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Some people are just insane… That’s why they exist.

Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the real beginner distro was the Debian I've used along the way]

I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....

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You are literally just describing fedora. So yeah, give that a try.

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I’ve commented this before and I’ll do it again. DO NOT try to install ROCm/HIP, it’s a nightmare. AMD provides preconfigured docker containers with it already setup. Download one of them and do whatever you need to do on that.

Viruses & Task Viewers

Hello everybody! I can say I’m a newbie at Linux. Wanted to ask about Linux’ task viewers. On the famous task viewers such as bpytop, htop etc., can viruses hide from them? Excluding the injected codes, can virus & tracker/logger softwares hide from classic task viewers of Linux? Do they show all kinds of services and...

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No, they cannot. If a process is running on your system, you can see it in htop.

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Warp terminal. I like it

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To use AMDs machine learning thing (ROCm/HIP) you 1st need to set it up on your system, as it’s not a part of the FOSS driver. Tl:Dr don’t bother. AMD provides docker containers with ROCm/HIP already setup. Download one of those and install whatever you need on that. Trust me, you’re gonna save yourself a lot of nightmares.

E: See: This for more information

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Pro tip: NEVER try setting up ROCM/hip directly on hardware. AMD provides a docker container with it already setup.

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Because it’s a pain and can brick your graphics driver…

Decision of Next Os

I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I’ve decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That’s because of users, not OS… right? I love to deal with problems but I don’t...

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If you know what you’re getting into, arch can be a great experience, I’d say give it a try!

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Nice

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I’d say that if you want a stable, “just works” experience, try fedora. It’s the only distro I’ve had truly 0 issues or complications with…

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Think of linux as desktop android… That’s probably the best advice I can give you. Depending on which distro you choose, they’ll have different app stores. GNOME Software for some, discover (yes, that’s the name of the program) for others, Pop!Shop for Pop!OS. As for managing apps - avoid installing snaps. Other than that, don’t worry about it.

Pretty much all cloud providers are supported on linux, most of them just don’t have bespoke apps and get added directly to your file manager. Some distros have a step during the initial setup, where you can log into accounts and what not, which should setup stuff like OneDrive automatically. And if not, i don’t think setting them up manually is too hard.

Do not install/uninstall stuff from the terminal. Most self-respecting user friendly distros have an app store which does all the things for you. Installing things from the terminal/the internet should be a last resort, only if the thing you want to install is not available anywhere else.

As for my distro recommendations… try Fedora KDE or Linux Mint.

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Don’t we already have polkit and pkexec for that?

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have you tried EasyEffects?

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Except, that older versions of desktop environments tend to be less stable…

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No, stable for me means “it’s not buggy and broken”

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Yes, and that’s exactly the reason why I’d never recommend debian for a desktop

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I mean, I get it being broken for the release candidate on gentoo… But it still being broken in the same way on 6.0.4 on alpine… That’s gotta be one hell of an imagination

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On gentoo, no, but I forgot to mention in the post that the issue is plasma 6 exclusive, as I have both it and hyprland installed and screensharing works fine on hyprland, so idk.

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Just use VLC

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The problem with snap isn’t that it’s useless, it’s that it’s garbage. Snaps are just plain worse in every way, compared to other packaging formats. They impact boot time A LOT… like A LOT A LOT on a hard drive, use a ton of space, are slow to launch unless you use like tricks or what not to speed up consequent launches after the 1st one, the store backend is proprietary and poorly moderated, the store is slow and unresponsive, and cannonnical is pulling some real micro$oft-esk shit to try and force them on users… Stuff like aliasing apt commands to snap, disallowing ubuntu spins to ship flatpak by default, etc…

The only redeeming quality that snaps have is that you can run CLI/server programs as a snap, and even then, just use docker lmao.

Box86/box64 is frickin dope rpi400 (sh.itjust.works)

I have been messing with my raspberry pi 400 and stumbled across box86. This program converts x86 calls to arm. And it works pretty well, i got the orginal pvz (disk verison) running through wine and box 86! The game is slow on cutscenes but gameplay is suprisingly playable and was more playable then my first pc lmao!...

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Based PvZ

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Unless you’re running a server, no.

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Just… Use virt manager or if you like me hate it’s UI, gnome boxes. They are different UIs for the same thing. And are both infinitely better than virtualbox.

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Yes, it’s great. I’ve ran it on a void linux base, a debian base and an alpine base. Was rock solid each and every time.

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Void is a learning experience. Both it’s init system and it’s package manager work differently to anything else out there… If you wanna spend some time, learning how to use it, yeah, otherwise just stay on fedora.

