Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how zdnet.com/article/linux-has-ov… by @sjvn
No, not 5%. #Linux currently accounts for 6% of the desktop market, according to US government records.
It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
📦 "cpak: an OCI-compliant packaging for IoT & Desktop"
with @mirkobrombin #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 15:10 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧱 Daemon-free, portal-free packaging—cpak is a modern way to ship apps for IoT, servers & the Linux desktop.
🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/ses…
#cpak #Linux #Packaging #OCI #FOSS
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
🧱 "The state of GTK"
with Matthias Clasen at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 14:15 CEST 📍 Brescia
🎯 What's new in GTK? Color mgmt, Android, text rendering & more—plus what’s next for devs & contributors.
🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
Ever since I switched to #GNU #Linux in my private life, using #Windows at work gives me near-daily headaches. I have full admin rights, yet I constantly fight the system: forced updates, inconsistent behavior, sluggish UI, weird errors buried in the registry.
I used to think this was just how #computers worked. But after experiencing the #freedom and clarity of #FOSS, Windows feels more like an obstacle than a tool.
Going back feels wrong.
#os #opensource #free #arch #Fensterfreitag
It's another End Of 10 Challenge 🖖
Supporters are invited to do a simple task to further the campaign goals.
This time's challenge … 🚀
Locate the bug tracker 🐞 of an app you use, and learn how to submit a bug report 🐝 for the developers.
BONUS ❤️ POINTS: Actually submit a bug report.
BONUS BONUS ❤️❤️ POINTS: Show a friend how to do it too!
Tell us about it in a post. Don't forget hashtag #EO10Challenges
#EndOf10 #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux #GNULinux #Windows
Attached: 1 image Reason 10 To Choose Linux 😍 Linux 🐧 is more private, by default Own and control your data! Your operating system won't record your key strokes or dictation, collect lists of devices and their Wi-Fi details, or webcams, printers …FLOSS.social
Well y'all, I might have to go back to Windows. With Fedora 42, and Orca 48.6, I cannot use Google Docs well at all on Google Chrome, and on Firefox, the outline view which I use to navigate through many, many headings in a document I need for work, isn't usable at all. I can arrow up and down all I want, but nothing speaks.
Welcome to Linux Access This is your central hub for all things related to accessibility on Linux. Here you’ll find articles, tips, and resources written by the community to help make Linux more usable for everyone.Linux Access
Linux users can install Mozilla VPN client from Flathub. The open source app was previously only available to install on Ubuntu-based distributions via the Mozilla APT repo.
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/mozill…
The Mozilla VPN Client can now be installed on Linux distributions from Flathub, a change that will allow more users to access the paid VPN service.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
Red Hat just expanded free access to RHEL for business developers zdnet.com/article/red-hat-expa… by @sjvn
If you're a programmer, there are lots of ways to get free Red Hat Enterprise #Linux instances for your work, and now there's another one.
Red Hat offers a new free option for up to 25 Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances for business developers.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
Do you use a drawing tablet with Linux? You can share your device info in two easy steps - no coding skills required! 💙
Help KDE devs like @redstrate build driver support.
More info at:
github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hi…
#linux #tablet #wacom #huion #stylus #artwithopensource #kde #freesoftware
Database of HID descriptors for Wacom pen/touch digitizers - linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptorsGitHub
The French city of #Lyon will also be replacing Microsoft for #opensource solutions. Really curious what #Linux distro they will choose 👀
Also featured; #Jitsi for video conferencing, #Nextcloud paired with #OnlyOffice for document sharing and co-editing, #Zimbra for email, #Chamilo for online training, and #Matrix for instant messaging. 🔥
news.itsfoss.com/french-city-r…
Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
This Saturday 5 July 🐧 Linux install parties in #Germany and #France (all times local)! 🚀
* Repair-Café Kahlgrund, Niedersteinbach (#Bayern), 10h30-16h
* ComputerCafe Stuttgart Kaltental, #Stuttgart, 13h-17h30
* Premier Samedi du Libre, #Paris, 14h-18h
For details and more events worldwide: endof10.org/events/
#EndOf10 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GNULinux #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11
Here is a list of events where you can get help with Linux. You can also look for places that provide help more regularly. Please note that the information here is submitted by the organizers themselves and is not evaluated by the campaign.Upcoming Events | End of 10
Below, I added some hype music to mastodon.social/@alatiera/1147…
With that, I believe we could get a huge GNOME fundraiser drive going, by selling tickets to a philanthropic wrestling match between @alatiera and probonopd. Per tradition, the match could take place in an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, kitted up as for a rave. KDE devs welcome.
I bet Jordan would smack Xorg down so hard that xeyes pops out, and we would never hear from X11 again as Wayland reigns supreme.
So close to the planch
Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.
#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux
Congrats on the release! Anytime a Linux GUI app gets more beautiful, that means a great deal to all the non-geeky users of the world, where aesthetics and convenience are king. I just hope it stops short of getting bloated and slow - witness the sluggish Node.js horror show that the #Signal desktop client is, in #Linux.
BTW: What version of OMEMO does Gajim support? Does the website or documentation say this anywhere?
I am slowly oxidizing my unix CLI. A lot of people have made rust based versions of common unix utilities and some of them are REALLY good.
