Why would someone make a distro only to change the appearance?
I can't get my head around why there are so many linux distros. And I am not talking about the handful major distros. I mean more niche distros. Like the first distro I tried was LinuxLite and after a couple of months of using I don't get what's light about it other than it comes with xfce4, and you can change the Desktop Enviorment on most distros so it just feels like a reskin. And that's what I don't get about creating distros that appear to be a reskin. Why do they exist because Linux allows you to customize the appearance how you like, why bother creating an entire distro for that.
A couple of meme examples. Hanna Montana and anime Linux. The only unique thing about them is the wallpapers and splash screen. And most distros I have seen seem to be like that. And the same thing goes with preinstalled programs. I don't care if a distro comes preinstalled with steam. If I needed steam I would have installed it.
I get someone using arch because they want to have access to the AUR. But only a handful of distros have things that change the user experience
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I can't get my head around why there are so many linux distros. And I am not talking about the handful major distros. I mean more niche distros. Like the first distro I tried was LinuxLite and after a couple of months of using I don't get what's light about it other than it comes with xfce4, and you can change the Desktop Enviorment on most distros so it just feels like a reskin. And that's what I don't get about creating distros that appear to be a reskin. Why do they exist because Linux allows you to customize the appearance how you like, why bother creating an entire distro for that.
A couple of meme examples. Hanna Montana and anime Linux. The only unique thing about them is the wallpapers and splash screen. And most distros I have seen seem to be like that. And the same thing goes with preinstalled programs. I don't care if a distro comes preinstalled with steam. If I needed steam I would have installed it.
I get someone using arch because they want to have access to the AUR. But only a handful of distros have things that change the user experience
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Why would someone make a distro only to change the appearance?
I can't get my head around why there are so many linux distros. And I am not talking about the handful major distros. I mean more niche distros....
Linux Distros should be tailored towards a specific user group.
No not all Distros are the same. There are stable distros bleeding edge distros with rolling releases Distros tailored towards smaller weaker PCs. Distros that offer a lot of Bling etc.
So I am not saying all Distros are the same. But lots of Distros can be grouped and within that Group they are pretty interchangeable. Like what is the difference between Pop OS and Manjaro.
Yes one is based on Ubuntu and one on Arch and Pop needs a bit more memory than Manjaro, but other than that? Unless you are missing out on some package you absolutely need that pops or Manjaros repositories do not have not a whole lot. The user sits in front of either OS and both are an OS where you setup your wifi your start menue and then install whatever you need.
There is one exception though, Kali Linux which is a Distro tailored towards a suit of specific tasks.
Why is Kali Linux a thing and the graphic designer equivalent of Linux is not? Or the Office equivalent?
The answer is simple, while the Venn diagram of people who could compile their own Linux distro and people who do hacking of any kind or are interested in tinkering with the tools Kali offers is not necessarily a circle it isn't 2 separate circles either. There is quite a bit of overlap.
When it comes to graphic designers and their ability and motivation to set up their own Linux distro, for graphic designers and 3D artists, very different situation of course. The people who are very knowledgeable in the area of graphic design and also very versed regarding the technical side when it comes to computers, are seldom the same people.
This is where the Linux community could come in, but of course the Linux community would have to care what a graphic designer wants or needs. Not an easy to task for RTFM, "this is not a support forum" elitists.
Distros that offer additional real value to everyday people would be such a strong selling point to get people away from MacOS or Windows.
Imagine a Linux distro for graphic designers developed after performing requirements engineering by talking to interviewing and getting graphic designers involved. Yes I know there is gimp, but a distro could do so much more than being a bad version of an industry standard software.
What requirements could an artists have? Power on the cheap for example. Imagine a distro that makes it for graphical artist relatively easy to harness several of their old machines into one unit to render a project.
Or the ability to pipe what you did in one program directly into the next and if necessary into the next again and having it automatically processed according to a preset. No more endless importing and exporting. A commercial solution would be hampered by licensing issues.
