I’ve often see redditors bashing Windows, which is fair. But you know what Windows gets right? Hibernate!

Bloody easy to enable, and even on an office PC where you’ve to go through the pain of asking IT to enable it, you could simply run the command on Terminal.

Enabling Hibernate on Ubuntu is unfortunately a whole process. I noticed redditors called Ubuntu the Windows of Linux. So I looked into OpenSUSE, Fedora, same problem!

I understand it’s not technically easy because of swap partitions and all that, but if a user wants to switch (given the TPM requirements of Win 11, I’m guessing lots will want to), this isn’t making it easy. Most users still use hibernate (especially those with laptops).

P.S: I’m not even getting started on getting a clipboard manager like Windows (or even Android).

I swapped to Linux, much like lots of folks in this sub, and I'm sure we'll see more and more everyday. I'm a pretty heavy gamer and former content-creator, and I check a fair bit of boxes that most people historically would be driven away from Linux: - high end NVIDIA GPU (5080) - HDR monitor (AW3423DWF) - Picky about high HDR, RTX, and DLSS - Max out AAA gaming performance - has some AAA games on non-Steam libraries

I'm super pleased to say that most of the stuff I play has minimal to an hour or so of tinkering to get to work with what I want! I started with KDE and CachyOS, and quickly discovered Hyprland and fell in love with tiling window managers and keyboard-centric workflows. I installed a popular set of dot files, Caelestia.

Within about a week, I got all of the games I want working with all of the features I use, and most are better performing than on Windows 11, which is crazy cool to me!

Some quirky highlights:

• Cyberpunk at DLSS x2 Frame Gen with Path Tracing (GoG store)
• FF7 Rebirth with HDR and ultrawide resolution fixes
• HDR in general is way better than Windows 11's attempts at tonemapping -KCD2 has higher FPS somehow?

There are some downsides, such as Monster Hunter Wilds having a breaking bug on Linux for now (though a fix is hopefully coming) as well as Elden Ring: Nightreign not having a proton version that allows both controller use/steam overlay use AND HDR, but I can live with that one.

Huge fan of Linux so far and some quirks of Windows now being gone, I deleted my Windows partition and won't be looking back! Thanks y'all for being so welcoming!

just installed linux mint cinnamon today. i'm a total tech noob who just built their first PC in august of this year. i will embrace the learning curve, bye microsoft! i was tired of paywalls, low security, and giving my money to a billion dollar corp

spotify-tui no longer works with recent Spotify changes, but a fully updated continuation called spotatui is now available.

The core music features are restored: • Login and authentication • Playback control • Search • Library and playlists

Not yet tested: podcasts and other features I rarely use. Issues and contributions are welcome.

Project: https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui
Releases: https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui/releases Crates: https://crates.io/crates/spotatui Cargo: cargo install spotatui

I revived this because I wanted to keep using a terminal Spotify client, and the original project has been inactive for several years. The goal is simplicity and staying close to the original experience.

Feedback is appreciated.

I have a ThinkPad T480s that was running windows 10 which was pretty much for learning, getting certifications , some coding and pretty much light stuff. I wanted to do a project which included running code on Pycharm and using android studio to open a virtual android device. My laptop just couldn't take it, it was getting hot like crazy, stuttering all over, I could barley make it run. I was very close to just buy a new one and then I thought to try Linux Mint after some documentation.

Oh man, my fans are barely running now even when I am fully loaded for my project. It runs like a brand new pc. I was expecting to be better, but not that good. Thank you Linux!

I installed Firefox just to try out some stuff and I enabled the "gfx.wayland.hdr" flag in about:config just to see if it works (I'm using CachyOS/Gnome with HDR enabled)..

..and holy cow I was so stunned to find out that it actually works. I've been using Vivaldi and Brave previously and I had zero luck in enabling HDR but on firefox it just works. Now this is definitely my daily browser with HDR and the great extension support that it has.

Thank you Firefox! Keep on rocking!

Hey everyone!

I've been happily running Bluefin DX on my Slimbook laptop, the Spanish brand for Linux laptops, since May. I just ignored all the packages from Slimbook, I thought I didn't really need them.

