In your opinion, what is the most user-friendly, hassle free Linux setup experience (so I don’t have to spend days configuring device drivers and such)? I’m looking for the most stable and least headache-inducing distro as possible. Likely going to be installed on an older Mac.

#Linux #Tech #OpenSource

In the spirit of Follow Friday, what is your favorite underappreciated open source project? Answers with and without a Fediverse presence are valid, but website and/or source repo links are strongly encouraged.

I like LocalSend, it's a cross platform AirDrop work-alike for Windows, Linux, Mac, PC, Android and iOS.

https://localsend.org/

#followfriday #opensource #windows #linux #mac #ios #android #localsend

Can anyone recommend a good VM hosting service akin to Linode in its heyday. I just need a low power VM or two for my own personal infrastructure. I need a real VM with a shell. These aren't for websites. Bonus if Gentoo Linux is an available OS option.

#hosting #linux #gentoo #sysadmin #linode

Anyone knows why WebSerial does not work under #opensuse #tumbleweed?

#linux #meshtastic

The Verge: Screw it, I’m installing Linux

https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos

#win11 #linux

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To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Copilot 365, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how. Meanwhile, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10, including security updates, forcing people to buy new hardware or live with the risks.

Pleasant surprise: #wherewindsmeet seems to work just fine under Proton. It also seems pretty and the combat feels smooth, at least at level 2.

MMOs/Live Service games tend to be hard sells for #linux compatibility

💡 A trip to an electronics store changed everything. Instead of buying a computer, Felipe Hernandez built one—kicking off a journey from Linux discovery to a full-blown tech career.

Now a software engineer & adjunct professor, he credits LFCS and CKAD for deep learning and confidence.

Read his story 👉 https://training.linuxfoundation.org/blog/meet-luis-felipe-hernandez/

#Linux #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Developers

#selfhosting #nextcloud #cloud #app #server #linux #foren

linux people, have you been able to get fusion 360 running, or did you give up and learn the freecad user interface instead? TIA.

#linux #cad #fusion360 #autodesk #freecad #whoneedsanautomaticdeskanyway

What would YOU do with about 100 SFF HP Elite Desks?

#linux

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Stacks of HP Elite desk computers

Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit https://lobste.rs/s/pmsbte #linux
https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/

I'm still using it.
With only MSDOS machines too: fast transfers. Saved me so much time.. :0)

#simplicity #efficiency #usb #ftp #server #internetbox #localhost #lan #files #share #terminal #commandline #internetbox #windows #mac #linux #msdos

I plugged a USB key into the Internet Box, formatted it, set up an FTP, and now I can send/receive stuff from all the machines with just a terminal/command line.

I love this old fashion method! :0)
And I save miles and time. :0))

#simplicity #efficiency #usb #ftp #server #internetbox #localhost #lan #files #share #terminal #commandline #internetbox #linux #msdos

@futurebird Give me the bash shell, and no one gets hurt.

#linux
#bash

So... @fedora has made a policy explicitly allowing AI code. So I have to change my home distro.

@gentoo and @netbsd both have specific policies against it, but I ain't about doing a Gentoo install (sorry, guys, I love you for this, but I need a binary first distro), and NetBSD ain't great for gaming AFAIK.

So... any other Distros wanna step up and do the right thing? @archlinux? @opensuse? @debian? #VoidLinux? @alpinelinux?

Just a public statement that says "No, we don't want that crap" would be plenty --- I understand the difficulty of enforcing the policy, but setting it as a community/commit standard would go a long way towards making a lot of us feel better.

(Boost for visibility, please?)

#AI #Linux #Distro #BSD

The Life of a Packet in the Linux kernel https://lobste.rs/s/ljupsj #linux #networking
https://www.0xkato.xyz/life-of-a-packet-in-the-linux-kernel/

"nixos – the last operating system you’ll need
[or] is it?"

https://haykh.github.io/tilde/devlog/2025/nix/

#blog #linux #nixos #flakes #homemanager

Whew. Making my way through these laptops. Finished upgrade and fixed nixbooks and nixbook lites ready to go out, and laptops still the be sorted through getting less!

