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HPR4536: Welcome to the Linux Community

Hosted by Deltaray on 2025-12-22 00:00:00
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Below are some links to help you find related software and resources:


Beginner-Friendly Distros

https://linuxmint.com

https://ubuntu.com

https://fedoraproject.org

https://pop.system76.com


Help & Community

Linux Questions — https://www.linuxquestions.org

Reddit r/linux4noobs — https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs

Stack Exchange Unix/Linux — https://unix.stackexchange.com

Ask Fedora — https://ask.fedoraproject.org

Ubuntu Forums — https://ubuntuforums.org



Local & Live Community

https://www.linux.org/forums/

https://freegeek.org/

https://mastodon.social

https://fosstodon.org


Software Alternatives

GIMP (image editing) — https://www.gimp.org

Krita (digital painting) — https://krita.org

Inkscape (vector graphics) — https://inkscape.org

Blender (3D modeling & animation) — https://blender.org

LibreOffice (office suite) — https://libreoffice.org

Ardour (audio workstation) — https://ardour.org

LMMS (music production) — https://lmms.io

Kdenlive (video editing) — https://kdenlive.org


Linux Gaming

Steam for Linux — https://store.steampowered.com

ProtonDB compatibility reports — https://www.protondb.com

Lutris game launcher — https://lutris.net



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Archer72 says: Brilliant!!

RE: hpr4536::2025-12-22 Welcome to the Linux Community by Deltaray
00:30:27 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Brilliant episode!

Hey Ken,
Is there room in the About page to list this a top episode?

Archer72

Deltaray says: Thanks

RE: hpr4536::2025-12-22 Welcome to the Linux Community by Deltaray
00:30:27 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thanks for the feedback and encouragement. I'm glad this landed well as I was a bit uncertain about it. Also, thank you to Sigflup for proof-listening to it. If you're serious about having this linked to from other places then maybe we just need to post it to some forums, Reddit, FB, etc.

Ken Fallon says: Agree

RE: hpr4536::2025-12-22 Welcome to the Linux Community by Deltaray
00:30:27 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Should be a link on every distros desktop page.

Torin Doyle says: Deltaray did a fine job in covering GNU/Linux aka Linux, here.

RE: hpr4536::2025-12-22 Welcome to the Linux Community by Deltaray
00:30:27 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thank you Deltaray, for this concise coverage of Linux. You spoke very well.

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Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)

@hpr

If you are shipping free software, can you include this (or a link to it) in your release.



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