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One of the dumbest design decisions of #GTK is to have "warp scrolling" the default primary mouse button behavior.

Previously, if you middle-clicked the scrollbar, it would jump to that position within the buffer. Primary click moved up/down by page. GTK 3 reversed this for no reason.

There are some limited scenarios where jump scrolling is desired, but you should never break a standard UX convention without a tremendous benefit. There wasn't one.

Radeon Vulkan Driver’s Emulated Ray-Tracing Scores A ~40% Improvement For Quake II RTX

In addition to Mesa’s open-source Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” making some nice performance improvements for m…
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CachyOS July update available with option to choose shell during installation (selection between Fish, Zsh, default to Bash), KDE Plasma defaulting to Wayland, fwupd added to GNOME and KDE Plasma editions, support for Lenovo Legion Go handheld, etc.:
9to5linux.com/cachyos-july-202

SparkyLinux 7.8 released with updated Linux kernel, DEs and other packages, bug fixes:
betanews.com/2025/07/16/ditch-

Rescuezilla 2.6.1 released with Ubuntu 25.04 base, Image Explorer and Firefox re-enabled, ability to specify NFS version, improved touchpad support, workaround for the “umount: /tmp/rescuezilla.ntfs/mount: target is busy” error, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/rescuezilla-2-6-

Wine 10.12 released with optional EGL backend in X11 driver, support for Bluetooth LE services, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

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This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 final freeze set for 27 July, official release for 9 August:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.0-

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 released with improved automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland, accessibility improvements, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-3

KDE Plasma 6.5 will include rounded bottom corners for windows:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Rounded-
(Rounded corners are everywhere. You can't escape them lol)

Plasma Bigscreen sees active development again, thanks to Plasma Mobile contributor Espi:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma

Clear Linux OS shutting down due to financial issues of Intel:
community.clearlinux.org/t/all
("Rest assured that Intel remains deeply invested in the Linux ecosystem, actively supporting and contributing to various open-source projects and Linux distributions to enable and optimize for Intel hardware." Shutting down Clear Linux OS isn't the only thing affecting Linux though. See next linked article.)

Intel WMI Slim Bootloader "SBL" firmware update driver for Linux being orphaned due to departures:
phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Dr

Linux Mint monthly report: Linux Mint 22.2 planned with HWE kernel, fingerprint authentication, theme updates, accent color support, improved libAdwaita compatibility, improved Wayland support; LMDE 7 planned with Debian 13 base, OEM support; blog comment moderation made more strict to eliminate politics:
blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4860

Hyprland 0.50 released with new render scheduling, legacy renderer dropped, explicit sync support always used by default, "no screenshare" option to black out any window during screen-sharing:
phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.5

Slackware turns 32:
ostechnix.com/celebrating-slac

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www.phoronix.comDebian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.
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Initramfs vulnerability lets attackers with physical access compromise encrypted systems by entering incorrect password several times and accessing the debug shell on Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 systems:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/ubuntu

Linux kernel 6.15.6 and 6.12.37 LTS deliver TSA (Transient Scheduler Attacks) mitigations:
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15.6

Wayback is now hosted on FreeDesktop.org:
phoronix.com/news/Wayback-Free

System76 Adder WS laptop available with Intel Core Ultra i9 and NVIDIA 50 series:
9to5linux.com/system76s-adder-

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OMG! Ubuntu · New Linux Security Flaw Uses Initramfs to Inject MalwareA newly found security flaw in Ubuntu could allow attackers with physical access to bypass full disk encryption. Learn how the attack works.

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

openSUSE considering to drop 32-bit ARM support, announced a survey to ask users whether they still rely on 32-bit ARM hardware support:
phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Dec
(I think it's a good thing that at least they ask their users directly, and don't just drop the proposal if there's a strong pushback like what Fedora did.)

KDE Frameworks 6.16 released with improved recognition of the most powerful GPU, support for showing the newest files first in open/save dialogs, inertial scrolling (a.k.a. kinetic scrolling) for all scrollable views in all QtQuick-based KDE applications when scrolled using a touchpad, etc.:
9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6

Ubuntu 24.10 reaches EOL, upgrading to 25.04 is recommended:
9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-10-ora

Ubuntu 25.10 will ship with a fully functional desktop session on RISC-V:
9to5linux.com/canonical-plans-

Ubuntu changes boot process on Raspberry Pi, to improve system recovery and reliability:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/ubuntu

Fedora proposal raised to include Zstd-compressed Initrd by default for space savings and faster boot:
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-In

Parrot OS 6.4 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, new Goshs and ConvoC2 tools, updated hacking tools, Firefox 140 ESR, etc.:
9to5linux.com/ethical-hacking-

Rhino Linux 2025.3 released with RPK2 package manager, new UBXI KDE Desktop package based on Plasma 6:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

Bottles project faces funding issues, asks for donations:
news.itsfoss.com/bottles-need-

Phosh 0.48.0 released with new lockscreen plugin to interact with all running media players that use the MPRIS protocol, Cell Broadcast dialogs enabled by default, bug fixes, GTK4 preps, etc.:
phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.48.0/

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www.phoronix.comopenSUSE Is Deciding Whether To End 32-bit ARM Support

Since migrating between storage devices is my new hobby, apparently, I now moved my /home directory back onto my SSDs in RAID1. The four HDDs in RAID10 are now my games drive. Nice and fast again. All devices are 1 TB.

What's cool about RAID10 is that it can be converted to RAID0 in-place. So when I out of game space and I don't care about keeping the install directories safe (mods, etc.), I can just double my capacity. Neat!

Se você é novo no mundo do Linux, já deve ter ouvido que aqui a liberdade é real.
E um dos melhores exemplos disso é a interface gráfica.

