Open TV Android needs testers to launch on Google Play
https://github.com/Fredolx/open-tv/discussions/155

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An update on our Terms of Use
https://blog.mozilla.org/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

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In response to people saying Mozilla is removing mentions of “we don’t sell your data”
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#commitcomment-153095625

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GitHub - deepseek-ai/3FS: A high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads.
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS

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Linux Community?

I'm curious if this is just me being set in my ways. I have been a Linux user since the 90s. I started with DOS and Win 3.1. I tried Win 95 for a bit and then chatted on irc with some friends who suggested Linux and I haven't really looked back.

That being said, i'm no stranger to windows either. I have to use it with work. I work with a "version" of FreeBSD on specific hardware, but I need to use Windows for everything else.

However, this past week I've tried to run Windows on my home PC. I wanted to mod some games I really enjoy and this is much easier on Windows. However, what I've learned this past week is that, i'd much rather not play those games and mod them, and just go back to Linux.

is this just me just not willing to change? I'm wondering if I like Linux because it's what I'm use to.

I know this is funny to post to a Linux subreddit, but there has got to be more people like me out there that is more comfortable and familiar with Linux than Windows right?

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Would you recommend the Finnish Jolla Linux phone?

Hi all,

I'm thinking about switching from Android to a Linux mobile OS. I've just found out there is a Finnish company that does that, a Linux OS phone, which also provides support to run sandboxed Android apps.

Would you recommend this, or would you recommend something else?

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This Week in Plasma: Great Stuff for 6.4
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/01/this-week-in-plasma-great-stuff-for-6.4/

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Hehe, now windows feeling like Microsoft edge xd
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AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For Image Signal Processor With New Laptops
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-Linux-Laptop-Driver

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A lot of movement into Linux

I’ve noticed a lot of people moving in to Linux just past few weeks. What’s it all about? Why suddenly now? Is this a new hype or a TikTok trend?

I’m a Linux user myself and it’s fun to see the standards of people changing.
I’m just curious where this new movement comes from and what it means.

I guess it kinda has to do with Microsoft’s bloatware but the type of new users seems to be like a moving trend.

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Application to manually limit TDP of CPU in Linux
https://redd.it/1j10cgz
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Atlanta Linux Showcase 1998
https://redd.it/1j174ph
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What will the future between Linux and ARM be like?

Yes, I know Android exists. Yes, I know some desktop Linux distributions already work on ARM. I'm talking about software compatibility, and that's what worries me. Will most of the programs we use on Linux today have ARM versions? For example, Proton itself would already have to be completely reworked. Other completely random programs (e.g. Microsoft Teams) probably wouldn't get ARM versions because the company would definitely not give a single shit. How do you see the future of Linux on ARM? Even MacOS itself suffered a lot from compatibility issues during the Intel to M1 transition, and even today, 5 years later, there are still some programs that are not adapted to Apple Silicon, and others are a compatibility mess. For example, Minecraft 1.9+ has compatibility with Apple Silicon, but the launcher is x86, running by emulation. I won't even talk about Windows ARM because the mess is even bigger.

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What are your thoughts on using windows icons on linux apps?
https://redd.it/1j1ba5r
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Running CapCut on Linux (Now Working)

Editing a video for professional purpose

Hello, I've finally made the switch to Linux permanently and the most challenging part is getting this pieces of software which their maintainers simply don't care about us and we have to do some tinkering to make it work.

CapCut is specially tricky to get running, but I managed to tackle all the issues. This is my take two on running CapCut on Linux.

1. You cannot run the installer. You have to already have the binaries from a Windows installation and put them in the appdata folder of your current wine user.

2. Use winehq development builds. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Download

3. Install corefonts using winetricks to use fancy fonts. You don't need any other libraries.

4. The app should start up. If it doesn't, reset your wine prefix.

5. You will notice the video previews are black. Grab kde plasma and apply transparency effect to dialog windows. It will fix the problem. (Remember to enable the compositor)

6. Run with prime-run if you have a hybrid GPU system for the highest performance.

If you have any issues or questions, feel free to ask. Hope the black dialog issue can be fixed natively instead of having to apply transparency to see what's below it. Thank you!

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Rant: Why is an external device still required for installing an operating system?


