Distancing myself from Windows 10

Hey Reddit,

For the past few years I’ve deeply interested in cypherpunk. I have moved away from Google and Facebook, and I wanted to move away from Windows 10 for a little while now. I’ve been interested two particular OSs, Pop OS and Manjaro KDE. I’ve read up on them, but the more I looked the more difficult it made my choice. I like the feel and simplicity of Pop OS, but also enjoyed the rolling updates and customizability of Manjaro KDE.

Anyway, I was wondering if there was a distinct downside from choosing Pop OS vs Manjaro, or using the Gnome vs KDE desktop environments.

I was planning on using virtual box to run Windows 10, for the few apps that aren’t available on Linux. I am also a python programmer and enjoy gaming on some night. System is a i9-9900k, 32GB RAM and RTX 3080 if it is of any relevance (given the nvidia drivers).

Thanks,
Noah

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Resident Evil 7 comes to Stadia Pro, Resident Evil Village comes with free Stadia Premiere Edition

[https://youtu.be/ZDU0W1dIq68](https://youtu.be/ZDU0W1dIq68)



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The new generation of survival horror is here. Resident Evil Village comes to Stadia on May 7th across all of your favorite screens. Pre-order or buy before May 21 at midnight PT and we’ll help you play on the biggest screen in your life with a free [Stadia Premiere Edition](https://store.google.com/us/product/stadia) while supplies last ([terms apply](https://support.google.com/stadia?p=revillage_premiere_edition_offer)). That’s Resident Evil Village, a Stadia Controller, and a Chromecast Ultra - everything you’ll need to thwart Lady Dimitrescu for just the cost of the game ($59.99/€69.99 for Standard Edition or $69.99/€79.99 for Deluxe Edition).

**Claiming Stadia Premiere Edition with Resident Evil Village (while supplies last)**

1. Follow [this link](https://stadia.com/link/RSua34KMH6in4GzK6). The Stadia Premiere Edition offer will not be listed on the Resident Evil Village pre-order page, but you’re in the right place. You’ll need a Stadia account to sign up for the offer. Further details on the offer will be found at the point of purchase in the Stadia Store.
2. Click the “Pre-order on Stadia” button or purchase the game before May 21 at midnight PT. Offer valid while supplies last.
3. You’ll receive an email and redemption code within a week of the game launching. 
4. Follow email instructions for code redemption. We’ll do our best to promptly deliver your Stadia Premiere Edition. Please allow several weeks for shipping. [Terms apply](https://support.google.com/stadia?p=revillage_premiere_edition_offer). Must be 18 years or older and shipping costs apply for US addresses. Offer valid in US, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland. Unfortunately, this offer is not available in Canada.

To see where it all started, play Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition, launching into Stadia Pro on April 1. Stadia Pro members can claim Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition for free, which includes bonus add-on content like Banned Footage Vol. 1 and 2 and two epilogue episodes.

Want to claim Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition, but you’re not currently a Stadia Pro member? [Sign up now for a free one-month trial](http://stadia.com/) ($9.99/month after, cancel anytime). Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition will also be available for purchase outside of Stadia Pro.

Ready to dive deep into the spine-chilling world of Resident Evil on Stadia? See below for more details on Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition before they arrive on the Stadia store!

Experience survival horror like never before in Resident Evil Village, the eighth major installment in the genre-defining Resident Evil franchise. Set a few years after the horrifying events in the critically acclaimed Resident Evil 7 biohazard, the all-new storyline brings Ethan Winters to a remote snow-capped village filled with a diverse cast of terrifying enemies. After a devastating encounter with Resident Evil series hero Chris Redfield, Ethan pursues him in search of answers but finds himself in an entirely new nightmare. 

**Features:**

* A New Chapter in the Resident Evil Storyline – This eighth major installment in the flagship Resident Evil series continues the story from the critically acclaimed Resident Evil 7 biohazard. With the return of popular features and introduction of new elements, survival horror has never been so intense.
* Popular Resident Evil Features – Fans might recognize new features in Resident Evil Village that are nods to previous Resident Evil games including a merchant dubbed “The Duke” who allows players to purchase and sell items, buy recipes for crafting consumables, and customize weapons.
* Familiar Faces and New Foes – Resident Evil series Chris

Redfield returns under a shroud of seemingly sinister motives. Ethan will also encounter a host of new adversaries inhabiting the enigmatic village, all with their own distinctive ways of attacking. 
* Evolution of Combat – In addition to engaging and attacking enemies, Ethan can also now guard against incoming attacks, or kick enemies away to buy time for his next move, requiring players to further strategize the best approach for surviving the many challenges ahead.


📷

**Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition**
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Release Date: April 1, 2021

Resident Evil® 7 biohazard Gold Edition includes all the contents from the critically acclaimed game including Banned Footage Vol.1, Banned Footage Vol.2, End of Zoe, and Not a Hero, in one ultimate horror package.

