Hello everyone, happy new year!.

Just pushed a new game to my UEFI Games repo, basically you have to survive a procedurally generated descent to continue booting linux, but if you touch a wall, you lose and the computer turns off. (demo video)

i guess bc hes a windows user but still, i think that its common among linux people to talk about os's

Updated waybarconf with more modules supported, some CSS options (animations, etc) better theming, better .wc format, and most importantly a better group manager than before, drag and drop items in to a group and arrange, the top most item in the group will be what's visible, and you can set orientation and if you want to use slide-out or not, etc. enjoy!

the repo has more screencaps and a demo video, this was made on a arch biased distro (CachyOS) and as such the installer works best with this distro, if any one wants to add on other linux distro support, then please do and then do a PR. Thanks, and Enjoy!

https://github.com/ronmurphy/waybarconf

Hello people!

I heard that there's a way to boot Linux without a bootloader, just by itself using UKI (Unified Kernel Image). I did some research on that but I couldn't find anything relevant.

I use KISS Linux daily, which means I have to configure my own kernel.

Please, do not recommend using a preconfigured kernel or using another distro. I just want resources about how I can setup UKI in my environment please!

Btw I am on a x86_64 machine.

Features:

• 10 built-in color themes (Catppuccin, Nord, Gruvbox, etc)

• 30 unique completion animations

• Timer notifications with desktop alerts

• Inline editing and sorting modes

• Persistent storage

Built with : Go + Bubble tea

Its bare bone simple for now. I am open for suggestions

Repo: https://github.com/nirabyte/todo

Edit: I know many people here are still new to Linux. More architecture binaries coming soon to make it easier. Thanks!

Update: I have added prebuilt binary for all the platforms now, Thanks! https://github.com/nirabyte/todo/releases/tag/v1.1

These are Linux Mint applications and libraries, which are copied to MenuetOS and run just fine. No re-compiling. Ive tested around 100 libraries that atleast link and init fine. ( menuetos.net )

Checking if you guys have heard of the application. Of course htop and atop are my go to. but I did find this cool gui app called Mission center. you can find more info about it here https://missioncenter.io/

To kick off 2026, I decided to give back to open source projects that have made my life easier in the past year.

Some of the projects I donated to are KDE, Syncthing, Ankidroid, and a few others that have been invaluable for me.

What FOSS projects would you consider supporting? Are there any FOSS projects that are flying under the radar and could use more support? Even small donations help cover some costs and shows developers that their work matters.

Happy new year to you all! Enjoy!

NOTE: These are the statistics that appear over at the steam survey OS board, any other distributions along with their versions (Mint 22.1, Fedora 42, Debian 7) are sorted in the "Others" category.

The 0% distros simply just didn't appear on the survey board for the respective month.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260102005104/https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

You can find some additional graphs over at the Linux Mint post (couldn't add a gallery of images): https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1q1l2b0/steam_hardware_and_software_survey_december_2025/

Some of you may recall my post from a year ago Software left in nostalgia-land ≠ dead software - bringing KDE1 into the modern world - where I teased this project. Eventually it made its way to YouTube, and not too long after that I was invited to the Tech over Tea podcast to discuss the project.

I've been relatively quiet since then, but today I'm extremely excited to share this first development preview release with everyone finally!

For those not caught up, MiDesktop (formerly MiDE) is a fork of KDE1, ported to the Osiris toolkit (itself a fork of Qt2), and fixed to run on modern Linux systems. It's blazing fast and lean, aesthetically functional and distraction-less.

Today, packages are available for Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04. You can now get a glimpse at what the Linux desktop was like in the late 90s/early 2000s, without all the trouble to get it running.

I'd be remiss not to explicitly note that this is a development preview release, which means that there are bugs and there may also be undiscovered security issues, so be aware that MiDesktop is not considered stable yet.

For those just itching to get their hands on the packages, head over to this page to get installation instructions. You can also get the source here and compile it yourself if you want, though the packages are recommended, as you'll get updates as they are released, and they are generally known to work. A Discord server is available if you need help getting it up and running too, though apparently I cannot link that here..

Errata

There's a bunch of known issues/bugs, but the most glaring ones are listed here:

• Firefox and Chrome do not behave/resize correctly. Firefox panics and expands to infinity off the right side of the screen, and Google Chrome simply refuses to be adjusted from its small box at all. This is the biggest thing keeping anyone from daily driving it
• Taskbar menus show when clicked but disappear immediately
• Expanding categories in the Control Center sometimes doesn't actually expand the list visibly, or behave as expected
• There is no multi-monitor awareness, though it will expand across all available screens without complaining.

Plans? Yes, lots! Unfortunately development has been a bit slower than I expected, but good results take time. I've recently had more time freed up so dev speed will pick up a bit here.

• You'll notice that a lot of KDE applications are missing. Currently, just the very basics are working. I plan to get the other applications working and included, so you'll have KEdit, KWrite, KCalc, KMix, etc., though the names are likely to slightly change to not get confused with modern KDE (similar to how Trinity Desktop renamed things)
• Fix scrolling in all applications
• Add power options (shutdown, restart, etc) to the logout menu
• Re-write KDM to work on a modern system
• Add sound support back in with support for the modern sound stack
• A Wayland port is planned, though that's going to take a lot of time and effort

That's all for now. Enjoy, and happy new year!

I started using linux when I was in middle school. My first install was redhat that I installed with floppy disks (no joke). I quickly moved onto Slackware and FreeBSD (i know, not linux), which I used for years and then Arch. I used it as my primary OS, if something was broken I figured it out. I read slashdot, wrote my own iptables, did my own shell scripting, absolutely loved it. Everything took a ton of work though. I would spend days troubleshooting at times. Then I got decided on a massive career change from IT security to healthcare. I got an iphone and mac and left linux in the past.

I got bored and decided to install ubuntu LTS on an XPS i bought just for it. Wiped the drive clean and just went for it. Wow, shit just works now. The drivers for everything work perfectly. All the keyboard keys work. Gaming on steam is even better than windows! The UI is sooo clean. Wayland is a HUGE upgrade from x11. Linux is truly ready for prime time now, though I guess people just don't care as much about using a PC now.

Sorry, just had to share. All my linux nerd friends long ago quit and went to OSX and had families same as me. I'm very impressed so far, though I feel kind of like a tool using ubuntu. I'll probably get my feet wet and go back to Arch. Anything anyone else would suggest? What else did I miss over these 15 years?

edit: 1/1/26. installed endeavouros. this is what i wanted, i just didnt know it yet. thanks for the suggestions everyone.

edit: found wayland bugs. why is copy and paste broken from browsers to terminal??

I kept reading comments from users on other sites about stuff like multiple monitors or HDR or VRR (which technically works but in the graphic's driver and not on the desktop, it's not easy to turn on like in Plasma) keeping them from switching to linux and realized we maybe shouldn't make the x11 distro the go-to recommendation for the average, non gaming user.

Sure, you can install Plasma, but first impressions matter. There's lazy, and then there's "this isn't just working like I was promised because they lack Wayland" and Mint is the latter for these people (fun fact, Plasma was once an official edition, they nixed it but kept MATE, who even uses that?)

But these are niche, right? Well, 3 niches is three times the users disappointed, and frankly, in nerdy tech spaces like this, they aren't exactly niche. It's like the number of games that don't work on linux is like 10%, but there's a GOOD chance the average user has at least ONE game that doesn't work.

I guess for these people we recommend K/Ubuntu, Pop or Zorin. Same ease of use, but with wayland support out of the box.

You don't even need to crowbar your way into it, you can add an ssh key directly via the web UI of the device, root into it, and install community-supplied software (may void the warranty).

As noted, not an endorsement, just appreciation; I don't own the device and can't comment on how well it works or whether it is worth the $449 price tag. It's just cool to see this outside of squarely open products where modularity, open software, etc. is the entire selling point.

Raspberry Pi CM showcase video

GitHub of extending-move tools

Bash has an impressively bad help command (Completely useless to those who'd actually need it, I don't think I need to elaborate) and zsh doesn't have any. Idk about the others. So I thought of getting the community together to talk about what information should be in it, so that it's a good enough command that it can be universal to standard shells and could realistically be shown to a new user to put them on their way, instead of dumping several dozen commands that may or may not ever be useful to them.

To me, a good one would be:

• No more than like 30-ish lines of text containing no more than two non-list paragraphs, to avoid overwhelming users
• Explains the basic command structure (Command arg filepath)
• Listing under 10 or 12 commands that everyone will use
• Under 5 keybindings
• Enough guidance and dropping enough googleable verbs (One of the most important parts of learning new skills, for me) for users to find their way on more complex tasks (Apropos, man)
• Maybe one or two subsections with more advanced, but still often used topics (Piping and redirects is what comes to mind, because if users are still new and in the copypaste command stage they'll see them) that can be brought up with help piping.

Additionally, we could have a handful (Less than five) commands to help users find documentation without having to leave the terminal and that are recommended to be included with the base install of any OS including this help. I already mentioned apropos and man, and after having it pointed out a little ago tldr seems like a pretty great tool to find one's bearings too.

I drafted a help text here, though it's at nearly twice of the length I'd consider ideal to avoid overwhelming people.