[OC] Linux Beginner Glossary
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This post is made with the intention of teaching common terms and tools to people who
have little to no experience with Linux. Because of the target demographic, the given
denoscriptions prioritize simplicity over accuracy and may intentionally include imperfect…
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denoscriptions prioritize simplicity over accuracy and may intentionally include imperfect…
What is so bloated about GNOME?
For some reason, I see people saying that GNOME uses half of the memory even if you are doing nothing on your computer. I even come across people that say it’s as bloated as Windows 11 despite all of the telemetry on GNOME is opt in. I wonder how much actually bloatware does GNOME have and why people say KDE Plasma is much less bloated?
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For some reason, I see people saying that GNOME uses half of the memory even if you are doing nothing on your computer. I even come across people that say it’s as bloated as Windows 11 despite all of the telemetry on GNOME is opt in. I wonder how much actually bloatware does GNOME have and why people say KDE Plasma is much less bloated?
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Teenagers first proper laptop - high school use - advice on hardware and software please
Good morning - and thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to read this (let alone comment)
The situation: My 14yr old needs a laptop for his school work and so I’m looking to get something that is a balance of the usual; utility, robustness, future optionality (will he be a CS major? A graphics artist? Who knows), and so I’m looking for advice on a few things:
1. Hardware - which might not be the thing folks in this forum focus on, but I’m betting some of you have opinions: things like CPU, RAM, HDD vs SSD, screen resolution etc.
2. Operating system - This is why I am posting here. I used Windows laptops for most of the last 20 years - so I’m familiar with it, and this will be my default option (vs. Mac). I now have a Mac Air laptop which is fine for what I do, but I much prefer excel on a windows machine due to shortcuts. (Also my kid would bend that MacAir within 24 hours with how he just bounces around in the world.)
I want to avoid bloat-ware so the chromebooks and google OS stuff worries me (and I know windows has plenty of this also… I guess I’m just more familiar with it so am able to navigate it better) and this got me down a rabbithole for Linux. So here i am.
I’m old enough to have been through school and university without owning a computer (the rich kid at Uni had a 386..!) so I could be missing some requirements here but I see his needs to be fairly basic.
1. Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and likely the ability to collaborate with project team-mates.
2. Technical writing features (mathematical formulae such as integration and differentiation)
3. Filing systems
4. Communication: emails, instant messenger
5. Art / drawing / picture editing (he likes to draw)
6 other..? I dont know of any needs for things like CAD or virtual machines in high school… maybe a younger person could help guide me here as to what might be on the curriculum.
I’d like my son to have a bit more knowledge in the underlying tech and architecture of “how things work” so that he’s better able to maintain (or modify) his equipment to suit his needs as they evolve. And I’d like to avoid him joining the ranks of the “less tech savvy” that seems to be growing amongst the younger folks due to apps just working out of the box (basically I’d like him to learn something his school may not teach him, and as a dad I want him to be independent and self-sufficient - do people still de-frag their drive to free up space?)
I’m honestly not 100% sure I’ve asked the right questions - I genuinely feel like a dinosaur - but I hope I’ve conveyed the sentiment. Any and all guidance is welcome.
Thanks again.
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Good morning - and thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to read this (let alone comment)
The situation: My 14yr old needs a laptop for his school work and so I’m looking to get something that is a balance of the usual; utility, robustness, future optionality (will he be a CS major? A graphics artist? Who knows), and so I’m looking for advice on a few things:
1. Hardware - which might not be the thing folks in this forum focus on, but I’m betting some of you have opinions: things like CPU, RAM, HDD vs SSD, screen resolution etc.
2. Operating system - This is why I am posting here. I used Windows laptops for most of the last 20 years - so I’m familiar with it, and this will be my default option (vs. Mac). I now have a Mac Air laptop which is fine for what I do, but I much prefer excel on a windows machine due to shortcuts. (Also my kid would bend that MacAir within 24 hours with how he just bounces around in the world.)
I want to avoid bloat-ware so the chromebooks and google OS stuff worries me (and I know windows has plenty of this also… I guess I’m just more familiar with it so am able to navigate it better) and this got me down a rabbithole for Linux. So here i am.