Resident Evil 7 biohazard sets a new course for the Resident Evil® series as it leverages its roots and opens the door to a truly terrifying horror experience. Set within a sinister estate in Dulvey, Louisiana, the game takes place after the dramatic events of Resident Evil 6. Main character Ethan Winters has been led to an abandoned location in search of his missing wife, and there he encounters the mysterious Baker family – including Jack and Marguerite, who have seemingly been missing from the area with no recent contact to anyone. 

Players experience the terror directly from the first-person perspective for the first time in the Resident Evil series. Embodying the iconic gameplay elements of exploration and tense atmosphere that first coined “survival horror” some twenty years ago, Resident Evil 7 biohazard delivers a disturbingly realistic experience that will define the next era in horror entertainment.

**Features:**

* Returning to the series’ roots - Resident Evil 7 biohazard delivers an experience reminiscent of the series’ signature gameplay including exploration, puzzles and a realistic tense atmosphere for players to encounter. The classic inventory system returns but with limited space meaning players must choose what they carry with them carefully, making sure they remember to pack their green herbs! 
* Immersive, visceral horror – A new shift for the series to first person view brings the terrifying horror directly up close and personal. 
* Built from the ground up on the RE Engine – Capcom’s development engine works in tandem with industry leading audio and visual technologies to create a disturbingly photorealistic experience for an unprecedented level of immersion.
* Banned Footage Vol. 1 and 2 - This newly unearthed footage exposes further secrets from the dark past of the Baker family.
* End of Zoe – A shocking installment of the Resident Evil 7 biohazard saga where players discover what Zoe’s fate will be.
* Not a Hero – Additional content with a brand new experience taking place after the main story, playing as veteran BSAA soldier Chris Redfield as he faces new threats.

More than 100 games are coming to Stadia in 2021, including [Outriders](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JhOuLZGrn0) (April 1), [Judgment](https://youtu.be/RxW3cfeRxks), [Hello Engineer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciSErQLqcDs), and many others. For a full list of games available now on the Stadia store, visit [Stadia.com](https://stadia.google.com/games). 

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Daily Linux but play as on a Windows

You don't want your main host to be windows but for someone who would want to play the latest games with max settings how would they be able to do it without windows as the main host or dual boot?

Is there even a solution for this? Besides consoles
Would love to hear how you do it.

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Software to emulate (parts of) the dial up experience?

Hey everyone.


I was born in the 1990s, and for about the first 15 years of my life, we had dial up internet (nearly right until Compuserve pulled the plug on its dial up service). I've been thinking recently about how much society's (and my own) relationship to technology has changed since then. Going online used to be an intentional, purposeful, and time-limited activity. Does anyone even say "going online" anymore? We're always online, 24/7, on multiple devices! Obviously this brings great benefits, but part of me also yearns for that simpler time when we weren't starting at devices constantly (or if we were, we were less likely to be doomscrolling).

So, I'm wondering if there's some way to partially recreate this experience on Linux. I don't need to literally find some way to simulate the slowness of dial up (as that would ruin all the Zoom meetings I need to attend these days), but specifically, I wonder if there's an easy way to:

* Create a delay when you want to go online (bonus points if it can simulate the dial up sound for nostalgia!)
* Drop your internet connection after a certain period of inactivity, thus making you go online again.
* Allow you to "hang up" (disconnect) when you're finished.

For reference, my dad and I would dial to the internet in those days using Injoy for OS/2 Warp. (He still consistently used OS/2 -- or more accurately eCom Station -- up until a couple years ago when I convinced him to switch to Linux.)

I'm just curious if anyone has recreated these aspects of the experience. I wonder if it would be a way to moderate my unnecessary computer usage and find more tangible and worthwhile things to direct my time and energy towards.

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Mistakely deleted a folder with shift+delete

So i wanted to delete two files from my pc and performed shift+delete to those selected files. But later found that another folder in the same directory was also selected and now that folder along with those two files are gone. Is there any way to recover that permanently deleted folder and its contents?

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A new Maui Weekly progress report is out.
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Just full on switched today and WOW this is so much better then windows.

Welp, guess I entered a rabbit hole... nice

So late last month I decided I was gonna start a private Minecraft server on Linux. I had been running one before on windows but... Well, windows 10 doesn’t exactly have the best server performance lol.

Anyway, I had always heard of Linux but never really looked into using it. I did know it was supposed to be way better for game servers though, so I started digging into all the information about it I could find. Fast forward to today and now I have completely deleted windows and installed manjaro on my main pc.

Now as stupid as it’s gonna sound I never dual booted it at all (to be fair I needed to reinstall windows anyway due to my current installations bloat if this didn’t work out). And when I tried running anything in virtual box it had such low fps it wasn’t worth using to try out Linux. So today was my first time actually "using" Desktop Linux (I had been using Ubuntu server since last month). And honestly, after using it for a day I'm probably never going to go back to windows.

