An open letter to GNOME developers

Hi kind developers.

First of all I want to thank you for your work in improving the Free Software ecosystem, I know you could be given your time to something else.

I know that criticism can be tiresome and exhausting, but I would like to tell you how I feel in the most kind way I can.

I honestly feel uneasy or alienated every time I use GNOME.

Don't get me wrong. It is not that GNOME looks bad, in fact it looks really good. And I have it in my mom's computer. But not mine.

The thing is, I feel like I am not supposed to use GNOME. I don't like the (what I feel are) huge noscript bars, I don't like that you can't hide the top menu bar, and that even when I change a theme I am wrong, all because it is not within the "vision" of what GNOME thinks I should do.

Now, I understand I can try some extensions, but my experience has been less than ideal. Extensions are a second class citizen and if something breaks I am on my own. I don't understand why this "vision" implies that I have to use my computer in a way that frustrates me.

Sometimes people say "use what works for you", there is KDE, and yes KDE is magnificent and it works really good for me.

It makes me sad that I feel I am not supposed to use GNOME. Why does that vision has to be "do what I think or go somewhere else" I don't think should be bad to adapt my computer to me.

I use my computer several hours a day every day. It's the thing I've looked the most in my life. And I am not alone. Millions of GNU/Linux users are the same.

GNOME is a great desktop, born in the GNU project, a project meant to empower the users. And I wish I could feel more empowered and less alienated.

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Linux Pictures No Longer Available

For the past year or so I've been enjoying the high quality of the pictures featured on https://linux.pictures, and have been using the photos for various backgrounds and the like.

However, earlier in May the site went down (I thought it could be a short outage/forgetting to renew a domain/etc), but now I'm not sure.

Does anyone know what happened to the site and does anyone have backups/copies of the newer photos?

https://redd.it/bvp1tq
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Random system lockups solution

Sorry if this is off-topic, but I decided to share this because I've spent more than half a year looking for a solution, and this one is hard to debug because nothing ever shows up in the logs.

If you are experiencing random hard lockups in any distro (unrecoverable, not even the [Magic SysRq keys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key) work), in kernel versions post 4.16.1, you should try adding `ahci.mobile_lpm_policy=0` to your boot command-line. See [Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1571330](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1571330) for details.

From the [Fedora Project Wiki](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F28_bugs#Certain_laptops_.28Lenovo.29_hang_randomly):

>Certain laptops completely freeze at random when using Fedora 28. This is caused by SATA LPM (link power management) being enabled in order to save battery, but apparently some vendors' firmware doesn't work well with it.

In Debian/Ubuntu systems (should be similar in other distros:

1. Edit /etc/default/grub as root (eg. `sudoedit /etc/default/grub`).
2. Add `ahci.mobile_lpm_policy=0` in the line `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT`, between the quotes.
3. Save it and run `sudo update-grub`.
4. Reboot and test it for a few days.

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Pro Photo Editing in Linux

I just stumbled upon the following channel which has a tone of info regarding pro photo editing in Linux.
[https://www.youtube.com/user/MiltonPhoto/videos](https://www.youtube.com/user/MiltonPhoto/videos)

I am a (wanna be) pro amateur photographer and a linux user, and recently (6-9 months) completely ditched adobe's tools and windows in favour of darktable and krita (I'm a KDE fan). In the channel, the presenter uses Gnome and Gimp, which I guess is another valid combination :)

Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with the above channel or any of its the subjects. I'm just sharing it, because I believe it would be useful to many people.

https://redd.it/bvqfes
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A Tiling Desktop Environment
https://bitcannon.net/post/pro-desktop/

https://redd.it/bvrd11
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Best C# IDE for Ubuntu?

I'm looking to get into programming with C# and I currently use the latest version of pop_os. What's the best IDE for C#?

https://redd.it/bvq3lj
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imagine having to use a mouse to control your server

Recently I've been spinning up so many Ubuntu server vm's and it's honestly the best things. Just ssh to them and do yo stuff and log off. all without needing a mouse and rdp and that. It's the best thing

https://redd.it/bvqmt7
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Backer, a tiny Linux desktop app making backing up your files a breeze
https://www.getlazarus.org/apps/backer/

https://redd.it/bvtbb8
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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 73
https://pointieststick.com/2019/06/01/kde-usability-productivity-week-73/

https://redd.it/bvu3yn
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Kernel 5.1.6 Greg Kroah-Hartman seems a bit urgent for us to upgrade?

