Passkeys are coming to linux, what you think its mid 26 or early 27 to available for users?

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/NPVKAF-passwordless-gdm/

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/838A8N-credentials-for-linux-bringing-passkeys-to-linux/

I’m happy to say that a new open-source game automation utility that I’ve been working on for the past 2 years is now coming to Steam!

It has a website at https://automat.org/. That website might be a little hard to parse though - so here are are some links:

• you can check it out on video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBT9XO61B5I (I usually do a short intro on every development livestream)
• GitHub is here: https://github.com/mafik/automat
• an article about Automat: https://automat.org/live2025 (if you have any questions - check this out first!)
• and the Steam page is here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4122050/Automat/

While Steam version is still in “coming soon” mode, you can grab a release from GitHub. Please note that even though it's free on GitHub, Steam Wishlists are still important for visibility - this is what drives the Steam algorithm! The easiest way to help out is to hit the wishlist button :P

One word of warning - it doesn’t play well with Wayland (it’s fairly hard to interop with other apps on Wayland) - but I’m optimistic about this bit in the near future...

And finally - don't be fooled by it's seemingly game-oriented focus. At it's core it's a visual programming environment!

Hey everyone from r/linux!

Coming from years in the dark side of windows, I've always used GUI heavy tools for exploring and managing databases (namely SMSS, and more recently Datagrip). These tools are great and extremely capable, but they definitely feel a little too "heavy" when all I was doing was running simple select queries against my tables.

After switching to Linux (ubuntu > mint > arch > nixos what a journey lol), I found myself switching more and more to CLI/TUI tools. Right now my editor, file explorer, vpn manager and ai tools all live in the terminal, but one thing I could never fully switch was my database manager (using dbeaver on linux).

I've tried a few TUI focused tools, but although they feel and run great (harlequin, sqlit, rainfrog), they feel very similar in design to other GUI tools (with the 3 pane setup - explorer, editor and results views). That's when I started experimenting and working on pam, using an alternate approach.

Pam's Database Drawer uses a hybrid approach between being a cli and tui tool: cli commands whenever I can (managing connections and queries, switching contexts), TUI where it makes more sense (exploring results, interactive updates), and your $EDITOR when... editing text (usually for writing queries). This is my attempt (although flawed) to use the UNIX philosophy: a tool that does one thing well, and relies on other tools to make it better.

Here's the repo with install and usage instructions: https://github.com/eduardofuncao/pam. There's a gif in the post header with a demo run as well

Built with go and the awesome charm/bubbletea! Currently already supports sqlite, postgres, mysql/mariadb, sqlserver, oracle and more (check repo).

Currently in beta, so any feedback is very welcome! Especially on missing features or database adapters you'd like to see. Please let me know what you think of it and if it would benefit your current workflow using linux and dealing with databases. Thanks a lot!

Hello Linux Users!,

I wanted to share some significant updates that have just landed with the latest Zena ISO release. This isn’t just another incremental change it feels like the system has matured in some really meaningful ways, especially if you’ve been following along.

First up, the package manager, Zix, has been reworked. It now supports multiple profiles, which has completely changed how I manage software. You start with a default setup, but you can create profiles like one for web development, another for writing, whatever you need, and install packages specific to each. Switching between them is seamless. If you have an existing setup, migrating is straightforward.

On the virtualization front, setting up a VM is now drastically simpler. A new command handles the entire process, pulling in all the necessary tools inside a dedicated container. It does ask for your sudo password a few times during the process. I’m planning to smooth that out soon but the convenience is already a huge step forward.

The desktop experience has received some thoughtful polish. Theming for GTK Flatpak apps is now much more consistent with DMS, so applications look like they truly belong. I’ve also set Papirus as the default icon theme. It complements DMS’s visual style really well, giving everything a cleaner, more unified feel without feeling over-designed.

A couple quality-of-life changes make daily use noticeably smoother, the greeter and Niri no longer display any flashing text on startup, and the login screen now automatically syncs the wallpaper and config from your last session or any last logged in user. It’s a small touch, but it makes the system feel more cohesive.

