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GustavoM ,
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Nah, I’m 100% done with Windows. Even if good ol’ Bill comes up with something that forces me to use Windows for whatever reason, Linux will always be in my routine thanks to single board computers.

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If you have lower expectations, even a potato able to run (just) a web browser can be a "gaming PC"thanks to cloud gaming. Still, theres no such thing as a “best” distro for (something) – all distros are equally good and able to do any sort of task.

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Arch on my “desktop PC”, Armbian on my rpi 4, Dietpi soon ™ on my Orange pi zero 3.

100% vanilla distribution challenge

what does this consist of? Well, it’s easy, whenever you install a new distribution of Linux, don’t customise anything, nothing please!! Out of the box experience, you may install software but that’s all. And if you are already using a customised distro, then delete the .config file and reboot, but please be careful and...

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So… install a minimal distro image and the usual with the only caveat of being forced to type something that I want to run in the CLI instead of setting up hotkeys? Such challenge, much horror.

Wanting to improve my Linux skills after 17 months of daily driving Linux

I’ve been daily driving Linux for 17 months now (currently on Linux Mint). I have got very comfortable with basic commands and many just works distros (such as Linux Mint, or Pop!_OS) with apt as the package manager. I’ve tried Debian as a distro to try to challenge myself, but have always ran into issues. On my PC, I could...

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I drink water. So does my wife. Haha

Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

Hi! I’m seeking some advice and sanity check on hopping from Ubuntu to Fedora on my personal PC. I’ve been using Ubuntu LTS for almost two years now, switched from Windows and never looked back. But I cannot say I know Linux well. I use my PC for browsing, some gaming with Steam (I have AMD GPU), occasional video editing,...

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This. Edit /etc/sources/apt, switch to sid, sudo apt update and you’ll have “a better ubuntu.”

GustavoM ,
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Yep. Did this on my orange pi zero 3 (which has no support on Linux) and it worked. :^)

GustavoM ,
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Any distro is “stable” if you know how to use it.

A-bleeping-men. All GNU/Linux distros are equally good.

GustavoM ,
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Eh, I don’t have anything “complex” to add, other than buying a raspberry pi and using it as a DNS sinkhole/recursive dns under docker/ipvlan network, and then “hiding” it behind a macvlan connection + ufw. Been doing this over several years and never had any problems with it. You can even use it as a music player of sorts by configuring a hotkey to bring up mpv with a playlist, and another one to close it. Oh, and even as a “live stream player 24/7” if you are into it.

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Not really relevant, but I’ve got a “rule of thumb” for all security-related issues;

“If it doesn’t nuke my PC, then I’m good. If it does, then I’m still good since backups and logs exist, and if it was related to the latest seucirty issue? Then I make a quick patch and/or update. Then back to 1.”

Anyone want to try this "nyancat" docker image? It's pretty big -- 23kIB. :^) (hub.docker.com)

Long, short story: CLI animation with some minor annoyances. “Handcrafted” most of em out of the .c file, followed by a bunch of gcc flags. Made it distroless, and this came up. Then my “sharing itch” started after checking the memory usage of the container at a whooping 0 bytes. (I know it must be way more than that,...

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Glad to hear! Thanks.

GustavoM OP ,
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Because I’m doing this as a “self-learning” process. Plus, docker is an excellent tool and even “silly” images like this one can give me an edge while looking for (more) jobs, so there’s that. Coding could grant me the same “edge” as well yes, but docker has “more value” since it requires you to code -AND- to have some knowledge/depth regarding typical “dockerization” processes.

GustavoM OP ,
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Eh, that was meant to be a slight mockery for “ex-redditors” (since they are mostly composed of “downvote-happy” users).

GustavoM OP ,
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Oh. Thank you then. :p

GustavoM OP ,
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Eh…the usual “FROM: alpine:edge”, pull everything in with git, change the code as needed, static compiling everything, strip dead code out of the binary, send the binary in a scratch image and then assigning a non-root user to it.

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“But can Linux install things via a single .exe file? HAHAH EAT IT NERD!”

  • 10’ish years ago past me, before discovering the magical wonders of the package manager
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Stop talkimg about your ex, Cartman.

GustavoM ,
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I don’t really have a “better distro” preference – all distros can be tweaked and optimized equally, with no benefits from one another. And yes, even Ub(l)untu.

Non-root user that (suddenly) has elevated privileges in a specific command (only). [Have I been hacked?]

Title. Long,short story: creating or editing files with nano as my non-root user gives (the file) elevated privileges, like I have ran it w/ sudo or as root. And the (only) “security hole” that I can think of is a nextdns docker container running as root. That aside, its very “overkill” security-wise (cap_drop=ALL,...

