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We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.
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Links:
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
- The Launch 🚀: Nature Chose Violence
- PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)
- James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe
- Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time
- It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share
- Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant
- ADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610
- Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend.
- Pick: Zbridge — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.
- Zbridge flatpak source
- Pick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA
