kast: win + k for ubuntu
ubuntu has most of the backend to support magic display and audio casting features that come with macos and windows. the idea is to wire them together and give them a menu bar control center.
this is version 0.2.0 the update after some crybabies complained that it was a slop security nightmare, but rightfully so because it is.
to pacify their concerns, i told a fresh claude instance that codex wrote the last version and it found and patched a shell injection.
the ui is now 1 pill for tx/rx, a lil nicer.
my last post was removed because linux hates ai but ai is the reason why linux is getting popular in present year.
i still take credit for all the good ideas, and i still blame claude for any security concerns.
Do you think Linux actually is adherent to Unix philosophy?
I've read a comment recently saying (I'm paraphrasing here): “The Linux approach of isolating different components, which are all part of the OS function, is the outlier among Unix-based systems.”
That got me thinking about the whole idea that Linux adheres to the Unix philosophy. It kind of reminds me of how some religious groups are so literalist or so spiritual that they miss the mark entirely on what the original messages of their faith are all about.
Also, just for fun, Linux is diverse, so if you agree or disagree with the quoted comment, do you think there are certain distros that are more Unix-like than others?
linux skills on my college application?
I will be applying for international colleges next year (In US). As I will be applying for a CSE course , can I put my linux skill in there with details ? Long story short I have made a home server and also made my own custom rice
I am 16 currently and will be applying for undergrad course
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Linux on lenovo legion slim 5?
Bought this laptop when it released but ended up finding myself using it more for productivity than actual gaming and it’s been great. However being a gaming laptop the battery life is abyssal not really wanting to buy a more practical laptop would installing linux help maybe allowing me to use integrated graphics instead of the 4060 to reduce power consumption?
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What is the most difficult distro?
I’m not a Linux nerd by any means, but I enjoy hating myself, so what’s the most difficult distro to master? I’ve heard Gentoo is difficult, and Arch as well, but apart from that I’ve only ever used Linux Mint, but I don’t think it takes much to learn how to use that.
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lfs it is thanks yal.
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If you build it, they will come..
If you get the movie quote title, you might understand what frustrates me most about what holds linux back. It always seems like major developers and companies use "linux is a small community" constantly as an excuse to not put resources into developing for linux. Relatively speaking, they are not wrong but honestly things could change with enough time and development effort. As an example, Adobe did some development in the past I know but abandoned it because of low usage I believe. However now, in 2026, with the ensh*tification of Windows 11 happening with Copilot and Linux maturing I don't see why developers aren't seeing the number of users jumping over to linux in large numbers for gaming. Sure Valve is an example of one developer investing
i got sober working
sorry if this breaks rules
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Launching FOSS Wiki, an open encyclopedia for open source and Linux topics.
This weekend is the official launch party of FOSS Wiki. We’d like to take this opportunity to invite anyone to support FOSS Wiki, by becoming an editor and contributing to the wiki, or simply by spreading the word. Multiple communities on Fluxer and Discord are also joining in on the fun by promoting it.
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Does anyone use AppImage for program distribution here (or consumption)?
I was thinking of releasing my dotnet-GUI program for Linux (previously Win-10+) and I've the option of Flatpack, AppImage or simple deb/snap package
AppImage seemed the most apt but I rarely hear about it so was wondering if it's worth it or dying out
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word-sys's PDF Editor v1.9.1 Released
https://github.com/word-sys/word-sys-pdf-editor/releases/tag/v1.9.1
Hello everyone, i had to inform you that Flatpak release will be on 1.10 update which means that it will be on August 2026, this small update fixes some issues that people found, said AppImage and Binary release which gonna be released with v1.9.1 will NOT RELEASE and never going to be thinked again due to impossibility of creating universal build that works on old and bleeding edge, i gave up after 4 hours of development, 22 failed attemps, im not doing this anymore, debian build is there for debian-based distro users, manual installation over there for other users, thats it, there is nothing i can do
what yout thoughts
whats yout thoughts on artix linux
been using it a bit now its an systemd free arch linux pretty good distro never really seen it talked about much tho
now with systemd starting to become a bit bad i think this is the best replacement currently
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Irate Goose – surround sound in headphones – now in AppImage
After your feedback, I replaced the custom installer with AppImage and provided a direct link to download the IR files. If you already use the app and have no issues, there is no need to update now, except to enable future automatic updates through the AppImage manager.
Intro
Irate Goose configures a virtual 7.1 sound card that provides surround sound through headphones. The actual work is done by PipeWire. (Math and I had a mutually abusive relationship, so I ended it long ago.) PipeWire has had this ability for a long time, but since there is no interface for it, it remains widely unknown. Irate Goose comes to fix this. The application requires IR
Phoronix just posted a pic with Jensen Huang teasing “exciting things happening on Linux” — what are we expecting?
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Why are so many desktop users using old distributions?
Hey everyone,
As the author of Albert (a standalone C++ / Qt keyboard launcher), I constantly deal with a recurring headache: most of the users sit on old software. Telemetry shows that most of the users are on Ubuntu LTS or Linux Mint (based on LTS).
Flatpak is not a silver bullet, its devs explicitly told me that it is not for Albert (okay, cool). To ship recent versions of Albert for the majority of users I have to provide like 3 to 4 years backward compat. This takes a _lot_ of time.
Now I wonder: why do I have to at all? Why are most users deliberately using software that is EOL or at least quite old?
EDIT:
With EOL I mean the particular packages. E.g. Ubuntu 22.04 ships Qt 6.4 which is EOL.
Desktop HDR
How many of you use desktop HDR? As in just calibrating HDR and leaving it on? Iv had good results on KDE but i was curious how the community felt about it so far. Its widely subjective. I think personally i like it better than SDR on my OLED monitor. Slightly dimmer than the SDR when calibrated but more real to the eyes. Comparing this to W11 its SO much better.
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"unknown" in gs.statcounter.com
TL;DR: The Cloudflare dataset mostly matches the StatCounter data once you account for the fact that Cloudflare doesn't include an "Unknown" category. This gives strong validity to StatCounter’s 19% Unknown share. At a time when Linux is making massive leaps in progress, thanks to Nvidia finally improving its drivers and Valve doing wonders with Proton, most of this "Unknown" traffic can likely be attributed to Linux. This is especially true given that the known Linux market share supposedly "fell" between September 2024 and May 2026, while the Unknown category nearly quadrupled within that same period.
The data found in the Cloudflare Radar dataset (see
scroll wayland compositor stable version 1.12.12
scroll is a Wayland compositor forked from sway. scroll uses a scrolling layout similar to PaperWM, niri or hyprscroller.
scroll is mostly compatible with your sway configuration, and you can have both sway and scroll installed on your system. If you are a sway user and want to see if a scrolling layout is for you, try it.
Aside from the scrolling layout, scroll adds many new features to sway, including:
- Animations: scroll supports very customizable animations.
- scroll supports rounded borders and title bars, dimming of inactive windows, and dynamic shadows with blur.
- Content scaling: The content of individual windows can
A linux machine based on the Raspberry Pi CM5
Having spent way too long trying to figure out if I could make a future-proof ish linux machine, I settled on a CM5 based solution, gave it a SGI Indy looking case and popped it on github
The instructions and files are at github.com/veebch/dbi-pi
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