26:02

S03:E85 Sep 12, 2026

Switzerland ditches Windows, Omarchy now raised $18.5M

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:41 Switzerland migrates away from Microsoft solutions https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/ 03:45 Omarchy now reaches $18.5M in funding https://linuxiac.com/omarchy-funding-surges-to-18-5m-with-digitaloceans-3m-pledge/ 06:16 GNOME prepares more formal process for project wide changes https://gitlab.gnome.org/sophie-h/rfcs/-/merge_requests/1 08:05 GNOME looking to do a fundraising campaign https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/-/work_items/1148 https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/release.gnome.org/-/work_items/69 09:32 Proposed app to replace Gwenview on KDE https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/06/photos-a-proposed-replacement-for-gwenview/ 11:33 KDE frameworks updated https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-30-improves-baloo-file-indexer-kwallet-and-system-monitor 12:56 More Wayland protocols on KDE https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Wayland-Commit-Timing 14:13 KDE 1 revival project looks cool https://linuxiac.com/midesktop-1-2-beta-brings-kde-1-revival-closer-to-daily-use/ 15:45 Patches to start making the Macbook Neo work with Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-A18-Pro-MacBook-Neo-Patch 16:47 New CAD software for Linux https://linuxiac.com/open-cad-studio-is-a-new-rust-based-open-source-cad-app-for-linux/ 18:29 Windows adds features we’ve had for decades https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11s-september-update-has-arrived-here-are-the-3-key-features-that-make-this-a-must-install-upgrade 20:23 GIMP starts work on GTK4 port https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.2.6-Released 22:02 PS5 Linux project now works better https://github.com/ps5-linux/ps5-linux-loader 23:55 You can play with DLSS5 on Linux too https://www.phoronix.com/news/DLSS5VKLayer

29:05

S03:E84 Sep 5, 2026

KDE is firing on all cylinders, Brave says they're the best browser, CERN moves to Debian

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:54 Brave say they outperform every other major browser https://brave.com/blog/brave-outperforms-other-browsers/ 04:58 Firefox 155 should load pages faster https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-155-faster-page-loads/ 06:45 CERN leaves Red Hat for Debian https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL 09:51 Debian says yes to AI https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00005.html 12:23 GNOME 51 will improve hybrid GPU support https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/5219 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-RC 14:01 Plasma 6.8 adds more accessibility features to Wayland https://saueseb.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/wayland-pain-points-dwell-clicker/ 15:28 KDE’s theme engine supports more KDE apps now https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/28/this-week-in-plasma-qtwidgets-apps-join-the-union/ 16:45 Artix drops XLibre after it pushes a maintainer to resign https://artixlinux.org/news.php#XLibre_support_discontinued https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,10283.msg61637.html#msg61637 19:08 KDE Connect redesign ready for testing https://tintotint.eu/programming/kde-connect2/ 20:38 FOSS Minecraft Luanti taken down by Microsoft https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/ 23:34 KDE Linux makes more progress towards its beta https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/31/this-month-in-kde-linux-august-2026/ 25:33 Grab bag of gaming news https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/game-launcher-launchbox-should-get-a-linux-version-in-2027/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/

25:32

S03:E83 Aug 29, 2026

Flatpak gets 500K€, Omarchy gets 8M€ and Nintendo nukes emulation again

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:55 Flatpak gets half a million in funding https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/ 04:07 Omarchy gets 8 million dollars https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-linux-distro-lands-a-massive-8m-boost/ https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/ 06:15 Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-takes-down-over-400-github-repositories-for-switch-emulators-in-one-go-relentless-dmca-strikes-tied-to-piracy-concerns-over-illegal-cryptographic-keys 08:26 GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships https://linuxiac.com/grapheneos-support-is-coming-to-motorola-flagships-in-2027/ https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730 09:44 Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-7-3-preview/ 11:20 BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems/4 13:19 Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak 14:45 Multikernel project has its first version https://linuxiac.com/multikernel-linux-releases-first-public-kernel-tree-based-on-linux-7-0/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ao34RJ7aZ2BLd67S@pop-os.localdomain/ 16:49 Asahi project now supports M3 macs https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/ 18:40 LibreOffice gets big improvements https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/libreoffice-268-released 20:52 Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/ill-just-use-google-maps-apple-maps-users-rebel-against-new-ads-that-you-cant-turn-off-even-with-an-icloud-subscription 23:36 Wine and Proton update https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.16-Released https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-11-0-2-is-out-with-lots-of-gaming-fixes-for-linux-steamos-steam-deck-steam-machine/

27:52

S03:E82 Aug 22, 2026

Linux saves potato gaming PCs, WSL beats native installs, more malicious compliance

