A new Maui Weekly progress report is out.
https://redd.it/m9ze2b
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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/

https://redd.it/mb9958
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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/

https://redd.it/mbbocj
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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/

https://redd.it/mbfr04
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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

https://redd.it/mblru8
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OSI response to Richard Stallman's reappointment to the Board of FSF
https://opensource.org/OSI_Response

https://redd.it/mbnkyn
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One shortcut to search docs and Stack Overflow at the same time from our desktop app
https://redd.it/mbnu9y
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The junior sysadmin course at r/LinuxUpskillChallenge restarts shortly


This free month-long course is re-starting again on the first Monday of next month.

Daily lessons appear in the sub-reddit /r/linuxupskillchallenge - which is also used for support/discussion.

Has been running successfully now every month since February 2020 - more detail at: https://LinuxUpskillChallenge.org

- Steve

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I think I just found an easter egg in TeXstudio?
https://redd.it/mbq8jg
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Linux doesn't need marketing, it needs hardware
https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/489a3db3-de98-4006-83b9-319b8374f63a

https://redd.it/mbq1jk
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Crystal v1.0.0 has been released!
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/tag/1.0.0

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