Linux is an amazing gift, and like anything, it isn't perfect: note from a new non-techie user.

I have to say I kind of chuckle a bit about how emotional we can be about our operating systems, but it's only human to become attached to things we care about. So, when it comes to Linux, please understand that I'm not out to attack anyone personally or make anyone feel inferior. The tl;dr is this:

Linux has its imperfections like anything else, and it's probably best to be completely up-front and transparent about these issues.

Is it better to try and sweep issues under the rug to avoid scaring away potential users? I don't believe so, it's probably worse for people to learn about issues the hard way after the fact. If we just say "look, there's a million great things about Linux, but here are some things to be aware of", then people can make an informed choice and be prepared for issues they might encounter. I think people will appreciate this, and yes, some may be scared off, but you would probably lose them anyways if they try linux and then encounter frustrating issues. And with issues being more out in the open, there may be more attention brought to finding solutions.

Just had to get that off my chest, thanks. Lol.

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Greetings

Today I made the jump from Windows 10 to Linux Mint (Cinnamon desktop) and I've gotta say I already really like it. I just have one question. How well does this specific OS run games? I've heard some versions of Linux run games better than others. I did see one comment on Steam saying Mint runs steam games well but I kinda want more opinions.

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Bash downloader for AI generated faces

Title pretty much explains it. Don't know if this is the right tag, but oh well.

https://github.com/CarterSullivan/thispersondoesnotexist-downloader

Enjoy!

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Rexuiz is a multiplayer FPS on linux reminiscent of Quake and Unreal Tournament, and people are still playing it. Check it out!
https://redd.it/ktalgv
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Dell 9550 - Sluggish performance on (every?) linux distro

Hi there,

I'd talk of myself as a somewhat experienced Linux user, however, I'm at the point of desperation :-)

I'm using a XPS15 9550 with a TB19WD dock, one 4k Monitor and a vertical 1080p monitor.

Notebook specs: i7 6700hq, 16GB Ram, GTX960, M.2 SSD

I'm having performance issues after having tried virtually any linux distro.

Well, okay, not every distro, but I've tried:

Antergos 19
Fedora 30
Ubuntu 20.10
Pop!_OS 20.04 - my current system. I haven't upgraded to 20.10 as I had issues with monitor disconnecting.

Interestingly enough, I'm having much less issues with Cinnamon than with Gnome and KDE.

I could live with the cinnamon performance, even though it's nothing compared to the smoothness I'm experiencing with the same setup in Windows 10.

However, once I'm setting the scale factor to 2 for my 1080p monitor, everything becomes actually unusable due to lagging and random cursor blinking and vanishing.

Command I'm using for scaling:

xrandr --output DP-1-3 --scale 2x2

Do you have any idea how this is caused? I'm guessing, I shouldn't have these problems with my hardware.

I'm curious about any solutions that might fix the desktop behaviour after scaling the monitor or making Gnome and KDE more performant.

xrandr output

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tmpmail v1.1.5 now supports receiving attachments
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Why are Linux and C commands so unintuitive?

Hello,
I recently started studying CS on university and I have a class in C programming, where we also uda Linux. I wonder why Linux commands and C keywords are do undenoscriptive. I have had some experience in Python and C# programming and just by seeing method's/function's name in most cases I can at least predict what will that do. Why has everything in C and Linux have to sound like pwd, ls, malloc, memset, rm etc. I know I know nothing and people behind C and Linux are geniuses but why naming stamdards changed so much over decades?

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How up to date are your repositories

Repology monitors a huge number of package repositories and other sources comparing packages versions across them and gathering other information. Repology shows you in which repositories a given project is packaged, which version is the latest and which needs updating, who maintains the package, and other related information.

https://repology.org/

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A command-line timer and other maybe useful stuff
https://github.com/Benni3D/terminal-stuff

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Posing apps that work on Linux

Hello!
My wife is an illustrator and she needs posing software to use as a reference.
Someone recommended Design Doll but Wine HQ says that it's on garbage level.
Posing it seems to work, but I need to try it first.
There is Gllara but I don't know if it's work at all since it's for MAC.

There is also easyPose and artPose on steam but I don't know if they work with proton since I don't have enough info in protonDB


Any suggestion?


TY

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Unscientific popularity contest

I started seeding all these torrents the same day. I am surprised to see lubuntu at more than twice the ratio as Ubuntu and LinuxMint also higher than Ubuntu.

I'm wondering if it is because there may be more ubuntu seeders so there is less pressure individually or if lubuntu is really so popular.

Transmission screenshot

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Linux system image backup solutions with a NAS

This might be a bad question, and probably the wrong place to do it. But I was wondering what you guys would do to accomplish this. So some prelude, I'm running or setting up gentoo atm, and usually stuff ends up breaking when I try to add in other features or tweak things (to the point where it's unbootable). So I was looking into ways of creating backups or restore points of my root and boot partitions, with my NAS (runs open media vault)

What would you guys suggest is the best way of going about this? A cron job + using dd to create a recovery iso? The other motivation for me to do this is to have an easier way to get a fresh base gentoo setup instead of having to go through the reinstall process all over

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how do i enable multi finger touch gestures on my dell laptop running ubuntu?

