the installation of windows feels so slow compared to any linux distro

Today I decided I'd install Windows 11 on my HDD whilst keeping Linux Mint on my SSD for compatibility purposes.

Linux Mint installed in 20 minutes without restarting once during tue installation, Windows 11 installed after a solid 40 minutes and two reboots.

Now this probably has to do with my HDD, but still, the process to install Linux is so much more.. Simple, faster, less shit on your face..

Glad I use it as my main OS for a few months now

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Day one of switching to Linux: I absolutely love it.

After Windows 11 started having more and more issues and bugs for Me. And after adding more and more AI stuff and other things I really didn't care about. I decided to switch to Linux

After doing lots of research and thinking about what would be best for Me. I decided to go with Fedora.

Since I know it's dumb to dual-boot on the same drive and I knew I would have some things that I would need Windows for. I decided to go and buy 2 SSDs.

After waiting for a month, I installed my SSDs and began installing Fedora.

I first had some issues understanding the manual partition process but after some time I understood it and managed to install it perfectly fine.

Now... I did have some issues.

My first install was with Btrfs on my root drive and XFS on my secondary drive... So I went to install the drivers for my RTX 4070 Super and idk how it happened or what was going on, but somehow the reboot managed to delete my entire root subvolume.

I troubleshooted for 3 hours before finding out that my root is simply bricked. So after that I decided to simply reinstall Fedora. This time I went with EXT4 on my root drive and XFS on my secondary drive. That wasn't a major issue since I didn't really have a need for the Btrfs features anyways.

After having reinstalled the OS, I tried to install my Nvidia drivers again and this time I had no issues whatsoever.

Next I added my secondary Windows drive as read-only in fstab and began porting over some stuff to Linux.

I also began porting my Steam games and tested how those ran. I was extremely surprised to see that almost all my Games run absolutely perfect on Linux (Some games also running faster than on Windows).

I ran into some KDE Plasma bugs at the start, but I fixed those fairly quickly in around 15 minutes.

I had some applications that didn't run on Linux natively. But I managed to get them running at perfect speed after some tinkering. And for some I found great alternatives (Prismlauncher instead of MultiMC, and Pinta instead of Paint.NET).

It definitely took Me some time to set everything up (Nearly an entire day tbh). But I am very happy with Fedora so far and I don't think I'll go back to Windows after I got everything set up.

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Ubuntu Desktop

Is it just me or does the dock on Ubuntu (Gnome) feel much better integrated and nicer looking than using something like Dash to Dock on Fedora? It's the one thing I miss (which could be solved by being able to add stuff like an outline or fix the dynamic transparency). Or do other people use Gnome without the dock?

On that note, what dock or alternative top bar or top bar extensions do you use to make gnome look nicer?

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Warehouse Barcode Scanners: Need some ideas for a solution

I am working on a project for my company, which is currently using out of date Android scanner devices to pick orders out in our warehouses. The project is to replace the ones we have which seems simple enough but I’ve run into some challenges.

The process for the warehouse pickers is simple. They unlock the device, open Chrome, sign into the WMS & pick as many orders as they can with this device that has a built in scanner. These devices are older and the OS is outdated so I’ve been tasked with replacing them.

I’ve been introducing the idea of open source to this company since I’ve taken the job here, as it is a smaller company & there is tons of room for new ideas as well as cost savings. I’ve been able to cut down on license costs already with numerous applications and lucky me… I get to do this now.

Long story short, I’ve spoken with quite a few hardware vendors and looked online for similar devices… And I don’t like any of them. I’m sick & tired of vendors trying to push overpriced hardware on us. I’m sick of them also trying to tack on additional subnoscriptions & fees with this crap hardware while providing ZERO additional support. I’m sick of when I ask about software support, there’s only a few short years before it ends and we have to replace the scanners.

The only thing special about these Android devices is the fact that they have a built in barcode scanner, nothing else. Yet the industry is dominated by these vendors who are incredibly hard to work with.

So I’ve been looking into Linux as a potential solution where we won’t need a vendor or their crap devices at all. I’ve been trying to find a device that can run a mobile linux distro (Ubuntu Touch, Postmarket or something similar) or really any Linux distro for that matter as I’m already actively trying to replace the warehouse computer stations with Linux machines.

But I’m having great difficulty. Sure, I could get a Pinephone and attach a barcode scanner to it and the warehouse could do their jobs. However, I feel like this would be less than optimal as there is a lot of movement in the warehouse and additional accessories to the device could easily get lost or broken.

Are you guys aware of a barcode scanning device that I could flash a linux distro onto? That would be amazing but I haven’t had luck finding one with an open bootloader that allows custom ROMs.

If this isn’t a thing, is there a decent enough mobile linux solution I could use? I’ve considered tablets, small laptops, etc. but ease of use / portability is important.

Thanks guys! Sorry for the long winded explanation. Keep on spreading the word about Linux, I appreciate all of you.



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In the last 24 hours I have turned 2 netbooks into surprisingly capable devices for their size and age.
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Breathing new life into my Alienware M15 R2 with Linux (I use this more than my desktop & MBA)
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The state of this community.

