https://youtu.be/QShiNBVtjoQ

I’m so shocked and destroyed by this situation. I have run into, using the distribution platform “distrokid” to release my music. Over the past 2 months I have had many consistent releases and put in a ton of work, which paid off with 150k organic streams in that time. All of that work and effort to wake up one morning with my whole catalog being removed with an email from distrorkid saying that my music was taken down for copyright. To give some context, i created all of my music from scratch and have 100% ownership of all of my masters and publishing. Once i contacted the claimant (who didn’t own any of the music and was not involved at all) and threatened him with legal action, he immediately revoked the claim, and sent multiple emails asking distrokid to reverse this. This was about a week ago and STILL nothing has been done about it whatsoever. I’m shocked that they did not require the claimant to provide any evidence NOR give me the opportunity to prove i own the music before the takedown (which i would have easily done) Now all of my hard work is gone, No one from support is doing anything about it, have opened countless tickets, dmd on both “X” and “instagram” yet literally not an ounce of effort to help me fix this situation besides acknowledging that they made a mistake. Now i’m going to have to start from scratch, some angry jealous kid is going to get sued for punitive damages and liable for all of the money invested, and Distrokid is going to lose a customer (which they’ve shown they couldn’t care less about that part) all because they didn’t do an ounce of due diligence before taking down a whole catalog of music that had begun trending on spotify. I still cannot wrap my mind about how this works, so essentially I can copyright claim anyone i feel like who uses DK and they will just remove the songs, then figure out if the claim is valid after the fact? what kind of backwards system is that? I highly recommend, if you value your music, to use a different distribution platform or if you’re already using DK you can move your catalog (and keep the streams before they get lost because of Distrokids negligence) to another distributor which is what i plan on doing, unless i am blown away with the result of this matter (which at this point seems nearly impossible) AVOID distrokid at all cost, i would assume any and every distributor would offer better support in a situation like this one.

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Hello folks,

I've always been curious about using Linux, but I kept postponing it because I spent most of my time on the computer gaming and didn't want to deal with compatibility issues. However, I stopped gaming a while ago and don't plan on going back. Currently, I use the computer only for programming and web browsing.

My curiosity for Linux has resurfaced recently, and I've finally decided to dive into this OS that has always intrigued me. After some research, I'm torn between two distros and would appreciate advice on the pros and cons of each because I've seen many positive comments about both.

• Debian 12
• Pop!_OS

My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad with a 10th generation i7 processor and 8 GB of RAM (I don't plan on using VM due to the limited RAM). I haven't decided on the desktop environment (DE) yet, but for those with widescreen displays (mine is 29 inches), I would be grateful for any suggestions. I read on another forum that KDE Plasma has a native program for managing screen partitioning on monitors.

Observations:

1. I have no problem dedicating a considerable amount of time to reading documentation and deepening my understanding of Linux usage.
2. I don't plan on dual-booting to force myself to learn more about the operating system.

I appreciate in advance any guidance or suggestions you can provide.

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Hello linux folks. I wanna switch to linux from Windows as well as MacOS ( my other two old laptops). I’m an intermediate linux user, but I wanted opinions of you guys to choose me a distro. My options basically boiled down to two distros, Fedora and openSUSE. I have an OCD to have the best and greatest, so chose these two. But my PC is now a Surface Go 3 which has a dual core pentium processor and 8 GB RAM. So kinda low power PC. Also my workflow is mostly using VS code, IntelliJ and some youtube and netflix. Also I like to use GNOME on it since my PC is a tablet basically ( although GNOME can be installed on almost any linux, just saying if that matters). So which one should I go with peeps? Thanks in advance.

Here is my review of Fedora 38

https://youtu.be/5XqSjQQvzCo

I think LFS is overrated in terms of difficulty (maybe if it doesn't have support for a specific hardware but which distro isn't hard in that case), it was like gentoo but you had to install and compile a metric ton of programs and libraries before running anything, despite that there were only 3 or 4 extra things that honestly weren't that complicated but really fun/rewarding to learn.

That being said I love the idea and a few chapters gave me a lot of insight so, if you have curiosity and aren't scared of compiling a lot of programs (I think there are scripts for this part) it isn't going to be that much harder than installing gentoo, just for those who were curious, it's not hard, just tedious. Obv you can make your custom OS from it and can make it as hard as humanly possible but the base installation itself wasn't difficult.

Edit: couldn't post this on /r/linux bc a bot thought I was asking for which distro to use(?)

Some context:

As things happen I needed to replace my work notebook. I have a Kubuntu 20.04 installation in my old laptop that was very reliable (it was a Dell). Since the new GNOME made its appearance I move to XFCE and KDE if the hardware was good enough. I always preferred KDE apps to GNOME ones, so it makes sense to use a KDE environment. Lately, though, I found that Ubuntu direction is not good. Snaps make sense in a server or cloud space, but in the user space on a Desktop they are awful. Flatpaks are somewhat better (especially if you can install them is a remote machine without root access), but I prefer a more traditional package system for my personal machine. I decided to try something new and I decided to try a rolling distro. I went for Endeavour OS, an Arch based distro. I have heard praises and horror stories about Arch, but as I have other machines where I can work, I decided to try it and check for myself.

Why Endeavour OS?

I wanted an Arch based distro. I used to work with a terminal, but I am not an expert in the Linux internals, especially with systemd. I am pretty much sure I can deal with Arch installer or the manual installation. But if there is a good alternative with a live session (that is always useful to check if most drivers work, especially the wifi), good defaults and a speedy installer, I would go for that. I am probably a bit lazy in that regard. Manjaro was not an option as they have their own repositories, and I want a more Arch vanilla experience. So Endeavour OS was the best option.

