thelinuxexperiment

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E30 - Mozilla has a new CEO

Hey everyone!

Today, we have:

- 00:05 Mozilla has a new CEO

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-2024

2024-02-09 09:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E29 - Snaps everywhere

Hey everyone!

Today, we have:

- 00:06 Ubuntu moves Thunderbird to a snap

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/thunderbird-snap-in-ubuntu-24-04

- 02:24 Ubuntu Core Desktop looks interesting

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Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E28 - elementary OS 8 Early Access

Hey everyone,

In today's episode, we have:

- 00:06 Meta tags AI content, but trains on user posts

https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/faceb...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E27 - Kubuntu won't use Plasma 6 for now

Hey everyone!

For today, we have:

- 00:06 VS Code will support Ubuntu 18.04 again

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-recovery-update-for-ubuntu-18-04

- 03:32 Kubuntu 24.04 won't u...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E26 - Linux gaming on Android, but it's closed source

Hey everyone!

It's me again, and this time, we have:

- 00:10 Wine + DXVK on Android, but it's closed source

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cassia-Windows-Games-Android

- 02:49 Microsoft tries out "sudo"' f...

Patroncast - S04E06 - Sponsors & laws, & finishing a 20 year long book series

Hey everyone!

I hope you had a great week! Here is the latest episode of the Patroncast!
In this one, I talk about:

- 00:41 My current and returning sponsors, better compliance with French law on sponsored segments, and selling a bunch of computers that I still owned

- 09:11 Finishing a book series that h...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E25 - VSCode abandons 18.04 without warning

Hey everyone!

Today, we have: 

- 00:06 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40

- 04:10 VSCode ...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E24 - Mesa 24 & Mint 22

Hey everyone!

Today, we have:

- 00:06 Details about Mint 22

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4639

- 02:12 Mesa Drivers 24 are here

2024-02-01 06:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E23 - Edge spies on your Chrome history

Hey everyone!

In this episode, we have:

-00:08 Wayland gets a new protocol

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag

-01:51 Wine on Wayland has a roadmap

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Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E22 - Exchange in Thunderbird!

Hey everyone!

In this one, we have:

- 00:08 Thunderbird revamping the app, and adding Exchange support

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-janu...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E21 - Wayland on Wine

Hey everyone again!

For today's news, we have:

- 00:23 Ubuntu plans to tweak their kernels

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Low-Lat-Generic-Kernel

- 02:50 Wayland support for Wine gets better

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Patroncast - S04E05 - iPhone & Linux: functional, but not ethical?

Hey everyone!

I hope you had a good weekend, here is your weekly episode of the Patroncast to start the week with more questions and ranting!

In this one, I talk about:

- 01:07 Using an iPhone as a Linux user, and how it's perfectly functional, but makes me feel like a hypocrite, and how the Fairphone 5 migh...

Vote on February's topics

Hey everyone!

Here is what I'll be working on in February, and what you can vote on!

So, we'll have:

- Linux News: every Saturday, as always, so there will be 4 in February

- Plasma 6 review: the next version of KDE will be published at the end of the month, so obviously you can expect a big...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E20 - Apple opens up iOS

Hey everyone!

In today's episode, we have:

- 00:09 Apple opens up iOS a LOT more

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E19 - Apple sabotages sideloading?

Hey everyone,

Today, we have:

- 00:08 Philips uses Linux to cram ads on their TVs

https://www.whathifi.com/news/philips-is-ditching-goolge-tv-but-not-on-its-oleds

- 01:46 Nvidia beta...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E18 - Huge Linux gaming performance boost

Hey everyone!

Today, we have:

- 00:15 Kernel patches give enormous gaming boost

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux

- 03:47 Bazzite 2.2 is now out

2024-01-24 11:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E17 - Unified Linux Gaming Framework

Hey everyone!

In this one, we have:

- 00:08 Mint's Edge ISO is now available

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4635

- 01:18 A unified way of playing Windows games on Linux

2024-01-23 11:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E16 - More Wayland protocols

Hey everyone!

