Are there any linux laptops that can compare to Macbooks yet on the track pad front?

I just struck out again. I bought a pinebook pro, hoping that linux drivers + trackpad hardware had evolved to the point where it was usable for me. Nope, its awful still.

Has anyone used any combination of FOSS/hardware that has a great working trackpad? I dont even do anything crazy. Im not using gestures or looking for 5 finger point recognition. I just want a trackpad that can do two-finger scrolling, good tap to click, and is PRECISE. I dont want to be playing pin-the-mouse-on-the-corner for 30 seconds everytime i want to click to resize a window. I dont want jumpy/laggy scrolling. I dont want the trackpad constantly registering clicks if I maybe slightly brush it.

Does anyone have any good experiences with something out there or am I stuck buying another macbook? When I put linux on one of my old macbooks years ago, the same trackpad that worked great in OSX was not good in Linux/Gnome either. So i'm pretty sure its the whole package. Linux drivers+trackpad hardware+window manager tweaks? Anyone else feel my pain here?

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Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) has decided that the code of WT.Social (his new Facebook alternative) would be released under GPLv3
https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1197447535260000256

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This week in KDE: GTK CSD support and more!
https://pointieststick.com/2019/11/30/this-week-in-kde-gtk-csd-support-and-more/

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is there any alternative for Diskpart in linux??



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A tool to forward game controllers and other input devices over SSH – I couldn't find one, so I wrote my own!
https://yingtongli.me/blog/2019/12/01/input-over-ssh-2.html

https://redd.it/e4fxqo
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The xkcd font is available with a CC BY-NC license!
https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font

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Intermediate linux usage: pipe data into a commit message.
https://gist.github.com/kuberlog/e2caf4d332aa331c70f1bbe03fe58a15

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High CPU usage on newly installed Fedora

hey guys

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I've just install Fedora but my cpu usage so high even if I didn't do anything.

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is it because of newly installed OS ?

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Because I use before Ubuntu and Ubuntu was very silent. I installed Fedora the disk where the windows install before. Is it because of format issue of disk?

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Canonical released a whitepaper on integrating Ubuntu into AD
https://ubuntu.com/engage/microsoft-active-directory?utm_source=Linkedin&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=CY19_IOT_Desktop_Whitepaper_ActiveDirectory

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I found a nice write up on how DNS works on Linux Hosts
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/06/08/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-lookup-part-i/

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UNIX Time-Sharing System: Forward
https://danluu.com/mcilroy-unix/

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Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kali-linux-adds-undercover-mode-to-impersonate-windows-10/

https://redd.it/e4kugm
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Is oh-my-zsh safe?

Hello folks,

I have kinda unsual question.

How much is oh-my-zsh safe, yes basicly it is just bunch of tweaks to standard zsh and some other things. So question is can we really trust to oh-my-zsh team, is it safe to deploy it and what are your opinion to this?

Thanks for any answers

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Thermal testing Raspberry Pi 4
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/thermal-testing-raspberry-pi-4/

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Some tips for using shell short-cuts
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20191202#qa

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - December 02, 2019

Welcome to r/linux rants and experiences! This megathread is also to hear opinions from anyone just starting out with Linux or those that have used Linux (GNU or otherwise) for a long time.

Let us know what's annoying you, whats making you happy, or something that you want to get out to r/linux but didn't make the cut into a full post of it's own.

For those looking for certifications please use this megathread to ask about how to get certified whether it's for the business world or for your own satisfaction. Be sure to check out r/linuxadmin for more discussion in the SysAdmin world!

_Please keep questions in r/linuxquestions, r/linux4noobs, or the Wednesday automod thread._

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Bliss OS 12 Allow Users to Run Android 10 on Linux or Windows 10 PC
https://techdator.net/bliss-os-12-allow-users-to-run-android-10-on-linux-or-windows-10-pc/

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LUKS unlock with TPM2 - A guide with noscripts

[I created a detailed walkthrough](https://github.com/anguianoewi/tpm2KeyUnlock) complete with instructions to fight issues I had during installation.

Over thanksgiving vacation, I spent a couple all-nighters setting up TPM2 unlock on my computer. After looking for different solutions, [This article for TPM2 unlock](https://threat.tevora.com/secure-boot-tpm-2/) seemed to be the most convenient and transparent for me. However, the article is outdated and the tools have been updated, so the information is more of a proof-of-concept rather than implementation.

The process should take no more than 20 minutes, and so far I have managed to recreate it with the included noscripts in less than 10 minutes.

There are a couple issues I still have to work on with the noscripts. The manual walkthrough itself works fine. The rest of the issues are listed in the readme.

