Made my own Linux from Scratch distro at age 13
Just wanted to share with you all. I started getting into the Linux rabbit hole when my first laptop was really slow. I then found out about Linux and wanted to try it. Now 6 months later I decided to make my own distro using LFS. Also working on a gui.
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https://preview.redd.it/wshwbvec6vp61.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a8bee61f1162169213736de22e315b70425e421
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Just wanted to share with you all. I started getting into the Linux rabbit hole when my first laptop was really slow. I then found out about Linux and wanted to try it. Now 6 months later I decided to make my own distro using LFS. Also working on a gui.
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https://preview.redd.it/wshwbvec6vp61.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a8bee61f1162169213736de22e315b70425e421
https://redd.it/mfe27s
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I want to learn Linux during my breaks at work but don't have access to a Linux machine whilst doing so. Is there a good in browser Linux course for beginners?
I know it's oddly specific but I don't have time at home with a young family and I want to learn it on my breaks at work. I can't install a VM or anything because I work for a big corporate so the PC's are pretty locked down. I'm hoping to find a course that I can do, in browser, without having to install anything. Does such a thing exist?
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I know it's oddly specific but I don't have time at home with a young family and I want to learn it on my breaks at work. I can't install a VM or anything because I work for a big corporate so the PC's are pretty locked down. I'm hoping to find a course that I can do, in browser, without having to install anything. Does such a thing exist?
https://redd.it/mfbpqr
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OBS Oriented Distro
Hi Linux community
So I’m designing a relatively large streaming system because I can and I’m bored (I’m talking at least computers overall) and I’m curious to know if anyone ever built a Linux distribution that’s sole purpose is to run OBS and stream to the popular services, similar to how OpenELEC is designed to run XBMC and not much else.
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Hi Linux community
So I’m designing a relatively large streaming system because I can and I’m bored (I’m talking at least computers overall) and I’m curious to know if anyone ever built a Linux distribution that’s sole purpose is to run OBS and stream to the popular services, similar to how OpenELEC is designed to run XBMC and not much else.
https://redd.it/mfc0q7
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OBS Oriented Distro
Hi Linux community So I’m designing a relatively large streaming system because I can and I’m bored (I’m talking at least computers overall) and...
My New Life as a Linux User
I hope many of you enjoy reading this. It's long but hopefully interesting.
TL;DR: My story about growing with Linux over the years and my final jump to Linux from Windows. Windows bad. Linux good!
I've been using Linux full time for a little over two and a half years now. Before that, I would install a distro on my computer and play in it for a few weeks and then go back to Windows. I must say, my life seems a lot different now that I have moved away from Windows.
I experimented with Slackware in 1994 but didn't feel like it was at the level of Windows just yet. I actually installed Gentoo in 2004 and even though it was a royal pain in the butt to install, afterwards I saw great potential in Linux. When I installed a Desktop Environment on it (can't remember which one it was. Gnome possibly) I felt it was eventually going to be a viable replacement for Windows one day.
Somewhere in that time I had gotten my hands on Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop (2000 maybe) and that one almost got me to switch from Windows. I used it until they didn't support it anymore. No more updates were available and they had stopped supporting it altogether. So as much as I loved Caldera, I had to stop using it. I had read that they were not going to keep the eDesktop version in their plans. Something about Novell falling to Windows 95 and Windows 98 because Windows had a far easier network configuration built into the OS so Novell software was no longer needed on Microsoft products.
From there I played with many, now defunct, distros like Mandriva, Corel Linux (which I think was a stem from Caldera Open Linux), Red Hat (which didn't become defunct. It just became commercialized like Windows) just to name a few.
In 2007 I got my hands on Ubuntu 7.04. I fell in love with it. I stayed with that for about 9 months. Probably the longest I had stayed with a Linux distro before now. It was truly amazing. I had high speed internet by this time (2001 was my first intro to DSL) and Ubuntu was a perfect match for that. It was nice and fast just like my internet connection. I loved it! Then I started doing desktop publishing. The last time I had done that was with Aldus Pagemaker. I had to use Adobe Pagemaker to do what I needed to do since the client I was working with only worked with Pagemaker. I didn't even look to see if there was a Linux equivalent to Pagemaker. So I ended up back in Windows.
