I was wondering if this is cursed in the Linux community?
https://redd.it/1luh7w3
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Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/

https://redd.it/1luk7x7
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Lossless Scaling Frame Generation has been ported to Linux
https://videocardz.com/newz/lossless-scaling-frame-generation-has-been-ported-to-linux

https://redd.it/1lukj67
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Bash 5.3 Released
https://lwn.net/Articles/1029079/

https://redd.it/1luk1u4
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Gosuki: a privacy friendly, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxrzR4cHgmI

https://redd.it/1lukowz
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I've updated the experimental Windows -> Linux Installer. It can now install Kubuntu as well as Linux Mint.

Edit: The program is Linux installer for Windows that doesn't require a USB stick.


Updates:

\-Checksum verification.

\-Bootable partition added towards the end of C: drive instead of in the beginning of the freed up space.

\-Added Kubuntu and set it to default.

\-Program is now a Powershell noscript as opposed to .exe to avoid being falsely identified as malware by windows defender.

\-Added instructions for creating a persistent installation after booting the live partition.

Program can be found here: Windows -> Linux Installer

Thanks again for your interest!

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Just wanted to give a shoutout to xournal++

I am in the process of disowning windows from my laptop and I am just so grateful that I found xournal++. I had to find an alternative to OneNote~Acrobat and I stumbled upon xournal++ and it was just what I was looking for. A simple working tool, with that I can write with my pen onto pdfs. I need it for my studies. Maybe you are looking for something like that to, and I can share my joy over it. Enjoy linux!

https://redd.it/1luqtmh
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Bottles Needs You: A Transparent Look at the Project’s Future
https://usebottles.com/posts/2025-07-06-bottles-need-help/

https://redd.it/1luwas9
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I’m ready to free myself from Windows jail.

I’ve landed on ZorinOS Core as my new Linux distro.

Any advice when it comes too optimisation? I’ll be looking to use the OS for browsing, gaming, streaming… basically an all purpose experience.

I understand that “bottles” is a good software too make it easier migrating from Windows, since i get use my windows setups.

But again… I’m technically a noob too Linux in general so any tips would go a long way! :)

https://redd.it/1luz2e1
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I FINALLY listened to you and tried Linux... Why did I wait so long?
https://youtu.be/Sa8nMiEoti0?si=78Hn5n5MmWa6bzcK

https://redd.it/1lv6szg
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Just got this from Amazon because it looks cool, but idk what it means exactly. Do anyone know what it means?
https://redd.it/1lvalm3
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Amarok 3.3 "Far Above the Clouds" released!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/08/amarok-3.3-far-above-the-clouds-released/

https://redd.it/1lvchth
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Encrypted Laptop SSD

Currently I'm configuring a new Laptop. For safety reasons I want my new Laptop to use a fully encrypted Linux (Ubuntu or Mint) because of handling more and more sensitive Information and also potentially traveling to places outside of Europe where privacy isn't really guaranteed by the state.

Now I'm researching M2 SSDs to upgrade (bought a refurbished 3 years old one for sustainability reasons) and my question is whether an SSD with Hardware based encryption makes a performance difference in a fully encrypted system or not?

https://redd.it/1lvemna
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Choppy YouTube playback
https://redd.it/1lvftki
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Have you used this CLI tool before? Probably a better version of uname?
https://redd.it/1lvhydg
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Lossless Scaling frame gen on Linux gets some help from the original dev, next 3 steps outlined by creator
https://www.pcguide.com/news/lossless-scaling-frame-gen-on-linux-gets-some-help-from-the-original-dev-next-3-steps-outlined-by-creator/

https://redd.it/1lvjnuz
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systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
https://blog.tjll.net/the-systemd-revolution-has-been-a-success/

https://redd.it/1lvlxy9
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Evolution Mail Users Easily Trackable
https://www.grepular.com/Evolution_Mail_Users_Easily_Trackable

https://redd.it/1lvqhjy
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Cosmic DE on Arch Linux - my current setup. Definitely worth trying out

https://preview.redd.it/krb21jbu5xbf1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=40c8fa6727f53a84743fdfafb98fa6b51636253c

Back to Linux after 10 yrs. Decided to try out new KDE Plasma, Hyprland and Cosmic DE.