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:55 Linux 7.3 could improve gaming on low VRAM systems https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/ 04:20 Ubuntu WSL grows faster than native Ubuntu installs https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/16/ubuntu-is-growing-faster-on-windows-11-than-on-native-linux-pcs-says-canonical/ 07:24 Google and Apple maliciously complying on their app stores https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/13/app-store-fees-apple-link-outs/ https://www.theverge.com/policy/979852/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier 10:45 GNOME 51 beta released https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Beta 12:09 Linux networking is overwhelmed with AI submissions https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Networking 14:02 Pine64 will stop Linux device production https://t.me/s/PINE64_News 15:31 GIMP 3.4 plans better PSD support and new file format https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/ 18:02 Ubuntu funds project to translate massive C projects into Rust https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/investing-in-automated-c-to-rust-translation/86369 20:38 Orion browser now in beta https://linuxiac.com/orion-browser-for-linux-officially-enters-beta/ 22:24 Digikam works on more A.I. features https://srirupa19.github.io/gsoc/2026/08/17/gsoc3.html 24:45 XWayland and X.org get new release candidates https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-26.1-RC1 https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2026-August/062281.html

30:51

S03:E81 Aug 15, 2026

Big changes coming to KDE & GNOME, tons of apps & services getting Linux clients

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:01 GNOME Shell might evolve quite a bit https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2026/08/11/gnome-shell-design-dreams/ 06:42 New KDE Goals look interesting https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/07/kde-goals-last-call-for-submissions/ 09:57 Epic Games Store will get a Linux client soon https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/epic-games-store-will-get-a-linux-version-sometime-soon/ 11:16 ChatGPT official app is on Linux now https://linuxiac.com/openai-launches-official-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-in-preview/ 12:18 Geforce Now is stable on Linux, available as Flatpak https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-linux-stable 13:48 Playstation Game Streaming and PC Game pass on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/asobi-remote-play-is-a-new-way-to-play-playstation-games-on-steamos-linux/ https://itsfoss.com/news/xodus-xbox-gamepass-linux/ 16:12 KDE 6.6 will become an LTS version https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/13/what-a-real-lts-looks-like-kubuntu-26-04/ 18:19 GPU acceleration coming to Windows VMs and Winboat https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/ https://github.com/winboat-org/winboat/tree/gpu-accel 21:37 Mint adds even more GUI system tools https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5050 24:20 Rust says “mostly no” to AI contributions https://forge.rust-lang.org/policies/llm-usage.html 26:42 Proton might work on a web browser https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/privacy-giant-proton-may-be-building-a-web-browser-but-its-community-turns-cold

28:04

S03:E80 Aug 8, 2026

Linux didn't pass 10% market share? AI optimization is the new SEO

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:18 Linux passes 10% market share in North America https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america#monthly-202506-202607 https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/ 06:01 AI models being fed ads and poisoned content https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640 https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/the-poison-ai-movement-wants-to-corrupt-chatgpt-and-gemini-to-make-them-useless-but-it-comes-with-a-huge-risk-of-collateral-damage 10:01 Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8 https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/07/31/fixing-multi-gpu.html 13:20 KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/wayland-and-kgamma/ 15:19 Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Frame https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lepton-and-fex-get-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-release/ 16:42 Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Staging-Reject-LLMs 19:08 Nvidia now sponsors LVFS https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/08/04/nvidia-is-now-supporting-the-lvfs/ 20:37 Bottles gets massive update https://linuxiac.com/bottles-65-released-with-over-100-changes-for-windows-apps-on-linux/ 23:03 Union KDE theming engine makes good progress https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summer-2026-update 25:45 New nasty Linux vulnerability https://github.com/V4bel/Zapscape

31:06

S03:E79 Aug 1, 2026

Valve wants FOSS AMD drivers on Windows, Framework laptop 13 Pro looks good for Linux, GoG on Linux

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:49 Valve sponsors work to bring FOSS AMD Drivers to Windows https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win32.html 04:46 Framework Laptop 13 pro looks solid on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro/11 https://frame.work/products/laptop13pro-amd-ai300/configuration/new https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/framework-laptop-13-pro-review-much-better-battery-much-worse-price/ 08:27 GoG working on a Linux client https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/ 10:24 Ubuntu Touch gets big update https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-24-04-2-0-and-24-04-1-4-release-4007 12:29 GNOME’s session restore won’t land in GNOME 51 https://linuxiac.com/gnome-is-building-session-save-and-restore-but-it-wont-make-gnome-51/ 14:12 Fedora working on a conflict of interest policy https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/conflict-of-interest-guidelines-policy-draft-feedback-please/197508 16:55 Firefox’s redesign lands in Nightly builds https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-firefoxs-brand-new-design-in-firefox-nightly 18:59 New full desktop environment written with AI https://starling.build/ 21:24 New patches improve gaming performance on AMD https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Better-1p-Lows 24:29 Debian now has 5 proposals to handle AI contributions https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002 27:04 Intel Arc GPUs getting better on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HuC-DG2-Alchemist-Xe 29:03 Keychron builds open source mouse firmware https://itsfoss.com/news/keychron-zgm-mouse-firmware/

