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| DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1193, 5 October 2026 |
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Welcome to this year's 40th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!
What is the best way to learn Linux? Is it books, tutorials, classroom sessions, or the hands-on experience that come from messing up a system and desperately trying to fix it? This week, in our Questions and Answers section, we talk about practical ways to explore Linux and gain knowledge. Fixing problems that appear while running Linux is one way to learn how the system works, but with most distributions becoming more reliable, sometimes we need to wait a while before something breaks. When was the last time your Linux system broke badly enough it wouldn't boot? Let us know in the Opinion Poll. In our News column we talk about the Dutch government creating their own, NixOS-based distribution while the GhostBSD lead developer begins work on a new desktop environment. Plus we share a report from openSUSE which talks about the many security fixes published over the past month. We begin this week with a look at a distribution called fu11m00n which reportedly wants to provide an unusual mixture of components, using Slackware as base. Read on to find out more about the fu11m00n project and what software it includes. We wrap up this week with an overview of recent releases and a list of the torrents we are seeding. We wish you all a wonderful week and happy reading!
This week's DistroWatch Weekly is presented by TUXEDO Computers.
Content:
- Review: fu11m00n 2.64
- News: The Dutch government creates a NixOS-based distro, GhostBSD working on its own desktop, openSUSE discusses a month of many security fixes
- Questions and answers: Breaking Linux to learn Linux?
- Released last week: Emmabuntüs DE6-1.03, Kodachi OS 10.0.3, OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 "ROME", Nitrux 7.0.0, umbrelOS 2.0.0, Koozali SME Server 11.0, Mainstream OS 3.0.0, Qubes OS 4.3.2, Parrot 7.4, Besgnulinux 1.0
- Torrent corner: Emmabuntüs, Parrot, Qubes OS
- Opinion poll: When was the last time your system broke?
- Reader comments
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| Feature Story (By Jesse Smith) |
fu11m00n 2.64
The fu11m00n website reports its distribution is a minimalist, immutable Linux distribution. fu11m00n is derived from Slackware's stable branch and the Slackware-based Porteus project. Its default desktop is LXQt. Its objective is to try to diverge from most Linux distributions by using alternative components and applications rather than mainstream ones.
The project's website can be a bit confusing, in part because the writing style is terse and chaotic. The introduction text at the top of the fu11m00n website is: "Embrace the 'suckless' ethos. 'Worse is better' (aka. 'Jersey' style) defined the OS standard in it's posix beginnings. Welcome... back to future's past!!! [sic]"
The FAQ has some weird responses to hypothetical questions too. "Is fu11m00n immutable? Short answer... yes. In the sense of 'petrification'. What this means is... select binaries are symlinked to the iso image. [sic]" This is a weird way of saying "no", because fu11moon is not an immutable distribution.
Another curious aspect of the distribution is the project hosts some of its files on SourceForge, however its ISO files are available on archive.org only. This makes downloading inconvenient as archive.org is not set up to provide quick access to system images. It seems strange the project would not host its ISOs on SourceForge, alongside its other files, or use one of the other popular mirrors for ISO hosting.
fu11m00n is available in a single edition for x86_64 machines exclusively. The ISO file I downloaded was 1.3GB in size.
Initial impressions
Booting from the supplied media brings up a boot menu where the distribution is identified as "Porteus". We are given the option to boot into a desktop, boot into a desktop without persistent file storage enabled, start a console-only session, or copy the entire filesystem into RAM and then boot into a desktop.
The options to boot into the desktop session all work. However, the option to launch a text console session fails, locking up after loading the distribution's package modules.
fu11m00n 2.64 -- Exploring the application menu
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Booting into the desktop session launches the LXQt desktop which runs on the Blackbox window manager. The desktop uses a dark theme and places a panel across the top of the screen. This panel automatically hides when the mouse is not near it and reappears when the mouse pointer is near the top of the screen (which often happens when interacting with full-screen windows), making it annoyingly inconsistent and, perhaps iconically, resulting in a panel which is often in the way.
At this point I'd like to point out fu11m00n does not have a system installer. The distribution is meant to be run as a live session only.
Alternative technologies
The fu11m00n's website places a focus on providing alternative technologies from mainstream Linux distributions. On the surface, the software selection seems fairly typical. LXQt and Blackbox are used for the desktop in place of, for example, GNOME or Plasma. The Vivaldi web browser is installed instead of Firefox or Chromium. Otherwise, the small collection of installed tools seems fairly typical. Searching the distribution for software outside of the norm is where my trial took a weird turn.
The project's website says fu11m00n runs the Runit init software in the website's Features and FAQ sections. When I checked on the command line, I found the executable name for the init process was "init", which isn't helpful. Most init software, apart from systemd and Runit, uses this name. So all I knew for sure was I was not running these two. I decided to check the documentation (when in doubt, read the instructions). However, running the command "man init" does not bring up a local documentation page, rather it opens a text-based web browser and displays an on-line manual page for.... systemd. So the distribution's "init" documentation is for the init implementation I knew it was not running. I cleared up the mystery by running the command "init --version" which shows the distribution is running Sys V init, version 2.96. This means both the website and the documentation are wrong, neither Runit or systemd are being used; an old and out of date version of Sys V init is being used.
fu11m00n 2.64 -- Gathering information about init
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This confusing situation with init software was just the tip of the iceberg. The fu11m00n website misinforms in other ways. For example, the project's tagline is "Deprecate...the GNU ecosystem. [sic]" and, in the FAQ section, it reads: "Is fu11m00n an outlier? In a way. The use of Musl... Toybox and Runit is not typical. The GNU ecosystem is the default for most Linux systems." However, upon examination I discovered fu11m00n does use the GNU command line tools and not Toybox. The commands cp, grep, ln, and the compiler are all supplied by GNU.
Further, the website claims fu11m00n runs the musl C library, not glibc at its core. "Is fu11m00n secure? It is secure. Musl (libc) does not have circular dependencies like glibc. And Musl is also... resistant to ret2libc exploits." As you probably guessed by now, this is also a lie. The distribution runs with glibc as the C library and it is linked to most of the distribution's executables. This can be verified by running ldd on installed programs.
fu11m00n 2.64 -- Testing the C library version
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The distribution's website claims it is immutable, but it is not, at least not in the typical sense. The distribution is not installed and its filesystem is not read-only. It is not possible to permanently change the system across reboots if it is running from optical media, such as a DVD. It is possible to make changes to the live filesystem while the distribution is running and, when running from thumb drives, it is possible to alter the distribution.
In short, the user is basically running Porteus with an alternative web browser. The GNU utilities, init software, graphical stack (X.Org), and C library are all entirely standard.
Resource usage
The fu11m00n distribution is fairly light on resources. When signed into the LXQt desktop the distribution is consuming approximately 320MB of RAM. The desktop is responsive and applications load fairly quickly for a live distribution.
The fu11m00n website claims the distribution offers preloading. "Preload: Loading up on resources saves wasted time and effort. When the system has to fetch data that should already be in memory... efficiency is lost."
fu11m00n 2.64 -- The LXQt settings panel
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As keen readers who have made it this far into the review might suspect, fu11m00n does not include the preload utility. In theory, we can preload the entire distribution at boot time using the "Copy to RAM" option from the boot menu. I experimented with this option and discovered that it does not work. When Copy to RAM is selected at boot time the distribution still only loads the bare essentials into RAM (about 320MB worth of software) and does not load anything else. Running timed trials shows no difference in application load times, whether the distribution has been booted normally or with the preload option.
