Noctalia is a desktop shell for window managers. Tiling and scrolling window managers (such as i3, MangoWM, Niri, etc.) are only window managers. They don’t have any kind of graphical way to launch applications, there’s no dock, bars or widgets of any kind. They only manage the windows, and you need to provide the rest by installing a number of different applications. Noctalia is a shell that provides a full desktop experience with all the bells and whistles you might expect from full desktop environments like KDE and Gnome.
This is what computer programming means for me. You can build your own tools. You can share them with others. When you build and share such tools, you meet other people that perceive and interact with the world in the same way as you do. You make new friends. I guess this is what I’ve been trying to do in my life. Get people to understand this process. With computers, you can make your own tools, and so you can augment yourself, and others, to accomplish more things. This is something special about computer and especially open source tools. It costs no money at all to try this.
Been using keepassxc for years under X.org. Haven’t had a problem in years.
Yesterday I decided it’s time to use a full DE, and switch to wayland at the same time.
Setting up my newly installed CachyOS, I’m having weirdly inconsistent troubles with keepassxc’s autotype feature:
Sometimes it just works, sometimes not.
Typing into terminal windows seems to be particularly tricky, but I also noticed inconsistencies between Falkon and Firefos.
I’ve been running Fedora on an XPS 15 7590 for several years now, but just recently the ssd started being not found at boot. While I’m trying to get it working again I just don’t trust it any more so I’m currently looking over my options. I’ll add some more details of the situation in the spoiler below.
Been a long time Debian user but with the recent AI decision I am planning on moving on so anyone have an anti-AI recommendations? I understand its being used in the kernel as well but are there any distros taking a full anti-AI approach to the parts of the code they control?
Finally have a fantastic setup for my surface to act as a tablet. the extension Touchup is doing some heavy lifting for usability. apps are: files, Riff, Librewolf, Voyager. Heres more screenshots.
With the 2026.08 ISO release, Artix switched back to Xorg. The switch had been decided soon after the 2026.04 release, due to the unusually high amount of XLibre-related bug reports on our forum and started with our weekly ISO images. This resulted in backlash from XLibre and a veteran Artix developer, Artist, was targeted and harassed, which led to his resignation.
Almost a year after the Multikernel project shared its Linux kernel code and submitted its first patches for review, the team has now made its Multikernel Linux tree publicly available for the first time. This release is built on Linux 7.0 and is labeled v7.0-mk2 in the project’s kernel tree. Currently, only x86_64 is officially supported.
An exciting development for this Linux app sandboxing and distribution tech. This would also help improve Google Chrome/Chromium support outside the likes of RPM and Debian based distributions with a cleaner packaging experience.
This is just for discovering new software. I created mine so I don’t forget the programs I use when setting up a new machine. You can skip the obvious ones.
Here, I’ll start:
I have a laptop with 4 GB of RAM that I’d like to use for occasional comic book reading. (It’s a touch screen 2-in-1 laptop that folds over into a tablet configuration.) I use Bazzite on my main PC and I love how low maintenance it is. Are there any immutable/atomic distros that featue XFCE, LXDE, or some other low RAM friendly desktop? Or, should I just layer XFCE or LXDE on top of UBlue Core or make my own image or something? Thanks!
Has anyone tried this out yet? I’m running it on my trusty ThinkPad and as a Void Linux user, it makes many things just a little easier. It’s very quick. It’s also relatively secure by default and has a control center for enabling more security as well as other optimizations. I know we all like to tailor our DEs and WMs to our tastes and workflows but the defualts here are definitely my cup of tea. It offers KDE as the default but XFCE, Niri, MangoWC, and Hyprland are all options as well. It’s small team working on development and a small community so far but I am hoping that grows.
On my server, I’ve noticed that I can run docker commands like docker compose up -d or docker run hello-world without root (sudo, su, etc), as if I had done the rootless setup, but docker info reveals “context: default”. I am also not using userns-remap. Any theories for what’s going on here?
As part of the collaboration between Canonical and the University of Bristol, the project will target AppArmor and snap-confine as industrial case studies. Both are critical to Ubuntu’s security posture, and provide a substantially harder test than isolated translation examples. They will help us evaluate whether the techniques can cope with the structure and constraints of mature production software.
Calling all interested parties! Makers, professionals, the curious, hobbyists, novices, students, and everyone else! Let’s talk about digital privacy, software freedom, maker projects, amateur radio, and whatever else is on your mind.
It’s the same design as last year, the main changes are the new chips (Wildcat Lake), so better performance and power efficiency, the backlit keyboard (which happens to use open-source ZMK firmware), and a fingerprint reader that will work OOTB on Linux!
The motivation of the development is using GCC code generation by rustc for architectures not supported by LLVM but are supported by GCC. There are a number of CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel and GCC but not supported by LLVM like m68k, Alpha, and other embedded/micro-controller ISAs.. This also allows employing GCC’s compiler optimizations. The latest rustc_codegen_gcc code can be found via rustc_codegen_gcc on GitHub. This isn’t to be confused with gccrs as the GCC front-end for Rust
So last year my wife decided that she was sick of her 2017 MacBook Air being out of support. Mainly it was that her browser wasn’t updated and she was increasingly unable to access websites she used frequently. I grabbed a bunch of different liveUSB imgs, and ElementaryOS was the only one that would even boot. So that’s what we installed. Some minor early issues that I’d anticipated with the webcam. And everything was fine, just worked.
Before I go off an write something myself, many things we open from our apps are HTTP/S URLs and they go straight to the browser. On Android, it’s possible to assign apps to certain domains. I know I could write a script to do the same in linux, but my question is if there is a solution that already does this.
Nord.pub
Classy Hatter
woelkchen
A_norny_mousse
MediumGray
ProdigalFrog
Nemeski
e8d79
Die4Ever
sbird
Alphenex53
Girl Named ZERO
new_otters_raft
kbal
