Making the 2017 MacBook Air blazing fast again..
https://redd.it/1jctbai
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How do I add files to Places in Dolphin?
https://redd.it/1jcv6vk
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ubuntu 22.04 - installed lightdm

HOLY SHIT.... like goddamn... formula 1 right here.. opened in like miliseconds


wanted to try out budgie without installing it
so lightdm got installed. alright, whatever. accidentally logged in with xorg instead of budgie/wayland

and DAMN, this thing be like "yooo is this crack display manager? hell yeah, give me some of that speed"

https://redd.it/1jcxz17
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I'm so tired of windows 11, I'm thinking about switching, is setting up linux and gaming on it easy?

I'm so fed up with Microsoft BS every time i find myself wasting days of my time digging the depths of the internet to find a solution for a bug MS thinks it's a feature, this is so annoying I have been looking for solutions to fix this stupid OS for years and everytime it's a new problem, I'm really tired and really frustrated, i want to switch but i mainly play pirated games is it possible to play them on linux?

https://redd.it/1jd0zos
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Bluefin system requirements

I've been a bit curious about Bluefin and would like to try it on a spare laptop. My main "spare laptop" is very low resource though (specifically: it's an old Thinkpad Yoga with only 4G RAM), so I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

It's run GNOME before, and it's fine... most of the time. Sometimes it has a RAM-based freezeup. But mostly OK.

I've been looking for Bluefin's system requirements and not seeing any information, which kinda makes me assume that it's *not* for low end laptops like that. Like, if they're not posting system requirements it's because everybody who uses it has new high spec equipment so they never worry their pretty little heads about "system requirements".

So I probably would not want to use *that* laptop to try it out.

But if anybody has actual information I'd be very curious.

https://redd.it/1jd2c2h
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"Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive" by Sandeep Patil and Irene Ang (December 5, 2023)
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/virtual-machines-as-core-android-primitive.html

https://redd.it/1jd5d0k
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GIMP 3.0 is released on Flathub
https://redd.it/1jd6oso
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Bcachefs Racing To Track Down New Upgrade Bug In Linux 6.14
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Data-Bug-Linux-6.14

https://redd.it/1jdd4ak
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Resurrected an ~11 year old ACER Aspire ES1-512 with MX Linux!
https://redd.it/1jdepc6
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Akira Ransomware Encryption Cracked Using Cloud GPU Power
https://cyberinsider.com/akira-ransomware-encryption-cracked-using-cloud-gpu-power/

https://redd.it/1jde454
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Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995/1

https://redd.it/1jdi0wv
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The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux
https://jangafx.com/insights/linux-binary-compatibility

https://redd.it/1jdi0qb
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GIMP 3 is officially released - https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/ check comments for more info
https://redd.it/1jdkhbc
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Linux: A modular dream until you try customizing keyboard layouts

I use a custom keyboard layout, as I'm a native Lithuanian speaker, who knows Romanian at around B1 level.

On Windows, I made an elegant AutoHotkey noscript.

On Linux, I made:

A version of my AutoHotkey noscript using a fan-made port of Windows AutoHotkey from 2005, however it was too buggy and from my use, I decided that it works as a proof-of-concept rather than a reliable end-product. Oh, also it works only on bare metal and not on a VM for some reason.
Two .XCompose files that can't be switched besides restarting session (WTF?) or input method like IBus
When it comes to IBus, IBus interprets `.XCompose` files differently, like so I don't have exactly functionality. I implemented a noscript that kills IBus process, copies over `.XCompose_lt` and `.XCompose_ro` to `.XCompose` and restarts it, as such switching them between, but apparently it works only on Xubuntu for some reason – it doesn't work on Fedora
I tried making a Python noscript with keyboard library that was said to be cross-platform. I wrote the noscript on Windows, and then when I ran it on Linux, it didn't work.
I ended up rewriting the Python noscript, that used `xdotool` instead of keyboard.write and `.Xmodmap` \+ `.XCompose` instead of `keyboard.hook` for reassigning keys and for keyboard.hook(on\_key\_event, suppress=True) equivalent respectively. It ended up conflicting with `.XCompose` – some key presses were being lost.
I don't use Wayland, but solutions for Wayland are virtually impossible without low-level development; I don't think after all that my AutoHotkey noscript can be implemented without any low-level programming to work at all.

You can see the project for what it is here:

https://github.com/Tomurisk/Euromak

TL;DR – Linux has modular design, sure, but when it comes to more-specific tweaks on the GUI userland, the ship sinks right there. While I appreciate Linux for what it is, I'll need to appreciate the project from sidelines while using Windows. And that's a shame.

https://redd.it/1jdelf0
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Linux Users. Whats one reason why you switched?

For me it was the stability, windows always bugged out to where i had to reset my PC every other month and also there were a LOT of bugs in general. I Switched because of stability issues; now i have been using linux for 3 years now.

https://redd.it/1jdnd84
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Resurrected an ~11 year old ACER Aspire ES1-512 with MX Linux! [Repost with proper tag]
https://redd.it/1jdopgo
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GIMP 3 released after so many years of waiting
https://redd.it/1jdpvok
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Easy Netflix 1080p on Linux (2025)

So yeah DRM and stuff, Netflix sucks bla bla bla

Anyways, just found out from their website that they only support 720p on linux.... BUT on opera browser? What the fuck?

https://preview.redd.it/ywl8lbdd6cpe1.png?width=879&format=png&auto=webp&s=586107631ab00b6eabed7d58fea749eb0e92900f

Anyways, after reading this I did one quick yay -S opera to get that browser's User Agent, and with that I just discovered you can just spoof it to get 1080p, I use Brave and it works flawlessly.

I have no clue if this is well known stuff but I tried whatever the first-5 google results gave me and they didn't work (installing extensions, etc).

Opera's User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/117.0.0.0

You're welcome!

https://redd.it/1jdrkob
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MPV is the GOAT

I recently filmed the wedding ceremony of a cousin and wanted to see how the videos looked. I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with KDE and it came with VLC so I transferred the files to disk but the playback was choppy to say the least.

I then installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package and restarted but nothing changed. I thought the files might be corrupted but then I installed MPV and viola!

Everything runs in smooth, crisp, and beautiful 4K without me doing anything. I'm switching video players now.



https://redd.it/1jdwvdx
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I am a first-time solo developer and my anomaly hunting horror game "HANGAR 8" works on Linux thanks to GODOT 4.3! The r/linux_gaming community was very supportive, and someone suggested I let r/linux know as well :3
https://redd.it/1je3jbj
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To what extent are packages audited in Debian, RedHat, Arch, or homebrew package repositories?

Some distributions use older package versions for stability, and use automated testing to identify issues, and a lot of work goes into maintaining packages to ensure that they work correctly.

But how much work goes into security reviews of code changes? Is the source code skimmed? Are signed code changes trusted without review? Is the source code scanned for malware? And so on...

Do I understand correctly that enterprise repositories such as RedHat or SUSE are audited, while community repositories like Arch and homebrew are not?
And that Debian is something in between?
I see lots of people using community repos with ubuntu and I've always been shocked by the amount of trust that people have in anonymously-authored packages.

For example, I'd like to use wireguard or qemu on MacOS with homebrew, but I'm not super confident about it. I could download the sources and build it, but that's complicated, time consuming, fragile, and requires a lot of dependencies to be installed. So I end up not doing it. I'm thinking to switch back to a PC laptop. I have the impression that Debian is trusted/audited, but I'm looking for confirmation.

https://redd.it/1je4ato
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