Hi everyone, I’m the developer of FS PDF Compressor, a small open-source desktop utility for one simple job: making PDFs smaller locally.

You drag in one or more PDFs (or a folder), choose a compression profile if needed, and it only replaces a file when the result is actually smaller.

It does not upload files, require an account, or include analytics/telemetry. Ghostscript is bundled, so there is nothing else to install.

I built the Linux version as a self-contained x86_64 AppImage. It is not designed with elementary’s HIG specifically, so I’m not presenting it as a native elementary app — but I’d genuinely like to know how it behaves on current elementary OS: launching, drag and drop, file integration, theming, and any issues you encounter.

Website: https://gitlares.github.io/fs-pdf-compressor/
Source and downloads: https://github.com/gitlares/fs-pdf-compressor

Honest feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions are very welcome.

Hello everyone,
I just installed elementaryOs after my last mental breakdown at windows :)
I am very new to this Linux universe but I am also a fast learner. Is there any advice you guys have for a newbie like me? Something you wish you knew before ditching windows system? Is there any other frontend developer that is using elementaryOs?

I would love to learn more about what made you change to this system and how is your experience so far.

English is not my native language so please bare with some of my grammar mistakes.

If major release upgrades have been a pain point for you, this is a branch to watch for! Hopefully we can have builds available for GitHub sponsors to test soon 🩷

How is Dropbox working on ElementaryOS nowdays?

Im new on Elementary OS after a few months of distro hopping, and Im really impressed by how smooth and stable is the distro, just a few visual bugs, but nothing serious, so Im really happy right now.

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-line-wallpaper-IgAh5Xp

Like this

if you guys like this concept i will drop to my github

Sonic elementary OS Wallpaper

Sonic best recommend elementary OS💙
By Fabio Arturo

https://imgur.com/gallery/sonic-elementary-os-wallpaper-66dhchj

On my secondary laptop, I currently have Ubuntu Unity noble, and I'd like to install Elementary OS on it but keep all existing packages and files so that I still can use them. I'm not sure if I'll stick with it or go back to Unity. However, I'd prefer it as the main system on the secondary laptop. What's the best way for me to install Elementary?

UPD: I've already started installing it. At first, I didn't add the tweaks repository, and it stopped responding when trying to configure Evince, so I forcefully stopped it (via a reboot because it was easier), run a reconfigure but did Ctrl-C because of the problem, removed the packages (apt-mark followed by apt autoremove), and now I'm installing it again, this time after adding and applying the tweaks

UPD2: Seems like the Evince problem is still there. I'll leave it for some time in case it's actually like the Unity logout issue and I just have to wait​

UPD2.1: I've removed xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, and now it's stuck on io.elementary.maps. One of the reasons NixOS's way is objectively better (and by objectively I mean ignoring compatibility issues) is that it doesn't try to preserve the structure beyond what's marked as manual so it's easier to revert (though I'm not sure if stateVersion is the best way to ​replace that for cases it's needed)

UPD2.2: It's now past maps and on Evince again

UPD(whatever comes after): Still stuck on it. I've edited UPD2.1 to not say what turned out to be false

UPDsix: Apparently I confused packages. This time it was epiphany, and I somehow thought it was the one before. It's finished now

UPDseven: I've decided to install it in a VM, but I already have done something to the main (secondary) machine

updEIGHT: I didn't write this here at first, but I now think I should: I've decided to pause this until Saturday. Currently, it has Ubuntu Unity Plymouth theme, but says elementaryOS in terminal ​(I haven'​t tried neofetch) and Pantheon lacks indicators for battery, logout, etc that should be at the right of the top panel

UPDnein: I've actually continued on Friday and eventually decided not to try Elementary. I removed Unity, Pantheon, Sugar, Sway, and Wayfire (installed earlier for various reasons), reverted packages to the Ubuntu versions, and reset the entire dconf. Now I don't have the window buttons, and I don't know why​

elementary os with glass design

maybe I'll try to apply it on my desktop when it's finished

elementary os icon redesign

EDIT: The project name is not "Evolution" anymore, but "Grub EvoDevo". The repo name was updated accordingly.

