Slovakia to stop blocking new EU sanctions on Russia
EU ambassadors are expected to approve the 18th package of sanctions against Russia on Friday. Slovakia had been blocking the package over concerns regarding a separate EU proposal phasing out gas imports from Russia.
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US | Trump administration tells embassies to rein in criticism of foreign elections
The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or criticizing elections overseas unless there's a clear and compelling U.S. foreign policy interest in doing so.
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Sheinbaum responds calmly but firmly after Trump claims Mexican leaders are ‘petrified’ of cartels
After U.S. President Donald Trump said Mexican leaders are 'petrified' of cartels, Mexican President Sheinbaum responded.
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My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out,...Normcore Tech
ICC prosecutor threatened to drop Netanyahu arrest warrant or face ‘destruction’
A member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team allegedly delivered threats to Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that, unless the ICC withdrew arrest warrants for Israeli officials, Khan and the court would be “destroyed,” a news outlet reported Tuesday.
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ICC prosecutor threatened to drop Netanyahu arrest warrant or face ‘destruction’
A member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legal team allegedly delivered threats to Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that, unless the ICC w...Kareem Assaf | Nottingham Law School, GB (- JURIST - News)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to end in 2026 as CBS cancels show
Colbert told shocked audience he only found out the night before, as CBS announced it will end the entire Late Show franchise after 33 years
Separated men are nearly 5 times more likely to take their lives than married men
Separated men are nearly 5 times more likely to take their lives than married men
Some men struggle to cope with the stress of a relationship breakdown.The Conversation
Amazon Web Services(AWS) sheds more jobs as Jassy's automation layoff prophecy comes true
AWS sheds more jobs as Jassy's automation layoff prophecy comes true
: Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearingBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Europeans warn Iran of UN sanctions if no progress on nuclear deal
Top European diplomats have warned Iran they are prepared to trigger the UN "snapback" mechanism — reimposing international sanctions — if Tehran fails to make concrete progress on reviving the nuclear deal by the end of summer. In talks with Iran’s foreign minister, the UK, France, Germany, and the EU emphasized the urgency of returning to diplomacy amid rising tensions following Israeli and US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in June.
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How about we sanction Israel at the same time? For you know having nuclear weapons and not even being part of IAEA...
Or maybe lets saction US and Israel for killing the negotiations with their terror attacks? Even after all that Iran is willing to return to the table, Israel's sabotage is what's holding it back.
The Pixel Watch 4 might not become e-waste if you damage it
Replacement is the only option if you break a Pixel Watch, but that could change soon.
Trump Jr.'s 'Amazon for Guns' Business Is Firing Blanks
The 'Amazon of guns' went public and immediately tanked.
ChatGPT Agent Wants You to Hand Over Full Control of Your Computer
You can just say no. You don't have to do any of this crap.
TSMC aims to make 30% of high-end chips in US with Arizona fab build out
Shovels in the dirt at Fab 3 as Fab 2’s 3nm ramp charges in several quarters early
TSMC aims to make 30% of high-end chips in US with Arizona fab build out
: Shovels in the dirt at Fab 3 as Fab 2’s 3nm ramp charges in several quarters earlyTobias Mann (The Register)
Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users
Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan.
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These overpriced airport battery chargers have been recalled for a fire risk
Stop using these magnetic power banks immediately.
These overpriced airport battery chargers have been recalled for a fire risk
iStore is recalling almost 15,000 wireless power banks, frequently sold in airport vending machines, because of an overheating and fire risk.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Netflix says it’s streamed 95 billion hours in 2025, and a lot of ads too
Netflix wants to “double” ad revenue this year.
Netflix says it’s streamed 95 billion hours in 2025, and a lot of ads too
Netflix says it’s on track to “double” revenue earned from advertising in 2025, according to its Q2 2025 earnings results.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists
Dictionary website isn’t offering refunds and is now only available with ads.
This mindblowing project lets you run Windows XP on the web
A talented developer has simulated a significant portion of Windows XP on the web, and you can access and you can play around with it using a simple link.
