First of all, I love Linux...

now everything I write from now on is probably going to lower my karma to infinity.

why does everything I need to setup on linux has to go through a terminal or editing some conf files?

why do I have to do research everytime I need a solution for something in endless threads on endless forums?

I´m a programmer now for almost 20 years, if I have to say my speciality would probably be making user interfaces, and my passion would be making games.

that being said, user interface in linux is pure absolute crap, it feels like I´m in the 70s or something, everything is done as a CLI, user friendly might be considered blasphemy for all I know.

it feels like everything mac and windows do is hated in such a level that linux developers refuse to acknowledge anything good about it.

there, I said it.

unfortunately I have no deeper knowledge into OS programming and can´t do anything to help, if you´re thinking about commenting something like "hey you little shit, why don´t you help?" and you know what? I want to help, but it feels like I need to go through endless forums just to learn basic stuff, and I´m really sorry if I´m not smart like you guys, but I´m not an idiot either, I know concepts like multi processing paralellism, manual memory management, compute and graphics shaders, also basic stuff like file system access, parsing and serializing, encryption, hashing algorithms, raymarching, celullar automata and some other stuff, and also I am a data scientist that uses python with keras to do some analytical stuff, but most of it are just as a hobby.

but MAN does it feel like it is intentional that you guys are making it difficult, by making it only accessible for those who you deem worthy, and I know that if I feel this way there must be others.

</rant>


please, PLEASE, point me in the direction where there is good, well documented instructions on how everything works inside Linux, so I can start making really cool GUI for setting up all kinds of shit for Linux, and I´m sorry, I have ADHD and reading is not really easy for me, so it might be just me

thank you for everything you guys do, besides GUI, you have done amazing things not just for me but for society and humankind

and please don´t hate me, I just needed to get this off my chest

EDIT: I just thought there might be a queue for something that needs to be done to improve linux, like a roadmap or something, maybe I can start there picking stuff I enjoy doing

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ytmdl - Download songs with metadata embedded from various source. Now supports downloading chaptered songs from YouTube.

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New Linux distro.... thoughts?

Hi, I'm a cybersecurity instructor and we are starting to introduce our new students to Linux. My friend created this open source project, called YetiDesk, that I'm using in my classroom environment to get students more comfortable with Linux and gives them a better desktop experience from stock Ubuntu. I thought I would share, and I hope you find it helpful! My students have found it very easy to use as they transition from the “mainstream” OS’s out there.


#yetidesk

yetiDesk

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Newest Arch Linux public service: A manual pages indexing site
https://man.archlinux.org/

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3060TI On Linux Ubuntu ?

I have linux on a bootable USB, however since installing my 3060ti the only resolution I can set is 1024x768 which is awful on a 43" TV.

If I were to install it to my Hard drive, would I be able to change the res. ?

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I installed the drivers and now it works fine

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CPU temperature management in linux is joke



Look what is happening with cpu temperature just by scrolling up and down web page in firefox. This is on Manjaro KDE but i have this issue with any distro i install on my laptop. Repeating the same on Windows 10, which i have also installed on the same laptop, is not even registered by the cpu.

https://imgur.com/a/0U52dV1

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Could you check my iptables rules?

Hi!

I read a few webpages and wrote the following iptables rules.

The goal is to block all incoming traffic, unless it was initiated from this computer.

Do you think the rules do that? Is this set of rules going to protect the computer from internet threats?

Thank you!

Here are the rules for ipv4:

# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
REJECT all -- anywhere 127.0.0.0/8 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 5/min burst 5 LOG level debug prefix "iptables denied: "
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere

Here is for ipv6:

# ip6tables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all anywhere anywhere
REJECT all anywhere localhost.localdomain reject-with icmp6-port-unreachable
ACCEPT all anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
LOG all anywhere anywhere limit: avg 5/min burst 5 LOG level debug prefix "iptables denied: "
REJECT all anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp6-port-unreachable

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
REJECT all anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp6-port-unreachable

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all anywhere anywhere

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Purism and Linux 5.9 and 5.10
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-9-and-5-10/

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ClamAV number of viruses decreases after 'freshclam', is it normal ?

Lately, I've noticed that the number of viruses indicated by clamscan decreases after a freshclam, is that normal ?

