I recently switched to Linux (Fedora KDE to be specific) instead of "upgrading" to Windows 11. Looking at posts like these makes me even more glad that I never bothered with Windows 11
https://redd.it/1mbl7xd
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Can't double click on kde neon!?

I'm on kde neon
Have a Roccat burst pro
A 2017 MacBook pro
I'm a newbie
Minecraft player
Switched from windows could double click on windows but not MacBook

Ignore:
Jsjdjjdndnsjdjyhnsjsjdienjsndjkdoqndjofowndjdjdjdmsndndnnd

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Why I switched to Linux as someone who once never would have

I am a software engineering student currently in uni. Up until pretty recently, I would've never thought to switch to Linux. The reasons were:

\- Security just isn't a big deal for the average person

\- Can't play games (or as good as windows)

\- It seemed pretty nerdy (i know, shouldn't be a negative reason lol)

\- It looked like id have to learn a new programming language to open the settings app on linux. I also saw a post about a guy who accidently wiped his drive and his home server while trying to get steam to work once, soo that was pretty scary.

\- Windows better! (?)

But since then, both the world and I've changed. Both pretty significantly, in my opinion.

Over the last year or so I've begun pursuing AI Engineering as a field in software engineering. However, this also made me realize that AI is the harbringer of the ultimate privacy nightmare. While the average person should have had little concern about getting tracked by agencies (because it was costly for those agencies to track people, thus they didn't pursue average people as heavily), AI automations are now beginning to make it a reality. Those of you familiar with defense or cybersecurity news must already be aware that people may begin (or may already have begun) getting profiled en masse by certain companies utilizing AI. We are yet to see the effects of this, but as someone who somewhat understands the field I believe that the threats are very real. I've thus begun to seek ways to make my data harder to access, shifting many of my utilities to proton, switching to linux and considering a home server system etc. for this reason

I also stopped playing games, and as a software engineering student I no longer get as scared by the terminal, though I am still pretty cautious and have begun learning the basics.

Windows also stopped being "better" in my experience. Win 11 more OneDrive enforcement, more weird features that they force you to use and most importantly more lag. My pc with 8gb of ram and a ryzen 5500u should not lag while using a browser, its not acceptable.

So the privacy concerns, windows itself and my curiosity towards coding pushed me into Linux, though I could have sworn 9 months ago that I would never use it.

What do you guys think? Im curious to know your perspective on the privacy argument i have, aswell as curious to hear what was your reason for switching

Oh, and linux is pretty nerdy lol

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Hyprperks: a new official subnoscription to support Hyprland development.
https://hypr.land/news/hyprperks/

https://redd.it/1mbqb5d
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My Boeing 737 uses Linux
https://redd.it/1mbtm16
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Announcing the release of HeliumOS 10
https://www.heliumos.org/blog/post/heliumos-10-released/

https://redd.it/1mbq3fc
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Hellwal (color palette generator) mature release!
https://redd.it/1mbz6q8
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Should I install Linux if I am learning C# programming? and if yes, what distro should I use? Arch or Debian?
https://redd.it/1mc1as8
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Creating Your First Game with Ebitengine (Go game engine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B4dzWMsVQY

https://redd.it/1mc3kb5
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Blazing fast code line counter in C — faster than cloc and tokei
https://github.com/darusc/ccloc

https://redd.it/1mc5o8b
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Google's Linux Terminal plays a big part in turning Android into a true desktop OS -- "Google's new Linux Terminal could make Android a true rival to Windows and macOS"
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-terminal-future-plans-3581752/

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New Intel Energy Aware Scheduling released with Linux 6.16

Intel Energy Aware Scheduling has been added with kernel 6.16 and I have not seen any discussion on this even though it seems like a pretty huge addition to the kernel except for a few phoronix articles from a while back. The new scheduler should improve energy efficiency on intel hybrid architectures (with P/E cores) with no SMT like the Lunar Lake processors.

