Confession: I would switch to Linux immediately, but speaker sound quality on my laptop is keeping me off

I tried several distros already Mint, KDE neon, Fedora, Ubuntu... but I always keep coming back to windows.

I am only a laptop user and my speaker sound is terrible, it´s almost unusable. It´s completely quiet and empty/tiny. I tried everything, there are no drivers, there is no easyeffects presets that would work somewhat properly... nothing else is missing and it might be nitpicking, but it´s really annoying. can´t watch movies, shows, yotube or listen to music.

My laptop is HP Elitebook x360 1030 G2 with Bang&Olufsen speakers if anyone could offer any help on this. Currently no Linux installed.

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Out of These 5 Linux Tweaks, Only zRAM and Swappiness Felt Like They Made a Real Difference
https://youtu.be/VEh4oqUATHo

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RHEL 10/LSA

Hey All;

Does anyone have any tips on how to get the LsiSASH service to start on RHEL 10? I have the most recent version for the card, SAS3408. I've also tried to enable logging using both the normal method, and rsyslog to see why the service fails to start, but in both cases, no logs are created. Anyone have any thoughts/input?

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I installed antiX linux on my laptop and facing an issue:

The cpu speed stops at max 0.34Ghz due to some water spillage near the charging port and my option was to either use it as it is or risk repairing the mobo on the condition that it might get dead. On AntiX, my laptop suddenly shuts down or restarts randomly, what might be the reason? i have installed antiX as the primary and sole os on my ssd, havent yet connected to internet. what are all the tweaks and settings I need to do (privacy and low cpu usage priority)? TIA!

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What are your most commonly used helpful command line tools that might be lesser known?

Here are some I use:
tldr - usually has the info I'm looking for quickly available instead of reading through the whole man page
bat - cat with syntax highlighting
fuck - I suck at typing

Idk if these are super unheard of but I never really see anyone talk about them. Y'all got any more you'd like to add? I'm interested to see what other people have found useful

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rewindtty - tiny terminal session recorder
https://github.com/rewindtty/rewindtty

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Opportunity to work with the kernel filesystem, as the maintainer calls for assistance. EXT4 BUG converted to feature
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250806144650.GA778805@mit.edu/

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whispertux - simple GUI for offline speech-to-text

Hi all - I got tired of typing out prompts while developing so I made a simple python GUI around OpenAI's whisper model.

It uses whisper.cpp which supports running the model locally on a plain x86 laptop without a GPU.

I've tested it on GNOME / Ubuntu. It should be usable in other setups but ymmv.

Here's the link if you're interested - https://github.com/cjams/whispertux

Contributions welcome!

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It's always a permissions issue!

My wife asked me to print something from my Arch Linux laptop, and they wouldn't print. We were under a time crunch for an appointment later that day, so she printed it from her phone or Mac, I'm not sure which. I've been so busy with the kids and family life that I don't have time to fiddle with this stuff anymore, at least not lately.

I finally got some time yesterday, and realized my user lost membership in the cups and lp groups. I added those groups, re-enabled the printer, and both jobs printed!

homectl really needs the option like usermod -a for appending to the group list....

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just got ubuntu on my macbook pro

hello everyone! im new to ubuntu linux and linux in general, and im looking for tips, and fun customization stuff. I just got ubuntu on my 2012 macbook pro, because sequoia made it really really slow. It took me 30 minutes to get wifi working because of the drivers lol. thanks everyone, i hope i can stick with linux, probably will! loving it so far.

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How-to: Disable indentation of wrapped text in Kate

tl;dr: Settings -> Configure Kate -> Appearance -> General -> (Scroll way down) Indent Wrapped Lines

I made the switch to Kate from a closed source editor a while back. For the most part, I've had no complaints. However, like most things KDE, I find that I feel that the settings fight me. The setting above disables a purely cosmetic indentation that is distracting and unhelpful to me.

HOWEVER, Kate has an entire 'Indentation' tab in its settings with zero reference to the above setting. This is simply a side-effect of KDE's 'all the customization you could want' ethos. It makes web searches for the issue almost impossible since any result is inevitably about code indentation and wrapping.

I worked this out simply by merit of exhausting every search result a few months ago, and then forgot to write the damn thing down.

One of the beauties of the open source ethos is that you can document your own problems and solutions to them. So when I went to set up Kate on another computer, refinding the solution to this problem in the process, I decided to document it here since KDE's documentation doesn't seem to mention it at all. (I'd love for someone to show me that I missed it.)

I hope that in the future, when some other poor person decides that the weird text indentation is too much, they happen across this post in their search results rather than the hundreds of bad results I waded through.

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What do these things run on
https://redd.it/1mjunzw
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Tux has fallen on hard times
https://redd.it/1mjw0oe
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patchmon : Linux Patch Monitoring software opensource

I've had an issue where I wanted something self-hosted, clean and simple to monitor my linux servers update status.


Current working features:

Dashboard on hosts summary / status
Easily register hosts with the app
View and search for packages that have been installed


Planned features:

Authentication improvements : Each host to authenticate via unique api credentials to patchmon
Ability to add Clients, Locations and host groups so that hosts can be associated to them
PDF Report generation of single host or group of hosts


This will be opensource and I will be releasing by the 1st of September.

I'm open to people who want to give me feature requests and contribute to the app - It's written in Next JS for both the backend and frontend.


Open to ideas, constructive criticism and security ideas / features.

No ports on the host need to be opened as the hosts will push the collected information to patchmon (either self-hosted or we will offer a cloud hosted one for a small fee).


https://patchmon.net/ to register on the wait list


Thanks team :)

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PULS - A Modern Terminal System Monitor
https://redd.it/1mjy0lp
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FFmpeg is switching development from mailing list to Git forge "Forgejo"
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg

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Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone's entire storage
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-terminal-disk-resize-3546144/

https://redd.it/1mk0jir
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Bring compiz fusion back!
https://redd.it/1mk18sw
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BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and other companies from the automotive industry have agreed on pre-competitive cooperation in software development on an open source basis.
https://www.electrive.com/2025/06/25/automotive-industry-launches-alliance-for-software-development/

https://redd.it/1mk2qj3
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EasyEffects: My Quest to Goldilock-Sound Stage. My Girlfriend Left Me, But it Was Worth It
https://redd.it/1mjz3b7
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Linux Text Editors You Should Know About
https://linuxblog.io/50-linux-text-editors/

https://redd.it/1mk0gfd
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