Low Tech Linux

Lubos realized after tabulating the Leap 16 feedback results that a large number of folks actually don’t use KDE Plasma, Gnome, or XFCE. What if you could add one more selection to the Desktop Environment section of Agama when installing Leap 16, Tumbleweed, or Slowroll? What would you pick to be another option? What do you prefer to use for your Desktop Environment, Window Manager, or Tiling…

In my opinion, the long overdue conversation to make Wayland the default video server on KDE Plasma in Tumbleweed has finally happened. There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of support for it, but I’m confident this will happen soon. I have included excerpts from the mailing list discussion below as well as my YouTube video discussing it. Also keep in mind I have been asking for this for at least…

If you haven’t done so already, add the flathub repo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo  Step 2: Install Steam flatpak flatpak install steam Step 3: Enable 32-bit support and configure SELinux  Install the necessary packages to enable 32-bit support and configure SELinux for gaming.  sudo zypper in grub2-compat-ia32…

openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling-release Linux distribution well-known for its stability, thanks in part to its use of Btrfs snapshots. By enabling transactional updates, users can upgrade the system atomically — updates are applied in a separate snapshot, and only take effect after a reboot. This model dramatically improves reliability and rollback safety. I have now tested this in both…

openSUSE has long been known for its technical excellence, enterprise-grade tools, and robust community. One of its most defining tools, YaST (Yet another Setup Tool), has served as the backbone of openSUSE’s installation and system configuration process for decades. But as the Linux world evolves toward cloud-native, immutable, and automated deployments, the old YaST installer has started to…

The KDE Plasma desktop environment has long been a favorite among Linux users who value performance, customization, and aesthetics. Now, with the upcoming releases, KDE is preparing some significant upgrades that not only modernize the user experience but also replace legacy components with fresh, KDE-native alternatives. Here’s a look at some of the most exciting changes on the horizon. 🔐 A New…

In recent years, governments across the globe have been increasingly adopting Linux-based operating systems in place of proprietary platforms like Microsoft Windows. From cost savings and improved security to digital sovereignty and vendor independence, the motivations are varied—but the trend is clear: open source is gaining serious ground in the public sector. Major Ongoing and Recent…

I did a side by side comparison of Yast and Agama installers. I was actually surprised at the results. Both installers are the netinstall versions.

The big controversy over openSUSE Tumbleweed changing from apparmor to SELinux should be coming to an end soon. The devs have been working hard to get a fix pushed that will allow anyone installing wine, proton, lutris, etc to be able to use these game packages without issue. The new fix is a package that modifies SELinux remain in ‘strict’ mode while simultaneously allowing gaming to work. The…

So I struggle the most with one thing: when I add an outline to a patch to accentuate details, I find that I struggle quite a bit to match the outline to where the colour "seams" are between two different fill areas.

Possibly due to uneven pull and pull compensation, or witchcraft and trickery, they always drift one way or another, and never equally, which makes refining the pattern a pain in the butt. I find that I waste a lot of thread just trying to line up the running stitches with the fill stitch seams.

Do you have any tips for this? Thanks!

Daughter asked if there was a way to set up her new inkjet printer to print once a week to prevent the printer heads from drying out, much like her last printer had done. She really doesn’t want to buy a printer again just because she didn’t use it enough. I said “Absolutely. I can just set up a cronjob to print to it from my Linux computer and schedule that to print once a week. Problem…

This install was 6 months old without updating. Let’s update it and see if it bricks itself. The old Manjaro I had installed on sweeties computer bricked after I didn’t update it for too long. I’m guessing that’s because it [Manjaro] is based on Arch, and many people say never let an Arch install go for very long between updates. But what about Tumbleweed? Lets find out….