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If I want to install and use a different desktop environment than came with my distro, what (if any) problems can I expect to encounter?

I’m not knowledgeable about kernel tweaks, but switching DEs is very easy on Debian and should not cause any problems. Just install the desktop metapackage (e.g., “task-kde-desktop”) and you’ll be able to choose it from the login screen.

Soulseek

It’s not CentOS 3, it’s CentOS with Linux kernel 3.10 (a 2014 kernel). This was supported in RHEL/CentOS through 2017.

Still very dated and a bad idea, of course. And even weirder that it’s on a new machine. I’ve seen tons of stores using Win7 past it’s EOL, but on older hardware.

You can just use MKVToolNix to add the second track to the MKV file after rendering, it’s still another step but doesn’t require re-encoding.

If you’re just trying to multiplex tracks and not actually edit the video, I’d recommend doing it entirely with MKVToolNix and skipping Kdenlive for this use. I’ve done this previously to combine a subbed video and a dubbed one into one file, you can offset or stretch the audio if needed as well.

Inter is great, I’ve been using it (TTF hinted) as my UI font for years and it renders very sharply. I’m on Debian and KDE Plasma

It’s not made by Google though, it’s this guy, Rasmus Andersson

Mii Nixon

(Richard Miihouse Nixon?)

What is it good for?

I’ve always used XFS on spinning drives and F2FS on SSDs. No issues, they’re very solid

Soulseek is good. It’s a peer-to-peer sharing service, so you can just choose who to download from rather than waiting in a queue. You can find things in FLAC if you want it, or in various lossy qualities.

Were you watching 4K77 and 4K83 with Digital Noise Reduction? The movies are distributed in two versions, one with film grain and the other with DNR.

Maybe if the first number includes tanks of Russian manufacture in Ukrainian service

I’m not familiar with exactly what you mean, does it not require a password to boot that way? I have full-disk encryption on my laptop but not with TPM, grub just prompts me for a password before the kernel boots

What it sounds like you want is only your home folder encrypted, where it decrypts seamlessly upon login. It sounds like you have encrypted OS root, which is more secure but necessarily requires a password before the system gets to the login screen.

Other than reinstalling your system, you do have the option of either making your decryption password shorter, and/or enabling auto-login after boot (if you’re the computer’s only user), so you’d only have to type one password instead of two.

ArchWiki says that the 2022 X1 Carbon 10th gen has full WWAN and fingerprint reader support, the only thing not supported is the optional advanced webcam which should be easy to avoid. It also says that Thunderbolt eGPU is generally well-supported.

I have the recent Thinkpad T14s G3 and I can confirm USB4/Thunderbolt works properly, but I don’t have an eGPU.

it’s an extension, right? i would assume it would go away if you uncheck this option in Firefox settings:

i’ve had this unchecked so i haven’t seen it pop up in my use

Nice! What graphics card do you have? AMD generally works well out-of-the-box, but if you have NVidia you may need to install drivers

I’m not sure if it meets all your requirements, but Dolphin has a dual-panel mode if you press F3 and has lots of other configuration options as well

If the computer boots but you can’t access a GUI, use Ctrl+Alt+F3 to open a console. From there you can use nano to edit the login manager configuration. If you had GNOME installed, your login manager is probably GDM, and its config should be at /etc/gdm/daemon.conf, according to the manual. If that is the case, it looks like you should erase the username under the entry “AutomaticLogin=”.

this has to be parody… pretty sure even Slava Ukraini-heads know clusterbombs are a bad look

You can tell because you’ll see the alligator later, but you’ll see the crocodile in a while