Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Graphics Driver Fix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2.5-Released

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Does the Linux kernel get bigger and bigger as more hardware support is added to it? Does that mean everyone running Linux technically has a ton of kernel code that doesn’t apply to their machine?

Pretty much noscript.

I’m just trying to understand these things a little better. Am I understanding it correctly that kernels contain a ton of drivers —> so they might have 100 drivers for different laptop speakers even though each individual user only needs 1 but they have to support everybody?

Does that imply on your machine you have a ton of unused kernel code? Or is there some process that removes the unused driver code?

It’s all so confusing to me man haha

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seems like the W10 EOL is actually bringing people to linux
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Collabora + MediaTek: Pushing boundaries on the latest IoT boards and Chromebooks

Collabora and MediaTek continue to advance upstream Linux support for the latest Genio IoT boards and Chromebook Plus laptops, enabling full hardware functionality, improved security, and broader access to the open source community.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/collabora-mediatek-pushing-boundaries-on-the-latest-iot-boards-and-chromebooks.html

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Most people don't need a new laptop

I am currently typing from a Thinkpad T480S running Linux (KDE) and it feels fast. This is a laptop from 2018 (i5 8th gen) and was really cheap. I also use Windows 11 on my other laptop and I can say it would not run as smooth on this hardware.
Most people just use a laptop for: email, browsing, documents, presentations and music.
Linux prevents e-waste and saves money

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Happy 29th birthday to KDE! – Adventures in Linux and KDE
https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/16/happy-29th-birthday-to-kde/

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Text Editor like Cool Retro Terminal

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is a Text Editor for Linux that has the same charm as Cool Retro Terminal... so with a retro interface and colors (green phosphors, or amber) and a nice filter that simulates the cathode ray tube. Do you know anything?

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A Crucial Time for Linux

This is my call to the entire Linux community. First some backstory. I am writing this from my Samsung NC10 with an Intel Atom N270 i686 architecture CPU and (barely) 1GB of RAM, running Debian 12 with xfce. I decided to install Linux on this machine to see if I could make use out of this old netbook, and with the end of support for Win10 I thought it would be a good idea to dabble around with Linux.

I started this project about two weeks ago. I tried to install Arch first because I wanted to be a hackerman like that. Unfortunately me being a noob probably caused the install to fail multiple times, yet I've learned a lot about partitioning and mirrors and all that fun stuff. I have since moved on to Debian which was a much more noob friendly install and it's running pretty great. I have since decided to give this laptop a musical use (which I still have to experiment with).

I have learned a lot in these two weeks and there are a few things I would like to share from a newbie perspective.

* End of native 32-bit support on Linux

Writing this post to you from a 32-bit i686 architecture machine speaks of the great versatility of GNU/Linux. I have since learned that this support will be coming to an end in the near future. I hope this will be reconsidered. The efforts put in these systems are not in vain! Keeping this support going will keep old systems like the one I'm writing from useful and thereby potentially save a lot of machines turning into E-waste (don't be like Microsoft).

* OS Exodus

With Win10 support ending and a lot of people having Microsoft fatigue there is a substantial migration to Linux. This is the time for developers of all sorts to be on top of their game. Every effort to make Linux user friendly and more compatible with crucial hardware and software has the potential to build the user base that Linux has been waiting for. When Linux will have won over a substantial user base, the "pro" creative applications (Adobe, DAW's, etc.) might follow to cater to these users. (Yet I hope that open-source alternatives will break the power of some of these companies)

* On device tutorials

The learning curve is real. Personally I enjoyed diving in deep and figuring out how to make the most of this stupendously outdated and under-powered (from the start) system. Yet whenever I would write "help' in different parts of the terminal it didn't help me much. It obviously gave me overviews of different commands and functions, yet it usually wasn't clear to me what they did. Maybe a 'tutorial' command can become a standard. Obviously I also think that graphical tutorials would be very welcome to new users that don't want to dive into the terminal. Including for the installation process.


I hope my noob insights will inspire. Thank you to those who took the time to read through the whole thing. I'm very curious about your thoughts and feedback.

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Can I use a bootable USB Linux to inspect and test a machine with no HD/SSD?

Hey friends. I've been using different flavors of Unix and Linux for over 30 years, but haven't really administered or set it up on a PC in the modern era.

I was recently gifted a fairly powerful PC, without any drive in it. I believe that I should be able to boot it from a USB stick with a simple Linux that I could use to just look around and get info about the CPU, GPU, and RAM. I'd rather do that than open the case and try to find stickers and labels on stuff.

