Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - July 15, 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._

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Looking for Linux tutorials

So I’ve been programming for a while and I would like to move for Windows’s to Linux, Linux looks very technical and confusing which is why I never learnt it earlier. I’m sure it’s easier that it looks (I hope) I’m interested in learning about hosting servers and programming stuff but Linux can do a lot of stuff so for now just tutorials on the basics.

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Tim Sweeney: “The real enemy of Linux are these trolls who try to overrun social media channels to make claims in bad faith and attempt to harass developers into compliance. They’re scaring lots of good game developers away.”
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1150521599633874949

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LXD 3.15 has been released
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-3-15-has-been-released/5218

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A little python noscript I made to manage your microphone
https://gitlab.com/snippets/1846713

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hek: Music library checker released
https://github.com/dunon/hek

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What is POSIX? Richard Stallman explains
https://opensource.com/article/19/7/what-posix-richard-stallman-explains

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Trying Linux for the second time

I’ve been going back and forth with windows and Linux for a long time. The biggest drawback is finding the similar software I would use on windows onto Linux. I am a little more tech savvy since I last tried Linux so we will see how it plays out. I installed Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” MATE

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Asus prime x570 pro iommu group

Hi,

If anyone has the asus x570 pro could they post the IOMMU groupings please

I would really appriciate it

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What's the latest on Anbox?

Just curious on how it's coming along and hoping a few people with recent experience could chime in. I tried it about a year ago and it was a LONG way from ready. That said, it seems to me that with the pine phone and librem 5 around the corner (ish) there could be some real utility in seeing it succeed. Has it improved much? Is it going to be a realistic option any time soon?

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Epic Games supports Blender Foundation with $1.2 million Epic MegaGrant
https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-foundation-with-1-2-million-epic-megagrant/

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BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability (book)
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-07-15/bpf-performance-tools-book.html

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Kernel developers remove NPU DMA code used by the proprietary Nvidia driver
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=192f0f8e9db7efe4ac98d47f5fa4334e43c1204d

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Manjaro on a 2011 MacBook Air (Core 2 Duo, GeForce 320M)
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Linux Environment toolkit

Hey guys,

I am currently working on a toolkit that will help in troubleshooting problems when building Linux environments

Currently I only have a simple shell noscript that simplifies curl, and makes it easier to work with lots of URL's

My goal is to make noscripts that simplify some of the commands and make them more automated

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Constructive feedback is appreciated

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Thanks

[https://github.com/Vastef/Matools](https://github.com/Vastef/Matools)

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mplayer 4 videos simulatiously, tiled?

say I want to play multiple videos at once with mplayer, I can use the following:

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find . -type f -name "*.mp4" | shuf | xargs -P4 -l mplayer -zoom -xy .5


and it works pretty well, my question is: can I do some sort of automatic tiling of these windows? I use xfce btw.

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I created a zsh plugin that automatically sends out a notification when a long running task has completed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/cdnil5/i_created_a_plugin_that_automatically_sends_out_a/

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Asus Numeric Keybpad/Touchpad combo - Is anyone working on this and if so, how do I get involved?
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/ca9pcm/asus_numeric_keybpadtouchpad_combo_keypad_not/

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i386 arch is our new enemy now

Distro maintainers say that it is yet another "burden" to maintain and they don't have enough devs to maintain it, but the question is why has this started happening in the last 2-3 years? Dual architecture is a thing since about early 2000s if I recall correctly and how come they were able to afford maintenance until now?

Also, distro maintainers not supporting is something I can understand as they have to deal with low-level hardware/metal centric C code, but why VMs and interpreters? I simply don't get why Java and Node.js would remove support for i386. After all, Java's very mantra is Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) and so should be Node's as it is also a runtime with similar capabilities as Java.

Why is everyone suddenly obsessed with making i386 a villain? What great catastrophe will occur if some poor chaps sitting on older hardware are able to use it with some modern software? No compassion and humanity left these days? (open source was all about these two things when it began).

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views on the Redhat acquisition by IBM

As it is all over the news that IBM is acquiring redhat after a multi million dollar deal and how that is going to change the way or is gonna revolutionize cloud computing. What are your thoughts on that?

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Happy Birthday Slackware!

26 years ago, Patrick Volkerding released an SLS Linux fork which happens to be the oldest surviving Linux Distro today!

Slackware promises an experience like the old days of Linux. Thanks to it's nostalgic Installation experience & systemd free desktop.

This is the release letter Patrick published on the night of 16th July, 1993. Happy Birthday Slackware!

http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php

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