Refined Matrix rain animation in Bash — improved with feedback from my previous r/linux post, and inspired by the original Matrix project by wick3dr0se for its concept and style. Link in comments. Don't ban me please mods! XD
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What made you decide to use a certain distro?

I'm going down the rabbit hole of choosing a distro for home use. In the past, I've always used Linux in a VM, primarily Kali (I'm in cyber, I would never use Kali as my home OS) or Ubuntu. I've tried plenty of others, from installing and using Mint for a year at university, to throwing all kinds of distros in a VM just to play around.

I'd vaguely narrowed it down to Debian or NixOS, but if you asked me why I'd struggle to really say. At best, it being difficult to bork a NixOS system is appealing, but the learning curve is not. Conventional advice seems to be either:

Pick something popular that's user friendly, well documented and you're likely to get help when needed
Try a bunch of distros until you find something you like

But what does it mean to find something you like? I only see the OS as a tool, and yet I still have opinions on design philosophy, security, stable vs bleeding edge and so on. I know I can pick whatever I want and make it mine, but coming from Windows where I basically just left everything stock the analysis paralysis is real

So I'm curious to hear, what made you choose a certain distro? Did you pick it for a reason? Or if you tried a bunch of stuff, what made you settle?

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Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler/

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No way this is real...

https://preview.redd.it/koe5dh899n7f1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=2f3ec7df608eb2e853bcb3db63ba64ecb3ea840e

Lol the below ss is self-explanatory. I am dual booting Arch and Windows 10 as i need win for some work but when I tried to watch this video on it, this happened... Obviously one can use VLC but if I need to pay to do such a basic task of watching a video (even if it needs different codecs), then yeah I don't know what to do lol. Yet another day Microsoft disappointed me.

https://redd.it/1lebnw5
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Arch Linux Officially Adds Rust-Based init System – A New Era for PID 1?
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

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Serial Port Programming on Linux using C language and System calls
https://redd.it/1leeizn
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Is LinuxJournal AI Slop now?

Quick intro, this article popped up in my google recommendations this morning

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

It is a 404 now, but the wayback machine grabbed it before they deleted it

https://web.archive.org/web/20250618001301/https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

Its a complete (and relatively well written) article about a new system init tool called rye-init (spoiler alert, it doesn't exist). I will not pretend to be the arbiter of AI slop but when I was reading the article, it didn't feel like it was AI generated.

Anyway, the entire premise is bullshit, the project doesn't exist, Arch has announced no such thing, etc etc.

Whoever George Whitaker is, they are the individual that submitted this article.

So my question, is LinuxJournal AI slop?

Edit:

Looks like the article was actually posted here a handful of hours ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ledknw/archlinuxofficiallyaddsrustbasedinitsystem/

And there was a post on the arch forum though apparently it was deleted as well (and this one wasn't grabbed by the wayback machine).

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Plasma Mobile Dev Log: April 2024 - June 2025
https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/06/18/dev-log/

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Boardswarm, a new Open Source tool for board management and distributed development
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/meet-boardswarm-a-new-open-source-tool-for-board-management-and-distributed-development.html

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How is Cosmic (Pop!OS) ?

How is Cosmic behaving ? Are there many bugs ? Is it stable ? I know it's pretty new.

I have a dual monitor setup ( 1 4k 1 2k ) and I mainly plan to use the PC for programming, gaming and internet browsing. The PC is high end.

I want things to be stable, I haven't used Linux for my personal computer for 5 years and I come with this question after a day where Fedora 42 came with too many problems, after reading about other distros, I arrived at Pop!OS.

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The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts

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Linux has ruined my expectations for computing

Linux has completely ruined the way that it interact with computers. I used Linux for like a year now since they announced that Windows 10 was losing support. I bounced through distros a lot and I really fell head over heels with Linux and it's community. I ended up settling on arch based linux as it just worked best for my needs. But recently I was convinced by some friends to install the new windows on a second nvme to play battlefront ii, but trying to step back into windows is like going from riding a bike back to riding a tricycle. Every single computer I use I try to use like im a power user and I just end up getting frustrated. Like I cant configure anything at all, and if I try to make literally any changes at all to my system im not an administrator?? Like what do you mean I don't have the authority to change my display settings? What do you mean I edge is an essential part of my system? If i want to make any changes to my system even as simple as removing feature from the start menu, I have to go to a sketchy third party and download a sketchy executable just to not have ads in my fricken start menu. Windows keeps making decisions for me, updating things when it wants, and installing stuff on my computer that I don't want, and theres literally nothing I can do, lest I want to risk my system with another sketchy executable. And windows is also supposed to be better for productivity and gaming, but when my pc is on windows rather than Linux, suddenly my pc which I thought was pretty fricken good (32gigs ram, modern am5 chip, rx 7600xt) suddenly feels like a shitter pc. My pc stutters, my screen tears, everything feels clunky and using my pc feels like walking with gravel in my shoes. I opened task manager to see what my pc was even doing to lag like this. IT USES 20% OF MY MEMORE JUST IDLE. I opened one single programans my pc jumped cpu usage up to 80% for a second while it did so!!!!!!!!!!!!! Windows forced an update, and apparently it doesnt recognise my second monitor anymore????? Windows support just said "oh your monitor is just too old for Windows, get a new one."

