Linux Uprising

Or, for Youtube (I guess you could use the same device for Netflix, Plex client, etc.), you could get the best of both worlds: Chromecast-like controls for YouTube and an ad blocker (the info from that link can be adapted for a desktop): https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/04/how-to-cast-youtube-videos-from-…

I recommend Nemo. If on Ubuntu, follow this guide: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/07/how-to-replace-nautilus-with-nem…

Krunner is great (and similar to what you can do with the Gnome shell search or OS X spotlight), but it won't search the menu of your current application. There are plenty of hints how to restore a Unity-like global menu feeling with Gnome, for instance https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/how-to-add-global-menu-and-hud-t… -- you can also get a global menu in KDE Plasma, it's called "Application Menu Bar" and seems to be included by default. I neither tested both of them. Here is a GIF of a similar function: https://149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mate-… -- the name of this tool seems to be Mate HUD, cf. https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud

Give Pop_OS[1] a shot, it lets you switch between iGPU and dGPU. Been using it on my Thinkpad P1 works well for my workflow, I almost always use the iGPU and for tasks that need dGPU I am usually plugged into power. I get good battery life this way. But I agree, MX250 option isn't worth it for the amount of GPU power it gives and the complications it brings under Linux. >I hope the next generation fixes this and/or we finally get good nvidia drivers. GPU offloading is being worked on by nvidia[2] so there is indeed hope. [1] https://system76.com/pop [2] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/08/nvidia-43517-linux-beta-driver-a… [3] https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power/pull/111

> - This may or may not mean that major distributions binary packages will simply stop being verifiable - it depends on who uses what key server in what chain of trust. We probably won't find out till more bad actors poison more wells Debian keys come from keyring.debian.org, so ??? I'm guessing that chains of trust from there go through the SKS keyservers. If that's so, Debian updates will likely be hosed at some point. Unless you disable authentication. I have noticed that Whonix now includes onion links to repositories. So maybe that'd be safe enough without GnuPG authentication. Yes? Edit: It does look bad for the Debian family: A recent guide[0] recommends pulling missing repository keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net: > sudo apt update 2>&1 1>/dev/null | sed -ne 's/.NO_PUBKEY //p' | while read key; do if ! [[ ${keys[]} =~ "$key" ]]; then sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys "$key"; keys+=("$key"); fi; done Just tweak that a hair, and you have a list of all Debian package keys in the keyserver. How long before some jerk hits them with trollwot? I wonder how many millions of Debian family installs could be blocked from updating. Blame the SKS people, the Debian people, or whatever you like, but this could turn out very painful. The only bright side, which seemed like a bug until this shit show, is that Debian etc by default don't search for missing keys. 0)…

My xps-15 sounds like a jet engine when I'm watching a YouTube video. Mainly because Ubuntu + Chrome + Nvidia chipset do not play well together so it's all software decoded. The solutions are either: "run all these brittle steps to built your own Chromium[1]" or "go buy a different $3000 laptop because Linux (Ubuntu?) is very brittle when it comes to hardware support." My third solution, which I promised myself I'd do over the holidays but never got to, is migrating fully over to MacOS so I can stop thinking so much about my tools and get back to thinking about my projects. [1] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/01/how-to-enable-hardware-accelerat…

"Google Chrome 88 (and newer) has made hardware accelerated video decoding available on Linux, but it's not enabled by default. " https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/01/how-to-enable-hardware-accelerat… Still doesn't support DRM for Netflix tho (so you're stuck with a low bitrate netflix)

Pdf.js (which Firefox uses) does support filling out Acrobat Forms (acroforms as well as XFA). Possibly the PDF you have is corrupted? You can read more about PDF.js support for forms here.[0] Libreoffice also supports creating Acrobat Forms.[1] [0] https://blog.mozilla.org/attack-and-defense/2021/10/14/implementing-fo… [1] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/02/how-to-create-fillable-pdf-forms…

Does this help you? https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/09/how-to-disable-gnomes-overlay.ht…

plocate [1] is even faster (but of course with either you need to re-scan the whole FSes and rebuild indexes to have an up-to-date view). [1] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/09/plocate-is-much-faster-locate-dr…

In my screen, 1x and 2x are both inadequate, but I'm using Gnome on Wayland on 1.25 scaling right now. Gnome can do fractional scaling. You just need to configure it with a gsettings command: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-enable-hidpi-fractional-s… https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Fractional_scaling Or using gnome-tweaks. Then, on display settings, it should show up the new scaling configs. And, in Gnome it's very sharp, with zero blurring! It was somehow sharper than whatever KDE was doing when I tested it some months ago.

/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d is being deprecated also in favour of signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/keyfile.gpg https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/01/apt-key-is-deprecated-how-to-add…

If in Gnome, fractional scaling is possible but not enabled by default. I use 125% and it has been fine. I did it via Gnome-tweak, or you can manually enable it [1]. [1] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-enable-hidpi-fractional-s…

> System76 with Pop_OS! has an opportunity to tackle topics head on like "we can make fractional scaling work somewhat decently across all apps" (IIUC currently requires shipping a forked XWayland, unfortunately) I'm excited to see System76's implementation of fractional scaling in this new desktop environment. Since they have actually sold laptops with 1080p and sometimes 4K displays, they have a real incentive to get this feature working smoothly on Wayland. System76 previously developed a HiDPI daemon for X11 to be used with GNOME Shell: - Blog post: https://blog.system76.com/post/174414833678/all-about-the-hidpi-daemon - Help page: https://support.system76.com/articles/hidpi-multi-monitor/ - Source: https://github.com/pop-os/hidpi-daemon It handles multiple scaling factors, including fractional ones, flawlessly across displays. If the next version of COSMIC supports fractional scaling on Wayland as well as this daemon does on X11, this alone would make the entire project worthwhile. GNOME Shell still hides fine-grained fractional scaling behind an experimental flag for both X11 and Wayland,[1] with X11 needing a patch for Mutter.[2] [1] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-enable-hidpi-fractional-s… [2] https://github.com/puxplaying/mutter-x11-scaling

I don't remember the details, but I remember it wasn't nearly as simple as toggling a switch. I remember it involving a mixture of: * Setting custom startup flags to chrome * accessing a hidden dev-specific page and turning on acceleration features that were deemed unsupported or experimental. This page looks related though I don't remember if these exact instructions worked for me or not: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/01/how-to-enable-hardware-accelerat… I had to do a bunch of research before I arrived at a working solution. After I enabled these features, my desktop started encountering a problem where I would have to kill and restart the display manager once, and thereafter the display manager would occasionally hang and I'd have to restart it. It was manageable with a few days research and technical skill, but it's not the kind of thing you would expect most people to put up with. Another thing to note, Chrome's software renderer didn't seem to play well with my skylake? integrated graphics. Not only was it slow, but buggy with screen tearing and other visual artifacts. So I had to get acceleration working so my browser would both render properly and be reasonably responsive and performant.

The hard case of syncing files between OS is one they are already handling what they deliberately stopped handling was any other filesystem on Linux other than ext4. This actually doesn't make much sense as logically they ought to be depending on an abstract interface to the filesystem not a particular filesystem unless the filesystem in question actually lacks features required to make the software work. This is actually so because it actually did work for years across a wide variety of filesystems. I was syncing files between one machine with ext4, one with zfs, and my android device without difficulty. This is perceptibly to the user like websites that used to check to see if you were running internet explorer and auto fail if you were running firefox. It actually works if you fake the user agent. Humorously you actually can work around the problem in the same fashion. https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/11/how-to-use-dropbox-on-non-ext4.h… However its easier and safer just to drop dropbox.