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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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This is a community for sharing news about Linux, interesting developments and press.
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Popular Themes in r/linux
#1
Solution Requests
: "Finally installed Arch in an old 32 bits machine!!"
19 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Why does Linux open large file bases much faster than windows?"
15 posts
#3
News
: "The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action, due to "users complaining upstream thinking they are being served the official package", when they're actually using the Fedora Flatpak. The latter is claimed as being "poorly packaged and broken"."
12 posts
#4
Ideas
: "If there is ever going to be a movie about Linux..."
4 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "Is Nvidia on Linux still bad?"
3 posts
#6
Opportunities
: "Demand for junior kernel devs in 2025?"
2 posts
#7
Self-Promotion
: "[OC] Gowal v.0.2.0 - A swiss army knife CLI for image processing"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/linux
#1
Linux
: "TIL There is a minor-planet called Linux"
102 posts
#2
Rust
: "Linus Torvalds' take on the latest Rust-Kernel drama"
10 posts
#3
Distro
: "Why did you choose the Distro you use now?"
8 posts
#4
Windows
: "Why does Linux open large file bases much faster than Windows?"
7 posts
#5
Cli
: "[OC] Gowal v.0.2.0 - A swiss army knife Cli for image processing"
4 posts
#6
Ubuntu
: "Why do people hate Ubuntu so much?"
4 posts
#7
Gnome
: "Dynamic triple/double buffering merge request for Gnome was just merged!"
4 posts
#8
Pewdiepie
: "We got Pewdiepie using linux before GTA 6"
4 posts
#9
Browser
: "Most Linux users dont allow the Browser to collect data about their system. So, we won?"
3 posts
#10
Firefox
: "Why Firefox?"
3 posts
Member Growth in r/linux
Daily
+0 members(0.0%)
Monthly
+54k members(3.4%)
Yearly
+595k members(56.1%)
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