From Gtk+libadwaita to Qt+KDE Frameworks: Easyeffects rewrite
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

https://redd.it/1ot9xcl
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The airplane’s passenger screen infront of me was running Linux code mid flight, which seemed abit unusual to me
https://streamable.com/4l8l8j

https://redd.it/1ota5o3
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Based on a true story
https://redd.it/1otc42y
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The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Patch-Would-MS-Ext

https://redd.it/1otdo8h
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Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-145-Released

https://redd.it/1othzlx
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After 35 years, I ditched Microsoft.

I'm almost 45 years, started with MS-DOS5 as a kid and here I am writing that I entirely ditched Microsoft.

I'm not gonna bother you with all the reasons that I have, but the main reason is security. These big tech companies push you into their clouds, steal your data and spy on you.

To me back in the 80's and 90's Microsoft was all about innovation and cool stuff. Now these days, just like Google, it seems to be all about power and money. There seems to be barely anything happening anymore, aside from releasing a new Windows version every X year with the same stuff but the start button on a different location, and perhaps a few different colors and more and more cloud integration.

I've seen MSDOS, Novell Netware, all Microsoft releases, BSD, OS2/Warp and a bunch of linux distro's. For now I'm on Mint as I love how tidy and clean everything is, not sure what is next.



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Is there a repository of videos for live desktop wallpapers?

I'm not sure in which community should I post this question in particular, if you have a suggestion I would appreciate it.

The thing is that there seems to be some some Linux apps that allow you set a video file as your desktop background, I know that the easiest thing would be to look for some on YouTube but it tends decrease the video's quality. So i was wondering if there's a place where people can submit/download videos to set them as desktop background, similar to the Wallpaper Engine's Steam workshop.

https://redd.it/1otofkg
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An open source funding-revolution is very well possible! Bear with me...

TL;DR https://youtu.be/IWmDZUtTzo8

Recently the Python Software Foundation denied a $1.5M grant from the U.S. government in order to keep their integrity. They turned down the biggest cash influx in their history. Cheers for that! It was kind of a wake up call for me, asking myself: How do I see open source working out for me and what can I do for the community?

Open source has got an obvious problem: lack of funding. And although donations exist, they are inefficient. With open source foundations such as the Mozilla Foundation or the Python Software Foundation being offered or actually taking investments from private companies or other bodies, often with strings attached, open source is running the risk of losing its independence and ultimately its openness. So what can we do?

Let me ask you another question: Why choose GitHub over Codeberg? Why choose Microsoft Office over OnlyOffice? Why choose proprietary over open source? Although there are many other reasons, private companies mostly get people hooked with convenience. This is often reflected by players like Microsoft or Google creating enormous software ecosystems inside which you as a user can traverse easily.

So convenience is a huge driver. Let's keep that in mind. People choose convenience, at least the mainstream, with priority and are willing to pay a price for it, fair enough. Private companies also provide closed ecosystems and support, which has got a value. I am not talking about that. All of that also means, that people generally have got and will spend money for software products.

So what is the proposition here? I am asking the entire open source community to endorse in a convenience of donation method which I call "downstream donations", for now. My point is, that donating to a single entity of the open source community is not an impact on the community as hole. Although almost every project in the community relies on other libraries and tools, those do usually not benefit from their forks. It is not a problem of funding, but a problem of liquidity in the system, partly due to a lack of convenience which developers, users and foundations can easily change with the method proposed here. It is an honor-based system that will distribute funding throughout the entire open source landscape and reward the most appreciated projects fairly and rightfully so.

To give you an example of this practice, let me show you the 'README.md' of my project 'morPy'. What I am doing is to provide a clear statement of my downstream donations, QR codes for convenient payment and provide summaries of donations and downstream payments on my homepage. I will also provide account statements, because transparency builds trust. This way, donations are just a qr-code scan away and will benefit other developers, in this case the ones morPy depends on. Nobody is obligated to pay and who can't will be covered by the community. This was always the spirit of open source. What we as developers have got to do is live this practice. Set up your 'readme'-file and homepage accordingly or miss out on being a receiver and a guarantor of the dependencies you choose. People can donate conveniently and know that their donation is in one way or another distributed throughout the community. They do not have to feel obligated for the next thing they make use of.

