Fedora on Danilo Falcão da Silva

KDE Plasma 6.7 Is Coming June 16th — And I Cannot Wait

Wed, 20 May 2026 09:30:00 -0300

KDE shipped the Plasma 6.7 Beta on May 14, 2026. The final release lands on June 16. I’m still on Plasma 6.6.5 — the stable that shipped in Fedora 44 — and I’m going to stay there until 6.7 hits Fedora’s repos. But I have been reading every announcement, every “This Week in Plasma” post, and every release-note dump KDE has been putting out, and I want to say this clearly:

NVIDIA on Fedora KDE Wayland in 2026: Field Report from an RTX 5070

Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:00 -0300

NVIDIA on Linux has been a punchline for so long that “just buy AMD” was the standard advice in every Linux subreddit thread. In 2026, on Fedora 44 with KDE Plasma 6.6 on Wayland, running an RTX 5070 (Blackwell) with the 595 driver branch, I want to say something different:

It’s fine. It’s actually fine.

Not “fine if you don’t use Wayland.” Not “fine if you stick to X11.” Fine, full stop. This is the short, honest report of how I run it.

Why I Left Ubuntu Desktop — and Picked Debian Over Ubuntu Server

Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:00 -0300

I ran Ubuntu on my workstation from Hardy Heron in 2008 to about Jammy in 2022. Fifteen years. It was the first Linux I trusted on servers I cared about, the first one that made hardware support feel solved, and for a long stretch it was the obvious answer to “what Linux should a sane person install?”

I don’t run it on my desktop anymore. I don’t run Ubuntu Server either — though that’s a personal-taste call and not a knock on the product, which is still a perfectly good distribution that I’d happily recommend to most people. Ubuntu has split in half: the server side is still strong, the desktop side has gone somewhere I’m not willing to follow, and the two halves deserve very different treatment. Especially because we just got Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” on April 23, and the headlines are mostly cheerful about features that don’t fix the things that actually drove me away.

Distrobox, Toolbx, and the 'What Would You Give and What Would You Keep' Question

Tue, 19 May 2026 10:30:00 -0300

“What would you give and what would you keep?” — Mase, From Scratch (Double Up, 1999)

Mase asked it about rewinding your whole life and starting over. I ask it every time someone on my team picks a development container stack. Because the moment you decide to let a container be your workstation — not just hold a service, but hold your editor, your shell, your language toolchains, your AUR packages on top of a Fedora host — you’re making a series of small, ugly trade-offs. What would you give up from your bare-metal workflow, and what would you keep?

Fedora 44: A KDE-Heavy, DevOps-Tinted First Look

Mon, 18 May 2026 15:30:00 -0300

Fedora Linux 44 shipped on April 28, 2026, two weeks behind its original date after a late-cycle batch of blockers. I’ve been running it on my KDE daily-driver for a couple of weeks now. It’s the kind of release that doesn’t scream — no single tentpole feature — but if you spend your day on Linux, the cumulative effect is real. Here’s what stood out to me, with a bias toward what I actually noticed.