I built a quiz that doesn't tell you which distro you "are": it hands you a complete Linux blueprint and a prompt to walk you through the switch
The site is yearoflinuxdesktop.org \- part manifesto, part quiz, part blueprint generator.
The idea: instead of another "what distro am I?" personality test, it maps your hardware, your tolerance for tinkering, and what you still need from Windows/macOS onto one of ten archetypes (The Civilian gets Linux Mint, The Arch Wizard gets Arch + Hyprland, The Gamer gets Bazzite, etc.). Then it writes you a copy-paste prompt you can feed to any LLM to walk you through the install step by step.
What might interest this sub: the scoring engine is one dependency-free JS file that runs identically in the browser and in a build harness. The harness brute-forces all 16M possible answer combinations on every deploy to verify that named personas land where they should and that guardrails hold (e.g., terminal-phobic users can never receive Arch). The quiz weights, the questions, and all ten archetype blueprints are plain JSON in the repo: MIT licensed, fork it, argue with the weights.
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The site is yearoflinuxdesktop.org \- part manifesto, part quiz, part blueprint generator.
The idea: instead of another "what distro am I?" personality test, it maps your hardware, your tolerance for tinkering, and what you still need from Windows/macOS onto one of ten archetypes (The Civilian gets Linux Mint, The Arch Wizard gets Arch + Hyprland, The Gamer gets Bazzite, etc.). Then it writes you a copy-paste prompt you can feed to any LLM to walk you through the install step by step.
What might interest this sub: the scoring engine is one dependency-free JS file that runs identically in the browser and in a build harness. The harness brute-forces all 16M possible answer combinations on every deploy to verify that named personas land where they should and that guardrails hold (e.g., terminal-phobic users can never receive Arch). The quiz weights, the questions, and all ten archetype blueprints are plain JSON in the repo: MIT licensed, fork it, argue with the weights.
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The Year of the Linux Desktop
It never arrives. It never will. It was never going to be a year on a calendar. It arrives one person at a time.
Linux CRU 0.2.0 - custom + stretched resolutions on Wayland (KWin, sway, Hyprland) and X11
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Two years ago I made this as an X11 NVidia-only custom resolution tool. Finally did a proper rewrite. It now works on Wayland (KDE, GNOME, sway, Hyprland) and on AMD/Intel/NVIDIA, and it does stretched resolutions - the 4:3-stretched thing CS2/Valorant players use to widen models - on KDE Wayland, which the compositor normally refuses to do on external monitors.
Also fixed the AppImage, which turned out to be missing tkinter and wouldn't launch on half of you. Sorry about that.
Let me know of any bugs you find!
Repo https://github.com/PhialsBasement/linux-cru
Release https://github.com/PhialsBasement/linux-cru/releases/tag/v0.2.0
AI Disclosure: Used Claude heavily during development, all the decisions and design details taken here are mine however.
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https://preview.redd.it/lvehscns3jih1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb9cca7b6fef3586e9b4cca28828efe95912c643
Two years ago I made this as an X11 NVidia-only custom resolution tool. Finally did a proper rewrite. It now works on Wayland (KDE, GNOME, sway, Hyprland) and on AMD/Intel/NVIDIA, and it does stretched resolutions - the 4:3-stretched thing CS2/Valorant players use to widen models - on KDE Wayland, which the compositor normally refuses to do on external monitors.
Also fixed the AppImage, which turned out to be missing tkinter and wouldn't launch on half of you. Sorry about that.
Let me know of any bugs you find!
Repo https://github.com/PhialsBasement/linux-cru
Release https://github.com/PhialsBasement/linux-cru/releases/tag/v0.2.0
AI Disclosure: Used Claude heavily during development, all the decisions and design details taken here are mine however.
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I never thought I’d love Linux so much
I was always a windows person. It was simple, seemed safe, and I grew up on it, so it was just what I thought I’d always use.
Recently I’ve been really stuck on not upgrading to windows 11 (it sucks imo) and just stuck on windows 10, watching my computer slowly eat itself away to problems I didn’t even think were possible. Then once the steam deck came out, I knew I had to get it.
