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Solution: There never was a second drive. It must have been a partition that got wiped with the install, but there's only the NVME in there. Sorry, guys. I dig around in my innards very frequently and just thought I was mounting a second drive this entire time. Hooray for backups.
reinstalled Mint and my second drive is absolutely invisible to everything. I can't mount what I can't see. I'm thinking of unplugging it and plugging it back in just because I'm out of ideas.
What could have caused a drive to become invisible after a reinstall?
Edit: Checked bios. All security disabled. Using AHCI and UEFI (tried CSM). I don't really know what these things mean, I just know things were working properly before I reinstalled mint so I'm puzzled why it could be a BIOS issue.
Current lsblk:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 513M 0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 953.4G 0 part /
What? I thought Optane was a weird hybrid drive for mostly laptops I'm running a self-built desktop that's over 10 years old with an MSI Mobo. I was just in settings because something else led me to think it might be a BIOS issue, but didn't see any Optane.
But why would go from one-year-ago-Mint to today-Mint trigger any bios issues?
Haha it's for the security of her data of course!
Linux is my last stop for desktop computers. I'll probably still always have one, but I'm transitioning to using mobile devices more. But for media storage and setup, I still can't beat a desktop.
lsblk is as low level as it gets, no? Anyway, gparted sees nothing either, nor does Mint's Disks.
Driver issue? For a hard drive? Ok... Uh, so what do I install exactly?
Edit: Check the edit to my post.
I'm not seeing any image attachments in case you added that.
Some brand of NVME SSDs are the only thing I've seen live driver issues on where the disk appeared invisible until drivers were installed, in one case the pre-installed Intel SSD drivers had to be disabled too because they were incorrectly taking priority.
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If you're using the digital clock widget, that uses Akonadi, and will launch it on startup. It's used to (optionally) sync calendar events between compatible apps. There are also a handful of KDE PIM Applications that use it (think Kontact, KMail, KAddressBook, KOrganizer). If you want it disabled, you will need to stop using any Akonadi-enabled app. More information can be found at the KDE userbase for Akonadi. In particular, stop using any KDE PIM Application, as they cannot function without it, and disable calendar syncing from the digital clock. That will ensure the service is never started.
To fix the digital clock problem:
To ensure that Akonadi is not started, check that no applications require it at login. In particular, open the Plasma clock applet preferences, go to Calendar and uncheck Show events to prevent Plasma from requesting information from Akonadi and thus allowing it to start.
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A user that want a minimal environment installs a modern complete and featurefull entire desktop environment and then complains that it's too bloated, at five only on Lemmy.
What is this, reddit nowadays? /S
Anyway, you should uninstall plasma and switch to any of the many more basic Linux GUI environment that better suit you needs, that the magic of Linux after all, nobody forces you to use what you don't like or don't approve on your own machine
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Modern DE ≠ unnecessary metadata-collecting services which you can not control within the DE interface. I do not want a "minimal" environment, I want one that looks pretty and is adjusted straightforwardly. Background metadata syncing has nothing to do with graphical environment. I understand that KDE is a whole ecosystem, but a service like this, shipping together with the DE, unreachable through normal settings interface is not what I'm expecting from a DE. Especially from such a modern and featurefull one. If I wanted to manage my DE with text configs, I would go for hyprland or something like this. It's the issue with KDE that it doesn't implement accessible configuration options for certain components. Hereby I'm not saying that KDE is totally bad.
My main complaint isn't the existence of Akonadi by itself, some people I'll hardly ever meet in person would find its functionality extremely useful for a reason. But the fact it is uncontrollable with any KDE settings is dissapointing.
The actual magic of Linux here is that I can still find a text config and disable anything I don't need there. Without ditching a whole DE because of a couple of things I don't like.
PS. I have never been on reddit.
That's the downside (or upside, depending on how you look at things) of choosing a kitchen-sink distro. You get served everything and you don't have to care or know about anything.
However. Since you seem to be more of a power-user than a casual user, perhaps you didn't made the best choice for yourself. Perhaps building your own setup based on a bare-bones Fedora installation would have been a better fit for you? 😀
So what's the point? A modern and fully integrated de uses background services and those services are required for many pieces to work so much that they have made not that easy to disable the service?
If that's the point, you are definitely being unreasonable.
On the other hand the service can still be disabled understandably by text file editing to prevent users from breaking their system. I find the lack of an UI setting to disable it a reasonable choice, and yourself are telling me that it's still removable by user anyway. A power user indeed, but still user manageable.
Plasma user base definitely is not the customize everything people. I think it's reasonable that akonadi needs deeper user action to be disabled
That service is local only and needed for many apps to work, including stock widgets.
What is your point against akonadi exactly?
I would complain about that search indexer daemon (kglobalaccel or something similar) in plasma that still after years sometimes gobbles up 100% on a CPU core after screen unlock instead ... But whatever
Again, this syncing service has nothing to do with providing a graphical environment. Its functionality has a different purpose.
Disabling this particular service can not break the whole desktop environment. It is simply disabling some additional features, that are absolutely not crucial for the system's operation. As far as I can tell, simply re-enabling this service brings the features back, it is an easily reversible action, so there is no reason to hide it in order to prevent breaking by an unexperienced user.
If you open any article on Linux DEs comparison, KDE Plasma will be mentioned as offering extensible customization.
My point against Akonadi is that it is hard to disable for no serious reason. Whether you use it's features or not, you get it running in the background, and you don't have a normal option to manage it.
Thank you for mentioning the indexer daemon, I will investigate if I need it or it is superfluous for me.
I suggest you open a ticket on akonadi or plasma settings to add that option. That would be a good addition I am always for more settings....
But no, plasma is indeed not in the ballpark of highly customizable de. Maybe more than gnome, but the bar is really low
So, really the issue is you expect KDE to present it in UI which is not the case.
You would have to use the control binary to stop it from running (akonadictl stop).
To prevent it from running in the future, you'd have to edit/create it's configuration in $HOME/.config and add something like StartServer=false to [General].
There is no way to do this in the UI.
Akonadi itself isn't bloatware though. It's an important component that lets "desktop" applications access PIM.
It can be a resource hog, but that's not the same. It serves a valid role.
So long as you aren't using Kalendar, Kmail, etc, just remove it.
How exactly is it bloatware though? Not a KDE user myself, just had a look at the wiki. Seems it's just a convenience utility to allow you to not have to enter the same things into multiple applications?
This is VERY different from pre-installed apps in your start menu that collect and sell info about you...
Yeah, thinking more about it, I don't think the term "bloatware" (as it is commonly used) applies here at all.
How do I completely disable it forever?
To answer your question: sudo systemctl mask <servicename>.service
The much more common disable just disables autostart; masking will point the service file at /dev/null, which makes it impossible to load or start the service, even when other services or apps (like the clock widget someone mentioned in the comments) request it.
And since I don't even use most of the apps Akonadi is designed for, it is just wasting my CPU time and RAM space. That's why I call it bloatware.
You can't just make up your own meanings of already established words and terms. That's simply not how the world works.
And if you don't use it, why did you choose to install it in the first place?
My definition matches the definition given in the Collins Dictionary. If you don't consider this a serious source, just accept I may not be always aware of a precise meaning of a certain term.
I did not choose to install Akonadi. It was preinstalled in Fedora KDE. I chose KDE for its extensive customization. Maybe I'm too old /j, but by choosing a DE I'm choosing just a DE. I couldn't even think about how extensive an ecosystem around a DE could be. There are useful tools, like KDE Connect, which are meaningful to me and can be configured straightforwardly, but Akonadi is neither something I missed, nor it has an accessible configuration.
My definition matches the definition given in the Collins Dictionary.
I looked it up and found this:
pre-installed computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
collinsdictionary.com/dictiona…
Is there another dictionary named Collins that you read?
I did not choose to install Akonadi. It was preinstalled in Fedora KDE.
It looks like you choose a Linux based operating system that seems to includes a fairly complete stack of the KDE suit.
(I don't know much about Fedora)
I chose KDE for its extensive customization.
I bet that Fedora have a minimal version without a graphical stack, which would let you to only install the Plasma desktop environment and the parts of the KDE suit you find relevant for you.
And I'm sure that it's possible to strip down a current setup with Fedora and the KDE suit as well.
Maybe I'm too old /j, but by choosing a DE I'm choosing just a DE.
That's the issue here, you didn't choose just a desktop environment (Plasma Desktop) you choose a, more or less, complete suit of software (KDE). 😀
Computing pre-installed computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.www.collinsdictionary.com
It's just a helper. It's a way for your calendar to ask "uhhh... Should I already know of any calendars...?" and the service going "oh actually yeah, the user configured their email account, hold on, here's the corresponding calendar".
That's just basic functionality. Maybe what's tripping you up is that it's a separate service? Because I assume you have nothing against inputting your email into a mail client and a calendar separately.
If so, then for one, it's not really a difference if the mail app stores this into or the service does; and second, it's a good thing to have this standardized into a single purpose built service, rather than having each app reimplement this stuff.
CPU and RAM usage is so negligible it's laughable.
IDK.
It seems like you read something about personal data in the service description and just jumped to the conclusion that this is something nefarious.
I know what it is, that's why I'm so sure I don't need it for my tasks.
The disturbing thing is of course not the data storage itself, but its movement accross my system. I'm okay with having social media accounts, but I'm not okay with shit like TikTok (don't use it though, just an example) knowing each of my contacts from Signal or whatever, or the browser knowing what I've planned for August 16 at 04:40 PM in my calendar. I want user apps to minimally interchange any kind of data. Why would I ever use Linux if not to have control over this?
The CPU and RAM usage might be negligible, but only until there's only one or two services like this. And I don't think that a service, that I don't use at all in any way, should occupy any amount of my RAM.
You can try just tracking down Akonadi's executable and removing its executable mark or renaming it, which may, however, break other stuff (in particular, make sure you're not running kmail—it seems to be the most substantial program with a non-optional dependency). Or you can ditch KDE and move to a lighter DE that doesn't have this stuff (TDE, Mate, XFCE . . .)
There are two ways to spin up a Linux machine: you can either use a desktop-ready distribution that includes everything you need to use it right away (including some stuff you don't want), or you can start with the bare bones and build it up to usability. If you want to take the second philosophy to the extreme, Gentoo will let you turn off all optional features you don't want before they're even built.
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i am been using spectacle to take screenshots but in a way where i get the rectangle selection right away and afterwards the image gets immediately sent to the clipboard.
but since the last update to Kubuntu 26.04 LTS i am having trouble pasting the picture. it is there in the clipboard history, i can see it but it doesn't paste. i have to select another image from the history first and then the screenshot i just took again to be able to paste it. this behavior is only present with pictures, the clipboard functions normally with text.
is there a way to fix this?
edit: i just did some testing as i had the feeling it has something to do with the size of my selection. when i take only a smaller selection the pasting works without issues but if i use a larger selection it doesn't paste again without the workaround mentioned above. i use a 1440p display and smaller is maybe 1/10th of the screen and larger is maybe 1/4th of the screen.
Did you upgrade or is it a new install?
I thought upgrades weren't officially available until August.
I've generally heard 26.04 isn't doing too hot right now, and I always thought there wasn't an officially supported upgrade path until things are more stable in the new release, but maybe that's Ubuntu proper and not Kubuntu.
I haven't gotten a notice to upgrade, however. Also on Kubuntu 24.04.
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I am currently running Xubuntu on all my systems but there are so many things that feel rather unstable/buggy - I am sure it is not all Xubuntus/Xfce's fault, but my knowledge is limited so I just attribute it to that.
Therefore, I am currently considering switching to Fedora. I feel like it is time trying out a new desktop (KDE) and a more up to date kernel. I am not entirely sure what I am hoping from this post, but maybe a "yea, it is worth it" would ease my mind a bit.
Also, I am a bit unsure how to easily move between them (programs and data).
To name a few of the bugs I encountered in the past:
- When connecting screens, quite often the created profile is ignored, screens get disabled, overlapped, ... By applying the profile multiple times eventually you can overcome this issue
- Dell specific: Webcam does not work, system sometimes freezes after closing the laptop lid even if sleep mode is deactivated
- Certain shortcuts are bugged (WIN+Left works, WIN+Right doesn't. When you reset WIN+Right, it works until the next restart)
Fedora is pretty stable itself, but I have experienced some problems with KDE, for instance dolphin crashing on opening a directory attached by KDE Connect.
Keyboard shortcuts seem to work just fine, but they may be not configured the way you expect, so consider tweaking them in the settings, no difficulties here.
Also, keep in mind KDE is quite a heavy environment, it may feel slow after Xfce, even on a middle-end system. Personally, I would probably choose GNOME if I returned to the past moment of installing Fedora.
Fedora is based on Red Hat, you'll need time to get used to some minor differencies in contrast to Ubuntu, especially commands' syntax. You'll have to reinstall all needed programs, relogin your accounts and so on. I think you will generally be able to copy and paste some configs, but they may need a bit of adjustment.
While it is quite stable, Fedora still recieves updates really frequently, you should ask yourself if you really want to update every week or two.
If you use Xfce with X11, be ready to face Wayland's specifics with screen recording and working with monitors.
My conclusion: KDE is probably not an optimal choice, but switching to Fedora is worth it, if you are ready to spend a day or two getting known with it's specifics.
Fedora is solid. It’s as close to Debian as a fast update track distro can be in terms of stability.
It’s also obnoxious. Between SElinux, updates typically requiring reboots, cockpit being a sloppy feature incomplete mess, and things just taking longer to do on fedora than anything other distro, you might want to think twice.
It’s not bad, it just makes certain trades not everyone is happy with. It feels windowsy. You use fedora because there’s a reason you are using fedora. It’s not a default distro.
I you've got an old piece of hardware with nvidia hardware you know the pain. Nvidia stopped supporting 390 drivers back in 2022. Meaning that a few years later, as new kernels rolled in people will start being unable to install those drivers. Now in 2026 AFAIK there isn't any maintained distro that keeps supporting a kernel old enough to work with those drivers. So good bye old nvidia gpus.
People here had several paths:
1.- If you got iGPU you could use that, less performance, but usually still works.
2.- Use nouveau drivers. Nouveau it's not very performant now, with old hardware is even worse. This should be just the last resource as the experience would be miserable, my gpu even struggled with some desktop environments using nouveau, while igpu worked just fine.
3. Switch to windows. Windows usually keeps better retrocompatibility, and while the drivers are still unsuported, you can install them no problem in windows.
I decided to move to windows 10 ioT LTSC, with support until 2032. Because I had an old laptop that I still liked to use for some lightweight gaming. Nouveau was completely unable to perform good enough for any game. iGPU worked better, I was able to play some games, but still I was missing the extra performance the dGPU gave to me. So I, sadly, moved to Microsoft OS.
But lately I've been thinking, what if there were a solution? And keep looking deeper. And I found it. Te DKMS for the drivers could be patched to work with modern Linux Kernels. But it was DIY. There used to be some maintained projects and repos, but most are now archived.
The only thing I found still maintained is this AUR repo:
aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvi…
Great, some people managed to get it working! My day was saved! But.. it was AUR, which means Arch or derivatives. And I really didn't want to go that route. This laptop is just for media and playing, all through GUI from my couch, I don't want to be messing with the keyboard. And I knew that with Arch, specially using AUR patches that was unlikely to go smooth.
I had always use linux mint on this laptop and I was very happy, so I though. why no replicate whatever AUR is doing in linux mint? And I got to it. I installed mint, and lock the kernel to 6.8 (with support until 2029) and starting following the AUR to patch the nvidia drivers manually. But the kernel expected in arch is not exactly the same as is it's in Mint (which uses a Ubuntu kernel with backported security patches). So I hit a wall, it didn't work. Then is when I found the second most useful resource in this journey:
github.com/earldodd/nvidia-390…
A guide on how to manually patch the DKMS, specifically made for linux Mint. It didn't include any ready to go binaries or scripts, but it was very well explained. Following that I managed to make what I thought it was impossible. And I finally got to see my old laptop running the nvidia proprietary drivers again (I almost cried here).
So yes, it is possible. On linux forum most people said it was not possible. That it could not be done. But it is. And if you want to do it I found those two resources the better path to achieve it.
Now we arrive to the bitter end. I think while possible I won't finally keep this config, and I probably just keep windows 10 ltsc and after that loses support switch back to linux mint and just disable the dGPU. why? Because the process to patch the driver was painful, hard to replicate, fragile, and led to a lot of missconfigurations and broken things. I spent two full days on this. I don't want to do it again each time an update messes something up. Maybe in the future I would try to create some installation script once I figure it out who to fix all the secondary issues that emerged with this Frankenstein, but by that time probably kernel 6.8 would be discontinue and I would need to start again for the next Ubuntu LTS kernel, a little discouraging, but who knows.
I just wanted to share this penguin journey with all of you. And share those resources for anyone in need of them.
UPDATE: Finally I decided just ditch the gpu all together. Installed my old good reliable mint and blacklisted nouveau. A little lost in performance in some games, but I think it will be worth it.
Fix NVIDIA 390.157 DKMS build failures and Xorg crash on kernel 6.8 / Ubuntu 24.04 / Linux Mint 22 - earldodd/nvidia-390-kernel68-patchesGitHub
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When you're managing your own patches you need to upgrade very cautiously - if at all. And always keep a few older working kernels around.
For something like this I'd probably just pin the kenel at a specific version or compile the Kernel myself separately.
It's such a bear to run your own Frankenstein; I could never remember the customizations and I ended up having to rebuild every single time I did a apt-get upgrade.
But the experience pays off -- or at least it did for me -- I would be a factory worker or doing landscaping like my father, uncles, cousins and brother if I hadn't learned how to recompile the linux kernel.
an old piece of hardware
"old" does an incredible amount of heavy lifting here: nvidia390 is the one supporting 15 year old Fermi Cards. 😆
i said nothing about 2022?
my idea of "old" is when a card can't perform the tasks i want it to, not the arbitrary timeline in which the company decides to dump us.
I you’ve got an old piece of hardware with nvidia hardware you know the pain. Nvidia stopped supporting 390 drivers back in 2022.
That's literally the beginning the post setting the baseline for "old" here.
that's the main thing being criticized in this post.
we are criticizing their dropping support for a still useful card.
damn bro, chillout.
don't be mad in the name of nvidia of all corporations.
That's quite an odessy. I put MX Linux on my 13 year old dell laptop, and there was an option in the MX utilities app to install the NVIDIA 340 drivers for it, and it merged them into the 7.0.something kernel that I had in about 3 minutes.
This isn't meant as snark. Get settled into things for a few months with what you've got and then boot a few distros off USB and see if there's something that better suits you or your hardware. You'll have a good idea by then if what you really want/need.
I suggest to take a look at Gentoo. Gentoo doesn't need/use DKMS, it just recompiles modules after a kernel update as a part of regular package management. You can mask arbitrary package versions or version ranges to reliably stay on an older kernel, driver version (for example on my desktop I currently mask >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-590, meaning "give me the newest 580 version"). I think all version lines that Nvidia updates still get package updates on Gentoo, including 390. And if you need some really old stuff it's easy to roll your own repo (overlay) and keep discontinued versions/packages around for however long you need them. And once set up, this is essentially maintenance free, and if it does require intervention, you'll likely get notified directly through the package manager before something breaks, either via a news item or an error during dependency resolution.
PS: And in case you're wondering, it's possible to run Gentoo entirely without compiling, or with only compiling packages selectively when you want to change the default flags.
PPS: Oh and maintaining custom patches (as long as they apply cleanly) is as easy as dropping them into a specific subdirectory of /etc/portage/patches and rebuilding the package.
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Hello good people.Is no one afraid of Bazzites auto updating nature?
I am myself worried about the potential for well timed supply chain attacks from wherever they build their OS images, which somehow build malicious images or just gets itself into the normal image builds and we auto update to.
Is this an unfounded worry? Does anyone know of the security measures in place to prevent attacks?
Auto update just feels weird to me, especially for something like my OS. I'm asking because I went and installed it and realised auto updating seems to be their philosophy... which is scary?
p.s. i couldnt find anyone online discussing this
Thonks
This is a fair question to ask given recent events.
I don't run Fedora currently, so others could probably give a much more exact answer, but from what I understand of it:
Bazzite is built on top of Fedora with uBlue.
To compromise one of the packages, the attacker would have to bypass the Fedora enterprise team who are rage filled roid-driven experts who don't take kindly to that sort of thing.
They heavily secure their stuff.
Even if an attack was successful, it would have little lasting effect because of immutability and having access to easy rollbacks.
It's not impossible (like somehow stealing Bazzite's keys), but it's incredibly unlikely.
AUR/NPM package sketchiness is not anywhere on the same level as compromising Fedora's keys.
Add your own, if you dare. Linux is an operating system.
The popularity of NixOS is based on sunk-cost fallacy as a result of learning Nix.
I use NixOS, btw.
Nano > Vim/Emacs
My two brain cells are happy with a program that doesn’t take a degree to operate when I just need to ~~break~~ edit my fstab or some config files
Agree
Agree
Agree
Don't know, I haven't tried them all
I suppose it's safer, but being old fashioned, I prefer C
use what you like and fits your needs.
Flathub is crap
Snap is double crap
Docker would be useful if the networking wasn't triple crap
Adding:
* All Unix style shells suck, and the shell should not be based on human readable text, but on serializable objects like in powershell
* The kernel should support windows style acls
Find me a guy with a master's degree in jazz guitar writing music on Vim & I'll agree on the emacs point...
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Excellent bait
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CLI is better than GUI
Keyboard is better than mouse (and don't even mention touch interfaces)
Run your main computer headless and SSH in from a thin client
(Not my actual opinions, don't SWAT me)
Hello all.
I have been lurking on lemmy.ml for a while and learning about the fediverse and recently decided to jump in. I wanted to come here to share my story on switching to linux, effectively switching my mindset in the process.
TL;DR:
Around october 2025 I was going to update a system to windows 11 and opened a can of worms regarding the privacy eroding, invasive nature of it. Freaked me out for a while thanks to big techs horrible recommendation systems only making this worse but gradually learnt to escape its grasp. Learnt linux was the answer, learnt to research, aiding in escaping big techs control over me. Went with linux mint with full disk encryption, migrated to open source cross platform software on windows 10 to prepare, migrated my data. I am 90% of the way there and could not be happier with the results. Now all that remains is to convince friends and family members of the need to switch and to be confident enough in my capabilities to help. Oh, and I am a privacy advocate now.
I have recently made the switch from windows 10 to linux mint. It was around the time windows 10 support ended in october 2025 that I started looking into things.
I was looking to upgrade to windows 11 on an old system and began researching how to upgrade to windows 11 with a system that did not meet the required spec (inc tpm, cpu etc). Then I opened a can of worms. I started to learn about the privacy eroding, invasive nature of windows 11. I’ll be honest it freaked me out for a while. I struggled with it deeply. I could not believe how invasive windows had become in this new os. Youtube videos were freaking me out on this subject (thanks youtube recommendation system), and like I said, it really messed with my head.
I’d like to say at this point my journey, over time, my research led me outside of big techs grasp and I began to take back control of the content I consumed rather than being fed negative swill that kept me coming back for more out of terror. In hindsight, a terrible, addictive, negative habit that I formed. They damn well know what they are doing, to prey on the vulnerable just to make more money and I was victim to it.
Anyway, I started to learn about how linux was the way out of this thanks in part to the content creator odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0. His videos did scare me at the time but they were also very helpful and informative. I finally found a good, reputable, reliable source of information whose aim was to help you regain your digital freedom. He was there to guide you from his own experience, especially his earlier videos discussing why you should consider switching. I highly recommend his content for those facing this situation and are looking for guidance. Switchedtolinux if you are reading this, thank you, you are a credit to society.
His recommendation was linux mint, so off I went to do some research. Again, at the start I was in the big tech bubble so there was much fear mongering, but I learnt over time to escape this, mainly fuelled to help maintain sanity as most content was negative screaming about how every inch of privacy will be lost, not in a decade, not in a year, nor month nor week but tomorrow. I’m sure you know the type of content.
But I eventually maintained composure and continued to look into linux mint. The more I read and watched the more appealing it became. I started to learn about open source, free as in freedom and the more I learnt the more I realised I had found something quite special. A digital life designed by the people for the people. I realised it was quite beautiful and wanted to be part of it.
It was around this time, due to the research, I started to exist outside of big techs control and started to research and control the content I was consuming. I went back to big tech to consume content such as youtube, but I had specifically done my research and come to the conclusion that I wanted to consume the content instead of just being fed it.
I decided to buy a new desktop computer however during that time I was unfortunately still under big techs influence, it was done in haste as it was around the time component prices started going through the roof and all the content was “buy it now before you can no longer afford to”, it was unknown how high the prices were going to go and what component was next. In hindsight more research should have been done to ensure linux compatibility but at the time I was freaked out with windows 11 et all and pressured by component prices going to unknown heights. Thankfully I did enough research to get an AMD gpu over NVIDIA. Very glad I figured out that much at the time. I am ashamed to say it but it was the result of a hasty AI query, but I am glad I knew enough to pose the question.
So, I got the new computer and because I’d had no experience of linux I wanted to test the components so installed windows 10 but kept it offline along with disabling TPM in the bios as I had learnt about how microsoft were using that as a unique identifier if ever it were to go online. I used my existing windows 10 system for drivers and stress testing software etc to transfer over. I eventually settled on OCCT and hwinfo for stress testing the system which I did for several hours at a time along with h2testw for testing storage. Also ran memtest86+ overnight a few times. All looked good so, time for linux.
I grabbed the latest version of linux mint cinnamon 22.3 , verified its checksum and got it installed. Everything just worked out of the box, colour me impressed. The first thing I did now as I was very much becoming privacy conscious was to install protonvpn. I did not know exactly what I was doing in the terminal but the instructions were coming from a trusted source, proton themselves, so I paid attention, followed the instructions to the letter and it all sprang into life. There were specific instructions not to install the system tray app on mint as it would install the entire gnome desktop environment. I knew enough about linux to know that this would be a bad thing for a beginner. However I was pleased to see that whist avoiding that installation step, I still got a tray icon.
So with protonvpn installed I was online and ready to go. I had researched open source disk imaging tools and settled on rescuezilla as I wanted an option to revert if I did something catastrophic that I did not know how to undo. This was a completely foreign OS and wanted to take precautions. At an early point I tested a system image backup and restore and it worked perfectly, even with full disk encryption. One issue was that the screen would go black during the backup process. I thought there was a hardware fault but it turned out it was just a power saving feature but it sometimes would not come back when jostling the mouse. I think I worked around this by booting rescuzilla in basic graphics mode which prevented the screen going black. I cannot be absolutely sure of this but I think that did the trick. It was a shame there was not an option to disable this power saving feature in the software that I could find but there we are.
I should mention that whilst learning about open source and my desire to move to linux I started switching to open source cross platform applications whilst still on windows to make the transition easier. Some of which I was already using, firefox (eventually to librewolf), joplin, keepassxc, libreoffice, freefilesync, virtualbox, vlc, veracrypt to name the main few. I should mention I did test linux mint in a virtualbox vm under windows 10 just to see what I was getting into before installing.
When I had the basics, an internet connection and a browser, I began actually using the linux computer. I was so pleased everything was just working. I started to spend more and more time on the linux system, and I know it may sound silly, I still did not trust it with credentials. But the more I learnt with research and the more I got things working, the more I came to trust it and started logging in to things. It took a while before I even opened my password database on it.
My data had not even come over at this point, I was still testing the waters. Is this something I could really trust? But over about a month linux mint earnt that trust and this is when after years of using macrium reflect for a one button blind faith backup I decided to use freefilesync to migrate data to the linux system and maintain a linux system backup. I spent a long time noting down every location my data could be on the windows system including appdata, portable apps, default user data folders, program files, different drives and other obscure locations. I still want to do a full system image with macrium at some point, not incremental but full, on two separate backup drives just in case I missed anything. I plan to wipe the windows computer completely. I’ll probably re-install with windows 10 iot ltsc as I’d like to have a windows system around still but the main thing is to get my data off of it going forwards, not just deleting it but a full re-install so there is not even a reference. The fact I used minecraft with a microsoft account I wonder if that and my data could ever be linked. Never has the OS been signed into microsoft account but I’d not put it past them to say “hey, you used minecraft with this micorosft account so we’ve logged your OS in and uploaded all your files to the cloud”. This is why I was switching to linux, I wanted control over my computer and its data. I do not want it uploaded to your cloud where any tom, dick and harry can nose around and have your AI systems use it for training. Hell, it seems that data does not even need to be in their cloud for this to occur now. No thank you.
Now, I had started to take data security seriously and contemplated what would happen if my equipment was stolen. During the mint setup I configured full disk encryption, very easy to setup and worked well. The only option was to use KVM which to be honest it is still something I need to research more, ext4 fair enough but this KVM thing sounds more intimidating. But it worked. I also booted into a linux mint live usb and verified I could access my data on from the full disk encryption system which I could, a big relief as it was something I was so unfamiliar with and wondered how I could get at my data if the system no longer booted after a kernal update or something. I was being cautious.
I used veracrypt for the backup drives, thankfully I have had experience with this software before and it was my first experience of an appimage (that I was very careful about running), I knew to verify checksums and found the gui tool gtkhash very useful for this but gpg was new to me (still is really) and required terminal work. But the main thing was knowing to verify that I downloaded from the official domain, like with windows. Once I learnt how to make it executable it was off, the gui was a little bugged and took a bit of a long time to dismount after a backup but later versions fixed that. Also, when playing around with appimages I learnt how to make them run in portable mode as this is something I like from windows using this documentation: docs.appimage.org/user-guide/p…
I was getting well underway and using the linux system more and more. I have yet to log into sites that use payment systems switching back to the windows system for this as I have been quite nervous about this part. No anti-virus, going off of only that I had done things correctly based on the research I had done and not contracted anything in the process. I think it is sensible until I am sure I have done everything in the correct manner, others may disagree. But this is a completely foreign system to me, it is taking a while to earn my trust, but it is most certainly coming slowly over time. It is not too far off now I think.
I have yet to get into gaming as I want to limit closed source applications on this system. The only closed source application I think I have run on here thus far was OCCT. I think it had some telemetry but this was literally one of my first experiences with software after installing mint as I wanted to check hardware stability under linux and for me, it was the only option at the time as I was familiar with it from testing in windows and GUI stress testing applications appeared to be more complicated than just firing up OCCT and I wanted to test my hardware under linux as soon as possible. In hindsight, I could have handled this better but there we are.
Steam has closed sourced components, as do games. This is something I plan to learn more about. For now I dabbled with hedgewars and luanti to test some open source games for system stability.
So I am in the position now where apart from online payment systems and gaming, I am fully migrated over and loving every minute of it. Just getting everything setup so I can use it for 90% of what I need at the moment, even down to rhythmbox handling my music, adjusting the GUI to my needs. Tweaking things to my liking within the main confines of mint and the cinnamon desktop environment but at the moment that is more than enough. Also, finally having some freedom, true freedom. I am almost free of windows, I’ll not be completely satisfied until I wipe the old windows 10 system along with my data on it in the process to fully get it out of microsofts reach. Yes windows 10 iot ltsc will likely go on but my data will not.
However, with the new encryption systems at play on linux it is taking a little getting used to in order to fully trust them from a reliability standpoint but I am getting there the more times I actually use the full disk encryption and veracrypt for backups. Trusting the encryption software to always work when I present the password, reliably. It is taking some getting used to the fact that I’ll never be able to access that data if the password is forgotten. But at least I am in control and not having windows 11 lock the system drive after a bad update and find I have no recourse. I know the passwords here, it is under my control as to how I remember those. No surprises.
I hope to learn more leveraging this platform to ask for help on the newer more complicated stuff that I struggle to understand with just research alone. Something I have not done thus far, just taught myself everything. I’m not really a very social person so even online I struggle with this, but lemmy.ml looks like a good, caring community that shares my values and I think I will be happy to be a part of.
I hope to be able to convince friends and family that moving to linux is something they should seriously consider. I have a multitude of reasons and am already finding much resistance because windows works for them and they do not care enough about privacy and/or do not really understand that their privacy is at risk and the implications / future ramifications of that. I am being called paranoid etc and and am at a bit of a loss as to how to help convince the majority of them.
For those that want to make the switch I hope to learn enough to be able to aid them in the transition but at the same time do not want the responsibility of being blamed if something goes wrong or does not work as expected. For example I plan to help with locating their data and how to make backups following the 3-2-1 rule but make it unmistakeably clear it is their responsibility. If they loose anything / forget some data it is on them. I must make this so very clear.
So, to end on a high note I am so thankful the open source community exists, it is truly a beautiful thing, a system built by the people, for the people. One day I hope to contribute however that may be, and I think it will simply be in helping others transition and use the software as I learn how to do so myself.
This is my first post on lemmy.ml, my first post on the fediverse. I thought I’d detail my experience not only of switching to linux but a switch in the way I think now. Woken up to the sobering truth of that state of things. I am now, most certainly, a privacy advocate.
Thanks for taking the time to read. I hope it was informative, maybe helpful to others, and I look forward to your responses.
Switched to Linux is dedicated to helping people make the switch to a Linux based desktop system and get real work done. Our site author has experience in Windows, Linux, and Mac computers and he use...Odysee
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You are welcome. During my research I found longer write ups to be more helpful and informative so decided to do the same thing. It seems as though win10 is going to now be supported until oct 2027 under the esu program so there is still time to transition whilst receiving security updates on win10.
I have had a good experience, for me, it helps to bring peace of mind and control, it just involves some effort, planning and research.
I wish you well on your journey.
What is your primary reason for switching to linux?
Thank you for the advice.
Until I learn more about exactly what sort of telemetry steam uses I will be avoiding it. Differences between installation methods is definitely something I need to learn more about. For example fsearch I have installed as a flatpak but it does not know what to launch found files with and I have to select what to launch with each time. This is due to flatpak not being able to see what software I have installed I think.
This tells me that the default steam installation could, which I am not keen on. Who knows what else because I am not that knowledgable on it yet.
I think GOG may be a better option for now, also everything is DRM free. But I have not used them before so again, another thing to research.
A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3 - cboxdoerfer/fsearchGitHub
Thanks for the write up these are always good to read.
As for convincing people for the first few months on linux its best to not proselytizing to much. Once you understand the pros and cons better then proselytizing is fine. I personally find it most effective to never tell someone they should switch or make them feel bad for not using linux. I just talk about linux positively and my own experiences with it and naturally people are like oh that sounds pretty cool. I usually dont hand hold either if they want to switch I straight up say there will be software you cant run and you will have to learn how to use it. I tell them some of their games wont work and point them to protondb. They are always pleasantly surprised at how many games work. I think the privacy argument is not at all convincing for most people they just dont value it at all. the best argument I've found is that Linux is efficient and quick, it gets out of your way and there are cool features that the other operating systems dont have.
I cringe so hard when I see people advertise linux as faster than windows, just works no issue completely easy transition because i know linux and I know something weird will break and shatter the illusion and they will feel extra bad because all they know about linux was that it was a super good just works experience. So I act like there will be minor issues and then they can be surprised if there is none and ready if there are some.
You are welcome.
Thank you for the helpful and informative reply. I think I will take a step back and just use linux for me. Like you say, take some time to get used to it and learn more about it. Also, take a break from trying to inform others of what is really going on with big tech. To be honest I am getting tired of being ostracised over all this. I want to help them see but it is clear they just cling to their existing beliefs. Even though when something goes wrong with their computer they come to me. This is something else I plan to take a step back on.
You are right on the privacy point, I once did not care either so I understand the mentality. But that was a long time ago. It is only now I have decided to do something more drastic about it as I have began to see where it is all headed and wanted out. Linux is just a part of that but it is one of the more drastic efforts for me to implement.
In my opinion, every OS has their pros and cons, and they all break in one way or another from time to time. I am under no illusion that linux is a magic OS that just works. I have fixed enough computer problems to know things go wrong. Hence the precautions I have made in the switch. I know much of the time it is user error so I have taken steps to have recovery options if I do something wrong or something unexpected happens. I plan to created virtual machines to tinker with rather than the installation I am running on.
I think your way of thinking about things is very sound and I shall be taking your advice to heart.
Thank you.
Welcome to the party, buddy. Lovely post also.
I have migrated a family member PC to Mint because their Windows install was botched and it will need a new license, as an emergency to let they have some office work done in meanwhile. They feel accommodated pretty instantly and, while going back to Windows will be always in the back of the mind, the familiarity with Mint's work flow enables them to not feel pressured to do it.
Thank you, and thanks for the welcome.
Good to hear you have got a family member on board. I think the world needs more average users to embrace the open source world.
I came to understand the philosophy and the kind of user, and specially workflow, most desktop environments try to appeal
however, I don’t fully understand Budgie, have you used it? what can you tell me about it?
I do know, that the open nature of GNU/Linux makes not everything having to “fill a gap”, there can be more than one project with similar goals and that’s okay
I just want to know it better
I used budgie quite some time ago, probably 8 years ago or so. I had an older, low power laptop at the time and budgie worked well on it. It was gnome-adjacent, and I like gnome, so I used it until the lappy died.
Hope that helps.
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I think Budgie is meant for Windows 10 fans. Raven sidebar looks like action center in Windows 10.
I am sorry if my English is bad.
Heya 😁\
So i finally figured out how to install Custom Cursors and decided to install this one 😛\
xfce-look.org/p/2347781
Sadly it only works with certain Applications like Firefox and such but for example uses the Stock Cursor on KeePassXC and STeam as well as some Video Games 🙁\
Does anyone by CHance have an Idea how to fix it? 
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Or should i just try rebooting my Machine after applying the Cursor? >.>
Im on ARch Linux with Latest XFCE4 if that matters 😛\
Also Anyone got a Nyan Cat Cursor for Linux? >.>\
Wouldve loved tp use this one but Cursors arent simple PNG Files you just apply to a Cursor it seems 🙁\
cursors-4u.com/cursor/animated…
Bring this legendary internet meme to life with an Animated Rainbow Nyan Cat cursor for Windows. Watch the cute pop-tart kitty soar with a vibrant trail.Cursors-4U
@Omer Ori wrote in a DM to the forum:
Hi,
I'm new to Friendica, and since I'm writing mostly in Hebrew, I wonder if the software can support Right-to-Left text directionality. Is that something that can be implemented on the server side? or even the user side? is there some kind of plugin or whatever?
Thanks,
Omer
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Ooh! Ooooh! Me me me! Me! I am dying of death!
At least when you're cold you can pop another layer on, but when it's too hot and you took all your clothes off, what's next? Taking your skin off? Huh? I vote against.
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but when it’s too hot and you took all your clothes off, what’s next?
Mining operations in Peru’s Cajamarca region face increasingly complex ore conditions, requiring flexible crushing solutions that can handle both oxidized ore and hard rock efficiently. In this context, the mobile stone crusher plant has become a key solution for improving on-site processing adaptability while reducing material handling costs. The recent introduction of a modular main unit upgrade further enhances operational stability and throughput consistency.
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The Cajamarca gold mine case demonstrates how modular crushing systems are evolving to meet dual demands: processing oxidized ore efficiently while maintaining the capacity to handle hard rock formations.
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The system works in coordination with auxiliary equipment such as the pebble crusher, which processes medium-sized rock fragments, ensuring consistent particle size distribution for downstream processing. In addition, a debris crusher is used to handle waste materials and overburden, reducing site congestion and improving material recovery efficiency.
One of the key advantages of this mobile stone crusher plant configuration is its modular design. Additional crushing or screening units can be integrated without redesigning the entire system, allowing the mine to scale operations based on production demand.
Field implementation in Cajamarca demonstrates how modular systems improve both efficiency and operational stability.
The upgraded system maintains consistent output even when switching between oxidized ore and hard rock. This is achieved through adjustable crusher settings and real-time feed monitoring. The pebble crusher plays an essential role in maintaining balanced material flow, preventing bottlenecks in the secondary crushing stage.
Compared to traditional fixed installations, the mobile stone crusher plant significantly reduces downtime during maintenance cycles. Modular components can be replaced or serviced independently without shutting down the entire system.
The inclusion of a debris crusher(trituradora de escombros) allows efficient processing of non-valuable material, improving site cleanliness and reducing hauling costs. This contributes to more sustainable mining operations overall.
Selecting the right configuration is essential for maximizing performance in mixed ore environments like Cajamarca.
The primary mobile stone crusher plant handles initial size reduction, while secondary systems such as the pebble crusher refine material to the required specification.
A debris crusher ensures that non-ore material is processed separately, preventing contamination of valuable ore streams and improving overall recovery efficiency.
Modern modular plants include intelligent control systems that automatically adjust crusher parameters based on feed conditions. This is particularly useful in environments where ore composition changes frequently.
The Cajamarca project highlights several key advantages of mobile crushing technology in gold mining operations.
A mobile stone crusher plant can be relocated as mining zones shift, reducing transportation distance and improving extraction efficiency.
As production requirements increase, additional modules can be added, including advanced pebble crusher units or expanded screening systems.
Modular systems reduce the need for extensive civil engineering work, lowering upfront investment while maintaining high production capability.
The real-world application of modular crushing technology in Cajamarca provides valuable insights for similar mining projects.
Effective integration between the mobile stone crusher plant, pebble crusher, and debris crusher ensures smooth material flow and reduces operational interruptions.
Mining operations in variable geology require systems that can adapt quickly. Modular design ensures that equipment configuration can evolve alongside changing ore conditions.
The Cajamarca gold mine case demonstrates that modern mining efficiency depends not only on raw crushing power but also on adaptability and system integration. The mobile stone crusher plant, combined with specialized equipment such as the pebble crusher and debris crusher, creates a flexible processing ecosystem capable of handling complex ore conditions.
As mining operations continue to expand into more geologically diverse regions, modular systems will play an increasingly important role in ensuring consistent production, reducing operational risk, and maximizing resource recovery efficiency.
Trituradora de piedra de río se utiliza generalmente para hacer agregado de construcción. AIMIX puede ofrece las máquinas de alta caldidad.AimixTrituradora (AIMIX Trituradora De Piedra)
Malaysia's construction sector is advancing at a pace that demands precision, volume, and unwavering consistency. From the gleaming corridors of Kuala Lumpur's expanding transit network to the sprawling industrial parks taking shape across Selangor and Johor, the appetite for high-performance concrete has never been more acute. Meeting that appetite requires more than raw material availability — it demands a production infrastructure capable of sustaining output at scale, without sacrificing mix integrity or schedule adherence. Stationary concrete batching plants have become the backbone of this capability, quietly powering some of the most ambitious construction programs the country has ever undertaken.
For project managers, civil engineers, and infrastructure developers operating under demanding delivery timelines, the question is rarely whether concrete is available — it is whether the right concrete can be delivered in sufficient volume, at the right moment, without compromise. Stationary plants answer that question with a resoluteness that mobile or transit-mixed alternatives simply cannot replicate at equivalent scale. Understanding how these installations function, and why they are so well-suited to Malaysia's high-volume construction environment, is essential knowledge for any stakeholder navigating the country's infrastructure growth trajectory.
Malaysia's infrastructure pipeline is formidable. The ongoing expansion of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit system, the development of the Pan Borneo Highway across Sabah and Sarawak, and a succession of large-scale industrial zone developments collectively represent an extraordinary demand for structural concrete. These are not projects that can tolerate supply intermittency. A single delayed concrete pour on a bridge deck or tunnel lining can cascade into multi-day program disruptions, idling crews, straining contract timelines, and generating liquidated damages exposure that erodes project margins with alarming speed.
The concrete intensity of such projects is staggering. Major viaduct segments may require continuous pours exceeding several hundred cubic meters, executed within specific meteorological windows to manage thermal gradients in mass concrete placements. High-rise foundation rafts in Kuala Lumpur's dense urban core demand uninterrupted overnight pours coordinated across multiple mixer trucks simultaneously. These operational realities make a compelling case for production infrastructure that prioritizes throughput capacity and supply continuity above all other variables.
Beyond volume, consistency is the critical parameter. Structural concrete specifications on Malaysian infrastructure projects frequently reference stringent compressive strength classes — C35/45 and above — alongside durability requirements addressing chloride penetration resistance, sulfate exposure, and alkali-silica reactivity. Meeting these specifications batch after batch, across thousands of cubic meters of production, is a non-trivial achievement. Variability in water-cement ratios, aggregate gradation, or admixture dosing introduces inconsistencies that manifest as strength deficiencies, surface defects, or premature deterioration — outcomes with serious structural and contractual consequences.
Stationary batching plants, with their gravimetric proportioning systems, automated admixture dispensers, and integrated moisture compensation technology, are purpose-engineered to eliminate this variability. Each batch is produced to a tolerance that manual or semi-automated systems cannot reliably sustain across extended production runs. For projects where concrete quality is a non-negotiable contractual obligation, this precision is not merely advantageous — it is indispensable.
Modern stationary concrete batching plant in Malaysia deployed on Malaysian infrastructure projects typically operate twin-shaft compulsory mixers — a mixer configuration renowned for its homogenization efficiency and short cycle times. Where a conventional drum mixer may require 90 seconds or more to achieve uniform blending, a twin-shaft mixer produces a consistent, thoroughly homogenized batch in 30 to 45 seconds. Multiplied across hundreds of daily production cycles, this cycle time advantage translates directly into meaningful throughput gains.
Aggregate storage configurations on large stationary plants accommodate multiple material classifications simultaneously — typically four to six aggregate bins housing coarse crushed granite, fine aggregate, and specialty materials such as manufactured sand or lightweight aggregates for specific mix designs. Cement storage silos, often arranged in multiples to accommodate Portland cement, ground granulated blast-furnace slag, and fly ash concurrently, enable rapid mix design switching without production interruption. This configurational flexibility is particularly valuable on complex projects requiring multiple concrete grades across different structural elements.
The contemporary stationary plant is as much a data system as it is a mechanical installation. Supervisory control software logs every batch parameter — aggregate weights, cement quantities, water additions, admixture volumes, mixer cycle duration, and discharge time — creating an immutable production record that supports quality assurance audits and structural warranty documentation. In Malaysia's increasingly compliance-conscious construction environment, where the Construction Industry Development Board enforces rigorous material certification requirements, this traceability infrastructure is of considerable practical value.
Remote monitoring capabilities extend this oversight further. Plant managers and quality control personnel can review production data in real time from site offices or remote locations, flagging anomalies before they propagate across multiple batches. Automated alarm systems trigger alerts when constituent material weights deviate beyond permissible tolerances, intercepting quality departures at the earliest possible stage. This level of process control was simply unattainable with earlier plant generations and represents a qualitative advancement in concrete production governance.
Positioning a stationary plant effectively within a Malaysian construction site requires careful logistical choreography. Truck mixer routing, aggregate delivery access, cement tanker discharge points, and plant maintenance clearances must be resolved coherently within the site layout to prevent operational bottlenecks. On congested urban sites — common in Kuala Lumpur's central business district developments — space constraints demand compact plant configurations that preserve truck circulation without compromising production throughput.
Proximity to pour locations minimizes transit time and reduces the risk of slump loss during delivery, particularly critical in Malaysia's equatorial climate where ambient temperatures routinely exceed 33 degrees Celsius and accelerate cement hydration. Plants positioned optimally within site boundaries can support delivery cycles of under 20 minutes door-to-door, maintaining fresh concrete workability across even the most demanding continuous pour schedules.
The capital commitment associated with establishing a dedicated stationary ready mix plant on a project site is substantial. Equipment procurement or lease, civil foundation works, electrical infrastructure, and commissioning represent a significant upfront expenditure that demands rigorous financial justification. For projects below a threshold volume — typically estimated at 50,000 cubic meters over the project duration — the economics of dedicated plant ownership may not close convincingly against procurement from an established commercial ready-mix supplier.
Above that threshold, however, the calculus shifts decisively. The per-cubic-meter cost of self-produced concrete from a stationary plant consistently undercuts commercial ready-mix pricing once fixed costs are amortized across sufficient volume. Supply chain autonomy eliminates the premium volatility associated with commercial supplier capacity constraints during peak demand periods — a real and recurring phenomenon in Malaysia's construction-dense urban corridors. Schedule certainty, the most difficult value to quantify and the most costly to forfeit, becomes an owned asset rather than a purchased service. For the project developer navigating a tight contractual timeline in Malaysia's demanding infrastructure environment, that distinction carries consequences measured not in percentage points, but in project outcomes.
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Company closure is an inevitable part of the business landscape. Not every enterprise achieves lasting success. Some founders accomplish their initial objectives and choose to exit gracefully. Others face market disruptions that make continuation unviable.
In Singapore, the appropriate closure route depends entirely on the financial condition of your company. A business with no outstanding obligations and insignificant assets can be dissolved through a streamlined administrative process. A business with valuable holdings or unpaid creditor claims must undergo a formal statutory procedure.
Two main options exist for dissolving a registered entity: striking off and voluntary winding up. Each is suited to different circumstances. The following sections provide a comprehensive overview of both processes.
Striking off is the administrative mechanism for closing a company that has ceased operations. It represents the most time-efficient and budget-friendly approach. You are essentially petitioning ACRA to remove your company's name from the official register because the entity is no longer conducting business.
You file your application with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA). When the authority grants approval, the company ceases to exist as a legal entity.
Qualification requires meeting several conditions. Your company must be dormant. You must have no unresolved tax liabilities with IRAS. The company must hold no remaining assets. There must be no unpaid debts and no pending legal proceedings. Additionally, the majority of your directors must consent to the striking-off application.
This route appeals to founders whose companies were incorporated but never began operating. It also suits businesses that have already liquidated inventory, closed bank accounts, and completed all operational wind-downs.
The filing procedure is uncomplicated. You submit the required documents to ACRA. Once approved, ACRA posts a notice in the Gazette. A one-month window allows creditors to object. If no objections arise, ACRA issues a final notice, and dissolution is complete. This typically takes three to five months.
Voluntary winding up is a formal legal dissolution. You resort to this when your company retains assets or liabilities. This is not merely administrative; it entails a full statutory liquidation.
This path requires appointing a licensed liquidator. The liquidator takes charge of the company. Their role includes collecting outstanding debts, selling company assets, and using the proceeds to repay creditors. Any surplus remaining after creditor settlements goes to shareholders.
This category includes two variations: members' voluntary winding up and creditors' voluntary winding up.
Members' voluntary winding up applies to solvent companies. The business must be able to pay all debts within 12 months. Directors must sign a formal solvency declaration. This is frequently used when owners retire or when shareholders of a successful enterprise wish to distribute surplus capital.
Creditors' voluntary winding up applies to insolvent companies. The business cannot meet its financial commitments. In such cases, creditors exercise significant influence. They select the liquidator, whose primary duty is maximising recoveries for those owed money.
Voluntary winding up requires considerably more time than striking off. The process often extends beyond one year. Costs are also higher, reflecting liquidator fees and legal expenses.
Choosing between striking off and winding up comes down to a straightforward financial evaluation.
Begin with your assets. If your company owns real estate, holds substantial cash, or possesses intellectual property, striking off is not permitted. ACRA will decline your application. You must proceed with winding up, enabling a liquidator to realise those assets and distribute funds properly.
Next, consider your debts. Outstanding amounts to suppliers, banks, or landlords disqualify you from striking off. Winding up ensures creditors are paid according to legal requirements. Trying to strike off with hidden debts invites objections from creditors. They may even apply to court to restore the company later, leading to serious legal consequences.
Finally, review your tax position. Even with no assets and no debts, ACRA will not approve striking off if you have unfiled returns or unpaid taxes. You must resolve all IRAS matters beforehand.
If you meet all criteria, striking off is a straightforward exercise.
First, secure a board resolution. Directors must formally record their agreement to close.
Second, obtain clearance from IRAS. This confirms that no tax obligations remain outstanding.
Third, after receiving IRAS clearance, submit your striking-off application to ACRA. The authority reviews the submission. If everything is in order, they issue a notice to your registered address and publish a Gazette notification.
A one-month waiting period follows. Creditors have this final opportunity to raise objections. If no objections are lodged, ACRA publishes the final Gazette notice. The company is officially dissolved at that point.
Voluntary winding up requires a more elaborate set of steps.
For a members' winding up, directors must first sign a solvency declaration. This document must be filed with ACRA within five days.
Next, convene a general meeting of shareholders. The shareholders must pass a special resolution authorising the winding up and appointing a liquidator. You must publish a Gazette notice of this resolution within seven days.
The liquidator then assumes full managerial authority. They notify all relevant parties, take custody of assets, and begin settling debts. Directors lose all decision-making power once the liquidator is appointed.
Finally, the liquidator organises final meetings with shareholders and creditors. They submit a final return to ACRA. Upon filing, the company is formally dissolved.
Incorrect closure procedures can create serious liabilities. Mistakes in documentation or omitted statutory steps can expose directors to personal liability and regulatory penalties.
This is why professional assistance is highly recommended. Every Singapore company must maintain a company secretary. When closure is being considered, your company secretary should be your primary contact.
They possess detailed knowledge of your corporate records. They can identify overdue annual returns or unresolved tax issues. They can advise immediately on whether striking off is viable or whether winding up is compulsory.
If you opt for striking off, your company secretary will handle the ACRA filings. They will coordinate with your accountant to obtain the IRAS clearance. They will prepare the board resolutions and verify all internal records are current before final submission.
If winding up is required, the process becomes more demanding. You will likely need external corporate secretarial services Singapore to manage the legal requirements. These professionals can assist with drafting solvency declarations, organising shareholder meetings, preparing special resolutions, and managing Gazette publications. They act as a central coordination point, ensuring smooth communication between directors, accountants, the liquidator, and regulatory authorities. Their involvement helps ensure every procedural step is completed correctly before the company closes.
Closing a business is a normal commercial decision. It does not signify failure. The chosen method, however, has important implications.
If your company is dormant, has no assets, and has no debt, striking off is the best option. It is fast, affordable, and efficient.
If your company still owns assets or owes money, voluntary winding up is the only proper course. Though longer and more costly, it protects you from liability and ensures creditors are treated fairly.
Do not navigate this process alone. Engage professionals with expertise in corporate secretarial services. They will guide you through the regulatory requirements and help you fulfil every obligation. Closing your business correctly provides a clean foundation for your future endeavours.
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A 16-year-old boy has been found not guilty of the murder and manslaughter of Aria Thorpe, nine, who was found with a knife wound to her chest at her home in Weston-super-MareTim Hanlon (Daily Mirror)
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In the modern construction industry, efficiency and financial planning go hand in hand. Investing in a concrete plant is a landmark decision for any construction contractor, infrastructure developer, or commercial ready-mix supplier. However, navigating the market can be overwhelming due to the massive variation in upfront quotes. If you are asking yourself which specific element commands the highest premium and shifts the financial scale the most, you are not alone. Understanding the mechanics behind a concrete plant(planta de concreto) price requires looking beyond the basic machinery to evaluate the engineering, capacity, and operational configurations that define these industrial assets.
While components like twin-shaft mixers, aggregate batchers, and automation software all carry distinct price tags, one overarching factor dictates the ultimate expenditure: the production capacity combined with the configuration type. Let us dive deep into how these core elements shape your initial investment and long-term operational expenditures.
The volume of concrete a factory can output per hour is the primary metric manufacturers use to categorize their equipment. It represents the scale of engineering, raw material thickness, and component heavy-dutiness required to sustain continuous operations.
A plant designed to produce 25 cubic meters per hour requires substantially less steel, smaller electric motors, and more compact storage silos than a high-output commercial setup producing 180 cubic meters per hour. As hourly capacity scales up, every single integrated component—from the aggregate conveyor belts to the pneumatic systems—must grow in size and durability. Therefore, when evaluating a concrete plant price(planta de concreto precio), the intended hourly output acts as the baseline multiplier for all core costs.
The heart of any system is its mixing block. High-capacity operations demand robust, wear-resistant twin-shaft mixers that can homogenize heavy aggregates rapidly. These industrial mixers utilize advanced metallurgy and powerful motors to ensure consistency. Choosing a system with a premium twin-shaft mixer will naturally increase the initial purchase amount, but it guarantees the structural integrity needed for large-scale concrete production.
How the equipment is engineered to move, install, and fit into your specific job site layout plays a monumental role in determining both the purchasing budget and the secondary setup fees.
For temporary infrastructure projects, highway developments, or projects spread across multiple locations, a mobile concrete plant(planta de concreto móvil) has become the preferred choice. These units are engineered onto a towed chassis, allowing for rapid transport between distinct job sites. While the engineering required to compact all essential batching components onto a single mobile frame can sometimes raise the initial concrete plant price compared to a basic small stationary unit, it completely revolutionizes the total project cost structure.
Stationary plants are built for long-term, high-volume localized manufacturing. They feature expansive aggregate bins, massive cement storage silos, and highly customized layouts. While a stationary concrete plant might offer a lower cost per cubic meter of capacity upfront, the civil engineering works, concrete foundation pouring, and prolonged installation times add significantly to the true total cost of ownership.
To truly grasp the full scope of your investment, you must look at expenses that extend beyond the manufacturer's ex-factory quotation sheet. A successful deployment depends heavily on logistics, localization, and technical support.
Balancing your immediate budget constraints with long-term production requirements is entirely achievable if you approach the purchasing process strategically.
Avoid the temptation to over-specify your requirements. Buying a concrete plant that produces far more material than your current or near-future projects demand leads to unnecessary capital lockup. Analyze your average daily concrete needs rather than your peak hourly requirements to find a balanced, cost-effective capacity level.
A lower upfront concrete plant price can sometimes be a trap if the machinery utilizes sub-standard components that require frequent maintenance, expensive replacement parts, or suffer from high fuel consumption. Investing in reputable mixing technology reduces downtime, ensures consistent batch quality, and delivers a much higher resale value down the road.
Ultimately, the key factor that influences your financial commitment is finding the exact intersection between your required production volume and the mobility needs of your business model. Whether you choose a high-capacity stationary hub or a agile mobile concrete plant, aligning the equipment’s structural capabilities with your actual project timeline ensures that you protect your bottom line while securing top-tier concrete mixing performance on every job site.
AIMIX proporciona planta de concreto precio según la configuración del equipo. Y podemos ofrecer el precio es razonable.AIMIXgrupo (AIMIX GROUP)
Em muitas das instâncias onde foram propostos/discutidos termos de atração voltados a atração por pessoas não-binárias (de forma que não se resume a "atração sem que o gênero importe"), e, especialmente, termos específicos ou abertos a homens e/ou mulheres com atração por identidades não-binárias, há a reação de invalidar tais possibilidades. Os motivos para isto tendem a ser:
Este último argumento tem alguma base na realidade: a fetichização de pessoas trans. As instâncias mais antigas dele talvez sejam as problematizações do termo skolio/cétero, especialmente em relação a pessoas cis adotando o termo. A questão seria uma presunção de que pessoas cis só conseguiriam pensar em uma pessoa como não-binária em termos de expressão de gênero ou corpo, que é o que pessoas que não desconstruiram o próprio cissexismo tendem a fazer, mesmo que a não-binaridade seja completamente diversa tanto em termos de identidade de gênero quanto de corporalidade.
Eu nunca vi nenhum relato de uma pessoa não-binária ser tratada como alguém com uma obrigação de performar neutralidade/androginia/fluidez/etc. para fins de ser atraente para ume fetichista. Porém, o termo não-binárie só passou a ser reivindicado a partir de 2010, e há um histórico longo de mulheres e homens trans serem fetichizades por terem expressões de gênero e/ou características de transição corporal que pessoas cissexistas consideram "contrárias" às suas genitálias e/ou outras características sexuais.
Eu argumentaria que, há 10-15 anos atrás, a presunção de que chasers (pessoas cis com mentalidade cissexista que vão atrás de relacionamentos com pessoas trans por uma presunção de como seus corpos são) eventualmente se disfarçariam de pessoas simplesmente atraídas por não-binaridade seria razoável. Porém, estamos em 2026: a não-binaridade já tem uma visibilidade muito maior, tanto na política quanto na mídia. Termos como xenogênero, homem não-binárie, transfeminine, demigênero, aporagênero e gênero-vácuo já possuem mais de uma década de uso, e portanto também já há vários relatos pessoais de como pessoas chegaram na conclusão de pertencer a tais identidades. E eu ainda não achei as tais pessoas que se dizem atraídas por gêneros não-binários para disfarçar perspectivas cissexistas.
Mas o que foi que eu achei, então?
Vejo muito mais relatos de pessoas querendo saber o que fazer em seus relacionamentos envolvendo uma pessoa binária gay/lésbica/hétero e uma pessoa não-binária do que pessoas binárias reivindicando a capacidade de sentir atração por pessoas não-binárias de forma geral.
Tais situações aparecem em diferentes formatos, como, por exemplo:
Alternativamente, mesmo sem haver relação com pessoas atraídas somente por um gênero, há a situação de pessoas não-binárias se juntarem a grupos bissexuais ou pansexuais para achar pessoas com a mesma experiência que elas e que podem sentir atração por elas só para se depararem com várias pessoas cissexistas que só afirmam ser possível atração por mulheres e por homens. (Pois é, há pessoas pansexuais que acham que sua atração só cobre "mulheres cis, mulheres trans, homens cis e homens trans", como se fossem gêneros diferentes.)
Todas estas histórias têm algo em comum, a priorização da atração por gêneros binários. Em geral, pessoas cissexistas só admitem "atração por pessoas não-binárias" para apaziguar sues parceires, ou nem isso.
Não me entendam mal: como já expliquei lá em cima, é possível ter atração por identidades não-binárias. E também acho possível que, desde que alguém conheça e entenda pessoas não-binárias como não-binárias - e não apenas como "mulheres ou homens com rótulos diferentes" - é possível alguém identificar atração por algumas ou mesmo todas as identidades não-binárias, mesmo que a pessoa não seja não-binária. Dito isso, atualmente é muito mais comum que pessoas capazes de atração por pessoas não-binárias pensem em si mesmas como atraídas por todos os gêneros ou como atraídas por todos os gêneros menos homens ou mulheres, e não como pessoas que especificamente sentem atração por identidades não-binárias.
É até possível que pessoas não-binárias sejam as únicas com coragem de dizer que sentem atração por identidades não-binárias específicas porque as pessoas de fora desta comunidade são desencorajadas de fazer isso, como mencionei no início do texto. Pessoas não-binárias já usam "termos esquisitos" por serem não-binárias, e a quantidade de pessoas que vai acusar uma pessoa não-binária de fetichizar a própria comunidade vai ser menor em comparação com alguém de fora da comunidade demonstrando tal atração, então a barreira é bem mais permeável para alguém não-binárie. Especialmente se a pessoa não-binária colocar seus desejos de relacionamentos com pessoas não-binárias como "um desejo puro" de ter um relacionamento com alguém que entenda a sua experiência, e não como a capacidade de achar sexy alguém do mesmo gênero que ela ou que tem outra identidade não-binária.
Para quem não sabe: eu sou assexual, e sei que muitas outras pessoas não-binárias estão no espectro assexual. Minha intenção não é colocar relacionamentos românticos (ou outros relacionados com laços emocionais) como menos relevantes ou "menos desconstruídos" do que relacionamentos sexuais. Acho que faz todo sentido que pessoas não-binárias busquem outras pessoas não-binárias para terem menos trabalho desconstruindo o exorsexismo de sues parceires, e não acho que ninguém é obrigade a demonstrar desejo sexual por alguém para que sua atração seja considerada legítima. Porém, acho relevante apontar o quanto pessoas de quaisquer gêneros podem fantasiar livremente sobre atos sexuais com mulheres e homens (trans ou cis), enquanto o desejo por pessoas não-binárias precisa ser uma extensão da atração por mulheres ou homens e/ou algo que precisa ser justificado por conta do sistema cissexista vigente.
Ok, pessoas cis que não estão indo atrás de relacionamentos com pessoas cisdissidentes não tendem a demonstrar atração por identidades não-binárias. Mas e as pessoas que objetificam corpos cisdissidentes; que estão indo especificamente atrás de quem é trans por não considerarem mulheres trans como mulheres ou homens trans como homens? Estas pessoas não se beneficiariam de ir atrás de alguém não-binárie por sua identidade fora do binário?
Pois então... até hoje, todos os relatos escritos por chasers que vi de "atração por trans" eram de pessoas que (ao menos naquele momento se diziam) homens cis e hétero tão comprometidos com o heterossexismo que presumiam que "atração por trans" já seria, por padrão, apenas por mulheres trans/pessoas transfemininas. O desejo era puramente por aquele tipo de corpo idealizado nesse tipo de fetiche: uma mulher ou pessoa que se veste/comporta de forma feminina com pênis funcional.
Obviamente existem chasers que têm mais vergonha na cara do que o pessoal que chega relatando esse tipo de desejo em espaços trans. Há relatos de mulheres cis hétero indo atrás de homens trans porque "buscam um homem que entenda como é ser mulher", há relatos de homens cis gays indo atrás de homens trans para "experimentar buceta", há relatos de homens cis conservadores querendo coagir pessoas trans com útero e vagina a se "tornarem suas esposas" após engravidar tais pessoas.
No fim das contas, acredito que muites chasers possam se contentar com certos tipos de pessoas não-binárias. Afinal, suas objetificações dependem muito mais do corpo e da expressão de gênero do que de alguém sendo agênero e transmasculine ou homem trans, por exemplo. Ou seja, eu não percebo nenhuma preferência específica por pessoas não-binárias. Não que não possam existir, mas eu nunca tive contato com esse tipo de história.
A princípio, esta seria uma outra forma de encontrar atração e/ou fetiche por pessoas não-binárias. A prevalência de mulheres trans em pornografia é amplamente discutida, e também já me deparei com uma certa quantidade de textos ou vídeos erotizando homens trans. Nesta seção, eu não estou considerando somente vídeos no Pornhub ou Redgifs: eu também estou pensando sobre personagens não-bináries em histórias explícitas no AO3 ou Read Only Mind, em comunidades fetichistas no Tumblr e em HQs eróticas.
O mundo da pornografia na internet e fora dela é extremamente amplo, e, portanto, eu não tenho como afirmar que não existe determinado tipo de pornografia. Porém, até onde eu consegui chegar, a representação não-binária tende a ser de um entre tais tipos:
Minha impressão final é que as histórias que podem ser interpretadas como "fetichização da não-binaridade" na verdade não colocam a não-binaridade como especificamente desejável, e sim como uma conclusão lógica sobre como poderiam ser classificados certos grupos de seres (que poderiam ser facilmente idealizados como binários) ou como um subtipo de pessoa trans/inconformista de gênero que "deve ser corrigida" e portanto é tratada como binária. Ou seja, a fetichização só funciona porque é possível idealizar quem é/poderia ser não-binárie como mulher ou homem.
Fora isso, sobram as histórias onde a não-binaridade se resume praticamente a uma troca de tratamento gramatical, onde eu não acho que o argumento da fetichização funciona.
Consigo pensar em um exemplo notável onde há um esforço maior para retratar seres que não são 100% mulheres ou 100% homens sem que elus sejam reduzides a "mulher/homem com característica tal": histórias com Chakats, uma espécie inventada no contexto de pornografia furry e a origem dos pronomes shi/hir. Chakats são altersexo, embora a palavra não existisse em 1995: possuem pênis, vagina e seios, e há momentos que mencionam questões como discriminação ou não serem completamente homens ou mulheres. É possível considerar Chakats como uma fetichização de mulheres trans e/ou intersexo, porque minha impressão após ler um pouco das histórias é que, em geral, linguagem e papéis associades com mulheridade/feminilidade são utilizades, com pênis e a possibilidade de fertilização sendo as únicas características que, dentro de tal universo, justificam uma caracterização "parcialmente masculina", mas o fato de haverem tratamentos gramaticais diferentes me faz encarar Chakats ao menos como um esforço em sair do binário de gênero. Desta página de introdução:
Por conta dos títulos Sr., Sr(t)a., etc. serem inapropriados, Chakats geralmente são chamades pelo nome de sua espécie seguido de seu nome pessoal. Chakats conseguem um nome após nascerem que reflete suas características, físicas ou de personalidade, que pode mudar em qualquer ponto até chegarem na vida adulta. Daí podem escolher ficar com o nome que estão ou escolher um nome adulto novo, mas daquele ponto em diante, o nome é permanente.
Com certeza há bastante linguagem problemática nas histórias, desde o uso constante de palavras estigmatizadas contra pessoas intersexo até o uso de feminilidade/masculinidade para descrever partes do corpo. Agora, eu não sei se eu contaria isso como uma prova de que há chasers especificamente atrás de pessoas não-binárias: é um site furry provavelmente não muito conhecido fora desse meio sobre uma espécie quadrúpede que só tem um sexo. Eu colocaria Chakats como uma evidência de que é possível achar fluidez/mistura entre gêneros binários (ou feminilidade e masculinidade) atraente mesmo sem a afirmação de que tais seres são basicamente mulheres ou basicamente homens, e só.
Eu imagino que haverão pessoas que pensarão no que eu disse acima como uma confirmação de que a não-binaridade oferece um privilégio de ausência de fetichização, em comparação com outras identidades dissidentes de gênero, sexo/corporalidade ou orientação. Porém, não é bem assim:
A identidade não-binária tende a não ser atraente ou fetichizada, mas o apagamento não-binário é (em muitos casos). E isso também faz parte da opressão contra pessoas não-binárias.
A possibilidade de atração por pessoas não-binárias irá se desenvolver junto com a ideia de existência de pessoas não-binárias, especialmente levando em consideração suas diferentes identidades de gênero. Assim como pessoas se atraem por mulheres e/ou homens de forma exclusiva ou diferente por conta dos arquétipos que formam tais identidades, também é possível se atrair especificamente por pessoas aporagênero, caelgênero, gênero neutro ou assim por diante, mas a ausência de um padrão mental sobre como tais pessoas se parecem ou agem é, na minha opinião, o que prejudica a identificação de tais atrações por motivos que vão além dos políticos ("só quero namorar alguém com a mesma identidade que eu") ou da rejeição específica a outros gêneros ("só não sinto atração por mulheres").
Isso não significa que cada gênero possui ou deve possuir limites em relação a como pessoas que pertencem a ele podem parecer ou agir. Porém, há pessoas que gostariam de receber sexo oral de mulheres sem receber de homens, por exemplo: qual é a diferença aí? Questões como tamanho da boca, seios ou barba nem sempre serão relevantes, sendo outras subjetividades que fazem a diferença. É destas subjetividades que estou falando, e não de papéis de gênero.
Enfim, eu não acho que há evidências de que alguém desejando pessoas não-binárias provavelmente só dirá isso por motivos de estereótipos pornográficos. Nem pessoas não-binárias conseguem adotar termos que lhes contemplam direito, então tenho poucos motivos para acreditar que alguém deixará de se dizer hétero, gay ou lésbique para justificar ir atrás de pessoas não-binárias. Nem o pessoal atrás de mulheres ou homens trans porque acham que seus corpos vão representar "o melhor dos dois mundos" têm a inclinação de se dizer atraídas por não-binaridade, até porque só estão atrás de uma binaridade que consideram "tabu" e/ou "dois em um".
Para quem quer um termo para atração exclusiva por pessoas não-binárias sem a carga de cétero, há o prefixo eneba. Alguém que quer um termo mais específico a pessoas fora do binário de gênero equivalente a gay/lésbique pode se dizer ceneliane. Pesquisar por não-binári na lista de orientações do Orientando irá mostrar vários outros termos que podem ser úteis para demonstrar uma atração que inclui pessoas não-binárias, como galdeique e tríxen. Também há vários termos juvélicos para descrever atrações por não-binaridade de formas que não são necessariamente exclusivas.
