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  • [Solved - VSYNC/screen tearing] Stuttering on Nobara with 3080 Ti

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  • Also, related note, how easy is it to migrate from one distro to another? I am thinking about trying something else - maybe base Fedora or Arch - to hopefully have better performance.

    You can backup your data and restore but will have to reinstall all your apps.

    Also have you tried asking in the nobara discord? GE and other devs are in there so you likely to get help there.

  • Can you convert an android apk to a linux package?

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    Librewolf

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  • so did you like it?

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    Understanding AppArmor User Namespace Restriction

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  • They should at least make a docs tag or similar and tag all these documentation like posts with it.

  • Which Distribution and Desktop Environment should I use?

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  • Another thing is that my laptop might be using Legacy BIOS, so systemd isn't compatible with it.

    Oh sorry, then Fedora isnt a good idea. They have deprecated support for Legacy BIOS.

    Anything with LXQT 2.1 available should give the same experience however right now it seems only rolling distros ship with 2.1. Lubuntu 25.04 will ship (in ~April) with LXQT 2.1 but it wont default to wayland so you might have to do some manual config. Its also not an lts release.

    storage requirements

    shouldn't be a big problem. lxqt is super lightweight. If you go with lubuntu, I recommend turning off snap to save some space.

    Linux Mint MATE or XFCE are really good if you dont necessarily want wayland support.

    Another option is the Raspberry Pi OS. Debian based, should be very lightweight and runs wayland. I haven't personally tried it though.

  • Which Distribution and Desktop Environment should I use?

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  • Try Fedora LXQT too, it ll default to wayland in the next fedora release (~4th april i think). Its very lightweight.

  • I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.

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  • I think piefeds combined view makes this less of an issue. Like people subscribe to/post in the big communities because they are more active so get more comments and stuff. But in piefed you get the combined discussion from all the communities so you get the same experience even if you are subscribed to a less popular community on that topic.

  • I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.

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  • I dont think its the software* but the instance that matters. Everyone being on lw is not good (not that there is anything wrong with lw, just that centralization is bad). Thankfully most lemmy apps nowadays default to lemm.ee which should hopefully counter most of the centralization. Lemmy apps should rotate the default server when it gets too big which will help a lot (also shows the impact defaults have).

    *Software would have mattered if the main devs instance was also the biggest. Or a very popular lemmy client defaulted to their own instance. With lemmy thats not the case.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • Subreddits were not a problem before since they were accessible on the web without needing an account. But now reddit is gradually locking them down behind authwalls and things like not letting search engines index (other than Google).

    Lemmy communities dont have this problem and because lemmy is federated, its resistant to such enshittification (plus you can easily create your own lemmy instance for only your team). So imo they are a good alternative to forums (and reddit) and a good solution to this problem.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • Discourse already exists (and most big companies use that).

    Also you can see many other things on Reddit or Discord too (or the internet). Im not sure how that is a point against federation. If companies really want to control everything they can create their own instance (like KDE's lemmy instance).

    They can defederate everyone from their instance to get an "unfederated" instance but again it changes nothing imo.

    In fact defederation is a negative since now you have to worry about new signups, moderation, etc. While in a federated instance, you can leave moderation to other instances and only allow team/company members on your instance. Users can sign up on other instances and still be able to interact with your instance for support, help and other stuff.

  • Now Even Gmail Will Push AI-Powered Search on You

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  • Enabling this feature will probably require you to agree to Google AI training on your emails.

  • Discord is getting mobile ads

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  • Element is an app for "Matrix" (thats like lemmy but for discord) that is developed by a for-profit company (the company mostly manages deployments for big governments). But not only is it open source, its just one client of many for matrix. The vast majority are developed by individuals (Cinny, FluffyChat).

    Plus, it's not even remotely similar to Discord.

    There are probably discord features missing from matrix but they certainly have a lot of similarities. Though tbf Cinny is the closest to discord in terms of design and functionality not element (but they both are matrix clients).

  • Dumb question but do "likes" on #Mastodon automatically create up-votes on a #Lemmy post? I want to get a good grasp on the #Fediverse.

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  • So this post has (at the time of writing this post):

    • 0 favorites on mastodon
    • 101 upvotes on lemmy (2 downvotes)
    • 9 replies on mastodon (7 lemmy instances, 2 mastodon)
    • 8 replies on lemmy (7 lemmy, 1 mastodon)

    From this I would say it looks like lemmy upvotes dont federate at all with mastodon. Replies seem to federate but for some reason 1 reply from mastodon is missing on lemmy.

  • Some things never change

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  • Its on the roadmap. AFAIK it requires vector layers before it can be worked on.

  • Has anyone else questioned their choice of computers for running Linux?

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  • Has anyone else questioned their choice of computers for running Linux?

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  • I dont think Photoshop and Roblox work on Linux at all (Roblox does through Sober right now but probably not for long). Buying another computer will not change that (and iirc mac os also supports dual boot).

    However if you buy/build a good enough pc, you can run windows in a vm and use roblox/ps without dual booting.

    If you dont strictly need a laptop, then yes I would recommend you build your own desktop pc. But if you do, AFAIK xps and thinkpad line of laptops have pretty good quality. The higher end surface laptops are also good (but very expensive). I cant really recommend much else without knowing what features you expect.

  • EU OS: A Fedora-based distro 'for the public sector'

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  • I mean Fedora is open source but if they really wanted a european base, they could have gone with opensuse. AFAIK opensuse is the only fully european linux distro plus they use many of the same tech that redhat/fedora does.

    Ultimately I think it doesn't matter too much since even the linux foundation is based in the US and large parts of what makes the linux desktop are maintained by non-EU companies (on top of all the major projects hosted by Github, Gitlab including most of Flathub). If its all open source, I think the risks are pretty low e.g. huawei was able to use Android despite all the restrictions.

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  • You can also get the appimage on https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

    After downloading, set the execute bit: chmod +x ./GIMP-3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage and then open the file to open gimp.

  • Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub (included are also arrogant messages from the Readium consortium that created the DRM)

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  • Yeah now I agree with you. I didnt understand the full impact the first time around.

    (thanks for taking your time to actually explain it to all)