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
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I'm using Linux again after an 15 year break. Wow
I started using linux when I was in middle school. My first install was redhat that I installed with floppy disks (no joke). I quickly moved onto Slackware and FreeBSD (i know, not linux), which I used for years and then Arch. I used it as my primary OS, if something was broken I figured it out. I read slashdot, wrote my own iptables, did my own shell noscripting, absolutely loved it. Everything took a ton of work though. I would spend days troubleshooting at times. Then I got decided on a massive career change from IT security to healthcare. I got an iphone and mac and left linux in the past.
I got bored and decided to install ubuntu LTS on an XPS i bought just for it. Wiped the drive clean and just went for it. Wow, shit just works now. The drivers for everything work perfectly. All the keyboard keys work. Gaming on steam is even better than windows! The UI is sooo clean. Wayland is a HUGE upgrade from x11. Linux is truly ready for prime time now, though I guess people just don't care as much about using a PC now.
Sorry, just had to share. All my linux nerd friends long ago quit and went to OSX and had families same as me. I'm very impressed so far, though I feel kind of like a tool using ubuntu. I'll probably get my feet wet and go back to Arch. Anything anyone else would suggest? What else did I miss over these 15 years?
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I started using linux when I was in middle school. My first install was redhat that I installed with floppy disks (no joke). I quickly moved onto Slackware and FreeBSD (i know, not linux), which I used for years and then Arch. I used it as my primary OS, if something was broken I figured it out. I read slashdot, wrote my own iptables, did my own shell noscripting, absolutely loved it. Everything took a ton of work though. I would spend days troubleshooting at times. Then I got decided on a massive career change from IT security to healthcare. I got an iphone and mac and left linux in the past.
I got bored and decided to install ubuntu LTS on an XPS i bought just for it. Wiped the drive clean and just went for it. Wow, shit just works now. The drivers for everything work perfectly. All the keyboard keys work. Gaming on steam is even better than windows! The UI is sooo clean. Wayland is a HUGE upgrade from x11. Linux is truly ready for prime time now, though I guess people just don't care as much about using a PC now.
Sorry, just had to share. All my linux nerd friends long ago quit and went to OSX and had families same as me. I'm very impressed so far, though I feel kind of like a tool using ubuntu. I'll probably get my feet wet and go back to Arch. Anything anyone else would suggest? What else did I miss over these 15 years?
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Linux 6.19 Closing Out 2025 With Several Laptop Additions
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-EOY-Laptop-Work
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Linux 6.19 Closing Out 2025 With Several Laptop Additions
A New Year's Eve pull request is ready with several Intel/AMD laptop improvements for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel cycle
Uninstalling steam from the official ubuntu app store flooded tge root and bricked my pc
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Tracking kernel commits across branches by Greg Kroah-Hartman
http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/15/tracking-kernel-commits-across-branches/
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Linux Kernel Monkey Log
Tracking kernel commits across branches
With all of the different Linux kerenl stable releases happening (at least 1
stable branch and multiple longterm branches are active at any one point in
time), keeping track of what commits are …
stable branch and multiple longterm branches are active at any one point in
time), keeping track of what commits are …
Micro (editor) 2.0.15
https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/v2.0.15
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Micro 2.0.15
Get well into and have a happy new year 2026! 🎆
What's Changed
tools: Revert tgz to tar.gz in cross-compile.sh by @JoeKar in #3446
Allowing plugin to add cursor in custom Loc by @...
Get well into and have a happy new year 2026! 🎆
What's Changed
tools: Revert tgz to tar.gz in cross-compile.sh by @JoeKar in #3446
Allowing plugin to add cursor in custom Loc by @...
4 Years in Linux. Wanted to share my experience
This is my 4th year with Linux so i wanted to share my experience with Linux all the way from the start.
