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It seems like the vast majority of people who answered aren't beginners with Linux: 39% said they knew their way around Linux, and 10% said Linux had no secrets for them. The "middle of the road" answer, being "I understand how things wok, but I'm no expert" gathered 40% of answers, and only 10% of answers in total described themselves as what I'd call beginners, with 9% saying they had a lot to learn, and 1% saying it was a brand new world.

So, what is difficult to accomplish on Linux? What seems to be the most annoying thing to deal with is integrating Linux systems with other devices, 36% of people picked this as a pain point.

The second big pain point is "using existing hardware", 28% of people picked this as a problem, and finding compatible hardware was a problem for 24% of people.

Interestingly, installing Linux was not picked as a pain point, only 4% of people said it was a problem.

Most people who answered have experiences hardware issues on Linux. 44% said they had a problem they could fix, and 36% said they had an issue they couldn't solve.

In terms of the main problematic components, there were a few surprises here. First are GPUs: 34% of people said they had trouble with their GPU.

Also a surprise: gaming controllers and peripherals: 9% of people who answered said they had troubles here. Wifi and Bluetooth at 17% each are sort of surprising to me as well, I thought this was a thing of the past, but apparently not.

Now, as per software related problems, here again, Linux has issues. 48% of people who answered said they faced a software problem they could fix, and 35% said they faced one they couldn't solve. Only 14% said they didn't face any software related problems.

As per the problematic categories, the biggest offender is sleep / wake and suspend, 30% of answers pointed that as a problem. App compatibility is also a big issue, 29% of people said Linux wasn't a supported platform for the software they needed to use. Gaming is a sore spot, with 27% of people answering they're facing problems there.

So, 37% of people who answered said they could do most of what they wanted, but not everything. 33% said they could do everything, but some things were harder than on other platforms. 26% said they could do everything they wanted on Linux, and only 4% in total said many or most things they needed to do weren't possible on Linux.

As per the general experience of using Linux, most people seem to feel their system is very reliable: 56% said they have a few issues that don't impact their trust in their OS, 38% said they didn't worry about stability at all, and only 6% in total said they had frequent issues that make them lose trust in Linux as their OS.

71% of people who answered also said their experience with Linux was very good, better than other operating systems, and 6% said it was perfect without issues. 16% said it was good, and on par with other operating systems, and 6% in total said their experience was bad or very bad, as in worse than other OSes to downright unusable.

Most people also felt they absolutely needed the command line to fix problems on their systems. 50% said they had to use it a bit, and 28% said it was mandatory to get a usable system. Only 23% said they didn't need to use the command line at all.

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It comes with Intel 13th or 14th gen CPUs, up to an i9 14900, it can accommodate 2 M.2 SSDs and 2 SATA 3 drives, up to 24 terabytes in total. It can come with or without dedicated graphics, which can go up to a Radeon RX 7700XT, or an Nvidia RTX 4070. It can also get up to 96 gigs of DDR5 RAM, and it obviously has wifi and bluetooth, and it comes with Linux preinstalled, Tuxedo OS being the default.

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Bazzite

So, Bazzite is a weird one: it's based on Fedora Atomic, so it's an "immutable" distro, and it's built using universal blue, which is a build system that lets you create tailored distro images for plenty of purposes.

I ran all the games at the native resolution of my monitor, so 3440x1440. Horizon is run using the latest version of Proton from Valve, the rest are native Linux games. Everything was ran at their max settings, at the native resolution, without any resolution scaling. Everything ran under Wayland, with all the latest updates applied.

So, For Horizon Zero Dawn, running the benchmark gave me an average of 80 FPS at these maxed out settings. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 105 FPS on average in the benchmark, and for Total War Warhammer 3 on the battle benchmark, it reached 56.4 FPS and 52.5 FPS on the campaign benchmark.

Nobara

Next is Nobara. This isn't an immutable distribution, it's Fedora, plus a lot of kernel patches, addons, drivers and tools focused specifically on gaming and on improving performance

In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 106 FPS on average in the benchmark. In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, I got 57 FPS on average, and 54.7 FPS on average for the campaign benchmark. In Horizon Zero Dawn, Nobara got 80 FPS on average.

HoloISO

I also gave a shot to HoloISO, in its new immutable form, but it never managed to give me a bootable system, no matter how hard I tried.

Chimera OS

Chimera OS is an arch based distribution, it's an atomic distro, so immutable, and includes a bunch of emulation tools as well as optimizations for gaming. It defaults to GNOME as its desktop, compared to KDE for the other distros I tested.

