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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
Social Media Recommendations:

The Linux Experiment: Weekly news host for Linux/libre software related news.
Nicco Loves Linux: Developer for KDE who makes interesting videos.
David Revoy: An incredible artist with a cool webcomic, all done with GNU/Linux.
Michael Horn: Makes videos about his various experiences with Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Linux Mint 21.3 Review: solid Wayland support! (invidious.slipfox.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary

Experimental wayland support is introduced which turns out to already well developed but still has some rough edges (no support for gestures, portal/polkit malfunctioning and missing wayland protocols), see video for more details.
Updates to all core Mint apps and introduces an unstable repository nicknamed "Romeo" in the Sources apps for those who want to test out the latest versions of programs.
Various QOL improvements for Mint apps such as bulk renamer and warpinator.
Introduces "Actions" which are context menu buttons that can be customized in the Nemo file manager.
New gestures such as zoom and increased customization.

This update does not change Linux Mint 21.X significantly, but it does set the foundations for an exciting 2024 for the Mint team as they work to rebase Linux Mint 22 on the future Ubuntu LTS 24.04 coming this April. Of which, like Debian 12 last year, will be a massive update and hype train.

Sources:

"So what are you still doing with Windows? Switch to Linux Mint!"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

real linux gatekeeping asshole

"Imagine using arch and not NixOS like a nooooobbb, ewww binary system packages that mutate the systems state. Imagine needing to dive into /etc to edit some files instead of setting a parameter yourself in a version controlled config file. Imagine breaking your system and having to tinker in a rescue kernel to have a chance to see what's wrong instead of automatically generated rollbacks. Imagine not having the most total packages in a repository. Imagine being dethroned as the most difficult distro to master by a project 2 decades in the making. Imagine not knowing what a flake is."

gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss like a true gnu/linux nerd.

But in all seriousness, cinnamon 6 is a really enjoyable update to cinnamon 5 esp. with the revamped Nemo actions, I use Mint and I really find myself enjoying them quite a bit.