Other observations and conclusions
The project's website doesn't mention what the default account credentials are. To perform administrative tasks we can run the sudo utility and use "toor" as our password.
When signed into a desktop session, fu11m00n failed to shutdown from the desktop. A hard poweroff was required.
One of the few aspects of the distribution which sets it apart from its parent is the inclusion of the Vivaldi web browser. The browser mostly works, however it does not integrate properly with the window manager. This means we can use the browser to explore the Web, but we cannot move the browser's window. This makes it a questionable improvement over using another common open source browser, such as Firefox.
fu11m00n 2.64 -- Running the Vivaldi web browser
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I ran into some weird problems, apart from slogging through all the misinformation on the project's website and malfunctioning features. For example, the secure shell implementation cannot connect to OpenSSH running on modern Debian and FreeBSD systems. The secure shell client reports "connection refused", but the services are working (and accessible from other distributions) and fu11m00n can ping the hosts. It seems the secure shell software included is simply too old or incompatible, which is remarkable since neither Debian or FreeBSD are running cutting edge versions. To transfer files I had to put files on a remote FTP or HTTP server and use wget on fu11m00n to fetch them. Performing remote shell work while running fu11m00n was not an option.
Since virtually everything on the website is fiction, and the man command sometimes brings up the wrong pages, and several components do not work properly obviously it would be foolish to run or trust this distribution. After a day or so of exploring it, I got the impression maybe fu11m00n was intended to be an April Fools joke, but no one got around to mentioning that on the website or putting a pop-up on the desktop to indicate it. Or maybe someone decided to repackage Porteus and asked an AI chatbot to make up the website and never bothered to read through what it produced. Whatever the cause, I'd recommend staying far away from fu11m00n; it's a creative work of fiction, not a creative use of software.
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The Dutch government creates a NixOS-based distro, GhostBSD working on its own desktop, openSUSE discusses a month of many security fixes
The Dutch government has announced it is working on its own Linux distribution which is intended to replace Microsoft Windows on Dutch government computers. The new distribution will be based on NixOS and include tools to make administrating NixOS more convenient. Tweakers reports: "The Dutch government is creating its own digital working environment based on the Dutch Linux distribution NixOS. The blueprint for the Digital Autonomous Working Environment Government (DAWO) consists not only of an operating system, but also of an office suite, collaboration apps, cloud services and management tools. The developers behind it gave Tweakers a glimpse into the kitchen. The first pilots are already running privately and on a small scale in Dutch governments. Not only Linux proponents, sovereign software experts or security experts are working on NixOS and its associated software. There is a municipality where the municipal council also participates in one of these pilot projects." The original article, in Dutch, offers additional details.
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The GhostBSD project is working on its own desktop environment called Mocka. It appears as though, eventually, Mocka is intended to replace the MATE desktop currently used by GhostBSD. "Mocka is a desktop environment for GhostBSD that replaces MATE one component at a time until every part has been replaced. Every component is written from scratch, reverse-engineered from how the existing tools behave, and stays compatible with MATE so both can be mixed during the transition." At the moment, just a dock and an application menu have been created, though additional desktop elements are planned.
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The openSUSE project has published its monthly Tumbleweed newsletter for its rolling release branch. The newsletter focuses on security this month, discussing the many fixes going into components such as the Linux kernel, rsync, ffmpeg, and gzip. "September delivered a stacked month of snapshots across the desktop, developer tooling, and security surface. KDE Plasma 6.7.5 landed with fixes for KWin display management and taskbar refinements, while KDE Frameworks 6.30.0 and KDE Gear 26.08.1 delivered new features and bugfixes across the KDE ecosystem. glibc jumped to 2.44 with Transparent Huge Pages tunables and optimized math functions, and LLVM 23.1.1 arrived with important bugfixes. Mesa progressed from 26.2.2 to 26.2.3 and the Linux kernel advanced through 7.2.5 to 7.2.7 with a sustained focus on security. Later in the month the GNOME desktop picked up 50.5 across gnome-shell and mutter, GIMP advanced to 3.2.6, coreutils jumped to 9.12, and rsync arrived at 3.5.1 after a sweeping audit of its path handling and daemon protocol. curl addressed seven CVEs, pcre2 patched six security issues, and ffmpeg rolled up more than 20 CVEs in one pass." Details on these fixes are covered in Tumbleweed Monthly.
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These and other news stories can be found on our Headlines page.
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| Questions and Answers (by Jesse Smith) |
Breaking Linux to learn Linux?
What-if-I-cannot-break-it asks: I'm trying to learn Linux and I keep running into the advice to "break" my system to learn how to fix it. But I've never had my system break on me, so what should I do?
DistroWatch answers: The world of Linux is a different landscape now than it was in the 1990s when this advice became popular. In a bygone era, when dinosaurs and Mandrake Linux roamed the earth, maintaining a Linux-based operating system was harder work and more fraught with peril.
In those ancient times, many distributions did not have package managers that automatically handled dependencies, package repositories were smaller, and major releases were less frequent. If someone wanted support for a new piece of hardware they might need to download and compile a newer kernel (or at least a driver). The update might fix your driver problem, but it might also prevent your system from shutting down properly. If someone wanted a new version of a music player, they'd probably need to build one from source code, only to discover they had broken MP3 support in the process. There was a good chance manually installing a new C library would fix your timezone issues, but if you made a typo in the process every program on your machine would suddenly stop working.
It was a less polished time, is what I'm saying. One in which there was a lot more manual work to do and many more opportunities for something to go wrong. Exploring, updating, and "fixing" your operating system would often result in something important ceasing to function. Figuring out how to fix the situation, or at least get things back to the way they were pre-tinkering, was an educational experience. In such fires were system administrators forged.
These days the Linux ecosystem is a lot different. It's more mature, more polished, more complete. These days software repositories with pre-built binaries are huge, package managers automatically handle dependencies and issue warnings before they break something. Even if you do manage to "break" your system, many distributions have snapshots and boot environments which enable us to rollback to a working configuration. Short of overwriting your entire hard drive or experiencing hardware failure, it's pleasantly difficult to break a Linux distribution these days.
In short, the idea of "break your system to learn about it" advice is a few decades out of date, in my opinion. You could go out of your way to break something, but it wouldn't be a surprise and you'd know what the fix was because you intentionally created the problem.
These days I'd take a slightly different approach, though with a similar philosophy of exploration. Decide on a project you want to try or pick a goal you want to accomplish. Next, figure out how to do that with your existing operating system. There is probably something you're like to change about your distribution. Maybe you want to craft your own desktop theme? Maybe you want to fix that clicking sound coming from your speaker when you pause audio? Maybe you want to figure out how to have two versions of the same program installed at the same time? Maybe you want to trick a program into thinking it is operating in a different year? Maybe you want to set up a guest account that gets wiped with every reboot? If not one of these suggestions, then there must be something you want to do with your computer to make it better serve you. Pick a project, any project, and start learning how to accomplish it!
