Alex Castellani (@alecaddd) is leading the charge on Thunderbird’s modern redesign, and we're thrilled to have him on the team!

But before he discovered the awesomeness of #OpenSource, he had to learn a hard life lesson about pricey, proprietary software...

Find out that story and much more in our "Meet The Team" series, a series of conversations with the people behind the software you use every day.

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/m…

#Thunderbird #Community #Linux #UX #Interview #Email

Meet The Team: Alex Castellani, Product Design Manager

Meet the humans behind the Thunderbird software you use and love. Let's kick it off with our Product Design manager, Alex Castellani!

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Recent updates to Mutter (included in #GNOME44!) deliver improved performance for even the most demanding apps, including games and interactive 3D apps.

Find the details here: blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2023…

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource

The Thunderbird podcast is now available on several major podcast clients, such as:

#ApplePodcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

#Deezer: deezer.com/us/show/5866547

#Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5tWzGLQb…

You can also subscribe using good old #RSS: feeds.transistor.fm/thundercas…

If we're not in your favorite app, give it a few days and check again. Thanks for listening!

#Thunderbird #Podcast #ThunderCast #Email #OpenSource #Linux

ThunderCast

Listen to ThunderCast on Spotify. An inside look at the making of Mozilla Thunderbird, and community-driven conversations with our friends in the open-source software space.

^Spotify

Found this on other account. Please boost for reach: Fedora Linux is focusing on accessibility for the next five years. I'd love to see people with disabilities, very much including blind people, comment on this. If you're interested in Linux, or free and open source software, your voices are valuable. I hope Fedora finds our voices valuable too.

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
#accessibility #linux #fedora #foss

Fedora Strategy 2028: Focus area review (Accessibility)

Hello. Yes, sometimes, setting things up is a challenge, however, things are improving. The QT environment variables are definitely not needed for QT 6, and likely 5. Same can be said about GTK_MODULES, which are not needed at least from GTK 3.

^{Fedora Discussion}

Here is the detailed post about our team's experience at @fosdem 2023 in Brussels by Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras!

puri.sm/posts/fosdem-2023-even…

#fosdem #Fosdem2023 #linux #mobile linux #mobile

Trying out this RDP based desktop sharing to see if I can use #gnome @gnome for remote work.

It's clunky compared to XForward. An entire desktop required and the shared computer is basically useless to anyone else since it won't share a desktop that's not showing on the monitor in the physical space.

Bit of a leap backwards if I'm being honest. Every time #linux copies #Windows or #MacOS I get this sinking feeling that we've just given up being great and are settling for good enough.

Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2023: Ristretto Gets Printing Support, Orage Gets #Wayland Support, Major Notifications Changes, and Much More 9to5linux.com/xfces-apps-updat…

#Xfce #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

For #Linux folk, I have a list of my common typographic symbols using the Alt Graph & Compose keys, hosted on @Codeberg, derived from @aral blog post ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical…

Might be useful
codeberg.org/natureworks/gists…

Typographical typing habits for Linux

Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters. Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent.

^{Aral Balkan}

Phosh 0.25.0 is out 🚀📱:

See phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.25.0… for details.

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #lLinuxMobile #MobileLinux

The start of something beautiful

#librem5 #linuxphone #linux

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No 2 ways about it, this is a big device. It has a 17 inch screen, 16:10. It weighs 2.8 kilos, and it's 38 cm wide, 27 cm deep, and 2.7 cm thick.

The chassis is made of aluminium and has literally no flex, no bend, no creaking. It also resists fingerprints really well, thanks to a soft touch coating on the inside of the laptop.

You're free to open it, and you can access and replace the 2 M.2 SSD slots, the RAM, the wireless card, and the battery as well, which is screwed in and not glued.

The CPU is the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX. All models come with at least 16 gigs of RAM, and an RTX 3070Ti with 8Gigs of vRAM. You also get 250 gigs of PCIe3 SSD, and Wifi 6 + BLuetooth 5.2.