In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 102 FPS on average in the benchmark, similar to other distros I tested. In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, I got 55.3 FPS on average, and 51.1 FPS on average for the campaign benchmark. In Horizon Zero Dawn, Chimera OS got 73 FPS on average, strangely lower than other distributions.

Tuxedo OS

Just for fun, I decided to also run all of these games on the preinstalled Tuxedo OS, to see if these gaming distros offer improved performance compared to a "normal" system. Here are the results.

In Horizon Zero Dawn, at the max resolution and max settings, with any upscaling, The Atlas S running Tuxedo OS got 81 FPS on average.

In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, at the max settings and resolution, Ubuntu 24.04 reached 106 FPS on average.

In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, at the max settings and resolution, I got 57 FPS on average, and in the campaign benchmark, it reached 54.9 FPS

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The "official" Linux kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds and all the kernel developers, you generally see a new version every 2 to 2 and a half months.

All stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme, so major number DOT minor number, but they also have really strange codenames. Some distros tend to modify these kernels with additional patches, or features that haven't been added yet, which is why you can see some kernel versions with a "-ubuntu" at the end for example.

Certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS, meaning Long Term support. These are versions that will be supported for much longer, up to 6 years. The Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years.

Since both the stable and LTS kernels ship with some non free firmware, there's the Kernel Libre project, which removes all of that, to only ship software and code that is completely free, as in freedom..

Next, we have the hardened kernel. It's not an "official" project per se, it's a kernel version that certain distros ship in their repos, like Arch Linux for example. It's the stable kernel, with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security-wise.

Next, we have the realtime kernel. The goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU, and its execution, and it's mainly meant for industrial applications, or for audio production. This, in turn, makes it less efficient for multi tasking, and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient, and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this lower latency.

The low latency kernel variants do the same thing, but at a lesser degree: it still lets you pre-empt CPU threads like the real time kernel, but it isn't as regular as the realtime kernel.

The Android kernel is focused on supporting a specific category of devices, meaning that it has optimizations for these exact things.

The Zen kernel applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for linux desktop users. It's also packaged as the Liquorix kernel for Ubuntu or Debian, and other distros, although Liquorix isn't exactly like the Zen kernel.

Another version is the XanMod kernel, with sort of the same optimization as the Zen kernel, and a few more on top of that, with the same goal: improving the performance of Linux systems.

Finally, we have the TKG kernels, and I'm saying kernels, because TKG isn't a specific Linux kernel you can download and use, it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with that.

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NixOS isn't dying, but it's not doing well

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-is-not-dying-please-dont-spread-fear-actively/44310

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GNOME breaks non GNOME apps with Adwaita icons

https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288

GNOME needs some money

https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/

Windows 11 is very unpopular

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

Mint forks GNOME apps

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4675

More lawsuits against OpenAI

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/microsoft-openai-lawsuit-copyright-newspapers-alden-global

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Arch and Arch based distros seem to represent 29% of answers, way higher than Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros, at 22% including Linux Mint, or 16% not including it. It's higher than Fedora at 19% of answers.

Another surprising number is NixOS, sitting at 7%. Final thing that surprised me is SteamOS: it only got 39 answers, meaning virtually no one seems to use their Steam Deck as their main computer.

89% of people who answered the survey said that they don't use an immutable distro.

Plasma is, on the surface, the most used DE out there, it sits at 30%.Vanilla GNOME sits at 14%, but if we tally up all GNOME implementations, we land on 35%, beating KDE pretty soundly.

Tiling WMs gathered up 21% of votes, meaning that they're actually the third thing used by people, far above any other DE than GNOME and KDE.

Hyprland seems to be very popular right now, at almost 48% of answers. We also have Sway, at 12%, i3 at 11%, and then a smattering of others, like AwesomeWM, bspwm, qtile, xmonad and more.

Speaking of which: Wayland got 66% of answers here, versus 34% for X11.

As per hardware, I asked people which kind of GPU and CPU they used. For CPUs, AMD and Intel are really evenly matched, at 50% for AMD and 49% for Intel, the last % being for ARM based CPUs.

As per GPUs, AMD takes the lead here, but not by much, we get to 39% of answers.

22% of people who answered only have an Nvidia GPU, so that's still pretty high, and if we add Nvidia GPUs as a hybrid configuration in a laptop, we land on 37%.

Pure Intel configurations, represent 22% of answers for integrated graphics, and 1% for dedicated Intel only, plus another % for people who run a hybrid config with a dedicated Intel GPU, so at most 24%.