I later tried Ubuntu 8 and 9 but I was just so stuck in Windows again, I couldn't pull myself out of it. In 2010 I started doing some very heavy photography work... Weddings and portraits. I was using Adobe Photoshop to edit photos and then Adobe Lightroom was introduced to me by a friend. This made editing wedding photos quick and easy. For weddings I averaged anywhere from 1,600 to 2,500 photos for each wedding. Lightroom just made it SO easy to balance light and do other light photo editing that took forever in Photoshop. I could also upload a few photos from Lightroom directly to my photography page on Facebook. I had looked for a Linux alternative for Lightroom but there was nothing even close to the power of Lightroom.
So I pretty much stuck to Windows until I tried out Windows 10. I absolutely hated Windows 10! I loved Windows 7 but Windows 10 was a complete failure for me. So the hunt began in early 2018 (March) for a suitable Windows replacement.
My first attraction was to Ubuntu 18.4 since I really liked Ubuntu 7.04. Needless to say I really wasn't into Ubuntu 18.04. I didn't like the new Gnome desktop. I didn't know that I could add a different desktop to Linux until later that year when I had switched.
So I got on Distrowatch and wanted to see what was most popularly searched for on Distrowatch. I saw Linux Mint there at the top (might have been #2) and I saw that it was Ubuntu based but had a different desktop environment other than Gnome. So I downloaded Mint 18.3 Cinnamon Edition and sat on it for like 2 months. I waited to install it because I wanted to make sure I had everything backed up on my Windows
I hope many of you enjoy reading this. It's long but hopefully interesting.
TL;DR: My story about growing with Linux over the years and my final jump to Linux from Windows. Windows bad. Linux good!
I've been using Linux full time for a little over two and a half years now. Before that, I would install a distro on my computer and play in it for a few weeks and then go back to Windows. I must say, my life seems a lot different now that I have moved away from Windows.
I experimented with Slackware in 1994 but didn't feel like it was at the level of Windows just yet. I actually installed Gentoo in 2004 and even though it was a royal pain in the butt to install, afterwards I saw great potential in Linux. When I installed a Desktop Environment on it (can't remember which one it was. Gnome possibly) I felt it was eventually going to be a viable replacement for Windows one day.
Somewhere in that time I had gotten my hands on Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop (2000 maybe) and that one almost got me to switch from Windows. I used it until they didn't support it anymore. No more updates were available and they had stopped supporting it altogether. So as much as I loved Caldera, I had to stop using it. I had read that they were not going to keep the eDesktop version in their plans. Something about Novell falling to Windows 95 and Windows 98 because Windows had a far easier network configuration built into the OS so Novell software was no longer needed on Microsoft products.
From there I played with many, now defunct, distros like Mandriva, Corel Linux (which I think was a stem from Caldera Open Linux), Red Hat (which didn't become defunct. It just became commercialized like Windows) just to name a few.
In 2007 I got my hands on Ubuntu 7.04. I fell in love with it. I stayed with that for about 9 months. Probably the longest I had stayed with a Linux distro before now. It was truly amazing. I had high speed internet by this time (2001 was my first intro to DSL) and Ubuntu was a perfect match for that. It was nice and fast just like my internet connection. I loved it! Then I started doing desktop publishing. The last time I had done that was with Aldus Pagemaker. I had to use Adobe Pagemaker to do what I needed to do since the client I was working with only worked with Pagemaker. I didn't even look to see if there was a Linux equivalent to Pagemaker. So I ended up back in Windows.
I later tried Ubuntu 8 and 9 but I was just so stuck in Windows again, I couldn't pull myself out of it. In 2010 I started doing some very heavy photography work... Weddings and portraits. I was using Adobe Photoshop to edit photos and then Adobe Lightroom was introduced to me by a friend. This made editing wedding photos quick and easy. For weddings I averaged anywhere from 1,600 to 2,500 photos for each wedding. Lightroom just made it SO easy to balance light and do other light photo editing that took forever in Photoshop. I could also upload a few photos from Lightroom directly to my photography page on Facebook. I had looked for a Linux alternative for Lightroom but there was nothing even close to the power of Lightroom.
