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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 18, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk

   This week we closed the door on features for Plasma 6.6

   New

2. Gemini Growing, Not Google's, the One Predating the Renaming of 'Bard' [original]

   it's never too late to join

   New

3. Security Leftovers

   Security related stuff

4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

   FOSS and more

5. Spidermonkey Development Update and Mozilla Lost Its Way (Says One of Its Original Creators)

   2 updates

6. Standards: Importance of ODF and "How Markdown Took Over the World"

   a pair of blog posts

7. Programming Leftovers

   Development related stuff

8. today's leftovers

   GNU/Linux mostly

9. OpenBSD: Liberating the ASUS CX1100CN Chromebook and More

   OpenBSD updates/views

10. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More

    Hardware related picks

11. Red Hat, Fedora, and Fedora Derivatives

    IBM's stuff and staff

12. Canonical/Ubuntu: NVIDIA, Microsoft Boosting, and Netplan

    Some leftovers regarding Canonical/Ubuntu

13. OpenSUSE: Planet News Roundup, UYUNI, and Tumbleweed Review

    OpenSUSE news

14. Gedit 49.0 Released, This Week in GNOME, and GNOME Foundation Update (by IBM)

    GNOME news

15. today's howtos

    many howtos

16. indiPDF and Other Software for GNU/Linux

    Valnet's list also

17. Microsoft Windows Measured as Down to Just 3.7% "Market Share" in the Bahamas [original]

    Windows fall from 93% to just over 3% in 17 years

18. Why Rust Is Bad [original]

    Linux should avoid Rust for many real reasons

19. Android Leftovers

    A long-absent Gmail feature may finally be coming to Android

20. This new premium Linux laptop has up to 128GB RAM and 16TB storage

    Slimbook has sold PCs with desktop Linux for a while now

21. I found a Linux distro that pairs a clean, Mac-like UI with a 'trade-free' philosophy - and it's super fast

    This Linux distribution can compete with any lightweight OS on the market

22. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    This is free and open source software

23. PelandukOS – Debian-based Linux distribution

    PelandukOS is a desktop Linux distribution based on the Debian testing branch and featuring the GNOME desktop

24. Android Power Users Can Now Run Full Desktop Linux Environments Without Root Access

    This open source app delivers one-tap Arch Linux installation with development tools

25. Games: RIG Riot, Tabulo, No Rest for the Wicked, and More

    latest from GamingOnLinux

26. Budgie Desktop 10.10 is out, but not for me yet :(

    I'm one of a Budgie Desktop user since 2020

27. Linuxiac Still Isn't Linux and BSD News, It's LLM Slop [original]

    This means we still cannot link to anything in Linuxiac

28. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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    2354	/n/2026/01/11/I_replaced_Windows_with_Linux_and_everything_s_going_great.shtml
    2336	/n/2026/01/11/5_Windows_like_Linux_distros_you_should_try_out.shtml
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    2317	/n/2026/01/11/Manjaro_Is_Arch_Linux_for_Newbies.shtml
    2290	/n/2026/01/11/Linux_made_my_old_PC_fast_again_and_it_hasn_t_slowed_down_since.shtml