GNU/Linux vs KDE/Linux?

Some people prefer to call Linux for GNU/Linux since they are using the GNU tool chain. Should I then be calling Linux for KDE/Linux since I am running KDE Plasma and KDE's programs as well?
Or should we just call it Linux?

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A beginner's guide to Silverblue: Fedora Silverblue is an immutable, easy to install, and simple to use Linux operating system
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/beginners-guide-silverblue

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Summer Update for FreeCAD & Debian Science Work
https://www.patreon.com/posts/summer-update-28822998

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It feels like an unpopular opinion, but I really like GNOME!

Coming from macOS, I'm used to 'very opinionated' desktop environments, where you can learn the proposed workflow or just have a bad experience. The lack of a lot of customization is also not unusual to me.

Coming to linux, I tried XFCE, KDE, Budgie and GNOME and I gotta say, GNOME just fits so well. The consistency between everything is great (better than macOS, if you ask me) and it just feels really simple. It gets out of my way. The animations are discrete and pretty and runs butter smooth in my PC (which has some horse power, so I guess there's that).

I feel that people hate on GNOME a lot, and maybe they're right for old hardware. For me, it fits like a glove and I wouldn't trade it for any other DE, even macOS.

Is there any more people that really like GNOME out there? :D

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Drawing is a Promising ‘Microsoft Paint’ Alternative for Linux
https://moopost.blogspot.com/2019/08/drawing-is-promising-microsoft-paint.html

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Arch Linux + Gnome or Android x86

Hello!
I am very new to Linux and I want to install something lightweight with touch support on my Acer Aspire R3-131T.
It has an Intel Celeron N3160 with the Intel AC 3165 Wi-Fi Card.

Would you recommend Arch Linux with Gnome or Android x86?

Does Android x86 support my CPU?
Does Android x86 support the Wireless Card?
I googled a lot but couldn't find very much.

Cheers,
Tschöppeli

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Xfce 4.14pre3 released!
https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2019/07/31/xfce-4-14pre3-released/

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2019 - the year of the merging OSs may be good for linux

I just happened across [this article](https://www.pcworld.com/article/3394680/how-windows-and-chrome-quietly-made-2019-the-year-of-linux-on-the-desktop.html) whichs talks about WSL2 and the improvements in Windows 10 with running linux - including a new terminal that looks REALLY nice from the short video at least. It also talks about how Chrome will be able to run linux apps natively soon.

It uses the tired old cliche of "the year of the linux desktop", but it does give an overview of linux gains in other OSs this year. In addition, there is [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo) that includes a very long video explaining WSL2, contrasting it to WSL1 and even explaining why you'd want to use it rather than a VM.

It seems to me that Microsoft is looking at it from a develop and deploy perspective - develop on your Windows desktop then deploy to your linux server. But, I've already seen comments by dual booters saying that this gives them a way to stop dual booting. However, I think the opposite is also true: it gives people who are not familiar with linux a chance to try it in an environment where they can change and save things without having to make the leap of installing it as an OS on their hard drive.

In the case of Chrome, however, it's already linux. It may help in the fact that it will be pointing out the fact to all those people who are already using chromebooks: you don't have to be afraid of linux. You're already running it.

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Peppermint OS 10 – Based on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and Available in 32bit and 64bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze6CIt6GPDI

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First programming language to learn?

This may seems unrelated, but be patient please.

* Linux is a hobby of mine and I'm a not programmer
* I'm a relatively advanced linux user, I use arch btw and do lots of tinkering with minimal prgramms/wm and I especially play a lot with emacs.
* This caused me to learn some bash noscripting and elisp, but I'm no expert
* I got interested in programming and I'm looking to learn real programming
* Python seems to the popular choice, but given my linux background, wouldn't be too easy? Is it better for me learn something harder? If yes, then what is it?

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LibreOffice Asia Conference Report: Part 1
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/08/01/libreoffice-asia-conference-report-part-1/

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I made a tool for trying our Arch Linux on real hardware

There are many Arch Linux based live distributions but they are all volatile. Most of them can be customized only by rebuilding them, which makes them less ideal for experimentation.

