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01:35 KDE will drop X11 in 2027
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues
05:15 Collabora launches a new desktop office suite
https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/press-release-bringing-collabora-online-to-the-desktop/
07:20 Servo engine now accepts corporate sponsors
https://servo.org/blog/2025/11/21/sponsorship-tiers/
09:11 Arduino’s takeover by Qualcomm yields worrying changes
https://itsfoss.com/news/enshittification-of-arduino-begins/
11:08 Chrome OS will transform into AluminiumOS
https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092/
13:29 Igalia details their work for the Steam Frame and Steam Machine
https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-gaming/valve-engineer-confirms-the-steam-machine-wont-be-subsidized-heres-why-im-fearing-the-worst-for-the-price
15:52 Tuxedo gives up on Snapdragon laptops
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Drops-X1E-Laptop-Plans
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-X1E-Cancelled-DT
19:06 Tuxedo sends multiple patches to upstream their drivers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Uniwill-TUXEDO-Add-On-Patches
21:33 Ubuntu partners with AMI to have Ubuntu netinstall from UEFI
https://linuxiac.com/canonical-and-ami-partner-to-bring-native-ubuntu-netbooting-to-aptio-v-firmware/
23:20 Ubuntu replaces 2 more default GNOME apps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/ubuntu-26-04-lts-showtime-resources-default-apps
25:13 The Color pipeline API is merged
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Color-Pipeline-API-Ready
27:06 Microsoft admits Windows 11 is riddled with bugs
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/
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KDE's new design, Nvidia finally focuses on Linux, EU caves in to Big Tech
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01:50 Nvidia contributes to Nova driver
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Turing-Nova-Core-GSP
03:26 Nvidia wants to improve DRM and screencasting
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Less-DRM-API-Fragments
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Shortcomings-Screencast
06:09 NVK makes good progress
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Status-Update-2025
08:30 EU proposes to strip back privacy protections
https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal
https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
11:41 New Online Accounts for KDE
https://nicolasfella.de/posts/a-new-online-accounts-system
14:18 KDE’s design system taking shape
https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/design-system-progress-november-2025/
16:22 Zorin OS 18 reaches 1 million downloads in a month
https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-18-hits-1-million-downloads-in-just-one-month/
18:09 Budgie’s Wayland only version is in preview
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/releases/tag/v10.10-preview.1
19:23 Mozilla’s API to automate AI browsing and scraping
https://tabstack.ai/
21:57 Mastodon’s founder steps down, big funding secured
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon
https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-ceo-steps-down/
24:09 VKD3D Proton gets massive update
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases/tag/v3.0
25:30 Valve updates Steam Linux runtime
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/valve-put-up-a-new-steam-linux-runtime-4-0-with-a-move-towards-64-bit/
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Hybrid GPU support will be fixed, Google walks back sideloading policy
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01:57 Red Hat and System76 working on multi GPU
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Better-Linux-Multi-GPU-2025
04:30 Valve will change Linux gaming again
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
07:31 Android will still allow sideloading of unregistrered apps
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-power-users-install-unverified-apps-3615310/
09:21 Google releases device trees for recent Pixel phones
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Pixel-10-Google-DTs
10:44 Python gets donations surge
https://thenewstack.io/psf-gets-a-donor-surge-after-rejecting-anti-dei-federal-grant/
12:39 Rust Core Utilities get closer to the GNU tools
https://linuxiac.com/rust-coreutils-0-4-boosts-gnu-compatibility-to-85-percentage/
14:09 Sudo Rust has a few vulnerabilities
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-sudo-rs/+bug/2130623
15:11 GNOME parental controls making progress
https://blogs.gnome.org/ignapk/2025/11/10/digital-wellbeing-contract-screen-time-limits/
16:47 Meta used scam ads money to fund AI and VR
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/
19:33 Wikipedia asks AI companies to be responsible
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/wikipedia-urges-ai-companies-to-use-its-paid-api-and-stop-scraping/
21:37 Germany says OpenAI breached copyright for lyrics
https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-plaintiff-copyright-case-against-openai-2025-11-11/
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01:44 GNOME removes X11 code from Mutter entirely
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Drops-X11
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-kiosk/-/merge_requests/104/diffs?commit_id=ad69bc952837c45f1107c76d9a8bfde04659ca6f#d5a814ffc49d64c9d0308d6dda46c5ea6f869602
03:54 Debian adds hard dependency on Rust to APT
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/debian_apt_to_require_rust/
05:59 Ubuntu lays out plans for the future
https://www.zdnet.com/article/inside-canonicals-plan-to-make-ubuntu-26-04-the-linux-desktop-that-finally-goes-mainstream/
09:17 Another interview on Ubuntu’s vision for the desktop
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/canonical_jon_seager_qa/
12:38 Linux passes 3% on Steam
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/
14:17 Mozilla’s AI bot harms community translations
https://linuxiac.com/ai-controversy-forces-end-of-mozilla-japanese-sumo-community/
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446
17:05 Mint adds new System Information tools
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4936
18:47 Flatpak is making progress again
https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/flatpak-happenings/
20:48 Rust launches fund to support the language’s development
https://rustfoundation.org/media/announcing-the-rust-foundation-maintainers-fund/
22:29 elementary OS drops more updates
https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-november-2025/
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Python refuses $1.5M grant, Unity's second demise, AUR DDos
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01:48 Python says no to 1.5 million dollars
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/python_foundation_abandons_15m_nsf/
05:38 Unity Desktop is in trouble
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/regarding-ubuntu-unity-and-a-call-for-help/71095
07:42 AUR under attack again
https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-aur-hit-by-another-ddos-attack/
09:00 Cosmic & PopOS aim for Mid December stable release
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pop-OS-24.04-In-December
10:43 Firefox will require extensions to list what data they collect
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-new-firefox-extensions-must-disclose-data-collection-practices/
12:17 Ubuntu provides x86v3 packages now
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-variants-amd64v3-now-available-in-ubuntu-25-10/71312
14:03 KDE Linux explains why they don’t do packages
https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/25/kde-linux-deep-dive-package-management-is-amazing-which-is-why-we-dont-include-it/
16:11 Firefox is getting much better suggestions
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/better-search-suggestions/
18:19 Fedora 43 released
https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-43/
https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-atomic-desktops-in-fedora-linux-43/
19:55 Chromium flaw can crash the browser in a few seconds
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/brash_dos_attack_crashes_chromium
21:48 Linux runs 90% of Windows games
https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/index.html
23:42 Linux beats Windows on the Xbox handheld
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/rog-xbox-ally-runs-better-on-linux-than-the-windows-it-ships-with-new-test-shows-up-to-32-percent-higher-fps-with-more-stable-framerates-and-quicker-sleep-resume-times
25:42 Tsushima bypasses Steam Deck verified status
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/ghost-of-tsushima-gets-steam-deck-verified-as-the-devs-push-the-multiplayer-into-a-dlc/
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Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics.
This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
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!