So I pretty much stuck to Windows until I tried out Windows 10. I absolutely hated Windows 10! I loved Windows 7 but Windows 10 was a complete failure for me. So the hunt began in early 2018 (March) for a suitable Windows replacement.
My first attraction was to Ubuntu 18.4 since I really liked Ubuntu 7.04. Needless to say I really wasn't into Ubuntu 18.04. I didn't like the new Gnome desktop. I didn't know that I could add a different desktop to Linux until later that year when I had switched.
So I got on Distrowatch and wanted to see what was most popularly searched for on Distrowatch. I saw Linux Mint there at the top (might have been #2) and I saw that it was Ubuntu based but had a different desktop environment other than Gnome. So I downloaded Mint 18.3 Cinnamon Edition and sat on it for like 2 months. I waited to install it because I wanted to make sure I had everything backed up on my Windows
drive. After I had everything backed up on the Windows drive I decided I'd just get another hard drive and test Mint on that rather than destroying the data on the Windows drive (I never liked dual booting) So I bought me a 128GB SSD and put Linux Mint 18.3 on it. I just LOVED how it looked, felt (just like Windows) and it was a pleasant and refreshing experience.
About 2 weeks after installing Mint 18.3 they announced Linux Mint 19.0. I decided I wouldn't completely move into this 128GB drive yet because I wanted to switch to Mint 19 when it was released (I believe there was a beta release but I really didn't want to use a beta release). I caught a great deal on a 500GB SSD so I grabbed it. That would become the new home of Linux Mint 19. It was so nice when I installed 19.0 on my machine. Again, refreshing and worth the wait.
I had committed myself to Linux FINALLY! I had used Linux Mint until early 2020 completely Windows Free at this point. One day, I caught a video on Arch Linux. An installation video. I was intrigued by how it was all manually installed (like Gentoo but seemingly easier and quicker) and there was no GUI. Kind of like how Slackware was in the mid 1990s. So I downloaded a copy of it and again I sat on it for about two weeks. By this time I had VirtualBox on my computer and I decided I'd setup Arch in a VM. It took me a couple of tries (missed the grub install section in the Arch Installation Wiki and rebooted before doing that). Grrr... It wasn't working. It wouldn't even boot to a command prompt. So I installed it in the VM again. This time I saw my mistake and noticed the steps to initialize grub. It booted to a command prompt. YAY!!!
So I had it in a VM and was thinking about what Desktop I wanted on it. Gnome? Nah, I wasn't a Gnome fan. Cinnamon? Eh, I had that already with Mint. I wanted something different. So I hunted around YouTube for some different desktop environment reviews and found DistroTubes channel. He was doing a series of tiling window manager videos and I watched a bunch of them (maybe all of them).
By this time, I had installed Arch on a spare test machine. I really liked the xmonad video I saw on DistroTube. I found a few others and I was convinced I wanted to use xmonad. I really liked it... for about a week. Then I ran an update and xmonad wouldn't run anymore. Bewildered, I took to the internet. I had only been on Reddit a few months at this point and I posted the question on r/xmonad. I quickly found out that the update broke xmonad. This is where I learned the important procedure of booting the Arch installation flash drive, chrooting into my machine, installing a simple desktop environment so I could go in and do what I needed to do to fix xmonad. I needed to recompile xmonad to get it to work with the updates (I probably could have done that in the chroot but I wanted an alternate way to get to the terminal without having to hunt down my flash drive again). OK. Fine and dandy. Everything was up and running again. Two days later I ran another update and had more Haskell updates. Again, the thing broke.
I was getting frustrated with xmonad after every Haskell update. So I set out to to find another window manager because they were so different than traditional desktop environments. I actually installed a few that I liked from the videos I watched. OpenBox, i3, and AwesomeWM. I love all of those but Awesome is current all time favorite.
Every now and then I will log into a different WM but I live in AwesomeWM 95% of the time. I have a 3 monitor setup and I like how each monitor is it's own entity. Meaning I can have FireFox in the first virtual desktop on monitor 1 and I can have Thunderbird in the first virtual desktop on monitor 2. So two programs running in the same virtual desktop on 2 separate monitors. This means I have 3x the virtual desktops than the other Window Managers. Pretty cool!
