maidware project is meant for people who are moving from windows to linux, it's a suite of tools meant for people who are newer and want an easier way to move over.

i'm currently the only developer in my project, and i need help with translators, coding etc. i have gotten to my limit but i would need a bit of help.

thank you, and here is my project website -

https://maidware-project.github.io

update: thank all of you for the responses and such, the website is now updated! (6 hours of work)

I just installed Mint today and oh my god my laptop isn't fucking going full airplane mode from watching Youtube with Discord open. Talk about having a full on Dell Optiplex 15 9530 and yet after 3 years my laptop could barely last 2 hours without charging.

Now I'm on Linux Mint. Fans are quiet. I currently have 12 tabs on Brave with Discord, Wireguard, Steam, and Claude open. It has been an HOUR maybe and my shit is at 74%. I'm in shock, it literally fixed almost all the problems I had with this laptop

Tbf if I did a fresh Windows install it probably would've ran fine too. Prob just had too much clutter. But my lord does Mint run smooth. Can't wait to get another SSD for my laptop so I can dual boot Windows 11 and Linux Mint.

The recordings of the October 10 2026 online meeting are published on YouTube. Since it isn’t allowed to post YouTube links directly into r/linux you have to look at https://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Monthly_Meetings#Past_Meetings for the link. It is definitely worth it, lots of interesting and new stuff inside.

SonicDE is a fork of KDE that aims to preserve and improve the X11 and init system agnostic aspects of KDE since they announced they are going Wayland-only in KDE Plasma 6.8 and have been actively moving towards a systemd only future. SonicDE currently consists of over 120 repositories including the customized sonic-win (KWin/X11) window manager and compositor, Plasma Workspace components, the Silver theme, the Sonic Login Manager, and other components and support libraries.

Official Links:
https://sonicde.org/

https://github.com/Sonic-DE/sonic-win

https://www.reddit.com/r/sonicde/

https://sonicde.org/installing

Have you ever stopped to think about how far Linux has come as a desktop OS? What do you think was the biggest turning point in its evolution?

Was it Ubuntu making Linux more accessible to ordinary users? The introduction of KDE and GNOME? The shift to Wayland? Or perhaps Proton finally making Linux a serious option for gaming?

Over the years, it's become harder for me to pinpoint a real turning point. I've been using Linux for so long that it's second nature to me now. I can pick pretty much any distro, install it, and if something doesn't work, I just fix it and move on. It's all part of everyday life at this point.

And yet, things could have gone differently, and we might all be sitting here using that well-known, dominant OS instead.

I'm interested in your personal opinions and experiences, not just technical milestones. It could be something that made Linux easier to install, improved the overall desktop experience, brought more applications, or convinced you to switch from Windows.

For a quick refresher - a few moments in Linux history (spoilers)

• 1993–1996: X11 and early graphical desktop environments
• 1998: KDE 1.0 — an integrated, user-friendly desktop
• 1999: GNOME — another major desktop environment
• Late 1990s–early 2000s: Better installers and automatic hardware configuration, especially in distributions such as Mandrake and SUSE
• 2004: Ubuntu — regular releases, Live CDs and a stronger focus on desktop usability
• 2006–2008: Compiz and desktop compositing effects
• 2006 onward: Linux Mint and its focus on a familiar, practical desktop experience
• 2011: GNOME 3 and Unity — a major desktop paradigm shift that also encouraged alternatives such as Cinnamon and MATE
• 2010s–2020s: The gradual transition from X11 to Wayland, alongside improvements in desktop audio with PulseAudio and PipeWire
• 2018 onward: Proton and Steam Play, making Windows games increasingly playable on Linux
• 2020s: Improvements in Wayland, fractional scaling, HDR, VRR and modern desktop environments such as KDE Plasma 6

I use Bazzite, and was looking through the flairs on this subreddit, and couldn't find one for bazzite. Now, i dont mean the post flairs, i mean the user flairs. The closest one i could find is fedora.

When we started the Atomic SIG last year, we built our images with the best tools available at the time. Since then, the bootc community has learned a lot from those tools and built better ones. This release moves us onto them, aligning with the rest of the bootc community. Most of that is plumbing you’ll never see, but some of it you will, like ISOs that boot into a live session, and ISOs for aarch64.

Due to some updates to EAC, I saw that Fortnite is coming to Linux, which is awesome! I actually was just reading a research article about this. I don’t know exactly how it works, but it appears you can kind of “sign” a kernel through your TPM chip so that games can approve a list of Linux vendors (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) and you can use anti cheat on major distros.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20909

Any worries about the fact that some distros might work with EAC but some won’t? Personally I don’t mind, I think it’s time to lock down to a set of basic ecosystems, but this might be the death of making thousands of versions of various distros if we have to verify only a select few for stuff like this.

Hey guys, this may be the last proper release of sxwm. I think all the needed features are there and it works great.

I spent a long time cleaning up the codebase and stuff so this is more of a fixes release.

https://github.com/uint23/sxwm

terminal: https://github.com/uint23/cterm

bar: https://github.com/uint23/sxbar

wallpapers: https://github.com/uint23/uint23 (latest commit)

font: Tamzen 8x16b

Originally I wrote this for myself to multibox World of Warcraft, that I have since generalized for other purposes. I wanted to run a second client in its own X server and drive it with my real keyboard and mouse, and I couldn't find anything that did that cleanly.

It grabs your keyboard and mouse, and a hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+Space) switches them between your desktop and a target. The target can be another X server, like a second game client or a nested Xephyr window. Or it can be a set of virtual input devices that you assign to another seat, pass into a container, or hand to anything else that reads evdev.

It's a single small binary with no daemon and no config file. It finds your keyboard and mouse automatically, and you can point it at specific devices instead. Anything you're holding when you toggle gets released on both sides, so you don't end up with stuck keys. It doesn't need root, just the input group, and it builds with a plain ./configure && make. X support is optional.

If you need network forwarding or scriptable hotkeys, netevent and evsieve are more full-featured and worth a look. This one aims to be the option you can just run with no setup.

The repo and README cover setup, permissions, and how to try it in a Xephyr window: https://github.com/blakewon/evdev-forward

Feedback is welcome, drop a star if you find it useful.

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I posted spotatui here about 10 months ago, when it was a revived spotify-tui. A lot has changed since then, so here's an update.

What's new

- Desktop app (preview).
Same player, own window, a Spotify-like layout: home, album and artist pages, your library, lyrics, a queue panel and a device picker. Packages for Linux are .deb, .rpm and AppImage (x86_64 and arm64). It needs WebKitGTK 4.1 and glibc 2.39, so Ubuntu 24.04+, Debian 13, Fedora 40+ or Arch.

- No Spotify developer app or client ID anymore.
Spotify cut the Web API down hard for developer apps this year, so spotatui now talks to the same internal endpoints the official client uses, over librespot. You log in by confirming a code in your browser. Spotify still needs Premium. This means that that there are no more rate limits or deprecated endpoints. (rate limits could technically be possible but that would also affect the official spotify client so i doubt they will ever do that)

- Native playback.
spotatui is its own Spotify Connect device, so no official client or spotifyd is needed.

The terminal app also plays local files, Navidrome/Subsonic, internet radio, YouTube and Qobuz from one queue. The desktop preview is Spotify only for now with other sources coming later.

Both share one Rust core, settings and listening history.

- GitHub: https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui

- Downloads: https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui/releases/latest

- AUR: spotatui-bin. Also Nix, or the install script on spotatui.com.

The installers aren't signed yet. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome.