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Mars7x , in Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ?
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I haven’t been keeping up, what happened?

pezhore ,
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www.jeffgeerling.com/…/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb

TL;DR - RedHat is going to wall off all their code/packages behind a paywall meaning the only way to use RedHat is with a paid subscription.

Mars7x ,
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Well that sucks.

Do you know if they will still contribute upstream?

shreddy_scientist ,
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Based on my understanding, Fedora will be unaffected but Rocky & Alma are in some hot water along with Scientific Linux. RHEL is based on Fedora while the others are based on RHEL.

ema_sideproject , in Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ?
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You can’t go wrong with Debian

VE3VVS , in NixOS is Mindblowing by Chris Titus
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Just because I’m interested in the hole NixOS thing, I was wondering how much difference there is between NixOS and Guix, I know I’ve spun both up in a VM and while they are similar, Guix is different enough that I can’t find the main config file. So can someone give me a quick description of the difference?

choroalp ,

Guix is NIx but its configured in Lisp.

MentalEdge , in Liftoff! - 🐒 A mobile client for Lemmy (Android/iOS/Windows/Linux)
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Looks like this is a combination of lemmynade and limbo? Which were both forks of Lemmur.

lemmy.world/c/liftoff

Fizz , in Desktop environment Ram consumption: Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE, Mate, LXDE, LXQT
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I want me de using ram to make everything smoother and load faster. Ram is there to be used.

Mereo , in KDE Social - Friendly lemmy instance for the KDE community

Woohoo! I hope a lot of FOSS project have their own Lemmy/Kbin instance. Reddit, a capitalist platform, is no place for them.

PainInTheAES ,

Klemmy/Kbin lol

20gramsWrench , in Desktop environment Ram consumption: Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE, Mate, LXDE, LXQT

I wish there was a better way to judge the lightness of full desktop environements than just ram consumption, because speed and smoothness can vary greatly regardless of ram, so we know whether of not it runs well on shitty laptop, lxqt being no faster than xfce in my experience is pretty telling of that

M_Reimer , in Gentoo-based distros

Isn’t Gentoo all about compiling everything?

Maybe you should search for some rolling release distribution. I’m using Arch since many years and am quite happy with it. You rarely have to build anything yourself. Only if you have to use the AUR.

Mereo ,

I second this. It sounds that you want a rolling release distro. Suse Tumbleweed is also a good choice.

Krafting , in Immutable Operating Systems: Yay or Nay?
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In my opinion: Yay for people not tech savy, so they can’t bork their system, and it prevent most malware to do damages. Or for special devices, like the Steam Deck!

Nay for thinkerer like me, if I want to uninstall the boot loader, I need the option!!

simple , in Is the out-of-the-box quality of desktop-focused Linux distros declining recently?
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  • Kaldo ,
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    Linux Mint is also good, but it does feel a little outdated.

    Just aesthetics or do you mean from the technical side?

    simple ,
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    Mostly aesthetically, but also since Linux Mint is a very stable distro updates are usually slow and the packages it uses are often a little outdated. If you're the type of person to want to update to the newest thing as soon as it's out, then it's probably not for you.

    erik1984 , in On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution
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    Nice to see a good example of telemetry use

    ono , in On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution

    Highlights:

    The crash started apparently out-of-the-blue, hitting thousands of Argentinian users on a Debian-based distro called Huayra, and specifically on version 5 which was based on Debian 10.

    Everybody seemed to crash while searching for images on Google.

    Google’s code was allocating 20000 variables in a single frame.

    techviator , in On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution
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    Here’s the rest of the thread (should open entirely from the first link, but posting all 6 links just in case):

    (1/6) fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592904713090347

    (2/6) fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592906325095640

    (3/6) fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592907269834415

    (4/6) fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592908903430968

    (5/6) fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592909828889441

    (6/6) fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592910420926394

    snake_cased , in I am thinking about switching from Windows to Debian 12 Bookworm
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    Stable just means no major version jumps in software that might break your current setup. That’s important for operating servers, not desktops.

    I use debian Sid (unstable) at work and never had problems. Most of the time I get updates prior to other distributions I am using.

    At home I use arch (derivates, manjaro), with great success.

    I would abstain from Ubuntu. There, I had problems, it is very opinionated and not in s good way.

    In a general sense I would always chose a distribution that isn’t too locked in to a certain desktop environment and provides updates, quickly.

    khaosoi ,
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    +1 for Manjaro

    carcus , in How can I get better at the CLI?

    Dedicate a set amount of time when you only use the cli to accomplish things. Pick simple, low risk things like cleaning up unneeded downloads in your downloads directory. Start with one file then try wildcards, brace expansion and regex.

    View logs and grep to find specific events. Investigate (read only) what type of data is provided under different directories under /.

    Use online resources to learn a scripting language, bash is convenient to start with, as it’s a common default shell and can be used for scripting. Learning bash can translate to one liners and eventually scripts.

    This is a good resource, but I would recommend to not read it like a book, but maybe investigate sections of interest after you get a feel for some of the early topics: tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/

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