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I don't like to feel being stalked. Most of the issues that I am interested probably should be discussed in mailing lists anyway. Definitely not here. I am out.

* We have been running a probono Linux workshop for retired professionals for many years. We used to use Ubuntu but because its initram image has problems with certain mainboards we have switched to Debian since the bkworm days of Sid. Our experience may be helpful for those who would like to share...

The biggest problem, is with the nVidia graphics cards. Oftentimes we spent hours "helping" (at least that's what we thought) a friend install a Linux distro, only ended up "destroying" their machine (rendering their machines unbootable) after a kernel upgrade. This embarrassment...

Edit: Actually I am going to change my mind on this for now. I probably added to this debate far too soon in hindsight. I could just change what I wrote above but instead I'll be transparent and just add to it. I am still hitting things in Debian (although most likely common to Linux in general) th...

A friend of mine, a very successful oncologist, has a stereo system that costs more than $300K. Now he is looking for a better system. Which graphics card is "better"? I think Nvidia right now has the upper hand but the $$$$ you spend today on Nvidia card will probably make you wanting to ...

Does anyone here have some experience in running Waydroid in Bkworm/Sid? I found some posts here but none are relevant; plus, waydroid has improved a lot recently.

pbear and CwF : What I did was re-mounted the target usb partition: sudo mount /dev/sda2 /home/ryzen/kvm then created a new pool ("usb-c") and a new volume ("/home/ryzen/kvm/kvm/debian12e.qcow2") as shown in the following screenshot: Screenshot from 2024-04-24 16-44-38.png The w...

Easiest way is to download the appimage and run it:

https://github.com/gdm-settings/gdm-settings

We use this to add Juliette Taka's emerald theme (!) to gdm3 which should have been included in the first place

Maybe leave this thread for promoting the default repository approach... Me bad deleted files from the vm will be automatically freed (unmapped) thus will not cause the vm to indefinitely expand. virt-sparsify takes care of that. Thanks. Virt-sparsify is a batch operation (and there is an equivalen...

@pbear: Thanks, I got it solved. It is not straightforward. Since we are dealing almost exclusively with desktop users with very well defined vm needs, VirtualBox is really the way to go, especially now that its vboxsvga virtual graphics driver is even better than VMWare has to offer (a great testim...

I usually create virtual machines on a usb stick. I have no problem with VirtualBox, but with virt-manager, the following error msg is received:

Unable to complete install: 'Cannot access storage file '/media/ryzen/extra0/kvm/debian12e.qcow2' (as uid:64055, gid:64055): Permission denied'

pbear wrote: ↑2024-04-22 05:27The simplest (imho) is to add yourself to the libvirt group, sudo adduser $USER libvirt.

This should be sudo adduser libvirt $USER . My fault.

Thanks for taking time to write this tutorial I have been looking for it for a while.

supersonic wrote: ↑2024-04-19 20:15You can try NaviCL:
https://github.com/supersonictw/navicl

Thanks a whole lot for your endeavor!

The libreoffice-gtk3 package is included in the debian-gnome-live iso: ryzen@L32:~/Downloads$ cat debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-gnome.iso.packages | grep libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-gtk3 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 Live-built has been in Debian's DNA for quite some time now. I suppose when Debian developers build...

I don't have any problem with either VirtualBox or virt-manager (qemu/kvm). I am running Debian Sid, fully updated, on AMD Ryzen+Radeon APU. But I don't think that should make any difference. Another difference is that I installed Debian from the hybrid live-built iso and not from netinstall. We hav...

I am definitely not making any suggestions to you or anyone one way or another but just to make a point that LibreOffice has progressed a lot and for those of us whose livelihood depends on it, it involves quite a complicated dependency.

Of course you can run LibreOffice 5.0 (?) or earlier without a proper DE. Gtk2 was all you need. This is a different era. I have been running LibreOffice and its progenitors since the StarOffice/StarSuite days (which were designed to be run in a text console, and Star Suite was designed for CJK lang...

I don't know if LibreOffice can adequately run without a proper DE (as I mentioned even the default gnome install under netinstall iso wouldn't cut it). Also, although appimages are supposed to be distro-agnostic, I don't even know if the LibreOffice appimage will run under LXQT.

I've reinstalled 12 Bookwork from the stable netinstall iso Yes, the version of LibreOffice automatically installed from netinstall iso always has this menu-fonts-too-small problem. You can do a sudo apt purge libreoffice then reinstall it to (hopefully) fix it. However, LibreOffice is a very much ...

As an example, sometimes a small change in kerning between different versions of LibreOffice can turn your documents especially the spreadsheets upside down until it's too late. We don't really have any control if the app is installed/upgraded from the repos.