I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
I once just uninstalled sudo and replaced it with doas. Turns out, the shutdown process needs sudo and a lot more. So I am still using my system since then, without shutting down.
No joking, I use Fedora Atomic and can not break my system... unless you mess up your dotfiles, and a lot more.
I also put a drive into my /etc/fstab once without the nofail argument.
No idea why that is not set by default, but when removing that drive my system couldnt boot and I exited to a very scary dracut shell.
I tried to install an OS to a USB stick. This is Kubuntu specific.
You need to create a GPT partition on the stick, then you should be able to just use the installer and install on another USB stick.
I went through it, selected the usb stick... was not sure if everything was right and went a menu back, was correct, went forth again, past the install target selection and installed.
Well... turns out the Kubuntu installer (Calamares) selects the first disk always. And that selection seems to reset to default when going a menu back....
I deleted my complete normal disk, with like everything I had.
No Backup no mercy. Luckily did one only a few weeks before. The first since half a year! Damn... had my uni stuff on Nextcloud, a lot of personal stuff synced to my phone with syncthing.
No this is actually working perfectly, on Wayland.
Drag, i get a miniature transparent window, move to other window, place next to a tab and that needle appears, done.
So dragging a tab to another window works. But true, dragging a tab and it immediately becomes a window doesnt. But that is quite aggressive UI wise, so I think its fair to not add it.
The preview plugin uses Okular, or at least some part of it.
On Kinoite Okular is no longer installed as system package, and it works well as Flatpak.
But yes, I should layer Okular again and try, because in my experience the preview had another issue (background follows system theme i.e. dark, causes flickers)
Same. I really need to learn typst, it is very cool.
Markdown is kinda useless, because
Always when I want to make notes, I want WYSIWYG to actually work with them. I dont write them for someone else or something. Pandocs defaults using texlive are bad, Okulars markdown style is also not very nice.
I need something more powerful for actual papers, just like Typst. Possibly other candidates too, but it needs pagination and more.
With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.
This sounds cool, but relies completely on OpenPGP. That is secure enough, right?
But this also means
no metadata security
no usernames
no comment
It is cool, but only having a single entry means you can not replace the website with a more anonymous placeholder.
For sure this tool sounds pretty great! Especially encrypting everything seperately is very nice.
But sometimes getting a name might already be too much.
Also to avoid big brother connecting all data, I normally have an entry like
Entry: MSOffice
username: alias1+website@mail.org
password: •••••••••••••••••••••
URL: xxxxx
Comment:
Username: xxxxxxxxx
name: albert einstein
birthday: 2.6.1956
Security question 1 2 3
TOTP backup keys: xxxx
Random comment
This is all not possible, which means I would need the same username everywhere, or remember it (I dont, I have 300 Keepass entries).
In KeepassXC I have a single file. Hackers would need to bruteforce only one. But at least they wouldnt know exactly what they want to decrypt.
For the past few months I have been working on a simple windows notepad like text editor. It's nothing special, but when I first switched to linux I looked around and it took me a while to find leafpad. Unlike leafpad however, Janus uses gtk3, a much more modern toolkit then gtk2, it can display and modify binary data, and it...
For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy....
They host a proprietary service that does all the stuff, the compiler and spec are completely FOSS. So you need to create your own implementations, which is not hard.
I dont think they will close source the compiler. And thats basically everything thats needed?
I have 0 problems with people creating a fancy proprietary implementation to get people hooked. I will never use an online editor, but why care?
Many projects need to be rewritten from scratch I think. But I also think an easier markup language for LaTeX could be possible, keeping all the nice templates etc.
No, but Overleaf is just a proprietary fancy editor like the Typst one. Meanwhile typst is just as usable for building editor too.
I dont see any arguments against typst really. I am using Markdown all time and find it best, but lacking. Then LaTeX, honestly I dont want to learn as it must be a pain to write.
Now in typst, you can write academic papers etc just as well. All you need is free software, with good backing, modern tooling (rust, cargo), thus it runs everywhere. Its pretty cool!
What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
Is there an extension like special workspaces like in Hyprland for GNOME?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14721267
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KeepassXC: progress on port to Qt6 ( github.com )
Janus, a simple text editor
For the past few months I have been working on a simple windows notepad like text editor. It's nothing special, but when I first switched to linux I looked around and it took me a while to find leafpad. Unlike leafpad however, Janus uses gtk3, a much more modern toolkit then gtk2, it can display and modify binary data, and it...
determining why/how hardware is supported in one distro but not another?
For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy....
Question about Xfce vs. MATE
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I just though I'd share...
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Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland ( bugs.launchpad.net )
This is too great not to share. Wayland devs hate this trick! I'll copy what I did from the bug report....
Tips on how to structure your home directory ( unixdigest.com )
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