I know that Linux is more secure than Windows and normally doesn't need an antivirus, but know myself I'm gonna end up downloading something at some point from somewhere on the internet, and it would be good to be prepared. So, which antivirus would you recommend for Linux (Mint specifically) just to double up on security?

This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.

tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :D

my relevant GIMP config files: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/tree/master/.config/GIMP/3.0

GIMP documentation: https://www.gimp.org/docs/

I've downloaded EtchDroid, but only a few minutes ago. I see straight away that I can't download different distros from within the app like I could in DriveDroid. I'm also not sure I can boot from my phone using EtchDroid, but I will look into that a bit more as it does often seem to be mentioned as a (good) alternative to DriveDroid.

Any others? Mainly that I can download distros inside app, boot from phone in live usb mode, and without root.

Barones Free Space Cleaner, uno strumento per Linux che sovrascrive in modo sicuro lo spazio libero dei dischi, proteggendo la privacy #Privacy #Software #Ubuntu #Linux

I'm talking about like your mom if she started using Linux, and just needs it to be able to open a web browser and check Facebook or her email or something. A student that just needs a laptop to do homework and take notes, or someone that just wants to play games on Steam and chat on discord.

I'm working on a Windows - > Linux guide targeting people like this and I want to make sure it can be understood by just about anybody. A problem that I've noticed is that most guides trying to do something like this seem to operate under the assumption that the viewer already knows what Linux is and has already made up their mind about switching, or that they're already pretty computer savvy. This guide won't be that, I'm writing a guide and keeping my parents in mind the whole time.

Because of this there's some things I probably won't talk about. Do these people really need to know that it's actually GNU+Linux? No, I don't think so. Should I explain how to install, use and configure hyprland, or compile a custom gaming kernel? I dont think that's really necessary. You get what I'm saying? I don't want to over complicate this and scare people off.

That being said I also want to make sure that I'm not over simplifying by skipping on key things they should know. So what are some key concepts or things that you think even the most basic of Linux users should understand? Bonus points if you can provide a solid entry level explanation of it too.

I use Manjaro Linux with the Cinnamon desktop and sometimes run into system-level issues, but I have no idea how to properly debug them. It doesn’t feel as straightforward as debugging a normal program. What’s the best way or resource to learn system debugging on Linux?

I have a brother laser Printer which I use via IPP from my network. It can hold a bunch of pages in RAM and Print them once the other (it can Print 3 in a row) are finished.

Now what does any propriatery printing service do?

They feed ONE PAGE AT A TIME, so my printer starts printing, then it starts cooling off, but then it has to HEAT UP AGAIN FOR FUCKS SAKE, and that every time.

Also if I just print via CUPS from my Linux machine, its like 5 times faster.

And I just don't understand how my 15€ thin client from over 20 years ago can do more and better than my 1200€ iPad.

Just a reminder why I keep using Linux.

https://distrochooser.de/en/d5ed36c131b0/

• You want something that just works out of the box.
• Your focus is everyday tasks with some programming.
• You prefer cutting-edge software, but the system itself can be stable.
• You want a graphical installer and easy GUI management.
• You like Cinnamon for a Windows-like UI.
• You’re okay with either pre-installed software or minimal install.
• You don’t mind if the distro itself has a smaller community as long as the parent distro is well-supported.

I recently switched my desktop to Linux mint. Overall it seems to work well for me. The one exception is that my password manager, Keepass, won't work. I currently use Gdrive to sync the database between devices. It works very well for this purpose. Is there another way I can sync this file as seemlessly as Gdrive? It would to work for an Android phone and Mint PC.

after a year or so hiatus I reinstalled i2p on my debian.

I don't think I'm going to use it much: I enjoyed using it to torrent files and to ask about censorship circumvention, things I now have alternatives to.

why is this network still relevant?

I often use pkgstats to check the popularity of Arch packages I use. Sometimes I notice a package is declining in popularity, and I’d like to find similar alternatives that are trending instead. Something like https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun

Are there any sites that categorize Linux software and show popularity within each category, so it’s easier to discover alternatives?

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.

Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.

Linux is new on my pc. I would like know, if you have detailed instructions on how to activate appamor for my LibreWolf browser in Linux LMDE 7?

Hello there, I am working on a little project as a way to improve my cad abilities. I am hoping to build a custom fantasy computer to go along with the pico8 fantasy system. I am basing it off of the Mac se/30 but am obviously hoping to get that nice 1:1 aspect ratio.

Trouble is that decent size 1:1 screens don't seem to exist as far as I have researched, I instead found a small 4:3 lcd panel I can use, and was originally planning to simply rotate the screen and let it render 1:1 while physically covering the top and bottom, but it seems to add significantly more vertical height than I anticipated.

so now I am hoping that I can shift the screen down and somehow get the PI to render only in the topmost visible section.

Included are a couple pictures of what I mean.

I am just wondering if there is a way, in software, to rotate and move up the screen, or at least the pico 8 window

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37358118

When I have read anything Android phone related on Lemmy, I often see comments talking about how they switch to Linux phone or tell people to swap Android with Linux ASAP.

What's the general experience like using Linux as your phone and is it any good? I remember watching video couple years about it and hearing about it and the lack of apps (at least that is made for mobile in mind) and wonder if that has changed or is it just good enough.

EDIT: I've accepted that the tutorial I was trying to follow is incomplete or incorrect. I've successfully accessed my new samba share after creating a user on the host machine and updating smb.conf. I must authenticate to access the share, and I'm fine with that, so I'm calling this thread "Resolved." I want to thank everyone who chimed in in the comments. Feel free to keep the discussion going for anyone else who stumbles upon this thread.

Here are my final notes on this subject:

• Install samba packages: sudo apt update && sudo apt install samba
• Confirm smbd is running: sudo systemctl status smbd
• Create a dedicated folder for the share: sudo mkdir /mnt/ShareDemo
• Create a new user and set the password for Linux: sudo adduser shareuser
• Add the new user for Samba using the same password: sudo smbpasswd -a shareuser
• Change ownership of the ShareDemo folder: sudo chown -R shareuser:shareuser /mnt/ShareDemo
• And change its permissions to 0775: sudo chmod -R 0775 /mnt/ShareDemo
• Update firewall rules to allow access: sudo ufw allow samba
• Add the share definition to the end of /etc/samba/smb.conf as follows:

[ShareDemo]
   path = /mnt/ShareDemo
   valid users = shareuser
   public = no
   writable = yes
   browseable = yes

I'm not sure if restarting the smbd is necessary, but if it is, here's how to do that: sudo service smbd restart

On another device on the same network, we should now be able to find and access this shared folder in the Network section of our file browser of choice and authenticate using shareuser.

ORIGINAL POST:

Background: I'm attempting to set up a public samba share on my local network following this tutorial on thelinuxcode.com. Long term, I'll probably set up some security around this, but for now I just want to confirm I can follow a basic tutorial. Unfortunately, so far, I'm failing.

What I've done so far (on the host machine):

• Installed samba packages: sudo apt update && sudo apt install samba
• Confirmed smbd is running: sudo systemctl status smbd
• Created a dedicated folder for the share: sudo mkdir /mnt/ShareDemo
• Changed ownership of the ShareDemo folder to nobody:nogroup: sudo chown -R nobody:nogroup /mnt/ShareDemo
• And changed its permissions to 0775: sudo chmod -R 0775 /mnt/ShareDemo
• Added the share definition to /etc/samba/smb.conf as follows:

[ShareDemo]
   path = /mnt/ShareDemo
   valid users = @users
   force user = nobody
   force group = nogroup 
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   browseable = yes

• Updated firewall rules to allow access: sudo ufw allow samba

As far as I can tell, I've followed the instructions exactly as described in the tutorial. According to the tutorial, my newly created Samba share should now be accessible from any Windows, macOS, or Linux device on the same local network. On Linux:

• Install samba-client if you haven‘t already -> DONE.
• Open your file manager and click "Other Locations" or "Network" -> DONE.
• Browse for your Ubuntu hostname and click the share folder -> DONE.
• It will mount automatically without any login prompt needed -> this is where I'm stuck. I've tested this on two different Linux devices on my local network. In both cases, the samba share shows up in the file manager, but the system prompts me to authenticate and I cannot proceed as an anonymous user.

Even though the tutorial doesn't specifically say I need to, I've tried restarting smbd after updating smb.conf, but I still have the same issue.

What have I done wrong? Is the tutorial missing a step or simply outdated? Is there another tutorial that I should follow instead? Thanks in advance!

Hi!

I've a cronjob that I don't want to be concurrent but it needs to leave a long-running process after it does it's job that I set up with a nohup command.

The deal is that once the script has setup the lock doesn't get released so any further calls to the script just get ignored.

Is there a better alternative/flag I'd use? I couldn't discern much from the flock or nohup man pages.

Solved: With bit more fiddling found the - u flag on the flock man page. You can unlock yourself at the very end of the script.

As the Windows 10 EOL date is close I was wondering what fellow Linux users thoughts about it are.

Are you helping open minded people making the switch to Linux? If yes, which distro are you using? Are you using resources like endof10.org?

Or are you using the the opportunity to get your hands on some cheap hardware for your homelab? Are you keeping an eye on special websites or just ebay (or your local equivalent)? Are you talking with local companies to get the hardware directly from them?

Or are you just observing and enjoy your peace of mind because you switched already to Linux before?

Whatever it is, we are very interested to hear your stories concering this interesting time.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37518459

This week is KDE’s 29th anniversary. It may not be a nice round number like 25 or 30, but whenever another birthday rolls around for an independent project the size and scope of KDE — powered by the goodwill of its contributors and users — that’s really quite something!

This year KDE are celebrating by kicking off their yearly fundraiser. Let’s raise at least €50,000 before the end of the year!

I would say, finally, in an era of bitter political struggle even in the free software world, finally we see a good humoured hacker joke again