Chances are there is more than one way to solve the goal you have in mind and getting your project working (then getting it working a better way) will be a great way to learn what you can do with your Linux system.
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Additional answers can be found in our Questions and Answers archive.
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Emmabuntüs DE6-1.03
The Emmabuntüs project has published a new update with a focus on improving accessibility options and features. "Our goal was to preserve the spirit of this approach: making accessibility features immediately available without requiring users to memorize numerous keyboard shortcuts. Easy Menu: one key for simple access to accessibility features: The Easy Menu provides quick access to Emmabuntüs' main accessibility features through a dedicated key: Right Control or F12. A simple press of this key opens a menu containing the main available functions. Users can therefore access the tools they need more easily, without having to remember a multitude of key combinations. This approach is particularly useful for people using the Orca screen reader, but it can also make computers easier to use for anyone who needs simplified access to assistive features. From the main menu, Easy Menu also provides direct access to certain frequently used functions through dedicated keys." Additional information and screenshots can be found in the release announcement.
Kodachi OS 10.0.3
Warith Al Maawali has announced the release of Kodachi OS 10.0.3, an updated version of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution with integrated privacy and security features on top of a highly customised Xfce desktop: "The first stable release of Kodachi 10. It contains everything in the Kodachi 10 beta record below, plus the changes listed here, which were made during the beta testing that followed that record. The stable downloads and the stable APT channel now carry Kodachi 10.0.3, and the Desktop, Terminal and Binary Pack editions all report the same version. Dispatch excerpt: switching the microphone off now stays off - the sound system could switch the capture back on about a second after a disable that had reported success, and the microphone guard now holds every sound card's capture switch off until you enable the microphone again; a VPN connection that stopped unexpectedly (a crash, a reboot or an upgrade while connected) no longer blocks every later connection with 'route restoration remains unverified'; the online status and public IP check answers in about 2 to 5 seconds instead of up to 25, so the desktop panel no longer shows the online status as empty." Here is a brief excerpt from the raw changelog.
Kodachi OS 10.0.3 -- Running the Xfce desktop
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OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 "ROME"
The OpenMandriva Lx project has released new live and installation media for its rolling-release "ROME" edition. Labelled as version 26.09, the new snapshot comes with a large number of package upgrades: "The glibc library has been enhanced with support for interchangeable malloc implementations. Choosing the appropriate implementation can provide performance improvements of up to 20%. The current release contains only the necessary infrastructure; future releases will include configurations that select optimal malloc implementations for selected key applications. We have updated our default compiler to LLVM/Clang 23, with the current version providing, among other things, improved code generation. We have also fixed a bug causing a clash between compiler-rt and libgcc_s, which could result in unexpected crashes in some applications. GCC has been updated to 16.2.0. At the same time, we fixed an issue that caused some AppImage applications to crash when launched. Our default package manager has been updated to RPM 6.1.0." Continue to the release announcement for all the details.
Nitrux 7.0.0
Uri Herrera has announced the release of Nitrux 7.0.0, a significant update of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution featuring an immutable base and the Hyprland Wayland compositor: "We are pleased to announce the launch of Nitrux 7.0.0. This new version combines the latest software updates, bug fixes, performance improvements and ready-to-use hardware support. We've updated the following components in the distribution: Linux kernel with CachyOS patches (by Nitrux), version 7.2.6; Hyprland to version 0.55.4, all the included Hypr utilities are also updated; NVIDIA Open kernel module to version 615.71.09; Lüv icon theme to version 0.8.9; KDE Frameworks to version 6.26.0; Nitrux Update tool system to version 3.0.3; redesigned the updater interface with MauiKit-style cards for system status, update availability and operation progress; refined update states, progress presentation and toolbar controls, and removed the redundant update button; added branch and commit information to the About dialog and fixed a compile failure; updated the application icon and desktop entry...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details.
umbrelOS 2.0.0
Umbrel, Inc. has announced the release of umbrelOS 2.0.0, an updated version of the company's Debian-based Linux distribution designed for home servers, with a web-based user interface and an online app store. It is available for standard 64-bit and Raspberry Pi computers. "umbrelOS 2.0 is the biggest update we've ever shipped. It brings a new Photos app, Umbrel apps for iPhone and Mac, Machines for running Windows, Ubuntu, and Android inside your Umbrel, multiple user accounts, an MCP server for AI agents, a new Storage Manager with FailSafe (RAID), downloads from cloud storage, GPU acceleration, an all-new App Store, redesigned Settings, faster Files, redesigned CMD/Ctrl-K search, automatic HTTPS, and hundreds of smaller improvements and bug fixes. New features: Photos - photos and videos on your Umbrel show up in the new Photos app automatically, organized by years, months, and days, with albums, favorites, Live Photos, panoramas, and screenshots; Umbrel for iPhone - the new Umbrel app for iOS backs up your entire camera roll to your Umbrel automatically, in the background, even when the app is closed; Umbrel for Mac - the new Umbrel app for macOS finds your Umbrel automatically and adds it as a drive in Finder, on your local network and over Tailscale; Machines - run Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Android, and more right inside your Umbrel." Here are the full release notes as published on the project's GitHub pages.
umbrelOS 2.0.0 -- The web interface
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Koozali SME Server 11.0
Terry Fage has announced the release of Koozali SME Server 11.0. The latest release of the server distribution shifts its base from CentOS to Rocky Linux and introduces an overhaul of the web interface. "Base OS Upgrade: Transitioned to Rocky Linux 8.10, replacing CentOS, ensuring continued stability and support. Package Management Enhancements: Integration with the Koji build system and Git version control, enabling streamlined RPM package building and repository management. Mail Server Improvements: Introduction of Postfix for mail submission, while maintaining Qpsmtpd for final delivery to ensure backward compatibility. Qpsmtpd now operates with three separate daemons, each with its own configuration, including support for port 587 submission. Server Manager Overhaul: A new server manager interface has been under development using the Mojolicious real-time web framework aiming to provide a more modern and user-friendly experience with options for alternate themes. Let's Encrypt Integration: Development of a management panel for Let's Encrypt certificates, simplifying SSL certificate management." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes.
Mainstream OS 3.0.0
Greg Martin has announced the release of Mainstream OS 3.0.0, a milestone version of the project's Arch-derived desktop and gaming Linux distribution with a highly customised Hyprland-based desktop. The new release comes with a long list of improvements: "A rebuilt Welcome app, smoother gaming with a new Gaming settings page, a hug-style dock and per-monitor wallpapers, with updates and shutdowns that keep your work and your changes safe. The Welcome app has been rebuilt - pick your language, window layout, hot corner and wallpaper, then style the bar, dock and window decorations while a live preview of your desktop updates as you go. Welcome's apps page now fits on one screen, sorted into Play, Create and Work, with anything you already have installed marked. Games run even better out of the box - GameMode (a performance booster) and MangoHud (an on-screen performance display) come installed, and the desktop stays responsive while a game loads from a hard drive. New Gaming page in settings - one switch keeps games smooth while something heavy runs in the background, and two more can help some games stutter less or load faster." See the detailed changelog for a complete list of changes.
