Considering Linux as my first non macOS laptop. My ecosystem has been Apple since the MacIntosh 128K. This is a big change to consider, so a baby step is in order. The Lenovo ThinkPad T14 1st or 2nd gen seem like interesting starting points and I can find them easily on eBay for between $280-$500CAD.

I have a Linux Ubuntu box and prefer Debian/ubuntu. I’ve used Unix/Linux in my daily work since 1997.

Would love advice/feedback on hardware if anyone wants to share.

#linux #laptop #apple

"Solus Linux now allows AI-assisted code contributions under strict disclosure, testing, and accountability requirements."

https://linuxiac.com/solus-linux-adopts-formal-ai-and-llm-contribution-policy/

#solus #soluslinux #linux #ai

RE: https://ieji.de/@parchlinux/117370250586124608

One of the things I’m really excited about in Parch Linux is GameHub, our all-in-one tool for managing game launchers and #Proton.

We’re working on a feature that I think will be especially useful for people who #LinuxGaming: simply search for a game by title and see how well it runs on your system.

Instead of guessing whether a game will work, digging through different compatibility reports, or installing it just to find out, GameHub will give you that information right where you need it.

It’s still coming soon, but I’m really looking forward to seeing this become part of the Parch experience.

And as always, it’s being built by the #ParchLinux community, with #FreeSoftware and user freedom in mind.

#Linux #GamingOnLinux #Steam #Proton #FOSS #OpenSource #ParchGNUlinux

RE: https://ieji.de/@parchlinux/117370229800560988

Parch Linux Hyperland has been released by the Parch community, and I’m proud to say that the Parch project in Iran has, at the very least, managed to bring a new generation of young people interested in technology closer to #FreeSoftware and its philosophy.

This entire edition of Parch Linux was developed by young people under the age of 20. And honestly, this is the only Parch edition where, as the main maintainer, I simply acted as a supervisor and didn’t actually write or develop anything myself.

Unlike many other distributions that ship with #Hyprland and tend to be highly #opinionated, Parch takes a different approach. We want to give users a clean and flexible starting point rather than imposing a specific workflow or philosophy on them.

We’ve also published our monthly report covering the past month, where you can read more about what the Parch community has been working on.

You can find it on the #ParchLinux blog. :)

#Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS #Hyprland #ParchGNUlinux

Esses carregamentos de sombreadores da Steam são uma coisa tão frustrante... Eu só queria jogar 😩😭.
Ainda sim a Steam é a melhor plataforma para jogar com Linux. Mas repito, é MUITO frustrante.

#steam #games #linux #linuxgame #poposlinux

Oh my gosh, I had no idea I had so little time left to upgrade Jenkins!

#jenkins #linux

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Notice from Jenkins self-hosted server: Operating system end of life monitor You are running Jenkins on Linux. Jenkins will no longer support Linux after 2099-12-31. Please plan your upgrade to a supported operating system before 2099-12-31. Refer to the documentation for details.

From #Tumbleweed to #MicroOS to UKI, here is an overview of what image types can already be built in #OBS with mkosi, and what's still in progress. #Linux #oSC26 https://youtu.be/rf2GMlMBV9E

My AerynOS with Cosmic DE setup with custom made icons and wallpaper.

#linux #aerynos #cosmicde #cosmic #icons

#OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 “ROME” Released with #KDE Plasma 6.7 and #Linux Kernel 7.2 https://9to5linux.com/openmandriva-lx-26-09-rome-released-with-kde-plasma-6-7-and-linux-kernel-7-2

@openmandriva #OpenSource

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A screenshot of OpenMandriva Lx ROME with the KDE Plasma desktop environment showing the application menu.

Systemd-Free #Nitrux 7.0 Released with #Linux Kernel 7.2 and #Hyprland 0.55.4 https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-nitrux-7-0-released-with-linux-kernel-7-2-and-hyprland-0-55-4

@Nitrux_NX #OpenSource #Debian

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A screenshot of Nitrux 7.0 with the default desktop layout.

WinBoat: Run Windows Apps on Linux

WinBoat is a free open-source tool designed to run Windows applications on Linux with high compatibility.

