Dalmation

Take that back apparently Manjaro let their SSL certificates expire again and this led me to go back to vanilla Arch

I have no issue with Manjaro it's really only the team I have issues with when it comes to questionable practices especially since they aren't learning from their past mistakes

Cannot wait and interesting enough after I just installed and moved to Manjaro in a VM as I got tired of vanilla Arch breaking my packages they have now moved to 6.18 for the latest LTS (6.19 for the default kernel) and funny enough vanilla Arch is still on 6.18 and 6.12 LTS

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate - 9to5Linux Linus Torvalds announced the availability of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel series for public testing.

Linus Torvalds Announces First #Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate 9to5linux.com/linus-torval...

#OpenSource

LibreOffice 25.8.5 has arrived - TDF Community Blog Berlin, 19 February 2026 – LibreOffice 25.8.5, the fifth update to the FOSS office suite [1] developed by volunteers for personal productivity in office environments on Windows, MacOS and Linux, has l...

blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02...

For those asking about the optional update for those in the Canary channel

It is 27H2 for Windows 11 as confirmed as the next feature update after 26H2
Remember that with Canary these are experimental builds that focus on what's ahead for Windows in the distant future

Microsoft announces new ESU programs for more versions of Windows Microsoft puts a $61 price tag on extended Windows security as more aging versions race toward the end of support.

Microsoft puts a $61 price tag on extended Windows security as more aging versions race toward the end of support. #Microsoft #Windows10 #ESU

LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in LibreOffice is expanding its line of attack, now targeting OnlyOffice, its rival, for being "partners with Microsoft in a strategy to lock users in."

LibreOffice is expanding its line of attack, now targeting OnlyOffice, its rival, for being "partners with Microsoft in a strategy to lock users in." #LibreOffice #OnlyOffice

I mean the EoL for 7/8.1 makes sense as it's really starting to get hard for Mozilla to maintain due to AI in newer versions of FF plus both OSes being out of support for years now

RIP (2009-2026)

Screenshot of the Firefox web browser fork running under Windows Vista SP2, it uses the Nightly branding and it's currently based off version 147.

Mozilla recently dropped support for Firefox 115 ESR, last version to work under Windows 7 and 8.x.

If you need to still use Firefox in Win7/8...

This Firefox fork brings support of modern Firefox versions to Windows 7 and 8.x, including Windows Vista!

github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/...

Yeah i definitely see them being like "Uh?" when they wrote that

Here we go again with Microsoft making things confusing with the vague language on their blog post

This is also one of the reasons I left the program completely back around 2020 when I got my Covid era laptop because it was starting to make a downfall in terms of direction

As a GNOME user congrats to the folks at KDE for the release

Really hope others can do the same

As for me I moved over to Gitlab and now Codeberg as I'm really tired of Microsoft attempting to shove CoPilot into everyone's faces even on Github like at this point they are achieving nothing but annoying their users with it

Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub Wondering about the replacement? Gentoo is betting on Codeberg.

Gentoo is slowly moving away from GitHub.

itsfoss.com/news/gentoo-...

Windows 2000 boot screen.

On this day in 2000, Windows 2000 was released.

And yes as snaps are controversial this is why I removed them and replace them with Flatpaks

As I am now using Ubuntu along with Arch and Fedora 2 things to keep in mind

1. I do not hate the distro it's only the direction I do not like from Canonical
2. I did remove some of the snaps including Thunderbird and replaced them with the Flatpak versions

Honestly when I use Linux in VMs with UEFI enabled I've always preferred GRUB because systemd is still really confusing

"Note: Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. Steam Deck LCD 256GB is no longer in production, and once sold out will no longer be available."

Just saw that WD ran out of HDD storage

Honestly at this point the decade has become nothing but a meme in the tech industry
2020/2021: Chip/GPU shortage
2025/2026: RAM/storage shortage

A screenshot of the new Plasma 6.6. On the background of abstract-looking evergreens, you can see three open windows, one showing Plasma's System Setting utility on the left, KDE's software management app Discover in the center, and the calendar widget open in the bottom right hand corner. Along the bottom you can see Plasma's classic floating panel.

"This week in Plasma" brings the news that...

Plasma 6.6 is nearly ready for shipping! Look out for it next Tuesday.

... And videos in Plasma 6.7's SDDM login screens can be previewed in System Settings, KWin dialogs have been overhauled and polished, and much more.

blogs.kde.org/2026/02/14/t...

Interesting how they've now managed to backstab OpenAI

Well played 🫠

You know it's funny how people think Arch and Manjaro are the same distros when in reality it isn't

The difference is that Manjaro is Arch but with stability while vanilla Arch is upstream and unstable

"Microslop: We're going to improve Windows 11"

A month later continues to break the OS

Yes it's still technically maintained but otherwise it is outdated for a display server that's why Wayland was created in 2008 and is becoming the modern standard and replacement for X11

And I'm sure most of you know why X11 is being dropped because one nobody is really contributing nor working on it anymore and secondly it's because of the old architecture since it was developed in the 1980s and for this reason it cannot support modern technologies

It would make sense especially for Wayland support as Cinnamon has still yet to switch over from X11 along with the Xfce DE

Like GNOME which is my other DE that I use on Linux has since switched to Wayland but will drop X11 completely in GNOME 50

Linux Mint is shutting down its shorter development cycle The Linux Mint team has published its January report, outlining several improvements and plans to move to a longer development cycle.

The Linux Mint team has published its January report, outlining several improvements and plans to move to a longer development cycle. #LinuxMint

Glad to see Apple gearing up to celebrate their half century because like Microsoft they also changed the world for the PC during the PC revolution in the 70s/80s (and also later the cell phone in 2007 with the first ever smartphone the iPhone) only difference was they were on the hardware side

As a reminder regular x86_64 PCs will be getting 26H2 later this year somewhere between September to November