What would it take to get Linux on par with Mac OS for portability & battery Life?

That is to say without extra B.S like power top and TLP. What will this require?

Even just an essential pointer to the kind of work required to get us to such a level?

Any idea as to the cost perhaps?

I tried several distro and so far the best was Solus Linux and Fedora for mobile battery life. But, neither of this compare to Mac OS to this day. Even on a MacBook I get about 4 hours in difference of battery life. Which for someone who is always out and about this is pretty significant.

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I just don't understand why we need hundreds of distro options and no legitimate priority on this power management issue.

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Dnsmasq-based DNS blocking
https://artemix.org/blog/dns-blocking.html

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Pros and Cons: Linux as a VM in OSX

I have a new macbook pro and am unable to install linux natively due to the T2 chip (boo apple). I am considering running Arch inside a VM and using it pretty much exclusively. Is this a reasonable strategy?

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OpenWrt 19.07.0 first release candidate
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-19-07-0-first-release-candidate/48040

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FSF-recommended Distro?

Why are so few people using 100% free-software Distros like the 10 or so that are recommended by the FSF [here](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html)?

What is the point of using Linux if you are gonna use a proprietary blob containing mess like the U\_b\_u\_n\_t\_u or others?

If you are going to install proprietary crap, why not start out with a clean and free Distro and then install proprietary abusive software where needed?

If you want to eat a sandwich why not start out with fresh, clean slices of bread and then if you decide you cant live without shit then you can still apply the shit to your own liking later? but why start out with a shit-sandwhich to begin with?

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Isn't Freedom the main motivation to use Linux? (including the freedoms to use your computers any way you darn please?) Then why go with something that has proprietary blobs/software built in?

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Chrome OS 80 will start using Debian 10 Buster on new Linux installations
https://www.xda-developers.com/chrome-os-80-debian-10-buster-linux-installations/

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ZFS on Root - This is the specification to use zfs on root on Ubuntu products (Desktop and Server)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m9VWOjfmdbujV4AQWzWruiXYgb0W4Hu0D8uQC_BWKjk/edit

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"I’ve gone to great lengths for this silence" - by Dylan Araps | KISS Linux
https://getkiss.org/blog/20191004a

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KDE can invert colors for windows and the desktop

Like many basement dwellers, I like a dark, dark environment. (Actually I just like to match the brightness of my desktop to the brightness of my environment to reduce eye strain.)

When a bright-scheme application or website clashes with my wet, shadowy basement, I like to invert the colors in my desktop environment so I can banish the light back to the overworld where it belongs. I _could_ invert the whole desktop with the CLI command `xcalib -invert -alter`, but what if I only want to invert a single Window?

It turns out that KDE supports this out-of-the-box! Just go to System Settings > Desktop Behavior > Desktop Effects, check the "Invert" effect, and hit "Apply." From now on, I can invert the whole desktop with meta+control+I, and the current window with meta+control+U.

Please excuse me while I slither back into my dark place...

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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - November 15, 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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Linux Journal is now back online!
https://www.linuxjournal.com/

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Most underused commands in terminal?



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

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The PinePhone early dev-versions are available now.
https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor

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VGL - Better group manager for linux.

Hey people,

I made a noscript that some admin here might find useful : [https://github.com/0pb/VGL](https://github.com/0pb/VGL)

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The story : I have recently tried to put two different groups permissions on a single file and as you probably know -this kind of thing isn't possible-

I then looked up forums and post but it unfortunately only talks about ACL (Access Control List) and other windows-simulator-permission. Unfortunately, ACL only manage permission, it doesn't really manage groups and I'm not interested in setting up a heavy software for group management.

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So I decided to make a noscript that manage group and allow group to be in other group for example. It resulted in VGL - VirtualGroupLinux, which is a python noscript that allow the user to create and manage easily trought command line virtuals groups that act like "real" groups.

This noscript work well together with ACL so now you have a great group permission management on linux ! With nothing else than a noscript self sufficient (only latest python needed which all linux user should have anyways, no external dependancy or weird library to install) and ACL.

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If you still have any suggestion or question ask ahead !

If you don't like this noscript for any reason please tell me why !

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Linux Systems Performance
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/presentation/gregg-linux

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Automated bug report in Debian?

Debian Stable mostly competes against RHEL/CentOS for production servers and desktops, usually for its stability, hardware support, large package collection, independance and various other reasons.

However, while Fedora and Ubuntu use automated testing and bug report tools (abrt, apport), there's no such thing in Debian, so its stability mostly depends on manual bug report.

Sure, Debian has a large and reliable community behind it, but ironically, I find reportbug pretty buggy, and put frankly, antiquated. I understand Debian is investigating [automated code analysis](https://qa.debian.org/daca/) and has [puipart](https://piuparts.debian.org/) and [Lintian](https://lintian.debian.org/), but nothing like [FAF](https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/summary/) within Fedora. Is there a reason why SID and Testing ship without some automated crash and bug report tool?

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Korn the band and the korn shell?

So I just started learning about Linux. I am covering the different shells and the Korn shell caught my attention. It made me ask the question “did the band get it’s name for this spelling of korn? “ just thought it was interesting but does any know if there may be a relationship?

Sorry if this this has been asked before.

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Why isn’t Kali Linux beginner friendly?



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Is it possible to install Linux on an unformated drive position with WSL2 ?

(noscript)

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help me!

inside a .env file, all I have is BASE_URL="aword"

in the console I enter echo $BASE_URL, the only output I get is an empty line. Why?

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