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  1. Article

    nvidia on wayland in 2026: it mostly works now, and here is the exact config that got me there

    i have complained about nvidia on wayland for years (see my torvalds clip) so it is only fair to say: in 2026 it mostly works. not perfectly. mostly. here is the actual config that took me from "unusable flicker and dead external monitor" to "daily driver", on arch with sway and an nvidia 30-series card. distro: arch, kernel 6.x, sway, nvidia proprietary driver (not nouveau, not yet). 1. the driver and the kernel…

    Lena Hoffmann28likes5comments

  2. Article

    gaming on linux in 2026 is genuinely fine now, here is my actual setup

    i get asked "can you game on linux" more than anything else and the honest 2026 answer is: yes, for most games, better than you expect. here is what i actually run. distro: arch, sway, amd... no, i kept nvidia, because i am stubborn, see my other post. steam installed from the official package. proton is the whole trick proton is valve's compatibility layer, it runs windows games on linux through a bundled wine +…

    Lena Hoffmann24likes2comments

  3. Experience

    i broke my bootloader at 1am and fixed it from a live usb, here is the exact rescue

    classic arch evening. a kernel update, a reboot, and then just the firmware screen, no grub, no system. my fault, i had been messing with the EFI partition. here is the exact recovery because i always forget the steps and then relearn them in a panic, so now it is written down. distro: arch, systemd, grub, encrypted root. hardware: thinkpad, UEFI. step 1: boot a live usb any arch live usb. boot it, get to the shell.…

    Lena Hoffmann17likes4comments

  4. Article

    my sway setup, explained part by part (so you can steal the good bits)

    people keep asking what my setup is so here is the whole thing, in parts, so you can take what you want and ignore the rest. this is arch + sway (wayland tiling compositor) on a thinkpad. dotfiles are linked at the bottom, PRs welcome, font comments are not. the compositor: sway sway is i3 but for wayland, same config syntax, so if you know i3 you already know sway. the config lives in ~/.config/sway/config . the…

    Lena Hoffmann15likes5comments

  5. Update

    systemd haters will tell you their 14 shell scripts and a…

    systemd haters will tell you their 14 shell scripts and a cron job are "simpler" than one unit file with a proper dependency graph and logging. they are not simpler. they are just yours, and you are emotionally attached to them. one unit file. please. for me

    Lena Hoffmann12likes5comments

  9. Question

    Which Linux for an 84 year old neighbour who wants email, photos and the footy?

    My neighbour Margaret is 84 and sharp as a tack. Her laptop is a 2017 HP with an i5-7200U and 8GB of RAM, running Windows 10, which stopped getting security updates last October. Windows 11 will not install on it. The shop told her to buy a new laptop. She does not want a new laptop. She wants this one to keep working. What she uses it for: Email (a Gmail account, she uses it in the browser) Photos the grandchildren…

    Graham Whitfield5likes9comments

  10. Question

    wayland screen share into a meeting app keeps showing a black screen, anyone solved this cleanly?

    ok i am asking for help in my own topic, which is humbling. setup: arch, sway (wlroots based), nvidia (i know, i know). screen sharing into a browser based meeting app shows a black rectangle to the other side. my camera works, audio works, just the screen share is black. i know the general answer is "wayland needs pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal for screen capture" and i have both installed. but something in the…

    Lena Hoffmann4likes4comments

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