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Every Linux speed test I tried was broken, browser-bound, or phoning home. So I built one. Fast, native GTK4, four live-working backends (Cloudflare, Ookla, M-Lab, LibreSpeed with a built-in server picker), zero tracking — installs on any distro with one command.
Avro Phonetic for Linux had a 14-year-old bug that broke the Left Shift key, and Wayland broke input switching entirely. I forked it, fixed the Shift bug, ported the install to GNOME 50+ and KDE Plasma 6, built a GTK4 manager, and shipped it as `ibus-avro-fixed` — one install for both desktops.
I bought a $10 USB fingerprint scanner for my Linux desktop and discovered it was not supported. So I built an open-source installer with a GTK4 GUI that makes it work across Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and more.