I'm not an heavy o365 user but i'm almost happy on Debian KDE with thunderbird 148[0] (email only), teams-for-linux[1] (chat/calendar/whatever), Onedrive[2] and webdav (sharepoint)[3]. Libreoffice/Onlyoffice for documents.

[0] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native...

[1] https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

[2] https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive + https://github.com/bpozdena/OneDriveGUI

[3] Store the SP cookie via konqueror visiting the SP site, then open it in dolphin via "webdavs://CORP.sharepoint.com/sites/SITE/Shared Documents/" (sometimes the cookie is very short-lived)

I tried very hard to make something similar work for a couple of months - Mint, teams-for-linux (which is great, actually!), web-apps for everything else.

The main problem is Word - for the documents I regularly work with professionally (large, complex, collaboratively-edited) the web-app is just not feature complete and sometimes struggles to cope.

Also, FWIW, the web Powerpoint is an awful experience.

After a brief flirtation with a virtual machine for Windows and Office (nah) I had to take a step back from Linux and use a Mac again.

Se also Apprise

https://appriseit.com/services/xmpp/

> Bhyve virtual machines can now share a filesystem with the host via the new p9fs

Nice!

Wild! Fun to see 9p filesystem protocol continue to have a life in this form.

Yea!, as far as I understand, with p9fs now a simple zfs dataset can be shared with the VM, removing the need of ZVOLs (a ZVOL for the boot disk isn't an issue, but for example a data disk of 1tb is difficult to manage).

Huh, in a point release?

But excited to try it out ASAP! I haven’t made the leap to 15 on my server yet (in part because I can’t decide whether to go with pkgbase or not…), but sharing data more easily with VMs will surely be nice.

What’s the performance like?

> in part because I can’t decide whether to go with pkgbase or not…

pkgbase is optional in FreeBSD 15 BTW.

One way to upgrade the base system and another to upgrade packages just feels inconsistent to me and pkgbase finally resolves that. I've not had any problems with pkgbase. I love it and would highly recommend it.

> Huh, in a point release?

MFCed (merged from current):

* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e97ad33a89a78f55280b...

It's the duct tape of filesystem protocols, in a good way.

> [...] Get access to any app built in the AT Protocol, including Bluesky, Flashes, Tangled, and many more [...]

Another thread: https://hackertimes.com/item?id=46588159

Not to be confused with Apache Superset (data visualization solution)

https://superset.apache.org/

correct :)

For the curious:

https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch...

https://docs.kernel.org/arch/loongarch/introduction.html

Not against it but how do you track time spent on it?

Maybe the good old “lines of code” days will make a comeback?

Lines of code are easily produced using coding models. OK, so let's add another criterium, 'lines of code produced by a human'. Now some form of arbitrage is needed to discern vibe-coded lines from human-coded ones.

Human written or also AI?

With a clock?

I posted this to highlight how many steps you need to release upgrade Debian while on Ubuntu is often just one command (`do-release-upgrade`).

As profit on Debian you learn how the package manager works and you become confident using its low level tools when things break.

A major european bank is about to move everything they got on VMware to Hyper-V