I finally get it you guys.

Twenty years ago, when my friends who were serious about coding all switched to linux, I resisted. I want to play my video games in the same OS where I code, I said. In college, while learning to code, I still resisted, not learning bash, sticking to my guns.

For the last decade, working my fancy corporate data job, I resisted. "My IDEs work, and our linux dev laptops are too annoying anyway" I said. At home, I said "I want to play my video games with no problems more than I want to get rid of everything terrible about windows"

And so my windows setup has grown, with one customization app after another. Synergy, to share mouse and keyboard among my various computers/monitors. DisplayFusion, to wrest some vestige of control from the tyranny of explorer and its awful edge-pushing, heavy handed, "your grandma should be able to use this" oriented approach to UI. Endless struggles trying to implement custom keyboard shortcuts for everything I want.

Hell no, these last few months as I semi-retired and started coding as a full time hobby, it became too much. I dipped my toe with a distro that looked and acted like windows, then said "why don't I just set it up like I really want?". And now I can't stop scrolling through r/unixporn.

I'm sure in no time, I will have my desktop environment setup and be entirely satisfied with it, just like all of you guys.

Right?

...Right?

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Introducing Operese (A Windows to Linux migration tool)
https://youtu.be/PMoXClh8emw

https://redd.it/1lztg4v
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Story Behind VLC Logo ( He refused tens of millions of dollars just to keep VLC ads-free , meet Jean-Baptiste Kempf.)
https://redd.it/1lzykw5
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Humble Bundle - The Ultimate Linux Developer Collection Bundle by Packt

I received this email a short while ago from Humble Bundle, and thought it might appeal to those new to Linux or who want to learn more.

>The Ultimate Linux Developer Collection Bundle by Packt offers budding IT professionals the tools they need to compete with the best in the field. Learn how to bend Linux to your will and create the most optimized operating systems around. This curated library of courses includes Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator, Linux Essentials: Hands-On Course with Labs, Mastering Linux Admin with Rocky - A Hands-On Approach, and more. Pay what you want and help support Alzheimer's Research UK with your purchase!

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/ultimate-linux-developer-collection-packt-software


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Today I Learned….

That there is a Linux version of Edge and 2.4mil Flatpak downloads!!
Huh, who knew…….
I used Brave because it came with Zorin, but after upgrading my hardware compatibility was atrocious. Switched to Fed42 and very happy with it. Back to Firefox.

https://redd.it/1m03jik
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I'm finally switching from Windows to Linux!
https://redd.it/1m085u8
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Linux laptop
https://redd.it/1m08yd3
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Blender HDR and the reference white issue
https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/blender-hdr-reference-white/

https://redd.it/1m0aaed
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Curl - Death by a thousand slops
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/

https://redd.it/1m0gi1f
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10 years old and installed ZorinOS
https://redd.it/1m0jypz
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You know your cooked when you see this
https://redd.it/1m0lu55
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GopherTube: a Youtube TUI written in Go
https://redd.it/1m0mafh
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Gentoo running on a Toshiba Satellite 300CDS from 1998

Hi, I was able to install Gentoo Linux on a very old laptop from (probably) 1998. It's not the most complete install, some stuff doesn't fully work, but it boots, and that's the most important part :)

The Toshiba 300CDS has a Pentium with MMX cpu, 48MB of ram (16MB soldered + 32MB extra). I thought ram would be the most important problem, but in the end, after compiling the kernel it used only 15MB on idle.

I installed and compiled everything in a vm. Huge thanks to this for pointing me in the right direction. It was my first time installing gentoo, so the guide made it very easy. It had a .config file for compiling the kernel, which was very helpful. In the end I compiled about 5 kernels before it actually booted. I was getting kernel panics about the system being unable to mount the root partition. I used the latest stable kernel as of now (6.12.21) and tested an older one as well (5.10.233; I was getting more issues on that one).

Then I had to image the drive. I don't have an adapter for IDE to USB, so I had to use another laptop to image the drive (USB drive -> other laptop with Plop Linux booted from a CD -> target drive -> Toshiba laptop). It was kinda annoying swapping the drives.

\(yes, the PS\/2 cables in the background are connected properly\)

It takes about 2 minutes and 18 seconds to boot. If you want the see the whole startup/shutdown sequence, you can check it out here.

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Any Widevine L1 development or workarounds yet?

Since most major streaming platforms now require Widevine L1 for HD or 4K playback, I’m wondering if there have been any developments toward enabling true L1 support on Linux. Also, are there any known methods or workarounds that are official or unofficial that allow users to bypass the L1 requirement entirely on Linux systems, rather than just settling for L3 fallback or relying on alternate devices like streaming devices, Android, Apple devices, or Windows.



