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I Use Linux. I’m Tired of Making Excuses for It.

October 16, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog

Linux desktop frustrations persist, from missing apps to gaming restrictions. Five problems we should stop dismissing or excusing.

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Linux Will Never Succeed on the Desktop Until It Stops Expecting Users to Be Experts

October 8, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog

Linux can be easy to use, yet newcomers are still expected to master terminal commands. Is the desktop held back by its own community?

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Wayland Has Won, But It Hasn’t Replaced Everything X11 Did

October 2, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog, Desktop

Wayland has won the Linux desktop, but remote access, automation and accessibility can still be harder than under X11.

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LinuxLinks Policy on AI-Heavy Software Projects

September 30, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

We explain why AI-heavy open source projects rarely feature on LinuxLinks and the standards software must meet before we recommend it.

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Linux Distributions

Linux Has Too Many Distributions – And Most New Ones Don’t Need to Exist

September 26, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog

One of Linux’s greatest strengths is choice. It is also one of its easiest excuses.

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“Linux Supported” Is One of the Most Misleading Claims in PC Hardware

September 20, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog

Why Linux compatibility is not the same as Linux support, and why manufacturers need to be clearer about what their hardware actually supports.

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Why A 50 TOPS NPU Is Almost Completely Useless

September 17, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog

50 TOPS sounds impressive, but for most PC users, especially on Linux, today’s NPUs still have remarkably little practical use.

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Machine Learning

If AI Wrote Your Code, Just Say So

September 11, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog

If AI plays a major role in developing open source software, users and contributors deserve to know. Transparency should include AI use.

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Why Linux Projects Need Dedicated Servers

August 22, 2026 John O'Donnell Blog

Slow builds and shared hosting are costing Linux projects contributors. Here’s why dedicated servers are a must-have.

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Hypervisors

Why Large Enterprises Are Reassessing Infrastructure Standardization After VMware Licensing Changes

August 12, 2026 John O'Donnell Blog

Rethink VMware standardization after VMware licensing changes. Discover how Sangfor HCI helps reduce vendor lock-in, control costs, and simplify IT operations.

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Blog Applications

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Blog Software

August 4, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

Weblog software (also known as blog software or blogware) enables users to maintain an ongoing chronicle of information on a website.

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Web Content Management Systems

11 Best Free and Open Source Flat File Content Management Systems

June 21, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Roundup, Web Apps

A flat file CMS stores content as flat files, instead of storing in a database. We capture our recommendations.

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Why I moved over to CachyOS from Manjaro

May 7, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog, Opinion

Here are some of the reasons why Scott decided to switch from Manjaro to CachyOS.

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Developer of the Week

Developer of the Week: Greg Kroah-Hartman

April 26, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer best known as the maintainer of the Linux stable kernel branch.

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Developer of the Week

Developer of the Week: Wim Taymans

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

Wim Taymans is a Belgian Linux multimedia developer.

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Developer of the Week

Developer of the Week: Matthias Ettrich

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

Matthias Ettrich, born on 14 June 1972, is a German computer scientist who founded the KDE and LyX projects.

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Developer of the Week

Developer of the Week: Lennart Poettering

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

Lennart Poettering is one of the most consequential, polarizing, and prolific open source developers of the Linux era.

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Developer of the Week

Developer of the Week: Arun Prakash Jana

March 29, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

Arun Prakash Jana, better known on GitHub as jarun, represents a strain of open source development that feels increasingly rare.

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Developer of the Week

Developer of the Week: Matthew Forrester Wolffe

March 22, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

Matthew Forrester Wolffe has one of those GitHub profiles that immediately caught my attention.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Configuring Ubuntu 25.10

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

In this article in this series I look at configuring one of the most widely used Linux distributions on the Chuwi laptop.

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