Multiple times over the past few weeks I have seen newcomers post about their excitement about switching over to linux only to get completely shit on by people in this subreddit. It's not like those posts flood this place. It's just every once in a while on a subreddit that only gets a few posts per day. All these people are looking for is a little solidarity. You could even ignore those posts, but some of you go out of your way to be assholes. Is that really the impression you want to leave on people?

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D7VK 1.1 adds experimental Direct3D 6 support for classic PC games on Linux
https://videocardz.com/newz/d7vk-1-1-adds-experimental-direct3d-6-support-for-classic-pc-games-on-linux

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Linux's Cache Aware Scheduling On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 3D V-Cache
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-9950X3D-Cache-Aware-Sched

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What browser do you prefer to use on Linux?

I swap between Waterfox and LibreWolf, wondering about everyone else's preferences for internet browsers. Not even essentially looking for recommendations here, just curious on everyone's browser of choice lol.

edit: 10 comments in 5 minutes, well good morning everyone hahaha

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I built a SQL TUI
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Don't let Plank be forgotten

With the adoption of Wayland in the most distros, some apps like Plank dock are being left without refreshes in order to being compatible with the new technologies... Among other apps, I'm really worried about Plank, because as silly as it's seem, I'm still staying in X11 just for that dock. I'm sorry about my english and whether my post bother anyone.

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Mouse Tiler v1.1.0 for KDE Plasma update available! (Probably the fastest manual tiler available)
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Out of curiosity, how would you compare the Linux experience of today to the very best of Windows from the past?

Windows these days now has a very bad experience. Hell, Microsoft entirely is sh!t with things like Windows 11 and Xbox post 360. But there were times when Windows was held in high regard, like with Windows XP and Windows 7.

With Linux having massive improvements and numerous distros since its humble inception, and with many people moving over to Linux, I wonder how people would compare it to Windows of the past.

Do you think that Linux has surpassed Windows entirely? Or are there still some cues it can learn from Microsoft's better past?

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Linux vs FreeBSD disk performance

So I did a thing, using an external SSD. I plugged the drive into my FreeBSD 15 server and created a ZFS pool on it. Then I ran dbench tests, exported the drive, imported it on a Proxmox 9 server, and ran the same dbench tests.

Linux peaks at 1024 clients, FreeBSD peaks at 8192 clients. FreeBSD scales better, at least with stock settings. The drive and filesystem are identical so it comes down to the kernel and the I/O scheduler.

https://preview.redd.it/vqjpy0dgvdag1.png?width=634&format=png&auto=webp&s=151ca958c225cbe273ac9687bbc9706ce3c99246

Any tuning hints?

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GitHub - CarloWood/konsole-session-restore: Save and restore all konsole windows and their sessions, including working directory per tab.
https://github.com/CarloWood/konsole-session-restore

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ReBAR commercial hoax to sell more stuff?

So here I am, doing some investigating on resizeable BAR, cause my gpu was fried and apparently some gpus perform abysmal without ReBAR. Why is this important? Because my PC is 10 years old, intel X99 platform and build way before ReBAR was ever a thing. And I needed a cheap-ish GPU that performs similar to the GTX1080 that was in there, but that was preferably not another nvidia card and good Linux driver support.

I eventually found ReBarUEFI, which lets you basically reconfigure any UEFI BIOS with ReBAR support which could help in gpu choice.

Fast forward a few weeks, and I got me nice Asus RX 6650XT real cheap and happy camper. Can play some games again if I want to.

Biggest surprise though? With bios option `4G Decoding` enabled and kernel parameter `pci=realloc` there is full ReBAR support on this platform from 2016 that's never supposed to have it, on Linux.

Whereas in Microsoft-land, you have to have bios updates, update your platform to a supported level, special drivers yada-yada.

Who's fooling who? If you can have it Linux, regardless of what you use, it could be done in Windows as well. Instead, all parties involved appear to pull up artificial barriers and sell more stuff.

Meanwhile, here I am on Linux, using a card introduced in 2022 on a platform from 2014 and being able to use that card to its full potential. Or at least not held back by artificial barriers.

Life's good in Linux land.

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How do You guy's listen to Music on Linux?

Before switching to Linux I always used Apple Music. The app sucked but the audio quality was just the best and the selection of music was great. But Apple will never make a client for Linux, Cider is discontinued and the web player is absolutely horrible.

I can't use Spotify because Spotify Premium costs almost twice as much as Apple Music where I live and I can't/don't want to pay that.

I know that Qobuz and Tidal exist. But idk how great their song selection is.

So I'm kind off stuck here. I know that many People self-host music. But idk great sources to get high quality audio, and with the amount of music I listen to it would bankrupt Me to pay for all that. So that also isn't really an option for Me.

How do You listen to music on Linux?

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2026 Linux Bingo card

This is my 2026 Linux bingo card uhhhh enjoy

1. Linux will reach ~5% of worldwide user base

2. More apps will become native because of the steam machine

3. Steam machine selling ~1 mil in the whole year

4. Nvidia will still be an asshole

5. There will be more tools for making Linux Experience much smoother

6. Wayland will become superior

7. Flood of people from Windows (Microsoft will probably do some dumb shit)

8. More handhelds with Linux distros

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waybarconf - configuring waybar in an easy way
https://github.com/ronmurphy/waybarconf

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Bluefin 2025 Wrap-up: State of the Raptor
https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-2025/

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