Using a different distro each year

I don’t know if someone has done this before but:

What would be the benefit of changing ones main machine Linux distro per year?

Say I for the next 5 years, I use a different Linux (or Unix idk) distro for a year. Then report back what certain aspects of using the distro were beneficial or different from other distro, or couldn’t do but could do in other distros...

Like Ubuntu would be the easiest and most supported distro for many things

Versus using fedora or Linux mint and seeing if those will run docker or kubernets

I just thought if someone wanted to bathe in the Linux pool and take a dive in each one to see what kind of rides or slides that each distro gives the user.

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New in Linux - question about RAM usage

I use Pop OS, switched from Win. I mostly do simultaneous tasks in Blender 3D, Davinci Resolve and Vmware Workstation Player. I noticed that RAM usage is great.

But what is the difference between Cache and Swap? This I don't understand based on Cache is used and when Swap is used.

Thank you for explaining.

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GNU Units: measurement conversions, general-purpose scientific calculator
https://www.gnu.org/software/units/

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Releases for KDE software in January include KIO Fuse, an add-on that lets all applications like LibreOffice access remote files safely as if they were local; bugfixes; and new apps MyGNUHealth, KGeoTag and Kongress
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2021-01-apps-update/

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Moving to Linux (maybe), Proton Compatibility and Programing from Linux.

Long story short, i've used Ubuntu about... 11 years ago and i liked it. But windows kept me hostage because i just like games so much.

I'm upgrading some pc parts this week, and i'm going to format my pc, i'm deciding if i'll keep using Windows 10 or if i'll move to Linux.

Question1:

I'm starting a college course to learn programming in a couple of weeks. If i code something on Linux will it be difficult to run on Windows 10?

Question2:
The vast majority of my games are on Steam or Itch.io and i've heard about Proton, and how it can make a lot of games run on Linux without an issue. Is there any way to check on steam which of my games will be able to run on proton? I'm fine if a couple of my 556 games won't work atm. But if MOST of my games won't run that'll be a problem.

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Search within Zathura PDF

Over the past couple days, I've been working on building a new, more personalized note-taking setup using vim similar to the method explained in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh\_WGWii7UE&t

Halfway through the video, nixcasts (aka connormcd) shows they're making use of a Linux-based pdf viewer called Zathura. So far, I've read a little about how Zathura's nice as a PDF viewer if you're interested in navigating through pdf docs using Vim key-bindings. While that's really cool, I'd also like to find out how well Zathura supports searches through PDF text.

Can any existing users of Zathura comment on how well / how fast Zathura can search through pdfs? As a Mac user, I'm basically only familiar using Adobe DC reader for working with pdfs where search is... depressingly slow. Though I recognize searching pdf text is something that may be more of a problem inherent to working in the pdf standard rather than more easily indexed plaintext. In short, since search is a pretty important feature for my needs, I just want to know if programs like Zathura, etc. are any faster at executing search.

Also, as a Mac user, I realize there would be certain major obstacles to getting started with a program like Okular, so that's not really an option I can easily entertain. Plus I'd like to be able to actually start working on and thinking about my notes, not messing around with KDE installations and then working through an abstract, personalized Vim configuration. My time is unfortunately pretty limited.

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Why would you choose Linux over Windows or MacOS

I've uses Linux because of the challenge of it and because I like working with minimalistic graphical interfaces. I recently had an argument with a mate who insits on MacOS and I wondered what other arguments beside that it's open source are in the favour of Linux.

I know there are some security and data policy related issues and it also uses less ressources than for example windows. Maybe you guys know some ,,hard" facts why to choose Linux over Windows or MacOS.
Maybe you can also provide some links?

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Discussion for the video editors out there. Any favourite editing software, distro, DE for editing?

Hi, just wondering what is your opinion/experience with Linux video editing softwares, your favourites?
Do you think there is an optimal distro/DE for editing /the program you use?
I'm quite new to Linux...
What do you think?

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Installing Linux on MSI Creator 15.

Distro chosen: PopOs!

TL/DR: The install is pretty smooth.