It can go up to 64 Gigs of 4800 Mhz RAM, up to 4TB of PCIe 4 storage, and, either an RTX 3080, or a 3080Ti. And all cards run at their maximum Total Graphics Power allowed by Nvidia,. You also get a 99Wh battery.

On geekbench 6, it gave me scores of 2121 in single core, and 10219 in multi core.

I ran the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark, at high settings, at the native resolution of 2560x1600, and it got me an average of 101 FPS. When cranking all the settings to the max, still at the native resolution, it managed to reach 97 FPS. At 1080p highest details, the Stellaris 17 got 110FPS.

It also gave me an idea about thermals, at 75 °C under heavy load, which isn't bad at all.

With its 99Wh battery, running in Nvidia on demand mode, with the display at 50% brightness, wifi being used to play youtube videos in a loop in Firefox, the laptop lasted for 8 hours and 12 minutes.

The keyboard uses Cherry MX ultra low profile switches. The key travel is really good, at 1.8 mm, and the click happens at 0.8 mm. Some of the keys aren't using mechanical switches, notably the function keys and the whole numpad, they're using membrane switches instead.

The touchpad is humongous. It's also thankfully centered, and it's covered in glass, so it's really smooth. It feels very precise, and using it with tap to click feels great.

It's a diveboard mechanism, so obviously you can't click everywhere on it, it has to be in the bottom half of the touchpad, and the sound it makes is satisfying and doesn't rattle.

The dislay 16:10, 17 inches, and it goes up to 240hz refresh rate. It is G Sync compatible, to avoid any screen tearing issues. It's decently bright, at 380 nits, and it has full sRGB coverage.

In terms of ports, on the left, you get the usual Kensington Lock, a USB-A 3.2 Gen2x1 port, a microphone input, and a headphone jack. On the right, you get an SD card reader, and 2 USB-A 3.2 Gen1 ports. And on the back, you have a port for the Aquaris external watercooling solution, a USB-C 3.2 Gen2x1 port, an HDMI 2.1 port, a Gigabit ethernet port, and a barrel jack.

Let's finish with the mic, speakers and webcam. The microphone is decent, but nothing to write home about. You'll want to run it at about 25% volume. The speakers get really loud, but they don't distort or sound tinny at all, they have a good amount of bass.

As per the webcam, well it's 1080p, and it can produce good results with decent lighting, but it's still a bit grainy even in natural light. It's just a small notch above the usual potato cam.

Systém #LinuxTails slibuje bezpečnost a anonymitu. Jaký je?🛡️

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#Tails #Debian #Linux #OS

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07:52 Solus has website, forums, and bug tracker issues
09:28 Privacy labels in the Play Store are false
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Canonical prevents flavors from shipping Flatpak by default

discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-…

Microsoft's latest anti-consumer moves

gizmodo.com/windows-11-system-…

neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-n…

GNOME 44 Beta is out

omglinux.com/gnome-44-features…

Solus has website, forums, and bug tracker issues

linuxiac.com/whats-going-on-wi…

Privacy labels in the Play Store are false

foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog…

Linux Kernel 6.2 is out

omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/02/linux-…

Gaming News: Steam on ARM, Mesa 23 and LAN game downloads

boilingsteam.com/box64-can-now…

store.steampowered.com/news/ap…

9to5linux.com/mesa-23-graphics…

YouTube's music content on your Linux desktop? - MONOPHONY 🎵

No videos - just the main thing from this new simple app: music!

* Save To Library for albums

* Playlists to add songs on

* Radio Mode lets the app choose

* NO sign-in to YouTube account

* Play, previous, next, shuffle and loop

=> flathub.org/apps/details/io.gi…

#Monophony #music #YouTube #content #entertainment #desktop #Linux #Flatpak #radio #apps

As #Linux users, or even as #Windows users, we often hear a lot of preconceived notions, like "Linux is faster", or "Windows has better battery life".