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Try an ls -l $(which nano) and look at the permissions section of the output.

Just did it – output is -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 274816 Feb 19 2022 /usr/bin/nano. Now I’m really confused. Still, I appreciate your input.

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i.e file is created (as non-root), trying to remove the file (once again, as non-root) gives me a “rm: cannot remove ‘dir/file.name’: Permission denied” error message.

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Alright, first one returned me “bash: alias: nano: not found”. Second one, “nano is hashed (/usr/bin/nano)”. Third one, my sudoer username. And the fourth one shows my sudoer username at the top of the list, with both uid and gid at 1000.

And I honestly can’t really think of much to add, other than the username in the docker image being completely nonexistant (It’s just a bunch of numbers, and it doesn’t even have a name). I don’t know, maybe someone managed to breach the container and gave this “nonexistant user” root privileges but haven’t managed to do much or something like that. I’m not that much of a tech savvy, but I guess it doesn’t hurt to try to guess something. Maybe there is something inside the container? Idk, I’m gonna (try to) check it out (It’s a “distroless” image – it doesn’t even have a shell in it.).

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Just did it, and it shows my sudoer username with ownership of the created file. umask returns me 0002.

GustavoM OP ,
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No and yes. And it returns me only a single line with $mysudoerusername 28596 0.0 0.1 5896 2016 pts/0 5+ 15:52 0:00 grep nano.

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-rw-rw-r-- 1 $sudoer $sudoer $date $createdfilename.

GustavoM OP ,
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No. ps aux remains the same. And yes, “My sudoer username” is my non-root user with sudo privileges. Therefore, the “sudoer”.

And I’m not really “pulling my hair out” because of this, honestly – just curious if this can be mentioned as a hack, a hack attempt, or whatevertheheck. Because this is the first time in my entire life that this happened with me, so yep.

GustavoM OP ,
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Just adding more (relevant) info, since its my “security hole” as of now. As mentioned in the OP.

GustavoM OP ,
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I already talked about it in this thread – it shows my sudoer username on both columns.

GustavoM ,
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Clippy is back from the dead eh?

Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.

Heya! I’m looking to install Linux for the first time on parts from my old pc builds to use as a media centre and multiplayer gaming system in my living room. Something with as clean as possible interface with room for customization would be cool. Oh and support for my old nvidia gpu....

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I’m also looking for general tips and advice for beginners if anyone has some to share.

The only thing that is stopping a Windows user from becoming a Linux user is the package manager – learn how to use it in the cli. Then the "rest’ should be an obvious, flat curve (which “package” goes for video card, audio, etcetc).

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It’s like we are in a big, nonstop Southpark episode.

GustavoM ,
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Nowadays there are (less than $20) single board computers able to “run Linux” and decode 1080p videos like its nothing, so a perfect, plausible answer for your thread is simply “Why not a PC with Linux and another PC for Windows?”. Even if GNU/Linux is decent enough for gaming/working needs nowadays.

Then again, you might be arguing like distros have specific use cases – which is a straight up fallacy. Every distro is GNU/Linux at heart. Theres no such thing as “more useful” since you can simply remove packages/commands you don’t find pleasing/“useful” and add/compile another ones yourself.

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That is like asking, “Do you think Linux devs make big phat poos every once in a while?”.

GustavoM ,
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Apparently the “logic” behind this is simply, “because both isolate stuff”.

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Ratpoison. :^)

What do you think about this? (www.youtube.com)

Since i see so much linux talk on lemmy i got curious and watched a video about the common distros. How true is the information in this video? The person hardly describes why debian and arch are just better than every other distro. At least i’m definitely now curious about Mint or something for gaming.

GustavoM ,
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All distros are GNU/Linux at heart – theres no such thing as a “better” distro.

GustavoM ,
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Personally I think that the xp era was the best. Then everything went downhill.

…

Oh wait. You are talking about X.org.

GustavoM ,
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Amen. He is a lost gem.

GustavoM ,
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afaik, you actually need to do way LESS compared to using a geforce card.

GustavoM ,
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Nah, wget is the best.

GustavoM ,
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Amen. I’d install Hyperland on both of my “main” PC and on my Rpi 4 but my rpi 4 (still) has sway and it “just werks” so eeeeeh

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You guys 'member when security patches were (freely) given away, for free, without asking nothing back?

I 'member.

Looks like the “Windowsfied Linux” era is upon us.

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> “Why is X so T.O.X.I.C?”

> “”“argument”“” is just a bunch of meme spam

ewwytim

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Armbian or DietPi.

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

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I either compile em or run Windows to use said “program”.

…I mean… when the latter happens is always someone else’s PC, so eh.

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There is no* such thing as “best” – all distros are Linux/GNU at heart.

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