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  • Help with Mint Xfce black screen on boot

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  • It's really more nvidia's fault than Mint's—the nvidia proprietary drivers periodically drop support for a generation or three of cards, and nouveau doesn't work properly with some cards because nvidia has a history of not giving out needed information.

  • How do you explain to your co-workers that you use Libre Office Writer and other Linux apps?

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  • Why would it be awkward? Most non-technical people are so thrown by my white-text-on-black desktop theme that they can't even tell what software I'm using, and the few technical people around know that I have Opinions about software and aren't interested in talking about it. Keeping everything adequately compatible with the company-issued software is my problem.

  • Help with Mint Xfce black screen on boot

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  • How would I blacklist the nouveau driver?

    Create a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ containing the text blacklist nouveau (worked for me on Gentoo and for a friend on Ubuntu) or add a kernel parameter module_blacklist=nouveau to your bootloader. However, if you don't have the correct proprietary driver, that won't help.

  • One distro for the next five years?

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  • After 20 years of Gentoo, I don't see myself switching in the next five. Comfortable, capable, flexible.

  • Who uses MATE in here?

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  • I switched from KDE 3.5 (whenever that was current).

    Terrifyingly, I think someone is still maintaining KDE 3.5 proper for OpenSUSE. Then there's TDE, which is widely available. (But you probably mean 15-20 years ago.)

  • Help with mouse not clicking

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  • Not the same distro, but on my system, the relevant file is located at /etc/default/grub. Find the line that says GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, uncomment it if necessary, and add your kernel parameter to it (mine has GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_enforce_resources=lax", for historical reasons). Then run grub-mkconfig with appropriate arguments to regenerate your grub configuration.

  • Ubuntu 26.04 splits firmware package to reduce update sizes

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  • Per the contents of my /usr/portage/distfiles, the original undivided package is ~500MB, making it the largest single package I've got on my system. Splitting it seems like a very good idea . . . but Gentoo generally prefers not to alter upstream tarballs, so I'm likely stuck.

  • Can you install linux on a Aspire es 15 es1-533-c27u

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  • If you're getting a grub command line, then it's finding the grub efi payload itself now, but can't locate the kernel (or possibly the initram or something that's supposed to be in it). Check your grub.cfg and try to confirm that it's looking for the correct partition on the correct drive.

  • Can you install linux on a Aspire es 15 es1-533-c27u

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  • One possibility is that it has a degenerate UEFI implementation that will only recognize the efi "payload" if it's in the fallback location—I had this problem with an older HP laptop. You can force grub-install to place the needed file in this location by passing the --removable switch (you may also need to pass --efi-directory=[dir]), or you can manually copy the file to EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi on your EFI partition if it was already installed elsewhere.

  • Daemon that kills processes using too much CPU

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  • If you dare, you can try temporarily killing the system's swap (using the swapoff command) and see what happens. With no swap, the standard OOM reaper should trigger within a couple of minutes at most if it's needed, and it should write an entry to the system log indicating which process it killed.

    Note that the process killed is not necessarily the one causing the problem. I haven't had the OOM trigger on me in many years (I normally run without swap), but the last time it did, it killed my main browser instance (which was holding a large but not increasing amount of memory at the time) rather than the gcc instance that was causing the memory pressure.

  • I'm so confused with this random audio issue

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  • Hmmm. Random guess: does your machine have another audio output, possibly via HDMI, that you're not using? This could be ALSA selecting the wrong device as a default, which would then propagate up through the stack.

  • Can KDE Tile Windows Like PopOS?

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  • Used to be that KDE would let you run other window managers than the default kwin. If that capability still exists, you might just be able to borrow Cosmic's WM and implant it in your KDE session.

  • Can i install Debian with no DE and mix programs from several DEs?

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  • 98% of everything should Just Work, although some software may drag in heavyweight dependencies. I've used TDE's versions of konqueror and konsole from inside fluxbox and other lightweight setups, called up thunar from within TDE, etc. At most, you might have some theming issues. The only thing that would be 100% incompatible would be trying to run a wayland-only program from inside an X environment.

    Most display managers should be able to handle different window management sessions without issue. If you're looking at an X environment and really want to start from the WM level, I'd recommend sticking with something like fluxbox, fvwm-crystal, or even enlightenment (which is somewhere between a WM and a very lightweight DE). Avoid anything described as "minimalist", unless you like the idea of running around adding other software like dmenu and feh to get basic functionality (and like reading documentation).

  • What's the deal with these slop-y Linux tutorial "blogs"?

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  • I vote for "slopesque", even if it has more letters. It doesn't hurt that the most common English word that uses the -esque ending is "grotesque", which this whole phenomenon is.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

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  • The TDE version of kcharselect should do much the same stuff with fewer deps, if a suitable package exists for your distro.

  • Drag and Drop is an absolute mess

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  • My advice to my mom would be not to use flatpaks, because I know she wouldn't be able to deal with the issues on her own.

  • Replace Windows, Excel needed

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  • Had to look into this recently for similar reasons. My conclusion was that once you have macros involved, you can't use anything but an actual copy of Excel. I'll be spinning up a qemu VM with Windows to support Excel and the full version of Visual Studio when I get that far.

  • Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations?

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  • Not quite. Those are trackers: lists of bugs. If you open one, you'll see a list of individual package bugs that are blocking these ones—up to a couple of dozen unresolved in some cases. Still, it isn't that long a list, and a lot of the packages are minor or obscure.

  • Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations?

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  • Gentoo also offers it as an option. If you're very bored and curious about what doesn't work under specific versions of musl, you can peruse the Gentoo compatibility tracker bugs..