https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Hornet-Linux-LSM

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.)

For a while XFCE only supported the type of scaling that makes things smaller. Understandably IMO this confused a few people and happily this has been upgraded and now it also makes things bigger. However in my experience this also makes things blurrier.

In my latest round of testing it appears that the situation can be fixed with a single setting: font DPI.

Settings Manager > Appearance > Fonts (tab) > Custom DPI setting > I chose 150, and logged out and in to have everything take effect.

From this single change everything is looking good in both GTK and Qt apps. I did also increase the size of my panel through the panel settings, and title bars are kind of tiny, but mostly I use maximised applications so I'm not stressing about this too much.

Hope this helps anyone else who is stuck in an "ohgod why couldn't we just stop after Windows 2000" love-hate relationship with computers.

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

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.

Crossposts:

• https://sh.itjust.works/post/34840018

The Linux Ship of Theseus

Crossposted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27387345

1. pick any distro and install it.
2. Then, without installing another distro over the top of it, slowly convert it into another distro by replacing package managers, installed packages, and configurations.

• System must be usable and fully native to the new distro (all old packages replaced with new ones).
• No flatpaks, avoid snaps where physically possible, native packages only.

Difficulties:

• Easy: pick two similar distros, such as Ubuntu and Debian or Manjaro and Arch and go from the base to the derivative.
• Medium: Same as easy but go from the derivative to the base.
• Hard: Pick two disparate distros like Debian and Artix and go from one to the other.
• Nightmare: Make a self-compiled distro your target.

Clarifications

• chroot, dd, debootstrap, and partition editors that allow you to install the new system in an empty container or blanket-overwrite the old system go against the spirit of this challenge.
• These are very useful and valid tools under a normal context and I strongly recommend learning them.
• You can use them if you prefer, but The ship of Theseus was replaced one board at a time. We are trying to avoid dropping a new ship in the harbor and tugging the old one out.
• It may however be a good idea to use them to test out the target system in a safe environment as you perform the migration back in the real root, so you have a reference to go by.