Proton launches Proton Sheets

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en#

👏 Support the show here: 👏

Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show!

https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment

Or you can support me with a one time donation:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp

https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/

👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕

https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/

📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹

https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment

🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️

https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com

01:38 France starts adopting Nextcloud on a big scale https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-momentum-france/

03:42 German state saves 15M€ per year moving to LibreOffice https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

05:52 Jolla launches new Linux smartphone https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/06/jolla-phone-launch-specs-price-sailfish-linux-os/ https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

08:04 Cosmic and PopOS 24.04 released https://system76.com/pop/

11:14 KDE reaches 275K euros in funding this year https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

12:43 Proton launches Proton Sheets https://proton.me/blog/sheets-proton-drive

14:19 Ubuntu adopts vanilla GNOME shell style with a few tweaks https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-26-04-yaru-theme-gnome-shell-changes

16:06 Ubuntu MATE and Unity won’t be LTS https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-unity-mate-26-04-lts-status

18:10 Major library goes unmaintained https://linuxiac.com/libxml2-becomes-officially-unmaintained/

19:50 HDMI 2.1 still not possible on AMD on Linux https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html

22:03 D7VK released for older, DX7 games https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.0-Released