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buckykat, in Manjaro OS

My personal negative vibe toward Manjaro comes from my own experience with updates breaking things when I was running it

gerdesj, in Is the Linux Foundation Certified System Admin (LFCS) worth it?

Employer here (UK)! I’m probably not normal being the MD and running Arch (actually) on my gear. I had to switch from Gentoo because I kept on burning myself.

For me, something like the LFCSA is something I respect because it is practical. Back in the day I did something similar (Novell I think). I’ve also grabbed a VMware … whatever … and that was a memory test and a waste of money. Who cares if you can quote the maximums?

When I’m hiring, I want to see application and knowledge and not a plethora of industry “quali-wankery”! You can always search for facts but knowing how to apply them is what I want to see.

Be flexible but do try to develop what sort of direction you want to take. What floats your boat out of dev ops, sysadmin etc?

You could also consider self employment/consultancy. I sort of fell into it 23 years ago …

SimonSaysStuff, (edited )

You could also consider self employment/consultancy.

Would you recommend this if OP is in the UK?

KISSmyOS, in Best Linux Distro for a tablet?

Fedora. It is the flagship distro for Gnome, and Gnome is the best desktop for tablets and convertibles.

schwar2ss,

I had Fedora with the surface-linux kernel running for a while and at some point an update broke everything, including the touch pad.

The Surface isn’t a great Linux device, unfortunately.

LainOfTheWired,
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I mean it is made by Microsoft😆

LainOfTheWired,
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Though Macs seem to at least at some points be good Linux devices. Though I have no idea about the newer arm based ones

MrAlternateTape, in Integrity and config errors Ubuntu

As far as I know, other distributions just don’t show these errors, but Ubuntu choose to show them.

Most of them are just due too a BIOS implementation that is not entirely up to standards, from what I understand. It seems some manufacturers have chosen to make their system easier to use with Windows instead of strictly enforcing standards.

I just ignore the errors. As long as everything works properly, I feel fine with that.

merthyr1831,

yup. and it’s usually on laptops that run less standard bios setups that aren’t easily flashed anyway

juli, in Zorin OS 17 Beta Released with Quick Settings, Spatial Desktop, and More

What’s the advantage of zorinos? According to wiki en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorin_OS it’s judt ubuntu with gnome 3 or xfce 4.

I hope we can separate the DE from the OS some day

simple,

It’s a very beginner-friendly distro, similar in goals to Linux Mint but more modern. It’s stable, comes pre-installed with graphics drivers and important apps like Wine, a custom clean version of Gnome or XFCE, and having a lot of UX improvements like explaining what Wine is the first time you open an exe file, and providing popular alternatives for the app you’re trying to install.

There’s nothing brand new about it, it’s just really solid and I do recommend it as people’s first distro.

governorkeagan,

This was the first I’d heard of it and from my first impression it seemed like it could be a solid beginner distributor.

Glad to see you do recommend it to beginners. This would probably be easier for my partner to get into compared to Pop!_OS (I’ll be testing this soon though!)

lemann,

Second this. Zorin OS, and Mandriva Linux (before they went bankrupt, and the community picked up development) were my first exposure to Linux over a decade ago, and the ux familiarity really helps a ton.

A lot of the other distros had funny stuff going on with multiple docks, open apps showing in the top dock, others looked like a Stardock Special and it was just a little confusing for younger me lol

NeoNachtwaechter,

I hope we can separate the DE from the OS some day

We had that from the beginning of X. It could abstract nicely from all unices and even a little M$.

That era ended (unintentionally) with the dawn of KDE and GNOME, and I’m afraid it won’t come back with Wayland.

juli,

Shit 😔

NOOBMASTER,

Something didn’t work they way you wanted it to work? Or not a fan of Gnome?

smileyhead, (edited )

Does it ended? On all distros I know of, Fedora, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, we can swap the desktop environments like gloves. The only exception being immutable things like Fedora Kionite, but they are made to be untouchable and for specific users.