As per the provenance of that hardware, a lot of people seem to build their own computers to run Linux on, at 44%. 40% of people who took the survey bought a PC from a major window manufacturer, with WIndows preinstalled, or no OS if the option was available.

Apart from that, only 4% said they used a computer from a Linux manufacturer, like TUxedo, System76, Slimbook, and the like, 2% use a mac, and, interestingly, 5% bought a computer from a major manufacturer with Linux preinstalled, so presumably from Dell or Lenovo, as these are the 2 main ones that have the option, AFAIK.

I paired that question with another one, asking how well Linux ran on people's computers, and overwhelmingly, it seems that hardware compatibility is great these days. 63% of respondents said they experienced 0 issues after installing Linux, and 23% said they did have small problems that they could fix. Only 13% said there's still hardware that doesn't work at all, and 1% said their computer performs pretty badly under Linux.

66% of people who answered use flatpaks mixed in with packages from other sources, and 6% only use this format, meaning we're at almost 3/4 of respondants that use Flatpaks daily.

The results are not as positive for other formats, with Snaps not being used at all by 84% of people who answered, and 54% of people not using APpImages at all.

On the topic of applications, Firefox seems to be the asbolute most poplar browser here, at 68%, with an extra 9% for Firefox derivatives like Librewolf.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:32 Sponsor: SquareX 02:26 Big security flaw in a common package 04:07 Redis is forked after licence change 06:40 The future of the Linux desktop is looking good 08:26 Ubuntu 24.04 will be better for gaming 10:06 Canonical addresses the scam snap problem 11:26 Flathub improvements and adoption 13:03 Gaming: new Nvidia driver, EA anticheat 16:31 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 17:51 Support the channel

Big security flaw in a common package

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GitHub-Disables-XZ-Repo

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-CVE-2024-3094

Redis is forked after licence change

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community

https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3714821/software-vendors-dump-open-source-go-for-the-cash-grab.html

The future of the Linux desktop is looking good

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2024/03/28/fedora-workstation-40-what-are-we-working-on/

Ubuntu 24.04 will be better for gaming

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/ubuntu-24-04-makes-a-small-tweak-that-dramatically-improves-gaming

Canonical addresses the scam snap problem

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-of-all-new-snap-name-registrations/39440

Flathub improvements and adoption

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]

Gaming: new Nvidia driver, EA anticheat

https://9to5linux.com/red-hat-announces-nova-a-rust-based-gsp-only-driver-for-nvidia-gpus

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/ea-anticheat-arrives-for-battlefield-v-in-april-will-break-it-on-linux-steam-deck/

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Learning the command line: Linux Survival: https://linuxsurvival.com/ Linux Command: https://linuxcommand.org LearnLinuxTV: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnLinuxTV Veronica Explains: https://www.youtube.com/@VeronicaExplains Terminus: https://web.mit.edu/mprat/Public/web/Terminus/Web/main.html Command Challenge: https://cmdchallenge.com/

Desktop Environments: KDE Userbase: https://userbase.kde.org/Welcome_to_KDE_UserBase Sway Wiki: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki i3 documentation: https://i3wm.org/docs/ Hyprland wiki: https://wiki.hyprland.org/

Customization: Linux Scoop: https://www.youtube.com/@linuxscoop

Linux Gaming: Gaming On Linux: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/ Lutris: https://lutris.net/ Heroic: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/ Bottles: https://usebottles.com/

Linux News: Brodie Robertson: https://www.youtube.com/@BrodieRobertson Destination Linux: https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/ My audio podcast: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast OMG Ubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ OMG Linux: https://www.omglinux.com/ Linuxiac: https://linuxiac.com/ Phoronix: https://www.phoronix.com/

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#Linux #OpenSource #Apple #europeanunion #technews

Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:44 Sponsor: ProtonVPN 02:01 Linux passes 4% market share 04:44 Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session 06:17 Apple makes a mess of the EU's new laws 10:03 Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project 11:36 Big French company fined for violating the GPL 13:05 Gaming: x86 emulator, AMD & NVIDIA drivers 16:55 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 18:08 Support the channel

Linux passes 4% market share

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-why-desktop-linux-is-finally-growing-in-popularity/

Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-No-GNOME-Xorg-Install

Apple makes a mess of the EU's DMA

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/07/apple-epic-dev-account-dma/

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/google-announces-the-new-fees-that-come-with-its-play-stores-dma-compliance-plan/

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer-account

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-03-01/a-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-apples-lack-of-dma-compliance/

