Linux dominating will benefit everyone.
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I miss how old elementaryOS (2018) used to look so I made a libadw theme that mimics it

https://preview.redd.it/s8nk66hno07g1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=53cec61672fa2ecf52797ba03636b1017a0b2336

Super incomplete (the only things that are themed right now are sidebars and headerbars) and a tiny bit of buttons!

This theme will probably never be released but I thought I'd show it lol

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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?

This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing. In this talk, Scott Jenson gives examples of how focusing on UX -- instead of UI -- frees us to think bigger. This is especially true for the desktop, where the user experience has so much potential to grow well beyond its current interaction models. The desktop UX is certainly not dead, and this talk suggests some future directions we could take.

About Scott Scott Jenson has been a leader in UX design and strategic planning for over 35 years. He was the first member of Apple’s Human Interface group in the late '80s, and has since held key roles at several major tech companies. He served as Director of Product Design for Symbian in London, managed Mobile UX design at Google, and was Creative Director at frog design in San Francisco. He returned to Google to do UX research for Android and is now a UX strategist in the open-source community for Mastodon and Home Assistant.


Edit: One reddit user send me this part of another video. And say:

Your last post in r/linux makes me thing of the "GUI should be better" video by Ross Scott, specifically this part:

https://youtu.be/AItTqnTsVjA?t=2061

This is also a good video.

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With Linux generating mainstream support, would it be helpful to launch an initiative similar to Ubuntu's "One Hundred Papercuts" mission?
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After two decades of fighting forced updates and uninstalling bloatware, I finally ditched Windows. Now fully Linux.

Started from windows xp then loved windows 7 then when MS forced windows 10 it was hard to move from windows 7 but slowly embraced because had no options because at that time I was not tech savy but now windows 11 is loaded with AI bloatware, need to have online account, TPM chip and heared there is no privacy as it takes random screenshots. On top of that they are trying to copy mac os for UI. After installing Ubuntu desktop and my all applications are now setup and very happy with freedom.

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Heads up: systemd v258 suspend/resume regression (tracked upstream)

If your Linux system suspends, then immediately re‑suspends after resume, you’re not alone.

This is a confirmed upstream regression introduced in systemd v258.



Symptom: after resume, logind re‑triggers suspend almost immediately (double suspend loop).

Confirmed by bisect: last good release was v257, regression introduced at v258.



Upstream bug report: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/40078



Workaround: downgrade to systemd 257.x until the fix lands (expected in v259).



Posting here so people don’t waste time chasing distro‑specific fixes — it’s upstream.



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Portal Doctor - Find and fix Wayland screensharing issues
https://redd.it/1pm7765
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What distro do you use and why?

Personally, I use Arch for its customization, but I want to know what yall are rocking in your setups. If you could include why you like your preferred distro, that would also be great! I look forward to your submissions!

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A terminal text editor you can just use. Instant response, minimal footprint.
https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/

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does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn.

based on what I can find, the linux distro "knoppix" for the version and type I want has the file name "KNOPPIX_V5.1.1DVD-2007-01-04-EN.iso, a size of a little over 4 GB, and was released around 2007. everywhere I look is either just the CD or broken links/mirrors. I have found old torrent files, but the likelihood of those still being active is next to nothing. not even teh internet archive has it. does anyone happen to have this old linux iso file? if you happen to have it, I will put it on the internet archive so that it won't be lost to time.

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Where to start with low level programming?

I know electronics and I'm a developer. I want to learn low level programming.

Be it firmware, drivers, wrappers, compatibility layers, emulation and so on.

Where do I start and which kind of projects are suitable for a beginner?

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Nvidia using the wrong logo for the Rust language
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Rust Coreutils 0.5.0: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.5.0

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Is there any way to filter out all these AI generated comparison/"review" videos?
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xnap: simple x screenshot utility
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CtrlAssist: Controller Assist for gaming on Linux
https://github.com/ruffsl/CtrlAssist

https://redd.it/1pmwhzd
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I wrote a NATO-style framework for open source funding - is this realistic or completely naive?

Recent adopter of Linux, but a longtime follower of geopolitics.

I sense that there is a severe lack of funds going to open source maintainers, and this is a problem on the geopol front. This here is my attempt to start a conversation around how to fund it at a state level, hopefully without becoming the monsters we loathe.

I need some informed eyeballs on these documents. If you see problems, please, for the love of all that is FOSS, tell me! I am a nobody, and I am planning to send this off to everyone in the contact list (in the link) in the coming days. That is, unless someone here is better positioned to send those in my place. Maybe you ***are(!)*** the person who needs to read this.

I've watched the EU cut NGI funding ([€27M to €10M](https://netzpolitik.org/2024/next-generation-internet-eu-apparently-set-to-end-open-source-programme/)) while they're in the middle of negotiating their 2028-2034 budget right now, and that's not cool. Meanwhile Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is proving that public funding works--they [put €23M into 60 projects](https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs/fund) but got [500 applications totaling €114M](https://www.webpronews.com/germanys-sovereign-tech-fund-invests-e23-million-in-open-source-projects/). The demand is there.

