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#Ubuntu

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Corb_The_Lesser

@bulqa #LinuxMint is based on the current #Ubuntu Long Term Support Release. (Apps usually do *not* receive feature updates after release.) It's not at all unstable. Just the opposite.

#Fedora has a different purpose. New versions are released every 6 months. There's a good chance that Fedora's apps are the most current available, while Mint's may be a release or two behind. You'll see hundreds of updates in Fedora and you'll need to update close to daily.

You get security updates in both.

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knoppix

What made you try Linux for the first time? 🐧
Was it the thrill of freedom, the escape from Big Tech, or just plain curiosity?

Vote below ⬇️
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#Linux#Arch#ArchLinux
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happyborg

I haven't used #KDEConnect for ages and had forgotten about it.

Then I wanted to control my laptop using my mobile like a TV remote and I remembered...

It is now even better than I remember. Awesome remove control of #Ubuntu #Gnome using my mobile.

#Linux is awesome - and - free!

Even better, the KDE Connect app is available on #FDroid.

EDIT: meant KDE Connect, oops, sorry.

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Mark Gardner

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.

Florian Haas

Shout-out to all you fine #Debian and #Ubuntu package maintainers who gave me yet another completely hassle-free `apt dist-upgrade` on my wholly snapless system. Thank you for everything you do; I can safely say that I've been appreciating your work for decades.

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Feoh

Well, I'm now running @ubuntu and we'll see how that goes.

I installed stock #Ubuntu 25.04 and it seems to be working pretty well - the installer kept hanging / stuttering but it came back after a few seconds so I just powered through it.

I really do appreciate all the hard work the @ubuntu folks do to provide explicit support for my #Dell hardware!

🤞

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PaulaToThePeople 😷

✅ Already answered: Yes, the install wizard will give me an option to use the entire disk.
❓Right now I'm re-writing the bootable USB drive, as it had some issue before. Then I'll test this myself.

Thanks everybody!

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Question to the linux peeps:

I have a laptop with dual boot windows/linux mint and I have a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu.

I want a laptop with single boot Ubuntu.

Can I simply start the install wizard and will it tale me through partitioning if necessary, or would it just install Ubuntu over one of the partitions/OSes?

#ubuntu#linux#DualBoot
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Redish Lab

A couple of questions for #unix gurus.

With the Windows 10 EOL crisis, we are likely going to be switching most of our lab computers over to unix. We have been testing #Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It seems to meet most of our requirements nicely, but I have two needs I have not solved yet:

1. I am looking for some sort of #SSO system where I can control all of the logins and group permissions centrally for the lab. I don't want people to have to maintain passwords across two dozen computers. I do not need the whole complexity of centralized group policies and the like. I just need SSO.

2. I am looking for a reliable #AntiVirus system. I know that people say unix doesn't need it, but I just don't believe that.

Important keys are (1) most of my personnel are not computer-savvy unix-gurus, and (2) I do not have the time to be a full-time sysadmin for two dozen computers, so the "we can hack this together with enough effort" solutions that I used when I was a (unix-savvy) graduate student myself is not acceptable here. I need a more business-friendly system.

Cost matters, but I'm willing to pay for the right thing. So am interested in both freeware and paid solutions.

thanks for any suggestions.

PS. PLEASE do not respond to this with a rants about freeware vs corporate, or the qualities of unix vs Windows. Those are debates for another time and another place. thx

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