If there are any issues with the process, I would appreciate issue tickets so I can work on them. Of course, if anyone is willing to help contribute, I would be more than thankful.

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Fedora 31 Review – Lords Of Tech
https://lordsof.tech/open-source/fedora-31-review/

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Cockpit 208 — Cockpit Project
https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-208.html

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Netdata release v1.19

Hey all,

Introducing a major rewrite of our web log collector, [cmocka](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cmocka?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKJpuwODv-hPc236C7fM2r9vCYx9vTJeH93a18odECvej08YhKL8yikqtkH5YC0qIPbakDgFmmf15tnogjIj3cf_Wya85PQYEzfw9Y2OUmmX9y_0GfH_ikrxDZS109LzcjMTWo8zoUXSy893FBfR0_AxyBw6IFCcIkBObQiTOtCIjrxws3vt14_Jg5s_H61VJwB_KoiG9hPRXpuA6vV5Vm9rUSZUwM0KpucD6_6XrlRI2xwd7Sz5M_3Arnkqr4DckHC5NXNGGTVMUYJgz2H3mq1KcdwguQvlsigL2Pz4k6QW1ZCCYCvG21xk1UzcDAEEr15Yqxx-AEGa1AlNoxRqzZc8MM&__tn__=%2ANK-R) unit testing, improvements on our [Unbound](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/unbound?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKJpuwODv-hPc236C7fM2r9vCYx9vTJeH93a18odECvej08YhKL8yikqtkH5YC0qIPbakDgFmmf15tnogjIj3cf_Wya85PQYEzfw9Y2OUmmX9y_0GfH_ikrxDZS109LzcjMTWo8zoUXSy893FBfR0_AxyBw6IFCcIkBObQiTOtCIjrxws3vt14_Jg5s_H61VJwB_KoiG9hPRXpuA6vV5Vm9rUSZUwM0KpucD6_6XrlRI2xwd7Sz5M_3Arnkqr4DckHC5NXNGGTVMUYJgz2H3mq1KcdwguQvlsigL2Pz4k6QW1ZCCYCvG21xk1UzcDAEEr15Yqxx-AEGa1AlNoxRqzZc8MM&__tn__=%2ANK-R) collector and even more! Check out our blog post for full details or read our release notes below.

Release v1.19.0 contains 2 new collectors, 19 bug fixes, 17 improvements, and 19 documentation updates. Full release notes can be found [here](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v1.19.0).

**At a glance**

We completed a major rewrite of our web log collector to dramatically improve its flexibility and performance. The [new collector](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/141), written entirely in Go, can parse and chart logs from Nginx and Apache servers, and combines numerous improvements. Netdata now supports the LTSV log format, creates charts for TLS and cipher usage, and is amazingly fast. In a test using SSD storage, the collector parsed the logs for 200,000 requests in about 200ms, using 30% of a single core.

This Go-based collector also has powerful custom log parsing capabilities, which means we're one step closer to a generic application log parser for Netdata. We're continuing to work on this parser to support more application log formatting in the future.

We have a new tutorial on [enabling the Go web log collector](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs/) and using it with Nginx and/or Apache access logs with minimal configuration. Thanks to [Wing924](https://github.com/Wing924) for starting the Go rewrite!

We introduced more **cmocka unit testing** to Netdata. In this release, we're testing how Netdata's internal web server processes HTTP requests—the first step to improve the quality of code throughout, reduce bugs, and make refactoring easier. We wanted to validate the web server's behavior but needed to build a layer of parametric testing on top of the CMocka test runner. Read all about our process of testing and selecting cmocka on our blog post: [Building an agile team's 'safety harness' with cmocka and FOSS](https://blog.netdata.cloud/agile-team-cmocka-foss/).

Netdata's **Unbound collector** was also [completely rewritten in Go](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/287) to improve how it collects and displays metrics. This new version can get dozens of metrics, including details on queries, cache, uptime, and even show per-thread metrics. See our [tutorial](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/collect-unbound-metrics/) on enabling the new collector via Netdata's amazing auto-detection feature.

We [fixed an error](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/7220) where **invalid spikes** appeared on certain charts by improving the incremental counter reset/wraparound detection algorithm.

Netdata can now send [**health alarm notifications to IRC channels**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/health/notifications/irc/) thanks to [Strykar](https://github.com/Strykar)!

And, Netdata can now monitor [**AM2320 sensors**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/python.d.plugin/am2320/), thanks to hard work from [Tom Buck](https://github.com/tommybuck).

**Improvements**

* **New Collectors**
* AM2320 sensor collector plugin