Immutable distros recommindation?
I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I’m choosing a distro to hop to....
What's you favorite song lyric of all time?
Here’s some of mine....
The Hyperloop might be a good idea maybe a 100 years from now
HEAR ME OUT BEFORE YOU DOWNVOTE....
How many of you use Usenet VS torrents
Just wondering what a rough split is of people using either Usenet, torrents, or both?...
what OS should I use instead of xubuntu?
I found out that xubuntu spams users including me, which to me is a no go....
What's the most embarrassing thing about you?
Hey does anyone know how to get microsoft suite apps on linux?
I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
Has anyone here ever tried Linux From Scratch?
For those of you who don’t know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code....
What did you get into as it was dying or otherwise on its way out?
I feel like I do this a lot with podcasts. I started watching the Gus and Eddy podcast and finished it about a month before the last episode was released for example....
why do you use xmpp instead of matrix?
I see the matrix is more popular than xmpp, but why?
looking for examples of countries whose governments, school system,health system, wjatever, use mostly GNU/Linux
I know 100℅ of the world top 500 supercomputers use linux, and around 65℅ of world servers. I want more info like this to help me campaign towards GNU/Linux use. Thanks.
How many communities are you subscribed to?
Personally subscribed to 126, and it’s steadily growing by 2-4 each week. But curious to how many you are subscribed to too. Feel free to share your favorite community too!...
If the American embargo of Cuba ended, what do you think would happen to the USA and Cuba?
This isn’t meant to be a discussion on the morality of the embargo, but the affects of the embargo ending for both countries. These affects can be political, economic, or social.
Linux distro for selfhosting server
So I have been running a fair amount of selfhosted services over the last decade or so. I have always been running this on a Ubuntu LTS distribution running on a intel NUC machine. Most, if not all of my services run in a docker container, and using a docker compose file that brings everything up. The server is headless. I...
To the top 1% truly smart people the other 99% are dumb as a box of rocks. But exactly how fucking stupid is that 99% ?
As a first time Linux user pretty much what should I use for gaming.
I have heard good things about nobara. I don’t mind doing a little thinkering to have things work but I also don’t want to spend hours doing recharch on how to fix things....
How often do you attempt to use preternatural abilities on the world around you?
I am one with the Force and the Force is with me.
Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11?
Particularly, why are they so desperately pushy about it? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE IN IT FOR THEM???...
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Monkeys given infinite time would probably get carpal tunnel or form a labor union before typing out Shakespeare.
A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?
Rules:...
What should I use my RPi4 for?
I have a unused RPi4 (the 8Gig one) running DietPi. I did use it as a playground but ever since I am renting a Hetzner machine for (playground) stuff that I want web accessible, I don’t have particular use for the Pi....
How can the two superpowers cultivate friendly relations / avoid escalating a cold war?
Looking to make the switch
Hi everyone, looking to make the switch from windows. I’m reasonably technically apt but not a programmer by any means. I’ve been doing some homework on which distro I would like to use and pop_os kinda feels like the right direction. I’m running an Nvidia 3060TI on a Ryzen 5600 chip set on an Asus tuf motherboard. Any...