I activated it on my work laptop to benefit from a little more time to get bug reports upstream. OpenQA can’t catch everything. Even if I updated only once a month I’d still get up-to-date software at that time.

Sure, openQA and snapper make catastrophic failure very unlikely. But it’s still a small hassle.

But I can’t work anymore anyways so I might as well get all the good stuff as quickly as possible. Just gotta find the energy to switch the repos. By that time Plasma 6.2 has probably hit Slowroll. Let’s see.

removed Slowroll, I’m going back to Tumbleweed for this!

I guess Lutris downloads some updates by itself without updating the main app. So probably whoever caused the issue in the first place probably fixed it using the same mechanism.

There doesn’t seem to be a bug report for this. Maybe you can make one and get a workaround on the way.

Yeah, it’s strange how that requirement appeared out of nowhere. I was able to find a repo with umu on OpenSUSE to solve it. But that’s obviously not possible with flatpak.

The app won’t have every instance on the planet. You can type in whatever instance you wish.

Thanks, sounds good. I need the running system, so I’d first set up BTRFS on one disc, test it and then add the other disc.

I will be decrypting from a small busybox inside the initrd. I suspect that it will decrypt both drives if the passphrase is the same. At least that’s how it works on the desktop.

Why not ZFS’s own encryption?

Though I would rather go with BTRFS since I don’t have any experience with ZFS.

SDDM seems to be severely underdeveloped. It doesn’t seem to get nearly as much love as the rest of KDE. You might consider switching to GDM or another display manager that does what you want. You can be happy that your HDMI monitor is not mirrored smaller on your ultrawide.

I’d rather set up a VPN for yourselves. Many routers can act as a VPN. Maybe you and your friends should check your routers if they are capable of doing that. Could be the easiest option.

That’s not my experience. Bought a new Brother MFC the other day. Hooked it up to the Wifi. All Linux machines in the house can automatically print and scan without any additional setup needed.

The community is probably still bitter from the way Owncloud went corporate which prompted the Nextcloud fork in the first place.

And now Nextcloud is plagued with the technical debt slowing it down.

I thought precursor was a drop at the tip.

That is absolutely not a slow laptop. If it takes a long time to boot there must be something wrong. I have a similar system that takes about ten seconds to boot.

Anyways, like others said, LVM with LUKS is the simplest. It uses your hardware to quickly decrypt the drive on boot. While it is running access to your data is protected by your login manager or lock screen.

Stay away from the Thinkpad T580 with the Geforce MX150. It’s horribly throttled and can’t even run Quake 3 properly although it should actually be capable of running Doom 2016.

Might be the same with the T480.

That’s more or less what a virtual machine does. And I bet cheating programs do as well.

At it’s simplest you just start the programs with Wine. So when you have Wine installed you can just select to run an exe file with Wine. By itself it will install them to a hidden folder where a mock-Windows-folderstructure is created and add entries to your start-menu equivalent.

Most people use helper apps that add a separate mock-Windows environment for every program. Makes it easier to manage them, especially if one program needs different settings from another to work.

Bottles is such a helper for general programs. Heroic is mostly for GOG and Epic games. Lutris generally for games. And Steam uses it’s own Wine version Proton automatically for verified games and you can trivially configure it to automatically use it for every Windows game.

Look at https://protondb.com for games and https://appdb.winehq.org/ for general programs.

And in reality they’re all just in the 2.6 branch. I still remember the transition from 2.4.

I wonder how that will play together with Distros like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed where you basically do a whole OS upgrade and are not supposed to do “just” updates.

I hope we can easily supply our own script to run.