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If you have had enough of Microsoft like I have then you may be looking for an alternative, for users who are being left behind with windows 10 unless they buy a whole new computer for winblows 11 then Linux is a great alternative to save money as it's free, saves carbon emissions and best of all it respects your privacy endof10.org/

You can continue to enjoy your computer for many more years to come without Microsoft!

Thinking of switching to Linux...
I've read that it's more flexible in terms of "modifying" open source softwares (mainly photography) to have my own versions and simply has more freedom. Since I discovered these softwares I never looked back but I'm a Windows user my whole life.
What's a beginner friendly version of Linux you advise me to give it a go ?
#linux #linuxdesktop #linuxhelp #opensource

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Fedora proposal was made to discontinue 32-bit support in a two-step process, starting from 44, but it was withdrawn:
ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i6

Fedora dropping 32-bit support would put Bazzite's future development at risk, due to breakages of essential Steam features:
news.itsfoss.com/fedora-could-

Fedora proposal was made to replace upstream X.Org server with XLibre, but the proposal was withdrawn:
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-XL
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-XLibr

Hyprland plans to launch €5/month premium tier:
news.itsfoss.com/hyprland-prem

Kubuntu 25.10 won't include Xorg session by default:
news.itsfoss.com/kubuntu-25-10

Qt 6.10 will offer session-management-v1 protocol support for Wayland session restore/management, Plasma 6.5 will include clipboard sync support for the built-in RDP server, ability to copy QR code for clipboard items, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Session-

KDE Plasma 6.4.1 released with an effect potentially triggering seizure disabled, text contrast and readability improvements, Discover improvements, bug fixes:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kde-pl

KDE Plasma to get improved initial setup tool:
news.itsfoss.com/kde-new-initi

postmarketOS 25.06 released with Alpine Linux 3.22 base, GNOME Mobile 48, Plasma Mobile 6.3.5, Phosh 0.47.0, and Sxmo 1.17.1, support for more devices, Systemd support, mobile-config-thunderbird:
9to5linux.com/postmarketos-25-

PipeWire 1.4.6 released with option to disable RAOP, improved ALSA plugin, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-6-a

Wine 10.11 released with preparations for NTSYNC support to improve gaming performance, more support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL, bug fixes for several games:
phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.11-R

(FOSS news in comments)

GNOME fixes the Trash bug from 2009!

GNOME Desktop had a bug in the Trash function where the leftover files from the user-wide expunged trash directory, found in ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged, were not being deleted properly, and that the Nautilus file manager, which GNOME uses, inaccurately reported that the trash was empty. This bug was originally reported in Ubuntu’s Launchpad under the title of “Emptying the trash can lead to have files still on disk in expunged.”

This caused problems with the free disk space, since the bug reporter had stated that they had about 70 GB of files in the expunged directory, which were handled incorrectly when emptying the trash. Furthermore, said directory was found in the hidden .local folder underneath your home directory, which was not obvious to the average user. This was said to be due to wrong permissions being applied to the offending files, and a reproducer was found:

mkdir -p test/roottouch test/root/filesudo chown root:root test/root

This followed the two chained rules, first for trashing and second for emptying, where, ipsis verbis:

  • when a directory A is in a directory owned by you and it’s owned by you, you can obviously move it.
  • when a directory B is in a directory A owned by you but you don’t own it, and it’s not empty, you can’t delete it.

So, essentially, this boils down to:

  • The test directory is made by the current user (assume that the current user is aptivi)
  • The root directory inside the user-owned test directory is made by aptivi
  • A file, file, which aptivi owned, was created inside the root directory
  • The root directory’s owner had changed to the root user
  • The test directory can be moved to aptivi‘s trash, since the first chained rule has been followed
    • Explanation: test was owned by aptivi and had a parent directory that was also owned by aptivi
  • The root directory can’t be deleted from aptivi‘s trash, since the second chained rule has been followed
    • Explanation: root, a non-empty directory owned by root, was inside test, owned by aptivi, and the root directory can’t be removed
  • The root directory can now be found underneath the expunged folder under aptivi‘s .local folder

The appropriate GNOME bug tracker ticket was brought to the upstream developers six years ago from writing who confirmed that the issue was happening. According to this blog post, the merge request was submitted to the GNOME project, which was approved. The fix is now at the upstream GLib code.

An internal function was added to the I/O part of the GLib library, called check_removing_recursively(), that checked whether “subsequently deleting the original file from the trash (in the gvfsd-trash process) will succeed.” It also checked the ownership of the files before deletion and automatically assigned the file mode (chmod) to allow deletion.

That filled one of the TODO tasks in the I/O code that handled emptying the trash in the internal function, g_local_file_trash(). It said “Maybe we should verify that you can delete the file from the trash before moving it? OTOH, that is hard, as it needs a recursive scan.”

Now, you can empty the trash without worrying about the free disk space, but only if your Linux distribution uses a version of GNOME that contains this fix. We expect that this fix will land to several distributions in the coming days or weeks.

Pro tip: to eliminate the remaining expunged files after installing the fixed version of GNOME, use this trick to free up disk space.

