New EU law hurts FOSS, GNOME 44 alpha, Chrome beats Firefox

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What's New in GNOME 44?

The GNOME 44 alpha is now out for testing. It brings a bunch of changes, but nothing really that big or major. The GTK file picker finally supports a grid view with thumbnails. Nautilus also handles 64 pixel icon sizes in the grid view.

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00:00 Intro

01:42 New EU laws might make using FOSS really difficult

https://devclass.com/2023/01/24/eus-proposed-ce-mark-for-software-could-have-dire-impact-on-open-source/

07:59 GNOME 44 alpha is out for testing

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-44-alpha-released-with-new-stream-deck-app-file-chooser-grid-view

13:01 Firefox loses to Chrome badly in benchmarks

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks

15:42 Google’s Fuchsia OS might be in trouble

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/big-layoffs-at-googles-fuchsia-os-call-the-projects-future-into-question/

18:09 Ubuntu Pro is now available for free for up to 5 PCs

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-pro-subscription-what-it-means-for-users/

20:15 BlendOS looks like a very interesting distro

https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-blendos-a-blend-of-arch-linux-fedora-linux-and-ubuntu

22:51 GNOME weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/01/twig-79/

25:39 KDE Weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/01/20/this-week-in-kde-the-best-plasma-5-version-ever/

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2023/01/21/kf6-branched.html

28:35 Google presents big updates to their Flutter toolkit

https://9to5google.com/2023/01/25/flutter-forward-teaser/

31:48 The US might deal a big blow to user generated content

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/20/tech/meta-microsoft-google-supreme-court-tech-algorithms/

37:31 Gaming news: performance improvements, Wine 8, and EA games

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ea-games-playable-on-steam-deck-sims-4-jedi-fallen-order/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/more-ea-games-steam-deck-playable/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/forspoken-desktop-linux-spoof-steam-deck/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.0

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/direct3d-to-vulkan-translation-layer-dxvk-21-adds-hdr-support-improves-shader-stutter/

45:54 Outro

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