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What makes Linux appealing to me is the extent of customizability, but I didn't find many answers when looking up with desktop environment is them most customizable. Some say KDE is most customizable than say, Gnome, but doesn't Gnome support CSS customization while KDE doesn't?

Joel Bethke @Fenrirthviti · 1 day ago Author

As an update to everyone following, I had a meeting today with the Flatpak SIG and Fedora Project Leader, which was a very good conversation. We discussed the issues, how we got here, and what next steps are. For anyone not interested in the specific details, the OBS Project is no longer requesting a removal of IP or rebrand of the OBS Studio application provided by Fedora Flatpaks.

This issue should be used for tracking of the other specific, technical issues, that the Fedora Flatpak does still have, which I will address below.

From our perspective, there were two key points that we feel are the most important to address:

The issue with the Qt runtime having regression
The issue of not knowing where to report bugs for what is a downstream package

For the first bullet, this should be resolved with the update to the latest runtime, which includes Qt 6.8.2 that has the fixes for those regressions in it.

For the second, this is obviously a much larger issue to tackle, especially for a project as large as Fedora. We had some very good discussion on how this might be accomplished in the medium-long term, but don't consider it a blocker at this point. We plan to stay engaged and offer our perspective as an upstream project.

In addition to those two previously blocking issues, we discussed a handful of other problems with the Fedora Flatpak. I'll keep the details high level in the interest of brevity on this update:

OBS Studio running on Mesa LLLVM pipe instead of with hardware acceleration (i.e. the GPU)
X11 Fallback leading to OBS crashing
VLC Plugin not behaving as expected in the sandbox, needs testing
Shipping of third-party plugins in the Fedora Flatpak

The discussion was positive and they are actively working to resolve those issues as well, which should hopefully only affect a small number of users.

I would like to give a final thank you to Yaakov and the FPL for taking the time to talk to us today.

Greetings,

I wanted to know if the first partition has to be FAT32 and should be mounted at /efi . Gentoo and Arch tell us to always have first partition of type FAT32 however they mount it in different location. I am confused can anyone elaborate please?

So I noticed something a while ago, and I'm just now getting around to fixing it.

I notice that if I click the middle mouse button on windows, a scroll icon comes up. If you then drag your mouse down slightly, the page scrolls slowly. If you drag your mouse down a LOT, the page scrolls a lot. Then you can left click anywhere to turn off the scroll mode.

Except in ZorinOS, I don't get that. I click the middle scroll button, and......nothin. What do I have to do to get scroll mode?

Hector Martin (Marcan42) was the lead developer of Asahi Linux, until he recently resigned. He had a Mastodon page where he would talk about AL development and hardware stuff, as well as frustrations dealing with kernel maintainers to upstream things like Rust stuff (long before the beef that went down this month).

Marcan has made it clear he needs a break, but I really wish he at least kept his Mastodon page up, perhaps in read-only. I'll admit, I liked his posts so much I looked at it daily. I had a bookmark keyword in Firefox: I'd type tr in the URL bar to go to https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan.

The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-Poor-Fedora-Flatpak

Flathub in Discover app on Fedora KDE:

Kinda arrogant to host their own OBS Flatpak that doesn't work as it should and redirecting users to it when using the GUI.

And as they are a version behind in their own "Fedora Flatpaks" it now loops too:

I've got a Pop_OS system76 machine that runs well straight out of the box. I love it and it's my daily driver. However I'd like to learn more about how it works, Linux internals and how to use it to the best of its capabilities. I want to learn about things like system-d Wayland, error logging (there seems to be a few of them) directory structure and drivers. For instance, how do I know that my and GPU is being leveraged to the fullest?

I DONT want to build a system from the ground up, which I expect to be a common suggestion.

I'd prefer to read literature, blogs, and articles relevant to me, my system and not dated.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

Hi, I'm considering how to put together a contribute to open source contest, which will gets listeners of my podcast, but also whoever is interested, to submit to their favorite open source projects as a contributor. Thinking of offering prizes (possible multiple) based on pull requests, bug filing, documentation writing.

Want this to be a fun, and successful, contest over two or three months. I know some Nextcloud employees told me they once tried a contest and felt too many submissions were questionable at best in terms of effort.

