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GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread (www.phoronix.com)

Red Hat’s Jonas Ådahl began working on this Mutter KMS kernel thread implementation a half-year ago and finally it recently was merged for the GNOME 45 release due out in September. By having this dedicated thread there should be lower latency cursor movements and possible avoidance of cursor stutter. It should be a latency...

Distrobox assemble can now automatically export apps (blog.9wd.eu)

I saw yesterday that the current development version of Distrobox has gained the ability to define applications not only to the desktop launcher, but now also to the $PATH to invoke distrobox applications from the cli....

GNOME’s Native Screencasting Feature is Taking Shape (www.omglinux.com)

The developer working on integrating network display functionality into GNOME Shell shared short video clip to the GNOME sub-reddit […] the feature adds a “screencast” button to the row of actions in the Quick Settings menu. Clicking this opens a modal picker where the user can select any Miracast or Chromecast compatible...

Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS) to keep your block list up to date (github.com)

Hi all, I’m a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that’s made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server’s All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances....

Elementary OS Updates for July 2023 (blog.elementary.io)

This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns in System Settings. Plus, for our developers we...

Bram Moolenaar, the father of VIM has died (groups.google.com)

Thank you Bram for the great text editor you brought to this world and the many carreers you changed by it.

This week in KDE: porting, Dolphin, and KWin (pointieststick.com)

Most popular 'real' desktop will soon be the Linux desktop [Opinion] (www.theregister.com)

The author of vim has sadly passed away (groups.google.com)

I made a bitwarden-cli wrapper so it's actually usable - Feddit.ro (feddit.ro)

edit: here is the link so it’s more easily accessible

Webmesh: Now with the ability to peer independent meshes (github.com)

Hey all!...

This week in KDE: porting, Dolphin, KWin and Wayland fixes (pointieststick.com)

Bram Moolenaar Passed Away (groups.google.com)

Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, has died....

This week in KDE: porting, Dolphin, and KWin (pointieststick.com)

NVK Has landed! (www.collabora.com)

And as usual this is without any help from Nvidia...

Microsoft starts to improve VS code for Unity good news for Unity 3D on Linux (devblogs.microsoft.com)

This has happened after leaving VS code almost unusable for some years since debugging wasn’t working on Unity 3D. I was able to use an old version of VS code omnisharp that would allow me to debug Unity on my Linux desktop. Do you think there is some EEE agenda in this decision? Or this is good news?

blobdrop 2.0 released - Drag and drop your files directly out of the terminal (github.com)

This is a little tool I have made to ease the workflow of dragging files from the terminal without having to open a full file manager....

10 Completely Free Linux Books That Will Make You a Linux Master (www.tecmint.com)

If you’re aiming to elevate your Linux learning process to an advanced administrative and expert level, we have meticulously curated a collection of 10 exceptional Free Linux eBooks....

Need help with AMD mesa drivers (www.amd.com)

To begin: Ubuntu 23.04 64-bit system Gnome 44.2 Kernel Version 6.2.0-26-generic Wayland So I need help with getting blender to work with my Rx6700xt, I need HIP RT running, but as of rn it’s not, do any of u have a solution for this. Also 3 months new to Linux, very scared of installing things i may or my not need.