Gnome + Wayland is making linux more user friendly.

And thats why the main distros do ship this combination. I finally do get it. You install Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora and everything just perfectly works. Minimal tweaking but you have perfect fractional scaling, perfect external monitor support with different scaling, apps and theme looks beautiful, hdr support and apps are consistent. People that oppose this way and goes against, i dont really know what to say...

Kudos to all developers for making linux literally an alternative for day to day computing.

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Is there any university that use Linux with libreoffice or onlyoffice instead of Windows and Microsoft Office?

I know there are many governmental organisations that are switching from Windows and MS Office to Linux and Libreoffice following concerns about telemetry in Windows and Microsoft software. But I wonder if there is any university you know that use Linux and libreoffice by default instead of Microsoft office?

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Bitnami just killed off their free Docker images and I'm scrambling

I've been using Bitnami images for years in my homelab setup, mostly for stuff like PostgreSQL and Redis because they were straightforward and kept up with security patches without much hassle. Now Broadcom decides to pull the plug on the free tier and shove everything behind a paywall? It's frustrating as hell, especially since a lot of my deployments rely on these pulls not failing out of nowhere. I've got a couple of weeks to fix this before things start breaking. Anyone got solid alternatives for these? I'm looking at official images but worried about the CVE counts spiking. What's everyone switching to?

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It's the year of Linux on desktop or something
https://redd.it/1n2k1f5
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Ubuntu Studio for music production?

I found an old laptop that I wanna transform into a portable workstation for creative works. I found Ubuntu Studio as a lighter weight OS geared towards creativity, and with my minimal Linux experience, is it worthwhile? Does anyone have experience using it with music software like audio workstations? Do I have to do a lot of tricky stuff to get it to work? And how does compatibility fare? Thanks.

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Humble Bundle Pearson Books Bundle

Would the resources in this Humble Bundle Deal be useful?

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-complete-pearson-books?hmbsource=&hmbmedium=producttile&hmbcampaign=mosaicsection1layoutindex2layouttypethreestileindex2clinuxcompletepearsonbookbundle

I am trying to learn and become proficient in Linux. We use RHEL a decent amount at my work and I know a minimal amount. I have Rocky Linux at home to play around with as well. Thanks!

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Software Freedom Day 2025 New Jersey
https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/events/software-freedom-day-2025-new-jersey

https://redd.it/1n2u55z
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Kdenlive meet up in Berlin

Join us on Thursday, September 4, 2025 at the c-base hackerspace for the Kdenlive meet up.

\- Community Hangout
\- Q&A Session with the team
\- Video Editing Workshop
\- Live Stream

Time: 2 PM – 6 PM (local time)
Location: c-base - Rungestrasse 20 10179 Berlin

Bring your computer for the workshop

https://preview.redd.it/cvxxrojpdwlf1.png?width=1688&format=png&auto=webp&s=a2089020c2b2dc9dcd998235875401011b962970




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Lennart Poettering - the original author of PulseAudio, Avahi and systemd.
https://redd.it/1n311yu
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free, open-sourece file scanner
https://github.com/pompelmi/pompelmi

https://redd.it/1n33eok
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Over 10 years of using Linux, and I think I'm done

Not in the way of "I'm done with Linux", oh no no. It's just...



I think in the life of every Linux person (or maybe it appeals to other hobbies/passions) there comes a time, when you're just simply DONE. Done reinstalling the system every couple of weeks. Done finding the best, newest trend there is. Done spending hours and hours troubleshooting and fixing issues with your extremely customized setup. Done scouring the forums and Reddit looking for answers on why this absolute newest, bleeding edge RC kernel is causing you problems. Just DONE.

I've been distrohopping since I can remember. I had a brief year of using Arch (but not really, I was hopping between all Arch-based distros), then about a year or two using Fedora, but still trying out everything new that was coming out. I was in awe with all the new and shiny.

But now I'm in my 30s. I don't have time, nor headspace to wonder if my system will boot today, if the update won't break anything, if this new kernel won't cause me some weird, unexplainable issues. My OS has to boot and get out of my way. It's my terminal to the work, not my work.

So here I am. Writing this on Waterfox (basically Firefox ESR) from Linux Mint 22.1 with LTS kernel, installed on absolutely ridiculously powerful gaming machine. Do I care if I don't get new bells and whistles that come with newer kernels, newer DE versions, newer Firefox releases? No. I absolutely do not. I value the fact, that in about a year of having this Mint installation, I have NEVER had to reinstall it or fix anything. It just works. I feel no incentive to change anything here. I even use the default theming.

So, what's your story? Am I the only one, who came up to this mindset? Or maybe there are more of us? I leave the comments to you.

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Switching to Linux - A comprehensive guide

I’ve been seeing a lot of people wanting to switch to GNU/Linux(shortly just Linux) recently, owing to various reasons including Windows 10 EOL, forced integration of AI tools, screenshot spying, bloatware, etc. and I thought I’d make a comprehensive guide based on my experience.

Please feel free to correct me when I’m mistaken and add inputs/suggestions.
Hope it helps.

https://lemmy.ml/post/35375002

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2024 KDE e.V. Community Report
https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2024/

https://redd.it/1n375d9
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PRIVATE REPOS ARE BEING MADE PUBLIC
https://redd.it/1n3bxzi
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Focus Sessions (CLI Pomodoro Timer)
https://redd.it/1n3e940
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Been using Linux for 20 years, this is my story.

I pick a mainstream distro that “just works”, then I forget about it and just use my computer.

I might revisit my decision in 4 or 5 years if my system needs a wiping or the OS reached EoL and/or has trouble updating to the latest version… or maybe not.

The end.

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Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Externally-Maintained

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What distro is this?
https://redd.it/1n3ixjm
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Arch Linux running natively on my phone
https://redd.it/1n3jnzv
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Windows package manager spotted in the wild
https://redd.it/1n3kzus
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Been using Linux for 26 years, this is my story.

Switched from horrible inoperative systems, to something called "Linux" a friend told me, tried a few distros from floppy disks, tried Debian Potato and stayed with Debian Woody, configured my screen modelines in order to make the graphical system work, didn't like the window managers so I came back to the pure console, liked the Knoppix technology concept but didn't like the graphical experience (again), so I ended up developing my own distro - "because in Linux you can"

And this has been already 20 years of Elive Linux

To be continued

*post inspired on this nice one*

https://redd.it/1n3kspx
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