Finally decided to quit windows after I got fed up with its 'backup and restore'

I had done the process several times before, its pretty easy, to install a bigger SSD into the laptop. Windows has that pretty neat 'backup and restore' feature, and like I say, I had done it a couple of times before.

Well, this time was different. Windows would not restore, not many how many tricks I tried, re-mounting drives and partitions, looking at the EFI settings in the bios. Windows would not find the image that it had just created on my hard drive - what fucking bullshit! The backup and restore just completely shit the bed on me. I do have an image that should be good on a hard drive, it sure would be nice to get my portfolio and photos back at some point. But, at this point, I am so fucking over messing with windows and just how fucking stupid it is, and how stupid I am for thinking it would all work.

Anyways, I'm pleasantly surprised on how quickly I was able to get Ubuntu up on my PC. Seems a lot less light weight. Looks clean. I hope it works with my hardware OK.

/endrant

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A windows story

You probably heard few of them already...

First at all I'm a windows fan boy I run windows for the past 25 years and is absolutely no reason for me to ever move to linux or even be interested in it.

Well until I actually bought a mac book air for the wife. I have to admit I hate apple more than anything else but I was absolutely mind blow with the no fan and 17 hours battery that the M1 bring into the table...

Then a stupid idea came to my head. As I will never run ever macos could I install Linux? Fast enough I discovered that the answer is no well at least at the moment... Then becoming more and more stupid I ended up runing Linux into a vitural machine first Mx, then Zorin then Manjaro, Then ubuntu well pretty much every Distro available... I end up knowing the answer Linux is absolutely crap it's complicated it's slower than windows (by the way windows doesn't need to restart every 5 min and no now the virus are pretty dead there too)...

I got absolutely so frustrated with Linux even installing the simple little tasks made me sweating! And remember linux running slow? Well my ultra book running a virtual machine didn't do a favor there...

Surprising Linux was kind of a drug. Even I hated it I couldn't stop trying it Manjaro Plasma got me pretty good there. I just couldn't stop learning about it. Don't get me wrong I was still getting frustrated but after three days I got better.

Today I made a weird choice... I actually dual boot my ultra book and start working on my business with Linux for the first time in 25 years I did not use windows. I just use Linux. I know it's seem stupid for few of you that has been using linux for years but I felt like today was a good bye to Windows. The point of the story is don't give up on Linux cos it's absolutely the most interesting OS I ever touched yes I did hate it and I'll still hate it for few months but when you got that keyboard shortcut in you will never look back!

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Experiencing screen tearing and frame drops while using YouTube at 720p & above

i have an Intel core i3-7020u with no external graphic card and only the integrated igpu Intel hd 620 graphics
and i am experiencing serious screen tearing even on youtube if i watch any video at 720p or more
i didn't have any such issues with windows

Is there any way to fix it ? ( i use manjaro kde)

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[Gnome] Weird icon size when switching resolutions.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/mgrvkk

https://redd.it/mgvd95
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Linux future and trends from ordinar users point of view

Hi, Linux community!

I've switched to Linux from Windows for a week and mostly impressed by these things:

1. Hardware compatibility with my laptop. I didn't have any problems with drivers so far.
2. Almost all apps from Windows I use have Linux versions. I do not need to change my workflow.
3. Linux Mint UI is very similar to what I used to have on Windows. So it is not a problem to find Firewall settings, or monitor processes, for example.
4. All network interfaces work efficiently and fast. I tried SMB, NFS, FTP without any issues.

It looks so appealing, so I got this feeling that Linux will take away 10-20% of Windows auditory soon. And because I believe it is the wrong impression of a new user, who doesn't have any ruined expectations from Linux, I want to know more mature users' opinions.

If you have been using Linux for several years, can you share with me your thoughts about Linux's future as a desktop OS for ordinary users? Do you like the development path, or do you have some questions?

