cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37847733

How do you make a great desktop into a fantastic desktop? Easy — chip away at the rough bits, polish the good stuff, and add awesomeness. After 29 years of development, KDE’s got the foundation nailed down. Plasma 6.5 is all about fine-tuning, fresh features, and a making everything smooth and sleek for everyone.

Ready to see what’s new? Let’s dive into Plasma 6.5!

Highlights:

• Automatic Theme Transitions: Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back.
• Caret Text Navigation: Zoom now swoops in to where you type
• KRunner Fuzzy Search: Even if you type it wrong, KRunner will find it!

What things do you know that would be really good to do with freshly installed system? Or things that you wish had done earlier?

I'm looking to install Linux on our home laptop and see if I can convince my wife to migrate off Windows. Since I'm not sure there won't be times we need or want to boot back into Windows, I want to set it up so we can dual boot. The laptop only has a spot for one drive however so I can't use two drives and chose them with the bios. I know in the past Windows has been problematic with dual boot setups on a single drive, corrupting the boot drive following updates and what-not. I'd really like to avoid that if possible.

Any suggestions on how best to go about it, or something I should at least avoid because it's known to be problematic?

Whenenver I try to use my mouse without a dongle (direct connection through bluetooth), I get the situation in the picture.

I'd like to give you more information but there isn't a pattern. It happens in the middle of using it. It happens when I don't move for a while, then suddenly move my mouse. It happens if I was using the scroll wheel for a while and started moving the mouse again. It has no learnable pattern.

The mouse works perfectly if I use the dongle. Mouse worked (probably still works) perfectly in Windows. I'm on Linux Mint (Zara)

I tried what little (4 threads) information I could find about this topic so I'm here.

Any solutions?

Edit: Thank you everyone but the solution to the problem is bigger than the problem. I thought it would be an easy solution but I need this USB slot once every 3 months, I can live with that :D

I've set up a separate user account on my system for work-related stuff. I usually use my employer's hardware, but we're allowed to use our own device and sometimes it's simply convenient to work on my linux instead of a Mac.

This has led me to a problem that I haven't encountered before: bluetooth seems straight-up wonky when I switch between users. I have bluetooth headphones, for example, that have always worked fine. Noticing that they didn't receive any sound when I switched to the work account was the first hiccup.

No problem, I thought, I'll re-pair every time I switch from the one account to the other. No such luck. Pairing works, but it's associated with the previous account. Not even "forgetting" the device helped.

No problem, I thought. I've got an extra bluetooth headset. I'll pair the one while I'm in the one account and the other while I'm in the other account. No such luck. I get stuck in a "connected", "disconnected" loop.

I had hoped that this was an audio issue and used arch's pulseaudio documentation to make audio sharable between accounts, which worked for a wired connect, but it's at that point that I realized, this doesn't work for bluetooth devices, because of the issues described above.

Has anyone managed to get this working? I'm open to workarounds, as long as they work consistently and allow me to switch back and forth between accounts.

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 dont enjoy web searching every time. Id like to just have some sort of document I can read or search to find certain commands.

I do have the man pages on kiwix but is a little complex to navigate. Like if I want to learn how grep works, what's the best way. Or if I forgot lshw, how do you go about looking up a command that does a certain thing like list out hardware etc.

Showing examples would be super helpful too, like "here's a typical dd command for a drive image clone"

Preferably a desktop/android app or something that helps with this would be nice.

I have alot of CD's that were sitting around, and yes marker gets the job done on labeling, but it just feels wrong. I mean these are OPERATING SYSTEMS, so they deserve a case like windows or a mac release (rip windows 10)

so i used my laser cutter and etched some card stock to make some custom cases,

i also enjoy shitposting on the back on some of the cases

if you want the SVG's get them at my codeburg https://codeberg.org/Steamymoosmilk/Unix_like_CD_cases/src/branch/main/

Source: https://unixmagic.net/

cross-posted from: https://anarchist.nexus/post/187056

So I've got a few Intel compute sticks sitting on my desk here, and I don't know what I want to do with them (aside from throw them out, I'd rather find some value in them if I can).

They are STK1AW32SC, which have the atom x5-Z8330 chips, with a whopping 2gb ram, 32gb emmc, and a microsd slot.

