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*

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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...
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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
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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
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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!

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

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Do you use disk encryption? Why? Why not?

Context:

\- I set up a new raspberry pi and while setting up, i stumpled upon the question of security on a shared device

\- During research, I noticed that even when you set a password, your file repository can be read, including the stored keys of your browser

\- To prevent that, you would need to encrypt your disk (that's different from just using a password for your user)


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So, how do you do it? Do you encrypt your disk? Do you enter the password twice then on boot or do did you configure auto login after decryption?

I might set up my Fedora + Rasp Pi new with it enabled, I assume it can be easily set up during installation?

How do you handle it?

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Starting computer science

Next year I'm gonna be in 10th grade and we're learning computer science, specifically c#. We will be using Visual studio 2019/2022 (not sure). At home I'm using a laptop with fedora kde. What software should I use to continue my work at home?

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Give me some noscripting projects for practice please!

Hey all! I've been enrolled in a cyber security class since July of this year. I've since learned networking essentials, cybersecurity essentials, Linux essentials, and obtained my isc2 CC a few days ago, while I'm still working towards my splunk core user and CompTIA CySA+. On this journey so far the one thing I enjoyed a lot was working with Linux. I liked it so much I switched on a spare machine and got an Lpi Linux essentials exam voucher, however I was a bit gung ho and took the exam too soon, thus failing. That didn't discourage me though and I've been tinkering since in Linux.

I understand man pages, the cat command, creating directories and user accounts as well as assigning group roles and permissions, use of the passwd and shadow directories as well as Wireshark and nmap. One area I knew I suffered in ok the LPI exam was noscripting and task automation. So I've recently been brushing up on noscripting with a Linux learning YouTube course. Up to this point I have a pretty good understanding of some basics like using if, then, else in nano (currently watching/learning while loops), the use of variables and exit codes.

With all that being said I'm just looking for some fun ideas ( I don't want anyone to tell me HOW to do it, just what task I should try to automate) to practice and hone my bash noscripting skills. I'm not looking for instructions because I want to suffer through pain points and figure things out because for me that has been the best path to learning. But if anyone has little bits of wisdom they'd like to impart in general I'm glad to hear it. I've been rigorously trying to learn as much as possible with the goal of eventually being skilled enough for an ethical hacking role and then continue learning into the abyss from there lol. Looking forward to hearing anything from you guys. Sorry for the long winded post, just wanted to provide some background.

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My Xlibre testing experience

Been running Debian with KDE Plasma since not long ago. I’ve run Debian with Xfce for the longest of time, might go back, who knows; I love desktop Linux, but sometimes it feels like it’s slowly trying to ruining itself by trying to mimick Windows. Wayland is the glaring example of that, I stick with Xorg because it just works flawlessly on my Ryzen + AMD laptop. Out of curiosity, I decided to try Xlibre.

I wanted to jump on it right away, but I’m too software conservative to compile bleeding-edge stuff just for kicks. So I waited until someone packaged it. When it finally landed for Debian 12 via https://github.com/xlibre-deb/debian, I installed it, rebooted (wasn’t necessary, I just did it for good measure)… and absolutely nothing changed. The X process still had the same name. No new bugs, no new features. Pinch-to-zoom on my touchscreen still worked. Basically identical. No changes, you would not known better it was exactly the same.

Then I upgraded Debian 12 to 13. Once again, nothing happened. Which, honestly, is simply awesome and kind of the whole point of Debian. It just worked. The system felt the same before and after, and I love that about Debian. Smooth, uneventful, stable to the point where it feels like the upgrade was almost imaginary.

And maybe that’s the real magic of Linux, sometimes the best thing that can happen… is nothing ever happening. Because trying to reinvent the wheel might cause lots of issues and wasted effort. https://pbs.twimg.com/tweetvideothumb/GuA9ctYWUAAcIGe.png

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image, gifs, videos, webcam to ascii art converter
https://redd.it/1n53dkv
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