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Gnome continuing to improve on what is already one of the easiest to use and most visually consistent desktop environments.
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2026/08/11/gnome-shell-design-dreams/
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This is interesting.
Starling: A new desktop environment for Linux, built in Swift and Flutter, with Cosmic like toggle-on tiling. Clearly Starling is trying to be macOS-like, which will make it feel familiar to many mac users. That’s what originally made gnome appeal to me. But this also forces an important question: would you trust your entire DE to be built by Claude?
https://starling.build/
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As the maintainer of Plank Reloaded, the most common bug report I get is "this app has the wrong icon." It's almost never the dock - it's a broken StartupWMClass.
https://thoughts.greyh.at/posts/startup-wm-class/
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@jdl
steam machine for $1100 has us bullish on getting the kid out of the hands of redmond and cupertino
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Commodore (as in 64), Linux flip phone...
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/commodores-next-hardware-release-is-dumb-and-proud-of-it
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is there a reasonable substitute for this that runs on arch? asking for a friend https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
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I got my Thinkpad's fingerprint sensor working on Linux and now I can log in or even authenticate in terminal with just a finger 💪
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Year of the Linux laptop
https://linuxiac.com/system76-pangolin-pro-linux-laptop/
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