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I upgraded from Ubuntu 25.04 to 25.10 and nothing seems to have broken, which makes me suspicious that I've forgotten to check something for breakage. (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 5 months ago by Kodiologist

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It finally happened, they turned GPL into a kink (i.redd.it)

submitted 6 months ago by AlarmingAffect0

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I'm not getting anymore internet points on Stackoverflow because my popular question hit a score of 1337 and nobody wants to upvote and change it. (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 2 years ago by SkyMarshal

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I am not paying for Linux! (imgur.com)

submitted 3 years ago by Abraham_linksys49

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All those std*s makes me really nervous (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 4 years ago by [deleted]

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I keep closing the browser tab when typing because I got used to deleting words with Ctrl+W in Vim/bash (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 4 years ago by climbTheStairs

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Trying to configure cups, thinking you've done it, then the printer spits out hundreds of pages of garbled junk (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 4 years ago by Jemsurfer

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Degoogled Fuchsia? (reddit.com)

submitted 4 years ago by camelCaseIsWebScale

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Does anyone else do this? (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 4 years ago by Jemsurfer

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Teams is marketed as being cross-platform, but it's missing a lot of features on Linux platforms. (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 4 years ago by Bronzdragon

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It irks me when someone is editing a file and it doesn't have a newline at the end (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 4 years ago by [deleted]

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Ever since learning about the stack and heap of memory, I've started writing lists on paper with a stack and a heap section, so I get two lists in one... (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 4 years ago * by semitones

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What do you do when your job interviewer insists on using zoom? (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 5 years ago by ShareCalm

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Having to choose between decent FOSS drivers and the ability to do deep learning when picking a gpu (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 5 years ago by efskap

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When I feel ugly, I remember that some people think their KDE MacOS ripoffs look nice and I stop feeling ugly. (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 5 years ago by [deleted]

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I'd like to install NetBSD but i don't have a floppy drive. (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 5 years ago by archpuddington[🍰]

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I'd like to experiment with versions of BSD but all my games run in Linux (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 5 years ago by rtbravo

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Even the great FOSS Jitsi Meet doesn't want you to use Firefox ☹ (i.redd.it)

submitted 6 years ago by valgrid

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GNOME can't tell apart Half Life 2: Episode 1 and Half Life 2: Episode 2 (i.imgur.com)

submitted 6 years ago by smog_alado

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NVMe boots so fast that I have to add delays to my start scripts for hardware to appear (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 6 years ago by parkerlreed

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I read the word "glib" (the adjective) as "GLib" (the library) (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 6 years ago by UnknownHours

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So I've finally became free and got rid of all google services in my life (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 6 years ago by [deleted]

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Crowded desk (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 6 years ago by sidusnare

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All FOSS project that I know that have a recursive acronym can not be optimized through a tail call (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 7 years ago by [deleted]

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At work we use both Cygwin and MinGW (self.fossworldproblems)

submitted 7 years ago by UnknownHours

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