Being an old school user who was very dependant on RSS feeds to keep me updated on my favourite subjects, I spent a lot of time looking for something that could do this in 2024. Surprisingly, I found a tool called "NewsFlash" which looks like it was tailored exactly for people like me, people who can't live without Slashdot, TheHackerNews and TechCrunch!
I am currently daily-driving Linux Manjaro for more than two years on my personal laptop (while unfortunately I have to work on a Win11 system for my regular job) and, being based on Arch Linux, the cutting edge community-driven Linux distribution, Manjaro is able to provide the latest and greatest opensource (and sometimes proprietary) software via its default repositories. You don't even have to do anything "geeky" to install NewsFlash (or any other package in the repositories) since the Pamac Software Manager is really becoming easy and powerful at the same time!
This is NewsFlash, very simple and easy to use GUI RSS feed Reader designed for the Gnome desktop environment (but works well with KDE too, and I guess, with Window Managers like Qtile and Dwm) and it doesn't require from you that you provide your RSS links, since it can suggest the most popular ones based on categories.
Perfect? No. I experienced some crashes with it in the first days, but I can't reproduce them now, may be because it is related to a network issue (I assume), but this app is really doing its job and saves me the time and effort to check websites one by one.
Check it out also on Github, it is written in Rust and if you like this kind of projects, this app's source code could be very useful for someone wanting to learn how to handle feeds, XML, network programming and GUI programming in Rust.
8/10, with more enhancements it could become the standard app for something disappearing slowly which is RSS.
PS: if you know any other useful RSS feeds, feel free to suggest them for me, thanks!
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