My Own Worst Enemy

I've been using Linux mainly for headless server use for about a decade.

My first run in was like 20 years ago dual booting winxp and using the oem hdd I pulled out of my original Xbox (had a mod chip & replacement drive).

I still use it, everyday, on my headless servers.

But having tried daily driving it for the past few weeks I can firmly say my patience isn't strong enough to use it for my main OS.

Guess I'm slow on the uptake, my expectations are too high, something else idk. Maybe 30+ years of daily windows use just ingrained the ecosystem.

I want to prefer it! I really do. It's done nothing but good for me in the homelab sense.

Fwiw the utterly pointless fact that has me so heated...im trying to fix my flipper zero. I needed qflipper. Install it from apt. Threw errors right out the gate. It just worked in win11 🤷‍♂️

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Relatively unknown FOSS Linux video editor with a lot of potential

I recently came across a pretty unknown video editor called "cinelerra gg infinity" in my quest for a good Linux video editor. I decided to check it out, and I'm quite impressed with what it has. I see that there are a bunch of effects, and even a plugin that allows you to run inkscape inside the video editor (if you have inkscape installed in your system as a native package and not a flatpak).

They also have hardware-accelerated playback with OpenGL using VA-API, VDPAU, or even CUDA.

For rendering they have CPU rendering, and GPU hardware-accelerated rendering with VA-API, Quicksync and NVENC (however this is only available if you get cinelerra gg from the AUR, or compile the cinelerra gg appimage yourself; or else you can only use the CPU).

They can even use a render farm for rendering!

A benefit and a downside of cinelerra gg is that they do not use the MLT framework; they instead use ffmpeg and their own custom GUI and plugin system.

I'm honestly shocked that more people do not know about cinelerra gg, and that this software is so unknown and obscure.

The link to their website if you want to check them out: https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/

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why do people complain about libadwaita, but not QT?

I often see people complaining about how bad libadwaita integrates in any DE that is not Gnome, but the same doesn't happen with QT apps.

QT apps look pretty bad outside of any QT DE. libadwaita apps looks better on gnome, yes, but they're still decent enough on other desktops.

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Any news on the transmission 4.0.1 timetable?

on terms of release? is it getting close, does anybody know? i was running 4.0.6 but it had some error so i went back to 4.0.5 but was poking around and was interested in some of the new features. but it's been in beta for awahile, so just wanted to check and see if anybody knows when it goes from beta to release, or if anybody has heard i guess.

thanks!

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Best or favorite package managers?

I know this has been posted before, as I've taken a look at a post from two years ago to get insight on this. But that was two years ago and I want to get some fresh insights on everybody's favorite package managers. I'm also posting this since I'm working on a project (for fun) that is essentially a TUI for package managers written in Bash. So what are y'all's favorite package managers to use?

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I fully switched to Linux ~2 months ago and ever since then, any time I use windows it feels like I'm going crazy rant

Im not picky about my pc really, I just have very simple requirements that windows can not comprehend. Mostly, I can not stand when they go out of their way to bother me. Switching to Linux has felt like taking off a heavy af blanket, and any time I use windows it's like talking to that one terrible friend you used to have

Every time I go to my windows ssd (which is rare and I'm trying to reduce it as much as possible), I have to fix my date and time every single time because Microsoft apparently doesn't know what time zone I live in with how much tracking they do on me, if I don't set my settings exactly I get popup notifications even when I have notifications turned off entirely, the taskbar has a tendency to just not even open the programs that I'm clicking on, explorer is less stable than any video editor I've ever used, and I could keep going on

It just feels so amazing to go back and experience calmness. I have a gtx 1050 ti which means Nvidia doesn't care about me and my driver's are horribly unstable, yet i haven't used an os more stable since I switched off of Windows 8.1 (People hate on 8 which is justified but idk i really liked 8.1), and the fact that I can open my files app
without a permanent ad in the side panel is just so peaceful feeling

I don't care what happens to me on Linux, I'm never switching back to Windows because using Windows every day seriously was driving me crazy and stressed me out so badly how much windows would go out of its way to bother me just to make more money every year. I seriously can not recommend it enough the growing pains of switching are so worth sticking through

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Sony XM5 Linux problems

I'm using Arch with Hyprland, pipewire/wireplumber. Headset works great playing music. I lose output when I launch discord. Microphone doesn't work at all in calls or not. Microphone monitor is playing playback. I've tried disabling hands free mode. Not sure what to do. Please help :'(

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Is there a Linux capital of the world?

I am thinking of a place where a lot of people meetup to work on Linux related issues. I was thinking Shenzhen but one of the meetups is presentation based and not development. Los Angeles has one but it's only monthly.

Like my arch boot folder isn't working and it would be nice to discuss with people why it happened, how to navigate journalctl logs, and understand how to fix it.

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Detecting malicious Unicode
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/16/detecting-malicious-unicode/

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GSoC 2025 Project Intro: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/

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I found Android deGoogling edition of ProtonDB
https://f-droid.org/packages/tech.techlore.plexus/

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[OC] iwmenu 0.2.0 released: A launcher-driven Wi-Fi manager for Linux
https://redd.it/1kqabxk
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New to linux!!! Some suggestions
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I finally switched to linux!

(I use arch btw)
It was pretty straight forward to install. I guess they made it easier to install for us noobs with mirrors. otherwise it really wasn't as hard as they said it is going to be.
It's very light. I do art and sometimes I see some ricings people did before and go woooowwww! I can’t wait to try learn how to rice myself

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AwesomeLinuxSoftware just got a new frontend
https://luong-komorebi.github.io/Awesome-Linux-Software/

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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/

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Extreme Pi Boot Optimization
https://kittenlabs.de/blog/2024/09/01/extreme-pi-boot-optimization/

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1 Year with Arch Linux

Hey everyone,

It’s been almost a year since I started using Arch Linux, and I thought I’d share a bit of the journey—because it’s been a wild one.

GRUB rescue? Happened to me 5 times. Each time I felt like a hacker and a total beginner.

Reinstalled Arch? At least 2 times—one because I messed up the partitions, another time chasing that "perfect" setup.

Got stuck? Easily 5+ times. From missing Wi-Fi drivers to broken updates, to figuring out why the DE won’t start… I’ve seen the dark side.


But here’s the thing: every time I broke something, I learned something. Now I’ve got a clean, minimal, and custom Arch setup running exactly the way I want. And yes… I do say “I use Arch, btw” sometimes.

Thanks to the forums, wikis,gpt , claude and the amazing community here that helped me survive the chaos.



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How are distros able to charge despite open source license?

So saw this article and it got me wondering...

How is it that anything with the Linux kernel as base is able to be charged for?

'Back in the day' I thought it was that the distro had to be free but they can charge for support. But now you have a list of distros that you in theory can't use unless you buy a license for it?

What gives? Did something in the license change or something?

Link,
https://www.howtogeek.com/paid-linux-distros/


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Tired of manually editing .bashrc for every alias? I made a noscript to set shell aliases quickly
https://redd.it/1kqyohn
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I created my basic terminal shell to apply the theory

Hey everyone, since I am freshman, I get theory so often. I wanted to improve my skills instead of just listening to theory in college, and online videos so I created a minimal custom terminal shell. I added basic unix commands, chain commands, redirection, command history, and built-in commands to it. It would be great if you check it out, and give feedback about how can I improve it or which path should I follow in development. Check it out: https://github.com/sundanc/sdn

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