#linux #windows-11 #windows-11-news

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/12/02/run-any-windows-app-on-linux-with-winboat-its-free-and-open-source/

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WinBoat: Run Windows Apps on Linux

Hi #linux people, fun and non hypothetical question: I want to completely wipe my work laptop before returning it. What would be a simple and effective way? Would `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever` work, or would the collapse of the world under its feet make it stop before finishing?

🖥️ Proxmox VE jako pełnoprawny klaster produkcyjny. Funkcje o których nie słyszałeś.

Denis Kaczor opowie o ekosystemie Proxmox VE, obejmującym backupy, klastry HA, Ceph, SD-WAN i narzędzia do szybkich wdrożeń. Prelekcja będzie skierowana zarówno do początkujących, jak i zaawansowanych użytkowników.

📍 Gdzie? Hotel KOLNA, Kraków
📅 Kiedy? 23–25 października 2026
🔗 Zapisy: https://jesien.org/2026

#JesieńLinuksowa #Linux #Proxmox #Virtualization

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Grafika promuje wystąpienie jednego z prelegentów konferencji Jesień Linuksowa. U góry znajduje się logo wydarzenia — pomarańczowy liść z napisem „Jesień Linuksowa”. Poniżej widoczne jest zdjęcie prelegenta oraz jego dane: Denis Kaczor, Administrator IT. Pod nim, na pomarańczowym polu, umieszczono tytuł prezentacji: Proxmox VE jako pełnoprawny klaster produkcyjny. Funkcje o których nie słyszałeś.. Na dole grafiki podano termin i miejsce konferencji: 23–25 października 2026, Hotel Kolna, Kraków.

Word → LibreOffice Writer
Excel → LibreOffice Calc
Outlook → Thunderbird
Photoshop → GIMP
Media Player → VLC

Alles kostenlos, alles Open Source. Wer vorher schon unter Windows umsteigt, hat es beim Wechsel des Systems leichter.

#OpenSource #Linux #LibreOffice

sdme: Das eigene Linux als Container klonen

Das eigene Linux-System schnell einmal klonen, um etwas zu testen: Das bietet sdme, der systemd Machine Editor.

https://www.heise.de/news/sdme-Das-eigene-Linux-als-Container-klonen-11472031.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Containerisierung #IT #Linux #OpenSource #news

Kennt hier jemand einen zuverlässigen und professionellen, kostenlosen DynDNS Anbieter? Früher wäre ich ja zu nsupdate.info gegangen, aber der scheint keine neuen Nutzer mehr aufzunehmen?

#dyndns #server #linux

#Microsoft Has Made #WSL #Containers Available to Everyone
The new release comes with wslc.exe, a dedicated command-line tool for Linux container workflows on #Windows. It ships with a built-in alias, container.exe, for those who prefer that syntax.
A Windows #API also ships alongside it, giving native Windows applications a way to spin up and manage containers directly from code, as well as some new commands.
https://itsfoss.com/news/wslc-general-availability/ #linux

Blanc is a new open-source and cross-platform web browser built on Electron.

There's no tab strip or address bar as it uses a 'dynamic island' that doubles up as a command palette.

It even claims to use less memory than Chrome or Vivaldi.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/blanc-web-browser-new?v1

#opensource #webDev #linux

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#WebHosting #SysAdmin #DataCenter #Linux #Paris #BareMetal #TechNews

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Bare-Metal Dedicated Servers in Paris

#Audacity 4.0.1 Audio Editor Restores Keyboard Shortcuts from Audacity 3 and Improves Exporting https://9to5linux.com/audacity-4-0-1-audio-editor-restores-keyboard-shortcuts-from-audacity-3

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

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A screenshot of Audacity 4.0.1 showing the main window while editing audio clips and the About Audacity dialog.

FINALLY!

And we're go – upgrades to Ubuntu 26.04 from 24.04 finally enabled - OMG! Ubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2604-upgrades-live-2404

#Ubuntu #Canonical #LTS #Upgrade #Linux #Tech

Hey. I’m currently using Tailscale with a self hosted control server(headscale). The problem’s that when the control server goes down for several days(Internet outage, here, in Iran), the clients get lost. And I have to come up with a new control server.

So I’m looking for a solution similar to Tailscale+Headscale, but with decentralized control server and relay.

Note that raw wireguard is not a solution. As some clients are(or might be) behind NATs. And then they will either need hole punching or a relay.

In Elementary OS, you can set hot corner to switch workspace smoothly. No need to click, just hover the mouse.

