Reliable Desktop Linux Installation with Btrfs Snapshots, Snapper, and Rollbacks on Ubuntu (openSUSE style) (moslehian.com)
Regolith Desktop 3.0 Released with Initial Wayland Support (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Regolith Desktop 3.0 has been released for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 23.10, and both Debian Bullseye and Bookworm....
ltorah | a command line Torah reader for linux (github.com)
Firefox 118 Enters Beta Testing with the Built-In Translation Feature for Websites (9to5linux.com)
Linux Performance Tools (www.brendangregg.com)
“This page links to various Linux performance material I’ve created, including the tools maps on the right. These use a large font size to suit slide decks. You can also print them out for your office wall. They show: Linux observability tools, Linux static performance analysis tools, Linux benchmarking tools, Linux tuning...
Ubuntu 23.10 Won’t Use Snap Printing Stack After All (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Ubuntu was planning to ship the CUPS printing stack as a Snap in 23.10 — but after several months of testing, its changed its mind....
Linux 6.5 has landed (www.theregister.com)
Why the Steam deb from Canonical has been broken since 23.04 (popey.com)
tl;dr In a recent thread on Mastodon, it was revealed that Ubuntu 23.04 users can’t install the Steam deb package from the Ubuntu archive without jumping through some technical hoops. It turns out this was a mistake, a bug was filed, and future builds shouldn’t have this problem....
Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid (based on Debian Sid) Developer Preview released to public (fosstodon.org)
Mageia 9 released (www.mageia.org)
Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva....
Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 and More Hardware Bits (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.5 has many great features from the AMD P-State EPP driver default rather than ACPI CPUFreq for Zen 2 and newer supported AMD Ryzen systems, initial USB4 v2 enablement, initial MIDI 2.0 kernel driver work, more Intel hybrid CPU tuning, and a whole lot more....
PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here (distrochooser.de)
I found this site a while back - basically it will ask you a bunch of questions on your usage of your PC, and will came out with a list of recommended distros, and a list of reasons why YOU could like or not like it....
GNU Linux-Libre 6.5 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs (9to5linux.com)
Linux on a Commodore C64 (github.com)
This week in KDE: tap-to-click by default (pointieststick.com)
Still trying to figure out this Lemmy ordeal. lots of overlapping and not enough specific groups, so I feel this should belong here (lemmy.world)
So I’m struggling to understand all the different types of usb standards like 2.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, etc. I am interested in only USB c to USB c. I’ve read about higher data transfer speeds? I’m confused by what that actually means. Is that like transferring files from your laptop to an external drive? Basically sending files...
Accent colors are now a standard preference for Linux (github.com)
Accent colors provide a way for users to personalize their desktop in a simple, developer-friendly, and effective way. Throughout the community there has been a general interest in the inclusion of accent colors within apps and desktop environments. This proposal aims to standardize an accent color key on the Settings portal....
Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu (www.theregister.com)
GNU manuals sorted by number of pages. (gist.github.com)
GNOME Plans to Add a New, Unconventional Window Management (news.itsfoss.com)
Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises (learnbyexample.github.io)
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Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year (www.phoronix.com)
Installed openSUSE tumbleweed in M1 MBP in UTM. Surprisingly did not face any issue. (sh.itjust.works)
Ubuntu Desktop: charting a course for the future (ubuntu.com)
It has been a little while since we shared our vision for Ubuntu Desktop, and explained how our current roadmap fits into our long term strategic thinking. Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few...