What else could an 3D artists, graphical designer or Photo editor need? I don't know I am not any of those things. That's where requirement engineering comes in.
Linux grows very very slowly because with all the different flavours out there at the end of the day most of them are pretty generic operating systems which you pick based on what your machine can handle and then you just install what you need. But Windows and MacOS does most of that already and people prefer to live with a bit of bloat due to drivers etc. they will never need than to have to do anything by themselves. 20 flavors of Linux distros that all aim to be a standard generic OS do not offer additional value.
By putting out distros that appeal to different needs Linux could offer real additional value to a large chunk of users, commercial providers can not offer because of licensing issues when it comes to having different tools interacting with each other, or because they do not want to because it is more profitable to deny customers an easy way to bundle their legacy hardware into a single powerful unit.
The Linux community needs to take Requirements Engineering and Usability more seriously to set itself apart from commercial Desktop OS and go beyond and above what they offer. Not try to compete with them
No not all Distros are the same. There are stable distros bleeding edge distros with rolling releases Distros tailored towards smaller weaker PCs. Distros that offer a lot of Bling etc.
So I am not saying all Distros are the same. But lots of Distros can be grouped and within that Group they are pretty interchangeable. Like what is the difference between Pop OS and Manjaro.
Yes one is based on Ubuntu and one on Arch and Pop needs a bit more memory than Manjaro, but other than that? Unless you are missing out on some package you absolutely need that pops or Manjaros repositories do not have not a whole lot. The user sits in front of either OS and both are an OS where you setup your wifi your start menue and then install whatever you need.
There is one exception though, Kali Linux which is a Distro tailored towards a suit of specific tasks.
Why is Kali Linux a thing and the graphic designer equivalent of Linux is not? Or the Office equivalent?
The answer is simple, while the Venn diagram of people who could compile their own Linux distro and people who do hacking of any kind or are interested in tinkering with the tools Kali offers is not necessarily a circle it isn't 2 separate circles either. There is quite a bit of overlap.
When it comes to graphic designers and their ability and motivation to set up their own Linux distro, for graphic designers and 3D artists, very different situation of course. The people who are very knowledgeable in the area of graphic design and also very versed regarding the technical side when it comes to computers, are seldom the same people.
This is where the Linux community could come in, but of course the Linux community would have to care what a graphic designer wants or needs. Not an easy to task for RTFM, "this is not a support forum" elitists.
Distros that offer additional real value to everyday people would be such a strong selling point to get people away from MacOS or Windows.
Imagine a Linux distro for graphic designers developed after performing requirements engineering by talking to interviewing and getting graphic designers involved. Yes I know there is gimp, but a distro could do so much more than being a bad version of an industry standard software.
What requirements could an artists have? Power on the cheap for example. Imagine a distro that makes it for graphical artist relatively easy to harness several of their old machines into one unit to render a project.
Or the ability to pipe what you did in one program directly into the next and if necessary into the next again and having it automatically processed according to a preset. No more endless importing and exporting. A commercial solution would be hampered by licensing issues.
What else could an 3D artists, graphical designer or Photo editor need? I don't know I am not any of those things. That's where requirement engineering comes in.
Linux grows very very slowly because with all the different flavours out there at the end of the day most of them are pretty generic operating systems which you pick based on what your machine can handle and then you just install what you need. But Windows and MacOS does most of that already and people prefer to live with a bit of bloat due to drivers etc. they will never need than to have to do anything by themselves. 20 flavors of Linux distros that all aim to be a standard generic OS do not offer additional value.
By putting out distros that appeal to different needs Linux could offer real additional value to a large chunk of users, commercial providers can not offer because of licensing issues when it comes to having different tools interacting with each other, or because they do not want to because it is more profitable to deny customers an easy way to bundle their legacy hardware into a single powerful unit.
The Linux community needs to take Requirements Engineering and Usability more seriously to set itself apart from commercial Desktop OS and go beyond and above what they offer. Not try to compete with them
and be like them. But to achieve that the people who can do need to know what the people who can not do want and need. Linux needs to go big with requirements engineering to be able to create the Linux programmers, Visual artists, Musical artists, office fighters want.
