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How I write documentation

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/21/how-i-write-documentation/

Published: September 21, 2026 07:36

I’ve been writing a lot of documentation recently — including almost all of KDE Linux’s docs, as well as the KDE human interface guidelines. And I’m at Akademy 2026 right now where the cat is out of the bag — one of KDE’s three latest goals is about…

Photos: a proposed replacement for Gwenview

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/06/photos-a-proposed-replacement-for-gwenview/

Published: September 7, 2026 04:53

Gwenview has been KDE’s flagship image viewer for over 25 years. It works, it’s feature-packed, and it’s been modernized repeatedly. Gwenview has served generations of KDE users faithfully and well. So… why build a replacement? Well, over the years…

Bug triaging help needed

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/03/bug-triaging-help-needed/

Published: September 4, 2026 00:30

For many years now, I and others have been working on getting plasmashell’s open bug reports as accurate and actionable as possible. We’ve made tremendous progress, driving down the number of unconfirmed bug reports to its lowest levels in over a decade,…

What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04

https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/13/what-a-real-lts-looks-like-kubuntu-26-04/

Published: August 13, 2026 18:10

Last year, Plasma developers canceled the long-term support (LTS) version of Plasma. Why? We had a few reasons: As a consolation prize for canceling the Plasma LTS product, we decided at the time to add an additional bug-fix release to the normal Plasma…

Legal obligations vs social contracts

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/21/legal-obligations-vs-social-contracts/

Published: July 21, 2026 22:35

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…

The graveyard of being paid to use Windows 11, AKA “winning!”

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/12/the-graveyard-of-being-paid-to-use-windows-11-aka-winning/

Published: July 12, 2026 13:47

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!…

This month in KDE Linux: June 2026

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/01/this-month-in-kde-linux-june-2026/

Published: July 1, 2026 18:52

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% of…

The Steam Machine is here!

https://pointieststick.com/2026/06/30/the-steam-machine-is-here/

Published: June 30, 2026 18:48

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…