Made a GUI tool to compress and deduplicate files on Btrfs in few clicks — packaged builds available
https://redd.it/1nraztg
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Gamer's Nexus and Level1 Techs: Adding Linux GPU Benchmarks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6tQYJSEMw

https://redd.it/1nrebb2
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The Cosmic & PopOS betas are here! Linux Weekly News (The Linux Experiment)
https://peertube.wtf/w/c72MBrfGuUwAEA221F7PHV

https://redd.it/1nrdgxt
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Hello World !
https://redd.it/1nrn4xy
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Last libxml2 maintainer wants to commercially fork
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/976#note_2531513

https://redd.it/1nrnwz0
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Just Wondering, How Many Of You Guys Transitioned To Linux After Being Annoyed By Windows Search As One Of The Reasons? What Was Your Major or Last Reason To Stop Using Windows?

I had used Linux from time to time, either dual boot or single. But that was for fun.

However, ever since a few months ago it has been counter productive to even use Microsoft own tools.

I haven't used Linux since I got a new laptop.

My only problem for now is I lack storage to dual boot, just in case I had to run some stuffs on Windows from time to time.

Just wondering how you guys went through these kind of experience.

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En Autriche, l'armée renonce à Microsoft Office
https://www.cio-online.com/actualites/lire-en-autriche-l-armee-renonce-a-microsoft-office-16563.html

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42 YEARS OF GNU - VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
https://redd.it/1nrudot
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Looking for a voice translator that translates things in voice out loud

Looking for a voice translator that allows me to listen to something in any language and have it translated it to me in any language but the software will say it in English out loud for example if I'm watching a show in Spanish I want to be able to translate what I'm listening to into English but I'm not talking about subnoscripts I'm talking about the software will speak out loud in the language that I'm listening to maybe there's a software where it will lower the volume of what I'm listening to and it will say it in English to make it easier to hear if there's no software like that maybe a browser extension I don't know.

I'm looking for something like this because I'm playing a game and a lot of the time I want to do other things while playing. I can't sit there and read subnoscripts while I'm playing a game that's like really hard but I can watch something in another language listen and hear what's going on and still play the game.

https://redd.it/1nrynyr
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Linux Driver Developer At Valve Preps More Patches For Improving AMD GCN 1.0 GPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-More-GCN-1.0-SI

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LibrePhone – a community-driven Linux OS for phones (project idea & call for contributors)



Hi



I’d like to share an idea I’ve been working on, and hopefully gather some contributors.

LibrePhone is meant to be a community-driven Linux OS for smartphones, built on two tracks:



Stable → thoroughly tested, reproducible builds, cryptographically signed and security-audited. Recommended for people who just want their phone to work.



Community → open to experiments, diufferent flavors, ratings, and verified maintainers. Perfect for trying new features, testing forks, and contributing.



🛡️ Security focus: Stable builds are reproducibly built, signed, and run through CI pipelines with CVE scanning and virus scans.

👥 Governance inspired by Wikipedia: auto-confirmed users, manually confirmed maintainers, and admins who oversee security and Stable promotions.

📱 Vision: “Your phone. Your freedom.”



We’ve already set up a simple website demo

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I'm sick of the US android tablet market. Could a Linux tablet be the answer?

I own a Galaxy Tab S10 ultra, and am happy with it. However, with samsung's bootloader locking and android just getting worse, would a Linux tablet work? Of course, linux phones have been tried, but I think that with a keyboard case, like the one for the Galaxy Tab Ultras, you could reasonably use a desktop-style linux. Would there be any demand for a device like this, even a niche, low-production-volume one?

https://redd.it/1ns41rv
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Help needed, my terminal is acting weird
https://redd.it/1ns812w
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Linux desktop is attracting new users, and that's good, but we must be critical of everything that needs improvement

I recently returned to Linux after a 2-3 year absence, and I was surprised by how well it has evolved on the desktop. More stability, compatibility with more software, mature DEs... it's a real pleasure.

However, I also notice that the Linux community has some areas for improvement from different points of view (its organization, how it welcomes newbies, software, etc.). I'm writing this post just to see if others see the same things I do. If not, that's fine, you can give your opposing opinion and debate it, no need to lynch me. Here we go:

1) Dependence on large companies. Yes, I know, they are precisely the ones that finance and support Linux the most, but at the same time, they do nothing but twist the community to their liking, sometimes damaging it. We have Canonical imposing its Snaps on Ubuntu, even hijacking you when you try to install using "sudo apt install", probably the most well-known distro among the general public. In addition, more recently, there has been some debate about replacing GNU tools with a rewrite in RUST that will be licensed under MIT (more permissive, allowing those who benefit from the code and modify it to not have to share the result, privatizing it).

We also have Red Hat, which two years ago decided to restrict access to the RHEL source code to the community, citing that others were benefiting “unfairly” from that access, as other companies (ie, CIQ) were creating clones of RHEL and then offering support and charging for it.


All these developments don't seem positive for the Linux community and are reminiscent of how Microsoft treats Windows, which is manipulated like their toy. Of course, there are still other “community” distributions, such as Debian or Arch, although they are not as easy for beginners to get started with.



2) Division of efforts. It is in the nature of Linux that everyone can create their own “home,” and therefore, it is inevitable that there will be hundreds of distributions, but when there is none that is capable of being “perfect” for the general public (there is always some drawback, however small, in Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon...), it seems incredible that efforts continue to be divided even further. We have the PopOS! team as example, although they started well and gained some popularity in their day, now they seem to think it is worthy their time and effort to create another new DE (COSMIC), just... because? Or we have Hyprland more recently, or... Until in the end, we have almost as many DEs as distributions, and some with very little usage (how many people use Budgie? What future will MATE have?).

I understand that customization is the soul of Linux, but sometimes it feels like it weighs it down a lot. “Divide and conquer,” they said about the vanquished.


3) Lack of consistency. Similar to the above, in Linux you can do anything, that's clear, but it won't help its “mass” adoption if the instructions for doing basic things change so much depending on the distribution or DE. Sometimes, even what is compatible can be affected by things that the casual user doesn't understand (X11 vs Wayland, for example).

4) Comfort with using “advanced” applications or settings. For example, no one is incentivized to build open-source software that synchronizes clouds (Google Drive, OneDrive, and others, similar to InsyncHQ, with active real-time synchronization), because advanced users have more than enough with RClone and the terminal. Or in specific configurations, the terminal is still unavoidable. If you want to install drivers for an HP Laserjet printer, you'll have to go through the terminal. Want to install Warp VPN? Terminal! It's not bad at all, don't get me wrong, but it makes me angry that there is still a certain complacency that prevents Linux from being “chewed up” a little more to attract the general public, which would help popularize Linux and make more native software compatible.

5) Lack of attention to cybersecurity. Beginners are

often told not to worry, that “there is no malware” on Linux desktops. At the same time, we have seen how Arch's AUR repository has been detected with malware, or how certain vulnerabilities have affected Linux this year (Sudo having a PAM vulnerability allowing full root access, two CUPS bugs that let attackers remote DoS and bypass auth, DoS flaw in the kernel's KSMBD subsystem, Linux kernel vulnerability exploited from Chrome renderer sandbox... And all of that, only in the last 2 months).

Related to this are questionable configurations, such as trusting Flatpak 100%, even though the software available there can often be packages created by anonymous third parties and not the original developer, or the use of browsers installed in this way, even though this means that the browser's own sandbox is replaced by Flatpak's sandboxing.


6) Updates that have the capacity to break entire systems, to the point of recommending reinstalling the system from scratch in some cases. This is almost on par with Windows or worse, depending on the distribution and changes that have taken place. It is well known that in Linux, depending on the distro, updating is a lottery and can leave you without a system. This should be unacceptable, although understandable, given that Linux is still a base (monolithic kernel with +30M lines) with a bunch of modules linked together on top, each one different from the other. In the end, it is very easy for things to break when updating.

In part, immutable distributions help with this, allowing you to revert to a previous state when, inevitably, the day comes when the system breaks, unless you can afford to have a system with hardly any modifications, with software as close to a “clean” state as possible.

If the system breaks and you are not on an immutable distribution, you have already lost the casual user.



At the end, I want to love Linux, but I see that many of the root causes preventing its popularity from growing (on the desktop, I'm not counting its use as a kernel for heavily modified things like Android, or its use by professional people in servers) haven't consideribly improved. The community remains deeply divided, fighting amongst itself even on some issues, and continues to scare away the general public who come with the idea of “just having work done”.

Because of all this, a few days ago, I was surprised to see that Linux in the Steam survey remains at 2.64%. It's better than the 1.87% from just a year ago (Sept. 24), of course, and I suppose SteamDecks have helped a lot too, but it's a shame that it's not able to attract the audience that is migrating elsewhere on Windows (Windows 11 went from 47.69% to 60.39% in the same period, even with all the TPM thing that will make millions of PCs "incompatible" with Win11). In other words, for every person who switched to Linux in the survey, more than 16 people switched to Windows 11.

What are your thoughts on improving Linux (if it were up to you)? Do you think there will come a time when Linux will have a significant share of the desktop market, so that it will at least be taken into account in software development?

(And please, I would ask that haters refrain from contributing nothing, simply accusing me of something or telling me to “go to Windows.” I hate gatekeeping and not being able to have real discussions sometimes in this community. Thank you).

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An Omakub Review for Potential macOS Switchers
https://dominickm.com/omakhub-review/

https://redd.it/1ns9wck
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Does linux have OCR based vim-like hinting?

In windows I can go fully mouseless because a program called fluent search allows me to press a key and then it tags all UI elements using OCR then lets me click on any one I want by pressing the key in the hint.

Does Linux have a similar feature?

https://redd.it/1nsca1m
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What's the highest # of tabs you've opened while troubleshooting something? (linux or not linux related)

\>300 tabs.

Linux undoubtedly requires lots of troubleshooting and searching. Lately I've been spending hours (and still aren't done with) setting up a Windows VM with good graphics support on NixOS. I've opened >300 tabs as counted with a browser addon, having looked up stuff like "best way to install Windows VM on linux with , "best VM software for linux", and more specific things like how to setup WinApps, but I've been told that it has very poor graphics performance, since it doesn't include anything to make it better, so now I'm torturing myself trying to get Looking Glass to work. I opened an feature request today to make better support for NixOS but it was closed stating that documentation is for deb-based distros and "a niche distro such as NixOS", RIP.

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Lenovo BIOS does not persist the boot drives ordering?

So just bought a Lenovo Yoga pro 7i and dual booted linux onto it with a spare external SSD. Installation went fine, but even though I have secure boot disabled, I have to manually reorder and put the linux SSD boot drive on top in the BIOS. Once the PC is restarted, it defaults to windows everytime.

Never had this problem on Dell, is there something else that needs to changed for Lenovo BIOS to persist?

https://redd.it/1nsgzud
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Is it really that inconvenient? what does she mean.
https://redd.it/1nskj9d
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My Linux family
https://redd.it/1nsklfe
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