What software have you found particularly frustrating or difficult to configure on Linux?
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 hour ago
xorg.conf. The (wrong) example from Arch Wiki works but following the official documentation doesn’t.
- hackerwacker ( @hackerwacker@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 hours ago
Caddy. The config and docs suck.
Eg. I thought I configured it to limit some sites to an allowlist of IPs. Turns out (months later) the config did nothing, but ran anyway.
- flying_sheep ( @flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 hours ago
Huh, I found it to be so much easier to set up than nginx that I wrote the devs a little thank you message
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 hour ago
Skyrim mods.
Btw, anyone got the new reshade working on wine?
- Chimrod ( @Chimrod@jlai.lu ) 2•1 hour ago
For skyrim, I’m using vortex in lutris, and install the mods this way. This requires a more bit of actions but works fine.
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 hour ago
Wabbajack still doesn’t work in wine?
- 2xsaiko ( @2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•4 hours ago
hostapd. I have no idea how you’re supposed to figure out the 50 or so options OpenWrt outputs for an AX card that I just ended up copying. And why doesn’t it detect those on its own?
- astrsk ( @astrsk@fedia.io ) 2•4 hours ago
Do VLANs with multiple wireless and wired clients using OPNSense and OpenWRT dummy APs count? Still haven’t quite figured it out.
- Krait ( @Krait@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•52 minutes ago
Me neither lol
- Sina ( @Sina@beehaw.org ) 1•4 hours ago
it’s embarrassing but for me it’s thinkfan. Instead I wrote my own solution in bash.
- flashgnash ( @flashgnash@lemm.ee ) 1•5 hours ago
Suspend with an Nvidia gpu
- socialpankakemix ( @socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•6 hours ago
hyprland but I’m a noob
- Evil_incarnate ( @Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ) English2•6 hours ago
Motion on my RPI. I didn’t want it to save videos or photos, so I turned it off in the config. But it still saved them. So I tried a few other places in the config to turn it off, but nothing worked and I’d run out of space within a day. So I changed the save directory to /dev/null.
Then I tried to upgrade the pi, and the new version of motion has a different config, incompatible with the old one. So I’m running the old one.
- exu ( @exu@feditown.com ) English3•7 hours ago
Just recently XDG Portals to get video sharing working. It just kept using the GTK fallbacks instead of KDE as I configured it, but it used the correct ones when starting from the terminal.
Eventually I figured out I had set an env override for
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="sway"
in my user systemd environment, because that’s what I used previously. - superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 2•6 hours ago
Setting up Alpine or Mutt with multiple SMTP accounts is an exercise in frustration.
- Sonotsugipaa ( @Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•6 hours ago
XDG portal filechooser for Firefox: the KDE implementation uses Dolphin, which is full of features and I use most of them; the default GTK one is mildly infuriating to use and looks ugly too, but getting the browser to use the portal I want was a nightmare - especially since GTK discontinued the GTK_USE_PORTAL envvar.
The related Firefox config entries make no sense either.- projectmoon ( @projectmoon@lemm.ee ) 1•5 hours ago
Can you explain a bit more about this and how to configure it? When I use FF on gnome, the save dialogue just looks like other dialogues?
- Sonotsugipaa ( @Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•3 hours ago
I think GNOME’s filechooser is the GTK one (never used it so I’m not sure), mine looks like this:
It’s entirely possible that Firefox changed and now uses XDG portals by default, I configured it like this a long time ago.
As for how to configure it, I honestly don’t know.
It was a combination of messing withwidget.use-xdg-desktop-portal
on about:config, and changing XDG envvars and dotfiles; both by following several conflicting Reddit and bbs.archlinux.org posts.- 2xsaiko ( @2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•2 hours ago
widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker=1 in about:config should be the only thing you need. @projectmoon@lemm.ee
- projectmoon ( @projectmoon@lemm.ee ) 1•3 hours ago
Yeah I definitely have the default GTK chooser. Guess I have some config playing to do later.
- Dima ( @Dima@lemmy.one ) 1•1 hour ago
Instructions for changing it here
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#XDG_Desktop_Portal_integration
- Wojwo ( @Wojwo@lemmy.ml ) 5•8 hours ago
Xserver… Somehow trying to find the magic string of letters and numbers that made your screen work.
- thejevans ( @thejevans@lemmy.ml ) 3•9 hours ago
Trying to configure Sway in NixOS. I gave up and just use KDE Plasma. I do miss using Sway from when I used Arch, though.
- ExtremeDullard ( @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•4 hours ago
I use i3 - Sway is supposed to be 100% compatible with i3 - and I find the configuration file very straightforward. What’s different in the version in NixOS?
- toastal ( @toastal@lemmy.ml ) 1•6 hours ago
Wild. I used sway for the first time with Nix since I could rollback a misconfiguration.
- thejevans ( @thejevans@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 hours ago
Yeah, I got stuck on secrets management. I just could not get network manager to keep my WiFi passwords. I’ll probably go back and try again at some point.