I’m old enough to have been through school and university without owning a computer (the rich kid at Uni had a 386..!) so I could be missing some requirements here but I see his needs to be fairly basic.
1. Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and likely the ability to collaborate with project team-mates.
2. Technical writing features (mathematical formulae such as integration and differentiation)
3. Filing systems
4. Communication: emails, instant messenger
5. Art / drawing / picture editing (he likes to draw)
6 other..? I dont know of any needs for things like CAD or virtual machines in high school… maybe a younger person could help guide me here as to what might be on the curriculum.
I’d like my son to have a bit more knowledge in the underlying tech and architecture of “how things work” so that he’s better able to maintain (or modify) his equipment to suit his needs as they evolve. And I’d like to avoid him joining the ranks of the “less tech savvy” that seems to be growing amongst the younger folks due to apps just working out of the box (basically I’d like him to learn something his school may not teach him, and as a dad I want him to be independent and self-sufficient - do people still de-frag their drive to free up space?)
I’m honestly not 100% sure I’ve asked the right questions - I genuinely feel like a dinosaur - but I hope I’ve conveyed the sentiment. Any and all guidance is welcome.
Thanks again.
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IF YOU PLAN ON DUAL BOOTING MAKE SURE TO KNOW YOUR BITLOCKER KEY I ALMOST LOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE BITLOCKER LOCKED ME OUT AFTER PARTITIONING MY DRIVE
As a warning to all windows users if you plan on dual booting do not lose your key write it on sticky notes save it on a flash drive tattoo it directly onto your skin everything unless your keen on nuking your drive and starting over
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As a warning to all windows users if you plan on dual booting do not lose your key write it on sticky notes save it on a flash drive tattoo it directly onto your skin everything unless your keen on nuking your drive and starting over
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Storage system like Ceph (policy based data placement) but for local storage (like ZFS)
I would love to have a storage system that I can throw storage, hdds, ssds etc... at and have a set of policies defined that ensure data is placed where needed to accomodate those policies.
For example a policy that requires 2 replicas, performance such as read throughput minimum (10MBs) and a write throughput (500MBs). Which would tend to indicate cold storage on HDDs, inbound write buffer to SSDs/NVME with writeback to HDDs.
Another policy could be IOPs based that would tend to excluded HDDs or require striping across many HDDs or maybe a policy that says recent data does not need replicas but once its 10days old it does (and maybe hands off to another policy) to accomodate scratch areas that must be fast but less likely to be needed when unused so could write back to HDDs for example.
Another policy concept could be a based on access patterns such as 'if 500MB of data is read from a particular directory, preload the entire directory to fast storage'
Or maybe something like requiring at least 2 replicas but if there are lots of HDDs with capacity available system can replicate 10x to speculatively improve read performance (can read from all/any of the 10 replicas). If capacity drops below some threashold replicas can be reclaimed.
In other words I want CRUSH but soemthing ZFS-like (local filesystem). Define rules/polcies, throw hardware (HDD, SSD, NVMEe) into a pool of capacity, iops, throughput and let the system dynamically figure out how best align those requirements. I'm also in a place where my awesome, power hungry, cluster running Ceph is turning into a single threadripper server which means I'm losing all the awesomeness that is Ceph/CRUSH by converting all my storage to ZFS.
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I would love to have a storage system that I can throw storage, hdds, ssds etc... at and have a set of policies defined that ensure data is placed where needed to accomodate those policies.
For example a policy that requires 2 replicas, performance such as read throughput minimum (10MBs) and a write throughput (500MBs). Which would tend to indicate cold storage on HDDs, inbound write buffer to SSDs/NVME with writeback to HDDs.
Another policy could be IOPs based that would tend to excluded HDDs or require striping across many HDDs or maybe a policy that says recent data does not need replicas but once its 10days old it does (and maybe hands off to another policy) to accomodate scratch areas that must be fast but less likely to be needed when unused so could write back to HDDs for example.