US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation
It marks a milestone for the once fringe industry, as it expands its power in Washington.
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Promising something and then not delivering it while stealing the money in the process. The same could be true for FIAT, the difference is that FIAT is regulated and insured, so most people would go to jail for it, while crypto is now above the law for the same.
I have no issue with crypto as a concept (e.g. Monero), it's just that 99% of the crypto are just scams, rug pulls and fraud.
Nintendo resorts to weird patent claims as its litigation against Palworld maker Pocketpair is struggling
Last fall, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sued Palworld maker Pocketpair over three Japanese patents (note that links like the one to the left of this parenthesis take you to our IP Lingo dictionary explaining such terms). Earlier this year, we launched an “explain it to me like I’m five” series covering the dispute (January 23, 2025 games fray article). We sent a Japanese attorney to a Tokyo courthouse to take a look at Pocketpair’s defenses, and reported on then three months ago (April 18, 2025 games fray article). Subsequently, we explained Pocketpair’s “moving target” strategy that involves changes to gameplay mechanics so as to work around Nintendo’s patents, making it impossible so far for Nintendo to find a basis for a good-faith U.S. patent assertion (May 10, 2025 games fray article). Nintendo would apparently like to sue in the U.S. as well, but so far it can’t.
Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media
Dorsey's initial investment has gotten the new nonprofit "andOtherStuff" up and running, and he worked on some of its initial iOS apps.
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Jack Dorsey backs nonprofit 'and Other Stuff' with $10M to build open social technology.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors
New rule against “certain kinds” of adult content accompanies removal of “incest” games.
Steam file transfer over local network?
Anyone got this to work between a linux host and a steamdeck?
I am using the arch package of steam on the host, I opened the necessary ports, but I can't get the two to download from each other (just to be safe I completely disabled the firewall on both devices and tested, doesn't work).
Steam's remote connection logs mention receiveing broadcast from the other device and when I start the download, the server briefly starts saying "hosting local file transfer" in its downloads page but stays in 0% a little while and disappears.
It just worked for me between two archlinux systems. Desktop and laptop. But somehow it was super slow, turning that feature off and force downloading from the internet was way faster.
Can you maybe try connecting them directly to each other without a router and without internet? Afaik KDE has a hotspot button/setting somewhere. I am thinking either your router blocks it (some routers have this as a security feature, that a lan cabled devices can't talk to a wifi connected devices) or the algorithm is smart and local transfer is slow so it switched to downloading from the web.
There are a couple of variables why it would be slow for you. Steam sharing works great as long as:
Host isn't downloading something
Client isn't downloading something
Client has a fast CPU to still unpack the game
Client has fast storage to saturate the network speed
Host has good network speed
Client has good network speedFor me, it really is that simple. It sometimes even works better than the server cache setup
Note though, you really need a FAST CPU to unpack steam games at even gigabit. It will also make bad SSDs cry.
Can you do it again and share that graph? is the green line higher than the blue bars?
Can you maybe try connecting them directly to each other without a router and without internet? Afaik KDE has a hotspot button/setting somewhere.
In my case I think it's just the congested WIFI in my area.
And I have no way to cable up the devices without having cables going through my whole apartment.
This works for me between Desktop Arch with pacman Steam install and my Steam Deck.
Never had to do anything special to set it up, I use the GNOME suite so I guess network-manager takes care of any network specifics.
Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats
Roblox will still monitor the conversations for ‘critical harm.’
Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats
Roblox will let people make “Trusted Connections” to chat more freely, but will require that they use a new age estimation tool to verify that they’re over 13.Jay Peters (The Verge)
DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
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Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist
A chief economist at investment giant Apollo says the top ten AI stocks are more detached from reality than the tech titans of the 1990s were. His chart is a stark warning that history is about to repeat itself.
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‘All US forces must now assume their networks are compromised’ after Salt Typhoon breach
The announcement marks the second major Salt Typhoon incident in the space of two years
Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease
The method was pioneered by UK scientists to overcome devastating, often fatal inherited diseases.
