In numbers, the LibreOffice 24.8.1 point release addresses a total of 89 bugs. Details about these bugs are available in the RC1 and RC2 changelogs. The new release is available for download right from the official website as binaries for DEB and RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions.

I have a friend thats setting up linux (ubuntu) on his machine. He has a windows installation. I personally use mac as my primary OS, but I've had a linux partition on my machine as well, and I'm having a slightly hard time giving him good advice as to what solution he should choose when setting up linux (I don't even know how I would partition a disk on a windows machine to prep it for dual booting).

My question is quite simple: What are the pros/cons of WSL vs. Dual Booting vs. Virtualbox, both with regards to setup and with regards to usage?

recently I've started working with an open source java gui app that uses jpackage to generate system packages for distributions.

I'm interested in creating a flatpak for this, but I'm not sure what best practices look like for this. Should I attempt to take the files that are generated by jpackage and put those into a flatpak, or should I just take the jar file alone as provide that with a dependency on a runtime that provides java?

fair warning I am a noob in regards to flatpak

what is the best linux terminal? I have been using alacritty for years and have been doing well. But I don't think kitty and st. I was wondering if any new projects have come out in recent years.

What's everyone's preferred email client these days?

I am running Bazzite 40 on a system with an RTX 4080. Up until yesterday, I was connecting computer -> Samsung HW-Q900C soundbar -> Samsung Q90C TV. I learned that the soundbar doesn't have HDMI 2.1 ports which is why I hadn't been able to get 120Hz, so I changed my setup to computer -> TV + soundbar -> TV (eARC).

Now, I do have 120Hz, but I lost a bunch of other options in my display settings, including HDR. The only options I can set there now are resolution, orientation, refresh rate, and scale. I suspect this is an issue with the TV communicating its capabilities in a way the OS doesn't understand, but I'm not sure how to fix or work around it. Can anyone suggest a fix? Is there a setting I can change on the TV or maybe an app I can run on the computer to manually set the TV's capabilities?

Update: Just discovered kscreen-doctor. Here's the output:

Output: 445 HDMI-0
	enabled
	connected
	priority 1
	HDMI
	Modes:  446:3840x2160@60!  447:4096x2160@120  448:4096x2160@100  449:4096x2160@60  450:4096x2160@50  451:4096x2160@30  452:4096x2160@24  453:4096x2160@24  454:3840x2160@144  455:3840x2160@120*  456:3840x2160@100  457:3840x2160@60  458:3840x2160@50  459:3840x2160@30  460:3840x2160@25  461:3840x2160@24  462:3840x1600@144  463:3840x1600@120  464:3840x1600@60  465:3840x1080@144  466:3840x1080@120  467:3840x1080@60  468:2560x1440@120  469:2560x1080@144  470:2560x1080@120  471:2560x1080@60  472:1920x1080@144  473:1920x1080@120  474:1920x1080@100  475:1920x1080@60  476:1920x1080@60  477:1920x1080@50  478:1920x1080@30  479:1920x1080@25  480:1920x1080@24  481:1680x1050@60  482:1600x900@60  483:1440x900@60  484:1280x1024@75  485:1280x1024@60  486:1280x800@60  487:1280x720@60  488:1280x720@60  489:1280x720@50  490:1152x864@75  491:1024x768@75  492:1024x768@70  493:1024x768@60  494:800x600@75  495:800x600@72  496:800x600@60  497:720x576@50  498:720x480@60  499:640x480@75  500:640x480@73  501:640x480@60 
	Geometry: 0,0 3840x2160
	Scale: 1
	Rotation: 1
	Overscan: 0
	Vrr: incapable
	RgbRange: unknown
	HDR: incapable
	Wide Color Gamut: incapable
	ICC profile: incapable
	Color profile source: incapable

SOLUTION: Turns out this was my goof. I was trying to set up auto-login on my user account. In doing so, I set it to automatically log in to Plasma (X11) instead of Plasma (Wayland). Odd that the default option in that dropdown is not the one you’re currently using, but 🤷‍♂️.

