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Dec 2, 2023 β€’ 41min

Red Hat drops X11, KDE Plasma 6 Beta, big Linux desktop plans

Red Hat dropping X11 in RHEL 10, KDE Plasma 6 Beta and new features, cool stuff coming to Fedora, Budgie looking for a new base, Google Drive loses 6 months of work, Peertube 6 with great features released, Meta collects children's personal data, Mesa 23.3, Wine Wayland, Heroic Games.
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Nov 26, 2023 β€’ 41min

Big Plasma 6, GNOME & COSMIC updates, Youtube's anti user moves

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Nov 19, 2023 β€’ 42min

Windows will be more open, AMD doubles down on FOSS, Big Peertube improvements

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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

Try the new version of Thunderbird (it’s now 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 00:56 elementary OS 7.1 released https://blog.elementary.io/os-7-1-available-now/ 08:54 Malware lands in the snap store https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snap-Store-Malicious-Apps 12:39 Sponsor: Thunderbird https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak 14:29 France wants to ban VPNs https://www.techradar.com/pro/vpn/france-vpns-might-be-banned-amid-sren-bills-new-unreasonable-amendments https://adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/vpn-ban-france-new-law.html 18:28 GNOME weekly app updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/10/twig-116/ 20:58 Plasma 6 updates https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/06/this-week-in-kde-re-organized-system-settings/ 24:15 Performance improvements for Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Faster-NV-Prop https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-DCC-MSAA-RDNA3 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Hibernation-Patches https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-Tearing-Control-Merged 27:58 ARM x86 emulator is looking good https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emu-2310-Released 31:25 Studio One DAW comes to Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/pro-audio-app-studio-one-now-supports-linux 34:22 X11 and GlibC vulnerabilities https://www.phoronix.com/news/XOrg-Vulnerabilities-Since-1988 https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTU1NzA https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/major-linux-distros-targeted-by-hackers-exploiting-this-significant-flaw 37:13 Gaming News: Proton and Linux marketshare https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/proton-80-4-brings-more-game-support-to-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-September-2023 40:37 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 30, 2023 β€’ 44min

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

Try the new version 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 00:50 LMDE 6 is now out https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/lmde-6-officially-released https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4570 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4571 05:43 Photoshop on the web is now available https://www.techradar.com/computing/internet/photoshop-on-the-web-finally-launches-but-its-still-not-a-free-canva-rival 11:04 Sponsor: Thunderbird https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak 13:02 Cosmic desktop updates https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-september-new-window-swapping-mode 19:10 Nvidia open source driver update + Mesa drivers 23.2 released https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Pipeline-Caching-Start https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.2-Branched 23:07 Google won’t fix a new Chrome vulnerability https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/gpus-from-all-major-suppliers-are-vulnerable-to-new-pixel-stealing-attack/ 26:33 Raspberry Pi 5 is available for preorder https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/raspberry-pi-5-officially-announced 30:15 Linux App Store retrospective https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/there-is-still-no-linux-app-store/ 35:27 Gaming News: Steam VR 2, GPU overclocking https://www.phoronix.com/news/Counter-Strike-2-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/TuxClocker-1.0 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/chimeraos-linux-44-out-now-with-improved-support-for-various-handhelds/ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/250820/view/3666547477701338587 43:14 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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