At least for a long time, you had to set up RPMFusion to be able to play media, and having the additional repos tended to break on major upgrades for a bit after release

So, for beginners, it was a bit painful to suggest

That’s what I’m using these days at home

Only thing to keep in mind is that it won’t give you a notification when you need to do a major version update (pretty consistently every 2 years)

Probably less of an issue these days; they relaxed their stance on proprietary drivers:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-linux-accepts-proprietary-firmware-in-major-policy-change/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

If your motherboard manufacturer releases firmware through LVFS, you can use

sudo fwupdmgr refresh --force sudo fwupdmgr update

But that should normally be offered through the GNOME or KDE update utility.

I’m assuming your motherboard manufacturer doesn’t support updating through the OS (or hasn’t released a new enough AGESA build) based off your issue

Cynically, isn’t this just because Debian did it with Trixie, so now Ubuntu’s next version is pulling in the change?

You’ve updated your motherboard’s firmware to a version that includes the fix?

What issue are you having from the missing instruction?

The reason I don’t recommend it by default is that there is no updater across releases.

The official upgrade process is to modify apt sources files and run upgrade, then full-upgrade, etc.

That’s fine for me but it makes it hard to recommend to people who may not be as willing to deal with modifying system files and reading some upgrade notes

I think mech@feddit.org is right, but one other piece I’ve heard is that “unmanaged” desktops make things like randsomware insurance harder

Although compliance is also a concern.

For us, on our Linux machines, they pay Canonical or RedHat for workstations 🤷‍♂️

Back in 2015, I was using Arch on a single core Intel Atom 1.5GHz processor with 1GiB of RAM

Most packages came from binary packages, and the AUR was the exception when I needed something specific outside of the main repos

Just a heads up, you should just need the group set up

That is crazy that you weren’t added to it by default, though.

I was also surprised - you used to be able to modify a user’s group membership through the System Settings GUI. That’s a huge missing piece that you can’t do that anymore

I dont know your specific network topology, but I’ve always been able to use openconnect rather than Cisco’s client

network-manager-openconnect for NM support

Support for higher levels of ARM SystemReady seem like they’re poorly supported in the Linux ecosystem right now.

ARM boards nearly always require a devicetree entry for that specific board.

This may not be entirely a Linux problem, but my understanding is that some of the x1 elite laptops we’ve seen DeviceTree entries added in the Linux kernel are using SystemReady ES or SystemReady SR on Windows

Ah. Open source would be better, but I don’t think AirPlay support is stopping anyone from using Linux.

I’m not sure about Sonos

PipeWire supports AirPlay…?

At least with PipeWire 1.4.9, I regularly cast audio to my wife’s Apple Homepod

Because they’re objectively better on a desktop.

Your compositor should control the window - if the poorly implemented client hangs, you can just click the server-side close button a couple times and get the “shall I force close this?” popup

The only reason for CSD is touch interfaces on small screens. In that case, you still need some other interface to handle misbehaving applications, but they tend to be harder to use, e.g. the removal of home/back buttons on Android

Edit: If you’re trying to improve on SSD, you could consider some model where the client can register some actions it would like to have displayed to the compositor, and the compositor can relay clicks back to the client. In this scheme, the compositor still owns the title bar, but the client can request special decorations

They’ve only been working on it for 11 years now…

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/2jbnry/gog_officially_confirm_their_galaxy_client_for/

Fractional scaling w/ HiDPI displays, especially when the monitors are different resolutions, works so much better in Wayland than X11

I put the curl command to update my duckdns IP in cron about 13 years ago, and have never needed to touch it once.

It’s just worked for me

Maybe easier to another suggestion, you’re probably using a systemd based distros -

journalctl -b -1 will show you the logs from the previous boot, so you could check that after resetting to see if anything was logged

For some other ideas to narrow down where the issue is…

If you’re stuck in the frozen state, you can Ctrl+alt+delete 7+ times quickly to tell systemd to try to restart the system. If this works, it means init was still able to process messages

If that doesn’t work, you could enable Magic Sysrq Key (if disabled in your distro), and then use the key sequence REISUB to try to see if the kernel is still responding and can reset the system