A few months ago I made [ALMA](https://github.com/r-darwish/alma/), a tool for automating the installation of Arch Linux on USB flash drives and SD cards, just as they were real hard drives, with a few optimizations to reduce writes. These bootable environments are mutable just like a real system, and can be updated using pacman itself.

This tool can only work on Arch Linux, so it wasn't relevant to people who did not have a running Arch Linux installation. Today I made a Docker image which allows using this tool on any operating system supporting Docker, even macOS and probably Windows as well.

You should define the following alias:

`alias alma='docker run --rm -it --privileged -v /dev:/dev -v /run:/run -v pacman-cache:/var/cache/pacman -v (pwd):/work darwish/alma alma'`

And then use the tool as intended in the README. I suggest you start by running `alma --help`

If you're using Linux then you can omit the device name and you'll be presented with a menu containing the connected USB drives. Otherwise you should use `--image 4G` to create a 4GB bootable image which you can flash using dd or [balenaEtcher](https://www.balena.io/etcher/).

By default, the tool will only install a basic Arch system. You can pass some toml files with `--preset example.toml`. Some example preset files can be found [here](https://github.com/r-darwish/alma/tree/master/presets).

The Docker hasn't been thoroughly tested and my documentation could use some more love. I'll try to assist with any questions here.

BTW you can use arch.

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A weird thing about WPS Office to make me uninstall it.

So, the new WPS now ships with a PDF program, which immediately made it the preferred application to open pdfs. I didn't like that, but okay, it's easily changeable back.

But then I noticed something. I also have pdf-shuffler on my system for pagination and merging pdfs. After WPS had its pdf program installed, shuffler never opened pdfs properly. it would act like it was opening a file, but then nothing would populate in the thumbnails.

Then I purged WPS and Shuffler was working and back to normal.

Kind of weird I thought.

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Is Android Really Better Than iOS?
https://learnworthy.net/is-android-really-better-than-ios/

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Small pack of wallpapers 1920 x 1080 with Tux and Ubuntu

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Netflix seems broken again with Firefox on Linux

Netflix on Linux with Firefox has been working fine for months without issue, and today started throwing the F7121-1331 error code. The "technical" page on this error simply recommends upgrading or trying another browser.

Thinking that Netflix might want to know that some of their customers were experiencing problems, I tried the live chat. I'm accustomed to Linux not being widely supported, but the exchange was exceptionally sub-par.

-----------------------------------------------------

Netflix Customer Service

Your issue is: Unable to watch anything with Firefox on Linux. Thinking the problem was that my version became too old, I updated to Firefox 68.0.1 and problem persists after logging out, clearing cookies and cache, and retrying.

You are now chatting with: Andrie

Netflix Andrie
Hey this is Andrie from Netflix i will be helping you today, What is the "Email" you used to registered with Netflix?

You
<redacted>

Netflix Andrie
Thank you and just so we dont get disconnected, DO NOT click the "BACK" button on your device nor close or exit the browser, alright?

You
okay

Netflix Andrie
Due to the customizable nature of Linux, we do not have solutions available for streaming problems on this operating system.

Netflix Andrie
Customers who use Linux may be able to successfully stream on these machines through our HTML5 player for the Chrome or Firefox browsers but we cannot guarantee that it will be successful.

You
It was working up until yesterday without issue

You
This is something that has changed on the Netflix side as nothing changed on my side.

Netflix Andrie
Its not guaranteed to work

Netflix Andrie
Linux is not as simple as a Mac or a windows based computer

You
I am reporting a defect on your side. I am a paying customer lodging a complaint, and I am very experienced administering Linux systems. If this is the new state of normal, I'll have to reconsider my subnoscription to Netflix, but "It is not guaranteed to work" is not an appropriate customer service answer.

