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"Linux Desktop: A Collective Delusion" - an unhinged rant (tadeubento.com)

Linux has made significant strides, and in 2023, it’s better than ever. However, there are still individuals perpetuating a delusion: that desktop Linux is as user-friendly and productive as its mainstream counterparts. After a few discussions on Lemmy, I believe it’s important to provide a clear review of where Linux falls...

Happy 19th Birthday, Ubuntu! (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Ardour 8.1 released - Linux DAW for audio and music production (discourse.ardour.org)

ONLYOFFICE 7.5 Released with New PDF Editor + More (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Vanilla OS 2.0 Adds Android Container Support (github.com)

Implements support for waydroid in vso, this includes creating and deleting a waydroid container, as well as using fdroid repositories to install and search for applications.

Misconceptions About Immutable Distributions (tesk.page)

PipeWire 1.0 RC released (Final release expected end 2023) (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

**PipeWire 0.3.81 (2023-10-06)**This is the first 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases....

What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux? (lemmy.ml)

Need help with making Linux my home (lemmy.world)

I’m starting to get ads in my Windows notifications so it’s time I move....

This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters (pointieststick.com)

Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon (www.phoronix.com)

Why You Can't Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10 (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

If you’re confused why you can’t currently download Ubuntu 23.10 despite the fact it’s been released (and blogs like mine are telling you it’s out) there is a reason....

COSMIC lock screen will be customizable with themes (fosstodon.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/280126...

ShellBot Uses Hex IPs to Evade Detection in Attacks on Linux SSH Servers (thehackernews.com)

From The Hacker News

Ubuntu 23.10 is out (ubuntu.com)

Release notes:...

Ex Red Hat CEO is now the interim CEO of Unity (unity.com)

Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on GNOME (CVE-2023-43641) (github.blog)

Today, in coordination with Ilya Lipnitskiy (the maintainer of libcue) and the distros mailing list, the GitHub Security Lab is disclosing CVE-2023-43641, a memory corruption vulnerability in libcue. We have also sent a text-only version of this blog post to the oss-security list....

EndeavourOS Moving to KDE Plasma by Default (endeavouros.com)

EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You’ll hear no complaints from me!

Linux TVs (thomsonhome.in)

Which Linux distro is running in Thomson TVs. What are the capabilties.

Why is Debian the way it is? (blog.liw.fi)

Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It’s thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of the...