I switched from Windows 11 to Arch Linux, best decision ever!
https://redd.it/1j9upxy
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I customized my terminal for a class project
https://redd.it/1j9wgf1
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Breathe! Giving life to my first laptop

https://preview.redd.it/1u67pziqhcoe1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0cab0bddcc94f304a1b427f51f04df5b687bd557




(This post is to elaborate the face lift of an old HP stream; neofetch image posted for reference)


My first laptop, this little HP stream, I was so happy to get when I was around 8 years old.

specs:

Celeron N3060
4 Gigs of ram
32 gigs of EMMC storage


Yeah... It was already terrible when it was released, and as I progressed into the computer hobby it dawned on me how terrible this laptop was. It was slow, loading up browsers took an agonizingly long time, and trying to play even IO games was sluggish. I eventually ditched this laptop in favor for an upgrade and bought a dell XPS 13 7390, and having both a real nvme and more than 2 cores, it was blazing fast, leaving this laptop to quickly be forgotten on my dusty bookshelf.



This later changed when I was cleaning out and saw it sitting on the shelf. Powered it on with a charger, and saw that it still in fact works. Earlier this year, my first distro, Fedora, had been more than pleasant and seen how easy Linux was to install and use, so I decided that even though it was definitely lighter than windows, I might as well look around for a lighter OS. Lubuntu on paper seemed great. It was most importantly extremely cut down out of the box, simplistic (albeit basic, LXQT is fine) UI, and was in the ubuntu camp, which would be great for a noob user.




Boot times? halved. load times? halved. just browsing still felt like jello, but after I updated it and I played around, this could successfully play back 1440p youtube (4k saw some dropped frames) and having more than 3-4 tabs wouldn't cause the system to keel over and have a heart attack. definitely wasn't a super pretty DE, but literally being able to actually browse instead of waiting an additional 8 seconds for reddit to load was crazy to me.



Right now, my hardware has gone way beyond the pathetic celeron (7600x/7900GRE rig), and I will continue to dual boot (or even triple boot) as time goes on, but gone are the pessimistic days of looking down on Linux, and now I even just default to considering it as a way to breathe life into my old hardware.

https://redd.it/1j9yd2h
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Subject: Unofficial Claws Mail 4.3.0 AppImage (Built with GLIBC 2.38)
https://old.reddit.com/r/AppImage/comments/1ja26cq/subject_unofficial_claws_mail_430_appimage_built/?

https://redd.it/1ja2oh7
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Longtime Windows gamer(, etc) looking to take the plunge, but...is it for me?

I've used Windows pretty much my whole life and even scoffed at devout Linux gamers some 20+ years ago for foregoing what seemed to me then to be the convenience and universality of Windows. I probably knew I was wrong then, too.

I'm not a fan of the direction Windows will be going when they drop support for Windows 10, and my experience using Windows 11 at work has been lackluster. While I'm looking for probably the most "Windows-like" experience I can get with Linux (and am aware that a bunch of options exist for this), I'm mostly concerned about:

- Will all my games run? I have thousands across a half dozen or so platforms (Steam, GOG, Battle.net...), and some of the ones I play the most are older and run in DOSbox.
- Will all of my software work? I use Office a lot for work, but I can just use 365 online and Libre for offline, so that doesn't matter a ton to me. However, I use lots of stuff for productivity and general tomfoolery, from racing pedals and a DDR pad bound to functions in Adobe Captivate to an XBox Kinect set up with Simplode Suite to (admittedly poorly) enable drag-and-drop functionality with my frickin' hands like I'm a wizard or an officer in Minority Report.
- I also use a lot of little "specialty" programs that enable me to create macros and the like - from Macro Commander and my Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (with its specialized software) to AnyCase, which is literally just a program that lets me switch text selections to lowercase/ALLCAPS/dRoPcApS (I actually use this a TON for work). Is doing stuff like this made easier in Linux through functions within the OS?

