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

What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed? (lemmy.ml)

TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism (en.wikipedia.org)

Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)

2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? (lemmy.ca)

NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting....

Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)

Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version (news.itsfoss.com)

Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Luis Chamberlain sent out the modules changes today for the Linux 6.6 merge window. Most notable with the modules update is a change that better builds up the defenses against NVIDIA’s proprietary kernel driver from using GPL-only symbols. Or in other words, bits that only true open-source drivers should be utilizing and not...

Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)

Linux Desktop Share keeps increasing, 3.13% now. Narrowing the gap to ChromeOs 3.24% (gs.statcounter.com)

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Timothée Besset, a software engineer who works on the Steam client for Valve, took to Mastodon this week to reveal: “Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical’s repackaging of the Steam client through snap”....

Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop (www.gamingonlinux.com)

New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option (www.howtogeek.com)

Ubuntu’s popularity often makes it the default choice for new Linux users. But there are tons of other Linux operating systems that deserve your attention. As such, I’ve highlighted some Ubuntu alternatives so you can choose based on your needs and requirements—because conformity is boring.

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)

According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...

Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈 (gs.statcounter.com)

Firefox looks so much better than Chrome (tux.social)

A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)

How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month (www.cnbc.com)

Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like (www.zdnet.com)

I’m curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops (web.archive.org)

Explicit sync Wayland protocol has finally been merged! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....

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