Meet The Affordable [Linux] Challenger To Dell's XPS 13
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/05/15/linux-laptop-benchmark-dell-xps-13-star-labtop-intel-i7-8550u/#2e4ef140470c

https://redd.it/c1czkh
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LTT about the Theilo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTN1c1j6V1s

https://redd.it/c1dq0b
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charles leifer | Suffering for fashion: a glimpse into my Linux theming toolchain
http://charlesleifer.com/blog/suffering-for-fashion-a-glimpse-into-my-linux-theming-toolchain/

https://redd.it/c1dc48
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Any thoughts on System76 laptops?

I'm looking at the Darter Pro and Gazelle laptops (for college) but I don't know which I'm going to get and can't find many reviews. Anyone have any experience with either or have any good articles or videos about them? I know the Gazelle just came out so it won't have a ton of reviews yet. Also I hope this is the right subreddit for this. If it isn't please let me know and I'll take it down.

https://redd.it/c1fiqu
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Have you heard about the Pinephone?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

https://redd.it/c1gdfp
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uas - Universal App Search

I wrote a tool to search for apps on snapcraft, flathub and appimage from the terminal. It also lets you install these apps and update them. If you want to give it a try, it's on github:
[https://github.com/cooperspencer/uas](https://github.com/cooperspencer/uas)


If anyone has any ideas for improvements, please tell me

https://redd.it/c1c9mm
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How to check a live USB drive's integrity after writing an image to it
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190617#qa

https://redd.it/c1gxr6
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Understanding entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

I was setting up my touchpad under Arch Linux and I tried out different touchpad drivers, synaptics, mtrack, libinput and created matching config files in that directory. What I don't understand is the different numbers at the start of the file name. Searching on the net about different configuration examples I have come across various filenames for the conf even for the same drivers, such as 70-synaptics.conf, 50-synaptics.conf etc ... What do they mean and what purpose do they serve?

https://redd.it/c1hqie
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Seeing up macros for gaming with 1 hand

So I use my PC for 40% gaming, 20% media consumption, 20% work, and 20% editing. The main problem is in gaming part. My problem is in setting up macros. I have a condition where I can't move my left arm because an accident, so I rely heavily on macros to play games since I can't use keyboard and mouse at the same time. After months of reading a lot of article in internet about setting up macros, I still can't figure it out till now. All of the article are really old. And that's why I still can't totally switch to Linux.
Any suggestion?

My mouse:
Madcatz M.M.O TE
and I use no-name USB footswitch with 3 buttons

I use manjaro KDE

Sorry for my bad english

https://redd.it/c1c9qp
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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - June 17, 2019

Welcome to r/linux rants and experiences! This megathread is also to hear opinions from anyone just starting out with Linux or those that have used Linux (GNU or otherwise) for a long time.

Let us know what's annoying you, whats making you happy, or something that you want to get out to r/linux but didn't make the cut into a full post of it's own.

For those looking for certifications please use this megathread to ask about how to get certified whether it's for the business world or for your own satisfaction. Be sure to check out r/linuxadmin for more discussion in the SysAdmin world!

_Please keep questions in r/linuxquestions, r/linux4noobs, or the Wednesday automod thread._

https://redd.it/c1j5dg
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Free video editors for Linux?

I want to get into animation. GIMP is my image editor, the only problem is putting my frames together. I don’t know much about the world of animation software, so can somebody give me a pointer to what FOSS software I should use?

https://redd.it/c1izib
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What makes a distro?

**TLDR** Can't you essentially build Debian, Arch, Gentoo into the same system?

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This might all sound fundamentally stupid, but I've been searching high and low and can't seem to find an answer to what seems like a simple question. I want to offer a preemptive apology if this seems to go all over the place, it will all focus towards the end, I promise :)

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I'm a long-time Debian user, always installing a minimal system through netinstall and once through deboostrap, and building it the way I like it from there (often running testing or unstable repos). But this is really the only linux experience I have, aside from reading about others. I want to try Arch now, and I keep hearing that its install is much more "complex" than Debian's, and reasons to install it tend to cite it being more "bleeding edge" and more customisable for building the system the way you want. This goes for Gentoo even more (which I want to try after Arch). But then I look through wikis and tutorials, and it seems like I've done most of those things with my Debian system already, so much for complex! A lot of the differences (on wikipedia, foss, arch wiki and elsewhere) seem to be based on a full standard Debian install. So here's my main quandry:

