Ryan Brue

@ryanabx
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He/Him. Software Engineer, and open source contributor. I’m mostly known for the Fedora COSMIC spin, and occasionally contributing to COSMIC. I contribute to other random things too.
https://ryanabx.org
Find my stuff at https://github.com/ryanabx (some stuff at https://codeberg.org/ryanabx)
Decided to try the XE KMD on my 12th gen intel laptop, and it does seem to (in exactly one benchmark I've tried) be more performant than the i915 driver that's default for 12th gen intel.

Native COSMIC printer setup and dialog were accepted for GSOC! Big thanks to @till for leading the initiative.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/projects/iYwK7khC

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/projects/vTB6j0HO

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more developers into open source software development.

I'll take decentralized and janky over simple and evil.

It's possible to build #flatpak applications with #buildstream (for example, see Squey(?): https://gitlab.com/squey/squey/-/blob/main/buildstream/app.yml?ref_type=heads)

I think it'd be cool if someone worked on better UX for using buildstream as a Flatpak manifest format.

buildstream/app.yml · main · Squey / Squey · GitLab

Squey is an open-source cross-platform visualization software designed to interactively explore and understand large amounts of tabular data. More information at

GitLab

Fedora 44 will most likely release with COSMIC 1.0.11. Here's each update for each version (F42 is going to be EOL'd next month, upgrade your Fedora if you care about having the newest COSMIC!)

f42: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-f96f936f01

f43: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-888b716e7c

f44: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-f8ab558db6

FEDORA-2026-f96f936f01 — enhancement update for cosmic-applets, cosmic-app-library, & 24 more — Fedora Updates System

management of Fedora Project updates

The latest COSMIC frosted glass WIP.
Can't figure out how to do RDP on a remote computer that I only have SSH access too 😓

I wish qualcomm made a better commitment to open source and linux with their X elite chips, because I can't seem to trust them now that the X2 elite devices are starting to roll out.

This is looking pretty nice for 48GB RAM, and at least in the US it's $1600 which is actually cheaper than most of its competitors, but without Linux it has no value prop for me.

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-zenbook-a16-16-3k-oled-120hz-touch-screen-laptop-copilot-pc-snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-48gb-ram-1tb-ssd-zabriskie-beige/JJGHGSCXZV

I was able to recover individual files, but of course not the directory structure. *sigh*
Going to try to recover it but online they say if it got mounted after the fact it's a toss-up on what can be recovered, and plasma automounts drives for me :(