Linux mint XFCE terminal costumization & effects
https://redd.it/1ln9qdf
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Desperately in need of a Sepia /Beige theme

I've had enough of light theme, it is too bright.
I've had enough of dark theme, it is too dark.
I fell in love with the sepia colour scheme available on wikipedia and firefox reader mode.

Beige background, brown icons, black text.

Desktop environment should just allow you to customise your colour scheme like android does with material you, choosing a background and highlight colour yourself instead of bland boring binary dark and light.


https://redd.it/1lnawxe
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My Linux survived where Windows died

TLDR: Modern Linux drivers and hardware compatibility are not as finicky as some people say.

My government keeps trying to break our energy system to goodbye; a recent malfunction of power mains fried my old PC's PSU and motherboard but the drive fortunately survived. I bought a slightly more recent system on the local flea market (i5-7400 instead of the old i7-3770K) for the whole whopping €70 and plugged the drive into it. The drive had both Windows 10 and Fedora 42 KDE installed.

The outcome: Fedora picked up the new hardware like nothing happened but Windows is stuck on "getting devices ready" forever. Guess it's time to reclaim the Windows partition.

Great job, Fedora and Linux in general. I had to tell it someone and decided to do it here because where else, right.

https://redd.it/1lndntz
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Built a tool to sync Obsidian notes across devices without subnoscriptions or Git commands

As someone who spends a lot of time on Linux and likes to take notes in Obsidian, I found syncing notes across multiple devices frustrating. I distro hop often, and making sure my notes are updated everywhere without paying for Obsidian Sync or fiddling with Git commands became a problem I wanted to solve.

So I built Ogresync, a free and open-source tool that handles syncing your Obsidian vault automatically using GitHub in the background. Instead of opening Obsidian directly, you launch Ogresync, which syncs your vault, opens Obsidian, and then pushes your changes after you finish editing. There’s no need to remember Git commands or worry about merge conflicts.

I know there are plugins that do something similar, but they often expect users to be comfortable with Git. I wanted a solution that just works out of the box, even for people who don’t want to deal with version control.

I’d really appreciate feedback from fellow Linux users. How do you sync your notes right now? Does this approach make sense or is there something you’d want it to do differently?

You can find the project here if you’d like to try it out or give suggestions:
https://github.com/AbijithBalaji/Ogresync

https://redd.it/1lnh4jy
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Software to format a book

Dear reddit people,

My grandma is writing a book on her familys' history.
I, being the computer literate grandchild, am task with formatting and diagramming the book. Unfortunately, the only software I know for that is Microsoft Publisher and Canva. Anyone know a Foss alternative for those?

Thanks

(I don't know if formatting is the right word for that, nor diagramming. I mean turning plain text into a nice looking pdf with well positioned images that can be printed into a book)

https://redd.it/1lngyhb
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What is the most compatible online file storage service?

My use case is not uncommon (I think). I need I file sharing service that works flawlessly across all my devices running windows, osx and Linux. Linux is my main driver but I do require easy access to files in the other devices.

By easy access I mean: it needs to be integrated into the file system and accessible through the file manager.

A long time ago I used Dropbox, and the desktop application worked quite well on Linux. Then I switched to Gdrive and got really slammed in the face with the “there’s not really a desktop app for this, sorry - not sorry.

So, which is the best service for Linux users that want compatibility with the rest of the world?

https://redd.it/1lnljrn
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Linux Lenovo issues with WIFI and Bluetooth after Updating

Hello guys,
in the last months I got many issues after Updating my Linux System with WIFI and Bluetooth and I want to share my experience to help you out if u got the same issue. I personally found not much about this topic that could help me, therefore u got this to help.

I use Fedora on a new Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 AMD

At fresh install and not after several months I faced the same Issue that after an update of the system WIFI und Bluetooth disappears. Only after I got in sleep Mode and login again just bluetooth shows up. After a restart nothing shows up again.

The issue was, that die BIOS got an Update as well. It seems Lenovo + Linux + Qualcomm got several issues after an BIOS Update.

To solve the issue in my case I got to the Lenovo Support site and downloaded the ISO File of the latest BIOS. This Version was two months older than the Version I got installed automatically. I flashed this to my USB and updated the BIOS to the older version. Now my WIFI and Bluetooth works again.

