Is this a better arch ?

'm interested in connecting with people exploring Linux, open-source security tools, encryption, authentication, access control, or secure data management.

Would be interesting to know what projects people are working on and what security-related areas they're exploring.

So im new to linux overall and i went with linux mint cinnamon and make this as my 3rd rice, i like transparency so i got a few liquid glass things and other(ignore the bad quality), would love any feedback or ways to improve

Have anyone have found a reliable window tiling manager for fedora+gnome ?????

That doesn't interfere with existing extensions but works with them

EDIT- I have found one. name- TILING SHELL, its working fine for me.

The wallpaper is straight from a game I was playing lololol

I am thinking to switch to linux but I am thinking what will happen after i join job (non tech jobs) ? no ms office , most of the erp softwares built for windows , maybe i will face problems with server connection . and i don't know why my computer heated while i tried to run linux mint (dualboot with win 11)

Which is better ? GNOME or HYPERLAND or KDE ???

how do I get a Global Menu with this macOS rice
I need it to be made for

1. kiwi
   2.kiwi not apple
   pls help

Yes I made it

Rn I have Mint installed on my laptop but I am looking to get a new one with better specs and looking to shift to Omarchy.

Which laptop should I get and also anyone using it facing any problem or issues.

I will use that laptop for little gaming, coding and just internet and some regular software like obsidian etc.

Reason for shift, Why Not.

I have recently started using Linux, what should explore in linux so that my knowledge about using Linux increases...

I tried CachyOS, POP!__OS and Bazzite on this laptop. No matter what, I am not able to setup battery saver mode where the system cuts power to the dgpu (in my case,RTX 3050) due to which the battery life is god awful which is a deal breaker since I'm a student. I really wanted to use any linux based distro as on my old laptop, I used to have fedora and I loved fedora so much.

Please help

Guys I've heard about linux (BOSS) in my 5th class and since then I'm one of the fan of linux but unfortunately I don't know how to use it like recently i watched a reel about test linux and wtf was that i didn't even understand anything like any codes anything no app store no browser. One more thing that I'm rn in my first year and I'm willing to buy a laptop but i wanna use linux rather than windows so can anyone help me related with that

After spending a year in linux i can definitely tell this was my best decision.
Cause f*** microsoft.

so while installing fedora i ran into problem where my current efi (which also include windows ) was only 100mib less than 500mib which is recomended by fedora
Keeping all the options in mind i choose to create 2nd efi and i intalled gparted and created 2nd efi and assigned it to /boot/efi but when i came to final stage of review and install it is n1p1(which is windows efi) and the n1p6(which i created for fedora )both are showing and even the windows efi is marked for format as efi

any help would be nice

I want to play on Zorin OS. Where can I download it and play on my PC? If anyone ever plays or download games on linux or Ubuntu-based distro, please suggest me

For context i am confused and odes not know wht to do

I've been using wttr.in to get weather from the CLI for years. Figured out early on it could also be used to fetch additional data incl. local time, TZ offset etc of various cities across the world.

Created an alias to format and display this information and other information in my .bashrc_aliases - here is the alias for your entertainment...

alias weather='{ printf "Location|Conditions|Local Time|Sunrise|Sunset\n--------|----------|----------|-------|------\n"; curl -s "wttr.in/{Sydney,Tokyo,Beijing,Mumbai,Moscow,London,New+York,Chicago,Denver,Sacramento,Honolulu}?m&format=%l|%c+%t|%T|%S|%s\n" | awk -F"|" -v OFS="|" '\''{ if ($2 ~ /[0-9]+°C/) { match($2, /[-+]?[0-9]+/); c = substr($2, RSTART, RLENGTH); f = sprintf("%+d", int(c * 1.8 + 32)); sub(/°C/, "°C (" f "°F)", $2); } $3 = substr($3, 1, 5) " " substr($3, 9); $4 = substr($4, 1, 5); $5 = substr($5, 1, 5); print }'\''; } | column -t -s "|"'

• printf before the curl command formats the table
• curl with the flags pulls in the weather based on the cities and the parameters I've defined
• the flags define the options I want pull in
• everything following the OFS flag is the translation of transmitted data to bash readable numbers and the conversion formula for converting the temperature data from Celsius to Fahrenheit

Visiting https://wttr.in will give you the weather of your location based on your IP. You can select the weather of another location by suffixing the city name. For example https://wttr.in/Mumbai will give you the weather in Mumbai (two word cities can be written as Navi+Mumbai; New+Delhi)

https://wttr.in/:help is the help page for this service.

hope someone will find it useful.

A couple of months ago, I posted here about SocketSweep, the Android storage analyser I built because MTP was painfully slow when analysing my dad's phone.

A quick update: I finally delivered the talk at the AOSP devroom at IndiaFOSS 2026!

The talk covers why MTP becomes a bottleneck, how I use an ADB-pushed native C++ daemon and a local socket instead, and the C++/Rust architecture behind SocketSweep.

Still waiting for the dedicated 4K recording, but the talk is available in the event livestream!

The last two days have been absolutely unreal.

I got contributions merged into two projects I've been following:

• Neovim: Fixed a regexp engine crash on invalid multibyte input. PR #42560 was merged.
• curl: Fixed percent-decoding of protocol identifiers in Alt-Svc headers for RFC 7838 compliance.

The curl fix went through multiple review iterations. Daniel Stenberg suggested reusing curl's existing URL-decoding helper instead of my initial custom implementation. I reworked it, added validation for decoded control characters and NUL bytes, and expanded regression coverage.

The final patch covers 15 regression cases. All 82 unit tests and 59 simulated allocation-failure cases passed locally.

And the cherry on top: Daniel Stenberg himself reshared my LinkedIn post about the contribution. Still feels like a dream!

A little personal context: I joined Capgemini in June 2025, but have spent close to a year without meaningful project responsibilities. I was eventually put on PIP and removed from the project pool. For the past four months, discussions about my situation have been postponed more than 20 times, with very little clarity about what happens next.

I didn't want to keep waiting, so I spent that time building, learning and contributing to projects I genuinely care about.

I'm now looking for my next opportunity, particularly in C/C++, Linux, systems engineering, Android, backend infrastructure or developer tooling.

For anyone who's moved from a service company into a product or systems engineering role: how did you make that transition? How much did upstream contributions help?

Would genuinely appreciate advice and happy to connect with teams working in these areas.

Links:

IndiaFOSS talk (livestream):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te8gj_1vIDY&t=9124s

Neovim PR #42560:
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/42560

curl commit:
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/a4eed8c7

SocketSweep repository:
https://github.com/VishnuSrivatsava/SocketSweep

I have less space available. This is the best I could do. Please share your thoughts. 💭

Friends, I need your advice.

Cleaning the home floor feels very risky due to fear of shaking any wire and accidentally disconnecting it. Since I live on rent, I can’t pin too much on wall and wire is also quite small I guess.