First, the kernel needs to be version 6.16 and compiled with CONFIG_ENERGY_MODEL=y.
To enable EAS, intel_pstate needs to be in passive mode and schedutil set as the cpufreq governor (should be the default when intel_pstate is passive)

echo passive | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/status

More info in the [mailing list](https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/CAJZ5v0gcgMJ-qihgc3_OF4djxAy8K0i-cmnjRe4AQrc_YEu4DQ@mail.gmail.com/) and [docs](https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/1935040.CQOukoFCf9@rjwysocki.net/)

Tested on an intel core ultra 5 228v asus expertbook p5 (fedora 42 with custom compiled kernel 6.16 rc7 from rawhide sources). I noticed that when idling or doing light workload the performance cores are mostly idling so it seems like it's working. To check the performance I ran geekbench (both single and multi core scores went down by about 2%) and unigine superposition (pretty much no difference as expected). Gnome animations stutters slightly but noticeably especially when idling at the beginning of animation possibly suggesting some latency issue?

Most importanty, the power consumption seems to be greatly improved. Previously I was getting around 7 hours of battery life at 50% brightness, light web browsing and listening to youtube in the background. With EAS enabled now I'm getting around 8.5 hours which is a considerable 20% improvement. I'll do more precise measurements when I have more time later but it's been a fantastic improvement for this lunar lake laptop.

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Kapitano (Linux Antivirus Scanner) Developer Abandons Ship
https://share.google/Zjnj1LNhKk11J07Ee

https://redd.it/1mc7re9
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GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days
https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

https://redd.it/1mc83d0
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Wine is so much better

I finally got Quicken to work under wine. It is a so much quicker (no pun intended) experience than running Windows 11 on a Virtual machine. I am loving it right now as long as it works.

Winehq is great. They had all the instructions on how to make it install, because it would not install by itself. It is the only program holding me back from being Windows free and now I can be thanks to wine.

https://redd.it/1mcdorw
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Tha value of "free" in "Linux is free" and FOSS in general

Back story: at home I use Linux on my machines. I had some distro hoping but settled on Mint. At company laptop I have to use Windows.

I have always valued the fact that Linux is free as free from any corporate strings attached. However, today I was reminded of that with the company laptop. For unknown reason, my laptop was kicked out of the company domain. We don't know for how long and only realised when admins can't use their domain admin account to do things on my laptop. So they have put it back in domain but then, other Microsoft applications decided not to cooperate and demanded sign in. But apps refused the mail I regularly use to login. It was something to do with the account on the Microsoft side. Just like that they have decided that MS Office licence expired. One Drive is annoying but when it cannot sign in it is popping up constantly. Even Visual Studio had issue as licence is tied to the same account. Admins had to handle online with all this nonsense. Later it was resolved but the amount of power they hold over our local stuff is horrible. How sad reality for computing. I am really glad I have moved away from Windows on my private machines.

https://redd.it/1mckquw
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Duckstation dev announced end of Linux support and he is actively blocking Arch Linux builds now.
https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/30df16cc767297c544e1311a3de4d10da30fe00c

https://redd.it/1mcnsev
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This is a first for me. I just stumbled upon an AI linux YT channel pretending to be a real person.

I got recommended this video and decided to check it out. From the beginning, it was obvious this "guy" is using AI for the images, which I didn't mind that much.

Throughout the video, I felt more and more like this isn't a real person talking, and decided to check the beginning (where he speaks with a "webcam") again. Sure enough, the person is also AI generated (at 0:11 his bottom teeth move when "he" says "shakeups"). I would've suspected it is entirely AI almost immediately if I didn't see the fake person at the beginning.

Looking at the rest of the channel, the other videos are much more obvious AI slop. This newest one is unfortunately more believable. I just wish YouTube had the option to report a video for pretending to have a real person speaking. These videos should be taken down immediately as a rule unless they have huge "AI GENERATED" labels plastered all over.

In the end, I'm just pissed I got tricked into listening to an AI for 10 minutes. I could've done something infinitely more productive instead, like watching my nails grow for 8 hours straight.

TLDR: AI slop channels are slowly getting better at pretending to be something remotely worth watching.

https://redd.it/1mcne8p
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LLM-made tutorials polluting internet

I was trying to add a group to another group, and stumble on this:

https:\/\/linuxvox.com\/blog\/linux-add-group-to-group\/

Which of course didn't work. Checking the man page of gpasswd:

>\-A, --administrators user,...

>Set the list of administrative users.

How dangerous are such AI written tutorials that are starting to spread like cancer?

There aren't any ads on that website, so they don't even have a profit motive to do that.

https://redd.it/1mczbai
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Newelle 1.0 Released: Mini apps
https://redd.it/1md0apk
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Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
https://www.linaro.org/blog/linux-on-snapdragon-x-elite/

https://redd.it/1md457e
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