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#Tuba v0.9.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!
✨ Highlights:
- Audio Visualizer
- Accent Colors and other GNOME 47 changes
- Focus Picker
- Account Suggestions for new accounts
- Scheduled & Draft Posts
- Hashtag extraction from posts
- Full emoji reaction support for supported backends
- FediWrapped
- Thread Muting
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As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
https://github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/releases/tag/v0.9.0
Enjoy music from the #fediverse right on your #GNOME desktop via artists on The Indie Beat @indiebeat and Bandwagon @service ... blog post and video coming, but here's a little GNOME Shell extension I made. 🤘🏻 https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7822/the-indie-beat-fediverse-radio/
My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows … to see how it goes | Tom's Hardware
This year brought great improvements to #accessibility in GNOME, including:
• Full accessibility of GNOME Web
• Tons of improvements to Calendar
• Screen reader integration for Notifications
• GTK apps integrated w/Windows & macOS accessibility
• Configure #Orca screen reader from GNOME Settings
• Accessibility from the start on the login screen
Help us reach 1,500 #FriendsOfGNOME so we can focus on accessibility even more in 2026:
postmarketOS in 2025-03 
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* GNOME (Mobile) 48
* 📷 Camera enablement for OnePlus 6, Motorola Moto E5 Plus, Motorola Moto G5s, Xiaomi Redmi (3S, 4 Standard, 4A)
* Generic SM7150 packaging
* @nlnet @NGIZero grant for Collation + i18n support in @musl libc got accepted!
* COSMIC desktop
* systemd service reloading/restarting on upgrade
* Lots of events coming up around the world
* A highly entertaining podcast episode
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/04/09/pmOS-update-2025-03/
SDDM, KDE Plasma, root-on-OpenZFS – simple. On Linux.
Yes, I'll install the theme snaps.
Will I install zectl – a ZFS boot environment manager for Linux? Maybe …
<https://ramsdenj.com/posts/2020-03-18-zectl-zfs-boot-environment-manager-for-linux/> | <https://github.com/johnramsden/zectl>
#SDDM #KDE #Plasma #Debian #Linux #Ubuntu #zectl #ZFS #OpenZFS #Gnome #GDM
I am very twitchy about what's happening with AI polluting every corner of Microsoft Windows and am worried the same will happen to at least some Linux distributions. I think the worry is warranted, but in this case I misfired--sorry about that.
I guess I won't be using GNOME ever again
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-AI-Assistant-1.0
#tech #dev #FOSS #OpenSource #linux #software #GNOME #NoAI #AI
If you’re on Linux, there’s a good chance you use GNOME: it’s the default experience across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora Workstation, Endless OS, and more. If you’re on another desktop, you still likely use components developed by GNOME contributors—or maybe you get apps from Flathub.
Want to become more than just a user? How about… a friend? 🥺 Become a Friend of GNOME to support GNOME, Flathub, and the work we do!
I just learned that COSMIC, product made by a company who refused to collaborate with others, now themes libadwaita apps by default?
So a company that:
- publicly harassed volunteers, and invited harassment on them,
- constantly insults the project run by volunteers for not bending to their (i.e. System76) way,
- lies in every possible occasion,
Just broke their promise to not make app developers' apps look like shit via theming. It's almost 2026 and distros still can't respect app developers.
Access Root Directory in the File Manager GNOME Files (Nautilus)
Improve your understanding of how to access the root directory using the graphical file manager application GNOME Files without the use of a terminal.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/gnome-files-access-root-directory/
Non-systemd operating systems like the BSDs, Devuan, etc...
Do we think there will be some kind of work around in place for Gnome 50?
Has KDE articulated a plan either in favour or not for systemd-only in the future similarly to Gnome?
Xfce stated a direction?
I'm going to guess that Cosmic will always be only systemd.
#GNOME picks of the day:
➡️ @gnome - Official GNOME account in English
➡️ @gnome_br - GNOME in Portuguese
➡️ @haeckerfelix - GNOME developer, foundation member, author of "This Week in GNOME"
➡️ @Tuba - FOSS Fediverse app for GNOME, forked from Tootle
➡️ @WebKitGTK - GTK port of WebKit, official browser engine in GNOME
➡️ @GTK - FOSS cross-platform toolkit for creating GUIs
➡️ @EvolutionGnome - Free open source personal information manager software
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I'm an anarcho-syndicalist non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, is bisexual, from Bergen, Norway, and whose posts automatically delete after seven days regardless of likes or boosts, because I have autism and say random shit sometimes.
I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an anarcho-syndicalist, I encourage you to check out NSF-IAA, the sole remaining anarcho-syndicalist organization in Norway that has been actively upholding these principles since 1916.
I maintain several pages and resource documents related to left-wing Anarchist reading below.
🇬🇧 Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html
🔗 Linktree
https://linktr.ee/p.marg
🏴 For en fri og kjempende arbeiderbevegelse
https://www.nsf-iaa.org
🚩 The Global Anarcho-syndicalist Federation
https://iwa-ait.org
#Linux #FreeSoftware #AntiCapitalism #Anarchism #Syndicalism #Debian #GNOME #KDE #NorskTut #Introduction
Bring Your GNOME Shell to Life with Gnomelets!
Turn a dull GNOME Shell graphical environment into an exciting and active one with a whimsical little desktop toy extension called Gnomelets.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/gnomelets-gnome-shell-extension/
FLOSS #MaintainerLife public service advisory:
If you're filing a potential bug upstream in #GNOME, particularly on rapidly-improving apps like GNOME Calendar, please test the latest version, unmodified by third-parties. #Flatpak helps.
Don't come at me with a 4-years-old version cowboy-patched against our will by #Linux distros like Mint; I will send you downstream, like this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1526#note_2640160
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #bugreporting #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #LTS #GNOMECalendar
Resolve GNOME Shell v49 Failed to Start Gnome-Session-X11
Resolve the frustrating circumstance to the problem where GNOME Shell Display Manager version 49 fails to start unit gnome-session-x11.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/gnome-shell-49-failed-start-session-x11/
Mutter is finally ready to drop X11 backend from #GNOME!