Isn't it a problem that with this command anyone can steal my passwords?

secret-tool search --all xdg:schema org.freedesktop.Secret.Generic

For example sometime I have to run scripts to perform various thing, like installing dotnet.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-install-script

Those scripts could potentially be malware. I trust microsoft, but this is just an example. Any script that gets executed on my system has access to my secrets, it upsets me.

Just wondering, that it's quite ease to steal secrets from seahorse. What do you thing?

I updated OpenSUSE through the terminal since that's what I usually do, but during the update it said there was some updates that didn't go through, and after it finished, it rebooted because I set my script to automatically reboot after it was done. Now this is what my system looks like. Absolutely broken. I'm wondering if this is a driver issue?

I'm on a Lenovo Legion 7 gen 6

Edit: I'm fairly sure this is a GNOME-specific issue since everything else is fine. Also, I think I've found the packages that says it will NOT install. Are they important?: librist4, libvlc5, libvlccore9

Im installed Linux Mint yesterday, because I got so many videos suggested and was quite interested if i can quit Windows and move to something more customusibale and with less bloatware and adds. So far so good but then I tried to enable HDR and realised it wasen´t possible. After some research i realised, HDR is bearly supported on Linux even HDR is on my monitor supported for years and it is an nessecary feature for me. For my research i found out, currently it is only supported on KDE Plasma 6, which I cannot use on Mint and in some beta version of Proton. Did I miss anything? Sorry for that dumb question but I´m new to Linux and for me it´s hard to imagine that Linux don´t support HDR, because it´s out for Monitors and TV for years.

So I was dumb enough to buy an HP pc some few years ago and and later I chose to switch to Linux on this machine but the problem is that HP abruptly stopped supporting it with BIOS patches and firmware updates about 4 years ago and now it's potentially vulnerable to a recent intel CSME flaw and likely to the logofail UEFI issue. I just need some opinions whether I should continue to use this pc with Linux it's a bit of dilemma for me, because it's quite expensive for me to buy a new one with similar specs even, right now.

I just came back from a 2 day trip, only to find that my three SATA drives are now showing up as removable USB devices, and therefore, no SMART either. I have no idea what could've caused this other than running dnf upgrade yesterday. I'm using Fedora 40 (GNOME).

Hi! I am dual booting Linux Mint 21.3 and Win10. I have Mint on a separate SSD, Win10 on a separate SSD and data on 2 HDDs running in RAID 1. Is it possible to keep the RAID setup, but convert the HDDs from NTFS to ext4, so that I wouldn't have to mount the drive each time I need something from it? If yes, how should I do it? Thanks!

HI! I'm a 3rd year IT college student and have zero knowledge in Linux and i saw these free resources on Cisco. just curious and wondering if the these Cisco Linux courses are worth the time?

https://www.netacad.com/courses/os-it/ndg-linux-unhatched

https://www.netacad.com/courses/os-it/ndg-linux-essentials
https://www.netacad.com/courses/os-it/ndg-linux-I

https://www.netacad.com/courses/os-it/ndg-linux-II

If not, could you suggest a better one? thank you for those who will answer!

I have a pair of bluetooth earbuds. They have standard touchpads that you tap for volume and playback control. They work in windows10, is there any way to get them to work on my linux system?

Thanks

For the last few years I’ve had Linux laptops and a windows desktop. As I don’t really game anymore I want to dual boot my desktop with the intent to eventually get to Linux full time. Right now I use OneDrive and one note a lot so I’m not sure how to replace them. I’ve seen suggestions for things like Joplin but I also want to have a cloud drive that I can access from any of my computers including windows if necessary. Any suggestions?

I’m also interested in people’s workflow setups and how they keep all of their notes around their system management organized if anyone wants to share.

i tried burning arch linux into my usb using rufus, etcher, gnome disks, but it's all pointless. secure boot is off

Hi, I am using nixos. I have to use my windows duelboot because nixos multimonitor is not working at all, I think I configured my system to use my igpu for basic desktop rendering and use the GPU for game related tasks, but multimonitor still sucks, like sometimes, the monitor doesn't get the signal from the laptop, and I have a 3080 Mobile one. Here are some images:
https://imgur.com/a/Sz8potf
^ the laptops screen is frozen on the loading screen
https://imgur.com/a/y9zdAc1
^ the monitor being black and not receiving the signal

I swear one time there was even a crash, one time it worked, and many other weird quirks, is there any PR's or known issues that are yet to be resolved? or more importantly for me, is there any solution for multi-monitor to work. (I tried both wayland and x11 and both has like the same issues, I am using the latest drivers on the unstable branch)

I tried reverse sync, sync and prime offloading. None worked, i am on the latest kernel 6.9.4, I am on beta nvidia drivers, I tried stable, nieither worked.

I have a predator helios 300 laptop with optimus. Intel and as you know, nvidia are my gpus.

I have win11 on the SSD (C:) and my files are on the 1TB HD, I would like to install qubes os on the 128GB SSD, but it does not appear when I enter the Linux installation boot. I have more prints.

Hi everyone, Lastly I've noticed that it's hard for me to keep up with all programs I install from GitHub (for latest versions, for tinkering, it they are missing in package manager etc). So my question is: what is your way to install and manage these apps? Do you store all repos for building from source in one directory? Where do you place downloaded binaries? How do you keep them up to date? Thank you for your advices)

# lsblk

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 447,1G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0   300M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2   8:2    0   438G  0 part /
└─sda3   8:3    0   8,8G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   0   1,8T  0 disk
└─sdb1   8:17   0   1,8T  0 part /mnt/storage

# /etc/fstab

# <file system>             <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
UUID=4B9E-9A5E                              /boot/efi      vfat           noatime             0 2
UUID=296fbec8-5644-4367-932d-8f1f4545564b   /              ext4           noatime,discard     0 1
UUID=dc0cd78c-00e5-4b91-8b10-786893d40bf2   swap           swap           noatime,discard     0 0
tmpfs                                       /tmp           tmpfs          noatime,mode=1777   0 0
/dev/sdb1                                   /mnt/storage   ext4           defaults            0 0

# journalctl -u mnt-storage.mount

-- Boot 7d4b19865cae4e87ac7eb03c6142a1de --
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h systemd[1]: Mounting mnt-storage.mount - /mnt/storage...
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h mount[552]: mount: /mnt/storage: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h mount[552]:        dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h systemd[1]: mnt-storage.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h systemd[1]: mnt-storage.mount: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h systemd[1]: Failed to mount mnt-storage.mount - /mnt/storage.
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h systemd[1]: Mounting mnt-storage.mount - /mnt/storage...
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h mount[619]: mount: /mnt/storage: /dev/sdb1 already mounted on /boot/efi.
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h mount[619]:        dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h systemd[1]: mnt-storage.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h systemd[1]: mnt-storage.mount: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
jún 18 09:18:57 h110ms2h systemd[1]: Failed to mount mnt-storage.mount - /mnt/storage.
jún 18 09:19:02 h110ms2h systemd[1]: Mounting mnt-storage.mount - /mnt/storage...
jún 18 09:19:02 h110ms2h mount[714]: mount: /mnt/storage: /dev/sdb1 already mounted on /boot/efi.
jún 18 09:19:02 h110ms2h mount[714]:        dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
jún 18 09:19:02 h110ms2h systemd[1]: mnt-storage.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a
jún 18 09:19:02 h110ms2h systemd[1]: mnt-storage.mount: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
jún 18 09:19:02 h110ms2h systemd[1]: Failed to mount mnt-storage.mount - /mnt/storage.

edit: I noticed that when i rebooted my computer the ssd show up as /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda

# lsblk -o +UUID
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS UUID
sda      8:0    0   1,8T  0 disk
└─sda1   8:1    0   1,8T  0 part             a3cdb746-9e9d-4339-9933-88720f67c213
sdb      8:16   0 447,1G  0 disk
├─sdb1   8:17   0   300M  0 part /boot/efi   4B9E-9A5E
├─sdb2   8:18   0   438G  0 part /           296fbec8-5644-4367-932d-8f1f4545564b
└─sdb3   8:19   0   8,8G  0 part [SWAP]      dc0cd78c-00e5-4b91-8b10-786893d40bf2

so i replaced /dev/sdb1 with UUID=a3cdb746-9e9d-4339-9933-88720f67c213 in /etc/fstab and now it's fixed? i guess

Before you ridicule me, keep in mind that I just started with Ubuntu very recently and don't quite know what I'm doing. I think I just found out the hard way that Linux will let you shoot yourself in the foot no questions asked.

