Is there a sub for discussing Linux/distros/Shell UX

I'm a ux designer turning developer and despite growing up with a dad who used Linux, I only recently starting using it and I love it! But I also would like someplace where people can discuss CLI and Desktop UX paradigms.


Specifically I saw this [article](https://uxdesign.cc/introducing-mercury-os-f4de45a04289) today (not my own blog post, so not trying to do promotion here). In a similar vein I have been personally doing a lot of research on alternative paradigms for CLI and Desktop UX, such as reading some articles about Temple OS and looking into things like Plan9 and xsh {which is a now defunct wiki inspired shell). In addition to customizing and playing with my own Desktop and CLI shells etc.


There are cool subs like unixporn but they're primarily focused on aesthetics, and they're really just taking distros and customizing them. I'm interested in some kind of community more focused on discussing the way that UX is done at the shell level, beyond just aesthetics, whether that's projects that people specifically built or if it's just theoretical stuff.


Maybe call it something like: /r/linuxUX ? Unless something like this already exists?

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Moving freenode webchat to Kiwi IRC
https://freenode.net/news/moving-to-kiwiirc

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What's up with SELinux?

SELinux was released almost 20 years ago, and merged into the mainline kernel about 16 years ago. I would have expected that by now, every mainstream Linux distro would come with it working and enabled out of the box. Yet, outside of the RedHat family (RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora) and Android, no distro has it running out of the box, and I don't think that there's much of a roadmap in that direction.

The fact is that most upstream projects don't assume that you're running SELinux, and most distros don't package a decent default, so that the only advice I've seen is "Run it in permissive, when it breaks, fix it, when it stops breaking, change SELinux to enforcing," which is a quite horrible way to set up permissions.

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Update on Steam, Ubuntu, and 32-bit support
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1640915206447625383/

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Best UI/UX Design Desktops on Linux -- InfinitelyGalactic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7v46csDDtc

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Italy goes "Public Money - Public Code". Do FSF efforts start to bear fruit?
https://medium.com/team-per-la-trasformazione-digitale/open-source-guidelines-for-acquisition-reuse-software-in-italian-public-administration-d6d5997d3e51

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Best Linux distro for Persistent usb(512mb)

I am looking to repurpose some old usb drives I have and I am wondering if there are some Linux distributions that would work on something like a 512mb usb persistently. Thank you!

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Officially Apart Of The Linux Master Race!

I always used Windows all my life, but Windows 10 is my breaking point. I hated the bloatware and agonizing CPU usage. So I officially switched my PC's operating system to Linux Mint. At first it was hard to get use to, but now I am getting the kick of it and loving the feel of it.

I love the lightweight based UI and the customization. It basically has every program I use on a daily basis. I am currently learning more about the terminal and the file system. I love how it requires less CPU and RAM to run than Windows 10. It has intrigued me to learn more about other Linux distros and Unix operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, ETC.)

The only pain I have found was installing drivers and connecting to the internet, but other than that experience, It has been a great learning experience. People need to give Linux Mint Cinnamon some more love once in a awhile.

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The IBM Linux Commercial from 2003.
https://youtu.be/x7ozaFbqg00

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Discussion : Linux against windows vs linux-windows friendship/pal rivalry

I comes from a debate where I was stating that I prefer windows over linux for reasons, and came to the controversial (mostly unliked) opinion that linux should try to mimic more of some windows features. Someone opened my eyes and guided me toward an alternative point of view : linux should be different from windows, but if you prefer windows, then it's fine.

What is your opinion about this ? Do you think that people should ditrch the evil Microsoft and go full linux and open-source ? Do you think that linux should kill windows ? Or do you think that there might be an OS for everyone, and that Linux users and Windows users could be equally good people and produce equally good stuff out of their favorite OS ? Do you think that linux can do more than tolerate windows and can benefit from it ?

In short, do you believe in peace, cohabitation, and that each OS can be beneficial in its own way to the user ?

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How to Copy files from Windows to Linux using PowerShell Remoting
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ITOps-Talk-Blog/How-to-Copy-files-from-Windows-to-Linux-using-PowerShell/ba-p/681442?WT.mc_id=ITOPSTALK-reddit-abartolo

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Every once in a while the IBM Linux commercial gets posted, but do you remember this one by Novell?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eTguZ5OzJ4

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GNOME Foundation Annual Report - Large donations to GNOME and GIMP
https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GNOMEAnnualReport-2018-final.pdf

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Best online classes for linux-related topics.

What are you favorite hands-on training classes for linux related topics?

I really like "Docker Mastery" on Udemy: [https://www.udemy.com/docker-mastery/](https://www.udemy.com/docker-mastery/)

I've heard good things about linux academy, but have not yet used it. What are your experiences with linux academy; is it worth the monthly cost?

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System76 / Pop! OS team should learn to work with their upstreams – seb128's blog
https://blogs.gnome.org/seb128/2019/06/27/system76-pop-os-team-should-learn-to-work-with-their-upstreams/

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Gnome annual report created on Windows?

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dpScreenOCR is a program to recognize text on screen
https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/

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Runtimes And the Curse of the Linux Privileged Container (CVE-2019-5736)
https://people.kernel.org/brauner/runtimes-and-the-curse-of-the-privileged-container

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Donate to Lubuntu!
https://lubuntu.me/donate-to-lubuntu/

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Command Line Heroes: Season 3: Python's Tale
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/pythons-tale

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P O P OS guys, let's go plasma

There are a ton of peeps who'd appreciate a kde version!

https://kde.org/

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