I run Linux so I can give DSv4-flash sudo privileges and just tell it to make things happen.

Good note

This is the way 😂👀

Been here since 2007. Ubuntu, Mint, Sparky. Eventually Manjaro cured my distrohooping. One of the many great things about Linux is that you can choose the distro that you like. Of course, my Bitcoin node runs on a Linux machine. Worst part is when you must use one of these craps for your fiat minig.

I thought u were on X noe.?

I need to run Linux… Microsoft gives me the heebie-jeebies

AI certainly makes Linux more manageable. I'm hopeless at remembering command line, but with AI I don't have to and it's a perfect match for AI. This will by extension apply to running nodes (incl. lightning nodes). Allowing families to run their own sovereign banking infrastructure without having to worry and the technicalities of channels and liquidity.

oh hey maybe Bitcoin needs a foundation like Linux has ?? what a crazy idea! but it might just work... nah actually, Linux has been so successful just ossifying, I'm sure Bitcoin will also be very successful without any upgrades or changes

Porqué deberías bascular a Linux si es que no lo has hecho ya. View quoted note →

I'm doing this weird thing where you can post on multiple apps at the same time.

I've been running Linux off and on since 1996. I've probably ran dozens of distros over the years. I'm currently running Pop OS. I hated using Windows and fiat mining 😂

based

I've deleted Windows and I'm running zorin now 🤝😂

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😂🤝🥪

that's the move. how's the transition feeling so far?

It's good, my only issue is the caps, like when you're typing and then do cap locks and then undo cap locks it still capitalizes the second letter.... I've had to slow my atyping down.... Idk if I can fix it some how But otherwise it's great and I'm not even missing Windows

Linux is a hippy camp, #BSD is the way to go

Sí, es verdad que son buenas razones. Pero, el tema por el cual MUCHOS no quieren pasarse se resume en 4 puntos (según mi opinión): 1. Pereza: Windows es el sistema operativo por defecto en la mayoría de computadoras. Linus Torvalds ya lo dijo: cuando Linux venga pre-instalado en más computadoras, ahí es cuando Linux será aun más usado. Y, a pesar de que esto dudo mucho que pase, AUN ASÍ, Linux sigue agarrando cuota de mercado, año tras año. 2. Miedo: el proceso de instalar otro sistema operativo, aunque lo hagan sencillo para todo el mundo, siempre va a ser intimidante. Aunque, eso sí, sistemas operativos basados en Linux tienen MUCHA ventaja en cuanto a estos por las "live sesion": permitir que el usuario pruebe el sistema operativo ANTES de instalarlo es algo que da MUCHO gusto y seguridad (a diferencia del Ventanas...) 3. Desconocimiento: algunas personas, sencillamente, no saben que existe Linux. Solo conocen Windows y ya. 4. Percepción de complejidad: algunos saben que existe Linux, pero, piensan que abrir un navegador, buscar en Google o configurar un teclado o ratón es difícil. Esto es bastante fácil, la verdad. Y me gustaría decir: "no, no es complejo en absoluto", pero, estaría mintiendo si dijera que no he pasado algunas cuantas horas de sufrimiento lidiando con problemas en Linux que surgen, tanto porque tocas lo que no deberías, como también porque surgen DE LA MALDITA NADA. Afortunadamente, para esto último existe la IA que, personalmente, ha sido una ayuda IMPRESCINDIBLE a la hora de resolver estos problemas y, de paso, seguir aprendiendo sobre Linux. Y bueno, estas fueron las 4 razones, según yo, por la cual la gente no quiere pasarse a Linux. View quoted note →

Artix BTW

Good luck convincing the bitcoiner MacOS squad. They don't care about privacy or sovereignty as much as the simplicity of a third party solving their problems. I've heard bitcoin podcasters that are seemingly technical people complain about having to install drivers on Linux to make their audio and webcam work. It's not 2007 Linux and they don't seem to have any determination to make their daily driver computer be what they want it to be or take ownership over it.

Other than Nvidia, this is a non issue on modern Linux.

Okay, I've been toying with the idea of going full Linux. Thus is my sign. Now I just have to figure out how to switch without wrecking my machine (this has happened once before)

Yeah and even with Nvidia the open and open-dkms drivers work fine from my experience. Plus for people who aren't technical you can just install one of the many gui beginner friendly distros that do this all for you.

Switched to Linux 1 year ago. Hated that nothing 'just worked' untill now since my agents can build and configure just about anything on it View quoted note →

Pop OS is my first distro. It's good. Fun science apps

Linux + agents is OP

don't the folks at @GrapheneOS say that the security on linux desktop systems is quite lacking?

I’m running Omarchy and I love it better than any windows, Mac or other Linux system I have used

wish I knew or to find the time to learn. I am so dependent on windows 😐

You could always still Ubuntu on a USB stick and then boot that and play around when time permits. Then when you need to get back to "work" you just reboot and pull the USB stick out.

@lemon ran this distro recently and had all sorts of issues 😩

It is a dope distro though If it works for you then keep rocking it 🤘

Agreed 🎯

Yes Linux 😁🤝😁 I feel the point about unsupported hardware 😅 Yesterday I got a really old iPad from family, can't update post iPadOS 16. Most apps only support down to 17. What a waste, it still runs fast enough for YouTube.

💜💪 this is the way

Gonna start in July getting mine set up 🤙

Do you say that simply because the GNU copyleft licenses can't be privatized as BSD licenses can? I've seen plenty ofbusinesses successful GNU/Linux businesses---they simply have business models that don't charge for ideas (software) but charge for actual products delivered or services rendered. How is that a hippy camp?

Debian stable for me, going on 14 years on my laptop.

I use arch btw. 😂

I also love Linux and have been using Ubuntu for around 4 years. I have addicted now. 😉

I use Arch btw

You said this first

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On linux too since last year after my whole life on windows, it is so wonderful

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Well said! I've been on Linux for the better half of a year now and haven't looked back. It's nice truly owning my computer.

So use a freedom-preserving DNS resolver.

Noice!

/etc/hosts

Well it takes time to migrate from Windows. When MS mandated the COVID jab, I kicked MS to the curb. I was very surprised how well PowerShell works on linux. I started with system76.com POP!_OS running as a guest using VirtualBox. I'm now running multiple Linux VMs on system76.com hardware. I still have a Windows VM that I can power up if needed, but have not done that in a long time now. See cadayton.onrender.com/blog for some of the PowerShell accomplishments running on Linux.

The Linux User’s Manifesto We refuse to ask permission to understand our own machines. We do not kneel before black boxes, sealed gardens, forced updates, rented software, or corporate priests who tell us convenience must cost us control. A computer is not an appliance for obedience. It is a workshop, a radio tower, a printing press, a laboratory, a synthesizer, a library, and a doorway to other minds. The user is not a tenant. The user is not a product. The user is sovereign. We choose Linux because freedom is not frictionless. Freedom has configuration files, logs, man pages, and sometimes a blinking shell asking whether we are willing to learn. We answer yes. The prompt is not an error. The prompt is an invitation. We believe systems should be inspected, modified, repaired, copied, shared, forked, broken, rebuilt, and understood. Source code is a public square. Documentation is a love letter. A bug report is a civic act. We honor the maintainers, packagers, translators, kernel hackers, distro builders, mirror operators, forum elders, and anonymous strangers who solved our exact problem twelve years ago and left the answer online. We reject artificial scarcity. We reject the idea that culture must be locked, knowledge metered, repair forbidden, and curiosity monetized. We reject systems designed to make helplessness feel normal. Architecture is politics. Protocols are politics. Defaults are politics. Encryption is dignity expressed in mathematics. Interoperability is a refusal of captivity. Network is a dance floor. The distro is the sound system. The kernel is the bassline. The shell is the strobe. The repo is the crate. The community is the rave. No kings. No landlords. No walled gardens. No silent telemetry. No forced obsolescence. No contempt for the user. We do not demand that everyone become an expert. We demand that everyone retain the right to become one. We believe beginners are future maintainers. We remember our first broken boot, our first permissions mistake, our first triumphant `sudo`, and our first realization that the machine was not magic. It was legible. We do not worship difficulty. We want systems that are humane, powerful, transparent, and hackable: desktops for children, servers for dissidents, laptops for artists, clusters for scientists, routers for villages, and old machines resurrected from the landfill. We run Linux not because it is perfect. We run Linux because perfection is less important than freedom, and freedom is something you can debug. Read the source. Share the tools. Encrypt the message. Patch the system. Fork the future. Login accepted.

I'm going to keep coming back to this until I'm on Linux

Linux. GrapheneOS. Nostr. Bitcoin node. Lightning.

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I was talking about the system structure. About the license difference you mentioned… well, the GPL is pretty communist

Started my journey 1995 with Slackware on a 386 with 4MB of RAM. Still stuck with VI (or nvim) 🤣

I still use gifbuddyOS for meme generation, feels good man

Derek, what was your Android operating system journey before graphene?

open source everything ✨

Arch Linux, Hyprland -

What issues where you having?