I mentioned I bounce around occasionally between window managers. Writing this, I'm running xmonad. Yup. You read that right. xmonad!
I figured out a little trick about 4
About 2 weeks after installing Mint 18.3 they announced Linux Mint 19.0. I decided I wouldn't completely move into this 128GB drive yet because I wanted to switch to Mint 19 when it was released (I believe there was a beta release but I really didn't want to use a beta release). I caught a great deal on a 500GB SSD so I grabbed it. That would become the new home of Linux Mint 19. It was so nice when I installed 19.0 on my machine. Again, refreshing and worth the wait.
I had committed myself to Linux FINALLY! I had used Linux Mint until early 2020 completely Windows Free at this point. One day, I caught a video on Arch Linux. An installation video. I was intrigued by how it was all manually installed (like Gentoo but seemingly easier and quicker) and there was no GUI. Kind of like how Slackware was in the mid 1990s. So I downloaded a copy of it and again I sat on it for about two weeks. By this time I had VirtualBox on my computer and I decided I'd setup Arch in a VM. It took me a couple of tries (missed the grub install section in the Arch Installation Wiki and rebooted before doing that). Grrr... It wasn't working. It wouldn't even boot to a command prompt. So I installed it in the VM again. This time I saw my mistake and noticed the steps to initialize grub. It booted to a command prompt. YAY!!!
So I had it in a VM and was thinking about what Desktop I wanted on it. Gnome? Nah, I wasn't a Gnome fan. Cinnamon? Eh, I had that already with Mint. I wanted something different. So I hunted around YouTube for some different desktop environment reviews and found DistroTubes channel. He was doing a series of tiling window manager videos and I watched a bunch of them (maybe all of them).
By this time, I had installed Arch on a spare test machine. I really liked the xmonad video I saw on DistroTube. I found a few others and I was convinced I wanted to use xmonad. I really liked it... for about a week. Then I ran an update and xmonad wouldn't run anymore. Bewildered, I took to the internet. I had only been on Reddit a few months at this point and I posted the question on r/xmonad. I quickly found out that the update broke xmonad. This is where I learned the important procedure of booting the Arch installation flash drive, chrooting into my machine, installing a simple desktop environment so I could go in and do what I needed to do to fix xmonad. I needed to recompile xmonad to get it to work with the updates (I probably could have done that in the chroot but I wanted an alternate way to get to the terminal without having to hunt down my flash drive again). OK. Fine and dandy. Everything was up and running again. Two days later I ran another update and had more Haskell updates. Again, the thing broke.
I was getting frustrated with xmonad after every Haskell update. So I set out to to find another window manager because they were so different than traditional desktop environments. I actually installed a few that I liked from the videos I watched. OpenBox, i3, and AwesomeWM. I love all of those but Awesome is current all time favorite.
Every now and then I will log into a different WM but I live in AwesomeWM 95% of the time. I have a 3 monitor setup and I like how each monitor is it's own entity. Meaning I can have FireFox in the first virtual desktop on monitor 1 and I can have Thunderbird in the first virtual desktop on monitor 2. So two programs running in the same virtual desktop on 2 separate monitors. This means I have 3x the virtual desktops than the other Window Managers. Pretty cool!
I mentioned I bounce around occasionally between window managers. Writing this, I'm running xmonad. Yup. You read that right. xmonad!
I figured out a little trick about 4
months after I started using Arch full time on my main machine. I learned about bash aliases and I figured out that I can have
This is the reason why I am writing this now. Linux is so versatile right now. I can run different desktop environments and keep it fresh and alive. This is why Linux is so exciting! Unlike the same stale Windows desktop all of the time. It's almost cartoonish to me now whenever I look at a Windows computer (we have them at work).
If you stuck around to the very end of this, I thank you for your interest (negative or positive). In closing I hope Linux and the distro developers (Not just Arch and Mint but all of them) stick around for a LONG time to come!
Also, I can't stress enough to donate to your favorite distro team! It helps keep them busy building new and improved distributions that we all love! I've donated to both the Arch and Mint developers in the past proudly! I've also given a little to awesomewm.org as well. It's a great way to feel like you're part of the community!