My pc was getting older by the year so windows (in windows fashion) stopped supporting my computer, and i was forced into windows7 and the driver and steam issues were crazy. then i was scrolling on youtube and found a video of someone learning Linux from scratch. I became inspired and downloaded my first distro Manjaro without any knowledge. (Big mistake) After that i was fucked with how hard Manjaro was for me and went back to windows. A few months later i did research before trying Linux again and downloaded Linux Mint and ive been daily using it since. I had some experiences with Arch but none were good so im not gonna go into Arch for now but i wanna try it again this year if i get a better pc.
So heres how i learned and prepped for Linux and also my tips if you are getting into it or have someone learning Linux:
I only learned Apt and nothing else before trying Linux and that teached me thru experience so i recommend using a Debian based for your first distro
Always have a ventoy with another windows iso in it so if you cant get stuff working you can always go back
Looks arent important if youre learning when you feel like youre done with the terminal try to download the theme (if its done on it)
Always check on reddit or other websites they probably can solve your problem in 1 to 5 comments
Dont forget about Flatpak its really useful.
Thats all i hope for another year without any system bugs :D
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This is my 4th year with Linux so i wanted to share my experience with Linux all the way from the start.
My pc was getting older by the year so windows (in windows fashion) stopped supporting my computer, and i was forced into windows7 and the driver and steam issues were crazy. then i was scrolling on youtube and found a video of someone learning Linux from scratch. I became inspired and downloaded my first distro Manjaro without any knowledge. (Big mistake) After that i was fucked with how hard Manjaro was for me and went back to windows. A few months later i did research before trying Linux again and downloaded Linux Mint and ive been daily using it since. I had some experiences with Arch but none were good so im not gonna go into Arch for now but i wanna try it again this year if i get a better pc.
So heres how i learned and prepped for Linux and also my tips if you are getting into it or have someone learning Linux:
I only learned Apt and nothing else before trying Linux and that teached me thru experience so i recommend using a Debian based for your first distro
Always have a ventoy with another windows iso in it so if you cant get stuff working you can always go back
Looks arent important if youre learning when you feel like youre done with the terminal try to download the theme (if its done on it)
Always check on reddit or other websites they probably can solve your problem in 1 to 5 comments
Dont forget about Flatpak its really useful.
Thats all i hope for another year without any system bugs :D
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Two years after launch Intel Meteor Lake offers 93% of original performance on Linux, tests show
https://videocardz.com/newz/two-years-after-launch-intel-meteor-lake-offers-93-of-original-performance-on-linux-tests-show
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MiDesktop (KDE1 fork) Development Preview Release
Some of you may recall my post from a year ago Software left in nostalgia-land ≠ dead software - bringing KDE1 into the modern world \- where I teased this project. Eventually it made its way to YouTube, and not too long after that I was invited to the Tech over Tea podcast to discuss the project.
I've been relatively quiet since then, but today I'm extremely excited to share this first development preview release with everyone finally!
For those not caught up, MiDesktop (formerly MiDE) is a fork of KDE1, ported to the Osiris toolkit (itself a fork of Qt2), and fixed to run on modern Linux systems. It's blazing fast and lean, aesthetically functional and distraction-less.
Today, packages are available for Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04. You can now get a glimpse at what the Linux desktop was like in the late 90s/early 2000s, without all the trouble to get it running.
I'd be remiss not to explicitly note that this is a development preview release, which means that there are bugs and there may also be undiscovered security issues, so be aware that MiDesktop is not considered stable yet.
For those just itching to get their hands on the packages, head over to this page to get installation instructions. You can also get the source here and compile it yourself if you want, though the packages are recommended, as you'll get updates as they are released, and they are generally known to work. A Discord server is available if you need help getting it up and running too, though apparently I cannot link that here..
Errata
There's a bunch of known issues/bugs, but the most glaring ones are listed here:
Firefox and Chrome do not behave/resize correctly. Firefox panics and expands to infinity off the right side of the screen, and Google Chrome simply refuses to be adjusted from its small box at all. This is the biggest thing keeping anyone from daily driving it
Taskbar menus show when clicked but disappear immediately
Expanding categories in the Control Center sometimes doesn't actually expand the list visibly, or behave as expected
There is no multi-monitor awareness, though it will expand across all available screens without complaining.
Plans? Yes, lots! Unfortunately development has been a bit slower than I expected, but good results take time. I've recently had more time freed up so dev speed will pick up a bit here.
You'll notice that a lot of KDE applications are missing. Currently, just the very basics are working. I plan to get the other applications working and included, so you'll have KEdit, KWrite, KCalc, KMix, etc., though the names are likely to slightly change to not get confused with modern KDE (similar to how Trinity Desktop renamed things)
Fix scrolling in all applications
Add power options (shutdown, restart, etc) to the logout menu
Re-write KDM to work on a modern system
Add sound support back in with support for the modern sound stack
A Wayland port is planned, though that's going to take a lot of time and effort
That's all for now. Enjoy, and happy new year!
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Some of you may recall my post from a year ago Software left in nostalgia-land ≠ dead software - bringing KDE1 into the modern world \- where I teased this project. Eventually it made its way to YouTube, and not too long after that I was invited to the Tech over Tea podcast to discuss the project.
I've been relatively quiet since then, but today I'm extremely excited to share this first development preview release with everyone finally!
For those not caught up, MiDesktop (formerly MiDE) is a fork of KDE1, ported to the Osiris toolkit (itself a fork of Qt2), and fixed to run on modern Linux systems. It's blazing fast and lean, aesthetically functional and distraction-less.
Today, packages are available for Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04. You can now get a glimpse at what the Linux desktop was like in the late 90s/early 2000s, without all the trouble to get it running.
I'd be remiss not to explicitly note that this is a development preview release, which means that there are bugs and there may also be undiscovered security issues, so be aware that MiDesktop is not considered stable yet.
For those just itching to get their hands on the packages, head over to this page to get installation instructions. You can also get the source here and compile it yourself if you want, though the packages are recommended, as you'll get updates as they are released, and they are generally known to work. A Discord server is available if you need help getting it up and running too, though apparently I cannot link that here..
Errata
There's a bunch of known issues/bugs, but the most glaring ones are listed here:
Firefox and Chrome do not behave/resize correctly. Firefox panics and expands to infinity off the right side of the screen, and Google Chrome simply refuses to be adjusted from its small box at all. This is the biggest thing keeping anyone from daily driving it
Taskbar menus show when clicked but disappear immediately
Expanding categories in the Control Center sometimes doesn't actually expand the list visibly, or behave as expected
There is no multi-monitor awareness, though it will expand across all available screens without complaining.
Plans? Yes, lots! Unfortunately development has been a bit slower than I expected, but good results take time. I've recently had more time freed up so dev speed will pick up a bit here.
You'll notice that a lot of KDE applications are missing. Currently, just the very basics are working. I plan to get the other applications working and included, so you'll have KEdit, KWrite, KCalc, KMix, etc., though the names are likely to slightly change to not get confused with modern KDE (similar to how Trinity Desktop renamed things)
Fix scrolling in all applications
Add power options (shutdown, restart, etc) to the logout menu
Re-write KDM to work on a modern system
Add sound support back in with support for the modern sound stack
A Wayland port is planned, though that's going to take a lot of time and effort
That's all for now. Enjoy, and happy new year!
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I've used Windows all my life. Is it worth switching to Linux?
I've used and been fine with Windows for forever, but after losing my Microsoft account to a hacker which MS refused to do anything about and the continued push of Gemini and Microsoft Edge, I simply am not enjoying Windows anymore. I can put up with it, but I've heard so many people banging on about how good Linux is I've become very interested in it. I know almost nothing about Linux, other than that there are different flavours of it (the only one I know the name of is Mint), that it doesn't support some number of applications, and that it's quite command-prompt heavy. The latter makes me a bit wary, as I'm utterly shite at coding. Sell me on Linux - what are the pros and the cons? How can I tell if it's for me?
