Active & updated projects — releases, new features, ongoing work
Desktops, rices, neofetch shares, wallpapers & setups posted across the forum
The goal is simple: make sure the cool stuff you’re all making gets seen. A lot of great projects and beautiful setups quietly scroll off the front page during the week. This thread pulls them back into the light every weekend.
How to get featured
Post your project, tool, script, or self-hosted app in Showcase
Share your desktop, rice, terminal, wallpaper, dotfiles anywhere on the forum..
Reply to your own showcase threads or other forum topics when you ship updates. Those updates get picked up too
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If a weekly roundup overlooks something worth seeing, lets us know by posting about it in our Our Community category or in our private Kernel Lounge > Sudo Room.
A long weekend is the perfect window to spin up a fresh tool, test a new theme, and dial in your desktop until it feels just right.
New in Showcase
Laser - A simple CD ripping application by @andreas
A modern GNOME-first ripper built with GTK4 and Libadwaita that grabs metadata and covers, and rips to AAC, FLAC, MP3, OPUS or WAV so you can move discs to your phone without wrestling a dated UI.
Ts-tools – TimeShift without the baggage by @IronRod
A Bash alternative to Timeshift for headless systems that mirrors its rsync approach and exclusions, so you can take and roll back OS snapshots without pulling in GUI dependencies.
Fs-tools - partition-level backup by @IronRod
A wrapper around fsarchiver that creates full images of selected partitions with a consistent layout, ideal when you want a true block-level capture instead of a file-level backup.
Python TUI/curses exercise: Naval Combat game by @ugnvs
A terminal-based battleship-style game written in Python with curses, cleanly rendered grid play that is easy to clone and hack on for TUI practice.
Anyone here tried SpiralLinux? shared by @hydn
Debian spins focused on sane defaults and usability from the GeckoLinux developer, delivering a clean Debian base with the setup work already done.
Active & Updated
[Go] cert-checker — v1.2 released by @toadie, followed by discussion on adding simpler vs full views and a new config.ini for paths and defaults to streamline usage.
@sgage shared their setup — MATE with a classic top panel plus Plank dock at the bottom, Apps/Places/System alongside Brisk for fast keyboard access.
@andreas shared their setup — Fedora 44 GNOME in a clean, near-stock layout that puts polish before tweaks.
@hydn shared a new 4K wallpaper set — typography, boot‑log and manifesto themed backgrounds that center the community ethos more than the logo.
Got something brewing or a desktop you’re proud of? Drop your projects in Showcase or your rices in the screenshot threads so we can feature them before next Saturday.
This weekend is a great time to grab a new tool, try a leaner workflow, and give your desktop a fresh coat of paint.
New in Showcase
Sway 1.12 Released with HDR10 on Vulkan shared by @hydn
A big release for Wayland tiling fans with HDR10 via the Vulkan renderer, individual window capture, display manager support, and fewer hard blocks on unsupported GPUs.
@Neffscape shared their setup — MATE with Compiz and minimal animations for a smooth, refined look.
@tkn shared their setup — a tidy media center profile that shows off a clean HTPC config.
@ClaudioDC shared their setup — linked the original EndeavourOS Mars artwork on DeviantArt for a crisp wallpaper swap.
Share your own project, update your showcase thread, or drop a rice in the desktop tags so we can feature it before next Saturday.
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A fresh crop of tools and desktops landed this week, perfect for a little tinkering between coffee refills and late-night terminal sessions.
New in Showcase
My sosreport analysis tool project. Looking for feedback by @linuxjedi
A collaborative web and self-hostable analyzer for Linux sosreports that indexes logs, configs, and command outputs at scale; currently Docker-based and Linux-first with encrypted LUKS-backed storage and a shared “case” workflow to speed triage.
Use your NVIDIA GPU’s VRAM as swap space on Linux shared by @hydn
nbd-vram exposes NVIDIA VRAM as a block device so you can experiment with ultra-fast swap for memory-bound workloads, a fun weekend hack if you have spare VRAM to play with.
A free Linux adaptation of NETworkManager shared by @hydn
nmlinux ports the popular BornToBeRoot NETworkManager toolbox to Linux using Python 3 and PySide6, bundling ping, traceroute, port scans, and more into a tidy desktop utility.
Full Circle Magazine #229 shared by @ericmarceau
The new issue covers Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Kubuntu 26.04 LTS with details like GNOME 50’s Wayland-only direction and the removal of Google Drive integration in Files, a concise read if you are eyeing a fresh LTS.
Active & Updated
Rainbow moth (color picker) — the author published the project’s source code on GitHub, so you can audit, fork, or package it alongside your theming toolkit.
Desktops, Rices & Setups
@MarcelStevano shared their setup — stock Ubuntu GNOME with the Noble theme and Crown wallpaper, clean and unmodified.
@hydn shared their setup — Ubuntu LTS terminal view with ESM enabled on a home server.
Have something you built or a desktop you tuned this week? Drop it in Showcase or the desktop threads and it might be featured before next Saturday.
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Active & updated projects — releases, new features, ongoing work
Desktops, rices, neofetch shares, wallpapers & setups posted across the forum
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