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Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease
The method was pioneered by UK scientists to overcome devastating, sometimes fatal inherited diseases.James Gallagher (BBC News)
Candy Crush Developers Set To Be Laid Off By Microsoft Are Reportedly Being Replaced By The AI Tools They Were Told To Build
Candy Crush developers at King who are caught up in Microsoft's recent mass layoff are being replaced by the AI tools they were told to build
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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how
It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and legal costs stemming from repeated Facebook user privacy violations. The Federal Trade Commission in 2019 fined Facebook $5 billion in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and legal costs stemming from repeated Facebook user …FRANCE 24
Amazon Warns 220 Million Customers Of Prime Account Attacks
Amazon Prime subscribers are under attack — here’s what you need to know.
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US | Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.
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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how
Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:
After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it's growing fast.
Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how
It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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I tested Gnome and KDE Plasma5 in the last year.
KDE Plasma is in my opinion the first DE which is comparable with Win/MacOS. It looks modern, is pretty much feature complete and as an average user its nice to have useful apps preinstalled (calculator, libreoffice, firefox and so on), but no bloatware.
Its just a bit more customizable than windows, which is perfect and also not fiddly and a pain. It certainly has a handful of quirks, like Windows does, but you get used to them.
If I have to set up elderly relatives with a computer, I'd strongly consider a KDE Plasma Desktop
Apparently not without ire, unfortunately. Somehow got downvoted for what I wrote...
People HATE Gnome and I don't get it. I've heard the arguments but in all practicality I have tried KDE too and then minutes into trying the complicated customization features I just wanna go back to gnome. Give me a somewhat new version of gnome and 30 minutes and I'll have it configured how I want and it looks and runs nice. I recently spent 30 minutes trying to understand customization of the bottom bar in KDE and gave up
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My experience was very similar but with the two swapped:
After I used Linux Mint (with Cinnamon) I tried Debian, it came with Gnome.
I struggeled to find the apps (I dont know what they are called on a new OS) but I didnt find out how to search for them. Win+Type didnt search, I didnt see an obvious Spotlight feature like on apple.
Then I wanted to change some settings and couldnt change them (I dont remember what). I felt like customisation wise I'm using macOS, and thats a bad thing.
So like you I reinstalled Debian with KDE after less than 1h in gnome.
Thats why we need different DEs, maybe they and their variations are more important than the huge selection of distros.
I think you are right. Choice is good. My dislike of KDE is partially because I liken it more to windows. I have thought windows has an atrocious UI for a long time so by default Mac seems better to me, even despite it lacking a lot of customization.
Gnome definitely has a search function which normally I think is defaulted to the windows key, so that's interesting you couldn't find anything. I actually always turn off a couple UI things which let me navigate to apps that are shown by default because to me it's clutter. Just because I like the cleanness of the UI, I use uLauncher for finding apps. It's similar to spotlight or Alfred.
I never got gnome, it’s like macOS, but I never enjoyed using it even after being a Mac user.
Plasma and cinnamon are my top desktop recommendations.
Before that I've used plasma and Unity and a whole lot of Mate but then I started using Gnome for a pretty and smooth experience right out of the Box.
Now I've simply been using it for so long that it's muscle memory all the way.
I don't agree with everything the gnome devs decide and I definitely am annoyed that I have to use extension for small things that should just be a toogle in the settings but I've realized some time ago that if I did switch to plasma I would use all the customizability to make it work like Gnome ... so I stay on Gnome.
Short question because thats what made me swap to KDE:
How do you quickly open an app, without navigating through the categories with your mouse?
Now make me look stupid 😁
I never use the "App Menu" on my laptop I don't even have any favorites.
I hit the super button (windows key) to open the app overview and type the first few letters and hit enter.
So e.g. SUPER fi Enter Firefox opens with just 4 key strokes in 1 second
I instinctively do that as well, on Windows, Cinnamon and Plasma and it didnt work on Gnome, Superkey opened the Startmenu but then typing didnt search. Thats what I wanted to ask, if I miss something obvious or if Gnome doesnt offer that feature out of the box.