No novo artigo da Sociedade Pinguim, a gente explica o que é uma interface gráfica e te apresenta as melhores opções pra 2025, como GNOME, KDE, XFCE e mais.

Leia agora:
sociedadepinguim.com.br/interf

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Sociedade pinguim · Interface Gráfica no Linux Explicada: O Guia Rápido e Prático - Sociedade pinguimDescubra o que é uma interface gráfica no Linux e conheça as melhores opções em 2025. Compare GNOME, KDE, XFCE e outras para escolher a ideal para seu estilo de uso!
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NVIDIA 580 Linux driver will be the last to support Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, X11 versions older than v1.17 will also be deprecated:
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-L

Bash 5.3 released with a new form of command substitution that executes the command within the current shell execution context, GLOBSORT variable can be used to determine how the shell will sort results of pathname completion, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/GNU-Bash-5.3

DXVK 2.7 released with Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications running atop the Vulkan API, other changes:
phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.7-Rel

Alpine Linux developer Ariadne Conill announced Wayback, a new X11 compatibility layer on Wayland, utilizing a rootful XWayland server:
phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 laptop available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX and AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processors:
9to5linux.com/tuxedo-stellaris

Linux reaches 5% desktop marketshare in the US:
ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-

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www.phoronix.comNVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta

I’m lining up episodes of The IT Guy Show covering X11 and Wayland — their quirks, legacy, and the future of the Linux desktop.

If you’ve worked with either (or both!), or just have strong real-world opinions on the state of display servers in Linux, I’d love to have you on.

Reach out or if you want, nominate someone awesome!

#Linux#Wayland#X11

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Fedora proposal was made to discontinue 32-bit support in a two-step process, starting from 44, but it was withdrawn:
ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i6

Fedora dropping 32-bit support would put Bazzite's future development at risk, due to breakages of essential Steam features:
news.itsfoss.com/fedora-could-

Fedora proposal was made to replace upstream X.Org server with XLibre, but the proposal was withdrawn:
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-XL
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-XLibr

Hyprland plans to launch €5/month premium tier:
news.itsfoss.com/hyprland-prem

Kubuntu 25.10 won't include Xorg session by default:
news.itsfoss.com/kubuntu-25-10

Qt 6.10 will offer session-management-v1 protocol support for Wayland session restore/management, Plasma 6.5 will include clipboard sync support for the built-in RDP server, ability to copy QR code for clipboard items, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Session-

KDE Plasma 6.4.1 released with an effect potentially triggering seizure disabled, text contrast and readability improvements, Discover improvements, bug fixes:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kde-pl

KDE Plasma to get improved initial setup tool:
news.itsfoss.com/kde-new-initi

postmarketOS 25.06 released with Alpine Linux 3.22 base, GNOME Mobile 48, Plasma Mobile 6.3.5, Phosh 0.47.0, and Sxmo 1.17.1, support for more devices, Systemd support, mobile-config-thunderbird:
9to5linux.com/postmarketos-25-

PipeWire 1.4.6 released with option to disable RAOP, improved ALSA plugin, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-6-a

Wine 10.11 released with preparations for NTSYNC support to improve gaming performance, more support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL, bug fixes for several games:
phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.11-R

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KDE Plasma 6.4 released, with revamped UI for Spectacle, per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, new HDR calibration wizard, support for new Wayland protocols, improved KRunner, etc.:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-d

KDE Plasma development will focus on Wayland support, X11 support is only secondary, only critical bugs will be fixed, unless someone pays to fix less critical issues:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-

Flathub reaches 3 billion total downloads:
ostechnix.com/flathub-3-billio

Wine package on Arch becomes pure WoW64, dependency on multilib repository is dropped:
ostechnix.com/arch-linux-wine-

Wine 10.10 released with updated Mono engine, expanded capabilities for generating Windows Runtime metadata in the Windows Interface Definition Language (WIDL) tool, bug fixes for video games, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/

Linux kernel 6.16 RC2 released with driver fixes, bcachefs improvements etc.:
ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-1

NVIDIA 575.64 Linux driver released with a few bug fixes:
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-575.6

XLibre 25.0 released with code clean-ups, new Xnamespace extension, Xnest ported to xcb, fixes for several CVEs, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/XLibre-25.0-

Security fixes for X.Org and XWayland:
phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server
phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.

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LINUX NEWS

Ubuntu 24.10 will reach EOL on July 10, upgrading to 25.04 is recommended:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu

Ubuntu 25.10 (shipping GNOME 49) will remove GNOME X11 session:
9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-que

Linux Mint 20 reached EOL, upgrading to 22 is recommended:
news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20

Linux Mint 22.2 adds out-of-the-box fingerprint authentication support with Fingwit app:
9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-2-

Nitrux drops the Plasma-based NX desktop for Hyprland, due to the discontinuation of Plasma LTS released:
9to5linux.com/nitrux-linux-dro
(It's a bit weird choice that they ditched a full DE for a standalone compositor, which is tiling in fact, and requires editing some config files manually, not sure if DE users want that.)

Kali Linux 2025.2 released with revamped Kali Menu, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 8.3, 13 new tools (including Azurehound, binwalk3, bloodhound-ce-python etc.):
9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-

GNOME 49 Alpha 0 available with preparations for disabling X11 by default:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alp

Sway 1.11 released with explicit sync support, support for the ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 protocols for improved screen capture, support for the alpha-modifier-v1 protocol for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface, etc.:
9to5linux.com/sway-1-11-tiling

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OMG! Ubuntu · Ubuntu 24.10 Support Ends July 10thUbuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole reaches end of life July 10, 2025. All users will need to upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin to continue receiving security updates.