Portable computer with steam games I already play? Sign me up bro.. but after a few months of just gaming, and a little bit of messing around with desktop mode, I decided to really get into it and see what all the Linux fuss was about. I’ve heard a lot of people really prefer it over windows, and I wasn’t sure why, but man once I got into it I couldn’t stop.
I know it’s only a steam deck so the specs are not anything too crazy, but it feels so much better than my upgraded pc. Windows bogs it down so much a weaker pc feels better. And I mean, SO much better. It feels like when I first started getting into computers as a kid, everything was so fast and new to me.
It wasn’t too different from windows, besides being heavily unbloated, giving me a lot more control over what I do, and the discover software center on my gosh. I don’t know why everything isn’t based on Linux at this point, it’s SO much better with the app quality. (Well, I do know why but everyone should switch to Linux!) And the community seems so much more organized and passionate about this OS, it makes me feel cozy almost. I don’t think I can ever go back to windows again.
TL;DR, windows slow, little control, makes me sad. Linux fast with more control, makes me happy.
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I was always a windows person. It was simple, seemed safe, and I grew up on it, so it was just what I thought I’d always use.
Recently I’ve been really stuck on not upgrading to windows 11 (it sucks imo) and just stuck on windows 10, watching my computer slowly eat itself away to problems I didn’t even think were possible. Then once the steam deck came out, I knew I had to get it.
Portable computer with steam games I already play? Sign me up bro.. but after a few months of just gaming, and a little bit of messing around with desktop mode, I decided to really get into it and see what all the Linux fuss was about. I’ve heard a lot of people really prefer it over windows, and I wasn’t sure why, but man once I got into it I couldn’t stop.
I know it’s only a steam deck so the specs are not anything too crazy, but it feels so much better than my upgraded pc. Windows bogs it down so much a weaker pc feels better. And I mean, SO much better. It feels like when I first started getting into computers as a kid, everything was so fast and new to me.
It wasn’t too different from windows, besides being heavily unbloated, giving me a lot more control over what I do, and the discover software center on my gosh. I don’t know why everything isn’t based on Linux at this point, it’s SO much better with the app quality. (Well, I do know why but everyone should switch to Linux!) And the community seems so much more organized and passionate about this OS, it makes me feel cozy almost. I don’t think I can ever go back to windows again.
TL;DR, windows slow, little control, makes me sad. Linux fast with more control, makes me happy.
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Xbox PC and Game Pass games are being worked on for Linux - VideoCardz.com
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Floorplan software?
I used Sketchup in Windows to create floorplans for various projects - is there an equivalent for Linux? Preferably free open source.
I have FreeCad but it's a bit complex to learn and use, would prefer something simpler.
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I used Sketchup in Windows to create floorplans for various projects - is there an equivalent for Linux? Preferably free open source.
I have FreeCad but it's a bit complex to learn and use, would prefer something simpler.
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NotesQR CLI on Linux: P2P file send/recv over WebRTC (same as the web app, no cloud disk)
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OpenSSH 10.5 released, AI Welcome
>Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.
>We have seen a number of cases where a security bug identified by AI tools is subsequently independently discovered by a different researcher. This suggests that adversaries who do not report bugs to OSS projects are likely to be able to discover these bugs too. Given this, the OpenSSH team will, for now, be making more frequent releases to get bugfixes into users' hands more quickly rather than batching them until the next planned release.
Like most open source projects, AI-based fixes are coming in fast:
https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.5
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>Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.
>We have seen a number of cases where a security bug identified by AI tools is subsequently independently discovered by a different researcher. This suggests that adversaries who do not report bugs to OSS projects are likely to be able to discover these bugs too. Given this, the OpenSSH team will, for now, be making more frequent releases to get bugfixes into users' hands more quickly rather than batching them until the next planned release.
Like most open source projects, AI-based fixes are coming in fast:
https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.5
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux/
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux | TechCrunch
OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.
GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Plans-2026
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GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams
GNOME interaction designer Tobias Bernard has shared some of the plans and ideas for long-term GNOME Shell improvements they have been eyeing for future GNOME releases.
Kernel 7.1.8 fixes AMD artifacting issue.