A few things I've considered:

• Take a few LCDs and the drivers and make a "household front end", basically just point to my locally hosted services (mealie for recipes, hass, etc)
• Same thing but make it a digital picture frame
• Compute to point to a magic mirror instance
• Try out how terrible emulation is on them to make a little game console for the kids thats standalone? They already can use the living room one for that, which is a usff box with a lot more power. So probably not.
• Automatically boots to rick roll to stick in TVs at my BILs house and drive him nuts?

Open to ideas! I've got tons of machines here, so I really don't need them to do anything - which means the silly and borderline stupid (see rick roll note above) are perfectly acceptable ideas.

At first Instead of my SDDM I would just see an after image of what was last displayed on screen. But if I typed in my password and pressed enter, it would let me in just fine. Then after following some suggestions from users in r/Kubuntu I’ve made a bit of progress. Now when I boot up my computer instead of the SDDM being invisible, it now doesn’t load at all, from there I switch to tty3 then back to tty2 and then log in through the terminal. After that I run startplasma-wayland and then I have access to my desktop. The post where all this went down - https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/1nvreuo/sddm_not_rendering/

Does anyone know a fix? I would like to be able to see my login screen.

Here’s my specs in case that would help - https://i.imgur.com/XtC43zw.png

And here’s my journalctl output after booting and launching plasma - https://pastebin.com/nnGsWebd

I'm a Windows 10 user hoping to switch to Linux over Windows 11. One of my common uses for my computer is VR, via a Valve Index. Is this going to be a problem for me? I know historically, its been pretty bad, and ProtonDB shows very mixed ratings, but I also know Linux has been improving fast so am hoping that others will disagree with that.

Hello,

I've been trying to do my first stride in Linux's world by installing Ubuntu on my laptop (Lenovo X1 Carbon 3rd Gen) to replace W10 who was working well but is loosing support soon.

Well the test result is... unclear. Ubuntu itself is fast and working rather well but... my Wifi card seem to have problem with Ubuntu.

Before giving up and re-installing W10 I'm trying to find help to solve this issue. I created a full description of the issue on the Ubuntu forum, here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lenovo-x1-carbon-ubuntu-24-04-03-lts-no-wireless-connection-error-activation-of-network-connection-failed/69286

Any help would be very appreciated

Edit: After trying the suggestion below to power down and remove the battery without any success, I'll try to use a "windows to go" w10 USB drive to try to change the WiFi card power settings as suggested in some other answers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37124620

In hopes of helping out mobile linux, I decided to bolster its supply of mobile games. I don't know if mobile Linux needs mobile games, but I make games as a hobby and want to try to help out however I can. The code is open source and the game has been tested on my Librem 5. Code can be found on GitLab.

edit: The game also has a build that runs on 64-bit systems. In all it runs on 64-bit Linux/Windows and arm Linux/Windows.

Issues with migrating from Windows to Linux. Stuck on a black screen with a blinking underscore at top left.

I try to access the virtual console but no keys work alt+f1..f12, alt+ctrl+f1..., I ended up clicking everything on my keyboard but no response other than a sound when I press on a key - the sound confirms my computer can detect keyboard input.

if relevant:

I created a live USB boot via Rufus so that I could install a Minimal Xubuntu OS.

My computer drive only supports MBR, so I chose that.

I chose "BIOS or UEFI" on "Target system" on Rufus

I had no legacy boot option so I opted for UEFI.

I checked no WiFi nor third party software installation like Nvidia.

I would now try to install the third party software, maybe this is a graphics issue. But alas, I cannot do anything on that black screen. Please help, I do not know what to do.

As far as I know, Xeyes has "always" been part of GUI oriented Linux installs, and despite using it for mouse testing from time to time for over 25 years at this point, I never read the manpage. Well, my daughter, aged five, likes to play with xeyes and I decided to check the manpage if there was something I could do to change it up a little. Well, there is.

"WTF does this switch do?" *tests* "lol, of course that's what it does..."

Note: The switch is case sensitive. I have version 1.3.0 here, not sure when this option was added.

EDIT: Lemmy won't let me embed .mp4 inline, so I edited this post into a link. I also posted it here for those with cache issues.

