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I ask this because I think of the recent switch of Ubuntu to the Rust recode of the GNU core utils, which use an MIT license. There are many Rust recodes of GPL software that re-license it as a pushover MIT or Apache licenses. I worry these relicensing efforts this will significantly harm the FOSS ecosystem. Is this reason to start worrying or is it not that bad?

I want to make Linux my main OS. I’ve used Windows for decades. Since Vista or 7, the Windows security model is this, from what I understand:

Here’s the PC:

Linux Mint XFCE.

with the recent windows news, I wanna switch to Linux. I tried mint a few years ago and was annoyed and frustrated with multiple things, like having to input the password all the time and the general ammunt of constant trouble shooting and needing a tutorial for the most basic things.

I’ll start: while looking at app theming I came across WallRizz, renamed from WallWiz. I haven’t tried it, and looking at it documentation it seems well made, but I cringe at the name and the AI-generated penguin logo. It shares the art style of all the other AI slop, its basically italian brainrot but 2D. WallWiz sounds way better, rizz sounds like it was specially designed for gen alpha (little kids). If there are apps of even similar quality, why would I use this one?

I’m looking for a straightforward way to get real-time text-to-speech (TTS) on Manjaro Linux. I’d like to be able to copy/paste a block of text and start listening to it right away. I’ve seen scripts that split text into sentences and feed them to models like the smallest Kokoro TTS. Does anyone have a simple-to-install solution or script for this on Manjaro?

Does anyone have a good guide for setting up a PC as a VNC kiosk? I’m trying to scrape together details, but still coming up short. Ideally the machine will boot, auto-login as a non-root user, start a VNC client, and log in to the remote VNC server with stored credentials.

I’ve 2 network drives on one subnet (nfs and samba). I would like to access them only if computer is connected to particular ssid (subnet).

Hello, this is a continuation of my previous post where I explained how to Set-Up a Remote Desktop experience fully encrypted for you or friends to use in your Machine

I installed fedora server. I set up opnsense in the VM. I told networkmanager on the host to treat the dual port NIC as unmanaged. I have the container grabbing up that NIC and routing traffic to WAN and LAN/vLANs. that part is done.

crossposted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/57589263

Trying to breathe some extra life into my computer now that we’re past the windows 10 EoL and I’m trying to install Mint

May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?

Hey so I legitimately own C&C remastered. I cannot find my huge dvd case game and got the repack instead.

Yes, I’ve heard it a million times by now. AMD drivers on GNU/Linux are great for anything that’s related to display or gaming. But what about compute? How is the compute experience for AMD GPUs?

I know it isn’t specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is,

Valve today (12 November 2025) announced their new Steam Machine (x86 CPU, 6x more powerful than Steam Deck) and Steam Frame (self-contained and PCVR streaming VR headset with ARM CPU & “FEX” translation of x86 to ARM) to be released in early 2026. No prices yet.

Got my hands on a Dell Latitude ON module. Turns out it’s nothing more than a 2 GB flash module that fits in a mPCIe slot and is wired to the USB lanes. Shows up as /dev/sdb.

Personally nothing but when I look at it I wonder if the big bang could actually have been a white hole.

debian 13.1, yt-dlp [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp, updated with yt-dlp -U

I am trying to install gopher64 through the flathub link on their git. Mint is supposed to have support baked in but it is saying there is no associated program and I cant find one.

I was just given an old nettop from I think around 2010 - An old Acer one nettop intel atom CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz 2GB ram, it has Windows XP on it and it seems fairly smooth/quick, but I haven’t done anything other than boot it up and check the spec. I was wondering what would be best to install on it and found that choices are very limited. Linux Lite nor Lubuntu seem to be an option anymore, and almost all of the options I tried under x86_x64 on Distrowatch no longer provide an x86 or 32 bit version. These are the main ones I have seen:

Hi guys, basically as the title says I want to make external SSD drive with “Windows to Go” for the stuff that I really need Windows for unfortunately (proprietary CAD software) but there is no software for making this on Linux that I can find

Hey guys, I wanted to ask you how you manage your gpg keys? Having them in plaintext all the time on my hard drive feels unsecure.

This is my first real dive into hosting a server beyond a few Docker containers in my NAS. I’ve been learning a lot over the past 5 days, first thing I learned is that Proxmox isn’t for me:

I’m on Mint. I have two partitions, one at 100GB I set up for the main OS installation, and another 1.9TB installation I use for storage. But the first partition is getting some storage issues, which comes partly from Timeshift (which I already redirected) and partially from Steam, specifically Proton. I want to redirect Steam onto the larger partition, but the space Steam takes up in this way is taken up by several smaller files and folders that add up to a lot, so I feel unsure about how to change things properly.

I’m redoing my home server. I’m moving from arch to fedora server to force myself to learn that stuff.

I don’t use apps like whatsapp or skype because they sell my data and don’t trust them.

Since PopOS isn’t really going anywhere since 2022. I’m looking for a new distro that out of the box works with Nvidia and is optimized for gaming. I looked at Bazzite and CachyOS. Does anyone have experience with these?

