FOSS Weekly #25.26: Torvalds-Gates Showdown, Hyprland Premium, Fedora’s 32-bit Debacle, Xfce Themes and More Linux Stuff
In an interesting turn of events, Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates meet each other for the first time at a dinner invite. What would have they talked about? Any guesses?
This photo also made me realize how quickly Torvalds has aged in the past few years 😔
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💬 Let's see what else you get in this edition
- Kubuntu also dropping Xorg support.
- Hyprland working on a paid plan and not everyone being happy about it.
- KDE's new setup tool.
- Void Editor with open source AI to tackle Cursor supermacy.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
📰 Linux and Open Source News
- Kubuntu is also set to drop Xorg in favor of Wayland. Fedora, Ubuntu and now Kubuntu. I can see more distros following this trend in the near future.
- KDE plans a new setup tool to welcome users after a fresh installation.
- Hyprland is planning to launch a paid premium tier and that decision has led to heated discussion in the communities.
- Murena Find launches as a Qwant-based search engine.
- Zed Editor's new debugger has arrived with multi-language support.
- Kingfisher is MongoDB's new open source real-time secrets scanner.
Fedora plans to ditch 32-bit support completely. This will impact Steam and Wine.
Sourav Rudra
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Accessibility on Linux is being taken for granted.
TheEvilSkeleton
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- What’s a shim file, and why does your Linux distro need it when dealing with UEFI secure boot?
- You can easily beautify Xfce desktop with these themes I suggest.
- Did you know you could tweak the file manager in GNOME desktop and extend its features?
- Quick tip on using dark mode with VLC.
Fast, pretty, and actually helpful. Btop++ nails system monitoring.
Abhishek Prakash
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👷 Homelab and Hardware Corner
Abhishek boosted his Raspberry Pi's performance with this simple tweak. However, this is not a trick you should use often.
Abhishek Kumar
Spotted this 'glow bot' smart AI assistant on Kickstarter. A cool desk companion with a futuristic vibe, only if you have money to spare. It is not open source. I hope someone starts a similar open source project soon, as this is an interesting concept to have customized pixel animation that reacts according to interaction.
✨ Project Highlight
Don't like Cursor's proprietary nature? You can try Void instead.
Sourav Rudra
📽️ Videos I am Creating for You
A rare Linux game review from us in video format. There is a text version, too. If you like it, we will cover more indie games that can be played natively on Linux.
🧩 Quiz Time
Can you guess all the Shell Built-in commands?
Abhishek Prakash
💡 Quick Handy Tip
In the Konsole, you can view file thumbnails. To accomplish this, first enable "Underline files" in a profile you use in Konsole via Menu → Settings → Configure Konsole → Profiles → Your Profile → Edit → Mouse → Miscellaneous → Underline files.
Now, perform Menu → Settings → Configure Konsole → Thumbnails → Enable thumbnails generation. Also, set an activation key to hold while hovering your cursor, I used the Shift key to demonstrate below.
That's it. Now, when you press Shift and hover your mouse over a file, a thumbnail will appear!
🤣 Meme of the Week
I feel like a mentor 👨🏫
🗓️ Tech Trivia
Microsoft was incorporated on June 25, 1981, in the state of Washington, following its founding by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975.
One more fun fact, Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates recently met at a dinner hosted by Microsoft Azure's CTO, Mark Russinovich.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
Hotmail is a name I haven't heard in quite some time now. One of our FOSSers is not happy with it.
audun_s
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