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I currently use my laptop next to a monitor with 21" but I am thinking about an upgrade. I casually play some light games, nothing competitive. The rest is a lot of reading, office or coding work and some multimedia.

What is a nice setup in your opinion? One big screen with 27" or two smaller ones with 22" or 24" each?

I did some research and found for a 24" screen 1080p and for a 27" screen 1440p as a minimum. So I figured a 24" 1440p screen would look awesome. Do I miss something about this finding? Is 2K too much for 24" to even notice it?

The problem I have is my desk is only 65cm wide and I frequently have a book or a piece of paper between me and the keyboard+monitor. The monitor uses 22cm and the keyboard another 14cm so there is just enough space for a piece of paper. Many of the modern monitors have huge standing feets and there are not always good measurements given.

I also thought about a monitor arm but I don't know if that would help with my small desk or just create more hassle after all.

It has been forever since I built/bought a PC/Laptop and now I was asked to suggest a laptop with an iGPU for casual light gaming (if possible refurbished).

Can someone help me get up to date with the current specs? How much VRAM is bare minimum? And which CPU generation should I aim for?

Thanks everyone!

Edit: Gaming is not the priority. Office work is the focus with the possibility of photo and video workflows in the future. Also I am very confused with the naming scheme of Intel for their CPU and iGPU. Not very intuitive.

Is there anything obviously wrong or bad about the idea to just use whatever distro you like on bare metal. Like rolling release to get the fastest updates or immutable to make it rock solid. And then just use distrobox or toolbx with Debian and maybe Arch to run software your base distro does not provide?

I run Fedora right now but want to switch to something else. I was thinking about Tumbleweed a lot but there is quite a big portion of software which does not ship on Tumbleweed. (Theoretically you could download the .rpm file which quite a few developers provide on and install it on Tumbleweed too? But I am not 100% sure about that so please correct me about that if I'm wrong.) So I thought about Nix but the drama around that distro made me loose interest. Obviously Arch is also an idea but I don't like my base OS to be a project itself so I'd rather not use it for now.

And yes I thought about installing homebrew or nixpkg or pixi or whatever the name of the next new package manager is. But nearly all of them are only installable by executing a script and I don't feel comfortable doing that. Would it be safer to run scripts like that in a distrobox/toolbx?

So yeah, my initial question was wether it is viable to just choose any distro and get along with distrobox to get your software from the AUR or through .deb packages. But the question developed if it would be wise to use distrobox to execute random internet scripts without altering your base OS/putting your data to risk.

Is there a way to automatically switch on dark mode like you can turn on night light? Or is it necessary to open the system settings app every time and switch it by hand? I searched around in the system settings but did not find anything about that? Is this a planned feature for a future release or is there a plugin?

As the Windows 10 EOL date is close I was wondering what fellow Linux users thoughts about it are.

Are you helping open minded people making the switch to Linux? If yes, which distro are you using? Are you using resources like endof10.org?

Or are you using the the opportunity to get your hands on some cheap hardware for your homelab? Are you keeping an eye on special websites or just ebay (or your local equivalent)? Are you talking with local companies to get the hardware directly from them?

Or are you just observing and enjoy your peace of mind because you switched already to Linux before?

Whatever it is, we are very interested to hear your stories concering this interesting time.

Hello everyone,

I am about to renovate my selfhosting setup (software wise). And then thought about how I could help my favourite lemmy community become more active. Since I am still learning many things and am far away from being a sysadmin I don't (just) want tell my point of view but thought about a series of posts:

Your favourite piece of selfhosting

I thought about asking everyone of you for your favourite piece of software for a specific use case. But we have to start at the bottom:

Operating systems and/or type 1 hypervisors

You don't have to be an expert or a professional. You don't even have to be using it. Tell us about your thoughts about one piece of software. Why would you want to try it out? Did you try it out already? What worked great? What didn't? Where are you stuck right now? What are your next steps? Why do you think it is the best tool for this job? Is it aimed at beginners or veterans?

I am eager to hear about your thoughts and stories in the comments!

And please also give me feedback to this idea in general.

I am having issues with my linux machine running openSUSE MicroOS. It runs fine but I can't power it off via SSH. I tried shutdown, poweroff and halt but no command turned the machine off. I then have to physically push the power button but I don't feel comfortable doing that too often because I might interrupt some processes which are still running? Is there something I could still try or something I did wrong?

Hello selfhosted! Sometimes I have to transfer big files or a large amounts of small files in my homelab. I used rsync but specifying the IP address and the folders and everything is bit fiddly. I thought about writing a bash script but before I do that I wanted to ask you about your favourite way to achieve this. Maybe I am missing out on an awesome tool I wasn't even thinking about.

Edit: I settled for SFTP in my GUI filemanager for now. When I have some spare time I will try to look into the other options too. Thank you for the helpful information.

I don't know if this is the correct community to ask this but I have a problem with my Jabra Elite 4 Active Bluetooth headphones. I can't connect them with my Fedora 41 KDE laptop. Is this a KDE issue? Or a general Linux issue? Every other Bluetooth device I tried so far worked without a problem (speaker, mouse, keyboard, etc.)

I'm looking for a bookmark manager with offline capabilities. I want to host it at home and don't want to expose any ports so I should cache the links when it can't reach the server and also keep newly added links in cache and upload them when the server is reachable again (i.e., I am at home).

Is anyone aware if Linkwarden, Hoarder, Linkding (or something else) has this feature?