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mariusafa, in Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

If you like ubuntu and you want to remove amazon and junk that ubuntu has you can go to debian. But in the future, just familarize yourself with everything first

merthyr1831,

or a Pop!/Mint/Neon ;^}

linuxPIPEpower,

familarize yourself with everything first

dry humor i hope

cetvrti_magi, in What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?
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I use Newsboat.

mikesailin, in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

NIXOS. It has a very steep learning curve without acceptable documentation and once I climbed the learning curve, I realized that it was very different from the Linux that I love.

fogetaboutit,

I hope you dont give up on it for too long, I think it’s a great OS once you get the hang of nix. To this day, its the only OS I trust where I could install anything I want and can still rollback without worries. Also I can make sure that my installation is the same as others, which means other people can literally just copy paste my config to test.

baseless_discourse, (edited ) in Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

I also started with LTS assuming they would be more usable, but the extremely outdated package have later driven me away from linux for a while.

Now I realize I can just run normal Ubuntu to get reasonably up-to-date packages. But I like the latest (non-graphical) software that is offered by fedora.

z3rOR0ne, (edited ) in Share your Linux-related Blogs/Websites
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linuxquestions.org

neidu2, in Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

You have been assimilated, resistance was futile.

Seriously, though, I’m glad you’re with us. The more people we get to embrace alternative approaches, the more viable the open standards will be.

Presi300, in "Must Try" distros and DEs?
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I’d say try anything (except debian) with hyprland, it’s the dream of anyone who wants to customize their desktop experience.

As for non-standard distros, try Alpine, Void or if you have a lot of time, Gentoo.

As for distros I’d actually recommend, try fedora or any of it’s spins

nickwitha_k,

What’s your favorite distro for running Hyprland?

k4j8,

I run Hyprland on Arch. It seems most of the people who run window managers instead of full fledged desktop environments prefer the minimalism of Arch.

Presi300,
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Probably arch or arco, but I think credits has a hyprland spin now

frozen, in Bazzite 2.2.0 has been released - now with the fsync kernel and HDR in game mode
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I love Bazzite, but I wish they would fix the no audio after wake on the OLED. I encountered it often while running the testing release, so I went back to SteamOS to wait for a stable release with the fix. Imagine my disappointment when they released a new stable version with the bug still present. :(

merthyr1831,

What’s your usecase for swapping from SteamOS? I noticed on some video that it came with A Steamdeck image but I couldn’t think of why you’d want to swap to a SteamOS ‘clone’

frozen,
@frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

In addition to what’s been mentioned, Bazzite also updates the kernel and graphics drivers more often than SteamOS, so yes, while things are slightly more likely to break every now and then, there are some decent performance gains to be had.

d3Xt3r,

Does restarting PipeWire fix it?

systemctl --user restart pipewire.service

or

systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse

If that works, you could create a systemd unit file to automatically run that after resume.


<span style="color:#323232;">[Unit]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Description=Restart Pipewire after resume
</span><span style="color:#323232;">After=suspend.target
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Service]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Type=simple
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl --user restart pipewire.service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Install]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WantedBy=suspend.target
</span>
azvasKvklenko,

How would a client (like running game) reconnect to a restarted PW server? That would require a game restart for its sound to work if I get it right

makingStuffForFun, in Suggestions for consumer cloud syncing on Linux?
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I use syncthing with my home server to synch about 11 devices. It’s flawless.

EponymousBosh, in "Must Try" distros and DEs?
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Garuda might be worth a try. I used it for a couple months and really enjoyed it, I only stopped because Nvidia drivers kept breaking.

nickwitha_k,

I’m going to be on an AMD CPU and didn’t opt for the discrete GPU at this time, nor will I be purchasing an Nvidia device until they start being consistently FOSS-friendly.

EponymousBosh,
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Yeah, I unfortunately didn’t know about the “Nvidia hates Linux” thing when I bought this laptop. I guess I know better for next time.

nickwitha_k,

Oof. Yeah. Years ago, it was the other way around.

zod000, in What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?

I am pretty happy with QuiteRSS. Has a built in browser with adblocking, but easy right click options to open tan external browser. Easy to set up feeds and filters.

anothermember, in What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?

Just Thunderbird is fine for me, has all the features I want and I already get my email there (but even if I didn’t I’d struggle to find an RSS reader with its features).

nezach, in What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?

I self-host FreshRSS as a container with podman behind Traefik on a raspberry pi 5 and use the web interface on desktop and FeedMe on android. Pretty happy with the setup.

GnuLinuxDude, (edited ) in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?
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I use Fedora as my primary desktop distro. It’s a sturdy base with relatively up-to-date packages from the repos. It doesn’t really push technology I consider undesirable, like Snaps. Even though I have to rely on RPMFusion for a number of proprietary parts, due to Fedora’s free software stance, I don’t have any particular qualms about that. I also increasingly use Flatpaks anyway.

When I used to use Reddit the /r/fedora community was helpful and welcoming.

One downside is because the kernel changes frequently, and I (sadly) own a Nvidia GPU, akmods runs very often. Another downside is sometimes that frequently changing kernel can cause issues. I think in the past year or two I’ve had two distinct occasions where a kernel upgrade caused my mounted shares to not mount correctly. Reporting an issue to upstream also takes quite some involvement, as I discovered when I had to create some Red Hat account to report an issue about the packaging of some software in a beta release of Fedora.

So all-in-all I would say Fedora is a strong distro. It is probably not the most beginner-friendly one, though, given how you have to dip your toes into RPMFusion and related challenges. It used to be worse, since DejaVu used to be the default font system-wide and you had to install a fonts package from COPR to make the system actually look pleasant. Since then they switched to Noto, which makes the font situation MUCH better.

On servers and VMs I use Debian because I do not have the patience to maintain a faster moving Fedora multiple times over. This is exacerbated by the awful defaults of Gnome, which I have to bend into shape with extensions. When Fedora 40 releases later this year I fully intend to reinstall from scratch since KDE Plasma 6 will be available.

edit: i misread the prompt and just talked about my favorite distro that i actively use. whoops.

My least favorite distro could be Manjaro if I actually used it, but it is Ubuntu because of how close it is to being a great distro. Snaps really soured me to that deal. Snapd and Snaps make it difficult to use in VMs, too, because now you have to over-commit resources for something that could and should be smaller and simpler. Debian stays winning, as usual.

thecookingsenpai, in Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
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Tbh i never found an app that runs better on snap than on deb

Same goes for almost anything like snap

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