Made/making the transition from windows to linux, happy so far. Hello, Linux fam.

I recently got a steam deck (Christmas) and after tooling around with it a bit, I decided to clear one of my three SSD's to make room for a Linux OS. I intend to keep my windows OS on the main drive for backup, and in case I simply can't get a game or app to function properly that I want to play/use. GTA being a good example off the top of my head.

I went through a few distros. The last one was Pop! OS, and I was not satisfied at all with it. Mostly, I struggled with performance. It may have been something I did wrong, but I could not get it to multitask to save my life. If I had a steam download going and tried to open Firefox, the task bar/explorer would just lock up. It didn't crash or freeze what it was doing in steam, but it wouldn't let me do anything else until I logged out, forcing the steam download to stop.

I'm sure there was some workaround or what have you, but part of the reason I'm only just now getting around to making the switch is because I didn't want that kind of headache.

Now, today, I decided to try another one, and I settled on Bazzite, and so far, I'm fairly pleased. Haven't had major performance issues, got most of my go-to's installed.
The only issue I've had is I cannot seem to get BNet installed through Lutris, but it's not a huge deal, as there are only a few games on there that I would like to play (D2R, D3, and the MW franchise) and I can always swap over to Windows for those.

I've got high hopes that this will be the OS I settle on, unless steam fully releases SteamOS in the near future, and I'm interested in learning more about how to work with Linux in general. Hopefully there's something like a beginner's guide out there that'll get me to a point where I'm comfortable messing with the terminal. If anyone knows of such a resource, and can point me to it, I'd appreciate it, but this is more of a "greetings to the community" post than "help me" post.

Also, there's something about being on Linux that makes me want to game even more than normal. Probably just the relative novelty for me, but I noticed a kind of excitement that I haven't felt since I was a kid, and that was a pleasant experience. Curious if anyone else experienced that early on.



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Canonical builds Steam snap for ARM64, uses FEX to run x86 games
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-steam-snap-for-arm64/74719

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European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/

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BULK INSTALL ALL YOUR FAVOURITE APPS IN ONE GO
https://redd.it/1q86doh
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Plasma 6.6 will let you reduce (or increase) the separator lines intensity
https://redd.it/1q875ye
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I made a video on my favorite Open Source TUIs
https://youtu.be/DfA9DjleY_E?si=YyYaYLSAJPU0KuMi

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Happy birthday, bash!
https://redd.it/1q8o0x6
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This Week in Plasma: car of the year edition - KDE Blogs
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/10/this-week-in-plasma-car-of-the-year-edition/

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The 'gmail' equivalent in Linux environment

Done with windows after 26 years. Now full port ubuntu.

Still retaining Gmail and onedrive. And would like to ask fellow Linux users, what are the most popular, endorsed email service provider (with or without cloud storage) in the Linux environment?

I've heard of Proton, and would like to learn more from the community.

Thank you :)

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SwayFX has finally got animations!
https://redd.it/1q8wvep
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Can Linux be a better Macintosh?

I have been using Linux since last 4 years, started with linux mint and now on fedora KDE workstation. I have friends using windows and Mac. I have used mac for about a month on a borrowed macbook air.

Although I just don't like most of the design language of macOS and their laptops are lacking, their are some other things that are just good on it.

The only thing that I don't like about Linux is the battery drain while being on browsers, electron apps and while playing videos. Even windows is way better is this aspect. I have not tried linux on intel, so not so sure how is the situation on it. Other than this, I have no issues with anything on linux.

MacOS seems so childish to me, designed to be used with mouse more than with keyboard. Too much animations and too much round things. They just spoil the user experience for me.

One thing that I miss out on linux is the connectivity with Android, something like macbook and iphone ecosystem. I do know that there is KDE connect, but it comes with its own problems.

At this point Linux does almost everything that I want without any issues, except power efficiency, ecosystem integration and some other very minor things . Do you guys think these problems can be solved for linux or just the trade-offs that wouldn't be fixed and need to accepted?







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Made a ASCII themed waybar
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Zeppe-Lin 1.2 — Ghosts in the Rig

Minimal, source-based distribution derived from CRUX. 5th release.

System State

Kernel: 6.18.3
Toolchain: GCC 14.3.0 · glibc 2.40 · binutils 2.44
Xorg Server: 21.1.21
Mesa: 25.3.3
Drivers: amdgpu 25.0.0, ati 22.0.0, intel 2.99.917-923, nouveau 1.0.18, vesa 2.6.0

Highlights

New domain and redesigned website
Distro tooling man pages migrated to scdoc
Logging standardized via logrotate
Cron unified under run-parts / run-one
New utility packages: logrotate, run-parts, run-one, popt

Links

[Website](http://zeppe-lin.org)
Handbook
[Release notes](http://zeppe-lin.org/v1.2.html)
GitHub

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Move from Windows

Hi guys totally newb here. So I’ve no idea about Linux but always wanted to try it. I just had to get a new laptop for work purely because it was running windows 10 and my accounting software only runs on Windows. So my old laptop is 13 years old but still runs solid. 1TB ssd recently updated, intel i5 2.5ghz, 12gb ram. Will this run Linux? And how do it begin?

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Overlay Transparent Image Over Active Window (Ontopreplica alternative)

I'm looking to find out if there's a way to overlay a transparent window over my display in PopOS, as a Windows user I would use a program called ontopreplica which doesn't currently have a Linux version.

My specific use for this was creating cross stitch patterns from images, I would create an image in paint.net or similar and overlay it on top of my pattern creation tool then trace it using a graphics tablet so it's important that the window being overlayed also isn't interactive. Does anyone know of a way I can do this? I have fully switched from windows to Linux and don't really want to go back to dual booting as this is the only use case I have for my PC now that I'm unable to figure out without windows.

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Did you know that starting with 6.11 XScreenSaver supports Wayland?
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-6-11/

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xz has to be some dark magic shit

I tried to do some work that required me to make files that are pretty big (postmarket OS for Spacewar), and I wanted to upload those files to GitHub. The problem is, the files were like 4 GB each. Being cheap, I didn't want to pay for more GitHub space, so I tried to compress them, and that's where I found xz. All I did was run the command xz -T0 -9 <filename>, and the file went from 4 GB to 18 MB. That's crazy. how did i not know about this until now

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Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10-Released

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Linux 7.0 Readying Improvement For Rust + LTO Kernel Builds
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Rust-LTO-Inline-Coming

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Zena bootc OS
https://zena-linux.github.io/

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Linus vibecoded and claimed "Antigravity" did a much better job then he could.
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