32:14

S03:E78 Jul 25, 2026

Egos ruining Open Source projects, distros vs software conflicts

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:51 Upstream vs distros debate kicks off again https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-and-gnome-calendar-clash-resurfaces-months-later/ https://gitlab.com/linuxmint/pins/mint/gnome-calendar/-/work_items/1 https://tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-hostile-distributions-go-to-hurt-upstream/ 05:25 432 CVEs published in 2 days by the Linux kernel team https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/22/linux-kernel-team-publishes-432-cves-in-two-days/5276497 08:28 Flathub reviewers leaving https://bbhtt.in/posts/flathub-leave/ https://bbhtt.in/posts/taking-a-pause/ 11:26 Flathub’s AI slop ban was probably the right call https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/flathub-ai-slop-ban-data 13:20 Collabora talks about their work on the Steam Frame OS https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-port-for-holo-core.html 14:59 GNOME changes how they handle CVEs https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/07/20/some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/ 17:30 Firefox 153 released with containers https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-153-new-containers-feature 19:26 LibreOffice explains why MSOffice formats aren’t really open https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/ 22:09 JellyFin loses multiple contributors https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes https://linuxiac.com/jellyfin-loses-project-leader-and-core-team-member-in-major-shake-up/ 23:20 Libx11-compat trying to keep legacy apps alive on systems without x11 https://www.phoronix.com/news/libx11-compat 25:17 Thunderbird update adds accent color and better account setup https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/thunderbird-153-meadow-is-out-now/ 26:58 How AI is changing open source https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2026/07/23/how-ai-is-changing-open-source/

27:23

S03:E77 Jul 17, 2026

Torvalds says kernel will use AI tools, Wayland beats X11 for gaming, Age verification is getting worse

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:04 Torvalds talks Kernel and AI https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-summit-linus-torvalds/ 04:05 Torvalds says AI is here to stay on the kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Is-Not-Anti-AI https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html 07:19 Wayland gives better gaming performance than x11 https://www.phoronix.com/review/plasma-67-wayland-cachyos/3 09:11 Proton warns against Age verification https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-death-of-privacy-online-proton-launches-interactive-map-to-show-age-verification-laws-are-spreading-fast https://proton.me/age-verification 10:49 Cosmic gets its frosted glass UI & good updates https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-cosmic-desktop-environments-frosted-glass-effect https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-1-3-shines-with-its-new-frosted-glass-design/ 13:31 X11 server alternative vibe coded in Assembly https://isene.org/2026/07/Frame.html 15:59 GNOME working on a TestFlight-like interface https://modal.cx/blog/image-based-for-developers/ 18:32 Linux does run on anything https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-on-32x/ 20:56 Firefox will release new versions every 2 weeks https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/qlaQ1YSlOP8?pli=1 22:13 Mozilla study points all the dark patterns around Edge https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/browser-choice-windows-report-over-the-edge-2/ 24:41 AppManager makes AppImages much better https://github.com/kem-a/AppManager https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/appmanager-appimage-installer-linux

28:01

S03:E76 Jul 11, 2026

Germany says no to Microsoft, Windows 11 in freefall, Linux distro sabotaged

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:44 Another German state moves to open source https://www.regierung-mv.de/Aktuell/?id=221531&processor=processor.sa.pressemitteilung 04:25 Windows drops below 60% market share https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/ https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/ 07:36 OpenMandriva victim of sabotage from former contributor https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/statement-regarding-attempted-distribution-sabotage/8997 10:04 GNOME 51 has its first alpha https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Alpha https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Background-Blur 12:40 FSF makes progress on LibrePhone project https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2026/summer/ensuring-freedom-one-blob-at-a-time 14:07 Ubuntu outlines their work on ARM https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-on-arm-summer-26-update/84872 16:28 More performance improvements for AMD on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Marek-Double-VRS-RADV-Perf 17:42 Tuxedo OS moves to Debian Testing https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/A-new-foundation-for-TUXEDO-OS-Switching-to-Debian.tuxedo 21:14 Mint 23 will have a full Wayland session https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5046 22:31 Valve published Windows drivers for Steam machine https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/lies-about-driver-support-valve-now-lets-you-install-windows-11-on-a-steam-machine-but-many-people-dont-want-to-be-fooled-twice 25:21 Proton 11 released https://linuxiac.com/proton-11-0-released-with-big-compatibility-boost-for-linux-gaming/

28:33

S03:E75 Jul 4, 2026

Linux has a giant opportunity thanks to Sony, New Linux Tablet, Google fined 4 Billion

