DXVK 2.7.1 released
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.7.1

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This Week in Plasma: Saved clipboard items and tablet touch rings
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/30/this-week-in-plasma-saved-clipboard-items-and-tablet-touch-rings/

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Kernel on a slot machine at my local grocery store
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Linux for Mobile

With Google turning into Apple and trying to kill sideloading of apps, does anybody know of any Linux distros that work for Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy phones? I don't use the phone for a lot, mostly just calling, messenger and the like. I look forward to all your responses, and thank you for the help!

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xterm-nvim a neovim terminal wrapper release 0.1.0 is out!
https://github.com/eylles/xterm-nvim

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What’s the deal with these flashy setups?

Been on Linux for years—Ubuntu, RHEL, servers, Docker, plain terminals. Lately I see people with cool socratic GNOME, colored shells, 3D icons, and wallpapers. What are they using? it look super fancy ngl

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Why are all Linux phones so bad?

I really want to have a phone that runs full GNU/Linux, but the specs on stuff like Pinephone or Librem are laughable compared to Android phones, even the budget ones. 3GB RAM? Really? Mali SoC? WTF?! How about a Snapdragon? Why are the Linux phones so bad?

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Battery Drainage
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I just ran sudo rm -rf ~ by mistake.

I've been using linux since 2002 and it's the first time I've done anything like this. I thought it was essentially impossible and anyone who did it is dumb. I guess the egg is on my face!

I may be cooked? Wish me luck!

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Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
https://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

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Do you use disk encryption? Why? Why not?

Context:

\- I set up a new raspberry pi and while setting up, i stumpled upon the question of security on a shared device

\- During research, I noticed that even when you set a password, your file repository can be read, including the stored keys of your browser

\- To prevent that, you would need to encrypt your disk (that's different from just using a password for your user)


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So, how do you do it? Do you encrypt your disk? Do you enter the password twice then on boot or do did you configure auto login after decryption?

I might set up my Fedora + Rasp Pi new with it enabled, I assume it can be easily set up during installation?

How do you handle it?

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Starting computer science

Next year I'm gonna be in 10th grade and we're learning computer science, specifically c#. We will be using Visual studio 2019/2022 (not sure). At home I'm using a laptop with fedora kde. What software should I use to continue my work at home?

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Give me some noscripting projects for practice please!

Hey all! I've been enrolled in a cyber security class since July of this year. I've since learned networking essentials, cybersecurity essentials, Linux essentials, and obtained my isc2 CC a few days ago, while I'm still working towards my splunk core user and CompTIA CySA+. On this journey so far the one thing I enjoyed a lot was working with Linux. I liked it so much I switched on a spare machine and got an Lpi Linux essentials exam voucher, however I was a bit gung ho and took the exam too soon, thus failing. That didn't discourage me though and I've been tinkering since in Linux.

I understand man pages, the cat command, creating directories and user accounts as well as assigning group roles and permissions, use of the passwd and shadow directories as well as Wireshark and nmap. One area I knew I suffered in ok the LPI exam was noscripting and task automation. So I've recently been brushing up on noscripting with a Linux learning YouTube course. Up to this point I have a pretty good understanding of some basics like using if, then, else in nano (currently watching/learning while loops), the use of variables and exit codes.

With all that being said I'm just looking for some fun ideas ( I don't want anyone to tell me HOW to do it, just what task I should try to automate) to practice and hone my bash noscripting skills. I'm not looking for instructions because I want to suffer through pain points and figure things out because for me that has been the best path to learning. But if anyone has little bits of wisdom they'd like to impart in general I'm glad to hear it. I've been rigorously trying to learn as much as possible with the goal of eventually being skilled enough for an ethical hacking role and then continue learning into the abyss from there lol. Looking forward to hearing anything from you guys. Sorry for the long winded post, just wanted to provide some background.

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My Xlibre testing experience

Been running Debian with KDE Plasma since not long ago. I’ve run Debian with Xfce for the longest of time, might go back, who knows; I love desktop Linux, but sometimes it feels like it’s slowly trying to ruining itself by trying to mimick Windows. Wayland is the glaring example of that, I stick with Xorg because it just works flawlessly on my Ryzen + AMD laptop. Out of curiosity, I decided to try Xlibre.