So we all have used Windows, right. I have a Digital license for both that are tied to my account. But we all have paid for it and I'm sick of the choices that Microsoft has made. Microsoft: "Yeah let's bake in Ads and USELESS AI in the product our users pay for"

yeah I won't be using that. I still love Windows deep down, but that's Windows 10. Too bad it's not getting supported unless you pay for ESU. I'm gonna use Linux on PCs in the future.

In my opinion: Fuck Microsoft and Win11.

#linux #linuxdesktop #microsoft #enshittification #windows10 #windows11 #linuxtips #endof10

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This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Ubuntu 24.10 will reach EOL on July 10, upgrading to 25.04 is recommended:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu

Ubuntu 25.10 (shipping GNOME 49) will remove GNOME X11 session:
9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-que

Linux Mint 20 reached EOL, upgrading to 22 is recommended:
news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20

Linux Mint 22.2 adds out-of-the-box fingerprint authentication support with Fingwit app:
9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-2-

Nitrux drops the Plasma-based NX desktop for Hyprland, due to the discontinuation of Plasma LTS released:
9to5linux.com/nitrux-linux-dro
(It's a bit weird choice that they ditched a full DE for a standalone compositor, which is tiling in fact, and requires editing some config files manually, not sure if DE users want that.)

Kali Linux 2025.2 released with revamped Kali Menu, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 8.3, 13 new tools (including Azurehound, binwalk3, bloodhound-ce-python etc.):
9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-

GNOME 49 Alpha 0 available with preparations for disabling X11 by default:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alp

Sway 1.11 released with explicit sync support, support for the ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 protocols for improved screen capture, support for the alpha-modifier-v1 protocol for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface, etc.:
9to5linux.com/sway-1-11-tiling

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OMG! Ubuntu · Ubuntu 24.10 Support Ends July 10thUbuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole reaches end of life July 10, 2025. All users will need to upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin to continue receiving security updates.
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And this isn't even the biggest difference...

I've seen machines where #Windows10 on a SATA-6G - saturating #SSD got creamed by a 7200rpm SATA-II 7200rpm #HDD with everything else being the same.

youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q

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@eugenialoli same with photo #raw processing, non of the #foss apps use the color profiles of the cameras, no 16bit raw and many other issues. I gave up retouch due to the still bad gimp ux and the bad implementation of non destructive editing.

The sad reality is the #linuxdesktop is not ready for professional #mediaproduction and this is such a bad thing in times like this.

#davinciresolve also barely runs on everything except nvidia on #linux and still has no #flatpak

Even blender is a pain with amd #rocm

Rust Coreutils “uutils” v0.1 released!

The developers behind the Rust coreutils, called uutils, have reached a major milestone with the release of v0.1.0. This comes after the last release, which was v0.0.30. This version is now on GitHub, which you can check out below.

Learn more

This version of uutils contains many interesting changes done to the system utilities, including cp, ls, and others. The SELinux support has been added to cplsmkdirmknodmkfifoinstall, and stat for systems that are security oriented. This makes sure that systems with this coreutils implementation can now enjoy better security with SELinux enabled, especially when SELinux is enforcing.

In addition to that, the speed has been improved to match and possibly exceed the legacy GNU coreutils performance. You can now notice the improved speed in commands like catlswctailseq, and more.

Thanks to many commits and contributions done to the Rust coreutils project, it has witnessed many changes done to various commands, such as date allowing negative date offsets, echo allowing double hyphens, and print fixing octal escape parsing.

In addition to that, the test suite compatibility has seen increasing number of successes. While 0.0.30 has 507 passes; 41 skips; and 69 fails, version 0.1.0 has 522 passes; 31 skips; and 65 passes.

As a result, as future versions get released, compatibility with the older GNU coreutils increases. This is evidenced by the increasing number of succeeding unit tests for the Rust coreutils project, especially when it comes to SELinux-related tests.

You can consult the official website of Rust coreutils below.

Official website

What about Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is planning to ship uutils to replace the older GNU coreutils as part of the broader plan, called “Oxidizing Ubuntu.” Ubuntu 25.10 will be the first version of Ubuntu that will use this coreutils implementation to ensure that your Ubuntu system becomes both more secure and quicker; furthermore, your productivity will increase as the improved performance becomes prevalent in this release.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use the Rust coreutils during the development cycle, along with the Rust implementation of sudo called rs-sudo. In later development milestones, Ubuntu will use the findutils and the diffutils projects from the master uutils project.

You will be able to download the stable release of this Ubuntu version on October 9th, 2025.

#2510 #Coreutils #Linux #LinuxDesktop #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Rust #RustCoreutils #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update #uutils

If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual applications, libraries and subsystems as well as broader topics like e.g. "messaging".

#KDE #Plasma #icons question.
I use #Vivaldi #PWAs extensively. When I "Install as App" Plasma uses the favicon from the website as the icon for the PWA app.

I recently changed my icon pack, and all the PWA icons reverted to Vivaldi icons. Changed it back; no difference. Uninstalled a PWA and reinstalled it, and it still uses the Vivaldi icon.

This is super-annoying to me because I rely on those app-specific icons for my workflow. How do I learn more about how icon packs work in KDE Plasma, and importantly, how do I get this custom icon behavior back?

Please #boost!