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:51 Sony & Microsoft just handed Linux a major win https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ryjyvjq41o https://www.techradar.com/gaming/sony-announces-that-the-ps3-and-vita-stores-are-going-offline-on-the-same-day-it-tells-us-we-wont-be-able-to-buy-physical-games-in-future-this-is-why-physical-media-matters https://www.techradar.com/streaming/entertainment/this-should-be-illegal-sony-is-deleting-over-500-movies-that-people-bought-from-their-digital-libraries-just-proving-further-why-4k-blu-rays-popularity-keeps-growing https://www.techradar.com/gaming/xbox-might-be-following-playstations-lead-as-new-reports-claim-microsoft-is-testing-a-new-disc-to-digital-game-feature-called-positron-and-the-next-gen-project-helix-console-wont-have-a-disc-drive 07:04 PS5 Linux project now works pretty well https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/playstation-5-linux-project-gets-upgraded-to-support-new-firmware-and-ps5-slim/ 08:21 New Linux tablet looks pretty nice https://junocomputers.com/juno-tab-4-wifi/ 09:59 Google Fined 4 billion euros https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/google-loses-final-appeal-to-overturn-41-billion-eu-fine/ 12:35 Some cool GNOME apps released and updated https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/06/twig-255/ 15:08 KDE whiteboard & new email Client https://linuxiac.com/meet-drawy-kde-infinite-whiteboard-app-for-linux/ https://melia.buxjr.com/ 17:19 Unpatched vulnerability in KDE 6.7 https://blog.kimiblock.top/2026/07/01/arbitrary-code-execution-in-kde-plasma/ 19:06 Microsoft launches WSL containers https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-container-is-now-available-for-public-preview/ 20:34 Canonical sponsors a Rust focused entity https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Gold-Trifecta-Tech https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-becomes-gold-sponsor-of-trifecta-tech-foundation https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995 22:39 Fedora revamps their Community process over AI desktop spin https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/O2ZTWWB4FWP2H5R2FHED2QTGCJSNJ53I/ 26:04 Kernel devs want to drop the “assisted by AI” tag https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AI-Attribution-Again

28:39

S03:E74 Jun 27, 2026

Steam machine disappointment, Epic made a Git competitor

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:37 Steam machine looks like a disappointment https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/685257114654870245 https://www.theverge.com/games/953411/valve-steamos-desktop-nvidia https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/steam-machine-review https://aftermath.site/steam-machine-review-price/ 06:57 SteamOS 3.8 image supports all AMD PCs https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227 08:28 Epic Games open sources new version control system https://linuxiac.com/epic-games-open-sources-lore-version-control-system/ 10:05 BcacheFS now no longer experimental https://linuxiac.com/bcachefs-is-no-longer-experimental-but-caution-still-applies/ 11:31 XFCE has its first Wayland compositor https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/06/xfwl4s-first-preview-release 12:42 Cosmic moves to version 1.1 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/cosmic-desktop-update-system-monitor 14:03 Wikipedia claps back against AI https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260622-wikipedia-won-t-let-ai-edit-articles-cofounder-says 15:30 Wikipedia cofounder banned for canvassing https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-cofounder-larry-sanger-banned-from-site-for-canvassaing/ 19:00 Solution proposed to end all captchas https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudflare-collaborates-with-leading-browsers-to-develop-a-privacy-first-protocol-for-the-global-internet/ 21:15 New initiative for improve graphics end 3D software on Wayland https://www.aswf.io/blog/academy-software-foundation-launches-new-wayland-for-artists-working-group/ 23:21 GE Proton fixes all media related issues in games https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton11-1 25:45 DXVK 3.0 gives huge performance improvements https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v3.0

33:32

S03:E73 Jun 20, 2026

GNOME Foundation issues, AUR under attack, Firefox's big plans

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:13 GNOME Foundation issues and lack of transparency https://discourse.gnome.org/t/2026-board-candidate-robert-mcqueen/35308/31 09:46 AUR compromised with malware and spam https://www.sonatype.com/blog/atomic-arch-npm-campaign-adds-malicious-dependency https://linuxiac.com/yay-13-0-adds-new-review-and-automation-features/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-Russian-Spam 13:09 Mozilla shares big Firefox roadmap https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-roadmap-152/ https://www.firefox.com/en-US/whatsnext/ 16:06 X11 server rewritten using Rust and AI https://itsfoss.com/news/yserver/ 17:45 Linux kernel 7.1 released https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-71-features-changes 19:15 Chrome removes manifest v2 support entirely https://linuxiac.com/chrome-closes-another-door-on-classic-ublock-origin/ 20:51 Firefox for Android will rely on Google Play integrity API https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/mozilla-firefox-android-google-play-integrity 22:41 Plasma 6.7 released https://youtu.be/5qJSapprdSQ 24:39 SonicDE forks KDE into an X11 desktop https://itsfoss.com/sonicde-x11-kde-plasma-fork/ 26:39 More details on Ubuntu’s AI features https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-myna-speech-to-text-for-ubuntu-desktop/84251 28:33 The EU won’t stop killing videogames https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/european-commission-rejects-new-laws-for-stop-destroying-videogames/ 31:13 Steam machine release date leaked https://goodtech.info/valve-steamos-beta-leak-hardware-steam-machine/

