GIMP 3.0 released. Real talk about GIMP 3.0, caveats, future plans, project funding, and the name change
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GIMP 3.0 released
Real talk about GIMP 3.0, caveats, future plans, project funding, and the name change
PSA: Readability-enhancing opensource font 'Atkinson Hyperlegible' has got a 2025 release with a new 'Mono' variant and improvements to the original called 'Next'. Enjoy!
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Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
Backup 2TB of data to a new disk
I have been merging data from 2 drives to a new bigger sized drive... I used the following command:
rsync -av --progress --ignore-existing /mnt/disk1 /mnt/newdisk
rsync -av --progress --ignore-existing /mnt/disk2 /mnt/newdisk
In both of the disks there was repeated files and I would like to make sure that the files in the new drive are exactly as they are supposed. I saw in the rsync documentation that there is a --checksum command. Would that be the right way to go with it?
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I have been merging data from 2 drives to a new bigger sized drive... I used the following command:
rsync -av --progress --ignore-existing /mnt/disk1 /mnt/newdisk
rsync -av --progress --ignore-existing /mnt/disk2 /mnt/newdisk
In both of the disks there was repeated files and I would like to make sure that the files in the new drive are exactly as they are supposed. I saw in the rsync documentation that there is a --checksum command. Would that be the right way to go with it?
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Very initial stages of porting NVK Nvidia driver to HaikuOS
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Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia driver for Turing+ GPUs)
As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source (I will call it NVRM). This driver is very portable and its platform-independent part…
My business made me miss out on Linux
So, years ago, I started doing a LOT of photography work.
I had dabbled in Linux starting in 1994 but in 2004 I started getting more and more into Linux. I was dual Booting Linux and Windows but I was using Linux 80% of the time. Only switching to Windows to do things I knew I couldn't do in Linux at the time.
Then in 2010, I started taking LOTS of photos. I was shooting portrait sessions, weddings, you name it. If it involved still photography, I was doing it! I did this until 2017. Photoshop and Lightroom were my 2 most important tools during that time period because I just couldn't use Linux. I got to the point where I was barely in Linux at all. I'd process the photos, then upload them to my picture viewing site and I'd answer emails, and do lots of business stuff in Windows. It seemed impractical for me to log out of Windows after I was done processing images then upload and do everything else in Linux. I was in Windows, I was there, It was way more convenient to stay in Windows. I even bought an upgrade for a Windows version or 2 in that time I believe. Because I needed to.
I stopped shooting the bulk of my photography early in 2018 because everyone else was seriously undercutting me at everything. My rates weren't high either. But I was being undercut to the point where wasting the fuel to get to a shoot was, my time, etc. barely breaking even just made it seem pointless to continue on. In early June of 2018, I downloaded and installed Linux Mint 18.3. I think about a week later, 19.0 came out and I just went ahead and did a fresh install of that. From that point on, I never touched Windows. I did buy Windows 10 just before switching to Linux. But Windows 10 would not run on that already 8 year old machine. It was a dog and took forever to do anything with. I was not about to build myself a new computer. I already had 5 computers in a closet that ran fine. It was just Windows newer versions wouldn't run on them. And this particular PC had 32GB of RAM in it, LOTS of HDD space and it just wasn't ready to be put into a closet yet. I started using Arch Linux with that same computer in February 2020. Then about 5 or 6 months later, that computer finally stopped working for me. It was about 10 or 11 years old and I got a LOT of use out of it for sure! Thanks to Linux. I got 3 extra years use out of it and used it til it died. First time I think I ever did that BTW... Ran a computer til the hardware died. It wasn't because a new OS couldn't handle the hardware. Linux handled that old hardware quite nicely!
So, 14 years PRIOR to me getting heavily involved with Linux, like I am now, sort of put Linux on the back burner for me... There were times where I'd boot into Linux just to see if I could do the raw photo editing like I could in Lightroom and Photoshop but it just wasn't really there yet in Linux. GIMP just couldn't handle RAW camera files from my Canon 5D Mark II yet. It was close but I think it had issues with the file sizes. It would try to open them but they would freeze half the time while loading. Some photos opened but others didn't. I couldn't have that happen while I was working on an actual job. Lightroom and Photoshop opened every photo, handled the light-weight editing I needed to do with them. They were perfect!
