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Title really (if this has been posted already or if there’s a mega thread on another subreddit let me know and I’ll delete) I love the idea of Linux, the control, adaptability, the performance gained from simplicity, the ability to add and remove at your hearts content to ensure you always have what you want where you want it. But Linux while widely used, isn’t the most widely supported. I, like any child, had my Kali masterhacker phase when I was young, and as I grew older I did some basic things like setting up a PiHole and repurposing a couple laptops. I’m genuinely considering daily driving Linux, but I am concerned that my lack of knowledge will lead me to jump to that ship, not quite knowing the risks I’m taking. What are the main pros, and especially cons of daily driving? I’m a gamer, I know a lot of games don’t support Linux, so that’s an issue already, but with more games becoming compatible with steam deck on Arch I assume this will be a non-issue over time. submitted by /u/Conaz9847 [link] [comments]

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Hi, I have created a command to apply dwm's layouts and basic functions to X windows running on the DE of choice. While not a service that will arrange windows automatically after one is opened/closed, the set of dwm commands put together with the main dwm keybindings proved helpful to my workflow over the years. Project page: https://github.com/pedrosans/pocoy Example of a sxhkdrc file configuring sxhkd to execute the commands: alt + Return pocoy zoom alt + {t,m,u} pocoy layout {T,M,F} alt + {l,h} pocoy mfact {0.05,-0.05} alt + {i,d} pocoy incnmaster {1,-1} alt + {j,k} pocoy focusstack {1,-1} shift + alt + {j,k} pocoy pushstack {1,-1} submitted by /u/pedrosans [link] [comments]

Very pleased to announce ugrep v7.1 with new features, TUI improvements and faster search speeds. The vectorized regex search engine was rewritten in version 7. Benchmarks show markable speedups of v7 over v6. In addition, binary search with hexdump output with context was improved, Windows ugrep binaries were updated to support filters to search various file types such as PDF, the TUI regex and glob syntax highlighting was improved, and some other usability improvements were made. You can find more information and the user manual at ugrep.com The ugrep free open source GitHub project repo: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep submitted by /u/gprof [link] [comments]

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As I understand it, there are no out-of-the-box voice typing apps for Linux that function in the way that Google Voice or Dragon Anywhere on Android work. By this I mean system-wide, not browser based. In other words, something that would allow me to voice-type directly into office applications, my email client, etc. I know there are such apps using local language models but nothing that would use Watson, Whisper or Google via API. If I'm wrong about that, I'd appreciate being pointed to the relevant apps. I've thought about using Mycroft for this purpose but maybe that's overkill? Has anyone implemented something like this using their own scripts? Are there examples of such scripts somewhere I could look at? (Edit: I know about "Whispering". That is indeed an app that tries to accomplish this but I have not been able to get it to work on my Linux Mint PC. Seems an immature product for now.) submitted by /u/otto_delmar [link] [comments]

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I'm thinking about switching my gaming laptop for something with battery life longer than 3 hours, since I have a PC for games now. And I heard how energy efficient ARM chips are. Apple macbooks are some of the best I heard, as they can run apps for x86 using their rosetta translator efficiently. Does someone use Linux on macbook or some snapdragon? Does it have a translator like macOS, and how well it works? submitted by /u/Makolino [link] [comments]

I mean I know most of the commands, but still I can't remember all the commands, but as I want to be a sysadmin I need to look for man pages, if got stuck somewhere, so when I read them there are a lot of options and flags as well as details make it overwhelming and I close it, I know they're great source out there but I can't use them properly. so I want to know what trick or approach do you use to deal with these man pages and gets fluent with them please, share your opinion. UPDATE: Thank you all of you for suggesting different and unique solution I will definitely impliment your tricks and configuration I'll try using tldr first or either opening man page with nvim and google is always there to help, haha. Once again thanks a lot your insights will be very helpful to me and I'll share them to other beginners as well :). submitted by /u/Independent-Gear-711 [link] [comments]

Ubuntu 24.10 ships with the wrong bird. Instead of an oriole, the wallpaper features a bullfinch, which is a completely different species. Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-wallpapers/+bug/2088160 https://preview.redd.it/49q1bgn0672e1.png?width=804&format=png&auto=webp&s=04e18172ba17f2f74518149eb28835a4a2c4797b submitted by /u/MrShortCircuitMan [link] [comments]

