Plausibly Postulated Prophecies | LINUX Unplugged 647

We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.
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• LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers (sessionize.com/linuxfest-northwest-2026)
• The Launch 🚀: Nature Chose Violence (weeklylaunch.rocks/episodepage/46-nature-chose…)
• PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you) (youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0)
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• Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time (techspot.com/news/108701-linux-surpasses-5-mar…)
• It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share (boingboing.net/2025/07/16/it-is-finally-the-ye…)
• Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant (redhat.com/en/blog/evolution-red-hat-ansible-l…)
• ADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610 (amazon.com/ADHD-Awesome-Guide-Mostly-Thriving/…)
• Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader (github.com/christo-auer/eilmeldung) — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend.
• Pick: Zbridge (flathub.org/en/apps/club.zbridge.zbridge) — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.
• Zbridge flatpak source (github.com/flathub/club.zbridge.zbridge)
• Pick: Cavalier (github.com/NickvisionApps/Cavalier) — Visualize audio with CAVA