Linux is spreading

My dad wanted to reset his windows 7 machine, so we grapped the install disc.

Everything went smoothly until drivers were to be installed, we tinkered for maybe 2 hours until we just gave up.

He asked if I had one of those like windows but not he could try.

We started with ubuntu, no dice, to foreign.

We tried lubuntu, he liked the likeness to windows, but to old school.

We went with kubuntu, the immortal words.

'This is it'

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Discussion, gaming pc coming home to Linux, what distro do you choose and why.



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Drawing, Ms paint alternative for Gnome
https://github.com/maoschanz/drawing

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RPCS3 - Linux & Windows - Pop OS 19.04 Emulation Gaming Performance!
https://youtu.be/gx1WAiwjTCU

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Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” Cinnamon released with more performant Cinnamon, improved software & update manager, better theming and more
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tina_cinnamon_whatsnew.php

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I'm building a custom Kubuntu ISO with Cubic and would like suggestions for software/packages to include.

I'm looking for suggestions about packages I can add to it that would improve overall functionality of the system and/or useful software.

Some of my own examples about what to include are fish, exFAT support, gparted, and git. If there is anything you immediately install frequently on a fresh copy of ubuntu/kubuntu, please post.

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KDE And GNOME Are Joining Hands To Build A New-Age Linux Desktop
https://fossbytes.com/kde-gnome-joining-hands-build-linux-desktop/

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UPDATE: Manjaro plan to make office suite selectable during installation

"If you like more a spartan version shipping only the desktop environment and systemd tools, please choose our Minimal-ISOs. **On the final release we plan to make the office suite selectable during installation.** Learn more about FreeOffice here"

[\[ Stable Update\] 2019-08-01](https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2019-08-01-kernels-fpakman-firmware-kde-git-browsers-java-xfce-4-14-pre3-haskell/97075)

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No matter your distro, you are loved.
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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - August 02, 2019

Welcome to the weekend! This stickied thread is for you to post pictures of your ubuntu 2006 install disk, slackware floppies, on-topic memes or more.

When it's not the weekend, be sure to check out r/WildLinuxAppears or r/linuxmemes!

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Is Fluxbox dead?

Anyone know if fluxbox is still alive? Their website is barely working.

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System76 Is Launching A Powerful Linux Laptop With 4K OLED Display And Intel i9-9980HK
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/08/02/system76-is-launching-an-insanely-powerful-linux-laptop-with-4k-oled-display-and-intel-i9-9980hk/#7d8e6e9b15e3

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I use the hicolor Icon theme because the icons stand out more if they're all different styles and the default app icons are fine. Am I weird?



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Linux kernel 5.1 reaches end of life
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/28/19

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List of problems with desktop Linux

I wanted to make a long post about how soon desktop Linux will get a good oppurtunity to get new users and how it still has many issues. I wanted to ask "what can be done to solve this", but then I realised that "this" was not well defined. And I do believe that in order to start looking for the solution to the problem, we firstly need to know what the problem is specifically.

So I looked around the internet to see if there are already any existing projects that aim to provide an overview of the issues that people see with desktop Linux. I found badly written [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_desktop_Linux), a top 5 list, a [list](https://gitlab.com/probono/platformissues) that consists mostly of architecture issues and a [very detailed list](https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html) of issues, few of which look to me like cherry-picking.
Is that enough? Does that provide a good overview of everything wrong with desktop Linux or should we give XKCD927 a try and make a project that aggregates all the known issues into one place and allows community to rank, update and discuss listed issues?

Then broader question is if such thing would even be useful. Do we even have power to affect bigger Linux distros?

And do we even want to see problems with desktop Linux resolved? We can still keep using distros and not care about wider issues and about newcomers.

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How does downloading applications work on linux?

I’m thinking of maybe getting Linux, but I’ve heard wierd things about downloading apps. Apparently most distros come with an app downloader, a bit like the AppStore for Mac. But I’ve also heard that you can get a larger selection by downloading something that increases the amount of apps you are able to download from a GUI.
Other than that, I heard you can download apps directly from the Linux terminal, by saying apt get or something like that. How does it know where to get an app? Do you need to know how to use terminal commands well to use Linux and download apps that don’t come on your app downloader?

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Display Manager suggestions

Im looking into a DM to install on my Arch setup.

Some things I'm looking for:

Easily configurable (important)
Lightweight (important)
Looks "modern" (preferred feature easily subjective)
Secure (extremely important)
Good documentation

I had my eye on lightdm but wanted to see what others have to say about what they've used.

I also understand that a DM won't have everything I want but still appreciate your opinions and input

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Metafont-inspired font design using nonlinear constraint optimization
http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/08/metafont-inspired-font-design-using.html

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Just realized that different keyboard shortcuts in the terminal behave inconsistently

While going through the keyboard shortcuts for editing text, I've realized there are some inconsistencies as to what justifies a word. For instance we can look at the keyboard shortcut for cutting the word just before the cursor (CTRL-W) and the shortcut from transposing the current word with the last word (ALT-T).

If we have some text, let's say, `/usr/bin`, and the cursor sits just past the last character, transposing the last two words results in `/bin/usr.` So this implies that /usr and /bin are treated as two separate words. But if our cursor is in the same position and we delete the last word (or cut it), it removes the entire path /usr/bin. I.e. it just cuts until the preceding white space.

I am wondering why it would behave like that naturally. What defines a word should be consistent throughout all operations with the keyboard. I personally don't think it should depend on what type of editing I am doing. I would prefer it if the '/' was *always* treated as a word separator rather than have it depend on what I was doing. Inconsistency leads to confusion. Maybe I can fix this editing the bash config, but I don't think that should be necessary to begin with.

I am curious as to what others think about this.

Edit: I found something even more bizarre and irritating. As previously mentioned, if I use CTRL-W to delete the previous word when the cursor is just past the string `/usr/bin` it removes the entire string. **But** if I use the shortcut that does exactly the opposite (ALT-D) to remove the next word and the cursor is just before the string, I am left with `/bin`. So cutting forward recognized the slash character as a word separator, but cutting backwards does not. That's really stupid.

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Linux-based DAS (direct-attached storage) ideas?

I see lots of great guides online for turning Linux machines (and Raspberry Pis) into NAS devices, but what about DAS devices like those USB enclosures one finds on Amazon. If I have a linux machine with a USB 3 port, how can I expose that port so another machine can access its disks directly? Is there some distro, package, or method for doing this? In my use case, using ethernet just wouldn't work.

Thanks anybody for their ideas and advice :D.

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Looking to install my first distro

Hello linux community, I'm looking forward to try a dual boot and I have a few questions.

I've only been using windows, but I want to try linux and I don't want to jump with my head first so I know that I can make a dual boot with windows.

My first question is, can I have a dual boot by installing linux on another partition and is a hard process or is it straightforward within the linux install?

My 2nd question is with the distro itself, I want to install pop\_os but Idk if I should get the LTS release or the latest one. My use case is purely gaming and browsing, that's it.

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