#linux #elementaryos

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Multitasking setting in Elementary OS, showing that hot corner is activated to switch workspace on bottom left (to the previous workspace) and bottom right (to the next workspace).

#Linux #BSD

Weird question:

Does anybody know why linux did not go for UFS ?

Thanks

Here's a fun little @libreoffice trick, that I've just stumbled across by accident:

If you select some text (e.g. triple click, or drag-to-select), and then type an opening bracket, it is automatically closed at the end of the selected text.

It works for (, [, and {.

#LibreOffice #Linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟮𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/09/28) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/valuable-news-2026-09-28/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

For all Fediverse people using #Linux and starting to move to #NetBSD did you notice that NetBSD has rsync as package with a version number which is quite new and thus made with Tridge + Claude A.I.

Which rsync alternative or which rsync version are you using ? Or did you move to something else ?

#opensource #ai #noai #slop

📰 Emmabuntüs à la une sur Good Tech !
Un grand merci à Good Tech pour ce bel article qui met en lumière notre travail sur l'accessibilité Linux, le réemploi et l'inclusion, notamment avec nos actions au Togo ! 💡🐧
🔗 L'article complet est à découvrir ici :
https://goodtech.info/emmabuntus-de6-accessibilite-linux-togo-inclusion-handicap/
#Emmabuntüs #Linux #LogicielLibre #OpenSource #Accessibilité #Inclusion #Togo #GoodTech

Niederlande bauen souveränen Behördendesktop auf NixOS-Basis

Die Niederlande entwickeln eine quelloffene Arbeitsumgebung für Behörden. Das Desktop-OS basiert auf NixOS, acht Kommunen testen bereits.

https://www.heise.de/news/Niederlande-bauen-souveraenen-Behoerdendesktop-auf-NixOS-Basis-11470285.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DigitaleSouveränität #Linux #Microsoft #Netzpolitik #Nextcloud #OpenSource #Windows #news

Last night, I released version 1.0.0 of GOG Backup tool. This tool features a simple GUI that allows you to connect to your GOG account and download the files of the games you’ve purchased there.

It is explicitly not intended to install or launch the games. As the name suggests, its purpose is to create backups of your purchases.

The tool attempts to detect when files on GOG have been updated and to back up the new versions of programs that have already been backed up.

It was developed in C# using AvaloniaUI, runs on Linux and Windows, and is licensed under the MIT License.

I hope this is helpful to some of you.

https://codefloe.com/OpenVibes/GogBackup/releases

#gog #backup #datensicherung #games #videospiele #linux #windows #vibecoding #csharp #avaloniaui

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The image shows the “Gog Backup” program window on the “Library” page, which displays all games purchased from GOG.

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The image shows the “Gog Backup” program window on the “Downloading” page, which displays the downloads currently in progress.

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The image shows the “Gog Backup” program window on the “Backed up” page, which displays the games that have already been downloaded.

"Linux: 35 years in 35 facts in 35 minutes"

"Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines", while it started with just 10.039 lines in 1991.

"Many companies build their businesses on open source software, code that would cost firms $8.8 trillion [in German: 8.8 Billionen $] to create from scratch if it weren't freely available." (OpenSource as a whole)

--

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch=v?Ffl2DFHoZdY

(https://youtu.be/Ffl2DFHoZdY)

#JonoBacon #Linux #Linux35Years #LinusTorvalds

#Debian is lost.
The #Linux kernel is lost.
#KDE doesn't have to be.

#RESIST.

#NoSlop #Antifascist

I feel like poking the hornet's nest.

Hey #Unix #Linux #BSD

I've currently got weak, incel /bin/sh on my FreeBSD server

Should I switch to Bash, or Zsh? Why?

Free liqour and canes over on the right there.

#openSUSE Leap is The Immutable Distro Now, Leap Micro is Out

https://itsfoss.com/news/opensuse-leap-immutable/

#Linux

Advanced Programming the #UNIX Environment

Week 1: UNIX History

We cover the early days at Bell Labs, USL vs BSDi, the birth of the BSDs and #Linux, and how we got from Ken Thompson playing "Space Travel" on a PDP-7 to Unix running on your phone, fridge, and TV.

https://youtu.be/3H7SQWTR6Dw

Scroll along through it all here: https://levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf

Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment

Week 3: stat(2) intro

In this video lecture, we meet our new best friend, the 'struct stat'. We'll cover the stat(2) system calls and begin discussing each of the fields in the struct, often by example of the ls(1) and stat(1) commands. In this way, we begin learning more about how the Unix File System is implemented.

