Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in .config.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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Iβm struggling to get TigerVNC to work on a machine it used to work on before I upgraded the distro and the VNC server software.
Iβm struggling to get WireGuard to work when it worked fine in Windows before I switched my laptop to dual booting EndeavorOS and Kubuntu. I canβt get it to work on either. Works fine on my iPhone, too.
But neither of these is bad enough to go back to Windows.
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Write a script or shell alias for important or frequent tasks
π Pray it's in my ctrl-r history the next time I need it
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Bootc looks very cool
@merari42 using flatpak Steam with the library on a non-home drive.
This sucks.
This is exactly why I switched to the "native" client
slaps flatseal at steam this bad boi can access so many directories (which when they are in /media or /mnt or /run are detected as disks)
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Instead of compiling a kernel, try to make do with what your distro provides whenever there's an update. Yes, there's compilation, but it's all done automatically. Then come to realise that the last two updates have had a subtle problem that caused the graphics driver to have a debilitating stroke whenever you try to watch a video in VLC, and have the whole system to go unresponsive as a result. Everything else works fine. YouTube. Games. But a cat video downloaded from Discord because (foreshadowing) the video won't play in-browser for some reason? Too far, man. How dare.
Booting with another of those kernels is when you find out that's also broken despite having used it for a while previously. Learn that, by sheer luck, one still-good kernel is still installed.
Hope that someone with more brains and energy with a similar setup will be able to report the problem properly to wherever that needs to be reported so that the next update doesn't have the same problem. Things like this have been magically fixed before. You wait.
(Search the error message from the logs online. No close matches. Learn a bit, but the only advice was "try a different kernel". You already thought of that)
In the meantime, remove the problem kernels and update GRUB with boot USB on standby in case you hose the system. Manage not to need it.
I just use Kubuntu and stop worrying.
Yep, it just worksβ’
I have an HP printer
No ... your HP printer has you
In mother America, HP has YOU!
HP is so bad with drivers -.-
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Been working with Linux every day for over a decade at my job. At home I run the most boring generic shit.
I LUKS encrypted my boot partition of my last install. It would take an extra 1-1:30 secs to boot when I got the password correct on the first attempt. Much longer if I got it wrong and had to reboot to try again.
I finally did it correctly this last build, but now I am using NixOS and refuse to add anything to the config or a flake if I just need it once a week or so. So I am constantly digging through my history to find the shell I created to do a specific task.
I mean, I could just patch and do some housecleaning, and maybe adjust partitions.
OR I could reinstall fucking everything from scratch because it feels good.
Good rule of thumb I've decided upon over the years for this:
"If the # of kernels present is greater than 3, reinstall for thee".
Figure 3 full kernel versions, excluding patches averages 12-18 months (based on kernel.org history). It's been a good metric to follow.
I recognize this behavior in myself... please send help.
My first Gentoo install took 3 weeks with all the reading required to do a secure boot UEFI install with a USB based key and boot configuration to ensure W10 could dual boot without problems WAY before that was easy and reliable with Anaconda on Fedora.
Now... Fedora is only writing the USB iso and like 2 clicks. It is easier and more reliable than Windows has ever been or even floppy disk DOS ever was. GNOME is a stupid simple desktop environment too.
Security and convenience are on a balancing scale. More security, less convenience. More convenience, less security.
Everything in my life is less convenient but way more secure than most people's lives.
(I am not secure against corporate/nation-state level threats at all. I am merely more secure than the average person.)
Everything has an OTP code through Aegis and I do regular encrypted backups of my Aegis vault to other devices.
Most people cannot and will not live like this. To me, it's simple.
I have a cycle that goes like this:
- I just want a system that works. (Fedora)
- The UNIX philosophy is cool. (OpenBSD)
Repeat every 6 months or so. I'm never happy with my current system.
I feel this in my soul. With a side of "modern memory-safe languages are great" vs "the consistency and efficiency of shared libraries is what makes distributions great even if they're written in C".
I store a lot of things on external media.
I also use a lot of Flatpaks.
Kill me.
Flatpak apps should implement portals which allow a user to grant permission to a file or folder.
Some don't which sucks
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