What’s your favourite Linux OS?

Hey everyone,

I’m taking a Linux/Unix based course in college and am wondering what some of your opinions are on what is the best version of Linux to run?

I’m planning on installing Linux on my system for my next semester and am curious as to what you all prefer?

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I didn't know this incredible shortcut! Did you? Linux is awesome!

Did you know that you can copy a file and paste it in a "File Open" dialog?

It magically write the path to the file in the location bar!

You juste press CTRL-V, that's it! no need to click or select the location bar!

At least it work on my distro which is Linux Mint Cinnamon.

Does it work in all distros? Does it work in your distro?

https://preview.redd.it/susdzax8j5l61.png?width=1796&format=png&auto=webp&s=04347b8f807e74ce897348837afbcd3e6ab7964e

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Linux's Political Implications and Future Outlook

This might be a bit in the weeds, but I'm a relative newcomer to Linux and I can't stop thinking about its socio-political implications.

It seems like Linux and FOSS generally have serious political weight, and not just in the sense of making it possible to, for example, circumvent censorship or communicate anonymously (or close to anonymously). What I'm thinking of is more that right now, there is free software which in many cases is as good or better than its proprietary counterpart, and which is being developed in large part as an unpaid hobby.

Is anyone aware of any scholars that study this sort of thing? I did some cursory googling and it doesn't seem like there are a ton of people writing seriously about this angle.

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Now KDE Plasma also supports transparent panels getting opaque when a window is maximized!
https://write.as/niccolove/kde-plasma-5-22-adaptive-transparency

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Asymmetric Multi Processing with Linux & Zephyr on the STM32MP1
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2021/03/03/asymmetric-multi-processing-with-linux-and-zephyr-on-stm32mp1/

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Chrome (Chromium) release cycle shortened to 4 weeks, Chrome(ium) gets "Extended Stable" release every 8 weeks
https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/speeding-up-release-cycle.html

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Today, we are pleased to announce the release of MauiKit and Maui Apps 1.2.1!.
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Powered by KIO libraries on the Linux platforms, both on the desktop and mobile, Index can open remote locations from different protocols supported by KIO, such as WebDAV, FTP, HTTP, and SSH. [...]
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Container Plumbing Days (Mar 9-10)
https://containerplumbing.org/

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Linux that boots on USB?

Aside from HiveOs (which im using right now) Do you guys know of any other Linux Os that can boot on a USB? HiveOs doesnt have audio out of the box so Im looking for an alternative. Thanks.

-Linux Newbie.

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FSF's LibrePlanet 2021 conference schedule released
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/lets-get-excited-the-libreplanet-2021-schedule-is-here

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Just spent about 4 hours trying to figure out what was causing the system to reset to UNIX epoch

...turns out it was a CI build (system is a Gitlab runner) running in a docker container and the execution was C code that resets the localtime for our embedded devices.

Just a word of warning for anyone working with CI/CD, docker containers will reset your host system datetime quite easily it seems.

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Dumb question about having multiple ip addresses on one server

I have a server with multiple ip addresses assigned to it. I would like to have different applications listening to the same port on all of the addresses assigned to the server. I was wondering what general field this falls under so that I can research this topic more. Typically in this application I would specify the address/port to listen on as 0.0.0.0:<port> or 127.0.0.1:<port>. I am not sure how I would go about changing that between the different instances of the applications to make them function independently. Any info would be appreciated and again, sorry for the dumb question!

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Linux doesn't install at all

I tried to install xubuntu, lubuntu, Linux mint and nothing works. It's always the same problem (unable to install grub in /dev/sda) I don't know what to do. Please help me
My notebook is Samsung rv 411This is the message

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Started Linux via the recovering tool of windows now windows is broken

So I've put MX Linux on an USB drive.

I started my PC again and for some reason the recovery screen of windows came up. As smart as I am, I selected to use the USB drive through that menu.

It crashed.


Then I booted linux from the bios by selecting the USB drive.

Linux starts but I noticed during the install that I forgot to create a partition for it.

So I went back and tried to start up windows.. it can't boot.

But I can still get into the recovery menu of windows by selecting some windows boot drive in the bios.

In that menu I can't to anything. Whatever I click on, it either crashes or tells me that it didn't work and that nothing was changed.

Is there a way to save windows or do I need to install it again via some USB drive?

It's 6am and I'm trying to get this working for some hours.

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Look and Feel Changes Coming to elementary OS 6
https://blog.elementary.io/look-and-feel-changes-elementary-os-6/

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failed to run a qtwayland compositor

I'm trying to run a qtwayland compositor but it fails and I get return to the login screen.

I checked the log file in \~/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log :

>QML debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment. Failed to create wl_display (No such file or directory) qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found. qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: wayland-org.kde.kwin.qpa, eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

When I try to run it as a normal program it works fine, What is the problem?

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Installing a game.

I'm trying to install a game for Linux that I've been trying to play for a while (https://teamterrible.itch.io/the-baby-in-yellow) and it says to paste in this command after some other steps. I did those but it always said "bash: GMTK2020: No such file or directory" It would be nice if anyone could help!

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Or just give me steps for the installation process.

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Dual display linux problem (Debian)

This question is actually about kali Linux or any debian based linux
So I have a laptop Inspiron 7567, I am trying to make it dual display by connecting a monitor, but xrandr is not showing hdmi ports, i am not able to incorporate this new display with my computer because hdmi is not showing it, i have searched google and tried a lot of things, nothing works, please reddit community share some information

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Keysound: a keyboard sound software

Hello everyone, I am a beginner at cpp. As I learned cpp for a while, I wanted to practice the skills of cpp, so I wrote this software. The code is not well, but the soft works well.

Here is the code: https://github.com/fgheng/keysound

Here is some video:

You can define each key with a special sound:

https://reddit.com/link/lz0zln/video/w74fnauxmel61/player

You can use the `piano.json` to play the piano by keyboard, here is some music that I play, I am not good at piano, hahaha:

https://reddit.com/link/lz0zln/video/jzizachzmel61/player

https://reddit.com/link/lz0zln/video/auyz03n0nel61/player

https://reddit.com/link/lz0zln/video/ipqvbl31nel61/player

You can play the piano by rewriting the char:

https://reddit.com/link/lz0zln/video/4c613a44nel61/player

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labwc 0.1.0 released

Labwc is a wlroots-based stacking compositor for Wayland.

It has the following aims:

Be light-weight, small and fast
Have the look and feel of openbox albeit with a smaller feature set
Where practicable, use clients to show wall-paper, take screenshots, and so on
Stay in keeping with wlroots and sway in terms of approach and coding style

Github page

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