In this one, we have:

- 00:08 Plasma 6 gains more features as the release nears

- 03:30 Wayland protocols gain better remote desktop support

- 05:36 Huawei won't support Android apps at all anymore

Patroncast S04E04 - Are immutable distros inevitable?

Hey everyone!

I hope you had a great week-end! Personally, I hosted all 4 of my girlfriend's nieces and nephews on Saturday and Sunday, aged 7 to 12, and while it was really fun, it was also exhausting :D

So, in this new episode of the patroncast, we'll talk about:

- 00:34 The channel, how it's do...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E15 - The Hangover project

Hey everyone,

In today's episode, we have:

- 00:09 Bing Chat isn't the success Microsoft wanted it to be

https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-market-share-chatgpt-36751.html

- 02:08 The Hangover Proje...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E14 - Steam Snap angers Valve

Hey everyone!

Today, we have:

- 00:08 The Snap package for Steam generates tons of bug reports for Valve, and they don't want to deal with that

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recomme...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E13 - Wine 9/0 stable is here

Hey everyone!

In this one, we have:

- 00:08 Chrome making it clear Incognito mode doesn't really help privacy

- 01:55 Wine 9.0 being released, a stable version with Wayland support and 32 bit on 64 bit improvements

- 03:57 More improvements coming to Plasma 6, notably for fractional scaling

Have ...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E12 - OpenSUSE goes image-based?

Hey everyone!

Today, we have:

- 00:08 Google pretty much giving up on Fuschia as a system for the general public

- 02:03 Ubuntu planning to patch some gaps in GNOME shell and Mutter

- 04:12 OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be an image-based OS, apparently no longer meant for the general desktop user

Have a ...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E11 - Identifying AI generated content

Hey everyone!

In this episode, we have:

- 00:09 Fedora wants ROCm by default

- 02:07 Interesting proposal for AI content identification

- 05:53 GNOME 4 Alpha

- 08:19 KDE is hiring

- 10:00 Ayaneo isn't using the official SteamOS

I hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a ni...

Patroncast S04E03 - Should Linux constrain app design?

Hey everyone!

I hope you're all doing well :)

In this episode of the patroncast, I talk about

- 00:40 The channel, and wondering how I could bring the longer news podcast to Youtube without it being weird for subscribers (who would get 2 formats of the same content on the same day)

- 10:43 Should the L...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E10 - The Wayland Saga continues

Hey everyone!

In this episode, we have:

- 00:09 another answer on the long "Wayland breaks everything" saga

- 06:36 Mesa 24 bringing a bunch of improvements to our drivers

- 08:43 The Cosmic Alpha being on its way

I hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a nice day!

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E09 - SteamOS Devices are coming!

Hey everyone!

Today, we have:

- 00:08 A New Linux malware that installs cryptominers

- 02:08 The first Release Candidate for Plasma 6

- 03:46 Ayaneo announcing a new handheld running SteamOS

- 05:54 Mint 21.3 being released with an experimental Wayland session

I hope you'll enjoy the episod...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E08 - New GNOME Mockups

Hey everyone!

In this one, we have:

- 00:09 Some cool new mockups for GNOME apps

- 03:31 Apple's AirDrop being cracked by Chinese authorities

- 06:49 Unity laying 1800 people off, and NVK getting a shader cache

I hope you'll enjoy, and have a nice day!

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E07 - GTK gains a new GPU renderer

Hey everyone!

In this one, we have:

- 00:09 GTK gaining a new unified GPU rendered

- 02:15 Heroic Launcher getting a nice update to make playing games easier

- 04:40 Other smaller news, including a new version of Solus, and AMD getting a 10to 18% performance boost for OpenGL

Have a nic...

Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E06 - Kernel Update

Hey everyone!

In this episode, we have:

- 00:12 The Linux kernel 6.7 being released

- 04:33 Chromium gaining hardware accelerate video decoding on Wayland

- 06:44 Some cool stuff coming to GNOME 46 and beyond