I've been defending you Ubuntu!!!, you can't do this to me :(
https://redd.it/1p800d6
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Ubuntu: The Distro I Love to Hate (But Can’t Quit)

Hey guys.

Warning: This is a whining post!

I’ve been using Linux for about a decade now, and my journey started out of sheer frustration with Windows 8.1. The tile interface and general UX drove me nuts, so I made the switch to the distro I knew the best at the time: Ubuntu.

Fast forward to today, I use Windows on my work machine (because corporate) and Ubuntu on my personal ThinkPad + Lenovo dock setup with two external displays. Here’s the thing: Ubuntu just works. Synaptics DisplayLink drivers? Only officially supported for Ubuntu. Plug&play with my dock and monitors? Ubuntu. Minimal fuss? Ubuntu.

I’ve tried to break free: Pop!OS, Mint, Fedora but nothing matches Ubuntu’s out-of-the-box smoothness for my hardware. I know Ubuntu isn’t the "cool kid" in the Linux world anymore, and I’d love to switch to something more community-driven like Debian or Fedora. But every time I try, I hit a wall with driver support, dock compatibility, or just general polish.

Am I alone in this? Who else is stuck in the "Ubuntu works, but I wish I didn’t need it" limbo? What distros have you tried, and what finally made you switch (or stick)?

My next step to cheer me up: Try Omakub

Thanks for listening

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A new version of CDE was released.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CDE-2.5.3-Desktop

https://redd.it/1p87dzf
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Sending requests (gRPC) to Linux VM via vsock, fast communication with no network
https://popovicu.com/posts/how-to-use-linux-vsock-for-fast-vm-communication/

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Found an old article about Bill Gates regarding Linux

Happened to randomly find this article dated 1999 about Bill Gates saying: "that Windows offers far more functionality and features than Linux ever will."

"We put things into our system like systems management that's not that much fun for university developers," Gates said. "Linux doesn't have that stuff. It doesn't have the graphics interface. It doesn't have the rich set of device drivers. So certainly we think of it as a competitor in the student and hobbyist market. But I really don't think in the commercial market, we'll see it [compete with Windows\] in any significant way."

Funny how things change in 20 years huh?

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The Input Stack on Linux: An End-To-End Architecture Overview
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_devices_linux.html

https://redd.it/1p87bc2
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I have made man pages 10x more useful (zsh-vi-man)
https://redd.it/1p8bckd
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One Of Intel's Xe Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Maintainers Is Departing
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Maintainer-Leaving

https://redd.it/1p8j730
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Is OnlyOffice open-source?

After recently seeing a lot of posts about OnlyOffice being a modern office-suite and a lot of people recommending it, I decided to check it out. I have been using LibreOffice. Although, fair disclaimer, I'm not a heavy user of office-suite programs.

So I went to their website and was curious if it was open-source. It led me to this repo https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors . If you see the components section from the github readme -

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors contain the following components:

[desktop-apps](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/desktop-apps) \- the frontend for ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors which is used to build the program interface for the operating system selected.
desktop-sdk \- SDK which is a core part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors.
[core](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/core) \- server core components for [ONLYOFFICE Document Server](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer) which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors and is used to enable the conversion between the most popular office document formats (DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, PDF, HTML, EPUB, XPS, DjVu, XLS, XLSX, ODS, CSV, PPT, PPTX, ODP).
sdkjs \- JavaScript SDK for the ONLYOFFICE Document Server which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors and contains API for all the included components client-side interaction.
[web-apps](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/web-apps) \- the frontend for [ONLYOFFICE Document Server](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer) which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors that allows the user to create, edit, save and export text, spreadsheet and presentation documents using the common interface of a document editor.
dictionaries \- the dictionaries of various languages used for spellchecking in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors.

Looks like this repo only contains the frontend and SDKs? The "core", IIUC, is for converting across formats. Where can I find the core source code, of the word processor or the spreadsheet program? Does anyone know? Am I missing something? Or are they closed-core model?


PS: I asked their support chat as well. They were very helpful, and eventually pointed me to this repo. And mentioned that the desktop editors are open-source. But when I asked further clarification about the missing "actual core" component. They said they are not able to provide further technical support regarding as it's not available in the free-tier. If I pay, then I can get technical support which will provide me answer to that question.

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It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-keynote

https://redd.it/1p8obh4
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Does Clip Studio work smoothly on Winboat?

Clip Studio is essential for me; I have a pirated version of it. If I use WinBoat, will it work smoothly? Will the pen pressure function work? Can I log into the asset store? Does it run without any loss of performance?

