ImageFan Reloaded - light-weight, tab-based image viewer
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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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I like the Gnome look but the KDE usability

Been a KDE guy forever as I originally used Windows and KDE is a closer match. I like how it feels intuitive like want to do this I instinctively can get there (right click, in the settings, etc.). What I don't like is how plain and muddled the UI "decorations" feel. Things like pop out windows look like 1990's style. I've spent a deal of time customizing my layout and while I do like it the little things like squared off flouts on taskbar icons and so many other things annoys me.

Now Gnome isn't my friend. I like the normal windows way of doing thing and gnome seems less intuitive to me. But what is there is georgous and I really like the look and feel of it. Now I've been on OpenSUSE so maybe that's got a lot to do with it because last time I tried Gnome was an Ubuntu install a couple years ago and I struggled to get anything done so one day later did away with it.

So. I've been playing in a VM. Using my favorite Tumbleweed but this time playing with extensions. While not exactly as customizable as I'd like I am getting really, really close to the configuration I have in KDE as far as layout but with all the "prettiness" of Gnome. I dig it and apps just look nicer it's hard to explain. I've tried tons of KDE themes and I lack the words to describe but there's just something that seems polished to Gnome.

So. I want to switch, or at least try. I don't want to reformat my existing system I'd like to add Gnome. Last time I tried that it kinda hosed up my desktop icons and my default apps I had a lot of cruft. Is there a way to have both DE's without causing issues? Does anyone else know what I'm talking about with the generally tidy and neat visuals vs. KDE a little less so?


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I'm deciding to switch from windows to linux

I have tried a few os which I didn't like and here they're:
Linux mint (wayyy to much like windows I need something new looking)
Endeavor os/kubuntu it's just I hate how the UI looks like and they're hard to install stuff on keep in mind idk nothing about Linux.

I just want something minimal and looks good and costumaziable thank you for reading<3

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AOSP project is coming to an end
https://redd.it/1l9amau
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Let's make the worst build process

So I just had to deal with a POS FOSS that made me question, in a very philosophical kind of way, what's exactly the value of being FOSS when building it yourself is nigh impossible and the code is all weird and fragmented.

And it also made me wonder what the theorical most incompilable FOSS project would be. I'll start, taking from that and other experiences:

- No proper compilation instructions. It's all hidden away in the build.yaml workflow file
- Depends on weird libraries nothing else you've used touched
- At least one of the libraries is by the same developer, and used solely and exclusively in this project.
- The compilation instructions for the library are tucked away hidden in the main project's, not the library's, build.yaml file.
- Requires cargo, python, venv, and cmake. Maybe even cmake and ninja. Shouldn't python noscripts be made redundant by makefiles? Why does it need to create its own environment altogether, you ask? Good question. Good question. There's also a bash file somewhere. You can feel it in your soul.
- Only compiled versions are on flatpak. And yes, it depends on a very minor version of the opengl drivers and kde/gnome runtime that nothing else you have installed uses.
- Which is relevant here because the compilation instructions are exclusively for flatpak. Everything else is up in the air to figure out yourself.
- Single developer, because nobody else wants to touch the code.

What else? There's more here. We can make a more awful thing, if we all work together.

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Trump drives European governments to Microsoft alternatives: What Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria are planning
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Wie-europaeische-Staaten-ihre-Abhaengigkeit-von-Microsoft-reduzieren-wollen-10365345.html?seite=all

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Flatpaks need the ability to request user permissions like iOS/Android

This probably has been requested before but I'm saying it again that for the long term support and ease of use for Flatpak/Flathub, there needs to be a system in place that Flatpak apps can request permissions from users. Rather then having to modify permissions, that often times aren't really clearly labelled for non technical users. Example discord doesn't output audio by default unless the (enable input devices) flag in checked in flatseal



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Google released Android 16 to AOSP without Pixel device-specific source code, which impacts all custom ROM development
https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/11/android-16-plans/

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I want bulid something for Linux
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Mac users coming to Linux?

I’ve seen a lot of folks talking about how the end of windows 10 support will dramatically increase the number of people interested in moving to Linux, but after the recent announcement that Intel based Macs are also end-of-support, that number might go way higher than originally thought. Especially since there’s a little more parity in mac/linux user experience.


Could it be? A perfect storm? The year of the… well, you know.

What do yall think?

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Why not execlpe()?

Hi guys, I'm learning about system calls in Linux-based systems, primarily focusing on process-related system calls right now. I came to learn about exec system call and understood that it is a family of system calls. Here's an hierarchy to understand the family easily:
- execl()
- execlp()
- execle()
- exelv()
- execvp()
- execvpe()
- execve()

My doubt is, when we have execvpe(), why don't we have an execlpe() system call?

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Gesture support improvements coming to KDE Plasma
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/12/gesture-customization-mini-sprint/

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What does the current state, and future, of lightweight desktop environments look like?

When I started using Linux many years ago I went for XFCE, because I was using Linux on old used laptops, but by the time KDE 5 started becoming more mature I made the switch to it.

I like lightweight desktop environments in theory, how they're barebones and laser focused on one task, but I feel like they don't really fit in that much in the modern computer landscape.

Development of desktop environments like Xfce, Lxqt, Mate and Cinnamon is moving along pretty slowly, especially with the switch to Wayland coming soon, and the performance difference between KDE and Gnome compared to other lightweight DEs really isn't that big these days.

I run Fedora KDE with Wayland on a 10 year old Thinkpad T450, and it works just fine. The bottleneck for performance when it comes to older hardware comes from things like how bloated the modern internet has become, not what DE you're running.

Am I wrong in my assessment? Are there any new desktop environments being developed that has an explicit goal of being lightweight, that looks like it can become viable in the future? The only one I know of is Enlightenment, and to me it seems like development is moving really slowly.

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OpenZFS 2.2.8 Released With Newer Linux Kernel Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.8-Released

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I bet these will be helpful!
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Audio stream across network to remote Raspberry Pi from Pipewire to Pulseaudio
http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2025/06/13/audio-stream-across-network-to-remote-raspberry-pi-from-pipewire-to-pulseaudio

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PSA: EasyEffects can drastically improve audio quality of your laptop speakers
https://redd.it/1laetsl
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