If Current Trends Continue, Linux Will be a Dominant OS in ~10 Years

https://logicalerzor.codeberg.page/blog/linux-desktop-growth-trajectory/

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The contented penguin had to be overweight like it had eaten a bucketful of herring, as the only other kind of happy penguin is one that has ‘just gotten laid,’ reasoned the Linux supremo.

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Local Privilege Escalation "Dirty Frag" made public

• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/linux-kernel-dirty-frag-lpe-exploit.html
• https://safecomputing.umich.edu/security-alerts/linux-kernel-vulnerability-%E2%80%9Cdirty-frag%E2%80%9D
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-dirty-frag-zero-day-with-poc-exploit-gives-root-privileges/

[Solved, see explanation by @Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone below.]

I have the same version of Ubuntu (really Kubuntu) installed on two laptops, and also the same programs (debs, flatpaks, some snap) on both; they are almost mirrors.

Today I noticed that the .local/share/flatpak/ directory in one laptop has the following subfolders:

• db
• repo

while the homologous directory in the other laptop has these:

• db
• repo
• appstream
• app
• runtime
• exports

I'm just curious: does anyone know what the extra directories in the second laptop are about? The only difference in the flatpaks between the two laptops is with the GPUs: the first has Nvidia, Mesa, Intel; the second only Mesa and Intel (so I would be expecting more directories in the first than in the second, if any...).

Cheers!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/uncommon/p/1089778/linux-is-actually-very-vulnerable-to-exploits-and-it-s-showing-with-high-value-vulnerabi

I hate when people keep repeating the myth that Linux is more secure than X OS without any understanding of how much Linux gets exploited.

On the other hand, FreeBSD rarely suffers from wide security issues.

Overall, I don't think anyone should repeat the myth that Linux is secure.

And at least if they gonna recommend Linux, they better recommend a good distro with SeLinux, hardened kernel and hardened OS.

Star Labs Systems, a UK-based Linux hardware startup, has finally launched the StarFighter laptop — a high-performance laptop built with premium materials and designed primarily to run a Linux operating system.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/35040937

Hello can anyone recommend some software for Linux that I can use to import audio recordings and videos and organize them while hopefully detecting duplicates and ignoring those.

I've been using darktable for a good while now for photography management and editing but sort of stopped hitting the record button on my camera because I know darktable doesn't import video.

I know digikam can sort of work with video files to import and organize as well as photo rapid downloaded. Photo rapid downloaded is pretty good from when I used to use it before moving to bazzite and was unable to get it to work. Now I'm on cachyOS but didn't have any luck getting it to work either. It also didn't do audio from what I remember.

But I'm also going to be recording audio with my field recorder and wonder if there's maybe another option where I can dump audio, video from my camera and my cars dash cam as well

Translation: Break Free from the Windows Trap Here's how: Bypass limits, use micropatches, use Linux as an alternative

I mean, there's only so many, right? At some point they're gonna run out.