I know there isn't an objectively correct answer to this question, and I'm not asking for the "party line" - I just want to hear everyone's opinions (and the inevitable arguments had in good fun, of course).

I have a TV which says it supports 4K 144Hz and right now I run an old laptop as a media server/desktop to it, which can only handle 1080p. I wish to switch to some NUC/mini-pc that run a linux desktop in 4K and run media flawlessly on it.

There are two things that I get confused about trying to find something that suits my wishes:

1. How do I properly find out if the hardware can handle this? Like a rpi5 can handle 4K video playback with like librelec, but a 4K desktop distribution is laggy and slow. Is a CPU only enough, or do I need dedicated GPU? Should I be looking at the Ultra Core series from intel, does it have good linux support?
2. Are my wishes on hdmi 2.1 level troughput? Which may not work on linux? Reading about hdmi 2.1, then it says that the hdmi forum forbids open source support for hdmi 2.1, does that mean there are binary blobs for linux that will work?

Is there anything else I'm missing? If you run a linux media server, what hardware and dist are you running?

Can you recommend some suckless, minimal editor? I'm programming and also I need to edit HTML/CSS files sometimes. When I mean suckless minimal editors and I don't mean whole operating system like Emacs or big security hole like vim and it's clones/forks.

I distro hopped for a bit before finally settling in Debian (because Debian was always mentioned as a distro good for servers, or stable machines that are ok with outdated software)

And while I get that Debian does have software that isn't as up to date, I've never felt that the software was that outdated. Before landing on Debian, I always ran into small hiccups that caused me issues as a new Linux user - but when I finally switched over to Debian, everything just worked! Especially now with Debian 13.

So my question is: why does Debian always get dismissed as inferior for everyday drivers, and instead mint, Ubuntu, or even Zorin get recommended? Is there something I am missing, or does it really just come down to people not wanting software that isn't "cutting edge" release?

All the ones that keep getting recommended have a UI like a cockpit of a Boeing 747 (kdenlive, shotcut, openshot, DaVinci resolve) which is so overwhelming, all I want is just make some cuts, blur a face, or something on the screen, and maybe add some subtitles.

I just want something simple, I am not gonna make the next Avatar movie.

I have a feeling there is nothing like this on linux but hey maybe one of you actually knows of one.

I have three Ethernet interfaces, namely eth[0...2]. eth0 is connected to my VPN router and eth1 and eth2 are connected to my public facing router. eth0 is the standard interface that I normally let my Linux instance use. I now want to set up a container that hijacks (makes unavailable to the host) eth1 or eth2 in order to run various services that need to be reachable from WAN through a Wireguard tunnel.

I am aware that the man pages for systemd-nspawn say that it is primarily meant to be a test environment and not a secure container. Does anybody have experience with and/or opinions on this? Should I just learn how to use Docker?

For now, I am only asking about any potential security implications, since I don't understand how container security works "under the hood". The network portion of the setup would be something like:

Enabling forwarding kernel parameters on the host

Booting the container with systemd-nspawn -b -D [wherever/I/put/the/container] --network-interface=[eth1 or 2]

Then, managing the container's network with networkd config files, including enabling IPForward and IPMasquerade

Then, configuring wireguard according their official guides or, for instance, the Arch wiki.

Any and all input would be appreciated! 😊

[Update: I went with CachyOS instead, it looks like a great option for gaming with general usage and has a really good wiki]

A coworker of mine asked me to help him install Linux, he hasn't tried Linux before but he's sick of Windows.

He is very much into gaming, so gaming support is the first priority. He is also a developer/tester so I suppose that he will also want to have access to dev tools, languages, and other packages like that for personal projects.

My first go-to when recommending to newbies is Mint because it's simple, tried and tested, but I have been hearing a lot about Bazzite lately and see that it offers a very nice gaming experience. However it scares me that there's no typical package management like apt or pacman as I browse their docs, instead it relies heavily on Flatpaks and brew, or even podman images. Will this be a problem as he uses the OS for general usage besides gaming in the long term, would it be better to just go with Mint and set that up for gaming instead?

Feel free to also recommend other distros, but keep in mind that while he is technical, he is still completely new to this so I want things to work out perfectly for his first experience.

I got rid of my window from my secondary partition(gaming addiction) and now I have a 128 GB m.d. i have been running Linux mint for most of my Linux experience but want to try out something out side the traditional windows setup

I have tried those setups

• Linux mint xfce
• Linux mint cinnamon
• fedora workstation(gnome)
• fedora silverblue(gnome immutable)
• fedora kde
• majaro cinnamon

I would hope for sometimes were the learning curve isn't too extreme for me(i3 was too much)

After 4 years of using Fedora KDE as my main OS with 0 issues or drawbacks, my workplace is now requiring all computers to be on Windows 11. Any suggestions to make the transition back more bearable?

My dissapointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined :(

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/45148310

Supac - a declarative package manager written in Rust, scriptable in nushell

Supac is a declarative package manager written in Rust fully scriptable in nushell. It's meant to make it easy to use the native package managers in existing distros without going through the associated headaches of using Nix, while maintaining the ergonomics of structured data in nushell.

Currently supported backends are:

• Archlinux and derivatives
• flatpak
• cargo/cargo-binstall
• uvx (packages only for now)
• rustup toolchains

I daily drive it, and it works well. Feel free to give it a try!

Two years or so tried fedora Silverblue and one the main issue i run into was storage. I had 180 GB SSD at the time and it filled to 90-something in a week. Now i have a 240 GB SSD and thing of try an immutable distro but worried about the storage space.

Anyone got insight into how big an SSD do i need?

I've been using Linux for a over a decade, but haven't used anything Gnomey in a while. I gave PopOS another try the other day because I needed a simple distro to put on a home PC for my partner to use. This is the most usable Gnome distro I have ever found!

I won't be switching myself anytime soon, but I really like the way the tiles on Cosmic expand to always keep the screen full. I know KDE can tile using shortcuts, but have ant of you come across something on KDE that autoresizes the tiles like Pop does?

Speakers -> Worked via Line OUT for months

Take PC apart and change PSU, assemble PC back.

Speakers - Line OUT detected but can't test Left/Right audio channels, options missing. No AUDIO from speakers unless I select them as default in Pavucontrol or manually assign outputs via Helvum.

Fedora 43 GNOME

How do I get my GNOME audio settings to work again?

This is so random and funny at the same time... yet frustrating because it makes no god damn sense :D

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34942012

I find everyone using different services, so unsure how to best manage (and balance) concurrent access in Ubuntu/Debian to:

• Local network services
• Tailscale services from userA
• Tailscale services from userB
• Wireguard (OpenVPN also option) from userC
• Twingate from userD

Each user is wanting to share different services via VPN, and pressuring any to change their production setups to a different style of VPN is not going to happen.

• Management via software
• Possibly up a routing device along the lines of OpenWrt or OpnSense.
  • Could even distribute such devices between these friends.

Thanks for all thoughts!

After 2y on Linux I can say with full confidence that switching from GNOME to KDE (for me) is a bigger barrier than switching from Windows to Linux ever was.

I’ve tried a lot to like KDE but I just can’t. I usually see people discussing distros but I feel like picking the right DE makes much bigger impact. I’m yet to try Hyprland though.

Considering the fact that I’m itching to get Steam Frame and VR on GNOME will likely be broken indefinitely, idk what to do.

La Suite Meet: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

It sucks to hear that a project like LFS is forced to drop System V support. I never was a fan of systemd, so this is a bit dissapointing, albeit understandable.

Hello I'm a Linux newbie and I need some help. I'm running fedora on my laptop and I want to connect my Logitech mouse. I got solaar installed but I need to manually install the udev rule. I'm following the Instructions here

So I understand that I need to copy rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules from the solaar GitHub and place it in /etc/udev/rules.d the thing I don't know how to do is get there. I'm not super familiar with the terminal

Edit : adding this for any future people having the same issue. I booted up my wife's old windows 10 PC, downloaded Logitech unifying software and re-paired the mouse and dongle. Put the dongle back into my Linux PC and the mouse is working. Weirdly though solaar still shows nothing but an empty window. But whatever at least the mouse is working.

Edit 2 : just figured out if I open terminal and type sudo solaar it opens solaar and my devices show up. If I just open it from the start menu or don't use sudo in the terminal solaar opens an empty window.

I'm kinda addicted to the standard 2" hexagon stickers. I decided to make my own since they didn't all come in hex. Whoever loses between Obsidian and Trilium (open to other suggestions) gets replaced with ceph.

Right now I'm trying to use my terminal for everything so I was thinking to maybe give a shot for one of the terminal http browsers. There's so many of them and I don't know what are the differences between them. I would like to have gemini and gopher support at the same time as I'm using them also so. If you know which one have features like that please share with this information also.

Please give answers related to question or share your experience with browsing internet in terminal. I don't want to see comments saying that there's no point in it because modern web is as it is. Let me have fun 😄