Qubes OS 4.3.2
The Qubes team has announced the release of Qubes OS 4.3.2, an updated build of the project's security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing: "We're pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes OS 4.3.2. This patch release aims to consolidate all the security updates and bug fixes that have occurred since the previous stable release. Our goal is to provide a secure and convenient way for users to install (or reinstall) the latest stable Qubes release with an up-to-date ISO. The ISO and associated verification files are available on the downloads page. What's new in Qubes 4.3.2? Default Fedora template upgraded to Fedora 44; kernel-latest upgraded to Linux 7.2; security updates; numerous bug fixes. Known issues in Qubes 4.3.2. It's possible that templates restored in 4.3.2 from a pre-4.3 backup may continue to target their original Qubes OS release repositories. Fresh templates on a clean 4.3.2 installation are not affected. Users who perform an in-place upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 (instead of restoring templates from a backup) are also not affected, since the in-place upgrade process already includes the above fix in stage 4." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and relevant links.
Parrot 7.4
Parrot is a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution featuring a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. The project's latest release, version 7.4, includes several changes, including a new onboarding tool: "Onboarding tool that installs things: A new tool has been added to our collection: Parrot Discovery is our first-run welcome application and full setup tool for your system. A guided checklist covers tool profiles, with selectable cards for everyday applications such as browsers, editors, chat apps, containers, gaming and privacy tools, all installed through curated APT and Flatpak commands that the user reviews and confirms. Package states are detected asynchronously, the system updater opens directly from the tour, next-step and tools cards close the flow, and autostart respects the stored preference while staying correctly disabled in live mode. Discovery provides a guided path from a fresh desktop to a working setup. Rocket receives a substantial update, not just packaging fixes. Its redesigned PySide6 interface combines a searchable tool catalog, image availability and running-container status with a Dockerfile manager: users now can create or generate Dockerfiles from catalog entries, edit and save them, build images and run the resulting containers from the same application. Further information can be found in the project's release notes.
Besgnulinux 1.0 "Openbox"
The Besgnulinux team has announced the release of a new edition of its Debian-based Linux distribution - Besgnulinux 1.0 which features the Openbox window manager: "It had been a long time since I last tested Openbox. I initially created this version for testing purposes. However, once it turned into such a great system, I thought it would be a good idea to adapt it for general use and share it. Having another window manager as an alternative to JWM offers users a second choice. Getting Openbox to its current state certainly required a lot of effort. After all, Openbox doesn't come with built-in components to function as a standalone system on its own; it is built using various tools and custom configurations. Yet, with the right setup, it can become a fantastic system. That is precisely the beauty of window managers - they allow users to customize the experience to their own liking. This version was born out of that very appreciation. What was done for the Openbox 1.0 release? After experimenting with various panels, I decided that Tint2 was the best fit for Openbox." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and screenshots.
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Development, unannounced and minor bug-fix releases
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Weekly Torrents
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Torrent Corner statistics:
- Total torrents seeded: 3,505
- Total data uploaded: 51.2TB
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When was the last time your system broke?
In this week's Questions and Answers section we talked about breaking an operating system to learn more about it, specifically learning how to fix it. These days it is fairly rare for a Linux distribution to break unless the user goes out of their way to do something destructive. When was the last time you had a Linux system break to the point of not being able to boot? Let us know what caused the problem in the comments.
You can see the results of our previous poll on running Windows applications in our previous edition. All previous poll results can be found in our poll archives.
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1 • IPU7 Cam (by PantherLake on 2026-10-05 00:15:40 GMT from Canada)
Just wondering if anyone is running a distro that successfully supports the IPU7 webcam on panther lake hardware? If yes, what are you running? Thanks
2 • Breaking Linux (by John on 2026-10-05 00:48:06 GMT from Canada)
Las time was probably round 10 years ago. I updated the kernel and forgot to do a mkinitrd. I had to boot from a dvd to correct the system.
3 • Breaking Linux to learn Linux (by OnlyTux on 2026-10-05 00:48:19 GMT from France)
@What-if-I-cannot-break-it: I do not know what distribution you are using but, if you never tried it before, a very formative experience is the installation of Gentoo, especially if you choose the manual installation and configuration of gentoo-sources instead of the automated installkernel. The first installation might feel like an adventure if you are not expert, plenty of things to break (and learn) there :)
However, once you overcome the hurdles, it becomes the most reliable system.
Other distributions break from time to time on my laptops. Gentoo is the only system that never failed me.
4 • "Breaking" the computer ... (by Greg Zeng on 2026-10-05 01:00:26 GMT from Australia)
Computer systems are generally designed for most naive users, with little optimization at the start. Later, these "break" themselves, with or without the user knowing.
In rare cases, very brief, intermittent "breaks " happen, especially with new or unusual hardware and other changes.
In my case, the 32-inch display might demand better-than-default settings, colors, and fonts. Or the Ryzen CPU in my GMKtec mini PC can safely run at full power, since the hardware automatically controls excess temperatures, etc., if they’re ever reached.
Most of these "breaks" might go unnoticed or be easy to ignore. Missed screen frames, off-colors, and slower-than-optimal operations.
Then we might decide to try to improve the computer? Many times this intended "improvement" can be worse. Eventually most of us decide the imperfect is better than any "cure", overall. Ignore the "updates," perhaps.
5 • Broken Linux? (by Sam Crawford on 2026-10-05 01:34:06 GMT from United States)
Debian Stable. I don't need to say more.
6 • Broken Linux (by Buster on 2026-10-05 01:59:13 GMT from Canada)
Maybe every 5+ years or more I have a problem with a kernel update. So far I've been able to use an older kernel that can be chosen as I boot. That's all I can remember over more than a quarter century. The distros have always managed to sort that out and correct the problem.
7 • Breaking Linux (by Friar Tux on 2026-10-05 02:36:33 GMT from Canada)
Well, THAT explains a lot. Jesse, this old fool just had a big light bulb go on in his brain while reading the Q and A section. You mentioned Mandrake. That was the first distro I ever bought and tried. I thought buying it would mean it would have been tested and as stable as Windows 95 at the time. It wasn't. It scared me back to Windows. As did Fedora, and a few others that I can't remember at the moment. I just thought they weren't as well developed as Windows. Of course, in my case I'm a bit prejudiced. I come from on era where things were built to last. If it breaks down, it means it was defective to start with. (I still think that way. that's why I still will not use certain distros.) I much prefer a distro I can install and forget about. The one I'm presently using hasn't hiccuped in over a decade. Anyway, thanks for that article. It was quite informative.
8 • Breaking Linux to learn Linux (by Bob on 2026-10-05 03:18:08 GMT from United States)
As Sam says, with Debian stable?
If I've broken my installation, it's so far in the past that it's beyond memory.
If the questioner really wants to mess around and learn stuff, I suggest having a look at Linux From Scratch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
As it says on the box, you build your OS absolutely from the bottom up. Many, many chances to break things in the process, but very satisfying if you actually make it to the end and see your very own personal GNU/Linux OS come to life as a blinking cursor on a black screen.
And if that isn't enough, there's always Beyond Linux From Scratch!
9 • Breaking Linux (by Much Derper on 2026-10-05 04:13:07 GMT from United States)
Subj is still very much possible. All you need to do is go far off the beaten path, do something really weird. For example, the things I've done to break my system:
* downgrade a release
* in-place conversion of an existing system between different file systems, using LVM, LUKS, or the like.
