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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-25

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop:
gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/draf

KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature:
gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/kde-

GNOME's AI Assistant Newelle Adds Llama.cpp Support, Command Execution Tool:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-AI-New

Window Shadows Finally Arrive on COSMIC Desktop:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/cosmic

CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland:
phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Janu

Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE's Hack Week:
phoronix.com/news/Myrlyn-1.0-S

GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel:
phoronix.com/news/GNU-Guix-1.5

Deepin 25.0.10 update includes data-retaining installer and file manager improvements:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/

14 Years Later than Planned, NexPhone is Up for Preorder:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/nexpho

(more Linux and FOSS news in comment)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #KDE #GNOME #COSMIC #CachyOS #Myrlyn #SUSE #Guix #GNUGuix #Deepin #NexPhone #KDEPlasma #Newelle #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Plasma6 #LinuxPhone #LinuxDistro #DistroRelease #DesktopEnvironment #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #FosseryTech

Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-18

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter

GNOME 50 Will Make Sure You Don't Use Your Computer Past Your Bedtime:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Scr

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6

Budgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit:
phoronix.com/news/Budgie-11-Us

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” released!:
blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4981

EndeavourOS Linux gets an upgraded release with Ganymede Neo:
gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/ende

Tails 7.4 adds new language-saving feature, drops BitTorrent, updates core apps, and more:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/

Debian Libre Live 13.3 Images Released For Avoiding Non-Free Firmware:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-Libre

GYESME: A New Design-Led Downstream Of GNOME Being Explored:
phoronix.com/news/GYESME-GNOME
(Interesting project, I like the concept to make GNOME more flexible while keeping the overall user experience. I don't really get why GNOME wants to tie itself to Systemd. Also, supporting ather design systems like the KDE/Qt ecosystem would be nice (if they mean that), I face theming issues all the time with programs written for KDE, which make some programs unusable for me, while other than the theming, they would be great for my use case. I'm curious whether this project will shape up as an actual, daily drivable desktop in the future.)
(I don't really get what they mean about "Defaults are protected more aggressively than options." though. It sounds like they want to limit customization, while in the rest of the description, they emphasize flexibility. 🤔 Or maybe I'm just interpreting it in the wrong way.)
(But other than that I like their mindset of listening to feedback, adapting direction accordingly.)

(more Linux and FOSS news in comment)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #GNOME #KDE #LinuxMint #EndeavourOS #Tails #DebianLibre #Budgie #GYESME #GNOME50 #KDEPlasma #TailsOS #LinuxDistro #DistroRelease #DesktopEnvironment #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #FosseryTech

Barcelona Free SoftwareBCNFreeSoftware@fosstodon.org
2026-01-11

The folks at @gnulinuxvalencia are organizing a Game Jam using only Free Software and focused on Desktop Games. You can participate online too :) itch.io/jam/lliurejam #gamejam #freesoftware #desktoplinux

Scienza et Magiascienzamagia@mastodon.uno
2026-01-11

Linux alla conquista del mercato desktop. Perché Linux potrebbe finalmente conquistare il desktop nel 2026, cosa cambia rispetto a Windows. L’evoluzione del desktop Linux: vantaggi di sicurezza, privacy e longevità rispetto a Windows, le sfide della frammentazione e dei pacchetti software, le resistenze culturali e di mercato.

scienzamagia.eu/world-wide-web

#Cinnamon #desktopLinux #DistroWatch #GNOME #KDEPlasma #LinusTorvalds #MATE #sistemidesktop #Ubuntu

generata AI Linux con il classico pinguino che ammaina la bandiera microsoft
Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-11

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

An X11 Thing! Your Favorite Middle-Click Paste is Likely to be Disabled in Future GNOME Releases:
itsfoss.com/news/gnome-firefox
(I personally feel neutral about this move, I never used that feature, but didn't bother me it was there. I just use the good old Ctrl+C)

AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-AI-New
(Volunteer Microsoft Copilot, there you go lmao)

KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller:
gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/kde-

Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland:
phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10

Debian's Data Protection Team is No More, Maybe You Can Help?:
itsfoss.com/news/debian-data-p
(Doesn't sound great, hopefully they can find someone who can take over the role. It's good to see though that they still require from applicants to be reputable members of the Debian community, don't let any random person take over.)

Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.3-

Manjaro 26 makes a strong case for leaving Windows 11 behind:
betanews.com/2026/01/05/manjar

Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager:
itsfoss.com/news/fedora-44-pla

Nitrux 5.1 isn't trying to replace Windows 11, but it might tempt you anyway:
betanews.com/2026/01/07/nitrux

TrixiePup64 2601 Released For Debian 13 Powered Puppy Linux In Wayland & X11 Flavors:
phoronix.com/news/TrixiePup64-

Mageia 10 Alpha Released - 32-bit ISOs Still Available:
phoronix.com/news/Mageia-10-Al

Bazaar Flatpak Manager Gets New Icon, Permission Warnings + More:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/bazaar

Phosh 0.52 introduces QR hotspot, brightness lock screen gesture and Rust wallpaper portal:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/

(more Linux and FOSS news in comment)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #GNOME #Newelle #AI #KDE #KDEPlasma #Budgie #Debian #Manjaro #Fedora #Nitrux #PuppyLinux #Mageia #Bazaar #Phosh #Flatpak #MobileLinux #DistroRelease #DesktopEnvironment #DesktopLinux #LinuxDesktop #DE #FosseryTech

Root MooseRootMoose@mstdn.ca
2026-01-09

Spent the evening messing around with Alpine Linux (refresher) and Chimera Linux (all new to me) as full Plasma desktops.

Not sure which one I like better but they both kinda impress upon me that perhaps 'mainstream' Linux is headed in the wrong direction. They both feel lean, mean, and up to date compared to other 'normal' distros.

All the main productivity apps are available via flatpak so being musl based doesn't matter except for Nvidia drivers and perhaps dev work that explicitly requires GNU libs/tools.

Intrigued by the BSD userland on Chimera. Does this make Chimera a 'real UNIX'? Ha! A UNIX Kernel required technically I guess.

Chimera's repos aren't as full as Alpine's but flatpak makes it not matter. Mind you, this was before realizing there was a 'user repo' that could be configured. Similar to AUR in a way...perhaps?

Dinit is cool, seems very similar to Alpine's initrc.

Will have to do some experiments on physical hardware (zfs).

#ChimeraLinux #AlpineLinux #Linux #Desktop #DesktopLinux

Dining and Cookingdc@vive.im
2026-01-08

FEX 2601 Brings Various Fixes, Improvements For Wine & DXVK/VKD3D-Proton

FEX, the open-source emulator for running x86 and x86_64 binar…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #DesktopLinux #Linuxbenchmarking #Linuxhardwarebenchmarks #LinuxHardwareReviews #LinuxHowTo #Linuxperformance #Linuxserverbenchmarks #OpenSourcegraphics #Phoronix #PhoronixTestSuite #Ubuntubenchmarks #Ubuntuhardware
diningandcooking.com/2459280/f

Winewine@vive.im
2026-01-08

FEX 2601 Brings Various Fixes, Improvements For Wine & DXVK/VKD3D-Proton

FEX, the open-source emulator for running x86 and x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) …
#wine #Wine #DesktopLinux #Linuxbenchmarking #Linuxhardwarebenchmarks #LinuxHardwareReviews #LinuxHowTo #Linuxperformance #Linuxserverbenchmarks #OpenSourcegraphics #Phoronix #PhoronixTestSuite #Ubuntubenchmarks #Ubuntuhardware
diningandcooking.com/2459280/f

LINUXexpert.orglinuxexpert
2026-01-05

2026 won’t be “the year of the Linux desktop” but it might be the clearest turning point yet.
What’s different now:
🖥️ Wayland maturity + GNOME/KDE momentum
🎮 Proton keeps improving (anti-cheat is still the big cliff)
📦 Flatpak/Flathub making app installs way less distro-dependent
💥 Push factors: Win10 EOL + Win11 friction, Intel Macs being sunset

Full breakdown: linuxexpert.org/2026-wont-be-t

Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-28

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS To Develop A Server Edition:
phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Serv
(An Arch-based server OS? Well, good one for those who like their adrenaline rising while updating the system. New extreme sport found lol (Just joking, don't take it seriously))

Parrot 7.0 brings KDE Plasma 6, Wayland support, new security tools, and RISC-V support:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12

Qubes OS 4.3.0 released with Fedora 41, Xen 4.19, updated templates:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12

postmarketOS 25.12 brings Alpine 3.23 base, GNOME 49, Plasma Mobile 6.5 & kernel updates:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12

We Have Another New Linux Phone Before 2025 Ends - Void Phone VX1: An Enterprise-Ready Phone:
itsfoss.com/news/void-phone-vx

Proton Experimental brings improvements for CoD: Black Ops Cold War, Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER and more
gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/prot

GE-Proton 10-27 brings fixes for Star Citizen, The First Descendant and more tweaks:
gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/ge-p

Phoenix: A New X Server Written From Scratch With Zig:
phoronix.com/news/Phoenix-X-Se

Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer:
phoronix.com/news/Wayback-0.3

Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer:
phoronix.com/news/Weston-15.0-

KVM Guest VMs Using Intel AMX Can Cause The Linux Host To Kernel Panic:
phoronix.com/news/KVM-Guests-A

Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For ARM64 EFI Systems Crashing On Boot:
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-F

NVIDIA CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced:
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-

Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus:
phoronix.com/news/Intel-IWD-De

Wine 11.0-rc4 Brings 22 Bug Fixes:
phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.0-rc

(FOSS news in comment)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #CachyOS #ParrotOS #Qubes #postmarketOS #VoidPhone #VoidPhoneVx1 #Proton #GEProton #Phoenix #XServer #X11 #Wayback #Weston #KVM #LinuxKernel #CUDA #NVIDIA #IWD #Intel #Wine #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #DistroRelease #DistributionRelease #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #FosseryTech

Rodneyrodneys@mas.to
2025-12-27

Want a transparent dock in #elementaryOS 8.1?

1️⃣ Open Terminal and run:
nano ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css

2️⃣ Paste this at the end:
CSS

dock {
background-color: transparent;
box-shadow: none;
border: none;
}

3️⃣ Save (Ctrl+O, Enter, Ctrl+X) and restart the dock: killall io.elementary.dock

Simple as that! #Linux #eOS #Customisation #DesktopLinux

Linux Easylinuxeasy@mastodon.uno
2025-12-27

Pearl Linux OS 13 rinnova l’esperienza desktop con un’interfaccia in stile macOS, applicazioni aggiornate e un sistema più veloce e stabile. #Linux #PearlOS #DesktopLinux

linuxeasy.org/pearl-linux-os-1

MonokaGerryT
2025-12-26

@chris Great to see.
In May 2026, I will be also using Linux on Desktop consecutively for 30 years. I started with S.u.S.E Linux 4.2 in 1996. And: I am just a user, no programmer.

de-academic.com/dic.nsf/dewiki

Das Kauf-Paket von S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2 aus dem Jahr 1996
Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-21

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

KDE Internet of Things Development Restarted For Home Assistant Integration:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Internet

KDE Plasma 6.6 Finally Supporting Ambient Light Sensors, Fixing Windows Games With HDR:
phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-B

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Confirms its Kernel Version:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” – BETA Release:
blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4973

LoongArch Promoted To Being An Official Architecture For Debian 14:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-Loong

Mageia 10 Planning For April Release While Still Maintaining 32-bit Support:
phoronix.com/news/Mageia-10-Ap

PearOS is revived with Arch base and KDE Plasma desktop:
theregister.com/2025/12/19/pea

Rhino Linux 2025.4 introduces Lomiri desktop and updated kernels:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12

SparkyLinux 2025.12 released with Debian 'Forky' base and updated packages:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12

Asahi Linux Gets Microphone Working For M2 Pro/Max, Eyes Installer Improvements:
phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-

Tails 7.3.1 delivers urgent security fix, updated Tor Browser, Tor client, and Thunderbird:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12

Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux:
phoronix.com/news/Debusine-Rep

(more Linux news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #KDE #IoT #KDEPlasma #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2604 #LinuxMint #Debian #Mageia #Mageia10 #PearOS #RhinoLinux #SparkyLinux #AsahiLinux #Tails #TailsOS #Debusine #DistroRelease #DistributionRelease #DesktopEnvironment #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #FosseryTech

Luigi de Guzmanouij
2025-12-07

Year-end urge to hop distros rising. Kind of want to figure out what the buzz w is all about, but I have been really happy with so far... anybody have any useful input for desktop/gaming use?