What I’m now trying to figure out is why I can’t set auto-login for Plasma (Wayland). The Apply button is disabled. 🤔

Thanks to everyone who shared ideas.

I was excited to learn about two new terminal emulator app which seemed to have a lot of cool new features, warp and wave. Then I looked closer and found that both are a no go for me.

Warp is closed source and you need to create an account to use your terminal. Jebus Christus, no, thanks, but no.

Wave is an Electron app. While that's better than not having a Linux version, I've seen how Electron apps behave. They are the ones which hog all memory and get killed by the OS first. So that's a no from me too.

I guess I keep my Tilix for now.

Is it just me or did kdenlive broke for you too? I'm on an Archlinux based system and just updated the system. A few hours before update kdenlive worked. Update was not small, so its hard to tell the exact cause. I've tried to downgrade kdenlive, but same issue. I use Linux for a very long time now, but still get lost with errors like these.^^ Any idea what I should do? Does it work for you?

I get this on start (I reset the configuration files too):

$ kdenlive --version
kdenlive 24.08.1

$ kdenlive
kf.config.core: Watching absolute paths is not supported "/usr/share/color-schemes/BreezeDark.colors"
mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltsox.so
(libsox.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltrtaudio.so
(librtaudio.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltsdl.so
(libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
WARNING: All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR
E0000 00:00:1726202254.631983   14133 descriptor_database.cc:633] File already exists in database: versions.proto
F0000 00:00:1726202254.632005   14133 descriptor.cc:2236] Check failed: GeneratedDatabase()->Add(encoded_file_descriptor, size)
*** Check failure stack trace: ***
@     0x733c9e6b0e09  absl::lts_20240722::log_internal::LogMessage::SendToLog()
@     0x733c9e6b19ae  absl::lts_20240722::log_internal::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal()
@     0x733c64890955  (unknown)
@     0x733c649c228d  google::protobuf::internal::AddDescriptors()
@     0x733c65696125  (unknown)
@     0x733cdd22d6ad  (unknown)
@     0x733cdd22a5c2  _dl_catch_exception
@     0x733cdd2344fc  (unknown)
@     0x733cdd22a523  _dl_catch_exception
@     0x733cdd234904  (unknown)
@     0x733cd9e9ef14  (unknown)
@     0x733cdd22a523  _dl_catch_exception
@     0x733cdd22a679  (unknown)
@     0x733cd9e9e9f3  (unknown)
@     0x733cd9e9efcf  dlopen
@     0x733c9ea96c6c  mlt_register
@     0x733cdc3a2279  mlt_repository_init
@     0x733cdc386f52  mlt_factory_init
@     0x733cdc3605f5  Mlt::Factory::init()
@     0x5b73c4a7f0d5  (unknown)
@     0x5b73c4a3a285  (unknown)
@     0x5b73c4497d06  (unknown)
@     0x733cd9e34e08  (unknown)
@     0x733cd9e34ecc  __libc_start_main
@     0x5b73c44998d5  (unknown)
Aborted (core dumped)

My system if its relevant:

OS: EndeavourOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-arch1-2
Uptime: 1 hour, 10 mins
Packages: 1657 (pacman), 9 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.32
Display (AG271QG): 2560x1440 @ 120 Hz in 27″ [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.5
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3/4]
Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: NotoSans Nerd Font (12pt) [Qt], NotoSans Nerd Font (12pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 24.8.1
Terminal Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono (11pt)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (16) @ 5.57 GHz
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7600 (RADV NAVI33) [Discrete] Mesa 24.2.2-arch1.1
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO) [Integrated] Mesa 24.2.2-arch1.1
Memory: 3.00 GiB / 30.50 GiB (10%)
Swap: 65.00 MiB / 512.00 MiB (13%)
Disk (/): 550.90 GiB / 1.79 TiB (30%) - ext4
Disk (/media/Emulation): 4.47 TiB / 5.41 TiB (83%) - ext4
Disk (/media/My): 3.10 TiB / 3.58 TiB (87%) - ext4
Disk (/media/Work): 648.09 GiB / 915.82 GiB (71%) - ext4
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

https://github.com/neeeeow/Bluecurve

Someone has ported Bluecurve theme to GTK3/4.