* cross-grading a system between different architectures, like i386 to amd64, or armel to armhf to arm64, or vice versa from amd64 to i386 or from arm64 to armhf to armel. I've even done converting an arm64 system to amd64, that was a doozy.
* writing initramfs hooks to setup zram compressed RAM swap as early as possible, then unpacking the entire system into tmpfs, and do reverse on shutdown (I did that as a fun way of using up the stack of writeable DVDs I found in a far corner of my closet).
* Or just install Linux on a laptop with a non-Intel and non-AMD graphics, like an old Sony Vaio I have with some less common Nvidia chip.
10 • Broken system? (by amnesium on 2026-10-05 04:14:03 GMT from United States)
Honestly i don't even remember, it must have been more than 20 years ago but also it wasn't because of the system but because I was trying all kind of things to learn etc.
11 • Breaking the system... (by Bobbie Sellers on 2026-10-05 04:33:26 GMT from United States)
I suffer from a loose nut operating on the keyboard and mouse.
Practically inevitably I mess things up. A recent problem
related to an attempt to back up my "/home/user" to a USB Flash
drive. Made an itty-bitty mistake and it wrote it over
my home directory. I lost years of work and but I got the
system running again inside of 24 hours. And a running
system is very important to me at 89 yoa because it
permits me to type at young folks.
PCLinux install media contains nearly everything I
need to get the system operational again. The things
it does not have I come equipped with.
Jesse Smith does a great service working on those
strangely named distributions that are definitely
incomplete.
bliss- Dell 7730- PCLinuxOS 2026.10 Linux 6.18.55- Plasma 6.7.5
12 • Break Linux ? (by Antonie on 2026-10-05 04:40:34 GMT from The Netherlands)
Ubuntu 14. That Kernel would not boot. Switched to debian 8, and when that came EOL MX(17). Am still running MX (MX 23, now)
13 • break linux (by user on 2026-10-05 05:30:21 GMT from Bulgaria)
Funny poll, just this year I have 4 broken Linux installations, and the year is not over yet. 3 overhyped immutable distros, one traditionally structured
14 • linux 5.15.221 broken (by Tiger on 2026-10-05 05:59:15 GMT from Norway)
I have had three breakage regarding to kernel these last 10 years. 2 happened this year, so I point fingers to someone started using ai-assist, buurp.
15 • Broken Linux (by Leo on 2026-10-05 07:38:36 GMT from France)
I have some things breaking from time to time like my laptop not recognizing the sound card after being in a packed bag for too long. But the one time I broke my system real bad was in 2018 on a Gentoo installation. I needed Chromium for something but didn't have enough RAM, so I thought I could borrow a Chromium package from a Gentoo-related distro which provided a binary, and extract it to /. Of course it wasn't meant to work this way and I couldn't recover the system so I went back to Arch before running Gentoo again on a new PC.
16 • Linux not booting (by Hank on 2026-10-05 07:48:32 GMT from Germany)
I have experienced aoccasional breakage. Reason I run antiX with sid repositories.
sid is mostly fine but I experct occasional issues. That is the price of using bleeding edge software on Debian based system.
The install is now abiout three years old but fully updated, I have learned some new things during that period.
Would I recommend to run antiX sid. Yes but keep a stable live system available just in case.
17 • Breaking events (by Sondar on 2026-10-05 08:01:26 GMT from United Kingdom)
Greg (4) is just about right! Press on regardless and make sure you ignore the siren voices to upgrade, upgrade. Try to keep a version a few years old running if it's doing 90% of your needs. You don't need new bells and whistles, especially try to avoid anything AI tainted...
18 • breakable linux (by Chris on 2026-10-05 08:07:23 GMT from South Africa)
Surely if you install a distro like Ubuntu and then install KDE plasma desktop on top of it, then Cinnamon and then MATE, then Xubuntu , then ... something will most likely break?
19 • entertaining (by Michael R on 2026-10-05 08:19:31 GMT from Germany)
I must say, i THOROUGHLY enjoyed reading your review of the fu11m00n distro. You picked it apart very well and demystified what at first could have made a competent first impression, into a haphazardly slapped together Porteus derivative which fails at the most simple tasks.
20 • fix colors now (by We all float down on 2026-10-05 08:42:46 GMT from The Netherlands)
@8 a blinking cursor on a black screen? add kernel parameter vt.color=0x70 for black on white and then witness the utter failure of hard-coding colors in system scripts, for instance yellow was fine on black but not on white.
21 • Fast Lane Crashes (by MattE on 2026-10-05 09:26:53 GMT from United States)
I've been using Debian Sid for about 8 months. Only 2 minor glitches, which were easy fixes especially since I used AI to work through the problem. It would have take longer if I had to sift through online docs and Stack Overflow. I also use Fedora which feels like it updates even more than Sid, but never breaks. Take that back, Fedora broke about 7 years ago upgrading to version 28. That I was not able to fix, but I still learned something new.
Which is worse breaking or crashing?
22 • Breaked Linux Pool (by pwplant on 2026-10-05 09:28:15 GMT from Bulgaria)
I will vote for 6-10 years. I remember back then I was trying Manjaro and it got broken in very genuine Arch way. I was not able to fix it in 1hr and feeling that my attempts make the situation even worse.
In more recent time (~1.5 years) I was caught in other situations. In one case it was broken Fedora initial release, which lead to limited console loading after update. In other it was BIOS update, that reset setting, enable Secure Boot and eventually leading to not being able to fully load kernel with very cryptic error. Scenarios that surely will look like end-of-the-world for regular users, but I managed to fix them relatively fast and easy.
Generally, my observation is that Linux is not harder to break than most other system. It is NOT indestructible system in any meaningful way. Also, there is not dramatic differences between different distribution in terms of quality and resilience. At least in most reasonable distributions. What matter most is that users learn which patterns not to use and which to follow in order to avoid complications. And those patterns tend to differ, as well as strong side of different distributions.
23 • System breakage (by a on 2026-10-05 09:30:35 GMT from France)
On Gentoo the upgrade to "stable" linux 6.18 this year broke the boot on my PC. It took a couple other updates (and some time wasted on my part) until it got fixed.
24 • "Breaking" the computer (by Jake on 2026-10-05 09:51:29 GMT from United States)
The last time I had my system break was over 18 years ago on a Windows update. If it broke after that it was from my own stupid actions.
25 • Breaking (by Tom Serveaux on 2026-10-05 10:21:48 GMT from United States)
Probably 16-20 years ago when I jacked up a custom compiled kernel on Slackware. My fault completely.
My wife transitioned to Mint about six years ago and she’s had no issues.
26 • Broken system (by aguador on 2026-10-05 10:28:50 GMT from Spain)
My main system is the development branch of Mageia which has only broken once on a bad systemd update nearly a decade ago. Admittedly one takes more care with updates on a development branch, but it is still a tribute to the Mageia packagers that one can run the branch as a daily driver with virtually no problems.
27 • System Breakage? (by picamanic on 2026-10-05 10:30:01 GMT from United Kingdom)
I have been using Void Linux for about 10 years, alongside Devuan. I like it because it is independent, whereas Devuan must keep up with Debian developments.
I can't remember Void "breaking", but some of the packages that are less well used can't have issues/quirks. As Void uses a rolling release model, it is only necessary to run xbps-install -Su every week or month [I am lazy].
