Change is in the air!
And I am not discussing politics here 😉
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It will hurt us, for sure. Fewer people visiting our website, fewer new people even know about us, and thus fewer new readers and supporters.
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Personally, I prefer text-based tutorials. Easier to write, easier to keep them relvent by updating. But videos seems to be the 𝚏̶𝚞̶𝚝̶𝚞̶𝚛̶𝚎̶ present.
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💬 Let's see what else you get in this edition
- Firefox and Brave going into a tussle.
- Two handy apps for Linux and Android.
- Russia looking to do something about Linux.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux News
- Firefox's claims have irked Brave, resulting in heated conversation.
- Shotcut 24.10 has released with an optional, yet useful AI-powered feature.
- EA has kneecapped support for Linux, saying that there was a cheater problem with the platform.
- Proton Drive enhanced privacy with new features.
Russia appears to have set out on a journey to build an independent Linux community.
Sourav Rudra
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Who knew that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was involved with open source?
Liam Proven
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- We list out some of the best music players for Linux.
- Avoid using deprecated Linux commands before it is too late!
- Improve your Flatpak experience with these tips.
- Linux Mint can be customized in various ways, this time, we take a look at some really cool desktop effects for it.
- Having wrong time display issues on your Windows-Linux dual boot setup? Fret not, there's an easy fix.
These are some crucial steps that you need to take if you want to harden your Linux system.
Community
👷 Maker's and AI Corner
A new Open Source model can edit images with prompts.
Curious about Fedora on Raspberry Pi? Here's how it goes:
Abhishek Kumar
📹 Videos We are Creating for You
✨ Apps of the Week
This Rust-based open source code editor might make you switch. Care to check Zed out?
Sourav Rudra
- For Android, there's the Easy Watermark app, which makes it easy to safeguard one's work.
🧩 Quiz Time
Up for a crossword on Linux distros? 🤔
Ankush Das
💡 Quick Handy Tip
If you have the Tiling Shell extension installed, right-click on the title bar of any window and choose any one of the window tiling options, it can also show any custom layouts you may have created.
🤣 Meme of the Week
Nano users being unbothered, as usual.
🗓️ Tech Trivia
Considering that this is the election week in the US, here's an interesting trivia.
In the 1952 presidential election (U.S.), CBS News used a UNIVAC computer to predict the outcome between Eisenhower and Stevenson. UNIVAC's early analysis pointed to an Eisenhower win, but newscasters Walter Cronkite and Charles Collingwood doubted its accuracy, given opinion polls favored Stevenson. They delayed announcing the computer's prediction until Eisenhower’s victory became evident.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
One of our regular FOSSers ponders if scams will get more sophisticated now that AI has been growing rapidly.
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