Install experience:

It was a breeze. Very simple. Calamares is an excellent installer. The partition was very well done and handled UEFI partitions and swaps without issue. I found the info about swap somewhat lacking, but as an advanced user, I had no issues.

I installed the XFCE, KDE and i3wm. I know it is a bit bloated, but I wanted to try each desktop (window manager).

The installation was not the fastest, but it was an online install. Given that I think it was not the slowest I have seen.

KDE experience: I tried the different desktops and everything work almost flawlessly. My main DE is KDE so that is what I tested the most. In KDE the Plasma experience is very good and it is as close to vanilla KDE as you can get. I have some quirks with Konsole profile permissions, but nothing that could not be handled by changing permission in the config directory. I have an external Dell dock connected by USB C and it works flawlessly. In KDE the multimonitor experience is very good. My only issue is that the order of the monitors in SDDM was the default extension, instead of the more physical layout I set in KDE. No other issues. As I get a very up-to-date KDE many of the old bugs I had in Kubuntu are happily gone.

XFCE: I try to check it for my old hardware. It worked perfectly. I must say the endeavouros theme in XFCE is excellent and makes the DE shines.

i3wm: I tried i3wm as I read that EOS has good defaults for this. I must say it is true. It has a very handy helper with all the commands. The default programs and configs seem good in my ignorant opinion. The default theme is very good. The multimonitor experience is decent but awkward. Changing the monitor layout required making a script, and to change the layout need a different script. Other stuff is similar. But this is an i3wm issue, not an EOS issue.

Tiling Windows Manager hot opinion/rant.

My first impression of i3 is that is a good graphic environment for people that need a minimal system and mostly work with terminals and need a graphic environment for the browser and some video, but it is not the main part of their main workflow. In my case, I don't see the point of tiling windows managers for my kind of workflow. I open the app the maximize it or get it in fullscreen. Tiling is a dumb way to deal with your valuable screen space except for a few cases such as terminals and coding. But many terminal emulators do that well as emacs deal with those things very well. Even VSCode does it decently. Talking about emacs probably EXWM makes more sense for me in that case. In the case I need tiling, the manual tiling in the most recent version of many DEs (even Windows) is good enough nowadays with decent shortcuts. I want my programs to start maximized or fullscreen and change the one on screen with a shortcut. I don't ask for more. If there is a minimal wm that does something like this let me know.

Package manager: it is pacman. I found the command for pacman ackward and difficult to remember. But once you start using it is all right. It is very fast to write. I would like if pacman had a full word command mode like dnf or apt. Just saying. Pacman itself is very fast and downloads stuff in parallel. I found it more responsive than apt. I have heard some complaints of some people saying that pacman is fast because it barely does all the checks apt or dnf uses. That may be true, but from a user (not admin) point of view, I found pacman snappier. I found all packages I wanted in the Arch repositories or AUR. EOS has yay as AUR frontend and it is very nice, although the documentation is not so good. In 6 months I will make an update in case the bleeding edge rolling nature of Arch bites me back. So far so good.

Conclusion:

I am very happy with Endeavour OS. You might need the terminal sometimes, so I would not recommend it for a person with zero experience in the terminal. Otherwise, it is an excellent distro.

Good night, I can be considered a hopper distro, but I never got too attached to the technical part of the systems, I always tested the environment that that distro had, with some exceptions like ubuntu that I use to learn terminal commands and I would like to know what criteria are sought when looking for a review of the distro and which tests are recommended to do to evaluate a system, as I intend to review and want to make the information as correct and useful as possible.

what is the best macos copy distro and why? i am looking for a 1:1 macos clone

distros include: pearos, manjoro cutefish, elementary os and others.

My dad has been using this laptop for about 7-8 years and a few years ago, i changed the OS to a pirated version of Windows 10(i know bad idea). I was scared of Linux and the terminal but now i feel like switching to Linux good idea. I dont have any experience with linux but i am willing to learn. The laptop is very slow and i suspect it must be due to windows.

Laptop specs- Intel Core i5 3317U(3rd gen) with a HDD

My dad mainly uses his laptop for web browsing, occasional online shopping, net banking, emails and uses office apps(he doesnt mind libreoffice). Nothing too performance intensive.

I want to choose a distro which makes the computer faster, but has a relatively friendly GUI(preferably close to windows) and an app store (not compulsory but better if it is available). I am considering Linux Mint MATE or XFCE or something like XUBUNTU or LUBUNTU. Will i be able to run the regular ubuntu fast enough?

Can you recommend which one to go with based on the specs? Do you have any other recommendations ?

On a sidenote, if i ever want to run windows apps on linux which emulator should i use? i have heard of a few like lutris and wine.

Hey guys,

created a Manjaro Spinnoff to make my Manjaro KDE look like Mac OS Big Sur like in this Video:

Linux Scoop

I am really new to making Distros and i know this is highly alpha and maybe complete crap. But would be nice if somebody could test it out and say his opinion about it.

I made it mainly for me so I dont go through the processes in the Video on every reinstall, but thought I could be may usefull for some others. It is a barelly a Manjaro KDE Install with nothing than needed. I will try to make an Arch Version of it aswell. But i just first wanted to get some Feedback.

Here a Screenshot of the Dark Theme without candy icons:

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You can find the Git Repository here: Gitea

or a mirror of it on Gitlab: Gitlab

Downloads are currently available through my cloud: Cloud

I’ve been looking for a new distro to switch to, and someone brought up BunsenLabs so I looked into it and it seemed interesting enough, but I had never heard of it before so I was a bit curious if it’s worth trying out or not. How was your experience using BunsenLabs Linux?

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