Linux Furs

We're on Debian testing(+unstable) and running into update issues. apt upgrade doesn't touch anything, and apt full-upgrade wants to upgrade 2 libreoffice packages, not touch the 341 other upgrades, and remove the main libreoffice package.

How cursed of an idea is it to just sudo apt install $(apt-mark showmanual)? That looks like it would upgrade everything, while just removing a couple hopefully-inconsequential system libraries.

-- Frost

systemd recently pulled some shit, adding a field to store people's birthdates because of a new California law. (It's not the field itself that's the problem, it's how easily they're jumping to comply with shitty laws.)

This has our whole friend group rightfully freaking out. I'm pretty glad that it's now normal to be uncomfortable with systemd, it makes me feel a whole lot less weird. I do wish the circumstances were better though.

Anyway, since we switched most of our machines (all our physical ones, not our VMs/LXC containers/VPS though) to OpenRC a little while back, I figured I'd (do it again in a VM and) document the process for anyone who wants to jump ship too. Hence, my blog post!

(Unfortunately if you're on Arch it sounds like you're a bit screwed unless you get your init system from the AUR and write all the scripts yourself. I have no idea about Fedoraland.)

-- Frost

I wrote a blog post that'd be relevant here, and I was about to post it, but then remembered that a lot of subreddits don't like "self-promotion" stuff. There's obviously no money or spam or anything involved, but still. Is it frowned upon to post your own blog posts here, or should I go ahead?

-- Frost

This is very stupid. Like, really, really stupid.
You know how composite video uses those simple red and white "RCA" cables for left and right sound, and yellow for the picture? The only thing special about component or composite cables is the colour on the ends of them, so if you run an audio channel down a yellow "video" cable it will still work, and vice versa. I know it's possible bc of those cheap cables that have a headphone jack on one end, leading to composite video and mono sound on the other (because you have to sacrifice one audio channel for the video if you're doing it that way).

I want to send a shitty composite video signal out of my shitty laptop's headphone jack to plug into a shitty old CRT so I can use it as a secondary monitor without buying a video converter that would likely do a worse job then my laptop anyway. Also, since I have a spare audio interface, I can shoot the video signal out of a different hole so I don't even have to sacrifice a sound channel.
I wonder, has anyone tried to write a program like this before? If it exists, I have no clue what to search for to find it, and it's such an absurd thing to spend your time doing, but I want to try this idea so bad.

I'm trying to run OneShot on Linux, Debian 14 testing to be precise (wow, it's been years... last played 2022, apparently).

It won't run though. Might be because the included libraries are too old? But if I try renaming them and using system ones, it still breaks?

Error creating window: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

This still happens if we use the Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout).

Anyone got ideas?

(Yes, I could just use Proton, but Oneshot does some fourth-wall-breaking stuff and I'd like that to work.)

-- Frost

I heard a PeerTuber I follow talk about controversy around "Rust" as a dangerous cult or something, but that she thinks people should put aside their "petty grievances" and focus more on what good the project will do for Linux. I'm out of the loop, but I think Rust is a programming language, right? Anyone know what this whole thing about a cult is? I want to be filled in on it, because it seems important.

I'm sure there's a name for this function, but you know that thing where your screen is constantly being captured but it only gets saved if you tell it to, and then it'll save the last minute or however long the buffer period is? It lets you capture cool moments in games and stuff? Yeah, that. Is there a way to make OBS do that? If not, does anybody know of an open source application I can use for that? It'd be really useful and fun.
Thanks!

It will be awesome next.

I talk about my history with Linux and KDE and what I've done over the years, going through my work as a documentation contractor for KDE until I reach the current state of KDE onboarding docs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40932805

https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342272

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37750293

Generated via ublue's countme script https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Here is Fedora's upstream graph to compare:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/4682879

Today KDE is 29 years old and we are celebrating kicking off our yearly fundraiser. Donate and make KDE's wishes come true.

Hi y'all! I've been using Nvidia GPUs for about all my life, but have been hearing how AMD usually plays nicer with Linux.

I'm somewhat new to this OS and all the distros, and I was wondering if you could help me with understanding some of the differences.

I currently have a 4080 from Nvidia, and I use it for both content creation and gaming. Back when I was picking out my new GPU, I wanted to pick the 7900 XTX from AMD, but I was on windows back then and the two GPUs were the exact same price in my region, so I figured I might as well pick that.

Fast forward to today and I am noticing that the 4080 is struggling a bit with games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. (I'm getting forty fps on medium/high settings with 1440p) and I see some people suggest it is because of the translation overhead of Nvidia via Proton, and that this would be reduced with AMDs GPUs, but I'm not entirely sure how much there is to gain here, really.

So.. TL:DR; What is gained and what is lost if I were to sell the 4080 and switch to AMDs 7900XTX or 9070XT?

I'm on ~~arch~~ Nobara, btw

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/53766411

Mobile phone Debian based

E: apparently it needs to be said that I am not suggesting you switch to Linux on your phone today; just that development needs to accelerate.

Android has always been a fairly open platform, especially if you were deliberate about getting it that way, but we've seen in recent months an extremely rapid devolution of the Android ecosystem:

1. The closing of development of an increasing number of components in AOSP.
2. Samsung, Xiaomi and OnePlus have removed the option of bootloader unlocking on all of their devices. I suspect Google is not far behind.
3. Google implementing Play Integrity API and encouraging developers to implement it. Notably the EU's own identity verification wallet requires this, in stark contrast to their own laws and policies, despite the protest of hundreds on Github.
4. And finally, the mandatory implementation of developer verification across Android systems. Yes, if you're running a 3rd-party OS like GOS you won't be directly affected by this, but it will impact 99.9% of devices, and I foresee many open source developers just opting out of developing apps for Android entirely as a result. We've already seen SyncThing simply discontinue development for this reason, citing issues with Google Play Store. They've also repeatedly denied updates for NextCloud with no explanation, only restoring it after mass outcry. And we've already seen Google targeting any software intended to circumvent ads, labeling them in the system as "dangerous" and "untrusted". This will most certainly carry into their new "verification" system.

Google once competed with Apple for customers. But in a world where Google walks away from the biggest antitrust trial since 1998 with yet another slap on the wrist, competition is dead, and Google is taking notes from Apple about what they can legally get away with.

Android as we know it is dead. And/or will be dead very soon. We need an open replacement.

It truly can't be overstated how important this will be in the coming years, given the current trends of Android towards being a closed ecosystem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1n7ojk1/steam_frame_trademarked_by_valve_computer_hardware/

Filed just yesterday, September 2nd 2025.

STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content.

https://uspto.report/TM/99370857

STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing; video game consoles; video game accessories, namely, controllers for video games.

https://uspto.report/TM/99370861

not really programming and probably butchered the execution on that cmd but this felt like the only place it would be funny to post it

Nothing makes me appreciate *nix syntax quite like seeing the wasteland of hopelessness and despair that is Windows CMD Prompt...

Just testing something, just ignore me.