Debian probably changed the Key for the Spotlight-like search.
The preinstalled apps are not a feature of KDE (or Gnome, XFCE, etc.). Actually they all are structured in a very modular way where you can use or omit individual components. Firefox and LibreOffice are completely independent of it even; they merely add compatibility layers to make the integration more seamless.
What you experienced was something to attribute to the distribution you chose. They are the ones to decide which components to bundle and preinstall. That is also the reason why so many distributions exist in the first place, because different teams/devs have different visions about what the desktop should look and feel like after install.
So the preinstallation of all the KDE apps is a choice of the distro?
On both Linux Mint and Debian+Plasma I got some apps preinstalled.
That I can uninstall and that they arent developed by the same people doesnt play a role. For the user they come with the OS, like Win10 preinstalls the calculator and Candy Crush
For the user they come with the OS
That's my point, though. Plasma isn't an OS. You can can have a OS that ships Plasma with Calligra instead of LibreOffice and Falkon instead of Firefox. Or neither, and instead they give you a greeter with the choice to pick your browser. Or the OS is minimal and doesn't bundle any of them. In Arch for example you normally don't even get Konsole or Dolphin unless you install them (or you pick the nuclear option and install _all _ KDE packages which also includes a ton of stuff you likely never need).
I am very familiar/comfortable with Windows and very confused by MacOS. Yet I much prefer Gnome over Plasma.
Not to say you are wrong or anything, maybe I'm just an outlier.
That said, I've been using Cosmic DE for about the past month and it's pretty great. I think I might stick with it. Gotta love all the options we have!
It looks modern, is pretty much feature complete and as an average user its nice to have useful apps preinstalled (calculator, libreoffice, firefox and so on), but no bloatware.
I can't believe I have been running python3 for simple calculations lately instead of running KCalc, lol.
Tried to persuade him. He's an adult son, so I wouldn't force it on him.
Grandma's using it just fine though.
I went to CachyOS on my desktop full time this year. Already had Bazzite on a laptop.
There's been a few hiccups here and there, but nothing insurmountable with a little patience and practice and reading.
Hang on though, if it's web stats, how many of those impressions are ai bots scraping training data claiming to be Firefox users?
Don't those likely read as Linux from how they fingerprint on TCP connections?
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I know! This article kind of addresses that with this line: "although we can't be certain of the exact numbers, Linux is clearly growing".
Interestingly enough, reading through again, the 6% figure is from US government sites, but the growth numbers in the line I quoted in the post is actually global. Here's the graph they're referring to:
I hadn't noticed that dip in 2025 until I looked at this graph more closely!
Most technology adoption follows an S curve, it can often take a long time to start to get going. Linux has gradually and steadily been improving especially for games and other desktop uses while at the same time Microsoft has been making Windows worse. I feel more that this is Microsoft's fault, they have abandoned the development of desktop Windows and the advancement of support for modern processor designs and gaming hardware. This has for the first time has let Linux catch up and in many cases exceed Windows capabilities on especially gaming which has always been a stubborn issue. Its still a problem especially in hardware support for VR and other peripherals but its the sort of thing that might sort itself out once the user base grows and companies start producing software for Linux instead.
It might not be enough, but the switching off Windows 10 is causing a change which Microsoft might really regret in a few years.
I'll hang on to 10 as long as they'll let me, but I am never going to 11. Then it'll be a distro for dis bro.
Sorry.
Awesome! Mint is great, it’s my number one recommendation.
I’ve never tried vr before and I’d really like to at some point.
Microsoft has been making Windows worse. I feel more that this is Microsoft's fault, they have abandoned the development of desktop Windows and the advancement of support for modern processor designs and gaming hardware.
Moores law is dead since a long time except for graphic cards and GPUs. This means you can't keep adding things to desktop software in the style of "What IBM giveth, Microsoft takes away".
Existing development paradigms don't add significant qualities to many-processor hardware.
Which also explains part of the AI craze. It is investment money searching for a sensible use.
Most technology adoption follows an S curve
For successful technologies. Sometimes technologies just don't catch on, like 3d TVs, or VR or Segways. Then the curve is more up then back down to zero.
