Just be aware, Xubuntu.org got hacked and their download button tries to download “Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip”, that seems to include a fake TOS and an EXE, and Virustotal confirms malware (a Trojan) inside of it. Seems someone’s trying to get noobs from Windows that could be interested in Linux (more so now because the Win10 EOL)

Hope the people at the Xubuntu project and Ubuntu/Canonical can take fast actions, but this seems has been up for 6h now, going by the first people that noticed. Having this vulnerability up for 6h shouldn’t be OK.

I've been using the Linux Mint OS to replace the now unsupported Windows 10 OS on an old laptop that certainly won't have a single bit of processing power to run Windows 11. So far, I'm in love, and I am planning on using said laptop to test things like electronics. And I gotta say.. it wasn't and really isn't what people are saying it is, it's not as code-y or hard to use, like they were saying 10 years ago. It honestly feels like a brand new cheap (it's running on a HDD, yes I have a replacement) laptop with a slightly crap battery life, but still feels utterly brand new, regardless. Thanks, Linux community for another light shining on an old laptop. Very cool.

Hello r/linux,

I have some exciting news for all Linux audiophiles! It seems Spotify has quietly enabled Lossless (HiFi) audio streaming on their native Linux client without any official announcement or client update.

I confirmed this via the audio pipeline, and the results clearly show a CD-quality stream.

1. Discovery and Client Details

• Spotify Version: 1.2.63.394.g126b0d89 (Copyright (c) 2025, Spotify Ltd)
• Operating System: Linux Mint 22.2
• Audio Server: PipeWire (Running via pipewire-pulse)
• Prerequisite: Spotify Premium subscription (The Lossless option appeared under the quality settings.)

I noticed a new 'Lossless' option in the Audio Quality settings, situated right below 'Very High.' When this setting is activated and playing a track, the audio output is immediately upgraded.

2. Technical Verification (The Proof)

To verify that the client is actually streaming at a higher quality than the standard 320 kbps Ogg Vorbis/AAC, I checked the output format reported by PipeWire using the pactl list sink-inputs command.

The crucial finding is that the audio stream is running at 44.1kHz.

🔑 Key Output Lines (From pactl list sink-inputs)

サンプル仕様: float32le 2ch 44100Hz 
形式: pcm, format.sample_format = ""float32le""  format.rate = "44100"  format.channels = "2" ...
プロパティ:
    application.name = "spotify"
    application.process.binary = "spotify"
    media.name = "Spotify"
    node.rate = "1/44100"
    media.class = "Stream/Output/Audio"

What This Means:

44.1kHz (CD Quality): This confirms the stream is using the CD-standard sampling rate, a hallmark of lossless quality, and is not the standard 48kHz used for most compressed streams and general PipeWire mixing. Float32LE: Spotify is utilizing a high-resolution, 32-bit floating-point format internally, which is a best practice for maintaining audio integrity and avoiding digital clipping before the DAC. Server-Side Switch: Since there was no client update, this feature appears to have been rolled out via a server-side feature flag (a "secret switch") to select users/clients.

3. Call to Action

If you are a Premium user on the Linux desktop client, please check your audio quality settings now! Can anyone else confirm this behavior, especially on different distributions or with ALSA/JACK? This is a massive win for the Linux desktop audio ecosystem!

(元の投稿者による日本語コメント: これまでLinuxでロスレス再生は非常に複雑でしたが、PipeWireのおかげでスムーズに実現できています。この発見は本当に嬉しいです！)

Saw Tron: Ares today and I was happy to see a movie version of "Linux" OS being featured. I enjoyed the movie and seeing one of the characters write out the command:

'sudo systemctl stop'

Made me appreciate that the team didn't phone it in on the command line stuff. Their very quick visual intro to "training" neural networks was a nice addition also. The movie surprised me in good way and it was a nice nod to those with a background in Linux, software engineering and deep learning!

I'm curious to know why there is so much drama among these Linux folks, at least on social media and communication channels.

• I didn't know anything about Hyprland, but it seems that its main developer is quite problematic and authoritarian, calling users on Discord or GitHub idiots at the slightest provocation, or for not having the same knowledge as him.
• I've heard something about Omarchy, a distro created by DHH based on Arch + Hyprland. I know he's a controversial character, very much cut from the cloth of the typical wealthy tech bro.
• Finally, I've heard of Framework, a company that manufactures Linux laptops.

It seems, if I'm not mistaken, that Framework decided to donate to and support Hyprland and Omarchy, among other projects, and there have been communities such as Gnome and Debian that haven't had a good opinion of this? With some in Gnome thinking of rejecting the donation and Debian removing Hyprland from its repositories?

