Linux

'Well it's only passing mv a list of--' yeah yeah yeah, I know, and that's why I'm calling bullshit. It should be massively harder to execute filenames. Even if 1970s decisions make that the eternal hideous default: the lack of any idiot-proof standard workaround is incomprehensible.

StackOverflow's full of competing one-liners and people pointing out how each one is considered harmful. The least-skeezy options use exec. That sentence should make anyone recoil in horror.

This is not a filename problem. This is a tool problem. If a single printable character is going to silently expand into a list of names, then for god's sake, having it put each name in quotes should be fucking trivial.

I started using Linux when I was 12.

Getting my first computer I was excited to play games and just tinkering with it to see what I could make it do. Sadly, it came with an installation of Windows Vista, something I'm thankful for today since I learned a lot about troubleshooting but at the time was a major pain in doing what I wanted to do.

My school had a 10 week after-school program where you got to learn different programming languages, ranging from perl to JavaScript. Part of that program involved installing and using Linux.

I was immediately hooked. Trading the problems of Vista and everything that entailed with the problems of my Ubuntu installation were to me a godsend. Actual error messages?? People online with similar problems suggesting solutions that made sense?? What is this, and why isn't everyone using it??

Today it is foundation of my career, the reason of any academic success I've had, and a hobby that has brought me immense joy (and struggles with primarily Bluetooth, audio and getting games to work).

I'm so happy I found this amazing software, built in small and large contributions over many years by many of our times brightest minds and just regular people contributing solutions to their personal pet-peeves, fixations and use-cases. It is truly something that (for me) brings some much needed positivity and optimism of our future as a species and what we can accomplish.

Seeing how far we've come as a viable platform makes me very happy. Proton, KDE/Plasma, pipewire, Wayland and many more amazing projects we all use daily still give me an appreciation of what computers should be and what they are capable of.

So thank you. Whether you've contributed code or other things, interacted with the community, or just used this amazing software I hope you feel something similar to what I feel.

I love you all.

(And yes, I am very drunk right now.)

I am a casual who uses Zorin as my daily driver because I like its desktop environment. Since I am a college student, a lot of the programs my professors want me to use were made for windows and nothing else (especially Honorlock) and I'm getting a bit frustrated with all the things that throw a fit when I try to run them with Wine. I also tried to use a VM once and got quite confused.

My understanding of Qubes is that you pick a few operating systems as templates, then when you install an app you assign it to run on one of those templates. I have heard that some people have made Windows templates, which would make running Windows apps so much easier.

To me, the main draw of Qubes OS is to make running a VM just as easy as running any other software. I don't care too much about managing my digital footprint; I just want to make running Windows programs more convenient. Would Qubes work for my purposes? I do feel ready to try new things, like using the terminal.

Hey guys, newish to Linux, new to Arch and Hyprland.

I have FL Studio up and running using Wine in the way I usually did when using Fedora. However now, on Arch, when using FL, windows aren't aligned properly with the cursor. As in I can't click x on a small pop up window unless:

1. I click above and to the right (for example)
2. I fullscreen the application, or align it with the top of the screen.

Haven't had this happen on any other apps, but haven't used any other Wine apps yet, so could be Wine specific perhaps

Super weird problem, I'm guessing it's Hyprlands fault? But I really don't know. Thanks for any ideas!

I'm going to be doing a clean install of Arch Linux on an old ThinkPad tomorrow morning, and I'd like some suggestions for a window manager, desktop environment, or Wayland compositor.

It can have a learning curve, but I would like it to not have too steep a learning curve (I have been using i3 for a while, and I have just come from LeftWM which I configured to have i3 keybinds). Also, in order to make it fairly obvious to my peers that I'm using Linux, I'd like it to look nothing like Windows or macOS.

Preferably something light (at least out of the box). When I was using LeftWM, my RAM usage was often around 200MB. I recently did a system analysis and I have 8GB of RAM, but my CPU will hold me back. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo of the Penryn microarchitecture (x86_64-v1).

Any suggestions?

