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What’s Personally Stopping You From Switching To Linux?

i just got my first gaming PC and absolutely hated windows, i’ve been a mac user forever and once i thought linux was good enough to use for games i decided to get a PC. The only issue ive had is a stuttering issue on fh6 and got it fixed within 5 minutes, im also not good at computers like at all. its so much easier to use linux than people act like it is. using fedora btw. maybe its unreliable for productivity or your workflow, thats why im curious why people still are using windows

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u/Thick_Definition_994 — 1 day ago
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Linus, I fixed Middle Mouse Scrolling for you

We all know Linus' biggest pet peeve is the lack of system wide middle click autoscrolling. I built a universal solution called midscroll that operates at the kernel input level, meaning it perfectly replicates the Windows autoscroll behavior across every single application on both Wayland and X11. It anchors your cursor, uses the exact same speed curve you are used to, and runs entirely in the background.
FOSS under the Unlicense.
You can check out how it works here: https://github.com/gnhen/midscroll

EDIT: Now with a Settings menu GUI. Supports Hold & Drag as well as Toggle mode. Native scrolling mode supported.

u/Ri0tRec0il — 1 day ago
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Idle RAM usage doesn’t matter because Windows uses RAM more aggressively when it can, and frees it up when needed

I just watched Linus’s Windows vs. Linux video, and he talks like idle RAM usage actually matters. But in reality, he should test both systems under high RAM pressure and see which one can keep more data in RAM and which one starts using the swap file, which can hurt performance. That’s how you should test it, but he didn’t test any RAM demanding games, so we can’t really see the difference

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u/Jumpy_Invite3985 — 1 day ago
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New laptop, what about stickers?

Got a new work laptop, decent bump in performance, but any suggestions on the best way to go about transferring the stickers? I'll have to take them off the old one anyway and put the device back into circulation for another user.

Some of them are discontinued, my favourite is the do not drop one honestly.

u/projectGARY — 1 day ago
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Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action

Meta is facing a backlash with their glasses, why would Apple jeopardize their market lead by even considering this. ​

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u/Flavious27 — 2 days ago
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Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools

I think it shines a really bad light on Framework, that an official BIOS update bricks the laptop and the suggestion is to replace the motherboard

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u/llojassd — 1 day ago
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Is LTT becoming the Titans of CNC but for tech?

Titans of CNC is a massive YouTube channel that started off teaching people about CNC machining but now feels like they sometimes want to show off fancy new tech in the CNC works.

Is LTT basically becoming this where they’re becoming sort of just like an advertising space for new companies.

They DO some learning stuff but possibly it’s less in depth and more just longer ads in a way?

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u/VastOption8705 — 2 days ago
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Finally got the trifecta!

I’m somewhat of a tool nerd and would recommend these to anyone. Great quality/tolerances. Now my dad and brothers are excited to get the box store/replaced tools as their hand-me-downs ;)

u/DaVincisDomain — 3 days ago
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Riding on the LTT ISP idea, this video on getting your own ASN (autonomous system number) seems like a good jumping off point

Based on the recent WAN show clip (We're Becoming Our Own ISP) , apalrd's adventures has a YouTube video from a few months ago on the steps involved in getting an ASN, then routing to different peers with all the different protocols (most prominently BGP). Hypothetically, if they wanted to double down on this idea.

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u/Not_Your_cousin113 — 2 days ago