Different CPU Times: Linux operating systems ‘top’

CPU consumption in Linux operating systems is studied using eight different metrics: User CPU time, System CPU time, nice CPU time, Idle CPU time, Waiting CPU time, Hardware Interrupt CPU time, Software Interrupt CPU time, Stolen CPU time. Let’s review each of the CPU time in this article. https://dzone.com/articles/different-cpu-times-unixlinux-top

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Steam Hardware Survey for December 2020

First off i would like to say happy new year that I hope you guys are as crazy as I am about the long awaited sequel to 2020, 2020-II:Electric Boogaloo.

If you happen to be greek i hope you won this year's Vasilopita :)

Now let's get on with the survey:

Link: [https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam)

Interesting things happened in the OS and Language space, It seems like the chinese Steam client launched because people who use the language of Simplified Chinese are up, and now it seems people in china have taken the top spot.


|Simplified Chinese|47.18%|\+30.22%|
|:-|:-|:-|
|English|25.63%|\-16.23%|

With that we got a crazy user increase on Windows... **7 ?!**

|Windows 10 64 bit|69.40%|\-19.88%|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Windows 7 64 bit|26.74%|\+22.35%|

Of course that means that linux percentage got down considerably.

|Linux|0.57%|\-0.33%|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 64 bit|0.14%|\-0.07%|
|"Arch Linux" 64 bit|0.06%|\-0.04%|
|"Manjaro Linux" 64 bit|0.06%|\-0.04%|

Does that mean that over all less people are playing on linux? Probably not, however it is interesting to see the affect china has had on the store. Maybe there isn't a Chinese client available for Deepin Linux or linux users of china in general.

Steam does not seem to provide the raw numbers and instead provides just percentages.

**More in depth linux stuff**

Link: [https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=linux](https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=linux)

* There are more Arch users using Steam than Manjaro users using Steam
* Most popular distro for steam users is \*drum roll\* "other" with 53.23% using it.
* AMD is slowly overtaking Intel though honestly that is global.
* 1920x1080p is still on top and will stay on top ~~even though 1920x1200p and 16:10 is frankly better.~~
* Radeon RX480 is on top but going down. I cant see what is on the second entry because it seems to be broken.
* Networking speed and Microphones seem to be broken(Globally). And Valve should fix that.
* Users of Simplified Chinese are at 0.82%. So either chinese users do not use linux, OR there is no readily available chinese client.

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[Repost] One bash command to search file in system with fzf/dmenu/rofi and get share link on fly using CURL. (Look first comment for complete text explanation)

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Trying to port Ubuntu Touch

I'm planning to port Ubuntu Touch to a device not already ported by UB ports. As this is my first adventure into trying such porting, I want to know what minimum system configuration I could use to comfortably do this.

I have a laptop with 16GM ram, 1TB HDD, i5 processor. When I checked the documentation it just said more ram and faster processor are better. Can any one throw some light on it ?

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Looking for a time scheduling / task management program, geared more towards Home & Personal life rather than solely work-oriented. I feel like there's gotta be something decent out there, but I just can't find it.

So I'm in the early stages of getting over an addiction, and to help myself stay clean, I want to follow the classic suggestion of planning each day in a super detailed manner, to keep practically every minute minute accounted for. Idle hands are the devils plaything and all, y'know. So I'm looking for a program that'll let me nicely schedule out my entire day with everything from chores to grooming/skincare routine to exercise and hobbies, making music, programming projects (whether just for fun, or whenever I get a job again [hopefully soon\] ), school (I'm talking online classes towards a data science masters), etc. I've found a couple of neat programs with a lot of features, but they all seem VERY focused on ONLY Work stuff, not home/personal stuff. Am I SOL and gonna have to do it in windows or old fashioned in a journal with pen and ink? I'd appreciate anyone heading me in the right direction, I suppose if one doesn't exist, that could potentially just be another possible project and item to put on my resume in the future.

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This is a one page quick reference cheat sheet to the GNU awk

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Which covers commonly used awk expressions and commands, it's good for beginners. https://quickref.me/awk

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Distro recomendation

Hey guys, Happy New Year to all!

Found my first laptop (from 2005 or 2007 if I'm not mistaken) and thinking about refurbishing it to make it reusable again.

