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Can you guess all the Shell Built-in commands?
- 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.
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- 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.
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This photo also made me realize how quickly Torvalds has aged in the past few years 😔

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

Microsoft was incorporated on June 25, 1981, in the state of Washington, following its founding by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975.

✨ Project Highlight
Spotted this ‘glow bot’ smart AI assistant on Kickstarter. A cool desk companion with a futuristic vibe, only if you have money to spare. It is not open source. I hope someone starts a similar open source project soon, as this is an interesting concept to have customized pixel animation that reacts according to interaction.

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

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I feel like a mentor 👨🏫

🗓️ Tech Trivia
Don’t like Cursor’s proprietary nature? You can try Void instead.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.
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That’s it. Now, when you press Shift
and hover your mouse over a file, a thumbnail will appear!

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Menu → Settings → Configure Konsole → Profiles → Your Profile → Edit → Mouse → Miscellaneous → Underline files
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