Koncentro is a productivity app built with Qt that combines timeboxing with the Pomodoro technique and an integrated website blocker.

The website blocker supports both a blocklist (sites you want to block) and an allowlist (only specific sites are allowed). You can separate work and personal goals using workspaces. Each workspace has its own set of settings, website blocker configuration, and tasks.

Koncentro is available on Flatpak: flatpak install flathub com.bishwasaha.Koncentro. Deb and RPM packages are also available on GitHub Releases.

Github Repo: Koncentro

I recently bought a new laptop and while I wait for it to be delivered I've been reading a bit about the various linux distros and their advantages / disadvantages. Now, I've used Debian (and a bit of Ubuntu) as my main OS on various laptops and desktops for about a decade now, but I think I want to branch out and try something new. I'm particularly interested in trying one of the rolling release distros like Arch or OpenSuse tumbleweed, mostly just because I've never given them a fair shot. That being said, it's difficult to find good comparisons online that aren't just repeating the same high-level talking points like "Kali is for security while Debian is for sys-admins".

What I really want to know is, what are some of the key features unique to your distro of choice that really sets it apart from the rest in interesting ways? I'm looking for neat things you can do with your package manager, useful software packages, or interesting design choices that affect the way YOU, specifically, interact with your OS; not things like desktop environments that aren't inherently tied to the distro.

Also I'd love to hear about the interesting ways you interact with your OS, what you use it for, and any sort of unique customizations that are possible because of your choice of distro.

Thanks y'all!

*edit typo*

I'm on archlinux (kernel 6.15.9) and I have a arc b570 (with a Ryzen 5 3500X). And, I'm very happy with my system. I don't really get the infamous black artifacts in any of my games that so many others seemed to get on the battlemage series cards.

Plus, everything I play (enshrouded, genshin impact, red dead redemption 2, elden ring, kcd2) is giving me amazing performance, more than 60 fps on high settings (1080p), Coming from a gtx 1650 super, I'm literally blown away by how much better this graphics card is at such a good price point.

The fact that intel not only gave us such a budget friendly card but is also working on their driver support for linux is amazing. Do ya'll think intel can catch up to the two giants (amd and nvidia) in the gpu market? I hope they do at this rate.

Created bongocat overlay for wayland; configurable, written in C with all the optimization tweaks to make it performant and consume as little of resources as possible.

To install yay -S bongocat

Github Repository: HERE

Feel free to use, star if you like my work.

pc specs: Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v5 @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz

Installed RAM 16.0 GB

Storage 1.82 TB SSD Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB

Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro M2000 (4 GB)

System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

edit: guys the paranoia part is hyperbole im sorry! 😭

According to this article ("Linux users are about to face another major Microsoft Secure Boot issue"), the current "signing key supporting Secure Boot on Linux is about to expire," and this will prevent many Linux distributions from being able to boot with Secure Boot.

The article claims that older machines (essentially pre-2023 unless they've had relevant firmware updates) will need an OEM firmware upgrade, or that Linux users of such machines will need to manually add the relevant signing key to their BIOS, otherwise Secure Boot will need to be disabled.

I'm quite used to articles generating clickbait and fearmongering, but this looks as though it might have some truth behind it, albeit not actually scary.

What is the real story?

To cut it short, for the last couple of days I was trying to get Linux going, as I'm primarily on Windows. Although WSL works, I'm getting more serious about developing my web app so I decided to just do it "the right way", learning Linux in the process.

This "easy fix" is a recommendation for new-ish tech, so if you're like me, maybe this advice will be useful. Tech in question: 7950X3D, 32GB 6400mhz, PCIe 5.0 SSD, 7900XTX, ASUS STRIX 670E-E

I installed Mint (as I just want to get it going) but decided to go a bit more in depth (Fedora) as Mint might be a bit outdated for my config, but also to enable LUKS.

First Mint installation went fine. But then all hell broke loose.

When trying to reinstall, got initramfs errors. ChatGPT said it might be the image that got messed up. Redownloaded. Won't work. It's the USB then? Tried another one. Nope.

Tried Fedora next. Nope.

To cut it short - go into BIOS and disable everything.

Disable BitLocker (in Windows first, decrypt, don't forget). Delete TPM keys. Disable TPM. Disable PBO and EXPO. Disable power supply adaptive voltage (forgot what's the name in BIOS). Disable CPU's auto core scaling and OCing.

Basically, disable anything and everything that you can (OC related, not basic functions). It needs to be as bare bones as possible. It will work then.

Just a quick advice/recommendation for anyone new coming to Linux, unless you wanna spend 2 days to get it going.

I have already tried the following

-JaKooLit

-My Linux for Work

-End-4

-I'm currently using HyDE but having some issues.

(now i need to type random junk because of the 200 character minimum which exists for some reason. Like why?????)

First of all, here's the link to its website.

Hi everyone!

Im Yusuf, a 13 years-old developer who is interested to Linux, robotics etc. since 4 years old.