00:00 - Eu me introduzindo / descrição da minha aparência00:24 - Parte 1: Não-binárie como guarda-chuva02:35 - Parte 2: A evolução de gêneros07:32 - Parte 3:...Variedades não-binárias & etc. (YouTube)
Exorsexismo
Há alguns anos, eu criei este tópico para falar de exorsexismo, que na época era um conceito mais novo do que é hoje. Ainda considero um recurso bem completo, mas acho legal ter mais lugares falando de conceitos como este.Exorsexismo é a opressão e discriminação contra pessoas que não são somente, completamente e sempre homens ou somente, completamente, e sempre mulheres. Ou seja, exorsexismo afeta:
- Pessoas que não são nem homens e nem mulheres, seja por não ter gênero, seja por ter um ou mais gêneros diferentes destes;
- Pessoas que são bigênero homem/mulher (ou ambigênero, ou gênero-fluido, ou similar que tenham estes gêneros);
- Pessoas que são parcialmente homens ou mulheres, como homens-vagues, mulheres-cinza, demimeninos, quivermeninas, etc.;
- Homens e mulheres não-bináries, agênero, sem gênero, etc.;
- Pessoas transfemininas e transmasculinas não-binárias, ou que não se reinvindicam como mulheres e homens bináries;
- Pessoas de gêneros indefinidos (como pessoas pomogênero);
- Pessoas que consideram que certo fator externo é parte do seu gênero e que por isso seu gênero não é binário (isso inclui várias pessoas neurogênero, intergênero, gênero-orientação, egogênero, etc.);
- Pessoas cujas identidades de gênero são ou eram aceitas dentro de sua sociedade, mas que diferem de homem e de mulher e que portanto são apagadas, demonizadas e afins em sociedades brancas eurocêntricas cristãs;
- Travestis que não se consideram 100% homens ou 100% mulheres;
- Qualquer outra pessoa que poderia se denominar não-binária caso quisesse.
Talvez também afete pessoas de sociedades aonde existem concepções diferentes de homem e de mulher em relação à sociedade branca eurocêntrica cristã, mas não sei sobre o assunto o suficiente para opinar, e só li um único texto sobre o assunto que também não trazia uma conclusão.
Enfim, tudo isso pode ser óbvio quando se diz que exorsexismo é a opressão contra pessoas não-binárias, mas existem grupos afetados por exorsexismo que não se consideram não-binários, assim como existem pessoas que não têm certeza se contam como não-binárias ou como afetadas por exorsexismo por serem homens e mulheres, ou parcialmente/quase homens, ou parcialmente/quase mulheres. Mas a sociedade exorsexista não inclui pessoas que às vezes são homens e às vezes são mulheres, ou que possuem algum gênero parecido com o binário mas que não é binário.
Exemplos de exorsexismo
Algumas pessoas acreditam que exorsexismo pode ser resumido como "apagamento não-binário". Além do problema de categorizar pessoas que não querem ser chamadas de não-binárias como não-binárias, exorsexismo vai além de apagamento.Sim, um exemplo de exorsexismo é o apagamento. É o uso de "homens e mulheres" como se isso estivesse incluindo todo mundo. É a ausência de personagens não-bináries na ficção. É a insistência da mídia de só fazer algum único artigo quando alguma celebridade se abre como não-binária, e nunca mais mencionar o fato ou repensar o uso da linguagem usada para se referir a essa pessoa.
Mas também existem outros fatores.
Quando as possibilidades de gênero são alguma variação de "homem ou mulher", de "homem, mulher ou prefiro não dizer" ou de "homem, mulher e outro", isso não dá espaço para pessoas se afirmarem como suas próprias identidades de gênero se elas não são binárias.
Quando alguém é gênero-fluido mas não consegue a possibilidade de mudar seu gênero e/ou nome de tempos em tempos em registros de todos os tipos (ou de colocar que é gênero-fluido), isso é um limite que afeta pessoas gênero-fluido que não afeta outras pessoas.
Quando alguém diz que "só existe homem e mulher, o resto é transtorno mental", é um ataque a pessoas que não são homens ou mulheres, além de ser um ataque capacitista porque usa a existência de transtornos mentais como algo ruim que invalida experiências pessoais.
Quando só existem banheiros para homens e mulheres, pessoas que não são de um desses gêneros não estão sendo contempladas. Quando dizem que outras pessoas podem usar qualquer um desses banheiros, isso não considera o quanto de medo alguém pode ter de assustar mulheres ou de apanhar de homens, assim como não considera a disforia que alguém pode ter em entrar em um banheiro de uma identidade de gênero diferente da sua.
Quando símbolos para coisas que são para todas as pessoas são uma combinação de símbolos de homens e de mulheres, talvez isso seja apagamento, mas talvez seja uma exclusão proposital mesmo.
Quando há tantas coisas na sociedade que possuem medidas separadas para homens e para mulheres, isso também é algo que prejudica a aceitação e inclusão de pessoas que não são homens ou mulheres.
Quando pessoas que possuem identidades de gênero parecidas com mulher ou com homem precisam se reduzir a um gênero binário porque pessoas em volta não entendem/aceitam algo mais complexo, isso também é exorsexismo.
Quando pessoas só conseguem colocar em palavras como é seu gênero comparando com uma metáfora, porque ele não pode ser simplesmente descrito como homem, mulher, masculino, feminino, neutro, entre essas coisas ou como algo separado disso, é comum que pessoas binárias (e até pessoas não-binárias que querem se mostrar "superiores" a isso) façam chacota, espalhem capturas de tela de pessoas explicando esses gêneros para ridicularizá-los e afins.
Quando acham muito bonito quando alguém descreve seu gênero com uma metáfora poética, mas ridicularizam ou rejeitam quem usa algum termo específico para resumir tal metáfora, isso é prejudicar a expressão de pessoas cujas identidades de gênero não são binárias.
Quando reduzem não-binaridade a uma questão de expressão de gênero, de não entender que ninguém é completamente um estereótipo de homem ou de mulher, ou a uma questão de "querer ser diferente" ou de "estar na moda", isso também é exorsexismo.
Quando a língua possui dois "gêneros gramaticais" e um deles é associado com homens e outro com mulheres, isso é exorsexismo estrutural. Quando as pessoas que concordam que deveria existir um "gênero gramatical neutro" dizem que só pode existir um, e que ele é tanto para pessoas não-binárias quanto para grupos com pessoas que usam conjuntos de linguagem diferentes quanto para quando não se sabe o conjunto de linguagem de alguém, isso é exorsexista; pessoas não-binárias precisam abrir mão de ter conjuntos de linguagem que as representem separadamente mesmo que não queiram usar algo neutro ou associado com gêneros binários, enquanto pessoas binárias podem ter os seus separados e normalizados.
Exorsexismo faz parte do cissexismo (opressão/discriminação contra pessoas que não são cis), mas existem questões que afetam pessoas não-binárias e que não afetam pessoas trans/ipso/ulter/etc. binárias, ou afetam mas em menor quantidade. (Caso você não tenha entendido vários dos termos deste parágrafo e queira entender, clique aqui.)
Mas e as pessoas trans binárias?
Algumas pessoas acham que se pessoas que não são binárias possuem um termo para sua opressão, isso é dizer que pessoas trans binárias sejam praticamente iguais a pessoas cis, no sentido de ter privilégio binário.Pessoas trans (e outras pessoas cisdissidentes) binárias realmente não são atingidas diretamente por muitas das agressões e por muitos dos apagamentos que pessoas que não são binárias sofrem.
Porém, pessoas trans (e outras pessoas cisdissidentes) binárias também passam por um problema específico delas dentro do cissexismo, que é uma exigência exagerada para que se encaixem nas normas do seu gênero para provarem que são realmente dele.
Pessoas que se reinvindicam não-binárias são invalidadas; dizem que isso não existe, que ou você é mulher ou homem. Mas pessoas cisdissidentes que se reinvindicam como binárias também são questionadas; afinal, se são "homens de verdade" ou "mulheres de verdade", por que fazem isso, passam por aquilo ou possuem certos aspectos corporais? Se um homem ipso mostra aspectos corporais ou comportamentais considerados femininos numa sociedade eurocêntrica, é "meio mulher" ou "mulherzinha", mas se uma pessoa com as mesmas características se reinvindicar como mulher trans ou ulter "ainda é homem".
Dentro da não-binaridade, a maioria das identidades não possui papéis ou estereótipos de gênero fixos. Se alguém é mulher não-binárie, a obrigação de "ser mais mulher" pode não ter tanto peso, porque a pessoa não é exatamente uma mulher binária.
Existem até pessoas que são não-binárias porque não conseguem se ver como pessoas trans binárias pela questão de serem trans. Isso não é necessariamente insegurança ou cissexismo internalizado; é apenas a experiência dessas pessoas de alienação da ideia de serem de um gênero binário com o qual não foram designadas.
Também é possível falar de exortransmisoginia; assim como transmisoginia é misoginia e transmisia experienciadas por mulheres trans e pessoas de identidades/experiências similares, exortransmisoginia é o exorsexismo e a transmisoginia experienciades por mulheres trans não-bináries e pessoas de identidades/experiências similares.
Mas e mulheres e discussões sobre opressão de gênero?
Acredito que pessoas que não sejam binárias sejam marginalizadas tanto pelas suas identidades não serem aceitas na cultura dominante, quanto por terem sido designadas gêneros diferentes dentro dessa cultura dominante.Ou seja, sim, pessoas que não são somente, completamente e sempre homens também sofrem com o que se chama de sexismo, ainda que não sejam somente, completamente e sempre mulheres.
Não acho que o termo misoginia seja obsoleto ou problemático, visto que existe discriminação e opressão direcionada a mulheres. Mas, quando se fala de homens tendo privilégio, acho errado agir como se mulheres fossem as únicas pessoas afetadas. Algumas coisas poderiam ser chamadas de patriarcais ou parte do privilégio de homens, ao invés de apenas misóginas ou parte da opressão contra mulheres.
(Também não gosto muito de usar termos como "privilégio masculino" ou "opressão feminina", visto que pessoas de qualquer identidade de gênero podem ser masculinas ou femininas, mas consigo entender que dentro do contexto tal termo se refere aos privilégios de homens e opressões contra mulheres.)
Também existe exormisoginia, ou seja, a misoginia e o exorsexismo que afetam mulheres não-bináries e outras pessoas de identidades ou experiências similares. Um exemplo disso é colocar mulheres não-bináries como "meninas confusas" que só "acham que são não-binárias" (exorsexismo) porque "são fúteis e querem entrar na modinha"/"não possuem capacidade de entender o que é gênero" (misoginia).
De onde veio este termo? Tem algum outro termo?
O termo exorsexismo veio da operação XOR em programação, que retorna "verdadeiro" se um valor é uma coisa e não outra entre dois valores, e "falso" se preencher os dois valores, nenhum valor ou um valor diferente dos especificados. Ele foi mudado de exorismo porque poderia confundir pessoas disléxicas por parecer demais com exorcismo.Foi cunhado em 2016 por Vergess no Tumblr. Postagens originais podem ser vistas aqui e aqui. Exorsexismo foi a palavra que acabou "pegando" mais, entre estas.
Uma alternativa que também não recebeu críticas, que acredito não ter sido usada por ninguém, é polarsexismo, que também remete à ideia de dois pontos diferentes acima do resto.
Algumas pessoas não gostam de usar exorsexismo porque o significado da palavra não é intuitivo, mas a maioria das pessoas não sabe da maioria das composições de qualquer palavra; é só uma questão de ensinar. A maioria também não sabe de onde vem perissexo, cisgênero, ou ornitorrinco, e não é uma exigência saber algo de programação para entender o que é exorsexismo assim como não é exigência saber grego ou latim para entender essas palavras.
Muitas pessoas gostam de usar binarismo. Embora a situação tenha mudado - hoje em dia, resultados de buscas por binarismo indicam binarismo de gênero e não coisas sobre computadores - ainda acho importante ter um termo próprio para indicar esta opressão que atinge identidades de gênero diferentes de 100% homem e de 100% mulher.
Afinal, o termo, inclusive como "binarismo de gênero", também é usado para falar de binarismo sexual (diadismo, opressão/discriminação contra pessoas intersexo), etnobinarismo (a intersecção entre exorsexismo e racismo, mais especificamente em contextos culturais com gêneros diferentes de homem e de mulher que sofreram e sofrem grande repressão por conta do colonialismo), binarismo de gêneros gramaticais (ou seja, línguas divididas entre equivalentes de a/ela/a e o/ele/o sem deixar forma neutra ou possibilidades abertas), binarismo de papéis de gênero (que pode ser algo criticando estereótipos de gênero ou falando de pessoas - inclusive binárias - que não seguem normas de gênero), e afins. Para não confundir ninguém, acho que um termo à parte é importante.
Algumas pessoas usam enebemisia ou similar, sendo "enebê" uma pronúncia de NB, sigla que significa não-binárie. Porém, ainda que seja comum ver "enby" na língua inglesa, eu praticamente nunca vejo gente usando enebê ou similar, fazendo com que o termo precise de explicação, assim como exorsexismo. Exorsexismo também é um termo mais inclusivo, por haverem pessoas fora do binário homem/mulher que não se identificam como não-binárias.
Tipos mais específicos de exorsexismo
Observação: Exorsexismo por si só é um assunto pouco falado, então essas coisas possuem menos material ainda...Monogenerismo: A ideia de que ter um gênero (e um gênero apenas) é a norma. A ideia de que alguém "não pode só não ter gênero" é monogenerista; a falta de medidas que possibilitam ou facilitam alguém de indicar que é de gêneros diferentes (e que pode usar nomes/conjuntos de linguagem diferentes) em períodos diferentes é monogenerista.
Reducionismo de gênero: A ideia de que mesmo quem não é homem ou mulher binárie pode ser categorizade como "basicamente homem" ou "basicamente mulher". Geralmente isso é feito para que certas pessoas possam ser colocadas como "homens opressores" por terem expressão de gênero masculina e/ou por terem sido designadas homens ao nascimento, ou para invalidar orientações caracterizadas por atração de ou por pessoas não-binárias, afinal se todo mundo é "meio homem" ou "meio mulher", todo mundo que tem atração deveria poder se dizer hétero, gay, lésbica ou bi (no sentido de terem atração pelas "duas categorias").
Desgenerização: Isso é algo que não afeta só pessoas não-binárias, e sim diversos grupos marginalizados (incluindo pessoas cisdissidentes binárias). Mas existe desgenerização contra pessoas que não são binárias, que é quando reduzem qualquer uma dessas identidades de gênero a "não ter gênero" ou a "não definir gênero" apenas porque não são identidades binárias.
Também existem discussões sobre a possibilidade de surgimento de um termo relacionado à discriminação contra pessoas xenogênero.
De qualquer forma, é sempre possível falar separadamente de discriminação contra pessoas sem gênero, contra pessoas poligênero, contra pessoas gênero-fluido, contra pessoas neurogênero, contra a ideia de que identidades de gênero podem ser algo além de masculinas, femininas ou neutras, etc.
E, como já mencionado, é possível falar de intersecções entre exorsexismo e alguma outra coisa. Exormisoginia e etnobinarismo são termos já utilizados, mas também dá para formar e usar termos como exorcapacitismo, exordiadismo e afins.
Considerações finais
Exorsexismo é um negócio sério. Não temos estatísticas próprias por conta de nossas identidades não serem levadas a sério. Não temos grande visibilidade dentro de comunidades LGBTQIAPN+ (ou mesmo trans), e assim mesmo espaços que deveriam nos acolher nos excluem e agridem.Mesmo dentro de comunidades não-binárias (que são poucas e pequenas), não é incomum ver pessoas que querem se assimilar às normas, ou que não são bem informadas quanto a questões de justiça social, então pessoas não-binárias racializadas, neurodivergentes, intersexo, que não querem ter que escolher entre linguagem "masculina, feminina ou neutra", que não querem ter que lidar com ódio à neolinguagem, que não querem ver ódio contra identidades não-binárias mais específicas, e afins, acabam não tendo espaços que sejam seguros para si.
Por favor, que mais pessoas ajudem a normalizar a terminologia que comunidades não-binárias inclusivas usam. Que mais pessoas incluam pessoas não-binárias quando se referem a grupos de pessoas que podem conter tais pessoas, e que mais pessoas evitem maldenominar pessoas que podem ser não-binárias e não usar um conjunto de linguagem "óbvio".
Leituras para quem quiser aprender mais
- Tópico sobre exorsexismo
- O que é exorsexismo
- Mitos e verdades sobre pessoas não-binárias {1} {2}
- Duplo vínculo aplicado a identidades não-binárias
- O que você pode fazer para não alienar pessoas não-binárias
- Dicas para pronomes e identidades de gênero
- Libertação x Cissexismo
- A culpa des excluídes
- Conceito: Reducionismo de gênero
- Questões diamóricas
- O apoio superficial a pessoas não-binárias
- Sobre maldenominação e impactos na saúde mental
- Eu também ignorei essas coisas no começo
- Quem ganha com a exclusão xenogênero?
- Genderfeels
- Minha experiência com a neolinguagem
- Digam suas linguagens pessoais
- Os argumentos contra a neolinguagem
- Sobre a matéria da BBC
- A favor dos xenogêneros
- Pensamentos sobre palavras, retóricas e intenção
- O que são "microcomunidades"
- Tudo, ou pelo menos muita coisa, sobre linguagem pessoal
porque separar linguagem entre “masculina”, “feminina” e “neutra” não é legal
Existem pessoas que usam o/ele/o por ser a linguagem considerada neutra pelas normas gramaticais cultas, não por serem masculinas ou parcialmente homens; Existem pessoas que usam a/ela/a por ser a linguagem associada à palavra pessoa, não por sere…exorsexismo
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It is frankly an appalling and frightening scene. Video footage has been circulating on social media of a bare-chested man with a blade on the day he allegedly attacked five people in Edinburgh. “I’m protecting the country,” he is heard shouting in the video.
It reportedly began near a mosque on Friday evening, and the video footage shows him appearing to carry a weapon and battering the door of a pizzeria. The man has been arrested and charged, and counter-terrorism officers have joined Police Scotland’s investigation. The Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, posted on X that it “appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred” but that is pretty much all he has done. In total, 53 words have gone up on X from the Prime Minister, and the story, which has left the British Muslim community in shock, is barely being covered by the media in any prominent way.
It is a stark difference to what we saw less than two months ago, on April 29, when two Jewish men were stabbed in broad daylight in Golders Green, London. An emergency Cobra meeting was convened that same day and the terror threat level was upgraded. The Prime Minister and King Charles visited the scene. The attack ran across nearly every front page in the country.
By the time Sir Keir delivered his statement from Downing Street, it was not just a tweet but an address: a list of promises — visible police presence, investment in Jewish security to the tune of £25 million — built on a passage of real moral force.
There has been no Cobra meeting. There has been a short post on X from the Prime Minister. As of this weekend, not a single newspaper outside Scotland has carried the Edinburgh attacks on its front page. The government machinery that can move within a few hours has remained largely stationary.
The political and media reaction to a knife-wielding man allegedly attacking Muslims in Edinburgh raises uncomfortable questions about whose safety Britain takes seriously.Shehab Khan (Zeteo UK)
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Intel CPUs are great at 100% idle, and 100% load. Anything less than that and they tend to fall on their face.
My 12th Gen. Intel laptop gets about 4 hours of battery life just doing Remote Desktop. Going full tilt it’s fairly efficient. At 100% idle it can be good. But a simple task that keeps the CPU lightly busy and it falls on its face.
Well, nah, macs are not perfect. And that's only going to get worse, no matter what way you look at it. Linux, on the other hand, is only getting better.
What's the deciding factor? Well, if it's a question of hardware, I don't know any laptops as good as a macbook pro. But if you find a model you like as much as the mac, there's no question at all. Linux all the way.
Depends on your coding.
If there is a chance you end up programming for macOS or iOS you’ve got no choice.
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How often do you work for 12-14 hours straight without any access to electricity?
If Linux is actually of any interest for you, giving up on it because of a few hours of battery life, feels weird for me. Why not invest in a power bank or make it work some other way.
With that said. You're obviously free to use whatever you want to. I personally can't stand Apple and their incredibly barebones, limited and locked down operating system.
It’s not 12-14 hours of straight working. It’s 12-14 hours without charging. Sometimes it’s just not convenient. Do you always go home from work and remember to charge your laptop? Never forgetting, consistently every day doing this?
Plus thanks to S0 standby using so much power just the laptop being in sleep is a decent battery drain.
Do you always go home from work and remember to charge your laptop? Never forgetting, consistently every day doing this?
Yes...?
Do other people really have a problem doing this?
I don't understand. A laptop computer on standby lasts days on battery?
If I had to regularly use a laptop computer I would charge it every day when I got home. It would just have been part of the daily routine I have when I get back home from work.
well I could give you a solution, generally with x86_64 architecture they use a lot more wattage than macbooks, m-chip SOC's (system-on-chip) utilize about 30W of energy whereas just a modern x86_64 CPU utilize 15W. which means you have a 15W overhead for your GPU and memory generally speaking.
So the entire reason your getting less battery life is OS required applications for it to function, and you. So if you minimize the amount of wattage (ideally building a linux system from scratch) you can optimize it to consume less resources.
I did this with my personal laptop, installed arch and mangoWM, didn't even bother with a display manager or network manager (still use iwctl). on idle it uses about 600 MB, and I've beaten the m1. my point is not to compare or benchmark the macbook, but to just show you that you can maximize battery life with a little tinkering. So long as you are comfortable doing it.
I have used pop_os and cosmic DE it should be noted that is a beta version of pop_is, which means there are plenty of bugs, which means there are still a lot of optimizations. the fact you could get 12 hour battery is kinda surprising especially with a nvidia GPU.
ahem
Get whatever the fuck you want.
Story time: My first Mac was the first generation of Mac Mini that had an Intel processor. It could play WoW and was so much more convenient than the Linux distros of the day, and so much more stable than Windows. What more did I need? Sure, OS X was no BeOS, but it was pretty good.
And so I bought a series of Macs for myself, while at work I mostly used Linux or Windows. When I got my first MBP, I was shocked at just how good the trackpad was and what the battery life was like. My last Mac was a 27” iMac. It was mostly great, but the upgrade ability was limited to a pair of RAM slots without major surgery.
Meanwhile, at work I was using Linux 100% of the time and it had become so much more user friendly and had so much better hardware support that I couldn’t justify spending the money on a new Mac. And Macs still had crap gaming support.
So for my next computer I bought… an Alienware Alpha, the old set top box. Why? Well, I wanted to play some games, my iMac was ok enough for basic email and browsing, and I had a great TV setup.
And then I moved. The iMac screen died in the move and it cost more to replace than get a new Mac and still would be un upgradable , so I started daily driving the Alpha machine. And omfg I had forgotten how fucking terrible Windows was as a daily driver, but at least my gaming library was was good.
Soon a friend really needed a computer and had no money, so I built myself a new desktop for less than the cost of an equivalent Mac and gave him the Alpha. I set it up to dual boot Linux so I could also use it for work. But windows was still awful, so I ended up only switching to it for games.
And then Valve started heavily supporting Wine. And the games I was playing most ran on it. So I wiped the Windows partition and never looked back.
I’ve kept that desktop as my main machine and upgraded hardware in it a few times. Though at this point it’s been five years since I’ve updated anything and it’s still fast enough that I don’t see any reason to.
But I did want a laptop. So, in a narcoleptic haze I bought a pair of low end Thinkpads for $50, plus a new ssd and battery for one of them. I literally can not tell you what I was thinking when I did, because narcolepsy. But here’s the thing, even though they are 15 years old and were low end when new, they run Debian great and I daily one of them when I need a laptop.
My current work machine is a very high end MBP and it is amazingly fast, quiet and has incredible battery life. But I only really use it as a ssh relay to my cloud Linux workstation. It’s just sitting there, plugged in and doing nothing that a RaspberryPi couldn’t if I could get corporate IT to register it on their Tailnet.
What’s the point of all this story? You can get yourself a Mac, and it will be a great piece of hardware until it isn’t, and then you won’t be able to repair or upgrade it. Or you could spend half as much and build yourself a nice desktop, keep your laptop for when you need to be on the go, or switch it for something with swapabable batteries.
Either way, a laptop and a desktop is probably better for you and won’t cost more than a MacBook Pro.
mac is something different to me. İt is perfect.
That's a carefully crafted illusion. And if you're a power user, it won't last long.
İ could have buy tuxedo infinit book 14 pro but they dont ship to my country. What should i do?
