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What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed? ( lemmy.ml )

Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 ( www.raspberrypi.com )

Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver ( www.phoronix.com )

Luis Chamberlain sent out the modules changes today for the Linux 6.6 merge window. Most notable with the modules update is a change that better builds up the defenses against NVIDIA’s proprietary kernel driver from using GPL-only symbols. Or in other words, bits that only true open-source drivers should be utilizing and not...

Linux Desktop Share keeps increasing, 3.13% now. Narrowing the gap to ChromeOs 3.24% ( gs.statcounter.com )

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS ( www.phoronix.com )

According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...

Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like ( www.zdnet.com )

I’m curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android ( www.omgubuntu.co.uk )

The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops ( web.archive.org )

GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support ( www.phoronix.com )

A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....

I feel called out ( sh.itjust.works )

Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories. ( dotfiles-matter.click )

Linux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August ( gs.statcounter.com )

Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG ( www.theregister.com )

Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

Hyprland is a toxic community ( drewdevault.com )

Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful graphics and animations, each configuration tailored to the unique...

Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released ( blog.linuxmint.com )

LMDE 6 has been officially released. The big deal about this is that it’s based on the recently released Debian 12 and also that being based on Debian LMDE is 100% community based....

PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year ( www.phoronix.com )

Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros ( www.notebookcheck.net )

SHARE WITH THE CLASS: What aliases are you using? ( kbin.social )

From bash to zsh and everywhere in between, show me yours and I'll show you mines. Inspire others or get some feedback....

Most popular 'real' desktop will soon be the Linux desktop [Opinion] ( www.theregister.com )

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') ( www.zdnet.com )

Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers – including Linus Torvalds – love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making an exception for the XPS 13 just because I liked it so much that I also ended up buying...

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