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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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How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers?
The Linux desktop has an upstream maintenance problem due to many reasons for it, such as the lack of paid work. No one is entitled to a volunteer's free time apart from the volunteer themself. This is especially true to volunteers working on upstream pro
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The graveyard of being paid to use Windows 11, AKA "winning!"
I just finished reading Thom Holwerda's hilarious article on OSnews about being paid to use Windows 11 for a month from the perspective of being a "switcher" moving away from Linux. It's a great read; I encourage everyone to stop right now and go read it!
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This month in KDE Linux: June 2026
Welcome to another edition of "This month in KDE Linux" - KDE's in-progress operating system. This month was pretty smooth; we had no build delivery drama, and all OS images we shipped were of satisfactory quality. The project is maturing, and we're 78% o
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The Steam Machine is here!
For a while now, my colleagues and I over in Techpaladin Software have been working on software support for the Steam Machine, so it's so awesome to see the product released! Like everyone else, I was surprised by the pricing… until I went out and looked
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Techpaladin is hiring again
Time to put on my Techpaladin Software had again: we're hiring! David Edmundson has already posted it, so I'm here to boost the signal: we need you! Especially if you've got experience with Qt/KDE development. We're looking for someone with that plus an e
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