Fossmanopensourceopenmind@vivaldi.net
2025-12-05

@jameshjacks0njr @itsfoss Similar story here. #Microsoft shoving #EdgeBrowser is what made finally go all in on #desktopLinux after flirting with it for a decade.

chrischrizzle23@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-04

I have worked with #Linux for around 25 years, but 98% of that experience has been on servers via SSH.

Almost all of my professional work has been done on #Windows. I am embarrassed by how little I know about #DesktopLinux.

Between work and #Gaming I have been dependent on Windows for my entire computing life. Thanks to leaving #corporate #InformationTechnology #IT behind, and discovering the immense progress made with Linux distros like #Nobara, I am now playing #simsettlements2 on Linux.

Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-23

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released:
phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10

KDE Spectacle Adds OCR Support To Copy Text Directly From Screenshots:
ostechnix.com/kde-spectacle-ad
(Sounds nice, took note, I'll try it out if I need something like that, although OCRs aren't that great in my experience, even Terraform, they make a ton of mistakes even when recognizing English text, for niche languages like Hungarian it's basically useless.)

KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds ‘Exclude Certain Windows From Screen Recording’ Feature:
ostechnix.com/exclude-certain-

Nautilus File Manager In GNOME 50 Will Load Thumbnails Much Faster:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Nau

AlmaLinux 9.7 debuts with performance enhancements, updated dev tools & improved security:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/11

SUSE's Agama 18 OS Installer Released - i586 Support Dropped:
phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Agama-1

Canonical Gets Flutter Up And Running On RISC-V For Ubuntu:
phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Fl

Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/xubunt
(Canonical messed it up again, how surprising... Code injection shouldn't be that hard to prevent in most cases.)

TUXEDO ARM notebook based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X1 Elite SoC (X1E) discontinued, due to Linux compatibility issues:
tuxedocomputers.com/en/Discont

Phosh 0.51.0 released with new location quick setting, extra options for Caffeine quick setting, improved brightness handling, etc.:
phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.51.0/

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Budgie #KDE #KDEPlasma #GNOME #AlmaLinux #SUSE #Ubuntu #Xubuntu #TUXEDO #Phosh #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #LinuxDistro #DistroRelease #DesktopEnvironment #FosseryTech

Bashak 🪨🐾💙BashakHimanself@mindly.social
2025-11-22

:)
#setup #computersetup #rateMySetup #setups #setupsunday #setupshot #desktop #desktoplinux

Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-16

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Ubuntu LTS Releases Now Get 15 Years of Support:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/ubuntu

Ubuntu's Rust Transition Hits Another Bump as sudo-rs Security Vulnerabilities Show Up:
itsfoss.com/news/sudo-rs-issue

Nitrux 5.0.0 Released: A 'New Beginning' That's Not for Everyone (By Design):
itsfoss.com/news/nitrux-5-rele

MX Linux 25 'Infinity' arrives with a cleaner look and easier installation:
betanews.com/2025/11/11/mx-lin

Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.2-

Tails 7.2 brings Tor Browser 15.0, Linux 6.12 LTS kernel, privacy upgrades, and more:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/11

Red Hat's RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers:
phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Ente

SparkyLinux 8.1 released with updated software and desktop environments:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/11

GNOME's Nautilus File Manager Finally Supporting Ctrl+Insert & Shift+Insert:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Nautil

KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen:
gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/kde-

Plasma 6.6 Will Avoid Running Out Of RAM When Something Crashes In A Loop:
phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-B

Budgie 10.9.4 adds libpeas2 support, ABI bumps, and Raven plugin changes:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/11

Miracle-WM Adds Accessibility, Touchpad & Animation Options:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/miracl

Linux’s Slickest System Monitor App (Mission Center) Gets Updated:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/missio

Maemo Leste status report: system ported to Devuan Daedalus, new CI/CD, updated browser, calendar and chat app, improved hardware support, etc.:
maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-le

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Ubuntu #Nitrux #MXLinux #Debian #Tails #TailsOS #RHEL #SparkyLinux #GNOME #KDE #KDEPlasma #Budgie #Miracle_wm #MaemoLeste #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #LinuxDistro #DistroRelease #DesktopEnvironment #FosseryTech

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