I have some how become the defacto Linux systems / application specialist at my organization over the last decade. Mostly managing 12 workstations and two servers. This is due to my specialty in a medical diagnostic lab (MEG). The "state of the art" clinical software to analyze our data was initially developed for HP Unix and ported to linux in the early 2000s, last update was 2008 for RHEL 5. Now to my question. There are a few ( a lot ) of libraries that are not longer supported. I do have the packages and source code, but I wonder what the best method is to install these libraries on modern systems that won't create conflicts with other libraries. Should I add them to their own directory in the 32bit system libraries folder or in another location. Writing wrappers I don't think will be very practical since the software has a little over 100 binaries. How would you manage this, currently I solve for what I can address from the distribution's repositories then compile the rest into an i686 library directory. submitted by /u/imsorrykun [link] [comments]

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I recently put this together and i'm posting it on here in case anyone else finds it useful. Tinyupnp is a very small , zero config one command upnp media server with no runtime dependencies. I made it because i was fed up with the overhead of starting kodi when i wanted to stream files via dlna and i couldn't get other known servers like gerbera or mediatomb to work. Source and installation instructions here: https://github.com/Eugenenoble2005/TinyUPnP/ submitted by /u/Rigamortus2005 [link] [comments]

If it’s because of the terminal Yes most of us use the terminal BUT, we use it because we are used to it/prefer it. Not because we need to. If it’s because of apps/games compatibility Don’t worry the devs are working on their best, if you need a game/app just install Windows aside, we don’t force you to 100% switch If it’s because of the toxic Arch users (btw i use arch 23333) Don’t worry, this is a minority on most places submitted by /u/LordNoah73YT [link] [comments]

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To be fair, I'm quite new in using Linux. However after using a few distros before landing on Fedora, I've noticed that over the past few years, the differences between the distros have gone from pretty significant to vanishingly small. Consider the following points: Ubuntu: Is (if I understand correctly) moving towards supporting the latest kernels rather than just the LTS bringing it somewhat closer to Fedora in terms of supporting the cutting edge. Aside from Snap, telemetry and other proprietary stuff, is there anything that really makes Ubuntu stand out? Fedora: the cutting edge distro, has been incredibly stable and hasn't been making any huge shakeups or changes. It's move to only support Wayland comes during a time when X11 is barely just a shambling corpse that has waaaay outlived its purpose. Even Fedora's focus on only FOSS is easily addressed through the RPM Fusion repositories. Arch: the bleeding edge rolling distro, sometimes now gets new versions and updates of software later than Fedora (see: KDE Plasma 6). Also, it's no longer the incredibly difficult and super complex distro it once was and has become far more mainstream and user friendly. Pop!_OS: is basically Ubuntu with all of the crappy stuff removed. The main differentiating factor, Cosmic DE, is already available for most distros. Debian: old reliable, is very stable as always...but so are all of the other distros. It's easier to differentiate based on stability when everything is breaking all the time, but right now everything is so much more stable that Debian's rock solid stability is starting to feel more and more in line with all the rest Linux Mint: Is just old Ubuntu (Cinnamon is available as a DE for most other distros, so I'm not sure what the main differentiation is here). Linux Mint DE: Is just Debian with Cinnamon...I guess? etc. etc. etc. In short, all of the cutting edge distros that used to be very unstable, are now quite stable in most use cases, and most of the stable distros are adopting more modern technology, and so its feels like their all starting to converge. Now, I know that there are some distros that buck this trend. Off the top of my head, I can think of Gentoo, NixOS, and Void, but in many cases these are more niche distros for specific use cases. All of the really big distros feel like they are starting to converge and going from Ubuntu to Pop!_OS to Linux Mint to Debian to Fedora never really feels too much different (besides having to use dnf instead of apt). This is especially true since all these distros can install the same DEs I might be oversimplifying and I'm sure that there's all more differences under the hood for many of these, but from a user experience perspective, they're becoming almost indistinguishable. Also, I may be wrong, and I'm sure that the good people of the Linux community will not shy away from telling me if that is the case, but I was wondering if people were starting to feel the same way. submitted by /u/Omar_Eldahan [link] [comments]

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