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    Definitely something to stare at and think about

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  2. Recent Videos About GNU/Linux
    recently via Invidious
  3. Security Leftovers
    Security related news
  4. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  5. BSD and Linux Kernel Space
    kernel level stuff
  6. KDE: Krita Has Issues With Wayland, "Building and Using the OMEMO Sync Client"
    KDE development news/updates
  7. FSF / Software Freedom: LibreLocal, Music Streaming Setup, and "Made in EU"
    Moving to Free/Freedom
  8. "I am starting to prefer being in Linux than being in macOS."
    macOS vs GNU/Linux
  9. Porting Super Mario 64 To The Original Nintendo DS and Nintendo Getting Aggressive
    Nintendo and GNU/Linux
  10. This Week in GNOME, Rudra, and Boycotting Microsoft GitHub (Slop Hub)
    GNOME news
  11. Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code and Hacking Workshop for March 2026
    Some coding venues/initiatives
  12. Content Management Systems (CMSs): WordPress 7.0 Beta 1, Kiwi TCMS, Bluehost
    CMS leftovers
  13. Tumbleweed/OpenSUSE Leftovers/Outline
    OpenSUSE picks
  14. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    some of it fluff though
  15. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, 3D Printing, ESP32, and More
    Hardware picks
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Development with Python and more
  17. Users are ditching Windows for Linux. Here’s why
    Google Trends data as of February 2026 reveals that interest in the keyword "How to install Linux" has reached an all-time high
  18. Applications: Ghostty, Diffoscope, and More
    software news and raves
  19. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  20. Android Leftovers
    ONLYOFFICE Documents Review: A Powerful Free Alternative to Microsoft Office on Android
  21. I waited years for Windows updates to get exciting. Linux did it in six months
    I think the last time I felt excited over a Windows update was the Creators Update back in 2017
  22. I tried Mint, Kubuntu, and Debian — here’s what actually matters for Windows refugees
    Kubuntu is either brilliant or broken
  23. Ubuntu 26.04 is replacing its classic tools, and I actually prefer the new ones
    Ubuntu is a great distro, even for first-time Linux users
  24. Web Browsers/Web Servers: Cache Busting, Letting Go Of The Old Web, and The Dillo Appreciation Post
    FOSS and the Web
  25. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  26. Games: Snacktorio, Lexispell, and More
    new from GamingOnLinux
  27. This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here!
    This week we released Plasma 6.6! So far it’s getting great reviews, even on Phoronix
  28. Ubuntu kernel 6.8.0-100-generic has buggy networking
    I run roughly two dozen Linux virtual machines
  29. You can control your Linux PC from your Android phone - here's how
    There's no limit to the cool things you can do with KDE Connect
  30. "GNU Linux-libre turns 18 tonight" [original]
    "before that, every distro that wanted to respect its users' freedom had to remove itself all of the binary blobs that were distributed as part of the kernel Linux's so-called sources"
  31. Today in Techrights
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