Specs aren't that great:
Sony Vaio VGN-N365E - Intel Core2Duo T2450 with 1GB RAM.

I've tried to boot it and got a "no OS found" message which led me to open the laptop and realize that past me had already snagged the HD for another purpose (I have got a spare 120GB SATA II SSD which will do fine).

That been said, looking for a lightweight Linux Distro to revamp this machine and make it usable again. It has a Windows Vista license which I've never made use of due to the fact that it was Windows Vista (🤡)
(at the time I was forced to downgrade to Windows XP due to the low RAM specs and that won't fly nowadays).

Here are some pics just because

http://imgur.com/gallery/f2NRVU4

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How to monitor CPU utilization in Linux
https://dev.to/shaikh/how-to-monitor-cpu-utilization-in-linux-5aeb

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Open Source Distributed Systems?

Hi there and happy NY!

I continue learning distributed systems. I've just read [1\] and I'm planning to implement something working for edicational purposes (using Linux as an underlying layer - so that's why I'm here).

My problem is that I haven't found enough well-designed things (except [2\] and [3\]) related to this subject.

Could you point me to any open source solutions you think I should pay attention to?

Any help is appreciated.

[1\] Steen M. van and Tanenbaum A. Distributed Systems.

[2\] Stenman E. The Erlang Runtime System.

[3\] Open MPI documentation.

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This week in KDE: Happy new year!
https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/02/this-week-in-kde-happy-new-year/

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Problems with microphone

A microphone I bought arrived today, I plugged it in, and after some time it worked (although it was too low and has some echo, but it happens in Windows too).

When I unplugged it, it caused some screeching loud noise. I don't know why but I just restart pulseaudio and moved on.

Now my sound input appears to be broken because that happens with my internal microphone (it worked fine before).

Please, someone help. I already tried removing the '~/.config/pulse' folder and fiddling with settings in pavucontrol. I don't know what else to try!

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Looking for people that know Linux

So we opened a discord server about programming the server is mostly international with English speakers mainly from India and West Africa , and my friend made this section about Operating systems but we do lack the ability and need someone to look at it and possibly be a mod eventually.also a person is posting links to Linux and we can't figure out if they are legit.

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Clang based OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 RC (Release Candidate) released with Kernel 5.10, PHP 8.0.0 and better support for aarch64 (pinebook pro, pinephone or raspberry pi)
https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/openmandriva-lx-4-2-rc-available-for-testing

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families of Linux

I saw this periodic table of Linux on the distro watch website
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=family-tree

and I just wanted to hear from some people about which families of Linux you like the most and why...
I use Mint now.. I like it because it is easy, well kept up, quite a bit of software and it runs pretty good on my older laptops I see from the table it is in the Debian family

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I wrote a simple bash noscript which web scrape 1337x and give me torrents in dmenu/fzf/rofi. So I simply start downloading anything with just clicks.

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KDE roadmap for 2021 – Adventures in Linux and KDE
https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/01/kde-roadmap-for-2021/

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Help with Ubuntu

I have a Acer Chromebook 315 running Bobba and an Intel Processor. I installed crouton and Ubuntu but it is just the desktop. I can pull up the settings but can't close it afterwards. I can also make folders but nothing else. What did I do wrong?

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Running Debian on a 32 MiB RAM Single Core ARM SBC (Lichee Nano Pi)
https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/lichee-nano-pi-will-it-run-debian/

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KIO FUSE 5.0.0 Released
https://feverfew.home.blog/2020/12/31/kio-fuse-5-0-0-released/

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Making Bash compliant with the XDG Base Directory specification
http://hiphish.github.io/blog/2020/12/27/making-bash-xdg-compliant/

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ddcbc-gtk - A GTK interface for ddc brightness control

I use multiple external monitors, and was tried of fiddling around with the monitor buttons to try to adjust my brightness. Thankfully, I discovered ddcutil, which was helpful, but I wanted an interface to do this. I also tried ddcui, however it was rather slow because it took the time to read all of the provided features each monitor had. So I created my own application to specifically adjust the brightness on each of my monitors. I hope to turn this into extensions for some of the desktop environments to better integrate this into the desktop. Feel free to create issues/pull requests as needed - this is my first open source project (as trivial as it is) so go easy on me haha.

https://github.com/ahshabbir/ddcbc-gtk

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