Another policy concept could be a based on access patterns such as 'if 500MB of data is read from a particular directory, preload the entire directory to fast storage'
Or maybe something like requiring at least 2 replicas but if there are lots of HDDs with capacity available system can replicate 10x to speculatively improve read performance (can read from all/any of the 10 replicas). If capacity drops below some threashold replicas can be reclaimed.
In other words I want CRUSH but soemthing ZFS-like (local filesystem). Define rules/polcies, throw hardware (HDD, SSD, NVMEe) into a pool of capacity, iops, throughput and let the system dynamically figure out how best align those requirements. I'm also in a place where my awesome, power hungry, cluster running Ceph is turning into a single threadripper server which means I'm losing all the awesomeness that is Ceph/CRUSH by converting all my storage to ZFS.
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Input Remapper causing stuttering in video games
Realized today that Input-Remapper, which I've been using to put keyboard-inputs (Alt and Shift) on my mouse-buttons, is causing games to lag and stutter when I press those mouse-buttons.
I'm not entirely sure why this is, and I would like to either fix it somehow, or switch to a program where this isn't a problem.
One thing I'm wondering about is if it's related to it having to go through Wine, and if it's possible to then bypass Input-Remapper in some type of launch-argument (like a more complex version of launching it with a specific keyboard-layout).
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Realized today that Input-Remapper, which I've been using to put keyboard-inputs (Alt and Shift) on my mouse-buttons, is causing games to lag and stutter when I press those mouse-buttons.
I'm not entirely sure why this is, and I would like to either fix it somehow, or switch to a program where this isn't a problem.
One thing I'm wondering about is if it's related to it having to go through Wine, and if it's possible to then bypass Input-Remapper in some type of launch-argument (like a more complex version of launching it with a specific keyboard-layout).
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I'm running KDE with the least obtrusive taskbar possible --> Should I be using a different WM?
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Manjaro KDE vs Cachy OS KDE, the good and the not so good
Hello,
After using Manjaro for a few months I got into really optimizing the OS for responsiveness which to me relates to many things but also implies low RAM usage when idle, fast boot time and debloated programs and services running in the background. I would add a dash of clean GUI set up where everything I use regularly was easy to view or access, if not at a glance then after 1 or 2 clicks at most.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1n4876s/with\_small\_tweaks\_manjaro\_kde\_idles\_at\_916mb\_of/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button
After recently making a post on my optimization process I received several messages criticizing Manjaro and that I should have chosen something else, CachyOS being one of the known and popular alternatives that use KDE as one of their main desktop environments. After hesitating for a bit I gave it a try and I was not pleased by what I found, contrary to popular belief CachyOS lacks polish and is less usable and stable than Manjaro. Let me break it down.
Boot time. After running the same optization on both distros, namely using the contents /etc/xdg/autostart as reference point to find out if there are programs or KDE features I don't need that I can uninstall, editing GRUB timeout and changing the value to 0, installing the latest available kernel version, editing Background services using the KDE window with the same name and turning off and disabling services I don't need and after editing Configure System Tray and disabling widgets from starting automatically at boot that I don't need the results were....crash. CachyOS stuttered, crashed the plasmashell once, after forced reboot it did the same but this time it reverted back to the log in screen and proceeded to freeze after entering the password and attempting to log in and after a second forced reboot, it froze once again while using Configure System tray, but this time it managed to restart the shell after a few seconds. Was this a KDE problem? Was it a kernel problem? Was it something else like zram which is automatically preconfigured for CachyOS and very aggressive? Maybe, idk, but the experience was not pleasant. Also after one of those reboots it also failed to enable the keyboard after booting.
Getting back on track, boot times. After finishing optimizations the best result I got on Cachy OS was 18s while on Manjaro with the 6.17 kernel I managed 13.2s
https://imgur.com/a/yA5WwMi
https://imgur.com/a/xddFOU1
There is not much to say here other, other than lowering the grub timeout, the same bios (UIEFI) settings were used and yet the results are quite different. Almost 50% more time needed for Cachy OS using the same boot loader, namely GRUB.
