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If you can't code, a great way to contribute to your desktop environment is telemetry

"But I'm on linux to escape that stuff!" Then why are you reading this? Respectfully, what are you doing here?

Gnome and KDE Plasma have optional telemetry. As much as people in this sub dispise the very idea of it, projects done by volunteers can benefit MASSIVELY from it since it lets them know what to prioritize and what breaks when and how. I just turned on the full extent it would allow, which allows me to do my part to help make this ecosystem a better one for everyone.

In KDE this is in the settings under feedback. On gnome, you need to download Gnome-info-collect if it isn't already in your distro (not sure if any distros come with it preinstalled but disabled.)

Cosmic doesn't seem to have this as an option yet, but they should really get on that since it's such a new project.

For those that don't hate telemetry, this is a great way to contribute to the greater linux ecosystem. If you want to help but can't code (or come across any bugs to report, since those are always good to but most of us don't encounter bugs) this is a nice way to help.

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What would it really take for EU governments and companies to migrate from Microsoft to Linux?

There’s increasing discussion in the EU about reducing dependency on US tech vendors, especially Microsoft. I was reading related posts and started wondering what the *real* blockers are when moving from a Microsoft-centric on-premise infrastructure to Linux, especially at medium/large company or government scale.

A few challenges that immediately come to mind:

**Identity and Access Management**

Microsoft Active Directory is the backbone of most enterprises. Replacing it is possible (Samba AD, FreeIPA, LDAP), but it’s not a drop-in replacement:

* No full GPO equivalent
* Different management models
* Limited Windows client integration
* Higher operational complexity



**Group Policy Objects**

On Linux this becomes a mix of configuration management tools, noscripts, and local policies, powerful, but fragmented and harder to audit. -> Probably immutable systems like NixOS could be more effective for deploy configuration in a less complex manner?


**Productivity & collaboration**

Replacing Microsoft 365 is not just swapping Word with LibreOffice:

* Excel macros (VBA) break
* Outlook/Exchange workflows are deeply embedded
* Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Power Automate could be integrated with LibreOffice/OpenOffice work, but not always *equivalently*, especially for power users.



**Line-of-Business software**

Many ERP, HR, accounting, CAD, legal and compliance tools are Windows-only or deeply tied to Microsoft APIs. This often blocks desktop migrations even when servers move to Linux.


**Email & Collaboration**

Replacing Exchange requires rebuilding mail, calendar, contacts, mobile sync, archiving, and compliance tooling, all of which Microsoft delivers as a single ecosystem.


**Endpoint Management & Security**

Microsoft provides Intune, Defender, BitLocker, Conditional Access, and Zero Trust tooling. Linux alternatives exist, but are fragmented and less integrated.


Anything else?

Can this migration be possible by the current available solutions? Or it is needed to create new solutions to fill the possible gaps?

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fgshell 0.0.1a released today

fgshell 0.0.1a is alive—and it already regrets it.

This is a Linux shell written mostly in JavaScript, running in places it probably shouldn’t run, existing largely because the universe didn’t stop me. It’s far from feature-complete, missing everything except the parts that work, and probably haunted.

If you want to try it out, break it, fork it, yell at it, or help shape it, you’re welcome here.

GitHub: https://github.com/fearlessgeekmedia/fgshell

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Best linux distros for better battery saving?

So I trird Mint cinnamon. Fedora (main & KDE Plasma both) and xubuntu XFCE while dual booting with Win10, but none of them seems to have better screen on time than Win10.
I need for my 2016 laptop with i5 4200M and 6GB RAM. And my usage are not that heavy that's why I am rocking with this old machine, I only use Browser, VS Studio, JAVA jdk and of course some hardware monitoring tools like HWMonitor, CPUz, GPUz, etc...

Here is the detail explanation of my current battery life:
in Windows it can easily run for 3.5Hrs+, but when I tried the lightweight linux distro Xubuntu XFCE it could only run for about 1:20Hr. Man I can play NFS MW 2012 for that same time and still have \~40% battery life left
and yeah I have meaded many setting in WIn10 to maximize the battery life.
I thought linux might not need that much changes and should give at least 2-3Hrs (only expected), but no we have to give some efforts like turning off animations running commands which might not even gonna remember.
Just after installing KDE Plasma the battery health percentage drop significantly like from 84% to 76%.

Also to note that I also prioritize, appearance settings. and don't suggest any XFCE based distro cause the task manager, appearance are stuck at 19's looking interface no detail view. Meanwhile KDE Plasma give extra features for customizability If There is any best battery saving distro but based on XFCE then list it out I will make sure to test in live boot before installation.
\- Thank You

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Game launchers in PyQt6, Zordeer and Meganimus.
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ELI5 What Will It Take for the EU to NOT Give Up Their Attempt at Moving Their Public Infrastructure to Linux

We're not arguing whether it is or isn't a good plan. But it surely won't be without its growing pains.


Does the EU genuinely have what it takes to make such transition happen successfully, and be able to manage everything onwards?


And if they manage to fully go opensource, across the board, what benefits – as well as issues – will they be looking at, compared to a "big tech" solution?

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kew: small static stite generator
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I built a lock-free audio analysis daemon for Linux that publishes live sound state to shared memory

I’ve been working on a project called **Aether**, and I’m sharing it now that it’s stable and deployed on my daily system.

Aether is **not primarily a visualizer**. It’s a small, real-time **audio analysis daemon** for Linux.

