Are Linux upgrade parties still a thing?

I still remember them well.

#linux

Hello Community 👋👋! A reminder that #GNOME's developer and user conference, #GUADEC call for proposals deadline is 👉 March 13th, 2026! You can submit your proposals at https://events.gnome.org/event/306/abstracts/#submit-abstract. More information at https://discourse.gnome.org/t/the-guadec-2026-call-for-participation-is-open/34008
#opensource #linux #desktop

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Any #CultOfApple folks here? My teenage daughter, who has only had #Linux laptops so far in her life has expressed interest in a Macbook. After I stopped sobbing deep in my heart I decided to try to help her.

She found a deal for a 2017 Macbook Air with 8GB RAM and a 128GB SSD for about $350. She's not a gamer; she watches a lot of online videos, does a ton of word processing (kind of an amazing teenage writer in my biased opinion), and occasionally does graphics stuff (e.g., photo editing, Inkscape-type creation, etc.) or very occasionally some video editing. She's looking for long battery life, great graphics, and something that fits easily in her bag--so probably a 13" Macbook.

I'm cool with the $500 or so pricepoint. Used/refubished is pretty much guaranteed, of course. I'd like her laptop to "feel snappy" for a couple of years (8GB RAM and whatever processor was in the 2017 model seemed like it might not), and hopefully have a battery that doesn't die too soon, because I've never once heard anything positive about the repairability of Macs.

Anyone who has recommendations about a line or model I might look for would be thanked warmly.

#recommendations #apple #mac #laptop #SadLinuxNoises

[$] Disabling Python's lazy imports from the command line

The advent of lazy imports in the Python language is upon us, now that PEP 810 ("Explicit lazy imports") was accepted by the steering council and the feature will appear in the upc [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1061112/ #LWN #Linux #Python

SUSE may be for sale, again

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062316/ #LWN #Linux #SUSE

NVIDIA 580.142 released for Linux - the new recommended driver https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/nvidia-580-142-released-for-linux-the-new-recommended-driver/

#NVIDIA #Linux #LinuxGaming #Drivers

Looks like #SUSE #Linux is up for sale. Again.

- 2003: Acquired by Novell
- 2010: Attachmate Group takeover
- 2014: Micro Focus merger
- 2018: Sold to EQT AB

(Ignoring all the asset sales and transfers)

https://www.reuters.com/business/eqt-eyes-potential-6-billion-sale-linux-pioneer-suse-sources-say-2026-03-09/

I'm noticing on my personal #Linux system (Arch, GNOME 49) that certain apps (Ghostty, Signal, Obsidian) are resizing their windows in strange/unexpected ways when I click to select the window. Anyone else seeing this?

Discord rolls out a nice improvement for video calls on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/discord-rolls-out-a-nice-improvement-for-video-calls-on-linux/

#Discord #Linux

For nearly five decades, Ed Crisler has been a PC gamer. Since the early 1980's, he's been gaming on a Microsoft OS. But now he's switching to #Linux.

What makes our conversation fascinating is that he's also the PR rep and product evangelist for AMD graphics partner Sapphire Technology.

He has some spicy opinions, but maybe we should pay attention?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyzvAT-bsf4

I've recently dabbled with #Wine and Winboat, and while it was all pretty fun, my conclusion is still that these solutions really don't help with running Windows programs on #Linux all that much, and don't help with "serious / professional" adoption.

Here are my thoughts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEI95GIRKaU

Mesa driver developers discuss expanding profiles and driver tuning for specific apps and games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/mesa-driver-developers-discuss-expanding-profiles-and-driver-tuning-for-specific-apps-and-games/

#Linux #Drivers #Mesa #OpenSource #LinuxGaming

Fedora 44 Beta is out with KDE improvements, better live media and more https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/fedora-44-beta-is-out-with-kde-improvements-better-live-media-and-more/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming

[$] Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question of LLM-generated contributions; the latest debate stared in mid-February, after Lucas [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1061544/ #LWN #Linux #Debian #LLVM #Python

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062260/ #LWN #Linux #security

SteamOS 3.7.20 released with NTSync driver, plus big new Steam Client update for all https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/steamos-3-7-20-released-with-ntsync-driver-plus-big-new-steam-client-update-for-all/

#Steam #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamOS #Linux

#Fedora Linux 44 Beta Released with #Linux Kernel 6.19, #GNOME 50, and #KDE Plasma 6.6 https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-44-beta-released-with-linux-6-19-gnome-50-and-kde-plasma-6-6

#OpenSource

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Screenshot of Fedora Linux 44 Beta with the GNOME 50 desktop environment showing the Activities Overview and the Welcome app.

Blows me away that people still think this is what #linux is like in 2026.

Like, my brother, a whole glorious world awaits you!

