actual f*ck. I buy a new PC so I have to tax GiB of data (on top of other GiB that we were getting used to in that bloat OS) and processing power for unwanted features MS uses to collect Big Data??!

Now since I use Linux, I started to consume news about. It also started up my curiousity for desktop computing again somewhat. And that is the other side of the same coin that makes Linux so great! Basically an OS for and by users. I think that can sum it up.

Once, there was talk about AI maybe coming to Linux and I was like "Nooooo!" and someone else was writing what I felt until people came in and reassured: "If there is AI, it's for you/us users, it will be good AI". I really have to learn that updates and advancing can be a good thing without fearing some megacompany trying to find a new way of screwing us over. I read about Thorvald's attitude towards even the slightest "bad direction change" or contribution to his "baby" which is fantastic! It just feels so "right" to be using this OS in times where Apple, Google, Microsoft, Adobe try more and more to get incredible EULA/ToS changes through. The real cure is what I am using and now being a part of: Linux.

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USB drives and ext4 these days?

I have a couple of USB3.1 Integral Courier USB sticks. 1x 256GB and 1x 64GB.

I have wondered why trying to install a Linux OS on them was taking do darned long so I have been doing a bit of testing on the 64GB stick.

The transfer speed of rsync when the stick is formatted EXT4 drops to around 1MB/s after the initial caching and writing some of the data to the stick, and rsync tells me I am going to wait hours for the 13GB file to be copied over.#

Example:

root@RTS3050Mint:/home/mikx4# nocache rsync -v --progress /media/mikx4/NobaraHome/mikx4/Downloads/kali-linux-2025.2-installer-everything-amd64.iso /home/mikx4/USBstick1/kali-linux-2025.2-installer-everything-amd64.iso

kali-linux-2025.2-installer-everything-amd64.iso

3,922,034,688 29% 37.00kB/s 71:30:34

I formatted the stick to Exfat with gparted and 13GB took only 4 minutes.

Are there certain USB manufacturer sticks that we have to use when we format them as EXT4?

Thank you.

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Intel Fixes Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Performance Issues For Linux Ahead Of Launch
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Fixes-Xe3-Perf-Problems

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Hyprland 0.51
https://hypr.land/news/update51/

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I thought I understood Linux until now...

For the longest time, I thought Linux was the back-end, and the distro was the front-end, but now I hear of several different desktop environments.

I also noticed that Arch boots into the tty instead of a user interface, and you have to install a desktop environment to have that interface.

So my question is, what's the difference?

EDIT:
Thanks a lot for the help!
I think I understand now:

Linux Kernel = The foundation (memory management, file system management, etc.)
Distro = Package of a bunch of stuff (some don't come pre-installed with a desktop environment, e.g., Arch)

and among the things the distro comes with are:

Desktop Environment
Software
Drivers
etc.

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First time using anything linux, its super fun

https://preview.redd.it/sz68fn4oekof1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=c69c86d2f39b950f39304d9327d3a0bb8a3e0677

I was messing around with the Linux environment on my Chromebook (I was using adb to do some stuff), and I've always wanted to switch to Linux, but today I decided to do some stuff, and I really like this. Any tips or tricks and stuffs? :3

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Linux 6.18 Will Further Complicate Non-GPL Out-Of-Tree File-Systems
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-write-cache-pages

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An Ubuntu commercial from over a decade ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSi26X9AYk

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Looking for people who have configured really fast booting Linux images.

Hello Linux enthusiasts!

I'm looking for someone with experience in configuring an image that can boot in <2 seconds on an RK3566-based ARM board. This is, of course, paid work :)

The work:
Build a minimal Linux image (likely Yocto or Buildroot) targeting RK3566.
Optimise boot chain (u-boot, kernel, init, rootfs) for fast startup.
Strip down drivers and services to the absolute minimum needed.
Tweak

If you have relevant experience, please send me a DM.