So, I think, had I not gotten as heavily into photography as I did in the early 2000s, I might be using Linux now for 21 years straight. Instead, I have this broken usage thing going on. I feel inferior (sarcasm). Even though I run Arch and I have installed Gentoo in the past and I could probably install both with my eyes closed now. Except, I only have a 7 year nonstop Linux Record as opposed to the 21 years I could have had.
In no way do I think using Windows instead of Linux to make money was a bad move! Not by a long shot! I had an idea, tried to make Linux work but couldn't. So I went with what I knew worked. I had no ill will towards Linux because it couldn't handle editing a couple hundred wedding photos in a session. I had no ill will towards
So, years ago, I started doing a LOT of photography work.
I had dabbled in Linux starting in 1994 but in 2004 I started getting more and more into Linux. I was dual Booting Linux and Windows but I was using Linux 80% of the time. Only switching to Windows to do things I knew I couldn't do in Linux at the time.
Then in 2010, I started taking LOTS of photos. I was shooting portrait sessions, weddings, you name it. If it involved still photography, I was doing it! I did this until 2017. Photoshop and Lightroom were my 2 most important tools during that time period because I just couldn't use Linux. I got to the point where I was barely in Linux at all. I'd process the photos, then upload them to my picture viewing site and I'd answer emails, and do lots of business stuff in Windows. It seemed impractical for me to log out of Windows after I was done processing images then upload and do everything else in Linux. I was in Windows, I was there, It was way more convenient to stay in Windows. I even bought an upgrade for a Windows version or 2 in that time I believe. Because I needed to.
I stopped shooting the bulk of my photography early in 2018 because everyone else was seriously undercutting me at everything. My rates weren't high either. But I was being undercut to the point where wasting the fuel to get to a shoot was, my time, etc. barely breaking even just made it seem pointless to continue on. In early June of 2018, I downloaded and installed Linux Mint 18.3. I think about a week later, 19.0 came out and I just went ahead and did a fresh install of that. From that point on, I never touched Windows. I did buy Windows 10 just before switching to Linux. But Windows 10 would not run on that already 8 year old machine. It was a dog and took forever to do anything with. I was not about to build myself a new computer. I already had 5 computers in a closet that ran fine. It was just Windows newer versions wouldn't run on them. And this particular PC had 32GB of RAM in it, LOTS of HDD space and it just wasn't ready to be put into a closet yet. I started using Arch Linux with that same computer in February 2020. Then about 5 or 6 months later, that computer finally stopped working for me. It was about 10 or 11 years old and I got a LOT of use out of it for sure! Thanks to Linux. I got 3 extra years use out of it and used it til it died. First time I think I ever did that BTW... Ran a computer til the hardware died. It wasn't because a new OS couldn't handle the hardware. Linux handled that old hardware quite nicely!
So, 14 years PRIOR to me getting heavily involved with Linux, like I am now, sort of put Linux on the back burner for me... There were times where I'd boot into Linux just to see if I could do the raw photo editing like I could in Lightroom and Photoshop but it just wasn't really there yet in Linux. GIMP just couldn't handle RAW camera files from my Canon 5D Mark II yet. It was close but I think it had issues with the file sizes. It would try to open them but they would freeze half the time while loading. Some photos opened but others didn't. I couldn't have that happen while I was working on an actual job. Lightroom and Photoshop opened every photo, handled the light-weight editing I needed to do with them. They were perfect!
So, I think, had I not gotten as heavily into photography as I did in the early 2000s, I might be using Linux now for 21 years straight. Instead, I have this broken usage thing going on. I feel inferior (sarcasm). Even though I run Arch and I have installed Gentoo in the past and I could probably install both with my eyes closed now. Except, I only have a 7 year nonstop Linux Record as opposed to the 21 years I could have had.