If anyone has advice or pointers on what I'd use for this, I'd really appreciate it

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Konsole making new lines

I'm running debian (trixie) with kde plasma and wayland, I recently started using krohnkite with it cuz it looks interesting but I realize that konsole would start a new line everytime I resize using krohnkite, (I'm using ohmyzsh if that is relevant), is there any fix for this and would there be another terminal that you would recommend?

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New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MM-CID-Faster-DBs

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Switched to mint! (Finally)

Im proud of myself for finally plunging myself in linux mint!!! My friend helped me a shit ton on setting up and they dont seem to finished (at least not yet) but i am so grateful i switched, unfortunately no i didn't dual boot it with windows (too much bugs :( ) so im diving right in ig lol

Honestly, the main reason i switched is cuz of the EOL of win10, not being able to switch to 11 and just, the want to customize/rice my laptop so it can truly be, my own pc :3

So yeah! Uhh wish me luck? Idk man but overall hopefully my schoolwork doesn't get fucked cuz of dis

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Could not make chicago95 work. then updated Fedora to 43, installed XFCE, and got jumpscared with chicago95
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Beat Saber does not recognize WiVRn OpenXR server - any fix?
https://redd.it/1o98n8d
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why is no one talking about ATL?

https://preview.redd.it/6bb5uouwaqvf1.png?width=1889&format=png&auto=webp&s=00072dd25564433f2b0e2e3b3b637e86daa9755c

I just found out about ATL (Android Translation Layer) and I’m honestly surprised it’s not getting more attention.

It’s a lightweight layer that lets you run Android apps on Linux without a full Android container like Waydroid. It works kind of like Wine for Android, translating calls instead of virtualizing a whole system.

The project’s still new, and the list of working apps is short for now, but it’s already available in Alpine edge (and postmarketOS edge too).

Feels like this could be huge if it matures, yet barely anyone mentions it.
Why is no one talking about this?I just found out about ATL (Android Translation Layer) and I’m honestly surprised it’s not getting more attention.

It’s a lightweight layer that lets you run Android apps on Linux without a full Android container like Waydroid. It works kind of like Wine for Android, translating calls instead of virtualizing a whole system.

The project’s still new, and the list of working apps is short for now, but it’s already available in Alpine edge (and postmarketOS edge too).

Feels like this could be huge if it matures, yet barely anyone mentions it. Why is no one talking about this?

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hi please help finding this wallpaper
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GPU-VIEWER 3.20 Released
https://redd.it/1o9cvd3
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Edconv - An intuitive FFmpeg GUI
https://redd.it/1o9gr1o
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ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.1 Introduces Powerful PDF Redaction, New Annotations
https://linuxiac.com/onlyoffice-docs-9-1-introduces-powerful-pdf-redaction/

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This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.5 is nigh and KDE is 29 years old; help us celebrate!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/18/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-nigh-and-kde-is-29-years-old-help-us-celebrate/

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How GNU can you make GNU/Linux?

I came up with the most GNU system you can have with your linux.

First you need the kernel (the Linux part of GNU/Linux). Did you guys know that the FSF maintains a fully libre Linux kernel (linux-libre)? That's right, not only can you have GNU/Linux, you can have GNU Linux!

Onto the init system, GNU has an init of its own, GNU Shepherd. The only distro that uses it is Guix, which cleanly brings us to the package manager. GNUs package manager is Guix, but for those who hate declarative package management theres also GSRC (though, this is more akin to the FreeBSD ports system)

You also have the standard things that make a GNU/Linux a GNU/Linux, like the coreutils, glibc, bash, the GNU toolchain, and whatever other application software you want

The system is pretty boring so far, so why not spice it up a bit? For multiple windows in the TTY there's GNU screen. For an actual graphical environment, we have 4 to choose from: EXWM, Ratpoison, GNUstep, and MATE.

EXWM is a window manager that works inside of emacs, allowing you to manipulate X windows like you would emacs buffers.

While ratpoison isn't a GNU project, it's hosted on Savannah (GNUs VCS forge) and aims to replicate GNU Screen so I'd say it counts.

NeXT we have GNUstep (pun very much intended). GNUstep is a gui toolkit that aims to work like NeXTs gui toolkit. It also has a graphical file manager/desktop (gworkspace) and window manager (window maker). Unfortunately, there is a severe lack of application software

Finally, we have MATE, put on this list because it forked from GNOME when it was still a GNU project and most of GNUs GUI software use GTK. If this doesn't sway you, it's the desktop stallman himself uses (when he isn't in a TTY)

But wait, there's still more! You can replace MATEs window manager with EXWM, completing our GNU system. Add in GNUs web browser (icecat) and you're set to do anything you need to do on a computer (as long as it doesn't require nonfree javanoscript or proof of work)

Of course, you could just use emacs for everything and call it a day

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