29:21

S03:E72 Jun 6, 2026

EU's ditches Google Search, Brave's Paid browser, Ubuntu makes big moves

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com Links: 02:08 EU parliament ditches Google for Qwant https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-search-engine/ 03:34 EU unveils their plan to ditch Big Tech https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plots-long-game-against-us-digital-supremacy/ 06:59 Brave launches debloated version for $60USD https://brave.com/blog/brave-origin/ 09:20 Canonical takes over the maintenance of Flutter on Desktop https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/flutter-desktop-canonical-maintained 10:55 Ubuntu wants to add speech to text to all text fields https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/ubuntu-speech-to-text-ai 12:40 X11 disappears in 5 months on Plasma https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/ 14:36 New solution to run Windows on Linux with full integration https://itsfoss.com/winpodx/ 16:43 Cosmic shares screenshots of their blurred translucent interface https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Frosted-Glass 18:07 Acer launches Debian based handheld https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/acer-nitro-blaze-link-remote-play-handheld-acers-computex-launches/ https://www.pcmag.com/news/acer-launching-streaming-only-handheld-gaming-pc 19:27 Microsoft adds the Linux core utilities to Windows https://itsfoss.com/news/windows-coreutils/ 20:45 /e/OS grows a lot, and has some great stuff planned https://gaelduval.com/joining-the-wave-murena-e-os-2026-roadmap/ 23:01 Microsoft will de-activate older Office suites people bought https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)#cite_note-ms-learn-cert-1 24:36 Steam machine and Frame planned for summer release https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/716780409378048028 25:53 UK orders Google to have attribution and opt-outs for AI summaries https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/google-ordered-to-put-clearer-links-in-ai-search-and-let-uk-publishers-opt-out/

26:46

S03:E71 Jun 1, 2026

No Age verification for Linux, New KDE theme, Flatpak redesign with systemD

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com Links: 01:43 No age verification for Linux and Open source https://www.phoronix.com/news/California-AB-1856 https://itsfoss.com/news/age-verification-open-source-exemptions/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/linux-and-open-source-getting-age-checking-exemptions-could-be-problematic/ 04:30 New KDE theme shows a few work in progress elements https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/ocean-design-for-plasma-may-updates/ 06:36 Flatpak Next redesign might depend on systemD https://linuxiac.com/flatpaks-future-may-leave-non-systemd-distros-behind/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AXBfsiaQNk&t=16218s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt4cUf_AgUg 09:57 New Mint release gets more cool improvements https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5025 12:21 AMD makes Linux users pay for a tool that’s free on WIndows https://itsfoss.com/news/amd-vivado-bait-and-switch-on-linux-users/ 14:29 5500 Github repos infected with propagating malware https://safedep.io/megalodon-mass-github-repo-backdooring-ci-workflows/#full-list-of-compromised-github-repositories 15:52 LibreOffice outlines plans for Web, Mobile and a better UI https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/27/new-web-and-mobile-strategy-for-libreoffice/ 17:53 Ubuntu now has reproducible dev environments https://canonical.com/blog/introducing-workshop-sandboxed-development-environments 19:37 EU proposes actual funding for real European infrastructure https://www.techradar.com/pro/eu-to-back-european-alternatives-to-us-dominated-software-and-services-in-major-push-for-tech-sovereignty https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/28/europe-told-to-cool-its-datacenter-boom-before-water-and-power-run-short/5247994 22:00 Linux Foundation launches open source license for AI models https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-releases-openmdw-1.1-nvidia-adopts-openmdw-for-cosmos-isaac-gr00t-ising-and-nemotron-ai-model-families 24:10 Steam Deck gets insane price increase https://www.ign.com/articles/the-steam-deck-is-sold-out-again-even-after-the-huge-price-rise

29:03

S03:E70 May 23, 2026

Linus Torvalds speaks on AI, More Adobe on Linux, big browser redesigns

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com Links: 01:37 Torvalds talks about AI reports https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-AI-Tools-Can-Be-Great 04:13 Torvalds merges guidelines for Linux security and AI reports https://linuxiac.com/linus-torvalds-merges-new-linux-kernel-security-bug-guidelines/ 06:51 Wine now runs Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux https://github.com/sander110419/lightroom-cc-on-linux 09:22 Vivaldi & Firefox revamp their whole user interface https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new-firefox-design/ 13:07 Greg Koah Hartman says Rust could eliminate 80% of CVEs https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-rust-cve-reduction/ 14:48 Fedora removes Deepin Desktop packages https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3409 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YFZBLHOTVMINNY5I7JSO4JOXHFH3SARN/ 16:50 Changes for Bitwarden have the community worried https://linuxiac.com/bitwarden-faces-questions-after-quiet-leadership-and-messaging-changes/ 18:42 New Module Jail tool to mitigate Linux flaws https://linuxiac.com/modulejail-blocks-unused-linux-kernel-modules-to-limit-attack-surface/ 20:53 Microsoft uses Fedora as its base for Azure https://itsfoss.com/news/azure-linux-4/ https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/blob/4.0/README.md 22:28 HP sponsors LVFS https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/05/20/lvfs-sponsorship-announcement-hp/ 24:11 Fedora surveys contributors over “verified” status https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-verified-what-does-the-community-think/ 26:36 OnlyOffice 9.4 clarifies their license https://www.clubic.com/actualite-613456-onlyoffice-clarifie-sa-licence-apres-la-rupture-avec-nextcloud-voici-ce-qui-change-pour-vous.html https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/onlyoffice-9-4-released

