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Nate Graham has been working to make his dream of KDE software powering every device on planet Earth a reality since 2017, following his departure from a 7-year stint at Apple Inc. From 2018 through 2020, Nate championed KDE's Usability & Productivity initiative.
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What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04
Last year, Plasma developers canceled the long-term support (LTS) version of Plasma. Why? We had a few reasons: Almost nobody was using it; really only Kubuntu. Other discrete-release operating systems like Debian and openSUSE Leap generally ignored it. I
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Keep your community afloat with the right defense tokens
My favorite tabletop game of all time is Star Wars: Armada, a Star Wars themed ship combat wargame. Armada has many deep and tactically interesting features, but one of my favorites is the unique suite of defense tokens available to each spaceship to prot
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This month in KDE Linux
… is now hosted on KDE infrastructure, instead of this blog! Check out the July 2026 post, or the entire series here.
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Legal obligations vs social contracts
My post about responsibility for bug reports on old software versions the other day stirred up quite some discussion, and I wanted to drill a bit more into what I think is the crux of the dispute: the difference between legal obligations and the social co
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Who's responsible for bug reports on old software versions?
Consider this hypothetical: An operating system (OS) ships version 1.5 of a piece of software. Meanwhile, the latest version of that software is 3.0. A user on that OS experiences an issue in version 1.5, or has an idea for a new feature. Who should they
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