Debian based distros

Hi group,

In your collective opinions, why are Debian-based Linux distros the most prevalent in the Linux desktop world?

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GSequencer - Linux Apps on Flathub
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.nongnu.gsequencer.gsequencer

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A story about how Linux helps my wife take her medication at the right times

My wife is a transplant recipient and so she has to take her immunosuppressant drugs 4 times a day.

Initially we have used our phones (Android) to alert us of the times, but over time we found that the Android Alarm app is unreliable, it works most of the time but there were times it failed to trigger the alarm.

Being a Linux user and a programmer for almost 20 years I thought there was something I could do, I remember looking for existing solutions, but most of them were too limited or expensive.

I resorted to using the `at(1)` command at first, which worked fine for a while but I never found a way to make the timer as accurate as possible.

After trying different things we ended up with this solution:

A timer file:

~/.config/systemd/user/alarmclock.timer

[Unit]
Denoscription=Run alarm clock daily

[Timer]
OnCalendar=8,9,20,21:00
AccuracySec=1us

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

`AccuracySec=1us` is important to get the best accuracy, which is what lead me to use systemd timers in the first place (I couldn't find how to do this with `crond` before).

And the corresponding service file:

# ~/.config/systemd/user/alarmclock.service
[Unit]
Denoscription=Alarm Clock

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpv --no-terminal --loop-file=3 /home/user/Downloads/sedna_ringtone.mp3

It's by no means a perfect solution, but it's reliable and works for my wife, the important thing to remember is to never close the laptop lid.

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Libreoffice Bug 123831 - Remove access to Firefox Persona in favor of self-hosted extensions
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123831

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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 74
https://pointieststick.com/2019/06/09/kde-usability-productivity-week-74/

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What graphical CLI applications do you like to use?

I spend a fair bit of time in the shell and always appreciate tools that make some tasks a little easier, wondered what everyone else likes using and why?

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Thunar on GNOME by default?

So as the noscript suggests, i am trying to curve out a new distro of my own based on Ubuntu. I was thinking of keeping GNOME as the default DM. But, i really like Thunar File Manager's minimalism and power.
So my question goes, can I include Thunar by default in my distro which has GNOME as it's default shell? And the same, can i include OPEN SOURCE APPS (may or may not from other DMs or distros) on mine?

Advices will be appreciated
TIA

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GNOME Software, the software center application used by most distributions, still has major issues because of lack of developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzofsNf8yvk

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What happend to Btfs?

As far as I know then EXT 4 was only stopgap unto Btfs was ready. But it seems that Btfs never took off. What did happend ?

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Deepin Dock Issues
https://www.reddit.com/r/deepin/comments/byiqgh/dock_location_issues/

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A new distro agnostic linux forum for the Greek speaking users
https://linux-user.gr

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Blender is Free Software
https://code.blender.org/2019/06/blender-is-free-software/

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Hey linux community ! Thanks for helping me to make linux more poplar in Greece. In this video I gonna try Lubuntu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn12yIGL5Vg&feature=youtu.be

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LMMS 1.2.0 released (music production software)
https://lmms.io/download/

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ArchLabs: A good Antergos replacement! (Review)

It does not have a GUI installer, but it has the probably best CLI installer. Bunch of menus where you select your options. Really well put together. Give it a try.

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First I selected the openBox WM and had a good experience. Tint2 was there out of the box, good preconfigurations. Small foot print (\~ 170 RAM in stand by). But I started missing XFCE because of all the nice things about it. Used the bootable USB again and selected the XFCE during the installation.

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**Things that I liked:**

\- The installer

\- Having access to Arch Linux repos

\- First time ever when I have a [screen tearing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing)\-free experience out of the box with XFCE. (I had this problem on Ubuntu, Debian, Antergos)

\- ArchLabs-dARK theme is nice

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**Things that can improve:**

\- having a good GUI package manager included (i.e. [pamac](https://www.fossmint.com/pamac-arch-linux-gui-package-manager/); it's miles ahead of gnome software, kde discover or synaptic)

\- out of the box the PulseAudio plugin was not included in the panel and my sound card was deactivated :-(

\- having open source drivers for the video card preinstalled (I had to manually install libva-intel-driver, no big deal, but still)

\- don't preinstall Xfburn (who uses CDs anymore?) and parole media player (mpv + gnome-mpv would be a better option)

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**Why I don't use Arch Linux?** Because I like distros with an easy install process, where I have to type as little as possible.

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**Why I don't use Manjaro?** That distro I think is good for new Linux users. It has an easy & nice GUI installer and comes with a lot of preinstalled software. But for me, that's a problem. I want something light. The installer contains out of date software, the first update (if you do that before removing the things you don't need) will be a big one (\~ 1GB worth of download files). And also, manjaro uses its own repos, not Arch's repos.

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Release Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Beta
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7-beta/html/7.7_release_notes/index

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Evolving KDE – Let’s set some new goals for KDE
http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2019/06/09/evolving-kde-lets-set-some-new-goals-for-kde/

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Flashback: ArchLinux logo submissions
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/byhvob/flashback_arch_linux_logo_contest/

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Tips for improving boot times
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190610#qa

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Installed MX Linux. I'm really loving it :-)
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Idea: make a GNU/Linux hybrid name

I think everyone is aware that 'GNU/Linux' ~~or 'GNU+Linux', as I have taken a like to calling it~~ as a term will never, ever, *ever* catch on. It's extremely clunky, it's long, it sounds complex and almost no one cares enough about giving GNU credit to push the idea. It's a lost battle that just raises the pressure of all parties involved.

Now, to the part people aren't all already aware of. Instead of debating whether to use that name or not, why not create and promote a new, simpler, hybrid name? I've thought of 'Ginux', but what it is really doesn't matter. The point is it'd solve everyone's issues.

So, thoughts on the idea? 😃

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