26:47

S03:E69 May 16, 2026

KDE gets €1M, 3 big vulnerabilities for Linux, EU privacy disaster brewing

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:00 KDE gets 1.2M euros from STF https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/ 04:49 DirtyFrag vulnerability & Killswitch proposed https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/08/active-attack-dirty-frag-linux-vulnerability-expands-post-compromise-risk/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0.6-Released https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-killswitch-proposal/ 06:55 Yet another vulnerability for Linux https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-fragnesia-linux-flaw-lets-attackers-gain-root-privileges/ 07:51 And another Linux flaw discovered https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn 09:33 Plasma 6.7 beta released https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_6#Plasma_6.7 12:22 EU wants Google to share anonymized user data with other engines https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/google-is-not-collaborative-and-not-in-the-spirit-of-complying-with-this-regulation-can-the-eu-commission-strong-arm-google-into-levelling-the-playing-field-of-the-search-engine-market-and-is-this-really-in-the-interest-of-your-privacy 16:39 Fedora discusses making an “AI desktop spin”“ https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-ai-developer-desktop-objective/184941 https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-ai-developer-desktop-objective/184941/54 https://www.techradar.com/pro/i-have-zero-evidence-in-front-of-me-that-users-are-being-driven-away-from-fedora-because-of-ai-ubuntu-and-fedora-confirmed-to-both-get-ai-support-soon https://linuxiac.com/fedora-ai-desktop-initiative-blocked-after-council-vote-reversal/ 20:38 Abstract brings some of their software to Linux https://abstract3d.com/2026/05/01/abstract-rolls-out-native-linux-support-built-for-the-pipelines-that-power-production/ 22:43 CEMU infected with malware https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/cemu-linux-malware https://rentry.org/cemu-security-psa 24:06 Wine improves Wayland driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Pointer-Warp

24:08

S03:E68 May 9, 2026

More Office Suite drama, chrome installs AI model without consent, Cool Plasma 6.7 things

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:35 LibreOffice questions the sovereignty of Euro office https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/05/thank-you-on-behalf-of-odf 04:17 Plasma 6.7 will come with its new style engine https://9to5linux.com/kdes-new-css-based-style-engine-union-is-coming-to-kde-plasma-6-7 06:27 Plasma 6.7 fixes big performance issues https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/05/06/making-wl-shm-fast.html 08:27 Google Chrome installs a model on device without consent https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ 11:20 Linux kernel guidelines for adding new filesystems https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/commit/?h=vfs-7.2.misc&id=b34d597faae60a4c89235205478497b975e86bc5 14:13 Pilot project for open, Linux based workspaces in the Netherlands https://vng.nl/artikelen/digitale-werkplek-geen-memo-maar-demo-werkplekken-in-open-source 15:40 Someone remade Unity Desktop with Wayfire and libadwaita https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-unity-desktop-wayfire-recreation 18:04 Dell and Lenovo now sponsor LVFS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS 19:17 Ubuntu’s Twitter account compromised https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-twitter-compromised/ 20:38 Valve opens reservation queue for Steam Controllers https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/valve-announce-a-reservation-system-for-the-new-steam-controller/ 21:37 Valve publishes Steam Controller CAD files https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license

32:16

S03:E67 May 2, 2026

Ubuntu's servers attacked, Linux beats Windows again, Ubuntu will add AI to the distro

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:40 Ubuntu’s infrastructure is under attack https://thecybersecguru.com/news/massive-attack-ubuntu-canonical-313-team-extortion/ 03:30 New nasty vulnerability for all Linux distros https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/copy-fail-linux-root-exploit/ https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions 05:20 Framework Pro’s Linux version outsells the Windows one https://www.pcworld.com/article/3123900/framework-new-linux-laptop-is-selling-faster-than-its-windows-one.html 06:33 Ubuntu LTS beats Windows 11 in benchmarks, again https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-windows-11/7 08:07 Ubuntu will add AI features in the future https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130 10:16 Ubuntu clarifies their inclusion of AI features https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130/41 12:30 FSF doesn’t like the Responsible AI licenses https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/rail-are-nonfree-and-unethical https://www.licenses.ai/ai-licenses 15:28 EU app for age verification is structurally flawed https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eus-age-verification-app-has-a-privacy-problem-and-it-may-be-more-than-just-a-bug-in-an-app 18:07 Steam Controller announced at 99USD https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller https://www.techradar.com/computing/peripherals-accessories/valve-steam-controller-2026 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/valve-have-plans-for-the-steam-deck-2-plus-a-brief-steam-machine-steam-frame-update/ 20:25 Anthropic now funds Blender https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/ https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/blender-change-the-anthropic-ai-funding-deal-with-discussions-planned-for-ai-policies/ 23:59 Fedora 44 released https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44/ https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-in-fedora-kde-plasma-desktop-44/ https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-44-is-now-available/ 25:43 PS5 can run Linux now https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ps5-linux-steam https://github.com/ps5-linux/ps5-linux-loader 28:07 New campaign fighting back against Android lockdown https://keepandroidopen.org/en/