28 • Dutch government distro (by Andrabt on 2026-10-05 10:44:45 GMT from Indonesia)
I wonder if it will be easier for Dutch Government to share their own flake.nix rather than creating a new NixOS derivative distro.
But congratulations, it's best decision to migrate from Redmond's control.
29 • not being able to boot, (by eb on 2026-10-05 07:53:27 GMT from France)
on principle, is not due to Linux, but to the guy situated between keyboard and chair (?).
It happened to me at the beginning of this century, when I was less experienced ; but now, if ever I encounter this problem, I think I could understand and solve it.
Linux always offers a solution !:-).
30 • Broken system (by dr.j on 2026-10-05 11:26:49 GMT from Germany)
Has the installation ever crashed? There’s no simple answer to that.
We have two Arch systems running, one at my place, one at my wife’s — since around 2012 for the first and final installation. So far, the systems have weathered everything: from HDD to SSD to M.2. Multiple devices. Packing the image into a virtual machine and back, and so on. Crashed? Never. But here’s the difference. My wife’s system has remained largely untouched. Problems? None. Mine has changed. Or rather: I’ve tinkered with it a lot. Problems? Sure. For example, when I used the parabola` manual to remove `systemd` and install `openrc`. Similarly, I’ve run a few experiments with `grub` or automatic login without `lightdm`, and so on and so forth. But as is so often the case, that depends on the person sitting in front of the PC. and of cource with a backup Image the desaster was quickly solved. Broken system? It depends.
31 • Breaking? (by Christian on 2026-10-05 12:28:20 GMT from Canada)
I've answered 1 to 5 years. But, if the question was breaking beyond recoverability (or the convenience of reinstalling instead of recovering), I would have selected something else. I have multiple Linux systems.
Mint - had occasional boot problems after an update, fairly easy to recover (maybe not for a less technical user).
Mageia - never broke. Using since version 7.
Solus - Using it for the last 3-4 years, same install. Very few problems with eopkg not automatic cleaning the cache when using it only from the command line. I don't use this machine very often and I do only update it every 4-6 months.
KDE Neon - usually broke the video after a Kernel update (Nvidia and Displaylink). It was very annoying to fix, but worth the effort instead of reinstalling.
PopOS replaced my KDE Neon. Never broke, but upgrading was not really working. I've decided to try something else instead of re-installing or troubleshooting the upgrade.
Arch (Omarchy) is what I am currently running. So far, so good.
I also had VMs to play around going for a longer time. Two I think worth mentioning:
Calculate Linux - enjoyed it a lot. But ended up with some circular dependency that broke eix in some way that I was too lazy to fix (and I did push it over the edge).
Void - was running like a clock until some recent update broke Firefox. IDK if it was related to the Quickemu or the VM itself.
32 • System Breakage... Full Something Review (by Elvis Beethoven on 2026-10-05 13:26:16 GMT from United States)
"I ran into some weird problems, apart from slogging through all the misinformation on the project's website and malfunctioning features."
I wish that were at the beginning of the review; it's at the end. Sort of kidding there, but I have to say I do love the approach, crazy as it seems, by the project's dev(s). Irreverent, etc. It's a mess right now, going by Jesse's review (I have not tried it and likely will not... for a while... if ever), but the notion of coming right out to go another less traveled direction with a distro is generally appealing to me. I do hope they pull it together.
Well, the breakage thing, I was not sure what that meant, to be honest. "Non functioning, as in bricked?" I guess so. I admit to abandoning various iterations of Linux and BSD after a bit of hassle and non-predictability. I have gone back to a few of those and even have kept one in particular: GhostBSD, which I always have a copy of. It is honestly the best BSD and certainly outshines many Linux distros as well.
33 • Broke my Linux system (by Thomas J Taylor on 2026-10-05 13:26:49 GMT from United States)
Only happened one time with Bleach Bit.
While using it. It reserved the whole drive in 1 zero bit file.
It was all the free space of the drive. And crashed the system. No boot.
I had no idea. While using a boot disc I was looking for large files I could delete and then boot back in. During boot it posted no drive space for swap available. When I found the file and deleted it. Then it booted normal.
34 • PCLOS (by dragonmouth on 2026-10-05 13:38:33 GMT from United States)
Is PCLinux with Trinity desktop still alive or has it been discontinued?
35 • Breaking (really badly) Linux (by jesuiswiizzz on 2026-10-05 14:03:21 GMT from France)
In the past five years, I broke my system twice. The first time due to a hardware failure that prevented proper journaling, the second time because *I* messed up an update and both of my kernels were then stiff dead. No data loss in both cases, and half an hour later, my computer was up and running.
36 • fu11m00n (by hadji457 on 2026-10-05 14:03:26 GMT from United States)
I was curious and decided to download the fu11m00n iso. This is what I got when I clicked on the link,
The item is not available due to issues with the item's content.
37 • Breakage (by Nathan on 2026-10-05 14:08:18 GMT from United States)
Easy answer for the breakage issue. Any time that I tried an Arch based distro, including Arch itself, I never got through 6 update cycles before a breakage. Liya ans Archbang made it through 5 updates, none of the others got that far. I define updates as a weekly update event, every Saturday morning, usually including 400 to 500M of updates each time (or more). Good things that this is on my "play" laptop and not my daily machine which by the way has been MX since 2018 with no issues.
38 • @ 1 • IPU7 Cam (by David on 2026-10-05 14:34:28 GMT from United States)
I bought a 2024 Dell XPS 13 9350 with Ubuntu pre-installed directly from Dell March 1, 2026. The camera hardware was either IPU6 or 7 and would not work regardless of my own struggles and those of Dell tech support. While my research on the issue of that camera with Linux revealed that effort was well underway to make it work with Linux, to date maybe two people had made it work ;-), I sent it back. Also "interesting" about that machine: It had an empty 12GB Windows partition on it in the factory installation of Ubuntu. Oops!
39 • Breaking a system (by Bob McConnell on 2026-10-05 14:56:15 GMT from United States)
PEBKAC (Problem exists between keyboard and chair) is the only cause for failure in my 33 years using Slackware. A couple of times, when upgrading hardware, I have mis-entered a change in lilo.conf and the system failed to boot. To fix: boot from a live DVD, mount the root and boot file systems, correct the config file, chroot and run lilo. Pull the DVD and reboot. Tedious, but easy to correct.
40 • CachyOS rock solid (by InvisibleInk on 2026-10-05 17:37:39 GMT from United States)
I've been running CachyOS for a year and a half on my desktop, and I'm surprised it hasn't broken. I really thought at the begining there was no way a rolling release distro would be so solid. A couple of times I've run into update errors dues to packages having been deprecated and removed from the repo, but once understood, I was able to handle the problem quickly and move on.
I backup and update often, which I believe is helpful.
41 • Breaking a system (by Joe Schmoe on 2026-10-05 17:52:09 GMT from United States)
About six years ago, I stepped out of the room for a few minutes and left laptop lid open. My cat decided to take a nap on it. They managed to open over a dozen apps and even though it was a regular user, trash the grub configuration. Didn't find out until I rebooted, so I had to boot from flash drive and fix grub.