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Linux Distros should be tailored towards a specific user group.
No not all Distros are the same. There are stable distros bleeding edge distros with rolling releases Distros tailored towards smaller weaker PCs....
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converting webcam input to solid color desktop background in GNOME. Could be your shirt! (sorry for screen glare)
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Why I switched to Pop_OS and How to Co-exist alongside Windows?
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Why I switched to Pop_OS?
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Samba - only allow users access their folder (and custom dirs)
Currently, users in our samba directory can access any folders, including each others so I've found that by including this line in the config file
Now the only problem is that there's a folder that needs to be accesible for everyone and I can't seem to have it working.
Does anyone happen to know how to do it?
Thanks ahaed.
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Currently, users in our samba directory can access any folders, including each others so I've found that by including this line in the config file
valid users = %S uncommented, users can only access their home directories.Now the only problem is that there's a folder that needs to be accesible for everyone and I can't seem to have it working.
Does anyone happen to know how to do it?
Thanks ahaed.
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Samba - only allow users access their folder (and custom dirs)
Currently, users in our samba directory can access any folders, including each others so I've found that by including this line in the config file...
Electron apps
Hi,
Maybe it's a really easy question to answer, but i'm going to post it anyway.
We have many electron apps like Discord, which are based on online version of themself.
We have Visual Studio Code based on Electron, and some smart guy made it work in web browser.
So, theoretically, there should be no problem with porting webapps to electron.
Then why Google can't or don't want to port their office suite?
I understand why Microsoft is not doing it, but Google could get more users of their product, by releasing a desktop app that has the same functionality. Even porting paid GSuite shouldn't be a problem, just make user log in before accessing the app.
Maybe there is a possibility for community to port desktop version of G suite?
Making such a move could possibly gain google more users, make their app way more comfortable to use and finally make a lot of people change their OS from windows, because many of them are using windows just to have Office Suite.
And sorry for possible misinterpretations, i'm not a programmer.
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Hi,
Maybe it's a really easy question to answer, but i'm going to post it anyway.
We have many electron apps like Discord, which are based on online version of themself.
We have Visual Studio Code based on Electron, and some smart guy made it work in web browser.
So, theoretically, there should be no problem with porting webapps to electron.
Then why Google can't or don't want to port their office suite?
I understand why Microsoft is not doing it, but Google could get more users of their product, by releasing a desktop app that has the same functionality. Even porting paid GSuite shouldn't be a problem, just make user log in before accessing the app.
Maybe there is a possibility for community to port desktop version of G suite?
Making such a move could possibly gain google more users, make their app way more comfortable to use and finally make a lot of people change their OS from windows, because many of them are using windows just to have Office Suite.
And sorry for possible misinterpretations, i'm not a programmer.
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Electron apps
Hi, Maybe it's a really easy question to answer, but i'm going to post it anyway. We have many electron apps like Discord, which are based on...
Can i run Servers on Linux from an Android Phone?
Dont know much about Linux but i just followed a guide and i can now run Linux (Kali) from my Mobilephone. Basically you run an app Called LinuxDeploy and then vncviewer and connect to Localhost and you know got a Linux Distro running from your phone.
https://www.androidauthority.com/install-ubuntu-on-your-android-smartphone-765408/
Dont know much more than that, and my question is, can i install and run Servers from there like a Plex Server, a VPN Server etc, that other devices can connect to on my Home Network
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Dont know much about Linux but i just followed a guide and i can now run Linux (Kali) from my Mobilephone. Basically you run an app Called LinuxDeploy and then vncviewer and connect to Localhost and you know got a Linux Distro running from your phone.
https://www.androidauthority.com/install-ubuntu-on-your-android-smartphone-765408/
Dont know much more than that, and my question is, can i install and run Servers from there like a Plex Server, a VPN Server etc, that other devices can connect to on my Home Network
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How to install a Linux desktop on your Android device
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GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1673
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Xwayland on demand by default (!1673) · Merge Requests · GNOME / mutter
This is a follow-up from !1671...