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1. I first followed the installation instructions on the System76 website. This gets me to the USB live install disk. Easy peasy.
2. First problem: the Kernel is not signed. Upon loading:error: /casper_pop-os_19.10_amd_intel_debug_191/vmlinuz.efi has invalid signature         error: you need to load the kernel first
3. Based on a quick scan of the issue (here and here), I need to turn off the secure boot option. WINUSB has a neat page for this (look at the end for MSI specific instructions).
4. With this correction, I get a black screen of death after the installation menu. I find about the issue here by googling "black screen after install menu". Easy: set bios to UEFI mode.
5. Kernel loaded. I'm in. I choose the complete install (don't care about Windows).
6. At the account setup page, pretty much everything fails: facebook, google, exchange. That's fine, I'll set it up later.
7. I chose my username/password combination: honeypot/easypass.

Thats is pretty much one of the easiest install I've had to do with a Linux distro.

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Announcement and release notes for Slacko64 Puppy 7.0
https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-slacko-7.0/64/release-Slacko64-7.0.htm

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A shell UX update – Development blog for GNOME Shell and Mutter
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/01/07/a-shell-ux-update/

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I'm not new to programming, but Linux scares me a bit, and operating systems are my weak point. Any good learning materials out there?

As a quick background I recently graduated undergrad in computer engineering, more focused on CPUs and hardware. I have taken OS but understanding Linux still eludes me. I'm working with raspberry pi and trying to understand Linux along with my programming is rough. Any recommendations for resources that have high and low level denoscriptions of Linux and its commands?

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nVidia 460 Long Lived Unic Driver Just Released!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-460.32.03-Linux
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Release highlights since 460.27.04: With Official Vulkan Ray-Tracing

Added support for the following GPUs:

A40
T500
A100-SXM4-80GB
Added a new “NoInterlacedModes” token to the NVIDIA X driver’s “ModeValidation” option, to allow preventing interlaced modes from being validated. Refer to the “X Config Options” appendix of the driver README for further details.

Fixed a bug that could cause X clients to crash when closing display connections to the X server.

Fixed a bug that could cause the X server to configure DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport displays in an inconsistent order.

Fixed an interaction problem with 5.4 and newer Linux kernels that caused a performance regression when allocating system memory.

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NVIDIA today released the 460.32.03 Linux graphics driver as their first stable release in the 460 driver series.

Back before the holidays NVIDIA published the 460.27.04 beta Linux driver with firmed up Vulkan ray-tracing support and many other changes. The NVIDIA 460.32.03 driver out today is the stable version of that prior beta driver.

Thus with today's NVIDIA 460.32.03 driver are mostly of the previously noted changes including Vulkan ray-tracing in KHR form, NVIDIA RTX A6000 series support, Reverse PRIME Bypass, various other new Vulkan extensions added, VDPAU video acceleration improvements, experimental S0ix suspend-to-idle support, and many bug fixes.
- Added support for the following GPUs: RTX A6000
- Fixed a bug that could cause detailed timing information for displays with a large number of detailed timings to be truncated in the X log.
- Fixed a bug that prevented scaled display resolutions configured via the nvidia-settings control panel from being reported by RandR.
- Fixed a bug with the SLI Mosaic Mode configuration dialog in nvidia-settings that left displays enabled when they were not needed in the selected configuration.
- Added support for RandR rotation and reflection while using an NVIDIA-driven display as a PRIME Display Offload sink.
- Added support for "Reverse PRIME Bypass", an optimization that bypasses the bandwidth overhead of PRIME Render Offload and PRIME Display Offload in conditions where a render offload application is fullscreen, unredirected, and visible only on a given NVIDIA-driven PRIME Display Offload output. Use of the optimization is reported in the X log when verbose logging is enabled in the X server.
- Add support for the VK_KHR_acceleration_structure extension.
- Add support for the VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline extension.
- Add support for the VK_KHR_ray_query extension.
- Add support for the VK_KHR_pipeline_library extension.
- Add support for the VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations extension.
- Removed the MetaMode string truncation warning for older X Servers when saving the X Configuration file from nvidia-settings.
- Add support for the VK_NV_fragment_shading_rate_enums extension.
- Fixed a bug where copying from an X11 pixmap to an RGB overlay window would exhibit corruption.
- Fixed an issue with VK_ACCESS_MEMORY_READ_BIT and VK_ACCESS_MEMORY_WRITE_BIT when used as part of a render pass.
- Add support for the VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate extension.
- Add support for the VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation extension.
- Reduce host memory consumption for denoscriptor memory in cases where the pNext chain contains a structure of type
- VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR_SET_VARIABLE_DESCRIPTOR_COUNT_ALLOCATE_INFO.
- Increased the default size for new OpenGL/Vulkan Shader Disk Cache location to 1024MB. Note that caches with paths containing "/.nv/ will continue to use the previous default of