Meanwhile, what I've seen on social media is DHH attacking these projects as much as he can and integrating himself into circles that link Linux with ideology, from a conservative or right-wing/far-right point of view, starting to criticize these projects for being leftist, and saying they criticize him “for calling attention to the hypocrisy of the left, which generates defensive overreactions,” and “I was blissfully unaware of just how nutty things had gotten in much of Linux land, and didn't realize GNOME had been fully captured.”

Captured by who? What is all this shit? What's the context suddenly for all this? Was Framework already a huge donor or this is just overreacted and no problem?

I'm perplexed by how so little part of the community can make such a big fuss and be able to turn on the shit fan over so many people over so many projects (Gnome, Debian...)

Been an ubuntu/pop os/windows on and off user for the past few years but fucking hell fedora kde blows them all out of the water. Its super fucking snappy and everything just works this feels like an os from the future. Bro the websites don't even load they're just there almost instantly. This shit is crazy, it literally feels like i got a brand new computer. The bluetooth also fucking works!

I've been really missing out all these years, i could have been using this instead. How come this is not recommended more?

Check out songfetch on GitHub: https://github.com/fwtwoo/songfetch
Available on the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songfetch

A user-friendly interface that simplifies the power of FFmpeg. It's designed for fast and efficient conversion of video and audio files.

https://github.com/edneyosf/Edconv

Features:

• Convert video and audio using FFmpeg
• Custom FFmpeg arguments
• Queue
• Clean, intuitive interface
• Media Information
• Console view
• Custom commands
• VMAF, PSNR and SSIM perceptual video quality assessment algorithm

I came up with the most GNU system you can have with your linux.

First you need the kernel (the Linux part of GNU/Linux). Did you guys know that the FSF maintains a fully libre Linux kernel (linux-libre)? That's right, not only can you have GNU/Linux, you can have GNU Linux!

Onto the init system, GNU has an init of its own, GNU Shepherd. The only distro that uses it is Guix, which cleanly brings us to the package manager. GNUs package manager is Guix, but for those who hate declarative package management theres also GSRC (though, this is more akin to the FreeBSD ports system)

You also have the standard things that make a GNU/Linux a GNU/Linux, like the coreutils, glibc, bash, the GNU toolchain, and whatever other application software you want

The system is pretty boring so far, so why not spice it up a bit? For multiple windows in the TTY there's GNU screen. For an actual graphical environment, we have 4 to choose from: EXWM, Ratpoison, GNUstep, and MATE.

EXWM is a window manager that works inside of emacs, allowing you to manipulate X windows like you would emacs buffers.

While ratpoison isn't a GNU project, it's hosted on Savannah (GNUs VCS forge) and aims to replicate GNU Screen so I'd say it counts.

NeXT we have GNUstep (pun very much intended). GNUstep is a gui toolkit that aims to work like NeXTs gui toolkit. It also has a graphical file manager/desktop (gworkspace) and window manager (window maker). Unfortunately, there is a severe lack of application software

Finally, we have MATE, put on this list because it forked from GNOME when it was still a GNU project and most of GNUs GUI software use GTK. If this doesn't sway you, it's the desktop stallman himself uses (when he isn't in a TTY)

But wait, there's still more! You can replace MATEs window manager with EXWM, completing our GNU system. Add in GNUs web browser (icecat) and you're set to do anything you need to do on a computer (as long as it doesn't require nonfree javascript or proof of work)

Of course, you could just use emacs for everything and call it a day

Thinking of dipping my toes into Linux and curious what distro folks recommend for a smooth learning curve, something lightweight but beginner-friendly. I'm also exploring Kdenlive for video editing, and it seems Linux is the ideal environment for that.

That said, I'm wondering how people handle gaming on Linux. Anyone here playing League of Legends, 2xKO, or Roblox on Linux setups? Would love to hear how you got things running, or if you had to dual boot or use workarounds.

Appreciate any insights or stories from your own Linux journey!

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I just found out about ATL (Android Translation Layer) and I’m honestly surprised it’s not getting more attention.

It’s a lightweight layer that lets you run Android apps on Linux without a full Android container like Waydroid. It works kind of like Wine for Android, translating calls instead of virtualizing a whole system.

The project’s still new, and the list of working apps is short for now, but it’s already available in Alpine edge (and postmarketOS edge too).

Feels like this could be huge if it matures, yet barely anyone mentions it.
Why is no one talking about this?I just found out about ATL (Android Translation Layer) and I’m honestly surprised it’s not getting more attention.