Buy any other laptop, e.g. Lenovo.
Also, do you need that long battery life? If yes, ARM or really new intel processors with energy saving cores seem to be the way to go.
Check how much of the hardware Asahi linux supports. But I would avoid buying Apple hardware for this. It is not repairable and they might refuse to help if you run Linux or something. Luke Rossman can tell you about how shit apples customer support is.
Well, my friend, I understand what you're saying. I used to be a Windows user until I discovered Linux around 2015, and I bounced around a bunch before settling on Fedora for almost 5 years. And if you asked me to switch to anything, I'd say fuck that!
I used to believe Linux was the best, but then I watched ChrisTechTips. He really opened my eyes to how an operating system is. Whether it's Windows, Linux, or Mac is actually just a tool, and you can actually use them all. He himself uses Windows to game on Linux for his personal life and Mac for video editing, and you know what? I can't say no to that. If you have the money, go for whatever works for you.
for example, what works for me is simple:
A console for gaming... I'm not a big gamer who needs a Windows gaming monster.
A Linux desktop for my deep research and personal home lab.
A Mac for traveling and doing some light editing, writing, and maybe watching movies and TV shows on it.
Someone might say, "Well, I cannot afford all of these," and I agree. But these things came gradually; like I didn't buy everything at once. It's just that eventually I got them all, and I think you should focus on what's a priority for you now and what can help you get things done. And if you think a Mac can do that because of the battery life, you can do what you please.
The good thing is Linux is a good privacy-focused system. Macs can be as good if you know how to harden them.
Step-by-Step Privacy Hardening:Apple is better than Microsoft and Google when it comes to privacy—but they still collect way too much of your data. If you wa...Naomi Brockwell TV (YouTube)
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This is a personal passion project of mine, it is still in its early infancy (many core features are still missing) and the development is slow but deliberate.
why should I care?
if you care about speed and deep integration with the OS this project might be of interest to you.
why?
Wireless file sharing between my devices is still unnecessarily slow, half-baked, and unintuitive.
Direct-Share is my attempt to build a file transfer tool that makes local file transfer more seamless than:
- Android ↔ Android (Nearby Share / Quick Share)
- Apple AirDrop
- LocalSend
- Blip
…but for Linux desktops and Android phones, using Wi-Fi Direct.
what?
- Python, GTK4/Libadwaita on Linux
- Kotlin, jetpack compose on Android
if you want to stay up to date with the project or want to know or read more, you can take a look at the GitHub repo
An Android/Linux app to share files quickly and conveniently using Wi-Fi Direct - 5wHN28Dg/Direct-ShareGitHub
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Yes actually I have tried it and I use it to share text between my devices and receive notifications.
The file sharing feature though is unbearably slow.
Interesting... The file sharing is extremely quick for me at home.
I haven't figured out how to get it working at work though (between my work phone and my work PC, both on the same network). Might not be possible with their firewalls.
Could always try localsend
Open source and works pretty well
LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file sharing tool that allows you to share files to nearby devices.localsend.org
LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file sharing tool that allows you to share files to nearby devices.localsend.org
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why should I care?
if you care about speed and deep integration with the OS this project might be of interest to you.
what?
Python
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How can it get more seamless than LocalSend?
Or croc, out of network.
Through 2 things:
1. The answer is partly in the name, but there is no magic involved. Direct Share uses Wi-Fi Direct (also known as Wi-Fi P2P), which bypasses the middleman and connects the two devices directly to each other, potentially increasing the file transfer speed. However, it is only as fast as the slowest networking stack of the two connected devices. This is in contrast to almost all other solutions (like localsend) that rely on the two devices being connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
That's all.
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Well, I guess I would need to add an option in the app to share clipboard content.
You know what? You just gave me an idea, a very good idea. Sometimes there are things that are not in file managers, maybe in a particular app, maybe in a browser, and you just want to drag and drop it. I don't like the idea of opening the app, right-clicking on the corners of the window just to enable "keep this app on the top" so that you can drag and drop whatever you want.
Instead, what I would like to see is a keyboard shortcut where a small window opens that stays on top of all the other windows. That you can drag and drop anything to it, or maybe copy-paste anything into it. Maybe a photo, maybe a video, maybe anything. This would work for clipboard content, for video files from other apps that are not file managers.
adb push and adb pull. Simple and fast, works both over USB and wirelessly
Well technically localsend is not native, uses dart and flutter. Something native would be cool, but it should be interoperable with localsend I think.
Localsend is great, absolutely no issues with it design-wise
Well, it is far from complete and far from usable right now, so right now it is not better. But when it is done it will be because of two things:
idk about other distros but on ubuntu I can't send or receive files using Bluetooth without a 3rd party tool (unless there is a pre installed cli tool that I am not aware of:)
but anyway, if the transfer speed doesn't bother you or isn't a deal breaker for you then fair enough... have a nice day.
I feel like inmutable distros are in a quite good state nowadays, and while solutions like bootc and sysexts are not “mainstream” yet, it’s getting there
when it comes to getting non Flatpak packages, things get interesting, there are a lot of options, really
AppImages, statically linked binaries, tarballs, OCI containers, distrobox/toolbx, Homebrew, VMs, Nix
even experimental formats like RunImages, AppBundles and FlatImages
if you need some non-system level package, you’ll have a way to use it
yet, still it seems sort of chaotic
“which one should I choose? how will I be able to easily manage them?”
GPM, dbin, Soar, AM… and the list goes on
and it’s okay, the so called cloud native approach is still evolving, so this fragmentation is expected
so it’s nice to share opinions about this while we’re living this interesting phase
any thoughts?
Preface: I have been daily driving Fedora Atomic for the last couple of years and have also used a bit of Aeon and NixOS.
My opinion is that while atomic/immutable desktops are overall a good idea, they are marred by poor planning, a refusal to fix existing tools, and some cope.
There are way too many package managers and waste in this space. I think flatpak is a large cause of all this friction due to fact that it is always "sandboxed" and only focuses on GUI apps. The fact that it does not aim to support CLI apps (despite being able to handle them quite well!) means that we must have another tool, traditionally podman via toolbox/distrobox. The sandbox doesn't play well with certain subsets of apps, notably things like VSCode. At least Flatpak Next seems like it will address this part with its unsandboxed mode.
I also find it quite strange how some developers revel in wasted space and inefficiency. So many duplicated libraries between the host, flatpak, podman, and homebrew. With better planning, we could've had shared runtimes (such as Freedesktop) between the OS, flatpak, and whatever CLI package manager. Instead we have something like Fedora packages for the host OS and podman (not shared), flatpak using Freedesktop, and brew shipping their own stuff.
I also think that systemd sysexts are poorly designed, it's crazy they're being pushed. It's pretty much a package manager without dependency management. And for what upsides? It has no sandboxing, it's not portable between distros and distro versions, and must vendor dependencies to work around having no concept of dependencies. And we're already seeing fragmentation with Fedora and OpenSUSE working on their own frontends to manage sysexts.
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yay I think Flatpak has potential for CLI apps, they just need a nice way to expose aliases to the host
actually, there are some CLI apps on Flathub already so I still don’t know how that “no terminal apps” criteria is handled
didn’t know sysext were so cumbersome
All of the methods have big issues but I would still prefer them over messing with a mutable system
Also Nix, Flatpak and a few more fully depend on Github. Same with uBlue, Secureblue and a ton of other projects. Really scary actually.
Never used homebrew, that doesnt sound good.
I am trying to use nix and firejail only, but it is pretty rough and barely documented which is kinda insane as firejail is THE tool. Unlike crabjail, bubblejail and what else is out there
Immutable in the actual sense yes, it is basically a product and every other software is installed aside from it.
But you can also have better managed systems like nix or ostree, that reduce entropy or at least make it fully declarative so theoretically finding and reproducing issues is easy
did you know about pkgforge repo? it’s an interesting project
however, even package managers for portable formats are sort of fragmented
I don’t like depending on GitHub so I don’t consider GPM, Soar and AM seem too similar… and I still have to understand what makes dbin stand out
I'm currently using the COSMIC DE and been loving it so far. I have some experience in rust, so I want to try and make an app for cosmic (no guarantees).
Any recommendations?
I'd like to be able to enable a drop-down mode for Cosmic Terminal, so that a terminal would be present at the press of a button. It could be configured to come from any edge of the screen (top, bo...SyrisBit (GitHub)
copyous
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Modern Clipboard Manager for GNOME. Contribute to boerdereinar/copyous development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Lol KDE has this included like a normal desktop
But yes a good clipboard manager please
I usually don’t mind using apps made for another DE as long as their UIs are minimal enough for my taste
however, while I was using COSMIC I felt like it really needed a GUI Log Viewer, it’s the kind of thing that sound clearly tailored for the user base COSMIC aims to achieve
GNOME one is nice, but libcosmic apps handle COSMIC tiling better
Doesn't cosmic files already support this feature?
Right-click -> Show details -> Open with
a cool and simple idea that is still missing for cosmic is an emoji selector
check cosmic-utils to make sure you're not recreating a project that already exists.
edit: there is actually a archived emoji selector project. Also there are more projects listed here
Emoji Selector for COSMIC™️ DE. Contribute to YkdWaWEzVmphR1Z1/cosmic-ext-applet-emoji-selector development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I’m not sure all devices are getting a bios update for this. Didn’t Dell confirm this some time ago? If I’m understanding things correctly, Microsoft is forcing you to: 1) get the update by installing win11 legit with no bypasses 2) get the bios update from your hardware manufacturer 3) essentially turn off secure boot.
I think there are plenty of fully functional PCs out there, capable of running win11, but not supported because of something like tpm2.0, whose bios won’t be updated by the manufacturer, and therefore have no path to receive this update. Which means the pc will probably eventually be forced to run without secure boot.
Which I think means if you’re a windows only user - forced obsolescence-buy a new pc. If you’re a linux user - you’re fine.
I think? I could be completely wrong here - but that’s my understanding of it all.
Microsoft confirmed your computer will boot just fine, it’s just that secure boot is effectively off.
It’s no different from like 80% of Linux distros that don’t support secure boot at all. Except for those you have to actually manually disable secure boot to boot.
It could if you/future owner ever need to re-enable it:
The trouble is not your present boot; it's your future boot. If your older PC's firmware never gets the 2023 keys, and the rest of the world starts assuming those keys exist, you can end up stuck in a weird limbo. While your existing Linux install will still boot, a new or updated distro won't.
Testing now will help diagnose future problems.
zdnet.com/article/aspirin-for-…
Secure Boot has always been a nuisance for Linux users, but now that Microsoft's 2011 certificate authorities are expiring, it's become a real pain.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
PorteuX 2.7 delivers major performance optimizations, updated desktop environments, and a bold claim that it can outperform CachyOS, one of Linux’s best-known speed-focused distributions.Brian Fagioli (NERDS.xyz)
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As for whether PorteuX is truly faster than CachyOS? Linux users will undoubtedly spend the next few weeks testing that claim for themselves.
No, they won't.
I see often people say that the distro you are using doesn't matter. One can turn any distro into another. And I do not agree with that. If that was true, why do we even have so many distributions? I always said, if distros don't matter...
I don't think that distros only matter to newcomers. Maybe it matters for experienced users even more.
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You can't turn any distro into another, and nobody is saying that.
For example, you can't take NixOS and turn it into Arch. You can use Nix on Arch, though.
I think a lot of this is misunderstanding what distros are. Think of it in terms of cars. A Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta are different cars. But how different? They use the same engine, but they have different radios. You can swap parts, but at no point does that make either of them a truck.
For a lot of distros its much simpler though:
What is the different between Kali Linux distro and Debian Linux distro?
Is the engine under the hood the same? Yes. Is the package management the same? Yes. Can you add the Kali repos to the package management of Debian? Yes (it's called a "Frankendebian"). Can you swap kernels between them? Yes
So, whereas NixOS and Arch can't be turned into each other, if you have two distros who are just using different "car radios", is there really a difference?
the argumentation is, that you have access to any part of the system and can change everything. What is the reason that you cannot turn NixOS into Arch?
Because you don't have access to any part of the system. Again, nobody is saying you can change everything. NixOS is immutable meaning that is locked down read-only and only the Nix daemon has access to write. It's a matter of declarative vs imperative configuration schema. It's how vs what. In NixOS, you tell the system what you want done. In Arch, you tell the system how to do it.
So, you can't change any distro into any other distro, but the likelihood of two distros having any meaningful difference is low to the point of being pointless to ask.
As another user already stated, the main reason distros don't matter is analysis paralysis. Most of the users asking for thoughts between distros are effectively asking which of two duplicates is better. Say you've narrowed the distros you want to use to Debian and Kali, what is the difference between them if you just want to play games? There isn't one. You can run proton on Kali just as easy as Debian (you'd even be hitting the same repo likely).
Because you don’t have access to any part of the system. Again, nobody is saying you can change everything.
But you have! And as said, there are people saying exactly that. BTW I actually understand the difference between NixOS and Arch. I mean you can actually change anything on NixOS and slowly transform it into a regular distribution without what it makes to be a Nix system. I mean if you have root rights on the system, then you could remove what it makes a NixOS and install a different package manager, set it sources up from Arch repositories in example and so fort.
I don't know if everything can be done like that, but theoretically there is no limit in access to any file and data on a Linux distribution. If you have root access. In example, what in particular cannot be changed in NixOS?
Ok, this is getting into macro scale now. They use entirely different filesystems, boot sequences, package databases, and low-level C libraries. So, in that car analogy what you are describing would effectively be changing out 1 or a few parts at a time and iterating over that until no original part exists and then saying you turned a car into a truck because you kept the car radio the same.
Maybe this is a matter of perspective, but at that point I would say you didn't turn a car into a truck, you just built a truck.
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I would say most people's constraint on being able / not able to convert distros is "within reason". Without that, we might as well just talk about kernel versions because that's ultimately what Linux is not the DEs and package managers and etc,etc.
To your original point that you can't turn one distro into another (which you seem to now disagree with), you can but not always "within reason".
Yes, that's the argument its being made.
I'm NOT (edit: forgot the NOT, lol) the one claiming that, just reiterating whats being said. Because I don't know and want to find it out with discussions. I think it is ridiculous, and don't think anyone should do that. But technically it can be done, seemingly.
I've been thinking more and more about this (the NixOS to Arch) and comments saying "that should be easy".
Dynamic linking creates a catch 22 to all of this.
You have to do the majority of steps live and can't reboot. NixOS doesn't follow FHS, but Arch bootstrapping requires that. If you force-create those directories and try to bootstrap Arch over a live NixOS instance, the binaries you compile will instantly break because they won't be able to find the dynamic linker (ld-linux) or standard C libraries (glibc) in the locations they expect.
At some point you are going to be using Nix's development tools to build out pacman. To get around the previous issues you would drop to a nix-shell to build the environment (which is one really good use of NixOS in general), but then you'd segfault as soon as you tried to use it outside the environment.
Even with the pacman binary present as soon as you rug pull glibc from memory, since pacman is needing the host's instance of that, you'd have a kernel panic.
Going back to what the other user mentioned, in the context of how people ask the question, I don't think distro matters. You have new users asking "What is a good distro for playing games? Bazzite or CachyOS?" Both. It doesn't matter, they will play the same.
Kali Linux would also be a completely correct answer to that question. Even back in the day I had Backtrack 5 running Dragon Age 2. And for security testing, what is the best distro? The one that you installed your tools to. Distro A has 200 sec tools pre-installed, Distro B has 400 sec tools pre-installed, but both have the same 10 tools you actively use so they are the same. Arguably neither are the best because that means there is 190 and 390 tools present that are just bloatware.
So, hopefully you can understand how arbitrary the choice in distro actually is.
So which one can I use for gaming? Which one can I use for development?
There are differences but they're generally in user-space and not what most newbies think. Things like installers, package management, etc. But "generally speaking" all distros are capable of doing what the others can do. They just do it in different ways.
You've basically got categories.
There are different philosophies on stability vs. being up-to-date, security, etc. But the same software and drivers are available for all of them "generally speaking".
Edit: I'll add that the biggest mistake most people make is distro-hoping. People will have trouble with something like "getting a printer to work" and just start installing new distros until one works. To learn something you need to spend time with it and fix things
Edit 2: I'll also add that choice of distro matters less for experienced users since you realize that it's mostly just about preference.
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I mostly agree with this. The reason I stick with arch has nothing to do with finding it technically superior or more convenient to use than other distros. There is almost no way I would be using arch if their wiki wasn't leaps and bounds more helpful than other distros' documentation. Some other distros can meet my needs just as well or better, but arch's documentation allows for a more straightforward learning process through tinkering.
I do think repository differences can potentially matter a lot. I have a lot of respect for hyperbola being ultra-hardline in removing proprietary packages and any hint of uncertainty in licensing, but the fact that that kills off texlive makes it untenable for me to use. Keeping manual installs up-to-date is a hassle, so I can definitely understand someone limiting themselves to distros supporting a certain set of packages.
Just like your "opponents" are over-generalising, you're deliberately picking the most extreme examples to make your argument. (Batocera as a daily driver - you know that's what Hanna Montana Linux is for!)
My Linux axioms are: for most new users...
Where you are right: yes, the choices embedded within these three axioms do matter a lot and are noticeable, so it is helpful to have an experienced user recommend a distro to you when starting out.
Where the "distro don't matter" people are right: there are a lot less choices to be made than meets the eye. Effectively, it can be boiled down to three.
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There is another point, which makes this discussion very variable. Also the choice matters or does not matter a lot, depending on the person, expectations and what is being done. This is probably the biggest reason why we don't agree on simplifications like these. And BTW, just because the examples I gave are extreme does not make them wrong in any way. They are just easy for illustrating my points I'm making.
If someone is coming from Windows, does not care much about trust and just want something that runs a browser, doesn't care about community or technicalities, then yes it does not matter if the person chooses Ubuntu or Mint. On the other hand, if someone doesn't like corporations, has strong opinions about standards and is a developer, then the choice suddenly matters a lot more.
choosing a distro with specialised security hardening (immutable systems, Nix, Qubes, Bazzite) does matter; most of these will make new users unhappy or even question their sanity.
Out of curiosity, as someone who's never used Bazzite/other uBlue/SilverBlue/etc, what makes it difficult for new users? I definitely agree with Nix and Qubes though (and SecureBlue to some extent).
There's a ton of added friction when doing things outside the basic 'install Flatpak app'. Security generally comes at the price of being difficult to use.
For new users it also means virtually every guide or there on fixing an issue or installing extra software won't apply.
While it is theoretically true that you can turn one distro into another, in practice it's not worth it. It's the same thing as trying to sell someone on "you never need to reboot to apply updates or fix things." Ye, technically true, but unless you're maintaining huge corporate servers where downtime is measured in dollars, 9 times out of 10, it's just easier to reboot and see if it fixes the issue. And yes, it will often still fix the issue.
The reason for distro hopping etc is because picking a distro is essentially choosing your defaults/ideology/character alignment. There are no wrong answers. Just go with what feels right. Newbies should distro hop to see how they align, experienced users should do it for fun and to see if a different way suits them better.
We should be herding beginners towards beginner friendly distros so they don't run into a cliff of a learning curve, but which specific one is basically arbitrary.
As for your other examples: Don't let your dreams be dreams. You can 100% use batocera as server if you like, it's entirely possible. You're just going to have to dedicate a shitload of time coercing into a server shape... but nothing's stopping you
Distro really and truly doesn’t matter at all. They all can do the same stuff as each other. It’s entirely all about taste and personal preference
So you say my personal preference and taste does not matter? A starting point does not matter and I should randomly pick something from Distrowatch, maybe the newest updated entry in their database? Just because it CAN be turned into a different distro, does not invalidate the value of having a good starting point that fits my needs perfectly. Also you are wrong that these are the only factors. There is also the factor if I trust the maintainers of the repository, and probably other factors important for choosing a distribution.
So you say my personal preference and taste does not matter?
The point is, the amount of time and effort it takes to tune any distro to your personal preference.
There are distros that fit your needs out of the box and there are distros that need hours of setting up and tuning to fit them.
There are distros that fit your needs out of the box and there are distros that need hours of setting up and tuning to fit them.
And that exactly is the reason why the distribution matters.
I think you heavily are misinterpreting the " The Distro does not matter" argument.
Usually ppl want a distro that "does x" and the answer will be "the distro does not matter, use the one that suits you the mkst".
The argument "The disteo does not matter" does not come from the user preferences site of things but feom the technical " i want to video edit, "i want to game" etc.
No, choosing a distribution is not like choosing a color. First there is compatibility. Some hardware work better than others or are better supported. Then you also put "trust" into personal taste, which is not just a taste, but a fundamental design decision that has nothing to do with taste. I wouldn't recommend a newcomer who does not know how Linux works and does not have time to workout how to install and maintain Archlinux. In example my grandma. Or someone who just want to game on it like a console.
I don't care how you name these points, the fact is, that choice of distribution is very important and matters a lot.
If that was true, why do we even have so many distributions?
Don't ignore the fact that part of the reason there are so many distributions, desktops, window managers, etc etc is because a large number of skilled coders have outsized egos
Who says that?
I think recommending archlinux as a first distro is fine if the person is so inclined. (CS students)
Who says that?
You with your next sentence.
if the person is so inclined
That means it does not fit everyone. So you agree with me, that the distribution matters. As long as there are reasons to choose one over another, it matters.
After the first year fully immersed in Linux, I would say most would agree with that statement "One can turn any distro into another", at least in what matters to them.
To any newcomer I recommend to choose the environment (The tendency is for the tech-minded that come from Windows is to choose KDE, less tech-minded or straightforward thinking choose Cinnamon and exclusive Mac and Android users tend to choose Gnome).
The second thing to select is your stand on Stability vs Cutting edge.
The rest of features are far, far less relevant and you can easily fine tune to your like and these is what people mean with that above statement (even the environment and stability could be customized too but most would not be able to do it).
At the end, the distro is a choice where you pick the first two parameters and the exact distro you pick is more based in convenience and/or philosophical criteria.
My case: I played with 5 environments and KDE is my cup of tea. Then, I choose a distro in the middle of the road with updates (OpenSuse Tumbleweed) and while extremely happy two updates within 8 months gave me two hiccups (nothing mayor) but I decided I needed more Stability. While I consider Fedora to be the "best" distro by just a hairline, since it has the most resources, but philosophically I am against due to IBM being its main backer, not to mention, US may cause problems "exporting" in a near future... yes you can fork, but you still being dependent in the main source for a while, not to mention supporting IBMś aims. So I am Debian (MX Linux actually) all the way now. However, I recommend to most Mint (for the most conservative) and TuxedoOS (for those looking for a more contemporary look) to most people I encounter.
The rest of distros, or are just niche (for instance Deepin and Kylin cater for Chinese language, Cachy for gamers, etc) or are distros with far less resources to do it properly, but I passionately applaud their existence since they all are contributing with the good cause.
The big difference between distros is really how they build their distro and for what ends. Some distros are "general purpose", some are focused on specific roles/tasks like gaming or programming or servers, some are about stability, others are about cutting edge features. And you also have different underlying design philosophies - OSS vs proprietary, or Ext4 vs BRTFS, or Immutable vs mutable, pre-packaged vs build yourself.
So yeah, distro choice really does matter. The wide range of choices don't exist because people are being contrarian; they exist because linux can be shaped to different purposes and goals.
But I think the message to new users is also correct: distro choice doesn't matter much if you're starting out and just want a basic desktop environment. Whats going on in the backend or the design philosophy of the distro doesn't change the experience for most end users doing day to day tasks. A KDE or Gnome desktop environment with Firefox will feel the same, and gaming or word processing will be largely the same. It's when you want to go beyond generic use that the distro choice starts to matter..
If the distros didn't matter nobody would have strong preference. Instead there are Distro wars raging for years now, with plenty of casualties.
For me the preference came from reliability. I tried many distros and they never worked well. They either had bugs or didn't work the way I wanted to. When I finally found what suits me, you can be damn sure I will tell everyone who listens that its the best distro on the whole planet.... FOR ME. But I will gladly recommend it as well 😊
I think the combo hardware + kind of person can create many unique preferences... almost distro-count amounts of preferences 😀
Distro wars?
