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General Unix/Linux Thread
There is more to discuss, but opening a new topic for everything might be a bit much. Here's a quick overview of what exists already:



Some other subjects I might talk about include the compose key, Geeqie, Pandoc, qBittorrent, tmux, and VirtualBox. I semi-regularly write something about such matters on my blog.

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Reply #425 –
Resident technology masters already knows it for sure but for the simple mortals, you can speed up your already much-more-faster-than-Windows operative system.

An example -> four-ways-to-speed-up-ubuntu
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #426 –
The best YT alternative has gained a decent website. How does our embedding work?

[video]https://odysee.com/@danwood:0/reactos-can-it-replace-windows-in-2021-!:d[/video]

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Reply #428 –
It's the best alternative because it is the only alternative I know of in terms of content. I can go over there to get (most of) what I want on YT. There's also Bitchute, but the average uploader there is about as bad for mental health as Conservapedia.

Do you know of anything better?

And from what I have heard from content creators who have made the move, they can import their YT content over to Odysee with hardly any glitches.

I don't know much more. I am not a content creator and I never log in to YT. I keep it at arm's length with ytdl, which works in those other sites too.

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Reply #429 –
No, I don't know anything better.

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Reply #430 –
Microsoft released a Linux distro, apparently primarily to set up cloud services. Remember to not use it.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gofc7mrnzE[/video]

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Reply #431 –
Who knew that Tmux has popups? Did popups become a thing in Tmux with some update fairly recently?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BP9iWiKx8Q

I find the demonstration silly. The only app that is being run in the demonstration is Neovim, but Neovim has its own window management. There is no point to run Tmux just to manage Neovim's windows.

Tmux has a point for window management (of multiple processes of course) when in TTY. Otherwise its purpose is terminal session management.

Edit: And indeed, here is a demo of file navigation & window management in Neovim only, definitely no need for Tmux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9sSVx2cfk

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Reply #434 –
I saw the Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto on the forum. The following piece summarises it well:

Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project

I remember back when Philip Müller announced his company and went wild with Manjaro laptop and Pinephone projects. I think it was a decent idea to explore those frontiers and the company is the appropriate form for that. The bad thing is that the devs and the community remained unorganised (legally undefined) and the company exploited them without pay or any return.

So they are organising now, as they must. And it's clearly without and in opposition to Philip Müller.

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Reply #435 –
I think I read something about Manjaro losing a lot of ground over the past year. I suppose that's part of the reason.
 

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Reply #436 –
It's been a long time since I checked Distrowatch. Right now something called CachyOS is at the top - by a lot. It is a very new Arch-based distro from Germany with lots of desktop flavours available. This sounds like Manjaro at its best, but in the forums I don't see immediate evidence that CachyOS is driven by or attracting Manjaro exiles.

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Reply #438 –
Quote from: https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-now-the-most-popular-distro-on-proton-db/index.html
Manjaro is at the end of its lifecycle, flirting with the lower 2% of usage share on ProtonDB. Sometimes I hear people recommending Manjaro here and there - and it’s probably because their Linux distro knowledge is outdated. Nobody should be recommending Manjaro in 2026, it’s worse than all of the other Arch-based distros available.
Sad, if true.

I have had lots of good time on Manjaro. And I'm happy that I gave a nudge to a small renaissance of Nano. I recommended Manjaro make Nano the default CLI text editor once upon a time, due to its noob-friendliness. From there some other distros made the same move (including Bunsenlabs which is my last stand on an old 32-bit Thinkpad), Nano devs noticed the rekindled interest and by now Nano looks quite fancy out of the box.

And this remains probably my biggest contribution to the world of Linux.

Edit: And I found the post where I commented on Manjaro going corporate https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=85.msg83213#msg83213 The original announcement by Philip Müller said, "Don't panic! We are changing ownership." Well, the original stated goals did not quite work out and the failure took some time to crystallise...