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* My Debian is customised at install and throughout, and essentially runs as a rolling release through the bleeding-edge repos, how is this unlike Arch? Those seem to be the benefits everyone touts about Arch, but I have them already in Debian! How else is Arch different? I've heard things about how it treats configs, but what creates that different behaviour in each distro and could you make one act like the other? What else? I guess I'll have to try and see, but any comments would be appreciated.
* I can and do compile packages in Debian, I could compile the kernel and reinstall it over the automatically pulled one, so how is this unlike Gentoo? What does Gentoo offer above this? Couldn't I just pull whatever those benefits are into my Debian system? USE flags seem like a great shortcut to manually configuring everything before compiling in Debian, doesn't that make Debian more complex if you want to compile your software?!

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I realise I could open a can of worms, but if I configure the package managers to each focus on specific packages, I could essentially run the three aforementioned distros' package managers on one system, could I not? I've read you shouldn't but can, and would appreciate input from someone who has. Why did you do it? How did it turn out?

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And here comes the **thousand dollar stupid question**, but put simply, along this train of thought, what makes a distro? If I could remove apt-get from Debian, and install pacman; I know I wouldn't have Arch, but what else would it take? Has anyone "converted" one system into another? Is it possible? I feel like Gentoo would be the best starting platform for this; create your own system, yeah? Once the initial install's up, give me apt-get over compiling on my slow machine any day :) (I realise there are pre-compiled versions of common big packages for Gentoo already, but if you're following, you'll have realised that's not my point). If you start with Linux From Scratch, could you build Arch by just compiling/pulling existing packages?

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I'm sure I'm missing something simple, and any of these answers may not have a practical use; but I find it interesting theoretically, and hope it leads to some interesting discourse! Thanks!

https://redd.it/c1c89s
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Is there any tool to Decrypt photos on Linux ?

Hello guys please is there any way to Decrypt photos, Photo Vault photo ?

https://redd.it/c1kimg
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Shared runtime mode for Electron applications
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673

https://redd.it/c1fn4g
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Linux on Apollo lake

Hi

I'm wondering if anyone has run Linux on a low end Apollo lake machine. I have Asus e203na here which I picked up awhile back as I wanted something cheap and small I could chuck in my bag for typing documents. (Didn't wanna risk breaking my XPS 15)

It works ok with windows 10 but it's pretty sluggish especially if there's anything going on in the background. It only has 2gb ram and N3350 CPU which I think is the bottleneck. I have a old baytrail tablet here which only has 2gb of ram but is pretty snappy but has 4 cores.

Since it's only used for very basic work I was thinking maybe a light weight distro like xubuntu would fair better.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Sonoace r3 , file system failure
https://redd.it/c1llwk
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Linux Networking Tools That You Should Know - via Julia Evans
https://redd.it/c1m6n0
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Why does macOS Catalina use Zsh instead of Bash? Licensing
https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina-use-zsh-instead-of-bash-licensing/

https://redd.it/c1mqms
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Why is network bridging necessary?

Hi all,

A router, or in this case the Linux server, providing it has IP functionality (and has IP forwarding turned on) can act as a ROUTER. Therefore, all L3 forwarding decisions should be handled at the 'router', why then is network bridging even necessary?

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From my perception, all it does, is replaces an already existing function of connecting two networks together, but if this wasn't implemented, the 'router' would receiving an incoming packet with the destination IP in its routing table on another physical interface, and just forward that packet out of that interface.

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\- A

https://redd.it/c1n3w4
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Six more devices from ThinkPenguin, Inc. now FSF-certified to Respect Your Freedom (May 16, 2019)
https://www.fsf.org/news/six-more-devices-from-thinkpenguin-inc-now-fsf-certified-to-respect-your-freedom

https://redd.it/c1npcp
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Linux stable tree mirror at github
http://kroah.com/log/blog/2019/06/15/linux-stable-tree-mirror-at-github/

https://redd.it/c1npms
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