42 • NVIDIA broke my system (by Matt on 2026-10-05 19:47:28 GMT from United States)
Debian based systems have the option of installing Nvidia proprietary drivers using distribution repositories. You can also download the drivers from Nvidia and install them the old fashioned way. Running Devuan testing branch, I found out the old fashioned way is the only way the reliably works with kernel upgrades. That was the cause of the last break I had. Not from the distribution, but from the proprietary Nvidia stuff I decided to use.
I've been using Linux for 25 years, and it is amazing how reliable it is now. Devuan testing is a beta release from a fork of Debian. It isn't recommended for daily use, but I use it daily and never have any issues. If I were running Debian proper stable branch, I doubt that I would ever need to reboot my computer.
43 • Breakage (by Keith S on 2026-10-05 21:12:36 GMT from United States)
I have had numerous distros break after updating over the years. It has happened a lot less in recent years. The last time I remember it happening was upgrading from MX19 to MX21. I've been using OpenBSD -current for years and Void for the past year or so and have had no problems with them.
44 • 3 times (by K on 2026-10-05 23:59:13 GMT from Taiwan)
I currently only use Linux in a virtual machine (though 90% of my tasks are done there). Over the past two years, excluding the times I broke the system myself (such as messing up configuration files in /etc), system boot failures have occurred about three times. Every time, it was because the @ subvolume in Btrfs mysteriously disappeared, forcing me to boot the VM using a live CD, recreate the @subvolume, and then restore it using Timeshift. For me, my learning method generally involves deliberately modifying certain files and observing what happens (which is why Timeshift combined with Btrfs is so important to me—backups save space and are faster than Ext4).
Another approach I take is comparing different distributions, such as regular Linux Mint versus LMDE, Ubuntu 22.04 versus 24.04, Debian versus Devuan, Mageia versus openSUSE, MX Linux versus antiX. I observe the different designs they use to accomplish the same task and then try doing that same task across different distributions. There are many other things to compare as well, such as desktop environments, input method frameworks, language support, and package managers. For me, it's hard to realize what's going on behind the scenes without comparison, so the diversity of Linux distributions is truly a treasure trove for learning.
45 • System breakage (by Catie on 2026-10-06 13:54:15 GMT from United States)
If nothing else, just install distros like Gentoo, Slackware, or Arch from square 1. Plenty of chances to break your system there. Additionally, can always look at setting up a LFS solution. These are three of the best ways to learn how Linux truly works.
46 • Timeshift to the rescue... (by tom joad on 2026-10-06 15:26:09 GMT from United States)
Me wonders if the question should have been how many times have YOU broke your system after doing some goofy stuff? By goofy I mean doing stuff that you kind of knew not to do but did anyway!
That said I can not tell you how many times Timeshift has saved my bacon! In fact, Timeshift is the first app I setup on a new install. Oh, yes I do. After Timeshift is up and running I do an On Demand snapshot of the fresh install too. And with the size of drives today I set up lots of 'snapshots' just in case.
Life in my Linux world is much better now with Timeshift.
47 • Slint based on Salix based on Slackware. (by Ronald Buckman on 2026-10-06 22:25:28 GMT from United States)
It is interesting that the one distro that is based on Slackware that has a Distrowatch page hit ranking lower than the distro I am using, Slint, is being reviewed. Slint Linux has special tools for those who cannot see well. Once, I made some adjustments, it worked well for me for the most part. It it based on Slackware 15.0 which was released in 2022. It uses a 7.1 kernel after an update which runs well on a Lenovo Ideapad 3 laptop, unlike the 5.15 kernel which does not support this version of Lenovo's touchpad.
48 • What's your definition of 'broken' ? (by Cheery_K on 2026-10-07 01:16:45 GMT from New Zealand)
I put 6-10 years, it was at least that long ago that I had an unbootable system, probably after screwing with video drivers. Truth be told I did have that once more recently but that was after a failed distro upgrade attempt, for which there are no guarantees anyway. That was fixed within minutes by Timeshift restore.
If we're talking about less severe issues then I suppose on one laptop I had no sound through HDMI until adding a kernel boot parameter, but that's hardly showstopping. And I needed a newer kernel to get wifi working on a fairly new HP AiO my mother was given couple years ago. I guess it depends on your definition of 'broken' whether you includes these sorts of examples.
49 • Breaking GNU/Linux (by Ken on 2026-10-07 03:17:07 GMT from United States)
I can't remember the last time I broke my Arch system. Maybe a program wouldn't work because I happened to update in a very brief window between upstream updates, but I don't count that as broken.
My Parabola system, on the other hand... tends to break at least once a year. Very, very few maintainers, so things get ignored for /years/ until it's determined to be important enough to devote time to fix.
50 • Timeshift??? (by Friar Tux on 2026-10-07 03:41:30 GMT from Canada)
See a few people mentioning Timeshift, here. That is the first program I shut down or switch off. I find it to be totally useless. How do you use it if your system is down? I find it far easier to just re-install the system, haul out my backups and I'm back in business. Also, I don't use backup software. I've been burn too many times with lost files the backup programs didn't copy/backup/sync. So far, all the backup programs are guilty of this. What works best for me is to simply copy a directory to my backup drive ("Copy To"). It's a wee bit slower, but far more accurate.
51 • Linux Breakage (by Antony Legat on 2026-10-07 04:19:54 GMT from United Kingdom)
First I'd like to state that I use Timeshift on Linux Mint with Btrfs regularly and think it is brilliant - a perfect combination of simplicity and effectiveness. If you can't boot your system it's easy to boot Mint (at least) from the live ISO and then simply restore a saved Timeshift snapshot from the ISO desktop.
Last time I broke Linux was trying out the latest version of Fedora - trying to restore a Snapper snapshot which failed to boot!!! Timeshift has *never* let me down this way. I know it was some kind of syncing issue which can be avoided with a smarter btrfs subvolume strategy, but at the time it completely put me off Fedora.
Btrfs + Timeshift = magic!
52 • Broke (by Jamal Johnsonm on 2026-10-07 06:20:09 GMT from Australia)
I broke my Devuan Daedalus install a few days ago while trying to do a system upgrade to Excalibur. Borked the entire network stack. Unrecoverable.
Solved with a clean install of Excalibur but spent hours restoring the system to my needs. Annoying and never again a systen update I will attempt.
53 • GhostBSD (by Tim Pearce on 2026-10-07 06:45:44 GMT from Australia)
I can't remember when I last had a broken Linux install although I did have a major outage with a Ubuntu server when one of the disks in the RAID went bad!
My daily drivers (desktop & laptop) are running GhostBSD with ZFS. There is always a BE (Backup Environment) to go back to on startup if something goes wrong.
54 • Broken Windows updates (by Tim Pearce on 2026-10-07 06:49:48 GMT from Australia)
I have had some Windows PCs where updates fail and the only messages lead to something that essentially says 'it failed'! In those cases it was either reinstall Windows or repurpose it with a Linux install.
55 • Broken linux (by Fabio on 2026-10-07 12:33:49 GMT from Italy)
During upgrade from Debian 12 to Debian13 the disk space in the system partition
become full during the upgrade. I was no more able to recover the "apt" error
also with suggested operations and the reboot was a disaster, all package system
was broken. The solution was to use the nice "Timeshift"
backup program (generally included in Mint distribution).
I needed to boot with a Mint live distribution and restore my Debian12
timeshift snapshot that I have cared to make few days before upgrade.
