An intresting talk on Is Everything a File, IO Models, Is C a Low Level Language, and a quick comparison on Interfacing with USB devices on Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

After a recommendation from Lemmy, I downloaded KDE mobile alongside plasma desktop to see if my touchscreen would work better.

This took a little tinkering and figuring out but I really enjoy this interface.

^borrowed and reconfigured fastfetch theme from a Lemmy user (lost access to old account so I can't tag them, sorry)

^ the slide-up app drawer for KDE Mobile. ^interatellar, gui client for Lemmy.

^Tuba, gui client for Mastodon.

OC by @HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world

Article on the new wave of AI-generated bug reports, and how patches are quickly turned into exploits with automation assistance.

There are really plenty of them, including in commercial software - Firefox has for April twenty times more security bugs reported than normal.

I can't tell how dramatic this is really. Maybe this is being cooked a tad hotter than it is eaten. Some reports on AI capabilities are basically clever marketing - or even outright misleading.

What is clear is that distros will need to fix more bugs, and it will take some time until most uncovered bugs are fixed.

Users will need to update more frequently.

Frugal configurations might become even more attractive.

Who is in for a bad time are probably vendors and users of "connected" devices which were never designed to be updated. Every Smart TV, Amazon Echo, "Smart" home device, or "Smart" toothbrush will likely become open to black hats or enemies of peace and democracy which invade your home network. Including medical stuff...

Some devices should probablybe put in a Farady cage - say anything that would be able to start a fire.

All of these screenshots are taken using touchscreen mode only. I also have plasma mobile running on it. I'll post pictures of that soon.

Librewolf browser with Bonjourr.fr home page. (Used CSS to customize layout for mobile. )

Stock Spotify for Linux.

Newsflash rss reader.

All in all it wasn't a terrible experience getting it all set up. Def worth the time.

OC by @HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world

Since Microsoft owns Github, Gitlab is Corp owned now since 2022, why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?

Genuine questions. I'm assumming either familiarity & simplicity with GH or difficulty migrating elsewhere?

I'm trying to install Debian 13 (Trixie) with BTRFS configured to work with TimeShift. Because installing on a BTRFS filesystem apparently only gives you a @rootfs subvolume which is not only lame, but also incompatible with tools like TimeShift or Snapper.

I've been trying to set it up on Debian with very little success. I've followed some how-tos but keep ending up with a broken GRUB entry, or broken fstab or other bullshit. I've tried configuring it during installation with the non-graphical installer, or after installation is complete by creating and renaming subvolumes, moving files, etc. But it's a such fucking chore. At least Ubuntu automated this and created all the subvolumes correctly.

I really want to be using Debian for it's stability and also because I've become very used to the Debian apt package management system through Ubuntu. There seems to be a lot more documentation on Debian than OpenSUSE Tumbleweed also. But this BTRFS thing is a real challenge for me.

The layout I'm trying to use is the following:

@ - /

@home - /home

@var - /var

@tmp - /tmp

@swap - swap "partition". (That's how Ubuntu set it up)

@snapshots - /.snapshots (For Timeshift and btrfs-grub I think)

If you have any advice to give me on how to set this up with the least problems possible, please let me know.

I've been shopping around for my next Linux distro. I'm moving away from Ubuntu after having used it since it's creation in 2004.

I think I might settle on Debian, but OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is really getting my attention.

I'm avoiding anything too bleeding edge because I want to minimize any problems. I don't have any time to troubleshoot my PC. I just want something stable that works. So distros like Arch are out of the question.

Fedora seems to hit the sweet spot, but doesn't have multimedia codecs out of the box or any easy way to install NVidia drivers out of the box either. Which I find ridiculous to be missing in a distro in 2026. I also hate how RedHat, the parent company, is also a genocide enabler by providing software and services to the Israeli government and their army. (Source1, source2) And they're also an American company. So fuck 'em. Who knows what bullshit they're about to add in their repos and how they're going to manipulate their software packages.

There's OpenSUSE Tumbleweed that seems very nice. Not quite bleeding edge, but on the edge at least. It's got Snapper that takes snapshots before each update so you can roll-back via the grub menu which is really nice. But I find it has a LOT less community support and documentation than any other popular distros. And if you download an RPM for a 3rd party driver (like the printer for example) chances are there will be unmet dependencies because it was meant for Red Hat.

Then there's Debian. Trusted. Stable. Community-led. A bit late, but 2 years ain't that bad. It's about the same with Ubuntu. More documentation. A bigger community. Compatible with Ubuntu for troubleshooting most of the time. But requires LOT more manual work to set it up.

Seriously, Debian needs to get up to speed in the user friendliness and usability department.

Hello all!

I'm kinda finally done with windows, but I have a lot of small, maybe dumb questions.

I guess my first question is whether Linux knowledge in general is interchangeable between distros?

And second, more importantly, what are the good resources for learning basic things? Like if I want to play games I bought on steam, how can I expect that process to be different? If I want to manage files and folders and extensions and such how does that differ if at all from Windows. I'm coming from specifically windows, but I assume for people coming from Mac OS as well what are the do's and don'ts that you wouldn't necessarily think of when switching?

Are there any particularly well made and comprehensive instructional/introductory podcasts/YouTube video series/what have you that you would point me towards?

Great success!

Also: https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/