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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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Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Depending on your DE, you can have those no problem. You just symlink to the respective .desktop file for the program you want to run. So for example, if you wanna start Firefox from your desktop, you'd look for a file called Firefox.desktop on your system (probably living under /usr) and symlink to that from ~/Desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Its not the same.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

what parts of it do you miss exactly?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On Windows it feels like a feature. On Gnome it feels like the desktop folder being shown on the Desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

hmm. I have to admit I don't understand the difference. on windows it's the desktop folder, plus a few separate icons to system utilities with some way to filter them. did you mean that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I honestly don't know.