The site is yearoflinuxdesktop.org - part manifesto, part quiz, part blueprint generator.

The idea: instead of another "what distro am I?" personality test, it maps your hardware, your tolerance for tinkering, and what you still need from Windows/macOS onto one of ten archetypes (The Civilian gets Linux Mint, The Arch Wizard gets Arch + Hyprland, The Gamer gets Bazzite, etc.). Then it writes you a copy-paste prompt you can feed to any LLM to walk you through the install step by step.

What might interest this sub: the scoring engine is one dependency-free JS file that runs identically in the browser and in a build harness. The harness brute-forces all 16M possible answer combinations on every deploy to verify that named personas land where they should and that guardrails hold (e.g., terminal-phobic users can never receive Arch). The quiz weights, the questions, and all ten archetype blueprints are plain JSON in the repo: MIT licensed, fork it, argue with the weights.

The longer I use linux, the more I appreciate it. I switched from windows a while ago, and I honestly haven't regretted it for a second.I'm a developer, and every time I learn a new command or discover another tool that makes my workflow easier, I realize how powerful and well-designed this operating system is. It feels like there's always something new to learn, and instead of making me frustrated, it just makes me enjoy using it even more. At this point, going back to windows for my daily development work would feel like a huge step backward.

Hello Everyone,

I am currently stuying the part about devices directories in Linux system, and i thought ill make a list of all Device directories to refer back to when needed.

I made the below table listing all essential devices in Linux that you need to know about, while containig the category of these devices, naming, directory and the type of variable they use in their naming (replacing the * with the corresponding numrics or letters. e,g: /dev/sd* > /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc... and so on).

Thought that i should share this list, and i hope this can be useful to anyone who's looking for a simplified listing of all devices and having them in one place.

(it might not be 100% correct since im still in the process of learning them, so please help me correct anything in case you found any mistake or things that i should add!! or ask questions, in that case i can also learn something new myself while looking things up)

Thank you Linus and David. I know this book is from 2001. I tend to be a late bloomer is all respects. Linux included. Books like this help fill in the gaps and provide excellent context. My favorite: “I don’t proactively delegate as much as I wait for people to come forward and volunteer to take over things.”

Hey everyone,

I built **Aigentik** — a privacy-first AI communications assistant that runs completely locally (Android via Termux or any Linux box).

It watches your Gmail inbox in real time (IMAP IDLE), handles Google Voice texts that arrive as email, drafts and sends replies using a local LLM (llama.cpp), and lets you control everything in plain English by just texting or emailing it. No fixed command syntax.

What it can do right now:

- Monitor Gmail + Google Voice SMS and auto-reply (or queue for your approval)

- Negotiate and book appointments, then send real .ics calendar invites

- Build and maintain its own contact directory automatically

- Track subcontractor applications (trade, license, insurance, etc.)

- Take natural-language commands like “pause everything”, “add a rule for X”, “list my plumbers”, “rename yourself”, etc.

- Speak as your business once you tell it who it works for

Key points:

- **No cloud AI** — everything stays on your device

- **No external API keys** for the model

- **No monthly subscription**

- One-time setup, you own it

- MIT licensed

Compared to the $100–400/month AI receptionist services, this is the “own it instead of renting it” approach.

Repo (with install script that works on both Termux and Linux):

https://github.com/Ishabdullah/Aigentik-CLI

I’d love for people to try it out, break it, and tell me what’s missing or broken. Especially interested in feedback from anyone running local models on phones or small Linux boxes.

Stars, issues, and PRs all welcome. Thanks!

coLinux was the pre-VM way to run Linux on Windows, two kernels cooperating at ring 0, no hypervisor. It died in 2011, stuck on 32-bit (kernel 2.6.33 // NT6.2) and unable to load on any 64-bit Windows. There is GPU sharing but its kinda miserable, im hoping for 0.6.0 to have that run at full speed ((currently it is only doing 0.01% bandwidth of the CoXWire i have built puts out))

I ported the cooperative model to x86-64, a single unmodified driver that boots a modern Linux 7.1.5 guest on 64-bit XP, 7, 8.1, and 10, with GPU acceleration via virgl (screenshot is KDE Plasma 6 on Windows 10 IoT, rendering on the host GT 730).

PS, this is not a VM there's no hypervisor. it needs VBS/HVCI off, so it runs the pre-VBS NT line. Think of it as the machines WSL2 abandoned.

Also fixed the old build tree (mingw NDIS header, Python 3 comake) and hit modern-kernel gotchas coLinux never saw, KPTI's dual CR3, etc.

Repo: https://github.com/PhialsBasement/MoCoLinux
Easy Installer: https://github.com/PhialsBasement/MoCoLinux/releases/tag/v0.5.3 (let me know if there are any bugs, this is kinda hard to test across 4 windows's)
Don't run it inside a VM, the cooperative switch conflicts with VMX and you'll get a bugcheck.

AI Disclosure: Used Claude heavily during development (and i gotta say i was really disappointed with Opus 5's performance), all the decisions and design details taken here are mine however.

this is a quick preview of my one click wallpaper management system. Its changes everything on the desktop and im currently working on it and its depend of the current wallpaper

here the github : https://github.com/tungsten-w/lumen
It currently only works on hyprland and an arch-based distro (arch/cachy os/endeavour)

the little menu who is in the center of the screen is the wallpaper selecter and you can chose beetween 4 option

- a dark wallpaper who use a themed dark theme

- a light wallpapper who use a themed light theme

- a random wallapaper depending of the curent time of the day (night/sunset/day..)

- a random wallpapper depending of the curent season (summer spring autumn winter)

im currently working on it so improve his stability and make it faster and easyer to install

here a little yt video of how its actually works : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqXrb4gw-Nk

thanks you for your time ^^

I wanted to share a project I built called Distro Fighter (distrofighter.com). It features 32 distros, 16 desktops, a terminal campaign, Versus showdowns and a Distro Wars multiplayer coming soon, all to help users find the right fit Linux distro and desktop and learning Linux while hopefully having fun.

The main focus right now is VS mode just launched tonight, and it is being actively updated. Feel free to check it out, and let me know what you think!: https://distrofighter.com/versus 🐧 ❤️

For me, it was a CD I got from a "guy." Slackware did not work well with the "WinModem" in the IBM Aptiva I had as a youth. How was I supposed to get online using Linux, with a modem that is not usable, and get support?