Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title ‘jumping ship slowly’ about leaving Windows (XP was awful, it was mind boggling to me that Vista managed to make people nostalgic for XP). My advice remains the same:

Don’t try switching OS first. The OS is the most easily replaceable bit in the stack. Switch applications first. Most ‘Linux’ apps are cross platform. They’ll run on Windows, and the few that don’t will run in WSL2. You can switch out apps one at a time, and take the time to get comfortable with the alternatives.

Once you’re comfortable not using any Windows-only apps, changing the OS but using all of the same applications is very easy to do. Changing OS and application stack at the same time is an enormous obstacle.

I believe this is also why a lot of corporate and government Linux migrations fail: they try to change everything at the same time and that’s too steep a learning curve.

Do you want to learn the power of search on #Mastodon? With my fourth video in my series of Mastodon tutorials, you can! Did you already know all of this, or did you learn something new? Please let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhvMsDf8AfU

Do you want to learn the power of search on #Mastodon? With my fourth video in my series of Mastodon tutorials, you can! Did you already know all of this, or did you learn something new? Please let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhvMsDf8AfU

Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?

i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

Now that people are coming in again from Bluesky bc that site enacted draconian policies, I have a suggestion. Not for the newcomers, no: for the people who might have Opinions about hustling here or about sex work in particular:

Keep Those Opinions To Yourselves.

Let people use mastodon as a workplace. Mute, or block, whatever you want. But if your idea of Mastodon is this pristine space where people only do what you deem proper, you're wrong. You're lucky.

For pride month, you can no longer use the phrase "let me get this straight".
You have to use "just so we're queer".

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.

We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.

Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty

Third in the series of my #Mastodon tutorials: How to deal with unwanted content. Covering reporting, muting, blocking, word filters and notification settings. If you learn something you didn't know before from my video, please do let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdaOkZtIIk