Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

KDE's Union theming system is almost ready to ship it's first version, this aims to completely change how theming works with KDE, making it far more approachable.

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==========Resources==========
2024 Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVr4fNJoms
Talk Slides: https://conf.kde.org/event/6/contributions/206/attachments/115/145/arjen-hiemstra-akademy2024.pdf
Blog Post 1: https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2025-02/moving-kdes-styling-future
Filip Blog Post: https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/halfway-there-to-6-7-updates-on-oxygen-and-air/
Filip Blog Post 2: https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/the-anti-minimalist-backlash-is-the-bigger-story-behind-oxygens-revival/
Blog Post 2: https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-05/union-spring-2026-update
Plasma SVG Docs: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/theme/theme-svg/
Xkcd 927: https://xkcd.com/927/

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Discord has always been a bit of a mess on Linux and finally it looks like things are actually changing for the better.

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Discord May 2026 Patch Notes: https://discord.com/blog/discord-patch-notes-may-4-2026
Xwayland Video Bridge: https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/xwaylandvideobridge/
GamingOnLinux Article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/looks-like-discord-finally-fixed-linux-screen-and-audio-sharing-with-wayland/
Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1iclq1q/i_heard_discord_fixed_screen_sharing_on_wayland/
Discord Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNfmazmU4o

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#Discord #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS

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We've been having a lot of major vulnerabilities on Linux as of late and recently there was a set of Linux kernel patches to introduce a kill switch that blocks entire functions running.

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==========Resources==========
Cameron Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7SfGoIxbYY
Linux Kernel Patch Set: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Lockdown Docs: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/kernel_lockdown.7.html

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#Linux #LinuxKernel #FOSS #OpenSource

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For the past month or so Fedora Linux has been having a massive discussion around the inclusion of AI in the distro and this has caused a massive split in the community over the direction to take things.

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==========Resources==========
Fedora Hummingbird: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/fedora-hummingbird-linux-brings-agentic-linux-builders
Fedora AI Thread: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-ai-developer-desktop-objective/184941
KDE AI Discussion: discuss.kde.org/t/sorry-to-bring-up-a-contentious-topic-kde-ai-llm-policy/46333/

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Part 2 is a bit late but it's finally time for more of the Linus Tech Tips 30 Day Linux challenge for 2026, part 1 was a little bit rough but I think part 2 addressed a lot of the issues I had with the first part.

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LTT 30 Day Linuc Challenge Pt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK02VOGWEv0

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Recently the craziest Linux terminal I've seen in a while came along, a terminal which supports rendering full 3D graphics within the window. Why would you want this? Why are you asking too many questions?

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Ratty Github: https://github.com/orhun/ratty
Ratty Website: https://ratty-term.org/
Ratty Blog Post: https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-ratty/
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It has taken a long while to get here but it looks like we're very close to having full working HDMI 2.1 support under Linux with AMD GPUs, just in time for HDMI 2.2 to be ready and for the exact same problem to start again.

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HDMI 2.1 Report Thread: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/work_items/1417
2021 Phoronix Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-Closed-Spec-Hurts-Open
Reddit Patches: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1r793et/hdmi_21_frl_looking_for_testers/
Upstream Kernel Patches: https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/[email protected]/
New Phoronix Post: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/open-source-amd-linux/1631149-amd-posts-hdmi-2-1-frl-patches-for-their-amdgpu-linux-driver#post1631154
Newer Kernel Patches: https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/[email protected]/

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Have you ever want to looks like an ultra elite super cool hackerman from the movies, well luckily for you there's an app to help you do exactly that called eDex-UI, sadly it is no longer being maintained, however it still functions perfectly fine.

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eDex-UI Repo: github.com/gitsquared/edex-ui

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GTK2 is a long dead project and at least for now is still basically that, however a Devuan developer is currently in the process of changing that along with forking an old version of GNOME which made use of GTK 2, will this go anywhere, who knows.

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==========Resources==========
GTK2 NG Repo: https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng
Other Related Projects: https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte
Forum Thread: https://devuanusers.com/thread-gtk2-revival-thread--80

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Github is the backbone of the modern development environment but has it become too big to actually function properly, over the past few years we've been seeing more and more outages occurring, the site has become increasingly unpleasant to use and now Ghostty is leaving.

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==========Resources==========
Ghostty Blog Post: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
Unrelated CVE: https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854
Twitter 1: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2043788123008868600
Twitter 2: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2036866220449030168
Twitter 3: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2036925909572469023
Twitter 4: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2036855931569651884
Twitter 5: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2036546464802124182
Github Status: https://www.githubstatus.com/
Better Status: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579

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