KDE Haruna video player is surprisingly good after years with smplayer

I've been using smplayer for the last 10 years, it was an ok replacement for PotPlayer when I switched away from Windows, over time I got used to its quirks and it did most of what I wanted, but unfortunately it has a tendency to break with updates.

Rotating videos worked on and off. And for the last few years it just became unresponsive for the first 5 seconds after loading a video. After last smplayer or mpv update broke the aspect ratio of rotated videos, I started looking for alternatives.

VLC doesn't have all the features. QMPlay2 is closer but isn't as customizable and wasn't stable for me.

And then I stumbled on Haruna and it's just... perfect.

Performance is much better than smplayer, no issues with rotating video and aspect ratio according to metadata. It took me 10 minutes to rebind all the keyboard shortcuts to the same ones smplayer uses via a familiar UI. And it has all the features I want, autoloading files from a directory into a playlist, single instance, adjusting speed via keyboard, screenshots, zoom, per-frame navigation, subnoscripts support... The only thing missing so far is an OSD with video technical details (resolution, code, bit-rate).

I never heard Haruna mentioned before, and it's surprisingly powerful. Kudos to George Florea Banus and other contributors.

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Rewordle lets you play all the Worlde words from the beginning in the terminal (written in Crumb, offering prebuilt Linux binaries)
https://github.com/ronilan/rewordle

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Found the linux penguin at a store
https://redd.it/1mi1drt
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Interesting slide from microsoft
https://redd.it/1mi110h
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Canonical finally upstreams apparmor patch
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-AppArmor

https://redd.it/1mi2d9q
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Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Hash-Pointers

https://redd.it/1mi784m
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IF you dualboot with Windows, how often and why do you boot into Windows?

I keep Windows 11 installed for those (more and more rare) times that I just can't figure out how to do or run something in Linux. Typically it's just my GPU glitching out in Linux that forces me to consider booting into Windows. What I mean is, when I'm experiencing crashes in Blender, sometimes I boot into Windows, load the same file up, and I don't get the same annoying crash in Blender, for whatever reason.

Other than that, I haven't used Windows for anything in the past year, even for gaming, or video conferencing for work. And every stinking time I need to get into Windows, there are forced updates waiting to be installed.

I'm getting to the point where I think I'm ready to completely nuke my Windows install and go 100% with Linux. Fedora 42 is completely stable, no glitching, all my hardware works, all default drivers, nothing broken. (Well, except my 8-year-old Microsoft Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint ID which doesn't have a BT pairing button. For that one edge case I have to copy the bt keys from windows registry and import them in Linux to get it working. But I am annoyed about it enough that I'll probably just go get a different wireless keyboard.)

Anyone else in a similar situation? Any similar/different experiences?

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[niri] ~ DankMaterialShell is born - A modern Wayland Shell for niri ~
https://redd.it/1mic3cx
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Capture scrolling screenshot in Linux?

Hello. I'm using KDE on Fedora and CachyOS. I want to capture a scrolliing screenshot, i.e a screenshot of an entire long webpage as one image in any of the tools in Linux. Is this possible?

I already tried Spectacle, a default screenshot tool and it did not work. Any ideas on how to capture such long screenshots of web pages is much appreciated.

https://redd.it/1mifk8d
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Suggestions for some tools

Hi everyone. I'm using linux from some months, i've tried differents distros, but i prefer Debian/Ubuntu. Now i'm using Ubuntu.
But i came from Windows, and i have these request:
1) DE that allows me to switch between dofferents virtual desktops, for example, desktop 1 android studio with a project and desktop 2 with another android studio project.
2) peogress bar windows such as Windows, for example copy and paste progressi bar.

Thanks in andvance

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Should I switch over to a Linux-Based software for College?

I'm starting my 1st year of undergraduate college, and I've been trying around with the idea of switching my laptop to a Linux based system.

This idea comes from what I've heard about it, the fact that it's basis is one of configuration. This is why I, for example, use Firefox as my main browser since I love just how easy it is to personalize or why I use ObsidianMD for my notes/DMing/writing since there's pretty much an endless fountain of customization for both.

