Linux

As a grumpy old man who wishes his computer would stop changing I've been trying to get on board with XFCE for a while and the big blocker has been making things work well on my 4K screen. (For the record this post is based on Debian testing = trixie, X11, and nvidia proprietary drivers god have mercy on my soul.)

I'm looking for inspiration for a custom Bash prompt[1]. I'd love to see yours! 😊 If possible, include both the prompt's PS1, and a screenshot/example of what it looks like.

[SOLVED] - I learned that this is a sure way to break your Debian, and no matter how you go about it, you'd wish you either waited or used a different distro altogether for this purpose. In my case, I got Nobara 41 working, which already has the latest mesa. Trying to install the latest from Debian unstable almost got me pretty turned around, and I'm glad I switched course when I did.

3 years ago I needed a new computer and decided on an 16 inch M1 Macbook Pro, but did lots of overthinking about if I wanted to stick to it. I tried Asahi Linux didn't have any reasons at the time to use linux over macOS (but there was always the chance I might later), the build quality is 2nd to none, none of my Windows laptops lasted more than a few years.

Edit: rootless in this context means the remote windows appear like local windows; not in a big "desktop" window. It's nothing to do with the root account. Sorry, I didn't come up with that confusing term. If anyone can think of a better term let's use that!

A dev friend wants to start taking steps away from Windows, starting with their old laptop.

Standard apt-get update and apt-get upgrade broke just now and it was typically easy to fix. dhclient didn't bring up my wifi card so I plugged it in to bring up the network card, quick dpkg --configure -a didn't return anything so I just did apt full-upgrade at the recovery console and that fixed it.

curl https://some-url | sh

I want to use an electron based app named trilium notes on my system. I got wayland/niri on nixos I installed trilium by writing it in configuration.nix and rebuilt system but after starting trillium it gives following error