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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What Linux distro surprised you the most? (slrpnk.net)

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During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any distro with KDE, when I was on Windows I thought Linux always looked like Gnome.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Gnome is a harmless though. It's so benign it's reliable.

KDE is glossy and featureful and sometimes my CPU fan doesn't go down for whole hours because baloo is scanning my entire filesystem (including various conda installations) despite me repeatedly asking it not to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Baloo only takes up a lot of CPU if you have it set to index file contents and hidden files. Shut those off, let it index completely, and it won't happen ever again.

You might be able to keep "hidden files" on, but indexing file contents always bogged my laptop down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I think it depends on how you use the OS, Gnome is great until you have a bunch of outdated extensions that break stuff. My impression is that KDE is better for the "advanced" use case and gnome is better for the "default". I tried gnome recently and I found it very pleasant and easy to use but I prefer KDE since it has more customization.