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Popular Themes in r/linux
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News
: "'Critical' vulnerability in OpenSSH uncovered, affects almost all Linux systems"
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Solution Requests
: "What browser do you use?"
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#3
Pain & Anger
: "Why is Windows easy to emulate (via Wine) on Linux, but MacOS is harder to emulate?"
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#4
Self-Promotion
: "I made a little bash script: It's a configurable cheatsheet that shows some commands i always forget & my own aliases and scripts. Very nifty!"
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#5
Advice Requests
: "How to run Adobe Photoshop 2024 on Wine (Linux)"
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Popular Topics in r/linux
#1
Linux
: "Greek opposition suggests the government should switch to Linux over Crowdstrike incident."
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#2
Gnome
: "Holly Million stepping down from Gnome foundation"
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#3
Opensource
: "Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced"
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#4
Distro
: "What was your first linux Distro?"
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#5
Release
: "COSMIC Alpha Desktop Release Still Planned For Late July"
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#6
Wayland
: "Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland"
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#7
Kde
: "Kde's cursor themes seem to have been flooded recently with a ton of anime cursor themes by one person who has been converting them from Windows compatible packs."
6 posts
#8
Kernel
: "Ext4 performance improvement in Kernel 6.11"
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#9
Nvidia
: "Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To Nvidia On Wayland"
5 posts
#10
Installation
: " What packages do you always install on Linux? "
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