All returned as before.
56 • Learning Linux, poll (by Robert on 2026-10-07 14:22:09 GMT from United States)
I think Jessie's pretty spot on in regards to learning Linux. Waiting on things to break isn't reliable enough on any decent distro. I would only add one thing - If what you want to learn is how Linux works and all the low level bits and bobs that go into a distro, try Linux From Scratch.
It really is distro dependent though. Sometimes even down to luck. Everybody seems to have a different experience. For me:
Opensuse is what you run when you want things to break. You can run Leap for software too old and crusty to work with anything vaguely modern. Or you can run Tumbleweed, where there is no QC and nothing works properly.
Arch is extremely reliable. The last time it broke on me was probably 15+ years ago, and that was my fault for waiting to long to update.
Cachyos has a really fragile installer. Very easy to break. Once you have it working it seems reliable enough.
57 • Linux INTENTIONAL breakage to learn (by Jerry B on 2026-10-07 15:47:59 GMT from United States)
Well my goodness, after all this time we're seeing what appears to be the mirror image of complaints and angst about Linux breakage; it NEEDS to happen to learn the OS.
Certain distros are even being recommended for that purpose, most notably OpenSuse.
We've seen mentioned off and on over the years that users learn by repairing and dealing with update-borne breakage, but this of late seems to have a different air to it.
58 • Broken Linux (by Jason R. on 2026-10-07 17:42:21 GMT from United States)
cachyos definitely has broken many times during my usage of it. Will be moving to something more stable and not so finicky.
59 • 86% of distro broken? (by Daniele on 2026-10-07 18:39:56 GMT from Italy)
Astonishing. I've rarely had any problems even with Debian Unstable.
60 • Broken (by Jamal Johnson on 2026-10-07 20:40:15 GMT from Australia)
Absolutely the best way to get a n00b into Linux coming from Windows, who has never seen a command line, is to drop them into a fixer-upper Linux distro which is bound to break so they are forced to delve into forums, face harrassment and RTFM, so as to learn Linux, and become a competant user who will come to love Linux and the opensource way of doing things.
You people for real? Seriously? In what world will this work?
I want to live in a nice neighborhood, but hey, before I can do that I need to live in a crack house in the hood, so i can work my way out of abject poverty so that I can appreciate living in a nice place where people aren't out to rob me when I step out the door.
Good plan. Let me know how it works out.
61 • Cachyos breaks all the time (by Sally D. on 2026-10-07 23:47:26 GMT from United States)
Cachyos is so unstable and finicky. I have tried it out on more virtual machines than real bare hardware, but nonetheless I’ve had enough, it crashes too much, some program configurations I’ve done will be here today, and gone tomorrow with any updates. Basically it feels like Microsoft in my computer all over again changing things and removing stuff that shouldn’t be in their control.
62 • Poll (by Anke on 2026-10-07 23:53:54 GMT from The Netherlands)
@59, it’s accurate, and for example, @60 gives basically a good explanation of why I’d say so many people in the poll chose the broken right now option, as did I.
63 • 86% of distro broken? (by Daniele on 2026-10-08 00:12:21 GMT from Italy)
@60
I didn't mean to recommend Debian Unstable to beginners. I just wanted to say that even Debian Unstable has never given me too many problems.
64 • Broken (by sverige on 2026-10-08 02:38:02 GMT from Sweden)
I lol'd at @60's comment. Such a great summary of the experience I had when I first tried Linux. The reason I use a computer is to get things done.
I have a car to get places. Yes, there are a lot of people who like to work on cars, but most people just want to get somewhere. Linux reminds me of people who like tinkering with cars and argue about how their Volvo is better than a BMW or Citroen or Jaguar. Sometimes they even brag about how they made a trip to Oslo in it.
I'm so happy I found ChromeOS. My Chromebook updates effortlessly and has never broken. "Oh my, but Google is evil!" Just like "Oh my, but Chevrolet is evil!" My Chromebook does what I want it to do, and I don't have to deal with Microsoft, which is actually an evil company ;-).
65 • Broken (by sverige on 2026-10-08 02:53:31 GMT from Sweden)
On second thought, the better analogy for the "evil car" is Tesla. No user-serviceable parts, and everyone knows Elon is evil now, just like Google. But apparently Teslas do their job well, though I can't afford one. Chromebooks are relatively cheap, though. And a lot more fun to use when I don't have to work on it or read a manual or search forums when I can't find the right part for my 1978 Volvo or an old MG Midget.
66 • Broken Linux (by DaveT on 2026-10-08 09:16:49 GMT from United Kingdom)
I used to run Debian Sid on my laptops.
The change from GRUB to GRUB2 was an exciting time. I think that was 10 to 15 years ago...
Lots of faffing about needed to get the thing to boot up until GRUB2 became stable.
Haven't had a broken linux since then.
For 'reasons' I now use Devuan Ceres the unstable version of Devuan.
On my old iMac I still use the LILO boot loader for Devuan because why not? It still works.
67 • Volvo? Citroen? (by Jerry B on 2026-10-08 12:02:16 GMT from United States)
Get a Peugeot. Predictable starter-motor break-downs so well-known that they once provided a crank (no joke) and hole in the front bumper to insert it into.
The OpenSuse analogy screams. But so does any Linux with roll-back/snapshot features for those pesky breakages we love so much because they ...... help us learn. Yeah.
68 • When was the last time your system broke? (by Unixman on 2026-10-08 13:29:17 GMT from United States)
Not being able to boot is the ask there. Okay.
I've been running some distribution of Linux since ~1997. My day job since 1989 has been owning a computer sales, maintenance, repair shop until 2014 where we built custom Linux systems. Then working as a senior systems administrator / systems engineer from mid-2014 to today for an ISP with several hundred Linux / Unix installs.
I can only recall a handful of times where one of my Linux systems would not boot. As I recall that was almost always due to my missing something in the release notes on an upgrade to a new version. That said, there was one Ubuntu upgrade where I did everything right and systemd crapped itself on reboot. That one ended up with a repave.
Finally, arguably every Linux distribution using systemd, especially all the many RHEL systems at my job, is broken right now. But that is a different religious war. 😉
69 • Last time system broke (by OldManSeph on 2026-10-08 13:41:09 GMT from United States)
I had an Arch install break the other day. An update created an error that made the efi partition be lost to the fstab.
Switched back to Debian Testing. I have never had a Debian Testing nor Sid install break in 20 years.
70 • When was the last time your system broke? (by Unixman on 2026-10-08 13:29:17 GMT from United States)
Not being able to boot is the ask there. Okay.
I've been running some distribution of Linux since ~1997. My day job since 1989 has been owning a computer sales, maintenance, repair shop until 2014 where we built custom Linux systems. Then working as a senior systems administrator / systems engineer from mid-2014 to today for an ISP with several hundred Linux / Unix installs.
I can only recall a handful of times where one of my Linux systems would not boot. As I recall that was almost always due to my missing something in the release notes on an upgrade to a new version. That said, there was one Ubuntu upgrade where I did everything right and systemd crapped itself on reboot. That one ended up with a repave.
Finally, arguably every Linux distribution using systemd, especially all the many RHEL systems at my job, is broken right now. But that is a different religious war. ;-)
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