Ram usage while idling on the desktop after fresh restart, which to me communicates how bloated the system is compared to how optimize it could be with a common sense setup that provides all the needed functions while not being as bare bones as the command line stans would desire. Here again I noticed a gap with CachyOS being more RAM hungry after simillar optimizations
CachyOS
https://imgur.com/a/jX1xTrJ
Manjaro
https://imgur.com/a/6Gpv6xx
Of note here is the pretty aggressive use of zram which on one side does appear to make the GUI more responsive but also has introduced the chance for freezes and stutters which I would qulify as a fail for a normal, daily use OS and Manjaro did not really feel slow ever, in fact the most impactful setting one can make for KDE to make the GUI appear to work quickly and be responsive is to go to System Settings>Quick settings or General Behavior (depending on the distro the wording for this category might be different
Hello,
After using Manjaro for a few months I got into really optimizing the OS for responsiveness which to me relates to many things but also implies low RAM usage when idle, fast boot time and debloated programs and services running in the background. I would add a dash of clean GUI set up where everything I use regularly was easy to view or access, if not at a glance then after 1 or 2 clicks at most.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1n4876s/with\_small\_tweaks\_manjaro\_kde\_idles\_at\_916mb\_of/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button
After recently making a post on my optimization process I received several messages criticizing Manjaro and that I should have chosen something else, CachyOS being one of the known and popular alternatives that use KDE as one of their main desktop environments. After hesitating for a bit I gave it a try and I was not pleased by what I found, contrary to popular belief CachyOS lacks polish and is less usable and stable than Manjaro. Let me break it down.
Boot time. After running the same optization on both distros, namely using the contents /etc/xdg/autostart as reference point to find out if there are programs or KDE features I don't need that I can uninstall, editing GRUB timeout and changing the value to 0, installing the latest available kernel version, editing Background services using the KDE window with the same name and turning off and disabling services I don't need and after editing Configure System Tray and disabling widgets from starting automatically at boot that I don't need the results were....crash. CachyOS stuttered, crashed the plasmashell once, after forced reboot it did the same but this time it reverted back to the log in screen and proceeded to freeze after entering the password and attempting to log in and after a second forced reboot, it froze once again while using Configure System tray, but this time it managed to restart the shell after a few seconds. Was this a KDE problem? Was it a kernel problem? Was it something else like zram which is automatically preconfigured for CachyOS and very aggressive? Maybe, idk, but the experience was not pleasant. Also after one of those reboots it also failed to enable the keyboard after booting.
Getting back on track, boot times. After finishing optimizations the best result I got on Cachy OS was 18s while on Manjaro with the 6.17 kernel I managed 13.2s
https://imgur.com/a/yA5WwMi
https://imgur.com/a/xddFOU1
There is not much to say here other, other than lowering the grub timeout, the same bios (UIEFI) settings were used and yet the results are quite different. Almost 50% more time needed for Cachy OS using the same boot loader, namely GRUB.
Ram usage while idling on the desktop after fresh restart, which to me communicates how bloated the system is compared to how optimize it could be with a common sense setup that provides all the needed functions while not being as bare bones as the command line stans would desire. Here again I noticed a gap with CachyOS being more RAM hungry after simillar optimizations
CachyOS
https://imgur.com/a/jX1xTrJ
Manjaro
https://imgur.com/a/6Gpv6xx
Of note here is the pretty aggressive use of zram which on one side does appear to make the GUI more responsive but also has introduced the chance for freezes and stutters which I would qulify as a fail for a normal, daily use OS and Manjaro did not really feel slow ever, in fact the most impactful setting one can make for KDE to make the GUI appear to work quickly and be responsive is to go to System Settings>Quick settings or General Behavior (depending on the distro the wording for this category might be different
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despite all being Plasma) and finding the "Animation speed" slider and setting it to the fastest value. Here's a lsblk from Cachy displaying the use of zram which was configured by the installer, I had no input.
https://imgur.com/a/Rd2YpsU
Lastly, though a bit unrelated to performance and more related to usability, the Package Manager for CachyOS is far less intuitive to use having a very simplistic GUI compared to Manjaro which offers by contrast an easy way to browse installed packages and install/uninstall them at leisure. Not so clear or usable on the CachyOS side though I give it props for listing the repo packages in a list which makes it a lot more usable for casual use than requiring to know the console command to install them. This is a feature that Manjaro should copy.