In no way do I think using Windows instead of Linux to make money was a bad move! Not by a long shot! I had an idea, tried to make Linux work but couldn't. So I went with what I knew worked. I had no ill will towards Linux because it couldn't handle editing a couple hundred wedding photos in a session. I had no ill will towards
Linux because it seemed a little inferior to Windows to me at that particular time. I thought Linux was a great prospect for the future back then. I always kept my eye on it. At one point, I did have an A/B Video/Keyboard/Mouse switch where I had an older PC running Linux on it and I could just flip a switch between Linux and Windows and use the same keyboard, mouse and monitor between them. But I spent WAY more time in Windows than I did Linux back in that time frame still. BUT, I did keep Linux percolating in the back of my head though. I kept thinking, 'Some day...'.
Anyone else have this sort of thing happen with them? I imagine there is probably a lot of the new Linux users out there who thought about it but just couldn't pull away from the Microsoft machine.
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Im tired of corporate Linux
(Rant portion) There will undoubtably be someone who responds in this thread saying, “but the biggest contributors are our large companies like Microsoft, Google, etc.”. I understand this and I’m appreciative, but Linux wasn’t started for them, it was started in spite of them, and because of them.
I work in cyber security, I watch companies destroy everything, leak our data, remove choice, while forcing marketing down our throats at every turn. All while acting like they are the good guys.
Linux is a break from this, it represents the ability to raise our heads out of the ocean of filth and take a vital breath. That’s why recent decisions by entities supposedly on our open source team, and buy outs of major Linux brands, have me rethinking my distro of choice (Rant over)
Most distros boil down to Arch, Debian, or Fedora. I like to use root distros. I feel like my options for Linux without corporate interests muddying my future and making things annoying for me are pretty much Arch or Debian (with the possibility of Mint LMDE). I love tinkering but don’t have time for a lot anymore. But this feels like I’m cornering myself with Debian which will quickly become stale after a new release, or I risk breaking it with amendments. Or, I use arch and do my best to stabilize it but it will inevitably bork itself sometime in the near future.
Please, I know this sounds opinionated and blunt, but I’m asking for support and honest help / feedback. What are your thoughts??
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(Rant portion) There will undoubtably be someone who responds in this thread saying, “but the biggest contributors are our large companies like Microsoft, Google, etc.”. I understand this and I’m appreciative, but Linux wasn’t started for them, it was started in spite of them, and because of them.
I work in cyber security, I watch companies destroy everything, leak our data, remove choice, while forcing marketing down our throats at every turn. All while acting like they are the good guys.
Linux is a break from this, it represents the ability to raise our heads out of the ocean of filth and take a vital breath. That’s why recent decisions by entities supposedly on our open source team, and buy outs of major Linux brands, have me rethinking my distro of choice (Rant over)
Most distros boil down to Arch, Debian, or Fedora. I like to use root distros. I feel like my options for Linux without corporate interests muddying my future and making things annoying for me are pretty much Arch or Debian (with the possibility of Mint LMDE). I love tinkering but don’t have time for a lot anymore. But this feels like I’m cornering myself with Debian which will quickly become stale after a new release, or I risk breaking it with amendments. Or, I use arch and do my best to stabilize it but it will inevitably bork itself sometime in the near future.
Please, I know this sounds opinionated and blunt, but I’m asking for support and honest help / feedback. What are your thoughts??
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Seeking a Linux Music Player Alternative That Can Handle a 250GB Lossless Library – Beyond Basic Play and Shuffle
I want to preface this with saying that I've been running arch for 3 years on my thinkpad (I use moc, but don't have a big library, nor the need to organize it that well on there) , which I use everyday, this is related to my desktop
I'm a Music player poweruser (feels wrong to say haha) So to start, I'll say that this is really a last ditch effort on my part. 3 years ago, I tried Every single music player available on windows (I do mean every single one unironically) After months of tirelessly trying every single one of them to find one that worked for me I stumbled upon music bee, now the problem is that it doesn't work under wine or bottles.
