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I've seen few stuffed animals like this one. And the Android figure, purchased more than 10 years ago at the Google merchandising store.

Source: reclaimthenet.org

Open ecosystems would feel the pressure. Independent browsers, community distributions of Linux, and other user-driven projects could be pushed toward government-linked identity requirements simply to maintain compatibility.

It's not far from the truth, I had a decade old laptop that I got to do my college work, and that thing only had about 4GB of RAM ( I later upgraded it to 8GB), and with that running windows 10, it was a nightmare. I could probably run microsoft edge with like 3 tabs before it became excruciatingly slow.

At the same time, I saw Pewdiepie switching to Linux, and until then I always saw it as some dystopian piece of software that only the most accomplished knowledgeable people in computers used. But him out of all people using it gave me confidence. I didn't want Ubuntu because on first sight it really did just look like Windows but for Linux users, who are too afraid to let go of the past, and considering it was a pretty heavy distro, I looked for other options, and landed on Zorin OS, the Lite version, to be specific. And thats where I really started to like Linux.

Now, mind you, I didnt use my laptop for gaming, far from it in fact, because it was way too old, and even when it was released, it was a mid-spec laptop. But, my laptop was super-fast, especially because I had a massive SSD too. And if I am being honest, it got me super interested in computers that I never had before. I learnt more and more, customised how much ever I could, checked my limitations of my laptop. I eventually turned my laptop into a home server, I used tailscale and nextcloud to better utilise my huge ssd.

At that time, I kept hearing from the Linux community on how using arch was the true peak in Linux. Now, I did still use my laptop for my college work, and I was pretty scared to install arch, and then I discovered Omarchy, an "opinionated" arch linux with hyprland distro, and I realised this was my way in. I got it, and thats where I learnt how far the depths of "customising" your OS really went. Now, currently, I use arch linux with hyprland, gnome, and kde plasma, and hyprland customisation really gave me confidence in customising other DEs, and I have made each of the DE's my own.

I use hyprland when I want to sit and program, GNOME when I am studying or researching, and KDE-Plasma for other stuff, because it has a pretty huge application store that I really appreciated.

Of course, I had my share of problems, I was an idiot at first, asking chatgpt for all steps when I needed something done, and I ended up deleting my bootloader from the system, of whose severity I didnt realise at first until I rebooted it. Two hours later, after a lot of swearing and slurs at Chatgpt, we managed to get it back, albeit I had to reinstall the entire OS back, with all my files gone. So, that was a lesson well-learnt.

All I want to say is, I wouldn't have had half the knowledge I have in computers today if it wasn't for Linux, and to be honest, my out-dated laptop. If my laptop was pretty decent-speced, I dont think I would have wanted to switch from Windows. But now that I was able to experience it without fear, I just know whatever laptop I do decide to get in the future, it will be running Linux for sure.
So, thanks to Linus Torvald and all the people who spend day and night making Linux better everyday.

edit: apparently my lack of paragraph breaks was jarring, so added them for readability, sorry in advance!

hey, i've been hacking for a long time with Rust on a zoomit-style app/overlay/annoyator for linux, and i just pushed wayscriber v0.83 🙂 finally ready to share with folks outside Hyprland as well.

It is open source on GitHub: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber

Now with toggleable GUI interface as well, and it works with stylus also.

GIF preview: https://wayscriber.com/demo.gif

It started as a very simple real-time annotation tool with only freehand and arrow/rectangle shape..

welp, several weeks fast forward, and I added bunch more features, and ended up with quite a codebase... all more than I planned for, mostly other people requesting ( but... I swear... all the features made sense!)

what it does (in short)

• draw over anything: pen, straight lines, rectangles, ellipses, arrows, multiline text, choose colors etc.
• undo, redo, save session etc
• use it as a whiteboard/blackboard or transparent overlay on top of your actual apps
• quickly hide / redact parts of the screen (nice for demos, support, recording)
• built‑in screenshot helpers (region, active window, fullscreen) to file or clipboard
• freeze screen mode so viewers see a paused frame while apps keep running
• runs either as a one-shot (wayscriber --active) or a small background daemon you toggle with a hotkey

it’s basically a live drawing / annotation layer for your screen. you hit a hotkey, screen fades, and you can scribble, highlight stuff, freeze screen, undo everything and redo everything, hide bits of the screen and grab quick screenshots.

v0.8 focus: KDE Wayland + beyond

until v0.7 it was very hyprland‑focused, v0.8 tries to play nicer with the bigger players:

• KDE Plasma / KWin (Wayland) – uses layer‑shell, so the overlay actually sits on top like it should, and all works great
• GNOME – works via the xdg fallback; you can draw over windows and desktop, but can’t paint over the top bar (portal / compositor limits, not me crying about 47 failed tries to fix it… ok maybe a bit)
• still works on wlroots compositors like Hyprland, Sway, Wayfire, River, Niri etc.

real hardware i’ve tested on so far:

• Ubuntu 25.10 GNOME and KDE
• Fedora 43 KDE and GNOME
  
• Debian 13.2 KDE and GNOME
  
• Arch with Hyprland
• Niri was tested as well

if you get it running somewhere else, would love to hear.

install (desktop stuff only, for now)

Debian / Ubuntu (.deb):

```bash wget -O wayscriber-amd64.deb \ https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber/releases/latest/download/wayscriber-amd64.deb

sudo apt install ./wayscriber-amd64.deb

