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David Heinemeier Hansson
x.com
The age of agents belongs to Linux!
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Guillermo Rauch
Recommends
Linux
The case for *total* Linux victory (desktop, mobile, server, iot, robots, embedded…): 1) Most agent-programmable People will want fully personalized computing experiences.
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Guillermo Rauch
Korrent
Every piece of software is at major risk, but Linux has the collective investment of everyone on the planet throwing tokens at it.
Every piece of software is now at major risk, Linux included. But Linux has the collective investment of everyone on the planet throwing tokens at it.
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Tobias Lütke
GitHub
wrap — Run coding agents and project commands inside isolated Arch Linux microVMs
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Korrent
The arcane config files and error messages that kept Linux off the desktop are exactly what make it the right operating system for agents.
Linux conquered everything else. All the AI infrastructure that everyone runs off, it's all running on Linux. All the systems, all the servers, everything is Linux. So it was kind of a curiosity that the desktop and the…
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Dave Rupert
Mastodon
The agent stuff is meh, but having a cute little dedicated linux machine like this would be kind of neat.
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Lex Fridman
Podcast
#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Korrent
The Linux press should stop treating free-tier user anger at large corporate donations as news.
At some point, the Linux press has to stop treating it as news that some weirdo who got comped a $50 droplet is mad about DigitalOcean donating $3m to the Omacom Foundation.
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Joey Hess
Mastodon
2026: the year of the linux cringe
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Guillermo Rauch
Korrent
More personal and professional computing will come from agents orchestrating work in cloud sandboxes, and those sandboxes will be Linux.
More and more of our personal and professional computing experiences will come from agents that orchestrate work in the cloud, using sandboxes. Those sandboxes will be Linux.
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Nick Janetakis
GitHub
dotfriedrice — Set up a developer friendly niri / Arch Linux system in minutes. Also supports WSL 2, Debian, Ubuntu and macOS for CLI tools!
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Carlos Alexandro Becker
x.com
people are fighting over linux distros again nature is healing
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Lex Fridman
YouTube
DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501
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Drew DeVault
Blog
AI in Linux
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Daniel Stenberg
Mastodon
The Russian drone that crashed in Lithuania the other day had curl installed. As part of a default Linux install presumably, it seems unlikely it used curl for any "drony" things.
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Derek Sivers
Uses
Void Linux
Void Linux on my desktop
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Salvatore Sanfilippo
Blog
Being Linux Torvalds
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Peter Steinberger
x.com
If you haven't given Linux a go lately, try with agents. You can fix anything with a prompt now. Got a Dell XPS. Webcam wasn't working, told codex, it rebooted and now things work.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Korrent
Most of the Linux world is ambivalent or hostile to AI, which is fine, but it needs a camp that leans in all the way, and Omarchy will be it.
I don't require anyone to be as excited about AI or agents as I am. It's completely fine. But we also need someone in this camp in this Linux camp who are really excited about AI, who really leaning in with agents.
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Manassarn "Noom" Manoonchai
GitHub
dotfiles — macOS / Linux / Codespaces compatible dotfiles with 1-line setup script. Tested on Apple Silicon Macs. Supports both zsh and fish. Managed with Chezmoi
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Daniel Lemire
x.com
It looks like 2026 might be a record year for the number of commits to the Linux kernel. 2024 (6.7–6.12): 75,314 commits 2025 (6.13–6.18): 75,462 commits 2026 (through 7.2, released Aug 17): 60,862 commits
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Gergely Orosz
x.com
…based on devs in my “bubble” (those at startups + Big Tech) #1 MacOS #2 Linux #3 Windows I ran a survey here + on LI with 4,000 responses each - it’s what I mean by…
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Brad Fitzpatrick
GitHub
livecore — Linux low-pause core file dumper from an existing running process
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Alice Ryhl
Korrent
You can contribute to the Linux kernel without touching the kernel, by building the language features the kernel is waiting on.
