As an absolute beginner, install Linux with the help of AI feels really great.

It gives you straight answer, with a very readable step to step guide, minus all the hustle to search online and look for a right answer. It explains some difficult concept like a decent human do. It could also give a summary of questions I asked to reinforce my understanding. But why no one is talking more about this?

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Linux for my old Gaming laptop

This is a work laptop. Most of my work is online on Chrome(work, mail, canva, netflix, yt etc). I don't use any Microsoft Tools on the laptop as I never took an activation key. I rarely use this laptop for anything else. Will it be better to run Linux? What are the Pros and Cons.

My laptop -

Asus TUF Gaming FX504GE

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz

Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.86 GB usable)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

1TB harddrive, 128gb SSD, 4 gb graphic card



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I am trying to get Wayland with Weston to work on the newest Linux mint but have issues with getting it going.

So I go through the process of running everything in the terminal, and I launch Weston via terminal and try to get Wayland running, but when I try launching Wayland nothing happens , it's just blank for Weston. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, Ivenuninstalled and reinstalled again and it still doesn't work. Does anyone have any general advice on how to fix this?

Thank you

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Australian tech publication telling average users that Linux is now the smarter choice!

The timing’s interesting: as Windows 10 approaches end-of-life in 2025, and when users are being nudged towards a cloud-first model, this week's APC’s saying: maybe don’t. Maybe go Linux.This isn’t a niche Linux mag. It’s a mainstream Australian tech publication telling average users that Linux is now the smarter choice. That’s a shift. Feels like we’ve gone full circle: the same headlines from 2005, but this time it’s not about hope. It’s about practicality. Bloat, telemetry, UI friction maybe Linux’s time on the desktop really has arrived.

https://preview.redd.it/ojh8be24427f1.jpg?width=1151&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd8e7e2c0a7965200408fbf90f72abcb65d4ca4c



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I am drowning in love with cachyos

hi im readhy to ditch windows space and go full to linux i tried fedora linux mint and they have good and bad but cachy os the thing about it is all my apps native not flatpack not appimage and thats what i want ! like iriunwebcam its for ubuntu (deb) and in arch or cachy its native i dont have to use boxbuddy to make it work

and discord is native !!!!



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Whatever happened to Bottles and Bottles-Next?

Bottles is one of the most user friendly prefix managers (from a perspective of a casual Linux user). However it has been months since any noteworthy updates have been released, it is still plagued by that awful bug, when you try to launch an .exe with the KDE file picker it has a 50/50 chance to crash internally and leaving behind zombie processes, where I have to restart my PC (and wait the 90 seconds for systemd to finally kill the remaining unresponsive processes...).

Bottles-Next had been announced and seemed promising, even though they decided to rewrite their work from Electron to Rust and libcosmic. But it has been 5 months since any work on it has been done on their repositories, whatever happened to it?

It really is a shame, because there aren't really any casual friendly alternatives for prefix management that are as known and "fleshed out" as Bottles (though Bottles still lacks UMU support).

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Post-quantum cryptography in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/post-quantum-cryptography-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10

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Linux is almost perfect at everything

I can play almost every game, but not those with extreme kernel-level anticheat.

I can run almost every photo/video editor, but not Adobe.

I can run almost all office apps, unless it's Microsoft Office natively.

Almost can run on all hardware, but not Nvidia. It can work great, but you will lose some performance against Windows(spically dx12 but this might fix hopefully)

And if...your nvidia card is in legacy support card all you can do is to cry

This post is well-made, but it may have grammatical mistakes, just like Linux XD

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GNOME: Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

https://redd.it/1lc1lp8
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Self-hosted ebook2audiobook converter, voice cloning & 1107 languages! :) Update!
https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook

https://redd.it/1lc1ocp
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The EU should force software monopolists to support Linux

The EU should force Microsoft, Adobe and other companies to offer their software for Linux as well. These companies are coldly exploiting their monopoly position to keep open source software down. Linux only has no chance on the desktop because no one creates sensible rules.

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Announcing HeliumOS 10 Beta!
https://www.heliumos.org/blog/post/announcing-heliumos-10-beta/

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GitHub - netshow: Cross platform, lightweight & high performance network connection monitor with friendly service names
https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/netshow

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What software do you use on Linux and purposes do you use it for?

I know they're are various alternatives to proprietary software in FOSS. There's Affinity and there's GIMP/Krita. What is your use case that you go the FOSS route?

I'm also pretty curious about the amount of users of FOSS. Like most people would use Steam as the main game launcher but why use Lutris even though you could add non-steam games to Steam.

I'm looking more for personal use cases or is it literally just because its FOSS that you use it?



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It's the year of Linux... at least for Denmark

Great news for the Linux community.
Denmark's Ministry of Digital Affairs will move away from Microsoft services, including Windows and Office 365. Hope more companies will follow.
They are also doing it with a caution
“If phasing out proves to be too complicated, we can revert back to Microsoft in an instant"

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/its-the-year-of-linux-at-least-for-denmark-heres-why-the-countrys-government-is-dumping-windows-and-office-365


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mastering-zsh: Advanced topics to take advantage of zsh
https://github.com/rothgar/mastering-zsh

https://redd.it/1lcp7px
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Open Source Warp Alternative for... Everyone

Hi there good people of this subreddit.

Introducing NTerm: An open source alternative to the WARP terminal and much more.

Here's the gh: https://github.com/Neural-Nirvana/iota



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how is this still a thing? (i use fedora btw)
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This 2025 multiplayer game support linux natively

No proton no wine. This 2025 multiplayer game has 8000 current player now. And this game is not a Valve game.

Is this year realy year of linux gaming? I like neither fps games nor multiplayer game. But ı will download it for supporting. If you support us we will support you.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/677620/Splitgate/

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Kicad devs: do not use Wayland

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/

"These problems exist because Wayland’s design omits basic functionality that desktop applications for X11, Windows and macOS have relied on for decades—things like being able to position windows or warp the mouse cursor. This functionality was omitted by design, not oversight.

The fragmentation doesn’t help either. GNOME interprets protocols one way, KDE another way, and smaller compositors yet another way. As application developers, we can’t depend on a consistent implementation of various Wayland protocols and experimental extensions. Linux is already a small section of the KiCad userbase. Further fragmentation by window manager creates an unsustainable support burden. Most frustrating is that we can’t fix these problems ourselves. The issues live in Wayland protocols, window managers, and compositors. These are not things that we, as application developers, can code around or patch.

We are not the only application facing these challenges and we hope that the Wayland ecosystem will mature and develop a more balanced, consistent approach that allows applications to function effectively. But we are not there yet.

Recommendations for Users For Professional Use

If you use KiCad professionally or require a reliable, full-featured experience, we strongly recommend:

Use X11-based desktop environments such as:

XFCE with X11

KDE Plasma with X11

MATE

Traditional desktop environments that maintain X11 support

Install X11-compatible display managers like LightDM or KDM instead of GDM if your distribution defaults to Wayland-only

Choose distributions that maintain X11 support - some distributions are moving to Wayland-only configurations that may not meet your needs

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GitHub - reclaimed: lightweight, highly performant disk space utilization & cleanup interactive cli tool
https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/reclaimed

https://redd.it/1ld5zxs
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