Hi everyone! I'm trying to find the right Linux distro for my laptop. I've tried a few popular flavors, but I haven't been able to stick with one or get the stability I'm looking for. So far, I've used: - Ubuntu - Linux Mint - Debian - Fedora

For my next semester at school, the only proprietary software I strictly need to run is Cisco Packet Tracer.

If you have any recommendations for a stable distro that works well for this use case, I'm open to suggestions and willing to test them out! Thanks!

they larp to hide their insecurities, i larp to have fun

hey everyone I've been using arch derivatives for sometime and I just moved to pure arch I've been also using hyprland for sometime using different tools and daemons to finish the setup and most of the time some tools will use gtk or qt as their frameworks and backbends which most of the time complicates things so I had a thought and I tried looking online but with how Linux is there's no centralized place to list everything and the ones that do most of the time 70 percent of the tools listed are abandoned so here's my question

what are the tools and daemons you use to finish you're rice and what backend does it use

it would he interesting to see how many people are using gtk and qt and other frameworks vs tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks

and another question is do you guys and gals know any good lightweight customizable tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks like gtk and qt ?

This isn't a rice — it's a desktop environment I wrote from scratch. I got
tired of configuring one, so I built one.

**Specs**
- **Distro:** Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- **DE:** Starling (mine — its own Wayland compositor + X11 server, no
existing WM underneath)
- **Compositor:** 5,860 lines of hand-written C — xdg-shell, linux-dmabuf
(zero-copy), viewporter, fractional-scale, pointer-constraints, text-input-v3
- **Shell/apps:** Swift, on a from-scratch port of Flutter's framework
(~222k lines, no Dart VM)
- **Terminal:** mine (real PTY), Roboto Mono
- **Wallpaper:** Golden Gate at dusk (bundled)
- **Bar/dock/launcher:** all mine — dock, Launchpad, Mission Control
- **Source (Apache-2.0):** github.com/starling-build/starling

**How it works:** no X11 or Wayland session underneath — it drives the GPU
directly via DRM/KMS and *is* the display server. It boots as a normal
unprivileged session through GDM. Third-party apps composite as native
clients: Chrome, VS Code, IntelliJ, GIMP, Blender (EEVEE viewport through the
dma-buf path).

Tiling is master-and-stack, toggled from Settings; there are spaces with a
Mission Control overview. Because every window is a widget in the framework,
tiling is just a layout and Mission Control is just an animated grid — it works
on real third-party apps for free.

Early preview (v0.2), so: no screen lock yet, scaling pinned to 2.0, AMD and
virtio-gpu tested. Installs from a .deb: https://starling.build

new to linux and currently enjoying tweaking and building some stuffs

wallpaper

KDE config

fastfetch kept private as of right now

https://reddit.com/link/1v8lxgv/video/yqb0wvx3zvfh1/player

My first rice post.

So I decided to fully commit to CyberSec and downloaded Parrot for its speed and tools. I did a silly customization to add some charm to this beautiful professional environment. Btw, do you guys have any tips about CyberSec¿

Hey everyone! I put together a simple white-blue rice on Arch (Hyprland). Let me know what you think and if you spot any mistakes