Lenovo Thinkpad L14 Gen 2 distro

So I have a Lenovo Thinkpad L14 Gen2 (obviously) but it currently has windows 11 pro on it. I have a PC with Win11 home that big use for gaming and I'm wanting to get more into Linux to familiarize myself with it for more job opportunities. I've been playing around with Ubuntu LTE 24.04.2 for 2 going on 3 years via a VM. I'm curious on what a good distro is for the laptop as I know some distros may or may not be compatible and what desktop you prefer to use.

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Debian, Toy Story, and the Forgotten Genius Who Named the Future

Most people using Linux today don’t know that every Debian release: Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Woody, Jessie, Buster, Bullseye comes from Pixar's Movie Toy Story! As a long time linux user I was fascinated with the names as much as the creators. They say it started with Bruce Perens, the second Debian Project Leader, who was working at Pixar at the time (alongside Steve Jobs).

But the soul of the naming convention begins earlier with Ian Murdock, Debian’s founder. In 1993, Ian launched Debian not as a distro, but as a manifesto. He named it after himself and his then-girlfriend: Deb and Ian. (Many may know Ian died in 2015 under strange and tragic circumstances.)

The code still lives, but the people don’t. Their inner child at heart still plays in their creations. And by remembering that even in a world of machines, the most important thing... is the soul you put into them. That's why I still use Debian as the distro of choice.

[Apologies for any errors in my recollection of history\].



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Your favorite FOSS game?

Super Tux Racer is a game that many know. But what are your favorite free open source games and hidden gema for Linux, worth playing?


Extra: https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-software-games/

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Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report INtel Arc Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BMG-G31-Mesa-25.2

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Plasma 6.4 is out!
https://kde.org/pt-br/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/

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After Danish cities, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein state government to ban Microsoft programs at work
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/after-danish-cities-germanys-schleswig-holstein-state-government-to-ban-microsoft-programs-at-work/articleshow/121833653.cms

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A sleek, Bash-based Matrix rain animation for your terminal — inspired by the iconic visuals of The Matrix. Originally inspired by the Matrix project by wick3dr0se. Link of the project in comments.
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Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time
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Multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland disclosed, new versions released
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/multiple-security-issues-in-the-x-org-x-server-and-xwayland-disclosed-new-versions-released/

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Holy Linux Empire flag
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Refined Matrix rain animation in Bash — improved with feedback from my previous r/linux post, and inspired by the original Matrix project by wick3dr0se for its concept and style. Link in comments. Don't ban me please mods! XD
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What made you decide to use a certain distro?

I'm going down the rabbit hole of choosing a distro for home use. In the past, I've always used Linux in a VM, primarily Kali (I'm in cyber, I would never use Kali as my home OS) or Ubuntu. I've tried plenty of others, from installing and using Mint for a year at university, to throwing all kinds of distros in a VM just to play around.

I'd vaguely narrowed it down to Debian or NixOS, but if you asked me why I'd struggle to really say. At best, it being difficult to bork a NixOS system is appealing, but the learning curve is not. Conventional advice seems to be either:

Pick something popular that's user friendly, well documented and you're likely to get help when needed
Try a bunch of distros until you find something you like

But what does it mean to find something you like? I only see the OS as a tool, and yet I still have opinions on design philosophy, security, stable vs bleeding edge and so on. I know I can pick whatever I want and make it mine, but coming from Windows where I basically just left everything stock the analysis paralysis is real

So I'm curious to hear, what made you choose a certain distro? Did you pick it for a reason? Or if you tried a bunch of stuff, what made you settle?

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Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler/

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No way this is real...

https://preview.redd.it/koe5dh899n7f1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=2f3ec7df608eb2e853bcb3db63ba64ecb3ea840e

Lol the below ss is self-explanatory. I am dual booting Arch and Windows 10 as i need win for some work but when I tried to watch this video on it, this happened... Obviously one can use VLC but if I need to pay to do such a basic task of watching a video (even if it needs different codecs), then yeah I don't know what to do lol. Yet another day Microsoft disappointed me.

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Arch Linux Officially Adds Rust-Based init System – A New Era for PID 1?
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

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Serial Port Programming on Linux using C language and System calls
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Is LinuxJournal AI Slop now?

Quick intro, this article popped up in my google recommendations this morning

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

It is a 404 now, but the wayback machine grabbed it before they deleted it

https://web.archive.org/web/20250618001301/https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

Its a complete (and relatively well written) article about a new system init tool called rye-init (spoiler alert, it doesn't exist). I will not pretend to be the arbiter of AI slop but when I was reading the article, it didn't feel like it was AI generated.

Anyway, the entire premise is bullshit, the project doesn't exist, Arch has announced no such thing, etc etc.

Whoever George Whitaker is, they are the individual that submitted this article.

So my question, is LinuxJournal AI slop?

Edit:

Looks like the article was actually posted here a handful of hours ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ledknw/archlinuxofficiallyaddsrustbasedinitsystem/

And there was a post on the arch forum though apparently it was deleted as well (and this one wasn't grabbed by the wayback machine).

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Plasma Mobile Dev Log: April 2024 - June 2025
https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/06/18/dev-log/

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Boardswarm, a new Open Source tool for board management and distributed development
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/meet-boardswarm-a-new-open-source-tool-for-board-management-and-distributed-development.html

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How is Cosmic (Pop!OS) ?

How is Cosmic behaving ? Are there many bugs ? Is it stable ? I know it's pretty new.

I have a dual monitor setup ( 1 4k 1 2k ) and I mainly plan to use the PC for programming, gaming and internet browsing. The PC is high end.

I want things to be stable, I haven't used Linux for my personal computer for 5 years and I come with this question after a day where Fedora 42 came with too many problems, after reading about other distros, I arrived at Pop!OS.

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The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts

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