linux ricing
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I am having so much fun learning Linux.

It has been a month since I made the full switch on my desktop PC and I have had so much fun with Linux. If anyone is interested I have been using Fedora KDE. Today I wanted to figure out how to make my second SSD automount at boot. I have my steam library on there and it was a bit annoying having to manually doing it every time. Not a big task right? And with applications like Disks it is easy in the GUI. But I wanted to learn how it is done in the terminal just to see the logic behind it. So what did I learn doing this?

1. That mounting of drives is handled by /etc/fstab
2. How to find the UUID of my drives
3. That /dev/ contains device files which are the interfaces for when the OS communicates with devices.
4. That in Linux you can choose ANY mounting point you want so you can plan according to use case. Cool!
5. How to configure the fstab file so make the drive boot on startup.

And seeing things just work after trying to figure things out is so satisfying! I am just having so much fun with my computer since making the switch. Not sure exactly why problem solving is so much fun, while on windows it was just frustrating. I guess it is that you have so much control that does it.

Anyway, I just wanted to share my little experience. We will see what I will try figuring out next. But now I will hop onto Rimworld.

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Since bottles is in limbo, I want to make a spiritual successor. I'd like to know your opinion.

Hi, my name's Fred. I'm the creator of Open TV.

Bottles is my main way to play games on Linux and since it's been in limbo for months, I'd like to make a spititual successor.

I have a few ideas of what I'd like to see. First, I'd like to have full UMU and "classic" wine builds support.

I'm still hesitating for the framework between iced, libcosmic, gtk and flutter. One thing is sure, it will use rust for the backend, no python. I don't want to throw shade, but python for medium to big projects is completely unsuitable and that's one of the reasons that Bottles failed to properly continue development.

My aim is to make something really stupid simple like FaugusLauncher but even more feature packed, with proper sandboxing and flatpak as the main platform.

I'm making this post because I want to hear what you think! We have 6-7 launchers on linux and there's really amazing features on each of them, I want to try to combine all the essential features of each to make this next launcher. Yes, you can criticize me for trying to make something new when I could try contributing to one of the existing projects, but I have a very pragmatic view for software and I prefer working mostly alone. Contributors will be welcome down the line.

Big shoutout to Bottles, the UI/UX is incredibly well designed and it's my main source of inspiration for this project.

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Learning new tricks: the MTA edition

After 30 years of running sendmail as my MTA, I am considering migrating to the new fangled postfix mail. Lots of reading docs to figure out, for example, SASL or how to masquerade domains. I am almost at the point of reverting to using sendmail. They said postfix is easier!!!

https://redd.it/1lyhiho
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Candidate applies 'sudo rm -rf job_offer' to Windows-only position
https://redd.it/1lylkl5
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A little help with older laptop.

My friend gave me her old Laptop to fix for her as it kept crashing. It was running Windows 7. It is a Toshiba Satellite L630. I removed the hard drive to run a diagnostic in my other pc. My OC simply said it had too many bad sectors. I replaced the hard drive with an old one I had and I have been trying to get any version of Linux to work. I keep getting the error ' Memory corruption detected in low memory' then reboots. I even tried reinstalling Windows 7 and it just hangs on the "Starting Windows logo and reboots. The only thing I can get to work on it is XP. I am scratching my head. I don't think I have ever had an issue with installing Linux. Currently I am trying Linux lite 32bit, I am still getting the reboot issue. I would greatly appreciate any step by step help as although I have used Linux distros in the past I am still fairly a novice. Thank you.

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Linux in 2025 (for laptops)

Linux on laptops in 2025 is no joke - it’s genuinely good now

I’ve been running Linux on my laptop recently, and I have to say - experience has reached a point where it feels premium. With the broader adoption of Wayland, many of the things that used to be a hassle are now working seamlessly out of the box.

I’ve got smooth, screen tear–free scrolling, full support for touchpad gestures, and even fingerprint scanning - all working without any weird hacks. These used to be pain points just a few years ago, and now they’re practically set-and-forget.

What surprised me the most, though, is how good I could get the audio to sound. With some well-tuned EasyEffects profiles, both my laptop speakers and my AirPods sound noticeably good (better than Windows maybe act) The sound is clean, balanced, and actually enjoyable for music and media.

All in all, Linux feels like a truly polished daily driver in 2025 - not just functional, but enjoyable. There are only 2 pain points for me now.

1. DRM content streaming sucks.
2. A lot of CAD software (Fusion 360 in particular) is not on Linux so that makes using it a lil more painful ig.

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Migrating to Linux from windows

I’ve been running windows 10 21h2 for the past couple years. Never updated it because I didn’t want any of Microsoft’s crappy ai bloat. Anyways I know windows 10 is reaching eol some time this year and so instead of going to win11 I’ll be moving to Linux. I game so the comparability with games is quite important. I also develop for android studio and use visual studio code for web dev.

I suppose I just want to know what distro of Linux people would recommend for myself? I recall one being very compatible with games but I don’t remember the name of the distro..

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GeanyPad - Use Geany as a simple text editor
https://redd.it/1lys147
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DAPU — Distro Agnostic noscript to manage packages
https://github.com/deltaZenith/DAPU

https://redd.it/1lyrtsz
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Operese (a Windows-to-Linux migration tool made by a nerd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMoXClh8emw

https://redd.it/1lysqpg
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television 0.12 – Search Anything from Your Terminal – Just Create a Channel
https://redd.it/1lyuybu
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Making PC also a server

As the noscript suggest I want to know if it's ok or generally unadvised to make a PC run all the time to both use as a server and to use daily.
Would you rather recommend to use a virtualization tool to run my server there and separate my own PC from it ?
Is it also ok to ssh into it from the outside world, with keys only ?
Would you be so kind to provide tips for basic security if I ever go this route.

Thanks !

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LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #4 – Documentation in Free and Open Source Software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLol18XcGTI

https://redd.it/1lz27hu
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Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
https://github.com/ByteAtATime/raycast-linux

https://redd.it/1lz1i32
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GitHub - netshow: Lightweight, performant interactive network connection monitor with friendly service names
https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/netshow

https://redd.it/1lz85wd
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Chris's Wiki :: (Maybe) understanding how to use systemd-socket-proxyd
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdSocketProxydNotes

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Linux 6.16-rc6 Released With Transient Scheduler Attacks Mitigations, AMD Zen 2 Fixes
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-rc6-Released

https://redd.it/1lzimih
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install broadcom wl wifi drier easily

a noscript that does the steps for installing the broadcom-wl wifi driver on some linux distros



at the moment the following Linux distros are available:



1.) ubuntu

2.) open-SUSE / open-SUSE tumbleweed

3.) void-linux

4.) kde-neon

5.) arch-linux


https://github.com/howtoedittv/broadcom-wl-easy


i would love if someone can test it on their distro to see if it works


thanks :>

good day

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found an acer aspire one in the trash... 1 gig of ram. what builds can i actually consider?

i wanna install linux on this thing right now, i already tried windows 10 and lets just say, NO. it did not like that, not at all. 1 gig of ram is a totally different ballpark it seems.

i was thinking kali but not sure if its too big. anything and everything as far as ideas go are appreciated as loong as you figure it'll work on the acer aspire one.

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25th Debian Conference just started today. What are you looking forward to at the conference?
https://debconf25.debconf.org

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