As of late, I've encountered the misfortune of deploying several modern operating systems onto various current laptops that arrived without one. In none of the cases was the process in any way streight-forward. The main question in noscript summarizes the experience: why is it that in 2025, when we need to install an operating system onto a computer (as we still sometimes unfortunately do), first it needs to be downloaded, and then its necessary to copy it onto an external medium (be it a USB drive or whatever), in order to deploy it even to the same machine? Why is a device without a pre-installed OS effectively a brick in the hands of a user and not practically a professional?

A certain fruit-themed company has long solved that issue on their devices - the firmware on Macs has a bootable installer built-in that can download and deploy an OS onto a new or existig hard drive, this has been an option for many years now. Yet, nothing even remotely similar is widely available for other major hardware vendors or OSs, especially in regards to consumer market hardware. Industrial solutions, business-oriented hardware and software stacks and vendors aside, along with ARM-based laptops.
Some laptop vendors do have similar-appearing methods for re-installing an OS, but those usually require keeping a vendor "recovery" partition on disk and the restored image is pre-loaded from there, but this isn't the de-facto state of affairs generally. There is no way known to me to have a "clean install" or a re-install of Windows, even on a pre-licensed machine, without an external source drive (Ventoy comes to mind here). Perhaps I'm outdated on this, but this is as far as I'm aware.

Since common hardware, the UEFI or PXE do not provide an accessible option to bootstrap an OS installer from the internet, this eventually renders the exercise into testing various distributions and installers for the next step after firmware - the "diskette-less" setup. To make the matters of installing another distro for testing on the hardware slightly more game, I've decided to check how several open-source distributions handle such "diskette-less" setup, as a challange of sorts. The choise of distributions was nowhere near comprehensive. The goal: a "clean" re-install of a distro, re-formatting the target root drive and booting into a new distro without using an external source disk.
Some distributions do provide a possibility to load their installer successfuly without an external drive or source media, given you have an option to launch it somehow (UEFI, PXE ?)
Some installers have a "hard-drive to hard-drive" install type, but those configurations aren't designed for that either. The UEFI firmware, boot loader(s) and the rest of the stack with some effort can be set up for this to work - one can launch and perform (an almost) "clean" - destructive re-install of an OS, from another running OS without a USB stick. Well... again, almost(*).
Various netboot installers from some of the more established and venerable distributions do exist that can be loaded via PXE over a network, and then download the remaining packages during setup, but no clear winner in this category either, especially considering that modern laptops rarely have an RJ-45 port. [Crimson-head-apparel distros do have one of the most versatile installer options, with widest hardware suppport, yet their focus has never been much about the desktop OS use-case, but one might argue.]

Any bootable ISO file can be added to GRUB menu. Thus the only issue remaining is for the installer to be able to find the source ISO file (or download it), after loading the kernel and initrd image. Apparently this isn't an easy task for some installers. This can be solved by creating a file system in advance on the target drive (or any other drive) that doesn't get destroyed during setup, for storing the ISO file during the install stage and effectively replacing external media as source. This partition can

not be erased during the disk partitioning stage, but it can be later mounted as any mountpoint in the installed system (or deleted).
In examples below, this partition is (formatted as XFS and) mounted as /home, also keeping the user files intact between deploying different distros.
Eventually, the setup flow is as such: download the distro ISO file and save onto the separate filesystem (/home/iso/), add GRUB boot menu entry, boot into the installer, erase or format previous distro's partitions except the /home, complete the setup and boot into the new distro.

There used to be a package that simplified adding ISO file GRUB menu enteries (grml-rescueboot), however, during testing with latest ISOs and GRUB versions - the resulting menu entries did not boot without manual corrections. Below are grub2 menu enteries for adding to /etc/grub.d/40_custom (sudo update-grub2 or bootloader-update needs to be run after modifying it). Some of these have accumulated over the years from different hardware and distros and may be dated, more recent versions are below... Kernel & boot options were adapted from within each distro's ISO file's bootloaders (grub, isolinux, lilo)

P.S.
(*) Disclaimer: Operations described above are highly destructive, may cause data loss and render a machine into an unbootable state. A USB or other external bootable media with an installable operating system may be requred for recovery. Proceed at one's risk.

