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Linux Is Best

KDE Plasma, by the way, is fucking awesome!

Truly, try it sometime, and you'd be surprised on how user-friendly Linux can be.

#Kde #KdePlasma #Plasma #Linux

RE: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a8jcizcw4ak7003v

ぷにすきーLinux Is Best (@Linux)@gcvsa@mstdn.plus I do not particularly with SMD Networking, but I know there is a user-friendly GUI for it today. I recall seeing this in Fedora on KDE Plasma. You just clicked through and it was done. Sorry, I am not more helpful on the details, but it does exist -- However, as you've learned, old school users will try to deny things work and try to shove the terminal onto everyone for the most simplest things. I recall a few years ago, someone brand new (1st time installer), only wanted to know how to change their wallpaper, and they were given a guide on how to use the terminal. RE: @Linux@mk.absturztau.be I literally just blocked someone who replied to a earlier post of my about how point and click SMB network file browsing doesn't work properly in Linux graphical file browsers due to a long-standing bug in gvfs, and they replied to me, "well why don't you just mount it in fstab?" God forbid people should expect common tools to work the same way they work on other common platforms! RE: ...
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@mhoye

I use #KdePlasma and configure as many keyboard shortcuts as will fit in my tiny brain so that I don't have to keep picking up the mouse. #Plasma is brilliantly configurable; #Windows is not. So I've changed some Plasma shortcuts to be the same as Windows' equivalents to reduce cognitive load when switching between home and work.

I often have several console windows open on the same virtual desktop. I give each one a different colour to make it easy to Alt+Tab between them. I have simple aliases (red, blue, green, turq) to make it easy to launch them.

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Today, I learned, KDE Plasma is working on "Karton" a Virtual Machine Manager. 🤯

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/

#Kde #KdePlasma #VirtualMachine #Virtualization

KDE Blogs · GSoC 2025 Project Intro: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager!Hi everyone! I'm Derek Lin, also known as kenoi. I'm a second-year student at the University of Waterloo and really excited to be working on developing Karton, a virtual machine manager, this summer. This project will be a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 program and mentored by Harald Sitter, Tobias Fella, and Nicolas Fella. Over the past few months, I've been contributing to the project through some merge requests and I hope to get it to a somewhat polished state towards the end of the program!
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 is now in hard freeze, MIPS (MIPS64EL) architecture support dropped, RISC-V is promoted as a release architecture:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Ha

Debian installer Trixie RC1 adds rescue support on Btrfs, Linux kernel 6.12, spice-vdagent is installed automatically on QEMU/KVM, Ext2 file system on PPC64EL architecture instead of Ext4, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-Insta

APT package manager 3.1 released with why/why-not commands, new solver default on Ubuntu, include/exclude options, HTTPS support for dselect, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3

KDE Plasma 6.4 will include time-of-day wallpapers, adaptive-sync disabled by default:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-T

NixOS 25.05 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and 6.14, GNOME 48, initial COSMIC support, new `nixos-rebuild build-image` sub-command, nixos-rebuild-ng, rewritten nixos-option etc.:
9to5linux.com/nixos-25-05-rele

Ubuntu 25.10 switches Chrony for Network Time Protocol (NTP) for better security:
phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10

GNOME 50 dropping X11 support causes complications for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-

Tails 6.15.1 released with fixes for critical Tor browser vulnerabilities:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

Wine 10.8 released with TIFF support, progress on PDB backend, boosted performance:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

New Linux phone upcoming by the Divine D. project:
liliputing.com/divine-d-projec
(Hopefully it will be a relatively cheap phone to replace the aging PinePhone)

Phosh 0.47.0 released with status page for feedback quick settings, mobile data quick settings disabled when SIM is locked, bug fixes:
phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0

(FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13 "Trixie" Now In Hard Freeze: MIPS64EL Demoted, RISC-V 64-bit Promoted
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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I am at that point, where I am just throwing shit at the wall and seeing if anything sticks.

Trying to get a Virtual Keyboard to work with SDDM within NixOS.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/virtual-keyboard-at-sddm-not-working/64675/6

#NixOS #Nix #Linux #Accessibility #Keyboard #VirtualKeyboard #VmKeyboard #Sddm #Kde #KdePlasma

NixOS Discourse · Virtual Keyboard at SDDM not workingFinal SOLUTION: Someone messages me and told me I don’t need to specify the virtual keyboard with GDM. I’m not a Gnome user, which means I don’t typically use GDM, so that was news to me. It also saved me trouble because I was trying to debug how to keep the keyboard loaded using systemd. This is the final working config. – I am making this as the solution. No error and it works! # ---------------------------------------- # 🖼️ Graphical Desktop. # -------------------------------------...
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Aptivi

KDE Plasma 6.4 lets you use day/night wallpapers!

The upcoming version of KDE Plasma, which will be released in three weeks, brings a very immersive feature that allows you to use a compatible wallpaper as a time-of-day wallpaper.

Learn more

This feature allows your desktop to automatically change the wallpaper to the following versions:

  • Light version of the wallpaper is used in the daytime, beginning from the sunrise to the sunset.
  • Dark version of the wallpaper is used in the nighttime, beginning from the sunset to the sunrise.

You can use your device’s current location for more accurate timing. This increases comfort when you’re using the desktop in both the daytime and in the nighttime.

In order to implement this feature, the settings application had to be changed so that it more clearly indicates that a wallpaper is dynamic. Also, supported wallpapers will show you a two-sided preview presenting you about how the two versions of the same wallpaper will look in both the daytime and in the nighttime.

Ubuntu 24.10 will feature this upcoming version of KDE Plasma.

