Will minux ever make a comeback?

As far as I can tell, the minux approach of running less code in the kernel (with elevated privileges) seems like a better design decision.
Will minux (or similar) ever take off?
Or is there just too much effort already vested in linux to bother?
Or am I just missing something?

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Looking for purity in Arch Linux.
http://ludditus.com/2021/04/15/looking-for-purity-in-arch-linux/

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I see your RedHat 5.2 Deluxe and raise you RedHat 4.1
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I see your Redhat 4.1 and raise you Redhat 3.0.3
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Horrendous Debian login reboot loop!

Learned an important lesson today: be VERY careful creating/editing the /etc/environment file in Debian! I lost all ability to login (both GUI and CLI). No helpful output (including logs from recovery boot); just a blank login loop. Searched for HOURS on the net trying to narrow down the issue, with no luck. Tried all the usual: fsck, disk space, shell, PAM etc. The kicker is, all I was doing was setting an LD_LIBRARY variable for Fortran! I'll never touch/edit THAT file again...

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Can't turn on Bluetooth on a Lenovo IdeaPad 330 running pop-os

Bluetooth works from time to time, most of the time I tried to power it on using both the GUI and the "bluetoothctl power on" command, but when I use "bluetoothctl show" to display my controller info, it says my controller is powered off.

Sometimes when my Bluetooth actually turns on, My wifi suddenly stops working.

Any idea on how to fix this?

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Why all linux ebook readers suck so much?

So recently I began to enjoy reading books just before sleep in my bed on my linux laptop (fedora 34). I'm currently reading Harry Potter series. I like to have ebook reader on right half of my screen so I can open up browser on the other half, and look up words in dictionary that I dont understand. Light in my room is very dim, so dark theme is must have, and my laptop screen is also on minimum brightness. First ebook editor that i picked up was calibre, it worked pretty well for a while, I also managed to setup VIM like key bindings so i can scroll with J, K buttons. So the issues that I have:

1. table of contents is all messed up:

https://preview.redd.it/p1kc1m814xt61.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=b192af4210b2e0f77ec7706d3a526077b38528c9

2. When you encounter illustration, it's very small, so naturally you click to expand it to look at it in better detail.

https://preview.redd.it/ngxb3ri64xt61.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=b54b09475e8accc9070db0ba8521233b70adbf12

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https://preview.redd.it/n7bgcjlc4xt61.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1816fbd9c66d01ef9dcc8a90e48f475e877661c

When you aer done looking at it, you want to go back to reading. NO you cant, tried pressing all buttons imaginable, ESC, ENTER, SPACE, BACKSPACE and so on. Only solution is to close calibre, and open it up again. Thats ridiculous!

3. Yesterday I was reading and wanted to increase font size so i tried to press CTRL + '+' but i think i pressed something else, and application crashed, and somehow partly CORRUPTED my EPUB file. Now callibre cannot open this file anymore, i get following error:

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https://preview.redd.it/9rslzqk15xt61.png?width=857&format=png&auto=webp&s=210aa78ae884aa72ee4871b0c4f23a283e7ed8a4

I tried even opening this file on my other machine with calibre installed, same error. I opens up previous copy (Lucky that I was reading copy, on my laptop).

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So i got pissed and started looking at the alternatives to calibre:

So next goes Foliate

Issue: When you change to dark theme, this basic font stays black, no matter what theme you choose. And also cant expand picture.

https://preview.redd.it/xomty6li5xt61.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=f2c1607dd51962c8505bc2d25aaf50fbf51ae900

Well you can select option "INVERT", Witch messes up illustration. Ridiculous!

https://preview.redd.it/s6pzw5xs5xt61.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=f77f34adcc63bdb68efeacda9aebda8ac3800151

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Next goes Okular, extremely laggy, Cant setup dark theme, illustrations dont work. Terrible.

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Next goes Bookworm:

Interface and dark theme looks nice, but this illustration is all messed up, and you cant u

https://preview.redd.it/8ozx3xvc6xt61.png?width=1355&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc371424a234f38c6d6a8043d0cab23be99441db

When you click on it you get this:

Blank screen

https://preview.redd.it/t4b5p0rp6xt61.png?width=1355&format=png&auto=webp&s=51c5c1f1f2f69747f6fe7a33771488ad01f6466f

And when you want to setup keybindings:

White gray text on white background. Good luck!

https://preview.redd.it/ljjij4i57xt61.png?width=894&format=png&auto=webp&s=3540a7900e0aff4945fdba194824b7ed3caf5d67

Next goes FBReader:

App looks pretty ancient, but content rendering is best of all of them. Image looks good, but you cant expand it. You can actually disable top toolbar: by right clicking on it and disabling this checkbox, but you cant enable it back again.

https://preview.redd.it/y22026ge7xt61.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=26abd255445766cb28871f04b83f685ecc92ef6e

What are your thoughts, what reader do you use? FBReader is the best in my opinion.

