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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Is there an RSS feed for this? Couldn't find one.

Edit: Doesn't seem like there is one just for the apps, but it's part of the KDE Blogs RSS feed: https://blogs.kde.org/index.xml

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I like the before more. I would also like the color of the active tab to be the same as the area’s backgroud it’s connected to, like in Linux Mint’s default theme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's weird how the templates folder is so rarely used. Even on Gnome, where basic things like creating a .txt is not there (only new folder), "new user friendly" distros like Ubuntu don't add them as templates.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Not aware of any correct pictures, but I can tell you what's wrong with this one

  • /usr: explaining it as "Unix System Resources" is a bit vague
  • /bin: /bin is usually a symlink to /usr/bin
  • /sbin: /sbin is usually a symlink to /usr/sbin, distros like Fedora are also looking into merging sbin into bin
  • /opt: many, I'd say most, "add-on applications" put themselves in bin
  • /media: /media is usually a symlink to /run/media, also weird to mention CD-ROMs when flash drives and other forms of storage get mounted here by default
  • /mnt: i would disagree about the temporary part, as I mentioned before, stuff like flash drives are usually mounted in /run/media by default
  • /root: the root user is usually not enabled on home systems
  • /lib: /lib is usually a symlink to /usr/lib

I would also like the mention that the FHS standard wasn't designed to be elegant, well thought out system. It mainly documents how the filesystem has been traditionally laid out. I forget which folder(s), but once a new folder has been made just because the main hard drive in a developer's system filled up so they created a new folder named something different on a secondary hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don’t get why this sort of picture always gets posted and upvoted when it’s wrong for most distros nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My drive was brand new when the issue started. I don’t think SMART showed anything wrong with it, apart maybe from the improper shutdowns count.

Not sure if it was Linux only, I never had Windows installed on that drive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I experienced that failed run shutdown binary a lot, the issue was that the OS I installed the drive on was defective. In use, the entire filesystem would become read only, the OS would freak out, and shutting down would fail with that message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

LLMs are expensive to run, so locally running them saves Google money.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a way for just your home folder to be encrypted, Linux Mint has it as an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fedora Silverblue is great, it's my daily driver.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can sleep "sleep". All system components are still powered on at this stage, so it uses the most power. But at the same time it's the quickest to get back into your system. All that's really happening with sleep is that the screen turns off.

Then you have suspend. Laptops often first go to sleep but then suspend after a long period of inactivity to save battery.

Then you have hibernation. I don't think this is used that often nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

That's true for hibernation, but not suspending. Hibernation stores everything in RAM onto the disk then shuts off the PC; to resume the system, you need to unlock the disk to access that data. Suspending doesn't turn off the computer, it keeps the CPU and RAM active.

On my Fedora system, I can hit the suspend button and get back into the OS without needing to type my encryption password, only my user password.

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