I just wanted to give a headsup about the issue with amd graphics cards flickering and having weird colorful artifacts. No, your GPU is not dying. It was kernel versions 7.1.6 and 7.1.7.
This issue is fixed in 7.1.8. It released in Arch a few hours ago, and I think in Fedora as well.
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I just wanted to give a headsup about the issue with amd graphics cards flickering and having weird colorful artifacts. No, your GPU is not dying. It was kernel versions 7.1.6 and 7.1.7.
This issue is fixed in 7.1.8. It released in Arch a few hours ago, and I think in Fedora as well.
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Minor Optimization Coming For AMD Athlon XP Era Systems Running Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-WMB-SSE-Optimization
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Minor Optimization Coming For AMD Athlon XP Era Systems Running Linux
A minor performance optimization is on the way to the Linux kernel for roughly two decade old CPUs that have SSE but lack SSE2
Updated GPG key for signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases – Mozilla Security Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-releases/
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Updated GPG key for signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases
Today, we moved to a new GPG signing subkey used to sign certain Firefox and Thunderbird artifacts (namely Linux tarballs, RPM packages, checksums files) after an unencrypted copy of the ...
Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros
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Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros
Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros
CVE-2026-53360: KVM SEV-SNP guest-to-host heap OOB and analysis of the upstream fix
https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/08/i-found-a-kvm-guest-to-host-heap-corruption-bug-and-someone-else-got-there-first/
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Himanshu Anand :: Security & Other Notes
I found a KVM guest-to-host heap corruption bug and someone else got there first
TLDR I independently found a heap out-of-bounds read/write in KVM’s SEV-SNP Page State Change handler. A malicious guest VM can corrupt host kernel heap memory and leak its layout, across the VM boundary, as many times as it wants. I reported it to [email protected]…
Session Save/Restore in GNOME | Adrian Vovk @ GUADEC 2026
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Session Save/Restore in GNOME | Adrian Vovk @ GUADEC 2026
GNOME 51 is on track to introduce a platform-wide session save and restore framework. This is a long-requested feature that allows session and app state to be saved when the user logs out, and rest...
Want to try Stacking WM, but gnome and kde are too fancy
Hey all I've been using Linux for about a year and a half now and have really been loving it (I'm on void btw).
I have always used Tiling WMs since the beginning, I used Hyprland for a bit, ended up hating it for both the Dev's shadiness but also the absolute incredulous amount of churn. So I switched to Sway, from the very beginning I've only ever used Wayland.
I'm not at a place where I'm content but I am curious about swapping to a stacking WM. I was going to go KDE but, and I'm probably in the minority, I don't really like Kwin, and I actually find KDE to look kinda ugly.
I've been drawn to XFCE which I have installed but not tested yet. It's aesthetic is much more my vibe and classic with all the theming available.
Does Wayland have any compositors in this ball park of stable and consistent but not the usual?
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Hey all I've been using Linux for about a year and a half now and have really been loving it (I'm on void btw).
I have always used Tiling WMs since the beginning, I used Hyprland for a bit, ended up hating it for both the Dev's shadiness but also the absolute incredulous amount of churn. So I switched to Sway, from the very beginning I've only ever used Wayland.
I'm not at a place where I'm content but I am curious about swapping to a stacking WM. I was going to go KDE but, and I'm probably in the minority, I don't really like Kwin, and I actually find KDE to look kinda ugly.
I've been drawn to XFCE which I have installed but not tested yet. It's aesthetic is much more my vibe and classic with all the theming available.
Does Wayland have any compositors in this ball park of stable and consistent but not the usual?
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LACT Brings More NVIDIA OC Controls and GPU Sensors to Linux
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LACT Brings More NVIDIA OC Controls and GPU Sensors to Linux
Linux GPU overclocking and monitoring tool, LACT, has officially launched v0.10.0, adding a host of new overclocking and sensor options for NVIDIA GPUs. The update notes mention PowerMizer mode, which allows users to force the NVIDIA GPUs into the highest…
What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04
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What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04
Last year, Plasma developers canceled the long-term support (LTS) version of Plasma. Why? We had a few reasons: Almost nobody was using it; really only Kubuntu. Other discrete-release operating sys…