My first submission!!!!
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What kernel should I use?

Seeing the invasive actions by Microsoft in windows 11 I would like to switch to Linux. I am not very experienced with computer science as a whole but I’ve installed windows a couple times. Is there a kernel that comes with enough features off the bat to work and game? (Am I using kernel right?)

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Update on grub screen issue.

Continuation of previous post.

Finnaly i managed to get into bios and i deleted the linux boot manager from boot sequence and kept windows boot manager on first, i think now iam fine.

Thanks for the comments, support and advices



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What is happening in torvalds linux source tree?
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Locked OS
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How does one become good at things

How are people who know linux to some level they can do something learn it and How do they master it , not that just let it be any programming language , cybersecurity...
How do they do it is it just that they started early or is it some magic
I request you to share some advice to a 19 yo kid studying cs but I am just confused about stuff and kind of depressed that people are good and some stuff and I am not and have wasted time so far.


Edit : thank you all who took time to share some advice . I will remember this and thanks again

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Kernel 6.17 File-System Benchmarks. Including: OpenZFS & Bcachefs

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-617-filesystems

"Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what's powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today's article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too".

"... So tested for this article were":

\- Bcachefs
\- Btrfs
\- EXT4
\- F2FS
\- OpenZFS
\- XFS

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Any designers in here?

I'm a web designer and developer, and I'm considering switching to Linux, from macOS.

From what I was able to check, I believe the only app I wouldn't be able to easily port to Linux is Sketch—that's only for macOS.

I don't want to use Adobe products—and frankly I don't even know if they're available for Linux—and I never used Figma (browser-based), but wouldn't say no to it.

How are you designers doing on Linux? What are you using?

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Which music app are you using?

Most of my favorite artists are removing their art from Spotify so i have to find an alternative ( i use spicefy so i listen to music or free) but now i need an alternative.
Which music desktop app is free and smooth and has good UI for most Linux distros? ( I use cachyOS btw)

Edit: I should have been more clear, I'm looking for streaming music,not downloading it!

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Flathub popularity by country
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This is kinda rough ngl

I built my pc to play games, and mostly with the idea of modding them. Unfortunately, linux doesnt support modding as well as windows does. I dont like windows, i love using linux, but ive gotta go back to windows at this point.

Rip, when linux gets more native mod accessibility ill swap back.

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How is Wayland currently on Cinnamon 6.4.1?

I've seen that Cinnamon 6.4.1 has improved Wayland support, but how usable is it right now? And what issues does it still have?

Obviously I do not think it's ready for daily use, just curious about the progress.

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Termux full setup
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Linux over Windows?

I have used macOS all my life and want a PC for other stuff that doesn’t work on macOS or that runs better on windows/linux. What are the major differences? Should I get 2 ssds, 1 for each OS? What security features does Linux have compared to macOS or windows?

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Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250918222607.186488-1-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com/

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Is there any name for... I call it dependency fragmentation, in package management?

The thing that flatpak and every similar package does. Software ends up needing gnome-runtime 0.8.0001, then something else uses .0002, then something else .0003, and so on, and you waste a ton of bandwidth and disk space. Haven't seen any system like that avoid it because ultimately they're kinda just, accidentally designed to facilitate it.

Is there any widespread name for it? It's a known issue, I've seen it come up time and time again in practice and theory, but I've never seen a name for it, other than it being a distinct type of dependency hell.

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Could incompatible RAM screw a system?

Context: I have an aspire 4720z running antix (debian 12), and also had 3gb (1+2) ram ddr2. Ok for now its safe.

Then i bought a unkown and certainly not suspicious RAM from the internet, having in total 4gb. Here shit starts.

My laptop started acting crazy, crashes when sudo updating (?) and broke my apt and dpkg after those random crashes. used my 3gb combo again and the problem persisted. After some hours of testing and fixing dpkg/apt, the problem stopped.

I suppose that if I go back to 4gb my system will again fall apart. Any ideas? help? Im really newbie with this.

Also memtest86+ said he doesnt care and simply crashes with the "faulty" ram.


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Can someone explain to me how you all use Flatpaks willy nilly when they take up x10 or even x100 more space

So, question in noscript. My software manager has this nice option to compare install packages, including flatpaks. For some software, the system package can take a few MBs, while the flatpak for the same software takes up hudreds, sometimes more.


I understand the idea of isolation and encapsulation. But the tradeoff of using this much storage seems very steep. So how is flatpak so popular?

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GPT-5 Codex knows what's the standard text editor
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Multihome network question

so home network

wifi network 192.168.110.0/24 ... DGW .1
lan network 192.168.111.0/24 ... DGW .1


nginx server
eth0 192.168.111.31/24
eth1 192.168.110.31/24
DGW 192.168.111.1
keepalived - vip on eth0 192.168.111.14/32 on vrrp@
nginx listening on port 443

test box
eth0 192.168.110.7/24 DGW 192.168.110.1


I try wget 192.168.111.14/deb/apt/something

I have packet dumps on test box and the nginx box and what i see is
test -> syn
test -> 192.168.110.0/24 rtr -> 192.168.111.0/24 -> nginx

syn + ack goes
ngxin -> 192.168.110.0/24 \->
ngxin -> 192.168.110.0/24 \->
ngxin -> 192.168.110.0/24 \->
arp for 192.168.110.7
then it takes off
so makes a big delay


as i am writing this I am going to guess. that what happens is nginx has mac for text box which is the router and it uses that mac on eth1 (192.168.110) not eth0 where the packet came in from and has to wait for the mac to expire and then does arp and then blasts forward. << feels about write.
Is there away around it .
My other thought is to set up ip ru to force packets our the interface they came in on based on source route .. but that would allow new connections to start on any interface - how will that affect the arp table - can i have 2 entries with different interface and different mac's

looking at trying to get some efficiencies but just causing more hassles it seems...

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Mini PC hardware compatibility

I’m want to try Linux—for the third time, in 10 years—and this time I’m going to go for Omarchy, which is Arch based.

I’ve hear the recent AMD processors might have WiFi inconsistencies and issues. I’m stuck with WiFi and won’t be able to use Ethernet, unfortunately.

So what kind of other hardware issues should I look out for when considering a mini PC, for instance the Beelink SER 9—as the one I’m currently looking at?

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