Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now.

Be. Kind. To. Them.

They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're showing them using Linux will be worse than Windows. If you can't bring yourself to be kind, then SAY NOTHING. Let others pick up that slack.

#FOSS#FLOSS#OpenSource #Linux#Ubuntu#Debian #LinuxMint

I've just been asked to upgrade 2 old PCs (Windows 7) to Linux. Which distro would you recommend for beginners? I'm currently hesitating between Mint, Zorin OS and Fedora...Or maybe Ubuntu?
#linux #linuxmint #fedora #zorin_os #windows7 #linuxforbeginners #ubuntu

Jag bytte från #Ubuntu till #Arch i våras och visst kräver det mer, men här inte ångrat en sekund - tvärtom.

Med https://archinstall.archlinux.page/ så är det nummer grymt enkelt. Skulle jag speedtesta så går det lätt gå från stoppa in USB till färdiginstallerad och uppdaterad på under 10 minuter.

Jag valde #Gnome för min workstation, och #Hyprland för laptopen för på riktigt grotta ner, lära och få som jag vill ha det.

#Omarchy funkar toppen som inspiration att plocka delar från.

My 2018 laptop having glitched out of its own WiFi hardware, I've fired up my 2012 mini tower instead. It runs #Ubuntu#Linux just fine, though a little slowly.

#retrocomputing

My 2018 laptop having glitched out of its own WiFi hardware, I've fired up my 2012 mini tower instead. It runs #Ubuntu#Linux just fine, though a little slowly.

#retrocomputing

Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now.

Be. Kind. To. Them.

They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're showing them using Linux will be worse than Windows. If you can't bring yourself to be kind, then SAY NOTHING. Let others pick up that slack.

#FOSS#FLOSS#OpenSource #Linux#Ubuntu#Debian #LinuxMint

Perfect on-prem #selfhosting project for a rainy Friday night in winter: taking Ubuntu Server for a spin on a Dell r610 intercepted as e-waste en route to the graveyard. Diagnostics showed the only thing 'wrong' with it is a dead CMOS battery. For fun I installed the OS onto a fast USB stick while I find some SAS drives in RAID to throw at the project.

More of a vanilla Debian person myself, but great to see how far #Ubuntu Server has come, and that it still looks after legacy kit like this.

Perfect on-prem #selfhosting project for a rainy Friday night in winter: taking Ubuntu Server for a spin on a Dell r610 intercepted as e-waste en route to the graveyard. Diagnostics showed the only thing 'wrong' with it is a dead CMOS battery. For fun I installed the OS onto a fast USB stick while I find some SAS drives in RAID to throw at the project.

More of a vanilla Debian person myself, but great to see how far #Ubuntu Server has come, and that it still looks after legacy kit like this.

TIL that software (especially #scripting runtimes like #Python, #Perl, and #NodeJS) running in #Alpine#Linux containers is often slower than in other distros like #Ubuntu. This is despite Alpine being faster on startup and often vastly more efficient with CPU, memory, and storage.

It mostly comes down to Alpine’s use of musl libc rather than #GNU’s glibc. musl is optimized for minimalism, not raw performance. Also, the Alpine packages are often not compiled with as many optimizations.

Some how I am very envious of the 60MB RAM footprint while booting into a #linode #vps. The best I could get onto my #homelab is 300MB usage on a #Ubuntu cloud image. This is unfortunately the same as my desktop #ArchLinux with #KDE running.

The Ubuntu server image idled at 600MB RAM usage with #docker & #sshd. The culprits using most ram are #snapd & #multipathd.