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
https://redd.it/1kqc0ok
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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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1 year of Linux

Hi!
Let me preface this with the fact that I've been using linux for ages, primarily for my home server but also through my job as a sysadmin, I also used to run Antergos on my laptop ages ago, and tried to move my desktop over to arch many times, but never stuck with it.

One year ago, when nvidia finally released their drivers with explicit sync support I moved over to Arch from Windows, which like I mentioned I'd been trying to do many times but never stuck with it due to primarily XOrg based issues. Finally with the 555 beta driver release I tried again, and I instantly loved it, I went from a W10 LTSC IoT install to pure minimal arch and setup hyprland on top of it, and I absolutely loved it. There were definitely issues, but it was easily worth it.

In this year since then I've moved over to CachyOS (since it's close enough to base arch but has some nice defaults and I like the fact that they have architecture optimized packages), stayed with hyprland and set up my system absolutely perfectly.

I will probably never roll back to Windows again, and not because Linux is "good enough" but because Windows is bad, I honestly hate every second that I touch Windows, it doesn't let me work the way I want, it takes control away from me and worst of all it treats me like I am an idiot on a higher level than MacOS does.

2024 was the year of the Linux desktop, at least for me, and I hope 2025 will be the same for even more people!


EDIT: I've since moved to AMD graphics on my main system, currently running a 9070 XT

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Any experience with Laptops?

Hey there.

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with Linux in Laptops.

I want to get a good Laptop that will last a while. I have been looking at Tuxedo and ThinkPad laptops. With similar specs tuxedo is much cheaper. But everyone always seems to go for Thinkpads.

Has anyone ever had a chance to test tem both side by side?
Whats the quality difference? And is tuxedo even good.

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Open Source Can’t Coordinate
https://matklad.github.io/2025/05/20/open-source-cant-coordinate.html

https://redd.it/1kr76t2
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Bluefin/Aurora now have live ISOs & new installer
https://redd.it/1kradeb
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Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-rhel-10

https://redd.it/1krala5
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