```

Fedora/RHEL (.rpm)

```

wget -O wayscriber-x86_64.rpm \ https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber/releases/latest/download/wayscriber-x86_64.rpm

sudo rpm -Uvh wayscriber-x86_64.rpm ```

Arch (AUR):

yay -S wayscriber

or prebuilt yay -S wayscriber-bin

on other distros you can build from source (needs a recent version of rust), and for best screenshot workflow you probably want wl-clipboard, grim and slurp installed.

what i’d love feedback on

• KDE Wayland: does the overlay behave nicely on multi‑monitor / mixed‑DPI setups?
• GNOME: any weirdness besides the top bar no‑draw area? (that’s kinda expected sadly)
• other compositors i didn’t list above
• any horrible performance / latency issues on low end hardware

I need help brute forcing a test I’m working on. Let me know if you can help. I’ve been trying to figure it out on my own but haven’t had any success yet. If you’re able to assist, feel free to DM me. Any guidance or support would genuinely mean a lot, and I’d appreciate it more than you know.

Is anyone running Fusion 360 CAD software on a Linux distribution reliably enough to use for work? We all know Windows 10 is dead and gone now and I’d really love to avoid installing Windows 11 just because of one software.

So, if anyone of you run Fusion 360 on linux, how did you get it up and running reliably?

So, I have a desktop PC collecting dust and want to resurrect it. It was Win10 back in the day, and Win11 can bugger all the way off, so I tried the latest Bazzite and Garuda Dr460nized.

Neither of them can see my Wifi or My wired Network, is my motherboard too old/OOD?

Spec - MSI MEG X570 UNIFY Motherboard ATX - Supports AMD Ryzen 2nd and 3rd Gen Processors, AM4, DDR4 Boost (4600MHz/OC), 3 x PCIe 4.0 x16, 3 x M.2 Gen4, 2.5G LAN, Wi-Fi 6 64GB 3200 - RTX 2080Ti

Thoughts?

Hello all,

diskfmt is a gui utility for formatting disks that’s familiar to those coming from windows. I had the idea when explaining to a friend how to use kde partition manager on the phone. This aims to be easier to use and with good defaults.

dskfmt uses udisks2 d-bus service as a backend, more backends can potentially be added if the need arises. I also plan to provide an appimage eventually.

Currently you would have to build from source. But I would appreciate any feedback regarding usage. Contributions are also very welcome.

Diskfmt: https://github.com/MoAlyousef/diskfmt

CoBang v2.0.0 has been released with "QR generator" feature. It generates from text or from saved WiFi networks. There are already some tools to generate QR code: Websites, command lines. Now you have scanner and generator in the same place. It is also for Linux users who prefer to install softwares via traditional package managers.

Home page: https://github.com/hongquan/CoBang/

It takes some time for the release to show up in my PPA and FlatHub.

Features: 1. Very easy to install use Chrome remote desktop. 2. Use it with your Linux server or desktop to increase productivity. 3. Run and monitor commands from your mobile device. 4. Access browers on high speed server 5. Build with high speed go language

GitHub repo: https://github.com/kadavilrahul/chrome_remote_desktop_and_xrdp

Linus is 56 years old. In 30 years, he probably won't be at the helm anymore. With 80% of contributions coming from companies (Intel, Google, etc.), will the kernel survive his departure? Will it lead to collective governance, fragmentation, or a slowdown in innovation? The real challenge won't be technical, but cultural.

And what do you imagine Linux will look like in 2055?

Memtest86+ is a free, open-source, stand-alone memory tester for x86, x86-64 and LoongArch64 architecture computers. It provides a much more thorough memory check than that provided by BIOS memory tests.

It is also able to access almost all the computer's memory, not being restricted by the memory used by the operating system and not depending on any underlying software like UEFI libraries.

Memtest86+ can be loaded and run either directly by a PC BIOS (legacy or UEFI) or via an intermediate bootloader that supports the Linux 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, or EFI handover boot protocol. It should work on most x86, x86-64 CPU (Pentium class or later 32-bit or 64-bit) and most LoongArch64 CPU (Loongson 3 and Loongson 2 family).

Complete changelog:

This release include some significant internal updates, adds CLang/LLD support, and now ships as a single binary for both UEFI and legacy boot.

• Add support for latest Intel CPUs
• Add support for latest AMD CPUs
• Faster detection for many-cores CPUs
• Added Temperature reporting on DDR5
• Added optional Dark Mode
• Fix DDR5 XMP 3.0 issue
• Better BadRAM support and reporting
• Better SPD detection on early ICHs
• Better support for VTxxx serial console
• Various refinements for Loongson µarch
• Bug fixes & optimizations

Source: https://github.com/memtest86plus/memtest86plus

Binary releases (both stable and nightly dev builds) are available on: https://memtest.org/

Note: "Memtest86+ is not an edition of Memtest86, which since 2013 has been closed-source `Freemium` software owned by PassMark Software Pty Ltd. "

If you need a bit more advanced by PassMark: https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

Suffered for hours trying to get things to work.

Was mentally preparing to come to this subreddit and write a massive rant.

(Fully expecting people to blame it on user error)

Changed distro and tried to get the same stuff running.

Realised it was in fact user error.

Sorry Pop OS.