Linux Performance — Part 3: No Swap Space
https://linuxblog.io/linux-performance-no-swap-space/

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UEFI / BIOS Development Workshop
https://redd.it/1jv4oi7
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The order of files in your ext4 filesystem does not matter
https://thewisenerd.com/blog/ext4-readdir/

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My Linux Journey so far

Hi all,

I wanted to share my Linux Journey as someone who's lightly dabbled in it. Overall I find myself still using Windows more because it's easier to run programs although gaming is definitely easier when using Steam/Wine.

I started with Fedora 39 when I set up my Frameworks laptop about 2 years ago. And tbh it reminded me google chrome when I tried it some years ago.

I tinkerer around with it and somehow I got cisco packet tracer installed using some github. Despite there being no official support for it which I thought was cool. Funny thing is though I completely dropped the ball and didn't write down my steps on how I did it. And haven't been able to replicate cisco packet install.

Later I bought a new hard drive for my desktop before Trump was inaugurated because I knew tarrifs or something else where about to kick me in the crotch. And you guessed it I got Fedora again! I liked it so much the first time and it's stability made it an easy pick. I ended up going with a dual boot setup with windows as my first boot option.

However as I said before getting packet tracer was not possible because I forgot the steps. Still was able to game though and do just about anything.

I decided to move into Ubuntu and download packet tracer that way...only to find out that the version on the website is actually version 22 and not the new 24. And it didn't run. Oof.

I was still able to play games on it and get other things I liked like Microsoft office for work though.

Last major thing of mention was my mechanical keyboard I got for my desktop. I decided to give them a try and boy..was it something on ubuntu. Some of the keys didn't work and I ended up having to go get my friend whonwas more knowledgeable to troubleshoot with me (mostly him) on how to make it so some of the keys were changed via a website. We ended up messing with the chmod files if I remember which helped us finally fix and allow us to use the site to change keys around.

Overall Linux is nice but there is defiantly a need to learn it from the ground up for me. But I struggle to know where to start but despite that I can do some basic things with it.

I would still recommend anyone to try it on something like oracle box as a first timer to get a feel for it before switching from windows 10 to Linux in the future if you decided too.

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OpenSSH 10.0 released April 9, 2025
http://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#10.0p1

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AMD Prepping PKI Accelerator Driver "AMDPK" For Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PKI-Accelerator-AMDPK-Linux

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Asahi Lina argues with kernel dev over code authorship and releases all their code as CC-0 in frustration
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250325235522.3992-1-dakr@kernel.org/t/#m3e7ce5eea7efd29afbd4cf3a4911cc16b7847293

https://redd.it/1jvfonn
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How is TUXEDO’s ARM Notebook Coming Along?
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/How-is-TUXEDOCOes-ARM-Notebook-Coming-Along.tuxedo

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My story of switching to linux

So I have had a laptop a very old laptop and the performance is so low so I barely do something using Windows 10 so this is why I'll switch it to Windows 7 even if security updates aren't there but I sticked with Windows 7 and it's okay in that time and also at that time I have committed to study a course of Linux by Cisco it's just the essentials I think it's 70 hours of study so for that I used virtualbox and I ran Linux mint cuz I found out that it's very handful for newcomers but at that time I just needed a Linux terminal but I didn't found the subsystem for Linux because it's not supported in Windows 7.

So after a while one of my friends asked me to do a presentation for him I have done it and I installed a template for PowerPoint and everything that I have in the PC is cracked so after a while all my files got encrypted and yes I got hacked.

After some thoughts I realized that I have spent so much time in Linux mint than in Windows I'll just use Windows for Microsoft Office and some other programs but I don't remember

And then it clicked, why not try Linux mint it's just like Windows 7

After a while customizing Linux mint I have watched that you understand the play what's going on in computers you need to know how things works and this is why I've switched to arch Linux.

I've spent a lot of time using arsenics maybe 2 years or one year and a half and at that time I have lunch so much and also I have struggled so much with pacman because of the partial updates that I have done I didn't realized the first time what's going on until the second time, what I did it just updating one package that updates it's dependencies but the problem is that other programs are dependent on the dependency that the first program has updated so all those programs broke and my system broke so for that I just add to upgrade the entire system.

So after a while my / partition is filled and I don't have any solution other than copying what's in the /home partition to another drive and then resizing the / partition 50gb.

And then I thought why not just use a stable distro like Debian and also I have faced a lot of cases where I want to install some programs I am just found the .deb release so this is why I've switched to Debian.

And here I am, if I got a new laptop I will try some red hat base distos fedora, cuz I want to try some stable distro that have new versions of programs out there in the internet. This is due to the fact that I have not found the latest version of neovim, and I'm forced to use AppImag, but that's fine I found a way to integrated easily in my system.

This was my journey, what do you think?