#KDE#KDEPlasma#KDEPlasma64
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Valve actualiza SteamOS 3.7.8 con grandes cambios:
- Soporte oficial para Lenovo Legion Go S 🎮
- Se actualiza la base Arch con kernel 6.11 y Mesa
- Actualizado el escritorio Plasma de KDE a 6.2.5 🖱️
- Se puede limitar el porcentaje de carga de la batería. 🔋
- Muchas mejoras y arreglos para el bluetooth.
- Opción para limitar frames en pantallas VRR.

Más detalle en store.steampowered.com/news/ap

store.steampowered.com · Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.7.8: Go Country - Steam NewsThis is the first release of SteamOS 3.7 to the Stable channel. The below notes are for changes since SteamOS 3.6.24. For changes relative to previous 3.7 beta builds see here.This update was re-released with additional client changes.GeneralUpdated to a newer Arch Linux baseUpdated the Linux kernel to 6.11Updated the Mesa graphics driver baseDesktop mode now ships with Plasma 6.2.5Added support for frame limiting with VRR displays (internal and external)Added Battery Charge Limit control to...
#linuxgaming#steamos#steamdeck
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Ramin Honary

@theDuesentrieb I asked for the highest-spec computer the company would buy me (which turned out to be an Apple MacBook M2). I then promptly installed a QEMU-based emulator and installed Debian Linux into the emulator. The emulated disk is fully encrypted. I allow the VM full use of all CPU cores and 100% of all memory and disk space.

If you do get a Apple computer, I highly recommend you buy UTM from the app store, it is by far the most cost-effective option, and works extremely well with Debian Aarch64. Once you install the qemu-guest-agent package onto Linux, the Linux screen resolution will automatically match the #MacBook, copy-paste works seamlessly between #Linux and #MacOS. Desktop environments like #Cinnamon, #Xfce, #Gnome, and #KDEPlasma all allow you to select #HiDPI scaling which allows Linux to take full advantage of the #Apple “retina” display (it looks beautiful). The one and only drawback is that #QEMU cannot use Apple’s hardware multimedia codecs, so it falls back to software codecs, and the CPU just can’t keep up with things like video conferencing, or often even ordinary 720p video playback. I use Mac OS for only multimedia applications and video conferencing. For everything else, I continue to use Linux.

I recommend the bridge networking adapter so you can have two-way network communications between Linux and MacOS, this allows for file transfer between Mac and Linux via rsync. The trade-off is that every time your Apple computer switches computers networks (e.g. between home and office), you must reset the networking services in Linux. If you choose the NAT network option Linux will always have network access directly via the MacOS interface, but you will not be able to easily transfer files between Mac and Linux.

The keyboard is the hardest thing to get used to, mostly that “super” and “alt” are swapped. Be sure to transpose those keys in the UTM configuration. It is easy to configure the Apple keyboard to (for example) make caps-lock another control key.

UTMUTMSecurely run operating systems on your Mac
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

GNOME Foundation has a new executive director, Steven Deobald, an experienced software developer, who plans to focus on transparency about the operation of the foundation:
blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/05

GNOME 49 will include Showtime instead of Totem as the default video player:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-
(It's time to make the switch I guess, Totem didn't really work, at least for me, it couldn't open videos, crashed quite a lot.)
(I remember a dev making an April's FOols joke that Showtime finally shows the time as the name suggests lol)

Linux Mint 22.2 will include new default theme with more blue-ish gray colors, to ensure that Adwaita programs look better on the system, XDG Desktop Portal XApp is tweaked to ensure that Adwaita programs follow accent colors:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/linux-
(Oh no Mint, you accept the widely hated GNOME standards? What are you doing? lol)

Linux Mint 22.2 and LMDE 7 codenames revealed, 22.2 will be called "Zara", 7 will be called "Gigi":
betanews.com/2025/05/08/linux-

openSUSE removes Deepin desktop from community repos due to lack of package maintenance consistency and security concerns:
news.itsfoss.com/opensuse-deep

Ubuntu plans to ditch regular sudo for sudo-rs (written in Rust):
betanews.com/2025/05/06/ubuntu

Ubuntu 25.10 daily build are available for download:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu

KDE Plasma 6.3.5 released with improved multi-screen support, NVIDIA GPU fixes, various other bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-3-5

KDE Frameworks 6.14 released with support for some archaic units for KRunner, revamped New Files dialog for the Dolphin file manager and other KIO-based apps, other improvements:
9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6

(More Linux news in comment)

blogs.gnome.orgIntroducing Myself – The Everyone Environment
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Gets UI Overhauls

KDE Plasma 6.4 has recently entered a soft freeze stage in preparation for the release, so this means that there will be no more new features being added. Furthermore, more bug fixes and UI refinements will be made during the rest of the development cycle until the final release. However, there may be new features that have been in development in months and are almost ready.

KDE Plasma 6.4 now gives you a beautified new folder dialog that provides you options to customize the folder’s appearance, alongside the folder name, such as the folder icon. You can make your folder visually expressing to make them easier to distinguish from other folders.

For the new file dialog, it has become more gorgeous by adding an icon for visual representation of what you’re going to create. This makes tasks easier for you.

You can now identify the media being played in some applications that provide this metadata to the KDE Plasna desktop. Any application that does this will be given a name and a media currently playing in the audio volume panel widget. This will streamline the identification of which application is playing which media, especially when it comes to web browsers.

Additionally, when you’re transferring files, sleep is now inhibited to prevent transfer interruptions during the long session. This ensures that you save time from having to retry the transfer, should any problems occur.

For those who are using Ubuntu, the upcoming Ubuntu version, which is 25.10 Questing Quokka, will provide this version of KDE, which will be released on June 17th, 2025.

You can see more changes here.

Image by freepik

#KDE#KDEPlasma#KDEPlasma6
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