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So, I just went on GitHub to take a look at opens PR, and most of them are trolls
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Upcoming changes for bcachefs; notes for users distributions
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/yokpt2d2g2lluyomtqrdvmkl3amv3kgnipmenobkpgx537kay7@xgcgjviv3n7x/T/#u

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Linux top: Here’s how to customize it.

https://preview.redd.it/02lldl00zqof1.png?width=1275&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d7c934146aa52a0ea494d2142b6566167630bd8

It’s been several years since my original write-up on customizing top, and my setup has evolved quite a bit since then. This screenshot is my current four-pane layout as of 2025. See other layouts, instructions, and more details here.

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I want to show my appreciation for linux

My interest in computers generally started when I was 7, with an old laptop running Windows 7. it was slow and all but somehow I learned how to install programs and stuff using it but I quickly got curious about how everything actually worked. That curiosity led me down a rabbit hole.

Before I even understood what Linux was, I was already deep into Android modding and iOS jailbreaking. I had reached 9 years old, I was flashing custom ROMs and unlocking bootloaders of old android phones lying around and what I didn’t realize at the time was that all of this came from Linux and an open-source mindset. the idea of freedom, control, and pushing devices beyond what they were "supposed" to do kinda fascinated me

Eventually, I discovered Linux itself. That completely changed how I saw software. started by running Ubuntu on old laptops, to eventually learning how to compile kernels and getting frustrated. Linux taught me about how computers work beyond just windows.

As I got deeper into it, I started exploring embedded devices and hardware-level mods. I’ve repurposed old routers with openwrt; experimented with running lightweight distros on raspberry pi and even built a server from an old laptop. I’ve also done hardware mods just for the challenge like building Hackintoshes (which taught me about EFI) and opening up devices to replace Wi-Fi cards, BIOS chips, or even reflash firmware manually. I’ve bricked and fixed my fair share of devices, but that's how I learned by breaking things and figuring out how to recover them.

Now, I run an Arch Linux server and media server. Almost every device I own has run Linux at some point. If i see Macos or Windows anywhere it'll kinda piss me off about how Microsoft or Apple doesn't allow freedom to users Everything I have done isn't even the tip of the iceberg of what linux is but seriously i think linux is the coolest thing.

This entire post sounds kinda weird but Im really grateful. I’m super thankful for the Linux and open-source community. They’ve built tools and shared knowledge that helped me learn all of this on my own. I’m only 13, but Linux and hardware modding have already taught me more than I ever expected and I’m just getting started.

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Roadmap to Arch Linux

Hello everyone!
I’m interested in learning more about Linux and eventually using Arch as my daily driver. That being said, I’ve read that Arch isn’t beginner friendly. So my question is what distros would be best to create a sort of roadmap that would lead to me learning Linux and eventually using Arch as my daily driver. Thanks!

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ms paint alternative?

I use ms paint regularly on another windows pc. copy paste the screenshot, crop, brush to color something out when needed add text as well

what is the mirror alternative to MS paint? crop/rotate/brush/text are musts it needs to have

linux mint newbie

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ms paint alternative? copy paste as IMAGE-kolourpaint

so trying kolourpaint now. I do copy paste but it only copies text into a box. it doesnt do a true print screen so I can save out as jpg. its just copying text

what am I doing wrong?

print screen on an image I want, paste into KP, but shows text

I want a true print screen image

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David Diamon's biography of Linus Torvalds, _Just for Fun_, free PDF
https://github.com/limkokholefork/just-for-fun-linus-torvalds/blob/master/just-for-fun.pdf

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Linux has some really good audio tools with names like... this
https://redd.it/1nfub6a
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are there programs to do this

so theres a game i wanna play that for some reason uses arrow keys.and since its a bullet game,and my arrow keys are small,that makes it very very hard to play,so are there any programs that can turn wasd into up down left right signals only if the specific x86 file is running?



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Anyone using Linux as a HTPC?

I’m setting up a HTPC, and I was wondering if anyone is using Linux for a HTPC, and if so what distribution?
I’ve recently started using Mint, and I was going to use that, but then I’ve read posts where others have used cinnamon.
Any help/clarity will be greatly appreciated!

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Red Hat being eaten, KDE Linux, Firefox getting worse - Linux Weekly News (The Linux Experiment)
https://peertube.wtf/w/6UAGoJrE38Lt1zcu3w7NJs

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