Another thing that's really cool is you can contribute to the Linux kernel without contributing to the Linux kernel, right? because you might take a Rust language feature we need and implement it and now you've…
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Brent Simmons
GitHub
Tidemark — Markdown parser and renderer written in Swift. Mac and Linux.
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Julia Evans
Mastodon
poll: when you first learned linux/unix, did you use (you can pick more than one): (not looking for extra details right now, I'm just reflecting on the role of "free internet resources" recently)
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Rasmus Andersson
x.com
…latency) and webgpu. Exact same wasm running in both places. @playbit_ for Linux (Wayland) coming…
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Aris Ripandi
x.com
Devbox from @namespacelabs is fantastic. I can easily instruct the agent to compile and test Rust code on Linux without any complications. Plus, the Namespace GitHub Actions runner is incredibly fassssst. Running the gh…
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Lex Fridman
x.com
…It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of programming, AI, Linux, and human civilization. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:27 -…
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Rasmus Andersson
x.com
Is there a service where I can rent access to Linux desktop machines with actual displays? We're implementing the Playbit runtime for Linux and it's surprisingly difficult to test various desktop configurations. We need…
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Rakhim Davletkaliyev
Read
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary — Linus Torvalds, David Diamond
Nicely written and an entertaining story of Linus Torvalds and the creation of Linux kernel. I read it in high school and it definitely strengthened my interest in computer programming.
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Mitchell Hashimoto
GitHub
libxev — libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and W…
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Drew DeVault
Uses
Arch Linux — Arch Linux
My workstation runs Arch Linux, but don't take that as an endorsement.
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Nick Janetakis
x.com
Switching to Linux has been great. With Windows 10 (Pro): ❗️ Webcam's settings would always get reset semi-randomly ❗️ The date from the clock would frequently disappear ❗️ Mic's volume would often get lowered ❗️ Forced…
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Alice Ryhl
Korrent
Rust is no longer experimental in the Linux kernel — the maintainers agreed that at their December 2025 summit.
The big news were that at the Linux kernel maintainer summit, we agreed that Rust is no longer experimental in the kernel. That was really big for us compared to the previous year.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Changed their mind
For a web developer Linux is simply better than the Mac: closer to what you deploy on, with phenomenal tooling and a reproducible setup.
anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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Håkon Wium Lie
Uses
Linux Mint
I currently run Linux Mint on the Thinkpad.
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Chris Wellons
Blog
Frankenwine: Multiple personas in a Wine process
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Greg Kroah-Hartman
Uses
Gentoo Linux
I run Gentoo Linux on my servers and my build machine.
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Alice Ryhl
Korrent
The Linux kernel is unique in having thousands of contributors paid to work on it; Rust does well by any other standard and is still nowhere near that.
I would say here that the Linux kernel is truly unique in this particular aspect in that they have thousands of contributors doing it on work time. I actually think that the Rust project is doing pretty well at having…
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Brendan Gregg
Recommends
Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. — Robert Love
Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. - Robert Love (Addison-Wesley, 2010)
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Jeff Geerling
Recommends
Framework Laptop 13 — Framework
For now, I think Framework's 13" lineup is more compelling if you favor repairability/upgradeability and top-tier Linux support.
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Drew DeVault
Uses
Alpine Linux
My laptops generally run Alpine Linux or 9front (you can take that as an endorsement), or MINIX or OpenBSD.
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Julia Evans
Liked
The Linux Programming Interface — Michael Kerrisk
The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk – an exhaustive reference on how Linux works. There are about a million chapters, but every individual chapter is pretty short and I find it quite readable.
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Nick Janetakis
x.com
With Arch Linux, installing Docker Desktop is really straight forward. In this post, we'll go over installing Docker with and without Docker Desktop. It works no problem even with niri and Waybar to see and use the…
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Dan Luu
Mixed on
Linux Kernel Development — Robert Love
The other downside of this book is that the author loses all objectivity any time Linux and Windows are compared.
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Daniel Stenberg
Liked
Debian — Debian Project
I'm a Linux guy. I run Linux on as many machines as possible and out of all distros I really prefer Debian.
