Linux

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/27965122

Hello everyone, I just got bazzite installed on a laptop that has two nvme drives, I was originally using the second drive on arch and now that I moved over to bazzite I want to mount it and continue to use it.

what I did was edit the fstab like usual to mount the nvme in /mnt/nvme

but I also noticed that it is showing in /var/mnt/nvme so now Im not sure if I should remove my fstab edit? would bazzite have automounted my drive for me?

hey there! i was curious if anyone has thoughts, comments, concerns, etc. regarding KaiOS. i’m interested in what can be achieved, if anything. it’s recently piqued my interest after a conversation w a friend about dumb phones.

“KaiOS is a mobile Linux distribution for keypad feature phones based on the Firefox OS open-source project.”

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/41380613

What's new in this release:

• User handles in shared memory for better performance.
• Improvements to TIFF image support.
• More work on the new PDB backend.
• Various bug fixes.

I want to make a script or scripts to auto backup but have no experience making any scripts and would appreciate any help or input. Some outlines

script -Make a backup of my Main folder in another folder in my home directory named Backups every 6 hours and keep only 12 backups at a time(3 days). Each backup is timestamped with data and time along with name Main

-Make a backup of my Main folder to my internal hard drive every 6 hours and keep only 12 backups at a time((3 days). Each backup is timestamped with data and time along with name Main

-Take the latest backup folder and create an encrypted tar file from it.Use rclone to upload the tar file to my google drive every 3 days.Each backup is timestamped with data and time along with name Main

Optional -Configure some kind of notification system to inform me to make an offline backup to my external hard drive/USB thumb drive once a week(it would be nice if can i sync the notifications between my PC and Android phone but not sure if that's possible)

-Is there a way to do incremental backups for the first two backups

Software i know of -rclone(i use it manually upload my encrypted backups to my google drive)

-BorgBackup(the one in Linux mint repo is outdated thought 1.2.8v instead of 1.4v)

-rsync

-FreeFileSync

-duplicity(also outdated 2.1.4v instead of 3.0.4)

I have a virtual source and a virtual sink which I'm using to forward audio to/from chat apps (Matrix, Discord, Zoom, etc.) so I can control the mic/output volume independently of everything else on my system. I have them setup and working fine using pipewire.conf.d files. The problem is that using wpctl to change volume requires having an ID, but those aren't static. Normally the solution would be to use @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SOURCE@ (or sink), but that wouldn't work in this case. Is there a way to adjust volume/toggle mute without having the ID? Or alternatively, is there a way to get the ID for a specific node name that I can put in a bash script?

If I'm asking this in the wrong place, is there a better place to go?

So I was in the market for a new computer. Previously I used a 2015 MacBook Pro and liked the Mac experience, I could run pretty much whatever software I wanted but I still had a terminal. However looking at the latest Mac's, everything is soldered, no way to upgrade anything. This was not something I wanted to support so I started looking at my options....

I don't love Windows but if I go from non-mac hardware, my options become Linux or Windows. I have a windows 11 desktop that I use mostly for gaming but for my daily driver, I didn't want a Windows machine. That left Linux.... what could I run?

I realize this isn't for everyone but I started looking at my options. The first piece of software I use that I was looking to replace was Capture One (Photography software). I started looking around and found darktable which so far seems to have all I need. It was a little adjustment from Capture One but not a lot. It runs on Windows/Mac/Linux so you can certainly try it out before you make the switch.

Then I use Alfred App as my quick launcher on my Mac. On Linux, I found Albert which seems to have what I'm looking for. I like that I can write plugins in Python but it's still pretty fast because it's mostly written in c++. It's not perfect but it'll do for now.

For 3d printing, most of the slicing software runs natively on Linux/Mac/Windows so that was an easy decision. The biggest downside was that I use Fusion 360 which does not have a Linux port. Jumping forward, I did try running it in Wine and it mostly works but not really 100% so right now I dual boot solely for this piece of software.

I already switched to Inkscape for vector graphics so that was easy since there is already a Linux version. I don't do a lot of word processing, spreadsheets and/or presentations but when I do, google docs has been good enough and there's LibreOffice if I really want to go local. Most other misc software I use is generally Open Source and runs on Linux as an option.

Since I already decided I would dual boot, I pulled the plug on a Framework 16. I really liked the modularity, the fact that it worked under Linux and really, everything about the company.

Installation was fairly straight forward once I sorted the Windows/Linux dual boot situation. You need to do it in the correct order or Windows complains. (I used 2x1TB NVMe drives) I went with OpenSuse tumbleweed mostly because debian is on the older side (great for servers, not great for desktops), ubuntu is dead to me after apt install firefox installs a snap and not a deb, fuck snaps. OpenSuse seemed like a good balance of latest but with mostly stability. I didn't want to go Arch or Gentoo because I just don't have time for that now.

So once everything is setup, I install Albert, Firefox, DarkTable, Inkscape, 3d Slicers, and Steam. In steam, I installed the handful of Linux native games but was a little disappointed in the number. Then I was talking with my son about Proton and decided to look into it a bit more. HOLY SHIT, IT'S JUST A FLAG IN STEAM!!!! Basically it's Settings->Properties->Compatability.... then toggle "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool." Then I was just able to install Windows games under Linux. They run just like any other Steam game. There's a website that lists compatibility: https://www.protondb.com/ but so far everything I've tried to run works fine. So if you run Linux and Game at all, check this out.

So basically, now I've been using Linux as my daily driver (except for work) and the only thing I've had to boot into Windows for is Fusion 360.... Maybe I should really take a look at FreeCAD but for now, Fusion is too easy for me to reach for.

tl;dr: I think 2025 is the year of the Linux Desktop (well, Laptop, main driver) for me.