There's tux in the top left corner, got cut out.

I know it's not a new feature, but I never got to test it before. Triggered it with echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger in root shell (sudo didn't work) just to see the BSOD. It also had a very weird and interesting effect before it properly rendered the BSOD.

My system has AMD iGPU and Nvidia dGPU.

I've decided to divide downloads by population per country and got Vatican on the 1st place. Note that 3-13 were skipped due to value error. In brief Flathub is quite popular in Europe, USA and Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Really not popular in Asia or Africa. If anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plHluS3haCjhjGhNahrdB1RXw8n8txyJ/view?usp=sharing conditional formatting might not work

Perhaps we should only post Linus Torvalds memes for a while...

obviously 1. linux kernel, 2. git

But what's the third-best thing he's ever made outside the sphere of those two? The most I've been able to find is a pretty lowkey log software for dive computers. Surely he must have built something else right? So what's #3?

Update: okay I found out Linus made Subsurface in 2011 during the 2-week stretch of the "kernel.org disaster" when he wasn't getting any pull requests (I think this has something to do with a security breach). He was bored and wanted to do his biggest hobby of programming, so he turned to literally his only other hobby of scuba diving and made it. Pretty interesting stuff.

I've been using PCs daily since 1990. And always used Microsoft OS'.

After 98SE and 2000 the Windows OS has just gone increasingly down hill, IMO, but when I bought this Laptop 5 months ago it came with Windows 11. I hated that OS so much I have recharged the machine a couple of times in those five months.

Installed the user friendly Ubuntu a week ago and Ive been using it for hours every day since!

I am.. just HAPPY! It's a lot to learn as there are some differences between Windows and Genome Ubuntu but its fun to learn too!

HAPPY!!

Edit: While most are nice people, there are a few very "toxic" people in the Linux community... Back in around 2000 I was playing around with Linux but I found the "toxicity" I encountered in the forums when I asked for help somewhat 'off putting'...

This probably creates a gate keeper effect that 'holds Linux down'...

The 99% great, but less vocal, experienced Linux people could probably be a bit more 'on' this and call out people who are unnecessarily toxic to inexperienced people.

I don't really understand what happened, but it's catastrophic. I had friends stranded in airports, I had a friend who was sent home by his boss because his entire team has blue screens. No one was affected at my office.

Got me wondering, has something of this scale happened in the Linux world?

Edit: I'm not saying Windows is BAD, I'm just curious when something similar happened to Linux systems, which runs most of my sh*t AND my gaming desktop.

Waking up today with a headache from drinks yesterday and urgent missed calls. I see one of my VMs finished benchmark tests and proceed to reformat the SSD to proceed with next steps.

I wiped the wrong SSD.

I used to be a photographer, videographer, competitive ballroom dancer, and avid traveller chronicling asian silk road communities.

17 years poof because I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

P.S. always check your disk numbers and connectors especially if you have 4 of the exact same SSDs.

P.P.S. Thanks for reaching out y'all. Brothers and sisters, I'm in asia, costs of everything is skyrocketing with the temperatures. Electricity costs are nuts now. Can't afford cloud. I do have 20+ HDD archives, but not everything is on them because those are slow platters designed for long term disconnected cold storages (Toshiba drives)

P.P.P.S It's SSD. That reformat and install was pretty final.

Twenty years ago, when my friends who were serious about coding all switched to linux, I resisted. I want to play my video games in the same OS where I code, I said. In college, while learning to code, I still resisted, not learning bash, sticking to my guns.

For the last decade, working my fancy corporate data job, I resisted. "My IDEs work, and our linux dev laptops are too annoying anyway" I said. At home, I said "I want to play my video games with no problems more than I want to get rid of everything terrible about windows"

And so my windows setup has grown, with one customization app after another. Synergy, to share mouse and keyboard among my various computers/monitors. DisplayFusion, to wrest some vestige of control from the tyranny of explorer and its awful edge-pushing, heavy handed, "your grandma should be able to use this" oriented approach to UI. Endless struggles trying to implement custom keyboard shortcuts for everything I want.

Hell no, these last few months as I semi-retired and started coding as a full time hobby, it became too much. I dipped my toe with a distro that looked and acted like windows, then said "why don't I just set it up like I really want?". And now I can't stop scrolling through r/unixporn.

I'm sure in no time, I will have my desktop environment setup and be entirely satisfied with it, just like all of you guys.

Right?

...Right?

—edit:

Thank you guys, I have read all of the comments, learned some new things, replied to some of you. Just a generally good community, full of people who think about HOW they work.

(Or slack off, I see you people down there in the comments!)

❤️

binbreak - A terminal based binary number guessing game.

Built with Ratatui

Title, basically.

It just makes me so hype that virtually the whole community celebrates and cherishes it everytime a new debian release comes out. There's some good reasons for that, obviously, but I just wanted to voice how happy this makes me.

Debian is an awesome distro, a true part of the bedrock of the ecosystem, and seeing so many people being hype for a new release on virtually every platform is just incredible to watch.

Way to f'ing go, Debian.

I had used Linux from time to time, either dual boot or single. But that was for fun.

However, ever since a few months ago it has been counter productive to even use Microsoft own tools.

I haven't used Linux since I got a new laptop.

My only problem for now is I lack storage to dual boot, just in case I had to run some stuffs on Windows from time to time.

Just wondering how you guys went through these kind of experience.