I was looking around the web for the latest stable kernel 5.1.6 and stumbled upon this [https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/31/617](https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/31/617)

He seems extremely urgent , but with no explanation? Anyone know why this is ? I mean I love upgrading my kernels anyway don't get me wrong , but why so urgent ? Sounds like a security issue to me. I would like to hear your opinion about this.

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lost new Linux user who made a mistake

All right, I'll try to keep this pretty quick. I'm working towards a career in IT(yeehaw a+ cert) and wanted to fully immerse myself in learning the basics of Linux. So I did a clean install of Cinnamon over my W10 install so I'd have no choice but to try and figure out issues I run into.

It's been going swimmingly for the past couple months, I've been really enjoying it aside from some random freeze ups I haven't been able to figure out. But now I want to go back to windows and cinnamon dual boot.

Here's where the problem arises: I can't get my bios to recognize my W10 USB as a bootable device. It recognized a backtrack bootable USB but it isn't getting the windows one. I also cannot use legacy boot. I have an AMD Huawei matebook d and the bios is very restrictive. I can disable safe boot and tpm but that's all that I can change related to booting. I tried adding a bios password because I guess that sometimes unlocks other bios features, but that didn't work either. I've tried disabling the SSD to see if it would default to the w10 stick with no luck.

I've tried to look into using grub to force boot to the w10 stick, but my knowledge is too lacking for that. Tomorrow I might try installing a virtual copy of windows 10 and making bootable media from there to see if that does it for some reason.

Does anyone have any advice? Was I on to something with grub or might it work from a w10 VM?

Sorry if this is incoherent babble and I appreciate any help!!

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Should Linux Mint go?

Post your opinions!
By the way, my opinion is that it needs to go.
A distro called "Cubuntu" should replace it. (Ubuntu featuring the cinnamon desktop).

https://redd.it/bvvz6e
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Mate/XFCE Workspaces and I3

Hi so I am switching to linux soon and I'm wondering which of either XFCE or Mate would be best for supporting workspaces as well as the i3 tiling window manager.

https://redd.it/bvwd9d
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trying to make a bootable windows 10.

Hello i am a new linux user and am curently on a debian based OS called "Parrot security OS" and want to make a bootable windows 10 with a usb. I have looked up on youtube but the "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8" dose not work, so i am looking for a way to do it and have had no success. Plz help.

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Looking for a Linux alternative to WinToUSB.

WinToUSB makes an actual Windows 10, not just a Windows 10 installer. If there is not an alternative, can I just install Windows on a vm and copy the files to a USB?

https://redd.it/bvy8rf
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Snippets & Code repository with collaboration

Maybe it's not the most suitable sub for this question as it's more software related, but since it must be used in a Linux environment i'm asking here.

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I'm looking for a tool to share code snippets, files and whole applications with a team of developers.

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So far [Cacher](http://cacher.io) is the most suitable tool for what i'm seeking to achieve, but since the team & collaboration capabilities are based on a monthly subnoscription i'm looking for something else.

Gists and a collaborated git repo are alright, but a bit less convenient and intuitive (compared to Cacher).

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Is there any other service/tool for code sharing which has at least the basic collaboration capabilities with no extra charge and subnoscription fees?

https://redd.it/bvyy36
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Thelio Fan Noise Hack
http://dominickm.com/thelio-fan-noise-hack/

https://redd.it/bvyr92
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Linux mint is doing just fine!
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3751

https://redd.it/bvzrk0
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Do you think there are more programmers working on MacOS or working on GNU/Linux?

My friend and I were talking about this the other day, and I'm curious on what this sub thinks. Do you think there are more people actively working on MacOS or GNU/Linux operating systems? We were only considering programmers working on the operating systems themselves (kernel, apis, and lower level stuff) and their user interface, so this includes the people working on the art direction and design for MacOS, as well as people who do the same for Gnome, Kde, etc. Applications which might come packaged on installation are not included, Libre Office, GarageBand, web browsers, stuff like that. What do you folks think?

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Nonguix, a channel for packages which can't be included in GNU Guix
https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

https://redd.it/bw152q
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Hey everyone, so I made an app that I thought you guys might like. It basically lets you save Linux related videos, websites/articles, social media content, etc. from literally any app on your phone. It called Figgle.

So the noscript says it all. The app can save Linux related videos, websites/articles, social media content and in addition to that, you can save photos, websites, social media posts, notes, music, etc. from any app and store it in one place.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/figgle/id1449424159?ls=1&mt=8

If you'd like to know when the Android version comes out, leave a comment below and we'll add your name to our list. You'll be PM'd when it comes out (2 weeks).

https://redd.it/bvzsjj
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