Do you waddle the waddle?
Based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, the Parrot 7.0 release ships with KDE Plasma as the default desktop environment on Wayland, which was tweaked to make it as lightweight as possible, along with a classic terminal green style across the entire system.
Coming more than eight months after Pinta 3.0, the Pinta 3.1 release implements a new axonometric grid under View > Canvas Grid, a new Cells effect, a polygon selection mode to the Lasso Select tool, a Radius Percentage parameter to the Twist effect, and a revamped canvas widget to improve performance.
Based on Alpine Linux 3.23, postmarketOS 25.12 comes with some components from the GNOME 49 desktop environment with out-of-the-box support for connecting to MTP devices, and KDE Plasma Mobile 6.5.3 with better Waydroid integration, a faster loading lockscreen, homescreen improvements, and the Plasma Camera app.
It's the last month of 2025. 2026 is nigh. News sites are dying, but so do slopfarms, which hopefully means writers who cover GNU/Linux will seize control of the narrative and help Free software flourish in the coming year.
Recently, several people observed that GNU/Linux is flirting with or exceeding 10% on desktops/laptops [1, 2]. It's hard to believe it won't gain even more next year. What can possibly stop it? Microsoft has been busy breaking Windows. █