Like fd-find for doing essentially find . -name blah. And rg (ripgrep) which does grep -R but it's aware of git, files like pyc or .bak files, and it excludes them by default.
Now I have sd which is hopefully replacing the last thing I used perl for. I write perl -pi -e s/x/y/g a lot. Just doing a quick string replace inside a file. So sd can start doing that.
I'm also trying to get used to zellij instead of tmux and starship for modern prompt decorations like the kids do.
These kids, my friends, are welcome on my lawn.
Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS? Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.
No ads
No trackers
No #surveillance
No terms of service traps
PureOS supports Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.
More Info: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
fireborn wrote an excellent series of posts about how badly accessibility is broken under #Linux. They include workarounds used, patches applied, patches submitted, and depressingly with things that worked a decade ago.
Naturally somebody volunteered to not read the series and reply with "first of all, it's GNU/Linux" as their opener.
*This* post is a line-by-line response to that comment.
You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine, 20250625,
by @fireborn,
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
… via lobste.rs/s/nwvary/you_don_t_o…
> Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt […]
>> GNU/Linux is about you owning your machine.
> Then why do I have to reassert that ownership every time a package breaks accessibility?
Recently people noticed a subdomain of the Hyprland website that takes you to something called Hyprland Premium, you see Premium and you see a FOSS project a...YouTube
Do you love the idea of Free & Open Source Software, and Linux in particular? I certainly do. But until recently, I didn't think too much about what "freedom" means beyond licensing. If you're like me, this blog post by @fireborn could border on heartbreaking. But it may also be a call to action, not only for developers, but for the entire F/OSS community. I hope it is.
Excerpt: »Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt. It’s not freedom if it requires you to be perfect, sighted, fluent in C, and emotionally bulletproof.«
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
found via @Natanox at chaos.social/@Natanox/11474988…
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #Gatekeeping
THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility
Hi @fireborn ! Is this your blogpost?
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
If so, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I love #linux and always have. I have literally made my career with it ever since I first booted the H.J. Lu boot/root floppy set on my 486 DX2/66, but I'm partially #blind, and my vision is getting worse as I age.
And at times the amount of negativity and crap I get when I say that I generally run #WSL on Windows or a Mac? It's huge, pointless, and speaks to some ways in which parts of the Linux community are its own worst enemy.
When screen zoom broke for 2 years in #ubuntu and many of us kept signposting how important this is to us, over and over, and one of the Canonical engineers wrote in the issue saying that, due simply to the very limited number of engineering hours available, this was a low priority fix? That was a wake up call for me.
There's no malice there. It's not that anyone in the Linux community is doing an evil laugh and thrilling to the number of disabled users who can't reliably enjoy Linux on the desktop, it's about the reality that a tiny, rag tag group of engineers working for a handful of companies are doing the vast majority of the work keeping the Linux desktop world moving, and they BARELY have the bandwidth to keep development going at all much less catering to the myriad accessibility needs folks like us (Not comparing the nature of our didabilities, mind you. Everyone's different!).
But people like the guy your post responds to can make us feel not smart enough, not good enough, or not motivated enough to thrive in an environment that throws up HUGE obstacles, and that's just not right.
Pardon the length, I have Strong Feelings about this stuff as you can see, and thanks again for posting!
THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.
If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility
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Estas buscando una manera mas segura de comunicarte, llegaste al fediverso, o simplemente tenes amigues que ya lo usan, ahora es tu oportunidad de aprender de…clubdesoftwarelibre (Club de Software Libre)
Considering how GNOME Color Manager's support for calibrating scanners (and printers?) has been broken for many years, and how it seems like the remaining code might get ripped out entirely from GNOME Control Center as a result, I have filed a new #GNOME app idea, in the wild hope that someone might find this interesting enough to create a standalone utility app for creating ICC color profiles for your photo scanners and printers: gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-id…
#ColorManagement #Linux #photography
I searched far and wide for standalone calibration tools and they are either nonexistent or extremely hard to use (and typically commandline stuff requiring obscure arcane knowledge). Even...GitLab
Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.5
After almost a year I made another release of the Linux Desktop Migration Tool. In this release I focused on the network settings migration, specifically NetworkManager because it’s what virtually all desktop distributions use.
#linux #migration #NetworkManager
enblog.eischmann.cz/2025/06/23…
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If you are attending the Open Source Summit in Denver, this week, make sure to attend the presentation from my Igalia colleague Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo on kernel bug fixing: ossna2025.sched.com/speaker/ca…
We also have a booth in the B12 section if you want to drop by and talk about the work we do.
Check out what Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo will be attending at Open Source Summit North America 2025Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (ossna2025.sched.com)
It's a few posts behind but today we have @fireborn the author of the new accessibility blog series "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back" to talk about his experience with Linux accessibility #Linux
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=3Yj6D5ez2O…
Audio: creators.spotify.com/pod/profi…
You may have seen this series of accessibility posts floating around the FOSS world and today have the author it on the show. A very long time Linux user who...YouTube
[arch-announce] Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
Valve’s latest Steam beta adds new accessibility features to Big Picture mode and SteamOS.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
Automated digital signing of OS artifacts
lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…
#ArchLinux #Linux #RFC #OpenPGP #DigitalSignature #Automation #Signstar #NetHSM
