My Linux survived where Windows died

TLDR: Modern Linux drivers and hardware compatibility are not as finicky as some people say.

My government keeps trying to break our energy system to goodbye; a recent malfunction of power mains fried my old PC's PSU and motherboard but the drive fortunately survived. I bought a slightly more recent system on the local flea market (i5-7400 instead of the old i7-3770K) for the whole whopping €70 and plugged the drive into it. The drive had both Windows 10 and Fedora 42 KDE installed.

The outcome: Fedora picked up the new hardware like nothing happened but Windows is stuck on "getting devices ready" forever. Guess it's time to reclaim the Windows partition.

Great job, Fedora and Linux in general. I had to tell it someone and decided to do it here because where else, right.

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Built a tool to sync Obsidian notes across devices without subnoscriptions or Git commands

As someone who spends a lot of time on Linux and likes to take notes in Obsidian, I found syncing notes across multiple devices frustrating. I distro hop often, and making sure my notes are updated everywhere without paying for Obsidian Sync or fiddling with Git commands became a problem I wanted to solve.

So I built Ogresync, a free and open-source tool that handles syncing your Obsidian vault automatically using GitHub in the background. Instead of opening Obsidian directly, you launch Ogresync, which syncs your vault, opens Obsidian, and then pushes your changes after you finish editing. There’s no need to remember Git commands or worry about merge conflicts.

I know there are plugins that do something similar, but they often expect users to be comfortable with Git. I wanted a solution that just works out of the box, even for people who don’t want to deal with version control.

I’d really appreciate feedback from fellow Linux users. How do you sync your notes right now? Does this approach make sense or is there something you’d want it to do differently?

You can find the project here if you’d like to try it out or give suggestions:
https://github.com/AbijithBalaji/Ogresync

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Software to format a book

Dear reddit people,

My grandma is writing a book on her familys' history.
I, being the computer literate grandchild, am task with formatting and diagramming the book. Unfortunately, the only software I know for that is Microsoft Publisher and Canva. Anyone know a Foss alternative for those?

Thanks

(I don't know if formatting is the right word for that, nor diagramming. I mean turning plain text into a nice looking pdf with well positioned images that can be printed into a book)

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What is the most compatible online file storage service?

My use case is not uncommon (I think). I need I file sharing service that works flawlessly across all my devices running windows, osx and Linux. Linux is my main driver but I do require easy access to files in the other devices.

By easy access I mean: it needs to be integrated into the file system and accessible through the file manager.

A long time ago I used Dropbox, and the desktop application worked quite well on Linux. Then I switched to Gdrive and got really slammed in the face with the “there’s not really a desktop app for this, sorry - not sorry.

So, which is the best service for Linux users that want compatibility with the rest of the world?

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Linux Lenovo issues with WIFI and Bluetooth after Updating

Hello guys,
in the last months I got many issues after Updating my Linux System with WIFI and Bluetooth and I want to share my experience to help you out if u got the same issue. I personally found not much about this topic that could help me, therefore u got this to help.

I use Fedora on a new Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 AMD

At fresh install and not after several months I faced the same Issue that after an update of the system WIFI und Bluetooth disappears. Only after I got in sleep Mode and login again just bluetooth shows up. After a restart nothing shows up again.

The issue was, that die BIOS got an Update as well. It seems Lenovo + Linux + Qualcomm got several issues after an BIOS Update.

To solve the issue in my case I got to the Lenovo Support site and downloaded the ISO File of the latest BIOS. This Version was two months older than the Version I got installed automatically. I flashed this to my USB and updated the BIOS to the older version. Now my WIFI and Bluetooth works again.

If u got the same issue and Google can´t help I hope u see this and maybe is solves your issue as well.

Have a great day guys!

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Recommended DEs that aren't as common

I'd like to know what everyone's recommendation is for a DE/WM that not everyone may know about or often consider. Anything that isn't KDE, GNOME, or any super common WMs like Hyprland or Sway. These may not be considered very common, but I'd like to hear thoughts on Budgie and Cutefish, I was looking at them and they look neat but what do you guys think? What do you use?

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"colormatrix". A very colored cmatrix close that uses a random array of colors.
https://redd.it/1lns8om
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Is void linux in active development, and if so where on that scale?

I used it in the past, and loved it, but I remember reading that the lead or main developer left, I think. I see that it's still technically in active development but does that mean they are just barely keeping up or enough resources to make big advances, or somewhere in between. An example to make my point is Redox OS. It's initial release was 10 years ago. It still seems to be in "active" development, but it has yet to reach an official 1.0 release. Side note, I hope it does before it is surpassed by other projects with more developmental for me and I assume most at this point.

I guess, it's a multipart question or just lots of related questions.