#nixbook #nixos #linux #ewaste #recycle

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2 piles of laptops, one nixbook, one nixbook lite

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Shelf with laptops on it

Creating VMs in separate ZFS filesystems via @ggpsv https://lobste.rs/s/haulxu #linux #practices #virtualization
https://oxcrag.net/blog/2025/11/16/Creating-VMs-in-separate-ZFS-filesystems.html

Bcachefs Rolls Out Metadata Version Reconcile "rebalance_v2" Feature https://lobste.rs/s/xhjjru #linux #release
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Rebalance-V2

@ragectl I believe that! I had to dance around the intel-usbio dkms and intel-ipu6 dkms and kernel 6.8, 6.11, 6.14 along with the libcamhal to see what I needed to do. Ended-up purging all the above and going to linux-generic-hwe-24.04, linux-modules-ipu6-generic-hwe-24.04, linux-modules-usbio-generic-hwe-24.04 and it worked on 6.14 - on #linux mint (which gives me all the goodies of Ubuntu without the bad of Ubuntu... I was very close to tearing it all down though -- then it worked.

untangling the various hacks I had to do to earlier this year to get the ipu6 internal cam to work in the Lenovo Carbon X1 Gen 12 in #linux has been a ride. Now, thankfully on 6.14.x with usbio and ipu6 actually working. Not easy.

A new online accounts system [for KDE]? https://lobste.rs/s/4nocg8 #linux
https://nicolasfella.de/posts/a-new-online-accounts-system/

Latency Profiling and Optimization https://lobste.rs/s/jfmy1b #video #linux #performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv03NAT4Mwc

#linux #linuxinstallparty

Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets via @ggpsv https://lobste.rs/s/9vqlf8 #devops #linux #systemd #virtualization
https://blog.hofstede.it/production-grade-container-deployment-with-podman-quadlets/

give it up for batch converting .heic files to .png in #linux with

for f in *.heic; do heif-convert "$f" "${f%.*}.png"; done

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux https://lobste.rs/s/rowk9p #linux
https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga

The Beelink SER5 is an amazing mini PC. It’s been my primary gaming PC for the past 1.5 years. It easily handles all my emulation needs and runs most modern games at 1080p effortlessly on medium settings. It’s impressively powerful for such a tiny computer. The second pic has an Xbox controller shown for size.

#Gaming #Computers #Windows #Linux

I've been kind of hemming and hawing about building a PC for a while now. It would be nice to have a nice work/gaming station, for the very modest performance that I need, but as soon as you start looking into it, specs get wild and the price starts to climb, and at the end of the day, I'm not a computer nerd, I'm just an angry person who hates corpo tech.

And then the Steam Machine got announced.

There's a lot of things on paper that are red flags, primarily that it sounds like it's not the most user-serviceable device.

But Valve has a good track record at this point on the hardware front, and it would be so easy to just get that little black cube that runs linux right out of the box and be done with it.

Fortunately I'll have plenty of time to think about it.

#Linux #SteamMachine #Valve

I just wanna say THANK YOU to everyone here who is talking about, testing, and even contributing to the #nixbook project!

When I started this project last year, I could never imagine it being this far along and well loved by now.

#foss really is the best damn way to do software and love y'all!

The 25.11 release of Nixbook is going to be an epic one!

#linux #nixos #endof10

#linux troubleshooting request:

I've got a Dell laptop that has been a solid, reliable machine for the better part of a decade. I've replaced the battery, upgraded to 32 G memory and added a second SSD. It's currently running Mint 21.3 and has always been a dual-boot system but I only left the Windows 10 partition on because of a job that I had when I got it. I don't think I've booted that in close to a year.

Anyway, the problem:

Sporadcally (sometimes once a week but recently more than once a day) the OS locks up completely. 100% unresponsive. Even SysReq will not interrupt whatever is going on...I've tried that, along with Ctrl-Alt-Esc and other means to get a console. The wl0 network interface also disappears, so I can't ssh in (I will connect wired ethernet today to see if the same applies). The numlock LED remains lit on the keyboard, along with the LED inside the optical trackball, but this doesn't say much.

The only thing for it is to forcibly power cycle to reboot. The only thing I see in dmesg and syslog that seems amiss is a large number of warnings and crash dumps associated with drm_kms_helper (which naturally plays into my enternal hatred of DRM in general). But these are sort of omnipresent, with several appearing in each boot cycle and then popping up during "normal" operation. They don't seem to be directly implicated in the freezes.

Any sleuthy ideas on where to look next?

Announcing IncusOS https://lobste.rs/s/9l70qt #linux #release #virtualization
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/announcing-incusos/25139

@pureinfotech

Its easy. Upgrade to #Linux.

No amount of moaning and wining will make them turn away from AI based data exfiltration.

So, cut them out once and for all.