What do you think, Lemmy peeps?

I've been a Patreon donor since the beginning of the project. Just received this email. If you don't know the context, this was about Hector Martin and a Linux kernel maintainer (who was honestly a dick) clashing about using Rust in the kernel. People don't like the way Hector reacted. I just want Linux development on Arm to go well. This makes me sad.

Hi everyone. I unfortunately have some sad news to share. As of today, I am resigning as the Asahi Linux project lead. You can read about my reasons on my blog. The project will continue with new leadership.

I want to extend my utmost thanks to everyone who supported me until today. I would not have been able to make this project a reality without you. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

I will be pausing payments on my Patreon. Please transfer your support over to the Asahi Linux OpenCollective, which will take over funding for the Asahi Linux project as a whole.

I mean fair enough, but it made me laugh.

Obviously we all want to avoid enshittified (aggressively monetized) software or at least get our money's worth. I'm looking at self-hosting software right now and one I'm looking has a pricing page but only for cloud (no other paywalled features) and is open source. I tried looking up future plans and didn't find much, so it doesn't seem like it will enshittify. (not related) I had thought about switching to Omnivore for a long time but then they merged with ElevenLabs and the rest is history.

I built her a desktop in 2019, has always had Linux on it.

She has had a chromebook for a couple of years, but this weekend she finally got annoyed enough to ask me to fix it, so that she could have all her applications work correctly.

It is an Asus CX5400; I had to unplug the battery to over write the firmware to allow me to install any OS I wanted. Then had to fix grub manually.

It took around 4 hours, a lot of that was opening the case without breaking anything.

I followed the guide on this site

Hello,

I try out new distro every week since I have a lot of free time and want to learn more about Linux. I was thinking that it would be interesting to make a Lemmy post every week talking about my experience with the distro and what I did with it. right now I have alpine linux installed and thinking about using it till next sunday.

feel free to suggest next distro that I should try out. (I have tried out a lot of distros but never wrote anything about the experience but now on I will be making post about it here on Lemmy :) )

Hi guys! I've tried quite a few months back Fooocus for AI image generation, and while it kinda worked well, it tended to have trouble figuring more than one person on the drawing (ie, man and woman dancing my end up with any combination of men/men, woman/woman, or just a random group dance etc). Moreover, I just found out that this project is just in maintenance mode.

So...What's the cool software for AI generation/Stable diffusion etc? Preferably AMD compatible, as I have a 7800XT.

Thanks!

I use gedit for most of my text editing, but markdown support is very limited.

Things I've tried:

• vscode, too heavy and intrusive
• Google docs, only renders, doesn't show the plain text, need to manually export to see markdown
• Eclipse, haven't actually tried markdown, but I have no doubt that it's supported, but heavier than anything else
• atom, no longer developed last time I checked
• online editor, don't want to share my text and functionality is poor
• type markdown, save it and render with pandoc, lots of effort, but the results are good

Over to you.

Edit: Had some issues with my Lemmy client, moved to Voyager and hopefully I can fix things.

I was asked what functionality I require, which to be fair, I hadn't considered because I use my editor for pretty much everything.

Ideally I'd be able to use it to either see the raw markdown or the rendered version of whatever I'm writing, code in a dozen languages, articles, websites, legal documents, books, all of which I do pretty regularly.

The side-by-side view doesn't do it for me, I'd more likely than not have multiple windows open with different documents instead.

It should do autocomplete, syntax highlighting, bracket closing, live spell checking in a variety of languages, launch quickly, be rock solid when faced with a massive log file and allow me to add menu-items to run bash scripts that do things like calculate the time it would take me to read out the text at my normal podcast reading voice or covert weird characters into html-entities.

There have been many wonderful suggestions, most of them do the preview side-by-side which pretty much eliminates them as a candidate.

There are many suggestions to use a vscode floss version, but the biggest issue with vscode is its weight and I'm not sure if it changes by moving to the floss version. I note that my search for that tool brought me many AI features, which is why I did a hard pass and why I can't remember its name ATM. (Edit: Codium)

I've been using Debian since 1999 and still struggle with remembering the vi control codes, so emacs is unlikely to get in the door.

So, with that in mind, whadayagot?