Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - October 30, 2019

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POP OS

I just ordered a system 76 laptop with their custom operating system POP OS. Was wondering if anyone who has used it could share their opinion of it. I here its similar to ubutnu.

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Oh look, that severe bug that AMD downplayed is still a big problem
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd-microcode-bug-destroyed-my-weekend/

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Alternatives to Thunderbird

Hi r/linux!

I'm actually searching for a mail client. I don't use emails a lot, so complex mail managers like outlook or thunderbird aren't the best for me.

I'm searching for a simple, minimalistic, quite good looking mail manager (something like the default mail manager on win10)

Do you have any suggestions?

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File Denoscriptors, Input and Output redirection and Piping Data in Linux shell
https://www.infosecshirish.com/file-denoscriptors-input-and-output-redirection-in-linux-shell/

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Wireless daemon for Linux (iwd) 1.0 has been released
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/wireless/iwd.git/log/

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Going from macOS to Ubuntu
https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html

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The current adoption status of cgroup v2 in containers
https://medium.com/nttlabs/cgroup-v2-596d035be4d7

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monolinux - An embedded Linux distro with a single statically linked executable.
https://github.com/eerimoq/monolinux

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Notepad++ show their attitude, will linux community join?
https://twitter.com/notepad_plus/status/1189155537977532416

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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/

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An old-school shell hack on a line printer
https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/30/Line-printer-shell-hack.html

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Open Invention Network comes to GNOME'S aid in patent troll fight.

ZDNet: Open Invention Network comes to GNOME's aid in patent troll fight.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-invention-network-comes-to-gnomes-aid-in-patent-troll-fight/

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Unix ( LUnix ) on a Commodore 64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLJXFFzERA8

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Librem 5 September 2019 Software Update – Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-september-2019-software-update/

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mod linux's firefox to view reddit without bloat

[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tokzco/cssz/master/reddit.css](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tokzco/cssz/master/reddit.css)

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cheerz ;)

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For those who owns a Tesla
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla-owners/

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Is there a Linux music player with ReplayGain and good library management that doesn't suck?

In the past year since switching my personal laptop from Windows 10 to Linux, I've been searching for a good music player app. On Windows I used MediaMonkey.

I must have tried at least 20 or 30 different Linux music players since then. I finally settled on Clementine, but it has some bugs which are making it nearly unusable for me. The biggest issue is that it seems to have a bad memory leak. I spend a lot of time creating playlists, which means I'm listening to the first 10-20 seconds of a ton of songs, one after the other, trying to decide if I want it in my playlist. Every time I do this, it bogs down after a few minutes. Songs start to buffer for a few seconds when I click on them, instead of playing immediately. Then it buffers again if I try to skip ahead in the song. Eventually it just freezes up altogether. So I've gotten in the habit of restarting the application as soon as it starts to buffer. Since development on Clementine seems to have halted in 2016, there's seemingly no chance for a bug fix, unless I want to delve into the code myself. But even when it's working normally, I don't like Clementine that much. So investing the time to fix the bug(s) doesn't seem worth it. And I have too many side projects as it is.

So, are there any Linux music player apps that don't suck? Ideally, there would be something like MediaMonkey for Linux. But as a bare minimum, I need something with ReplayGain support, good (but not necessarily stellar) library management features, and ease of creating/managing playlists.

Btw, I have gotten MediaMonkey to run in Wine, but not reliably. And I'd prefer to have a native app rather than constantly having to troubleshoot Wine issues for every new MediaMonkey release, or every time I decide to switch Linux distros.

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GitHub - getsumio/getsum: getsum: Tool for validating and calculating checksums
https://github.com/getsumio/getsum

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Is SuperTuxKart any good?

I recently found the trailer for this game in my YT reccomendations and saw its for Linux and I wondered if it's any good. Is it?

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Install pip command in Mint

I have to install the Django package to my mint distribution. I want to accomplish this by using pip command but can not find the pip command. How can I install the pip command ? Thanks

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