24:23

S03:E66 Apr 25, 2026

FSF settles the Office Suite debacle, good news on age verification, Mozilla & Debian unwarranted drama

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:45 FSF weighs in on the OnlyOffice vs EuroOffice debate https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/agpl-is-not-a-tool-for-taking-freedom-away 03:55 More age verification news https://9to5linux.com/colorado-age-attestation-bill-may-exclude-open-source-oses-and-apps https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-04-21-california-age-verification-law/ 06:35 Proton’s CEO talks age verification https://proton.me/blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online 08:50 People lose their minds over Mozilla’s new mascot https://itsfoss.com/news/mozillas-firefox-mascot-gender-controversy/ 10:08 Debian elects new project lead https://linuxiac.com/debian-names-a-new-leader-for-the-project/ 11:35 Ubuntu 26.04 released https://itsfoss.com/news/kubuntu-26-04-lts/ https://youtu.be/4MYxtL0AW2g 14:37 Ubuntu’s audit of the Rust Core Utilities https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/80773 16:05 New Linux powered console https://playnix.io/ 17:41 Firefox talks more about their Smart Window feature https://www.firefox.com/en-US/smart-window/?view=waitlist https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/smart-window-models 19:36 Mozilla found 271 flaws using Anthropic Mythos https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/ 21:46 Valve gives devs more info on how their game runs on Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/valve-make-steps-to-improve-steam-deck-verification-giving-developers-more-performance-data/

26:28

S03:E65 Apr 18, 2026

Germany's plan for Open Source, Age verification gets worse,

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:34 Germany outlines their plan to move to open source (link in German) https://deutschland-stack.gov.de/gesamtbild/ 03:39 USA might have nation wide age verification laws https://linuxiac.com/federal-bill-would-bring-os-level-age-verification-to-the-entire-us/ 05:34 EU has an age verification app ready https://www.dw.com/en/eu-chief-urges-bloc-wide-push-on-age-verification-app-to-protect-children-online/a-76788202 07:27 Linux kernel 7.0 released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/linux-7-0-kernel-features 09:37 Linux kernel accepts A.I. code https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst 11:09 Chrome has 47% better performance than Firefox https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026 12:51 Open SUSE Tumblewed will use SystemD as the bootloader https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-tumbleweed-switches-fresh-installs-to-systemd-boot/ 14:50 Fedora 44 delayed a week https://linuxiac.com/fedora-44-release-delayed-as-final-blocker-bugs-remain-open/ https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/44/final/buglist 15:43 Steam Controller might be arriving soon https://www.techradar.com/gaming/gaming-accessories/valves-steam-controller-launch-looks-imminent-based-on-new-public-records-and-it-might-finally-give-me-the-perfect-excuse-to-build-a-custom-steam-machine 16:49 KDE sprint for remapping gestures, virtual keyboard & more https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/04/15/2026/_kde_mega_sprint 18:14 Plasma gets per-monitor virtual desktops https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-per-screen-virtual-desktops/ 19:58 Mint won’t have a release until the end of the year https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5019 22:19 Proton 11 beta released https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-11.0-1-beta1 23:33 Mozilla releases Thunderbolt, their own AI client https://www.thunderbolt.io/ https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbolt https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbolt/blob/main/TELEMETRY.md

26:15

S03:E64 Apr 11, 2026

France is moving the country to Linux and FOSS, KDE gets more themes

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:44 France starts their move to Linux https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/ https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ 04:37 More distros speak on age verification https://getsol.us/2026/04/solus-and-age-verification/ https://forum.zorin.com/t/statement-about-age-verification-laws/61052 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/04/msg00001.html 07:24 KDE’s Oxygen and Air themes almost fixed https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/halfway-there-to-6-7-updates-on-oxygen-and-air/ 09:04 Mesa says they’ll accept Ai generated code https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Two-Gen-AI-Policies 11:18 New driver proposed to fight malicious USB devices https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-driver-proposal-malicious-hid-devices/ 13:31 Fedora adds exception for Mesa updates https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Updates-Exception-Fedora 14:38 Cosmic update improves the file manager a lot https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-1-0-9-released-with-better-files-settings-and-applets/ 16:14 Google’s AI overview lies millions of times each hour https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/ 18:24 Open Source client for GeForce Now https://opennow.zortos.me/ https://goodtech.info/opennow-client-geforce-now-open-source-anti-afk-telemetrie/ 20:08 Anthropic donates 1.5M to Apache Foundation https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces-1-5m-donation-from-anthropic 21:45 Valve optimizes Linux for gaming with lower VRAM https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Better-Gaming-Low-vRAM 24:12 Wine 11 revives Android support & fixes Mod support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/wine-11-6-is-an-exciting-release-to-make-modding-windows-games-on-linux-simpler/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.6-Released

