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Data Engineer and Twitter refugee (not laid off or an employee just a power user), love: Unix/Linux, programming, and cool people. He/Him. #beto2022
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Kicked macOS to the Curb and Installed Asahi Fedora Gnome
Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my...
Partial upgrade to xubuntu 24.04 from 23.10, FS only accessible in recovery mode as root + wifi may be down. Help appreciated
before the issue, wifi app was configured not to start automatically because I sometimes change the mac after logging in. I usually enable it afterwards with iftop and then systemctl start NetworkManager.service && sudo nm-applet...
[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
Opinion: GNOME vs. macOS user experience (www.youtube.com)
Spoiler: GNOME wins...
What could your distro learn from another distro?
For example, I’m using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it “friendlier” for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be “the universal operating system”....
RAID setup for Ubuntu media server
I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I’m planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively....
Window snapping
Hey guys, I’ve been running Mint on my home computer for a little while now and I’m having a great time, however there’s one behaviour from Windows I’m missing. When you hit win + arrows to snap the currently focussed window to the left or right half of the screen, windows will present a dialogue to select a companion...
Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?
So I’ve recently taken an interest in these three distros:...
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If you do these 5 things... You should NOT use Linux (youtu.be)
Do you agree? If not, what’s your counter arguments?
KDE Compositor Handoff Revolutionizes Wayland - YouTube (youtu.be)
Long term OpenSuSE users, how has your experience been?
I have been using Mint for about six months now and while I am not going to start distro hopping, I slowly want to start exploring the rest of Linux....
It either runs on Linux or refund (lemmy.ml)