What distro should I use on my potato?

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I’m a writer and it’s a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it’s got Windows and it’s unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it’s...

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My 1st recommendation for any potato PC is AntiX, however, since this one isn’t THAT potato and you’re gonna be using it for light writing and stuff, I’d say try Alpine… It’s out of the box experience is similar to arch, however you have automated install scripts for things like the desktop environment.

You could also try AntiX’s parent distro - MX linux or Linux Mint XFCE, both should work nicely.

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Short answer: no

Long aswer: Kali, as a desktop is just half broken debian with a theme and a bunch of bloatware preinstalled… Even if your host is linux, you should still run Kali in a VM.

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Mostly for headless systems, servers and such. That and debugging, if your desktop breaks/quits working for some reason, you need some way to run multiple things at once…

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The only “compiler” I need is npm… Usually just use the one from the repos, however if it’s too old, which on most stable distros it usually is, I install a tool, called n from the old version of npm and use that to update npm…

Dell is so frustrating

Dell has got to be one of the most frustrating companies that put out a linux laptop. They put out a laptop certified for ubuntu but then never support newer releases. A big part of their hardware is always proprietary drivers like webcam, fingerprint reader etc… Then you update to a new LTS release because lets be serious...

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Do not buy dell… They are like apple without the whole “good products” part.

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If you want a PC laptop, my recommendation is that you either get a framework or buy one from a linux manufacturer (System76/Tuxedo/Slimbook)… Or if you need GPU horsepower on the go, just get whichever gaming laptop is on sale, they are all pretty much the same. If you’re on a budget, try your hand at 2nd hand. If you country doesn’t have a developed 2nd hand market, then you might consider getting a budget laptop, however those generally tend to suck and I’d recommend against it, unless you really just NEED a laptop.

Just don’t buy dell “flagship” products, they are just worse macbooks

Rectangle for Linux?

To preface this, I’ve used Linux from the CLI for the better part of 15 years. I’m a software engineer and my personal projects are almost always something that runs in a Linux VM or a Docker container somewhere, but I’ve always used a Mac to work on personal and professional projects. I have a Windows desktop that I use...

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rectangle is a built-in feature of the KDE plasma desktop lol

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You feel smarter… Yeah, that’s pretty much it.

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Fedora

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What is the point of email clients? Why not just use the web browser?

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Like this

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Kitty

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I click install, app launches and I don’t need to deal with dependency hell for it. (I like them)

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Anything you can find 2nd hand cheap with a bunch of SATA ports and at least a gigabit LAN

Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?

I’m interviewing for a software dev job currently (it’s in the initial stages). If things work out, I’d absolutely prefer a work laptop with Linux installed (I personally use PopOS but any distro will do), a Mac will be second choice, but I absolutely cannot tolerate Windows, I abhor it, I hate it… (If all computers left...

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I KNOW I’m gonna get A LOT of hate for typing this, but if a MacBook is cheaper than the laptop you want, you should get a MacBook…

Whats your thoughts on Ai in your terminal? (www.warp.dev)

Today i was doing the daily ritual of looking at distrowatch. Todays reveiw section was about a termal called warp, it has built in AI for recomendations and correction for commands (like zhs and nushell). You can also as a chatbot for help. I think its a neat conscept however the security is what makes me a bit skittish. They...

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I’m not the biggest fan of the forced account thing, but I do like a lot of Warp’s features. The command suggestions especially make dealing with tools that have like 1000 switches so much easier (like docker for example). Other than that… It’s easy to customize, fast and looks good.

Tl;Dr, I like Warp, cry about it.

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I use fish and have used it for a long time and it works very well with warp, actually. You get both it’s autosuggestions and warp’s autocomplete. 's nice

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AI can be of great help when learning docker, as it is genuinely super confusing. You don’t “find” docker, it’s a terminal program that you interact with… From the terminal.

I’m gonna get A LOT of hate for this, but check out Warp terminal. It has a really nice GUI for configuration and really nice autocomplete for commands.

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Because it’s closed source and requires a sign in. Imo worth it, as it’s a very nice terminal.

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I mean, you can call literally any more advanced terminal “alacritty with tmux”, but I don’t think that’s fair. And I for one find Warp’s AI features fairly useful. It’s also as I mentioned above got a really nice autocomplete and configuration UI. (It’s autocomplete is an absolute godsent when it comes to dealing with docker…)

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In my experience with X11, just in general, trying to run multiple monitors with different refresh rates and/or resolutions is where the big problem is. Everything just feels choppy and unstable…

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