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What's a best Linux Book you have ever read?

The best Linux book I have ever read is "Harly Hahn's Guide to Unix and Linux" which published in 2008.

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The sentences inspire me most are:

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> Tools that will shape our minds in a good way as we use them.

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>As you do, your mind will change for the better, your thought processes will improve, and your way of looking at the world and at yourself will change.

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ConnecMan - open source puzzle game

Hi!

I wanted to share with you my recently published puzzle game, ConnecMan. It is actually a remake of a game I created about ten years ago with the now obsolete XNA framework from Microsoft.

It's now open source and there's a deb package ready to download and install for Debian-based distros. It can be run easily in many other distros by installing Ruby and MiniGL.

Hope you have fun with it. Thanks!

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Recommendations for practicing/preparation for Linux Foundation's Sysadmin and Certified Engineer certification exams

I'm taking several Linux Foundation courses leading to subsequent certifications over the next several months.

From my research, the practice materials are scant. If you can direct me to the existense of any practice problems with solutions, I'd greatly appreciate.

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Linux laptop for gaming and school

So I'm going to get a new laptop for college in the coming months. And I want to be able to game on it. Like being able to run modern games at the lowest settings is fine, as long as they are playable. I don't really game on pc, but that's mostly because I haven't had the hardware capable of running games I want to play. So that's something I'm planning on picking up.

The thing is I'll want to run linux on it, for pretty much everything else except gaming. Do you know any relatively new laptops that'll be able to do all that?

Macs are out because I don't really like apple. plus they're really expensive

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Any thoughts on the Facebook data leak?

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I would say yes. Cause the Linux community are usually on the forefront of tech, and are always sceptic of big tech.

I (finally) deleted my fcbook, I deleted my twitter sometime ago, and looking forward to deleting my whatsapp.

At the end this is the mandatory part where I remind that facebook, twitter, whatsapp, youtube, ... are not your friends, and you should get rid of them, or at least be actively looking for an alternative.

And finally this is the part where I tell that, I use arch, btw.

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What's the best distro for my old laptop?

I was planning to use mint cinnamon, although it's old but I wanted the OS to be fully featured. The laptop's CPU : Intel centrino dual core 2.26gh Ram : 4 GB 533.3 MHz ddr2. But not only the ram is slow, the hdd is also really slow. The ram size and the CPU are capable to hold a fully featured OS and obviously I would prefer it, is it too far to fetch and should cave into using a light distro (like pubby or mint xfce) or I can pull mint cinnamon? Or is there another distro that would fit this?

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Just installed the latest XP-Pen Linux drivers on openSUSE. Ready for use in Krita :)))
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Programmer created an AI-powered Linux shell using OpenAI's GPT-3

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Gnome Shell 40 inconsistency

Gnome Shell has an hot corner, in the upper left side of the screen. It used to be consistent in terms of usability as you had the dock right nearly the hot corner.

Now the dock moved in the bottom of the screen. How's useful having an upper hot corner of you have to go to the bottom to choose an icon from the dock? Would a left bottom hot corner be more useful from a usability way?


I know there are extension for everything, from dash to dock to the one that kicks your dog, but I'm just talking about the design choice of default shell.

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I have successfully made a bootable USB (Ubuntu), however when powering off my computer & then turning back on again, I have to start from scratch (lose all my files/settings). Any way to save this like a normal computer?

The noscript provides pretty much everything you need to know about my issue ... When I boot up coming from powering off, it's like running Linux for the first time (no files, applications, settings from my previous session).

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Thanks,

Mike

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At 7:31 a.m. UTC on Monday, April 19th, the Linux-powered Mars helicopter will take its first flight. A live stream starts at 10:15am UTC to watch the team see the data live!

At 12:31 a.m. PDT on Monday, April 19th, the Linux-powered Mars helicopter will take its first flight, which will also be the first powered, controlled flight done on another planet. An official stream for live updates is below. The stream will start at 3:15 a.m. PDT (6:15 a.m. EDT/10:15 a.m. UTC) as there will be a delay for the data to arrive.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Watch-Online

More from their official announcement here:

"At 12:31 a.m. PDT on Monday, April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter team is going to attempt the first ever powered, controlled flight on another planet."

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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III -- Prototype Mesa compiler can now spin a cube
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html

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I'm switching over to Garuda as my first Linux distro!!! Might be the same amount of bloat to you guys but I'm happy that I can control my updates now...
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Tips for protecting files from yourself
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20210419#qa

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