Screen freezing requiring hard reset I've tried multiple distros and had the same issue so I think it's more related to my device than the Omarchy itself But there were occasional theme related bugs from time to time Hyperland would crash for me sometimes too and file manager would take too long to open on occasion, but if you're not seeing these issues then that's awesome I really like shortcuts and window management; best in class, in my opinion

will have a look. But most of what you are saying sounds "strange" to me 🙂🤙

without uninstall windows? Just plug the usb with Ubuntu and boot from the stick the Linux os??? 👀

I started in 1998 with SUSE Linux, I tried Redhat. When SUSE was bought by Novell in 2004,I switched to Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo I became hardcore on Linux. My best experience ever. Steep learning curve, a rocky road. I meher regretted it. If I had not had a growing family at that time, I would have stayed on Gentoo. I love that concept. I never had a leaner Linux installation, everything compiled fitting my notebooks hardware. No extra stuff. In 2009 I tried Ubuntu. We needed Computers for the kids abd I did not want to admin several Gentoo installations (I had already two of them) felt beamed back in a Windows running under Linux. It felt like loosing my freedom and I hated the advertising. I found Linux Mint (Ubuntu-based). Here we go. It fitted our needs. With the upcoming of Linux Mint Debian 2 in 2015 I switched again, getting closer to Debian. (debian-arm was already running on our QNAP NAS since 2010.) In 2022 we moved all our hardware to Linux Debian. Our children have never seen a Windows PC in our home. It is with some regret that the oldest two now bought themselves Macbooks. The other four still only use Linux Debian. (They have no choice :-) ) While keeping the family on Debian, my next Linux will be Qubes. I can’t believe it is already 28 years that I run Linux. My only regret is not having been as early with bitcoin-adaption as I was with Linux. I am still not a developer. I vibe-code if I need something. I tested and fed back in the past. I help interested people getting on Linux. Before all I enjoy running Linux as a free user not as a slave to a company.

Ditto

I run Slackware because I can't be bothered to pay for AI agents that I'd need to make heads or tails of the mess that is Ubuntu. 😃 Definitely been eyeballing Void Linux though for a minimal system to run a node and maybe a few other services. Slackware does get decidedly trickier when you don't bother to install the full desktop system as you can find yourself doing a bit of manual dependency resolution. Though in 2026, the full software set's storage demands are all but a rounding error. That said, sometimes less software is less about resources and more about attack surface.

I like Pop OS, pretty smooth UX.

Hope you never installed anything from the AUR

I did so since Windows98, when everybody laughed at me. Switching to Linux today is easy. At my time it was hard.

Oh wow. You still run Slack? Legend. I used Slack in the 90s and then as a webserver in the early 00s. I haven't used it in probably 20 years.

Yes. Think of it like a live operating system that is using your hardware to run, but isn't installed on your hard drive. It's using the USB as a hard drive.

I haven't ran GrapheneOS in probably 5 years now? In 2010 I got my first Android phone. I wanted the Google Nexus One, but it wasn't available on my carrier. Anyway, my first Android phone was the HTC Droid Incredible. A friens basically told me hey you're a tech geek you should run a custom ROM. And I had no clue what he was talking about. I headed over to xda-developers.com and went full Android nerd. For the next decade I ran ever custom ROM I could find, made my own, ran custom kernels and radios, etc. I started with MIUI, and moved around to CyanogenMod, ParanoidAndroid, AOKP, and several others. I mostly ran CM though. I did try Graphene and Calyx years ago as I mentioned. I don't run a custom OS now because I don't want to dick with my phone all day long. I don't have time. I want it to work when I need it. My phone is my #1 computing device and I need it to just work.

then I just need a usb and download the Ubuntu to play around, right? Any Ubuntu release, or a special one? Which one you are proposing?

Oh yes, this reminds me someone used to say: “Nostr is Linux for social-media.”

💯 agreed. Linux, Bitcoin, Nostr are always FOSS. 🚀 View quoted note →

there is a CEO and a company behind ubuntu though

You're still recognize it I suspect. Still sysvinit. They did add pulseaudio a few versions back which was wild but it's otherwise still very true to design. A testament to benevolent dictatorships for software design.

lol better check if shes 100% female first

i am running nixos more than a year niw with self hosting stuff on old inten. i5 6500 hp G3 running mic usb is pain and it always create problems. pipewire audio etc such a pain but i am not bothered recording audio or vibe coding with nixos pain in the aaaaa

In my opinion if you're recording audio you should have a dedicated audio interface and not use USB microphones. Get a real microphone that connects via XLR.