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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So short, and thanks for all the flinch by Steven Deobald
https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/08/29/so-short-and-thanks-for-all-the-flinch/

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Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/08/29/thanks-and-farewell-to-steven-deobald/

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I connected a usb network adapter and...
https://redd.it/1n3v70m
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Thanks Linux, I can use my Bluetooth Headphones again

I've been using Linux for a couple months now, and something I keep thinking about to this day, is that I can finally use my wireless headphones on my laptop again.

Sounds like something so simple, or at least it should be, but when I was on Windows I just couldn't get them to work.
Ok, I may be lying, my old wireless headphones used to work fine, I used them a lot to play, but someday they just started to sound like shit, it was like hearing everything from a phone call. When I went to the game settings, my headphones were labeled as "hands-free" now for some reason, and of course it was the same on the Windows settings.

I did everything in my power to fix this, I deleted drivers, reinstalled them, deactivated the device, deactivated the "hands-free service", reactivated them. I spent hours and hours looking online if someone had the same problem, I tried solutions given on the official Microsoft forum, I even reinstalled Windows, but nothing worked. Someday I fixed them somehow doing a lot of messy stuff that I couldn't even remember, but after rebooting my PC the problem was there again, I just gave up, I could only use my headphones on my phone. Someday I just ended up buying new headphones thinking the problem was fixed, "Maybe the old headphones were the problem", but nothing changed.

When I tried Linux, I didn't even think about those for a couple days, I was used to not being able to use them on my laptop, but one day I remembered and I gave it a shot, And they just worked! I was so happy, it was that easy, just connect them and use them, is that simple.

Maybe I'm overthinking it? Idk, I think things should work as intended, if I plug headphones to my PC, I should be able to hear sound using them, right? Is not that complicated. And thanks Linux for not using 6gb of Ram on idle. Thank you for reading 👍

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Nouveau is... actually really good now???

Last time i used Nouveau (Fedora 40 i believe), Nouveau kinda sucked, atleast for me. Dont get me wrong, its a good project and i wanted to support it, but it just didnt do the trick for me. Now? Its freaking amazing!! NVK is one of the best open source projects ever! Thanks a lot for every hand that coded this amazing project!!! (Also, dont get me wrong, i never hated this project)

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DXVK 2.7.1 released
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.7.1

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This Week in Plasma: Saved clipboard items and tablet touch rings
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/30/this-week-in-plasma-saved-clipboard-items-and-tablet-touch-rings/

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Kernel on a slot machine at my local grocery store
https://redd.it/1n4ahrg
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Linux for Mobile

With Google turning into Apple and trying to kill sideloading of apps, does anybody know of any Linux distros that work for Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy phones? I don't use the phone for a lot, mostly just calling, messenger and the like. I look forward to all your responses, and thank you for the help!

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xterm-nvim a neovim terminal wrapper release 0.1.0 is out!
https://github.com/eylles/xterm-nvim

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What’s the deal with these flashy setups?

Been on Linux for years—Ubuntu, RHEL, servers, Docker, plain terminals. Lately I see people with cool socratic GNOME, colored shells, 3D icons, and wallpapers. What are they using? it look super fancy ngl

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Why are all Linux phones so bad?

I really want to have a phone that runs full GNU/Linux, but the specs on stuff like Pinephone or Librem are laughable compared to Android phones, even the budget ones. 3GB RAM? Really? Mali SoC? WTF?! How about a Snapdragon? Why are the Linux phones so bad?

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Battery Drainage
https://redd.it/1n4odp5
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I just ran sudo rm -rf ~ by mistake.

I've been using linux since 2002 and it's the first time I've done anything like this. I thought it was essentially impossible and anyone who did it is dumb. I guess the egg is on my face!

I may be cooked? Wish me luck!

https://redd.it/1n4r5sv
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Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
https://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

https://redd.it/1n4rkgy
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