I am also not a complete stranger about Linux, as my previous computer(may he rest in piece), was a chromebook that I may or may not have used to non-school related programs, but for that to work I needed to run .exes, which isn't native to ChromeOS, so that's how I was introduced to Linux through Penguin and used it to use Wine. I have also owned a Steamdeck for a few years now so I'm also a bit used to that version of a Linux software as well.

For any extra info that may be important:
- I am going into Communicative Sciences and Disorders
- I am currently using a fairly dinky Intel laptop running Windows
- My college of choice does have some support for Linux systems

https://redd.it/1miggm8
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Was "processor family" option removed from menuconfig in kernel 6.15 and up?

I recently tried to compile kernel with patches to CPU architecture, but on kernel 6.15 and 6.16 I couldn't find the "processor family" option on "processor type and features" menu. I tried it with 6.12 like I did recently and everything was in its place.

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VM of Choice for running Windows on a Linux host?

I recently asked the community about dual booting Linux + Windows and got a lot of great responses. Many people said they run Windows in a VM for those edge cases that they can't use Linux. That got me thinking... I've tried to get VMs working satisfactorily on my computer several times in the past. I'm always very underwhelmed by the performance, to the point that the issues are best avoided by just dual booting anyway.

So, I'm curious about people using Windows 11 in a VM. What VM software are you using?

I've tried VirtualBox, QEMU, and VMWare with less than stellar performance. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Each VM software I've tried is pretty challenging (or impossible maybe) to get running at sufficient performance levels to justify not just dualbooting. They still consume storage space even when configured as sparse/expandable. And there's exactly zero hardware acceleration, even when trying to get passthrough to work, which only does if the device isn't already being used by the host.

I'm using a 5900X + 6900XT w/ 32G RAM, so I always figured I'd be able to allocate at least 8 cores and 16GB RAM when I need to use a VM. But it just feels slow and wonky.

https://redd.it/1mio4tg
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Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC
https://news.opensuse.org/2025/08/04/leap-16-rc/

https://redd.it/1minj1s
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StarDict plugins on Debian 13 leak selected X11 text over HTTP to remote servers

StarDict plugins on Debian 13 leak selected X11 text over HTTP to Chinese dictionary services, exposing potentially sensitive data.

I have not seen a lot more about this and am not even sure how much StarDict is even used. But I just wanted people to be aware. This is not my article or site.

https://linuxiac.com/stardict-plugins-in-debian-13-raise-privacy-concerns/



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Adding Text to Your Ebitengine Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUX3nXdkWBU

https://redd.it/1mit8ks
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How to get Zona running?
https://redd.it/1miu1l7
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Is the Clear Linux Kernel still worth running?

What it says on the tin. Is the Clear Linux kernel still worth running, or will any potential performance increases by outweighed by the need for kernel feature & security updates?

I noticed Garuda offers it still in their list of kernels, & I thought I'd ask. The machine in question is a Dell Inspiron 5570 with an Intel i3-8130U.

https://redd.it/1mix2u1
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Proxmox VE (open source server virtualization management solution based on QEMU/KVM and LXC) 9.0
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_9.0

https://redd.it/1mixlh6
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Brokefetch revived(ish)

I forked and revived Brokefetch – now on Homebrew 🍺🐧

Hey everyone, I recently forked and revived an old project called Brokefetch — a humorous, minimalist alternative to neofetch that gives you your system info with a healthy dose of existential dread.

I’ve packaged it for Homebrew (macOS/Linux), so now you can install it easily with:

brew tap T1mohtml/brokefetch
brew install brokefetch

Once installed, just run brokefetch in your terminal. It’ll display your system info — OS, kernel, shell, RAM, etc. — but with some dark humor sprinkled in. It’s basically the fetch noscript for when life’s a bit too real. 🥲

Whether you're broke, broken, or just bored, this is a fun little tool to throw in your dotfiles or screenshots.

GitHub: https://github.com/T1mohtml/brokefetch

Let me know what you think!

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We should have more of this on the Linux desktop
https://redd.it/1mj0zrp
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