systemd v258 has been released
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v258

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Wayland Compositors RAM Usage Comparison
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GNOME 49, released !

Release notes that go into very nice detail around all of the GNOME 49 changes: https://release.gnome.org/49/

GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10.

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Firefox 143 for Android now with DoH
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/dns-android/

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With all these supply chain attacks going on (such as NPM), are Linux Desktop users safe?

I recently heard of all all these recent supply chain attacks that have been going on. I want to know if us desktop linux users will be safe or not, and if there are any particular distros be watch out for (or at least be more careful on).

I personally use CachyOS (so if anything I'd probably be more at risk on this since it's a rolling release distro).

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Blender CEO Announced His Decision to Step Down After Over 30 Years
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Operese - Windows-to-Linux migration tool that's now open-source!
https://youtu.be/4YUkD5oslmc

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Should I delete my windows partition?
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Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Perf

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This subreddit is being overrun with posts about moving from windows. The mods should consider a megathread or weekly post to consolidate this content.

I can't be the only one who's noticed that over the past year and change, there has been a lot of interest in linux on the desktop. Whether that's because of Windows 10 EOL, the ongoing headaches associated with Windows 11, the growth of this subreddit, or something else, as a result there are now multiple posts per day about some variation of "windows sucks / moving to linux is like drinking the nectar of the gods / I can't go back to windows anymore (because it sucks)" etc. etc.

in my opinion, after you've seen a few of these, you've seen them all, and as a result it's really boring and bad content for the subreddit. personally, i'd prefer if there was less of it, but i understand that people like posting about their move to linux.

a nice compromise would be to create a daily or weekly pinned megathread where people can talk about moving from windows to linux, or their newbie linux "journey" or whatever.

All subreddits are on the path to eternal september. lets take a few steps backwards.

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Bluefin LTS Released (Bluefin + CentOS Stream)
https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-lts-ga/

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Today is Plasma 6.5 Beta test day (1)! Tester needed!
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.90/

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My first submission!!!!
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What kernel should I use?

Seeing the invasive actions by Microsoft in windows 11 I would like to switch to Linux. I am not very experienced with computer science as a whole but I’ve installed windows a couple times. Is there a kernel that comes with enough features off the bat to work and game? (Am I using kernel right?)

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Update on grub screen issue.

Continuation of previous post.

Finnaly i managed to get into bios and i deleted the linux boot manager from boot sequence and kept windows boot manager on first, i think now iam fine.

Thanks for the comments, support and advices



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What is happening in torvalds linux source tree?
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Locked OS
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How does one become good at things

How are people who know linux to some level they can do something learn it and How do they master it , not that just let it be any programming language , cybersecurity...
How do they do it is it just that they started early or is it some magic
I request you to share some advice to a 19 yo kid studying cs but I am just confused about stuff and kind of depressed that people are good and some stuff and I am not and have wasted time so far.


Edit : thank you all who took time to share some advice . I will remember this and thanks again

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Kernel 6.17 File-System Benchmarks. Including: OpenZFS & Bcachefs

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-617-filesystems

"Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what's powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today's article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too".

"... So tested for this article were":

\- Bcachefs
\- Btrfs
\- EXT4
\- F2FS
\- OpenZFS
\- XFS

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Any designers in here?

I'm a web designer and developer, and I'm considering switching to Linux, from macOS.

From what I was able to check, I believe the only app I wouldn't be able to easily port to Linux is Sketch—that's only for macOS.

I don't want to use Adobe products—and frankly I don't even know if they're available for Linux—and I never used Figma (browser-based), but wouldn't say no to it.

How are you designers doing on Linux? What are you using?

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Which music app are you using?

Most of my favorite artists are removing their art from Spotify so i have to find an alternative ( i use spicefy so i listen to music or free) but now i need an alternative.
Which music desktop app is free and smooth and has good UI for most Linux distros? ( I use cachyOS btw)

Edit: I should have been more clear, I'm looking for streaming music,not downloading it!

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