(Ironically he messaged me because he's having massive driver issues in windows 11)

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Ugh Linux is just too much work, | - hate having to type in a whole 4. code just to open a photo S Gottatypeinc/__/______ just to open a folder, | don't have time to memorize the location of every T folder But then you gotta make sure games are compatible with Linux T lusemy pc for gaming only

Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-376/

#podcast #linux #opensource

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Anyone know if there is something equally simplistic and universal than LVM that allows for storage policies?

Aka. instead of needing equally sized disks to get something like RAID-5/6 but with an arbitrary amount of drives in arbitrary sizes? (Without the capacity capping).

For now say like I'd have something silly like this:
4x 5 TB
2x 20 TB
20x 1 TB
1x 500 GB
+ change

Goal:
* Encryption at rest
* Tolerates 2 drive failures without any dataloss at all (by more partial)

#LVM #Linux #Storage

The GTK file picker Firefox wants to use by default is meh. I'm not sure why it doesn't use the one provided by the OS when it's just one about:config tweak away. Change widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker from 2 to 1 and you get the much, much better KDE file picker. Assuming you're using @kde of course.

It's been a problem for ages on multiple operating systems, not a new thing. At least now you don't have to set environment variables and change startup scripts.

#Linux #KDE

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/03/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/valuable-news-2026-03-09/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Just found this - some homework for the home lab:

My self-hosted Forgejo runner setup https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/my-self-hosted-forgejo-runner-setup/ #Ansible, #Debian, #Docker, #Fedora, #Forgejo, #Homelab, #Linux, #Ubuntu

I have a Raspberry Pi, a micro-HDMI to HDMI cable, and my laptop, running Linux.

If I connect the HDMI cable between the two devices, is there a way to configure my laptop to receive the signal from the Raspberry Pi, and display it in a floating window or something?

#RaspberryPi #Linux #HDMI #help #techSupport

[$] Inspecting and modifying Python types during type checking

Python has a unique approach to static typing. Python programs can contain type annotations, and even access those annotations at run time, but the annotations aren't evaluated by [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1061083/ #LWN #Linux #Python #Zig

digiKam 9.0.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062105/ #LWN #Linux

CoolerControl v4 adds new security features, brings hardware support and more https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/coolercontrol-v4-adds-new-security-features-brings-hardware-support-and-more/

#OpenSource #Linux

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062103/ #LWN #Linux #security

CachyOS update brings improvements for PC gaming handhelds, the installer and more https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/cachyos-update-brings-improvements-for-pc-gaming-handhelds-the-installer-and-more/

#CachyOS #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming

After five years, this #Apple M1 MacBook Air is still a cracking little #Linux workstation.
I do hope the new MacBook #Neo gets the #AsahiLinux treatment at some point.

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A screenshot of an Ubuntu Asahi Linux desktop with only a terminal open. One pane shows neofetch, another shows a busy cpu output using btop, and the third shows a compiler running, building Telegram.

Website for browsing and installing Omarchy themes. Pretty new and still growing.
https://omarchytheme.com/

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/omarchy/comments/1rog9t9/omarchy_themes_project/

#omarchy #linux #themes #ricing #reddit

I have a #linux question for the class.

I have this jailbroken Intel Chromebook running #debian 13. The screen is broken and I wanted to try and run with no screen, just HDMI (like a pi 500)

When the eDP is installed the HDMI works and screens mirror. And I can even unplug the eDP and it continues to run.

However, it won't even post or get to a pingable status when trying to start it up with no edp LCD installed.

Any ideas why?

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Another great year for #Fedora and #CentOS at #Scale23x! I love events like this that reinforce the "Friends" in Fedora!

#Linux

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Fedora Ambassadors with Red Hat friends

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc3

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062002/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

I recently received a number of these Asus Chromebook 100P laptops as a donation. They're cute little laptops, but are on an expired version of ChromeOS, and since they're #arm I can't use my usual tricks with MrChromebox.

Well @cinimodev apparently is way smarter than me, and figured out how to get #postmarketOS running on this in no time.

He even wrote it up. Check it out. It's brilliant. Yay, #linux

https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2026-03-07-asus-chromebook-c100p-postmarketos-guide/

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Asus Chromebook Flip C100P

I have an issue with mounting a cheap smart watch in #linux: Device is seen by the kernel, but never registered as a storage device /dev/sd*:

usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 1.00
...
usb-storage 1-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
scsi host0: usb-storage 1-2:1.0

The importance of having and sticking to correct development processes, what can go wrong when you don’t, and how to fix the problems you might end up with.

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-145/

#podcast #linux #development

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I see a lot of Linux users being flippant about the age restriction laws requiring age verification at the operating system level.

"Ha ha, good luck enforcing that on every Linux distro out there!" they gleefully post. They should stop and think for a second. No one needs to "enforce" anything on Linux to get people to comply if they want full access to the internet.

Carl Richell at system76 put it most succinctly:

>"Should this method of age attestation become the standard, apps and websites will not assume liability when a signal is not provided and assume the lowest age bracket. Any Linux distribution that does not provide an age bracket signal will result in a nerfed internet for their users."<

https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification

#linux #ageVerification