This is just a simple little happy post 🙂 I know the situation isn't super special or unusual.

I just ran an Endeavour OS + AUR update (eos-update --aur) and it had a net size of -7.38 MB. i.e., out of 138 packages, enough of them reduced their footprint to make the net change negative.

So I got a bit of SSD space back! It's not the first time either. I don't think I saw that once in 25ish years of running Windows or macOS. Maybe a video driver package would shrink on occasion, but never a major system update.

So yeah, just a lil' shoutout to all the maintainers out there optimizing your apps and services. You're great 👍

Edit: Thanks for all suggestion! In my case (Thinkpad) I managed to make it persistent via udev, as described here.

It looks like there was a pre-existing udev configuration about this, but had slightly wrong SUBSYSTEM and DRIVER parameters:

• old: SUBSYSTEM=="acpi", DRIVER=="button"
• correct (in my case): SUBSYSTEM=="platform", DRIVER=="acpi-button"

maybe because of some recent systemd changes?

Hope this may help others.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68100295

I have Kubuntu on a Thinkpad, and a S3-sleep state selected in the Bios.

My setup has always been to not resume from sleep when the lid is open. I achieved this by running once

echo "LID" | sudo tee /proc/acpi/wakeup

which toggles the wakeup-on-lid state. The behaviour would be respected upon restart.

Here's my problem: since some recent update – I don't know whether from apt or fwupd – I discovered that the laptop was waking up upon lid opening. So I issued the command above again. It works, but it gets reset upon restart, unlike before.

Anyone has good tips on how to make this setting permanent?

In the Bios I didn't find any settings about this.

Cheers!

How about a BASIC that uses Labels instead of line numbers, and actual names for variables - some of the statements are different, for example instead of 'Input' labelbasic uses 'ask' (Each statment begins with a unique letter)

git your own copy at : https://codeberg.org/WasPentalive/LabelBasic.git

The Linux Foundation has twelve platinum members, which donate $500000 per year, followed by twelve gold members, who donate $100000 per year. Below these two primary tiers lie the silver peasants, who each donate $5000-$25000 per year, based on number of employees. Looking at the list of twelve platinum members, I noticed something interesting.

Of the twelve platinum companies, six are “AI” companies or companies with massive investments in “AI”: Google, Huawei, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM/Red Hat. Then there’s Samsung Electronics, which is raking in stupendous amounts of money thanks to the “AI” bubble. Additionally, one of the gold members is Anthropic, another major “AI” company and makers of “Claude”, the sloppiest of slopcoding tools.[...]

Anyway, a large chunk of the funding the Linux Foundation, Linus Torvald’s employer, receives is coming from increasingly desperate companies frantically trying to convince a populace deeply skeptical and often downright hostile towards “AI” to spend money on “AI” before the bubble bursts.

I've just been running it for a couple of days on my gaming setup and it's so good.

It's rolling release with a role back function to a previous state that is 100x snappier, more organic and less awkward then all the immutable distros and atomic desktops I tried !?

It seems totally independent and made by a small team.

Why is nobody talking about it?!!

I am still genuinly looking for whats the catch?! Please someone tell me!

It's only rank 30 on distrowatch, I hadn't even heard of it until recently.

Is it just because the branding isn't the best?

Granted it was kind of awkward to install especially with encryption but arch was also awkward to install for a while and people still talked about it.

I just wanna make sure that everyone isn't sleeping on this because I am genuinely confused.

I feel like I am living the distro hoppers dream where you stumble over a random distro and it's actually better then everything you tried before xD.

Just discovered this and though I'd might share for those who want a unified look between their phone. The Wallpapers are high res and GPL

Today, lovely Windows 11 installed an update. And since then I don't have internet access because Microslop Wincrap 11 can somehow magically no longer connect to the DNS server - to any DNS server. No other device in my network has the same issue. I've been bugfixing for over an hour and haven't found a solution. setting the DNS manually, resetting the network adapter, flushed all DNS entries (I used the commandline tool on Windows!). nothing works.

I don't have ANY more patience with W11!

I already tried Linux. I'm using Ubuntu Server for hosting Nextcloud and Fedora just to play around.

Do you prefer Fedora or Ubuntu? I have an old Thinkpad...

(And no, I will not go down the rabbit hole of Arch ;-) At least not for now.)

