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Hear ye, hear ye, Guix System has just received its newest release: 1.5.0 (L/A). Lots of cool new changes, the most important ones being that Guix now has its own native logging service via Shepherd, AppArmor support for my glowniggers out there, a new "guix pack" command to create AppImage and RPM packages, and a new forgejo service + native support. They are also going to be moving to an annual release schedule. Things are looking mighty fine in Guix land, I say, I say.
 
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Needed to make sure I wasn't insane and reinstalled Kubuntu to make sure it ran well and yeah it worked fantastically. I have no idea why but the scaling works perfectly. What is it that Kubuntu is doing that Mint and Zorin are not?
 
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Needed to make sure I wasn't insane and reinstalled Kubuntu to make sure it ran well and yeah it worked fantastically. I have no idea why but the scaling works perfectly. What is it that Kubuntu is doing that Mint and Zorin are not?
KDE is qt and Gnome/Cinnamon is gtk? Is Zorin on Wayland?
 
Does anyone know what Linux distro is being ran on the default page of webvm.io?
/etc/os-release says
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
Specifically 10.13 according to /etc/debian_version
 
Hear ye, hear ye, Guix System has just received its newest release: 1.5.0 (L/A). Lots of cool new changes, the most important ones being that Guix now has its own native logging service via Shepherd, AppArmor support for my glowniggers out there, a new "guix pack" command to create AppImage and RPM packages, and a new forgejo service + native support. They are also going to be moving to an annual release schedule. Things are looking mighty fine in Guix land, I say, I say.
guix pack isn't new however previously you were able to just package tarballs and docker images which was handy when it comes to running software packaged by Guix on non Guix system. I have been using it to run guix software on RPI 4 on which installing Guix natively wouldn't be worth it due to overhead that it introduces.
 
KDE is qt and Gnome/Cinnamon is gtk? Is Zorin on Wayland?
Zorin does use Wayland

I still plan on waiting for the next LTS release of Kubuntu and I'll give it a one week daily driver challenge.

I'll also give Devuan a chance in the meantime so I can see what the anti systemd guys are talking about.
 
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Quick question but is there any significant downside to using LMDE as a server OS instead of headless Debian? I'll likely have to use my server as a desktop for a while and will back up my docker images and such and do a clean install, but after a while I'll want to use it as a headless server. Aside from slightly more storage use and longer updates will it be fine to just unplug the monitor, and possibly even stop X and LightDM from launching at startup?
 
Quick question but is there any significant downside to using LMDE as a server OS instead of headless Debian? I'll likely have to use my server as a desktop for a while and will back up my docker images and such and do a clean install, but after a while I'll want to use it as a headless server. Aside from slightly more storage use and longer updates will it be fine to just unplug the monitor, and possibly even stop X and LightDM from launching at startup?
thats kind of a weird choice for a server im curious as to why u cant do everything headless and why u want to return to headless when ur done with ur gui
 
thats kind of a weird choice for a server im curious as to why u cant do everything headless and why u want to return to headless when ur done with ur gui
Lots of things are easier to do over a GUI. It's also more convenient when you need to do stuff on the host machine that is outside the scope of the hypervisor. I've installed KDE on my Proxmox box for this reason.
 
Quick question but is there any significant downside to using LMDE as a server OS instead of headless Debian? I'll likely have to use my server as a desktop for a while and will back up my docker images and such and do a clean install, but after a while I'll want to use it as a headless server. Aside from slightly more storage use and longer updates will it be fine to just unplug the monitor, and possibly even stop X and LightDM from launching at startup?
It's Debian, it has X and various desktop environments. "apt install task-cinnamon-desktop"
 
It's Debian, it has X and various desktop environments. "apt install task-cinnamon-desktop"
Exactly. And as long as you've got X installed on Debian, if you then later need to access that server with a GUI while it's running 'headless', you can just set things up to connect remotely over X11 from another machine on the same network, or install VNC or RDP to connect that way.
 
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