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I really wanna use Linux but I don't know if my family could tolerate the alternative software! What happened? So 2 days ago I was getting back on my family desktop, but I noticed that Windows was slow, like VERY slow. I hear the hardware making decently loud noises all the time Ok, then it’s a great opportunity to switch to Linux! No! You see, it’s a family desktop and it’s been there for 10+ years, which means if I install another operating system, 10 years of familiarity will be vanished! Even if I choose a distro with a Windows-like UI, the apps supported there aren’t garenteed to be recognized by my parents! Maybe they could tolerate Firefox and mayyyybe Ungoogled Chromium, but that’s about it Ok, did you asked your parents? I told them I thought about it. My mom doesn’t use it for personal stuff at all and my dsd uses it for YouTube, word, excel, etc, so nothing too crazy. OnlyOffice (and LibreOffice from what I heard of) does support Microsoft’s file types. I asked them if they could toleratebthe alternative software. My dad said he would think about it. Currently, he said that we don’t have a USB with big enough storage space to fit all the data in to backup and restore on the new OS. But my parents are surprisngly open when it comes to my personal discsions. So, hope isn’t yet lost Conclusion and solutions It’s a gray area for now. Idk if my parents could tolerate Linux Mint, but if they could, that’s a massive win. If I could figure out how to dual-boot, then it’s a possible middle ground. Another possible middle ground is running Windows within Virtual Box for my parents. Best case scenario: The open-source alternatives are good enough for my parents’ use cases Lemmy know about your opinions down in the comments

Given what happened with Microsoft this week and flights afterwards—the fact #Linux is using an LLM to essentially vibe their way through without quality of care should concern you a great deal because more technology infrastructure runs Linux than you think. I just don't believe, for one second, that progress is halted to review output, to check output. I've seen tech fail and fail again due to negligence and this will continue to happen, even when we enter the quantum computing bubble. Tech doesn’t have to work anymore—it just has to make money.

Linux Mint Installation Issues on a Lenovo Yoga C930 I have attempted to install Mint 22.3 on my old laptop (Lenovo Yoga C930) which was previously running Windows 11 and seem to have no operating system present on the laptop now and can not boot from my USB drive. I started by downloading Mint 22.3 “Zena” on to a USB drive via Rufus, booted into Mint via the BiOS, and attempted to “Erase Disk and Install Linux Mint” by following the prompts. The install process gave some error messages as it proceeded and took significantly longer than the help videos I had watched beforehand suggested. I left it running over night and came back to it still attempting to install in the morning. I pressed the power button on the laptop to stop it and when I turned it back on was met with a message along the lines of “remove bootable drive”. The next message I got was “Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed”, I hit OK and now there appears to be no OS on the Boot Manager. When I put the bootable USB back in, the boot manager finds it but when I select it I receive: Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi - Not Found Failed to load image (blank square): Not Found Failed to start MokManager: Not Found Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed: Not Found This is my first time attempting to install an operating system so I really am not sure what went wrong or where to go from here, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Fedora Linux 45 is out. On Fedora Podcast 64, Fedora Operations Architect @amoloney@mastodon.social walks through what's new, what to check before you upgrade, and how to help with Fedora Linux 46. https://youtu.be/8bZqlcQGFq0 #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

Salut / Hello Fediverse! #Introduction I'm yPhil—longtime Linux/FOSS developer (creator of Pétrolette) and solo indie game dev. I just released President Grand Prix, a free & open-source (GPLv3) politico-satirical party racer inspired by Super Skidmarks on the Amiga (built in #GodotEngine, playable in browser or native #Linux). Happy to connect with fellow #OpenSource, #IndieDev, and #RetroGaming folks!