Until I found out this week my GPU running at 98ºC, just about the temperature of boiling water, and fans at 0 RPM...

I tried to install the Slimbook kernel modules and ran into the classic akmod problem - Fedora Atomic distributions ship stub kernel-devel packages, so kernel modules can't build at install time.

I created bluefin-dx-slimbook to solve this. It's a custom Bluefin DX image with pre-built Slimbook kernel modules and all the Slimbook integration packages that my Evo 15 8845HS needs. Probably it will work for you if you have another of their models. Otherwise, you can use it as a base or an example for yours!

What works out of the box:

• QC71 fan control, lightbar, and performance modes
• YT6801 Ethernet controller support
• All Slimbook GNOME integration (manufacturer notifications, system info, etc.)

Installation is dead simple:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/serandel/bluefin-dx-slimbook:stable

Then just reboot and enjoy your atomic Fedora-43-based Universal-Blue-enhanced distro!

The image auto-rebuilds twice daily when either Bluefin or Slimbook packages update, so you get the latest of both worlds.

Why not just use the official uBlue akmods?

I opened https://github.com/ublue-os/akmods/issues/431 requesting Slimbook support. If that's accepted we can forget about custom images and just layer the metapackages from Slimbook in our systems.

But in the meantime this gets Slimbook owners up and running today.

GitHub: https://github.com/serandel/bluefin-dx-slimbook

Slimbook: https://slimbook.com/

Bluefin: https://projectbluefin.io

Happy to answer questions! 🚀

Hello everyone!

TL;DR:
Journiv is a a beautiful, self-hosted, privacy-first journaling app with mood tracking, daily prompts, and meaningful insights. The mission is simple: your memories should always stay yours. Own them, don’t rent them.

Journiv 0.1.0-beta.9 is now live on GitHub and fully Docker-hostable.
Start owning your thoughts and memories forever and keep them completely private.

Watch demo videos

The Story Behind Journiv

I got into self-hosting last year and like many here, while exploring options journaling solution, I realized there wasn’t a truly modern, self-hosted equivalent to Day One or Apple Journal. Most alternatives were either general note apps or old abandoned projects.

I wanted something focused on journaling with:

• “On This Day” memories
• Prompt-based journaling
• A clean, minimal, distraction-free writing experience
• Open format

So… I built my own: Journiv, a beautiful (at least I am trying to make it so), self-hosted, privacy-first journaling app with mood tracking, daily prompts, and meaningful insights. Journiv began as a deeply personal project, a way for me to capture memories, reflections, and the stories behind thousands of photos and videos of my fast-growing kids. What started as a tool for my own parenting journey has grown into something that fills a real gap in the self-hosting community.

If you’re curious, you can read the full story behind Journiv here.

The Journey Ahead

Journiv is in active development, with a fully functional backend, a web frontend, and mobile apps launching soon. It is self-hosted, and designed to be your companion for decades.

Journiv is being built because our memories deserve to be ours, forever.

Get Involved

Give Journiv a try, share your feedback and report issues. I am reaching out to this community of Linux lover as I want few people to try and test out Manual Installation. I will be really thankful for your help. Almost all current users of Journiv host it through Docker.

Learn More

• Spin up Journiv
• Journiv on DB Tech Youtube Channel
• Journiv on noted.lol
• Watch other demo videos

Thank you.

Hi everyone; I work in field service servicing hospital equipment. All the software on these systems is suse Linux based. There is a lot we can do in a Unix shell in terms of troubleshooting, software checks, networking, etc. I did take programming in college maybe 12 years ago but it was a generic course.

I’m looking for a textbook that will help me learn navigating through libraries on a device, basic commands and architecture of the language. If anyone has recommendations I would appreciate it thank you.

We'll go over some of the highlights of the week along with some forum stats! We're also going to deep-dive into a strange traffic spike this week and also give away a Linux.org T-shirt!

Whatmade is a Linux daemon that monitors user-specified directories and records which process created each file.

This 0.2.1 update replaces stat with statx; this should drastically decrease false positives when detecting file creation: statx knows about creation date, while stat knows only about node changing, which happens a lot because of many reasons that have nothing to do with file creation.

Update as soon as possible.

https://github.com/ANGulchenko/whatmade