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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 17, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. The Linux Tax is real—and it's holding desktop Linux back

   There's a famous quote that Jamie Zawinski that goes "...Linux is only free if your time has no value

2. Half of Red Hat's Latest Official Pages Are Promotion of Slop Plagiarism (IBM's Agenda)

   latest in redhat.com

3. Windows vs. Linux gaming: Test reveals clear winner, but community disagrees

   Linux has evolved into a serious alternative for PC gamers in recent years

4. GNU/Linux on More Than 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Israel, Based on statCounter [original]

   Windows continues to fall

5. Three Years, Three Americans Conniving Against Us [original]

   It didn't work. It never worked.

6. Linux Associated With Ads, Fake Currencies, Some Graphics News

   kernel and more

   New

7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers

   FOSS and more

8. WordPress 7.1 Beta is Out, But WordPress Has Become Slop-ware

   WordPress picks

9. Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers Leftovers

   Mozilla, Abuse, and More

10. Programming Leftovers

    Development picks

11. Proprietary Linux or Non-free (Proprietary) Things on GNU/Linux

    Linux leftovers

12. Graphics and Games: Torvalds Versus NVIDIA, Weston 16.0, and More

    misc. links

13. FreeBSD Makes a Point or Takes Stance Against Reciprocal Licensing

    FreeBSD showing its true colours

14. Operating Systems: A Look Back at Plan 9, Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth Handling

    oddball OSes

15. Linux Devices/Open Hardware/Modding: 3D Printer, Adafruit, and More

    hardware projects mostly

16. KDE: Akademy 2026 Program and digiKam for Natural Language Search

    KDE picks

17. GNOME: Report on Crosswords 0.3.18 and GNOME OS Tip

    GNOME picks

18. today's howtos

    only a few more for now

19. Debian: DebConf26, dpkg, Freexian, and "final release of Debian on x86-32"

    Debian leftovers

20. Security Leftovers

    Security picks

21. "Linux" Brand Tarnished by Slop, "Linux" Foundation (LF) Gets Paid to Muddy the Water/Linux Mark

    Slopfarms and more slop-promoting junk for LF

22. UEFI 'Secure Boot' is Not Security, Another Farce Demonstrated This Week

    2 picks

23. Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation) Promote Slop Plagiarism, Proprietary Microsoft GitHub, and CoC

    really sad

24. FSF Fundraiser Extended, Free Software Directory Meetings Planned

    FSF news

25. Sixty Days [original]

    In less than 60 days from now this laptop will reach 1,000 days of uptime

26. statCounter Reckons Over a Quarter of Laptops/Desktops in Yemen Run GNU/Linux [original]

    It's hard to tell why so many people there move to GNU/Linux but understandable that not many people purchase a new PC with Windows preloaded

27. Android Leftovers

    Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe

28. This one tweak made my Linux PC closer to a Steam machine

    Part of what makes SteamOS feel polished is its controller-first Game Mode UI, first popularized on the Steam Deck

29. From Days to Hours: IPFire's RISC-V Builds Get a Real Machine

    Despite these smaller issues, our Milk-V Jupiter 2 has now been added to our build system for IPFire 2 and it has started to compile the nightly builds

30. Free and Open Source Software, Benchmark, and Review

    This is a new series looking at the Beelink EQi Core 3 304 mini PC running Linux

31. Programming Leftovers

    Development related news and views

32. Games: PSP, Gaming Diary, Medieval Tournaments, GOG, and GNU/Linux

    today's gaming picks

33. Android Leftovers

    I found this Android Auto feature so useful it made me switch from CarPlay

34. Pickford's Error [original]

    Maybe in 2030 England will bring home an international trophy

35. I switched to COSMIC and discovered the dual-monitor workspace feature KDE should have shipped with

    So I've been caught up on the COSMIC hype train. I've been a loyal KDE user for about a year now

36. I removed GNOME and my laptop battery lasted 40 minutes longer — this is what I replaced it with

    There’s a common misconception that battery life on Linux is far superior to that of Windows

37. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    today's leftovers

38. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software / Programming / Standards Leftovers

    FOSS and more

39. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

40. Kubuntu 24.04 has finally become really neat

    Here's a somewhat sad philosophical question: how long does it take for Ubuntu-based LTS to truly become LTS stable

41. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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