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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Open source FTW (self.linux)

submitted 3 days ago by hapablap to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been a Linux user for almost 30 years but never had to tinker with any software to solve a problem. Cue a Fedora upgrade to somewhere around 38. I've been using the multiseat feature for years. It's alway seemed very fragile. With this upgrade it was seriously broken. I managed to find a patch someone made that for some reason wasn't accepted into the gnome-shell package. I was able to grab the patch, rebuild the RPM package and install the update to my system and restore multiseat. It was actually pretty effortless. The hardest part by far was finding the fix. Now updating to Fedora 41 I had to do the same process again. Apparently the problem still exists. This time I had to create a new patch as the original one wouldn't apply anymore but that wasn't very hard. It was very satisfying to be able to fix that problem and it was only possible due to the OSS community.

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's great but do you know why the patch was rejected in the first place? If the patch isn't up to standard I think you should at least raise it however Fedora does their package development so they can address the issue properly

[–] hapablap 1 points 2 days ago

I didn't author the patch. It just fixed my problem. I agree that I should comment on the patch (if I can again find where I saw it) and help get it pushed to the main branch. At least for my own selfish reasons so that I can just use the normal version of gnome-shell.