If u got the same issue and Google can´t help I hope u see this and maybe is solves your issue as well.

Have a great day guys!

https://redd.it/1lnkpa3
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Recommended DEs that aren't as common

I'd like to know what everyone's recommendation is for a DE/WM that not everyone may know about or often consider. Anything that isn't KDE, GNOME, or any super common WMs like Hyprland or Sway. These may not be considered very common, but I'd like to hear thoughts on Budgie and Cutefish, I was looking at them and they look neat but what do you guys think? What do you use?

https://redd.it/1lnp3u6
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"colormatrix". A very colored cmatrix close that uses a random array of colors.
https://redd.it/1lns8om
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Is void linux in active development, and if so where on that scale?

I used it in the past, and loved it, but I remember reading that the lead or main developer left, I think. I see that it's still technically in active development but does that mean they are just barely keeping up or enough resources to make big advances, or somewhere in between. An example to make my point is Redox OS. It's initial release was 10 years ago. It still seems to be in "active" development, but it has yet to reach an official 1.0 release. Side note, I hope it does before it is surpassed by other projects with more developmental for me and I assume most at this point.

I guess, it's a multipart question or just lots of related questions.

1. Why is it so far down on distrowatch list now?

2. Does it have enough active development resources to not only to keep pace with advancements, but even continue to make some or is too resource to be all but a fringe distro rather than a daily driver without allot of issues popping up that are more natural to developmental, pre-release version?

Please, these are honest questions, that I don't feel I have the answer to. Please keep answers civil, non-defensive/combative. Hoping that people more "in the know" and/or have kept up better, might have a better understanding.




https://redd.it/1lnme1y
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Donate More by Donating Less (further explanation from Steve Deobald)
https://redd.it/1lnxslo
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Donate More by Donating Less
https://redd.it/1lo0x5p
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Fedora: Proposal for the removal of i686 withdrawn
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/400

https://redd.it/1lo1w8e
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My Linux journey so far

I started with Manjaro like 10 years ago and used it for a few months and then switched back to windows, tried ubuntu and a few others and then forgot about linux for many years, at the start if the year i started checking distros out again, i started with mint for nearly a month and it was ok, then i went to arch and i liked it but i don't have that much time to configure a lot of things ( even tho its pretty fun and i do enjoy it but i don't have time to fix things ) so i went to manjaro and yeah i really liked it ( i am biased as it is the one i used many years ago ) it had customization and i didnt find many bugs and i really liked it but then got on reddit and saw everyone hates it and saying endeavour is better and the manjaro team is poopy so i will give it a try starting today ( my favorite one was arch but i found myself breaking it every other day and reinstalling it again and i don't have much time for it, i 100% prefer arch based distros and maybe one day i'll go full arch if i find the time ( or not, depends how endeavour goes )



https://redd.it/1lo27j5
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Choosing a Linux Distro | Beginner's Guide to Linux
https://peertube.wtf/w/2YMD28yy1aAPGZZmYnmpZ1

https://redd.it/1lo3f0e
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After nine years, Ninja has merged support for the GNU Make jobserver
https://thebrokenrail.com/2025/06/30/ninja-jobserver.html

https://redd.it/1lo4kev
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Here is My 3D Pool Simulator for Linux
https://github.com/sysrpl/Raylib.4.0.Pascal/blob/master/examples/table/README.md

https://redd.it/1lo65wi
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a network kill switch based on a user's data usage

i just wanted to know if this idea is even worth making or not .

rough sketch of the final product


let me know what can i add in it as a functionality .

and also about the user interface should it be terminal based or something else , thanks





https://redd.it/1lo2uxd
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Da vinci lag?
https://redd.it/1lo9zwl
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At what age did you guys instal Linux?

Hi guys! A reel I saw on Instagram made me notice that a lot of people installed their first Linux distro when they were 12, I also installed it when I was 12 (Ubuntu 10), so I was generally curious on this, at what age did you install Linux? And why?

https://redd.it/1lolpeb
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AerynOS: Mid-year update
https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/06/30/mid-year-update/

https://redd.it/1lonjn2
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