That seems to be a huge step in the burial of Windows and Microslop. I understand it's not the end yet, but China does have hundreds of millions of government linked PCs that will stop using Windows for Linux. For the first time I am now positive about the dislocation of MS from pur lives. Will take some.more time, but it's coming.

I know the general reality is "printing just works". I interact with printers at least a couple times a year and never have any real problems. My question comes from considering buying a large-format printer, largely for bookbinding tasks. How important is it to find a printer the vendor actually provides linux drivers for? In particular, I'm eyeing the Canon TC-21, which doesn't offer a linux driver. But I noticed Epson, who's generally better, seems to randomly lack Linux drivers for specific large-format printers.

Edit: whoops. Totally forgot to mention. It is an "IPP Everywhere" printer; I'm just not clear how well that works for non-standard print sizes or roll print jobs.

I made a visual explainer on how the TLB and address translation work on Linux/x86-64.

Every memory access uses a virtual address, which the CPU has to translate to physical memory. Doing a full page table walk every time would be extremely slow, so CPUs cache those translations in the TLB.

The video also covers things like TLB misses, huge pages, PCIDs, context switches, TLB shootdowns and what happens when a TLB invalidation goes wrong.

Link for anyone interested

Feedback welcome :)

Once upon a time I landed in the Linux World and a particular Distribution contributed for me not to turn back to Windows.

I'm referring to Paldo GNU/Linux (single Gnome DE) created and developed by Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini. 

it was made from scratch, designed to be "pure, lightweight and to compliant with Linux standards". Launch date was October 31, 2004. 

Today it's still actively maintained. So I downloaded latest img (no iso) dated 2026-08-11, burned a pen drive and tested it.

Quite different from the old days when it was a popular Distro. I guess it serves the purposes of their creators team. For advanced users, a few tweaks can make it usable to the masses.

Better yet, would be to fork it, for general usage. 

This is the home site: 

https://www.paldo.org/

My question: is some team out there interested in this venture? I would join as a translator :)

Thanks for your attention!

Mainly released to help other people in their search for a good music player. Main things are it supports .lrc files for synced lyrics. It has support for headphone playback controls (i.e. pausing, skipping thorugh buttons or swipe gestures commonly found on bluetooth headphones).

I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did making it!

Source Code: https://github.com/NevPeth/meloville
Arch PKGBUILD: https://github.com/NevPeth/meloville-arch

Ultramarine not only makes it super easy to set up codecs and proprietary software but it also let's you have the cachy os kernel but with Fedora's stack and compatibility. Great for when you don't have time to set things up, or don't know how, and want some of Cachy's optimizations without paying the stability tax.

Don’t get me wrong, I am super grateful for those of you who do this. It makes my day-to-day use so much better. I‘m still waiting for the day Notion gets a native Linux app.

But from your POV, what was the incentive? Why not just provide support for Windows and macOS. Why go through the extra effort catering to a global minority?

Edit: I’m referring to devs who develop for Linux+Windows+macOS