and then I guess it can even be trimmed somewhat. delete the development packages, look through and filter the unneeded larger ones, …

my PC constantly awakening from standby

why do you think that’s caused by plasma? I don’t think it would intentionally wake itself up. Did you check the same kernel version with gnome?

these only handle crypto. they’re not a replacement for stripe, and saying that it is is a very large stretch. stripe is used for handling fiat payments, and there’s a reason even Liberapay only supports that and Paypal: because all others are worse or questionable.

such services (recurring payment services) can’t really make use of crypto right now anyway, can they? they would either need to store your keys, or create a specialized wallet program and stop being a service, but the latter would also remove any possible transparency that the donation receiver may want to provide

Which which one?

netfilter, iptables, or one that is based on them

Firewalld isn’t a GUI

that’s right, but it has an official GUI: https://firewalld.org/documentation/utilities/firewall-config.html

I haven’t tried opensnitch.

it has per-app rules, and can show a popup for programs that don’t yet have a rule. you can also limit the access by time, destination, and port

DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.

in my experience every kind of update requires planning and a reboot because incompatibilities between new libs and already running older programs will cause problems. but DKMS may help in making it less of a work

hmm. I have to admit I don’t understand the difference. on windows it’s the desktop folder, plus a few separate icons to system utilities with some way to filter them. did you mean that?

requirement of the root password? why would it need that, when it normally doesn’t? to clarify, I didn’t mean the “sudo reboot” command, but the reboot button in the KDE application launcher

ok. what should we use instead? paypal?

what parts of it do you miss exactly?

can’t you change the compression algorithm, or its compression level?

but yeah it would be much better if we could set it on a per-file basis, and also on demand so that it can compress/decompress a file in place

any of them could make it work through FUSE

Gui to manage firewall.

which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?

Desktop icons.

you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?

Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.

manually, or even automatically? if it’s the first, check out DKMS

I think most of us are grateful that we don’t have that spyware

What was that, punk??

AMATEURS!

2532, 19.7 TB

but that’s where it becomes more serious: when basic functions of the system fail, silently. when you can’t even reboot without a terminal, because the reboot dialog crashes

Usually you would only need to reboot if you want to use the new kernel right away after an update.

and the new version of all the software that is still running with the old version.

For most of the programs, you don’t even need to restart them if they’re already running.

how? won’t they keep being the old version?

However, if you restart them they will run as the newer updated version.

oh, yeah, we agree on that. but my point is that in my experience, a lot of software gets very confused if some libs it would use or resource files have changed after they were started. often that’s also the reason why holding back a package’s version makes trouble over time (because certain other packages can’t be updated either), or same with using custom repos that have a different release schedule or maybe are not even in sync with your distro

Timeshift is explicitly designed to do that easily and automatically

by consuming much more space. but you’re right, I did not think about it

Backup before upgrade is a weird thing to cram into a file system.

I agree, but these are not really backups, but snapshots, which are stored more efficiently, without duplicating data. of course it does not replace an off site backup, but I think it has its use cases.

Not completely but kind of, all those poweroff, reboot etc. tied to systemd, though I believe this is mostly related to polkit run out of time.

that’s right, but as I remember the error was talking about being unable to launch that KDE-specufic countdown overlay. journalctl has shown such an error for every time I tried to stop the session in any of the ways.

Normally updates don’t change a thing on Linux since the system runs on RAM.

that’s not how I understand the system is working. could you elaborate?

I’ve learned this lesson with my Android phone a few years ago. There it was actually about sqlite databases of a system app (contacts I think?), but this can happen with other formats too. Worst is if it doesn’t just error out, but tries to work with “garbage”, because it’ll possibly take much more time to debug it, or even realize that your data is corrupt.

anyone could use any names. I think such a system would not have positive consequences

will that also restore your data? what happens when a program updates its database structure with the update, and the old version you restore won’t understand it anymore?