applications you use on a regular basis are available on Ubuntu and work as expected.

Hope this post helps!

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I Made Something For Linux :)
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FLOSS Shop (Germany) sells Librem 5 for only 599€ (+shipping)
https://www.floss-shop.de/en/electronics/devices/78/librem5-mobil-phone

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Guys, who else has this strange obsession with trying old Linux distro releases?
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Chess-tui: Play lichess from your terminal
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DMS 1.0 "The Dark Knight" Released | Dank Linux
https://danklinux.com/blog/v1-release

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Is Linux becoming mainstream now?

I noticed how many people are starting to change their preferences from Windows to Linux due to latest news about Microsoft's ending of Windows 10 support. An how Windows 11 is bad. I'm also impressed how Gabe Newell is developing so fast Linux Gaming. Steam Deck is great portable console. I used virtual machines to try various versions of Linux. I liked Ubuntu and Manjaro.

So, I believe Linux's situation may soon improve well. I remember times when anime culture in Russia was heavily marginalized and felt so alien for ordinary citizens. Now Russian streaming services are gaining more profits from Japanese animation, especially due to western sanctions. It became mainstream here. So, I bet Linux may get such attention in future. I'm impressed how Linux community improved very well and made a great work. I heard that Linux could now run videogames at more FPS than Windows.

If this so, maybe it's time for Windows to leave throne for a retirement. After all, back in times, old Mac Os was the #1 operating system back in 80s and 90s.

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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC Released: A Letter From Our Founder
https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder

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Affinity for Linux? Canva's next big move could reshape the desktop software market
https://techcentral.co.za/affinity-for-linux-canvas-next-big-move-could-reshape-the-desktop-software-market/274861/

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KDE Gear 25.12 released!
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.0/

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I'm running Gentoo with a portable backup git, pkg registry and s3 bucket on a repurposed Pixel 6 android phone
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Why is the sensor support so poor compared to Windows (HWiNFO) and how do we change it?

Currently reading information about temperature, voltage, power draw, fan speed ect on Linux can be quite spotty and almost always less detailed than on HWiNFO on Windows such as with power draw (as far as I can tell there is no easy way to view the wattage consumption of different components in the system).

My understanding is that sensor data is generally exposed through /sys/ files by kernel drivers which communicate with the hardware directly under the hood. Running lm\_sensors on my laptop mentions that "thermal management is \[often\] handled by ACPI rather than the OS" so this also indicates to me that some sensors are interfaced through ACPI. I'm not sure if there are any other sources of sensor data is may or may not be used.

There are two parts to reaching parity with software like HWiNFO on Linux:

# Sensor Data Parity

The first is of course to be able to get access to all of the same sensors. Throwing around some ideas, keep in mind I know very little about what I am talking about so please correct me or provide more context:

* If a kernel driver itself has the information but isn't exposing it then we can patch the driver to expose /sys/ files to userspace. This was briefly mentioned here: [https://community.frame.work/t/responded-sensors-availability-linux-vs-windows/47416/8](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-sensors-availability-linux-vs-windows/47416/8). My initial thought would be that there would be a bunch of info for components that are commonly used in enterprise (such as certain CPUs). I suspect this approach is probably more viable for components such as CPUs or GPUs.
* In a lot of cases there may just not be any vendor support or documentation, I suspect this is the problem for a lot of things like fans. In this case we may have to make use of the work HWiNFO has done on Windows. This could be done by reverse engineering how HWiNFO works (either by snooping communication with hardware or looking at decompiled software) but I suspect this would be a tedious and manual process that is just fighting an endless uphill battle, far from a solution that could "just work" like HWiNFO does. I imagine software such as WINE is out of the question since HWiNFO likely calls Windows only drivers that do not exist on Linux or ACPI calls that probably are impossible to get working for some reason.
* Request hardware companies to better support Linux. I think this is unlikely for most cases where there isn't already an expansive effort to support linux by these companies.
* Some kind of communication bus fuzzy search (such as by using i2cdetect). I think lm-sensors does this to an extent but I don't think it does much in most cases and can potentially cause issues.
* In some cases a kernel driver does exist but is obscure and not enabled by default or lacks support by frontend software. I experienced this with my laptop 7535U of which I can use the zenergy (amd\_energy fork since I couldn't figure out how to easily install amd\_energy) driver to view per core energy usage. I had to install this driver myself and no frontend software that I used seemed to support it.

# A comprehensive frontend

While there are a couple frontends for different sensors there is none nearly as comprehensive as HWiNFO on Linux. This is in part due to the aforementioned lack of sensor data but possibly also because the software that I've seen is often targeted at specific types of sensors rather than as a centralized hub for nearly all of them (also see point about zenergy above). Getting the above done seems to be the biggest bottleneck but I'd be willing to write a GUI (with CLI fallback) myself if it comes to it (probably in the iced toolkit).



# What can we do as a community to improve the situation?

Is what I said earlier correct?

If so how could I or anybody else get started with say reverse engineering a sensor or creating a patch for a kernel driver. What resources are available to get started?

DISCLAIMER: No, this is not

LLM written. I handwrote it in VIM in like 40 minutes then spellchecked it. I also made a post in the Arch Linux subreddit with a different noscript which I changed in this post because I think it made people think that my post was LLM written.

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Gogs (self-hosted Git service written in Go) Zero-Day RCE (CVE-2025-8110) Actively Exploited
https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-gogs-cve-2025-8110-rce-exploit

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"Compact" Linux book from 2002
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Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
https://www.osnews.com/story/144006/using-ai-to-manage-your-fedora-system-seems-like-a-really-bad-idea/

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Hey, Windows user who desires to switch to Linux Mint. Does Libre Office work in Linux?

I'm a writer and Libre Office is my go-to program for writing documents, I've long known about the failures and outright abuses of Windows for a while, now, and I've been wondering if my writing program actually works on a Linux operating system.

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Unlock a memory: your first public Pull Request

Hey, this 2025 is going away and my mind is watching back for a while about all my path in IT & Security, all my contributions on open source projects, all software I used on my distros... And, one question arose in my mind, that I would share with you.

What has been your first merged Pull Request of your life on an open source project? Is that project still alive somewhere (i.e., GitHub)?

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are there icon packs that don't touch third party app icons like Adwaita for example?

all icon packs i can find theme app icons hard (i love papirus for example but it themes third party app icons), i want an icon pack that only themes system things and stuff like folders, default file manager etc

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Thinking of coming back to Linux.

Windows 11 using webview for everything and being so sluggish even on a high-end system is annoying. Dwm is hot trash, scheduling sucks balls etc etc.

How is Linux looking into 2025? I used to run arch, but it just became such a hassle to do simple things that just work on windows that I ditched it. Does everything mostly work out of the box now?

I dont care about gaming, most new pc games are unoptimized trash and I have zero intentions at being angry playing some dogshit pvp games anymore other than Minecraft which runs better on linux anyways.


Using a 14900k, z690 unify x and 5070ti.

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The most powerful supercomputer ever built and operated by Microsoft runs on Ubuntu
https://top500.org/system/180236/

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