DONATE!
Thanks again for reading!!!
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xmonad --recompile run every time I run an update. This has virtually killed the xmonad/Haskell update fiasco I was having. Now, when I use the alias to run an update in xmonad, not only does it do the sudo pacman -Syu, it also runs xmonad --recompile and xmonad --restart for me after the update. I never get locked out of xmonad anymore. This is the reason why I am writing this now. Linux is so versatile right now. I can run different desktop environments and keep it fresh and alive. This is why Linux is so exciting! Unlike the same stale Windows desktop all of the time. It's almost cartoonish to me now whenever I look at a Windows computer (we have them at work).
If you stuck around to the very end of this, I thank you for your interest (negative or positive). In closing I hope Linux and the distro developers (Not just Arch and Mint but all of them) stick around for a LONG time to come!
Also, I can't stress enough to donate to your favorite distro team! It helps keep them busy building new and improved distributions that we all love! I've donated to both the Arch and Mint developers in the past proudly! I've also given a little to awesomewm.org as well. It's a great way to feel like you're part of the community!
DONATE!
Thanks again for reading!!!
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My New Life as a Linux User
I hope many of you enjoy reading this. It's long but hopefully interesting. TL;DR: My story about growing with Linux over the years and my final...
Emacs Tutorial Emacs definitely easy, it starts everything from "M-x"
Prejudices say: "Emacs is just hard to learn". Such prejudices undermine Emacs' popularity.
This minor project try to break the prejudice and denote how could take least efforts and suffering to learn Emacs.
This series blogs were written originally in Chinese from 2020 and have accumulated around 190 stars.
Emacs is simple and its universe big-bang from M-x.
https://preview.redd.it/pccrqmbxrwp61.png?width=523&format=png&auto=webp&s=c69bac980463e079f481791eb35e6913168dfe9d
# 1. So simple Emacs: Meta Key
Emacs' elegance and simplicity, in a nutshell, is just a Meta key.
Meta is option or alter key on the keyboard. In etymology, Meta means "higher, beyond". Therefore, as spring flows from higher source, we could understand Meta as Source, and associated it with source-code.
In Source Code, function is the first-class citizen. The simple strategy of Emacs is to bind the Meta key (which has source meaning in etymology) to the source-code or function. Then we could trigger the keys M-x (x for execute) to invoke the function.
Start form M-x, you can do whatever you desire, such as inserting the current date:
https://preview.redd.it/fsxrzwvhswp61.png?width=1285&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f6fd57640ce0d4b9e3c1547bcd5332437982d0c
# 2.The primary strategy of Emacs: Introduce the Ctrl key
Take an example to open a file from a directory, you can M-x find-file,
With M-x, we have to type 11 characters to get such a task done. In contrast, we only type 4 characters as C-x C-f with Ctrl key. As we see, to achieve high efficiency, Emacs’s primary strategy is to replace “call function by full name” with the “call function by characters”.
A simpler example, such as “move one character forward”. The complete implementation is M-x forward-character. But after the introduction of the Ctrl strategy, only the characters of C-f is required.
Since C (Ctrl) simplifies M-x, and the character f is the first letter of the function forward-character.
The above method of calling functions with Control is called Command. Command is equivalent to Control, we find that choosing Ctrl as command is also a semantic binding just as choosing Meta as source-code.
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Read the project here:
https://github.com/AbstProcDo/Master-Emacs-From-Scratch-with-Solid-Procedures
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Prejudices say: "Emacs is just hard to learn". Such prejudices undermine Emacs' popularity.
This minor project try to break the prejudice and denote how could take least efforts and suffering to learn Emacs.
This series blogs were written originally in Chinese from 2020 and have accumulated around 190 stars.
Emacs is simple and its universe big-bang from M-x.
https://preview.redd.it/pccrqmbxrwp61.png?width=523&format=png&auto=webp&s=c69bac980463e079f481791eb35e6913168dfe9d
# 1. So simple Emacs: Meta Key
Emacs' elegance and simplicity, in a nutshell, is just a Meta key.
Meta is option or alter key on the keyboard. In etymology, Meta means "higher, beyond". Therefore, as spring flows from higher source, we could understand Meta as Source, and associated it with source-code.