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Distro like windows

Hi, i want to convince my pops to use linux but he does not want to deal with the terminal.

Is there a distro like this?
Also installing software will be done via gui, something like synaptic or software center in ubuntu.

Thanks

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Keep booting into grub cli but it still works after I exit

I recently set up a dual boot system with the majority of the disk for Bazzite and a small partition running Win11 (AtlasOS) basically exclusively for fortnite. Every time I boot the system from a proper shutdown or restart it ALWAYS goes into the grub cli. If I exit it, it then boots into bazzite normally. Its more or just an annoyance but i would like to know why it happens.

Also I dont want the grub menu or anything its a positive that i dont get that since i want it to just boot into bazzite by default. I use the boot windows shortcut on steam to get into the atlasos partition.


Any help at least understanding this would be great thank you.

https://redd.it/1p8veux
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Connex: Wifi manager Updated
https://redd.it/1p9035p
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What do you think of tools for setting colorschemes in many apps at once, like pywal and base16?

It's very clear that the ricing community wants to set any given colorscheme in many apps automatically, most tools do so either with wallpapers (which is inherently opinionated), or the base16 spec. The original base16 repo hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and 16 colors simply isn't enough to make rich granular themes, especially when code has many different syntax elements. We need a successor that allows for more colors on both TUIs and GUIs, more than 16 colors (like 24 or even 32), mapped more granularly.

My story:

I've spent lots of time looking at how to have good colorschemes in apps that change dynamically, to make my desktop pretty and with variety. Many tools can apply colorschemes to apps using image / wallpaper colors like Matugen and Pywal. These tools are very well made, but I realized I actually prefer rainbow colorschemes like Catppuccin. Either way I got attached Matugen, fortunately it can be used without wallpapers and supports custom keywords, there are also base16 colorscheme managers like flavours and tinty.

But Cattppuccin's base16 theme didn't look right compared to its Neovim plugin. The plugin is very well integrated and colors a lot things for you that base16 plugins may not, I would have to set certain UI colors myself if I wanted them to match. Some of the major colors (variables, keywords, brackets, etc.) were shuffled around, so out of the box Catppuccin's base16 theme doesn't even match Cattppuccin's original vision / color harmony. All of this probably applies to other colorschemes as well. So if I want to switch between different schemes while staying true to each one, I would need to set up plugins for each app rather than automatically.

https://redd.it/1p91vca
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Finally found my home

My earliest Linux distro was slack back in the 90s. Been working as a Linux sysadmin with Debian and RedHat distros since the 00’s. Mainly rpm based distros in the last decade.

For my personal laptop I have not been 100% happy with my DE environment since Gnome 2 replacement with Gnome 3. I have tried many alternatives and have been satisfied with gnome 3 and dash to panel extension up to now.

Been running Fedora 43 with the Cosmic DE since its release and have been so satisfied, it feels like a 10+ year wait for this combo.


https://redd.it/1p96ibk
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New Linux Patches Enhance Single-Threaded Performance On Many-Core CPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Better-ST-Perf-Many-Core-CPUs

https://redd.it/1p96r44
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Thinkpad T14s Gen 6 Snapdragon + Linux a year later - is it good?

So I snagged Thinkpad T14s Gen 6 with Snapdragon for literally pennies (60% off). Naturally, I'm not going to run Windows on it, I was going to run Linux.

From what I have seen, the drivers specifically for this machine were upstreamed into kernel in January, so it's been almost a year since then.

So - does anyone have this machine and can share your experience? What distro are you running, is it supported well, does it have all the drivers, and most importantly - do Flatpaks run at all? Do we have some translation layer, or applications need to be specifically ported to ARM, even through Flatpak?

I admit, got a little excited and didn't check it beforehand, but... I was hopeful?

https://redd.it/1p979rn
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Evolution of trash icon
https://redd.it/1p9bd3l
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Ubuntu or KDE Neon

I've only really ever used Ubuntu for the entirety of my Linux lifetime and I now want to change laptops. Since my iso of Ubuntu is pretty outdated (I've got 22.04 on my flashdrive) I'm considering either jumping over to Neon or download 24.04.3 LTS. I'm only considering Neon because I use KDE Plasma as my DE. Are there any cons to using Neon? Or is Ubuntu just more stable?

Edit: I've been made aware that Kubuntu is the stable one, so I'm now wondering whether I should install the new Ubuntu then install Plasma over it or install Kubuntu directly

https://redd.it/1p9cotl
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This Week in Plasma: lots of cool stuff
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/29/this-week-in-plasma-lots-of-cool-stuff/

https://redd.it/1p9drzb
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