Notices tagged with linux, page 37

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Oh, well 🤐

#arch #linux

How to show dropped packets per interface on #Linux https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-show-dropped-packets-per-interface-command/

Just quit it 😛

#vim #linux

@itsfoss this a great news for #linux #gamers indeed 🤩

@aral vast bulk of funding goes to server #linux kernel features, which is why the kernel is incredibly robust compared to in particular OSX's kernel. Right now, for example, #Pop_OS is building their new #Cosmic desktop/compositor, with a team of 7 developers. MS, Apple, Google field 10s of thousands, and can assign any group of them to any feature, that's their job.

I'd say if you interact with Linux, desktops, compositors, tools, and go YES!, it's for you. If not, maybe not best fit.

@aral Standard desktop #Linux just broke 3% global market-share. Almost nobody pays a cent for their non-commercial Linux. There is a constant theme I find that "oh they should do this or that", as if there were thousands of developers just itching to donate time worth often north of $200 an hour for a lifetime payback of often 0, or very close to 0.

Because of this reality, free desktops (free as in liberty) remain largely engineer built and oriented. Not right choice for everyone. Can't be.

@aral when I was doing active #linux forum and IRC distro support, there was a specific type of user, who never stayed, never contributed anything, yet was the most loudly vocal in demanding x or y feature, with a certain sense of entitlement that could only come from using apple or MS products their whole lives, never realizing the true cost they were paying. Chromebook similar issue re google.

I no longer do that type of support, thankfully. Ask yourself: what did you pay? who did the work?

#linux #linuxgaming

Q. “I am blind, and I have been since 2021. I have grown very accustomed to using NVDA on Windows, which is a free open source screen reader. It's great… my question is, does Linux have good support for screen reading software?”

A. “As someone that deals with this on a daily basis: The short answer is 'no' … The best advice I can give you is to not bother investing too much in Linux and keep with Windows, or move to macOS.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/13rym2j/linux_and_scren_readers_for_the_blind/

#accessibility #linux #wayland #a11y

If you want your Firefox windows to look like native GNOME/GTK windows (with rounded corners on all four sides):

1. In the location bar, enter:

about:config

2. In the search, enter:

rounded

3. Set the value of widget.gtk.rounded-bottom-corners-enabled to true

#firefox #gnome #tweak #window #consistency #linux

If you ever feel like your life has no purpose, just remember that there's someone at Microsoft whose job is to make sure Microsoft Edge works on #Linux.

Someone please tell me screen reader support isn’t broken on the major Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu that ship Wayland as default.

(I can’t get the modifier key for Orca to work under the latest Fedora Silverblue and, according to the linked issue, it’s because… it just doesn’t work under Wayland? That can’t be right, right? It would mean the major Linux distributions are inaccessible.)

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/425

#accessibility #a11y #linux #fedora #ubuntu #orca #gnome

You’d think that in 2024 you’d have an easier way to enter a true minus sign glyph (−) instead of a dash (-) in Linux.

And this isn’t just one for typography geeks either, it’s an accessibility issue. Imagine you have a minus button. A screenreader would read it as a dash button unless you used the proper character. (The workaround, of course, is to use aria-label.)

#typography #characters #accessibility #a11y #linux #web

How did the #Linux systems administrator find true love?

.... He grep'd for it. 🤓

Here is how to add some spice to your sudo session with a lecture file on #Linux or #Unix or #macOS terminal session: https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/command-line-hacks/adding-spice-to-your-sudo-session-with-a-lecture-file-on-linux-or-unix/ #opensource

Do you miss the Windows 3-era UI? Try the progman, a simple X11 window manager modeled after the Windows 3 era for #Linux and #Unix. Source code is here --> https://github.com/jcs/progman #opensource

Relatable? 😆

#linux

In Linux, after changing a user's group memberships, those group changes don't always take effect immediately within their current session without logging out. This can lead to issues with permissions and access to resources. This page explains using the 'sg' and 'newgrp' commands to refresh a user's group membership in Linux without a complete logout and login. See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-refresh-reload-group-membership-without-logging-reboot/ for all examples. #linux #sysadmin #devops

I have just started testing Incus, which is a fork of LXD. So far, so good. Why am I testing this one? Linux containers started blocking all LXD images, and Canonical only currently maintains Ubuntu images only (see https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/important-notice-for-lxd-users-image-server/18479). Ugh. But luckily, all commands are the same before I get into Ansible. #debian #linux