The Linux moment

You are faced with a time-bound task, and the only available tool to complete the task either doesn’t work on Linux or it’s unsupported, outdated and buggier than a Louisiana evening.

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The reason why it took Slackware 15.0 so long to get released

On Wed, February 2, 22:22:22 UTC, 2022, Patrick Volkerding announced the release of Slackware 15.0. The previous release, Slackware 14.2, was announced on 2016/06/30 so, I’ll leave it up to you to do the math on the time it took between these releases. One can say that it took too long of a development cycle to reach 15.0 from 14.2. Why it took so long?

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Set a random wallpaper at startup in KDE Plasma

I’ve been a Openbox & Xfce user most of my GNU/Linux life. Only recently, I’ve started using KDE Plasma. In Openbox one can easily run a command via its autostart file to set a random wallpaper,

feh --no-fehbg --bg-scale --randomize path/to/the/wallpaper/directory/* &

Xfce makes it even easier as there already is an option to set a random wallpaper at startup in its settings.
In KDE Plasma, I was unable to find any option to set a random wallpaper at the session startup so I came up with a little hack to achieve this.

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