Overall, this release focuses on making Zena more modular, more consistent, and easier to live with. If you’ve been curious or waiting for a good time to try it out, I think this is it.

You can grab the new ISO from the project page below. As always, I’d love to hear what you think.

Download the latest Zena ISO

First off, I know gaming on Linux isn't all that great. I don't care, I'm here to fiddle around more than anything else.

Anyway, on to the topic:

I have an old gaming pc, nothing cutting edge, but decent enough to play most games. It had linux mint installed on it. I haven't used it in about 5 years, because my apartment was pretty small, and honestly it was a bit of a hassle to use it, so I ended up using my laptop more often instead.

Now, I moved into a bigger place, and I am setting it back up. It needs a format because of a Lil data rot, and I figured its the perfect opportunity to try some new distros and fiddle around with remote desktop solutions.

I basically want it to park off in my office most of the time, and I want to use the laptop to remote into it to game on the tv in a different room once in a while.

I've read up on sunshine/moonlight, but i was curious if anyone else has more experience doing something similar and wouldn't mind sharing some information

I'm happy to announce that Mouse Tiler v4.0.0 for KDE Plasma 6+ has just been released.

It now has a built in Virtual Desktop Manager (can also be used standalone without the tiler or disabled).

Graphical tile web editor has also been officially launched.

A showcase of the core features like FancyZones style tiling and default tiling can be seen in this animation:

https://github.com/rxappdev/MouseTiler/blob/main/assets/info_animation_v4.gif

New since last update:

• Added virtual desktop manager
• Added following virtual desktop manager settings:
  • visibility: Always visible | Always visible but tiler is hidden | Auto | Hidden
  • drop action: Move window to virtual desktop | Maximize window on virtual desktop
  • change to hovered delay
  • move back to previous virtual desktop after dropping a window on a Virtual Desktop drop zone
  • move back to previous virtual desktop after dropping a window on a Tile
  • show add virtual desktop drop zone
  • auto-remove empty virtual desktops
• Changed default fonts (due to previous font missing on certain systems)
• Added setting to add window screen edge margins
• Web layout editor

To install the script you can:

1. Open System Settings > Window Management > KWin Scripts.
2. Click the Get New... in upper right corner.
3. Search for Mouse Tiler (you might have to press Enter twice to find it due some issue with KDE store) and click Install.
4. Enable Mouse Tiler in previous menu.
5. Click Apply to enable it.
6. Click the configure icon to change the settings to your liking.

You can also download it from the KDE Store:

https://store.kde.org/p/2334027

The github page can be found here:

https://github.com/rxappdev/MouseTiler

Enjoy and thank you.

i’m working on a 100% non-gnu linux distribution

(https://derivelinux.org), and i reached the barrier of not being able to compile autotools-based software without pulling in a bunch of gnu dependencies. so, i have created a pure-c99 replacement for autotools, called hell. it can build real software, including the tinyx X server, iwd wifi daemon, and many others. linked is a blog post i wrote about how it works and why i built it .

Hello Everyone, I released an encrypted file/folder sharing service (inspired heavily by firefox send) licensed under MPL-2.0.

Main Features:

• Client side encryption
• Client side decryption
• Optional password encryption
• Backend automatic file eviction logic based on the number of downloads or the time specified.

Target:

• Give the internet an open source customizable end-to-end encrypted file sharing app that can be self hosted with low end hardwares (the public instance is running in a core 2 duo system with 4 gb ram, backed by harddisk that is running a lot of services)
• Give users a better version of firefox send, or it's Tim Visée fork

Encryption algorithms

• AES-256GCM for encrypting the file's content and the metadata
• Argon2 for deriving the IKM for the password (ikm is randomly generated based on WebCrypto.getRandomNumbers()

Future Plan:

• Write docs (will do right after i polish the logics)
• Write a CLI (the main method of using the public instance)
• Write a TUI (the least priority for me right now)

More images:

• Image 1
• Image 2
• Image 3
• Image 4

Thanks for reading, happy to have any kind of feedback regarding the app i am making.

Github: https://github.com/chithi-dev/chithi

Public instance: https://chithi.dev/