Proton's official statement on AI use, MATE goes Wayland - Linux & Open Source News Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:12 Darling project says they’ll use Al to bring mac apps to Linux 04:20 Proton posts article about their security and Al use 06:56 Steam updates brings 64bit and better remote play 08:49 Valve adds framerate data as public info for Deck users 11:21 MATE gets its Wayland compositor 12:55 Long time Linux maintainer steps back due to Al generated patches 14:13 Asahi to switch licenses, and progress report 16:02 Nexus Mods hiring a Linux dev 18:03 Nvidia CEO resigns 19:13 Tuxedo OS nears final beta 21:05 Dolphin gets columns view, again 22:41 GoogleBook OS doesn’t seem great 25:32 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers Links: Darling project says they’ll use Al to bring mac apps to Linux blog.darlinghq.org/…/development-update-q4-2026/ Proton posts article about their security and Al use proton.me/blog/how-proton-keeps-your-data-secure Steam updates brings 64bit and better remote play store.steampowered.com/news/…/678515036155543747 Valve adds framerate data as public info for Deck users store.steampowered.com/news/…/685269801333948419 MATE gets its Wayland compositor discourse.ubuntu.com/t/…/91698 Long time Linux maintainer steps back due to Al generated patches www.phoronix.com/news/Lorenzo-Stoakes-Al-Flood Asahi to switch licences, and progress report asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/ Nexus Mods hiring a Linux dev gamingonlinux.com/…/nexus-mods-hiring-for-a-linux… Nvidia CEO resigns …nvidia.com/…/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition Tuxedo OS nears final beta linuxiac.com/tuxedo-os-enters-final-beta-testing-… Dolphin gets columns view, again …kde.org/…/dolphin-gets-a-columns-view-again/ GoogleBook OS doesn’t seem great androidcentral.com/…/lenovo-googlebook-15-review-…

added more integration tests for all the little edge cases and found a bunch more bugs and race conditions in the process. moving slowly works. 🧑‍🌾 https://github.com/hbons/Twinkle/blob/main/.github/workflows/integration.yml #SparkleShare #Rust #foss #linux

Norway's Dropbox Rival Jottacloud is making a Linux app

KDE is hiring a developer with a focus for Plasma Mobile! cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/54392985 I figure this could also be a place for discussing what are some things you’d like to see in Plasma Mobile? Frankly, hoping to organize ideas to formulate possible work items or goals to suggest to KDE.

(Almost) ready to turn my beloved MacBook Air 2013 - which is gathering dust on a shelf - into a #Linux laptop. Only problem: multiple people might have swayed me to pick Arch Linux as the distro. #ArchLinux!!! I know NOTHING but from all the Linux memes I've seen over the years, I've always been intimidated by it. Debating whether to go with it or #Mint or #Ubuntu. Thoughts? Edit / update: it's now a toss-up between Mint and Fedora. I may try Arch on my Raspi4 #MySoCalledSudoLife #AskFedi

This Week in Plasma: XWayland On Demand

A joke... When I feel like scrapping the whole project and starting over: Me: (in the project dir) sudo rm -rf /* Me: (after waiting a while) Something feels off… Why is it taking so long to delete everything? Me: (suddenly realizing) ^C ^C ^C System: Press any key to continue… 当我想把整个项目推倒重做时： 我:（在项目目录）sudo rm -rf /* 我:（等了一会儿）有点不对劲。。。怎么删了这么长时间还没删完 我:（恍然大悟）^C ^C ^C 系统： Press any key to continue…

A joke... When I feel like scrapping the whole project and starting over: Me: (in the project dir) sudo rm -rf /* Me: (after waiting a while) Something feels off… Why is it taking so long to delete everything? Me: (suddenly realizing) ^C^C^C System: Press any key to continue…

Don't bother patching: multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in Danfoss AK-SM800A https://lobste.rs/s/rpd05t #linux #security https://www.midnightblue.nl/blog/multiple-rce-danfoss-aksm800a

🐧 Linus Torvalds Says AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Fixes Are Becoming the Norm “And yes, much of this was driven by various AI fixes. I think I’ll stop repeating that, and we can just take it for granted,” https://linuxiac.com/linus-torvalds-says-ai-assisted-linux-kernel-fixes-are-becoming-the-norm/ #ai #linux #opensource

I made a frosted-glass Spotify now-playing tile for the Linux desktop wallpaper (MIT, WIP) Built this for myself and I’m still iterating, but I honestly really enjoy using it. It puts a frosted-glass “now playing” card — album art, track, and artist — onto your actual desktop wallpaper, not a floating window, with a blurred cover-art backdrop. Pause or quit and your original wallpaper comes back. You can see what’s playing at a glance, even when the desktop is idle or on the screensaver. Just a nice little desktop customization. On Linux it talks to GNOME (gsettings), KDE Plasma (plasma-apply-wallpaperimage / qdbus), XFCE (xfconf-query), or feh/swaybg/nitrogen. Windows and macOS work too. Local mode reads the OS media session (Spotify desktop; other MPRIS players may work on Linux). Optional Spotify Web API mode can follow playback on another device. No analytics or tracking. By default, local mode may request a sharper cover from Apple’s public iTunes Search API; that can be turned off with --no-online-art. It’s still a work in progress. Happy for testers, issues, and PRs, but mostly I just wanted to share it in case other people enjoy it too. Install: pipx install now-playing-desktops Repo: github.com/hippi345/nowPlayingDesktops (MIT) Screenshot track: “Too Cool” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Hello again, fediverse! 👋 I’m Alex, a Linux sysadmin in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I first joined in 2019, then wandered between servers and took a few breaks along the way, so consider this a fresh start. I’m now running my own instance on GoToSocial, because I enjoy self-hosting things I probably don’t need to self-host. Outside of work I dabble in music production and plan to start on game development, both strictly as hobbies. Expect a mix of homelab tinkering, Linux war stories, open-source and privacy chat, the odd travel photo, and whatever I’m playing or listening to at the moment. I’ll use content warnings for heavier topics and alt text on images. Question for you: what’s the best thing you’ve self-hosted that you couldn’t live without now? #introduction #Scotland #SelfHosting #GoToSocial #Linux #SysAdmin #OpenSource #Privacy #MusicProduction #GameDev

