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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gnome and KDE are not doing the same thing.

KDE will continue to offer an X11 session for the time being:

Current status: Plasma’s X11 session continues to be maintained.

https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/

Gnome will disable the X11 session in the next release and then remove the code:

The most likely scenario is that all the X11 session code stays disabled by default for 49 with a planned removal for GNOME 50.

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/08/the-x11-session-removal/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do here. Are you

  1. Trying to create a new owncloud instance and put your data somewhere other than in /var, or
  2. Try to move the data location of an existing owncloud instance?

If you're trying to do the second one, there's a useful guide on it here: https://omiid.me/notebook/25/move-docker-volume-to-bind-mount. The first one should be even simpler, you can just replace the volumes in the compose file by bind mounts (basically, just this step of the tutorial: https://omiid.me/notebook/25/move-docker-volume-to-bind-mount#modifying-docker-compose).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

The Windows filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS. Basically, don't try to share the game drive with Windows.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

If you have an AMD GPU (except for the very latest GPUs), you should be good out of the box. The AMD driver comes pre-installed with mesa.

Other than that... don't use NTFS to store your games.

Edit: Maybe I misunderstood your question. I understood it as: What are some recommended changes to do after installing a Linux distro. Did you meant to ask about differences between distros?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Probably trying to share a Stream drive between Linux and Windows. Trying to run games from NTFS just didn't work and resulted in all kinds of weird issues. I was close to giving up on Linux but after I switched to an ext3 partition things just started working :|

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

AFAIK, this corresponds to the snap package of Steam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In Fedora, Discover shows this in the top right corner. It also shows the available package sources under Settings. Perhaps this is not yet available in the older Debian version of Discover. You could also just look at the version of certain software. E.g., if GIMP is version 3.x it's a flatpak (or snap), otherwise it's a Debian package.

Discover showing Flathub source

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

The Linux Experiment recently looked into touchscreen support of different desktop enviromenents. His findings mostly align with your comment. However, this seems to be one of the rare cases where the distro matters for Gnome. Upstream Gnome (e.g., as shipped by Fedora) works fine with touch screens, but support on Ubuntu Gnome appears to be quite broken.

The Linux Experiment videos:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's not the most simple and user-friendly program out there. I guess it's primarily meant for more advanced use cases where you want to do more than just keeping your firmware up to date.

I have the same "Attestation: Not OK" on two different computers, I've decided to ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It seems that mintupdate doesn't integrate with fwupd (yet): https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/issues/237

If you prefer, you could also use Gnome Firmware instead of Gnome Software.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the "Nvidia (GTX 9xx-10xx Series)" should be the correct driver for your GPU. It seems that both desktop and notebook GPUs used the same architecture in this case.

I think the difference is that Bazzite chooses the open source Nvidia kernel driver for the newer GPUs. That one doesn't support the GTX 900 series, so you'll get the older proprietary kernel driver.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, that seems quite weird and not customer friendly at all. I was wondering if it has something to do with Steam's in-game purchase conditions (mostly the fee).

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