Rabu, 11 Desember 2024

FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

The holiday season is approaching us. Mariah Carey's 'All I want for Christmas is you' is already upon us.

If you are already in the holiday spirit, perhaps you would like to give a little Christmas touch to your Linux desktop?

Give Your Linux System a Christmas Touch With These Tricks
’Tis the season for celebration. Customize your Linux desktop with the Christmas spirit.
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

💬 Let's see what else you get in this edition

  • Thunar tweaks.
  • OBS Studio dropping Ubuntu 22.04 support.
  • openSUSE improves gaming.
  • Flathub set to go big as an independent entity.
  • And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
  • This week's newsletter is supported by Typesense

❇️ Typesense, open source alternative to Algolia

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GitHub - typesense/typesense: Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences -…
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

📰 Linux and Open Source News

As things are taking shape, Flathub LLC is expected to become a reality soon, with paid apps and easy donation options being introduced to the platform.

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!
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Mozilla now has a fresh brand identity, with claims that they are laying the foundation for the next 25 years. I wonder whether this is a make-or-break situation for the outfit.

Mozilla’s New Brand Logo is Here: Time For a Trip Down Memory Lane!
With the new brand identify, let’s hope for a better future for Mozilla!
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

And something to ponder about Mint's cautious but consistent approach to the user experience.

Here’s How Linux Mint is Silently Redefining User Experience
A lot of people like Linux Mint. Do you know why? We think it’s the user experience.
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

Here are a few open source tools that are available on Windows but not on Linux.

6 Open Source Tools for Windows Users
Not your usual list, but these are useful open-source apps for Windows users.
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

👷 Maker's and AI Corner

If you cannot play those high-end games directly, you could stream it using Raspberry Pi.

How I Managed to Play AAA Games on Raspberry Pi
You can utilize your Raspberry Pi to experience games too, with a catch!
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

I also stumbled across a self-hosted alternative project to Google Location History.

GitHub - Freika/dawarich: Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History (Google Maps Timeline)
Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History (Google Maps Timeline) - Freika/dawarich
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

📹 Videos We are Creating for You


✨ Apps of the Week

RSS Guard is the latest App Of The Week. It is a reliable feed reader app for Linux that supports RSS, RDF, Atom, and JSON.

RSS Guard: A Superb Open Source Feed Reader App
A cross-platform open source feed reader that gets the job done.
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

You can complement that with Linkora on your Android smartphone. It is a link utility app that lets you store and manage all your links from the same place.


🧩 Quiz Time

A trivia quiz on Linux gaming this time around. Can you beat 'em all?

Linux Gaming Galore: Trivia Edition
We’re proud of where gaming on Linux is now! Let’s see what you know about it.
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

💡 Quick Handy Tip

In KDE Konsole, you can adjust the number of Scrollback lines dynamically. To achieve that, first right-click on an empty place and select “Adjust Scrollback…”.

FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

Now, enter a value for the desired number of Scrollback lines by choosing the “Fixed size:” option and click on “OK”.

FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

Remember, this is temporary and only affects the current session. Furthermore, having a huge number of Scrollback lines might cause performance issues, since all of this is stored in the RAM.


🤣 Meme of the Week

Sums up the Vim exiting experience. The Spotify playlist for those interested. 😆

FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

🗓️ Tech Trivia

Ada Lovelace, born on December 10, 1815, as the daughter of poet Lord Byron, was a 19th-century mathematician who worked with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine, writing what is considered the first computer program. Honoring her legacy, the ADA programming language, based on Pascal, was developed in the 1970s for readability and maintainability.


🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse Corner

One of our regular FOSSers is looking for some pointers regarding suspend on laptop.

Suggest an approach to suspend a laptop, I Have Doubts on RAM lifespan
Hello Friends For a laptop with Linux Ubuntu Desktop installed with 16GB. When the OS is send to “suspend” (systemctl suspend) and is wake up when the laptop’s lid is opened According with your experience and knowledge When the laptop is send to suspend, is wise have the RAM free as possible?, I mean have all the most “heavy” programs closed. For example 2G/16GB or Does it not matter? Therefore suspending the laptop with either 8GB/16GB or 12GB/16GB My concern is about if is suspended the…
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More

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