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161

Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project

https://liliputing.com/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-to-shut-down-pay-2-4-million-to-settle-lawsuit-from-nintendo/

Big French company fined for violating the GPL

https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/

Gaming: AMD changes, open source Nvidia drivers get good

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/amdgpu-driver-for-linux-67-enforces-lower-power-limits-from-vbios/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-r550-open

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#Linux #linuxlaptop #laptop #radeon #ryzen #amd

Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:54 Sirius 16 Overview 02:00 Design and build quality 04:19 Performance & Battery life 07:03 Ports 08:21 Display 09:00 Touchpad & Keyboard 10:24 Speakers, mic & webcam 11:18 Price & configuration

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The Sirius 16 is decidedly aimed at Linux gaming or workstation use cases. Its 16.1 inches with a 2K resolution of 2560x1440, so it's 16:9, better for gaming IMO than 16:10, but less good for other tasks.

It has a full aluminium chassis, an 80Wh battery, it can accomodate up to 96 gigs of RAM, 8 terabytes of PCIe 4 SSD, and it comes with USB 4, the latest HDMI 2.1 and Wifi 6E. But what matters is what's inside, and that's a ryzen 7 7840HS, and a radeon 7600M XT, with 8 gigs of DDR6 VRAM. The aluminium chassis really feels solid, and the whole laptop is pretty hefty, at 2.2 kilos, or 4.8 pounds.

The CPU is a ryzen 7 7840HS, it's 8 cores, 16 threads, running at a top speed of 5.1Ghz. In geekbench 6, it got 2640 in single core, and 12635 in multi core, so it's more powerful than the i7 13700H I use daily on my own laptop.

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In terms of gaming, I ran the benchmark for horizon zero dawn. At the native resolution and max settings, the game got 77 FPS, perfectly playable with a very nice looking experience. Lowering that 1080p and using FSR on the quality setting, still at the max settings, I got 116 FPS. And at high details, 1080p with FSR on the quality settings, you reach 118 FPS, so you’ll be able to make use of that displays high refresh rate!

And all of this runs in hybrid graphics mode by default, at least on the preinstalled Tuxedo OS my review unit came with.

The laptop, running at half brightness with wifi on, playing videos in a loop, lasted for 6 hours.

On the left side, you have a USB 1 3.2 Gen 2 port, a headphone jack, and a separate mic jack. On the right, you have a fingerprint reader, which unfortunately, doesn't support Linux.

You also get a USB C port, 4.0 Gen 3x2, it supports power delivery and displayport 1.4, and it's hardwired to the integrated GPU, and on the right, you also have another USB A 3.2 Gen2.

On the back, you get a barrel charger, a gigabit ethernet port, an HDMI 2.1 port that supports freesync and is hardwired to the dedicated GPU, and a USB C 3.2 Gen 2x1 port, that supports display port, freesync, and is hardwired to the dedicated GPU as well.

The display can run up to 165hz, but can go down to 120, 96, 72 or 69hz. Viewing angles are perfect, and it covers 100% of sRGB, with a contrast ratio of 1000:1. it's 300 nits of brightness which isn't bad but it isn't the birghtest ever, and it supports AMD Freesync. It's 2K, so 2560 by 1440p.

The keyboard is a rubber membrane affair, that feels really good to type on. it's quiet, key travel is ok the keys don't get stuck they're stable, so you can press from a corner and activate them, and you get a numpad which is a personel preference. You also get a tux branded key, full size arrow keys that are slightly off compared to the rest of the keyboard, which I hated at first, but kinda like now, because it makes them really easy to find. They keyboard is RGB backlit, you can control that in the tuxedo control center, to change the color and the brightness to anything you like, or you can press function + space bar to turn it on or off.

The touchpad is really smooth and sturdy, it's big enough, it's really off center though, which some people like, but I don't, I like things centered. It produces a very reassuring solid click, it doesn't rattle at all, it's really nice, and works with gestures as well.

The Sirius 16 comes with 4 speakers, which sound really nice. The mic is nothing to write home about, it's ok for small chats. As per the webcam, it goes up to 1080p 30, which isn't bad, and it doesn't yield horrible results at all.

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#KDE #Plasma #Linux #linuxdesktop #kdeplasma

Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:26 Sponsor: Proton VPN 01:46 Qt6 and Wayland 05:15 Visual changes 07:21 New desktop features 12:03 Settings changes 14:00 Applications changes 16:15 Was it worth the wait? 18:21 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 19:32 Support the channel

Plasma 6 moved to Qt6 entirely, and it's also the first version with fully complete wayland support, and Wayland is actually the default session. And that Wayland support is pretty flawless in my experience.

