Is Linux now an entertainment franchise?
I only hear of these continual dramas days after the fact. I’m not sure if it's a dereliction of duty (I write a blog about Linux) or, weirdly, the healthiest possible relationship one can have with the internet in 2026 (I do mute a lot of words 💀).
Either way, it feels like Linux discourse is now permanently hooked up to an IV drip of outrage. We'd have months without something to reflexively react to as a community – now it's barely 24 hours.
Nate Graham's first-hand, blow-by-blow account on what went down:
https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-and-ai-and-you-and-me/
Not to do the click-baitey thing, but some of the details my clarify some of the points.