But yeah, this time might be different. Linux has more or less reached feature parity with Windows. Games run just as well or better under Linux, with only a little bit of fiddling. That alone might not be enough, but having that happen when Windows 10 is reaching end of life, and Microsoft wants you to buy new expensive hardware for the privilege of moving to Windows 11, and just as they're adding all kinds of new ads and AI bullshit into Windows.
Personally, I'm already on Linux, so my main reason for hoping it gets more momentum is so that device manufacturers make sure their drivers work well in Linux. Full driver support and full software support for devices is the main thing that's still a bit of a pain.
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Discover is a joy to use.
Cool, welcome! I assume you're aware that it won't be all sunshine and rainbows from day 1, but give it time and leverage the community to solve any issues you run into. Effective bug reports and knowledge sharing make the experience better for everyone.
To me it's worth having control over my hardware, and an OS that's designed to work for me and not some corpo against me.
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Yeah, unfortunate to rain in the parade but GNU/Linux definitely needs some attention sooner rather than later. Plenty of design benefits, but also plenty of pitfalls from an OS sec POV.
Average users aren't installing SELinux or Qubes so I hope no-one was actually going to reply with what Linux can do as opposed to the everyday user experience.
A few years outdated, but relevant: madaidans-insecurities.github.…
but also plenty of pitfalls from an OS sec POV.
Can't possibly be more vulnerable than Windows, the system where you can elevate yourself to highest privileges by simply clicking "Yes" on a prompt without a password, and where most users are running outdated versions of their software because they never update anything, or have a thousand background "updater" applets that are scheduled to run periodically and have the ability to install arbitrary executables from their servers.
If you run a repo-only system, where everything you install comes from the first-party distro repo, you'll likely be fine. Just as you are on Windows or Android if you only download apps from the first-party store.
But like on Windows and Android, you'll quickly reach the limit of what you can do with first-party store only.
Especially stuff like gaming requires non-repo/non-store stuff pretty quickly, and then you are on exactly the same turf as on Windows.
where everything you install comes from the first-party distro repo, you'll likely be fine.
Canonical’s Snapcraft has a bad reputation for a reason. Many reasons. But compromised apps is a major one.
Can’t possibly be more vulnerable than Windows
The linked article provides many examples where security techniques lag far behind Windows. Vulnerability isn't as simple as being 'more vulnerable' or 'less vulnerable', it's a complex concept, and both GNU/Linux and Windows have design decisions which make each better than the other in various ways. We need to understand security in a more nuanced way than "x is better than y" if we actually want to protect ourselves from threats.
A Linux installation can be set to run root with no password or prompt. A Linux user can choose to never update their software - one could argue that Windows forced OS updates are an improvement here. The argument that the typical user has more technical understanding is a weak defense (as in, we really really really should not rely on that) and also irrelevant when we're talking about Linux gaining a wider audience.
A long time ago when Linux was around 2-3% someone said that macOS adoption by software companies happened when it got to 5% of the marketshare.
If Linux continues down the path, we might see real support from some of the holdouts.
Before anyone says to use an alternative, sometimes there are not workable alternatives.
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Linux has a problem with distribution of binaries, and companies for profit doesn’t want to share source … and packages with only binaries have some dependencies problem… although Flatpak and Snap improved this A LOT…. But then would have GLPv3 in many dependencies and you cannot ship it with a “for profit” product.
This is the biggest hurdle for Linux “for profit” market for better apps. Also many Linux users are against the paid model, preferring open source. There is a cultural limitation to break the bubble
I think SteamOS is helping a lot to break this … but still Linux desktop need to have a cultural change specially on license model or binary stability to be able to have a better app availability
I'm not sure about the legal intricacies of it, but there is commercial software being distributed through flatpak on Flathub for a while now. The first example that comes to mind is Bitwig, a well-known, paid, commercial Digital Audio Workstation: flathub.org/apps/com.bitwig.Bi…
Also, Flathub is working on offering paid apps: news.itsfoss.com/flathub-paid-…
Flathub To Introduce Paid Apps and Easy Donation Options
Flathub is an increasingly popular portal for Flatpak apps for every Linux distribution. Now, it's doing something to help the ecosystem grow!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
This has been a big problem historically. Agreed.