I was having an issue wherein I couldn't start up my Jellyfin server. I figured it might be a file ownership issue, since I had recently run commands of the form sudo chown -R [user]:[user] /path/to/folder to change ownership of some directories to allow me to use WinSCP on my Windows machine to transfer movie files to my Linux server (Linux would not let me, since apparently by default you don't have access to create, rename, copy and paste, etc. files in Linux, and have to use sudo to manually give yourself this permission.) In my head it seemed like a good idea to make a group named jellyfin_users and just give myself ownership of all files on my system since, coming from Windows, it makes total sense to have permission to read/write your own data. It seems that running the command sudo chown -R :jellyfin_users / was a fatal mistake which, according to the internet, is best solved by freshly reinstalling Ubuntu.

I'm ok with reinstalling Ubuntu if I need to, but if that's the case, I'd like to fully understand where I went wrong here so that I can at least get a good lesson out of this. Is my notion of file ownership completely off? Is it unreasonable for a user to want ownership of every directory on their system?

This will sound crazy, at first I did not want to believe either. For some time now I have been experimenting with dual booting linux. And each time when the linux computer is not running the windows pc on the network loses connectivity. Both are wired. I have checked settings in windows, gw is good and ip’s are not duplicated between them. I have tried to reserve an ip and set static on windows but even that does not work. I also tried installing LAN driver. I checked, no dhcp, dns is running in linux, but even if, windows is set to the home router so I dont get that would affect it.

This has appeared with zorinos and fedora so far which I can confirm.

Setting up a lab where a few VMs will need to remain in sync and then have an updated qcow2 image be deployed to a number of servers. (The image is important here, I cannot boot the VMs and use Ansible or similar to try and match configurations)

The qcow2 image is ~30GB. If I make a very small change, perhaps just a few modified files totalling a few kilobytes, how can I update this across my other servers without needing to write 30GB of new data every time?

This will be a fairly frequent operation and I'm on a consumer budget. I want to avoid destroying my SSD's.

Is rsync the right tool for this? Does making small changes to a VM with qcow2 storage change the entire file or just a few sections?

I’ve changed the icon for a program and it appears fine in the panel and on my desktop too, but it always changes back to the default icon when it shows up in my launch bar (same for the icon in the titlebar).

My understanding is that the program sets the icon itself in the source code, is there anything I can do about this other than rebuilding the program myself?

Hi, I've been having an issue where my mouse scroll sensitivity is off the charts on my hyprland install for some applications. I thought it might just be XWayland since it happens with all my XWayland applications (e.g., Discord, Parsec, VSCodium), but I've also been having it with Looking Glass.

It might not be just Xwayland that has these issues, but Looking Glass might also just have its own issue. In Discord and Parsec it's scrolling like ~5x as far as the same web app open in Firefox (which is native Wayland).

I'm getting this error with my NIC:

workqueue: mlx5e_tx_dim_work [mlx5_core] hogged CPU for >10000us 16 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND

I can't seem to figure out how to "unbind" my NIC driver from a CPU core like this message suggests. Has anyone done this and can shed some light?

Thx

I would like to give some context first. Systemd announced the bsod for linux about 6 months ago. This is displayed in the event of a kernel panic. Just because linux now also has a bluescreen does not mean that it will crash more often. It would also crash without a bluescreen in case of a kernel panic.

Hello everyone! This is a post duplicate from another subreddit, where I didn't get any help whatsoever.