Most I see is "my Debian system is very stable" Vs "I can setup arch in 5 seconds while blindfolded".
Doesn't look to me like a vim Vs Emacs case.
I'm just gonna say that Fedora has completely solved my distro hopping, for me it has the right balance between cutting edge and stability.
It's been years since I changed distros
It all comes down to the repositories after all. Different distros have different update cycles and policies.
Oh, also some distros apply a little bit different graphics and customisation on the default setup.
After that, it is all the same. Distro choice does matter, but to the common user/newcomer is basically irrelevant.
why distro hop?
Fun waste of time, good way to learn how to setup a Linux system by doing that repeatedly.
why don't you use Ubuntu then?
It's a good system, go ahead with it. I don't like very much their customisations, but it is cool system after all.
why don't you recommend Archlinux to a newcomer?
He will have to read through a few guides and webpages in order to get a working system, compared to reading a single webpage which explains how to flash any other distro on a usb and be done with it.
why don't you use Kali Linux as a server?
The advantage of Kali is that it is designed to live in ram and everything you do is destroyed when you switch off the computer, this is a bit of a pain in the ass if you want to run a server.
why don't you use Batocera or SteamOS as your daily driver?
Don't even know what those are, but pretty much because I don't care: the system I have is good and I know there's little difference between distros.
why do you trust a community distro more than a corporate distro?
They're for different purposes (mainly). Redhat provides tech support. Canonical, well I don't know what canonical does. If you want good support for maybe a large installation with many computers, paying for red hat may very well be worth it.
I love little distros, but it does break my heart that they cannot give the same reassurance on potential malware as Mint would.
Don't forget their ability to patch critical security issues in a timely manner.
Well, Void is not that large, but they quickly patch security issues, especially due to being a rolling release. OpenBSD, not Linux or rolling release though, is not a huge OS either, but they are patching - if there is a security issue - quickly. Similarly Slackware - if we want to come back again to a Linux distro.
In other words: No, the size of its dev team does not necessarily mean that they are behind with patching security issues. it depends on the commitment and skills of devs, and the community.
Are you bored? Did you just build a strawman version of your own community to argue about something that is trivially easy to answer for everyone in this community? I am seriously confused. I have never ever heard anyone say that you could turn any distro into any other. That is just obviously not true. And every single question on your bullet point list is equally easy to answer.
When people say that it doesn’t matter which distro you use what they obviously mean is that the desktop environment has the way more immediate and tangible impact on the user experience. So as long as the newcomer choses one of the many distros that have an intuitive installer (so obviously not Arch), are reasonably up to date, have a broad software package repository, and come with one of the major environments pre installed, it really does not matter that much.
ontop of other user comments where it boils down to trust in the maintainer and code reviewers of the project, another reason depends on the use case that you plan on using your Linux system. for example, if I were to setup a nextcloud server, i'd generally go with alpine for it's lightweight design, or Debian for it's stability. I wouldn't necessarily use Kali Linux, because with those features it also uses a lot of resources for it to function, and I don't need that for a server.
in terms of my personal device I generally build those from the tty and add other modules (like DE, utils, etc...) to give it more functionality. Much like my servers I like to have my laptop optimized -- take as minimal resources as possible -- which is a rather controversial take after seeing users bash at me that I'm not taking advantage of all my memory. anyways, I don't think there is a specific distro that has everything that I want. I want a system that works that doesn't use 2 GB from the DE alone and that is accomplished by adding the modules myself.
I don't trust any other sub-distro other than myself. I generally go with one of the corporate base tty installer (arch) and I build the system from that. I'm not going to switch to say cachy OS for it's aesthetics, or ease of use, I couldn't really care less.
Ive been using fedora, my first distro, for about 5 years. I'm about to switch because it just doesn't do some things I want, or not without a ton of config. I got it because it came up as "best distro for coding" when I googled it, and I was just beginning to code.
I can't imagine its that much better than like Ubuntu though, which is what I think I'll switch to. Meanwhile there's several just complete and total roadblocks ive hit because of the distro. Kubernettes and Docker just doesn't work for me. I was trying a teat install of CiviCRM and never got past the download. Recently, when trying to install Graphene on a new phone, Fedora in fastboot just refuses to recognize it. In the process of trying to work around this limitation, I somehow removed myself from the sudo su group, and fixing it has been a chore.
Its like every time I want to do x, it isn't supported. Coding and developing on it is fine, for my personal projects. If I wanna do anything more than run a script though, its been nothing but hardship.
Its been a pretty good distro for me, but I have a dislike for extended config and sysadmin tasks and troubleshooting, and on my personal projects I keep hitting roadblocks over and over on Fedora. Open to other suggestions, but Ubuntu seems the most straightforward
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Come on.
Offline-only is privacy-respecting. Accessibility is a noble goal.
All in all, if there's an AI usecase that's as morally acceptable as it gets, it's this one.
I get that it's Ubuntu of all people, but even Big Tech produces some ideas every now and then that FOSS lovers can get behind and democratize!
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Being real, this is why I fucking hate the bullshit, corporate greed hype of LLMs and generative software. All the "bubble" shit? It tars all versions of the technology with the same brush.
This? This is exactly what it should be used for. And, ffs, earlier speech to text was really the same fucking thing in essence. Software that took input in the form of voice, compared it to a set of data, and made a best guess at what you meant. Yeah, the details are different, but it's the same concept.
This? This is fucking awesome. Locally run, and doing a job that's vital in accessibility, with the side benefit of being useful to others. Assuming canonical is being honest anyway.
But this kind of thing should be the way things are done.
Nah, it isn't. Intelligence implies independence. What it is is a fancy algorithm with a big data set.
It doesn't have to be general ai to be called ai, but so far none of the models I'm aware of have reached a standard to be called intelligence in the colloquial sense for sure
Even if we called them LLMs, which we should, people will keep having these negative connotations to the technology because of overmarketing. This feature is still using LLMs, and that's not supposed to be a bad thing.
Stop blaming the technology, and blame the corpos pushing it to the moon. This is "BitTorrent is only used for piracy" bullshit all over again.
The framework split things into two groups, implicit AI that quietly improves what you already use and explicit AI that are features you'd actually summon on purpose.
The very first paragraph already upsets me. Have in mind, I would criticize this on every other operating system too. I believe no one should use Ai tools that act autonomously in the background, to improve or change what you already use. It should always be a "summon on purpose".
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Out of curiosity would it be accurate to call this sort of technology generative ai, or just machine learning? Or it depends on the implementation?
I feel like most of the anger around ai is because gen ai has a bunch of harmful baggage, and I'm curious if this is an example of gen ai having a productive use case, or an example of ai being more useful outside of gen ai specifically
maybe it will lead to better accessibility tooling. This is obviously rather silly as a default mode of operations, especially if you imagine people in a crowded office all yelling at their computers.
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One more step towards the discovery of what androids dream about.
Fantastic film, and great scene that for the longest time would've been utter bullshit but modern camera technology may allow for something like this to happen!Colton Casados-Medve (YouTube)
Well they can listen to my voice when I say this:
Based on what I read/saw and got out of it, I am real disappointed it looks like it's gonna be using genAI instead of another form of AI we've been using for transcription. Otherwise, sounds like trying to be a modern genAI version of that speech to text software I'd see ads for on TV. Possibly good for accessibility, but I'll wait and see after it comes out.
At least they claim the whole thing to be done offline after model installation and it's allegedly sandboxed with the audio data being stored in a memory buffer that allegedly will be erased after the session. So I'll have to wait and see how this all plays out before making more judgments on it.
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BIOS (at the time of unexpected reboot): 3634 Other than panic reboots (panic reboots are turned off) and reboots forced by the CPU on insufficient voltage (the CPU is never taxed, albeit undervolted with minus 30 on all cores in PBO), have you ever experienced random and unexpected reboots? The other day, I noticed that one of my servers - serving only torrent uploads, an i2p router, a Snowflake proxy and an sshfs connection for media consumption - had rebooted for seemingly no reason.
The journalctl logs show two messages just prior to the reboot in question that I do not understand, except for them being related to the NIC?
kernel: r8169 0000:06:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE FAULT domain=0x000c address=0xa0fe1000]
kernel: r8169 0000:06:00.0 enp6s0: NETDEV WATCHDOG: CPU: 0: transmit queue 0 timed out 5354 ms dmesg shows no logs - certainly no error related ones - around the time, or even in the days surrounding, the unexpected reboot.My only guess is that there may have been some kind of firmware related instability - 3634 being a beta release and all - and since there is no communication between firmware and OS post boot (?), Linux reports no reboot related error and the journalctl messages above are actually unrelated to the reboot, or at most, just symptoms of the firmware induced failure. No idea... I have since upgraded the firmware to 3636.
Please advise. 😊
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There is a story going around about Bezos at VivaTech in Paris, the first and last third of which are reasonable, the middle third of which has him saying that water for data centres is more important than “b/a/s/e/l/i/n/e h/u/m/a/n c/o/m/f/o/r/t.”2
His appearance at VivaTech is online. There are multiple near-complete and complete videos, here’s one that includes him being introduced. The middle third is not reflected therein.1
The middle third DOES, however, appear on BPD News, a PARODY account on Instagram. In particular, that seems to be the origin of the quotes.
I think this is either deliberate disinformation, or AI-slop producing the same result. Either way, I would not boost it, and would delete any boosts already made.
n.b.:
1: I didn’t sit through the whole thing several times, I searched the transcripts of several different postings, and the quotes are in none of them.
2: The hard-coded strikethrough is an attempt to keep the meme from being propagated by AI scrapers. It may not work, but I felt I had to try.
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I recently added a secondary TV to my PC with KDE setup, in addition to the main monitor. I have it on a different position and angle and only turn it on for certain use cases, watching from different place. And I love the fact that I can create and build a dedicated panel with the widgets I want to have on that screen only. I don't need every panel and functionality on that screen.
Just curious, is this something Microsoft Windows users can actually do? If not, this is something I would "advertise" for Linux.
MX is my distro of choice.
For most common tasks, I can easily pop open either a command line or a GUI, depending on my mood.
It's like the REM of Linux distros: it can appeal to all different kinds of users, and of all different skill levels. Plus, it's not a resource hog.
I have one antiX laptop - an old Chromebook with limited storage and low power. My gaming PC in the living room runs Bazzite. And I test plenty of other distros.
But for my general purpose computers, I keep going back to MX with either Plasma or XFCE.
Plus, I love hitting F4 for the drop-down console.
I used MX for a handful of years after CrunchBang ceased development. I decided to migrate to just a core Debian install at a certain point, when I realized I was basically installing custom everything, and wasn't really using MX the way it was probably intended.
It's a good, mid-weight choice. Nothing negative to say about it.
Have been using it enthusiastically for a good while now. It’s got a nice balance between useable out of the box and having all the tweak ability.
Can’t recommend it enough.
Been using it for a while, first with XFCE and just recently rebuilt with Plasma.
Hopped a lot before arriving at MX, stayed because it just works, does everything I need and more without issues.
Hm? They were Systemd-only for a while but brought back choice of inits recently?
Well, let's see how this goes. From what i understand, distros are either Systemd-only, no-Systemd or a mess of shims and wrappers.
: Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can helpLiam Proven (theregister)
or a mess of shims and wrappers.
That's called "sysv init".
I tried it on my main desktop after dumping windows. Tried ot along with CachyOS and Bazzite.
CachyOS was too bleeding edge for me.
MX was very easy to work with, but I could not get a lot of my gaming stuff working with my limited skills. Things like HDR was not working well on my monitor, everything just looked washed out. Could not get it converted to Wayland, etc. It did not support 5.1 audio over Spidif on my sound card.
Settled on Bazzite with plasma which was similarly stable, while having the gaming, display and audio stuff correctly configured out of the box.
With the code merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel, the open-source NVIDIA 'NVK' Vulkan driver is capable of handling Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) with modern game titles running on Linux / Steam Play.www.phoronix.com
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any of yall been using it? the open nvidia driver + nvk?
how well is it working these days?
As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.www.phoronix.com
Fair Warning: Long Linux nerd rambling ahead.
I actually was responding to another post where someone revealed to another that Linux is not free of corporate influence. I started to write out this spiraling drawl and realized it had nothing to do with the OP, but thought maybe someone else might find it interesting here.
Feel free to correct me should I have some details wrong, I wrote this off the cuff.
The history of Linux is inreresting, but just remember, Linux "won" in some senses just like how Windows, Apple, Intel, etc. "won" their respective domains. Microsoft "won" corporate desktop and office tooling ecosystems. Apple "won" the consumer computing and personal devices (tablet/phone) ecosystems. Linux "won" the servers ecosystem. And the history of how that happened is just as interesting as the fabled stories as to how Microsoft or Apple came to prominence today.
The only reason new Linux users are sometimes caught off guard by the fact that Linux is highly influenced by corporate entities is because they haven't looked into the tumultuous and messy, but very interesting, history of UNIX, Linux, GNU, BSD, and others.
What follows is not entirely related, but take this example of how Linux ended up, perhaps by sheer luck, to have ended up as one of the dominant surviving UNIX-like OSes today:
Take the 1992 lawsuit by UNIX System Laboratories vs BSD. One might say, okay, but what does this have to do with Linux? Well Linus Torvalds created Linux in 1991. BSD had been around since 1978, and had been gaining considerable popularity during the 1980s. BSD has its own messy history, but the short of the long of it is that Bell Labs allowed UNIX to be utilized, researched, and modified by Universities, which resulted in an explosion of UNIX derivative OSes (distributions), including one Berkeley School Distribution, or BSD. During this time period, the attempts to standardize UNIX by vendors resulted in what came to be known as The UNIX wars. It was in the culmination of these "wars" that aforementioned lawsuit occurred, during which BSD development was ground to a halt (eventually forks of BSD like the ones you see today are the sole inheritors of the BSD family of OSes). This was during the same time the Linux Kernel and the GNU OS would come onto the scene and essentially eat BSD's cake.
In essence, were it not for the timing of this lawsuit (which you can view as unfortunate or serendipitous depending on your views of BSD vs Linux), we might all be talking about BSD the way we talk about Linux today. Maybe, even then that's highly speculative.
EDIT: Removed repetitive wording.
I think I had commented on that previous post. This is part of the reason why I don't want to see any one commercial group be the defacto ruler of open source. The history of the community is based in big groups pushing agendas and an under-current of what you might call something like whimsical fanaticism (like Stallman and the GNU Manifesto).
The best case scenario is every one gets an equal slice of the pie so as no one player becomes the dominant force because everyone is fucking crazy.
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KDE Plasma updated to version 6.4.3 from 6.2.5
Why are they updating to an outdated version?
Sure, I know a lot of projects have been on GH since before MS bought it, but they've owned it for quite a while now, so we really should be seeing better migration out by now, no?
Codeberg is nonprofit which seems more in the spirit of the Linux ecosystem overall. GH is for-profit...
EDIT: All right, all right, I've gotten schooled. Thank you, O wise ones; I didn't realize how much Microsoft literally depends on Linux, among other things. I will proceed to shut up.
I believe the core reason is that, when MS bought it, and while they make it worse day by day, the number of projects in Github was already huge and it just keeps growing. That being said, it is still the main platform to find FOSS projects, and to have your project be found.
A lot of people are migrating though. The good thing about the FOSS community and philosophy is that they don't really need to rely on shitty companies like Microsoft. They can (and many actually do) just move on, at least regarding their own personal projects.
Yep. For example, Gnome migrated to Gitlab some time ago. Obviously it's not as ethical as Codeberg, but maybe it offers certain features that Codeberg doesn't (yet) have that they require. PikaOS is (was?) on Gitea.
For my part, I've left Github and will only do development on Codeberg. I'll still make pull requests to upstream projects that only exist on Github, but I have no control where those parent projects are hosted, and improving those projects is still a net benefit to everyone.
Two main reasons: history and network effects.
GitHub was an independent company for a decade that provided a vastly superior service to what it replaced, primarily SourceForge. And it was free for FOSS projects, while charging for closed ones.
The improvements paid for by the closed source customers trickled out to everyone. So, it became the best place for FOSS developers, large and small. And as more people moved to GH, the more reason there was to move to it.
Of course, it was constantly bleeding money and eventually had to do something. That ended up being selling to MS.
There was a lot of trepidation about this, but for the first few years they not only kept their promise about supporting FOSS, but actually made it better by allowing small private repos to get many of the services that were previously gated for open FOSS or paid repos.
And the alternatives were stil not as good, and just as importantly didn’t have the user networking that GH does.
Now, some FOSS people are starting to look elsewhere, Codeberg, self-hosted Forgejo, and others. They have come a long way and are nearing feature parity, particularly for smallish projects. But the network effects of discovery and reputation are strong, and GH still provides a few more useful features.
I’ve moved my private repos to self hosted Forgejo, but my public ones are still on GH as push mirrors. I’m not ready to give up the discoverability and Mac/Windows CI runners that I can get from GH for free. I hope to be able to some day, but not yet.
There was a lot of trepidation about this, but for the first few years they not only kept their promise about supporting FOSS, but actually made it better by allowing small private repos to get many of the services that were previously gated for open FOSS or paid repos.
I've only a basic understanding of using Git myself, but I think I'm gonna learn it with a self-hosted Forgejo for my Godot projects too.
Then for the parts that don't have feature parity, I won't know what I'm missing, and I have no need for "iNdUsTrY sTaNdArD LeAdiNg oPtiMiZeD sYnErGyStiC wOrKfLoWs" or whatever hahaha.
It does definitely present a conundrum if you want people to see your open source software though. Damn network effect. =\
The number one thing to remember about git is that you don't need a full hosting service around it for basic functionality. If it's just you, a single local repo will probably serve you just fine, maybe use a bare repo on your main machine or a Pi-level device if you like as a remote/backup. Just git init or git init --bare and you're good to go. GitHub, Codeberg, Forgejo, and all the others exist to serve multi-contributor and/or public project-level needs.
The number two thing to remember is that it is based around graph theory.
That's some really helpful advice, thank you! 😃
I actually didn't know you could just make any local folder a repo like that.
Would a Forgejo instance still be helpful if I wanted to have "one point of truth" between multiple machines even if I'm the only dev? I already use Syncthing, but for some reason I feel like there'd be a lot of sync conflicts and stuff.
The other main reason for wanting to learn Git, of course, is because it's otherwise more difficult to try out changes to scripts and experiment, without finding yourself lost in the weeds and forgetting what worked last.
My current "version control" is "copy the entire project folder before you do anything major." 😂
If you just want one point of truth, the minimal version is to create a bare repo somewhere that you have ssh access to or your local machine. Then you can clone/pull/push from it.
A bare repo is a special kind of repo meant for exactly this, but can be a bit confusing at first. A normal repo contains all of your current working files and a special .git directory that holds all the files/blobs/history that git needs to work. A bare repo is just the .git as a top directory with bare=true in its config. So you can use it as a remote, but it never has a working set. They are usually named something like my_repo.git.
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Here’s a basic example for setting it all up in a fully local way:
mkdir ~/bares
git init --bare ~/bares/my_repo.git
mkdir ~/code
git clone ~/bares/my_repo.git ~/code/my_repo ~/bares and your working copies in ~/code. If you want to access from another machine that has ssh access to the first, you can do:mkdir ~/code
git clone user@host:~/bares/my_repo.git ~/code/my_repo
This was really informative, thank you so much for taking the time! Definitely bookmarking this. 😀
I was looking up further why you'd use a bare repo over a standard one. Somebody said for just sharing a repo between users, "snapshots just take up unnecessary space."
...But would that mean you can't roll back history? Maybe I'm ignorant on the term snapshot in Git context lol.
But yeah, I really appreciate the post and I think that'll get me on the right foot, to actually developing games instead of setting up yet another tool and procrastinating what I want to actually be doing anyway. 😂
Glad my instinct was correct about using Syncthing for this purpose. XD
Happy to help! And yes, I have no idea what they’re talking about. If you don’t have snapshots (commits) you don’t have version control.
Let me know when you get your game going, I’d love to check it out. I’m working on a few myself.
Remember that Git is a distributed VCS, so no git repo is dependent on a central server. Everything else about the project might be heavily dependent on GH, but any active developer is going to have a full copy of the code with history on their main workstation.
That being said, it highly depends on the project, but I'd put it into a few buckets.
1. Un/barely maintained projects - This is by far the largest number of repos, and many of them are used as dependencies by all sorts of projects. The truly unmaintained ones would vanish, and I bet most of the barely maintained ones would as well. The most important of these would probably be resurrected since their code will be sitting on all sorts of drives, but it will be a mess. Take a look at nesbitt.io/2026/05/08/weekend-… for an idea.
2. Small individually actively maintained projects - There are a lot of these and many of them could continue to be just fine, depending on how much of the full GH feature set they use. They would lose all the PRs, wiki spaces, discussions, issues, and maybe even the project page itself that are hosted on GH. For most projects it would be an annoyance to have lost all that, but if it's a small enough project that one person is maintaining it, it's probably small enough to pull over to something else reasonably easily depending on how all in they are on GH tools and their use of type 1repos. And a project with only one main contributor is unlikely to fragment.
3. Mid-sized active projects - Probably the hardest hit. A lot of these are all-in on the GH tools, particularly issues and CI. Losing that would hurt a lot because the project is big enough to really need those tools and uses them at a volume that they can't just host on the leads laptop. These are also going to take a lot of work to set up the project infrastructure elsewhere. And this would probably be the sort of thing to push and simmering tensions to erupt, leading to fragmentation.
4. The big projects - Probably the least hardest hit. Most of these are just using GH as a push mirror. The core team probably has a functioning private communication and governance system, their own issue tracker (even if it pulls from GH), documentation, and public discussion groups. Most of these run their own private CI. And they are the ones most likely for another host to step in and offer to help.
So the little stuff? Probably going to be annoyed or not care a lot. The big stuff? Same thing. But that middle group would be hurt.
~~Why do you make the argument that Red Hat is the biggest contributor?~~
~~Searching Linux contributor breakdown by organization puts them tied for 3rd at \~7%.~~
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~~Don't get me wrong. Intel leading the corporate contributions is worse. lol~~
All-time contributions are led by Red Hat at 15%. Many top organizational contributors guilty of profiting from the genocidal industrial complex. Maybe TempleOS was the true alternative.
The Linux kernel reached 40 million lines of code in January 2025 with kernel 6.14 rc1, doubling its size since 2015. The 2025 development cycle saw 2,134Willie (commandlinux.com)
In the first link, look at the parameters in the link. It is for last 365 days. If you take all time, it is Red Hat.
To be explicit: I don't like Red Hat.
You were right. Red Hat leads all time.
All the major organizational contributors are guilty of profiting from genocide. TempleOS might be the one true alternative.
Momentum and time and effort to migrate.
And there's automated workflows such as GitHub Actions and ci/cd integrations that don't have 1-to-1 replacements, which would mean extra work (for quite strained teams of volunteers)
Codeberg doesn't offer CI runners* for macOS for free.
It's important if you have cross platform apps
Right, like how Micro$lop :
and all the other things (please feel free to make this list more comprehensive) as "reparations"?
It's the same old "Embrace, extend, and extinguish " (EEE) scheme they've been (sadly successfully) running for decades now.
It's disappointing yet unsurprising to read the recurring answers, namely :
precisely because it's absolutely avoidable and a well known strategy. It's so well known that it's precisely why Micro$lop bought Github in the first place. People are there and the free tiers is enough to get the long tail.
Meanwhile since that strategy happened people who consider smart enough should know the genuine cost behind this : it's a TRAP. Plain and simple, you get there and you get STUCK there.
So... yes it takes some sweat and even some money to leave the trap ... but if you care about freedom, as most free software or open-source developers might, then it's aligned with your value.
You seem to think that the idea is that linux and most FOSS projects are some carebear nonprofit charity organization. You are wrong.
In most cases the idea is that open source work is there because it is easier to share technological progress if multiple companies work at it. And because of this it is just better than the alternative. The linux kernel is worked on by multiple large corporations that are in the business of making money using servers. If these servers run better then they make more money. To make them run better for them they need to implement their features and because of the licence and the ecosystem they need to publish these modifications back to the upstream.
