The official Discord desktop app supports Linux but it doesn’t make much effort to fit in, which is why alternative clients are popular – not least because they can be themed. Discord GNOME Theme by developer ~ricewind012, is so named because, basically, that’s what it is: a custom theme that restyles Discord to look more…
43 Marcus’s Systems Brief: Linus Torvalds just drew a hard line on AI in the Linux kernel. I break down his exact words, the formal policy that already exists, the Sashiko controversy, and what every developer needs to know about the most divisive topic in open source right now. Linus Torvalds does not stay quiet…
Love your classic retro games? D7VK 2.0 is out now to bring more performance improvements for running retro Direct3D games on Linux. We also just had the DXVK 3.0.2 release to fix up some more modern games. An impressive sounding release with the developer noting in some cases you’ll see a “2x(+) performance increase in…
Sooner or later you will need to grab the entire contents of a file open in Vim, whether to paste a config file into a support ticket, move a script into another editor, or wipe everything and start over. In most editors that is Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+C. Vim does not work that way, and…
Our brains are not meant to be locked in for eight straight hours during a work/school day. That’s not how these little pink sponges work, no matter what hack productivity gurus on YouTube might try to sell you. What works is cutting the friction around your workflow, and staying on top of the mental nerfs…
DistroWatch.com: MODOS Last Update: 2026-07-18 10:22 UTC MODOS is a minimalist Linux distribution featuring the Cinnamon desktop and based on Debian’s “Stable” branch. It is meant to be run as a live Linux system from a USB drive. The distribution also includes a collection of in-house utilities called #DODOS tools. Popularity (hits per day): 12…
This week’s batch of AMDGPU Display Core “DC” updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for Radeon graphics on the Linux desktop. For those wanting to use the modern Apple Studio Display with AMD Radeon graphics on Linux, this week’s AMDGPU DC patches contain an important fix. The Apple…
Bohemia Interactive say DayZ Badlands is the largest expansion so far for the popular open-world zombie survival game. Coming out of the recent Convergence Showcase with some fresh details – we now know it will launch sometime in October and they’ve graced us with a fresh teaser video too. It’s playable on SteamOS / Linux…
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, introducing an experimental preview of a substantially modernized interface for this most popular cross-platform code editor. Instead of adding a new color theme, Microsoft is updating the entire VS Code workbench, improving the visual separation of panels, editor groups, tabs, menus, and toolbars. The Explorer sidebar, editor panes,…
It was discovered that NTFS-3G had a heap buffer overflow when readingcertain NTFS images. A local attacker could possibly use this issue toexecute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-42616) It was discovered that NTFS-3G had multiple heap buffer overflows whenprocessing certain NTFS images. A local attacker could possibly use theseissues to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-42617, CVE-2026-42618,CVE-2026-46569, CVE-2026-46570, CVE-2026-46572,…
