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Wait... What does it mean it doesn't work? The DS4 controller had drivers for ages, now what matters here is the way the DS4 controller is grabbed. By default, evdev should be natively supported (wine games should be using this, as for native games) but steam big picture and RPCS3 have another method called "hidraw" so you should be installing some udev rules manually or either with the steam-devices package

You could also make some uefi entries with efibootmgr pointing at different bootloaders (they have an .efi extension in the efi partition) or just using grub and chainloading the bootloader in it

dual graphics card are barely supported in linux itself, I don't know how to modify the graphics card you could try checking the bios for forcing the dedicated GPU

The safest security measure imo would be always make backups of your important data in cloud services... GNOME desktop has a feature which can make cloud backups of your home folder weekly, with a service you choose (Google drive, Dropbox etc) but should work on other desktops as well

*Runs linux on her PS3* Yeah...They are

About the click bait title it was just more like I didn't want to get the title too long to read... as for deadlines, there could be dedicated workers as well being paid for developing with open source software, just because someone else can do a commit or fix some bugs doesn't mean it's a total chaos, there are some cases like Ubuntu where it has a fixed release month, a feature freeze, etc... Same goes for Debian, but also for programs like X.org where since Wayland development started, they only release security updates for now. (They do have upcoming features in the source code but officially there is no release rather than git builds) Pretty depends on the project though, especially if that is someone who a random student made

So far I remember trims do not run under a driver but anyway the fstrim service just runs the fstrim command itself triggered by a timer, I just don't know if: pacman packages can enable services at all and since I do not know also absolutely nothing about systemd strange practices rather than removing a symlink and remove exec privileges, like I was used to in the past so I'm a bit clueless on that... The package looks identical to the ubuntu one so I think it's enabled by default, but what if someone upgrades that package when you have previously disabled that service? If it just re-enables itself that would be problematic in this case, apt acknowledges that (I was almost sure about it) but pacman is rather plain and simple Btw it was not a coincidence also because the "mistake" was taken by a red hat employee himself which was also the maintainer itself, so pretty reasonable... Also, I'm not a programmer so I don't like criticizer other people work, but I can't really tell how something like that could even happen? That could be the worst case scenario Back to another story, since manjaro let's you easily create an lvm encrypted installs but also have a slightly different release cycles, this could be both a nightmare and a benefit as they update kernel a bit later there, so some people could be saved here Also yes, the specific issue happens only when you use a specific function on a specific kernel version, but it's still one of the main linux kernel modules and not a simple driver for a device I'm also sure Gentoo uses pretty old kernel releases by default, as for fedora who knows? I'm just sure Ubuntu 19.04 is on 5.0 EDIT: yeah by default it uses 4.19 without masks but anyway something I noticed is every distro has its own concept of stability

A dude in there tried a kernel bisect and found the responsible commit for him, so I guess this has also something to do with that kernel version

How would a kernel hire a QA team? (bad joke) It's impossible to have always a perfect job even with a QA team I guess? Which anyway is not compatible with a project like a linux kernel as it's not owned by just a company Btw the actual dangerous commit in that case was made from a specific company (Red Hat, now part of IBM) which was also a maintainer, so probably it has not been checked by others and eventually the kernel got into the stable release before anyone found out a problem Most of the issues are resolved when a kernel release it's in the mainline or rc state release Anyway even if some kernels like the 5.1 is considered "stable" by the kernel developers, it's not for most distributions except the one mentioned before (arch)

Looks like it works, but I'm not sure how APT handles eventual updates for util-linux, well ubuntu users are not affected anyway... EDIT: It just gives a warning about it being disabled, nvm But I don't know if on manjaro is any different, if I don't remember wrong pacman doesn't enable services automatically

linux 5.1 users* Found out it's an util-linux package dependency, systemd has two fstrim.service and an fstrim.timer (it's like a cron bootleg) so one can either force-disable one of those by removing the actual file, the disable command doesn't seem to work for me, instead of breaking packages, the safest thing people can do is just not to use that kernel...

I miss the times where Torvalds himself roasts people with bad kernel commits...

for the ones who got the continuous "discard" fstab option enabled, it should be completely destructive on those specific setups I checked on Ubuntu with a btrfs filesystem, and only an fstrim timer is enabled weekly, I don't use manjaro since ages so I can't really tell, If I don't remember wrong it does this

It's not completely clear at this point, the reporters of those issues look like to have in common only Samsung SSD's + LUKS+LVM encryption, Samsung SSD's are pretty common though...

Summary: Looks like there is a bad commit in the Linux 5.1.2 kernel, which in some circumstances issuing a ATA TRIM causes actual data to be discarded instead of deleted blocks. Looks like Windows 10 is not the only one to get data loss after updates. So far, it appears the issue happens if: LUKS+dm_crypt if:(Linux kernel software encryption) A Samsung SSD is used Linux 5.1.2 is used It should be noted that this happens only when ATA TRIM is issued, so when the "discard" fstab option is used or the weekly "fstrim" service cron/systemd timer is enabled, or a manual fstrim is issued through CLI. Ubuntu based distros should not be affected by this as it doesn't use the Linux 5.1 kernel. Arch Linux/Manjaro users sadly are affected, on Manjaro the fstrim is enabled automatically, while on Arch it has to be issued or configured manually. I do not know if other distros are affected Since it's a bug related to the device mapper, this could happen on any filesystem Mitigation: The best thing you can do is to shut down the system immediately and use another kernel. You can also try disabling the fstrim timer by issuing this command, but it's not very recommended: `systemctl disable fstrim.timer` `systemctl stop fstrim.timer` Or if you are an expert, checking in /etc/fstab for the discard parameter (but you are basically screwed up if you have this enabled as it's a continuous trim) Remember for your SSD health and optimal performance, to re-enable those options once everything is over by just replacing disable with enable, and stop with start. Source: https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2019-May/msg00084.html https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=246569 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62693 https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg87788.html https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.1-FSTRIM-Bug

You are comparing Linux servers and Windows, btw you are just talking about API's in GUI programs, the same can happen on Linux too

That could actually mean there are more people in the security team for finding vulnerabilities, which would be reasonable, still better than if someone else or hackers finds out by themselves

Well... it is compared to other versions of Windows it's not comforting though...

Yup, same I usually try to force the upgrade by using the update assistant

First question, is that a laptop? Second one, does pressing ESC show a verbose output? If yes, we would need those

Probably not Well basically it's just ubuntu...With updated PPA You can do that in ubuntu and it takes a couple of seconds