You can share yours too 😉

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Monitor Issue
https://redd.it/1jvo103
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low-resource pc for programming

Hello people, as the noscript says, I am new in the computer world, I don't have enough money to buy a high end pc, I am studying programming, but I would like to know if there is any linux distribution, where I can program comfortably and fluently with these specifications:



Lenovo g-40-80

CPU: intel i3-4005u 1.6 GHZ

GPU: AMD ATI RADEON HD 8670A/8670M

Memory: 7866mib

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Error code: Wsl/InstallDistro/Service/RegisterDistro/CreateVm/MountVhd/HCS/0x80070570

I have had alot of dependencies installed in my wsl and as asked to chatgpt it told me to unregister them one by one but it didnt freed my C drive space so chatgpt gives me opinion of deleting it manually and i deleted ext4.vhdx file and when i try to reinstall wsl through powershell it gives me error:
Failed to attach disk 'C:\Program Files\WSL\system.vhd' to WSL2: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

Error code: Wsl/InstallDistro/Service/RegisterDistro/CreateVm/MountVhd/HCS/0x80070570

and followed all the steps by Chatgpt to reinstall the wsl and ubuntu platform
first it told me to delete whole wsl file from the c drive to try a fresh start but doing so it told me to manually Download the latest WSL2 kernel update. but while running the installer it told me this in photo[1\]
I successfully wasted a day and more for this, if there is anyone who can help me

https://preview.redd.it/yayd4hdikyte1.png?width=465&format=png&auto=webp&s=fde8f7d8764c914e3b3b850a5489a4f369ca7217



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Which has better wayland support - Gnome or KDE?

I'm currently using Fedora but I'm considering switching to Ubuntu.


My worry is about Wayland support. Does Ubuntu Gnome support wayland well? How does wayland support compare between KDE and Gnome?


My general impression (and this could be wrong!) is that Gnome doesn't move as fast as KDE?

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Will Linux infrastructure expanding in Europe?

With everything going going in the world, it would be obvious if some organizations in Europe are working towards switching their infrastructure from Windows to Linux. I know we are pretty much locked into windows in many parts of our society, but some steps must be taken towards the switch. Is this the case, and if so, can anyone post sources for it?

https://redd.it/1jvupzr
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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Will Now Be Less Restrictive Over RAM Use
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-Mesa-Less-RAM-Block

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Linux Mint's LMDE 7 to Feature Full OEM Install Support
https://linuxiac.com/mints-lmde-7-to-feature-full-oem-install-support/

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fwupd version 2.0.8 released, project aims to make updating firmware on Linux automatic, safe, and reliable
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd

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What happens to old hardware AMD/NVIDIA

I have a question about GPUs and driver support, specifically during the end of their life

Let's say I have a recent AMD GPU and a recent NVIDIA GPU

Now let's pretend 10 to 20 years from now, I keep them around for nostalgia purposes, much like how I have a 386 that's frozen in time

Obviously I can't install any new NVIDIA drivers, but will there ever be a stage where I can't install the newest Linux kernel due to the NVIDIA driver not being updated to be compatible with the futuristic kernel?

What about on AMDs side? I'm aware that the kernel keeps legacy stuff in there, but will there ever be a limit where you'd be stuck on an old kernel?

I know nobody can see into the future, but it's the only way I can convey what I'm trying to query

Much like how my 386 can't install Windows 11, does Linux ever have a "Your hardware is so old that you can only run old Linux" scenario?

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A rant about Ubuntu PRO.

I recently get to know about Ubuntu pro situation recently, And how do I put it… It disappointed me. There is no mention of only packages from main/restricted will get security updates from Ubuntu team/community 1. There are many packages in the universe/multiverse repo that are particularly abandoned, like VLC just months after LTS release 2. While there debian counterparts are getting security updates. Ubuntu pro users get security updates through ESM channel, normal users are left vulnerable. Even some packages take like years to be patched by community (e.g., recently published USA about alpine package) 3. I get it, Ubuntu has to make the money and I support the idea of PRO of giving business and organization that don't want to upgrade their system often. I don't mind donating Ubuntu on a regular basis, but to ask to subscribe to pro or even register for Ubuntu one when even the next non-LTS version is released is absurd. Yeah, I know PRO is free for personal use (for now), but how it is different from Microsoft pushing for accounts during Windows installations? Did Ubuntu forget what its name means? “Humanity towards others”.

How about supporting extended period after the next release of LTS, and security updates during LTS to LTS cycle on Ubuntu. Think of this way, Canonical have already fixed the issue for the pro user, it will cost canonical practically nothing.

1https://ubuntu.com/desktop

2 https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46461

3 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7360-1

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What is the current state of linux on Apple silicon?

I was wondering if anyone has experience with running linux on apple silicone as their primary daily driver. Specifically debian running on m1pro.

Background:

I regrettably bought m1pro some time ago. I do not like macos at all. I prefer running linux and gnome desktop. My current hp laptop is close to 10 years old and eventually it might stop working. If I did not have the m1pro, I would have bought a new laptop, but since I already have it, I am wondering if I can use linux on m1 as my daily driver.

Yes I am aware that there is asahi linux. I want to be able to do actually work without having to be tinkering with it all the time. Is it doable in the current state of things? What are the limitation in its current state?



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Why does no major distro try to update their faulty Wi-Fi firmware?

Our story starts from this repository of CodeLinaro: https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath10k-firmware/-/tree/main

If you look at it properly, it's the open-source code for the firmware of Qualcomm Atheros. Yes, this is the place from where a lot of faulty supplicant errors arrive. Ok?

Now, QCA9377 was updated at least 5 years ago. However, every major distro bears the same error. I personally had WPA-supplicant errors for a long time, and I had to resolve them by copying the files of QCA9377 from the repo to my system.

It could've been a lot easier had the Ubuntu and Fedora devs simply updated their Wi-Fi firmware files regularly.



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