Just a concept that I've just made... Each 'workspace' is an application(or tiling view). Distro icon for applications window (top-left) and clock button (top-bottom) for notification/system things. What do you guys think?
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Things that surprise my Windows Peers

I work for an org that primarily uses Windows, so we have a lot more staff used to Windows. They see me primarily in putty on my windows box but they are surprised when I did a few things from Linux.

I will share with you some of these things, but I am curious what you all have come across, that your Windows peers.

* Using port forwarding to access stuff via SSH on another network.
* Which leads to running a GUI over ssh like XWindows or X2Go (its just like "Citrix")
* Using mstsc.exe to connect to a Linux box via RDP, and having more than 2 people connect simultaneously.
* Running Google Chrome (not Chromium) in Linux
* Teams
* Authenticating using AD, but not having a GPO lock you down.
* Sync up OneDrive locally.
* Plex works just fine on Linux.
* Using screen, tmux and tmate to so I can assist them if they have problems.

What didn't surprise them was that a Linux distribution is free, nor do I claim that a Linux box is more secure than a Windows box. They both can can just as easily be hacked. Exchange getting hacked, man I was getting sendmail hacked decades ago. Only now you are getting DNS hacked, that happened to me with BIND in the early 2000's.

Anyway one final thing that caught me off guard, was when I was installing Nagios, Grafana, and some other packages and they were asking how much it cost for licensing and support, I told them you dont have to buy support unless you want to, and the org is willing due to the value those packages provide.

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Wich kernel do you use?

I wanted to see what kernel do you use and why, just for curiosity.

I always used the linux-lts kernel on all my devices, but last weeks I've been using linux-zen on my main pc, mainly because it's patched for fsync, and on my working laptop still linux-lts since I don't play games there and since I use it to work that little bit of extra stability helps, not having to worry about lossing stuff.

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Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-21-04-testing-week/21519

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Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
https://brianschrader.com/archive/why-all-my-servers-have-an-8gb-empty-file/

https://redd.it/md6ao4
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Preliminary board statement on FSF governance — Free Software Foundation
https://www.fsf.org/news/preliminary-board-statement-on-fsf-governance

https://redd.it/mczalk
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How do you install endeavour to work on ThinkPad W541

So I recently got a new ThinkPad and I want to install Endeavour OS but I’m not sure how that will work due to the laptop having Nvidia graphics card the reason why I want to install Linux is because it’s free and are just better than Windows and the reason why I chose endeavour… Because of the customisability which is important in a

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Debian bootable usb drive with persistence

Hi guys, i'm looking for building a bootable pen drive with persistence in order to run Debian on every device i have. During the installation phase i get some error while running the partitioner.. 'The efi file system creation in partition failed' and then if i try to continue anyway i get error during the base installation.

Do you have any hint on this? Should i build my drive with MBT or GPT? Should i follow some particular steps to format my drive during the partitioning rather than ones recommended by the installer?

Actually i use Rufus 3.13 to build the drive and every time i allocate the maximum available space for the persistent partition. Is this an error? Should i allocate for the persistent partition less? I have no idea but i really need to fix this, thank you everyone will help.

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Dual boot causes peripherals to turn on with delay

After dual boot Windows 10 with ubuntu I have set up my grub and everything works fine, but it’s annoying that my mouse and keyboard turn on 1-2 min after the login pops up.
Is there any way to solve the delay?
This is certainly not a PSU issue because I have way too much power than needed

Edit: I checked multiple keybords and mice but the problem still occurs.

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How to make apt install skip invalid packages?

Hi, when I run sudo apt install, if I have typed several packages and some is not found or typed incorrectly, apt skips the whole installation process. How do I make apt install only valid packages while skipping the invalid ones instead of aborting the whole installation process? I'm running Linux Mint Debbie.

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Debian Linux problem on virtual machine

I am trying to start learning about Linux so I found a youtube playlist where he installed Debian on the virtual machine and when I did everything it gets stuck here. any help, please.

https://preview.redd.it/hkga625p5dp61.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=479c8d1e002a07fa536e8bead9c3838f383bfa22

I thought maybe because I was trying to install an older version but even when I tried to install the latest I could not

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are Nvidia 1660ti drivers any good? does an egpu work on linux?

