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SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 (www.phoronix.com)

"Linux Touchpad like Macbook" Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling (www.gitclear.com)

Debian patching 32-bit builds to handle dates beyond 2038 (distrowatch.com)

Why I'm done with Nobara Linux: A Breakup Story with a Tech Twist (open.substack.com)

Followup to why you should switch to Nobara Linux. Also, some scripts I’ve compiled for distro hopping the fedora flavors.

Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop? (www.tomshardware.com)

Thanks to @redcalcium for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.

What is the point of dbus? (lemmy.world)

Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....

A COSMIC Thanksgiving (blog.system76.com)

Notable changes:...

Calibre 7.0 E-Book Manager Introduces New Notes Feature, Support for Audio EPUBs (9to5linux.com)

Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More (9to5linux.com)

Why Isn't Linux Mainstream? 5 Flaws That Need Fixing. (www.makeuseof.com)

This was written about 8 years ago. Do you feel the Linux landscape has objectively improved? Why? Why not?

Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer (www.theregister.com)

The Register www.theregister.com/…/richard_stallman_cancer/ #GNU #Linux

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....

Booting Linux off of Google Drive (ersei.net)

Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away (www.phoronix.com)

RustDesk (FOSS easy to use TeamViewer alternative) has experimental Wayland support that needs testing! (github.com)

Current prerelease is 1.2.5...

GNOME Shell & Mutter Broke Their Good Faith With Ubuntu (www.phoronix.com)

Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite (www.qualcomm.com)

openSUSE addresses supply chain attack against xz compression library (news.opensuse.org)

openSUSE maintainers received notification of a supply chain attack against the “xz” compression tool and “liblzma5” library....

Libreboot Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support (9to5linux.com)

Fractional scaling help? (kbin.run)

Im on a Dell G5 15 laptop with a 1660ti. I set my built in monitor to 125%, and that looks fine, but for some reason my second monitor seems to be zoomed in a bunch, even though that is still at 100% I kinda need my laptop screen zoomed in since its so small, any advice? Pop!_OS LTS, dont remember version, but says "most recent"

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