GNOME's new leadership, Mint themes libadwaita, OpenSUSE ditches Deepin
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02:07 GNOME Foundation has a new Director
https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/05/06/introducing-myself/
04:16 Mint 22.2 will theme GNOME apps
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4840
06:56 OpenSUSE removes deepin packages
https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-removes-deepin-desktop-over-security-policy-violations/
09:02 Ubuntu to replace sudo with a rust based alternative
https://trifectatech.org/blog/memory-safe-sudo-to-become-the-default-in-ubuntu/
11:08 KDE’s new style and design system is underway
https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/plasma-sprint-2025-a-recap/
13:05 elementary OS has good features & apps coming
https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-may-2025/
15:25 New Linux distro comes from a Microsoft Employee
https://news.anduinos.com/post/2025/5/6/story-behind-anduinos-a-letter-from-anduin
17:14 Peertube mobile app is here
https://joinpeertube.org/news/app-v1
18:51 Mozilla afraid of Google search monopoly ruling
https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-revenue-share-doj-antitrust-remedies
21:14 US DOJ asks for Google ad business breakup
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/technology/google-advertising-technology-hearing.html
23:14 Open Letter against EU’s attacks on encryption
https://tuta.com/blog/open-letter-against-protecteu
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KDE planning big changes, Wikipedia adopts AI, OpenSUSE leaps into the future
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01:47 KDE sprint proposes big changes
https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-plasma-sprint/
05:20 KDE 3.5 lives on and gets an update
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.1.4
07:05 Wikipedia will adopt AI
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04/30/our-new-ai-strategy-puts-wikipedias-humans-first/
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Multigenerational/Artificial_intelligence_for_editors
09:20 OpenSUSE Leap 16 is a BIG change
https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/30/leap-16-enters-beta/
11:32 Firefox 138 adds a lot of stuff
https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-138-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/04/29/firefox-138-launches-with-improved-profile-management-and-security-updates/
13:41 Firefox 139 adds a terms of service pop-up
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-139-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect
15:48 More funding problems for Open Source
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/
17:36 Yahoo wants Chrome, works on their own browser
https://www.theverge.com/policy/655975/yahoo-search-web-browser-prototype-google-trial-antitrust-chrome
19:31 Apple must stop commissions outside of their store
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-must-halt-non-app-005603676.html
21:37 People don’t really use Microsoft’s AI tools
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-huge-venture-flatlines/
23:33 Proton 10 has a beta
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-10.0-1b
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OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, final COSMIC alpha, Fedora could drop X11 entirely
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02:12 OpenAI would buy Chrome if Google had to sell it
https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/ai/chatgpt-chief-says-openai-would-buy-chrome-if-google-is-selling
https://www.theverge.com/news/652746/google-samsung-gemini-default-placement-antitrust-trial
04:46 Final Cosmic alpha is here
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta
07:23 Fedora 43 proposal to drop GNOME X11 entirely
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandOnlyGNOME
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/99
09:33 GNOME STF progress report is HUGE
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/11/gnome-stf-2024/
13:12 Steam will drop 5 year old distros
https://linuxiac.com/steam-will-stop-working-on-outdated-linux-systems-this-august/
14:51 NVK adds support for older Nvidia GPUs
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-nvk-nvidia-vulkan-driver-now-vulkan-1-4-conformant-on-maxwell-pascal-and-volta-gpus/
16:41 Ubuntu moves forward with Rust core utilities
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/migration-to-rust-coreutils-in-25-10/59708
https://alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/22/coreutils-in-rust/
19:14 Linux beats Windows again on recent AMD CPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-7-pro-360-windows-linux/5
20:55 Chrome won’t ditch third party cookies
https://digiday.com/media/google-chrome-will-now-continue-to-use-third-party-cookies/
23:00 Owner of IGN & CNET sue OpenAI
https://www.theverge.com/news/656044/ziff-davis-sues-openai-ign-cnet-pcmag
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Fedora 42, Manjaro Immutable, Arco Linux shuts down
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02:03 Fedora 42 has been released
https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-42/
https://fedoramagazine.org/new-in-fedora-running-x86-programs-on-arm-systems/
04:37 Manjaro Immutable has an alpha
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-summit-public-alpha-now-available/176995
07:12 ArcoLinux shuts down
https://www.arcolinux.info/a-farewell-to-the-arcolinux-university/
09:13 Ubuntu 25.04 is out
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/plucky-puffin-release-notes/48687
10:53 GNOME Foundation posts an update
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/04/14/gnome-foundation-update-april-2025/
13:32 Nitrux builds an AppImage central repo
https://nxos.org/news/introducing-nx-apphub-cli-app-management-for-nitrux/
16:09 KDE Gear 25.04 brings many updates to KDE apps
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0/
18:17 LXQT 2.2 is out
https://linuxiac.com/lxqt-2-2-released-with-enhanced-wayland-support/
19:45 New Nvidia drivers add frame gen for every game
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/243334/
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/weve-tried-nvidia-smooth-motion-here-are-our-thoughts/#gid=1&pid=10
21:46 Google abused their monopoly on ad technology
https://apnews.com/article/google-illegal-monopoly-advertising-search-a1e4446c4870903ed05c03a2a03b581e
https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-found-guilty-of-having-illegal-ad-tech-monopolies-now-faces-possible-breakup
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Firefox's AI summary, Wayland restores windows, Framework 12 preorders open
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02:11 Firefox 139 adds AI summaries
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-nightly-introduces-experimental-link-previews-with-ai-summary
04:43 Wayland gets a protocol to restore window size and position
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/238
06:47 Framework 12 preorders are open
https://frame.work/fr/en/blog/framework-laptop-12-pre-orders-are-now-open
09:27 Tuxedo ARM laptop is far from ready
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/How-is-TUXEDOCOes-ARM-Notebook-Coming-Along.tuxedo
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Snapdragon-Laptop-Update
11:42 Apple M4 support on Linux isn’t coming soon
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M4-Linux-Rather-Painful
13:04 Microsoft’s AI detects 20 vulnerabilities in bootloaders
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-uses-ai-to-find-flaws-in-grub2-u-boot-barebox-bootloaders/
15:18 Nvidia open sources PhysX and Flow SDK
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-OSS-PhysX-Flow-GPU
16:52 Proton confirms Drive client for Linux
https://proton.me/blog/drive-roadmap-spring-2025
18:41 Wine 10.5 is out
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.5
19:27 Older AMD GPUs can now emulate ray tracing
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-25-1-will-make-indiana-jones-the-great-circle-playable-on-older-amd-gpus/
21:18 Valve’s new VR headset could come soon
https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/valve-leak-hints-that-its-next-vr-headset-could-be-landing-sooner-than-we-realized
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I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!