I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

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How can I hide a pinned post without blocking the poster? It bothers me having this at the top of my list all the time, like some reminder on my phone I can’t ack and make go away.

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Is there any performance difference between KDE and GNOME?

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I want to turn a Microsoft surface go 2 into a kali linux machine. I would appreciate any guidance pulling this off. I want use it for learning it security stuff, partly for work but mostly for curiosity. Occasionally I run across malware, trojans, and I want to look under the hood to see how they work. I’m assuming Kali is the best tool for the job and that Lemmy is the place to go for tooling around with tools.

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Is explicit sync a good enough solution to make wayland gaming with nvidia a reality(+ remove window flickering like some people claim it will)? It’s the last obstacle I find now trying to move my main pc to linux, and I don’t really want to use x11.

Pd. Lesson learned, next time I’ll get an AMD gpu.

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Question about moving from Ubuntu to Debian - Package updates and security updates…

On Ubuntu, I seem to get notifications almost every week about new package updates. (Through the apt UI)

On Debian, I don’t see this.

I can run apt update and apt upgrade

On Ubuntu, I see this pull a bunch of package data from various package repo URLs.

On Debian, I only see this pulling package data from two or three repo URLs at debian.org

Mainly I am concerned about security updates and bug fixes. Do I need to manually add other repo sources to the apt config files? Or does debian update those repos regularly?

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