Let's pretend I haven't looked into Linux at all in over a decade (because I haven't), What Linux distro would you recommend to get my feet wet in Linux again? With current hardware I have limited storage space and I need to keep Windows (at least for now). My intent is to partition and get acclimated to audio work in Linux. My DAW is Linux compatible but I'm looking for something where I won't have to get too into the weeds of things to get my hardware such as midi controllers and my audio interface to work.

Is there a distro with an audio work focus or am I overthinking it? Should I just see how much space I need to free up to partition for Ubuntu and dive in? The reason I ask is the laptop I'm on is pretty full so if there's a smaller distro with a relatively painless path to audio then I'd be interested.

Thanks in advance. This is a momentary curiosity in my mind as I get ready for the new year and I wanted to capture it now.

Does anyone know if/when AMD will support Linux on their new NPU? If it's never or too far out, what is everyone else looking towards for open source AI development?

This issue is apparently tracking the Linux communities request for it.

My friends, y'all convinced me and I decided to ditch windows on this old PC. I had a task scheduler task that launched chrome on kiosk mode and navigated to this website on startup. Worked great, but windows made the whole thing chug and crashed constantly.

installed Linux Lite and the computer runs GREAT because it doesn't have all the windows bloat from the start, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do the same thing on Linux Lite.

I tried creating an rc.local file pointing to a .sh file with the command google-chrome --kiosk . this command works from the terminal.

ive also tried the crontab -e and adding @reboot google-chrome --kiosk as above... but again nothing happens when I reboot.

what am I doing wrong? HELP.

I dont have any problem with it i simply would like to see peoples different opinions, so, this is what the system would be generally used for/what id like it to do:

1. stay out of my way (just work), ex: i dont get any notifications i dont want from the system itself and all i need to do is type 3 letters to initiate an update

2. requires little ram to actually use (not really needed due to hardware but simply to reduce the pcs noise as much as possible, bonus points if programs generally do the same thing on it)

3. Doesnt require too much fiddling (endevouros never needs this generally, when installing something it usually installs everything you need for things to work, i prefer GUIs usually but if its deadsimple commands like yay its fine as well)

4. I game and stream so both would need to be doable as easy as possible (i use obs, when it comes to games i usually do emulation and try to avoid proton)

id love to hear what yall would recommend, thanks yall in advance

I can't find an active thinkpad centric community on here I am just going to post here. My Thinkpad T480s, 16 GB RAM, 238 GB SSD is randomly shutting off while at like 50%. When I try to open it back up it always is dead and I have to connect charger to boot it up again. Why is this happening? Is it battery issue? It complains about not being able to read temp2_input while shutting down and sometimes say PM usage count underflow. Not sure what that is supposed to mean.

I am a big history enthusiast and would greatly love to read more about history and big events in the world of linux or FOSS in general. Here's one example: on Feb 15, 1999, the windows refund day event happened, I am interested to read more about such events in detail. Is there a decent book or resource that covers all this in detail?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6567472

I'm running the nvidia official version, i have a 4090.

journalctl -xe gives "failed to switch root: specificed switch root path /ssysroot doesnot seem to be on OS tree. os-release file is missing"

I've seen some mention to try rebooting into a different kernel. I have no idea how to do that. Everything I have seen suggests commands that do not exist in the emergency mode. and I can't boot at all so I don't konw what to do.

Please advice. I asked in the discord but no one even responded and I'm not sure where to get help with this distro

Hey guys, trying to use cron to backup my home server. There's a nextcloud script I run which I copy and pasted from the nextcloud aio GitHub, and this script works in my sudo crontab. However I have a script for my calibre library which runs perfectly well when run manually but as soon as cron time comes around it shows up in the syslog but the calibre library doesn't actually get rsynced... I'll add the calibre script here soon but any ideas in the meantime?

Thanks so much!

Hey guys,

Been trying to use the Super Audio Cart VST with FL Studio on Linux, and can get FL and Kontakt player running using Bottles, but Kontakt doesn't seem to see Super Audio Cart in it's library.

What I want to ask you guys is has anyone got Kontakt libraries properly working with FL using Wine/Bottles, or, would I have better luck running the whole thing inside a VM?

Thanks!

Can I somehow use my laptop/desktop Linux microphone and speaker or headset to call a regular phone line through my (GrapheneOS) Android 13 phone?

SIP sadly is not an option as my mobile phone provider does not hand out SIP information, it's only possible to call with an attached SIM card.

Microsoft apparently supports something called Phone Link on Windows 11 which makes this possible. Is there a Phone Link alternative for Linux, possibly even wired via USB?

Found this discussion on the scrcpy repository and via bluetooth it only seems to work with very specific hardware, whereas injecting the audio stream from the PC microphone to the Android microphone input doesn't seem to work.

I have been using linux for a couple of years now and the most infuriating thing to this day are when things just dont work when they should, when you have to perform some terminal-fu to make certain things even work.

So here i am, pleading for help for two specific issues before i jump back into using a specific distro (yes, most things a distro does are agnostic and can be achieve by others, but thats not my point here)

Here the things i would like to work (with little to no tinkering if possible) webmotioncapture, runs fine over wine but doesnt detect my camera (vseeface is not an option as it doesnt detect hands and needs some serious code-fu to make that work, also didnt detect my camera)

have my camera work and be detected in linux and wine (Anker PowerConf C200)

if anybody could point into a distro direction, or actually easy to understand absolute minimal tinkering instructions, id be very gratefull

update: i genuinely cant believe it, wecammotioncapture, works under wine, without any tinkering, hallelujah!

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Hey all. Basic information I am running Pop_os! I have have downloaded and placed a cursor in ~/.icons folder and selected it with gnome tweaks. It seems to work on some but not all applications. It works on Steam, gedit, nautilus but not on any browser, Telegram, or Thunderbird.

I have tried modifying the /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme file to my selected cursor. I have restarted and no changes.

To note: Gnome Tweaks still lists Adwaita (default) no mater what I do.

Is there a way for me to get my chosen cursor to work with all applications?

• https://universal-blue.org/blog/2023/07/19/one-million-image-pulls-happy-birthday-to-us/

One Million Image Pulls - Happy Birthday to Us!

WE DID IT!

Today we crossed one million image pulls. Though Kinoite continues to dominate the leaderboard, our steady march forward continues.

If you've been kicking the tyres on this next generation of linux desktop, we thank you! This means that we've had a million upgrades, which isn't a bad start!

Come join us at Universal Blue.org

My Personal Write-up

Questions?

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So, I have been testing out a few distro's lately after deciding to move away from arch. I have noticed, though, that every time I install a new system (latest one being NixOS) with btrfs, I get symlinks of my home folder in my Documents folder.

It's really kind of odd. I haven't tried with ext4, yet. Is this a known issue?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1001168

Created with ascii-matrix

A script in bash in combination with a script in C can help you solve a sudoku puzzle in a png file.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/sudoku-solver-ocr

You can see the script in action in this video.

The main dependency is tesseract OCR, responsible for the oprical character recognition.

Another important dependency is imagemagick, responsible for the necessary image manipulation.

The file selection of the png image is done with zenity.

Feel free to give your feedback.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/550485

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/530920

Magic-tape is an image supporting fuzzy finder command line interface YouTube client.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape

Image rendering can be done with the use of ueberzugpp, ueberzug, kitty terminal or chafa.

With magic-tape, through the main menu, the user can:

• Browse videos from subscriptions.

• Browse through trending video feed.

• make a video search, using keywords or phrases.

• Watch a previously watched video (watch history).

• Browse videos from a subcsribed channel.

• Watch a liked video.

• Repeat the previous selection.

• Repeat a previous search (search history).

• Watch/download video/audio content, in various formats.

Through the miscellaneous menu the user can

• Set up Preferences (configuration).

• Like / Unlike a video.

• Synchronize the above actions with their YouTube account.

• Import subscriptions from YouTube.

• Subscribe to/ Unsubscribe from a channel.

• Clear their watch/search history, liked videos, thumbnail cache.