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@ Neptr @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.

Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I'm nearly done with an IT Security degree.

TL;DR I am a nerd.

  • Distro Recommendation Discussion (Not a 'What Distro Should I Use?' Post)

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  • I personally don't like LTS Linux distros because Linux is always changing, and unlike Windows, overwhelming for better. Plus security patches are not always backported because the threat severity of fixed bugs isn't always properly categorized. I don't like the following LTS distros: Ubuntu/Mint, Debian, Leap. I also don't like distros which don't have good defaults in respect to security hardening. Fedora and openSUSE are my ideal distros.

    For example, I recently installed Mint for an older family member and it has been alright. X.Org kinda sucks and she has encountered buggy behavior with apps crashing or desktop freezing. I personally used the desktop I gave them with openSUSE Tumbleweed and encountered no such issues. I just went with Mint, against my best judgment because it is so widely recommended.

    Since GNOME and KDE Plasma have first-class Wayland support, I basically only recommend those two DEs. I personally like the look of GTK4 apps more than Qt, and GNOME apps over KDE, but the freedom of KDE Plasma is superior.

    The distros I recommend are as follows:

    General Use: Criteria: general purpose, SELinux, modern technologies (Pipewire, Wayland, close to upstream kernel)

    • Fedora Workstation/KDE
    • openSUSE Slowroll/Tumbleweed

    Gaming: Criteria: gaming focus, baby easy install process, modern version of Mesa and kernel, first class Nvidia support

    1. PikaOS (rolling-Debian)
    2. Bazzite (Fedora atomic)
    3. Nobara (Fedora traditional)
    4. CachyOS (Arch Linux)

  • GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades

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  • It is possible on both GNOME and KDE iirc. I never use that feature, but i am sure i saw it in the settings.

  • What to do about being unable to use a custom ROM?

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  • Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025

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  • Sorry to say, but game anticheats can also run whenever like the malware they are.

  • NSFW

    Stay calm during the procedure [penis piercing]

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  • I cant even. My friend, who has one, looks just like that.

  • 90 percent of all Windows games now also run under Linux. (German)

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  • I even play a game that doesnt have native modding support and I just run the community mod patcher .bat using wine, and then the game run like normal through Steam with 80+ mods. Its crazy the shit you can get away with by using Wine and Proton.

  • SimpleX goes NFT / Shitcoin

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  • Forking isnt a solution, unless you are committed to patching all future security vulnerabilities and adding feature updates on you own. Cryptography is complicated, designing a secure messenger is very complicated. Forking isnt a magic bullet.

  • Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements

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  • Firefox is even more insecure as a Flatpak than Chromium. At least with Chromium using zypak it can use some Flatpak sandboxing (which is still inferior to base)

  • Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements

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  • Project was abandoned like multiple years ago now. Cromite is a fork by one of the contributors and is better than Bromite ever was.

  • Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements

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  • Doesnt come with proper fingerprinting protections or flag hardening. I am not saying ungoogled Chromium is bad, just not a proper replacement for hardened chromium browsers like Cromite or Brave. Ungoogled Chromium is a drop in replacement for Chrome, so it does nearly everything possible to stick with defaults (sans any google connections)

  • Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements

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  • While I agree it would be nice, Flatpak weakens the Chromium sandbox by stopping proper per site isolation. Chromium in Flatpak relies on the zypak server in place of proper strict isolation.

  • Notifications from other profiles in Graphene OS

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  • GOS recommends against putting any app that you want notifications from inside the private space. That said, I did the same thing.

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • Full KVM in Docker but doesnt require a Windows license.

  • Why do some people hate Manjaro?

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  • Because of the their choice to hold back package updates by a bit, it breaks AUR support. I have Aldo heard people talk about stability problems. The biggest reason IMHO to choose EndeavourOS (or even CachyOS) over Manjaro is that the former is much closer to base Arch Linux. Manjaro just has a bad reputation. When I used Manjaro like 6 years ago it was fine.

  • PDF annotator that doesn't overwrite the original PDF

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  • I dont know

  • My favorite way to run Windows apps on Linux just got even better

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  • More streamlined installer, less/no command line in favor of GUI. Comes as an appimage but requires some packages to be installed on the host.

  • Block youtube's (and other website's) embeds on lemmy posts. (uBlock related)

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  • You could enable advanced mode I uBlock and then disable "3rd party" in the uBlock popup. Then allow list the few sites you want to see content from.

  • Honestly Bizarre

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  • Even worse, "gross lil critters"

  • PDF annotator that doesn't overwrite the original PDF

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  • What you want is Xournal++

    It allows creating a layer which can be saved as a separate file and edited later, then if you want a modified PDF with the overlaid changes just "export as PDF"

    Link: https://xournalpp.github.io/

  • 10 Years of Redox OS and Rust - Jeremy Soller

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  • If they add flatpak support it would be so good.