And this release also brings a few cool things, courtesy of Wayland: HDR is now supported, provided your display also support it. You can also set a color profile for each display individually, on Wayland as well. And finally, you also get color blindness correction filters in the settings.

First, the theme is now lighter on the eyes. They have removed a bunch of the blue borders that every single panel inside of an app had, so the whole feel of the desktop is similar, but also nicer, you don't have that many lines that draw your eyes. Highlighted items in list views are also different, now with rounded corners and a little bit of spacing.

Another visual change is the floating panel by default.

The defaults have changed drastically First, single click to select is now the default, with double click to open. Tap to click on touchpads is also the default now, and they've disabled scrolling on the desktop to switch workspaces.

It's now way easier to change panel configuration. The previous messy pop-up was replaced by something much more visual, which will absolutely be a better experience. You get visual representations of the settings you're changing, with combo boxes to select what you want, and tou can now auto hide the panel.

Another big change is the combination of the overview and the present windows effect. It feels like the older overview, except, it looks a lot like GNOME's. What has changed is the touchpad gestures, and these are much, much better. You also get the desktop cube back.

Another change is the ability to just click inside of a scrollbar's area to move the content directly to that area. Finally, Krunner got faster, way faster, and now lets you reorder the various elements that it shows when you search for something.

Visually, the settings are less busy. Gone are the double rows of icons at the bottom of a page, they now mostly moved to the toolbar of the settings app, meaning that settings pages now look a bit nicer. They've also reduced the number of pages that were opened by clicking a button inside of another page, so things are easier to find, and the settings were reordered into other categories.

You get a new sound theme preference page, and, easier configuration of which app will open a broad category of file.

Dolphin received changes to its settings as well, reordering a bunch of things, and it gained kjeyboard shortcuts to access the toolbar buttons and the disk space usage bar that lives in the status bar. You can also now right click a folder to open it in split view.

Spectacle, the screen recorder, now shows a tray icon when it's recording your screen, you can click it to end the recording. It also support recording a part of your screen, and has new keyboard shortcuts to handle all of this. Everything will now be saved by default in the pictures screenshots directory, you can change that of course. It also support VP9 to record videos, and can be used using the CLI

Konsole has redesigned settings, and will use less ram. Text selection now works for chinese, korean or japanese, and every tab now uses a separate cgroup, meaning the entire app will no longer be killed if your system needs to kill a process to save somle resources

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#Linux #terminal #commandline #linuxcommunity #linuxcommands #linuxcommands

So, our first recommendation will be homebrew, it's sort of a pre-requisite to get a lot of command line utilities that your distro might not have packaged.

You can install homebrew with one command line, and then you can get any CLI utility you want by running brew install, followed by the name of the tool you need.

Our second pick is FZF, for Fuzzy Find. It lets you search files extremely fast using their names, but it can also look through command history, processes, bookmarks, git commits, and more.

ATUIN thing replaces your shell history with a database you can search through super easily. Once it's installed with brew, press the up arrow key or control +r, and you'll get a search interface to look for all your commands.

CHEZMOI lets you manage your dotfiles. It lets you share these config files across devices by syncing them to a got repo, and it can interface with a very large variety of password managers to keep everything safe.

If you use a laptop, and you find Linux's batter life to be a bit subpar, maybe look at POWERTOP. Just run the command powertop, and you'll see all processes. Using tab, you can navigate to various statistics, but also to the "tunables" screen, which will show you what powertop identifies as a bad configuration for battery life.

If you'd like to tune these, you can rune powertop --auto-tune, and it will change all the settings to what it believes are "good" options for battery life saving, although it might impact the performance.

If you'd like to quickly analyze what uses a lot of disk space on your computer, or on a remote server, you might want to replace the du and df commands with DUST.

If you run a dual boot, and you're facing problems with accessing one of your installed systems, you can force GRUB to reboot into a specific system, just for the next boot, using the grub-reboot command, followed by the number of the grub entry for that system.

If you need to monitor for resource usage on your computer, you might be using top, or htop, but BTOP is a better option. It looks better than htop or top, and it's also more legible.

If you often use the cat command to read a file, maybe try BAT instead. It does the same thing, but it also has syntax highlighting for a bunch of files, and it communicates with git to show modifications in files, with the usual Plus and minuses symbols.

If man is too much for you and is too much reading, and if the --help option isn't enough, why not try TLDR? It gives you an abridged version of the contents of MAN for most of the available programs and commands, and it makes things more legible, and easier to parse at a glance.

