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I run 23.3 KDE, single boot (no windows). OS runs on a SSD, while documents, personal files are located on a few HDDs. All disks are ext4 formatted.

When I boot the machine, everything looks ok, meaning that the owner of /media/desktop/HDDx is User. However, after a while (time unknown, I would say ...

I am facing the same problem but I am not on dual boot with win. I am running Mx 23.3 with KDE and lately my non-system HDDs are mounted read-only. What is strange is that when I check permissions in Dolphin it says "user" and not "root" but in fact I cannot write on them.
The cumbersome workaround ...

rolling back fixed it. Thanks.

here more details on the audio controller:

05:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 105, IOMMU group 14
Memory at fca80000 (32-bit ...

System info:

[CODE]System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-23-amd64 [6.1.99-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.1.0-23-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23.3_KDE_x64 Libretto May
19 2024 ...

Thanks!

I am setting up an old laptop to run pihole and maybe other services.

I’d like to set it up so it can auto shutdown, auto start (it should not be a problem setting a crontab) but what about having the system auto updating?

I have found it’s possible to do do it with Ubuntu installing some ...

Following this report, please update in the repository to cryptsetup 2.4.3 Thanks

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/0 ... patch-now/

Sometimes I get bored of MX mainly because packages are not really the last releases and I want to try something newer and fresher.
Lately I have been hopping quite a bit, moving to opensuse tumbleweed then fedora (33 and 34) then manjaro: all of them were okish and with much newer packages than MX ...

Interesting analysis of hardware trends in the linux world.

https://github.com/linuxhw/Trends

anyone can contribute to that.