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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Snake on an RGB keyboard! (www.youtube.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by Kraiden@kbin.earth to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Don't know if this is really the right place for this, but I can't imagine trying to do this on windows! Not saying it couldn't be done, but I wouldn't know where to start

I got a new laptop with a backlit RGB keyboard, but no capslock, numlock indicators. I figured I could solve that by just setting the backlight of the key if capslock is enabled. I got that working, but that's boring.

While I was doing that I realised that I was baaaasically working with a 20x6 LED display sooooo...

Behold! Playing snake on my laptop!

Source code is very specifically for my Kfocus M2 Gen 5, which I believe is just a branded Schenker KEY 17 Pro (M24)

Having said that, it could be adapted to other keyboards fairly easily:

https://gist.github.com/Kraiden/5393bc30f4c29d8b8dd51b4c21c0c829

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 9 hours ago

Great work, and a great example of because I can!

[–] haerrii 5 points 10 hours ago

That's the stuff we need open source operating systems for, very nice!

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 6 points 13 hours ago

Very cool