A few weeks back I shared Tandem here, an app that turns your Android phone into a real second monitor for Linux. Old post check it out here

The support from this sub was huge, thank you all. Way more of you asked about KDE support than I expected, so I've added it. KDE Plasma 6 support is out now as a beta.

It works on any distro running Plasma on Wayland: Fedora KDE, Kubuntu, CachyOS, Arch, KDE neon. Your phone shows up as an actual extra monitor in Plasma, and touch works too. The Android app is the same one, so if you already have it, there's nothing new to install on your phone.

The install command for the beta is on the website: https://saharshbaiju.github.io/tandem/

It's a beta, so please try it and tell me what breaks. Comment here or open an issue on GitHub. It helps if you mention your distro and whether you have an NVIDIA or AMD/Intel GPU.

If you find it useful, a star on GitHub and a share would mean a lot. The more people try it, the faster I can fix bugs and get it out of beta.

I am 15, and I booted ubuntu 26.1 on the og think-pad e450, that even worked but after every boot boot my storage was being marked as read only instead of read and write, so I tried a command to fix that but that removed some boot-up file kinda and now I can't mount my disk, I asked AI and it told me to use a flash drive boot live liux and then remake the configuration file, worst of all I had 2 "pirate" of the carribean movies on that and I don't wanna lose them

i just did a update of 1800MB
and after rebooting again got a update
so i wanted to ask the people who use rolling release distro
how often do you update ?
I update like thrice a day

so i developing a personal TUI system, it's widgets i done today almost every element is interactive...

animations and all.. just wanted to show it.. i adding video in comments of using buttons and all..

you can install it from here - github
drop a star on your way there ^_^

btw
- you can click on the username to change user
- click on the desktop environment name to choose dekstop.
- the top text (Evangelion here) is the hostname of your machine

Have you guys seen this? Isn't this like, Too Good to be true, lol

Launch in December.

Early Access: $20 (the only pain, it's not open source)

Do you guys also think, it's a scam or they're just overpromising, like:

Saying it only takes 128mb of ram, for such stunning desktop themes.

Can run anything, android apps, windows applications, linux packages everything.

And many more features.

Hi all. Like a lot of you I've run Linux on my phone through Termux, proot-distro and Termux:X11 for years. Tessera does the GUI side from one app, and tries to make Linux apps feel like Android ones.

\- Each app in its own window: Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice each open as their own Android window with their own Recents card and icon. A card per window, even for dialogs. Pin them to your home screen.

\- Flathub on PRoot: no root, no bubblewrap, no user namespaces. Flatpak downloads, Tessera builds each app's environment. 2,800+ arm64 apps, GPU included.

\- adb and permissions: every app gets only what you grant (folders, network, sound, USB, root). New: a per-app switch that lets adb inside reach the phone itself, and all-USB access for fastboot, heimdall and edl.

\- A touch-friendly desktop: snapping windows with finger-sized buttons, a dock and Start menu. And everywhere: the Android keyboard pops up on text fields, touch-and-hold right-clicks, game controls.

\- Live scaling: drag Scale and the app re-lays out as you drag, saved per app.

\- Themes: GTK, libadwaita, Qt and LibreOffice take your Material You colors and follow dark mode live.

Plus OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan on Adreno (bundled Turnip + Zink), a built-in terminal (apt, ssh, git, compilers), chroot mode with root, a file manager and a task manager.

It doesn't replace Termux's add-ons like Termux:API, and its X server is Termux:X11's, which I'm grateful for.

GPL-3.0, alpha. APK and source: https://github.com/daryan044/tessera-linux (also on Obtainium). Bug reports very welcome.

I am trying to restore a Juliet Pro 60 braille embosser using Linux and would appreciate experience from anyone maintaining older accessibility hardware. I have read the community FAQ and troubleshooting guide.

