🐧 MX Linux MX-25 Infinity Xfce - Jolly but not too chipper // Dedoimedo
Stefano Marinelli
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@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano
The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #GhostBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.
Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.
FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.
Edit: Corrected errors. GhostBSD, not DragonflyBSD. Thanks @aru
@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano
The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #GhostBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.
Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.
FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.
Edit: Corrected errors. GhostBSD, not DragonflyBSD. Thanks @aru
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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#LinuxMint #XFCE Probably Stupid Questions, please forgive in advance! LOL:
What is this popup called? Is there a way to change contrast on only this one popup without affecting the rest of XFCEs theming?
(Please answer from your own experience/knowledge; do not ask "AI". Also please, if you don't use Mint/XFCE and do not have a useful answer consider boosting instead of posting an unhelpful reply, thank you for being kind!)
#LinuxMint #XFCE Probably Stupid Questions, please forgive in advance! LOL:
What is this popup called? Is there a way to change contrast on only this one popup without affecting the rest of XFCEs theming?
(Please answer from your own experience/knowledge; do not ask "AI". Also please, if you don't use Mint/XFCE and do not have a useful answer consider boosting instead of posting an unhelpful reply, thank you for being kind!)
Stefano Marinelli
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Oh my, the modern web is so bloated/overloaded.
My Thinkpad x260 (Yoga) is dying while playing a Youtube video... let alone dropping a lot of frames.
I know, the CPU is older (i5-6200U) but come on - this is crazy.
I've set the notebook up to play around with #FreeBSD on the desktop some more. Running #Xfce currently and having some dev stuff installed.
#FreeBSD handles the notebook like a champ, everything works... sadly that is not the same for using the web with a modern browser.
720p playbook loads up the CPU at a constant 50/60%.
Well, at least surfing the web is kinda ok... but not great tbh.
Times really have changed... for the worse in some aspects.
I still remember surfing the web back than with a tiny AMD single core CPU - which was more then enough.
Enough ranting.
Oh my, the modern web is so bloated/overloaded.
My Thinkpad x260 (Yoga) is dying while playing a Youtube video... let alone dropping a lot of frames.
I know, the CPU is older (i5-6200U) but come on - this is crazy.
I've set the notebook up to play around with #FreeBSD on the desktop some more. Running #Xfce currently and having some dev stuff installed.
#FreeBSD handles the notebook like a champ, everything works... sadly that is not the same for using the web with a modern browser.
720p playbook loads up the CPU at a constant 50/60%.
Well, at least surfing the web is kinda ok... but not great tbh.
Times really have changed... for the worse in some aspects.
I still remember surfing the web back than with a tiny AMD single core CPU - which was more then enough.
Enough ranting.
Chip Butty
and 1 other
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Hey, folks! @xubuntu needs some help. If you've always wanted to help with an Open Source project, and you're a fan of @xfce and Xubuntu, this would be a great time to start contributing.
Check out @bluesabre's blog post and then check out the Xubuntu contribute page:
https://seand.xyz/blog/2025/10/09/xubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka/
https://xubuntu.org/contribute/
#OpenSource #Xubuntu #Linux #Xfce
Hey, folks! @xubuntu needs some help. If you've always wanted to help with an Open Source project, and you're a fan of @xfce and Xubuntu, this would be a great time to start contributing.
Check out @bluesabre's blog post and then check out the Xubuntu contribute page:
https://seand.xyz/blog/2025/10/09/xubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka/
https://xubuntu.org/contribute/
#OpenSource #Xubuntu #Linux #Xfce
Leo
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🧙♂️💻 Ho riesumato un antico artefatto tecnologico!
Un vecchio laptop HP del 2010, sepolto da ere geologiche di polvere e oblio…
eppure… ⚡ con #Debian 13 Trixie è tornato a vivere!
Non scherzo: parte, naviga, compila e sforna finestre #XFCE come un guerriero ruggente del passato!
Certo, non è che puoi aprire Firefox, Kismet, GIMP e Mastodon tutti insieme come con i miei tre i7… 😅
ma questo vecchio Core 2 Duo ha ritrovato la gloria perduta.
🔥 Resuscitato dal silicio, serve di nuovo la causa del libero software!
🐧 Viva Debian, viva il retro-hardware che non molla mai!
🧙♂️💻 Ho riesumato un antico artefatto tecnologico!
Un vecchio laptop HP del 2010, sepolto da ere geologiche di polvere e oblio…
eppure… ⚡ con #Debian 13 Trixie è tornato a vivere!
Non scherzo: parte, naviga, compila e sforna finestre #XFCE come un guerriero ruggente del passato!
Certo, non è che puoi aprire Firefox, Kismet, GIMP e Mastodon tutti insieme come con i miei tre i7… 😅
ma questo vecchio Core 2 Duo ha ritrovato la gloria perduta.
🔥 Resuscitato dal silicio, serve di nuovo la causa del libero software!
🐧 Viva Debian, viva il retro-hardware che non molla mai!
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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I forced myself to use a #FreeBSD laptop ful-time this week and as a result - *Review Goose* now has great support for Linux and BSD platforms, as well as better Windows support.
The main improvements are auto-starting snixembed when necessary and dynamically generating icons with text: https://github.com/codeGROOVE-dev/goose - now tested with #KDE, #Gnome, #Hyprland and #XFCE
I forced myself to use a #FreeBSD laptop ful-time this week and as a result - *Review Goose* now has great support for Linux and BSD platforms, as well as better Windows support.
The main improvements are auto-starting snixembed when necessary and dynamically generating icons with text: https://github.com/codeGROOVE-dev/goose - now tested with #KDE, #Gnome, #Hyprland and #XFCE
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
and 1 other
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The GAFAM poster campaign library
This page hosts the translations and corresponding resources of the GAFAM poster campaign texts from the group action against GAFAM by @LaQuadrature.
Visit the library: https://library.gafam.info/
#BanWindows #BanMicrosoft #BanGoogle #BanChrome #BanGAFAM #NoGAFAM #Linux
#OpenSource #Firefox #ZenBrowser #FloorpBrowser #Privacy #RegainPrivacy #NoSpy
#Debian #Fedora #LinuxMint #Solus #Ubuntu #Gnome #KDE #Xfce #openSUSE #LibreOffice #FOSS #FLOSS #Environnement #FreeSoftware
Stefano Marinelli
and 1 other
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Just published a detailed write-up on tuning a ThinkPad T480 for power efficiency under FreeBSD 15.0-BETA5.
Achieving 6–8 hours of battery life with full suspend/resume, ZFS, Wi‑Fi, and XFCE.
Read here → https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251109-T480_FreeBSD_Laptop_Efficiency.md
The GAFAM poster campaign library
This page hosts the translations and corresponding resources of the GAFAM poster campaign texts from the group action against GAFAM by @LaQuadrature.
Visit the library: https://library.gafam.info/
#BanWindows #BanMicrosoft #BanGoogle #BanChrome #BanGAFAM #NoGAFAM #Linux
#OpenSource #Firefox #ZenBrowser #FloorpBrowser #Privacy #RegainPrivacy #NoSpy
#Debian #Fedora #LinuxMint #Solus #Ubuntu #Gnome #KDE #Xfce #openSUSE #LibreOffice #FOSS #FLOSS #Environnement #FreeSoftware
Just published a detailed write-up on tuning a ThinkPad T480 for power efficiency under FreeBSD 15.0-BETA5.
Achieving 6–8 hours of battery life with full suspend/resume, ZFS, Wi‑Fi, and XFCE.
Read here → https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251109-T480_FreeBSD_Laptop_Efficiency.md