What is GTK3's purpose, exactly?

Having tried a few different DEs, there's one single toolkit that's always giving me issues. It's GTK3.

See, with old MATE, everything was fine. I could lift a theme from 2005 off of Gnome Looks, install it, and it would work fine.

With GTK3, it's a complete crap shoot. GTK3 is a total rewrite, so GTK2 themes just don't work. Ok, fine, I get it, it's a rewrite. It has no support for 10+ years of themes, but ok, whatever.

What I found is that even GTK3 themes tend to be a crapshoot on whether they work or not. Because they just put out updates all the time so a GTK3 theme that works on one version may be totally broken on another to the point of unusability and would need to be entirely remade to work.

And to top it all off, it runs worse than GTK2. It doesn't look that noticeably different, but it runs like complete ass. GTK3 MATE runs almost as bad as GNOME so you may as well just use GNOME.

So I don't get it. GTK3, in almost every way I can think of, is worse than GTK2.

So why, exactly, does it exist, when it's a literal step down? And why did people start moving their applications to GTK3?

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Why is it called windows subsystem for Linux (wsl)?

Why is it called windows subsystem for Linux (wsl),
when the subsystem is Linux which is running over windows?

And why doesn't Linux have one?

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booting kali linux from live usb on chromebook

I has a question about my chromebook I have a live usb with kali linux lite on it and i booted from usb i don't know which option to pick. I don't want to remove chrome OS, just boot and install everything onto the 15 gb usb drive:

[wat i got](https://preview.redd.it/pppnlms50hc41.png?width=643&format=png&auto=webp&s=3584f965e206aaebcaa7fdbf8be6f3456a4cecf0)

BTW i copied this from a discord post i made so sorry, and sorry again if this question doesn't belong here.

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Can anyone tell me how to run mac os catalina in qemu in arch linux??

This is my first time trying a VM I am very scared

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MonoDevelop Themes Available

If anyone is interested I have a decent amount of theme files available for MonoDevelop at my [GitHub Page](https://github.com/CJPrindle/MonoDevelop-Themes). It contains both .vssettings and .json files.

Feel free to add or modify as desired.

I wish I could remember where I got the themes I didn't create myself so I could give credit where credit is due but I figured I'd pay forward to spread the love.

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What made you move to Linux?

Yesterday I decided to move to Manjaro. I've been using Manjaro for some weeks on an older laptop, and I'm amazed with the experience. I've been able to solve any problems found so far looking at the wiki or forums, so thank you, community out there!

My main reason to (finally) move was a problem with my Bluetooth headset on windows. After the last system update, I haven't been able to make them work again. Thus I missed the possibilities of fixing things myself that linux offered.

So, what was your reason?

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Lightweight raster drawing program

I only need program that support pen pressure and layers nothing else. any recommendation? please don't say krita / gimp they're bloated.

https://redd.it/esoyma
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having trouble installing linux on lenovo c940

whenever I go to the bios menu it is not recognizing the flash drive with ubuntu installed on it. I set up the flash drive using rufus. The computer currently runs windows 10 and i have about 180gb of unallocated space to run ubuntu.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Beta now available
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-82-beta-now-available

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Control-flow integrity for the kernel
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/810077/ee9afb4cb5991cdf/

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Tomato router software under threat

From Discover on Google https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/internet-routers-running-tomato-are-under-attack-by-notorious-crime-gang/

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Chrome suddenly using Bing after installing Office 365 Pro Plus... Yeah, that might have been us, mumbles Microsoft (or, why I moved mom to Linux)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/22/office_365_bing/

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We Ditched Mac Pro for THIS... (Davinci Resolve on Pop!_OS)
https://invidio.us/watch?v=P2dACq3F_W4

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Does anyone else enjoy using Nano for a terminal based editor? I think it gets a bad rap.

Out of the box I think it's weak, but after editing the config file I find it powerful enough for what I like to do. I usually write programs (and almost everything else) in gedit, but I've found myself recently enjoying nano as well. I really enjoy the simplicity, and I don't need the macros or extra features from vi or emacs. Not that I don't also enjoy either one of those.

I'm a student so perhaps I would like using different tools for much larger projects than I'm used to, but I feel like an IDE would serve me well enough for those sort of tasks if need be. I like to keep things simple, and I've never had that backfire.

Any thoughts?

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For what reason do you occasionally go back to Windows or Mac?

For what tasks do you still occasionally use Windows or Mac? What made you not 100% drop them? In other words, what is Linux' greatest weakness in your workflow? Is Mac more disposable than Windows (for the better or worse)?

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Support for Rocket League on Linux is ending
https://www.rocketleague.com/news/ending-support-for-mac-and-linux/

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Epic Games is dropping Linux and Mac support for Rocket League
https://steamcommunity.com/games/252950/announcements/detail/1709614218556357755

https://redd.it/esxwiz
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Next Steps for gNewSense (gNewSense has a new maintainer - Matt Lee)
http://www.gnewsense.org/next-steps/

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Examples of real-world exploits which were mitigated/prevented by SELinux / AppArmor?

One thing I always look into when deploying Linux distributions is whether they ship a configured LSM out of the box (SELinux, or AppArmor mostly).

But I'm wondering how important this is, really. I've been trying to find examples of real-world (so not purely theoretical) exploits and issues which have cropped up over the years which ended up not being effective against systems with a proper LSM deployed.

It seems like SELinux mitigated a container vulnerability [back in 2017](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/selinux-mitigates-container-vulnerability), and then another one [in 2019](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/latest-container-exploit-runc-can-be-blocked-selinux).

Searching for these examples is quite challenging because I'm just running into vulnerability reports for SELinux and AppArmor themselves, and not examples of vulnerabilities which they were able to mitigate or protect against.

Does anyone else have any good examples of this?

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Should you migrate from Linux to BSD? It depends.
https://fediverse.blog/~/AllGoodThings/should-you-migrate-from-linux-to-bsd-it-depends

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I made a CLI game for Linux where you can test your typing speed!
https://asciinema.org/a/290136

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