Can I get LMDE with xfce instead of cinnamon? And more LMDE questions
For those who don’t know what I mean:
- LMDE = Linux Mint Debian Edition, linuxmint.com/download_lmde.ph…
- xfce and cinnamon = desktop environments (DE)
target hardware for LMDE is an 8 year old nuked mac notebook with an intel chip.
I’ve always used xfce because it’s easy on the hardware and I don’t care that much about looks, but functionality.
I’ve never used cinnamon and I don’t know if it’s going to slow the notebook much.
Neither do I know if I can install LMDE and then change the DE to xfce.
Is LMDE being updated like the other mints? LMDE is version 6, whereas the other DE are version 21.3
Download LMDE 6 - Linux Mint
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.www.linuxmint.com
If the Mac has a Retina display then I actually found XFCE runs worst of the various DEs at native resolution. Not in terms of resources but very choppy scrolling, video playback etc. Gnome and KDE Plasma actually ran better than XFCE for me on my 15” 2012 retina.
Presume it’s some kind of graphics acceleration thing, not 100% sure.
If the Mac has a Retina display
yes, model is a MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13"
Incidentally, I got the notebook as a present, got rid of mac OS and installed xubuntu 23.10 on it. Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that's why this notebook is so slow? I didn't do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.
Contrary to most advice, if you find something that’s compatible with a Wayland session (basically Gnome or Plasma) you might be pleasantly surprised.
I found that to be by far the closest I got to a macOS-like experience with Linux on a retina Mac, in terms of fluidity, trackpad scrolling and responsiveness.
Solved: Problems viewing files with JPEG extension on Linux
SD card files with encrypted data (_CONSOLE text in it), how to get my files back?
I have an micro SD card, that was in a Galaxy J5 with Android 7, and all the files are messed up now. (jpg, pdf, mp3) Following characters can be found in the beginning in all of the files, with m...Stack Overflow
MicroSD cards and your Galaxy phone or tablet
Similar to a thumb drive or other external storage devices, a microSD card lets you store files from your phone or tablet..Samsung Electronics America
[Solved] Hidamari is not loading on Linux Mint
I recently downloaded linux mint and I wanted use a live wallpaper so I found out I can do that with hidamari.
I've downloaded from the software package manager but it doesn't launch when I click launch.
What am I doing wrong?
I was able to solve the problem. Instead of downloading it from the Software Manager I installed it from the terminal instead.
When I installed it from the software manager it didn't download one of the packages (org.gnome.platform/44) but when I did it from the terminal it did.
Thx though.
Edit: Yeah it was a flatpak.
Love it when people speak with authority and are confidently incorrect. Eugenia is right.
You could potentially use flatseal to grant the flatpak the necessary permissions, and you might find out what those permissions are by looking for other users experiences with the flatpak version.
Or, you find the .deb file and it installs natively without being sandboxed. OR, you can find a PPA repository for it, load said repository and install your software.
But those things require learning a little. Linux rewards self starters who can use a search engine and forums. Hope this maybe points you in the right direction.
Yes the wallpaper stuff could be problematic.
But desktop integration works without issues. App stores also use flatpak install
directly instead of packagekit, at least on cross-distro desktops like KDE and GNOME. Which works way better.
Regarding "they dont work well for system related stuff", on Unix stuff everything is a file, and especially dedicated apps like a wallpaper switcher can have very specific static filesystem permissions, allowing them to do exactly what they need.
Appimages are totally different, a flawed concept by design and have no installer by default so they often have no integration at all. They are also not sandboxed at all and thus just as unrestricted as system apps, while they have no repo, no updating mechanism, no shared libs and are basically a security nightmare.
I dont know about snaps. Their sandboxing needs Apparmor so it is not cross platform.
Logs
*Can we get a requirement of logs to be posted somewhere for technical advice?
Alternative to Playonlinux
I'm using an Asus S56C with Lubuntu 22.04.4 and for work I use Photoshop CS6 and Vector Magic with Playonlinux. I was wandering - just for curiosity - if there are any good alternatives to Playonlinux to use these Windows programs.
Thanks in advance!
Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital!
Old style graphics (a la sim city) for a satirical game centered on a mechanic that was excluded by sim city because it would have been boring, as revealed by a developer
The developer mentioned it's being built on Linux, so it will of course have Native Linux support.
The car industry has identified a few places on earth that do not know THE FREEDOM OF CAR DEPENDENCY.So they hired you to increase car sales and oil consumption.
How? By building the greatest car parks ever!
Turn neighborhoods into car parks, create the need for car commuting and parking. Use propaganda to inform people on why they need it.
Learn to become a real tycoon… Asphalt means freedom, right?
Cross-post da: feddit.it/post/8640086
Build the greatest car parks ever in the retro-tycoon styled Car Park Capital
I feel like I just need to play Car Park Capital after discovering it today. Styled much like a late 90s retro tycoon game, it looks like it's from a different time and I love it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Why I Can't Use Linux - My Top 3 Reasons
Why I Can't Use Linux - My Top 3 Reasons
ZimaBoard Official Shop: https://bit.ly/4clYSAkZimaBoard Media Server: https://bit.ly/43oRUGkZimaBoard on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4cccy0u?tag=teksynd-20Thank...YouTube
You can and should use whatever OS fits your use case. Right tool for the job and all that.
What you should not do is post a clickbait video to trigger the penguins into giving you views.
If I Use Windows, I Delete My Channel
If I Use Windows, I Delete My Channel
How's it going?? I'm switching to Linux and if I use windows at all for the next month, I HAVE to delete my main channel. Can I do it?YouTube
[EDIT: It was a close one, but I made it ! This comment is here to stay ! Celebratory pickle time.]
Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report
Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report
Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.11 as that newest bi-weekly development release, Wine Staging 9.11 has been released with some 428 patches re-based atop this latest upstream Wine code.www.phoronix.com
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Every day is a good day to remember President Allende!
Oh well...
One day ReactOS will be able to run those just fine while Wine will still not deliver anything usable.
WineHQ - Microsoft Office (installer only) 2021 Pro Plus
Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.appdb.winehq.org
Does ReactOS already support the newest office and Photoshop out of the box!?
MS Office 2021 is garbage but at least 2016 and O365 Home (32-bit) are both silver. The linked Photoshop CC 2023 is also silver. That already seems like an impressive feat by the wine team.
WineHQ - Microsoft Office (installer only)
Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.appdb.winehq.org
Yeah, it seems impressive until you actually try to use it and find out that their "silver" is not even close to something you can work with.
Adobe products even when they say Silver you'll get artifacts when moving objects, resizing the window sometimes ends up on a full screen black square and whatnot.
Office 2016 kind of works, poor rendering but works, the thing is that if I only needed Office 2016 features I would survive mostly fine with LibreOffice. I indeed need features from 2019 that wont run properly.
You know that ReactOS development has been speeding up lately don't you? Either way it's kinda of stuck in NT5 because they threw out the most competent people of the project.
However... it still runs a ton of stuff better than Wine :)
I don't disagree with you, but at the same time:
- They threw Alex Ionescu out: the guy that actually wrote the majority of they only kernel that actually worked;
- Martin Fuchs fired: the guy that made the explorer and a ton of GUI components. His code was later on bastardized by everyone else causing the issues you were told about;
- ... and many others.
They had competent people making the thing happen, then they decided to push them away and eventually replace their code with Wine backports and whatnot.
There are still a few pieces of software that require Windows and it would nice to have the kernel portion combined with Wine.
To be fair, if Microsoft was able to create WSLv1 without a kernel and it run just fine, why would Wine not be able to do the same? :) No drivers yes, but the software (including GUI stuff) run just fine and that's not the case with Wine + the mainstream Windows' software.
ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program.
GitHub - chrxh/alien: ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program.
ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program. - chrxh/alienGitHub
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GitHub - vosen/ZLUDA: CUDA on AMD GPUs
CUDA on AMD GPUs. Contribute to vosen/ZLUDA development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Is there any way to brute delete stock firmware on a redmi 10c with debian? do you know of any compatible foss OS I could install on this device?
on my last post I wrote device is a redmi 9c. Turns out it's a redmi 10c and the custom ROM I wanted to install xdaforums.com/t/rom-13-unoffic… won't work.
Anyhow, to unlock the device the official way I have to identify to their services through a phone line, not internet, and purchase a sim card, which I'm not going to do to experiment with this device.
I have no use for the stock software in the device and I'd rather have anything foss that works or kinda works.
If you ever experimented with this particular model or know what could work, feel free to post an answer.
debian 12.5
[ROM][13][UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 20.0 Unified for Redmi 9A/9C/10A/... [blossom]
LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 13, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device. LineageOS is...snnbyyds114514 (XDA Forums)
Your phone has a snapdragon which is very popular chip to make ROM for but generally hard to unlock unofficially -not impossible though it's possible there is a workaround by now for your specific chip - on the flip side mediatek devices are less popular due to them refusing to provide the source code but to their partners. however they are well-known to be easy to unofficially unlock due to some vulnerability -in the bootloader- that they refuse to patch.
