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A lot of the pressure is due to people transitioning to Mint from Win10 without understanding that they’re moving to an XWS system rather than Wayland. If you want Wayland, go with Arch/Cachy. If you want stability, stick with Mint and X11.

I don’t generally recommend Silverblue or Bazzite to newbies, as there’s generally much less documentation and help if they run into problems, and if they ever need an app that isn’t flatpak’ed, it’d be very daunting and offputting for them to then figure out Distrobox or Toolbox to install it. Fine for more experienced folk, but at least until they become the default, I personally think it best to stick with regular Fedora or Mint, depending on the hardware requirements.

YouTube is full of Bazzite tutorials. Whatever is out there at documentation is also quite recent. When people ask ChatGPT about how to do something on Ubuntu or Mint, the answers are generated from 15 years old forum posts. Often not only unusable but also damaging. My expectationnis that for immutable distributions LLM answers in 15 years will not break the OS. At worst it’ll recommend some tool deleted from Flathub and it’ll merely not work instead of breaking everything.

Setting up Sunshine and Moonlight for high performance game streaming on Linux

moonlight/sunshine is really good, i heavily recommend it! You can also use it as a teamviewer alternative, but at the moment it requires some light fiddling to open ports etc. so its not really easy enough for “grandma downloads sunshine to get tech support from you” yet.

There’s the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell’s contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years.

Stephen Rothwell stepped down in mid-January from maintaining Linux-Next. He still plans to be around the Linux kernel community but a less grueling role than creating and maintaining Linux-Next since 2008.

Saw that legit just before coming here

Does anyone know of channels similar to Diinki? I love their vibe!

Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4.

Gawk 5.4 is now using the new MinRX regular expression matcher as the default regexp engine. The old regex and DFA engines remain available but the MinRX engine is now used by default. This new matcher was written by Mike Haertel who was the original developer behind GNU grep. The MinRX matcher is fully POSIX compliant unlike the existing GNU matchers.

Following the recent release of Plasma 6.6, KDE developers are now working on version 6.7. Among the planned features, users will be able to switch virtual desktops directly from Overview by scrolling or using the Page Up and Page Down keys.

On Wayland, Plasma 6.7 will optionally synchronize the stylus pointer with the mouse or touchpad pointer. Moreover, Printing will be enhanced with a new dedicated print queue viewer, replacing the legacy dialog. The new application will maintain simplicity for single-printer setups while supporting management of multiple print queues for both local and networked printers.

Regarding screen recording, Plasma 6.7 allows users to exclude specific windows from recordings via permanent window rules. Additionally, the screenshot utility Spectacle will get a new –release-capture command-line option, allowing the invocation of the “accept on click-and-release” behavior programmatically.

I so wish they can bring back the one-wallpaper-per-virtual-desktop thing. I’ve been missing it since the KDE 4.x days, but now seeing the dynamic virtual desktops thing in GNOME makes me wish KDE had it as an option (like, you could chosse between dynamic virtual desktops or fixed virtual desktops).

Try Activities.

• Several layouts: tiling, scrolling, grid, overview, and more!
• Based On Tags, Not Workspaces: Separate window layouts per tag with easy switching. Supports persistent tags and cross-monitor management
• Fast
• Customizable
• 🥭

I have used this when it was still pretty new. I already liked it a lot more than Hyprland. Dev was very responsive and friendly. The combination of tiling and scrolling is very cool!

I think this is a very promising project.

Does look like a pretty cool project. I don’t like using AUR packages for my system dependencies though. Pretty happy with Niri right now, so I can wait.

Following last week’s main set of DRM kernel graphics driver feature updates for Linux 7.0, merged on Friday to Linux 7.0 Git was the first round of fixes to these Direct Rendering Manager drivers. Dominating most of the code changes in this latest pull were AMDGPU fixes, including more enhancements for aging Radeon graphics processors.

The now-merged code to Linux 7.0 includes more AMDGPU fixes from Timur Kristóf of Valve’s open-source Linux graphics team. Timur Kristóf has been the one leading the effort to improve the old AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPU support with the AMDGPU kernel driver and drove through that default change from the legacy Radeon DRM driver. Timur has continued taking care of some loose ends like some APU support issues. The latest patches now part of Linux 7.0 take care of a “black screen” issue observed with analog connector support when using the AMDGPU DC display code with the likes of the Radeon HD 7790. The code also makes the analog connector support more consistent and closer to parity with other display connector types in the AMDGPU display code.

What’s the impact here? Obviously no updates until new key, but will the new key trigger security warnings on future updates?