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Two Proxmox settings fixed the lag in my VMs, and the performance difference is instant

Changes to CPU and Display instantly changed my VMs for the better

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COSMIC bans all AI-generated submissions because its maintainers were getting swamped

Another line is drawn.

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Windows abandoned my 12-year-old PC, so I revived it with Linux Mint

Giving my old hardware the TLC it deserves.

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Someone managed to squeeze KDE and Steam onto their Nintendo Switch Lite

A great way to repurpose past-gen hardware.

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Chromium 154 is causing havoc with people's KDE desktops, but there's a fix

No, it's not just 'use Firefox'.

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Linux Mint replaced Ubuntu as the best first distro, and Ubuntu's own choices explain why

Yes, GNOME is one of those reasons.

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Linux printing finally stopped being a nightmare, and Windows is only now catching up

Printing on Linux is now less painful than on Windows

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I tried replacing Proxmox with an open-source OS you’ve never heard of

This Proxmox rival gets a lot of things right

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Your Proxmox server can handle 10 times the workload if you stop treating everything like a virtual machine

LXCs are a thing, you know?

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I used lightweight Linux to revive a Windows PC that Microsoft gave up on, and it's not Ubuntu

An aging 2012 laptop shed its bloat and booted in minutes with a stripped Fluxbox setup that sips under 500MB of RAM.

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A laptop shwoing the KDE Plasma desktop with apps including Affinity and Vivaldi open
Klassik brings the KDE 3 desktop experience from 2002 to KDE Plasma 6

It just hit its v1.0 release, too.

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Running PBS alongside Proxmox
I moved an essential Proxmox tool to TrueNAS, and it solved my biggest storage problem

TrueNAS proved that I don't need a separate PC to run Proxmox Backup Server

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I ditched dual boot for WSL and VMs, and my PC stopped breaking every time Windows updated

A switch with more than one clear benefit.

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I nuked my openSUSE OS to test Snapper, and it survived what should have been fatal

It did better than expected.

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KDE Plasma developers squeeze a few more features into 6.8 just weeks before release

Getting some buzzer-beaters through the door.

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A laptop running the COSMIC desktop and showing the COSMIC Settings app
COSMIC 1.9 finally gets its own image viewer, and it even comes with its own editing tools

Plus, a new on-screen keyboard that accepts touch and gamepad inputs.

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Ubuntu stopped being the lightweight Linux distro, and Linux Mint filled the gap it left behind

A surprising shift to Linux Mint reveals leaner memory use, polished Cinnamon defaults, and a friendlier upgrade path.

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The Netherlands joins Europe's gradual migration from Windows to Linux on government PCs

Another one goes FOSS.

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Ubuntu on WSL finally replaced my Linux partition, and my Windows 11 PC no longer needs dual-boot

I ditched dual-boot for WSL, and I'm not going back to partitioning my SSD

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KDE's LLM usage guidelines proposer asks people not to "burn each other to the ground" over discussing the new technology
KDE

A little kindness goes a long way.

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