Wayland does not change anything there, only that the desktops with less developers must take more time to adapt. What makes desktop interoperable are FreeDesktop standards, which are now in full swing to Wayland.

turbowafflz,

Yeah I really don’t know what they mean, in the past couple months I’ve used Plasma, Gnome, NsCDE, i3, Sway, Hyprland, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, Mate, Trinity, Xfce, and probably others I forgot

atzanteol, in Integrity and config errors Ubuntu

Kernel boot logs aren’t well disciplined to be careful about what is an error or not. Sometimes it’s just checking for the existence of hardware and reports the error it gets if it doesn’t exist.

If things are working I wouldn’t worry.

Astaroth, (edited ) in What is the state of Multiseat in Linux today?

Just the other day I was looking into how to use a single shared WINE prefix for multiple users since it’s not like any 2 users would ever use the same PC at the same time… TIL I was wrong

Unfortunately I don’t really have anything helpful to add except it seems like Linux is more or less inherently built to support what you’re looking for.

vox, (edited ) in Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
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seems like a bug in one of rhe programs you’re using.
modt software automatically manages it’s cache…
are you using build caching tools such as Mozilla sccache? These tend to create 20gb+ cache directories, especially if used with debug builds

micke, in One of these 6 will become Plasma 6. Wallpaper Which one do you prefer?

The red tree 👍

avidamoeba, in Am I wrong to assume that docker is perfect for single board computers that relies on low life expectancy drives (microsd)?
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Unless you make your host OS read-only, it itself will keep writing while running your docker containers. Furthermore slapping read-only in a docker container won’t make the OS you’re running in it able to run correctly with an RO root fs. The OS must be able to run with an RO root fs to begin with. Which is the same problem you need to solve for the host OS. So you see, it’s the same problem and docker doesn’t solve it. It’s certainly possible to make an Linux OS that runs on an RO root fs and that’s what you need to focus on.

linuxoveruser, in CLI Editors with Distrobox?

you should have no problem doing Python dev on nixos, it’s basically made for doing development environments like this without the need for containers. you should just be able to set up a nix shell for your project that contains python and all the necessary dependencies, and then enter the shell. then, you’ll have all the right dependencies installed for your project and still have access to any editors you have installed

linuxoveruser,

I’d also check out poetry2nix if you’re a poetry fan and interested in building your package with nix. See www.tweag.io/blog/2020-08-12-poetry2nix/.

llothar, in Which distro/image to use for distrobox where you just want to install tools?

One year ago I treated how long it takes to get Gimp to install on various distros in distrobox:

Results:


<span style="color:#323232;">zypper@Tumbleweed: 3 minutes, 22 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt@Ubuntu 22.04: 1 minute 26 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">dnf@Fedora: 1 minute 2 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">pacman@arch: 0 minutes 21 seconds
</span>

But that’s just installation speed. It simply shows that there are quite big differences depending on use case.

XenBad, in Arch or NixOS?

I use NixOS for University and would highly recommend it if you want a highly configurable system that’s declarative, however, NixOS doesn’t have great documentation for certain features and usually does things differently, so you’ll have to learn the Nix way of doing things. On the plus side, I’ve never been unable to fix my OS when it broke, you simply rollback, or if there isn’t a suitable rollback, you can plug in a live usb and set the system to use a specific commit (can’t remember the exact command for this and that’s presuming you store your config with git). Also according to these statistics nixpkgs has more packages than the AUR.

just_another_person,

I think you just mean “declarative”. Highly configurable is literally any distro. I’d say NixOS is actually LESS configurable by design, but that is sort of the point: a repeatable image based on a template no matter what.

XenBad,

By highly configurable, I meant that you can configure it exactly to your needs, in the same way that you can with Arch.

flashgnash, in Made the switch to KDE

Gnome and KDE are both great for different reasons. One of the things that’s great about Linux as a whole is it gives people the ability to choose the stack they like most

GFGJewbacca,

Yes! I wholeheartedly agree with you. There are pieces of GNOME I wish I could bring into KDE, and vice versa.

DangerousInternet, in Konsave lets you save, apply and share Linux desktop theme customisations
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  • danie10,
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    Thanks, yes that is actually a slightly more comprehensive backup, looking at their GitHub project at github.com/vikdevelop/SaveDesktop, and they have a Flatpak installation as well.

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