It captures audio via **PipeWire**, performs 7-band FFT analysis, and **publishes the current acoustic state to a lock-free shared memory region** (`/dev/shm`). The daemon never blocks for consumers and has no knowledge of who is listening.

Once the state is published, anything can attach.

The simplest interface looks like this:

$ aether-query --band bass
0.73

That number is continuously updated system state. Because it’s just data, it composes naturally with shell noscripts, status bars, automation, RGB controllers, or anything else that can read stdout.

# Design principles

Broadcast, not push: the daemon publishes state and forgets about it.

Ignorance as resilience: consumers can lag, crash, or disappear without affecting analysis.

Lock-free IPC: optimistic concurrency control (sequence numbers, no mutexes).

Numbers as interface: floats on stdout are maximally interoperable.

# Architecture (high level)

PipeWire → Aether Daemon → shared memory (contract)

any consumer you want

The repository includes reference consumers, not required components:

* a curses-based terminal visualizer (multiple styles)
* an OpenRGB controller for hardware lighting
* a CLI for querying or monitoring the shared state

They exist to demonstrate consumption patterns—the daemon does not depend on them.

# Deployment model

Aether is meant to run as a systemd user service. You start it once per session, and consumers attach or detach independently. If nothing is listening, it still runs. If everything crashes, it keeps listening.

# Motivation

Most audio tools tightly couple capture, processing, and rendering. That works until you want multiple consumers, different update rates, or graceful failure.

I wanted a calm center that only does analysis and publishes its understanding—without opinions about how that information should be used.

# Repository

GitHub: [https://github.com/kareemsasa3/aether](https://github.com/kareemsasa3/aether)

I’m not looking to turn this into a framework or add features at the center. I’m interested in misuse—people doing unexpected things with published audio state.

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Cross-platform dotfiles (Linux, MacOs and Windows) How to ?

Hello everyone !

As I'm about to start a new Job, I'm thinking about cleaning up my configs files and having everything better maintained in a dotfiles repository.

While I started using `stow` to easily symlink all the files I version in my repo (and it works very well) I had to stop as I won't be able to use the same approach on Windows and therefore maintain multiple ways of installing my config.

I've seen solution like chezmoi or yadm but I'm not sure that's what I'm looking for, I mean, it does what I want, but having a minimalist setup is also important to me, something I could deploy with just a terminal, git and why not a noscript in the repo itself.

I though about writing a simple python noscript and configs files to specify source and destination to make the symlinks, with the differences per OS, but maybe there's better option or good reasons not to do so ?

I'm also concerned about security with the .ssh for instance.

But also configuration from the specific companies, I'd like to have the core, which is MY stuff I use everywhere, maybe stuff I use on specific machines only, but also stuff I use at specific companies too.

And for my nvim config, I have another repo, but my dotfile repo uses a git submodule which as of now is really neat !

Right now I use:

\- MacOs

\- Fedora

\- Rocky Linux 9 / 10

\- Windows 11

\- Arch Linux

\- Linux Mint

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Hey, so is it normal to basically bloat your Linux on your first couple installs?

Let me know if this is the wrong subreddit for discussing this kind of stuff.

I've installed Linux a couple of times at this point, first Ubuntu many years ago just to try it, never ran it after the initial install (which I think was just a live boot, couldn't actually figure it out lmao)

Then Linux mint on a cheap desktop I got, installed it an never used the desktop again. (I am considering using it as a server though since it has a 1tb hard drive)

And then Linux on my main station, just for funsies, installed on like 30gb partition because I wasn't able to allocate more (fuck you windows disk manager), and again didn't use it because of the limited space. This was after PewDiePie made his video.

And then again on my laptop as I probably saw another video about Linux. That was another Arch Linux install, this time I just used archinstall command, cause fuck installing it manually again.

However, now I kind of want to remove that installation and do manual because I've brutally bloated it.

Not only do I have weird situations where WiFi just doesn't work, I did many different fixes to varying degrees of success, but Bluetooth is also difficult.

All these problems are probably because I started out with Hyprland and kde-plasma setup from the archinstall and then removed both and installed Niri compositor with quickshell instead.

However, are these issues normal for my circumstances or have I just kind of screwed up my system by initially installing kde-plasma and then trying to remove it? I still have some kde bloat on the device, like the system settings and stuff I have to remove.

I have since installed Bazzite on my main system instead of the arch Linux that was on here, and yesterday reset my windows and used g-parted to allocated more space and dedicated my old games drive to ext4 instead of NTFS, which is awesome, but Bazzite doesn't mount it like it's a part of the system, so I need to add it to Steam every time I log on, I still need to figure that out.

This is mainly a discussion post, as the flair invites. I am not looking for support with these issues, as I will probably figure it out on my own, but I am curious to know if anyone else has done these same silly decisions.

A list of mistakes I've committed that I want to do better next time I choose to install Linux:

* Installing a bunch of apps, because they're cool only to realize I'm not going to use them
* Installing apps in Bazzite like I would with Arch Linux without reading the docs first. Apparently I shouldn't just rpm-ostree install everything. Distroboxes are a thing.
* Not just read the goddamn docs when installing a different Linux distro.

Anyway, that's my rambling out of my mind. I hope I didn't break any rules with this post, but if I did I am sure someone will let me know.

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Extension to manage security visually in GNOME.
https://redd.it/1prf0vs
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[OC] grub-wiz: a TUI grub editor that warns before breaking your boot
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Make Your Choice is now available on Linux!
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