128MB unless the size is manually overridden. For more information see the "OpenGL Shader Disk Cache" section in the "Specifying OpenGL Environment Variable Settings" chapter of the README.
- Changed the default location for new OpenGL/Vulkan Shader Disk Caches. If the location is not manually overridden and a cache is detected in the previous default location, that location will be used instead of the new default location. For more information see the "OpenGL Shader Disk Cache" section in the "Specifying OpenGL Environment Variable Settings" chapter of the README.
- Add support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension.
- Add support for the VK_KHR_copy_commands2 extension.
- Allow importing cached memory via VK_EXT_external_memory_host.
- Removed support for the following deprecated frame lock NV-CONTROL attributes:
NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_MASTER
NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SLAVES
NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_MASTERABLE
NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SLAVEABLE
- Default AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration to True such that the NVIDIA X driver succeeds when launching the X server even if there are no display devices connected.
- RRGetCrtcInfo will now return Rotate_0 instead of 0 as the active rotation for disabled CRTCs.
- Improved the NVIDIA VDPAU implementation of VdpVideoSurfaceGetBitsYCbCr and VdpVideoSurfacePutBitsYCbCr when using planar or semi-planar formats. This helps applications that transfer data between VDPAU video surfaces and system memory.
- Added initial experimental support for S0ix-based system suspend (suspend-to-idle). This feature is platform and GPU dependent, so the feature will be disabled by default. To enable this feature, refer to the 'powermanagement' section of the README.
- Fixed an issue where Vulkan applications would fail to initialize if the connected X11 Server did not expose support for GLX.
- Improved the memory allocation strategy in nvidia-modeset.ko to reduce the likelihood of out-of-memory errors, which typically manifest as "page allocation failure" messages in the kernel log.
- Added a new "NoInterlacedModes" token to the NVIDIA X driver's "ModeValidation" option, to allow preventing interlaced modes from being validated. Refer to the "X Config Options" appendix of the driver README for further details.
- Fixed a bug that could cause X clients to crash when closing display connections to the X server.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the X server to configure DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport displays in an inconsistent order.
- Fixed an interaction problem with 5.4 and newer Linux kernels that caused a performance regression when allocating system memory.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-460.32.03-Linux

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I want to set up IDS

I've been having a hell of a time lately.

File-based IDS: I would like to be able to store some program and DB on write-protected media. Keep track of what has changed in boot partition and important system files. I've been trying to learn how to configure tripwire and it's been a hellish ride through really old forum posts and perl noscripts from 2003. Is there an easier option with sane defaults that I can just use?

Network based IDS: Snort, Suricata, configuring rulesets. However I'm not sure what rules I need in place because I'm not a netsec whiz. Is there a recommended way of getting NIDS working for a desktop scenario with sane defaults that I can customize later?

Is there any other form of IDS I should be looking into? I'm really curious what people here use and how it's working for them. Learning about that might be more useful than the time I've wasted so far. Any advice is appreciated!

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csBooks - 5.5.0-beta released

Dear Linux Users

New features in this release

\- Support for Audio Books from Librivox

\- Removal of Books from Library

\- Drag and Drop of single file and folders for Text books of PDF, MOBI and EPUB format.

Download csBooks [https://caesiumstudio.com/csbooks\].

The big feature of this release is Audio Books Integration from Librivox that you can download or play online. Please be kind and report any issues you find so that I can fix them asap here -
https://github.com/caesiumstudio/csBooks-updates/issues

You can suggest new features too :)

Thanks a lot.

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Just figured out a way to get banned on discourse.gnome.org

I wanted to make an official complaint at the Gnome Foundation, but other than an E-Mail address for press contact I couldn't find a good contact possibility, so why not make a Reddit post?

So all I did, was to say that the new layout they want to introduce in Gnome 40 'is shit'.

I also explained why. Here's the post. The last paragraph already got removed.

The issue wasn't me disagreeing with some decision of the Gnome Team, it was because I violated the Code of Conduct. So first of all, saying that the new layout is shit, isn't a direct insult. I'm not insulting any person directly, I'm saying they have done a bad job (in my opinion).