But you cite the solution yourself. Flatpak is all you need for effective distribution of commercial apps. GPL has nothing to do with it. There are already commercial apps in FlatHub.
What is missing is “paid” commercial apps. We have no “take my money” App Store in Linux. I think FlatHub is working on it. Honestly, I am surprised a commercial company has not launched one yet. Well, other than Steam of course.
Oh really
I had the impression if you have a GPLv3 dependency in the same pack it could be interpreted as distributing it with your code.
Well thank TIL for me.
I know I am pointlessly late on this but…
You do not distribute the Flatpak runtime or Flatpak itself. You can depend on it but it is distributed separately. Flatpak may download these dependencies at the same time as your app bundle but it is not downloaded from you. And the libraries you are linking to (like Glibc) are LGPL or even more permissive.
If you put a GPL library into your application bundle, that could be a problem. But if your app is closed source, you are presumably not doing that.
After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.
Could be exponential growth.
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Maybe it's dying, but it won't die in our lifetimes, so it's fine.
I am actually also thinking about creating customized version of OpenBSD as a side project.
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I assume you mean raw? Because I'm a noob and I installed Garuda, which is Arch, and it's been dead easy.
Everyone could use Arch! Let's all flex together!
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wtf I love Norway now? Sweden is at like 2%.
But Norway's Linux spiked up to almost 30% in July 2024 as well. So I don't really trust these sites. My guess is that it's due to Tesla's web browser or something? Tesla is the most popular electric car brand in Norway: 77k Model Y and 50k Model 3 are registered, and the only model with higher numbers is the Nissan Leaf with 81k, but that'll be taken over very shortly (so far in 2025, there have been over 11k Model Y registrations, with the next runner-up being the Toyota BZ4X with 4,6k)
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Why so many in Norway. How did you do it?
Desktop Operating System Market Share India | Statcounter Global Stats
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in India based on over 5 billion monthly page views.StatCounter Global Stats
- There's an uptick in 'Unknown' (currently at 26%).
- Linux adoption might have slowed down because India - US relations have improved since then, because Trump can be distracted by promising him trade deals. Of course the deal he wants (giving US agri companies access to the Indian market) will face opposition from farmers' unions, so I'm not sure what the govt's long-term plan is.
One good thing is that when a govt dept switches to Linux, it sort of sticks. And govt contracts are very profitable, so we'll likely see greater interest from both hardware and software companies.
Zathras, holding up a thumb drive with a Windows Installer ISO:
"No, never use this."
Nah it's just being replaced with phones.
Low tech users used to have cheap windows machines, now they have phones and tablets.
According to more realistic data, e.g. gs.statcounter.com/os-market-s… the market share has been around 4% for the last year, even slightly declining in the meantime.
But that doesn't make for nice, sensationalist headline stoked by wishful thinking.
Sorry to say, Linux isn't going mainstream anytime soon and by and large the end of Win10 just means that the comparatively small group of users still running 5+ years old hardware will just buy a new PC or keep using their outdated OS.
In fact, if you combine the market share of outdated Windows versions (XP-8.1) you get a market share very close to the market share of Linux.
As much as we all would love it if the Linux market share goes to 50% in fall, it's not going to happen.
The main issues with Linux adoption (it's not preinstalled and most people have no idea which OS they are using and really can't be bothered to reinstall) are just as present now as they were for the last 30 years.
Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
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All it takes is momentum. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, and I think it's gaining momentum because of Valve. Gaming was always the one thing stopping people from checking out Linux.
Now, however, more and more people are trying it out. More tech YouTubers are trying Linux, which means more exposure. Distros are becoming more refined. KDE is much better than it used to be because of Valve. All in all, there's true momentum building.
In due time, Linux will be preinstalled on computers and laptops, and because of this, more people will contribute to Linux. People are fed up with the bloat and heavy AI push of Windows 11.
