Wayland compositor niri 25.11 launches with alt-tab switcher, new window animations & more
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/wayland-compositor-niri-25-11-launches-with-alt-tab-switcher-new-window-animations-and-more/

https://redd.it/1pc548f
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Just made a KDE Yahoo Finance tracker applet, first project

https://preview.redd.it/b4pe2nyrsr4g1.png?width=437&format=png&auto=webp&s=58f293351d6381c04e4563e191aabf9363eca9f3

Pretty much it. I missed the one I had on Cinnamon so I did one for Plasma 6, there it is.

Thing is I am not really any good at coding and I'm sure it is still quite buggy and I'm having problems to make translated versions so I'm accepting tips on how to not screw this completely.


Here is the link: https://www.pling.com/p/2331782/

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NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.44.01-Linux-Beta

https://redd.it/1pca6uw
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The wallpaper Linus Torvalds uses in his personal setup
https://redd.it/1pcg2n2
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I bought a new laptop and it came with a reminder why I should use linux.
https://redd.it/1pchff5
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Unironically 2026 is "The" Year of the GNU/Linux & BSDs Desktop

It's the new Steam Machine. It's SteamOS, Arch, Bazzite. All GNU/Linux and BSDs for that matter. I'm a XNU/Darwin is "Not" UNIX girly, and I'm involved in that world for most of my computing. But I do build computers and unfortunately have one "PC" running Windows 11 Pro w/ WSL2 Debian plaguing my space out of necessity. I started using GNU/Linux here and there for various projects waaay back in 2012 when I was just a child on Ubuntu. Learning a lot more recently ever since the announcement and I'm starting to fall in love with GNU/Linux and the BSDs even more so than before (Debian, Arch/EndeavourOS, NixOS, etcetera such as FreeBSD plus OpenBSD and so on). That's happening a lot more with people my age, and by extension future users. But the normies? Every post I see from the normies in regard to the Steam Machine is excitement. And most importantly, preparations to finally switch. Got my Gen X father-in-law on Debian, he loves it. My wife is begging me to image their desktop with Bazzite, and I will very soon.

https://redd.it/1pcj559
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TIL about the Software Freedom Conservancy and that they are running a "double dollars" / donation matching fundraiser until 15 January
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/nov/26/2025-fundraiser-launched-with-largest-match-yet/

https://redd.it/1pcraad
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Anthropic acquired Bun.js
https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

https://redd.it/1pcrf68
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This Month in Ladybird - November 2025 - Ladybird
https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2025-11-30/

https://redd.it/1pctj21
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What is Linus Torvalds' third-best creation?

obviously 1. linux kernel, 2. git

But what's the third-best thing he's ever made outside the sphere of those two? The most I've been able to find is a pretty lowkey log software for dive computers. Surely he must have built something else right? So what's #3?

Update: okay I found out Linus made Subsurface in 2011 during the 2-week stretch of the "kernel.org disaster" when he wasn't getting any pull requests (I think this has something to do with a security breach). He was bored and wanted to do his biggest hobby of programming, so he turned to literally his only other hobby of scuba diving and made it. Pretty interesting stuff.

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zswap/zram is a godsend during these RAM shortages.

I went with 32gb in April. 64gb would've only been 50% more at the time. It stings.

Thankfully, zswap chills the burn. Firefox tabs and compilation jobs seem to compress between 3 and 4x using zstd compression when I've tested it out. Wouldn't work if I did video editing or other media stuff, but I'm thankful for the headroom it does give me.

If you haven't tried it or zram out yet, do so!

https://redd.it/1pcua2n
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NVIDIA 590 Linux drivers drop GeForce GTX 900 “Maxwell” and GTX 10 “Pascal” support
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-590-linux-drivers-drop-geforce-gtx-900-maxwell-and-gtx-10-pascal-support

https://redd.it/1pczbq2
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What is the most user friendly Linux distro you can recommend for a beginner?

Hi, guys. I have been a windows user for almost 30 years now. And I started to think I need to move to linux, especially after the windows 10 end of support and the messy windows 11 state.

So basically, I want to know what distro do you recommend. I know some basic programming, nothing complicated or fancy.

Also, what apps/software do you recommend as alternative to MS Office (mainly need word, excel, and Power point)

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AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-AES-GCM

https://redd.it/1pd3fb0
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For "Distro Hoppers", how do you do it?

Is the machine you "Distro Hop" on not your daily driver or something?

I really need stability. I get home from work, in a computer related field, and if I have to come home and fuck around with stuff just to get basic tasks done I'd be so burnt out.

If you do it on VMs or some side hardware, you'd be 'less' 'apt (get' har har) to run into as many things as you would as if you were to immerse yourself using your daily driver. Subsequently your 'distro hop' would only give you a portion of the info you'd want to decide if you were going to make it a daily driver.

There's always booting from a USB LiveCD, but then you're not using all your 'stuff', need to set up accounts, map drives, etc just to get basic functionality.

Just wondering what kinda methodology you all use to distro hop. Thanks!



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[OC] Popularity of gamer Linux Distros over time
https://redd.it/1pd6s5v
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Just got my donation notification of the year
https://redd.it/1pdaif3
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Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027
https://web.archive.org/web/20251203180155/https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

https://redd.it/1pdbjt3
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LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 is available for testing
https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/12/03/libreoffice-26-2-alpha1-is-available-for-testing/

https://redd.it/1pdc4v4
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X.Org Server's xkbcomp Updated For Four Security Issues Dating Back Years
https://www.phoronix.com/news/xkbcomp-1.5-Released

https://redd.it/1pd74y8
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Alpine 3.23.0 released
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.23.0-released.html

https://redd.it/1pdi02w
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