Nextcloud Talk “Munich”: building resilient communication - Nextcloud
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-talk-munich/

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Looking for a Windows WIN+H-style speech-to-text solution on Linux

On Windows, I regularly used WIN+H to activate speech recognition and dictate directly into any text field. It was a huge timesaver for my writing workflow.

Now that I’ve switched to Linux, I’m wondering:
Is there anything similar on Linux that allows system-wide speech-to-text dictation? Ideally something lightweight and privacy-friendly.

And if that's not possible: can anyone recommend a simple Markdown editor where I could use speech recognition reliably?
Open source tools, practical setups, or personal experiences are all very welcome!

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Wallpaper changer service for GNOME that sets wallpaper based on time of day, month and weather
https://github.com/MilanGranat/rust-wallpaper

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macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac"
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

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Maintaining an Android app is a lot of work
https://ashishb.net/programming/maintaining-android-app/

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Acer laptop with locked nvram

I have an old laptop that I fight not to throw away, and for fun I have been trying to install linux on it for a long long time.
Tried almost every possible distro, and they would all freeze in different parts of the install. And I cant start live linux.

Recently I found out that using ventoy, it is possible to run live linux. (balena etcher and rufust dont work)
Then I saw that all installations fail at bootloader stage. And after googling, i found that the problem is locked nvram.


Is there a distro than can be easily installed on a laptop with locked nvram.
Laptop is acer es1-533. Old laptop that needs a light distro.

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wow, Linux just saved my gaming laptop

I have a Nitro V 15 with an RTX 4050 6GB I5 13 gen. I've never had anything to complain about in terms of gaming performance; after all, there's plenty of power left for the games I play. But for everything else, the performance was TERRIBLE, even after formatting the computer plenty of times. The biggest problems were:

Browser performance was completely unstable and made no sense at all. There were times when a website would take almost 3 minutes to load, sometimes even freezing the entire system ([similar to this problem](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/infinite-loading-in-new-tabs/b0e7bdb5-73a7-494d-a12a-408a77a40fea)). I thought it was a hardware issue (I tend to keep many tabs open) or a DNS problem, but I ended up just accepting it. When I switched to Pop!\_OS, this problem just disappeared, and web Browse became as fast as I expected it to be, even in battery-saving mode.
The battery life was horrendous. Even in battery-saving mode in Windows and Acer's software, it wouldn't even last an hour (proof it's not cap). Now, with Pop!_OS, set to battery-saving mode and running on the integrated GPU, it can last 4 hours; It quadrupled the battery life and stopped it from being just a mini PC with a screen that I need to keep plugged in all the time. Now I use it in battery-save mode even when it's plugged because the difference in performance is unnoticeable if I'm not playing something.

I'm not saying that Linux can/will save your laptop, I just want to state that this was my experience. The curious part is that I didn't even install Linux for this purpose; I just liked Pop!_OS when I tested it on my desktop for a while and downloaded it to my laptop's secondary SSD because I missed it, now I can't go back to Windows at all.

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"Danish Ministry of Digitalization is outphasing Microsoft and moving from Windows and Office365 to Linux and LibreOffice"

This is soon cool! Finally they make Microsoft sweat! They have had monopoly on these things for too long.

Kind regards
A happy Dane who uses Linux on main PC

Link to the danish article: https://politiken.dk/viden/tech/art10437680/Caroline-Stage-udfaser-Microsoft-i-Digitaliseringsministeriet


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Ubuntu 25.10 drops X11 on GNOME
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-drops-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/62538

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LibreOffice QA and Development Report – May 2025
https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/06/10/qa-dev-report-may-2025/

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Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-Software-Drop-Prop-GL-VK

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there is more windowing systems?

From where is know the most popular windowing systems are X11 and Wayland, and there is other like Mir or event other more peculiar like DirectFB. But i wonder if there are others that have an spesific use case or they are still mantained but for a spesific niche, like Rio for Plan9 or they are new like someone is making it's own windoing system just to learn

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DXVK version 2.6.2 released
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.6.2?1

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Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

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Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Better-VKD3D-VB

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Crowdfunding campaign for Liberux NEXX . a smartphone with a open source operation system
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3#/

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ImageFan Reloaded - light-weight, tab-based image viewer
https://github.com/mihnea-radulescu/imagefanreloaded

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Serious Why getting to properly use Linux after years of using Windows feels like getting on a new hobby?

Hi everyone,

I've been a tech guy all my life. I even work in tech as a Senior dev. My very first job involved using Linux but didn't quite like it, even though I knew how to do the things I needed to do with it at the time. Now years forward, I decided on my own, to try Linux on my main rig, and after several failed attempts to try to get used to it and after multiple installations of Mint, since I went back to Windows over and over, because it didn't click for me, I finally got on good terms with it, and a year later I started using Arch, and have never felt so obsessed of using Linux, is like the more issues I need to solve, the need of installing additional packages as days go on, and having to read documentation and posts about the tools around Linux the more I feel I like it and want to know other people's experiences and also wanting to talk about it to people who are tech enthusiasts whenever I can

Have you felt the same? I cannot explain it.

Edit: reworded a part of my post to clarify I didn't fail at installing Linux but at getting used to it.

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Improving Fedora's documentation
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1024259/53c2058efb94a67f/

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The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/11/the-end-of-windows-10/

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zypper (openSUSE package manager) is fast now

For as long as I've been meaningfully aware of openSUSE as a distro, the number one complaint against openSUSE I've seen has been that zypper, the package manager, was slow.
Which was true, as it didn't have parallel downloads, and it was painful to use it on a rolling distro that had most of its packages updated fairly regularly.

Well, that's fixed now. In March, zypper gained the ability to perform parallel downloads as a non-default behaviour, and parallel downloads became the default about 3 days ago.

The performance gain is absolutely enormous, especially in my case as I have a relatively ideal setup; I'm based in Prague, the same city as the official mirror, and a gigabit pipe. To me, subjectively, zypper is now as fast as pacman.
~~Of course, your mileage may vary, especially if you're not in Europe, as most (all?) of the infra is over here.~~
--EDIT--
It had completely slipped my mind that as of last year, openSUSE uses Fastly CDN, which should be active automatically if you're based outside of Europe.
--EDIT--

That being said, unless your have a very fast internet connection, I'd suspect zypper will still saturate your download speed most of the time, especially if you go into /etc/zypp/zypp.conf and bump up the number of concurrent connections to more than 5, which is the default.

So, if you've been sleeping on openSUSE due to zypper, consider giving it another go.

If you don't know why you should use or care about openSUSE, here's why, in my opinion:

- openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro, with a very robust automated testing procedures which means that the distro rarely breaks
openSUSE Slowroll (beta) is the same, except that the updates come all at once, approximately once a month

- if it does break, openSUSE comes out of the box with btrfs snapshot via snapper (a tool similar to Timeshift) that automatically snapshots before and after every update. This means that in case something does break, rolling back is trivial.


- another oft cited sore spot, the installer, is in the process of being replaced. Although the new installer is still not the default, I have already used it without any issues.

- backed by SUSE Linux Enterprise, and with an active community, it has been around a while, and is a robust option

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