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Chaotic Good Billionaire does a solid for Linux, Windows users devastated
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The wise man replied, “Your Majesty, I ask for a simple thing. Give me one percent Linux desktop market share for the first square of the chessboard, two percent for the second square, four percent for the third square, and so on, doubling the amount for each of the 64 squares.”
The king, thinking this was a modest request, said, “Surely you jest! Such a small reward for such a great service? Ask for gold, land, or jewels instead.”
But the wise man insisted, and the king agreed.
The king ordered his treasurer to calculate the total. Starting with 1% for the first square, 2% for the second, 4% for the third, 8% for the fourth… by the time they reached the tenth square, they needed 512% of the desktop market.
The treasurer, pale with realization, informed the king that by the 64th square, they would need more market share than could possibly exist in the entire universe of computing devices.
The king then understood that what seemed like a humble request was actually impossible to fulfill, and he gained a new respect for the power of exponential growth.
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I think that happens in any black hole formation. At least that's my understanding of how neutron stars are formed. The electrons get forced into the nucleus and turn the protons into neutrons. From there it's quark gluon plasma then a black hole.
In any case, I have no idea how either a grain of rice or a mountain could be made to do such a thing.
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Because Linux +firefox is like a fingerprinting wet dream, I may be the only one in my locale. (maybe not anymore, but yeah)
Also Librewolf by default reports Win+Firefox.
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KDE Plasma is genuinely good
Kubuntu is a drop-in replacement for Windows 10
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KDE Plasma is so good, I love it. But I think that Cinnamon (the default environment for Linux Mint) is also super user-friendly.
There's no good excuse not to use Linux in 2025 if you're a home user. Except maybe if you rely on some software such as SharePoint, the Adobe or the Serif Affinity suites.
If you game Cachyos (just installs everything relevant for you, coming to linux itll help you figure out whats commonly used), endeavoros if you wanna set up arch quickly, grab stuff for yourself and build your own desktop, bazzite if you game and are scared to break shit, idk if I would reccomend ubuntu just because I don't like snaps or the snap store, just comparing it to flathub, flathubs missing a few games/apps like rexuiz but nothing important.
Bazaar is pretty nice to use (new bazzite default), one thing I disliked coming to linux was lack of gui download manager and progress in the appstores, tried them all and hated them, while Bazaar feels great and comparing the search to others it actually works, like if I search fps all the fps games pop up, while on others maybe one or two that have it in the title.
I don’t care much about the OS people use
On a surface level, same. On the other hand, I do believe that more users, if combined with certain design and documentation choices, can enable more contributions and fixes and software support, and I believe this has already been a huge factor in recent improvements to the Linux experience like Proton.
It makes perfect sense, the resistance of having Windows legacy software etc becomes smaller the more of that goes out of use, the resistance of everyone only knowing Windows becomes smaller with nobody even knowing Windows, and the resistance of corporate interests becomes smaller because it's all in the Web, and the Web has been corrupted and Chrome works on Linux.
So. Listen to me carefully. If Linux domination happens without FreeBSD and Haiku normalization, then things are bad.
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OK, so now it's important to create collegial democratic project government for Linux, and freeze Linus in carbonite as a memorial. Before Linux has become too important, and before Linus lost his marbles to become a geriatric dictator.
Actually in the age of Android I think it's already too late, but this should be done regardless.
That's a thing, but the biggest thing is that PCs as a class have been falling in numbers. As media consumption devices, they're outmoded. Phones, tablets, and cheap smart TVs have taken their place.
A typical family of 4 might have 1 laptop for when one is actually needed, whereas a few years ago every member of a suburban household would have their own computer.
So a larger part of the market is enthusiasts and techies, who are more likely to be using Linux, and gamers, who are using devices like the Steam Deck and Legion Go that run on SteamOS.
That is an interesting take.
Surely the largest source of laptops is still for work though, many bought by the employer.
Things will really take-off if Linux hits 10%.
Actually, if it hits 10%, I think it could go all the way.
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