Executives and Investors.

if you read this far, thanks :) a lot of what happened to me made me hate Microsoft, and being able to use something that feels good to use and keeps me out of their ecosystem feels great!













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Anyone remembers the Ameritech distribution?
https://redd.it/1ps369q
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making your own(tm) ostree-based distribution is incredibly easy these days

i'm a big fan of fedora's atomic distros and for a while i thought the whole thing was black magic. i decided to try to understand the internals a bit more and first i made a blue-build-based version that essentially mirrored my setup. all good, github actions, automated updates etc., life was good.

then i thought, "why don't i run the extra mile" and really make something "custom"-ish. i even thought of using gentoo (and managed! it booted, but then i got tired of compiling gnome. and then i realised gentoo doesn't keep gnome up to date). but then i thought, i might just use arch and the cachyos repos, because why not – not sure it makes any difference. so here's the result! besides spending a fair amount of time hammering the whole thing to make it fit ostree's setup (thanks claude), it works fine. and thanks to ghcr, keeping it up to date is very very easy. the end result is basically a clone of fedora silverblue, because i based the whole thing on it, so to end users it will look the same as silverblue, minus rpm-ostree (and a few quirks here and there).

i'm not sure actually using this one in particular could be of interest to anyone because it's quite niche, but i mostly wanted to showcase how one can explore this sort of distribution "development" path without ever messing up your data – i did the whole thing, including endless reboots to sort out initramfs issues, on the only computer i have access to, and, of course, never had any data loss.

edit: in case someone has an amd zen4 laptop – e.g. amd framework – and wants to try it, it is as easy as rebasing from silverblue or ublue or whatever. should work out of the box!

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Intel readies multi-queue support for Linux 7.0 as new feature for Crescent Island
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Multi-Queue-Linux-7.0

https://redd.it/1ps56kn
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Linux 6.19 lands fix for Seagate Barracuda HDD taking down the SATA bus
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Seagate-HDD-Fix

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CtrlAssist v0.2.0: Controller Assist for gaming on Linux
https://github.com/ruffsl/CtrlAssist/releases/tag/v0.2.0

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I saw a Linux user out in the wild today

I was walking in the mall today and I saw this one guy using Ubuntu in this restaurants he was coding in nano and I went to talk to him and I asked him if he is using Linux and he said yes and I told him that I use arch and he said he uses Ubuntu then I went away. As a arch user this was an extremely scary interaction (talking to a new person)

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It's possible to run Linux in the browser.
https://modulovalue.com/blog/i-failed-to-run-dart-on-the-web/

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New Linux Flavor?
https://redd.it/1psfoky
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Linux 6.19-rc2 Adding Support For CRKD Guitar Controllers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-rc2-CRKD-Guitars

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What are your Linux hot takes?

We all have some takes that the rest of the Linux community would look down on and in my case also Unix people. I am kind of curious what the hot takes are and of course sort for controversial.

I'll start: syscalls are far better than using the filesystem and the functionality that is now only in the fs should be made accessible through syscalls.

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You miss 100% of shots you don't take so
https://redd.it/1psmu7t
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DistroWatch muses on the best distro releases of 2025 - what are your picks?
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251222#2025

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I didn’t expect to fall in love with Linux like this

I used Windows for years because it’s always been the easy, user-friendly choice. I’m not exactly an “average user” though, I’ve always been the type to tinker, and I’ve been self-teaching programming since I was a kid.

I also spent years trying to “make Windows mine”: random tools to change the look, add features, tweak stuff… and it usually ended with a system that felt heavier, buggier, and kind of messy.

I’ve done distro-hopping, but I never found a distro/DE that really clicked for me. Recently I’m working on one of the most important projects I’ve ever done, and I started getting paranoid about Windows spyware/malware risking it. So I set up a Fedora dual-boot and decided to use it only for that project.

While looking up the usual GNOME customization videos, I stumbled on one about installing Hyprland on Fedora.

I’d wanted to try Hyprland for a long time because I love the look and the whole vibe, but I always assumed it was basically “Arch-only”. Thanks to JaKooLit (seriously, I can’t thank them enough), I finally tried it... and yeah, I fell hard. Fedora + Hyprland gave me that dumb “new crush” feeling: the more I learned, the more I love it.

It’s the first OS where I genuinely feel like "this is mine". It fits how I think, I can noscript basically anything and the dotfiles are very addictive. Also, the Linux community philosophy is just beautiful.

I really hope more people give different distros a real try until they find something that matches them, especially now that Windows keeps getting more and more stuffed with AI bloat.

I don’t know how to explain it properly, but using an OS built by people who do this because they love it feels like the internet used to feel: more like ours, and less like something owned by cash-cow companies.

Anyway, thank you to everyone who made all of this possible <3

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A month of upstreaming phones based on Snapdragon 845
https://ixit.cz/blog/2025-12-21-upstreaming-0

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Made a weather app for linux using openweather api.
https://redd.it/1psvmnk
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mpv v0.41.0 released - libplacebo used by default; color representation protocol support for Wayland
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases/tag/v0.41.0

https://redd.it/1psvk9f
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My KDE Deskop in 2008
https://redd.it/1pt0gh4
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Competitive games is the only thing stopping me from swapping everything over to Ubuntu..

Game developers need to get serious about supporting competitive games in linux, windows hardware requirements is killing that OS, Ubuntu has worked incredibly for me and competitive gaming is the only thing stopping me from installing it on my gaming PC...

https://redd.it/1pt1j2e
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Linux 6.19's significant ~30% performance boost for old AMD Radeon GPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-619-amdgpu-radeon

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After toying with the notion for years, Microsoft ripped off the bandage for me.

I've been using Xubuntu for 2 months now... and every computer I own is now running it.

In the past, there were little hurdles here and there that were just a bit too cumbersome for me. I remember one was using ndiswrapper for my Netgear USB WiFi thingee. I could never get it working. But now? Development has come so far. The N300 worked right out of the box... Restricted codecs and Nvidia drivers installed alongside the OS... My sound worked perfectly... IT JUST WORKED. Hell, I had forgotten how quickly apps like Gimp or LibreWolf can open up when Microsoft isn't pulling strings behind the scenes.

The ONLY thing I couldn't migrate over was AutoCAD, but I can get by with a dual boot of Windows 10 that isn't allowed to touch the internet.

So yes, for the first time in a while, it finally feels like I own my operating system! I am loving it.

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