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  • Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics.

    This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.

    I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!

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  • No, NixOS isn't dying. GNOME icon & funding issues, everyone hates Windows 11
    May 4 2024

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    00:00 Intro

    01:35 NixOS isn’t dying, but it’s not doing well

    https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-is-not-dying-please-dont-spread-fear-actively/44310

    https://determinate.systems/posts/on-community-in-nix/

    https://paste.shark-harmonic.ts.net/paste/abd339e0-2317-402b-8d8e-97e580537263/md

    https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing/

    09:14 GNOME breaks non GNOME apps with Adwaita icons

    https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288

    15:33 GNOME needs some money

    https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/

    18:28 Windows 11 is very unpopular

    https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

    21:18 Mint forks GNOME apps

    https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4675

    26:50 Don’t upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 yet

    https://linuxiac.com/do-not-try-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-at-this-time/

    30:11 KDE Neon explains their failed Plasma 6 upgrade

    https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/04/29/kde-neon-post-plasma-6-updates-review/

    32:30 More lawsuits against OpenAI

    https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/microsoft-openai-lawsuit-copyright-newspapers-alden-global

    36:56 Proton 9.0 is out

    https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-1

    38:57 Outro

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    40 mins
  • Why Google sucks now, US bans TikTok, Ubuntu 24.04 & Fedora 40
    Apr 27 2024

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    00:00 Intro

    01:17 The downfall of Google Search

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

    07:07 The US really wants a TikTok ban

    https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1245594589/house-approves-bill-tiktok-ban

    https://www.techradar.com/news/tiktok-ban-will-the-app-be-banned-in-the-us-and-how-would-that-work

    13:33 Nvidia contributes to NVK

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-NVK-Conservative

    16:20 Ubuntu 24.04 is out

    https://youtu.be/LGIWeld3Zwc

    20:31 Fedora 40 is out

    https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

    https://linuxiac.com/slimbook-fedora-2-laptop/

    23:23 GNOME delivers big improvement in 46.1

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-46.1-Released

    25:30 Framework wants more than laptops

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138475/framework-laptop-product-categories-new

    28:58 Home Assistant is growing a lot

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/home-assistants-new-foundation-focused-on-privacy-choice-and-sustainability/

    31:34 Ecosia launches their browser

    https://www.ecosia.org/browser

    34:39 Apple’s AI will be ethically trained

    https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/24/apples-generative-ai-may-be-the-only-one-that-was-trained-legally-ethically

    37:47 Gaming: NVK performance, Nintendo strikes again

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Implicit-Pipeline-Caching

    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/garrys-mod-forced-to-remove-nintendo-content-after-takedowns/

    41:09 Outro

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    42 mins
  • Flatpak vulnerability, Gentoo refuses AI, Cosmic will theme apps
    Apr 20 2024

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    00:00 Intro

    01:17 Flatpak has a sandbox escape flaw

    https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-patch-addresses-major-sandbox-escape-flaw/

    05:08 Cosmic will be able to theme all GTK apps

    https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features

    11:50 Gentoo doesn’t want AI assisted contributions

    https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/

    15:48 Framework is struggling on software

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/

    19:51 Nouveau maintainer works for Nvidia, submits more code

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ben-Skeggs-Joins-NVIDIA

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-NVIDIA-Copy-Acceleration

    23:36 Ubuntu 24.04 beats Windows 11 by 20%

    https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-16-windows-linux

    25:46 Terraform vs OpenTofu license battle

    https://thenewstack.io/opentofu-project-denies-hashicorps-allegations-of-code-theft/

    28:37 Fedora & OpenSUSE wants reproducible packages

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible-RPM

    https://news.opensuse.org/2024/04/18/factory-bit-reproducible-builds/ https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/

    32:10 Solid improvements coming to Plasma 6.1

    https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/12/this-week-in-kde-explicit-sync/

    32:52 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, x86 on ARM emulation

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merging-NTSYNC

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2404

    41:13 Outro

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    42 mins

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