That US site’s data includes both mobile and desktop. With a bit of math, you get Linux’s desktop marketshare over 30 days as 7,1%.

Steam’s February data is heavily influenced by Chinese new year. If you only consider Linux Steam users who have set English as their Steam language, Linux’s marketshare is 8,28%.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

If running Home Assistant is all you are going to do, Pi is enough. There’s also official hardware with Home Assistant preinstalled: Home Assistant Green

I’ve only ever set up few printers to work on linux, and they’ve been bigger office printers. And they’ve all worked with minimal effort. Absolutely no idea about home printers.

Most (all?) printers and scanners released in past decade and some supports driverless printing and scanning. As long as you have printing related systems installed on your computer, most printers should be just plug and play. Especially those that are connected over network.

Good. No-one else can use it now.

Not only do you get to pay for the hardware to be able to use the software, and then pay for the software to be allowed to use it. When you use the software it siphons various user data off of you to train their AI with, so that you, the valued customer, can also pay for that AI service.

The calculator app might have remote code execution vulnerability, so you are better off uninstalling it and asking Copilot instead.

GamingOnLinux updated their Steam Tracker with February’s data: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

Linux, English Only went from January’s 7.59% to 8.27%. There’s a huge influx of Chinese users in this month’s data.

Qobuz with Strawberry is… not very good. I think qbz was released this year, so you probably didn’t try that. There’s a .deb file in GitHub for it, and it also comes in other forms, like Flatpak and AppImage.

DRM free high resolution lossless music, to be more specific. Their prices are quite high, though. Some normal album might cost 20€, while you can get the same album in same resolution and DRM free for 10€ in Bandcamp (a US company, unfortunately).

As a side note, next week’s Friday (March 6th) is Bandcamp Friday, which means 100% of money you spend there goes to the bands and publishers. Bandcamp won’t take anything for themselves. https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays

Did you try qbz? https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz. It works quite well, except Qobuz Connect (ability to control other Qobuz players) doesn’t work, and seems like it will never work.

Also, the Qobuz Windows app works quite well with Wine, but requires some tinkering. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=42813

• https://community.qobuz.com/blog/qobuz-human-first-stand-on-ai-generated-music
• https://community.qobuz.com/ai-charter

I was wondering about that too, but I guess it’s a bit of both. From What’s the difference between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Think about it like this. The Fedora project is the upstream, community distro of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux. Red Hat is the project’s primary sponsor, but thousands of independent developers also contribute to the Fedora project. Each of these contributors, including Red Hat, bring their own new ideas to be tested and debated for inclusion by the larger community into Fedora Linux. This also makes Fedora an ideal place for Red Hat to put features through its own distinct set of tests and quality assurance processes, and those features eventually get incorporated into a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

That is true. But, I would call this a dangerous bill. If it passes, it can have huge implications for different types of computers. I think it’s good to raise awareness for this type of things, but maybe using less clickbaity titles would be a better way.

If a manufacturer wants to sell a 3d-printer in California, they would need to have the printer approved. The bill basically requires 3d-printer to be locked down, meaning closed source firmware and other closed source software. When ever you want to print something, the printer needs to query some service on the internet to check if it’s allowed to print the file.

The video is about a new bill, California AB-2047, which would require all 3D-printers sold or traded in California to have technology that prevents it from printing firearms. It also requires that 3D-printers cannot be easily modified to print firearms. This basically means that 3D-printers sold in California cannot have open source firmware, and they cannot work with open source tools, like slicers.

He argues, that while this bill is about 3D-printers, it opens the door for further limiting your devices. Computers are general purpose devices, that are able to execute any code, as long as it’s valid code. He argues that this bill is a way to change that. He also argues, that while this bill is only about California, it can easily spread to other states and countries.

The rest is my thoughts:

It’s commonly thought, that it’s impossible to make a computer that’s not a general purpose device (a non-Turing complete machine). The only way to do that is by making it illegal to run certain kind of programs. You can compare this bill to DMCA law. It was originally meant to make it illegal to pirate music, movies, games, etc. But, nowadays, it’s used for numerous other things. You can’t use any type of ink you want in your 2d-printers. You have to pay a monthly fee to be able to heat your car’s seats. You can’t repair your devices with third-party parts.

So yes, the title of the video is a bit clickbaity. But I think the content is still valid.

If the maintenance cost is measured in US Dollars, I think Apple has that part covered.

As I understood it, there can be specifically crafted links in Markdown documents, which, when clicked, will download a file and then execute it.

This is the official Linux Mint installation guide: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/

Windows 11 market share went from 55% on October 2025 to 62% on January 2026. That’s an increase of 7 percentage units, not a drop of 5 percentage units.

If you want to remove the Windows entry immediately after deleting Windows, you can run this in terminal: sudo update-grub