(Note that the output of stat(1) on #NetBSD is different from that on #Linux.)

https://youtu.be/veFwXrEHPsk

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$ ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 jschauma wheel 1048576 Sep 10 20:04 file "-rw-r-r-" from st_mode 1 st_nlink "jschauma" from st_uid "wheel" from st_gid 1048576 st_size Sep 10 20:04 from st_mtime file not from stat at all

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The stat(1) utility displays information about the file pointed to by file. $ stat -r file 16 3 0100644 1 1000 0 -1 1048576 1599768274 1599768274 1599768274 0 4096 2056 0 file The default format displays the st_dev, st_ino, st_mode, st_nlink, st_uid, st_gid, st_rdev, st_size, st_atime, st_mtime, st_ctime, st_birthtime, st_blksize, st_blocks, and st_flags fields, in that order.

"Linux is going to conquer the non-techie users" bs is very tired.

Listen to yourselves: You are asking users to identify with a component buried deep in the stack, to navigate a bewildering forest of different package formats and user interfaces. And because of the UI-agnosticism, they have to adjust to receiving tech advice centered on the CLI, oftentimes leading down rabbit holes that include instructions for patching and compiling.

This get-users-to-love-unix-clones model hasn't worked for the past 30y, and it isn't going to now. Putting candy over the chaos still leaves users with chaos, and they're not up for your tech-adventurism. At most, it can succeed with tech enthusiasts and govt/corp environments where the UI and package choices are locked down.

If a product or movement identifies as "a Linux", its dead in terms of mass appeal.

#linux #linuxmobile

Hi, I’m David. I’m a middle school math teacher in the south. You’ll usually find me tinkering with some kind of computer problem, playing role-playing games and board games, and catching British comedy panel shows. I'm kind of an odd ball all around and I never quite fit in whatever box anyone tries to put me in. I have a pug dog that is my faithful companion, he's getting old like his dad is, we're both going grey.

#Introduction #Teaching #Teacher #Teachers #Education #ttrpg #boardgames #BritishComedy #Programming #Linux #Pug #Pugs #PugsOfMastodon #PugLife #Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #PetsOfMastodon

🔗 Découvrez tous les détails de cette nouvelle version sur notre site :
https://emmabuntus.org/le-28-septembre-2026-emmade6-1-03-une-nouvelle-etape-pour-une-informatique-plus-accessible/
#Emmabuntüs #Linux #LogicielLibre #Réemploi #Accessibilité #OpenSource #Debian

Checkout our talk at Akademy showcasing some of the recent accomplishments, and some nifty new things coming.

Kdenlive relies on your donations to keep going stronger. Please consider supporting us. 💙

https://kdenlive.org/fund/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Miit2sWlk

#kdenlive #kde #linux #videoediting #akademy2026

Hey. I’ve been user of Thunderbird for so long. But I’m thinking about an alternative Email client which is more lightweight, and faster.

I actively participate in mailing lists so…

• Dark theme
• Easily sending plain text emails
• RTL support
• Support of Perso-Arabic script

Recommendations?

#Debian-Based and systemd-Free #antiX Linux 26.1 Released with Updated Kernels https://9to5linux.com/debian-based-and-systemd-free-antix-linux-26-1-released-with-updated-kernels

#Linux #OpenSource

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A screenshot of antiX Linux 26.1 with the JWM window manager showing the application menu.

antiX 26.1 arrives as a bug-fix release based on Debian 13 Trixie, with five init systems, IceWM by default, and 32-bit support.
#Linux

https://linuxiac.com/antix-26-1-released-as-a-debian-13-based-systemd-free-linux/

From #shell scripts to #Go, view the architectural journey of rewriting one of #Linux's most popular container tools at the #openSUSE Conference. #Distrobox's next chapter starts here. #OpenSource https://youtu.be/RRWrTwCRPtM

You go shopping and…

#Linux

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A large digital advertising display in a shopping centre showing Spotberry running on a Raspberry Pi, with the entire interface upside down and a login/shutdown dialog visible in the centre.