I legit HATE the auto-moderation here!
Like how goddamn long does the post have to be? Four and a half lines is considered “short” somehow? What IS the minimum length? Why is trying to be concise punished? Who thought that was a great idea?
Is there anyway around this WITHOUT having to pad the stupid post out for no other reason than to try and avoid a nebulous “minimum”?
This sort of crap is what irritates me with Reddit lol.
“you are doing that too much. try again in 11 minutes”
YES YOU DUMB Fk BECAUSE YOUR BRAINLESS BOT JUST REMOVED MY LAST POST!!!
Ughhhhhhhhh!!!
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Like how goddamn long does the post have to be? Four and a half lines is considered “short” somehow? What IS the minimum length? Why is trying to be concise punished? Who thought that was a great idea?
Is there anyway around this WITHOUT having to pad the stupid post out for no other reason than to try and avoid a nebulous “minimum”?
This sort of crap is what irritates me with Reddit lol.
“you are doing that too much. try again in 11 minutes”
YES YOU DUMB Fk BECAUSE YOUR BRAINLESS BOT JUST REMOVED MY LAST POST!!!
Ughhhhhhhhh!!!
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I legit HATE the auto-moderation here!
Like how goddamn long does the post have to be? Four and a half lines is considered “short” somehow? What IS the minimum length? Why is trying to...
The Linux Foundation launches 7-part open source management training program
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Hardware video acceleration now available in google chrome 88
In builds of chromium/chrome 88 or later hardware video acceleration is available (not enabled) by default. One toggle is currently needed: go to
You can verify vaapi video decoding on intel by installing
While this was available for a few years now in many distros chromium builds, only as of v88 it is available in google chrome itself, and by extension every build of chromium that sticks to defaults.
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In builds of chromium/chrome 88 or later hardware video acceleration is available (not enabled) by default. One toggle is currently needed: go to
chrome://flags and enable Hardware-accerlated video decode and restart. Note this currently only works on x11, and I’ve only tested on intel (amd should work too, nvidia I’m not sure).You can verify vaapi video decoding on intel by installing
intel-gpu-tools (available on most distros), and then running sudo intel_gpu_top.While this was available for a few years now in many distros chromium builds, only as of v88 it is available in google chrome itself, and by extension every build of chromium that sticks to defaults.
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Hardware video acceleration now available in google chrome 88
In builds of chromium/chrome 88 or later hardware video acceleration is *available* (not enabled) by default. One toggle is currently needed: go...
Container networking is simple
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How Container Networking Works: a Docker Bridge Network From Scratch | iximiuz Labs
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.
OpenWrt 19.07.6 - Service Release
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OpenWrt 19.07.6 - Service Release - 19 January 2021
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Cache Poisoning and Remote Code Execution in Popular DNS Forwarder dnsmasq
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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
https://hisham.hm/2020/12/18/user-power-not-power-users-htop-and-its-design-philosophy/
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New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL
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New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL
Introducing new no-cost RHEL programs for small production deployments and enterprise development teams.
Ubuntu boot on Apple M1 Macs achieved; port to be released later today
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Linux is now completely usable on the Mac mini M1. Booting from USB a full Ubuntu desktop (rpi). Network works via a USB c dongle. Update includes support for USB, I2C, DART. We will push changes to our GitHub and a tutorial later today. Thanks to the @CorelliumHQ…
Anthony from Linus Tech Tips (not that Linus) has an unboxing and first impressions of the Librem 5 from Purism
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Is Linux always the answer? - Librem 5 Smartphone
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Would you sacrifice performance for privacy? Well Librem 5 can give you that level of privacy you desire, but you might be giving up more than what you…
Would you sacrifice performance for privacy? Well Librem 5 can give you that level of privacy you desire, but you might be giving up more than what you…