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Could you imagine a version of Windows even worse than what you already know, well don't you worry because that's exactly something that Microsoft was playing around with in Project Aion otherwise known as Copilot OS.

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Windows Central Article: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-copilot-os-revealed-in-leaked-video-lightweight-windows-os-exploration-features-new-desktop-ui-built-entirely-around-copilot-and-agentic-ai
Copilot Announcement: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/21/announcing-microsoft-copilot-your-everyday-ai-companion/
Copilot Key: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/01/04/introducing-a-new-copilot-key-to-kick-off-the-year-of-ai-powered-windows-pcs/
OpenAI Investment: https://openai.com/index/microsoft-invests-in-and-partners-with-openai/
MetaOS: https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-microsofts-metaos/
Project Solara

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There's a million different ways to recommend a Linux distro but Distrofighter I think is a neat little way to do so where you pit different distros against each other in combat.

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Distrofighter: https://distrofighter.com/

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Recently we saw the release and tagging of the first alpha/preview release of XFWL 4, XFCE's wayland compositor so lets check it out and see what state it's in.

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Original Announcement: https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
Preview Release: https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/06/xfwl4s-first-preview-release
AUR Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfwl4-devel
FAQ: https://wiki.xfce.org/xfwl4_faq

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Have you ever delved in the backlogs of the LKML to find out what Tux really is, why we have a penguin logo and perhaps some of the hilarious comments that Torvalds has made about Tux's design.

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Linux Journal Article: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/36
Linux Australia: https://archive.md/Xja4Q
Story Behind Tux Sign: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/TheStoryBehindTux.jpg
Archived Logos: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/sunsite.unc.edu/Sep-29-1996/logos/INDEX.short.html
Hilarious Ideas: https://lkml.org/lkml/1996/5/4/3
Torvalds Thoughts: https://lkml.org/lkml/1996/5/6/44
Proto Tux: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Ccpenguin%2C_the_ancestor_of_Tux.jpg
Hilarious Torvalds Comment: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9605/0855.html
Wired Article: https://archive.md/ZoZUO
Linux Logo Contest: http://gregroelofs.com/greg_lnxpeng.html
Linux 2.0: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.announce/c/yLMIRkrdJSI/m/kGSlHl6pov4J?pli=1
Linux Naming Contest: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9606.1/0175.html

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You can now go and try the very first publicly available version of GIMP on a modern system thanks to it being preserved as a flatpak.

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GIMP Gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/balooii/gimp-0.54
Docs: https://balooii.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gimp-0.54/
Plug-in Repo: https://web.archive.org/web/19980216074452/http://gimp.foebud.org/registry/view.phtml?version=0

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People have been talking about doing a DIY Steam Machine but SteamOS is still really intended for Valve hardware so let's see what goes wrong with an install.

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Rufus Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTi7A8C2q38
Balena Etcher Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0TK0ynXLOo
The Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/games/953411/valve-steamos-desktop-nvidia
DIY Build: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3173750/valves-steam-machine-is-pricey-i-built-a-diy-rival-for-150-less.html
Steam OS Download: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/download/?ver=steamdeck&snr=100601___

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I was excited for the revival of the KDE Plasma's Oxygen theme and now that it's actually here, I think it very well might be my new favorite stream.

Donate to KDE: https://kde.org/donate/

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Daniel Stenberg of the CURL project has decided to take the entirety of July off in what he's calling the CURL summer of bliss

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Curl Summer Of Bliss: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/
Curl The Pressure: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/26/the-pressure/
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537165

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I've said many times that SteamOS was probably not going to get a general hardware release for generic hardware but it turns out that following the launch of Steam Machine pricing we now know that this is not true

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The Verge Article: https://web.archive.org/web/20260623000206/https://www.theverge.com/games/953411/valve-steamos-desktop-nvidia
Steam Update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/697641379212298072

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Stack Overflow is having a crisis and now the company has decided to launch what has been dubbed Stack Overflow for Agents a version intended to be used by AI.

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Stack Overflow Graph: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
Announcement: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/10/announcing-stack-overflow-for-agents/
Stack Overflow For Agents: https://agents.stackoverflow.com/recent
Stack Overflow For Agents Meta: https://agents.meta.stackoverflow.com/

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