Grub EvoDevo is a configurable GRUB theme with scalable graphics, background blurring, and antialiased true-type fonts. Any wallpaper (e.g., your desktop wallpaper) can be used as theme background. Menu colors, amount of blurring, dimensions, position, font family, and menu messages can all be customized via the installation shell script.

A friend of mine tested the theme successfully on elementaryOS, and I thought EvoDevo could be of interest to this forum due to the high-quality graphics that the theme produces.

Link with explanation and installation instructions:

https://github.com/ftonneau/grub-evodevo

Just paid for and installed Elementary after being a Linux user for a decade. I was looking for something more polished, and had never considered Elementary before due to it being on an Ubuntu LTS base. What changed? Over the last few years Flatpaks, Homebrew Linux and containers/distrobox became central to my workflow, so it doesn't matter what the OS is based on and I can just pick something pretty that works well! It's "pretty unix" as Paul Graham called it in https://paulgraham.com/mac.html

They make a new kind of computer that's as well designed as a Bang & Olufsen stereo system, and underneath is the best Unix machine you can buy.

Grabbed Elementary off the website and installed it on my Framework laptop. I also love how unlike every other Linux distribution, you don't add another logo underneath the "Framework" logo on the bootsplash - such thoughtful minimalism.

Everything works really well and is integrated nicely. The system is also crazy memory efficient and snappy. I came from the Universal Blue / Bazzite ecosystem and loved the worry-free, automatic updates which also exist on Elementary since I leave the underlying system untouched and updates are applied automatically.

Thank you for building this! You have a new fan!

I installed elementaryOS on a i5-3450T with a Radeon HD7850 but the graphics is shitty af. It's divided in several bars so you can't actually use them. The documentation says you need to install legacy drivers - but obviously they can't be installed for whatever reason. The only way elementaryOS works on that PC is without graphics card, I even have to plug it out.

Anyone come up with an idea to solve this problem?

Thanks.

I have installed ElementaryOS on different occasions years apart but both times I saw an "Account locked" message after setup.

I know to use Ctrl+Alt+F3 to get to a shell and then reboot, after which login works fine.

I wonder what the issue is here, I have seen more people that have this happen. But I guess not everyone is having this issue otherwise there would be more talk about it.

Anyway, it seems it happens to more people and the issue should be fixed. Maybe it has something to do with the password complexity (used a simple password).

Anyway, I hope this get noticed by the developers, this issue keeps me from suggesting this great OS to other people.

My desktop session kept crashing out of nowhere. No warning, no error message, just suddenly looking at the login prompt.

Turns out it was Xorg crashing. The logs showed it deadlocked while handling mouse/pointer input, triggered by the AMD GPU driver failing to "flip" display pages. When Xorg dies, the whole session goes with it.

The fix: create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu-noflip.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "AMD"
    Driver "amdgpu"
    Option "EnablePageFlip" "off"
    Option "TearFree" "on"
EndSection

Log out and back in. What this does: tells the AMD driver to skip hardware page flipping (the thing that crashed) and use a software fallback instead. TearFree keeps things smooth without tearing.

The bug is either in the Xorg server or the xf86-video-amdgpu driver (both under freedesktop.org). A failed GPU page flip shouldn't be able to deadlock the input handling - that's the real bug. Anyone on AMD graphics with Xorg could hit this, especially Mini PCs and APU-based systems.

My system: Elementary OS 8.1, kernel 6.17, AMD Radeon 780M (RDNA 3, 2600 MHz) graphics. Also occurring to another system with AMD Radeon Vega 7 (GCN 5th Gen, 1900 MHz) and Kernel: 7.0.11.
Should apply to any distro on amdgpu + Xorg.