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r/linux is a subreddit with 1.7M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size, and has crazy activity.
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Popular Themes in r/linux
#1
Solution Requests
: "Any OneNote alternatives in linux?"
9 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "People who moved to Linux from Windows 11, what are things you forgot to check before switching over?"
5 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "My wife has been mad at me all week for talking about Linux, now she wants me to install it on her laptop."
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: ""Clocc". A simple, straightforward and minimal analog clock right in your CLI."
2 posts
#5
News
: "Canonical is adopting sudo-rs by default in Ubuntu 25.10"
2 posts
#6
Money Talk
: "Ventoy Is Saving Me Time, Money, and USB Sticks"
1 post
#7
Self-Promotion
: "I am happy to announce that after setting up Dual Booting, I am officially a linux user now :]"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/linux
#1
Linux
: "I told my dad I wanted to try out Linux and he gave me this"
97 posts
#2
Distro
: "Debian is a great Distro"
24 posts
#3
Windows
: "There's a campaign to upcycle old Windows 10 computers to linux since Microsoft is ending support in October"
10 posts
#4
Security
: "OpenOffice still being recommended – despite year-old unfixed Security issues"
10 posts
#5
Ubuntu
: "Canonical is adopting sudo-rs by default in Ubuntu 25.10"
10 posts
#6
Os
: "ClOsing lid on Linux laptop = goes to sleep, wont́ wake up"
8 posts
#7
Hardware
: "Do you ever shut down your PC, or leave it on 24/7?"
7 posts
#8
Terminal
: "3D occlusion rendering in the Terminal!"
6 posts
#9
Systemd
: "Systemd-analyze blame doesn't say what you think it does"
4 posts
#10
Arch
: "Started working on my own Documentation about All u need to now to install Arch. And only now realized how much i learned from Arch..."
4 posts
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