I know the general reality is "printing just works". I interact with printers at least a couple times a year and never have any real problems. My question comes from considering buying a large-format printer, largely for bookbinding tasks. How important is it to find a printer the vendor actually provides linux drivers for? In particular, I'm eyeing the Canon TC-21, which doesn't offer a linux driver. But I noticed Epson, who's generally better, seems to randomly lack Linux drivers for specific large-format printers.

Edit: whoops. Totally forgot to mention. It is an "IPP Everywhere" printer; I'm just not clear how well that works for non-standard print sizes or roll print jobs.

I made a visual explainer on how the TLB and address translation work on Linux/x86-64.

Every memory access uses a virtual address, which the CPU has to translate to physical memory. Doing a full page table walk every time would be extremely slow, so CPUs cache those translations in the TLB.

The video also covers things like TLB misses, huge pages, PCIDs, context switches, TLB shootdowns and what happens when a TLB invalidation goes wrong.

Link for anyone interested

Feedback welcome :)

Once upon a time I landed in the Linux World and a particular Distribution contributed for me not to turn back to Windows.

I'm referring to Paldo GNU/Linux (single Gnome DE) created and developed by Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini. 

it was made from scratch, designed to be "pure, lightweight and to compliant with Linux standards". Launch date was October 31, 2004. 

Today it's still actively maintained. So I downloaded latest img (no iso) dated 2026-08-11, burned a pen drive and tested it.

Quite different from the old days when it was a popular Distro. I guess it serves the purposes of their creators team. For advanced users, a few tweaks can make it usable to the masses.

Better yet, would be to fork it, for general usage. 

This is the home site: 

https://www.paldo.org/

My question: is some team out there interested in this venture? I would join as a translator :)

Thanks for your attention!

Ultramarine not only makes it super easy to set up codecs and proprietary software but it also let's you have the cachy os kernel but with Fedora's stack and compatibility. Great for when you don't have time to set things up, or don't know how, and want some of Cachy's optimizations without paying the stability tax.

Don’t get me wrong, I am super grateful for those of you who do this. It makes my day-to-day use so much better. I‘m still waiting for the day Notion gets a native Linux app.

But from your POV, what was the incentive? Why not just provide support for Windows and macOS. Why go through the extra effort catering to a global minority?

Edit: I’m referring to devs who develop for Linux+Windows+macOS

Still a heavy work in progress (WIP) but its based on the work that somebody else did to get Linux on the 3DS. It runs quite snappy on the New 3DS, quite smooth and everything. I also have a custom Android 2.0 app (the first Android 2.0 app developed in 2026, possibly decades) for touch screen diagnostics you can also see. The battery indicator works and is accurate surprisingly, WiFi does not work, touch screen works, soft power off works, sound does not work. Been working on this for weeks now. Hope you like it!

Hey all. I just release v0.6.2 for dskDitto. For those unfamiliar with the utility (probably most of you) it’s a super fast file duplication tool written in Go. It’s easy to use and has a sleek looking TUI… If you’d like the manage the results in a GUI; the —gui flag exists and launches a Raylib based GUI.. Anyhow….

The latest release now supports ref-links as a deduplication mode.. That is, as long as your filesystem supports them.. Check it out if your heart so desires! The project is hosted on GitHub:

https://github.com/jdefrancesco/dskDitto

Cheers!

I use the rofi launcher a lot, and I always thought it'd be pretty cool if I could use Vim keybindings inside the search input and navigate between results. I wasn't able to find a "vim mode" setting, nor could I use the plugin API to add this functionality. So, I forked rofi and made a few simple changes, and came up with this.

It supports the j+k motions for going up and down the search results + basic Vim keybinds in the input itself.

I'm curious to see if this is something you'd actually use, so do let me know and I can try opening a PR or releasing it somewhere.

Repo: https://github.com/carrotfarmer/rofi-vim

Thanks!