I did a leap of faith and I unlocked my phone unofficially (mediatek) but if you decide to flip that coin think hard about it and make sure you are well informed (like using your specific phone code name instead of brand name ex: instead of redmi 9 say "lancelot")
New OSS Android Card Wallet app
„OSS Card Wallet“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
All your cards secured and without ad!IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2
This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2
Plasma 6.1 is due to be released in three days, and lots of attention went into final release readiness activities: QA, bug-fixing, performance profiling, auto-testing, stuff like that. Boring but …Adventures in Linux and KDE
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I Tried Gaming on Linux...
I Tried Gaming on Linux...
This episode in my month-long Linux challenge, I try gaming on Linux. How'd it go? Watch and find out!!!YouTube
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Cool video, but sometimes... people should wait a bit before giving advice.
Really cool experience report, but advising stuff like hunting for .deb's on the Internet is just not good.
dstort - utility to "organize" randomly a directory
So this utility given a directory or path, will move randomly files in subdirectories and will move subdirectories randomly too. CAREFUL, if given system directory it will probably trash the system, equivalent of doing rm -rf /
, except all the files are still there! :)
I don't know why I came up with this idea nor if its original but its mine.
You might ask, whats the use case, well that's an interesting question, you know why? Because... 🏃
(Of course, I'm open to feedback.)
GitHub - 0x00cl/dstort: dstort - "organize" randomly a directory
dstort - "organize" randomly a directory. Contribute to 0x00cl/dstort development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
can you link a guide to flash custom firmware (lineageos) on debian on a redmi 9c or help me flash it?
most guides I found online are for windows based computers and those that even name linux are outdated.
- Linux distro I run: debian 12.5, adb and fastboot installed through apt
- Phone I want to experiment with: redmi 9c
- Firmware I'm installing: xdaforums.com/t/rom-13-unoffic…
fastboot devices
recognizes the device and I can also boot the phone to fastboot: it shows a black (not blank) screen with the word FASTBOOT printed orange.
I tried following android.gadgethacks.com/how-to… but fastboot flashing unlock
and fastboot oem unlock
return FAILED (remote: 'Token Verify Failed, Reboot the device ')
developer options and OEM unlocking are both activated on the device
[ROM][13][UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 20.0 Unified for Redmi 9A/9C/10A/... [blossom]
LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 13, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device. LineageOS is...snnbyyds114514 (XDA Forums)
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in reply to Bunny • • •Had the same kind of error a few weeks ago were reinstalling did the trick for me
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in reply to Bunny • • •qt5-qtquickcontrols2
installed with dnf and it works. Hope it works for you too. But for me, I'm still having Qtgraphicaleffects issues, to the point I ended up rewriting my sddm theme without Qtgraphicaleffects. It's crazy, I know, but it's hard enough to find a decent theme without KDE dependencies as it is (I'm not using KDE Plasma). Finding one without qtgraphicaleffects as well would be even harder.
StoneGender
in reply to Bunny • • •sudo dnf upgrade QtQuick.Controls
Then Reboot
If that doesn't work
sudo dnf reinstall QtQuick.Controls
Reboot again
Still no worky
Try moving the theme file out of the share folder and reassigning the directory to the new location
Then reboot
Post any error messages received in terminal
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in reply to Bunny • • •At a quick glance, the Sweet Ambar Blue SDDM theme has two versions -- one for Plasma 5 and another one for Plasma 6. You probably want the one for Plasma 6. You can check which version of Plasma you're running in System Settings -> About this System -> KDE Plasma Version.
Be extremely careful when installing Plasma/SDDM themes. They are user-submitted, not always reviewed, and can contain arbitrary code. There have been involving ~~malicious~~ damaging code downloaded through Plasma global themes.
Sweet Ambar Blue SDDM
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in reply to Bunny • • •City Grow
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in reply to rtxn • • •No malicious code was involved, just buggy code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pQnfQDROes
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in reply to Bunny • • •Just a suggestion...if you've enabled disk encryption during installation, consider enabling autologin for SDDM so you're not having to enter two credentials at boot. You'll rarely ever see your greeter again, so it won't really matter which theme is used.
And if you did not enable disk encryption, consider doing so as the security and privacy benefits are significant for most users.
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in reply to Bunny • • •You are on Plasma 6 and seemingly all SDDM themes are currently broken.
Use the default theme and try to find ones that work.
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