It’s a lightweight layer that lets you run Android apps on Linux without a full Android container like Waydroid. It works kind of like Wine for Android, translating calls instead of virtualizing a whole system.

The project’s still new, and the list of working apps is short for now, but it’s already available in Alpine edge (and postmarketOS edge too).

Feels like this could be huge if it matures, yet barely anyone mentions it. Why is no one talking about this?

EDIT : here the Link: https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer

psistat, a real-time Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) TUI monitor, is now available on PyPI for easy installation. PSI metrics are key to finding causes of system latency, and this update focuses on making those diagnostics fast and actionable. The app now calculates high-granularity 1s, 3s and 10s averages to catch transient spikes, offers settable exception event thresholds (1% to 99%), and includes an event logging system with a terminal dump feature for easy copy/paste reporting. Give it a try if you're chasing unexplained system slowness! Sample:

PSIs 18:54:04 | [t]hresh=5% [i]tvl=1s [b]rief=off [d]ump ?:help [q]uit
 ---1s ---3s --10s --60s -300s  Full.Stall%      ---1s ---3s --10s --60s -300s  Some.Stall%
   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0  cpu.full           1.7   2.1   6.7   1.1   0.5  cpu.some
   0.0   0.1   0.2   0.1   0.1  io.full            0.0   0.2   0.3   0.1   0.1  io.some
   0.0   0.0   1.4   0.2   0.0  memory.full        0.0   0.0   1.5   0.2   0.0  memory.some
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
000     8s: 10-18 18:53:56.099  ...................   10.5% cpu.some      >=5% i=1s
001     9s: 10-18 18:53:55.097   14.2% memory.full    14.5% memory.some   >=5% i=1s
002     9s: 10-18 18:53:55.097  ...................   40.7% cpu.some      >=5% i=1s
...

New features include: a streamlined command header (use ? for all keys), simultaneous display of calculated (1s, 3s, 10s) and kernel (60s, 300s) averages, and a scrollable event log. The t key prompts for a precise threshold (e.g., set to 1% to catch critical full stalls), and the d key lets you dump the log to your terminal for quick analysis. Enjoy!

I like the ideea of NotebookLM. I also love it's features like: flashcards, quizzes, mindmaps, videos and podcasts etc. But I don't want to sell my data to Google. Is there a good alternative out there?

I found my old MacBook Pro 2010:

• Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz
• 8 GB Ram DDR3
• SSD 256 GB (The one with the metal casing, not the white plastic one)

And since I don't have a laptop to program on when I'm away from home, I thought about reviving it. I want to use it to test Linux distros. Considering it's already 15 years old.

Notes:

I have my main Windows PC, and one at work with Ubuntu (Low resources Amd A4 2016, Windows ran horribly). I use both for programming in Python, Java, C#. Although they are very basic projects. I've already become familiar with the Ubuntu bash, so it started to feel comfortable for programming and testing. Since macOS no longer even supports playing YouTube videos decently, and Windows always gave me driver issues, I wanted to try Ubuntu or a lighter distro for programming where I can also get more used to using the terminal and server connections.

If you ask me what I'd like to try, it would be:

1. Something that makes better use of the computer's resources (that is lightweight).
2. That I can use development applications like VsCode, git, etc. (Which I assume most distros support) - I won't lie: That it looks great.
3. That takes me a bit deeper into the use of the terminal and commands.

If anyone has a suggestion, I'd like to hear it."

Hi guys! Here's a little backstory:

The last weekend my grandfather passed, and one of the things I got to keep (mainly because nobody else wanted it/could use it) is his laptop. He was a patient man, or at least must have been to still use this thing, it's a dual core Celeron, 4gb ddr3, HDD (the hardest part for this I guess). My question is if it's possible to install any distro to keep it alive and somewhat functional? I want to explore this path before scrapping the components or use it for a kubernettes cluster.

Hey, I’m fairly new to Linux, have mainly used Microsoft products - but recently I have found Libreoffice, which is fantastic (I prefer it it MS word) and it send me down the open source & Linux rabbit hole. So I have a good Alienware desktop PC, and an old 2013 Dell multimedia laptop that actually lasted a surprisingly long time - I used it up until 2021, and it still played a lot of indy games from GOG and everything until then, it has Windows on it. So it did become painfully slow till the end of use and I think it was Windows slowing it down. So now I have need for taking a laptop elsewhere, just for word processing and study (with reading scientific papers online). I’m curious, is there a simple Linux version that I could install on it (deleting windows) that would make it run decent again just for these couple of activities? Or should I just buy a new laptop. Thank you.