Regarding Windows programs (games and otherwise), it's my understanding that the answer is WINE, about which I have only a passive understanding.

However, it does seem like not only my background with it but the things I like to do might best be suited for just sticking with Windows. Am I wrong? Is Linux for me?

https://redd.it/1ja3e3w
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My first time!!
https://redd.it/1ja4y1n
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Goodbye Windows!!!
https://redd.it/1ja60wv
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Is there anyone who lives like RMS

Is there anyone who uses 0 proprietary software just like Richard Stallman. Is it really possible to live like that in modern world where ATM machines, most public wifi consists of closed source software?

https://redd.it/1ja6jhd
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Counter strike 2 issues on Linux

Hello, i have issues with cs2 which are big ping, losing framerates and randomly freezes im on nobara Linux (tbh just because i had problems with downloading windows) i dont know nothing about Linux and how to use it and my head have headache from all those codes and everything i think my laptop is good enough its msi katana 15 with intel i7 13th gen, nvidia rtx 4060 8gb, 16gb ddr5 rams, so i dont know what to do with it i will appreciate any hele bcs idk what to do

https://redd.it/1ja8s3f
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Looking for an editor that persists and displays literally every file i've edited like Snagit
https://redd.it/1ja9aid
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Ubuntu pro mixed support levels

Does anyone know if you can mix support levels of ubuntu pro within an organization? Trying to get mgmt to approve the subnoscription for the environment but we have a dev who wants a host with support so he can reach out with questions here and there but I only really care for the esm apps and landscape across the board.

https://redd.it/1jaf6uo
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Updates on Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/

https://redd.it/1jaghh0
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Maybe someone here will know? Is this safe to push on a Pixel 6, or should I just stick with using the UI?
https://redd.it/1jaiw1k
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firefox have more mac users than linux users. this shows how niche linux actually is.
https://redd.it/1jakbvs
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Open source note taking apps?

Hi. Basically, I’m asking for suggestions. Do you know any good note taking app that works on linux desktop? I’m looking for something that I can use instead of Notion or Obsidian, with some nice to have:

- Open source (that’s the reason I’m not that much into Obsidian, it could disappear tomorrow and I could not replace it with a community maintained fork)
- Markdown based. I’d like to know that I can replace that app for another one when I want, and that’s not possible when they use their own obscure format
- Local. I’m not interested in paying monthly for cloud storage. And actually, I’d prefer to know for certain that nothing leaves my local machine
- Nice UX. I know that using plain text files and vim might do the job, but I’d like something more user friendly and with nice features (Notion, for example, nails it in my opinion)
- Bonus: Can also be used on android (I’m aware this is a though one, and is not a deal breaker)

I know that all those requirements are hard to fulfill and I don’t even know if something like that exists, so I’d appreciate any kind of suggestion. For example, It’d be great if an open source like that exists, but I’m not completely closed to open-source-ish proprietary apps (e.g. licenses not really open but close enough), as long as they are free to use and work on linux.

https://redd.it/1jamcmz
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First Hyprland Setup: Feedback Appreciated
https://github.com/Firstp1ck/Hyprland_Simple-and-Minimalistic_Setup

https://redd.it/1jange6
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Hello and good day/night to everyone here. I have kind of a plea: does anybody (anyone at all, as I've been asking this same thing from a lot of people by now, but to no avail thus far) know if there's a standalone version of this exact same skin out there? So that I could download it for Audacious.
https://redd.it/1jaqvd4
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troblo, a simple match-three terminal game (Bash)
https://redd.it/1jar64j
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Below: World Writable Directory in /var/log/below Allows Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2025-27591)
https://security.opensuse.org/2025/03/12/below-world-writable-log-dir.html

https://redd.it/1jathij
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Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zstd-1.5.7-Patch

https://redd.it/1jatd82
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My New Toy
https://redd.it/1javxrj
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