I wanted to jump on it right away, but I’m too software conservative to compile bleeding-edge stuff just for kicks. So I waited until someone packaged it. When it finally landed for Debian 12 via https://github.com/xlibre-deb/debian, I installed it, rebooted (wasn’t necessary, I just did it for good measure)… and absolutely nothing changed. The X process still had the same name. No new bugs, no new features. Pinch-to-zoom on my touchscreen still worked. Basically identical. No changes, you would not known better it was exactly the same.

Then I upgraded Debian 12 to 13. Once again, nothing happened. Which, honestly, is simply awesome and kind of the whole point of Debian. It just worked. The system felt the same before and after, and I love that about Debian. Smooth, uneventful, stable to the point where it feels like the upgrade was almost imaginary.

And maybe that’s the real magic of Linux, sometimes the best thing that can happen… is nothing ever happening. Because trying to reinvent the wheel might cause lots of issues and wasted effort. https://pbs.twimg.com/tweetvideothumb/GuA9ctYWUAAcIGe.png

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image, gifs, videos, webcam to ascii art converter
https://redd.it/1n53dkv
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Childproof Linux distro

By that I mean you could put any well behaved child on a window computer (such as I at the time) who won't use administrative rights, and you'll hardly find ways of breaking the system.

(Now I remember bottlenecking the hard drive on windows XP but that's nothing a reboot or total data wipe could not fix)

Ideally I wish not to do much after the first booting, so I figured Reddit would have an answer

https://redd.it/1n51o6g
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In a world without legal disputes and hurt feelings, is there a good reason Windows and OS X can't just be Linux desktop environments?

I'm a programmer, and I understand there are almost always trade-offs being made no matter how you architect something, but Linux and OS X and Windows are all so similar for the end-user that I wanted to ask people who know a lot more about kernels and the current landscape of features: is there anything that Windows or OS X do that Linux fundamentally cannot do as well because of conflicting design under-the-hood?

It seems like all 3 major OS's support extremely similar use-cases, maybe with the exception of Linux container APIs? They all support daemons/services, pluggable file systems, very similar file system conventions and concepts, and as far as the end user is concerned, they support the same sorts of applications. Like if Microsoft just threw a ton of engineering effort into making Windows a beautifully optimized/polished Wayland-enabled Linux desktop environment, including polishing Wine to handle more edge-cases elegantly, would anything be lost? For example, does the Linux container API introduce substantial overhead to the Linux kernel in general regardless of whether you use it?

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AerynOS: August 2025 project update and new ISO
https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/62

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For Nvidia + Wayland users having rendering problems with Minecraft after resume from sleep...

I had a lot of rendering problems with Minecraft lately when optimizing my Nvidia GPU power management.

I use a hybrid GPU laptop which has a Intel and Nvidia GPU (Gigabyte G5 RTX 3050ti with propietary drivers) laptop and I want to have the maximum energy savings while still keeping performance.

The thing is, after tinkering for DAYS, I found up the culprit of every rendering problem happening when resuming from sleep with Nvidia GPU, it was not the nvidia GPU causing corrupted graphics on Minecraft, it was Minecraft's OPENGL.

I first noticed this when Vulkan games didnt crash but OpenGL did. Then I installed the Vulkan mod for fabric and DONE, Minecraft stopped corrupting graphics on resume for the nvidia propietary drivers.

Just install this and you are done, big kudos to the author: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/vulkanmod

Personal Note: I hope this gets into Sodium somehow, Vulkan must be standard as of now!

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Spotify playlists to YouTube mp3 download CLI/WebUI

I do not know who will find it helpful, but I made this in order to have Spotify playlists downloaded from YouTube. The final mp3 files are compatible and usable inside Serato/Traktor.


https://github.com/Maxsafer/spotify2mp3

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2026 - Year of the Linux Phone?

Okay, the noscript is tinged with a little sarcasm, but the sentiment is honest. I made a comment on a Linux mobile post about a month ago saying that we were one egregious, unpalatable announcement away from seeing real progress in mobile Linux. With Android’s recent announcement about killing side-loading, is this the opportunity Linux devs need to justify dedicating more resources to mobile Linux?

I have only been using linux for a bit over a year and I am interested to hear from the old-heads on this one. Linux is starting to (modestly) surge in popularity on the desktop/laptop side of things which I know has been years if not decades in the making.

With the current Linux landscape, is there any reason to expect Linux mobile to get increased attention, and if so when would be reasonable to expect mature software that could see wide uptake? From what I have found, it isn’t there yet but I do not have the knowledge to understand how far away this future may be.


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