Gaming on Linux

Some background. About 4 years ago I started using Linux. Mostly a basic ass I3 setup on my homework/work laptop because tiling window managers are absolutely goated for taking notes. Haven't really done anything Linux related on it besides run updates for a long time because i3 never changes.

I mostly use my desktop to game. I tried Linux, but it was less than ideal. There were always weird stutters while shaders compiled. Most games ran, but a lot of them took a shit ton of troubleshooting and performed badly. I gave up and went to windows for gaming.

Not long ago, my kid wanted me to help set up Linux on his computer. I decided to try it on my desktop again.

Holy shit, what happened? Games just work now, perfectly smooth, instantly. You can easily find noscripts on GitHub that give you a fully functional Hyprland setup in minutes, instead of spending a full day screwing around and troubleshooting it, please don't judge me.

Anyway, the point is that desktop Linux feels like it came a shockingly long way in a very short amount of time. I don't know who the people are that are doing this, but I just want to let you know I appreciate the hell out of all of you. GG



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GIMP 3.2 RC1: First Release Candidate for GIMP 3.2
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/11/17/gimp-3-2-RC1-released/

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Eye tracking mouse?

I'm a disabled eye tracking user and the technology has become an amazing tool on Windows with stuff like Mill Mouse that makes hands free AAA gaming possible. Do you know of anything on Linux, apart from Talon Voice ( it's complex to setup and jittery)? I'd be prepared to pay anyone who build something basic and easy to setup for mouse cursor control (for Tobii 4C).

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Avahi DoS vulnerability (CVE-2025-59529): Logic flaw allows unprivileged users to exhaust daemon resources
https://zeropath.com/blog/avahi-simple-protocol-server-dos-cve-2025-59529

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Python Developers Looking At Introducing The Rust Programming Language In CPython
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proposal-Rust-In-CPython

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List of Linux distributions on Wikidata // Largest collaborative table of distros
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_Linux_distributions

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Black Friday
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2007 MacBook Pro Running Linux Mint Flawlessly
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Arch Linux
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Laptop fan not working on Linux Mint — tried ACPI fixes in GRUB but still no luck
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Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

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The bus uses arch btw
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I switched to KDE LINUX (latest edition), and I am loving it, few bugs on first day but now its working fine.
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Yt-dlp: External JS runtime now required for full YouTube support
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012

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Should i try Solus ?!!

Hello Every one, now I’m on Mageia now and I’m enjoying it , but you know the distro hopping 🤓 , so I was searching for uncommon distro and so many people recommend Solus , i never used Budgie DE before , but some of them telling that there is nothing out of the box there , so I was asking the people who tried Solus if it deserves a chance !!

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Built my own xdg-open alternative because the old one annoyed me — meet YAXO
https://github.com/yogeshdofficial/yaxo

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Online command book

Good afternoon, I would like to ask if anyone has the book The Linux command line by William Shotts IN SPANISH VERSION.
I have it in English, but it would be easier for me to read if I had it in Spanish
Greetings
Thank you so much

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Setting up a clean and reliable Linux dev environment.

I’m trying to figure out the best way to build a solid development environment on Linux. I’m starting with plain Ubuntu 24.04 every time, and I often have to set everything up on different laptops, so I’m trying to find the least painful and most repeatable way to do it.

I came up with a few ideas:

1. Taking a system snapshot
Feels like a simple way to “freeze” a good state and go back to it when everything breaks. Not sure if this is reliable enough for a daily dev setup or more of a last-resort safety net.

2. A custom automation noscript
Something that installs all dependencies, tools, packages, config files, maybe dotfiles. Sounds practical, but I’m wondering if plain bash noscripts eventually turn into an unmaintainable mess, especially when used across different machines.

3. Ansible
I’ve been reading about it recently. It looks powerful and structured, but I’m not sure if it isn’t overkill for a single-machine setup. On the other hand, since I reinstall environments on multiple laptops, maybe it would actually save me a lot of time.

I’d love to hear what problems I might run into with each approach. Things like package version drift, breaking updates, environment differences, tools that don’t behave the same across clean installs, etc.

If you were starting from scratch on Ubuntu 24.04, how would you build your dev environment so that it’s stable, reproducible, and easy to restore on any machine?

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I feel the urgency to change to linux as soon as possible because of this, but i have questions , HELP
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Affinity Suite Running on Fedora Linux
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Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver

Tyr, the Rust-based driver for Arm Mali GPUs, continues to rapidly progress, and the prototype now runs GNOME, Weston, and even full-screen 3D games like SuperTuxKart! 🔥

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/racing-karts-on-a-rust-gpu-kernel-driver.html

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