Linux

https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/

As October is coming, I want to advertise Linux to people before the end of service for windows 10.

Endof10 campaign guide does not seem useful.

Is there is any good recent detailed guide to switch to Linux from Windows 10?

https://account.hypr.land/

(from Vaxry, creator of Hyprland)

Hey hey people, vax here.

I've seen the post about Hyprland Premium go a bit viral and people don't seem to understand fully what we're doing.

There is a reason no pages link to the account. subdomain, because it's a work in progress, after all. That's why wording is a bit lacking, that's why registrations are closed.

Anyways, here are some key takeaways:

Yes, it's real

It's the official website. I did not get hacked.

Hyprland is not going closed source

It says that in the first sentence on the page. No paid features, beta branches, etc. We continue development as always.

Why money

I need something to eat too. Once I end university, if I can't make this my full-time job, I will have to severely decrease my contributions in favor of a real job. If this gets us somewhere, it will be only with benefits to you, the users. If I get enough money to hire another guy to help me work on Hyprland full time, I will.

Forums:

Already on forum.hypr.land. To log in, you need a Hyprland Account, that's why we haven't "fully" launched them yet.

"Premium" Forums:

Additional categories on the same forum for premium subscribers - these include premium support (where you get answers from me instead of the community at large), Q&A with me, and some banter chats.

Desktop Experience:

Free desktop experience: Dotfiles provided by us, with one-click installs and updates.

Premium desktop experience: Same as above, but with more customization options. (dotfile customizations, e.g. "bar on what side", "what button where", etc, not Hyprland features)

"Further premium services":

A general catch-all clause if any premium services come out in the future, they will most likely just be a part of the premium subscription. This might be dotfile sync, or other ideas. We don't know yet, that's why we didn't say.

Cheers, happy Hyprlanding.

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

The computers in my house are mostly Linux

1. Fedora desktops for my wife and myself
2. Fedora KDE laptops for the kids
3. Alma for the various servers
4. Hell, I've got Linux running on a couple of the old tablets, even.

Work laptop is the only exception - it's win11 and intune-managed, and it slows me down every day. Fortunately, I'm half of the department that manages, among other things, the intune and entra stuff - so as long as I can switch without losing all the compliance stuff, I'm golden. Unfortunately, intune portal for linux is a giant piece of dogshit, so i still havent been able to switch.

Try to enroll, it throws a security error - unenrolled devices aren't allowed to access anything. Yes, there's an exception for intune portal. No, that exception doesn't extend to intune portal for linux.

Add an exception for the Linux version of intune and finally get the device enrolled. Success! Reboot into Windows to copy some files over, then reboot back into linux, now the device isn't enrolled anymore. And re-enrolling doesn't work, for some reason.

Check intune console, device shows up as unmanaged and not enrolled, because there aren't any Linux compliance policies available to attach to the device. Try to add a compliance policy for Linux, and that isn't an allowed policy type for linux devices.

I've probably spent 30 hours on this whole thing, over the last 3 months. Fuck you Microsoft. Supported on Linux, yeah right.

I think the least that distros can do, is allow listing all packages and system settings in config files like .toml rather than having to type in every single package to install, or click through system setting GUIs to setup. Would that require using a whole programming language or system like NIx?

While NixOS works much differently from most distros, that's the only reason I use it: package and system settings in text files. If I fix something, it's fixed permanently, I don't need to hunt down files in random directories if I want to change a setting. If I ever need to reinstall the OS I don't have to write dnf install every single damn package and manually setup all that up all over again. Having daily-drove Windows macOS & Fedora as throughout the years, my setups have felt hacky as well as houses of cards as I've wanted or had to set them up again (I don't mean Fedora specifically, but distros in general).

Basically it feels insane that it's the way most linux users and servers in the world operate. If I, a humble computer hobbyist can figure out Nix, why don't more users do so, and why is Nix so niche?

I want to see either a persistent rectangle box on the edges of the region being recorded (anything outside the box isn't recorded), or dim the parts of the screen that aren't being recorded. I looked for screen recorders for hyprland & wlroots and didn't find any with this functionality. wf-recorder + slurp works for me but I want a boundary visual.

I've been on the fence since I've been trying Hyprland. What I want out of a window manager / DE is lots of window customization settings (borders, animations, etc.), & having configuration inside one file or one directory with hot-reloading (I'm switching from KDE since its config files all over the place). Hyprland is very popular among WM users with a large ecosystem, though I prefer stacking rather than tiling. I can make it work with some window rules, and shell scripts using hyprctl & jq.

I'm wondering how many little things I will need to fix / figure out. For instance, when I open the firefox bookmarks library with CTRL SHIFT O. When that window is open but not focused, and not on top, if I press CTRL SHIFT O again on a DE it comes back to the top, but not on Hyprland. I could probably find a fix for that?

I might be answering my own question but I really want to hear thoughts.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/27854381

Meme transcription:

[Guy looking happy:] Hey, there’s a Linux version of that program I like

[Guy looking disappointed:] Closed Source, no ARM support

I'm trying to generate AppArmor policies to secure my "major/internet-facing" programs.
Most of those programs are Flatpaks.
Flatpaks already have their own sandboxing mechanism, which uses bwrap and XDG portals.
Does AppArmor have any weird interactions with Flatpak, e. g. blocking too much, or blocking too little, or being unable to block anything without rendering the whole program unusable?

i've been having problems with xfce where themes with rounded corners show a black box behind the whisker menu and even with the following code in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

}#whiskermenu-window { border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-shadow: none; border-image: none; background-image: none; outline: none; }

searches on duckduckgo returned nothing but after a few months with this problem i found a solution on google on the zorin os forums

the modifications: first, in the gtk.css file: __#whiskermenu-window frame>border { border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-shadow: none; border-image: none; background-image: none; outline: none; }_

then in the whisker menu properties, turn the opactiy to 99

no idea how or why this works but it just works :)

Good morning everyone!

I just had a question on how to go about the age-old problem of having files created on a unix-like system (Linux, Mac etc.) that need to be shared with a Windows machine. Specifically, some files in my e-book and manga library have “?” and “:” in their titles (and possibly some other reserved characters). Sadly, Syncthing (my file syncing solution of choice) has no solution for this and just creates an error on the Windows machine where my e-book library is shared.

What is an easy, semi-automatic solution for renaming files to allow portability between operating systems? Ideally I would like to create a shell script that I can just run on a folder that will recursively descend through the directory structure.

Thank you in advance :)