Netflix Andrie
I can understand you have your own preference when it comes to devices that you would like to use

Netflix Andrie
However not all devices are certified to run with netflix

You
What I expect, is for you to say that you're sorry I'm experiencing problems and that you will log the incident to your engineering team as I'm probably not the only one having the problem.

Netflix Andrie
We always log in and track why our customers contact us, its automatic

Netflix Andrie
Its thru that and customers feedback that we get ideas on how to improve the service

Netflix Andrie
Im sorry if i sounded like i was brushing you off, it was not my intention

You
Can you tell me what version of Firefox is officially supported by Netflix on Linux?

Netflix Andrie
Its just the way that Linux is, you can set it up on so many ways

Netflix Andrie
There is none

Netflix Andrie
Which is why i was telling that since its uncertified, it may or it may not run properly

You
Okay, so I guess we're done. I'll give it a day or two and if the problem persists I'll cancel the account and stick with services that do support Linux like Amazon Priime.

Netflix Andrie
Im truly sorry

Netflix Andrie
You can request a trannoscript of our conversation once we end this chat. In that way, you can always go back to it in the future if you have forgotten some of the things we have talked about to save you time from contacting us back

Netflix Andrie
Was i able to Address the Reason of you reaching Netflix?, Is there anything else i can assist you with today?
You

No, you were not able to address the reason I contacted you, but I'm not sure you can be of additional help.

You
Are you able to elaborate on what F7121-1331 actually means from a technical perspective?

Netflix Andrie
Click Here

Netflix Andrie
I also sent the article to your email

You
I'm on that page. It doesn't provide any technical details that would let me know why it doesn't let me play the video

You
And since I'm on the latest version of firefox, telling

me to download the latest version of firefox is not useful.

You
Nor is telling me to use an alternate browser, because I like my privacy.

Netflix Andrie
That is the only information that we have

You
Also, Firefox is listed as a supported browser

You
on https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

Netflix Andrie
As i mentioned earlier we dont have a multitude of options for troubleshooting Linux machines

You
Is that error specific to Linux? What would you do if that error occurred on a Windows machine?

You
and the person was using the latest Firefox?

Netflix Andrie
You are looking at troubleshooting steps for Windows based computers

Netflix Andrie
We dont have steps for linux

You
Okay. I'd suggest raising a suggestion that you should document those procedures, because you're essentially telling me that I'm not valued as a customer because I choose to use Linux.

Netflix Andrie
I did not say that you are not valued

You
And since these pages are Windows specific, this problem would seem to not be specific to Linux

Netflix Andrie
Im just stating that we dont have steps for linux machines

Netflix Andrie
We cannot assume that

You
So I feel like you are using Linux as a get out of jail free card to not actually address the technical problem.

Netflix Andrie
I told you this on the onset

You
Yes, and I didn't accept that as an answer then either.

You
But we don't seem to be making any progress, so I guess this chat has run its course?

Netflix Andrie
Because there is no progress to be made when using Linux machines

You
wow...I have no words.

Netflix Andrie
I already mentioned that we cannot troubleshoot linux

You
So if I click end chat, I'll get a copy of the trannoscript?

Netflix Andrie
After we end the conversation you will be presented with a survey and at the bottom will be an option to save the trannoscript for your reference

You
Okay

Netflix Andrie
Do you have any other questions or clarifications for me?

You
No

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ZSH she’ll, where have you been all my life??

Just installed ZSH and configured with Oh My ZSH. What a difference!

I can now easily change the feel of the terminal, and easily access shortcuts I hadn’t even imagined with various plugins.

If you haven’t given it a try, go for it. Huge difference in quality of life!

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Interview with the Pinephone community manager
https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/new

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Digital Painting. Krita for beginners [Krita launches official youtube channel]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRY5bGsJ0f0

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Offline USB Pendrive for Writing a Book Distribution Recommendations

All I need is the ability to run Libre offline so that I can write without worry. I plan on using a 32 Gig 3.0 USB drive.

I was thinking about using Tiny Core, getting Libre set up, and then making sure it can't log back online. Are there any other distros that might be better recommended?

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