What DE would you recommend?

I'm building a PC for general productivity (coding, some video editing, schoolwork etc). I'm thinking of getting Manjaro because it's rolling release, what DE would you recommend? I generally favor GNOME but I'd like to hear more from KDE, Xfce and other DE fans.

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Mobile PiHole + WireGuard VPN
https://thebros35.github.io/PiHoleMobile/

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what did windows do better than linux, that people preferred the one over the other?

hello, simple question : as far as i know, linux and windows coexisted at the same time. windows costs money and is closed source, linux isnt. so what was the incentive, the initial incentive for people to prefer win 95 f.e? didnt linux back then have a graphical interface? was it because windows had OFFICE ?

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My frustrating Linux journey

I am a MacOS daily user, and it’s the OS I grew up with. I’ve never liked Windows, and never will.

I have an old 2015 MacBook Air I wasn’t using, and decided to install some variety of Linux on it, part curiosity, part wanting to learn, part having a plan B OS in case Apple ticks me off enough. Important detail: this laptop does not have an Ethernet port, so the only option for internet connectivity is WiFi.

So, I began investigating, got some recommendations, and started learning some. I posted in this sub, and got recommended Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, and Fedora.

I tried mint first, and while getting it installed went smoothly, I had issues connecting the machine to WiFi. I know now that it’s because my laptop has a Broadcom WiFi card, for which the FOSS driver situation is a bit dodgy.

After getting some more help, it turns out mint has working drivers already in the default cinnamon ISO, and I just needed to enable it. After doing that, mint worked fine, and I used it a bit, but I just never fell in love with the cinnamon desktop.

So, I decided to hop around. I tried to try out Artix on a whim, but couldn’t even get it to boot from the USB. Figuring there was a good bit I had to learn before I could get that to work, I decided to just try another distro.

So, I decided to try virtualizing Fedora on my main machine. I had virtualized Windows 10 and Mint before, so I knew I could get it working, and I did. But I didn’t realize I didn’t give the Fedora VM enough resources to be “usable” and jumped to the conclusion that gnome wasn’t for me. That’s all my fault, and I see that now.

So, I decided to try manjaro. I forget which DE version I tried 1, but I couldn’t manage to get the WiFi drivers to work at all, so I decided to try another distro.

I decided to try Debian, and, surprise, I had more WiFi driver problems, and wound up borking my machine bad enough that I had to use the disk utility tool baked into the firmware to wipe the partitioned but otherwise blank drive.

After I got my machine working again, and put MacOS back on it to confirm I had unborked it, I decided to try Fedora again, figuring I judged it too quickly.

I got Fedora working, and decided I actually liked gnome, now that it had more than bare minimum resources available. But, once again, couldn’t get WiFi to work. I tried harder to get it to work, but accomplished nothing.

So, I decided to give Ubuntu a try. I went with the classic gnome Ubuntu LTS. After getting it installed, I found that it includes the WiFi driver I need, and got it working! Excited, I was trying it out for a few minutes, then a little pop up showed up, telling me an update was available. I just agreed and clicked update mostly to see how the update process goes on Ubuntu. After a couple minutes of it doing it’s thing and me leaving it be while it does, I get some error message which I didn’t read thoroughly. It told me in a pop up to run a certain terminal command I didn’t read manually to deal with it, so I just blindly did so, and it seemed to fix it, then it had to reboot to complete the update, so I did so.

After rebooting, I went back to checking out ubuntu. At some point, I opened Firefox to grab an image to use as a desktop background (not a fan of any that come included with ubuntu) only to discover I wasn’t connected to the internet. I went to try to turn it on, only to discover the little utility menu (top right, not sure what it’s actually called) looked the same as it did before I enabled the WiFi driver I needed. Figuring that was the problem, I went to reenable it, only to discover it wouldn’t let me, citing it needed an internet connection to reinstall the driver.

So, I figured maybe it could just grab the driver from the usb I had flashed it to, as that’s what I was told to do to get WiFi working on mint. This didn’t work, so I decided maybe a fresh reinstall could get it working again more easily.

I decided I’d try something else before that though, and decided to try popos. Aaaaaaand the WiFi card was once again

uncooperative.

And that’s where I am now. Next up for me is trying Ubuntu again, so let’s see how that goes.

 

Overall, this has been frustrating. I realize this is partly broadcom’s fault for not open sourcing their drivers, but I feel more distorts could at least include the non-free driver for those who would have no other option.

Out of all those distros I tried, only one, mint, worked properly. I like the idea of Linux, but I just don’t know if it’s really for me quite yet.

I’ll keep fiddling around and trying more distros, but I’m far less confident I’ll manage to find something I really like that also works well for me.

&nsbp;

And thus concludes my ramble about my experience with Linux. It’s been frustrating.

Edit: 1 it was manjaro kde, and I wasn’t a fan of kde

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Android Application Penetration Testing

This is perfect for you as an introduction to Android Penetration for beginners and learn the tools and techniques of the industry. This project is focused on Android Architecture, Android Application Pentesting with Owasp top 10 Mobile Risk, Reversing android application, Static and Dynamic Analysis of android.

https://www.education-ecosystem.com/usamaazad13141/ZnrVw-how-to-use-netcat-in-ethical-hacking/BaobB-how-to-use-netcat-in-ethical-hacking-10/

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Art-in another Arch installer noscript

Archin bash arch installer : https://github.com/jackghg/Arch-In

2 versions: interactive or automatic.

There are a few limitations... lxde xfce only, no encryption.