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Little shoutout to Kzones. The Kwin noscript that gives you customizable window zones in KDE Plasma.

I wrote a blog about it.

Blog: https://txtechnician.com/r/kzones (hey if this is too self-promo or spammy, let me know and I'll not put my blog posts here)

I really like the built in template editor in KDE Plasma (accessible by pressing Meta+T). But I needed a way to customize the layouts. And after getting beyond confused about how to implement this. I found out about Kzones (would love some tips about other kwin addons).

I'm on OpenSuse Tumbleweed btw.



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Helix (a Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor) 25.07 released
https://helix-editor.com/news/release-25-07-highlights/

https://redd.it/1m0vef5
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Inexperienced linux gamer but loving it Ubuntu

Heya all!

Ive been using Ubuntu in the past when i wanted to try it out and i always loved it.

Recently went back as im just so tired of windowss and oh my.... It just feels so extremely sleek and optimized.

Been gaming on it aswell and i have to say, it just feels so much better somehow...

The only negative i have with Linux and why it takes me long to swap full time to it is that when you have to troubleshoot or just make youre way to something as simple as a folder directory, you have to know youre way around the terminal wich is pretty complicated imo.

https://redd.it/1m0y56h
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PCIe Wi-Fi Adapter with 802.11k/v/r supoort (mesh)
https://redd.it/1m11g5o
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A story of my beginning

Yeah you heard it, just do it! Like many of you, I just used to watch things about Linux but never had the courage to install it. Because I really didn't have much knowledge about computer. My dad bought me this laptop just a few months earlier for my study purpose.

So even the windows was so fascinating for me. I used to explore everything. Then something caught my eye which was Tor. I began to dig deeper and deeper. I started to learn and see many things in a different way. I started to feel better staying anonymous. I wanted to reach something which was untouched to most of people. Then I started to learn coding [ still a newbie \].

I learned a new way to communicate with people who stays far from the surface web. Then, I saw that there isn't enough privacy, there isn't enough freedom to tweak things. I wanted few things in my own way. But I couldn't get enough courage to swtich to Linux because I had fear of breaking the systen

The previous day, I determined myself, no matter what happens, I'm gonna give a try. I chose the most easy one to get started which is Linux Mint. Now I have to install it. But I don't have a flash drive. My dumb brain though, I may be a genius, let's take the risk and do it without flash drive. I tried and failed quiet a few times. Everytime my heart dropped and I don't know how I just fixed it and switched to windows😭.

I saw no hopes and decided to buy a flash drive. My parents are so strict, I don't even have my own wallet to spend money on. They won't buy me a flash drive. Then I had to sacrifice something. I had savings, yeah I secretly saved some money for a surprise gift for my girlfriend. Do you know how I saved it? By skipping meals quiet a few times. Yeah I know , even with this the savings were so low. Because my parents buy for me most of the stuffs. So literally I spent all the money on 64 gb flash drive [ I bough 64 because I wanna do something more with it \]

Yeah, after that I bought the flash drive and installed Linux Mint, But still that thing wasn't that smooth. It crashed, I don't know why. After that I wanted to boot again but it didn't boot cause of my misclick and guess what! Linux Mint started to work fine😭. When it works, don't touch it.

Then I spent all day night to to make my desktop look better. Then I faced a lot of issues. I installed Linux Mint without any preparation for it. So I talked all day long with chatgbt and learned to install apps and everything. Had to change shortcut keys for screenshot and screen recording. To change that I had to find that you know what I mean.

Then as I text a lot, I needed an emoji panel [ you may call emoji picker \]. ON GOD TRUST ME, I tried every emoji picker I learned through websites to satisfy myself. When nothing it, one from the past made me to swtich to it. But then I started to run it, now it doesn't run [ Pain started \]. I had to learn how to unistall stuff and so many unknown stuff which I couldn't even figure out what I was doing. But luckily it worked. It took me more than 5 hours just to set an emoji picker🙂[ worked on emoji font aswell \]. I'm still not happy with the current emoji picker. I wish it had visiual like the windows emoji panel, If someone knows how to do it, please help me out

So that was it, my journey has begun with Linux Mint. It was so unexpected. That flash drive is just not a flash drive for me. I'm so happy with this because even spending all day long with tweaking stuffs, my girl listened to all of my dumb stuffs and showed me the excitement even though she is way far from tech stuffs xD

Simplicity

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sshman – A secure SSH key manager and connection tool written in Go
https://redd.it/1m18dlg
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Start of a new journey!

I'm new to Linux, been a Windows user for almost 30 years now, I find it exciting and a little bit daunting but the way Microsoft keeps on cramming garbage into Windows, I want out of that OS, as I got no experience with Linux yet, but eager to learn, what distro would you say I should install?

https://redd.it/1m18yr4
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