I'm looking for a portable, very compact linux laptop.

Screen size: 12 inch or smaller Weight: less than 1 kg (2.2 pounds) Full hd screen

I did some googling and i only found a CHUWI laptop that suffers from an overheating issue.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1104312

The upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 operating system promises a new feature called “permissions prompting” for an extra layer of privacy and security.

The new permissions prompting feature in Ubuntu will let users control, manage, and understand the behavior of apps running on their machines. It leverages Ubuntu’s AppArmor implementation and enables fine-grained access control over unmodified binaries without having to change the app’s source code.

From Ubuntu Discourse: Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 5: Introducing Permissions Prompting

This solution consists of two new seeded components in Ubuntu 24.10, prompting-client and desktop-security-center alongside deeper changes to snapd and AppArmor available in the upcoming snapd 2.65. The first is a new prompting client (built in Flutter) that surfaces the prompt requests from the application via snapd. The second is our new Security Center:

In this release the Security Center is the home for managing your prompt rules, over time we will expand its functionality to cover additional security-related settings for your desktop such as encryption management and firewall control.

...

With prompting enabled, an application that has access to the home interface in its AppArmor profile will trigger a request to snapd to ask the user for more granular permissions at the moment of access:

As a result, users now have direct control over the specific directories and file paths an application has access to, as well its duration. The results of prompts are then stored in snapd so they can be queried and managed by the user via the Security Center.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28766034

Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?

Based on recommendations in that thread, I also checked:

/etc/systemd/system
/etc/default/
vboxautostart.service
KDE "restore session" settings

Any ideas are much appreciated!

Continued From: https://startrek.website/post/13283869 https://startrek.website/post/14075369

I managed to fix the one biggest gripe about my Thinkpad E16: the RTL8852BE Wi-Fi controller randomly dropping out. I actually found this a few days ago, but I had forgotten where I put the file I had edited. You put a file in modprobe.d called 70-rtw89.conf. Both /etc/modprobe.d/ and /usr/lib/modprobe.d work - I used the latter, but for the sake of conventions, you should probably use the former.

You then put in these options for the rtw89 module: options rtw89_pci disable_clkreq=y disable_aspm_l1=y disable_aspm_l1ss=y

Now, my Thinkpad is a fully functional Linux laptop. I will be docking it to an 8 from my initial score of 8.5, but I'm back to liking it for now. If you apply the fix, be sure to update the firmware as well - some older distros have an old version that works but returns a lot of journalctl error on this card.

Update: What do you know! The updated firmware-realtek just went into backports!

Thanks, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-6.1/+bug/2017277

Whilst BSD isn't linux per se, it still has a lasting legacy in the unix like space and notably has been used in game consoles like the PS4.

For you in your personal use case, have you tried a bsd distro? What was better compared to the average linux distro?

Apparently BSD is more modular with its jailing system and seems to have a lower resource usage.

I look at ones like NETBSD and FreeBSD and think, "what exactly do I get out of them that I wouldn't with Linux say, Ubuntu or Void as an example?

What are your thoughts on BSD, you use FreeBSD before?

What do you consider to be the "Goldilocks" distro? the one that balances ease of install and use, up-to-date, stability, speed, etc... You get the idea.

I'm not a newb, these last few years I've lived in the Debian and derivatives side of things, but I've used RH, Slackware, Puppy :), and older stuff, like mandrake/mandriva and others. Never tried Suse or Arch, and while Nix looks appealing, I need something to put in production rapidly. I have tried Kinoite in a VM, but I couldn't install something (which I can't remember), and that turned me off.

Oh I'm on Mint right now, because lazy, but it's acting up with a couple of VMs, which I need, I really don't have the time or desire to maybe spend two days troubleshooting, and I'm a bit fed up with out of date pkgs.