How is MX Linux reigning #1 on Distrowatch?
Please don’t get me wrong, this is not meant to be rude slander. MX Linux is not a bad Distro at all (even tho I’ve always opted for Debian instead) and peops are free to use what suits them best....
Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 (www.linuxadictos.com)
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What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?
General Advice for shell scripts
What do you advice for shell usage?...
tell me your experience using zfs/btrfs
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9319044...
Flatpack, appimage, snaps..
Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?
Are older, but Linux compatible computers capable of running the newest kernel/version of various distros?
Guys I truly don’t mean to spam the community but these are legit questions. Yesterday I posted about linux compatibility and computers and every single person gave me knowledge to use and you’re all awesome....
I accidently rebooted during pacman update and now my system dosen't show option to boot into endeavour os. Systemd just shows option to boot into firmware interface please help!
I’ve lost everything and I don’t know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn’t pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?
Slackware turns 30 today (lemmy.world)
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40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess (arstechnica.com)
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Cool distros to try
I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
NixOS forked (aux.computer)
hachyderm.io/
Fedora, Arch, or EndeavourOS?
Hi, I was here and asked about a few distros already, so here’s a quick summary of my situation:...
What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)
It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.
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What is the best distro for gaming?
I know gaming has gotten a lot better on Linux and I’m working on a new PC and I’m wondering which distro to try.
Gamedev and linux (treebrary.pone.social)
Source: reddit.com/…/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38…
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How can I find the reason my PC crashes?
Lately my PC has started crashing while it plays videos. It freezes completely, screen frozen and not responding to any input (keyboard, mouse), I mean I cannot change TTY (alt + ctrl + F(1-2-…)), and it cannot even respond to alt + PrntScr + REISUB. I have to force power off by holding down the power button....
Just merged my first PR to contribute to a linux distro (dietpi)
can I get a W in the chat???...
You can use emojis as credentials (feddit.de)
You can totally use emojis as passwords. You can probably even make this a policy at your company....
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Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community (www.phoronix.com)
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Trying to get my partner to switch from Windows to Linux. Has anyone tried Scrivener with Wine?
My partner doesn’t do much on the computer except web browsing and writing. The Scrivener writing program had a Linux version at some point that was abandoned....
Finally coming around to using Linux. How's it on a tablet?
I’m 43 and not really starting using Linux. I’ve dabbled with distros on and off over the years, but I never made the full switch because work always had some program or policy that just wouldn’t play nice with Linux. With all the crappy Microsoft decisions, bloatware, and ads I decided to try and use Linux exclusively on...
Linux Mint 22 Will Include Preinstalled App for Matrix (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
tl;dr :...
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Trying to ditch windows
I really want to switch to Linux, up to this point there were two things keeping me on Windows, gaming and work....