And finally, the icing on the cake. We urgently need a software license tailored for these downstream donations. One which explicitly allows for commercial use, but obligates to a fraction of the earnings in downstream donations. And I mean these really need to be a fraction, so companies can still benefit from open source as an inexpensive base, all the while open source stays independent and will be far better funded. The license also has to cover for the obligations of the developer: transparent downstream commitments and the correct implementation of the downstream donation method, which is still an individual setup.

Developers also have to make sure, they actually can make a difference of donations received in case they are maintaining more than one project in order for the downstream to work in the way intended.

This will put big tech, and all private endeavours therefore, back in their place. Either locked outside the borders of open source or within compliance. Since developers are enticed to make use of the new license in order to receive and contribute, commercial products will be rewarded with license simplicity and license security. For every non-commercial contributor it is purely honor based, convenient and self-sufficient for open source. The base principle is freedom, so a developer may choose not to downstream at all, but may face the penalty of others turning down a donation opportunity to this particular project. It is a chaotic yet robust and stable principle. Bad actors will likely be detected early, since the license demands transparency.

Think of the possibilities! Companies with great talent but lack of projects may decide to have their talent work on open source projects for an additional revenue stream rather than laying off. Developers publishing via F-Droid could feed the system with liquidity. A person in a poor country may decide to become a developer rather than an employee in a scam call center due to newly found opportunities.
And what if this kind of contribution is leveraged within Wikipedia? They would probably not have to raise as much money themselves and users would benefit from the convenience donations to articles/editors of their choice. Just a thought, though.
We are talking about an engine of innovation and stability, generating taxes as a side effect. For me, it's got all the best principles of commerce baked in. An additional comment on entire teams: you will have to figure out the fair distribution of funding within the team yourself. But that's the idea of democracy: messy but self-sufficiently correcting.

I am calling out to the open source foundations to create a new license which will manifest this new, democratic and inclusive strategy of open source. Please consider this strategy seriously. If you like this idea, implement it and spread it. Have people know about it. It is inexpensive and can be hosted from a projects 'readme'-file alone, you do not need a homepage. It can - and I hope it will - change the world. This is the trickle down effect everybody deserves.

DISCLAIMER Do not be tempted to donate to my project. I am absolutely fine. This is about the open source landscape entirely!

https://redd.it/1otor4b
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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS
https://www.webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-desktop-share-in-u-s-signaling-open-source-surge-against-windows-and-macos/

https://redd.it/1osirb9
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Linux is beginner friendly (and how I proved it)

(TLDR at bottom)

So, to provide some context, I've been daily driving Linux for around the past 8 months. Recently, I decided to get a new computer. Now, right now, the specs of the computers don't really matter but I decided to give the old computer to my 12 y/o sister, who's basically never touched a computer in her life except playing some games I have. I installed Linux Mint on there and gave it to her. All she does on there is play games on Steam, and use a browser, and sometimes view images. And she never once asked for technical support except once when I had to help her get Roblox working on there with Sober.

So yeah, she's been using a computer for a month and didn't need basically any support. Kinda proves that nowwadays Linux 100% can be used by somebody who, hell, used only IPhones and had no idea what a file or a program was.

TLDR: I got someone who's never used a computer to use Linux and they had almost no problems

https://redd.it/1ottnvl
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EasyEffects 8.0 Released in porting from GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami

Changelog: https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

EasyEffects is the open-source application formerly known as PulseEffects that transitioned to using native PipeWire filters for providing simple audio effects on the Linux desktop. EasyEffects makes it easy to apply different audio effects like bass enhancer, compressor, pitch shift, reverberation, EQ and many more. With this week's release of EasyEffects 8.0, the user interface has been rewritten in Qt / QML / Kirigami rather than GTK4.

https://redd.it/1otszxc
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Installing a distro on a lowest-of-low-end hardware

So i found this computer that must be from 1999/2000 laying on the streets, full setup, only thing needed was some cleaning as every component seems to be good and working.

It is a Pentium III slot 1 333MHz, 256 mb RAM dimm, 8.4GB disk, 3 1/4" floppy, i tried searching the exact mother on internet but i found only similar (it's an Xcel 2000).

I've been searching for x86 distros but all seem to exceed the system specs.

Also i don't know how will i connect it to the Internet since it uses a phone line cable and i'm not sure if that's even possible anymore.

