Reading up on RDP as it’s something I do not utilize, I wondered just how encumbered RDP is compared to Spice and VNC. Wonder how third-party server and clients are handling the patent-encumbered protocol.
Do third parties implement an older standard of the RDP protocol that isn’t as encumbered?
Oneshot services are for things like scripts that do a thing and exit. Simple is for basic services that intend to run for the lifetime of the system (or for user units, the lifetime of the user’s session).
Create a systemd user unit that waits for the network-online.target.
A script something like:
[Unit]
Description=Startup script
Requires=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot # either simple or oneshot, but sounds like oneshot
ExecStart=/home/<user>/script.sh
RemainAfterExit=yes #if oneshot, otherwise no
[install]
WantedBy=default.target
Edit the template according to your needs and dump it into ~/.local/share/systemd/user/<unit>.service and enable it with systemctl --user enable --now <unit>
Wine client error:0: version mismatch 787/856.
Check for and kill all wine-related processes and then swap Proton versions for the game again.
Seeing prefix breakage messages with a wine version mismatch is often because of remnants of WINE processes that didn’t stop correctly. Steam prevents game launches for games that still have child processes present from previous launches.
For backing up files, you can plug in an external hard drive or ssd and clone your Users folder either directly from Windows, or open a Linux Live USB and clone the files 1:1. A simple copy in the file manager of either choice would work, but the command line tool rsync -avX <source> <destination> can be used instead to ensure as much of the file metadata is cloned as possible (accounting for differences in filesystems if you are transferring across from NTFS to Ext4 for example).
In Linux Mint, there is a built-in backup utility which will let you create and restore backups from external media or cloud sources. Other backup tools like Timeshift, Snapper, BTRFS Assistant also exist, but may require additional configuration and/or specific configuration on OS installation if you intend to use some of these tools specifically.
If you cannot use different applications for opening various file types and need a Windows-only software, the WINE translation layer does exist for general-purpose software, though it isn’t guaranteed to work with everything. Proton also exists for playing most Windows games on Steam.
In order to maintain software versions, package maintainers will often selectively pull git commits from the upstream projects that fix bugs / vulnerabilities in the code, while not pulling feature commits. Sometimes the pulled commits may need modifications to work properly on an old feature version of the software, which will also be done during the process. Alternatively, a software may be compiled with different feature flags to restrict functionality to mitigate bugs known in upstream.
For desktop/workstation users: the simple answer is just use the flatpak from Flathub or from some other source if you need a user package that doesn’t align to the ethos of your chosen distro. In most cases desktop Linux users have gone beyond self-packaging for specific library versions and just use a separate set of common libraries to power application needs beyond the out of box experience of any given distro. It’s part of why immutable distros are starting to take off and make more sense for desktop/workstation use-cases.
For servers, it’s in the nature to become part of the technical debt you are expected to maintain, and isn’t unique among RHEL, OpenSUSE Leap, Debian, Ubuntu, or any other flavor of distro being utilized.
If you’re not on RHEL-likes manually installing piles of out-of-tree software or randomly dumping RPMs into your system blindly hoping that things will “just work”, all is good on most rpm-based distros (RHEL, Fedora, AlmaLinux, OpenSUSE Leap, etc.). Updates don’t have issues and system upgrades (where possible) have had minimal problems within the past few years on all of my systems.
Ocis/OpenCloud can integrate with Collabora, OnlyOffice but don’t currently have things like CalDAV, CardDAV, E2EE, Forms, Kanban boards, or other extensible features installable as plugins in Nextcloud.
If you desire a snappy and responsive cloud storage experience and don’t particularly need those things integrated into your cloud storage service, then Ocis or OpenCloud might be something to look into.
Given the Linux initramfs targets a block device as a file that then gets mounted as the persistent root filesystem, I don’t think it would really be possible to unmount / and replace the location with a file. Root isn’t represented as a file or directory in any filesystem structure and is a construct of many Unix and Unix-like kernels.
This is the same for Intel variant Framework boards.
Under what means? The target is public sector and the OS to replace (Windows 10, Windows 11) would be a relatively compatible release target. Fedora is a competent leading edge (Wayland, Pipewire, BTRFS) distro that runs as a 6 month point release. I wouldn’t see many reasons to not go with Fedora Workstation as a base unless going for an immutable base or a different core distro (OpenSUSE or Debian mainly).
EDIT: Missed that this is going to be immutabe, so it is likely being based on Fedora Kinoite, meaning there really aren’t many alternatives besides OpenSUSE’s offerings.
As I understand it, most of the Pebble’s OS is currently Open Source. Traditionally, you could download updates and applets, watch faces for your Pebble through it’s app, as well has have many phone integrations. Most of the phone integrations can now be done through GadgetBridge and applets downloaded from Rebble.
Given the minimal need for always-online or really much of a internet connection at all beyond what is needed for third-party applets (weather watch faces, etc.), the older Pebble smart watches are able to be made about as private as one could reasonably expect from a Bluetooth wearable.
The two upcoming remakes appear to be basing the mobile app and applet repo upon the Rebble community’s work, if not outright using it as the source. If the watches gain GadgetBridge support and/or the companion app is fully open source, I imagine these will be as worthy as the older watches.
Authentik has blueprints, which while not as simple as Authelia’s config, do provide a functional way to have version-controlled configuration.
If you are looking for Steam Deck compatibility, PrismLauncher has a page for bootstrapping it to look nice on Deck. PrismLauncher does also support controller navigation, though this breaks for me on my Steam Controller when using SteamInput rather Xinput. Perhaps this is different for the deck’s controls?
Obviously for desktop, there isn’t much point to doing this unless you really make use of big picture mode.
What repos do you have enabled for your system? The recommended way to install the NVidia proprietary drivers (akmod-nvidia for classic proprietary drivers or akmod-nvidia-open for nvidia-open drivers (closed source driver, open source kernel module for attachment)) assumes you have the RPMFusion repos (free, nonfree) enabled in your system. There is also xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda for CUDA support.
I am curious what repo you are pulling the package nvidia-driver from as it doesn’t appear in either Fedora repos nor RPMFusion. dnf info nvidia-driver will find this quickly if you don’t know what repo the package is coming from. More than likely, installing from sources other than RPMFusion will lead to a poor experience in terms of NVidia drivers. Additionally, ensure you don’t have secure boot enabled with NVidia, at least initially. If you really desire or need secure boot, you can follow this guide to register your own MOK.
Additionally (based on recent testing on RTX 4000-series hardware), NVidia may have problems with being stable on Wayland environments other than GNOME. Your mileage may vary, but I had observed severe issues in KDE under Wayland in the past few months.
Ah yes, did mess up looking at the specs table for bitrate modes. Correcting root comment for anyone else who views this thread.
You will need either an Intel discrete GPU or NVidia GPU if you want to use HDMI 2.1 to render at 8k@60. The Intel discrete GPUs have physical hardware that convert to HDMI and Nvidia uses proprietary drivers. If you can use displayport, any GPU (AMD, Intel, Nvidia) supporting displayport 1.4 is suitable for up to 8k@31 (limited to 8bpc). A displayport 2.0-capable card with a cable suitable for UHBR 13.5 should be able to handle 60 hz (8bpc) or a UHBR 20-rated cable capable of 60 hz at 10bpc.
There are good reasons for why both JPEG-XL and WebP exist though.