I hate it bro. Wish I was just a normie so that this shit wouldn't bother me. But now every time I use a non Linux system, i cant help but feel held back because I could be doing so much more. My computer has so much potential and I know what it's capable of and it bothers me when I cant use my computer to its fullest. If i never knew how good computing could be, I wouldn't even care to begin with.

Tldr
Linux made normie computing feel terrible and I cant go back now. Thanks I guess

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How to Save Battery Life with Firefox and Audio

So, I was looking at my CPU utilization one day when I noticed it was using over 3% even though I really wasn't doing anything with my system. Yes, 3% is not much, but it is a lot when nothing is happening. Usually I'm somewhere around 1.5%, and this is with 50+ tabs open, multiple terminal sessions, and several programs open, so I was confused as to why this was higher than normal.

When I looked into this further, it was due to pipewire in relation to Firefox. While Firefox doesn't win any awards for battery life (and since being energy-wise is on page 3 of the Ideas list at https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/idb-p/ideas/tab/most-kudoed/page/3, it might never get better), seeing this excessive interaction of pipewire alongside it was confusing. I wasn't playing any music, nor watching any videos, so what was going on? The truth is, nothing was going on, but pipewire was happily using resources for no reason. Upon closer inspection, Firefox was muted for some reason and once I unmuted it, the pipewire process stopped and I was back to \~1.5%.

If you're a mobile road warrior, hope this help you wage war on the road a little longer!

Cheers!

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Giving this old Vaio mate and upgrades
https://redd.it/1lezj81
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I was reading this bash guide on GitHub, and found this:
https://redd.it/1lf2drq
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From Collaborators to Consumers: Have We Killed the Soul of Open Source?
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/19/from-collaborators-to-consumers-have-we-killed-the-soul-of-open-source/

https://redd.it/1lf3u9y
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Wayland protocol for "Sensitive" Areas? (passwords etc)

I'm curious if this is a thing, I came across this post showing how apple devices will just straight up not show areas of the screen that have information like your passwords if you take a screenshot or screen record. Some wayland compositors have the option to exclude entire windows from screen capture but I'm not sure if theres anything like this where a client could say "hey, there's a plaintext password in this box, don't display it in screen captures please :)".

https://redd.it/1lf57yg
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Notification daemon for modern Wayland compositors

Last year, a friend and I started a project — a notification daemon designed specifically for modern Wayland compositors, built entirely in Rust. After about a year of work, we created something truly usable and with features we’re proud of. I’ve been running it as my daily notification daemon since early on, so it’s not just a prototype — it’s solid and practical.

But after pushing hard for so long, we hit a serious burnout a couple months ago. Since then, the project’s been quiet — no new updates, no big release. We wanted to finish all the core features and release a 0.1 version with a big announcement, but that never happened.

I’m sharing this now because, even if I can’t keep working on it, I want the community to know it exists. Maybe someone out there will find it useful, or maybe it’ll inspire others to do something similar or even pick it up.

If you’re interested, you can check it out here: https://github.com/noti-rs/noti.git

Thanks for reading — it’s tough to share something so personal and unfinished, but I hope it’s not the end for this project.

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Ban 'AI' generated posts

LLM generated posts are becoming the worst type of spam on here and it's only going to get worse.

We need a rule banning them. I stated this in a more polite way in my previous post but it was auto-deleted as breaking rule 1, which it did not.

LLM posts add nothing to the forum, take five seconds to generate with no thought or effort on the part of the OP and waste the time of people who don't recognise them for what they are. They're usually very lengthy as well, which compounds the issue.

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PSA: XWayland doesn't have to be blurry on GNOME

A lot of us who run GNOME Wayland try to avoid XWayland apps, because they're blurry when using DPI scaling.

Well, it turns out that since GNOME 47 (I think), GNOME has had a fix for this, it's just disabled by default. To enable the fix, follow these steps:

1. Open Terminal and run: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']"
2. Log out and back in again

Your XWayland apps like Electron apps, Steam, LMMS, etc etc. should now work great.

Note: if text in Steam is too small, go to Steam Settings -> Interface and enable "Scale text and icons to match monitor settings".

You can check what version of GNOME you're using by going to Settings -> System -> About -Y System Details. It should have an entry called "GNOME Version". For me, it shows GNOME Version: 48, and Windowing System: Wayland.

If you're on KDE, you don't need to do anything, since KDE has had this fix implemented and enabled by default for ages now. I'm hoping GNOME will enable it by default soon.

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'It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux' — TheEvilSkeleton
https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/

https://redd.it/1lfbsij
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