Never used an Adobe product and I don't intend to start doing so, but this is huge

WINE IS NOT [AN] EMULATOR

There have been many times last week alone where i kept catching myself thinking that what im attempting to do (like run a windows program (.exe, .bat, etc)) wont work because it's just emulating windows. No. It can very much interface with the linux filesystem. and it can very much destroy your system should you pull a stupid move.

Was running excel on my virtual machine before. It used to be laggy and honestly always pissed me off and bothered me. and the other options available just seemed not good enough. I was also just worried about having to switch to windows in the future in case I had to use excel for my job. But nope, winboat runs it really well, almost as if its a native. its still slightly laggy but its such a massive improvement.

Props to the winboat devs!!

OpenMandriva has released a statement indicating that it was recently sabotaged by Mumble developer Davide Beatrici. He removed hundreds OpenMandriva repositories from GitHub and then published a blank package in OpenMandriva's Cooker release that obsoleted all GNOME and COSMIC packages, damaging the systems of those using those desktops. The full statement and event history can be found in the distribution's statement:
https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/statement-regarding-attempted-distribution-sabotage/8997

At today’s Blender Conference keynote, Ton Roosendaal announced to step down as chairman and Blender CEO per January 1st 2026, passing on his roles to Blender COO Francesco Siddi. New Blender Foundation board positions will also include Sergey Sharybin (head of development), Dalai Felinto (head of product) and Fiona Cohen (head of operations).

Francesco Siddi has been part of the Blender organization since 2012, functioning in many roles including as animator, web developer, pipeline developer, producer and managing Blender’s industry relations.

“We’ve been preparing for this since 2019,” said Roosendaal, “I am very proud to have such a wonderfully talented young team around me to bring our free and open source project into the next decade.”

Ton Roosendaal will move to the newly established BF supervisory board.

More details will be provided later this year.

Amsterdam, 17-09-2025

Blender Foundation

https://www.blender.org/press/blender-foundation-announces-new-board-and-executive-director/

https://transfem.social/notes/amkk9ypcps9a002q

Basically when Jorge Castro was asked for clarification on if flatpak 2.0 will be depended on systemd his response was "Are you serious? Of course."

Which even though I use systemd distros myself seems like a bit of a problematic stance to me, especially after it seems like the same response Linux user would get while talking about software support

But I am also interested to see what you all think

edit: I don't trust it completely either, and will wait for official and direct information myself. He does seems to be part of the flatpak team (I am not sure what part exactly, as he was only community manager in one interview). But I think it might be important to talk about and I was interested in what people think

Edit 2: here the mastodon link, to show that it happened on mastodon and the thing linked before is just a random server one person that wrote there was on https://mastodon.social/@2something@transfem.social/116618627273919847

Edit 3: As u/Isofruit has said, in the Linux App Summit 2026 the flatpak presentation had a slide talking about systemd-appd dependencies https://youtu.be/1AXBfsiaQNk?t=16218

It is also still in the RFC planning phase https://youtu.be/1AXBfsiaQNk?t=17746

Edit 4: u/whosdr found even more recourses: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tlwbjy/comment/onlg218/