The revolution beginns

A specter is haunting the world. The specter of open source.

It's incredible how the open source scene and the federated internet have developed over the past five years. Linux and the entire ecosystem surrounding it have long since evolved from a hobbyist's playground for nerds into the most modern, sexiest, and adaptable operating system around. Apple and Microsoft are now just dinosaurs from a bygone era.

One of the best examples is KDE and the Plasma desktop. KDE, a hardcore community project, was only usable by masochists and idealists for all the many years it has been around, and now it is the most modern and sophisticated desktop environment imaginable. Not to mention the many projects that come from the KDE environment. With KDE (and Arch), you feel like you've assimilated the Borg collective. It's fascinating.

Both KDE and Valve are working on seamless integration of (Android) mobile apps. Thanks to KDE Connect, I can no longer imagine thinking of my cell phone and desktop as separate entities. Valve has proven with Proton that they can do this. The year of the Linux phone is just around the corner. ;)

It will also be very exciting to see how the Steam Machine develops. If it is a success, a whole new generation of Linux users will emerge. All in all, this is an incredibly positive development.

Even the most reactionary people will eventually realize that DeepSeek is a democratized LLM with an open license, or they will simply go under. Which wouldn't be so bad.

All in all, an edifying development. Important for success is a solid structure that has been able to grow peacefully over decades, and Mastodon has also strongly fueled this idea as “propaganda of the deed,” and I would also like to believe that my essay “Radical Enlightenment – A World of Open Sources” also played a part in this. Let the revolution begin!

https://word.undead-network.de/2025/12/16/the-revolution-begins/
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