Learning Linux

What is the best, most cost-effective video course for learning Linux? With all of this free time on my hands, I want to be as productive as possible. I greatly appreciate any feedback you send my way!

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Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - April 13, 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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How to fix (80%) HiDPI issues in Gulliam OS 3.1
https://medium.com//how-to-fix-80-hidpi-issues-in-gulliam-os-3-1-4723f18ad8a4?source=friends_link&sk=ada79e715ae0b87b9583c665ef66f438

https://redd.it/g06ii9
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Increase your Linux literacy
https://medium.com/@gytis02.21/increase-your-linux-literacy-7c69128ad36a

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Is there a public xfs development plan?

In 2016, xfs started a bit of a rework, by including reverse mapping. There were a few planned features listed at the time, some already done, some still not there. I'm specifically interested in the snapshot support (listed at the time) and data checksums (not listed).

Does anyone know where could I find public talks about the status/plans now? Is it just "whatever you can find on lkml"?

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Looking for a verilog simulator on Linux.

I am working on a college project and need a verilog simulator for it. I tried using online Verilog compilers but they are cumbersome to use and don't show waveform. I used to work on modelsim on Windows and it worked like charm. I need something similar.
Can someone help me out please.

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Laptop Boot stuck at this screen, Please help !!
https://redd.it/g0fbxt
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looking for a terminal emulator

Hello,

I'm looking for a terminal emulator, but I'm not sure which one to choose.

The features I would use are :
\- scrollback
\- hiding scrollbar / menus / borders
\- dim when the window is not focused
\- easy copy/paste


So I don't need multiple tabs or windows or anything else; I can do that fine with i3.

I tried st, which was fine except that you can't scroll up with the mouse while selecting text, which I use a lot.
I also tried xfce4-terminal, but it won't dim when it is not selected. Other than that, I liked it because I could hide menubar, toolbar and borders. Too bad :/

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So, from all the terminal emulators, is there one that has these features, while staying simple ?

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Happy Birthday nnn! Celebrating 3 yrs with v3.1.
https://github.com/jarun/nnn

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loov/watchrun: Watch your files and run your programs.
https://github.com/loov/watchrun

https://redd.it/g0hino
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mjg59 | Implementing support for advanced DPTF policy in Linux
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/54923.html

https://redd.it/g0is4g
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Not actually Linux distro review deux: GhostBSD - Ars Technica.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-distro-review-deux-ghostbsd/#p3

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Inkscape 0.92.5 released and Testers needed for Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate
https://inkscape.org/news/2020/04/12/inkscape-0925-released-and-testers-needed-inkscape/

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This site lets you test different distros in your browser
https://distrotest.net/

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TIL Firefox Profiler makes an awesome GUI for `perf`

**TL;DR:** this is a visualization of a `perf` trace: https://perfht.ml/3abOQR3

perf is a great tool for performance measurement, but has a fairly convoluted command-line UI. AFAIK the only other `perf` GUI is [hotspot](https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot). Turns out Firefox Profiler also supports `perf` and it's much better - it supports stack charts in addition to flamegraphs and has tons of options for interactive navigation and filtering.

Best of all, publishing a profile is 2 clicks and then *anyone with a web browser* can interactively view your recording. Sharing profiling data in bug reports or pull requests has **never** been this easy!

Using Firefox Profiler with `perf` is documented [here](https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./guide-perf-profiling). You need to add `--call-graph dwarf` to `perf record` to see function names like in the trace linked above.

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Your Librem 5 is Calling
https://youtu.be/KhrnMVJDpfs

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Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings

https://redd.it/g0pn0d
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AWK meets Python: API, CLI and IPython / Jupyter magics
https://redd.it/g0kfoo
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Getting ready to take off..I've never seen this before on my seatback screen!
https://redd.it/g0qyy8
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The Future of the Linux Desktop

Hi everyone,

This is my interpretation, or, rather, logical extension of sorts, of the "There is no Linux Platform" article series. I think most people with a vision for a better, more supported, and eventually more popular Linux desktop should read it. Even if you don't agree with the message presented there, I think it is very probable it will be of interest to you. It has been posted around this sub a couple of times already, but here are links:

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2019/12/04/there-is-no-linux-platform-1/

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/03/25/there-is-no-linux-platform-2/

I think a Gnome OS,
- a rolling release closely following upstream,
- with a package manager closely integrated with the desktop's facilities for interacting with it,
- with a systemd/NetworkManager/Pulseaudio low level user space stack integrated with the desktop,
- with Flatpak as the sole user-facing application framework, - with a CLI package manager for developer/server programs that installs in the homedir,
- and a simple toggle switch in Gnome Settings that simply greps both lspci and an internal DB to find appropriate proprietary or not, according to the user's preference, drivers.

One could say that this is just Ubuntu, or Fedora, or Elementary, or PopOS, or Manjaro, or even Clear Linux. But in my eyes, all of those should unite to a single project orchestrated by a committee with all those projects, the Gnome Foundation, SUSE and Red Hat.

Enterprise distros like RHEL and SUSE, server focused ones like Debian and CentOS and distros popular with frantic futzers like Gentoo and Arch (I use Arch (gnome) BTW, and yet I don't deny that I would switch to such OS in a heartbeat) would probably still run independently. But the general public, and existing Linux users, will have a single place to download Linux from, with ample documentation and tutorials.

Linux is about choice and modularity, and it will stay this way. Alternative desktop projects could patch their existing product to comply with the spec so to speak and to integrate with the infrastructure creating an equally well integrated platform. TTYs, an actually useful terminal, and easy configurability would be preserved.

Feel free to voice your opinion and thoughts or propose ideas to extend this vision. I am in no position to build something like this, but I would like to hear the community's opinions and ideas.

Edit: Cut sentence.

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