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Mozilla Announces Layoffs, Renews Focus on Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Is linux good for someone tech illererate.

Now i’ve been considering moving to linux. I don’t have much of a history using a computer and find it tougher to use than my phone. But I also really appreciate the foss movement. I’ve currently got an old laptop running windows 11 I think and it would prolly speed up with linux too. But I’m afraid I’d fuck smth up...

Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows (waveterm.dev)

Render anything inline. Save sessions and history. Powered by open web standards....

Ladybird announcement (youtu.be)

Exiting news for the lady bird browser. ladybird.org

Gnome's Adwaita team is breaking icon compatibility (cullmann.io)

OpenSUSE has the best installation menu of any OSs ever made (lemmy.ca)

Team-Kodi PPA officially retired, switches to Flatpak (kodi.tv)

TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards

Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text....

Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?

Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge – have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.

Is there a proper way to use several DE's on one distro or is it not advised?

I have read many conflicting things, like always. Just wondering if there’s a safe way to use several DE’s on one distro without messing up my damn computer lol I’ve tried it several times and it always messed things up. I’m currently brand new to fedora workstation 38 too btw. Thanks alot

Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2?

Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.

Inkscape Flatpak is looking for a maintainer! (github.com)

The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community....

Why has nobody ever heard of Distrobox? Let me tell you why everyone should take a look at it!

TL;DR: It’s basically a WSL for Linux. Linux subsystem for Linux if you will....

Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git (groups.google.com)

For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git....

I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that. (programming.dev)

Imagine your friend that does not know anything about linux, don’t you think this would make them not install the firefox flatpak and potentially think that linux is unsafe?...