Mouse Tiler v1.1.0 for KDE Plasma update available! (Probably the fastest manual tiler available)
https://redd.it/1pznbvc
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Out of curiosity, how would you compare the Linux experience of today to the very best of Windows from the past?

Windows these days now has a very bad experience. Hell, Microsoft entirely is sh!t with things like Windows 11 and Xbox post 360. But there were times when Windows was held in high regard, like with Windows XP and Windows 7.

With Linux having massive improvements and numerous distros since its humble inception, and with many people moving over to Linux, I wonder how people would compare it to Windows of the past.

Do you think that Linux has surpassed Windows entirely? Or are there still some cues it can learn from Microsoft's better past?

https://redd.it/1pzoumz
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Linux vs FreeBSD disk performance

So I did a thing, using an external SSD. I plugged the drive into my FreeBSD 15 server and created a ZFS pool on it. Then I ran dbench tests, exported the drive, imported it on a Proxmox 9 server, and ran the same dbench tests.

Linux peaks at 1024 clients, FreeBSD peaks at 8192 clients. FreeBSD scales better, at least with stock settings. The drive and filesystem are identical so it comes down to the kernel and the I/O scheduler.

https://preview.redd.it/vqjpy0dgvdag1.png?width=634&format=png&auto=webp&s=151ca958c225cbe273ac9687bbc9706ce3c99246

Any tuning hints?

https://redd.it/1pzph3g
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GitHub - CarloWood/konsole-session-restore: Save and restore all konsole windows and their sessions, including working directory per tab.
https://github.com/CarloWood/konsole-session-restore

https://redd.it/1pzpyga
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ReBAR commercial hoax to sell more stuff?

So here I am, doing some investigating on resizeable BAR, cause my gpu was fried and apparently some gpus perform abysmal without ReBAR. Why is this important? Because my PC is 10 years old, intel X99 platform and build way before ReBAR was ever a thing. And I needed a cheap-ish GPU that performs similar to the GTX1080 that was in there, but that was preferably not another nvidia card and good Linux driver support.

I eventually found ReBarUEFI, which lets you basically reconfigure any UEFI BIOS with ReBAR support which could help in gpu choice.

Fast forward a few weeks, and I got me nice Asus RX 6650XT real cheap and happy camper. Can play some games again if I want to.

Biggest surprise though? With bios option `4G Decoding` enabled and kernel parameter `pci=realloc` there is full ReBAR support on this platform from 2016 that's never supposed to have it, on Linux.

Whereas in Microsoft-land, you have to have bios updates, update your platform to a supported level, special drivers yada-yada.

Who's fooling who? If you can have it Linux, regardless of what you use, it could be done in Windows as well. Instead, all parties involved appear to pull up artificial barriers and sell more stuff.

Meanwhile, here I am on Linux, using a card introduced in 2022 on a platform from 2014 and being able to use that card to its full potential. Or at least not held back by artificial barriers.

Life's good in Linux land.

https://redd.it/1pzwf1m
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How do You guy's listen to Music on Linux?

Before switching to Linux I always used Apple Music. The app sucked but the audio quality was just the best and the selection of music was great. But Apple will never make a client for Linux, Cider is discontinued and the web player is absolutely horrible.

I can't use Spotify because Spotify Premium costs almost twice as much as Apple Music where I live and I can't/don't want to pay that.

I know that Qobuz and Tidal exist. But idk how great their song selection is.

So I'm kind off stuck here. I know that many People self-host music. But idk great sources to get high quality audio, and with the amount of music I listen to it would bankrupt Me to pay for all that. So that also isn't really an option for Me.

How do You listen to music on Linux?

https://redd.it/1pzygwv
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2026 Linux Bingo card

This is my 2026 Linux bingo card uhhhh enjoy

1. Linux will reach ~5% of worldwide user base

2. More apps will become native because of the steam machine

3. Steam machine selling ~1 mil in the whole year

4. Nvidia will still be an asshole

5. There will be more tools for making Linux Experience much smoother

6. Wayland will become superior

7. Flood of people from Windows (Microsoft will probably do some dumb shit)

8. More handhelds with Linux distros

https://redd.it/1pzz4h4
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waybarconf - configuring waybar in an easy way
https://github.com/ronmurphy/waybarconf

https://redd.it/1pzzn9y
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Bluefin 2025 Wrap-up: State of the Raptor
https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-2025/

https://redd.it/1pzzmn7
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Some Meaningful Performance Benefits For Clang + LTO Built Linux Kernels
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-kernel-llvm-clang-lto

https://redd.it/1q03wsq
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StackOverflow: The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/12/24/the-great-unracking-saying-goodbye-to-the-servers-at-our-physical-datacenter/

https://redd.it/1q05s9o
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I created a wrapper around 'ss -tunlp' to display cleaner output of all open ports
https://redd.it/1q0bi9s
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Soccer live updates on your terminal
https://redd.it/1q0d9h6
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Happy new year penguins!! What distro spent the most time in your machine?
https://redd.it/1q0dimu
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Intel's Xe Linux Driver Ready With Multi-Device SVM To End Out 2025
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Multi-Device-SVM-Linux-7

https://redd.it/1q0dv88
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appman V2: your TUI appstore for thousands of portable apps
https://redd.it/1q0h1he
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OpenCV 4.13 brings more AVX-512 usage, CUDA 13 support, many other new features
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCV-4.13-Released

https://redd.it/1q0j2r3
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I created a wrapper of ps+lsof+ss
https://redd.it/1q0h9p4
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My first time using Linux

I just wanna say I love linux. This is my first time using it and it feels so more smooth and amazing! I should've used this a long time ago ngl. At first I was confused because I didn't know where to start but it went smooth.

https://redd.it/1q0mtnk
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Please read to understand the implication...in spite of Linus's simple explanation for decades, people are still getting confused....meh .....it's about GPLv2
https://social.kernel.org/notice/B1aR6QFuzksLVSyBZQ

https://redd.it/1q0pwr7
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Not an endorsement, but Ableton making a hackable Linux-based portable DAW and even outright showcasing it as a use case for the RPi CM wasn't exactly on my bingo card
https://redd.it/1q0qesn
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