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20 votes
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Mozilla grants Ente $100k
12 votes -
Time as a grid
15 votes -
Stride Community Toolkit Preview - code-only feature basics in C#
3 votes -
Things learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation
24 votes -
wordfreq will no longer be updated partly due to AI polluting the data
74 votes -
Valkey 8 sets a new bar for open-source in-memory NoSQL data storage
12 votes -
Zerowriter Ink
21 votes -
Haiku beta 5 release notes
18 votes -
The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
27 votes -
KDE Akademy 2024 - The Akademy of many changes
6 votes -
Seek and you shall find — A list of recent updates that make Ready Player a better media player and manager for Emacs
6 votes -
Radicle 1.0 — An open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git
6 votes -
Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL
21 votes -
Grokking KOReader
25 votes -
Emacs Writing Studio — A comprehensive guide for writers seeking to streamline their workflow using Emacs
8 votes -
Living in times of technical feudalism
6 votes -
Linkhut is an open source bookmarking service in the spirit Pinboard
19 votes -
Poke_Transporter_GB: A Pokémon Generation I/II to Generation III transfer tool
19 votes -
The Open Source Hardware Association needs your help
15 votes -
OpenBSD has reached OpenBSD of Theseus
22 votes -
What is a software you wish existed?
I've been feeling pretty bored for a while and my job isn't really giving something fulfilling to do, So I want to make something. However, I don't want to make something useless. unfortunately, I...
I've been feeling pretty bored for a while and my job isn't really giving something fulfilling to do, So I want to make something.
However, I don't want to make something useless. unfortunately, I can't think of any software I'm in a particular need for. I would love to make something that solves a real problem for a real human.
So, please tell me, what's something that you wish existed because it would reduce suffering in your life that little (or big) bit?
Edit: Wow wow and wow, I didn't expect this thread that I made on a whim to blow up so much. So many idead!
69 votes -
Program your finances: Command-line accounting
16 votes -
Cyberpunk 2077 breach protocol autosolver
14 votes -
Forgejo is now copyleft, just like Git
20 votes -
Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser
34 votes -
Sustainability of FOSS: The Next Generation Internet ecosystem
14 votes -
Godot 4.3 release - A shared effort
48 votes -
5etools repository taken down after DMCA request by Wizards of the Coast
42 votes -
10 years of Dear ImGui
15 votes -
KIO Thumbnailer Support
2 votes -
Cables — interactive visuals, made from cable salad
11 votes -
So you want to compete with or replace open source
26 votes -
FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans. Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello.
28 votes -
The best robot vacuum for me is the one I hacked
32 votes -
Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
54 votes -
Thirty years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive
18 votes -
FreeDOS open-source text-based OS turns 30, still in active development and primarily used for retro gaming
13 votes -
What is self hosted? What is a stack?
7 votes -
The day AppGet died
40 votes -
Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
45 votes -
Steam Superheater: Fix old and broken Steam games with a couple of clicks
22 votes -
Minimalist Android launcher recommendations
Currently, I'm using the Aero launcher, and I really like having all the names of my apps listed out, but if I could have something with a to do list and then swipe for apps, it would be kind of...
Currently, I'm using the Aero launcher, and I really like having all the names of my apps listed out, but if I could have something with a to do list and then swipe for apps, it would be kind of neat.
Other wish list functions:
- Folders for Apps.
- Able to add PWA or a URL to a list of apps.
- Start a search from searching through all apps.
- Corner widgets/shortcuts
- A pony!
Willing to poke around if there is an open source project I can add stuff too.
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“It can’t be that easy, right?” (a Linux desktop environment appreciation post)
I daily drive Pop!_OS, which uses the GNOME desktop environment. I know that DEs are a hotly contested space among Linux users, and my use of GNOME wasn’t so much a choice as it was a default:...
I daily drive Pop!_OS, which uses the GNOME desktop environment. I know that DEs are a hotly contested space among Linux users, and my use of GNOME wasn’t so much a choice as it was a default: it’s what came with my distro.
I like GNOME. I don’t really understand the hate it often gets, but I also don’t really have the legacy understanding of Linux that a lot of people do, and it seems like a lot of distaste lies there. I’m as casual a user as they come — Linux for me is like a Chromebook: it “just works” in that I pretty much need it to get me online and manage some documents. (I do also play games on it, for which Steam and Proton have been a huge boon.)
I also have a Steam Deck, and it uses KDE’s Plasma on the desktop side, so I got to see what that was like. I also like KDE. It’s very different from GNOME, but I can see the appeal. It feels more like Windows but also has a lot of little nice touches and additions. Also, no ads.
This got me thinking: what if I tried using KDE instead of GNOME on my laptop?
I assumed that this would be a big deal. Like, I would have to completely gut my distribution, or reinstall it fresh. Multiple hours of work. Lots of preparation. Looking up myriad terminal commands I don’t understand and hoping they do what they’re supposed to, because if they don’t I’m really screwed — as soon as something goes wrong “under the hood” I’m dead in the water when it comes to fixing it.
But I was looking on System76’s support site and they made it seem super simple. A single terminal command to install the whole DE?
It can’t be that easy, right?
I am astonished to say that it WAS.
I ran the command, had to select between
gdm3
andsddm
(a choice which I didn’t understand at all so I searched around a bit before just going with the default: gdm3), and then rebooted.I can now select between GNOME and KDE on the login screen, and both work flawlessly. It was so easy.
I don’t know who to credit for this. Did System76 do a great job of making this easy on their distro? Did the KDE team work hard to make their DE effortlessly plug-and-play? Is this just a general product of the way Linux handles its different components?
I don’t know but I’m willing to spread the love around to anyone and everyone who contributes to Linux and all of its facets. It’s wild to me that I can so easily reskin my entire operating system in the same way that I used to do with Winamp back in the day. I keep waiting for something to go wrong, but after a few days of this, I’ve realized that everything still “just works,” automagically.
A big thanks here to anyone who has a hand in open-source software and making computing better for people like me, who have (mostly) no idea what they’re doing.
56 votes -
New AI project aims to mimic the human neocortex: The Thousand Brains Project offers a fundamentally different approach to AI
19 votes -
ArcFox, an opensource project to make Firefox flow like Arc browser
33 votes -
I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
15 votes -
Hands-on: Frame by Brilliant Labs is a disappointing stepping stone to something better
14 votes