If you like to split a terminal or a tty into multiple terminals, ZELLIJ is a nice alternative to things like tmux. It's basically a tiling window manager for your terminal workspace: you can define your own layout, it supports plugins, floating panes, and more.

You can run it by running the zellij command, and then you can create a new pane pressing alt + N, you can move a pane using control +h, or make it floating with Control + P, then W.

If you often use ls to list files in a directory, you might want to take a look at EZA. It does the same job, as in, it lists the contents of a directory, but it does it with way more details, and a more legible interface.

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#Linux #tiling #windowmanager #linuxdesktop

All desktop environments provide a window manager, it's in charge of displaying your windows, handling their position and state, as in maximized, minimized, the size of the window, the current focused one, and everything along those lines. On top of these baked in window managers, you have tiling window managers.

Stuff like i3, hyprland, sway, awesomeWM, BSPWM, XMonad, qtile, ratpoison and a lot more.

Some are manual tilers, some are dynamic. Dynamic tilers will open each new window following something YOU defined.

Basically, you have plenty of choice, but tiling window managers will replace your current desktop with something that is more meant to be used with a keyboard, without much user input, to maximize the use of your screen real estate. So, let's look at why you'd want to use a tiling window manager.

The first, obvious advantage is that you never get anything overlapping anything else, unless you actively choose to do so. On a regular desktop, you'll have to move windows out of the way, or minimize them, or resize them, and this is basically wasted time; it's time not spent using the computer and accomplishing something.

The second advantage is that it sort of removes the need to use the mouse or the touchpad 99% of the time. The only time you'll probably need to use it is to interact with the contents of the window itself, like clicking a link in the web browser, or clicking a button in a window.

Another advantage is resource usage. A tiling window manager generally doesn't bring with it a whole system of panels, overviews, app grid, menus, effects and more, meaning that you don't load as many things in memory as with a complete desktop.

A big advantage is also screen usage: without a big panel and a dock, tiling windows always uses the most space available on your screen.

So, with so many advantages, why wouldn't I use a tiling window manager?

Most desktops already give me enough of the tiling features to suit my use case. Using KDE, or GNOME, I can already tile my windows if I want to. I can drag them to any corner or edge and have them use that screen size. In KDE, I even have a full tiling manager that I never use because I don't need it.

Sure, this edge tiling doesn't give you as much flexibility as a full tiling window manager, but for me personally, it's more than enough. And it all comes down to my use case: I make videos.

Which means I have 2 modes: research / writing mode, and video editing mode. In the first, I need 2 windows: A browser for research, and QOwnNotes to write. Sometimes, I'll use a virtual machine as well, but tiling this on a laptop display doesn't make sense, so I open it full screen on a virtual desktop.

In editing mode, I have my video editor, Davinci Resolve, in full screen. Again, not something a tiling WM would help me with.

My panel autohides behind windows, so it doesn't take up space, and while I do have title bars, I also don't have gaps between my windows when they're tiled, or between a window and a screen edge, so I'm actually pretty sure it's the exact same screen space usage.

I also don't lose out on configuration, at least on KDE: I can change all these shortcuts, I can change how windows open by default, they remember their previous size, it works. And finally, most of the time, I work on a laptop. It's a 16 inch screen, but it's still a laptop. And tiling there is just completely inefficient and makes things way too small.

What I'm saying is that yes, a tiling window manager is really useful, and cool, but it's NOT for every use case and every user.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Sponsor: Learn about live patching your Linux systems 01:37 VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without notice 03:23 Edge grabs Chrome's browsing data without consent 04:59 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11 06:37 Thunderbird plans to add native Exchange support 07:47 Wayland & Wine get big improvements 10:15 Red Hat's licensing changes hurt their ecosystem 11:52 Gaming: HoloISO goes immutable, Mesa 24, Linux marketshare 15:48 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:54 Outro

#Linux #OpenSource #technews #linuxnews #vscode #microsoftedge

VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without notice

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed

Edge grabs Chrome's browsing data without consent

https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature

Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11

https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3165

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40

Thunderbird plans to add native Exchange support

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/

Wayland & Wine get big improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead.html

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag

Red Hat's licensing changes hurt their ecosystem

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-RHEL-Kernel-Headaches

Gaming: HoloISO goes immutable, Mesa 24, Linux marketshare

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-original-steamos-like-linux-distro-holoiso-now-dead-replaced-with-immutable-version/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2024

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00:00 Intro 00:53 Sponsor: Thunderbird 01:46 The Specs 03:25 Design & Build Quality 05:42 Performance & Battery Life 07:38 Ports 08:24 Display 09:20 Keyboard & Touchpad 11:14 Webcam, speakers & mic 12:19 Parting Thoughts

So, the Slimbook Elemental comes in 2 variants, a 14 inch and a 15.6 inch. Both come with either an i5 1235U or an i7 1255U. Both laptops have a 1080p display, matte with an anti glare coating, they both offer 2 non soldered DDR4 RAM slots, running at 3200Mhz, and one NVMe SSD slot, with PCIe4. They both use Intel's Xe graphics, they're both made mostly out of aluminium and they both have Wifi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, a 730P webcam, and a 49Wh battery.

