State of the Budgie: 2025 In Review and Cranking Budgie Up To 11
https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-of-the-budgie-2025

https://redd.it/1qa34ot
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Database adventures

I have a Windows98-era Access database, many tables with quite a bit of data in them. I have jumped through every hoop I could find with no usable results. For years.

This week, I read that LibreOffice Base could read the old .mdb files. Yay! Let's do that!

Yeah... no. Aside from the fact that Base is missing most of what it needs to get to the point where it thinks it can get at a .mdb file, and that Ubuntu's LibreOffice installation doesn't even include Base... all hoops jumped, and face-planted every time.

But. It turns out there's a some software yclept "mdb-tables", so let's try that. . . . .

Holy. Shit.

It didn't even blink. I recovered the entire database with an absolute minimum of fuss. I finally have the data back.

So if you ever need to recover a really old Microsoft Access DB for someone... mdb-tables is the way.

I know this is so niche as to be in a corner of the corner case, and tucked in tightly, but I'm so jazzed right now I just had to post.

Cheers. :)

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European Commission - Have your say;The European Commission has launched a fresh consultation into open source, setting out its ambitions for Europe's developer communities to go beyond propping up US tech giants' platforms. The consultation, which will run from January 6 to February 3, is an early
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

https://redd.it/1qayoa3
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Linux 6.19-rc5 Brings Fix For Newer NVIDIA GPUs, Logitech HID++ For Anywhere 3S & Fixes
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-rc5-Released

https://redd.it/1qawvsz
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My Classic RedHat 10 desktop theme
https://redd.it/1qbjdos
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Some wallpapers I made for RedHat

https://preview.redd.it/ufire6dcb2dg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=394390b288f5e0272e5ad9c47c0315def63c03d4

I made this Red Hat wallpaper, It uses an older redhat logo with the newer logo incorporated. I hope y'all like it, and I hope IBM doesn't get angry with me. Let's see. If you want anything else just ask and I'll design it.

https://redd.it/1qbkciu
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Win8DE made a windows 8 like desktop depends on wlroots based wayland compositors.
https://redd.it/1qaoq4x
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Other than Reddit what do you use to discuss linux?

Title says it all! What else besides Reddit do you use to discuss Linux online? What else is out there with a high number of people commenting? Im talking about Linux as a whole rather than a specific distro.

https://redd.it/1qan9o2
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Thoughts on To Sign or Not to Sign
https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2026/01/12/202601-to-sign-or-not-to-sign/

https://redd.it/1qbf796
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I restored and enhanced the sad tux raining background
https://redd.it/1qbodjt
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Window to the past: When a Red Hat dev thought it's a good idea to remove close button as well when gnome decided to remove min, max buttons.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-February/msg00194.html

https://redd.it/1qbpcs6
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Budgie to use KDE Frameworks in the upcoming versions of their desktop
https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-of-the-budgie-2025

https://redd.it/1qalpxr
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Final Straw

My final straw with Windows was last night. After years of having the same Windows license and about a year of not having changed any hardware, Windows activation decided that my license was no longer valid. No amount of troubleshooting or contacting support helped. I know I can buy a "cheap" Windows Pro license, but I'm done with the BS. I had been dual-booting Linux anyway, but now I'm completely Microsoft free and truly happy about it.

https://redd.it/1qbu1ab
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Best tablet for linux?

I need a tablet but I want linux and oled on it.


Android now have termux and other linux emulator.

Samsung Devices with mediatek 9400 are very powerfull devices and have good oled screens.


Otherwise If I buy Windows tablet I can use linux natively. But They are heavy devices and too expensive devices.

like this:

https://rog.asus.com/tr/laptops/rog-flow-series/

What is your opinion about linux tablet are you use any? Is buying android and using with android emulation is good idea?




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2 devices PC & Server, which Linux?

I need to pick two OSs: one for personal use (Firefox, PyCharm, Obsidian, "Office") and one for a home server (SMB, media-centre, pictures, backups, passwords, syncs, etc).

Both devices are currently running Windows 10, and I have two spare machines I can mess with, so I can slowly migrate.

I was thinking to go for Ubuntu LTS on main PC and Proxmox VE + Ubuntu Server LTS on the server, mainly due to the OS predominances, so I'd have more chances to "Google" myself out of troubles. But I wanted to hear what everyone recommends.

Never used Linux before... so I am not expecting this to be straight forward (especially on the server side), hence the spare machines to give me some headroom.

If there are any former Win users that could also chime-in, I'd appreciate.

Please, do not focus solely on the server... and wish me luck!

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PSA: Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is out! Help offload the mirrors by using Torrents.
https://redd.it/1qbxzkw
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Making Visual Scripting for Bash
https://redd.it/1qbzcjr
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I built a GUI alternative to lsof / ss / netstat
https://redd.it/1qc07l0
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I made a video on some of the best games you can play on the terminal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inIoTvqNme0

https://redd.it/1qc1rp9
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Software discovery like freshmeat or freshcode?

Once upon a time, we users had freshmeat.net, a website where we could discover all kinds of software to use in our Linux systems. Freshmeat's run came to an end. Some time after that, freshcode.club was launched with a similar purpose, although it never reached the popularity of freshmeat.

However about 3 months ago, freshcode stopped working and now the website is non-functional.

So, this leaves us with a question: what is the best way to both discover new software and learn about new releases of existing software, for FOSS projects?

I know there's linux-apps.com, which is part of the opendesktop.org umbrella. This could have been the answer, but it is dominated by Android slop apps, and no meaningful FOSS software, with some exceptions which are old stalwarts back from the site was known as kde-apps.org. So it's not useful for this purpose, at least at this time.

So, again, what would be a good resource to learn about new software and new releases?

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I'm boutta Switch
https://redd.it/1qcc77t
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