NVK enabled for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-enabled-for-maxwell,-pascal,-and-volta-gpus.html

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My wife finally forced to move past Win 8.1 Pro back to Linux. A win!

TL/DR: The wife's job required Win 8 Pro in 2014 when she started, no Linux client available to her. But Win 8.1 Pro was really stable so whatever...

FF to April 2025, her company AWS no longer supports Win 8 or even Win 10. But not being new, she asked about Linux. The tech support guy told her he could not get it working on Kubuntu (our preferred distro) but did on a distro I had never heard of called "Vinari." Gnome? No thanks.

20 second of research and found out Vinari is Debian based as are 'buntus. So I said "screw that guy" and installed Kubuntu 24.04. Literally 5 minutes after installation, AWS was up and she was able to log in. Been using it for a week without a single "tech support" call to the hubby (me, lol) so all good.

She's now waiting for the next required call to the company so she can tell the tech support guy "Oh, BTW, my husband got AWS working on Kubuntu in like 5 minutes. He said you can email him if you need help with that..."

ROFL

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Red Hat Linux 6.2 (from 2000)
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I made an app that gives you Linux in the browser, it's now open-source
https://redd.it/1k5gaow
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Do you struggle to remember the syntax of CLI tools? What is your solution beyond reading man pages?

I've been using Linux distros for many years now, but I've always spent hours learning the syntax, then forgetting it and having to relearn it months later. Maybe I'm dyslexic? Or does "Linux" (the ecosystem) have an unnecessary bias towards convenience for people with great memory?

For example, I install debian with root zfs, so that has required me to write a doc with hundreds of lines of code. It's not fun at all, and hard to read, similar to this: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Bookworm%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html

I.e. it breaks with programming principles of being self-explanatory code, well-named variables, and so on.

I often have to read through man pages and try to understand what a particular argument does, but searching for it doesn't work since it matches with other text. Am I using man pages wrong? Is there a tool that searches arguments specifically?

Obviously LLMs are a great help these days, but they sometimes hallucinate.

Do you struggle with this as well, or have you found tools to support you?



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Just why?

I have a question.

On computer related posts, I always see someone saying "The Linux user always having to bring up how great Linux is every 10 seconds."

Now, I'm an intelligence guy who moved to the IT/Security field a few years back. I just don't get it. I have a Ubuntu Cinnamon laptop but my primary PC is my windows system. Started using it a year ago.

I use the Ubuntu system just daily stuff (email, web, word processing, YouTube), rarely if ever touching the terminal window.

It works flawlessly and it's lightning fast. My windows computer (the monster it is) sometimes struggles to open Microsoft word properly.

Why all the hate on Linux? Honestly, it doesn't need the terminal at all for the main distros unless you get fancy. Honestly, I'd feel better giving my mom (who is computer illiterate) a Linux system than a windows because I can't see how she could mess it up.

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Does anyone use electron based terminal emulators?

I’m aware of terminals like Tabby and Hyper — but does anyone actually use them? Why would someone choose an Electron-based terminal over emulators written in Rust (like Alacritty, WezTerm, or Ghostty) or something like Kitty (built with Python/C/Go)? Even the built-in terminal feels like a better option than one built on Electron.

I checked the RAM usage, and it was around 1GB for just 3–4 tabs. That’s why I’m asking. Blink and Electron are practically the same thing. So now your browser runs on Electron, your terminal runs on Electron — and half of your RAM is just gone.

Hyper and Tabby aren’t even the only Electron-based terminals — there are tons of them. That honestly baffles me. Is this just a case of “demand creates supply”?

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Open Source: A hedge against tariffs and geopolitics
https://vaibhawvipul.github.io/2025/04/08/Open-Source-A-hedge-against-tariffs-and-geopolitics.html

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Google search is so real
https://redd.it/1k5vls3
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auto-cpufreq v2.6.0 is out!