For the wifi you are on your own :) I was about to implement it when they removed wifimenu so i gave up. What else should i write to not be too short ?

edit: the noscript should be arch-in

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Running Linux on an Awesome Laptop

I moved over to Linux Fedora about 18 months ago because the laptop I was using just wasn't suitable for Windows 10. I really enjoyed the changeover and I'm pretty technically savvy and messed around with Linux a little as a kid. At the time I was running my own business and I found my workflow really changed using Linux compared to Windows, I can't really explain it but I just work differently when in Linux compared to another OS.

I purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 2 about 12 months ago which of course came with Windows 10 Pro - I didn't want to risk breaking anything and so I happily used Windows until a few weeks when I realised that Ubuntu is actually an option on the ThinkPad P1 and so everything should theoretically work. I made the decision to go ahead and install Ubuntu - that was about a week ago and once again I have experienced a significant change in my level of productivity and the way in which I work.

I am now the Director of an organisation that undertakes OSINT investigations and similar duties. Many of my co-workers utilise Linux on virtual machines for both security and development reasons - as I told them I'd moved over to Ubuntu for my primary business laptop - we all kind of agreed that it was by far superior for investigations and law enforcement purposes over Windows or even iOS.

For me, Ubuntu is the perfect OS of which to launch and coordinate everything else. I spend a lot of time using an Android Emulator because we investigate Smartphone applications and once again I was taken back at how much better these Emulators run on a Linux-based platform.

I guess I was just really surprised at how well it all runs on my Lenovo P1 - I figured the slight issues I had with Fedora were due to the OS and it really looks like it was actually the laptop. I was hesitant in trying Linux on such an expensive machine - if I'd known it was like this I would have selected Ubuntu as a pre-installed option!

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EBA (Eğitim Bilişim Ağı) support for Linux! (Technically)

Hello everyone! I made a EBALinux for the Turkish students who take online classes on this platform. The original program unfortunately forget Linux so I made a application with nativefier using npm. You will just need zoom and this application. This app will direct you to a lesson. Here is GitHub page link. However this project only supports Debian and Arch Linux for now. I might add RHEL support. Have good day everyone!

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This week in KDE: the Plasma 5.21 beta is here!
https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/23/this-week-in-kde-the-plasma-5-20-beta-is-here/

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Playing with Process Memory Integrity on Linux
https://redcanary.com/blog/process-memory-integrity-linux/

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PSA: Fedora Chromium maintainer has disabled Sync and Google Sign-In support right now
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-48866282e5

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Verifying and Installing Tor Browser On Linux
https://open.lbry.com/@AlienVideoWord:3/5.-Verifying---Installing-Tor-Browser-On-Linux-1:7?r=4h4JZ5MTii5TG5zrMxnbUQmYUkwmRgMv

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I want to dive into Linux

So, Hello there.
I know that linux is... kinda cool; I think I will love it.
But the thing is that, I don't know enough about the operating softwares in general, and my curiosity is not satisfied.
So I decided to discover by using a linux distro.
But I don't know where to start to learn basic things about linux, I thought about starting by using Debian (tho I was already messing around with tails.)


And I come to this subreddit for advice, to learn useful things, basic things and become a linux fan that knows what he's talking about.
Thanks for any help.

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Which file system do you use, and why?

I have always used ext4 whenever I've used Linux. Lately, I have considered the use of other file systems. BTRFS seems like the stand out choice, at least to me.

What file systems do you guys use, and what drove you to make the change?

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Joined the Linux Train! (HP 600B)

So, there was an old PC from 2013 sitting uselessly on my living room's desk (name: HP 600B). It worked, but it lagged really bad because Windows 10 was installed on it. You couldn't even browse the internet without lags. After backing up my important files, i tried to install Linux Mint, and it finally works without lags right now! Fascinating what Linux could do to old PCs.

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Wireless interface not detected on Kali Linux (Win 10)

Hello,

I am very new to the linux (kali linux) community, so I cannot find a way to fix this myself. Running ifconfig will show eth0 and lo, but not wlan0, despite being connected to wifi. Even when I disconnect ethernet and run on wifi only, it still does not show wlan0. Tools like airmon-ng will not detect wifi either. Any fixes?

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Can I make a Linux distribution licensed under the a license other than GPL?

Can I make a Linux distribution licensed under the a license other than GPL? It would still be open source and free, but the new license wouldn't allow anyone except me to distribute the end product (e.g. only the source would be available).

Would this be legal, or do I have to use my own BSD/Mach-esc kernel?

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Is there any linux program that can backup my packages in order to reconfigure my system when i format my pc?

I use lots of machines and from time to time i end up formatting my pc (either because of distro hopping or just because i changed machines). Having a fast way to manage my packages (just as when you retrieve data when you change from one smartphone to another) would be very useful.

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Switching From MacOS to Linux

Okay, I'm finally making the switch after lots of waffling. Here's where I need help.

I have Ubuntu installed and all is fine but I have nearly 1TB of data on my Mac plus some backups.

* I need to transfer this data to disks that Ubuntu can read and is encrypted.
* I'd rather not install any programs I don't absolutely have to on Ubuntu.
* Suggestions for how best to do this without any data loss?

Thanks in advance!

p.s. In case anyone from the Apple world is curious as to why. The final straw is me just wanting to reinstall MacOS (from a usb drive) on the MBP that I paid $2,600 for and Activation Lock preventing it. I got it all handled but what a PITA. I mean, I can't sit in my home and reinstall the way I want without connecting to the internet? Anyway, sorry for the rant.

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KVM/VMM cant create new VM

Hello! I'm new to KVM and am having some issues getting it up and running. I tried googling the issue but that didn't yield any results. whenever I try and create a new VM I get the flowing error.

"Unable to complete install: 'Cannot access storage file '/mnt/ISO\'s/ISO\'s/CorePlus-current.iso': No such file or directory'"

and I have no idea why.

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