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Wayland running GUI program as another user

I use github.com/slingamn/namespaced-openvpn to have a isolated namespace and VPN connection to work...

linux mint became super slow

so im not sure if this is update related or storage related. somewhere online told me to check ‘page faults’ and theyre at 16998 MINFL and 114 MAJFL. i ran out of storage on my ssd so i clesred half of it by deleting timeshift snapshots (and disabled it). it’s still running like a slug. once an application is open, it’s...

ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on.

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Gnome completely different and buggy after update (Debian)

I just ran an update, as one does with apt update and upgrade. Afterwards all my monitors, bedies that one ancient 4 by 3 monitor stopped working. That 4 by 3 displays gnome at a lower resolution then usual. So I assumed that this has something to do with the nvidia drivers (has happened many times before). So I run...

Random application segfaults on Arch

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Mini Fundraiser: Stream Deck Plus for Boatswain support (feaneron.com)

Georges Basile Stavracas Neto, the GNOME dev behind Boatswain, started a fundraiser to get the new Elgato Stream Deck Plus, so they can add support for it in the app, since Elgato offered no support for them.

Testing composefs in Silverblue – Alexander Larsson (blogs.gnome.org)

Links for more context on what composefs is and why you’d want to use it for your image-based OS (like Silverblue):...

Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable (www.patreon.com)

This is an excerpt from a post on the Lutris Patreon page a few months ago:...

Evolve - A brand new GNOME Theme Manager (arcnations.wixsite.com)

Hasn’t been released fully yet by the developer but looks interesting....

Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

Another good lesson about why we should trust only FOSS ecosystems

A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust) (github.com)

Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS (arstechnica.com)

Issues with HDR pass through on x86

After some researches I find two ways to have HDR pass through on Linux x86: Libreelec and kodi “stand alone session”....

KDE Ships Frameworks 5.114.0 (kde.org)

Wine 9.0-rc5 · wine / wine · GitLab (gitlab.winehq.org)

openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/02 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)

What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

I’m wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

Join the 2nd edition of the Creative Freedom Summit! (creativefreedomsummit.com)

Hey guys, the Fedora shill is back again to invite you all to this year’s Creative Freedom Summit, that will be hosted from 23-25 Jan....

Kubernetes with CRI-O on Fedora Linux 39 - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)

Booting up Libreboot T440p laptop with Windows 11 (No NVIDIA GPU Required) (vid.puffyan.us)

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Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs (www.phoronix.com)

Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here’s an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle....

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