Linux

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/24876805

Starting with Fedora 42 the KDE Edition will be at the same level as the Fedora Workstation Edition that uses GNOME.

IT'S HERE!

LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21363946

The normal complaint new Zellij users have is that it has a lot of keybindings which are likely to conflict with programs like nvim or Helix that use a lot themselves. Before, the workflow was to lock Zellij with ctrl-g which let input go through to the focused shell/program.

The new mode has most of the keybindings behind the ctrl-g lock, e.g. a new tab is ctrl-g t n (instead of ctrl-t n). You can still use alt-(cursor) for changing focus and alt-n/alt-f for a new tiled/floating pane, but all other key presses get passed along.

You can switch between default and unlock-first (non-colliding) modes so if you need those alt shortcuts you can lock everything as before.

Plus some other nice features like being able to change modifier keys while running (via the Kitty Keyboard Protocol), and autoloading the new config when you edit the file.

The interview is in english

TIL

• Mark was a Debian contributor
• His goal was to make Linux succeed like Dropbox and Netflix
• He acknowledges how ChromeOS and Android (both newer than Ubuntu afaik) shaped the Linux Desktop
• ChromeOS uses upstart, the init system that Canonical created
• Canonical is smaller than SUSE
• Mark considers Ubuntu to be more open than Fedora because they have flatpak in their repos (well, Snaps arent sandboxed outside of Apparmor, so that just makes sense I guess?)
• Ubuntu kept in contact with GNOME while switching to Unity, so they could easily fall back
• Microsofted lured in Linux devs with money, to make licensed software
• The cloud department in Microsoft was pretty progressive, using Linux anyways
• Azurelinux is a competitor against Ubuntu

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/25405532

Qualcomm engineering director Trilok Soni recently confirmed that the company's Linux team published Linux kernel updates for the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor. Qualcomm unveiled the SoC earlier this month, targeting a new generation of flagship phones and tablets supporting Android and Linux.

The CPU is quite old and the ports are horrendous.

But that machine has a crazy screen, pretty nice keyboard (actually my first laptop with a numpad ever) and the fan is really silent.

And the install was very easy. Now runs Fedora Kinoite!

Chromebooks, with Linux, not just ChromeOS (the batterylife difference is tiny) are really great for simple office stuff and even media consumption, while being efficient.

My main, 11in Lenovo Chromebook just lost 30% batterylife over a course of 4 hours or more. And it costed 140€!

I have already Googled about this but didn't find a solution, maybe someone else here has experienced this too? And to add some more details, I use ArcoLinux and I had already toggle 'Close button should minimize Spotify Window'.

Thank you!