Small sample size aside, Debian seems to be very popular. Do you think this is attributed to its name recognition, to Ubuntu for legitimizing it, or for an actual perceivable stability?

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This is cool. Apple Music client for Windows and Linux with 100% feature parity. https://cider.sh/

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this is pure software art. running a working linux operating system inside a pdf >> linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf embedded a RISC-V emulator inside a standard document. You don't need a virtual machine, just a PDF reader (working with chrome). - Runs interactively inside the file. - Powered by a tiny RISC-V emulator. - The entire OS fits in just 6MB.

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Interesting 🤔 https://id01t.itch.io/html2linux-pro

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Arch → Nix. That’s one question answered—though I kinda had V pegged as a Gentoo purist personally—but what the people really want to know is: which DE or WM does @vitalik.eth use and why?

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Wine 11… ❝…ships with NTSYNC support, which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming. ❞ https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/

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Waydroid in Linux is the best way to run Android apps on your PC, and it's not close Running Android apps on my PC used to feel wrong, but Linux makes them feel right at home, and it's better than any Windows solution. https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-best-way-run-android-apps-on-pc-until-gaming/

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Was watching a Chris Titus Tech video recently. The one where he reacted to LTT team doing a 30 day Linux challenge. In it he said that for most people new to Linux, he would recommend Bazzite because it's going to just work and it will be hard for them to break in a catastrophic way. I agree completely with this. I'm really leaning towards recommending new folks try atomic distros and flatpaks, and only after they've become familiar with the ways in which Linux is different from Windows/MacOS, should they start branching out to more advanced and potentially risky setups. I really like the looks of: - Bluefin (gnome desktop, mac-like, dev focused) - Aurora (KDE desktop, windows-like, dev focused) - Bazzite (KDE or gnome desktop, gaming focused) - Origami (Cosmic desktop, dev focused) All of these are based on Fedora Atomic but built by other teams. For the official Fedora build, there's Silverblue (gnome), Kinoite (KDE), Atomic Sway, Atomic Budgie, Atomic Cosmic. In my opinion none of these is as compelling as the above alternatives. But they're probably still good options. For Ubuntu purists, there's VanillaOS, which is an atomic ("immutable") distro based on Ubuntu. I even found one distro called ShaniOS which claims to be an Arch-based immutable desktop, but I'm not so sure about that.

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Hot take: if you want to use Cosmic Desktop, you should not use Pop_OS! But instead use Origami, Fedora Cosmic Spin, or CachyOS with Cosmic Desktop. Pop has a pretty long history of bugginess and it’s based on Ubuntu which has a pretty long history of bugginess (especially with respect to graphics cards and system updates) Origami = opinionated, dev-centric Fedora atomic spin with cosmic Fedora cosmic spin is just Fedora but with cosmic instead of Gnome or KDE CachyOS is a polished Arch-based distro with quick and easy setup and one click setup for basically every desktop environment or window manager

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Want to use my Mac mini for music so I’m going back to my laptop but w Linux. Anything better than Ubuntu but still easy to use and lots of packages?

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Colorado Democrats suggest age verification on OS level, including Linux https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025313056352600341

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If you are worried about how something will go when you install it, you can test it before you commit it. https://ostechnix.com/linux-dry-run-flag-guide-beginners/

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The state of Linux music players in 2026 https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/

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This Jellyfin desktop music player app for Linux is making a lot of progress. https://github.com/Fingel/gelly

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