Wondering what the best way is to switch from Windows 10 to Linux

Hello everyone, first time posting to r/linux but a huge fan. I've have been considering switching my main system over to a linux distro from windows 10. I have experience using raspian and linux servers at my university, but I want to switch my main system to it. I was wondering if anyone knew the best way to do that without losing data?

For the distro I am considering Manjaro linux but haven't made a decision there yet. I want a distro that is very customizable and also decent for programming so if anyone can make suggestions that would be very appreciated.

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Navi -- An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

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Introducing GNOME 3.36: "Gresik"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae2D4aWTsXM

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Best modern software for distributed computing on Linux?

Are there any alternatives to BOINC? It's such an **outdated** piece of software, I don't know how to add GPU projects and it's very... ugly to use. Currently managed to get it working with CPU-only Rosetta@Home.

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I have a Ryzen 3900x, and a Vega 56 that I really want to put to work. Honestly, I'd ideally like to be part of a blender render farm if anyone knows of a modern distributed computing project for that, to help out struggling artists.

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A Look Back at Manufacturing Linux Hardware
https://blog.system76.com/post/612315972866637824/a-look-back-at-manufacturing#_=_

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If you were to join a Linux/Unix/Tech Facebook group what would make you want to join?

If you were to join a Linux/Unix/Tech Facebook group what would make you want to join? Would it be because it was helpful, fun, no BS, moderated well, lots of content? what? yeah we all know about facebook but what would do the job?

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rm -rf *
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GNOME Web browser gets PDF support, Dark mode fixes and more in v3.36
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2020/03/11/epiphany-3-36-and-webkitgtk-2-28/

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NymphCast, an open-source alternative to Chromecast you can run on a Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/

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Ubuntu or Ubuntu Studio?

Hello I have some old desktop with core2 duo 3ghz and 2.8gb of RAM, in case the GPU matters, it's Nvidia GT310 , I want to install Linux on it but I don't want to have poor performance, also I'll be using it for light-weight programming and CG, Some I guess I'm looking for some Debian based OS, I've tried both Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio from USB drive, I felt like Ubuntu Studio is running better, so what do you recommend me? Is there a better version for my potato?

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Survey password managers

Would somebody kindly fill this two minute long survey of attitudes against password managers.
I would really be eternally grateful.
[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOBShLuaTjW9FYQtbVH6BOYPREwS7cghYdtMhTawV\_SJ2ejA/viewform?usp=sf\_link](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOBShLuaTjW9FYQtbVH6BOYPREwS7cghYdtMhTawV_SJ2ejA/viewform?usp=sf_link)

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Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/ubuntu-20-04s-zsys-adds-zfs-snapshots-to-package-management/

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Krita Weekly #12 | 4.29 beta released
https://www.hellozee.dev/kw12/

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Interview of Gaël Duval about the /e/ Foundation project to de-googlise our smartphone (in french).
https://numericatous.fr/2020/03/le-monde-du-libre-4/

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I made a port scanner in golang without dependencies
https://github.com/R4yGM/netscanner

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What does it mean? "There is no more need for a pager: you are in the pager!"
https://www.cliki.net/clfswm

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LibreELEC 9.2.1 released with WireGuard Support, Raspberry Pi 4 Improvements
https://libreelec.tv/2020/03/libreelec-leia-9-2-1/

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Block IP address once they access certain pages?

I see a ton of shit in my acccess log about

- /wp-login.php
- /sqladmin/index.php
- /php2MyAdmin/index.php

etc
There's no PHP on my server. I want to outright block people who try to get any pages that has "/wp-" or ".php" in it. How do I do this? I once tried fail2ban but it was complicated and didn't end up working (or I needed to write a noscript for it to work or something)

I was thinking of scanning the log files and automatically adding the IP address to iptables. Is that a good idea? Maybe `iptables -A INPUT -s THEIR_IP -j DROP` but I haven't tested if this is the right command.

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Fastest RDP Server for Linux

Most RDP like xrdp are using alot of traffic, since they send everything as "video".

Is there an Linux alternative to the Windows RDP Service?
(Which is just sending meta data instead of like a Video)

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ProtonMail: Introducing alternative routing to prevent censorship of Proton apps (optional, opt-out feature) -- "alternative routing requires us to use third-party infrastructure and networks we do not control, some of which might belong to companies such as Google"
https://protonmail.com/blog/anti-censorship-alternative-routing/

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The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online

[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online)

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