CachyOS (crappy) GUI for packages
https://imgur.com/a/cxQumhG
CachyOS (useful repo list of packages) GUI in the package manager
https://imgur.com/a/07vSBGQ
Overall I am not impressed with CachyOS compared to Manajaro for daily use, far less stable and easy to use for casual PC users, especially those migrating from Windows. I give it props for the responsive GUI, likely a combination of aggressive zram config and fabled CachyOS optimized and kissed approved kernel but this trades off stability and leaves a bad first impression. These, imo should be user enabled features post install and not configured automatically from the start. Mediocre boot time, dodgy GUI decisions and overly enthusiastic optimizations, frankly speaking fanboys need to take a sit and be more humble, Manjaro in my findings is far more casual PC user friendly and better set up for first time Linux users. Use CachyOS at your peril, better dual boot with a stable distro, it doesn't boot fast anyway so no need to cry about it with multiboot.
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https://imgur.com/a/Rd2YpsU
Lastly, though a bit unrelated to performance and more related to usability, the Package Manager for CachyOS is far less intuitive to use having a very simplistic GUI compared to Manjaro which offers by contrast an easy way to browse installed packages and install/uninstall them at leisure. Not so clear or usable on the CachyOS side though I give it props for listing the repo packages in a list which makes it a lot more usable for casual use than requiring to know the console command to install them. This is a feature that Manjaro should copy.
CachyOS (crappy) GUI for packages
https://imgur.com/a/cxQumhG
CachyOS (useful repo list of packages) GUI in the package manager
https://imgur.com/a/07vSBGQ
Overall I am not impressed with CachyOS compared to Manajaro for daily use, far less stable and easy to use for casual PC users, especially those migrating from Windows. I give it props for the responsive GUI, likely a combination of aggressive zram config and fabled CachyOS optimized and kissed approved kernel but this trades off stability and leaves a bad first impression. These, imo should be user enabled features post install and not configured automatically from the start. Mediocre boot time, dodgy GUI decisions and overly enthusiastic optimizations, frankly speaking fanboys need to take a sit and be more humble, Manjaro in my findings is far more casual PC user friendly and better set up for first time Linux users. Use CachyOS at your peril, better dual boot with a stable distro, it doesn't boot fast anyway so no need to cry about it with multiboot.
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Database Subsetting and Relational Data Browsing Tool.
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Temperature in system tray
I'm looking for an app that puts the temperature in the system tray. I have a program called Tray Weather that does just that in Windows. I don't want the temperature to be in the middle panel, it has to be in the system tray. So don't suggest a program that puts it in the middle panel because that isn't what I'm looking for. Is there a program that does this.
EDIT: Cinnamon on Debian.
https://preview.redd.it/arxphe3et8nf1.png?width=284&format=png&auto=webp&s=eea2a85f2792718a9daf72d8084c28a4eef20d8a
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I'm looking for an app that puts the temperature in the system tray. I have a program called Tray Weather that does just that in Windows. I don't want the temperature to be in the middle panel, it has to be in the system tray. So don't suggest a program that puts it in the middle panel because that isn't what I'm looking for. Is there a program that does this.
EDIT: Cinnamon on Debian.
https://preview.redd.it/arxphe3et8nf1.png?width=284&format=png&auto=webp&s=eea2a85f2792718a9daf72d8084c28a4eef20d8a
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Debian Bootc experiment with composefs native backend
https://github.com/tulilirockz/debian-bootc
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Anyone using 1Browser for proxies and VPN-style isolation?
So I recently started messing around with something called 1Browser — kind of stumbled on it while looking for better ways to handle multiple accounts without getting flagged. What caught my attention is that it gives you up to 20 browser profiles for free, and each one can run on a separate IP using built-in proxies or basic VPN options (also free for a few profiles).
I’m honestly surprised it’s not mentioned more often in these discussions. It feels like a pretty decent option if you’re not trying to pay for a full-on antidetect browser or stack a bunch of VPN subnoscriptions.