Packaged with new features and improvements: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq/releases

Project stats:
⭐ 6300 GitHub stars
👥 100 contributors
🛠️ 48 releases

Huge thanks to everyone who made this release happen! 🙌

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Android alternatives

I was getting pretty sick of Microsoft: my computer runs fine and can theoretically easily run Windows 11, although Microsoft wouldn't allow it, because of one small missing chip. So I finally "upgraded" to Fedora.

But I kinda have a problem with my phone as well. I bought it back in 2018 (OnePlus 6) and it just runs fine for what I use it for. I have Android 11, which isn't supported for some time now and my phone can't run Android 12 or higher. Google is as worse as Microsoft when it comes to software: you must buy a new expensive phone every 4 or 5 years, if you want it to run a secure version of Android. Even Android 12 is in the end of its lifetime, although it was released just 3.5 years ago.

I know there're Linux alternatives to Android, but I don't know if any of these are good and actively in development. So my questions is: do some people have experience with Linux alternatives? And what can you recommend?

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newlines in filenames; POSIX.1-2024
https://lore.kernel.org/all/iezzxq25mqdcapusb32euu3fgvz7djtrn5n66emb72jb3bqltx@lr2545vnc55k/

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Too few memory to mount partition?
https://redd.it/1k5xo44
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is 24gb of ram a overkill for this laptop?
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Probably a Linux user, I don't know.
https://redd.it/1k67h8r
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Favorite Utilities for Namespace Management?

I suppose the utilities for namespace management are `unshare` and `nsenter`, but those are low-level and make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. I've become a big fan of `ip-netns` because it has safely rails and handles bind-mounts, but it's only for managing network namespaces. Are there similar utilities for mount namespaces, PID namespaces, etc?

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The prosecution's case for restricting the set of valid filenames in Linux and POSIX
https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html

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I switched from macos to Linux because it can't stop babying users and being unnecessarily restrictive
https://redd.it/1k6grd0
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All my devices
https://redd.it/1k6gn3t
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Replacing Office365, how to keep OS secure -- "My Solution Without Relying on Global Vendors," writes vawaver.
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/replacing-office365-how-to-keep-os-secure/223289/3

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USB through-output optimization.

Hello.

Let me explain first what exactly a problem. I’m using PC for online streaming, recording with OBS Studio using four usb Elgato video capture cards connected to four SLR cameras giving me four different angles. By experiments I figured that it’s crucial to have capture cards connected to usb ports which is on separate lanes to have a smooth and stable video signal from the cameras. So just to answer some might appearing questions hardware wise. Yes it is exactly same camera models with exactly same settings, exactly same HDMI cables and exactly same capture cards with exactly same OBS setting for each ones.

And after connecting everything and starting streaming everything is fine and as it suppose to be. But after sometime one of the cameras starting occasionally dropping few frames for a 10 - 20 seconds and gets back to normal but because of that cameras is getting out of sync with each other. It’s happening randomly with different cameras, not with some particular ones. So I presume that it is not hardware related. It’s like some buffer gets overflowed or something. Sometimes even for an hour stream is perfect but frame dropping could happen anytime and it is happening unfortunately.

I tried different distros, tried different kernels, different governors and Clear Linux giving me the most longest time before lags are occurred. Same problem with Macos and Windows 10 and 11.

I’m linux user for a past 10 years still can’t call myself an expert, advance user may be. I tried to research this for a while with no working solutions so far. Checked with OBS forum as well and people saying that OBS is just works with whatever signal it’s getting from capture device. Also noticed that under the wayland frame dripping is less because of the smoother desktop animation and between apps switching. X11 is fine unless you are always on OBS app without going to other desktops or windows.

I know that linux is probably the only system where everything is possible. So, is there anything I can do to get rid of this? Somebody with a knowledge how to optimize stability of USB through-output have any idea on that? Will appreciate any advice.
Thank you in advance.

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