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Hallo guys, I’m using dolphin in i3, but it doesn’t show newly connected devices like my Kobo e-reader. Nautilus does, and allows me to mount the device, in /var/run something. Is there a device watcher daemon for Dolphin that I can enable in an i3 session?
Gavin King
Let's have some serious discussion. Will we Linux users ever be able (or already are) to run automatic, unattended updates on our system? Because Windows, Mac OS, and Chrome OS all are able to do that, and normies would prefer it that way too if they would adopt Linux. I researched some fringe github or AUR projects to find something that would safely automate updates, and wonder whether these will ever be viable in the future. Installing packages using GUI front-ends and app stores have been relatively normalized these days, and who knows maybe in the future we can do automatic updates too. I myself don't want such feature ever, but I'm just thinking for the sake of winning over the hearts of the rest of the desktop users.
>Will we Linux users ever be able (or already are) to run automatic, unattended updates on our system? Yeah, on Ubuntu for example.
Gabriel Price
>Finally opened my eyes to lf over ranger It's literally just ranger but better
Owen Wright
The more mainstream distros like Ubuntu and Fedora have automatic update installing as something you can set up via a GUI program. And with distros like Arch you can either set up systemd timers to run a full update at whatever times you wish or use something like EndeavourOS which includes those kinds of timers but in a more friendly GUI way.
Debian has supported unattended updates for like fifteen years now.
Ethan Sullivan
EndeavourOS pre-sets up more configs for you and adds it's own repo that includes among it's own applications some precompiled AUR programs that you might want IE paru, yay and downgrade. The TUI archinstall gives you as much of a maximal or minimal Arch install as you need but as usual doesn't pre-tweak any of it's configs which you'll want to do yourself (aside from automatically uncommentating the multilib or testing repos.)
What I can see is that automated updates can be dangerous, the more up-to-date the packages are.
The auto update policies and recommendations are all over the place, since there are dozens of different distros with differently managed and kept repositories.
Auto update would only be safe with some kind of stable or LTS type of distros. Better point releases rather than rolling releases, maybe.
I also think third party repos like AUR, PPA, COPR and so on can be very dangerous, especially if you get your firmware or drivers from there.
Windows is famous for it's bluescreen, mostly because of problems with third party drivers or softwares in most cases. Linux would have to face this too, if one would rely on shady third party drivers not properly maintained by the repos. Therefore I would use modesetting for example, rather than shady nvidia blob drivers. But luckily, I don't have nvidia at all.
Cameron Flores
If you needed any more proof that the Linux operating system is a joke.
Ayden King
Anyone have a clue why soulseekqt on manjaro is randomly closing and not saving my settings?
Lincoln Ross
Stop installing manjaro, just boot arch and freaking type archinstall holy shit. Tired of hearing issues with niggerjero.
Luis Jackson
how many kernel versions does fedora keep?
Bentley Watson
No serious work gets done on Arch and it's flavours. Just use a Debian-based distro like a normal person
Evan Campbell
How come that Marco/Metacity has less features than something like Enlightenment,IceWM,Fluxbox,Fvwm and WindowMaker?