Now I think it might be best to explain my use case to avoid misunderstanding. I do not use streaming services whatsoever because they simply don't have the music I want. I have over 250gb of lossless music. multiple discographies from various different artists, some so underground that even by googling the band name and specific song name, you won't find anything. So I need a music player that can handle that much lossless music. I also need to be able to edit metadata. Again I have thousands of songs, they need to be organized properly. I also need playlist support. What I just described is the bare MINIMUM that a music player should be able to achieve. heck at this point I don't even care if the UI makes my eyes bleed. I just want a music player which can achieve the bare minimum for my use case. I don't care anymore about dynamic playlist support, lyrics support, granular UI customization and the sleuth of other features that Music Bee offers. I just want a music player which can properly organize, play and manage my enormous library.
Like I said this is a last ditch effort as I've already tried a lot of stuff and nothing came even close to achieving basic functionality. I'm really hoping someone with more knowledge than me on linux might know of some very unknown music player supported under linux that can achieve that.
EDIT: Thanks for the replies, I think I got what I was looking for. Everyone who took time out of their day to answer I can't even begin to thank you enough. Kudos to everyone here, I hope everyone has a nice day!
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I want to preface this with saying that I've been running arch for 3 years on my thinkpad (I use moc, but don't have a big library, nor the need to organize it that well on there) , which I use everyday, this is related to my desktop
I'm a Music player poweruser (feels wrong to say haha) So to start, I'll say that this is really a last ditch effort on my part. 3 years ago, I tried Every single music player available on windows (I do mean every single one unironically) After months of tirelessly trying every single one of them to find one that worked for me I stumbled upon music bee, now the problem is that it doesn't work under wine or bottles.
Now I think it might be best to explain my use case to avoid misunderstanding. I do not use streaming services whatsoever because they simply don't have the music I want. I have over 250gb of lossless music. multiple discographies from various different artists, some so underground that even by googling the band name and specific song name, you won't find anything. So I need a music player that can handle that much lossless music. I also need to be able to edit metadata. Again I have thousands of songs, they need to be organized properly. I also need playlist support. What I just described is the bare MINIMUM that a music player should be able to achieve. heck at this point I don't even care if the UI makes my eyes bleed. I just want a music player which can achieve the bare minimum for my use case. I don't care anymore about dynamic playlist support, lyrics support, granular UI customization and the sleuth of other features that Music Bee offers. I just want a music player which can properly organize, play and manage my enormous library.
Like I said this is a last ditch effort as I've already tried a lot of stuff and nothing came even close to achieving basic functionality. I'm really hoping someone with more knowledge than me on linux might know of some very unknown music player supported under linux that can achieve that.
EDIT: Thanks for the replies, I think I got what I was looking for. Everyone who took time out of their day to answer I can't even begin to thank you enough. Kudos to everyone here, I hope everyone has a nice day!
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You Need To Know About Bootc
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You Need To Know About Bootc
At the risk of sounding like every YouTuber out there who wants you to click the “Subscribe” button right now, I really believe everyone who cares about Linux should start learning about Bootc. When looking at the future of Linux and what that could look…
HP is interested in creating a SteamOS handheld, says Windows is a “struggle”
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HP is interested in creating a SteamOS handheld, says Windows is a "struggle"
Rivals to the Steam Deck so far have focused on Windows, but SteamOS opening up to more handhelds could mean a HP Omen device on the way.
Introducing rpi-image-gen: build highly customised Raspberry Pi software images
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-rpi-image-gen-build-highly-customised-raspberry-pi-software-images/
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Introducing rpi-image-gen: build highly customised Raspberry Pi software images - Raspberry Pi
Our powerful new tool, rpi-image-gen, puts you in complete control of your customised Raspberry Pi software images.
nnn v5.1 Moscow Mule is released
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Release nnn v5.1 Moscow Mule · jarun/nnn
nnn v5.1 Moscow Mule release notes.
add support for custom trash command in $NNN_TRASH
remember history of last 16 commands executed in the native prompt in the current session
count files from...
add support for custom trash command in $NNN_TRASH
remember history of last 16 commands executed in the native prompt in the current session
count files from...
Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support
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Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support
There was a hiccup yesterday with no Linux 6.14 release or 6.14-rc8 otherwise..
How does a linux distro 'break'?
Just a question that came to my mind while reading through lots of forums. I been a long-time arch user, i used debian and lots other distros.
I absolutely never ran into a system breaking issue that wasnt because of myself doing something else wrong. However i see a lot of people talking about stabilizing their systems, then saying it will break easily soon anyway. How does this happen and what do they mean whit "break"??
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Just a question that came to my mind while reading through lots of forums. I been a long-time arch user, i used debian and lots other distros.
I absolutely never ran into a system breaking issue that wasnt because of myself doing something else wrong. However i see a lot of people talking about stabilizing their systems, then saying it will break easily soon anyway. How does this happen and what do they mean whit "break"??
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Hi, how do I get started on linux?
So, I've grown sick and tired of all of the bullshit that Windows is and I developed a peculiar hate towards Microsoft as a whole. What do I need to do to change to Linux?
Bit of context, because, looking back, it's kinda funny:
Couple hours ago I was doing the usual routine file cleaning from my boot ssd (only got 500 Gb so I cant really afford to leave useless stuff around) and came across a 50 Gb folder from onedrive. I dont use onedrive because is super annoying. I delete it. "Folder too big to fit in the bin, delete it directly?" "Yes".
My fucking desktop disappears, because for some fucking reason all of it was saved in that onedrive folder.
I dont use onedrive.
Manage to get the app links back but, uh-oh, all of my important folders are now gone.
Crashed out like I never did before. Swore on my life to never willingly use Windows again. Dont want sell a kidney to use Apple products. I'm left with the next most popular option: Linux.
And here we are.
I heard that this OS is not for everyone and a bit complicated, but if it can free me from that fuck-ass mega corpo shit called Windows, I'm willing to learn.
After all I'm not exactly new to computers, I think I'll manage. (probably gonna regret this statement in a bit)
So, how do I get started? Is it that much different to windows? Is this even the right sub/tag for this kind of question? Maybe, if you have a youtube video for beginners from a trusted source, please link it to me.
I apologize for the long "context / rant" but I'm so mad right now I had to express it, and thanks for listening to me
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So, I've grown sick and tired of all of the bullshit that Windows is and I developed a peculiar hate towards Microsoft as a whole. What do I need to do to change to Linux?
Bit of context, because, looking back, it's kinda funny:
Couple hours ago I was doing the usual routine file cleaning from my boot ssd (only got 500 Gb so I cant really afford to leave useless stuff around) and came across a 50 Gb folder from onedrive. I dont use onedrive because is super annoying. I delete it. "Folder too big to fit in the bin, delete it directly?" "Yes".
My fucking desktop disappears, because for some fucking reason all of it was saved in that onedrive folder.
I dont use onedrive.
Manage to get the app links back but, uh-oh, all of my important folders are now gone.
Crashed out like I never did before. Swore on my life to never willingly use Windows again. Dont want sell a kidney to use Apple products. I'm left with the next most popular option: Linux.
And here we are.
I heard that this OS is not for everyone and a bit complicated, but if it can free me from that fuck-ass mega corpo shit called Windows, I'm willing to learn.
After all I'm not exactly new to computers, I think I'll manage. (probably gonna regret this statement in a bit)
So, how do I get started? Is it that much different to windows? Is this even the right sub/tag for this kind of question? Maybe, if you have a youtube video for beginners from a trusted source, please link it to me.
I apologize for the long "context / rant" but I'm so mad right now I had to express it, and thanks for listening to me
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GIMP 3.0.2 quickly releases to solve common crashes - https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/23/gimp-3-0-2-released/
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Torvalds Frustrated Over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15
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Torvalds Frustrated Over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15
The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't particularly happy with the pull request