So why did I use such harsh language? To wake them up... they do not listen to long time users at all... in fact they often come up with ridiculous arguments which are insulting in the same way as me using the word 'shit'. It's in the end the same thing, just in a nicer form.

I really didn't like using this kind of offensive language, but if they throw such bad UX decisions my way, I respond in the same way. If they don't like that, we're going separate ways from now on.

I never felt completely comfortable in this forum anyway, with the way it is moderated.

Please don't get me wrong! I'm not saying everyone on the Gnome Team is bad! In fact, there are some lovely people in this forum I got to discuss some stuff with and I don't know enough people of Gnome to make any generalized statements. It's also nothing I want to do anyway.

But what I can say is, that I very much disagree with the current design changes, the way they react to feedback (if at all) and the way they moderate the Discourse forum. In the current status, it's nothing I want to be a part of. You rarely get a reply from the responsible people anyway... mostly you have just the same two people defending everything Gnome does.

Also, just to clarify, I didn't get banned immediately. They asked me to remove the last paragraph and I refused and accepted they would ban me.

So, I'm not sure if this post will get removed, but I really don't want this to end in a flame war. Please stay civil! I think I already did enough of that for now..

If you ask yourself what the purpose of this post is, then I can say, I'm hoping the Gnome team will reevaluate the way they take account of user feedback in response to design decisions, so users don't feel like they have to take on a fight to have a usable desktop environment.

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Ubuntu 21.04 brick my UEFI/BIOS and laptop at all :(

I am the owner of an Asus G56JR laptop with BIOS version 202 (latest). I have been using ubuntu 20.04 for several months and I liked it aesthetically and fulfilled all my requirements, but I had a tiring issue with fractional scaling and found that in 20.10 it was supposedly fixed. I updated to 20.10 and it still hasn't been fixed. So I decided to upgrade and try ubuntu 21.04 in the hope that it fixes my problem, as the changelog indicated that it was fixed (and more than once). As it turned out, this was not fixed in 21.04. In this case, I decided to just reinstall the OS to 20.04 and install proprietary drivers on nvidia in order to use nvidia instead of intel and overcome the tiring problem. I turned off the laptop, inserted a USB flash drive, started pressing the ESC button in order to get to the boot selection menu, as I did before, but the laptop just showed a gray screen and nothing happened. Then I decided to remove the USB flash drive and turn on laptop, but ... nothing happened. And now I am already here. I have been using Linux for 2 years on my computer and recently installed it on my laptop, but it was a mistake ... I have mixed feelings and at the same time I am very upset. This is comparable to the sensation of being stabbed in the back. I do not like Windows, it breaks down for every little thing, but I have never had such a thing that windows broke my computer completely.

If you have any questions, ask.


Video: https://youtu.be/22dHYnZqcOg


:(

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~~How do I tell my parents about it?~~

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my first time Linux experience and its just a headache

I have a old Surface book laptop that was running a bit slow recently and while on youtube i seen a video of someone installing Linux and with the praise of it i thought why not, now i think i made a mistake.

here are some of the problems

touchscreen doesn't work, i don't really use it but i do use the pen and that doesn't work also
cameras don't work
pretty sure its not using the better GPU
if i lock or suspend when i try to login my password is wrong? have to reboot
suspend always wakes up in a minute so i have to keep it shut down
always asks for wifi password on boot
randomly will just black screen on login screen
after time using time laptop the fans will spin fast and the laptop will become very very slow

are these problems from UbuntuDDE ? or will all Linux be like this?

am i stuck with just reinstalling windows?

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Mkhtml I created a tool to populate html/css files

I got tired of constantly typing in the html and manually linking it to a new css file so I made this. After you install it all you have to do is type mkhtml and it will populate the current directory with the files linked.

Find it here: https://github.com/Nswayze/linuxTools/blob/main/README.md

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Asahi Linux Subreddit

So, I made a Subreddit for Asahi Linux which you can find (https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/)

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Note that this isn’t an official subreddit for Asahi Linux. It is a fan made (me) Subreddit For the apple M1 on Linux project AKA Asahi Linux

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For those of you out of the loop, Asahi Linux is basically linux for the Apple M1 and was created by marcan, who also reverse engineered things for the wii and ps3, so he has experience. You can find documentation for Asahi Linux and the Apple M1 internals at https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki

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So yeah, have fun

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