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Nov 12, 2023 β€’ 44min

GNOME gets €1 million, Amazon wants its own Linux, Steam Deck OLED, Immutable Ubuntu

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Nov 6, 2023 β€’ 42min

Fedora KDE drops X11, Huge Nvidia Wayland fixes, Web DRM is dead, Linux kernel 6.6

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Oct 29, 2023 β€’ 43min

Wayland on Mint, is Youtube's adblock blocker legal? Fedora 39 delayed

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Oct 21, 2023 β€’ 43min

Ubuntu broke deb installs, new GNOME director controversy, OpenSUSE new installer

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Oct 14, 2023 β€’ 43min

Will GNOME drop X11? Ubuntu 23.10, Mastodon is more popular than we thought

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Oct 8, 2023 β€’ 41min

elementary OS 7.1, Snap malware, France wants to ban VPNs

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Sep 30, 2023 β€’ 44min

Photoshop on the web, Mint + Debian, & COSMIC updates

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Sep 24, 2023 β€’ 42min

Nouveau maintainer resigns, Fedora might drop X11 entirely, LTS now 2 years only

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Sep 17, 2023 β€’ 42min

Another Linux tablet, HDR gaming & Linux malware

Check out Thunderbird’s complete redesign (it became my email / calendar client of choice): https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak πŸ‘ Support the show here: πŸ‘ https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ πŸ‘• Buy TLE Merch: πŸ‘• https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ πŸ“Ή Watch Linux videos: πŸ“Ή https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment πŸŽ™οΈ Leave your feedback here: πŸŽ™οΈ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 00:50 New Linux tablet from Purism https://www.omglinux.com/purism-librem-11-linux-tablet/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-11/ 05:44 Linux malware ran rampant for 3 years https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/password-stealing-linux-malware-served-for-3-years-and-no-one-noticed/ 08:51 Plasma 6 and 5.27 updates https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/15/this-week-in-kde-more-plasma-6-dev/ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-40-to-offer-kde-plasma-6-desktop/ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-27-8-improves-hybrid-sleep-and-monitoring-of-nvidia-gpus 15:37 XFCE unveils a Wayland roadmap https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Wayland-Roadmap-2023 https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap 19:10 Sponsor: Thunderbird https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak 20:38 GNOME weekly updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/09/twig-113/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/2023/09/15/libadwaita-1-4/ 25:25 New OpenSUSE rolling release distro, LMDE 6, and Ubuntu encryption https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-debian-edition-6-faye-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing https://ubuntu.com/blog/tpm-backed-full-disk-encryption-is-coming-to-ubuntu https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-23-10-to-introduce-an-experimental-tpm-backed-fde/ 29:07 GNOME 45 RC is out https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-release-candidate-arrives-with-last-minute-changes 31:39 Linux drivers and performance updates https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Prereq-Xe https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-Wayland-Tearing https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPUFreq-Boost https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Workqueue 36:28 Gaming News: HDR gaming, Steam Deck sale https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/vkd3d-proton-v2-10-various-game-fixes-directstorage/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/dxvk-nvapi-064-out-now-expanding-hdr-support/ https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.16 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/valve-puts-the-steam-deck-and-dock-on-sale-again/ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3686804163591367815 41:29 Outro πŸ’» Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, TuxedoπŸ’» https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# πŸ‘ Support the show here: πŸ‘ 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/ πŸ‘• Buy TLE Merch: πŸ‘• https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ πŸ“Ή Watch Linux videos: πŸ“Ή https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment πŸŽ™οΈ Leave your feedback here: πŸŽ™οΈ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com
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Sep 9, 2023 β€’ 43min

Plasma 6 not before 2024, new Ubuntu App Store, GNOME breaks extensions

Give a try to the brand new redesign of Thunderbird: https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak πŸ‘ Support the show here: πŸ‘ https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ πŸ‘• Buy TLE Merch: πŸ‘• https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ πŸ“Ή Watch Linux videos: πŸ“Ή https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment πŸŽ™οΈ Leave your feedback here: πŸŽ™οΈ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 00:54 Plasma 6 has a release date, and it’s far away https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/06/september-plasma-6-update/ https://cullmann.io/posts/kf6-release-plan/ 07:58 The new Ubuntu App Center looks like a regression https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/ubuntu-app-center-app-arrives 13:45 GNOME 45 will break all extensions https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2023/09/02/extensions-in-gnome-45/ 18:21 Sponsor: Thunderbird https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak 19:55 Linux drivers and performance updates https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-MSAA-Compute-Queue https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Input https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Optimize-Lacking-ERMS 23:48 elementary OS updates https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-august-2023/ 27:22 The EU won’t force Apple to use RCS for now https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/eu-apple-imessage-gatekeeper-ruling 31:51 Chrome gets its new tracking tech https://gizmodo.com/google-privacy-sandbox-now-on-every-chrome-browser-1850812404 36:28 Gaming News: market share, new Valve devices… https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-continues-rising-above-3-desktop-user-share-on-statcounter/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-user-share-remains-above-macos-in-the-latest-steam-survey/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/steam-will-soon-show-better-controller-support-details-like-for-playstation-controllers/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-updates-tease-valve-galileo-and-sephiroth-steam-deck-refresh-or-new-vr/ https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-3-improves-performance-in-tomb-raider-anniversary-and-fixes-many-bugs 42:12 Outro πŸ’» Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, TuxedoπŸ’» https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# πŸ‘ Support the show here: πŸ‘ 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/ πŸ‘• Buy TLE Merch: πŸ‘• https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ πŸ“Ή Watch Linux videos: πŸ“Ή https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment πŸŽ™οΈ Leave your feedback here: πŸŽ™οΈ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com

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