1. Why is it so far down on distrowatch list now?

2. Does it have enough active development resources to not only to keep pace with advancements, but even continue to make some or is too resource to be all but a fringe distro rather than a daily driver without allot of issues popping up that are more natural to developmental, pre-release version?

Please, these are honest questions, that I don't feel I have the answer to. Please keep answers civil, non-defensive/combative. Hoping that people more "in the know" and/or have kept up better, might have a better understanding.




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Donate More by Donating Less (further explanation from Steve Deobald)
https://redd.it/1lnxslo
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Donate More by Donating Less
https://redd.it/1lo0x5p
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Fedora: Proposal for the removal of i686 withdrawn
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/400

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My Linux journey so far

I started with Manjaro like 10 years ago and used it for a few months and then switched back to windows, tried ubuntu and a few others and then forgot about linux for many years, at the start if the year i started checking distros out again, i started with mint for nearly a month and it was ok, then i went to arch and i liked it but i don't have that much time to configure a lot of things ( even tho its pretty fun and i do enjoy it but i don't have time to fix things ) so i went to manjaro and yeah i really liked it ( i am biased as it is the one i used many years ago ) it had customization and i didnt find many bugs and i really liked it but then got on reddit and saw everyone hates it and saying endeavour is better and the manjaro team is poopy so i will give it a try starting today ( my favorite one was arch but i found myself breaking it every other day and reinstalling it again and i don't have much time for it, i 100% prefer arch based distros and maybe one day i'll go full arch if i find the time ( or not, depends how endeavour goes )



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Choosing a Linux Distro | Beginner's Guide to Linux
https://peertube.wtf/w/2YMD28yy1aAPGZZmYnmpZ1

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After nine years, Ninja has merged support for the GNU Make jobserver
https://thebrokenrail.com/2025/06/30/ninja-jobserver.html

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Here is My 3D Pool Simulator for Linux
https://github.com/sysrpl/Raylib.4.0.Pascal/blob/master/examples/table/README.md

https://redd.it/1lo65wi
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a network kill switch based on a user's data usage

i just wanted to know if this idea is even worth making or not .

rough sketch of the final product


let me know what can i add in it as a functionality .

and also about the user interface should it be terminal based or something else , thanks





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Da vinci lag?
https://redd.it/1lo9zwl
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At what age did you guys instal Linux?

Hi guys! A reel I saw on Instagram made me notice that a lot of people installed their first Linux distro when they were 12, I also installed it when I was 12 (Ubuntu 10), so I was generally curious on this, at what age did you install Linux? And why?

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AerynOS: Mid-year update
https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/06/30/mid-year-update/

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DarkDiskz – a simple open-source Linux GUI for disks, RAID, bcache, and SMART (early version, feedback welcome!)

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called DarkDiskz.

It’s an open-source Python/GTK4 GUI tool that combines several disk-related utilities in one place. The goal is to make it easier to see drive information and manage storage setups without juggling a bunch of separate commands.

🔹 Features:

View detailed disk information (`lsblk`, `lshw`)
Run SMART health tests
Benchmark disks
Manage RAID (RAID 1/0)
Set up and monitor bcache
Configure fstab entries

⚠️ Important Notice (Please Read):
This is an early project by an amateur coder, so:

Some functions may not work perfectly.
There could be bugs.
You could lose data if you use destructive operations like wiping drives or re configuring RAID.

💡 Please back up all important data before testing or using any of the write/format functions. Use at your own risk.

🎯 About Me:
I’m not much of a programmer—this is my first serious attempt at making something useful for the Linux community. I’m hoping others might try it out, give feedback, report issues, or even contribute improvements. I probably wont change or edit the program any farther maybe the community enjoys this I hope so.

🔗 GitHub Repo:
👉 [https://github.com/dark-ant616/DarkDiskz](https://github.com/dark-ant616/DarkDiskz)

If you’re interested, I’d really appreciate:

Testing on different distros (I did all testing on Linux Mint)
Bug reports and suggestions
Contributions to help make it better and more reliable

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

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Share your LFS journey

Here is my LFS attempt story:
Back when 8 GB RAM was acceptable, I got an ol... cough vintage laptop with dual core CPU and 1 GB DDR2 RAM for 30$, 32bit only. I wanted to deepen my Linux knowledge without making any changes on my main machine. I am not sure about the version of the book I was following, probably book 9 or 10.

My installation didn't reach to a bootable stage since the HDD in the laptop had issues. I was apparently writing the freshly compiled binaries right onto an HDD with many bad sectors.

Even though it might have been looked like a defeat, my aim was to learn Linux intimately. I learned about following dependencies, appreciating time and effort that goes into building a functional end product, and maybe the most importantly, not being scared of tarballs 😅

https://redd.it/1los8hv
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