everything is new and fresh, by the fact I was gone with the annoying ads- and malware filled installers, gone with Cortana and the weird Microsoft trackings.

Off to a good start, even though it was somewhat bumpy with the screen tearing. I started getting more and more used to the entire desktop. Installed a nice new icons pack, tried some themes and Gnome extentions, tried couple new apps and just enjoying the fact that any game I tried running just straight up worked out of the box, thanks to Lutris and Steam's Proton. This is great! I've been running a Linux based OS for nearly half a year now and I've been all but just pleased with the experience, as it provides exactly what I'm looking for. Like I still get to tinker around and explore my curiosity on a new adventure.

Now playing with the thought of hopping to an Arch based distro. I hear that you'll get the most to do date version of anything there.. I still found some very outdated/broken apps on the Pop\_Shop like for example NetBeans, BUT still fixable by installing from Flathub (except I wanna debug C/C++ then it's NOT an option) or from the App's Website.

From my standpoint I believe the people are afraid if something just doesn't work out of the box. Having to to spend hours or even days to try to fix something that shouldn't have been broken in the first place is the first and foremost complaint when it come to people wanting to try a Linux based operating system. That was with my case in Ubuntu, can't count how many problems I kept facing there. Which is sad since that's the most known OS around my circle. The first impression people'll get is that Linux is a buggy mess and just don't bother with it anymore! Don't get me wrong Ubuntu is still great for what it is, I just wished there was someone testing and maintaining the apps before putting them up potentially broken.

I've been using Pop!\_OS on my main PC for about 3 months now, am looking forward what the future will bring! Anyways thank you for reading this far and I'm looking forward to a great new time with Linux.

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GCompris entertains/educates kids stuck at home
https://redd.it/fjad9f
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UBports on a Raspberry Pi, Debian testing package builds with Clang, Ubuntu testing automated ZFS snapshots
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200316#news

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Linux Noob Here : I added the Snap and Flathub repo but I have issues when I try to launch apps.

Is it normal that I have trouble launching Flathub apps? It seems like I can install apps but I can't launch them through shortcuts and the only one I managed to launch took 2 minutes and I needed to go in the terminal.

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Manjaro KDE will be factory-default of PinebookPro
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-kde-will-be-factory-default-of-pinebookpro/129510

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Just found out about osboxes.org . Takes a lot of hassle out of trying linux distros

There's virtualbox and vmware preinstalled hard drive image files for heaps of distros. The username and password are a little hard to find. They are username: osboxes and password: [osboxes.org](https://osboxes.org).

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - March 16, 2020

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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I added a new drop entry to my IP tables firewall and you wouldn't believe the number of connections dropped from the 10 bad actors countries.

I'll start off by saying I run a few gaming servers on my Linux server at my house. I kept having issues with cheaters on the two games. I got tired of dealing with it and decided to look into dropping packets destined from specific geographic areas.

1. I built a noscript that pulls down the aggregated IP range list from 10 what I consider "BAD ACTOR" countries. (Today this list total was 21033 aggregated IP ranges)
2. I installed and created a hash table in my kernel called "badactors" using *ipset*.
3. I created a firewall rule to drop and log with the label "BADACTOR" to my kernel log.
4. To watch the log I open a new TMUX session and issued the command

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tail -n 100 -f /var/log/kern.log | grep "BADACTOR"

I got it all working about an hour ago. In space between then and now, it has logged 156 dropped connection attempts. I used the IP WHOIS lookup to verify some of the connections.

This is a serious eye-opener for me. I mean you hear in the news places are actively trying to hack the US. But until you see this kind of RAW data you don't realize how prevalent it actually is.

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Linux "underground" youtubers?

I follow some channels that talks about about linux and more underground stuff, like window managers, noscripting, customisation, suckless software, etc.

Some of the channels I watch include:

\[Luke Smith\] ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA))

\[tripcode!Q/7\] ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZrrEuHiQjN2CUo84g5tk7w](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZrrEuHiQjN2CUo84g5tk7w))

\[Wolfgang's Channel\] ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnGwSIHyoYN0kiINAGUKxg](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnGwSIHyoYN0kiINAGUKxg))

\[Mental Outlaw\] ([https://www.youtube.com/user/MentalOutlawStudios](https://www.youtube.com/user/MentalOutlawStudios))

and, of course \[DistroTube\] ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVls1GmFKf6WlTraIb\_IaJg](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVls1GmFKf6WlTraIb_IaJg))

do you know more channels like those?

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Cursed ibus. I though `-r` would kill the old one...
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So what desktop do you use? Uhhhhhh
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Remote Learning

With the coronavirus mess going on, all of my uni courses are moving online.
Some of them are using this proprietary program called "zoom", right off the bat things look fishy as the official instructions call for downloading a binary from their website (even though for example in Arch Linux there's a package in the AUR).
Does anyone know how much of a spyware program this is? If so, isn't it just a better idea to dump this all in a VM?

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The ARM laptop future and software compatibility

I am pretty excited about how personal computing will change due to the move towards ARM chips in laptops. The new Pinebook Pro https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ is an example, and I’ve also seen predictions that Apple will move in that direction.

Even though I used Macintosh during the PPC to Intel transition, there are many things I don’t know about the hardware and OS in relation to software compatibility.

If i got the pinebook, what would the state of software compatibility be? Would it be able to install and run Blender, Libre Office or games with Steam Proton without a compatibility layer? Would Wine work to install for example MS Word or games like Diablo 2? Where is the limit for compatibility?

Also, what do you think about the transition towards ARM in general? What are the benefits and consequences for personal and professional computing?

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The most surprising Unix programs
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-March/020664.html

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Flutter for the Linux desktop - early experimentation
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Desktop-shells

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AMD looks to court Linux gamers by making its GPU driver even better
https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-looks-to-court-linux-gamers-by-making-its-gpu-driver-even-better

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A lot of the links at FLOSSManuals.net are dead

Hi,

Not sure where to post this, but GNU.org recommends [flossmanuals.net](https://www.flossmanuals.net/), and a lot of the links on that site are dead. E.g. both the pdf and epub links for downloading the Firefox guide give 404s.

The site might just be abandoned, I don't know -- it doesn't look like it's been updated anytime recently. I just thought I'd mention the dead links, since it's sponsored by GNU.

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Linux++ (March 15, 2020)
https://medium.com/linux-plus-plus/linux-march-15-2020-16413dde8471

https://redd.it/fjjcc4
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Exclusively Using Terminal Apps

For those of you who almost, if not, exclusively use terminal applications, how have you been finding the experience as opposed to using a DE/GUI? What distro is best to use for this? What are your reasons for doing so?

https://redd.it/fiy30s
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What is fsck up to now?
https://toroid.org/what-is-fsck-up-to-now

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How NixOS Is Enabling Edge and IoT Projects - Armv8 Collaboration
https://www.worksonarm.com/blog/how-nixos-is-enabling-edge-and-iot-projects

https://redd.it/fjphk9
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