Edit: seems like the viable options are Gentoo or Debian, with Debian being heavily discussed and even discouraged.

https://redd.it/1otsxcj
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It's been 3 years since I made neofetch-themes, thought a repost might be worth it as celebration :)
https://redd.it/1ou07gs
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My freshly installed ubuntu mate desktop!
https://redd.it/1ou2o2n
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Introducing Cantus a beautiful interactive spotify widget for wayland

Preview Video

https://preview.redd.it/ee3m90k5om0g1.png?width=1331&format=png&auto=webp&s=d810a5a92c73611d9f6a2676b0a690f221c8a35e

# Features

Graphics: Powered by wgpu and vello for high-performance, animated rendering of the music widget.

Queue Display: Displays your spotify queue in a visual timeline, shows upcoming songs as well as the history.

Playback Controls: Provides playback controls for play/pause, skip forward/backward by clicking to seek to a song, and volume adjustment with scroll. You can also smoothly drag the whole bar to seek through the timeline.

Playlist Editing: Favourite playlists to be displayed, shows when a song is contained in that playlist and allows you to add/remove songs from the playlist. (Also includes star ratings!)

It runs alongside your existing layer-shell.

https://github.com/CodedNil/cantus

I'd love to hear what you think!

https://redd.it/1ou940h
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A screenshot noscript for GNOME Wayland (Ubuntu) which captures & saves the active window with window class and noscript in the filename
https://gist.github.com/KishanPRao/b35417381458dafcdf4f54e476fe8458

https://redd.it/1ou6agb
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Firefox 145.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
https://www.firefox.com/firefox/145.0/releasenotes/

https://redd.it/1oualms
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Firefox 145, Release ! (Added Matroska support for the most commonly used codecs: AVC, HEVC, VP8, VP9, AV1, AAC, Opus, and Vorbis. And more ! )

Release notes: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes/

Version 145.0, first offered to Release channel users on November 11, 2025

https://redd.it/1oubv16
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PSA, especially for new users - make sure you have a firewall running.

I have been daily-driving Manjaro KDE and was shocked to discover that it didn't come with a firewall installed, let alone activated.

This made me realise that a functioning firewall must be something getting looked over for a lot of new Linux users already buried under other customizations. From what I recall there are very few distros that have a firewall set up and activated by default like Windows, even if it is installed.

Guys, not having a firewall is a major security threat. You must have it set up and configured correctly if you are using a Linux PC. You don't want to expose open ports to anyone on a leased/shared network.

Just search for "firewall" in your application launcher/start menu and open "Firewall Settings" or anything similar that comes up. Turn it on, set default incoming to Reject and outgoing to Allow, then add rules for specific apps like your torrent client to allow their respective traffic through.

If nothing comes up in the launcher, install ufw and ufw-extras, and plasma-firewall if you're using KDE or gufw otherwise. Then do the above.

Stay safe and happy computing!

Edit: Reading the comments I'm coming to understand that this is apparently not that much of risk and I am only bringing in paranoia from my Windows hangover (though I'll still personally prefer having ufw enabled for my own peace of mind). I won't be deleting this post because the discussion in comments is quite insightful and interesting, and may be of use for others with the same confusion. Thanks!

https://redd.it/1oudwb8
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zsh-screensaver

Hey everyone — last month I released a new little Zsh plugin I’ve been fiddling with in my spare time, called **zsh‑screensaver**, and thought I’d share it in case anyone finds it fun / useful.

So what it is: when your terminal has been idle for a bit, it shows a visual overlay or banner (or even a GIF, if you want -- that's what I use 🔥), kind of like a screensaver for your shell. And then when you interact, it vanishes and restores what you were doing. I got tired of staring at idle prompts while working on several tasks (I main tmux), so this was my solution 😄.



https://i.redd.it/pxattab47n0g1.gif



If you try it out I’d love to hear:

* How it behaves on your setup (macOS / Linux / etc.)
* Ideas for other “screensaver styles” someone might enjoy
* Any edge‑cases I didn’t consider 🤔

Also, feel free to make pull requests and suggest features. I generally don't have a lot of free time, but I will try to be as responsive as possible!! ❤️ [https://github.com/UmbraDeorum/zsh-screensaver](https://github.com/UmbraDeorum/zsh-screensaver)

https://redd.it/1oubdno
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