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  • HelloRoot@lemy.loltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat's your favorite font for reading ebooks?
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    3 days ago

    but it really does help

    depends on the person and symptoms. I was the opposite of sceptical, but when I tried it, I was super disappointed, because reading suddenly became MUCH more difficult.

    The non-open dyslexiefont is what helped me. Even though the differences seem minor.

    But the best solution for me is modern TTS while reading along.







  • HelloRoot@lemy.loltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhere can I find Wayland solutions?
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    15 days ago
    1. use a modern, popular distro. There are less things broken and you get more support

    2. do a fresh install with a fresh user to nor carry over your broken configs and customizations. Do everything from scratch again

    3. Tackle the issues one by one and provide detailed steps to reproduce, error messages, logs, screenshots or videos. You can ask right here on lemmy, but you’ll probably get more eyes on it on reddit tbh.

    I felt just like you a long time ago when kde introduced wayland at the end of 2016. After a couple of super frustrating months, I made a backup of my /home, migrated my archlinux to btrfs (by doing a fresh install) so I can have snapshots and revert if I mess something.

    Had only minor issues since then and most have been fixed some years later. Others I’ve learned how to work around (for example by using gamescope, because I have mixed resolution multi monitor setup and some games think my 2k screen is 4k)








  • I think that really depends on why the app made the system hang.

    Can you reproduce it consistently? If so, you could try out different forms of isolation, like flatpak, docker, a VM. And there are linux distros focused on each of those, but you can try a solution on whatever distro you’re running.

    If for some reason your system hangs due to resources (which is the only case I have ever experienced), that can be limited through cgroups and such. The only resource I don’t know how to limit is GPU compute.




  • When doing IT support for my parents windows PC I used the following two options in the past:

    • software that can copy the programs to a new install (but it was flakey and couldn’t copy every app)

    • just cloning the whole drive with clonezilla. As long as the new drive is equal or larger than the old one, this worked perfectly.

    There is a clonezilla live boot iso somewhere, or you can do it with any linux live boot and gparted + dd. Just make sure to have a backup of your important data outside of this PC (just in case you fuck up) learn what the tools and command do before running them and tripple check that you are copying the old install to the new drive, not the other way around.

    Then after the cloning unplug the old HDD for testing. Because a clone will have identical IDs the boot process and some programs might get confused.

    During the linux install, unplug the windows ssd and have only the hdd attached, again for the ID issues and just be extra safe to not fuck anything up.