Unix recap for week 3/2025

From 13/1/2025 to 19/1/2025

Articles #

• Suicide Linux: Package that wipes your drive if you commit a syntax error 627 comments in 6 discussions

• Nvidia drivers are holding back a widespread SteamOS release, "most people wouldn’t have a good experience" 492 comments in 2 discussions

• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts 438 comments in 3 discussions

• Intel and NVIDIA drivers holding back a public SteamOS release, Valve not trying to compete with Windows 302 comments in 2 discussions

• Newpipe has been ported to Linux, using the Android Translation Layer ("an unofficial and experimental Flatpak build") 229 comments in 3 discussions

• Linux on A7-A8X 213 comments in 2 discussions

• Some things to expect regarding the Linux kernel in 2025 182 comments in 2 discussions

• Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock 148 comments in 2 discussions

• Downtown Doug Brown » Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 9) 148 comments in 2 discussions

• VLC media player will soon offer AI-generated subtitles in multiple languages 142 comments in 1 discussion

• Unusual warning from Nvidia repository 141 comments in 14 discussions

• Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers 118 comments in 3 discussions

• Apple’s CUPS Printing System Vulnerable to Spoofing Attacks 109 comments in 2 discussions

• Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver 109 comments in 3 discussions

• The surprising struggle to get a UNIX Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++ 105 comments in 3 discussions

Projects #

• dinit: Service monitoring / "init" system 106 comments in 3 discussions

• About A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming 16 comments in 1 discussion

• Star Rail stopped workingin Anime Games Launcher (PopOS) 12 comments in 1 discussion

• Shimeji for wayland 9 comments in 1 discussion

• bullshit(1) rewrite in Go 4 comments in 1 discussion

• I wanna present {readmefetch}: a GitHub Actions script written in Python that generates a neofetch-like README for you! Now you can spam neofetch and flex on your GitHub stats instead of just your Arch (btw) installation 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Hi fellow lispers! I've created a Devcontainers feature that installs Roswell into your devcontainer based on Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat/centos/almalinux or Alpine. You can specify CL implementation, install Ultralisp, switch Quicklisp version and other tools. Lem support is next. 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Alienware command center for dell G15 and G16 Series for linux 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Trivalent – A Hardened Chromium for Desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium

• isd (interactive systemd) — a better way to work with systemd units

Videos #

• Apex Legends hacked again after Linux ban 167 comments in 1 discussion

• NTSYNC Takes Linux Gaming To New Heights 69 comments in 1 discussion

• Windows vs Linux Performance on 7900 XTX Garuda vs CachyOS vs Windows 11... 56 comments in 1 discussion

• Indiana Jones and the great circle running on an AMD Vega 56 graphics card by thanks to RADV emulated ray tracing (not possible on windows) 36 comments in 1 discussion

• Gnome 48 improves input handling in Wayland 33 comments in 1 discussion

• The Mecha Comet was definitely one of the coolest devices shown at CES! It's a little handheld linux computer and even has ethernet. 33 comments in 1 discussion

• I was wrong about Debian! 30 comments in 1 discussion