Why the biggest distros are using Gnome when it's so unpolished and heavy? Not to mention the design choices...

Just wondering what makes Ubuntu, Fedora, Pop_OS and some other big and widely used distributions to pick Gnome over something like XFCE, KDE and even Cinnamon?

They are more customizable, user-friendly and looks much better. I would call them even more mature and stable as a DE.

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Just Dumped Win 7 Pro for Linux Cinnamon 64

Excited to make the switch!

Any suggestions for a newbie?

I've relied on the full google suite for syncing. What's best to replace it as I'm wanting to remove as much Google from my life as possible

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HELP! Debian install I have tried multiple times to fix this but it happens every time I launch. I have a nvidia gpu which has caused issues before.
https://redd.it/f84c7i
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Will we ever be able to drop 32 bit support and move to a clean 64 bit environment?

I think it will take at least a few decades more, at least for me. I still have a bunch of closed source games via steam that is in 32 bit that I regular play. So I still need to have 32 bit support for some apps.

When do you think it will be gone and dead? It is only recently that 386 was dropped and we supported was moved to 686, which seems to be the new baseline. Would we ever see 686 being dropped ?

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My friend thinks that this is a thing that's possible (context in comments)
https://redd.it/f85z7y
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MX-19.1 now available with a iso for modern hardware
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-19-1-now-available/

https://redd.it/f4pd72
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Penguin Tux - An Interesting story behind Linux Mascot
https://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2020/02/penguin-tux-story.html

https://redd.it/f4s2sh
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cron.weekly issue #122: OpenSSL, NetBSD, MTU, Markdeep & more
https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/issue-122/

https://redd.it/f87iip
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(Linux OS) Can my ISP see my net-traffic and websites that i visit if : 1. I change my DNS (only) ? 2. I use VPN and change my DNS ? 3. I use a tool like anonsurf/kalitorify/nipe/etc. to make the tor network my default gateway and also change my DNS ? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE !



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sed command question

I am struggling with a sed command. How to replace the first letter of the words in a wordlist with a special character with the sed command?

https://redd.it/f88e44
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Search and stream videos from the terminal with googler and mpv
https://github.com/jarun/googler/wiki/Search-and-stream-videos-from-the-terminal

https://redd.it/f897wi
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This week in KDE
https://pointieststick.com/2020/02/22/this-week-in-kde-2/

https://redd.it/f8a0pg
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Debian - disk not detected

Hi, I've debian 10. I've an encrepted hard drive, i athached via usb, but it isn't detected. I tried lsusb, and df, I didn't found the hard drive. Any idea? (The disk worked an my laptop with deb 10, 32 bit.)

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As a lover of TUI interfaces, I made a library for creating them in python, and then used it to write a TUI application for managing git repositories!
https://redd.it/f8b71g
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I'm trying to find a password manager accessible via an api for a browser web extension

Web extensions (addons for firefox / chrome) currently cannot access passwords stored in the browser's internal password management system, so as I need the functionality of password look-up for an account, and don't want to store the passwords in plain text, I'm considering if there's a password manager which will allow me to request a password via an api using an auth token? I'm not tied to an API, I intend to run the password manager on the same system that I need access to the passwords, so if there's a better way using ports or such I'll be open to it.

Any recommendations please?

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Interview with Ardour founder Paul Davis
https://usesthis.com/interviews/paul.davis/

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Linux users: what was your “Aha!” moment that convinced you to switch to Linux as your primary OS?

I’m curious about moving in the Linux direction but I don’t feel like anything has jumped out at me yet as a vital reason to switch.

Note that I’m not asking for a list of pros to using Linux, I’m asking for the specific moment where you became convinced that it was worth it!

FWIW I currently run macOS

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Dual boot file system

I use a dual boot between Windows and Linux.
I use a NTFS partition to share files, but I discover that it's slower on Linux. Are there any better alternative?

https://redd.it/f8f082
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I made a customizable Notification Daemon

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Hey, I just wanted to share the notification daemon I wrote. It is inspired by Dunst, **fully customizable**, and **true transparancy enabled** (if you have a compositor, of course). It is also equiped with a **notification center** style pane where you can view past notifications:

[https://github.com/phuhl/linux\_notification\_center](https://github.com/phuhl/linux_notification_center)

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Feel free to check it out and give me some feedback :)

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The most useful chain of programs I have ever put together.
https://redd.it/f8bdp0
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That new commandline/sysadmin course via Reddit - an update

This is a month-long challenge for anyone wanting to build Linux sysadmin skills that I launched via a post here a month ago.

"Daily lessons appear in the sub-reddit /r/linuxupskillchallenge - which is also be used for support/discussion. This is a 'rolling' course repeated each month. Does require some serious commitment, but if gaining/growing these skills was one of your New Years Resolutions, then you now have no excuse! "

The course, in /r/linuxupskillchallenge, is about to 'reset' and start from the beginning again this coming Monday, so it's worth reviewing how it's gone:

* Participants? Well, there are 77 people subscribed to the subreddit, but I've seen comments from at least one person who is doing the course but hasn't subscribed - and not all that subscribed may be participating. It \*would\* be nice to have a better way to judge numbers, but as long as there's a dozen or so that's fine.
* Feedback has been positive, and I think that the key feature - we're working on a "real server", remote and exposed to the internet - helps in building a "sysadmin mindset".
* Lesson "rollover". Leaving just five lessons "up" at a time has been a bit controversial, with a few coming late to the party, or IRL events meaning they struggle to keep up. For March I'll run it the same way, as this is a pretty core part of the concept. Note that the raw content is all available at [https://github.com/snori74/linuxupskillchallenge](https://github.com/snori74/linuxupskillchallenge)
* Automation? The "magic" that makes a new lesson appear and the oldest lesson disappear?- this depends entirely on me getting out of bed and doing it every morning! OK for a month, and I'll manage March as well I expect, but it would be nice to have it Just Happen somehow. Looks like I may need to write a little Python...

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