In Source Code, function is the first-class citizen. The simple strategy of Emacs is to bind the Meta key (which has source meaning in etymology) to the source-code or function. Then we could trigger the keys M-x (x for execute) to invoke the function.
Start form M-x, you can do whatever you desire, such as inserting the current date:
https://preview.redd.it/fsxrzwvhswp61.png?width=1285&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f6fd57640ce0d4b9e3c1547bcd5332437982d0c
# 2.The primary strategy of Emacs: Introduce the Ctrl key
Take an example to open a file from a directory, you can M-x find-file,
With M-x, we have to type 11 characters to get such a task done. In contrast, we only type 4 characters as C-x C-f with Ctrl key. As we see, to achieve high efficiency, Emacs’s primary strategy is to replace “call function by full name” with the “call function by characters”.
A simpler example, such as “move one character forward”. The complete implementation is M-x forward-character. But after the introduction of the Ctrl strategy, only the characters of C-f is required.
Since C (Ctrl) simplifies M-x, and the character f is the first letter of the function forward-character.
The above method of calling functions with Control is called Command. Command is equivalent to Control, we find that choosing Ctrl as command is also a semantic binding just as choosing Meta as source-code.
​
Read the project here:
https://github.com/AbstProcDo/Master-Emacs-From-Scratch-with-Solid-Procedures
https://redd.it/mfj2z1
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My acer laptop with i5-9th, 8gb ram, 2gb graphics card and 1tb hdd with pop os installed is still slow as hell.
I see lots of posts here claiming they saved their old pcs by installing linux on it but my more than capable is still slow with pop-os installed and I have no clue.
Before pop-os, I was a regular user of Ubuntu for years and switched to pop-os only because user interface.
So is it pop-os issue or should I try different desktop environment ?
Hell broke, when even cursor started lagging !
Edit: I should have mentioned what graphic card it is. It's nvidia 940mx
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I see lots of posts here claiming they saved their old pcs by installing linux on it but my more than capable is still slow with pop-os installed and I have no clue.
Before pop-os, I was a regular user of Ubuntu for years and switched to pop-os only because user interface.
So is it pop-os issue or should I try different desktop environment ?
Hell broke, when even cursor started lagging !
Edit: I should have mentioned what graphic card it is. It's nvidia 940mx
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My acer laptop with i5-9th, 8gb ram, 2gb graphics card and 1tb hdd...
I see lots of posts here claiming they saved their old pcs by installing linux on it but my more than capable is still slow with pop-os installed...
Linux noob here. Windows power user and Mac casual user here. How should I start with Linux?
I have a MBP 2015 and Dell XPS 2019. I’m fairly power user and do web development, music production, and light gaming.
I’m thinking about getting a $200 i5 8gb 256g ssd just for Linux. I would use it mainly for learning purposes before deciding on my next main pc build.
How would I go about wiping windows from an old pc and installing Linux? Should I use Ubuntu or Mint? (Can I use both on same laptop?).
I look forward to trying Linux out and putting it to good use!
https://redd.it/mfkx6f
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I have a MBP 2015 and Dell XPS 2019. I’m fairly power user and do web development, music production, and light gaming.
I’m thinking about getting a $200 i5 8gb 256g ssd just for Linux. I would use it mainly for learning purposes before deciding on my next main pc build.
How would I go about wiping windows from an old pc and installing Linux? Should I use Ubuntu or Mint? (Can I use both on same laptop?).
I look forward to trying Linux out and putting it to good use!
https://redd.it/mfkx6f
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Linux noob here. Windows power user and Mac casual user here. How...
I have a MBP 2015 and Dell XPS 2019. I’m fairly power user and do web development, music production, and light gaming. I’m thinking about...
Linux learning
I am learning Linux and have done with basic commands and bash noscripting (though not completely it's a big subject).
Need advice what should I do to keep my learning and what course or path to take to go further into Linux world.
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I am learning Linux and have done with basic commands and bash noscripting (though not completely it's a big subject).
Need advice what should I do to keep my learning and what course or path to take to go further into Linux world.
https://redd.it/mfjp5j
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Linux learning
I am learning Linux and have done with basic commands and bash noscripting (though not completely it's a big subject). Need advice what should I...