Well, I decided to quantify all of it in a complete benchmark between Windows 11 and #ubuntu

CPU and GPU benchmarks, disk speeds, thermals, internet speeds, gaming benchmarks, battery life, I looked at everything on the same device, and the conclusions were... surprising:

youtu.be/a5YQ8xvQPSc

I spent yesterday evening trying to see how to make apps that use #libadwaita (the latest UI for #GNOME), and walked away with a streak of anger over a surprising lack of documentation and examples.

#GTK and #GNOME app development have always been a quest that involves throwing a ring in a fiery mountain, while hoping for the best, but in the 25 years since GTK+'s introduction, it has only gotten worse, it just looks prettier now. sigh. #linux

NixOS is an advanced Linux distro that offers some pretty neat features.

itsfoss.com/why-use-nixos/

#linux #nixos

NixOS Series #1: Why Should You Consider Using NixOS?

NixOS is an exciting distribution. Let's take a look why you might want to give it a try.

^{Sagar Sharma (It's FOSS)}

For those of you using adbsync (codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync): I've just published v0.1.2 with some minor feature enhancements. Most important: when syncing media files, adbsync can now trigger Android's media scanner so your album browser, media player etc. immediately notice the changed/new/removed files.

Enjoy

#Android #Linux #sync

adbsync

Synchronize your Android device with your Linux machine using rsync and adbfs

^Codeberg.org

And this week's #Linux and #opensource news video is finally here!

In this one, we have confirmation that #Windows 11 sends data to third parties after a fresh install, without user consent, we have @fedora moving to Flathub in their next release, an AI tool that violates #FOSS licenses, @thunderbird sharing a roadmap and some interesting history, and @gnome Software getting some nice performance improvements:

youtube.com/watch?v=03t0GmaWun…

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I own a OP6T that is currently being used by my mum and it is running #LineageOS.

Should I claim it back and install #Linux on it?

Which is the best Linux mobile distro? How can I get the cleanest #GNOME experience?

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Albion Online 5v5 Arenas!

#Linux #Games #VideoGames #Gaming #LinuxGaming #Owncast
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If you're looking for #privacy, the absolute best option is probably setting up your own #homeserver, but if you don't have the technical know how, the time, or the inclination, the next best thing is a #NAS!

These little things let you store files, photos, host websites, run containers, backup your computers, run office suites, all with simple GUIs, and can be cheaper than cloud storage.

Let's take a look at why you probably need a NAS at home:

youtu.be/LBtEJ-iQbeg

#linux #opensource

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Albion Online black zones!

#Linux #Games #VideoGames #Gaming #LinuxGaming #Owncast
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Unfiltered Flathub is approved to be provided as a third party repo you can enable for Fedora 38! In the next release, if you enable Flathub as a third party repo, you will get everything on Flathub and not just the Fedora Flatpaks.
#Fedora #Flatpak #Linux

Proposal: fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes…
Approval: pagure.io/fesco/issue/2939

Tak a ještě o #elementaryos v češtině. Chvíli jsem jej zkoušel a to prostředí se mi moc líbilo. Tohle je opravdu hezky vypadající distribuce:

Vydán elementary OS 7 s vylepšeními na všech frontách - Root.cz
root.cz/zpravicky/vydan-elemen…

#root #linux

Vydán elementary OS 7 s vylepšeními na všech frontách

Šéfka projektu elementary OS Danielle Foré oznamuje novou verzi 7. Tento systém postavený na dosti upraveném Ubuntu přináší vylepšení centrum pro správu…

^{David Ježek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)}

phosh 0.24.0 is out 🚀📱 : See honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Phosh_0_2… for details.

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #linuxmobile

Když už tu jsme na té linuxácké instanci, tak sem přihodím link na přidání nálepek do Telegramu. ☺️

👉 t.me/addstickers/linuxdistro

#Telegram #stickers #Linux #opensource