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I've used and been fine with Windows for forever, but after losing my Microsoft account to a hacker which MS refused to do anything about and the continued push of Gemini and Microsoft Edge, I simply am not enjoying Windows anymore. I can put up with it, but I've heard so many people banging on about how good Linux is I've become very interested in it. I know almost nothing about Linux, other than that there are different flavours of it (the only one I know the name of is Mint), that it doesn't support some number of applications, and that it's quite command-prompt heavy. The latter makes me a bit wary, as I'm utterly shite at coding. Sell me on Linux - what are the pros and the cons? How can I tell if it's for me?
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New year resolution: Consider donating to your favorite open source projects
To kick off 2026, I decided to give back to open source projects that have made my life easier in the past year.
Some of the projects I donated to are KDE, Syncthing, Ankidroid, and a few others that have been invaluable for me.
What FOSS projects would you consider supporting? Are there any FOSS projects that are flying under the radar and could use more support? Even small donations help cover some costs and shows developers that their work matters.
Happy new year to you all! Enjoy!
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To kick off 2026, I decided to give back to open source projects that have made my life easier in the past year.
Some of the projects I donated to are KDE, Syncthing, Ankidroid, and a few others that have been invaluable for me.
What FOSS projects would you consider supporting? Are there any FOSS projects that are flying under the radar and could use more support? Even small donations help cover some costs and shows developers that their work matters.
Happy new year to you all! Enjoy!
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If he had accepted.. we wouldn’t be here today. I'm in an existential crisis, guys!
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Windows like "Task manager" called Mission Center
Checking if you guys have heard of the application. Of course htop and atop are my go to. but I did find this cool gui app called Mission center. you can find more info about it here https://missioncenter.io/
https://preview.redd.it/yql9wf12gvag1.png?width=1918&format=png&auto=webp&s=06a2bab3b051de227740bf1a93da5ef0a9c98da9
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Checking if you guys have heard of the application. Of course htop and atop are my go to. but I did find this cool gui app called Mission center. you can find more info about it here https://missioncenter.io/
https://preview.redd.it/yql9wf12gvag1.png?width=1918&format=png&auto=webp&s=06a2bab3b051de227740bf1a93da5ef0a9c98da9
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The EU prepares ground for wider data retention – and VPN providers are among the targets
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-prepares-ground-for-wider-data-retention-and-vpn-providers-are-among-the-targets
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The EU prepares ground for wider data retention – and VPN providers are among the targets
With the Chat Control bill entering its final stage, the EU Council has been busy thinking about what a new data retention framework could look like.
Linux professional certification
Hello fellas,
Freshly graduated Control & Automation Eng here! Looking for free, vendor-neutral Linux certs focused on embedded/industrial use, to improve my resume. Any tips on where to learn and/or how the exams work? Thanks for the help!
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Hello fellas,
Freshly graduated Control & Automation Eng here! Looking for free, vendor-neutral Linux certs focused on embedded/industrial use, to improve my resume. Any tips on where to learn and/or how the exams work? Thanks for the help!
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Need Distro advice.
So my work sells their old laptops.
I bought a Dell Latitude 7400, with an i7 Intel, and 16gb of RAM.
It has windows on it already, but I want to switch it to Linux, was thinking either Mint or Unbuntu for it, but wanted to get other people's options on a different distro for it.
I know that not all distros are the same, but this is my first time putting Linux on an Intel CPU and just wanted to make sure I'm using one that isn't going to cause problems.
Any advice would be appreciated!
Thank you!
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So my work sells their old laptops.
I bought a Dell Latitude 7400, with an i7 Intel, and 16gb of RAM.
It has windows on it already, but I want to switch it to Linux, was thinking either Mint or Unbuntu for it, but wanted to get other people's options on a different distro for it.
I know that not all distros are the same, but this is my first time putting Linux on an Intel CPU and just wanted to make sure I'm using one that isn't going to cause problems.
Any advice would be appreciated!
Thank you!
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MenuetOS running some simple Linux X11 applications.
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