FOSS Weekly #25.26: Torvalds-Gates Showdown, Hyprland Premium, Fedora’s 32-bit Debacle, Xfce Themes and More Linux Stuff

A rare Linux game review from us in video format. There is a text version, too. If you like it, we will cover more indie games that can be played natively on Linux.

💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition

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• Kubuntu also dropping Xorg support.
• Hyprland working on a paid plan and not everyone being happy about it.
• KDE’s new setup tool.
• Void Editor with open source AI to tackle Cursor supermacy.
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux and Open Source News

• Kubuntu is also set to drop Xorg in favor of Wayland. Fedora, Ubuntu and now Kubuntu. I can see more distros following this trend in the near future.
• KDE plans a new setup tool to welcome users after a fresh installation.
• Hyprland is planning to launch a paid premium tier and that decision has led to heated discussion in the communities.
• Murena Find launches as a Qwant-based search engine.
• Zed Editor’s new debugger has arrived with multi-language support.
• Kingfisher is MongoDB’s new open source real-time secrets scanner.

I feel like a mentor 👨‍🏫

Fedora Looks to Completely Ditch 32-bit SupportFedora plans to drop 32-bit packages completely.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Hotmail is a name I haven’t heard in quite some time now. One of our FOSSers is not happy with it.

It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on LinuxWhat do concern trolls and privileged people without visible or invisible disabilities who share or make content about accessibility on Linux being trash without contributing anything to projects have in common? They don’t actually really care about the group they’re defending; they just exploit these victims’ unfortunate situation to fuel hate against groups and projects actually trying to make the world a better place. I never thought I’d be this upset to a point I’d be writing an article about something this sensitive with a clickbait-y title. It’s simultaneously demotivating, unproductive, and infuriating. I’m here writing this post fully knowing that I could have been working on accessibility in GNOME, but really, I’m so tired of having my mood ruined because of privileged people spending at most 5 minutes to write erroneous posts and then pretending to be oblivious when confronted while it takes us 5 months of unpaid work to get a quarter of recognition, let alone acknowledgment, without accounting for the time “wasted” addressing these accusations. This is far from the first time, and it will certainly not be the last.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

Don’t like Cursor’s proprietary nature? You can try Void instead.

Btop++: Linux System Monitoring Tool That is Definitely Better than TopA sleek terminal-based system monitor that gives you detailed insights to your resources and processes.

👷 Homelab and Hardware Corner

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This Simple Change Improved the Performance of My Homelab Running on Raspberry PiMy struggling Raspberry Pi got a performance boost by a small change in the memory configuration.

Abhishek boosted his Raspberry Pi’s performance with this simple tweak. However, this is not a trick you should use often.

✨ Project Highlight

Fedora plans to ditch 32-bit support completely. This will impact Steam and Wine.

Void Editor Is Shaping Up Well: Is it Ready to Take on Cursor and Copilot?Looking for a privacy-first AI code editor? Void’s got you covered.

📽️ Videos I am Creating for You

In the Konsole, you can view file thumbnails. To accomplish this, first enable “Underline files” in a profile you use in Konsole via Menu → Settings → Configure Konsole → Profiles → Your Profile → Edit → Mouse → Miscellaneous → Underline files.

🧩 Quiz Time

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Guess the Shell Built-ins: CrosswordTime to exercise those grey cells and correctly guess these popular shell built-ins in this fun crossword for Linux users.

💡 Quick Handy Tip

Now, perform Menu → Settings → Configure Konsole → Thumbnails → Enable thumbnails generation. Also, set an activation key to hold while hovering your cursor, I used the Shift key to demonstrate below.

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🤣 Meme of the Week

This photo also made me realize how quickly Torvalds has aged in the past few years 😔

🗓️ Tech Trivia

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse Corner

One more fun fact, Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates recently met at a dinner hosted by Microsoft Azure’s CTO, Mark Russinovich.

Hotmail, the final straw. An icy rant from the polar regionsI’m not sure if this rant even belongs to these here pages, but I leave it to a Moderator to correct me and I promise I will stay in line later. Then again – i am seriously p…d off! I’ve had a @hotmail account since they first went online — long before many of you here, brothers and sisters on these pages, were even born. Back then, I was a Windows user, and Hotmail was far better than what my internet provider could offer. We had dial-up modems using landlines, and you still had to physica…

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