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Review of KDE-based JingOS: iPad looks on Linux?
https://write.as/niccolove/review-of-kde-based-jingos-0-8

https://redd.it/mh3yby
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Haruna Video Player 0.6.0 released

Download https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.georgefb.haruna

Git repo https://github.com/g-fb/haruna

New in 0.6.0:

Added support for youtube playlists.
Added MPRIS2 support.
Settings open in separate window and reorganize some settings.
Playlist can overlay video or push it, Settings > Playlist > Overlay video.
Playlist has another, more compact style, Settings > Playlist > Playlist style.
When playlist toggle with mouse is disabled, a playlist toggle button will be added to the footer.
Added option to select any installed GUI style.
Added action to toggle deinterlacing (d key).
Replaced the open url controls with a message when youtube-dl is not found.
Can load ass, ssa and srt subnoscripts by drag and drop.
Added option to control the saving of the playing file's position, Settings > Playback > Remember time position (click on the help button for more information).
Changed default screenshots folder to `\~/Pictures/Haruna screenshots`.
Added loading indicator for videos.
Fixed playlist closing when hovering space between items.
Fixed crash when it can't read file metadata.
Fixed menubar height being to small.

https://redd.it/mh5cua
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eOVPN - OpenVPN configuration Manager gained support for NetworkManager (i.e Better Integration with desktop)

https://redd.it/mh68f6
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Introducing Libadwaita
https://aplazas.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwaita.html

https://redd.it/mh2uym
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Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/master/gd/rust/

https://redd.it/mh8ex8
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Happy BackUp day! How often do you make full backups of your system?
https://redd.it/mh9ds7
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postmarketOS // Second Beta Release: v21.03
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2021/03/31/v21.03-release/

https://redd.it/mha6i5
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Deepin release 20.2
https://www.deepin.org/en/2021/03/31/deepin-20-2-beautiful-and-wonderful/

https://redd.it/mhc9m3
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Announcing Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview – WSL 2
https://ubuntu.com//blog/announcing-ubuntu-on-windows-community-preview-wsl-2

https://redd.it/mha0z2
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No laptop is too slow fo linux
https://redd.it/mhemrg
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Show Reddit: chezmoi dotfile manager version 2 released
https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/blob/master/docs/CHANGES.md

https://redd.it/mhd3vu
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Created a daily crossword downloader from my favorite site, thought you might appreciate it!

I wrote this today, and I can't wait to build up a huge backlog of crosswords. I love [this site](https://www.onlinecrosswords.net/printable-daily-crosswords.php), but I forget to check it and download them every day. I wrote this noscript so it will do it for me! If you have any questions feel free to ask.

It downloads the daily 7 straight to created directories for the purpose, renames them shorter with the date, then packs them all into one PDF for easy printing!

I made this run automatically with Cron, but you don't have to.

@reboot sleep 15 && ./crosswords_downloader.sh

Here is the code... I know I can shorten this with a for loop, but I am new to Bash noscripting so I haven't messed with it yet.

#!/bin/bash

mkdir ~/crosswords
mkdir ~/crosswords/$(date +%m)-$(date +%d)

wget -P ~/crosswords/$(date +%m)-$(date +%d) https://www.onlinecrosswords.net/printable-daily-crosswords-{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.pdf

cd ~/crosswords/$(date +%m)-$(date +%d)

mv printable-daily-crosswords-1.pdf puzz#1_$(date +%m)-$(date +%d).pdf
mv printable-daily-crosswords-2.pdf puzz#2_$(date +%m)-$(date +%d).pdf
mv printable-daily-crosswords-3.pdf puzz#3_$(date +%m)-$(date +%d).pdf
mv printable-daily-crosswords-4.pdf puzz#4_$(date +%m)-$(date +%d).pdf
mv printable-daily-crosswords-5.pdf puzz#5_$(date +%m)-$(date +%d).pdf
mv printable-daily-crosswords-6.pdf puzz#6_$(date +%m)-$(date +%d).pdf
mv printable-daily-crosswords-7.pdf puzz#7_$(date +%m)-$(date +%d).pdf
pdfunite puzz#* puzz_pack-$(date +%m)-$(date +%d).pdf

Note: It will begin overwriting folders after a year has passed, so don't wait too long.

https://redd.it/mhgsoe
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Cheers to 10 Years
https://blog.elementary.io/ten-years/

https://redd.it/mhi5lq
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National backup day? I saw some posts and made a meme.
https://redd.it/mhk9he
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User Research for an Open Source App

Hi everybody! I am the main developer of Super Productivity an open source app for linux. Recently Stian a UX/UI Designer reached out to offer his help, which is great. He is very meticulous about the whole project and wants to underpin his suggestions with research data which I really like. In order to make it work he would need several people to volunteer for an interview. All necessary information can be found here: https://github.com/johannesjo/super-productivity/discussions/1011

Help would be very much appreciated!

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Install bb via apt install, then run it and hit 8, you won't regret it

Install bb though the command line using sudo apt install bb, then run it and hit 8. You'll immediately get hit with a matrix style ASCII art, then it will go crazy with the ASCII art!

You won't regret it!

https://redd.it/mhky3q
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