I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle....
I don’t consider MAC OSX as part of BSD, just like Android isn’t part of Linux Desktop, but only uses the Linux kernel. OSX took parts of BSD and shielded it behind a proprietary wall, because the BSD license offer no protection from that. So they become separate projects the moment they enter the Apple domain.
Check : What happened to the open source Apple Darwin OS then ?
tl;dr : Darwin OS is kind of obsoleted.
Up to Darwin 8.0.1, released in April 2005, Apple released a binary installer (as an ISO image) after each major Mac OS X release that allowed one to install Darwin on PowerPC and Intel x86 systems as a standalone operating system.[12] Minor updates were released as packages that were installed separately. Darwin is now only available as source code. As of January 2023, Apple no longer mentions Darwin by name on its Open Source website and only publishes an incomplete collection of open-source projects relating to macOS and iOS.
I’ve had LMDE6 installed since it’s release day and everything has been fine. For the past week it’s been dropping my wifi card randomly. It is not recognized by rfkill nor lspci after it happens. Only reboot helps....
No worries. The archive.ph link gave me a Google reCAPTCHA to solve 😱 but the original link was perfectly readable for me. What were the paywall comments about, was it a non EU thing ?
To extend the link collection here’s a WayBackMachine one :
Just switched to a new phone carrier, and they had a promotion that included a free phone: the Google Pixel 8. I’m not a fan of Google, but I am a fan of free, so I took the bait....
If you cannot use another OS yet, install F-Droid and then install NetGuard. In NetGuard enable blocking of system apps in the settings and continue and block all apps. Then allow only the apps you need.
I came from Arch to Void just today and after installing KDE and enabling dbus, I enabled SDDM, I type in my password and it says login failed, I tried lightdm, I couldn’t login neither in my user account nor root, I setup plasma to run with xinit, plasma did launch successfully, but sudo NEVER worked inside plasma, it always...
Do have the startx command installed ? You can use that from the command line without DisplayManager (Switch to a virtual console with e.g. ctrl-alt-F2). And with XFCE4 you can use the command startxfce4 to start from the command line without DisplayManager. This could help troubleshoot.
I don’t know if I didn’t install non free firmware. Pavucontrol is installed. If I type alsa on a terminal it returns: bash: alsa: command not found....
ifconfig is deprecated for a long time I think. Not even sure if some Debian package still provides it. I’ve switched to ip a and ip r and cat /etc/resolv.conf to look at such issues as OP has.
You should be able to use nmtui tool in the text terminal to activate your network connection. From the terminal you can also use the startx command to try and see if that would show you a GUI or other useful errors.
I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.
That makes me think that I always thought that security was a joke included with Microsoft products. Already from the MS-DOS days onward. And I guess the other commenter is right : Microsoft does not want to annoy their users.
Fixed an issue that led to opening a new Desktop App window when users clicked on the Update button of the Calendar Drawer in Mail. Uninstalling the application on Windows removes user data from the application data folders. The application is placed to a correct application category on Linux. No need to refresh the other application (Mail or Calendar) to apply changes when switching themes.
Some other contributors suggest I use a live usb, not installing the OS but using the live usb with working wlan to complete the installation, but this seems to be more complicated than working directly from initramfs.
My suggestion was to use live usb to find your /home files. Indeed using live usb and then using chroot to complete the upgrade from 23.10 to 24.04 is maybe more difficult (As /dev and /proc and /sys need to get mounted with the chroot). If I were you I would first find your /home files and make a backup and after that proceed with upgrading.
Small breakthrough: I booted the system without problems to tty1 (I believe this is called single user mode), logged in as an old user and now I can see all my data, logged in as old me.
Nice.
Do you still recommend to backup from live usb and upgrade from there?
I would backup from live usb and then when that is done stop using the live usb, reboot and try to upgrade via the recovery mode.
Is this because I am using a free tier VPN? so it’s not functioning properly etc…
Does Proton not have a page to check your IP address and check for DNS leaks (Mullvad does : mullvad.net/en -> Check for leaks) ?
Did you look up your IP address by other means ?
On the desktop with Linux you can check the content of /etc/resolv.conf and ip a (Your local IP) and ip r (Gateway address).
Else google fixed my location based on my previous location history? I used my google applications without VPN for many years, I am just learning & following privacy tips recently.
Are the sessions from your last login ? With some applications (Dunno about Google) you can delete older sessions from the overview.
Linux really has come a long way
I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle....
LMDE6 started to drop Realtek wifi card
I’ve had LMDE6 installed since it’s release day and everything has been fine. For the past week it’s been dropping my wifi card randomly. It is not recognized by rfkill nor lspci after it happens. Only reboot helps....
Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start
While other flatpak apps have no problems. Any suggestions?
[opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it (fortune.com)
archive.today link...
Probably a stupid question, but what can I do to 'degoogle' a Google Pixel 8?
Just switched to a new phone carrier, and they had a promotion that included a free phone: the Google Pixel 8. I’m not a fan of Google, but I am a fan of free, so I took the bait....
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) (samcurry.net)
cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/20097432...
Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60,000 lines of code? - Interview with lead programmer of the video game Craftomation 101. (blog.luden.io)
How to focus my time on creating free/libre software but still survive?
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[HELP] I can't login nor elevate permissions in dm/de
I came from Arch to Void just today and after installing KDE and enabling dbus, I enabled SDDM, I type in my password and it says login failed, I tried lightdm, I couldn’t login neither in my user account nor root, I setup plasma to run with xinit, plasma did launch successfully, but sudo NEVER worked inside plasma, it always...
Want the Universe? | TWIF generated on Thursday, 30 May 2024, Week 22 (f-droid.org)
[SOLVED] cannot play audio on a fresh installed debian 12 xfce
I don’t know if I didn’t install non free firmware. Pavucontrol is installed. If I type alsa on a terminal it returns: bash: alsa: command not found....
Fucked up my system pretty bad whilst trying to install drivers
Hey guys,...
How come Windows and macOS users don't have to enter their password every time they need administrator privileges?
Isn’t it enough to just enter your password once to login, then receive a warning whenever you’re about to do something potentially dangerous?...
questions about debian xfce
long time xubuntu user, now on 24.04....
Proton Mail release notes/changelog for Linux Desktop app?
Does anyone know where I can find this? Doesn’t seem to be on Github or anywhere else that I can find.
Shoelace: Alternative frontend for Instagram's Threads (sr.ht)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9961019...
Don't see many mentions to Waterfox? (www.waterfox.net)
Waterfox is a browser, obviously based on Firefox, but without default “junk” that Firefox comes with....
how do I enable wlan as root from initramfs?
upgrading xubuntu 23.10 to 24.04....
Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) (lemmy.world)
I am currently using Proton VPN (free tier) which is set to Always-ON and Block Connections on disable....
Ultramarine Linux 40 Released! (blog.fyralabs.com)