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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21161182

Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always come with a major migration have been ironed out, and it’s time to start delivering on the promises of the new Qt 6 and Wayland technology platforms that Plasma is built on top of.

Plasma 6.2 includes a smorgasbord of new features for users of drawing tablets. It implements more complete support for the Wayland color management protocol, and enables it by default. There is also improved brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance. A new tone mapping feature built into Plasma’s KWin compositor will help improve the look of images with a brightness or set of colors greater than what the screen can display, thus reducing the “blown out” look such images can otherwise exhibit.

When it comes to power management You can now override misbehaving applications that block the system from going to sleep or locking the screen (and thus prevent saving power), and you can also adjust the brightness of each connected monitor machine separately.

Plasma’s built-in app store and software management tool, Discover, now supports PostmarketOS packages for your mobile devices, helps you write better reviews of apps, and presents apps’ license information more accurately.

In Plasma 6.2, KDE have overhauled System Settings’ Accessibility page and added colorblindness filters. They've also added support for the full “sticky keys” feature on Wayland.

This and more in full anounncement and changelog.

ZLUDA is a compatibility layer for Nividia’s CUDA on other processors

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/21374246

What's new in this release:

• Initial support for user32 data structures in shared memory.
• Mono engine updated to version 9.2.0.
• Rewrite of the CMD.EXE engine.
• Fixed handling of async I/O status in new WoW64 mode.
• Various bug fixes.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/20674426

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.11

Release notes

The Wine development release 9.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• C++ exception handling on ARM platforms.
• More DPI Awareness support improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

Hello I'm a total Linux noob. As in I downloaded Fedora 40 (Nobara) and I can use it to game, do office work, Discord, etc. but some pieces of software i.e. Sunshine (remote desktop) are pretty tough to unterstand. Can anybody pls help me? I downloaded it from flathub but I can't make it work...

This release fixes the following bugs:

• Capture device status changes when in bootloader mode
• Change the systemd SystemCallFilter to an allowlist
• Detect when a CCGX dock forbids downgrade
• Do not add an overly-generic instance ID to CrosEC devices
• Do not read OptionROM verification data on Apple hardware
• Emit a signal when a user-request is no longer valid
• Fix a potential crash when parsing invalid CBOR data
• Properly show SPDX project licenses with AND as a delimiter
• Verify that syscalls are being filtered correctly at startup

This release adds support for the following hardware:

• Asus DC201
• Realtek Gen1 RTS541x

An old grudge: i actually love KDE Plasma, but rely on a plethora of remote Samba shares for work.

Gnome/gvfs makes it so easy to integrate them in the file picker/nautilus and performance is great. On KDE kio (or whatever that is called now) always caches a copy first, which takes forever and prevents many applications from writing to the files correctly.

I'd love to be using KDE again. Is there anything I can do to get better/faster/more reliable samba access?

Up to date fedora-toolbox OCI images must be published on registry.fedoraproject.org as release-blocking deliverables, and there must be release-blocking test criteria to ensure usable toolbox RPMs.

There are packages and source code on their homepage and in the Ubuntu repo. I need basic print and basic scan to work out of the box on any OS including Linux, more or less. I can install drivers, but I have a bad feeling when proprietary drivers are required. Often vendors don't maintain them very well. (Contrary to popular opinion, HP has always worked for me.)

I want a scanner, the old one is broken. I don't need a color printer or inkjet, but I have little space, so I want something reasonably compact and consumer inkjet combo devices fullfill this.

I like the ecotank design, no stupid and overpriced cartridges.

The latest from Statcounter shows:

• January - 2.91%
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• April - 2.83%
• May - 2.7%
• June - 3.07%
• July - 3.12%
• August - 3.18%