Mobile Linux OS questions

Which mobile Linux OS are you most excited about for PinePhone and why? The top contenders seem to be Ubuntu Touch and Plasma Mobile. I’ve also noticed Manjaro is starting a mobile OS too.

Can someone help me understand Plasma Mobile running on top of PostmarketOS? What does that mean?

How is Linux on PinePhone different from an Android fork like LineageOS on an Android? I understand that to make that work, the drivers have to be in a container and kind of fooled into thinking they’re running on Android. Can someone explain that?

Do you think I’ll ever like Linux on PinePhone enough that I won’t miss my iPhone? I use Linux on laptop and love it. Really love it. Would love to have Linux on a phone. I’m a control freak.

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Cooledit 4.0.0 programmer's editor released with Unicode 6 support and NoToSans font support

I would like to announce that I've updated Cooledit:

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[https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/editors/X/cooledit/](https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/editors/X/cooledit/)

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In this release I have integrated Freetype2 support natively. All Google's NoToSans fonts are included (virtually the entire Unicode standard) and support for the full Unicode range of code-points up to 0x10FFFF.

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X Input methods are supported and tested on Ubuntu.

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Zorin OS Lite Review - 15.1 Lite Edition
https://www.cmscritic.com/zorin-os-lite-review-15-1-version/

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Zorin OS Review - 15.1 Ultimate and Core Editions
https://www.cmscritic.com/zorin-os-review/

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FreeCAD BIM development news - October/November 2019
https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2019-079

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ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell noscripts
https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

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Udemy bash noscripting course?

I was thinking about buying the course because it's only 12 euros. How useful is bash noscripting in the Linux environment? Should I learn python instead?

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rustysd: A service manager that is able to run "traditional" systemd services, written in rust
https://github.com/KillingSpark/rustysd

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Firefox Announces New Partner in Delivering Private and Secure DNS Services to Users
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/12/17/firefox-announces-new-partner-in-delivering-private-and-secure-dns-services-to-users/

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New computer

I've bought a new pc.
Can I just install the disk I had, with OS, on my previous pc into the new one?
Will it recognise the new hardware?

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Librem 5 Price Increase – Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-price-increase/

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DXVK 1.5 released with D3D9 support merged
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.5

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - December 18, 2019

Welcome to r/linux! If you're new to Linux or trying to get started this thread is for you. Get help here or as always, check out r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs

This megathread is for all your question needs. As we don't allow questions on r/linux outside of this megathread, please consider using r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs for the best solution to your problem.

Ask your hardware requests here too or try r/linuxhardware!

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Purism Launches Librem Server
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-server/

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bita v0.4.0 - New release of the low bandwidth file synchronization tool
https://github.com/oll3/bita

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Is it possible to use a machine created on VMware in windows subsytem for Linux?

long story short, im studying networks and we use VMware, to make my life easier, I always ssh into the VM using WSL or CMD, but I figured it could be great if I could just import the machine completely into WSL, can anyone tell me if thats possible? I'd also need to be able to get the updated machine back to VMware later ofcourse. thanks in advance!

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Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/12/evaluating-bbrv2-on-the-dropbox-edge-network/

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Krita Receives Epic Megagrant
https://krita.org/en/item/krita-receives-epic-megagrant/

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Comparison of specs and cost of Pinephone and Librem 5 hardware components
https://invidio.us/watch?v=zaNzPooIWsU

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Where can I download GNU/Linux

I can easily find Debian Linux or Ubuntu Linux. But I cannot find a Linux distribution that GNU has made. People has talked allot about but I cannot find. Can anyone help me find it since it seems so popular?

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Windows are fucked, I'm switching to Linux

After many years (and problems) using Windows, unstable OS, TONS of blue screens, crashes ect. I finally decided to switch to Linux, after spending for another time 3+ hours trying to find WHY THE FUCK IM GETTING A "Automatic Repair" LOOP. I tried everything:

Restarting

Closing it and opening it again (it's not the same as restarting)

changing settings in bios (because I thought that the problem CANT BE AGAIN WITH WINDOWS)

Opening Windows in "safe" (HA) mode

Trying Windows "repair"

Trying to run commands in command prompt in order to fix possible drive issues

Reading every single article, Forum/Reddit post

Watching every single YouTube video

I tried every setting in the crappy window that pops up when there is a problem and Windows can't boot up (usually when it has full moon and the time that it has passed since last time Windows crashes divided by 3, is less than the million's of dollars that Microsoft makes every day (I know, it was a bad joke)), but guess what,

I tried to uninstall updates, but guess what,

I even tried to reset Windows, but guess what,

WINDOWS DINT FUCKING LET ME

People (including myself) complaining about Windows bugs all the time and Microsoft does nothing to fix them. That was not the first time that I had problems with Windows but you know what?
It was the last one, after I'm done writing this post I'm gonna install Linux (most likely Ubuntu).

I have read a little bit about Linux and everything looks good to me.
It's open source, free, simple, has few/none bugs, big companies run their servers on Linux because is more stable (imaging Windows taking down all Google's servers because Cortana wanted to send private data to Microsoft LOL), you can pretty much customise everything and it has a great community.

I have only 2 questions for you:

What problems do you had with Windows before switch to Linux?

What a Linux user can do, that a Windows user can't?

I'm writing this from mobile now.
Thanks Windows.

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