Changed harddrive on my old laptop, there was a os on the "new" one, this hard drive is from a 10 years older laptop. Even cooler is that this one has an nvidia gpu, the old one used intel graphics, debian is really stable
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List all ELF or DSO dependencies in Linux
http://si-head.nl/articles/ls_libs
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http://si-head.nl/articles/ls_libs
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List all ELF or DSO dependencies in Linux
Posted in r/linux by u/sh1r4s3 • 1 point and 1 comment
My new website - a blog mostly about linux n stuff
Hi! I'm a Linux user (Arch BTW) and a developer. I've decided to make my own website! I've never made a website before (I mean, I did but it sucked and wasn't a proper website), so this was a learning experience for me! It's a blog about mostly Linux, and currently has 2 articles in it. It's also minimal, so no JS. Code is to be uploaded soon, but I wanna clean it up first lol.
My site: https://aggam.xyz
https://redd.it/mfoiu2
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Hi! I'm a Linux user (Arch BTW) and a developer. I've decided to make my own website! I've never made a website before (I mean, I did but it sucked and wasn't a proper website), so this was a learning experience for me! It's a blog about mostly Linux, and currently has 2 articles in it. It's also minimal, so no JS. Code is to be uploaded soon, but I wanna clean it up first lol.
My site: https://aggam.xyz
https://redd.it/mfoiu2
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Snap DEPRECATED
Wonder if we are going to see more of this in the future
https://guumaster.github.io/hostctl/docs/installation/#snap-deprecated
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DEPRECATION NOTICE: Last version supported on snap is v1.0.11. I think Snap is not for everyone. Certainly not for me. I’ve tried to maintain a snap version but is too manual, cumbersome, random and boring. Please, get the hostctl binary in any other flavor.
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Wonder if we are going to see more of this in the future
https://guumaster.github.io/hostctl/docs/installation/#snap-deprecated
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DEPRECATION NOTICE: Last version supported on snap is v1.0.11. I think Snap is not for everyone. Certainly not for me. I’ve tried to maintain a snap version but is too manual, cumbersome, random and boring. Please, get the hostctl binary in any other flavor.
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Why won’t ubuntu let me install MySQL with a blank password for root user??
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Linux Guidance: Contributing
Hello:
I hate Linux and I love Linux..the environment and feeling have come a long way since I last used it and while I'm not a fanboy..I'm also not a skeptic of the whole movement. I am not a computer Science Major or Programmer by trade. Im a Business Major by noscript (Shocker? Maybe) I mean what sane business major would like to use linux. It has no MS Suite support whatsoever aside from the haphazard office 2013 Wine (Wine makes me Whine).
I dont share the sentiment of "Free" as many linux users may. I wholeheartedly believe that devs should charge or start raising money for their hard work and be able to prioritize core fixes in this ecosystem. The platform as a whole should remain free and opensource but I dont see anything wrong with providing incentives for smart and abled techies to improve the quality of the operating system or create custom yet highly accessible and easy-to-use software counterparts to many windows-based staff.
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What I need Help with from more experiencedUsers:
Where do I go to contribute to the Linux community in terms of either custom software to solve an issue or raise capital to get things fixed.?
Where may I get started on my journey to learn more about Linux internals and slowly begin to contribute my own fixes and perhaps custom solutions to the ecosystem?
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As much as I love this whole platform I do think we need to focus on growing the user base by making things accessible, easy to use, and headache-free. Thanks for the help and cheers!
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Hello:
I hate Linux and I love Linux..the environment and feeling have come a long way since I last used it and while I'm not a fanboy..I'm also not a skeptic of the whole movement. I am not a computer Science Major or Programmer by trade. Im a Business Major by noscript (Shocker? Maybe) I mean what sane business major would like to use linux. It has no MS Suite support whatsoever aside from the haphazard office 2013 Wine (Wine makes me Whine).
I dont share the sentiment of "Free" as many linux users may. I wholeheartedly believe that devs should charge or start raising money for their hard work and be able to prioritize core fixes in this ecosystem. The platform as a whole should remain free and opensource but I dont see anything wrong with providing incentives for smart and abled techies to improve the quality of the operating system or create custom yet highly accessible and easy-to-use software counterparts to many windows-based staff.