All this works so good because a lot of companies make a lot of money with it.
Github will be used as long as it does not interfere with the workflow or with the legal aspects, nobody cares about the spirit nearly as much as you think
The case of free CI/CD, visibility, and network effects are already said. So I wanna offer an anectode: someone I know is a graphic designer, who maintains a project that curate icons. Moving to Codeberg means he has to interact with PRs using the CLI, which he really does not have familiarity with. GitHub OTOH has a simple desktop client that allows natively switching across PRs, approving then in the UI, etc. It's really, really convenient for someone who's not a developer.
I think Forgejo-based platforms will need to work on a very good GUI client, in order to attract less technical contributors.
Actually I believe it's called "Football" because most ball games were originally played on horseback.
Football (Soccer) was one of the first ball games to be played on foot, hence Foot-ball
That's why Rugby, Canadian Football, Australian Football, and American Football are also types of "Football".
Also, the name "Soccer" was literally invented in England. It's short for "Association Football" (Association - Assoc - Soccer) so shut the f*** up
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There's a new cherry sakura flavor of Red Bull, and I am so excited!!! I don't even super love floral drinks, but I was looking forward to trying this drink out because this flower means so much to me‐‐ it's why I'm wearing my red top today, and I even came all the way out to this park to do this by some actual cherry blossoms, although that didn't totally work out. Lots of things didn't work out as I hoped, actually.
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You need tesseract and language packs installed.
Apparently the language detection uses package names and is a bit buggy, needs a workaround on NixOS that seems to involve recompilation
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Btw by installing the "prison" package you can scan QR and Barcodes with spectacle?!
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It seems to all work, at least Spectacle detects all languages now.
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Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.Plasma 6.7
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KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. In addition to other hardware, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.7.
This new major release brings back the Oxygen and Air themes from the KDE 4 era, including the Horos wallpaper. The ability to switch virtual desktops independently for each output/display was added. It is now easier to toggle between light and dark mode directly from the Brightness & Color widget. You can now test microphones from the audio settings, and assign a custom global keyboard shortcut for "push-to-talk" microphone un-mute. If you have Plasma keyboard enabled and a physical keyboard key is long-pressed a selection of related special characters is presented to choose from. When it comes to printing it is now much easier to connect to shared printers on Windows networks, and a new print queue management tool offers more power than ever before. Vietnamese lunar calendar was added, and you can now select the default system calendar application. It is now possible to set mouse and tablet stylus pointers to be synced. ICC color profile can now be applied when HDR mode is active. Graphical performance has been improved and power usage lowered for CPU-rendered applications, some full-screen applications and on Intel graphics hardware. This release also features an experimental preview of the Union theming engine, which is based on web-like CSS definitions and will make creating and using new themes easier in the future.
For complete list of new features and changes check out the KDE Plasma 6.7 release announcement and the complete changelog.
Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.Plasma 6.7
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KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. In addition to other hardware, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.7.This new major release brings back the Oxygen and Air themes from the KDE 4 era, including the Horos wallpaper. The ability to switch virtual desktops independently for each output/display was added. It is now easier to toggle between light and dark mode directly from the Brightness & Color widget. You can now test microphones from the audio settings, and assign a custom global keyboard shortcut for "push-to-talk" microphone un-mute. If you have Plasma keyboard enabled and a physical keyboard key is long-pressed a selection of related special characters is presented to choose from. When it comes to printing it is now much easier to connect to shared printers on Windows networks, and a new print queue management tool offers more power than ever before. Vietnamese lunar calendar was added, and you can now select the default system calendar application. It is now possible to set mouse and tablet stylus pointers to be synced. ICC color profile can now be applied when HDR mode is active. Graphical performance has been improved and power usage lowered for CPU-rendered applications, some full-screen applications and on Intel graphics hardware. This release also features an experimental preview of the Union theming engine, which is based on web-like CSS definitions and will make creating and using new themes easier in the future.
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With the recent AUR supply-chain attack that compromised over 400 (and possibly up to 1,500) packages, I'm seriously considering switching distros. Attackers took over orphaned packages and modified PKGBUILDs to pull in malicious npm dependencies like atomic-lockfile, which deployed credential-stealing malware and even eBPF rootkits. The fact that the trusted packages themselves didn't look malicious makes this especially concerning.
Like many Arch users, I'll admit I don't carefully read every PKGBUILD before installing from the AUR. The official recommendation has always been to review them manually, but realistically, who does that for every package? This incident made me realize I've been relying on trust rather than vigilance.
I've been on Manjaro for years specifically because of the AUR's vastness, but this attack directly undermines that selling point for me. I ran the Distrochooser to see what else is out there, and it strongly recommended openSUSE as my top match: distrochooser.de/en/d5b4e00678…
For those who've made the jump from Arch/Manjaro to openSUSE Tumbleweed (or Leap): How was the transition? How does the OBS compare to the AUR in terms of package availability for niche software?
The Distrochooser helps you to find the suitable Linux distribution based on your needs!distrochooser.de
With the recent AUR supply-chain attack that compromised over 400 (and possibly up to 1,500) packages, I'm seriously considering switching distros. Attackers took over orphaned packages and modified PKGBUILDs to pull in malicious npm dependencies like atomic-lockfile, which deployed credential-stealing malware and even eBPF rootkits. The fact that the trusted packages themselves didn't look malicious makes this especially concerning.
Like many Arch users, I'll admit I don't carefully read every PKGBUILD before installing from the AUR. The official recommendation has always been to review them manually, but realistically, who does that for every package? This incident made me realize I've been relying on trust rather than vigilance.
I've been on Manjaro for years specifically because of the AUR's vastness, but this attack directly undermines that selling point for me. I ran the Distrochooser to see what else is out there, and it strongly recommended openSUSE as my top match: distrochooser.de/en/d5b4e00678…
For those who've made the jump from Arch/Manjaro to openSUSE Tumbleweed (or Leap): How was the transition? How does the OBS compare to the AUR in terms of package availability for niche software?
The Distrochooser helps you to find the suitable Linux distribution based on your needs!distrochooser.de
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also, if anything installing stuff from the AUR makes things slightly safer because PKGBUILDs and .install files are a lot easier to inspect: you can check the source repo/tarball/whatever points to an official source, and you can verify that the scripts (which are just shell scripts) are not doing anything nefarious.
on the other hand, IIRC OBS and COPR just distribute binaries that are very hard to inspect
EDIT: just don't use an AUR helper and you avoid most of the trouble
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That's not what a supply chain attack is. No part of Arch Linux or derivatives depend on AUR and you don't have to use it.
The attack simply highlights oversights in adoption of orphaned packages and those need to be addressed for sure.
I have always tried to keep my AUR packages to a minimum (a few packages at most), and always read their PKGBUILDs and updates to them. Today, I don't use any AUR package as all the ones I need are now packaged in official repos.
It's beern said a couple of times, but to recap:
On þe last point, you can preserve your distribution and retain access to þe cornucopia by changing your habits and paying attention to þe AUR prompts, and read þe PKGBUILD diffs. Reject anyþing which looks suspicious or which you don't understand. Install software you still want by hand, as you would have before Arch.
All of þese attacks have been npm/nodejs based. Don't let AUR install npm or nodejs. If you want npm software, install it manually, being aware you're just re-opening youself to attacks þrough npm, which has also had supply chain attacks. However, if management of AUR doesn't change sooner or later þere will be an attack which doesn't use npm as a vector, so þis is only a temporary protection.
i'm sorry but the 'compromised aur package' controversy may be bad BUT the compromised packages were malware anyway. you just need to check what you install on your system. these malware packages are stuff like "adnauseam-firefox-git" (why on earth would you download a firefox plugin via the aur) or had names like "python-cool-32-git"
the biggest security issue were the users themselves who didn't check the packages
I tried OpenSUSE, none of the software I wanted to install worked. It's just too unpopular.
Fedora with RPM Fusion is probably a better bet.
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Here, my summary of key features and decisions of Guix:
- Guix is a package manager that can (optionally) run on top of Linux distributions like Debian or Arch (I use it successfully for both) or other POSIX systems, like cargo, pip, conda or Conan. In difference to the pip and cargo package managers, it is language-agnostic, supports many different build systems and languages, and features around 31000 packages now.
- Guix allows to define a fully reproducible system. This works by using a declarative language for immutable version-controlled package descriptions, and by deriving any software from package definitions and a fixed version (commit hash) of the source code. In that, it is similar but much stricter than Nix and NixOS. The key point is that any software built, and all its dependencies, go back to unambigously, immutable versions of source code and build recipes - and all inputs to the system are open source and can be reviewed. This gives also some important protection against malware: An altered cached, binary package would not match the hash of the package's source code, its package definition, and the recursive hash of its dependencies.
- Important for programming, this can also define isolated build and development environments, like Python's venv, but also Docker containers. This means that Guix can be used to develop, build, package, and deploy software, very much like Snap packages. And that's independent from the distribution you work in, very much like pip or cargo are independent from the system you work in. (And yes, it supports Rust!).
- This allows it, and also makes it technically possible, that any software package can be re-built and run years later. To make this legally possible, the official distribution of Guix also demands all components to be open source (FOSS). This is also a key difference to NixOS and non-free forks of Guix, which allow non-free binary packages, but sacrifice reproducibility. (To illustrate: If you have a binary, proprietary scanner driver in NixOS, and the owning company practices planned obselescence and decides that you should buy their new hardware, and pulls that driver, you are out of luck. In Guix, this can't happen.) (Note that as your own private conponents, you can define any package you like, you can also distribute your definitions as a complement to GNU Guix. Non-free packages for Guix do exist, in the same way as you can buy and run Steam Games software for Linux. Such non-free software just can't become part of the official Guix distribution, just like Amazon or Apple can't sell their non-free software via Debian or the Linux kernel project (or, for that matter, Apple has no obligation to market and distribute, say, Oracle products).
- All inputs being open source also means that any software component can be reviewed, that mis-features such as privacy-invasive behaviour can be removed, and that it is hardly possible to hide malware in the system. Because this also applies recursively to all compilers and build tools, this solves also Thompson's "Trusting Trust" problem. In fact, the whole system can be build from a 512 byte binary root (called MER). (Interestingly, that level of user control gets a lot of hate online -- certain companies don't seem to like it).
- Because it would take too long to build every user package from source every time, the produced packages are normally cached (while their correct binary content can be easily verified).
- The declarative description language for the packages is a well-defined, established, minimalist language called Scheme. This is a member of the Lisp family of languages. That Lisp is very well suited for declaratively building and configuring large systems has been proven with GNU Emacs, whose software, but more importantly, whole user configuration, is written in Emacs Lisp.
- The Scheme implementation used is called Guile. It has especially good support for the POSIX environment and has also much better-than-average interactive debugging capabilities compared to other Scheme implementations.
- Also worth noting is that the Guix project has superb online documentation. This is a practical advantage compared to Nix.
As example: you are on Debian stable and quickly want to try a recent version of the kakoune editor (as kakoune is in ongoing development): They are available under the Guix package manager. Just
guix install kakoune
and bang you have it!How it works:
codeberg.org/guix/guix#headlin…
Manual:
guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_no…
Also informative for using Guix just as a package manager:
Transactional package manager, declarative GNU/Linux distribution, reproducible deployment tool, and more!Codeberg.org
Guix is a distribution of the GNU operating system. Guix is technology that respects the freedom of computer users. You are free to run the system for any purpose, study how it works, improve it, and share it with the whole world.guix.gnu.org
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Here, my summary of key features and decisions of Guix:
- Guix is a package manager that can (optionally) run on top of Linux distributions like Debian or Arch (I use it successfully for both) or other POSIX systems, like cargo, pip, conda or Conan. In difference to the pip and cargo package managers, it is language-agnostic, supports many different build systems and languages, and features around 31000 packages now.
- Guix allows to define a fully reproducible system. This works by using a declarative language for immutable version-controlled package descriptions, and by deriving any software from package definitions and a fixed version (commit hash) of the source code. In that, it is similar but much stricter than Nix and NixOS. The key point is that any software built, and all its dependencies, go back to unambigously, immutable versions of source code and build recipes - and all inputs to the system are open source and can be reviewed. This gives also some important protection against malware: An altered cached, binary package would not match the hash of the package's source code, its package definition, and the recursive hash of its dependencies.
- Important for programming, this can also define isolated build and development environments, like Python's venv, but also Docker containers. This means that Guix can be used to develop, build, package, and deploy software, very much like Snap packages. And that's independent from the distribution you work in, very much like pip or cargo are independent from the system you work in. (And yes, it supports Rust!).
- This allows it, and also makes it technically possible, that any software package can be re-built and run years later. To make this legally possible, the official distribution of Guix also demands all components to be open source (FOSS). This is also a key difference to NixOS and non-free forks of Guix, which allow non-free binary packages, but sacrifice reproducibility. (To illustrate: If you have a binary, proprietary scanner driver in NixOS, and the owning company practices planned obselescence and decides that you should buy their new hardware, and pulls that driver, you are out of luck. In Guix, this can't happen.) (Note that as your own private conponents, you can define any package you like, you can also distribute your definitions as a complement to GNU Guix. Non-free packages for Guix do exist, in the same way as you can buy and run Steam Games software for Linux. Such non-free software just can't become part of the official Guix distribution, just like Amazon or Apple can't sell their non-free software via Debian or the Linux kernel project (or, for that matter, Apple has no obligation to market and distribute, say, Oracle products).
- All inputs being open source also means that any software component can be reviewed, that mis-features such as privacy-invasive behaviour can be removed, and that it is hardly possible to hide malware in the system. Because this also applies recursively to all compilers and build tools, this solves also Thompson's "Trusting Trust" problem. In fact, the whole system can be build from a 512 byte binary root (called MER). (Interestingly, that level of user control gets a lot of hate online -- certain companies don't seem to like it).
- Because it would take too long to build every user package from source every time, the produced packages are normally cached (while their correct binary content can be easily verified).
- The declarative description language for the packages is a well-defined, established, minimalist language called Scheme. This is a member of the Lisp family of languages. That Lisp is very well suited for declaratively building and configuring large systems has been proven with GNU Emacs, whose software, but more importantly, whole user configuration, is written in Emacs Lisp.
- The Scheme implementation used is called Guile. It has especially good support for the POSIX environment and has also much better-than-average interactive debugging capabilities compared to other Scheme implementations.
- Also worth noting is that the Guix project has superb online documentation. This is a practical advantage compared to Nix.
As example: you are on Debian stable and quickly want to try a recent version of the kakoune editor (as kakoune is in ongoing development): They are available under the Guix package manager. Just
guix install kakoune
and bang you have it!How it works:
codeberg.org/guix/guix#headlin…
Manual:
guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_no…
Also informative for using Guix just as a package manager:
Transactional package manager, declarative GNU/Linux distribution, reproducible deployment tool, and more!Codeberg.org
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Doctor Who Linux, when?
/dev/tardis would be a symlink to /dev/zero, cause it's bigger on he inside.
Hi, Just wondering if Someone can help me out. I previously downloaded PIA but have uninstalled it some time ago with the sudo apt purge. However, I've now found that there is still ongoing network activity through the Pihole. I've attempted to look through the DPKG --list as well as the apt list which does gave "pia/noble 3.107-2build" (however purge states there is no pia installed), but can't seem to uninstall PIA any further. Does anyone know how I can further uninstall any packages so that this is no longer occurring?
For now ive blocked access through pihole.
Many thanks in advance!
Maybe younger people won't appreciate this as much, having grown up when this weren't so rare, but nothing quite illustrates to me how far Linux has come than browsing Amazon and seeing "Linux" listed as a first-class citizen on product images. Not buried in the details, not answered in a FAQ, but right there on the product image at the top of the listing. Many of you will remember having to dig through wikis and forums to uncover whether a product was compatible with Linux; and sometimes you still do.
This is only a USB device; it'd be more surprising if it weren't Linux compatible... but that's not the point; the point is that "Linux" is advertised at the top right there after Windows and before Mac OS or Android. That's what still grabs me. Metrics and guestimates are great; in a capitalist world, it's often what advertisements say that indicate a truer story.
I'm just stoked to see Tux on Amazon. Not as Linux-enthusiast swag, but on another product. It's so wild.
The Steam Deck has done a lot to bring Linux to mainstream consumers, no doubt. And Steam on Linux has radically altered the gaming scene, although it steals credit from a lot of heavy lifting by Proton. Still, I've been playing BL4 on my little Ryzen 5800H mini, under Arch, with my old PS4 controller, and am always a little shocked when I do.
We live in Interesting Times, my friend, for better and for worse. Silver linings, and all.
This is GOLD!
Source: Debian user for 25 years.
That name is a blast from the past!
Fortunately there is a Debian way to install video card drivers using packages in the repository. Installing the drivers the Debian way will make sure that the drivers continue to work after kernel updates.
- ++AtiHowTo++ has instructions on setting up the recommended free and open-source drivers for ATI/AMD video cards.
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You would not let some random stranger feed your baby; do not execute commands without first understanding what they do.
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You can run either. The truth is depending on what you want to do, what hardware you running, and software versions you have available, your experience will be very different.
Personally I run X11 because I'm used to it. It's extremely stable and the failure points are well known.
The waylandism design really bothers me, and so does the attitude of waylandists. Throwing stuff that works away for no reason, chasing some sort of Android trash ecosystem dream that's never going to happen.
Whatever man, you're taking xgamma away from me over my dead body. cocks shotgun. Come and get it.
As someone who has used X11 and Wayland, it doesn't matter for the typical user. If you, like me, have a penchant for some smaller desktop environments like XFCE or window managers, you will be stuck with X11, but many are already working on porting to Wayland.
Couple edge cases for gaming, namely screen tearing on some X11 configurations and certain Nvidia hardware running into issues on Wayland. For multi-monitor or high DPI users, Wayland handles per-monitor DPI and fractional scaling far better than X11. Maybe a couple more edge use cases for remoting into the desktop, but Wayland support is also improving quickly on that end. In any case, Wayland is by design more secure than X11.
I thought I’d never have to care about X11 or Wayland if I was a typical user. I thought it was just a debate for really passionate Linux user.
I turned out to be false since the reason I had bad playback on my HTPC, was the fact that Wayland was preventing the refresh rate of my TV to be adjusted to the content.
Switching to a distro using X11 solved the issue and apparently Wayland doesn’t plan on changing anything about this issue.
Wayland doesn’t plan on changing anything about this issue.
This seems to be a common pattern with the Wayland team. They seem very focused on some technical ideology for how "things should work" to the point of ignoring or dismissing real-world issues.
Perhaps in another 20 years they'll get around to addressing it.
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A year ago I got a new PC, installed Ubuntu 24.04 which defaults to Wayland, and installed discord. Push to talk wouldn't work unless discord had mouse focus. I spent a few hours researching and trying different things before switching to X11 where it just immediately works.
Tell me more about how polished Wayland is.
That is a feature. Allowing arbitrary programs to read any key press is how you get keyloggers.
Wayland has a protocol to request reading keys out of focus (which will ask the user for permission, as opposed to just read it like on xorg).
If the program was running in xwayland (which it probably was) of course it won't use that protocol, and will just try to read it X11 style.
In some DEs (KDE) you can select if X11 apps are allowed to read keys.
"I switched to X11 and it immediately works". I'll give you another tip: if you run chmod 777 -R / the file manager stops pestering about permissions and it immediately works.
Yes, you clearly understand the problem, thank you. If there's a problem with filesystem permissions you can use tools like chmod, chown, and setfacl to fix them in a variety of ways.
How do you fix a wayland session if your app doesn't properly support GlobalShortcuts? Where's the chmod 777 equivalent that lets the user say "I know this means this can spy on everything I do but I'd prefer this work today instead of waiting on a bug fix." Without something like this, the entire desktop ecosystem needs to mature before you can call Wayland "polished."
If it's a Wayland application it will support global shortcuts.
For X11 apps. If you are on KDE there's this menu:
Other DEs have different ways to deal with this.
And if you are on Gnome, change DE. Gnome will always follow its own philosophy, because apparently it doesn't align with yours, you should use something else.
Btw, I gave the same answer in the previous comment.
Also, on the "how can you consider this polished"... Wayland supports global shortcuts, this is a fact. What it doesn't support is "global shortcuts for apps that use a protocol that is not Wayland". I think I made my point
github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pu…
Here is the x11libre dev not understanding what the ^ operand does in C. Would you trust running this person's code as a display server?
Sure. No one expects anyone to know everything from the start, and people improve with time. But this was metux's understanding of C when he forked off xorg thinking he could do better than freedesktop.
2^16 is 2 xor 16 which equals 18, not 2 to the power of 16 which is 65536GitHub
I'm a bit surprised you didn't find much searching the web, because this is one of the most hot topics in Linux and everyone has an opinion and discussions are endless.
I use Wayland for years by now and it improved vastly during that time. One of the advantages over X11 I appreciate is the better handling of multiple monitors, with different resolution, refreshrate and VRR in effect. This was simply not possible in X11 in this form. I like its more secure by design, in relation to keyboard input. X11 can read all keyboard input by any application at any time. Wayland works different here, but for the time being I enabled X11 compatibility for this in KDE, until a all applications support Wayland fully.
Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything! is more of an anti Wayland posting, but its good to have a view from all angles. So I post it here.
Have in mind that Wayland improved in recent years drastically. Searching the web is either full of Ai nonsense or old content about the old state of Wayland. Also it depends which desktop environment you are using, because some are better at Wayland than others; notably KDE is on the front regarding Wayland. So even if some Wayland features are already developed, does not mean that all desktop environments supports them already.
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
I’m a bit surprised you didn’t find much searching the web, because this is one of the most hot topics in Linux and everyone has an opinion and discussions are endless.
it's 2026. OP probably only found useless AI slop articles after a couple searches before getting discouraged and asking here
Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything! is more of an anti Wayland posting, but its good to have a view from all angles. So I post it here.
I like how you slightly poison the well there ("more of an anti Wayland posting) rather than pointing out that Wayland has very real problems even after >10 years of development.
You accuse me of poison? What nonsense is this? The author is anti Wayland and the entire post is about reasoning why you should not use Wayland. This is anti Wayland, not my opinion, no poisoning, nothing. I don't agree with that person but still included it here, so we can see others perspectives too. I did not include any opinion or judge of me about that article, so nobody is poisoned by my opinion before reading it.
rather than pointing out that Wayland has very real problems even after >10 years of development.
Why don't you do that? As you clearly know more than me.
The author is anti Wayland
The authors' point of view does not matter. You've poisoned the well by presenting the data collected as potentially "tainted" by a bias that, even if true, does not change the data presented.
So yes - clearly and very obviously poisoning the well. Textbook really.
Why don't you do that?
The link you provided actually did that. But they are "anti-wayland"...
Edit: and I'll push back hard on the "anti-wayland" language as well. This is propaganda-style speech. People can "not like things" and disagree. But labeling somebody "anti-x" diminishes their opinions and ideas.
Wayland breaks everything is right in the title. Did you even look into the link before you accuse ME of propaganda? I did not poison the well and left my opinion out. The article IS anti Wayland, and that is not my opinion and does not reflect my opinion. You should stop right there.
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you: rather than pointing out that Wayland has very real problems even after >10 years of development.me: Why don’t you do that?
you: The link you provided actually did that. But they are “anti-wayland”…
But you expect ME to do it, when I ask you to do the same?
Wayland breaks everything is right in the title. Did you even look into the link before you accuse ME of propaganda? I did not poison the well and left my opinion out. The article IS anti Wayland, and that is not my opinion and does not reflect my opinion. You should stop right there.
You're just anti-X11.
You just attack me personally the whole time with wrong accusations, instead bringing arguments for or against Wayland and X11.
Edit: You call me doing propaganda, you call me poisoning the opinions of others, you call me anti X11. Just because I call the article Anti Wayland. That's it, that is your basis. Even though I provided that link to have a different view in the mix our discussions too. I ask you, would you not consider the article I linked being Anti Wayland? Strange because it ONLY speaks about its problems (some not even true anymore), but not about its strengths. Also you call me anti-X11 (to me personally), but you say its propaganda speech if I say Anti Wayland (about the article).
