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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes — Now in GNOME 42, it is officially supported, expanding on a concept from elementary OS 6 7. A toggle switch in the new Appearance panel in the core Settings app enables and disables the feature. A lot of work was done in GNOME apps to fix visual dark style bugs. A new transition effect was added (also inspired by elementary) to more elegantly crossfade when the style is switched.
Dark Style Preference · Wiki · GNOME / Initiatives · GitLab
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta — Currently in beta with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the linux-realtime kernel
unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
deb-get — apt-get functionality for .debs published in 3rd party repositories or via direct download
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Release Notes — Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is the culmination of 2 years of continual improvement 😅 to Ubuntu and MATE Desktop. As is tradition, the LTS development cycle has a keen focus on eliminating paper 🧻 cuts 🔪
Linux Downtime – Episode 45 — Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager — In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines...
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland - Phoronix
docker snap unconditionally uses xtables — Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is defaulting to using the GNOME X.Org session rather than Wayland when running the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
GNU’s advanced distro and transactional package manager
10 years of stories behind Guix
clj-nix: Nix helpers for Clojure projects
poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically
home-manager: Manage a user environment using Nix
Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
hercules-ci/arion: Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
NixOS Wiki - Raspberry Pi 4
NixOS aarm64 SD image
nixery.dev
NixOS Challenge - Jupiter Broadcasting GitHub
Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | StrawPoll.com
nixpkgs/make-snap.nix at master
Picture of Welder
GitHub - quickemu-project/quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
wallabag
Breez wallet - Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
breez/breezmobile: Lightning Network mobile client
037d284d2d7e6cec7623 - Amboss Space
pimox7: Proxmox V7 for Raspberry Pi — Pimox is a port of Proxmox to the Raspberry Pi allowing you to build a Proxmox cluster of Rapberry Pi's or even a hybrid cluster of Pis and x86 hardware.
Wimpy’s World

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