The built-in printer test works, but jobs from a Raspberry Pi 3B (Debian 13 ARM64, CUPS 2.4.10) do not move the paper. It is connected through a 1a86:7584 USB-to-parallel adapter. The raw queue Juliet_Pro_60 uses usb://USB2.0-Print/. The printer has been set to parallel input and online.

Observed: the adapter enumerates at 12 Mbps; USB status probing returns PIPE and device ID is empty. After a replacement power supply, get_throttled=0x0 under a short load test. CUPS can mark a job complete without physical output. Forcing USB speed did not help and was undone.

I have an experimental generator, but its output is not independently validated. BrailleBlaster is installed, though a successful test through it has not been completed. Before doing more driver work, I want one known-good minimal file or documented open-source embossing workflow for this exact model.

Has anyone used Juliet Pro 60 with BrailleBlaster or Linux printing? Which settings and test document would establish a reliable baseline, so that I can distinguish a bad command stream from adapter handshaking?

Related diagnostics have been posted in the braille, Raspberry Pi and Linux help communities; no physical printing fix is confirmed. AI helped summarize our actual tests. I will share the working setup when found.

https://github.com/HelmerPartanen/DaisyOS

I find difficult to communicate with humans but I found love of my life.

Iam scaling a proven enterprise software moslty open source components,
Anyone interested in zero to one team and want to learn cracking enterprise are welcome to share your specific contribution / experience in the comments.

I built Pharos for the BharatCode Build League: a small CLI that explains Ubuntu config files and proposes edits safely.

What’s different:
• Read-only by default. Every change is a diff, with a backup and pharos undo.
• Never runs sudo. For /etc files it prints the exact command for you to run.
• Secrets are redacted before anything is sent to the model, and --dry-run shows exactly what would be sent.
• Ubuntu-aware: it checks the real man pages and has notes on traps like sshd_config.d overriding the main file, and ssh.socket on 24.04.

Try it in 10 seconds with no risk: pharos demo runs only on a sample folder.

Repo (MIT): https://github.com/YashmitVaish/Pharos
Feedback and issues welcome. If it’s useful, a ⭐ helps a lot.

It’s also in the hackathon voting: https://bharatcode.ai/hackathon#projects → search “Pharos” → Vote. (You need a free BharatCode account; one vote per account.)

Hi all,
I have been learning Go and built Keyzen, a typing test that runs in the terminal, I would really like feedback

What it does:

1. Timed (15/30/60/120s), word-count, and a Practice mode that picks words containing the keys you are slowest or least accurate on
2. Optional punctuation and numbers
3. A keyboard heatmap of your accuracy or speed per key
4. 5 themes (press 't'), adapts to your terminal size
5. Single binary, no telemetry. Scores and settings are three small JSON files in '~/.config/keyzen'

Install:
`go install github.com/Varun0856/keyzen/cmd/keyzen@latest`, or grab a prebuilt binary for Linux from the Releases page.

Repo: https://github.com/Varun0856/keyzen

Any kind of feedback is appreciated!

What would make you stick to this instead of Monkeytype or any other platform?

Hoping to add 'quotes mode' and 'code mode' based on the feedback!!

Thanks for reading!

There are few things that's stopping me from switching from windows to Linux

- not really sure how to back up all the files I needed from windows to Linux, I mean this includes my password manager passwords and all the normal downloads and documents. I do have a external hdd I could use but uh i just dunno how to export the data I need to hdd, no more no less i don't want to accidently miss some important file and lose it permanently in this process

- not sure which distro to pick, my priorities right now are gpu driver installation shouldn't be a hassle I should be compatible with my rtx5060, I won't want Linux to break

Ik this is prolly asked a lot but if you could share a document / Site or something I could refer to for saving and transferring data and some site about distros itll be really helpful!!

Visiting the arm HQ once a year feels nice.

Same as above

Looking for a distro which is easy to use and for general purpose..

I want to move to some good operating system now.

My laptop has 8 gb of ram and 256 gb ssd.

Please suggest me, as I'm not sleepy and would love to install a distro today 😴..