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Linux Mint 21.3 Review: solid Wayland support!
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Welcome to libre
A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.
The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.
Resources
- Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
- Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in
$CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux. - Social Media Recommendations:
- The Linux Experiment: Weekly news host for Linux/libre software related news.
- Nicco Loves Linux: Developer for KDE who makes interesting videos.
- David Revoy: An incredible artist with a cool webcomic, all done with GNU/Linux.
- Michael Horn: Makes videos about his various experiences with Linux.
Rules
- Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
- Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
- Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
- All site-wide rules still apply
Artwork
- Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
- Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
- Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft
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One way to tell the difference is to use a distro that doesn't have a desktop environment like Bunsenlabs. Bunsenlabs doesn't have a DE, but it uses a windows manager called Openbox. The menu and the theme of the windows is controlled by Openbox, the panel at the bottom is Tint2, the file manager is Thunar, the application that controls the desktop wallpaper is Nitrogen, and the display at the top right is Conky. All of these applications are independent applications with independent developers, meaning they aren't really designed with each other in mind. Nothing's stopping you from replacing Openbox with a tiling manager like i3 but keeping everything else the same. It's for this reason that Bunsenlabs doesn't have an actual DE.
In sharp contrast, for something like Gnome or KDE Plasma, the suite of applications that form the DE are very much designed to work with each other. You don't have to stick with the default applications and some DE's like xfce are designed to be modular like that, but it's a pretty janky experience. For a while, I had an xfce DE except that I used Cinnamon's file manager Nemo instead. But since Nemo was designed to work in the context of the Cinnamon DE, there were certain features that Nemo should be capable of but I was unable to use because I was using xfce instead of Cinnamon.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: