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  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • Barrier - Keyboard and mouse sharing via network - I use this extensively and the break in compatibility is destructive for me.

    Barrier has been unmaintained for a while now. The two active forks are deskflow (upstream) and input-leap. Deskflow has limited supported for Wayland. It seems that they're working on resolving the remaining issues: https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/discussions/7499

  • Bazzite surpasses 30k active users, gaining 5k users since two months ago 🎉

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  • Upstream, the Fedora KDE Plasma edition is also doing well. Nice to see that within the first release after promotion to a full edition.

  • Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole?

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  • I generally agree, but keep in mind that CPU TDP is not a good metric to predict the total power consumption of a home server. Most of the time, the CPU is in a very low power state and the power consumption is dominated by things like the mainboard, drives, PSU, ... Wolfgang has a good video on the topic: https://youtu.be/Ppo6C_JhDHM?t=239

    That said, the conclusion that the 5600U system draws more power than a N150 one is probably still correct in most cases.

  • Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole?

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  • The Ryzen 5000 series should be a good choice for such an application, they're still quite powerful CPUs. You should just make sure that you get the notebook/APU variant of the CPUs (e.g. 5600G or 5600U) and not the desktop variant (e.g. 5600 or 5600X). The desktop variant has significantly higher idle power consumption (see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeServer/comments/1l707yc/nas_idle_power_usage/, they report 50+W in idle, while my 8500G system idles at 17W). The one you linked should be fine.

  • One GNOME session, multiple styles

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  • One GNOME session, multiple styles

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  • No, that's Gnome, not Wayland. KDE still prefers SSD on Wayland.

  • One GNOME session, multiple styles

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  • I feel it has gotten much better in recent years. The first time I tried KDE 5 it looked weird to me. But now I acutally quite like KDE 6. Or maybe I've just learned to tolerate it...

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • Sure, Bazzite has some nice features. But, I would argue that apart from the Nvidia images (there is no AMD image) those are all minor things. And for Nvidia cards, the Mint Driver Manager is pretty good. I don't think any of those differences play a role here.

    In general, I think it's really unhelpful to present "switch to my favorite distro" as the first step in troubleshooting an issue.

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • Try CachyOS or Bazzite!

    Bazzite, sure, but it's not gonna magically solve these kind of issues.

    However, if one is struggling as a beginner with Linux, I would strongly advise against switching to an Arch-based distro (CachyOS). Arch is great, but this is not its target audience.

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • I strongly disagree with u/brucethemoose here. You wrote below that you're currently using Linux Mint, which is a great distro for beginners. In my opinion, Bazzite offers nothing essential that is not available on Mint. IMHO, the easiest ways to play games are:

    • Use Steam to play your Steam games (native or using Proton). This should just work (on both distros)
    • Use Heroic Games Launcher to play games from GOG, Epic, or non-store games. The recommendation is to install the Flatpak version, which is available on both distros. Afterwards, the setup step is to install a Proton-GE version before you can play your games (https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Linux-Quick-Start-Guide).

    You can - of course - still switch to a different distro if you like, but this is not necessary or helpful to run games.

  • The impossibility of finding a Linux laptop that I like

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  • In the specs for the Laptop 13, it says:

    Fingerprint Reader (2nd Gen)

    Same for the 16, but not the 12.

  • Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant

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  • while upgrading from debian 12.11 to 13.0 errors were encountered while processing: plymouth, plymouth-label and initramfs-tools, how do I solve this?

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  • I've created a small helper script to help me with this:

     bash
        
#!/bin/bash
USED_VER=$(uname -r)
echo "Kernel version in use: $USED_VER"

echo "Other installed versions:"
dpkg --list 'linux-image*' | grep ^ii | grep -v $USED_VER

echo "Remove unneeded packages above using the following command:"
echo "sudo apt remove linux-image-VERSION"

    It prints a list of the installed kernels (excl. the running one) and prints the command to uninstall the packages (it doesn't remove anything by itself).

  • [SOLVED] Upgraded to debian 13.0 from 12.11 and now unit NetworkManager.service could not be found. How do I install a network manager now?

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  • That sounds pretty bad and probably means other things are broken too. The easiest option would probably be a reinstall at this point, but if you want to learn something you can also try to salvage your install.

    To recover, it's probably easiest to manually configure your Ethernet connection as described by InnerScientist and then re-install the network-manager package.

    First, you can check the status of the network-manager package using dpgk. It should look like this (ii at the start, but it sounds like it's not installed in your case):

     
        
$ dpkg -l | grep -i network-manager
ii  network-manager                         1.52.1-1                        amd64        network management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
ii  network-manager-l10n                    1.52.1-1                        all          network management framework (translation files)

    You can also check /var/log/apt/history.log to see what went wrong and if there are other things you need to fix.

    I performed the upgrade in two steps apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs and apt full-upgrade (based on the release notes). I can see the following on the line Upgrade: for the command apt full-upgrade:

     
        
network-manager:amd64 (1.42.4-1+deb12u1, 1.52.1-1)

    On the Remove: line you can see the packages that were removed. Unfortunately, the names of many libraries were changed in this release (e.g., libreadline8:amd64 to libreadline8t64:amd64), so there's a lot of noise in there. Maybe you can look at that line and ignore everything that starts with lib to see if any other important packages were removed.

  • Just got a new GPU, why is it so hard to use it?

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  • One thing that comes to mind is that the 50series is only supperted by the open version of the proprietary Nvidia drivers. The closed version doesn't support your new GPU, but would work with your old GPU. Do you know which version you installed?

  • How it feels to use Debian

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  • Plasma 6 is a significant upgrade for sure, especially on Wayland! I'd rate the crash frequency (on Fedora) at between once per week and once per month ;-)

  • How it feels to use Debian

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    How it feels to use Debian

  • Ubuntu Pro for Personal/Home Use

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  • I'm running Ubuntu on a server. I've enabled the free Ubuntu Pro subscription to get ESM patches for the universe repository. Not sure if it really matters, but better safe than sorry.

  • (Yet another) help me choose a distro post

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  • The easiest distros to run Resolve would probably be Rocky Linux 8, Alma Linux 8 (both are based on RHEL 8). Instead of the EOL Rocky/Alma 8.6, you should use release 8.10 (8.6 would update to 8.10 anyway). However, while still currently "supported", these are still shipping (mostly) 6-year-old (!) packages. Also, only a small number of packages is actively supported by Red Hat. IMO, this implies that these distros offer a lower level of security. The most critical parts (browser, kernel) are still well-supported, so the difference is probably not too large for most regular users. However, you may also struggle to run some other software (although Flatpaks are available). It's unfortunate that Resolve only supports an ancient version of Rocky (Rocky 10 is now out)...