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  4. Open Hardware/Modding/Retro: LinuxPDF, Amiga, and Raspberry Pi
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  8. Games: Banning Steam Deck Users and Classic Video Game ("Prince of Persia") Helped Spread Linux
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  9. Security, FUD, and Scams
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  10. today's howtos
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  11. Games: MOO List, Godot 4.4 Beta 3, and More
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  12. New Releases of EasyOS: Version 6.6.2 of EasyOS Daedalus-series and of EasyOS Scarthgap-series
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  13. today's leftovers
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  14. Windows TCO Leftovers
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  15. Android Leftovers
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  17. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Support is Coming To An End
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  18. Free and Open Source Software
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  19. Snal Linux – Arch based live distribution
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  20. This Week in Plasma: Final Plasma 6.3 Polishing
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  21. This Week in GNOME: #186 Media Parsing
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 31 to February 07
  22. Slimbook Titan report 5 - The mojo has returned ...
    I will address all sorts of different aspects of everyday usage, including gaming, which is one of the major blockers for leaving Windows and its silliness behind
  23. Games: Everwarder, A Game About Digging A Hole, Cast n Chill, and More
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  24. The year of the Linux desktop has arrived
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  25. Security Leftovers
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  26. Programming Leftovers
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  29. Open Hardware: Pimoroni, Arduino, Fairphone
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  30. Today in Techrights
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    566 /n/2025/02/03/I_Tried_the_Ghostty_Terminal_on_Linux_Does_It_Live_Up_to_Its_Hy.shtml

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