COSMIC Pre-Alpha is Incredible (hexbear.net)
I just tried out the COSMIC Desktop Environment (DE) created and engineered by System76 (people who are behind POP!_OS). It was an incredible experience even though it was just a pre-alpha....
The Phoronix forum is wild. (hexbear.net)
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Project founder of Hyprland is banned from freedesktop due to transphobia (www.youtube.com)
Breaking News: Person who claims to only care about code gets banned from one of the largest FOSS development projects due to toxicity and harassment....
Any recommendations for essential, useful, fun command line/terminal programs? (hexbear.net)
Like, best text editor? Helix, Neovim, vim, emacs? All of the above, because why not? Currently leaning helix, becuase there’s less setup involved with plugins and what not, but I’m not a serious programmer or anything....
FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client (freetubeapp.io)
I just wanted to share a program I’ve been using quite a lot recently which is Freetube....
Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying (hexbear.net)
Linux Mint 21.3 Review: solid Wayland support! (invidious.slipfox.xyz)
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Linux 6.7 Released With Bcachefs, Intel Meteor Lake In Good Shape & Nouveau GSP Support (www.phoronix.com)
Notable features: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-67-features
Had to use Windows for non-Steam reasons. Minesweeper now has ads.
Death to Amerikkka
"If you use this low-level API directly, you're signing up for some pain." (a rant)
D-Bus is a common mechanism for inter-process communication used on Linux. It allows applications and services to present a collection of properties and methods, as well as interact with the properties and methods of other process. It is used extensively by modern desktop environments. It is the canonical interface to interact...
Any good open-source game recs?
I deleted my only copy of Windows and reinstalled OpenBSD on my big PC. It’s way better in almost every respect but I miss video games lol. I’ll probably install Linux somewhere and boot that to play video games eventually but games on your native operating system are pretty convenient...
Quick, FOS users drop your distro here!
FOS: Stands for “Free Operating System” as an inclusive term. Includes GNU/Linux, NonGNU/Linux, *BSD that are meant to liberate ones computing....
Steam Deck Users: What do like most about it?
If you own a Steam Deck (either OLED or LCD) or have used one in the past, what are your thoughts? Did you find it easy to use? What is your opinion on the “Desktop mode” with KDE? Do you think it helps or hurts Linux adoption? What are your opinions on Steam as a whole and Valve’s business practices beyond the technical...
I fucking love Guix
I’ve had an amazing time with it so far. It’s so easy to package for (I haven’t contributed a package upstream, but I’m working on it). There’s like two places you put your configs (/etc/config.scm and .config/guix) and it all just works. Like, I’m not even an emacs user, I don’t really use Lisp much, but it’s...