Now sure, I had all kinds of issues with my dedicated gpu in my laptop not wanting to work. And then I ended up almost breaking the home directory mounting it to my second hdd drive. But honestly other than that I have loved it so far.

I’m using KDE plasma as my DE atm and the desktop just looks and feels so smooth compared to windows! And as a lifetime windows user, the desktop customization is honestly kinda mind-blowing. I also really like how the file system works. Windows system works "fine" but the file system in Linux just makes more sense to me.

The terminal is another awesome thing. I like how Linux uses text-based commands normally. And package managers? Jeez, those make things way faster and easier.

Also, the community is probably the best I have seen when it comes to tech communities in general. Almost everyone I have come across so far have seemed super helpful and they legitimately want to help you with whatever your problem is.

Now obviously this is only my first day and I still have lots to set up with the pc (namely VMs for my school stuff that’s windows only and for a couple of games I still want to be able to play with gpu pass-through). But honestly, I think this might be one of the best things I’ve done with a pc since upgrading to an ssd.

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how do you keep your terminal windows/tabs organized?

I'm working on something fairly involved right now which requires at least 10-15 terminals open. I cannot keep track of them and waste a lot of time trying to Alt-Tab to the one I need at any given time. I know I can press the 'Windows' key (whatever it is called) to get a view of all my windows, but honestly, they all look the same (black with text on them....).

I have shortcuts to quickly move between tabs. Not much better than alt-tabbing. I have tried putting them on different workspaces, does not really help.

Any tips? I'm on PopOS 20.04 if it matters.

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FSF Brings Back Richard Stallmon
https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1373905399707955202

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Mobian status update 2021-03-17
https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/03/17/update-2021-03-17/

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Some Linux books

I used Linux a lot and i love it, i always stayed under ubuntu based distros but now i want to try arch (not manjaro). Where can i find some documentation about all the features and the differences of arch? I looked at the wiki, but i wonder if there is something more complete. And also i was looking for some documentation of Linux systems in general that makes me understand the os, how it works etc. Thank you a lot!

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Advanced routing on Linux

I'm having a problem with a Linux based router with a non-trivial setup. I was wondering if there are some recommendations on where to read up on advanced routing. The problem in a nutshell: packages coming from VLANs (which I see coming in with tcpdump) are not being forwarded to their destination to the other, directly connected networks. No idea why or how to debug the routing decisions of the kernel.

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btw: the router has multiple NICs, 2 of them are bonded into bond0 and serve as a trunk. On bond0 I have several VLAN interfaces towards the internal networks, these interfaces have the IP addresses.

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Good mini PC to run a firewall?

Hello,

I'm looking for recommendations to run a firewall at home. At the moment I'm using an Ubiquiti Edgerouter 4. I'm looking to replace it with a mini PC with at least one SFP+ port to handle a symmetric 2Gbps Internet connection.

Something like this https://shop.opnsense.com/product/dec840-opnsense-desktop-security-appliance/

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Advice on a convertible notebook for Linux

Hello,

I am about to switch to Linux for the first time ever.

I plan to get a convertible notebook, probably either a Lenovo, or a Dell, or an Asus device, and install Debian on it. Convertibles in general seem to be going a bit out of fashion, and although Asus seems to have the widest selection of models, I'm leaning towards Dell.

Can you recommend a brand, and should I expect any hardware issues with a convertible?

Thanks for advice,

s

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How often should I rotate my ssh keys?
https://tailscale.com/blog/rotate-ssh-keys/

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Firefox 87.0 released
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/87.0/releasenotes/

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What advice do you have for my son who is into Linux?

My son is in elementary school. For some weird reason, he is into Linux. He reads books on Linux. Martin helmke, Linux Bible, cur rently reading Linux Command Line, autobiography by Torvalds etc. He knows a lot of the terminology - he says stuff related to KDE, GNOME, distro, etc. which I dont understand. I am assuming that is fairly simple stuff but I cannot tell how deep his knowledge goes.

I looked up these forums and realized that he should not just read but also actively do. So sometimes we sit together and tinker around with the command line on his Raspberry Pi.

What else should he be doing? He is in it purely out of interest. So can you recommend any new activities, any other books? If he continues, what should he do next? With coding, usually you make an app or create websites etc when you are older. What do you do with knowledge in Linux?

Also, is there another subreddit I can ask this question?

Edit: Thanks to everyone for your encouragement, comments and suggestions. I will look into each and everyone of them.

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Announcing the release of Fedora Linux 34 Beta
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-the-release-of-fedora-34-beta/

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Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick talks about the TCP/IP wars and UNIX.
https://vimeo.com/526183538

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System76 engineer interview with Louis Rossmann on right to repair.
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/system76-laptop-engineer-supports-right:c

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