boot into it anymore. GRUB gives me the same boot options as the motherboard does, so I'm locked out of my Windows install for now.

How do I regain access to my Windows install? Again, everything is still there, I can access my 1TB SSD through either of my Linux installations and see all the files there I just can't find a way to boot into it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

I know the above question isn't fully complete and lacks some important information, I will (hopefully) provide that below, but first I want to explain where I am coming from with this question a little.

I would consider myself a power user in Windows (maybe even more than that). At one point I was even studying for my Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA 70-270), worked in IT dealing with complex virus removal (anyone remember Combofix and Bleeping Computer?) and generally am comfortable bending anything up to about Windows 10 to my will.

I also have some experience programming in .Net, Java, Python, and Arduino's version of C++ (FWTW).

I have been trying to force myself to use Linux as my primary for a little while now. I ran Mint as my primary OS for a little over a year, and have recently switched to Manjaro to try Wayland and "increase the difficulty level" as it were.

The problem that motivated this post is that I recently installed an application via the AUR by cloning and making the package. Annoyingly though, the application is configured to run at startup and I don't see an obvious setting in the application to turn that behavior off.

I know I can "Google" how to figure out this particular problem, but it seems like a good opportunity for me to metaphorically learn how to fish rather than being given a fish by learning the Linux equivalent of what I would do in Windows for this kind of thing.

If I had this issue in Windows I would approach the issue in the following manner:

1. Depending on flavor of Windows do one of the following and check the autostart tab
   • Run MSConfig
   • Run Task Manager
2. Check the Startup folder for my User and All Users
3. Pull out the "I'm done messing around tools"
   • Hijack This
   • Autoruns
   • WhatsInStartup

I understand, and know the various locations and registry entries the applications from step 3 are looking at, it's just usually faster to use them than go digging into those locations individually.

My question therefore is, what is the Linux equivalent of the methodology I would use when in Windows? Is, or are there, specific tools for looking at startup programs and services? Is it as simple as digging into Systemd? Am I approaching this with the completely wrong mindset?

Essentially, what am I ignorant of, and can I that ignorance be rectified using my existing knowledge as a framing device?

Regardless of anything else, I very much appreciate your taking the time to read all of this and thank you in advance if you do have the time and knowledge to spare answering this question.

Cheers!

I am building a Wireguard tool for myself and I would like to receive events when a peer connects or disconnects. Does someone know if this is possible through some kernel API or EBPF?

Many of us are notorious fence-sitters. This video attempts to explore some of the psychology of our profound hesitation when switching operating systems. I will share my personal experience, talk about some of the fears we face when making big changes, offer some warm encouragement, and do it all without a whiff of the elitist technobabble that tends to rear its ugly head in Linux discussions.

Where should we post niche stuff when we figure it out so Google and OpenAI can eat it and show it to those in need? I see lots of answers coming from reddit but I don't want to post there obviously. I tried stack exchange/askubuntu but the barriers to adding information are pretty big.

For instance today I switched from xfce4 to lxqt and all the passwords and sessions I had in Brave were invalid. There was no simple answer but after some work I figured out I needed to open seahorse and copy the brave secrets over to the new keys in kwalletmanager.

I'd write it up and post it somewhere in case the solution could help someone else but what's the best spot in your opinion?

I've been running stock Fedora for about 5 years, but I'm really interested in immutable distros after putting Bazzite on my TV Gaming PC. Batteries-included works well for me in a use case like that.

I have about a decade of experience with containerisation, so leveraging that experience for my desktop is really appealing.

I took a look at Bluefin for my laptop, but it seems to be more opinionated than I'd like. I'm good with having an optimised kernel and tooling that makes sense for an immutable distro, but wasn't a huge fan of preconfigured Gnome extensions and the software I don't want.

I haven't tried Silverblue yet, but I plan to do that next. Vanilla OS is on my list too, but more out of curiosity in how it does things.

My questions are: should I be looking at any other distros? Do I need to shift my expectations of an immutable distro even more?