Cosmic was very positive surprise and it's still in alpha stage. Love it so far. I plan to run it as daily driver to see how stable it is.

Took some time to setup on laptop (mostly power management stuff) but so far so good.

AMA regarding setting it up. Definitely can give some tips.

https://redd.it/1lvvkmx
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Wayback has moved to FreeDesktop.org

Wayback has moved to FreeDesktop.org. Hopefully this means good things for the project.

The point of Wayback is to provide a stub/minimal Wayland compositor so that you can run a full X11 desktop on a rootful XWayland server. "Rootful" in this context means that the XServer owns the root window.

This way, if the project works out, you can continue to use your favorite X11 desktop or WM without any extra work on the distributions' part to support a standalone X Server. XWayland is going to be around for a long long time in my estimation.

https://redd.it/1lw25m1
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Planning a LuCI Port from UCI to MGMT - Day 1

There are a lot of parallels between OpenWRT's uci and PurpleIdea's mgmt. They are both used for state management of the OS.

One major difference is that mgmt lacks a UI counterpart.

Instead of designing a whole UI from the ground up, I am going to try to recycle LuCI by swapping out uci for mgmt.

I'm hoping that this will give the networking community more options than being stuck between OpenWRT and pfSense/OPNSense and allow you to easily implement firewalls with any OS that can support mgmt.

# Work so far:

My first 2 objectives are:
- Rip uci out and replace it with mgmt
- Gain a more in-depth understanding of luci's internals

## Hurdle 1: Unraveling the Lua Spaghetti:

LuCI is quite large. She doesn't have the worst spaghetti code, but there is an existing amount of it. We need to unravel this small mess and identify where Lua interops/binds onto uci.

I believe the primary uci interop lives in luci/modules/luci-lua-runtime/luasrc/model/uci.lua

Conveniently, luci uses an old Lua version (pre-5.2), and actively uses module calls throughout the project. Their modules are also uniform across lua and c modules. To locate them, we can just use their string names (i.e. "luci.util") and that will give us results for both relevant C code and Lua code.

## Hurdle 2: Understanding the C Code:

OpenWRT's C code is relatively straightforward and lightweight. However, the build system is a bit of a spaghetti mess (as most low level build systems are). Taking a look around you will notice that a lot of the C code is bundled in directories with some makefiles of extremely consistent structure.

These makefiles are made using the LuCI templates: https://github.com/openwrt/luci/wiki/Modules

These makefiles don't reveal a whole lot about the intended build system. It appears that knowing that the build system is the OpenWRT build system is to be assumed. I did make some doc changes in the wiki to make this more obvious:
- https://github.com/openwrt/luci/wiki/Installation/history

When reviewing LuCI you may see references to a "buildroot." This seems to be a non-standard, but widely adopted term for wherever you cloned the OpenWRT repository to (the repository itself is effectively the build system). I believe this practice was adopter from OpenWRT's wiki (but I am not sure):
- https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem#detailsfordownloadingsources

## Hurdle 3: Scoping OpenWRT's Build System Down:

OpenWRT's build system is quite large and designed primarily for the OpenWRT OS as a whole. I don't believe the entire thing is used by LuCI. I need to narrow down any parts of LuCI/OpenWRT's build system to just what is applicable to building my port. Preferably, I need to find something that can be used directly in my port without having to rewrite it. From what I've read so far, this may be a possibility, but not guarantee.

If it is possible, I will need to use raw commit links and not head links when I get around to writing a build noscript that would pull it. This would allow me to offload maintaining said noscript to OpenWRT while ensuring any changes they make don't immediately propagate and break my project (technically, my port would be out of scope for OpenWRT, so breakage is a significant risk)

## Hurdle 4: Naming

Small hurdle. I'm going to call my project LuMI - Lua Management Interface or Lua mgmt Interface (a play on LuCI which is Lua Configuration Interface)

I will be pushing my work here: https://github.com/project-laguardia/lumi

https://redd.it/1lvz088
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