You just attack me personally the whole time with wrong accusations, instead bringing arguments for or against Wayland and X11.
I very clearly attacked your argument (not you) as "Poisoning the Well". Sounds like you're not familiar with logical fallacies, I highly recommend reading up on them.
you call me anti X11
Yes - that was me doing to you what you did to the author to show by example. You took that as an insult which is why I say calling the author of that article "anti-wayland" is well-poisoning. You've set the tone that the article is not to be taken seriously because of a perceived bias on the part of the author. You "besmirched" their reputation to, by association, attack the argument. This is practically the definition of Poisoning the Well.
Just because I call the article Anti Wayland. That’s it, that is your basis.
Yes - that was the fallacy. The "well-poisoning" if you will. If you simply said "Here is an article that points out some of the problems with Wayland" or something to that effect I wouldn't have taken any issue.
"I like pancakes"
Internet morons: "Oh so you hate waffles and anyone who eats them???"
But somehow pointing out problems with Wayland always gets you downvoted because it’s “newer and more secure”.
That's not the reason why he got downvotes. In fact, he didn't even mention what problems Wayland has. Contrary to him, I even posted a huge link with massive listings why Wayland sucks. I also pointed out 2 problems in my comment he is replying to.
I personally haven't really seen much difference between the two except Wayland eating more CPU and being rather tedious for hybrid (Ryzen/Nvidia) setups (still haven't resolved it crashing when I change TTY). I'd personally say stick to whatever default your desktop environment runs on..XWayland helps with the whole compatibility concerns at least.
Just my experience though, yours could be different depending on your machine and general setup
On my 2014 PC I'm using Fedora 44 with KDE, which defaults to Wayland: not problems whatsoever, but some applications say "Wayland support is experimental, beware".
I switched to X11 after a suggestion to debug some issues with a game. The issues was not fixed, all the other applications I've tried are still working flawlessly. PLUS the KDE night light feature is working (was not in Wayland). So I stayed with X11.
On my wife MacBook (2015) I installed Kinoite, defaults to Wayland. Everything works, but Rustdesk renders VERY small. I have not tried X11 on that, and will not try it.
Try both with all your applications and setups and choose the smoother experience. Make security a secondary priority: if it was the first you have less attack surface sticking to terminal only.
Waylad is technically a better idea, the progression of X11, more secure and should be faster and smoother when it's ready...
But I run into so many incompatabilities still and often janky support via xWayland that I really don't think Wayland is ready to be the default just yet.
It will be, I'm sure, but for now I spend more time fighting it than I do using it. A bit of snazz in KDE and Waydroid seem to be the only things that actually need it, for me, and so many legacy things just nope right out and crash without going back to x by force.
It depends heavily on your hardware and workflow.
Wayland can be a great experience and I personally enjoy how smooth it feels, but I acknowledge that many people run into some problems.
We had a long transitioning period and some things didn’t work for a while or were missing. I’d say it’s ready by now.
Do things like xdotool and xinput still work?
There will be tools to interact with Wayland
I don't really like the hypothetical sound of this.
xdotool is essential for keeping some of my basic hardware usable.
(Yeah ... more and more, I think I'm going to be a very late adopter of Wayland. I was planning on Debian Stable for my next install anyway...)
xdotool is essential for keeping some of my basic hardware usable.
That's a good sign that you may not want to upgrade to Wayland on that hardware.
Uinput and libinput are the proper tools and they both work.
Also, the keyboard configuration is done with xkb
Wayland has basically come (as part of the plan) to replace X11
As part of whose plan?
I'd like to chime in on the "average hardware" claim.
The idea that Wayland is more demanding to run than X11 is a misconception.
Mutter (Gnome's compositor) and kwin (KDE's compositor) are more demanding than xorg plus a simple window manager. Usually that's what people used to compare when they said that Wayland is demanding, and now they just keep repeating it.
In actuality, the Wayland protocol is more efficient by nature. So a light Wayland compositor (e.g. labwc) will run better on limited hardware, than a light X11 window manager.
Tho, Wayland requires proper EGL support, which you might not have on some old exotic hardware (e.g. a Tegra 2/3/4 tablet).
The example I usually make is:
* Dig up an old intel atom netbook (it's old and
* Try using regular lxqt on x11
* Now try lxqt on labwc
* See which one you'd rather use
X11 is still server-first and needs workarounds to run locally (like startx, sx), while Wayland can just be run. Unlike X, it isolates every processes access to other windows, but with slow adoption of protocols for things like screen-sharing, video conferences, accessibility tools. The tooling is not yet there imo.
That's the main difference nowadays. Some people have issues with tearing or wrong-monitor with either of them.
Honestly, Wayland vs. X (and Flatpak) fit this perfectly:
Test better.
Of course you can expect things with names like "Xultra-Xold-Xscreen-Xsharing-Xtool-11" to not work. Trying any of those and complaining it doesn't work is just disingenuous and facetious.
Edit: I forgot you had a real question after the misinformation. Here's some things Wayland does better
But it's just to name a few, you know...
I mean the ELI5 for the uninitiated is that X11 is older, and Wayland was made as the successor to X11. It aims to address issues that a lot of people had with X11. X11 is not in active development whereas Wayland is, and for support for modern tech, it'll be added to Wayland but not X11. These days I'd advise to go with Wayland unless you either have hardware that doesn't place nicely with it or you have a specific use-case for X11, i.e. Wayland unless you have a reason not to. Although most "beginner" distros choose for you without prompting you to pick, in which case go with the default (it's probably Wayland anyway).
If you mean to explain the debate, basically some people have particular things they want to do, or they want to do something a certain way, and it's not supported by Wayland, usually by design due to things like security concerns or philosophical differences with X11. X11 will continue to work for a long time but it's not getting new features, so if these issues are a concern with you, you could stick to X11 for the foreseeable future.
The average user is not supposed to notice a difference (apart from maybe QoL differences like performance, screen tearing, etc)—that's the goal of both projects. It should just display your desktop.
Yes. This is still an important point, you make!
Wayland has been the default for awhile, but open source software is maintained by volunteers.
Until each specific package has been updated by the original developers, it may not work well on Wayland.
So, for now, there's also a trade-off:
also don't want to troubleshoot, it just works. Most applications are installed via flatpak.
I’m not surprised Flatpaks work with Wayland without issue, however Flatpaks containerize the application which is something I don’t want to do for everything I download as it adds extra overhead for something that could’ve just been built and installed as a native package (.deb, .rpm).
To each their own though.
If you use a feature complete Wayland compositor and compare it to equivalents (RIP velox), then Wayland basically offers more consistent pen and multitouch support and stuff, while being faster.
There's no 2D acceleration in Wayland and that's by design, it's made for new GPUs that don't have 2D anyway anymore. Programs either draw pixels or start up 3D.
XLibre is trying the opposite and is actually merging various 2D drivers for old and niche hardware, like ct65550 as found in the Toshiba Libretto 50ct among others. Most of these originate from distribution forks (NetBSD in this case). T2 Linux also maintains a patch to bring back lots of more ancient 2D drivers that were removed in 2012.
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I don't think for tue average user it really matters much. If you've got multiple screens of different sizes or refresh rates, Wayland is the way to go. If you've got multiple identical screens that you want to treat as a single big screen, X11 is perfect for that.
I recently switched and I'm happy with how it runs. Even on Nvidia.
Security
When you use X11, you allow any program running on your computer to access anything on your screen and clipboard, collect your keystrokes and type. It's trivial to implement a keylogger, for example. Do not buy into the whole "no viruses on Linux" thing, it's not true and likely to become even less and less true, as desktop Linux is becoming popular.
Wayland at least tries to put some barriers in place against this.
Fair points all around. I wasn't thinking about version locks for the LTS releases when I posted, and it looks like I wouldn't have had an issue on GNOME 48.
I think the maturity of the ecosystem has a larger impact on user experience than you're giving it credit for. I understand wayland and the rest of the desktop ecosystem will someday (maybe today for those living on the bleeding edge) provide meaningful benefits over X11 without drawbacks. I'll welcome it when it does, but in the meantime I don't want to deal with troubleshooting my discord keybinds, or figuring out why Spotify has a weird window border. I want my desktop environment to Just Work™. It's immaterial if the fault lies with wayland, GNOME, or Canonical for shipping wayland as a default while GNOME support still needed improvements. The end result is that as a user the only way to easily fix my problem is to use an X11 session instead of wayland, which makes wayland look like the problem.
There's some retribution mixed in for sure. But the "make America great again" slogan resonates particularly in rural areas. Driving down the interstate, you'll see signs for "historic downtown [X]". The downtown used to be full of shops and stuff to do. The locals would mostly work at a nearby factory. Then a Walmart comes in and kills all the shops and the factory moves overseas. Everyone in power either doesn't care or is actively pushing for this outcome. The status quo is decay for these people.
I used to work in a factory in a small town (it later closed down). One day, the local superintendent of education was meeting with our managers. They asked "what can we do to make our students better workers here". How much can you blame people for voting in Trump when that is their education?
Oh dear, the situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a fair bit worse since GamingOnLinux initially covered the malicious packages.Liam Squires-Hand (GamingOnLinux)
TLDR: Open package repositories without some approval and oversight system, like AUR, will have even more problems in the future due to advanced coding AI and malicious ~~foreign~~ hackers.
Edit: Please normalize TLDR's on bot posts with just a link.
Edit 2: I have been rightfully informed that this is not a bot post. I still think links should not be posted without a tiny abstract, one might say: a TLDR.
I have also been informed that the text does not spell out "foreign". This is correct. The text does say
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Not all of the packaging issues are as bad as the initial wave of trying to steal credentials, some are just adding ridiculous messages in Russian.
This implies but does not establish the nationality of attackers. While Arch has contributors from all over the world, it is commonly cited as being a Canadian distribution (example, see below).
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"Foreign hackers"
Foreign to who?
The article never said "foreign", you made that up.
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AUR is community-maintained packages intentionally designed to shift security responsibility to users. Without pre-installation vetting, meaning anyone can submit anything on there, making it perfect for malware distribution.
Of course all code is visible for inspection, community voting exists, and malicious packages can be reported and removed which limit malicious action.
But now we have LLM that can generate (and distribute) malware and do pretty good code obfuscation so I am not convinced by this model. Honestly I never felt comfortable using AUR (so I avoid it) because I'm not technical enough to review all the code my machine runs.
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Sometimes it's as simple as "because they can".
They can do this so they did. Its likely no deeper then that.
AUR has never been a good idea. I don't use it and this news proved me right.
Does that mean a distro official package manager would be immune to infections? Of course not, but they do offer a more secure distribution system and build greater trust. Minimizing the chance of malware being spread through their means.
Edit: If you have the knowledge and time to inspect the AUR packages you install, AUR might be good for you. I have none of these, that's why I stick to my official distro packages (and sometimes also some flatpak but from official sources)
Minimizing the chance of malware being spread through their means.
Right. And there is another angle to that: It is far easier to turn an ecosystem into a breeding ground for malware, than to get rid of it again. Once a system has a reputation to be easily hackable, it attracts malware like spoiled meat attracts flies.
AUR has never been a good idea. I don’t use it and this news proved me right.
But is Arch sufficiently complete without AUR packages? It is being criticized - and rightly so - that the magnificient Arch Wiki is full of references to AUR packages. That could in fact mislead new users.
I am an happy Arch user, since about ten years... But I use it differently. I am running Debian stable on the hardware, which has all the drivers I need (after getting rid of NVidia graphics, which was just a mistake to buy). I use Debian for my work / office / productivity system, to read email, and so on.
But for some stuff, I need newer software: For trying out new features or libraries (I am a developer). For testing out new window managers. Leisure programming. And so on. I use Arch for this. After a few years of dual booting (which caused occasional breakage), I settled on running Arch in a VM. Which works fine for me.
And the last shift I am experiencing is that I use more and more the Guix package manager. The reason for this is that when one tries out a lot of things, and does only system upgrades for many years (which means not doing a reinstall, but replacing the oldstable packages with the newer stable packages), the system becomes a bit untidy over time. Old packages, scripts, and configurations accumulate, and it is hard to get rid of it without breaking things, because one just cannot delete everything one does not remember what it was needed for. And there is so much stuff in software that, after all, turns out to be not such a good idea. Yes, a fresh OS install leaves a tidy system, but it would cost a few days. (By the way, accumulating cruft in the long term is also somewhat of an disadvantage of rolling release distros.)
Now, Guix solves that, because I have a temporary, deterministic environment for every programming project (just like a Python venv). And by this way, stuff does not contaminate the base system, and is garbage collected when it is not used any more.
And, Guix has quite recent packages, similar to Arch.
Now I use Arch less and less.
Yeah you can go with Nix then.
But it is not by chance that Linux is based on Open Source hardeare support. The alternative is something like MacOS.
So if nixos is the new I use arch btw is guix the new I use nixos btw?
Lol
I never said that GitHub was better. I just don't feel like using a package maintained by a stranger with no tied to neither the software I want to install nor the distribution packages repository.
Of course installing random code from stranger is never great advice regardless of the distribution source. But AUR is simply not for me, and many users don't understand the risk or let's say responsabilities it involves while installing packages from that source.
I never said that GitHub was better.
It is arguably harder to take over a package from github or Codeberg.
You could also serve your PKGBUILD from a Gemini server (the Gemini small-web protocol, not the Google AI which is really easy to administer and secure), and sign it with a PGP key. That would be about as secure without depending on a huge US American company.
I agree about the risks in terms of the way some sources present the AUR as just extra packages. But I don't think you can object to the AUR more than any other place on the internet where anyone can upload software; unfortunately, the onus is going to be on the user to verify what they install. The AUR is moderated by volunteers and it wouldn't be fair to expect them to vet all of the high volume of commits to the AUR. Possibly they could vet new maintainers or new packages or newly adopted packages, but nothing would stop someone from initially uploading a genuine package and then replacing it with something malicious. Or they could require identity verification to be an AUR maintainer but then far fewer genuine packages would be on there because people don't want to give their real identity to contribute (I maintain some AUR packages, and would stop if required to verify my IRL identity).
I can totally understand if the AUR is not for you; it's more time-consuming as you have to read PKGBUILDs (I always do). But that doesn't make it bad that it exists at all. I think there should be more warnings about it for new users, and possibly some more moderation, though like I said above there's no perfect moderation solution that would simultaneously forgo users' responsibility to check and keep the AUR as large as it is today. Ultimately the option should still exist for users who want it. If it didn't exist, I'd have to hand-package every program that's not in the official repos, and that's even more time-consuming than pulling and reading through a PKGBUILD that someone else already wrote and shared.
Debian users should receive their news 6-12 months after everyone else, change my mind
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That's optimistically quick
Sincerely,
A Debian user
Huh, you really feel schadenfreude over another reputable project being hit by/having to deal with malware? And all the people who might be affected by it?
That is not something that would ever cross my mind.
Using Linux is not a dick measuring contest (and man I hate these threads asking "why is your distro the best?" - it feels like trolling and sowing division and grief to me. A bit like asking a mother "What is your favorite child?".)
But apart from that, I think we can all agree that security of AUR packages is no good enough, and that this deficit is by design.
Whoa, this is blowing up. Chill, guys. I really think that sucks. If anything, with Arch being bleeding edge and all of that, at least you're showing early the tough wake up the other distros will have to do in relation to malware after Linux' increasing popularity. Time to brush those SELinux and apparmor bits, even.
But, now, we Debian users are okay, (btw, 😎).
What an annoyingly uninformative title. Better title: a lot more compromised AUR packages have been found since our last update.
"A lot worse" is intentionally vague to get people to click.
At least some level of human review is going to be needed.
So... completely negating the point of a User Repository??? Introduce some kind of authoritative oversight, and it's essentially just another regular repository, erasing all the benefits of the AUR. The whole point of the distro slapping a huge disclaimer of "DISCLAIMER: AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk." at the top of the homepage is because these kind of compromises are the trade-off one makes
I think I'd be satisfied with just not allowing people to take over orphaned packages. That seems like a glaring attack vector and closing it would not harm the AUR in any way.
And yea, arch (and its derivatives) probably should not ship with AUR helpers pre-installed.
I use arch btw, it's only effecting the arch user repository, which lives separately from the maintained repositories, it's not even possible to download stuff from there with pacman. Really it's just a community space, I also have packages there. You can download pre-packaged apps, so if you install them, you will be able to remove them with pacman. I think it's a great concept.
it's like a forum where some jerk writes "use 'sudo rm -rf /' to speed up the computer". Except you don't have to read it to execute their plan.
Flathub is also concerning btw. But at least those apps are containers (with too much permissions)
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I don't understand what any of this means, but this is good I guess
As an example, I tried to install sdk and it installed in ~/.sdkman or something idk, there're no other stuff for sdk I think, except for browser stuff idk. And when I tried to install Nix that did not work either. Nix seems to have installed to /Nix/store and that. And of course any commands do not work. I can kinda run the executables in the files but not all commands are there ig.
What I am supposed to do?
What am I supposed to do?
Learning to write a problem description that is remotely intelligible would be a start. What Distro are you on? What are you trying to accomplish? What have you tried? What error occurs (error messages or what expectations you have that are not met), etc.
The "Atomic Arch" campaign compromised over 1,500 AUR packages between June 10-12, targeting SSH keys and API tokens. If you updated via yay or paru during that window, you need to audit your local system.
I’ve built a client-side tool to help with this.
Local Processing: Your package list never leaves your browser. All comparisons are done client-side.
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The script in the top post of this thread does a better job, since it actually checks when you have upgraded the affected packages: discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-comp…
There's also an even more thorough github.com/lenucksi/aur-malwar…
As recently discussed on the Arch Mailing list there appears to have been a large coordinated attack on the AUR some time within the last 24 hours that seems to have resulted in a rather sizable amount of packages being contaminated with malware.CachyOS Forum
Those are solid resources but I built mine specifically for the folks who don't want to pipe a remote bash script into their shell during a malware outbreak. My goal was simple, a private way to audit the list without needing to clone a repo or install Python dependencies.
Use the forensics scripts if you’re a power user, but if you just want a quick, client-side check that doesn't touch your filesystem, that's what the tool is there for.
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I want to run a shell script that might open my browser to a specific website. I don't want the page to load when this happen. But I cannot switch off my internet access also (as I use the internet to remotely access another system at the same time). So I am planning to isolate the run time environment for the shell script.
I an on Arch and I used to use a AUR package called bubblejail to do this. But with the whole AUR security fiasco, I am not trusting any packages from AUR. I can switch to another distro if needed, like Rocky or something.
So my requirement is, Internet sandboxing for a terminal and the processes it spawns. Preferably using flatpak commands.
Edit: I tried disabling the internet usage for a terminal from flathub using Flatseal. Sure I cannot curl after this, but when I launch my browser using it, it had Internet access.
There is likely a less complicated way to do it but sudo to another user account and then run it with the protection. This way it can't reach your web browser. Or - I don't know if your program can do it, but Firejail certainly can - hide browser binaries and xdg-open from it, but I don't know how effective this will be against your particular script.
If you don't trust something maybe don't run it on your main OS?
portmaster can turn off internet for a specific app, but even better it can block specific domains
actually just putting the website domain (with local ip or something) into hosts file will be enough
I don't think flatseal isolates child processes, only the flatpak itself.
You could use firejail. That is available outside the AUR. As there is no socket available, if testing with a browser it should force the browser to crash.
You could also try setting up a network namespace that only binds to loopback in case you want local device network access.
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I don't think you need to switch distros to solve this problem, but if you do you could try NixOS. Obviously there is no AUR, but you can write .nix config files to fine tune how firejail automatically works with specific applications:
programs.firejail = {
enable = true;
wrappedBinaries = {
firefox = {
executable = "${pkgs.firefox}/bin/firefox";
profile = "${pkgs.firejail}/etc/firejail/firefox.profile";
extraArgs = [
"--private-home=.mozilla"
"--whitelist=\${HOME}/Desktop/BrowserSandbox"
];
};
transmission-qt = {
executable = "${pkgs.transmission-qt}/bin/transmission-qt";
profile = "${pkgs.firejail}/etc/firejail/transmission-qt.profile";
extraArgs = [
"--net=none"
];
};
};
};
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That's honestly a fair point. Firejail is simpler to use, but is still imperatively driven. Nixpak relies on declarative expression which is kinda the whole selling point of NixOS. For SUID, again I think its a matter of complexity vs containment. One is easier, one is better isolated.
Firejail still might be the better choice in this given case, but that would depend on whether or not this is a per-user setup. Nixpak would win outright I would think outside that just based on reproducibility. I don't think the user shared details on why/who this would be for.
firejail should be able to do this with a carefully crafted command line or config file.
flatpak run argument --no-talk-name=NAME
Yet again a reminder that flathub solves a problem most people don't have, and most users het confused with what it does.
We have had granular permissions for users on systems for 50 years, and virtual machines for 30 years, yet people keep using the wrong tool for the job just because the wrong tools keep getting popilar for some damn reason.
OP you are using your flatpack terminal wrong, the processes it launches do not inherit the constraints, or at least are not forced to follow them. Use a separate user account for that.
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Decided to create a thread for tracking and sharing the news and opinions on the new Malicious Atomic Arch NPM Campaign in which more than 1600 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit.
Find the infected packages: md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA
Most popular packages on the affected list
Package Popularity Affected Reverted
libgdata 16.98% (2026-06-11 14:59+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:30+00:00)
python-future 5.38% (2026-06-11 15:58+00:00) (2026-06-11 16:54+00:00)
gdl 3.36% (2026-06-11 13:35+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:32+00:00)
libquvi-scripts 2.31% (2026-06-11 15:05+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:33+00:00)
libquvi 2.22% (2026-06-11 15:04+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:33+00:00)
gtkimageview 2.19% (2026-06-11 13:44+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:33+00:00)
python2-pyparsing 2.02% (2026-06-11 14:23+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:40+00:00)
python2-appdirs 1.96% (2026-06-11 14:22+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:26+00:00)
compiler-rt19 1.95% (2026-06-11 14:23+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:30+00:00)
python2-packaging 1.90% (2026-06-11 14:21+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:38+00:00)
wine-nine 1.86% (2026-06-11 15:48+00:00) (2026-06-11 21:36+00:00)
clang19 1.86% (2026-06-11 15:36+00:00) (2026-06-11 21:24+00:00)
clang15 1.76% (2026-06-12 12:34+00:00) (2026-06-12 12:54+00:00)
mono-addins 1.69% (2026-06-11 15:33+00:00) (2026-06-11 21:34+00:00)
python2-chardet 1.68% (2026-06-12 12:42+00:00) (2026-06-12 14:48+00:00)
python-monotonic 1.55% (2026-06-11 15:43+00:00) (2026-06-11 21:37+00:00)
python2-cffi 1.47% (2026-06-12 12:44+00:00) (2026-06-12 15:10+00:00)
alvr 1.26% (2026-06-11 13:54+00:00) (2026-06-11 16:50+00:00)
python2-gobject 1.23% (2026-06-12 12:44+00:00) (2026-06-12 14:47+00:00)
vidcutter 1.03% (2026-06-11 13:24+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:43+00:00)Sonatype researchers uncovered Atomic Arch, a supply chain attack targeting orphaned AUR packages. Learn how attackers are hijacking trusted projects.Sonatype Security Research Team (Sonatype)
Analyzing the commit history of libdata, you can see the attacker pushed the malicious PKGBUILD on Jun 11, 2026 14.59 GMT. And it was reverted back to the previous commit on the same day, about 2.5 hours later, on Jun 11, 2026 at 17:30 GMT.
So it seems like if you updated the libgdata package during this period, your system might be affected.
Edit: Commit history: github.com/archlinux/aur/activ…
⚠️⚠️Experimental aur.git mirror⚠️⚠️ (read-only mirror) - Activity · archlinux/aurGitHub
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This helped me get an overview yesterday.
I made some comments, pointing out that some distros use the AUR in unintended ways, adding to its popularity but also making it easier for attackers to do shit like this.
Today I was told that this was "politics" between distros and really everybody should be able to use the AUR how they see fit.
That was a bit out there, but many people are hellbent on pushing the "company fucked up with tech security" narrative here.
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