I’ve been searching around for the right linux raft I need to jump off of the sinking microsoft ship, and I am currently considering giving Ubuntu Studio a go. My primary activities are music production and gaming, so the massive number of creative tools that are available seem like it would really level up my music production game, and possibly inspire me to try out some other creative avenues as well. It’s kind of amazing to see the possibilities with all the free software out there these days.

Forewarning: I don’t intend to respond to debates that have turned toxic in comments. Knowing how this topic can be, please don’t aim create one.

I have a laptop with an 11 inch screen and 768p display. Naturally, my usage breakdown is:

Hi,

Trying (and failing) to setup Timeshift. Hoping to have it do snapshots of an ext4 LUKS-encrypted Arch system partition.

I’m wondering if there are possibly any tools out there to do this: Declare a color scheme and set them to all apps CLIs and TUIs, either immediately on upon restart of each app individually. I’m on NixOS and looked at Stylix, once properly set up it automatically sets color schemes to apps. To change the color scheme I’d have to rebuild my nix configuration which is slow.

I recently set up Bazzite on my friend’s system after switching from Linux Mint due to some Nvidia driver issues. Although the hardware problems are not there anymore, the distro is now facing problems installing certain programs for software development that they had no problem installing in the previous distro. I think there are issues related to the immutability of the distro, though I am not sure since I am new to Linux too. Additionally, my friend is worried about higher storage consumption and slower performance in certain applications.

Working on the assumption that Win10 being EOL is going to cause an influx of old hardware becoming available, I was thinking it might be a good time to start looking for a good deal on a laptop for travel. It doesn’t HAVE to be an old unsupported laptop, but saving something from e-waste is a bonus. Here’s the kind of thing I’m looking for.

Dug my old laptop out (HP G60, Turion X2 64) - and installed Mint XFCE on it - so far it’s useable, but of course still slow. I’m amazed it works as well as it does (3 GB ram and an SSD). The CPU usage is at 100% a lot of the time.

I’m assuming this isn’t normal behavior, but copying and pasting commands into shell windows (host, VMs, LXCs, doesn’t matter) doesn’t work. I’ve noticed issues with curl too, despite saying it’s installed and up-to-date, but one thing at a time…I’m also not convinced that edits made to conf files are persisting as a result. Is this a browser issue? As always, thanks for helping out a normie in need.

So just to be clear I went with a very lazy move to linux from windows. I was not looking to use my day to day in a unixy type way and wanted something that I can install and go without much muss or fuss. So I went with zorin and yeah I have dropped to the command line for some apt installs or such but bascially it was only as needed. Very minimal. Anyway today Im messing with folders and files and suddenly it hit me. Im on linux I can do a lot of this easier with the command line. I know its stupid but my day to day sorta has a mouse brain guie mode and I sorta forget how much easier it is to do some stuff using syntax. So going forward im going to be bringing up the command line to do the things that are quicker.

What distros do you install on your mom’s, sister’s, buddy’s, etc machines?

Look long story short, what i expected to be a short install ended up being a 5 hour manhunt for an issue that resulted in needing a closed source instead of open source nvidia driver. Shes all switched to linux, and if her trial goes well and i don’t end up tearing my hair out doing tech support. I may switch over as well, probably a different distro though.

A client has asked me to replace their video editor for a video podcast. It’s the standard quick-cut style, zooms, loud transitions, and big bubble-letter subtitles throughout.

I still use the web interface for each email provider like gmail, outlook, etc

I got an old HP laptop for a good price. (HP ProBook 650 G4.) It was cheap because it’s BIOS locked and requires secure boot. (I believe this is the same as “HP Sure Start”.)

Hello, Basically I want to pick a distro and like most beginners I’m coming from windows. I don’t want to go on a full learning process from the start but I can probably handle some level of terminal usage. I, like most people play games(*or thinking about playing games and it’s one of main things I’m looking into but because this isn’t the only thing I’m thinking of doing and do*)

what are your experiences using game controllers with linux, I’m especially interested in the xbox series s controller because it’s the one I have, but I’m also interested in other controllers. From my experience the latency is disappointing, but I have no way of proving it.

I’m currently writing an article on the subject, and want to properly represent people’s views.

I’ve been meaning to make the leap for some time, but I had a hiccup with Mint a little while ago, and my key reason for choosing Mint above all others has disappeared. My Windows machine is doing the usual “you’ve had this installed for a while so it’s just going to keep getting slower unless you do a fresh re-install” thing that Windows seems to do, and I’ve got more time on my hands than last time I tried, so I figure why not put that time to use.

What could be the best way to introduce the world of computers to a kid, let’s say of 6 years old, so that he learns to handle it like a toy and stops dreading it like some esoteric, arcane and recondite machine from some eldritch, enigmatic, cryptic and phantasmal world ?

tl;dr: dockman changing permissions of /docker an I don’t like it. Is it normal? Am I a control freak?

Is it possible to reinstall Linux (or distro hop) without losing my Dropbox install? Could I move the Dropbox install to my home folder so it survives the OS install?

Currently looking for a good DAW to run on Linux. I used Ableton Live 11 Standard back on Windows, got it running decently on Fedora with Wine, but kind of want to explore some other options.

ArchLinux doesn’t boot past the bootloader