[code]
# Doesn't work - dracut errors at start of init
menuentry "Boot CentOS ISO" {
set isofile='/iso/CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-boot.iso'
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
insmod iso9660
loopback loop (hd0,gpt1)$isofile
linuxefi (loop)/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-minimal nomodeset quiet iso-scan/filename=$isofile
initrdefi (loop)/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
}

# Can't find the boot device - initramfs live error
menuentry "Boot elementary OS ISO" {
set isofile="/iso/elementaryos-5.1-stable.20200814.iso"
set gfxpayload=keep
# rmmod tpm
insmod gzio
insmod xfs
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
insmod iso9660
insmod lzopio
loopback loop (hd0,gpt1)$isofile
linuxefi (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject maybe-ubiquity quiet splash
initrdefi (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}

# Kernel does't load from ISO on Grub level
menuentry "Boot MX ISO" {
set isofile="/iso/MX-19.3_ahs_x64.iso"
set gfxpayload=keep
# rmmod tpm
insmod xfs
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
insmod iso9660
loopback loop (hd0,gpt1)$isofile
linux (loop)'/antiX/vmlinuz' boot=casper from=hd bdev=sda1 iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)'/antiX/initrd.gz'
}

# Works!
menuentry "Boot Xubuntu ISO" {
set isofile="/iso/xubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.iso"
set gfxpayload=keep
# rmmod tpm
insmod gzio
insmod xfs
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
insmod iso9660
insmod lzopio
loopback loop (hd0,gpt1)$isofile
linuxefi (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject maybe-ubiquity quiet splash
initrdefi (loop)/casper/initrd
}

# Works!
menuentry "GParted Live ISO" {
set isofile="/iso/gparted-live-1.3.1-1-amd64.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,gpt1)$isofile
linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live config union=overlay username=user components noswap noeject vga=788 ip= net.ifnames=0 toram=filesystem.squashfs findiso=$isofile
initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
}

# Works!
menuentry "SystemRescue ISO" {
set isofile="/iso/systemrescue-8.07-amd64(1).iso"
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
# search --no-floppy --label boot --set=root
set root=(hd0,gpt1)
loopback loop (hd0,gpt1)$isofile
echo 'Loading Linux kernel ...'
linux (loop)/sysresccd/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz img_label=storage img_loop=$isofile archisobasedir=sysresccd copytoram setkmap=us dostartx
echo 'Loading initramfs ...'
initrd

(loop)/sysresccd/boot/x86_64/sysresccd.img
}

# Works!
menuentry 'Start Fedora-KDE-Live 40' {
set isofile="/iso/Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-40-1.14.iso"
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
insmod all_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
search --no-floppy --set=root -l 'Fedora-KDE-Live-40-1-14'
# set root=(hd0,gpt1)
loopback loop (hd0,gpt1)$isofile
echo 'Loading kernel ...'
linux /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-KDE-Live-40-1-14 iso-scan/filename=$isofile rd.live.image quiet rhgb
echo 'Loading initrd ...'
initrd /images/pxeboot/initrd.img
}

# Works!
menuentry 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-20250219-ISO Install' {
set isofile="/grml/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20250219-Media.iso"
loopback loop (hd1,gpt2)$isofile
prefix=(loop)/boot/x86_64/grub2-efi
set gfxpayload=keep
locale_dir=$prefix/locale
lang=en_US
#search --no-floppy --file /boot/x86_64/efi --set=root
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod gzio
insmod gettext
insmod gfxterm
insmod gfxmenu
insmod png
terminal_output gfxterm
theme=$prefix/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
export theme
loadfont $prefix/unicode.pf2
loadfont $prefix/themes/openSUSE/DejaVuSans10.pf2
loadfont $prefix/themes/openSUSE/DejaVuSans12.pf2
loadfont $prefix/themes/openSUSE/DejaVuSans-Bold14.pf2

echo 'Loading kernel ...'
linux (loop)/boot/x86_64/loader/linux splash=silent showopts
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd (loop)/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd
}

# Works!
menuentry "Start Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon 64-bit ISO" {
set isofile="/iso/linuxmint-22.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso"
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod xfs
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
insmod iso9660
insmod lzopio
loopback loop (hd1,gpt4)$isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper username=mint hostname=mint iso-scan/filename=$isofile quiet splash --
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}
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The early days of Linux (2023)
https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/

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Program/s to test out a used PC

Hey!
I plan to purchase a used laptop, and obviously the seller claims it is in great condition.
Other than testing the physical keys and responsiveness of the installed OS, I plan to boot into my live USB which has a Debian based system installed and test the integrity of the components.
Are there any tools out there like smartctl to test the memory, CPU, GPU, or any other thing I should be looking at?

https://redd.it/1j1kn9j
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What's next for wayland

So in the past two months colour management, hdr and a few other big things have been done as far as I'm aware but what's on the horizon?

What are the big milestones? Just curious I did Google it but all I can find is a repo.

https://redd.it/1j1lyir
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