Still new and not very well versed when it comes to Wayland and x11.

But I’ve had CachyOS with KDE Plasma installed on my gaming PC for almost 2 months now and not had many issues until last week.

Before I begin, here’s my specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 64GB DDR4 across 4 cards, RTX 4080 Super.

So last week, I booted up my computer and logged into CachyOS. About 10 minutes in, and suddenly the computer is restarting itself. Weird but okay, so I log in again and don’t have the same issue again. When I’m done, I always shut down so I shut down and then next day I boot up again. It was a few days later that this next occurrence happened and it happened in the same way. Another few days go by and then it happens again. Until Tuesday of this week and it got a lot worse. I boot up and log in but I am in for about 7 minutes and then it logs me out. But when I enter my password and hit enter, it freezes up and then my computer restarts after about 3 minutes.

This keeps happening and getting worse and the time is getting shorter that I can be logged in until today where I log in after a restart and am almost immediately kicked back to the login screen and then it freezes and restarts. I barely was able to run commands to get logs. I then began using TTY to do the fixes and copy logs out to read on my laptop.

In hindsight, I did have a few blips of blackness on login happening shortly before this happened where I’d log in and the screen would be black for many minutes until finally loading me up. This was before the freezing and log outs.

Today, I dug deep into the journalctl logs with an LLM and the LLM suggested that the logs were encountering an issue relating to Wayland. The LLM also saw an error involving an AMD graphics card, but that can’t be because I only use the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super so my guess is the error is not relevant to me and was just a generalized error. But it still suggested we try switching over to X11 and after following its steps, I am now in X11 and not having any of these issues anymore.

I’m not seeing any real differences or anything that makes me want to go back to Wayland, but again, I’m still not very knowledgeable on this.

I think what the most likely explanation is that I have been learning how to use pacman and around this time had learned about “sudo pacman -Syu” to update packages, so the most likely reason for this is that something got updated and began going haywire. I’ve been running this more often to ensure my machine is receiving updates. Prior to this, I hadn’t updated anything on the system and was using whatever came from the image I downloaded.

So I have a few questions I was hoping the community could help me with:

1. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this happening before and know what could cause this? The way it kept getting worse almost felt like hardware degradation, like how physical objects naturally degrade and get worse over time if you don’t fix them. Not the normal issue where you encounter the same issue in the same timespan nearly each time which is what I’m expecting from software, not where it gets progressively worse as each day goes. The LLM had suggested hardware as a possible issue and I was leaning towards that possibility but not having issues on X11 makes me think that’s not the case here.

2. My main use on this system is gaming. Are there any differences between Wayland and X11 that would make me want to go back to Wayland? Are there any other reasons I may want to go back and figure out what caused this problem and fix it permanently? Or any reasons I may end up preferring X11?

3. Is it possible X11 will encounter the same issues eventually that Wayland did based on the behaviors described?

Note: the MacOS part is false

Current setup

• limine
• Dracut
• Luks on /
• Btrfs with snapshots
• Cachyos
• Tpm auto unlock on PCR7

Everything seems good! then I realize that if you dont use some other PCR, you can change the boot params and change root. I was thinking of using PCR11 or something but im seeing that all of the system PCRs are zero'ed out. What do I need to do to get this set up right?

I'd like to disable or change the super bright blue light on this mouse (awesome mouse btw, I love mountain but they seem to have stopped selling. can only find these on ebay).

I'd like to be able to do this on Mint. Any software that may be compatible? Guessing wine will not do it.

Update, I got pass through working on my win11 in virtual box, Basecamp detected the mouse, but it said I had to update firmware before I could do anything. I did that and now of course the mouse is in failsafe mode, it works but the lights flash and no buttons other than the right and left click work. Its now seen as a different device so I changed the pass through to it, now Basecamp is not seeing it. I may have to boot to windows and try to fix it.

crossposted from https://reddthat.com/post/51425980

What's new in this release:

• Fast synchronization support using NTSync.
• 16-bit apps supported in new WoW64 mode.
• Initial support for D3DKMT objects.
• WinMD (Windows Metadata) files generated and installed.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available at https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x/wine-10.16.tar.xz

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.