qBitTorrent kills my VPN, Transmission does not. How to troubleshoot? I’m noob at Linux (it just works), so I have no idea how to start troubleshooting this weird issue, any help appreciated! The setup: stock EndeavourOS, ProtonVPN, qBitTorrent (and Transmission); the issue: if qBit is running, no matter the load or the server (I have access to P2P-enabled servers), it kills my VPN connection in a matter of minutes, Transmission does not. It is reproducible, launching qBit means getting disconnected, without fail; the timeline: no issues since I installed EndeavourOS (a year and a half or so), it started happening five to seven days ago, though since a few months ago I would get the same disconnection while qBitting, but only once a day and only while I was away and the system was locked, after I came back to it and reconnect, stable until shutdown. In the months between I haven’t made any changes to my system, just got a new GPU a year ago; what I tried: I initially though it was a VPN app problem, so I tried reinstalling it, both native and flatpak, after deleting all of its data of course. Transmission works but I prefer qBit so I’d love to go back to using it. Where do I start troubleshooting? I currently can’t be at my PC, so I can’t troubleshoot “live”, but I figured posting this early means more people seeing it and getting more input. Thanks in advance!

Agent Name Service is Now Part of The Linux Foundation Agent Name Service (ANS) now has a home at the Linux Foundation. The launch happened at KubeCon North America in Salt Lake City, and you might remember that the foundation first announced its plans for the project way back in June. GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Salesforce, and DigiCert are among the organizations now involved with ANS, bringing the total number up to eleven. One of the early deployments of ANS has been in AGNTCY, another project under the foundation, where its directory of AI agents can now check an agent’s ANS identity. Announcing the move, Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation, had this to share: Autonomous AI agents are transacting and operating across global systems, but they can't succeed without verifiable identity. Under the neutral governance of the Linux Foundation, ANS provides a common foundation for trust that the entire industry can adopt, implement and improve together. An explainer Platforms identify AI agents in their own ways, and a service that receives a request from one has no standardized way to confirm who the agent represents. ANS tackles this by linking each agent to a domain name its operator owns, the same way a website is tied to its domain. Each version of an agent gets its own name, such as ans://v1.4.2.travel.example.com. To register an agent, the operator first has to prove it controls that domain. Certificates are then issued for the agent, and every registration goes into a public log that anyone can read. ANS also publishes details about each agent in DNS, the internet’s address book, and other systems can then look them up with tools they already use. The main DNS records use a format from a separate project called DNS-AID. ANS adds one record of its own that points to the agent’s entry in the public log. When an agent sends a request, the receiving system can check that its registration exists, that it has not been revoked, and that the agent really holds the key tied to it. ANS only covers who the agent is. Deciding what it can do is left to the receiving system, and platforms have to add the check themselves. The setup behind ANS A technical steering committee now oversees the project. It starts with five seats, held by three people from GoDaddy, Ken Huang of DistributedApps.ai, and Michael Kantor of Hashgraph Online (HOL). That lineup is only a starting point. The first election has to be held within 12 months, and after it, the charter prevents any one company from holding half or more of the seats (to ensure vendor neutrality, I assume). The charter also mentions that meetings are meant to be open to the public and that discussions and decisions should be visible to everyone. As for all the code in the project, the Go, Rust, and Java libraries currently use the MIT license, but new code contributed from now on has to use the Apache 2.0 license. Some lore info ANS began in 2025 as a draft sent to the IETF, the internet standards body, and a follow-up came in October. Drafts like these have no formal standing at the IETF and are not endorsed by it. At present, the Linux Foundation calls the specification formalized. The reference code and a local demo are on the project’s GitHub page, and the specifications are on ansinfo.ai.

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