Posts by LaoTsu

Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop

Re: Android for the desktop!

Have you tried a wayland session, in something like KDE? I've a 2 in 1 convertible laptop, and it works perfectly. Also an 11" x86 tablet works as expected with Fedora KDE.

Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

Re: Lots of Astroturf in this thread

I switched to LibreWolf on desktop / laptop and IronWolf on mobile last night after reading this, after decades of using Firefox. Sad times.

Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade

I have a laptop with an Nvidia dGPU and AMD iGPU, but much newer. On Fedora 41, using the dkms system whenever either the kernel updates, or Nvidia drivers update the kernel modules are rebuilt, and whatever driver works with whatever kernel version. Looking at available packages here, I have:

akmod-nvidia.x86_64: Akmod package for nvidia kernel module(s)

akmod-nvidia-390xx.x86_64: Akmod package for nvidia-390xx kernel module(s)

akmod-nvidia-470xx.x86_64: Akmod package for nvidia-470xx kernel module(s)

So would a switch to Fedora cure the issue in older laptops running distros which are Debian based? Genuine question, as I haven't run Debian / Mint in years, and that was on older hardware.

Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta

If you're looking for a 'proper' desktop to use with your phone connected to a monitor, then maybe something like - https://ivonblog.com/en-us/posts/termux-proot-distro-debian/ would work? It doesn't require root, unlocking, or anything 'dodgy' to get working.

It's a faff to setup, but once done it's a 1-click icon to launch an XFCE desktop session. It uses the VirGL driver, so the desktop is pretty smooth, and you have the full desktop Firefox (and most other applications). It's not worth doing to use on the phone screen, but if you're looking for a desktop while plugged into a monitor / mouse / keyboard, it could work in that scenario. I switched to a 2nd hand Galaxy S23U for Dex, and the above works pretty well on it.

Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you

Re: gog/linux

Have a look at https://www.protondb.com/ , which should give you an idea of how particular games are running under Proton / Wine.

Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux

It's possible in KDE to launch gtk3/qt5 apps with a specific scaling factor, so if you know beforehand you want .75 or 1.50 for this application, you can edit the .desktop file for it. You can't change it 'on-the-fly' once it has launched though.

Info found on this thread: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/scaling-individual-applications-in-kde-plasma/109075

Microsoft investigating bug in Windows 11 File Explorer that makes the CPU hangry

Re: What, no Task Manager?

" If I didn't occasionally need it for games I would never ever use it again."

Have a look at https://looking-glass.io/ , it may just save you dual-booting for the occasional game. It works brilliantly on my laptop running Fedora 38, passing through the Nvidia GTX1650 to the Win10 VM, while the Vega8 iGPU handles the host side. Alt-tabbing from Win10 running Forza Horizon 4 at 60fps back to Linux is witchcraft to my eyes! :)

WINE Windows translation layer has matured like a fine... you get the picture

Bottles?

Winetricks is good, and it was pretty much essential some years ago. With the advent of Bottles (https://usebottles.com/), using vanilla Wine on the CLI with Winetricks has become a thing of the past (at least for me). Sandboxing each windows app, with its own dependencies, and toggles for all the 'fun' options is far better than managing your wine prefixes in the CLI to avoid conflicts.

Perhaps the author could take a look, and add a boot-note to the article?