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 8789367
Engine version: 0.102.4
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Data read: 105.82 MB (ratio 0.00:1)
Time: 21.273 sec (0 m 21 s)

This was last week, and this week, scanning the same file, I got this :

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 8779647
Engine version: 0.102.4
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Data read: 105.82 MB (ratio 0.00:1)
Time: 19.383 sec (0 m 19 s)

Anyone has an explanation ?

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Emotional Investment in Linux

I wrote a blog post recently on Emotionally Investing Yourself in Tools. To be completely honest, Linux is the "tool" that I had in the forefront of my mind.

For me the constant is Linux. It's comfortable and very familiar. When I have to use another OS it just doesn't feel like home. To say I'm emotionally invested in Linux is quite an understatement. It's absolutely a large part of my life, and part of my personal identity.

I wrote down a few of these notes in the blog post above. It's really easy for me (us?) to not question things from time to time, but I think it's a healthy approach.

Sorry if this post doesn't belong here. Mods, feel free to remove if not good.

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Is there a notetaking app with LaTeX Equation Editor and drawing?

Hi
I thought about switching one of my computers to Linux to try it out. But before I do, I want to know if there is any good notetaking app supporting Linux. I'm currently using Notion because it provides components I need for notetaking, which are Databases and LaTeX Equation Editor.


So I'm just wondering if there is an application for Linux where you can write text, write equations and draw Graphs and Geometry.
But any recommendation is much appreciated.

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Desktop OpenGL 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/desktop-opengl31-on-mali-gpus-with-panfrost.html

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AlmaLinux - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System [CloudLinux’s CentOS replacement announcement]
https://almalinux.org/

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Elasticsearch and Kibana changing license from Apache 2.0 to SSPL starting with upcoming Elastic 7.11 release
https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change

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Alpine 3.13.0 released

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.13.0-released.html

New features and noteworthy new packages

Official cloud images.
Introduction of ifupdown-ng, a replacement for busybox ifupdown.
Improved wifi support in setup noscripts
PHP 8.0 is available now (next to PHP 7.4).
Node.js (LTS)
Initial support for cloud-init

Significant updates

Linux 5.10.7
musl 1.2
Busybox 1.32.1
GCC 10.2.1
Git 2.30.0
Knot DNS 3.0.3
MariaDB 10.5.8
Node.js 14.15.4
Nextcloud 20.0.4
PostgreSQL 13.1
QEMU 5.2.0
Xen 4.14.1
Zabbix 5.2.3
ZFS 2.0.1

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Speed up your command line navigation (Part 2)
https://medium.com/james-reads-public-cloud-technology-blog/speed-up-your-command-line-navigation-part-2-d55ef1ef8ca9

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Discover Fedora Kinoite: a Silverblue variant with the KDE Plasma desktop - Fedora Magazine
https://fedoramagazine.org/discover-fedora-kinoite/

https://redd.it/kxfu52
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This is why I switched to Linux:

1. It's buggy when you load an app or a text file.
2. It's bloated with junkware.
3. It's slow on bad hardware if you try to play a game or a video.
4.They Removed the option to downgrade to any previous version of Windows
5.The Linux community is a better place


Since I can't post pictures you can just picture it
Thanks for Reading
\-EdwardTCM

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Simplest network downtime logger?

I want a simple open-source Linux program that will log network downtime. I want something super simple. Either a graph or a table with the network downtime is all I care about. I don't care about the ping time or the network speed. I just want a list of outages with their date/time and duration.

I've looking into advanced solutions like netdata and smokeping, but they're too overkill in my opinion. I just want something I can use to directly compare ISP downtime.

https://redd.it/kxikbq
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csBooks 5.6.0 Release

Hot new improvement - Themes for comfortable reading for ePUB and MOBI files.
https://github.com/caesiumstudio/csBooks-updates/releases/tag/5.6.0

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Themes for book viewer

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USB Gadget Boards?

I've used a BeagleBone Black to create a USB gadget in the past. I'm currently contemplating a project that would want to create several gadgets controlled by a single PC, though, and I've not been able to find a board that allows that.

Does such a thing exist--either as a singleboard product like the BeagleBone or as an add-on card like a PCI card? Has anybody heard of someone attempting to do something like this with off-the-shelf hardware? Simple googling has not been effective.

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