Gnome has awful window placement.

It tries to mix tiling and floating window managers and creates the worst of both worlds. More often than not it's opening new windows in the top left corner, very distracting and annoying on my ultrawide.


I know you can change it to open new windows in the centre but that's only slightly better. Remembering the position the previous windows were closed in is the best way for a floating wm to work.

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Boxshots of Debian Buster
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/c9t4af/boxshots_of_debian_buster/

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Is there anyway to install visualnovel games on linux without wine ??

The noscript says it all.

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Starting 8:00 UTC, Debian will be having a party at the Debian Party Line Mumble, join it and celebrate the coming release of Debian 10 (Buster)!
http://debian-party-line.branchable.com/

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My Linux Journey So Far (Simplified)

I've actually never in my life had a Windows OS installed on any of my machines. I'm 14 and my dad had me using a Debian XFCE PC when I was around 7 or 8. I didn't really actually know anything apart from playing games and basic web browsing, but about 2-3 years later I had a new computer with Ubuntu 16.04 and he \*finally\* gave me root privileges. Broke my install later that night. After this, I started actually learning how to manipulate the system without messing it up. During this time, I stayed within the bubble of what I knew: Debian based Distros (Mainly because of I LOVED apt and dpkg). I think it was in the middle of last year that I tried out Arch and I LOVED it. Pacman was SO much easier than apt and I had access to the AUR which was awesome. I removed xUbuntu from my system and switched full time to Manjaro (mainly because it just works with very little troubles and all the goodness of Arch). That brings me to where I am today. My dad bought me a fantastic Thinkpad T510 a few months ago. I've been using my current Manjaro GNOME install for OVER A MONTH NOW! Very stable and productivity is fantastic. I've learned a lot on my journey including some basic understanding for programming languages like C, Bash (love it), CSS, Python, and HTML. I would not choose ANY operating system over Linux and I'm very happy that my dad was into Linux and the Open Source world and passed it on to me. Now I think he regrets it, though, because it's all I ever talk about.

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I found a disk copy of Fedora going through my late Uncles software
https://redd.it/c9xlan
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Every criticism against user-friendly distributions
https://mastodon.social/@cassidyjames/102381091117363181

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Cheap laptop to run Ubuntu on

So my 10 year old MacBook Pro finally died a few days ago. I am now looking a for a cheap used laptop (probably something like a thinkpad) in the price range of 100-150 EUR to run Ubuntu on. I don’t need much processing power, as I only use it for web browsing and SSHing into my servers. What would you recommend at that price range?

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What is a small application, utility or tool you use on a regular basis that you are surprised more people don't use?

I'll get you started with two:

1) [xargs](https://shapeshed.com/unix-xargs/) for which there is no substitute

xargs allows you to pipe output from one command to input on another.

For instance, this would allow you to kill any processes being run by a certain user:

ps -ef | awk '/anthony/ {print $2}' | xargs kill -9

So, this gets a list of the pids for the user anthony and kills each one of them individually, essentially running kill -9 <pid> for each process being run by anthony.

2) [GPaste](https://github.com/Keruspe/GPaste)
If you aren't using a clipboard manager ... you are wasting time

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With today's Debian release, only Debian 2.1 (Slink) and Debian 10 (Buster) have been released the same year as a new Toy Story film since using character names.
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/ca0oov/til_that_with_todays_release_only_debian_21_slink/

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Debian 10 "buster" released
https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706

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Passed my comptia LXO-103 today

Whooo whooo! Now the 104 test in a couple weeks!!

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Tiling Window Managers suck. Here's why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n_rl9jWUMo

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Lubuntu saves kid brother’s classmate’s hand-me-down laptop!
https://redd.it/ca2q3m
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Secure DNS doesn't make us a villain Mozilla tells UK ISP Association
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/06/mozilla_ukisp_vallain/

https://redd.it/ca2oid
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Saw that someone found a Fedora 17 disc. Reminded me of the Ubuntu 10.10 disc I got when Canonical shipped them out for free. Best part, it still boots!!
https://redd.it/ca2x2j
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Debian 10 'Buster' Released
https://redd.it/ca39tz
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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 78
https://pointieststick.com/2019/07/06/kde-usability-productivity-week-78/

https://redd.it/ca4jkc
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Linux Laptops

Linux-on-Laptops website is a resource for those who use Linux on a specific laptop model.

Check out https://linux-on-laptops.com if you have any linux issues on your laptop. If you have solutions to any linux issues, please submit here: https://www.linux-on-laptops.com/entry.html

https://redd.it/ca2quu
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Haven't even had Linux on my computer for a year and I'm already testing ArchLinux in a virtual machine. Wish me luck!
https://redd.it/ca5cgb
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A better way to control the mouse

I avoid using the mouse whenever possible, but sometimes there is no alternative, so I looked for a program that allows me to move the mouse with the keyboard without much speed loss. The best I found is keynav which has an interesting concept, but I couldn't configure it to be as efficient as I wanted, so I finally wrote a new program:

[https://github.com/jbensmann/xmouseless](https://github.com/jbensmann/xmouseless)

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It basically moves the pointer continuously by holding down keys and changes the speed by holding down some other keys. So maybe someone will find it useful as well. Or do you have another good way of controlling the mouse with the keyboard?

https://redd.it/ca5bkk
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