​
What I need Help with from more experiencedUsers:
Where do I go to contribute to the Linux community in terms of either custom software to solve an issue or raise capital to get things fixed.?
Where may I get started on my journey to learn more about Linux internals and slowly begin to contribute my own fixes and perhaps custom solutions to the ecosystem?
​
As much as I love this whole platform I do think we need to focus on growing the user base by making things accessible, easy to use, and headache-free. Thanks for the help and cheers!
https://redd.it/mfsvt2
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Linux Guidance: Contributing
Hello: I hate Linux and I love Linux..the environment and feeling have come a long way since I last used it and while I'm not a fanboy..I'm also...
Fedora updates and software downloads are like really really slow?
I have this oldish laptop with harddisk and I distrohop a lot.
Wanted to try something with Selinux. All the hacking news made me paranoid. So I tried Fedora.
sudo dnf upgrade is so slow. I even added arguments like "maxparalleldownloads=20", fastest mirrors, delta rpm but its still slow.
Its like 50 to 100x slower than pacman, apt-get. Its even slower than downloading "snap".
Like how is it possible? Is it a design flaw?
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I have this oldish laptop with harddisk and I distrohop a lot.
Wanted to try something with Selinux. All the hacking news made me paranoid. So I tried Fedora.
sudo dnf upgrade is so slow. I even added arguments like "maxparalleldownloads=20", fastest mirrors, delta rpm but its still slow.
Its like 50 to 100x slower than pacman, apt-get. Its even slower than downloading "snap".
Like how is it possible? Is it a design flaw?
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Fedora updates and software downloads are like really really slow?
I have this oldish laptop with harddisk and I distrohop a lot. Wanted to try something with Selinux. All the hacking news made me paranoid. So I...
Compyy : A utility that compiles the source code just for you
There are many good and useful applications that is not in the main repo, so our only hoice is to from source, but all of us know that compiling from source is very troublesome and time consuming, and. Basically the normal or standard steps are
git clone <repo name>
cd <cloned repo>
./configure
make
make install
or one can do :
git clone <repo link>
cd <cloned repo> && ./configure && make && make install
But compyy, a CLI utility / program written in Python, will do it automatically just for you.
Example :
(1.) You want to clone a repo :
compyy -l <repo link>
# -l, --link
(2.) Clone and compile the repo
compyy -Cl -l <repo link>
# -Cl, --compile
If the source is already downloaded, and you want to compile it. Or let' say that you want to verify its integrity first and do a cleanup after install
compyy -vc -f <filename.tar.gz>
# -v, --verify ; -c, --cleanup ; -f, file
Or the source is to be downloaded first and compiled, but due to many hackers and bad guys in the internet you want to verify first its integrity
compyy -v -Cl -d <download link>
# -d, --download
There also many other flags such as
Thanks for you time!!
https://github.com/jamesaaron13248/compyy
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There are many good and useful applications that is not in the main repo, so our only hoice is to from source, but all of us know that compiling from source is very troublesome and time consuming, and. Basically the normal or standard steps are
git clone <repo name>
cd <cloned repo>
./configure
make
make install
or one can do :
git clone <repo link>
cd <cloned repo> && ./configure && make && make install
But compyy, a CLI utility / program written in Python, will do it automatically just for you.
Example :
(1.) You want to clone a repo :
compyy -l <repo link>
# -l, --link
(2.) Clone and compile the repo
compyy -Cl -l <repo link>
# -Cl, --compile
If the source is already downloaded, and you want to compile it. Or let' say that you want to verify its integrity first and do a cleanup after install
compyy -vc -f <filename.tar.gz>
# -v, --verify ; -c, --cleanup ; -f, file
Or the source is to be downloaded first and compiled, but due to many hackers and bad guys in the internet you want to verify first its integrity
compyy -v -Cl -d <download link>
# -d, --download
There also many other flags such as
-t, --target this specifies where the source will be installed, and there's also -Ch, --check this will run make test in the source code.Thanks for you time!!
https://github.com/jamesaaron13248/compyy
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