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Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.

Complete Linux noob so apologies if anything I say or ask about sounds dumb....

**PipeWire 0.3.81 (2023-10-06)**This is the first 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases....

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 so I have a Pi 3 that’s about to be redundant. I haven’t used Pi-Hole so I was thinking it’d be good for that but I’m curious if there’s any downsides for users. Are sites blocked if you dont whitelist them? That sort of thing....

Hey folks, I just realized my pihole server, running on a Ras Pi 3 needs to be rebuilt from scratch. I’ve seen many mentions of AdGuard DNS here though. What’s your thinking on which is better now?...

Hi, I’m looking for a distro for my laptop. My first distro was Pop!_OS, then I switched to Fedora, then Arch for a year and 2 months ago I switched to Fedora Silverblue, because I wanted to try immutable distro that relies on containers and flatpaks to be usefull. Silverblue is great but not so much for me, its not flexible...

For me, it’s not enough to verify the integrity of an ISO – I also have to verify its authenticity (or at least verify the checksum file) with GPG. I don’t know why, but just need to see that “Good signature” message before I feel safe installing Linux....

I dont really want to use that proprietary driver, but I plan on getting an old Thinkpad W530 that has some probably pretty slow NVIDIA GPU. Do you know if these are well supported by Noveau? Would be great!...

Title. Mainly asking for the library side, but PC cafe is also interesting to ask about....

I may give it up, but just playing with an old laptop and looking at linux for the first real time and of course, the old laptop happens to have this network adapter… 🤦🏻...

Does anyone know why suspend-then-hibernate might not work with an “unrecognised verb” error (on ubuntu 23.04) when hibernate works?

From my reading it seems that Resolve runs fine on Linux with the exception of some codecs not being available....

I’m starting to get ads in my Windows notifications so it’s time I move....

Title. Just had this baseless yet possible idea on my head and I’d like to know how wrong it is? Since afaik, “nobody” has absolutely zero permissions… other than the ones given by the user. Pretty sure I’m missing something vital or important, but… I’m completely fine being called dumb every now and then....

can I get a W in the chat???...

Im currently on KDE,wayland , on fedora, with libinput how do I change what trackpad gestures do?

I have a partition that is set up like the following:...

I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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