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Stevo wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:23 pm Is that 5.9 kernel from our test repo? Hopefully, the new maintainer will announce at least major version bumps here...hint hint

5.9.0-8.3-liquorix-amd64 from test repo works with nvidia driver from test repo. I have AHS repo enabled too. Thanks to all the maintainers.

Hah, yes, thanks.

Again same issue with flatpak. In telegram it doesn't let me choose a directory in another mounted drive as default download directory. Back to AppImage.

Thank you very much. It worked.

I'm back to flatpaks for discord & telegram.

Could you please let me know where the configs related to flatpaks are stored? I don't see it under .config. Thanks.

:frown: Bad things:
Snaps are pushed everywhere


What do you mean by that? Are the default packages replaced with snap packages or snaps are recommended everywhere?

Ill try the live version today. Thanks for the feedback. :toast:


I don't think Snaps are on the Xubuntu ISO-image. After ...

How has AppImageLauncher been working for you?

How many have you installed, etc.

What version of MX are you using...some details would be nice for others...


The available releases doesn't seem to work because they're systemd based packages.

I'm on MX18 and using 3 AppImages for now because ...

AppImageLauncher makes your Linux desktop AppImage ready™. By installing it, you won't ever have to worry about AppImages again. You can always double click them without making them executable first, just like you should be able to do nowadays. You can integrate AppImages with a single mouse click ...

Don't care about systemd for now.

I use MX Linux because it doesn't use systemd and I guess there are many others like me.

:frown: Bad things:
Snaps are pushed everywhere


What do you mean by that? Are the default packages replaced with snap packages or snaps are recommended everywhere?

Ill try the live version today. Thanks for the feedback. :toast:

PS: I hate the fact that systemd is creeping slowly & steadily ...

I can test it, if you're interested.

BTW GPU info. in case if you need it.

Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 390.87
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390 ...

nvidia module install fails for 5.0.x series. Here is the make.log for 5.0.0-5.1-liquorix-amd64.


$ apt policy nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver:
Installed: 390.87-8~deb9u1
Candidate: 390.87-8~deb9u1
Version table:
*** 390.87-8~deb9u1 500
500 https://xxxyyyzzz/debian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages ...