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Run Virtual Machines on Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

While VirtualBox is a popular cross-platform tool for running virtual machines, KVM is a superior solution for Linux as KVM is a type-1 hypervisor which runs directly on the hardware via …

COSMIC Is a Rock Solid Desktop Environment for Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Auto Login

/etc/greetd/cosmic-greeter.toml

[terminal]
vt = "1"

[general]
service = "login"

[default_session]
command = "cosmic-greeter-start"
user = "cosmic-greeter"

[initial_session]
command = "start-cosmic"
user = "username"

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-greeter/issues/80

Atomic Linux Distributions

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Atomic Linux distributions (often called "immutable" distros) are a modern breed of operating system designed to be more reliable, secure, and maintainable than traditional Linux distributions. See chat with Gemini .

Some …

Universal Blue Atomic Linux Distributions

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Universal Blue is a manufacturing process that focuses on community-driven sharing of best practices via automation to make awesome desktop and server operating systems (based on Fedora Atomic distributions).

I've built …

Install Dropbox Using Flatpak

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation

flatpak install flathub com.dropbox.Client

Configuration on Fedora Atomic Linux Distributions and Variants

Fedora Atomic Linux distributions changed the root (/) filesystem type to composefs for reasons. Composefs is not …