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• Are there any other display servers aside from Wayland and X11 with its forks?

• Any really good source to learn advanced bash?

  There is lots of books, videos and manuals about bash. So it is hard to tell if one is good or not. By advanced bash I mean regular expressions, complex scripts, and kind-of obscure options of basic commands no beginner tutorial tells about.

• Any really good source to learn advanced bash?

  There is lots of books, videos and manuals about bash. So it is hard to tell if one is good or not. By advanced bash I mean regular expressions, complex scripts, and kind-of obscure options of basic commands no beginner tutorial tells about.

• Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

  Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

• Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?

  I’m not trying to bait. I’ve been playing with Void for a while, but didn’t get what makes it special. I guess I’m missing something about it.

• Ways to switch between DEs on Fedora?

  I want to switch to another DE on Fedora, from KDE to COSMIC, is it possible to switch in some simple way, kind of with rpm-ostree or something? I’ve searched the web but only found info on doing this with Atomic desktops, but I’m not using one and not planning to yet

• Backspace key broken when running as root

  I’ve installed Void Linux base image and my backspace key is broken when I am root, it types ‘^H’ instead of erasing. Function keys also type something weird, but at least the brighness-related ones do work. This only applies to the root shell, it all works perfectly when I login as a normal user. Probably a bashrc issue?

• Post #3464287

  What the actuall hell… I heard niri to be very resource-demanding… Should stick with tty /j

• Desktop environments: performance vs modern look

  Some DEs are focused on resource efficiency, but don’t look fancy. Others are fancy, but require a fairly modern setup. I have KDE (Fedora) installed on my laptop, I love its look and options. But it is not always snappy, some little freezes occur as well, even in basic situations (opening Firefox and v2rayN simultaneously was one of the cases). The most problematic thing is almost every app taking around 2-3 secs to open its window. Many people would just tell me to install Xfce, but I still...

• Disabling bloatware

  I’ve discovered Akonadi, a KDE service. As far as I could understand, Akonadi provides “personal information management” and is responsible for some interaction between apps within the KDE ecosystem. To me, it seems to be bloatware. Somebody may use the functions it provides, but I do not. It is just running in background all the time with no use. How do I completely disable it forever? Have you ever met something else in Linux or it’s ecosystem, that appeared to be bloatware to you (and how d...

• Screensavers on Wayland

  Are there at least some plans to implement screensavers into Wayland? Is there any way to override Wayland’s restrictions and set a screensaver up?

• Any tips on music production on Linux?

  I used to create songs in FL Studio when I used Windows, but now I have switched to Fedora. Does FL Studio run well via wine, or I should better pick a Linux-native DAW? How do I handle Windows vst3 plugins? It is possible to switch to native Linux solutions, but I would actually like to preserve my regular workflow within FL. Any relevant tips and advice are welcome

• How do I change boot splash screen and login screen background?

  I’m on Debian with XFCE I’ve already tried modifying /etc/default/grub and /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf The first resulted in nothing (I actually have grub timeout set to 0, so I’m not sure if I only need changing grub’s config), the bootsplash was still default The second resulted in black login bg

• X11 vs Wayland

  What’s the difference for a real user between using X11 or Wayland nowdays? I haven’t found anything useful on the internet, so I’m asking you. Internet articles on the topic (and about WMs too) seem to be advertising slop since they explain anything but the real things. Also, if anyone used the XLibre fork, I would love to hear about your experience with it.

• Skills to install Gentoo

  I would like to practice installing Gentoo from scratch since I like the idea of the distro, but I’m quite new to Linux at all and only had experience with Debian. I suppose my very basic knowledge of terminal isn’t enough to install Gentoo, even with the handbook. So, what would you recommend to learn or practice before I actually try installing Gentoo? Also, any specific tips on installing Gentoo inside a VM?

• Do you use vim?

  Do you use vim as your default text editor? If you do not, have you ever been in a situation you could do nothing but use vim?

• fastlydns connection fails

  I can’t install anything because connection to debian.map.fastlydns.net is stuck on 0%. However, pinging it does work. I suppose it is caused by my ISP since. So, what should I do to fix that? Is switching to a mirror going to help?