Video codecs: Adding AV1 stateless video decoder support to Linux (www.collabora.com)
Should I switch to Wayland?
Hey Community,...
This week in KDE: Plasma 6 development continues (pointieststick.com)
This Morning Cemented My Love for KDE Plasma
It is 5 am, I have not slept tonight, but what I have done makes me very happy....
Canonical lifts lid on more Ubuntu Core Desktop details (www.theregister.com)
GNOME 45 Release Candidate Arrives with Last-Minute Changes - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
The final release of the GNOME 45 desktop environment is expected on September 20th, 2023....
Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid (based on Debian Sid) Developer Preview released to public (fosstodon.org)
What we plan to remove in Plasma 6 (pointieststick.com)
Why can't I play H.265 videos on Fedora 38 even though I have the codec installed (lemmy.ml)
I just started using Linux... any great tips?
I just installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Cinnamon) on an empty laptop a couple days ago and have been experimenting a lot. I’m coming from being a Windows user since I was just a little kid playing old DOS games on my grandpa’s Win-98 PC back in around 2000. My daily driver is currently running Windows 10 but I am pretty adamant...
Gaussian distro? (lemmy.ca)
This is completely random, but… has a Gaussian distribution ever been made? It’d be absolutely hilarious :D...
gamescope through the heroic launcher is WAY better than steam (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
the heroic launcher was recently updated to support gamescope (installed it through flatpak by installing org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope 23.08 through the terminal using >flatpak install)....
Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 (CVE-2023-38545) · curl/curl · Discussion #12026 (github.com)
cross-posted from: biglemmowski.win/post/224873...
Why is there no music-based platform like PeerTube?
I’m not sure where to discuss this so I’m posting here since this is the hub of FOSS advocates....
Recommendations for a FOSS Cross-Platform Note-Taking Application
Up to now I’ve been using Simplenote, which has a Linux client (but also Android & iOS) & supports live collaboration on notes. However, Simplenote hasn’t had a meaningful update for a long time, & it’s recently been behaving strangely, e.g. notes undeleting themselves, line duplications & undeletions....
Flatsweep Cleans Leftover Data from Uninstalled Flatpaks (www.omglinux.com)
Great app
yas-bdsm: Yet Another Stow-Based Dotfiles System Manager (github.com)
The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)
In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software...
Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated (www.phoronix.com)
The Xfce Wayland road-map on the project’s Wiki has been updated a few times over the past two weeks, namely around the desktop panel plug-ins and applications support for Wayland. There still isn’t a firm timeline or release where they expect to have a complete Xfce Wayland transition complete, but ultimately are aiming to...
August Plasma 6 great progress update (pointieststick.com)
My favorite tech joke (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y (arstechnica.com)
The project is called “Lacros” which Google says stands for “Linux And ChRome OS.” This will split ChromeOS’s Linux OS from the Chrome browser, allowing Google to update each one independently....
GNOME 44.4 Is Out to Improve Epiphany, GNOME Software, and More - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Rethinking Window Management on GNOME – Space and Meaning (blogs.gnome.org)
Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation (projectbluefin.io)
OCI images that you can turn into a full-fledged developer workstation shipping Devbox, Nix, Homebrew, devcontainers and DevPod with one command. Pretty swanky!