So I wrote up a thing: [https://github.com/dia-policy/digital-infrastructure-alliance](https://github.com/dia-policy/digital-infrastructure-alliance)

I'm calling this a "Digital Infrastructure Alliance" but the name doesn't matter to me. The TL;DR: voluntary member states contribute proportionally (think 0.001% GDP or €5M minimum), pool resources (€200-300M/year from 10-15 countries), fund critical open source infrastructure maintenance. Treaty-based governance so it survives political changes. Basically NATO for digital infrastructure.

**What I need:**

* Does this make sense or am I missing something huge?
* Is there a fatal flaw I'm not seeing?
* Should I even send this to the Brussels advocacy orgs or is it DOA?

Full brief is not too long. Resources: Contact list, email templates, FOSS/Linux lobby groups and their backgrounds, all of it is on GitHub (CC BY 4.0).

Not a policy expert, just someone who got annoyed watching this problem and tried to think through a solution systematically. If it's useful, great. If it's wrong, please tell me why. I'm dyslexic, and I tried my best to catch errors with OnlyOffice, but I am only me, so apologies in advance. I may post this more than once to get enough attention--mods, do let me know if that's okay or if there's a better place to be posting this.

**Sources:**
NGI cuts - [https://netzpolitik.org/2024/next-generation-internet-eu-apparently-set-to-end-open-source-programme/](https://netzpolitik.org/2024/next-generation-internet-eu-apparently-set-to-end-open-source-programme/)
Sov. Tech Fund Investments - [https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs/fund](https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs/fund) & would you look at that demand [https://www.webpronews.com/germanys-sovereign-tech-fund-invests-e23-million-in-open-source-projects/](https://www.webpronews.com/germanys-sovereign-tech-fund-invests-e23-million-in-open-source-projects/)

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Genuine Question

I don't want to debate whether Linux sucks or windows. Since, this is such a big community and both of the users are equally present here, I just want some honest answers from you all.

So, it has been 6 months I am using Linux. And I completely abandoned Windows. The reason for moving to Linux was not because Windows sucks but it was purely a privacy reason. De-googled and De-Microsofted myself (mind the phrasing).

I tried Pop, manjaro, ubuntu, catchy etc and finally now I have setted on arch. I like it because it is fast and minimalist than others

Still a student in university, I am just keeping up with windows heavily integrated environment. Have a dump google account just for useless stuff. And I am running windows 10 in vm right now just when necessary that is the softwares that I can't run natively in linux. which is a big detour from easiness but I am surviving and keeping up. I like the way Linjx has improved a lot over the years but still at times it just lacks the quick go-to tasks I wanted. Like I wanted to compose a document real quick and it didn't have Times New Roman Font in it! I saved the document and closed the tab and when I reopened it, last few edits were not saved at all and I had to re-do it. And for every task which is windows related I have to look for alternative way to do it on Linux

I convince myself that Linux is just an operating system as windows is. If we are truly free to use whatever operating system we want, I am using Linux and I am proud of it. And I am willing to take whatever the right amount of alternatives I have to try

But I also now wonder, is it really worth it? Although many of my course work related software (the engineering tools) are on limux natively but some aren't but there exist really good alternative but still they are quite different in GUI, I was wondering if I will regret my choices or not?

And I don't have a spare device to have windows on and if you're suggesting me to dual boot? well It doesn't work well setting up grub and win boot loader so I have windows in VM now. Got any other advice

And again please this isn't if windows sucks or Linux sucks. Both have their own use cases. And I have well stated my case being the privacy

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Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm attacker authored all its commits as "Linus Torvalds"

I was just reading this hack post-mortem, and don't know anything about the developer or what they make, but this anecdote caught my eye. Kinda funny?

"We had been compromised by Shai-Hulud 2.0, a sophisticated npm supply chain worm that compromised over 500 packages, affected 25,000+ repositories, and spread across the JavaScript ecosystem. We weren't alone: PostHog, Zapier, AsyncAPI, Postman, and ENS were among those hit. ...

Every malicious commit was authored as:

Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Message: init

We haven't found reports of other Shai-Hulud victims seeing this same 'Linus Torvalds' vandalism pattern. The worm's documented behavior focuses on credential exfiltration and npm package propagation, not repository destruction. This destructive phase may have been unique to our attacker, or perhaps a manual follow-up action after the automated worm had done its credential harvesting."

I'm just imagining that few seconds before you figure out it's an attack being like, "Uhh, Linus, what are you doing here?"

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Never going back to Windows.

After trying Linux for the first time, I do not think i can go back to Windows ever again. There's absolutely no bloat, full customization, and it can run on anything. I actually have EndeavorOS running on my shitty chromebook from 2017! And total control... I love having total control over every little thing. Linux is awesome.

https://redd.it/1pn1ebn
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Installing Linux is significantly easier than installing Windows.

Recently I tried installing Windows 11 and got stuck because the installer failed to detect a usable partition.

As a long-time Linux and macOS user and a developer, I expected this to be trivial. It wasn’t even after searching and asking ChatGPT.

Installing Linux is significantly easier than installing Windows.
Bye. Have a beautiful time.

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