Has anyone here actually used it for a while? I’m mainly curious how reliable the proxies are, whether there are any major fingerprinting leaks, and how it compares to traditional VPNs for basic privacy stuff.
Would love to hear any real experiences — still figuring out if it’s worth building into my workflow or just a short-term tool.
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So I recently started messing around with something called 1Browser — kind of stumbled on it while looking for better ways to handle multiple accounts without getting flagged. What caught my attention is that it gives you up to 20 browser profiles for free, and each one can run on a separate IP using built-in proxies or basic VPN options (also free for a few profiles).
I’m honestly surprised it’s not mentioned more often in these discussions. It feels like a pretty decent option if you’re not trying to pay for a full-on antidetect browser or stack a bunch of VPN subnoscriptions.
Has anyone here actually used it for a while? I’m mainly curious how reliable the proxies are, whether there are any major fingerprinting leaks, and how it compares to traditional VPNs for basic privacy stuff.
Would love to hear any real experiences — still figuring out if it’s worth building into my workflow or just a short-term tool.
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itch.io - Another Source for Gaming on Linux
Around 2018, I switched to Linux distributions for my main driver. I also have BSD servers churning select tasks. Anyway, for a while, I have been searching for gaming on Linux. I'm aware of Proton and Steam, but I'm not a fan of WINE; it feels like I should just run a VM.
Anyways, if you're into gaming, especially indie gaming, check out itch.io. There are free games available some on browser, but also, native Linux games. I downloaded "Crank It!" which is a game about being left stranded at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a mine, and you've got to crank to charge batteries. The graphics and sound surprised me, and it was one ELF file. And some are available through Web browser too.
My main driver hosts are Debian (bookworm/release) and Fedora Workstation.
Happy gaming.
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Around 2018, I switched to Linux distributions for my main driver. I also have BSD servers churning select tasks. Anyway, for a while, I have been searching for gaming on Linux. I'm aware of Proton and Steam, but I'm not a fan of WINE; it feels like I should just run a VM.
Anyways, if you're into gaming, especially indie gaming, check out itch.io. There are free games available some on browser, but also, native Linux games. I downloaded "Crank It!" which is a game about being left stranded at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a mine, and you've got to crank to charge batteries. The graphics and sound surprised me, and it was one ELF file. And some are available through Web browser too.
My main driver hosts are Debian (bookworm/release) and Fedora Workstation.
Happy gaming.
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itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you covered.
Possible to sandbox GUI apps using Gvisor?
Gvisor is a kernel compatability layer for linux containers. I am trying to find a solution to sandbox everyday apps I use including browsers, code editors and other programs I work with. I have been trying to get Firefox working using Gvisor and Podman along with nested xorg servers but haven't been successful yet.
Have you guys tried anything similar? I know I can use VMs and bubblewrap but a well isolated container with no access to the actual kernel looks like a more promising idea to me.
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Gvisor is a kernel compatability layer for linux containers. I am trying to find a solution to sandbox everyday apps I use including browsers, code editors and other programs I work with. I have been trying to get Firefox working using Gvisor and Podman along with nested xorg servers but haven't been successful yet.
Have you guys tried anything similar? I know I can use VMs and bubblewrap but a well isolated container with no access to the actual kernel looks like a more promising idea to me.
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Trying Microsofts Azure Linux
Out of curiosity... Trying Azure Linux in a Hyper-V VM. The installer ISO images are available from https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
Azure Linux final screen for Hyper-V Installation
First boot presents a /login:/ prompt and goes to a TTY console.
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Out of curiosity... Trying Azure Linux in a Hyper-V VM. The installer ISO images are available from https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
Azure Linux final screen for Hyper-V Installation
First boot presents a /login:/ prompt and goes to a TTY console.
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GitHub
GitHub - microsoft/azurelinux: Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances - microsoft/azurelinux
Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026/
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https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026/
https://redd.it/1n94v54
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Future Releases
Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026
For many years, Mozilla has continued to provide Firefox for 32-bit Linux systems long after most other browsers and operating systems ended support. We made this choice because we care ...