I'm running fedora with gnome. Has anyone had any success remapping the copilot key to something useful with this combo?

macOS has a variety of apps like Homerow, Shortcat, and KindaVim (watch the videos in those links if u can) that allow for navigation of apps using just the keyboard. Homerow allows for pressing a hotkey and then showing letters over UI elements which can be entered to move the mouse to said element, similar to the Vim easymotion plugin. KindaVim attempts to implement vim modal navigation inside GUI apps, so you can enter normal or visual mode and use j and k to move up or down. They all work using macOS' accessibility API which exposes UI elements for programmatic interaction.

I did a bunch of searches for Linux equivalent of such apps and Mac's accessibility API, and didn't find anything as comprehensive. Can you navigate a wide variety of Linux apps using mostly or only the keyboard (apps made with GTK, Electron, etc.)? Is it currently possible to develop an equivalent of the apps listed above?

This week was full of major feature work and UI polishing, in addition to a lot of bug-fixing! I'm pretty sure everyone will find something to be excited about here

Starting with Fedora 42 the KDE Edition will be at the same level as the Fedora Workstation Edition that uses GNOME.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22161356

Petition Summary: The petitioner calls for the European Union to actively develop and implement a Linux-based operating system, termed ‘EU-Linux’, across public administrations in all EU Member States. This initiative aims to reduce dependency on Microsoft products, ensuring compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and promoting transparency, sustainability, and digital sovereignty within the EU. The petitioner emphasizes the importance of using open-source alternatives to Microsoft 365, such as LibreOffice and Nextcloud, and suggests the adoption of the E/OS mobile operating system for government devices. The petitioner also highlights the potential for job creation in the IT sector through this initiative.

1. Yes I know you can learn for free reading man pages
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3. Share which books you already read or are looking forward to reading

LXQt - The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment

Hi, I just did my first Linux install (Kubuntu) onto an external NVME drive. It boots fine on my laptop but gives me a "MBR error, insert floppy" screen when I try to run it on my desktop. On the motherboard settings the drive shows as a bootable option but without a UEFI label. What issues could cause this? From what I've read it seems like a boot loader problem but I have no idea why it would be fine on one device but not another. I tried to update the motherboard firmware but the file the manufacturer provides wasn't working. It's running a 2021 version.

Edit: I figured it out. The issue had nothing to do with my Linux installation. My motherboard had a hidden option to change the UEFI boot order, which is entirely separate from choosing which drive to boot from.

It seems like this would be a great combo. Curious if anyone has tried this.

Can view the other nominators here: https://github.com/openSUSE/wallpapers/issues/18

Welcome to the new home of "This Week in Plasma"! No longer is it a private personal thing on my (Nate Graham's) blog, but now it's a weekly series hosted here on KDE's infrastructure, open to anyone's participation and contribution! I'll remain the editor-in-chief for now, and welcome contributions via direct push to the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org. And after a post is published, if you find a typo or broken link, feel free to just fix it.

Anyway, this week we added a useful service to detect out-of-memory (OOM) conditions, did some UI polishing, and also a lot of bug-fixing! Check it out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21951809

Fedora Linux provides a wide variety of users with leading edge open source technology in a community developed and maintained operating system. The Fedora KDE Spin combines the reliable and trusted Fedora Linux base with the KDE Plasma desktop environment and a selection of KDE applications – simple by default, yet powerful when needed.

Back in April 2024, Fedora Linux 40 included the KDE “MegaRelease 6” – the Plasma desktop environment, Frameworks application libraries (with the underlying Qt platform), and Gear application suite were all upgraded to new versions in one fell swoop to deliver improved performance and reliability. Since then, continuous upstream updates by the KDE teams to fix bugs and deploy new features were quickly deployed to Fedora 40 users, including breakthroughs such as Explicit Sync in Wayland (which addressed the most prevalent graphical glitches on Nvidia devices)!

Now, as part of the Fedora Linux 41 release, the KDE Spin again includes the very latest with the recently released KDE Plasma 6.2, up-to-date KDE applications and core system packages, and new ways of using Plasma on different devices.