{"id":270409,"date":"2026-06-11T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/foss-weekly-26-24-dank-linux-review-bitwarden-alternative-mint-tips-and-an-important-message\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:45:16","slug":"foss-weekly-26-24-dank-linux-review-bitwarden-alternative-mint-tips-and-an-important-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/foss-weekly-26-24-dank-linux-review-bitwarden-alternative-mint-tips-and-an-important-message\/","title":{"rendered":"FOSS Weekly #26.24: Dank Linux Review, BitWarden Alternative, Mint Tips (And an Important Message)"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOSS Weekly #26.24: Dank Linux Review, BitWarden Alternative, Mint Tips (And an Important Message)<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/newsletter\/foss-weekly-26-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-11 10:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: itsfoss.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s FOSS turns 14 tomorrow. Incidentally, my son turns 1 tomorrow as well. Two milestones the same day call for celebration, right?<\/p>\n

But there is something important that I wanted to share with you and it relates to the future of It’s FOSS.<\/p>\n

The thing is that Google Search is gone. Not broken but gone. What replaces it is an AI that reads the web, summarizes it, and hands you the answer directly. No links. No clicks. No visits to the sites that actually wrote the content.<\/p>\n

This is not a minor update. This is a structural shift in how the internet works.<\/p>\n

For the past two decades, a quiet but fair deal powered the open web: you search, you click, we earn a little from ads, and we use that to keep writing. That deal is over. Google now takes our content, serves the answer, and the publisher gets nothing. Not even a visit.<\/p>\n

Since the launch of ChatGPT, It’s FOSS has already lost 80% of its Google search traffic. And it’s alarming now.<\/p>\n

I built It’s FOSS because I love Linux and open-source software. Not to get rich. I built it because I wanted a place where people could learn Linux for free, stay informed, and feel part of a community that actually cares about what open-source software means. For years, that worked. Ad revenue kept the lights on. We kept creating informational content that helped Linux users all around the world.<\/p>\n

That model is now broken, and no tweak to our content strategy will fix it. This is not an algorithm we can optimize around.<\/p>\n

The big publishers will survive this. They have corporate backing, licensing deals, and investors to absorb the losses. We don’t. What we have is you.<\/p>\n

If It’s FOSS has ever helped you, fixed a problem, taught you something new, saved you a frustrating hour, this is the moment to return the favor. You want us to continue for 14 more years, right?<\/p>\n

Becoming a Plus member keeps this alive:<\/p>\n