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Brendan Gregg
Recommends
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. — Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. - Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati Ph.D. (O'Reilly, 2005)
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Brendan Gregg
x.com
New blog post: Linux crisis tools
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Brendan Gregg
GitHub
BPF-tools — Performance Tools using Linux eBPF
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Jon Seager
GitHub
shellspectre — A Rust/eBPF utility for recording SSH/TTY/PTY sessions. Useful for tracing agent sessions and remote sessions on a Linux machine. Submission for a 1 day hackathon event at Canonical.
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Carlos Alexandro Becker
Uses
NixOS
NixOS: OS used on most of my Linux VMs.
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Brendan Gregg
GitHub
perf-tools — Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace
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Amit Merchant
Uses
Ulauncher — Ulauncher
I use Ulauncher as the application launcher of my preferred choice on Linux.
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Carlos Alexandro Becker
Uses
Proxmox — Proxmox Server Solutions
Proxmox: main OS on my PC, runs multiple Linux/Windows VMs.
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Devine Lu Linvega
Uses
Elementary
I run the Elementary GNU/Linux distribution, and Macintosh System 7 via Mini vMac.
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Zed Shaw
Uses
awesome
I use awesome for my window manager on Linux since it's mostly keyboard based.
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Devine Lu Linvega
Uses
Mini vMac
I run the Elementary GNU/Linux distribution, and Macintosh System 7 via Mini vMac.
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Brad Fitzpatrick
Uses
WireShark
Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
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Brad Fitzpatrick
Uses
GIMP
Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
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Brad Fitzpatrick
Uses
screen
Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
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Brad Fitzpatrick
Uses
emacs
Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
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Daniel Lemire
Uses
Ubuntu — Canonical
I use an Ubuntu distro for Linux, mostly because it is the most popular option.
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Terry Cavanagh
Mastodon
Terry's Other Games launches today! 5pm CET on steam and itch.io, for Windows, Mac and Linux!
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Terry Cavanagh
Mastodon
anyone have a link to a nice non-techy guide for people considering Linux dual booting in 2024?
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Nick Janetakis
x.com
…a mini-guide FAQ item for installing the Microsoft Terminal, WSL 2 and Arch Linux so you can install DotFriedRice in a few minutes in case you never used WSL 2…
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Andrei Alexandrescu
x.com
Wondering how to grok this. Cannot write to ‘nvhpc_2023_2311_Linux_x86_64_cuda_12.3.tar.gz’ (Success).
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Drew DeVault
Recommends
9front
My laptops generally run Alpine Linux or 9front (you can take that as an endorsement), or MINIX or OpenBSD.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Korrent
The agentic age needs a new operating system: if you can vibe-code any application, you should be able to vibe-code the operating system, and only Linux allows that.
It is an infuriatingly locked-down computer. Now, to Apple's credit, it's a pretty good computer for being locked down, but I don't want a locked-down computer. I wanna own my computer. Better yet, I wanna mutate my…
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Scott Hanselman
Loved
Windows Subsystem for Linux — Microsoft
It really can't be overstated how WSL/WSL2 has put the cherry on top of Windows 10.
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Richard Stallman
Uses
PMON
To initialize the machine and boot, it uses PMON. Above that, it uses gNewSense, one of the totally free GNU/Linux distros.
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Richard Stallman
Uses
gNewSense
To initialize the machine and boot, it uses PMON. Above that, it uses gNewSense, one of the totally free GNU/Linux distros.
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Sean Barrett
Uses
Metapad
For editing text in Windows outside of VC6, I use Metapad; when I'm on a Mac or Linux, I use vim.
