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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)

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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Better battery life.
Cmd based hot keys for cut, copy, paste and close. They don't collide with others as much, particularly vim based keys.

[–] subtext 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Proper, built-in, functional sleep and hibernation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Hibernation doesn't work at all on my windows HP work laptop. Sleep has gotten way way better on Linux in the past 2 years even. My desktop that would be buggy going in and out of sleep has now been flawless such that I auto sleep it after 30 minutes.

Battery life on Linux still sucks though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm using PopOS and this works pretty well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh really? I've been thinking about making a move to Pop. I'm waiting until at least the next LTS is out though.

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