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i mean is a distro not made by a corp stable as in does it last years or do they often fail and vanish? so i dont install a distro and customize it and all this and fine i need to move my whole digital life to new distro again.

I am on Arch Linux and I want to disable this activity indicator light on a WD hard drive. I know there is a software on Windows for doing that, but since I am on Linux, how could I do it? This light is annoying when I am in a dark room.

The Early Beta Build of Orion for Linux is Now Available! We know many of you have been eagerly waiting for a chance to try Orion Browser on Linux, and we’ve been hard at work to make progress behind the scenes. After months of building the foundations, we’re excited to share this early beta with you. It’s our first opportunity to let you get hands-on with the new features we’ve been developing. What’s included in this early beta Browsing made smoother The core of Orion is fully connected to the Linux UI, and basic browsing is ready: you can navigate pages, use back, forward, and refresh actions, and start exploring multiple tabs. This milestone lays the groundwork for a more flexible and powerful tab system. Staying organized and secure We’ve added password management, history tracking, and Dark Mode and Focus Mode, giving you more control over your browsing experience. Custom search engines can be defined in Settings > Search, making it easy to search directly from the address bar. Stability and polish This early beta also brings several fixes that improve reliability - from preventing crashes when closing pinned tabs to resolving freezes in Website Settings, and ensuring new installations allow creating new tabs without issues. Note: Kagi Sync and webKit Extensions are still in development and not supported in Beta ✴ Try the Early Beta ✴ You can download the Flatpak build of Orion Browser for Linux here: Download Orion Early Beta (Flatpak) What’s next This early beta is just the beginning. Over the coming weeks, we’ll continue refining tab management, expanding WebExtension support and improving stability and usability. We’d love to hear from you As always, your thoughts, questions, and suggestions are welcome. They guide us in shaping the future of Orion on Linux, and we’re excited to have you on this journey with us. Go to our dedicated Orion Feedback Website: orionfeedback.org Browse Beyond ✴︎ The Orion for Linux Team

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I have written some basic Maintainer and Contribution guidelines for KDE here, nothing groundbreaking, just some guidelines people are encouraged to follow. It's still in bit of a flux state and will likely get updated multiple times based on feedback. https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Maintainers_and_Contributions #KDE #Linux

I run Debian 13 Stable with KDE Plasma, and have Flathub enabled on KDE’s Discover software store. I have a slight idea of the difference between the two: that Debian packages share system libraries and are therefore lighter in storage but do require password to access those shared libraries and could therefore become a security hazard if installing from an untrusted source, while Flatpaks have all they need and don’t require password to install, being more secure that way, but, as a consequence, consume more storage. Also noticeable is the fact that, for some programmes, the Flatpak version tends to be more recent and it therefore becomes the obvious choice when looking for the latest software. However, I was looking at the SuperTux game, and what’s curious about this is that both, the Debian package and the Flatpak are version 0.6.3, while consuming 6.7 and 259,9 MB of storage respectively. So should the obvious choice here be the Debian package, or would you still go for the Flatpak? I am not asking this because I’m particularly interested on this game as much as to learn more about the two system packages and whether my assumptions are correct or I am missing something. Thank you and have a nice weekend!

As above switched to Linux and i am enjoying it i picked Ubuntu as TBH it was the first I came across. The last two times it has prompted me to update has caused a drama. First would only give me a black screen of text so I did a reinstall. The latest one went fine it updated to 6.17.0-94 but i lost all networking no wifi By the looks of it the problem I have is i have an older device that has nvidia 580 graphics card. I have rolled back for now but questions are; Is there a way to pre-emt this, as i feel now as soon as i restart it will jump back up and leave me without networking to resolve. its quite a faff trying to find out what to do on my mobile and typing it in the terminal. Is it better to fix or try another distro?