(upvotes to the left)

• I have two machines:
  • one with arch and KDE (installed with pacman -S kde)
  • one with asahi fedora spin (installed with curl https://alx.sh/ | sh and chose the KDE spin)
• after booting and changing to another TTY with ctrl-alt-f4 and loging in I see vastly different memory usages:
  • arch: 600MB
  • asahi: 1900MB
• On arch I use sddm and on asahi kde plasma-login-manager
• Do you have any ideas why the difference in RAM usage is so stark and how I could further investigate?
• PS.: Normally I wouldn't care about this memory footprint but the asahi hardware only has 8GB of RAM and I had to increase swappiness from 60 to 70 to run thunderbird + firefox + some electron apps.

Links:

Another German state moves to open source
https://www.regierung-mv.de/Aktuell/?id=221531&processor=processor.sa.pressemitteilung

Windows drops below 60% market share
https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

OpenMandriva victim of sabotage from former contributor
https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/statement-regarding-attempted-distribution-sabotage/8997

GNOME 51 has its first alpha
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Alpha
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Background-Blur

FSF makes progress on LibrePhone project
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2026/summer/ensuring-freedom-one-blob-at-a-time

Ubuntu outlines their work on ARM
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-on-arm-summer-26-update/84872

More performance improvements for AMD on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Marek-Double-VRS-RADV-Perf

Tuxedo OS moves to Debian Testing
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/A-new-foundation-for-TUXEDO-OS-Switching-to-Debian.tuxedo

Mint 23 will have a full Wayland session
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5046

Valve published Windows drivers for Steam machine
https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/lies-about-driver-support-valve-now-lets-you-install-windows-11-on-a-steam-machine-but-many-people-dont-want-to-be-fooled-twice

Proton 11 released
https://linuxiac.com/proton-11-0-released-with-big-compatibility-boost-for-linux-gaming/

I recently had to change to icevpn. Unfortunately they have no Linux client but you can manually configure it with openvpn. It works fine, however I cannot get it to auto start when I boot the PC or wake from sleep. I edited the config for opnvpn in /etc to uncomment AUTOSTART which did nothing.

Linux Mint

I appreciate any help! Other than this, icevpn has been great.

Windows just had its worst month on record. StatCounter’s newly published numbers for June 2026 put worldwide desktop market share for Windows at 56.61%, the first time it has ever fallen below 60% in the history of the dataset. Linux closed the same month at 4.36%, its highest number in a year. The r/linux crowd found the chart within hours, and the thread that followed was half celebration, half cross examination.

Here’s what the data actually says, what it probably doesn’t say, and why the comments didn’t believe it for a second.

Looking for advice on what I suspect is a driver issue with Zorin Linux.

For a few months, I've had issues with suspend, where the computer will wake, but the screen remains black. This happens both when the computer suspends on its own and when I suspend it manually.

Worse, when I force reboot the computer:

1. only one of my monitors lights up
2. my keyboard is unresponsive.
3. Mouse still works.
4. Internet also dies.

Both monitors are connected to an Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU. The keyboard and mouse are connected via USB.

What I've tired

• I've used the Accessibility Keyboard (screen keyboard) to log in after a restart and revert to a previous state using Timeshift. This will get the keyboard, Internet and screen to work, but the moment I suspend, the problem returns.

• I did notice this issue started once I updated my GPU drivers to Nvidia ones (I've tried a couple).

I tried reverting to the Nouveau driver, but the problem returned.

I should probably note that when I orginally tried to install Zorin with Nvidia drivers, the install failed.

Advice

I'm looking for ideas on how to proceed.

At this point, I could start over completely with a fresh install of Zorin.

I could revert to the earliest Timeshift image I have, which would put me back to a fresh install.

I could abandon Zorin for another distro.

Thanks!

Is this, like, incredibly novel, common, or somewhere in between? I've never heard of this apart from WLS...

Not really sure what happened. More amused than anything.

Two days ago, I had two browser windows, steam, and two other applications open across the two monitors on my machine.

While interacting with one browser, everything else vanished. Steam wouldn't respond via the panel, but I could launch games in the recent list. Alt-tab only had the browser, nothing else.

Nothing that vanished was on other workspaces. (I thought I'd somehow managed to switch the active browser to a new workspace, but maybe not?)

Today, two reboots later (I shut my computer down at night) about an hour after I booted up, the browser that disappeared came back. Same pages and even paused where the video had been at disappearance, which hey great, but still weird.

My computer is a Bermuda triangle.

Software used - https://www.geekbench.com/

I've tried different Linux distros on my old hp laptop.

• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U (4) @ 3.00 GHz
• GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940M [Discrete]
• GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 5500 @ 0.95 GHz [Integrated]
• Memory: 8GiB

EndeavourOS

Linux Mint

Special guest - Windows 10 (Fresh install - debloated)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48767902

Summary

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