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can someone please tell me how to enable multi finger touch gestures on ubuntu just like windows and mac os. i've just recently started using linux so i would appreciate a a step by step explanation

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Fed up with Windows

I have 2 laptops. One for personal use (gaming, watching movies, university work, etc.), which is running on Windows 10. The other one is a mac, which I use for iOS development. After I familiarised with macOS, I realised how shitty Windows is, so I decided to swap to linux. Can any of you guys suggest me a good distribution that also allows me to play games?

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How to stay logged in while SSHing into a linux VPS?

I login myself via SSH into my VPS running ubuntu, do something on that VPS -> Catch up with some other work on my machine -> Go back to SSH session only to find out am already logged out, this is really irritating, I don't want it to log me out unless I myself explicitly type the command to logout.

I'm using WSL on a windows machine, can someone please tell how to solve this problem of auto log out again and again?

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This week in KDE: new KWin compositing, new Kickoff, new recording level visualization!
http://pointieststick.com/2021/01/08/this-week-in-kde-new-kwin-compositing-new-kickoff-new-recording-level-visualization/

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KDE Ships Frameworks 5.78.0
https://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.78.0/

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What was the last Linux distro release (with full locally stored repos) you could buy?

You know a Linux experience not dependent on a monthly internet bill where the repos came on multiple discs? I feel the whole point of FOSS is to protect yourself from centralization, but the internet is the most centralized infrastructure ever created.


I miss the experience of having your packages stored locally, but it became "why buy discs when I can just down and burn my own discs?" and then it became "Why download everything at once when it's just easier to download on demand?".


A distro experience like that is kinda lost to the ages, you paid for the packaging and the curation.

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What linux distro would suit my needs? I need Help

So I have researched about linux for the past 2 months now, I have learned the basics about distros in general, I have tried alot of distros in a VM to understand them better:

\- Manjaro (Arch based)

\-Fedora (RHEL based, ofc fedora is more of a supported by RHEL not based on RHEL, I understand the whole Fedora to CentOS Stream to RHEL cycle)

\-ArcoLinux (Arch Based)

\-Ubuntu (Debian based)

\-Debian

\-Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu)

\-Zorin OS (based on Ubuntu, sadly an older version )

\-Feren OS (based on Ubuntu)

\-Solus OS

\-MX Linux (Debain)

\-Elementary OS (Ubuntu)

\-Pop OS (Ubuntu )

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I have done alot of research about there package managers and of course what is a fixed release and what is a rolling release, and what is a semi-rolling release like fedora. I have been a windows user for my whole life but I am currently in highschool and I want to be a software engineer. So I was interested in Linux and Decided I want to learn more about it.

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I want a Linux distro that has the latest software but a stable system core. and also a distro that implements kernal mainline updates rather quickly (but not too quickly that it might cause problems too) I will game on it too, but I know gaming doesn't matter since you can game on any Linux distro anyway.

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I am very interested in Arch Linux (or distros based on it) but I don't want something that might break at somepoint (even though any problem in Arch the user is the reason not the system) and I also don't want to be bothered by having to make timeshift snapshots since I only have a 500GB HDD for now (will get a SSD later on) and don't want to be always making snapshots when updating the system for example.

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So after some research I found out Fedora and the whole up to date software and kernal updates in its 6 months lifespan but in the same time stable core. but then I heared that fedora sometimes gets errors in dnf for example or that it sometimes break. Even thought I know that there will be a fix and mostly an Easy one. But I don't want to be bothered by that I want something that "just works" and I as a user will do little to no maintenance at all. since I just want to use it for my personal home use (to store important files, create my own software, creating games, gaming on it).

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I know that there are flatpaks, snaps, and app images. and I personally prefer flatpaks and I don't mind using it for all of my software.

I am very interested in Arch tbh but still don't want to bothered with everything I have said earlier.

So please recommend me things to try I am very confused from everything I have learned and I can't choose something to use only to do more research about it and see that It also can have problems.

I don't mind having problems but I don't like to always do 30 things to keep my system from breaking (Arch maintenance :D). I would like something similar to the fix I use in windows 10 which is (sfc /scannow) I sometimes get straight black screen while writing some code or playing video games and my whole computer crashes. so I just open my windows type this command in (sfc /scannow) check for updates clean the cache and then boom my pc doesn't crash anymore even thought it still crashes randomly after 2 weeks and it doesn't even do dump files for me to see the issue it just completely crashes (I want to go to linux fast :( )

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I am eventually gonna learn everything about linux and use Arch linux to keep learning new things or use Gentoo even. I am even more interested in gentoo :DD

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Docker Learning for Beginners Part 5: Create Ubuntu Container Using Dockerfile : Docker build CMD RUN Example

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JgdQo0lhevU&feature=share

If you like the video, please subscribe to below channel for More Videos, Channel contains lot of free Videos on Network Automation topics Like Netconf, Restconf, Netmiko,Nornir, NAPALM, Ansible, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/c/NetworkEvolution?sub\_confirmation=1

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Linux Won’t connect to monitor properly

I’m running Linux Mint Cinnamon 20, and when I try to connect it to my monitor, it doesn’t work.

It sometimes shows the screen correctly, but then I can’t click on anything and nothing works.

It uses an HDMI connection. I’m pretty new to all this stuff and I do not have much knowledge on the hardware of monitors.

Any help is welcome!

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