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.

https://redd.it/1lf6m6p
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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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Why not crosspost this? :D
https://redd.it/1lfczvz
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The danish also decided to move to Linux

Recently, The Danish Ministry of Digitilisation has decided to move to linux, and abandon windows.

The reasoning behind this move is because the DMD (Danish Ministry of Digitilisation) wanted better control, "independant sovereignty" & a less annoying experience of their Operating System.

Primarily, they wanted to have better control of their operating system and decided to switch to an open source alternative. They are specificaly switching to LibreOffice's branch, as it "just fits their needs" for their work. The DMD primarily want more control of their Data, Cloud services and Data infrastructure.

https://redd.it/1lfd6h7
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Slow NVMe Write speed with BTRFS and Kernel 6.15.2

I recently bought a NVMe M.2 SSD and well, it works great, except that the writing speed is EXTREMELY LOW. Doing tests I noted that this is a bug with the latest kernel 5.12.2 with BTRFS.

Arch Linux with kernel 6.15.2 and 6.12.33 LTS, Windows 11 24H2
My tests with KDiskMark 3.1.4 (FIO 3.35) and CrystalDiskMark 9.0.0 resulted on:

Kernel 6.15.2

Reading speed: an average of 4700 MB/s

Writing speed: an average of 770 MB/s



Kernel 6.12.33 LTS

Reading speed: an average of 4800 MB/s

Writing speed: 4200 MB/s



Windows 11

Reading speed: an average of 5200 MB/s

Writing speed: an average of 4800 MB/s


All these tests I did using the preset SEQ1M Q8T1, both on KDiskMark and CrystalDiskMark. I also ran more tests with a separated 10gb partition on this NVMe with different file systems and the results where: (All tests bellow was made with the kernel 6.15.2)

NTFS Partition (The same I used to run the test on Windows)

Reading: 4500 MB/s

Writing: 4400 MB/s


EXT4 Partition

Reading: 4900 MB/s

Writing: 4600 MB/s


BTRFS Partition

Reading: 4500 MB/s

Writing: 760 MB/s


More info:

Since this SSD I use for my system all these tests except for the separated partition where made in my home directory, Windows I use on another SATA SSD so Windows isn't installed on the NVMe, this might or might not make an advantage in favor of Windows, idk, this is not a comparison to blame Linux or something like this as I daily drive Linux and not Windows. Anyways, I hope this gets fixed soon! Also sorry if something in this post is confusing or wrong, English is not my primary language!

My PC specs in case that matters:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600

GPU: RX 7600

RAM: 32GB 2666 Mhz

Disks: NVME KOOTION X16 1TB 5000MB/S, SSD SanDisk Ultra, HDD Seagate 2TB

MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Elite B550M

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13 Useful GNOME Shell Extensions for a Better Desktop Experience (Available in the official Debian repositories or on the GNOME Extensions website for other distributions)
https://www.jamescherti.com/gnome-shell-extensions-to-install-from-apt-debian-repositories/

https://redd.it/1lfgcep
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Liberux Nexx: An interview with Liberux about their made-in-EU OSHW Linux Phone
https://linmob.net/liberux-nexx-an-interview-with-liberux/

https://redd.it/1lfmitn
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Fwupd 2.0.12 Released With More Intel Battlemage GPUs & HP USB-C Hub Supported
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.0.12-Released

https://redd.it/1lfpach
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Where does this fit in the Linux stack?

So I was reading the issue-thread about KDE Plasma adapting to the recent EU requirements about accessibility. And avoiding users accidentally creating situations that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy sounded difficult.

This made me think - hypothetically speaking - in which part of a modern (e.g. KDE-based) Linux distro could an OS-level universal photo sensitivity filter be implemented 🤔? I.e. an optional tool where successive frames are analyzed and if a danger level threshold is crossed, a mitigation procedure is triggered. That procedure could be freezing/skipping frames, morphing between frames more slowly, or displaying a warning overlay/watermark).

Can this be a regular user app? Does it require changes to some part of the rendering stack?

Based on googling for 5 min, I found:

[this](https://trace.umd.edu/peat/) mention of University of Maryland having a fully open-source detection tool in the works:

>We are working on a new fully-open-source version that will be updated for new technologies (the current version is open-source except for a proprietary analysis engine we purchased the rights to use). It will also be free to use. No ETA for it as yet.

some Github repo searches: 1 2
one of the more promising results: [3](https://github.com/Pi-0r-Tau/Epilepsy-Active-protection-Extension-)
that searching for "epilepsy detection" gives a lot of "noise" in projects doing health tracking for detection of an epileptic fit.

I'm hoping someone is inspired to dig into making this or I get pointers which issue tracker or forum to take this towards 🙏

Maybe Linux can get another trailblazer win, Apple can copy it and get admired as innovative for it, and we get the smug "um akshually ☝️". But the world would still be better than before 😌

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is there any use for TPM on Linux?

Like the noscript suggests, I’m curious if there is any need or use for a TPM module. I’ve read enough that the module provides encryption. Is there any difference between TPM encryption and something like LUKS? And would TPM provide as much use as any other form of encryption?

https://redd.it/1lfvklv
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What did I get my hands on here?
https://redd.it/1lfx1ph
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Is it just me or is using a tiling window manager on a laptop painful without an external keyboard?

Hey folks,
I've been trying to get into tiling window managers (i3, Hyprland, etc.) because I love the idea of efficiency, keyboard-driven control, and a minimal setup. But honestly, using them on a laptop feels like a struggle.

My biggest issue? The keyboard is right up against the screen, and I constantly find myself hunched over or hitting the wrong keys because of the cramped layout. It feels awkward trying to do all these hotkey combos without a proper distance between me and the screen. And don't get me started on using Super + arrow or Super + shift + something combos while squished up against a 14-inch display.

It almost feels like tiling WMs are made for desktops with external keyboards and big monitors. Anyone else feel the same? Am I missing some ergonomic trick, or is an external keyboard just mandatory for a good experience?

Would love to hear how you laptop-only users manage it.

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