Hi, all. I’m trying to use the logo creator scripts in GIMP under Debian Trixie. Standard apt install, using Debian sources, including gimp-data-extras, which is the package with the scripts. The packages are all up to date. When I try to run any of the logo scripts, I get an error message like this: Execution error for ‘Alien Glow’: Error: eval: unbound variable: gimp-text-fontname I’ve done some searching, and the results all say things like, “Oh, your script is missing…” or something like that. But it’s not my script, it’s a standard script with GIMP. All of the logo scripts give this error, on two different computers (both with Debian Trixie). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Hope it’s alright to post this here but i thought i might show off my KDE Plasma desktop. It isn’t much but hey, i like it and i think that’s all it matters.

I am once again asking for advice on running Linux on tablets. Apparently x86 tablets are just not a thing anymore, even Windows tablets all seem to use the Snapdragon X ARM processors, like the newer Surfaces and the Asus ProArt tablet. Has anyone had experience running Linux on those? If a distro has an arm64 version can I expect to just boot it, or are they more like Android tablets where even if you manage to boot Linux you can expect pretty much nothing to work? Touchscreen support is the biggest thing for me, as I definitely plan on using it primarily as a tablet and not a laptop. Active stylus support with palm rejection would be a bonus but not a priority for me.

I am using linux is why i posted this here I have tried every single guide i could find. it wont work. I am trying to make a bootable win10 usb so i can install it on an old laptop to update a piece of equipment that requires windows. It’s been hours and hours of my time I never imagined this could burn a whole afternooon… I treid this one GNOME Disks provides an intuitive graphical interface to manage storage drives. It comes pre-installed on popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian. If Disks is already available on your system, simply launch it and jump to Step 4. TIP: If GNOME Disks is not installed, use your distribution‘s package manager to install. For example, on Ubuntu/Debian run: sudo apt install gnome-disks Insert your USB drive and launch GNOME Disks. In the sidebar, click your flash drive‘s entry (check the size to verify) Select USB in Disks sidebar Click the menu icon next to the drive name and select "Format Disk" from the context menu. Format disk menu option Confirm your selection in the prompt and click "Format" in the dialog after setting "(MBR/DOS)" for the new partition table. This will completely erase all data on the drive. Format disk confirmation prompt Wait for formatting to complete. Then click the "+" button to create a new partition. Create partition button In the "Create Partition" dialog, set capacity and partition type as NTFS. Set partition details Open your Windows 10 ISO image file, right click the icon, and select "Open With Disk Image Mounter". This will mount it as a virtual drive. Open the newly mounted drive, select all files/folders, copy them over to your flash drive partition you just formatted. Copy Windows ISO contents After the copy completes, right click the USB partition and eject it safely. The drive is now ready to be used for installing or repairing Windows. The GNOME Disks utility provides an easy graphical way to format drives and configure partitions. But if you‘re looking for advanced storage management, GParted is an excellent choice. Let‘s see how to create Windows 10 media with it. I tried several other ones too I tried restoring disk image like i do with linux iso and NOTHING IS WORKING IT JUST WONT WORK MAN… what am i doing wrong??? I honestly should never have removed windows from it. I knew I would need that pos OS at some point for something and they seriously make it harder than anything i have ever installed ever, to install on a computer. I don;'t get it man. It’s ruining my entire day.

Hey guys, I recently bought some “RØDE Wireless Pro”-microphones for better audio-quality and it seems, that their software “RØDE Central” (which is needed for some stuff) is only available for Windows. For now, I helped myself with creating a virtual machine (running Windows 10) which works good, but I think, that this solution is unacceptable for a device which costs ~300€. My fault to not check it before, but unfortunately it’s too late for a return. I have hopes, that some skilled linux-gods found a practical solution for this. Using Debian btw. ~sp3ctre

I love .appimages they work on all distros, easy to install, works from any directory, works without installing If I can achive this setup it will make switching my work from machine to machine easy-fast, resilient, and distro hopping wouldn’t be a issue.