Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin

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Finally decided to try Linux, any tips i should know to use it well?
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Kubuntu Linux 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) released
https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-released/

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Linux is for running a business

In the process of buying a business. I have used different POS programs in the past but they have all been windows based. Looking for OS distros and programs that are beneficial for running a business. POS, budgeting, payroll, all the things like that. I have used Linux off and on for 15 years but just for fun and personal use.

Also, I envision setting up 3-10 computers as I grow and would like to have them mesh together well. There is a lot of stuff in this arena that I know nothing about and will need professional help/tutoring to figure it out for sure. Even when I have ran more than one linux machine at a time they were always completely separate and never linked in any way.

Any input would be appreciated. Any laptop recommendations for longevity would be appreciated.

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Release LXQt 2.2.0
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/04/17/release-lxqt-2-2-0/

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"flea" -- Fast Lightweight Epistle Alter.
https://redd.it/1k1mzkk
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Foot (a terminal emulator for wayland) 1.22.0
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases

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Software crying to have better interfaces
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/04/18/mechanism_policy.html

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Perfect Linux Setup - How Do You Port It?

Imagine you have your setup just how you like it. All your configs, apps, etc...

Now imagine you get a new PC and would like it to have the exact same setup, how do you usually do it?

I used to simply start from scratch, incrementally installing the apps I need onto my Debian minimal until I got the previous state. Then I'd just pull my dotfiles to configure what I could and do the rest manually. For obvious reasons, this is not optimal and I always forget something.

As a pragmatist, I use my PC to work and, while I don't mind playing around with my setup, I don't want to lose hours setting it up every time just to realize I forgot half of the things.

This got me into trying NixOS and while I can appreciate it's capabilities, the learning curve is really steep and I'm not hardcore enough to learn all of this stuff to just get a consistent setup.

So how do you guys do it? What are your approaches for a reliable, consistent setup across machines?

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What caused you to finally ditch Windows/MacOS and switch to Linux?

I became fed up with Windows 11 because of bloatware, AI crapware, and my concern of telemetry and my privacy. Around November/December 2024, I finally made the decision to switch. I ended up choosing Linux Mint, and stayed on Linux ever since. I'm using Arch as of now, and it's somehow much stabler then Windows. I will never make the switch back, under any circumstances. What what was the last straw for you?

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Arch Linux replacing Redis with Valkey

Talk about a backfire from the Redis decision on licensing. Instead, the companies that they were making the change to go against, fork it, pre-change, into what is now called Valkey, and now distros are moving to it and dropping support because of the license change.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Going-Valkey

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Porygon Terminal Progress
https://redd.it/1k2bdgh
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¥enOS - A Little "Linux Distro" based on Slax
https://github.com/smiluredev/YenOS-Desktop

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Is there a Linux distro for this?
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I forgot how bad windows is

Just finished installing windows on my rog ally

It took three hours to install, made me connect to Internet and sign into a Microsoft account, asked what data I wanted to sent to Microsoft (all of them were checked by default) THEN I HAD TO CLICK DECLINE 5 TIMES FOR A OFFICE 365 FREE TRIAL ON MY GAMING HANDHELD THEN A OTHER ONE FOR GAMEPASS and then only then did it boot into windows to then immediately blue screen before fixing itself on the next boot up to have office 365 open again AND ASK ME TO SIGN UP FOR ANOTHER FREE TRIAL oh and also one wrong swipe and you have the most hateful fucking shit from Fox news plastered across the screen. Then had to spend 30 minutes deleting all of the preinstalled shovelware crap and surgically remove edge with the terminal. Compare this to Linux where it booted into a test environment with the USB drive then all I had to do was partition my drive and click install atleast with the distro I used.

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User Evaluation For Ineptness: UEFI Sobriety check
https://github.com/mycroftsnm/UEFIGame

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Love how beautiful the activity monitor is
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Dual-Booting Fedora and Windows 11 (with TPM, SecureBoot and BitLocker) was surprisingly easy

I just installed Fedora on my newer thinkpad. Because it is a work laptop, I did not want to disable disk encryption and secure boot. When googling this, it seemed like there would be some difficulties with this, as all the articles are older and assume some hoops to jump through. The only things I had to do where:

1. Shrink the main Windows partition (worked without issues in windows' partition manager, completely without decrypting the drive)

2. Enable third-party CA for secure-boot in the UEFI (TPM is still on!)

3. Install fedora from a live-usb on the freed space

4. When booting into windows again, put in the BitLocker key once

Now both OSs work, seemingly without issues. Even the fingerprint works on Fedora

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Where is Linux at with post-quantum encryption?

The new NIST encryption protocols haven't had a ton of time to be integrated, but some applications have added CRYSTALS-Kyber. For example, Signal added it as a second layer of encryption.

So does anyone have news about where Linux is at with post-quantum full-disk encryption?

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Tired of Snap? Here’s a simple noscript to install Thunderbird & Chromium as real .deb packages
https://github.com/munawarcmd/Linux-Mint-Deb-Package-On-Kubuntu

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How to avoid AI

In the past few months I've been more and more annoyed about 'AI'. I don't want to use it, and i don't want companies using it on my personal data to maximise their profits.

The problem is, it's in everything now, and most of it is proprietary and it is not clear what it does with your data past the point of 'we're training it on your data'. M$/Google/Facebook etc... all shove this crap down their users throat, it's even getting packaged into text editors now.

Has anybody found a managable yet effective way to exist on the internet and avoid 'AI'?

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