unix like operating system lovers

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This is a community that is only for nerds jk. everyone who doesn't scare when seeing UNIX terminal welcome! rules:

  1. don't make comments that branch out from the main topic too much, at least please somehow relate to it.
  2. retro operating systems, e.g. discussion about them, is strictly forbidden, please make a retro community instead.
  3. please be nice for others.

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yes, I'm using ubuntu asahi. if someone knows of other asahi based distros, let's chat about them

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Every other forum has rules about these posts because there's such a glut of them, and yes, I could go read a stickied thread elsewhere, but here I am not doing that.

How would someone with no computer skills get acquainted with the OS? What version would you recommend to the hopeless novice? Can I keep windows on my PC and run the new OS or a practice version of it in a partitioned space while I learn? Can someone with minimal skills/time/patience be happy with a unix-like OS?

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What's the general opinion on the BSDs? Are they just Unix-Like (like Linux), or are they really Unix?

Some call them "heritage Unix", because, although they no longer contain a single line of AT&T code (and haven't for over 40 years), they were ultimately derived from the original Unix.

This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, because I wonder, if you consider BSD to be "true Unix", what other "Unix-like" operating system besides Linux kernel-based systems there are. Or are "real" Unices also considered "unix-like"?

As an aside, what about macOS, if you use the command line a lot?

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There might be a pattern to the hostnames 🤔

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Place where you can download some Linux distributions that also has tutorials, forums, and other stuff :)

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Yeah, I am switching, because smaller server, good admin, etc.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/71937

I was just wondering how people go about changing the sensitivity of the track-point. In settings there is only an option for touchpad and mouse settings, and the sensitivity of the trackpoint is modified by the mouse settings which is less than ideal. This is exasperated when I ideally want mouse acceleration on, but 'trackpoint' [mouse] acceleration off.

Any ideas on how to do this better?

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hi. I installed debian linux for arm on utm vm, but there's a problem, it's muting itself after a reboot.

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My favorite is pacman because it is fast af but it has really weird syntax's

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by peotr26@sh.itjust.works to c/unix@sh.itjust.works
 
 

The team behind Vanilla OS just released an update to their progress, explaining the new features that Orchid will bring.

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Bookworm becomes stable today!

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I tried everything, from Esc, Ctrl-C, REISUB, even ctrl-alt-delete.

I gave up and held down the power button

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Hi. I am using macOS. so, what UNIX like OS are you using?