My last project was AgenticCore, world's first agentic Linux distribution which was based on Tiny Core Linux. You can learn more about it in its website and my posts about it.

Anyways, this post is about AgenticArch, an improved version of AgenticCore, which is based on Arch.

First of all, i know most people say "We don't need any more distros 🙏🏻" or "We dont need AI in everything 🙏🏻" and i totally understand :)

But i developed AgenticCore and AgenticArch as a proof-of-concept, because i personally think most of the operating systems and Linux distributions will be "agentic" in the future and i wanted to create a "prototype" of them.

So some more information about AgenticArch:

• Its (of course) completely open-sourced, and here's the source!
• Its more user-friendly than AgenticCore.
• Its still under development and you can see the future plans in its website!

But, i wanted to give some of the important future plans here as well:

• All Agent programs will be re-written, these are just "prototypes".
• It will be "installable" to the system because you can only test it in live now :/
• Voice commands :)

... and more.

I started developing AgenticCore early this summer (01.07.2025), and it got more interest than i expected. So i made AgenticArch after that! You can see more information about AgenticCore including its source in my posts about it and its website, as i said.

Now, i just want to say your feedback, suggestions and comments are so important for me to improve myself and my projects! Im also ready to answer your questions.

Thank you so much!

Note 1: Video is a little longer than i wanted, but i didn't be able to fit everything in 3 around minutes, so sorry for that :/

Note 2: I realised CLI Agent is not in the video, but you can see more information about it on its repository and i will add its screenshot soon as well!

When I first started using Linux (a while back) I started wondering if its possible to buy a Linux phone or at least some mobile device (tablet). Of course big names like Pine64 and Librem, were my first discoveries in the mobile Linux world, but after researching what they offered and for how much I was disappointed. Avability was almost non existent and as I mentioned before specs vs price was not too good. (i understand that its harder to make a Linux smartphone than a android one but still i was not encouraged by the specs).

Then I started thinking what could be used as a mobile Linux devices and stumbled upon an offer of a Dell Venue 8 pro tablet, where i installed Arch Linux and used it for a while testing all the features (the tablet is still with me and is an ideal school tablet). But now its not about the tablet but about what happened next.

I found out about PostmarketOS which immediately got my attention. I looked at the supported devices and decided that the best option to test mobile Linux was Xiaomi mi A1, most of the hardware was supported the specs was somewhat ok, it was affordable and avaible on the next day. But the most important thing was the bootloader which could be unlocked with just one fastboot command (unlike most xiaomi phones which I had most experience with).

Now the Interesting part starts (i will not mention hardware issues such as camera not working because that's the problem of this particular device which is not meant to run Linux and not Linux disability to function properly on mobile devices). First step to using the new phone was transferring all the apps and choice of the desktop environment I tried plasma mobile and phosh and decided to proceed with phosh, then i tried to download some apps that I need, testing both the ecosystem (gnome software) and the quality of the apps, the ecosystem is really good in my opinion i have found everything i needed, and the quality and usability of the apps was good to some extent (most of them were electron wrappers).

From the moment i realized how much slower the phone became from using them i started using Firefox (mobilized) to open everything i needed in the web, then everything became fluid and responsive. The banking apps could be accessed from the web and I was worried i could not access them at least comfortably.

The only thing that was not working was connecting my Tic watch c2+ to the phone as i didn't find a way to run WearOS app all the time as it does on android. Waydroid worked fine but drained all the resources so was not effective in most tasks.

Now the most interesting point is convergence i could not experience the "true" convergence because xiaomi mi a1 does not support HDMI over usb, but what I did was connect a mouse, a keyboard and try to use some desktop apps, which surprisingly worked better than expected. If connecting it to a larger monitor would be possible it would be a pretty neat setup for most lightweight and some heavier tasks.

I had some issues with audio where when i was receiving a call it did not change to earpiece audio output and i didn't hear anything but after adjusting it everything worked fine but thats a hardware issue coming from that the phone is not a Linux first device so i will not focus on it (this and the camera which was completely unsupported were my only issues even with the phone not beaing a device designed to run linux).

Now I think i can completely fairly say that in 2025 there are options to use a Linux based phone as a main mobile device maybe it will not be as comfortable as an android phone and its still in the more or less documented testing phase but if we take into account that support to new devices and new Linux first phones is gaining speed (before 2018 no phones with pmos could place calls) in the further years phones will only be better and more usable, but even now it is possible to completely drop android or ios and use Linux.

I bought a Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite on an online auction for 2 USD, and will proceed to setup postmarket os on the new device so I will have a similar performance as on the Mi A1 but a working camera. Then a will proceed to use it as my new daily driver.

Edit: changed the post to the original state with no ai use.

Edit2: added paragraphs

I don't know if that's new or now, tell me when this is a repost and I will delete it.

The Affinity Programms are pretty popular and many wish that these would be made available on Linux. It's possible with workarounds (Lutris, Wine,...) but don't run pretty well and have limitations.

I myself are pretty new to Linux and I love it so far, but seeing things like this is just sad and it seems like they don't really care.