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Nick Janetakis
x.com
I like how I can have a 12 year old dev box not only be "good enough", but run very well on a modern Linux system. I just added this to the DotFriedRice FAQ in case you're wondering if an Arch / niri based desktop…
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Recommends
Moonlight
The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
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Scott Hanselman
Liked
Windows Terminal — Microsoft
Windows Terminal - Finally Windows has a modern terminal. You can run shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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Daniel Lemire
Uses
Vim
When I connect to a Linux box, I use vim as a text editor. For various reasons, I tend to write a lot of my software in vim.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Blog
Omacon comes to New York
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Greg Kroah-Hartman
Uses
quilt
I use quilt on top of git for handling the Linux kernel stable patch set as the workflow there does not lend itself to a pure git environment.
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Matt Might
Liked
ShiftIt
My only regret in switching from Linux to OS X is giving up the raw efficiency of tiling window managers like ion. ShiftIt makes up some of the difference.
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Ethan Schoonover
Uses
Lenovo x220 — Lenovo
I also have a dedicated Arch Linux laptop, currently a Lenovo x220 Tablet PC with capacitive & pen touch screen. I run a lot of customizations to take advantage of the hardware.
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Alice Ryhl
Korrent
What is unique about Rust is not any one feature but the combination: high-level reliability with no garbage collector, so it runs in kernels and firmware.
I think where Rust is really unique is in the combination of things. So on one hand, it it doesn't have a garbage collector and it it's usable in low-level context like the Linux kernel or firmware or whatever.
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Maxence Poutord
GitHub
vscode-extension-maxpou — You can author your README using Visual Studio Code. Here are some useful editor keyboard shortcuts: Split the editor (Cmd+\ on macOS or Ctrl+\ on Windows and Linux) Toggle…
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Terry Cavanagh
Mastodon
Ok, thanks all! After my current project wraps up I think I'm going to backup my windows laptop and try single booting Linux Mint for a while, with a virtual machine for making Windows builds of things.
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Tynan
x.com
This is supposed to be a dig against Linux, but it's actually why Linux is so great. There are so many different versions, all of which benefit from work on the kernel, software that runs on it, etc., but users can have…
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Andrew Kelley
Loved
Amarok 1.4
Back in 2009, my music player of choice was Amarok 1.4. This was by far the best music player I had ever used on Windows, Mac, or Linux, especially when combined with the wonderful ReplayGain plugin.
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Sadayuki Furuhashi
Loved
MacBook Air — Apple
Computer: My only machine is a 13" MacBook Air. I switched my daily partner from Linux boxes to Mac laptops 5 years ago. I love Macs since they work well with both UNIX tools and Adobe software.
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Darius Kazemi
Liked
crouton
So I have an Ubuntu Linux command line installed on Chrome OS. It's really easy to do using crouton. crouton even lets you run X11 and a window manager of your choice, but I don't bother with that.
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Brendan Gregg
Korrent
Major Linux distributions are increasingly shipping system libraries with frame pointers enabled by default
This is getting easier in the lastest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) which are shipping system libraries with frame pointers by default.
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Brad Fitzpatrick
Uses
Intel SSD — Intel
My main desktop at home is 2005 Mac Mini running Linux. I upgraded the RAM and added an Intel SSD to it. It's very old and slow but it's pretty quiet and I'm too lazy to replace it.
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Brad Fitzpatrick
Mixed on
Mac mini — Apple
My main desktop at home is 2005 Mac Mini running Linux. I upgraded the RAM and added an Intel SSD to it. It's very old and slow but it's pretty quiet and I'm too lazy to replace it.
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Drew DeVault
Blog
What's new with Himitsu 0.9?
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Terry Cavanagh
Mastodon
…for work so it doesn't have to be a gaming machine - wanna exclusively run Linux on it…
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Terry Cavanagh
Mastodon
just gonna put this out there in case any Godot contributors see this! I know it's not a high priority issue, but I use Wayland on Linux and the latest Godot 4.5 beta spams an error message in the console constantly,…
Robert Love Engineer who worked on the Linux kernel and helped launch Android at Google; author of Linux Kernel Development and Linux System…
Kalwabed Rizki Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.
Linus Torvalds Creator and long-time maintainer of the Linux kernel, and the author of Git. Runs the kernel in public on a mailing list, which is why both…