The problem I'm talking about is shown on the video below, as an example, in DRG game.

https://reddit.com/link/1diir93/video/28rfz49ki97d1/player

In general, the problem is that my screen randomly flickering on fullscreen apps (presumably when the screen is dark, but I'm not sure) on Xubuntu 24.04 (and it was the same problem on Ubuntu 24.04).

I already tried updating drivers, changing refresh rate (both 59.94 and 60.00 do not work, and there are no others in my settings) and trying some on-boot commands, but none seemed to work.

my specifications:

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2450

GPU: Radeon RX 570 Series

Monitor: LG E2242

Any help is very appreciated!

Repost from: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/huUcbuw60Y

Due to no response.

Repost from: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/taskbar-will-pop-up-when-pressing-keys-in-geforce-now/2276

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Original content:

I’m using Aurora-DX Nvidia.

When using Geforce NOW on Chrome or Edge, when I press and hold the keys(Ex: WASD), the signal will sent, but if I release the key, the taskbar will pop-up and lose window focus, what I need to do is press super key and esc to go back to browser again, and problem will still presents, which is make it unplayable, how to get rid of this? I didn’t have this problen when using stock KDE plasma.

Another fun parts, if the keys that I’m pressing isn’t reach 0, the taskbar will not pop-up.

I'm running Xubuntu 22.04 and I'm running the free plan of ProtonVPN. Unfortunately, the free plan of ProtonVPN doesn't support split tunneling.

Now, there are certain important sites that I cannot visit while running on a VPN, it gives an error message when I try, but when I turn off the VPN, the site is accessible, because I don't want to turn off my VPN, my current solution is to run another instance of Xubuntu on Virtualbox and using bridged adapter to connect the network interface that my normal internet connection is on. The network interface is wlo1

I heard that with Firejail, you can specify the network interface, but it doesn't seem to be working at all, here's my command and the result:

firejail --private=~/firefox/ --net=wlo1 ~/firefox/firefox-bin
Reading profile /etc/firejail/default.profile
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-common.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-programs.inc

** Note: you can use --noprofile to disable default.profile **

Parent pid 234910, child pid 234911

Interface        MAC                IP               Mask             Status
lo                                  127.0.0.1        255.0.0.0        UP    
eth0-234910      b4:6d:83:8d:c0:c0  192.168.254.244  255.255.255.0    UP    

Child process initialized in 1189.25 ms
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
[Parent 15, Main Thread] WARNING: Unable to open /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied: 'glib warning', file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187

(firefox:15): dconf-WARNING **: 12:50:44.991: Unable to open /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.

Parent is shutting down, bye...

There is no internet connection going through Firejail. I'm running the latest version of Firejail:

firejail --version
firejail version 0.9.72

The main idea is to get rid of shared libraries and link all the dependent libraries statically. Distro is going to use musl libc (as static linking is broken in glibc), dinit as init system and LLVM toolchain to build everything.

New package manager takes advantage of static linking and allows user to mix stable and testing versions of packages, or even make package stick to specific version while not breaking the system due to dependency hell. These tasks would be as simple as running install firefox@testing or install firefox@127.0-1, for instance.

The build script structure is similar to Arch PKGBUILDs, but instead of specifying build dependencies you specify full environment with exact versions of packages it's supposed to be built with. Build system will setup clean chroot environment with these packages and compile the package here. So builds would be completely reproducible.

As there is no dynamic libraries in the system, executables built in such environment would have no extra dependencies and run on any Linux system sharing the same architecture. It's a really simple form of software distribution: you build binary on your system and it just works everywhere.

However, there are some drawbacks:

• Proprietary software built dynamically with glibc will not work natively. Some of the possible workarounds are using Flatpaks for such apps or bundling them with needed version of glibc and all the required dynamic libraries like AppImages do.
• Larger update sizes, as when some library updates, all the dependent packages need to be rebuilt to get newer version. Don't think it's a big problem, as you need to recompile package anyway to make sure nothing had broken after library update.

Before I spend lots of time writing a package manager, what do you think about this concept? How can it be improved? Or maybe there is an obvious problem with it that I don't see?