I have been using Linux for the past year now, and I haven't been happier with a computer, but for the past 3 months or so I have been learning Minecraft PVP, and suffice to say I really like it! but I have been using Linux on my laptop with internal graphics and hasn't had the hassle to install drivers (since I am a student and I don't have a pc) I recently tore down a computer for my brother to upgrade it and I got a 1660ti since he doesn't use it anymore. I already got a razer thunderbolt GPU enclosure lying around from a project I was working on. so I want to make a little Minecraft pvp den using these parts and of course Linux! but I have some doubts, I have heard that Nvidia drivers for Linux aren't that bad but could be better. I wanted to buy an AMD card after selling the 1660 ti but as the world is screwed right now I will have to make it work with what I have, even though I enabled thunderbolt in my system I just want to clarify if egpus will work or not. and I also run an OpenBSD, and kali Linux VM using KVM and I would like to use passthrough to enable it on my kali VM if possible since it's getting pretty chonky and is not as smooth as i would like it. (sorry for my bad English I'm Japanese)

lap specifications:

cpu: i5 1135G1 (4core)

ram: 16 gigs

linux distro: endeavor os- gnome (linux kernel 5.11.1-arch)

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Linux's hardware monitoring can lie to you
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/HwmonCanLie

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Red Hat ceases funding to the FSF
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=12766

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The Simplest Screenshot Utility for Linux (x11 only)

This in bash or zsh or whatever: xwd -root | convert xwd:- png:- > screenshot.png

Or create an alias: alias screenshot='xwd -root | convert xwd:- png:- > screenshot.png'

## Commands:

xwd: dumps an x11 window (the root window in this case).

convert: converts between image formats (xwd to png).

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any good music editing programs?

noscript (obviously should be open source and free)

https://redd.it/mdteal
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Easy to use non-root container packed into a single executable
https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty

https://redd.it/mduhwm
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I created a Rofi / FCEUX NES ROM game launcher, if you want to use it.

​

[rofi](https://preview.redd.it/a3lgdag60fp61.png?width=1108&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5377c799ea39915301e138ca62a84c4b3873b89)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

###########################################
# README ##################################
# CHANGE THE PATH TO YOUR OWN ROM FOLDER (lines 13 and 18)
###########################################

######################
# functions
######################

function romList() {
cd /hd2/roms/nintendo-NES/
ls *.nes
}

function startGame() {
/usr/games/fceux --fullscreen 1 /hd2/roms/nintendo-NES/"$1"
}


##############################
# noscript execution starts here
##############################
LAUNCHER="rofi -theme Paper -dmenu -i -p"
romFileName=$(romList | $LAUNCHER 'Select game:')
if [ -z "$romFileName" ]; then
exit 1
fi
startGame "$romFileName"
exit 1

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What made you choose Linux?

Firstly let me share my story, i moved from Windows 10 for many reasons.

1: It's intrusive

2: It's bloated

3: It's slow to open programs, boot, reboot, shut down, and other stuff, every process takes some time while Linux is blazing fast.

4: It's unstable, past september my laptop started to freeze for no reason, it would freeze for a few seconds then turn back to normal, then i rebooted and it froze completely for an hour forcing me to do a hard shutdown then my laptop wouldn't power on, the blue led was blinking instead of static and the screen was completely black, it was still in warranty so i called tech support and sent it to repair through the mail, 2 weeks later it came back working, no parts were replaced which means it wasn't a hardware issue, they only reinstalled Windows 10 and nothing more.

5: The UI is extremely confusing

6: Bloated start menu (I didn't ask Microsoft to put Candy Crush in my start menu!!!)

After my laptop came from repair, i've waited for the warranty to expire then i installed Manjaro KDE, used it for 4 months and it was pretty solid and stable, then a while ago i moved to Kubuntu, i choose Kubuntu because i love Ubuntu's stability and ease of use but i don't like GNOME, i love KDE Plasma and i wouldn't ever replace it with anything else, i use Linux manly for gaming, most of my games work pretty fine thanks to Steam's Proton and Lutris, i'm using Xanmod kernel and it's pretty great, it's fast, smooth, responsive, and stable, Xanmod feels much smoother than the generic kernel (Probably due to the many performance tweaks plus it's based on kernel 5.10 which had some nice optimizations), while my Windows 10 broke in just 4 months, my Linux didn't break in 5 months, i haven't had any issues so far and i don't think i'm ever going back to Windows.

Now going back to the question, why did you choose Linux? Where you a Mac OS or Windows user previously? What distro and DE do you use and why? If you came from Windows 10 what is it that made you move to Linux?

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Utility to make your internet traffic anonymized through Tor network

I am glad to announce that my GenTor package has been available in Arch user repository. I really recommend it to use. Fell free to send me your feedback. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gentor https://github.com/ChihebBayouli/gentor

Linux #Open_source #Arch_linux #Cyber_security #Tor

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Kali Linux question

Hi, I'm a college student and I attended a meeting about cybersecurity and I was suggested to try using Kali Linux and just experimenting. So I noticed I'm connected to a random wired connection, what exactly is that? I'm using VirtualBox and I don't see an option to connect to my WiFi. So I tried experimenting with WireShark, is it only capturing data on Kali? Cause nothing was coming up till I opened the browser but even when I closed it, I get data. Thanks for the help, just two questions

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