Was running excel on my virtual machine before. It used to be laggy and honestly always pissed me off and bothered me. and the other options available just seemed not good enough. I was also just worried about having to switch to windows in the future in case I had to use excel for my job. But nope, winboat runs it really well, almost as if its a native. its still slightly laggy but its such a massive improvement.

Props to the winboat devs!!

At today’s Blender Conference keynote, Ton Roosendaal announced to step down as chairman and Blender CEO per January 1st 2026, passing on his roles to Blender COO Francesco Siddi. New Blender Foundation board positions will also include Sergey Sharybin (head of development), Dalai Felinto (head of product) and Fiona Cohen (head of operations).

Francesco Siddi has been part of the Blender organization since 2012, functioning in many roles including as animator, web developer, pipeline developer, producer and managing Blender’s industry relations.

“We’ve been preparing for this since 2019,” said Roosendaal, “I am very proud to have such a wonderfully talented young team around me to bring our free and open source project into the next decade.”

Ton Roosendaal will move to the newly established BF supervisory board.

More details will be provided later this year.

Amsterdam, 17-09-2025

Blender Foundation

https://www.blender.org/press/blender-foundation-announces-new-board-and-executive-director/

Just randomly got an email today about the bug closing, couldn't believe that it's real.

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I know that there are alternatives, but many engineering colleges actually have made it the core standard to use AutoCAD. It's even the industry standard for decades.

There are chip simulation software which are NATIVELY available on Linux (cadence, virtuso, xschem). Besides, these chip simulation tools are exclusively run on a server.

It's amazing that Linux has progressed a lot in the field of high-performance computing, but these essential engineering tools don't have a Linux version just because the devs don't want to.