Both laptops are mostly build out of aluminium: the palm rest, the sides, the bottom plate, and the lid. The screen bezels and the hinge guards a made out of plastic.

The i5 1235U is a low power CPU, made for ultrabooks, so it won't blow your socks off, but it's still pretty decent.

The i7 1255U gets 2529 in single core and 6835 in multi core, which is a bit better, but not a huge difference. Both review units I got used the i7, but looking online, the i5 1235U gets around 2150 in single core, and 6500 to 7000 in multi core. Honestly, if you're looking for an affordable device, I'd go with the i5, it's probably more than enough for most people's needs.

As per battery life, at mid brightness, running videos in a loop in Firefox over wifi, I got 6h on both, which is OK but not spectacular for a U series CPU from Intel.

The ports are a bit different on the 14 inch and the 15 inch. They both provide a HDMI ports, and a USB C 3.2 gen 2 port that supports Display Port 1.4, and charging, plus a gigabit ethernet port, an audio jack and a micro SD card slot.

They also both have 1 USB 3.2 Gen 1 type A port, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 type A port, and the 15 inch adds a USB 2 port on top of that, and a sim card module if you want to use 4G / LTE on the laptop.

As per the display, in both cases its 1080p, at 60hz, with a matte / anti glare coating. The viewing angles are good here, and the colors are ok, but they're not the best displays you"ll ever see.

Both laptops don't have the same touchpads and keyboards. You do get a numpad on the 15 inch but not on the 14 inch. So, on the 15 inch, keys are super soft: they are nice and easy to press, and very stable, but the actual actuation feels very smooth, like the rubber membrane is thick underneath. I liked typing on it. It's backlit with RGB so you can pick the color through an app like Slimbook RGB.

On the 14 inch, the keyboard is really small, it doesn't g edge to edge, meaning that it's kinda cramped and reminiscent of netbook keyboards. It's also backlit here, but with just white as a color.

As per the touchpads, they're your usual hinge based design, they don't feel like glass touchpads, they're not ultra smooth, but they do feel precise, they have a nice click, they don't wobble or rattle. The one on the 14 inch model feels a bit more rigid, with less travel before the click, but they're about on par with a solid PC touchpad.

Now, for the webcams, they're just 720p. They're not terrible, they actually perform decently with various lighting conditions, but yeah, they're not macbook quality. On the 14 inch, you actually get a built-in webcam shutter so you can hide that if you want, and both laptops have bios switches to disable the webcam and the mic if you never use them.

The onboard mics aren't noteworthy, they're bad, like every laptop mic is, they're tinny and they don't sound good. The speakers on both laptops are OK, they have some amount of bass, they don't vibrate the chassis, and they're definitely enough to listen to music, or watch youtube, a movie or a tv show.

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Timecodes 00:00 Intro 00:31 Sponsor: ProtonMail 01:48 Apple opens up iOS in the worst way 05:41 Wayland & Portals get better, but create drama 08:06 Flathub reaches 1 million users 09:37 Budgie has a Roadmap 10:48 Mint's Edge ISO is now available 11:49 Gaming: Ayaneo drops HoloISO, performance boost, unified Wine 16:00 Sponsor: Tuxedo 17:06 Support the channel

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Apple opens up iOS in the worst way

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/apple-finally-letting-people-run-third-party-browsers-unfettered-but-only-in-the-eu-and-not-because-it-wants-to

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050200/apple-third-party-app-stores-allowed-iphone-ios-europe-digital-markets-act

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052067/mozilla-apple-ios-browser-rules-firefox

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-faces-strong-action-if-app-store-changes-fall-short-eus-breton-says-2024-01-26/

Wayland & portals get better, and create drama

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.33

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1175

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/269

Flathub reaches 1M users

https://docs.flathub.org/blog/over-one-million-active-users-and-growing/

Budgie has its roadmap

https://linuxiac.com/budgie-desktops-2024-roadmap-unveiled/

Mint's Edge ISO is now available

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4635

Gaming: Ayaneo drops HoloISO, performance boost, unified Wine

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayaneo-next-lite-no-longer-ships-with-steamos-like-holoiso-linux-windows-11-instead/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/unified-linux-wine-game-launcher-aims-to-improve-windows-games-on-linux-steam-deck/

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:42 Sponsor: Extend the life of CentOS 7 02:11 OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be immutable 04:34 Google pretty much gives up on Fuchsia 06:04 Steam Snap creates problems for Valve 07:23 Flathub wants better quality app listings 08:40 A proposal to make Ai content more identifiable 10:20 Online search is getting worse 12:19 Google will let the EU unlink data from their services 13:18 Gaming: Wine 9.0, the Hangover project 15:27 Sponsor: Tuxedo 16:35 Support the channel

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OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be very different

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-leap-15-6-to-be-the-last-in-its-current-form/

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/01/17/opensuse_confirms_leap_16/

Google pretty much gives up on Fuchsia

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringing-the-full-chrome-browser-to-fuchsia/

Steam Snap creates problems for Valve

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recommend-ubuntu-steam-snap

Flathub wants better quality apps

https://linuxiac.com/flathub-strategic-shift-to-highlight-high-quality-apps/

A proposal to make Ai content more identifiable

https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/framework-for-ai-legislation/

Online search is getting worse

https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research

Google will let the EU unlink data from their services

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/if-youre-in-the-eu-you-can-now-decide-how-much-data-to-share-with-google

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Sponsor: Thunderbird 01:26 Mint 21.3: still the old LTS 02:37 Wayland session: pretty good! 07:10 Wayland + Nvidia: no extra issues 08:20 Gaming: works as expected 09:51 Other Changes to Mint 21.3 12:11 Parting Thoughts 13:46 Sponsor: Tuxedo 14:56 Support the channel

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Mint 21.3 is still based on Ubuntu 22.04 and its super old kernel, version 5.15. You do get the Mesa drivers version 23, but you don't get the latest Nvidia drivers either, you're still on 535.

So, you can select that new Wayland session from the login screen. I tested this on a spare laptop that uses an Intel Xe integrated GPU, and also has a dedicated Nvidia GPU.

At first glance, everything seems to work ok, but it's an experimental session, and it's missing a few things. OBS, for example, has no source for the display: Cinnamon doesn't seem to support the screen sharing protocol through pipewire, so OBS has nothing to display here. You won't be sharing your screen to anyone just yet.

Another issue I encountered is the lack of any sudo graphical prompt: anytime I needed to install a package or update the system, I had to use the command line.

I also got some inconsistencies in the place where menus appeared, there were also a few things that I couldn't find, like changing the keyboard layout in the Wayland session, the "layouts" tab doesn't appear in the settings where it should be. The gestures of Cinnamon also don't work here for now, you can enable them, but they won't do anything.

The hot corners did work though, with their nice animations and features, but there were some weird graphical things happening. Some settings pages also seemed to have some sort of infinite scroll and didn't stop at their own content, which was a bit weird.

After that, I tried the Wayland session on Nvidia, and, all the problems I had experienced previously were still there, obviously, because they all are missing features in that experimental session, so no reason to expect them to work better here. But I also didn't get any other issue that I didn't see in the wayland session with the Mesa drivers.

So just as a little experiment, I also decided to run a game in the Wayland session, namely Warhammer 40K Mechanicus:

• Wayland + Intel: 25-32 FPS
• Wayland + Nvidia: 60-65 FPS
• X11 + Intel: 32-37 FPS
• X11 + Nvidia: 65-75 FPS

Ok, so now, let's talk about the other changes in Linux Mint 21.3. In terms of apps updates, Hypnotix, the TV watching app now lets you set channels as favorites. You can also create your own custom TV channels if you want.

Cinnamon will also now let you download Actions. These are add-ons for the file manager, that will appear in the right click context menu, letting you do, well, custom actions.

Warpinator, the file sharing app now lets you connect to a device manually by just entering its IP address of scanning a QR code. The Sticky Notes app can now be managed by DBus, meaning you can manage notes using scripts, and the bulk rename tool of Mint now supports drag and drop and thumbnails.

As per the desktop itself, you can now use 75% fractional scaling on X11 if you want that, you can also set keybinds to change the window opacity again, you can disable stylus buttons if you use that sort of hardware, and gestures got a bit better with the ability to set a gesture to zoom in on the desktop.