26:40

S03:E63 Apr 4, 2026

What is happening to our Office Suites?! Wayland fixes 2 major features

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:55 OnlyOffice accuses EuroOffice of breaking their license https://github.com/Euro-Office/ https://linuxiac.com/onlyoffice-accuses-euro-office-of-license-violations/ 04:01 OnlyOffice suspends partnership with Nextcloud https://www.neowin.net/news/onlyoffice-suspends-nextcloud-partnership-over-unapproved-euro-office-fork/ 05:37 Trouble between Collabora and The Document Foundation https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/ 08:28 Wayland session restore protocol is now official https://itsfoss.com/news/wayland-session-management/ 10:02 Wayland fractional scaling improvements https://www.phoronix.com/news/xx-fractional-scale-v2-MR-KWin 11:05 Copilot slots ads into PRs and merge requests https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/ https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-is-horrific-github-kills-copilot-pull-request-ads-after-user-backlash 13:36 Ubuntu MATE loses its maintainer https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-mate-needs-new-maintainer 15:17 Ubuntu 26.04 raises minimum system requirements https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-26-04-minimum-ram-requirement/ 17:15 GNOME fully drops Google Drive support https://itsfoss.com/news/gnome-drops-google-drive-support/ 19:11 Linux passes 5% market share on Steam https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-smashes-past-5-percent-on-the-steam-survey-for-the-first-time/ 20:48 Nvidia’s HDR & color management support in preview https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-announce-a-preview-of-drm-per-plane-color-pipeline-api-support-on-linux-good-for-hdr/ 22:19 Malware in open source rose 14x in 2025 https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/new-research-malware-in-open-source-ecosystems-surges-14x-as-attackers-hijack-trusted-packages 24:43 Wine could move to Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/a-future-wine-release-could-use-zink-to-run-opengl-via-vulkan/

28:05

S03:E62 Mar 28, 2026

The Linux Age verification situation is escalating & Other Linux Weekly News

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:47 GrapheneOS won’t comply with age verification laws https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws 03:27 SystemD adds date of birth field for age verification https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/ 05:13 SystemD forked to remove date of birth field https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification/ 08:11 Fedora project lead suggests using standard Age check API https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-leader-suggests-age-verification-api/ https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/a-practical-architectural-solution-to-os-level-age-verification-laws/183387 10:33 SteamOS adds Steam Machine support, Wayland by default https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.8-Preview https://www.techradar.com/gaming/steam-deck/valves-steam-machine-gets-its-first-support-update-ahead-of-launch-via-steamos-preview-3-8-0-and-it-includes-one-major-fix-ive-been-waiting-for 12:16 electron details their work on Wayland support https://www.electronjs.org/blog/tech-talk-wayland 14:03 LibreOffice adds donation banner https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26-Donation-Banner 15:23 Firefox 149 is a big update https://linuxiac.com/firefox-149-now-available-for-download-brings-split-view/ 17:13 GNOME starts their fellowship program https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2026/03/24/introducing-gnome-fellowship/ 19:17 Ubuntu makes changes to GRUB for security https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/streamlining-secure-boot-for-26-10/79069 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-security-center-ubuntu-pro 20:58 Ubuntu 26.04 beta released https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.04/changes-since-previous-interim/ 22:43 Plasma 6.6 beats GNOME 50 in graphics performance https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-gnome-kde/4 24:11 NVK + Nouveau makes massive progress https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-nouveau/7 25:45 Github will use all your user data to train Copilot https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

29:50

S03:E61 Mar 21, 2026

Manjaro is in trouble, Germany mandates open formats, Google destroys sideloading

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:08 Manjaro community wants to split from company https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171/28 05:19 Android dev verification is a nightmare https://itsfoss.com/news/android-developer-verification/ 07:45 Google made the worst sideloading UX possible https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-details-new-24-hour-process-to-sideload-unverified-android-apps/ 09:51 Germany mandates the ODF format https://linuxiac.com/germany-mandates-odf-for-public-administration/ 11:36 Orion browser has a public beta https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/orion-for-linux-beta-release 13:22 CachyOS is the most used gaming distro right now? https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-dethrones-arch-as-the-top-desktop-distro-for-linux-gamers-on-protondb/ 15:02 Ubuntu 26.04 has a slight redesign https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-2604-new-folder-icons 17:00 Firefox talks about their upcoming new features https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-148-149-new-features/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/meet-kit/ 19:11 GNOME 50 is released, and it’s a massive update https://youtu.be/lrLlQlvHV1Q 20:41 Google offers AI agent to review Linux Kernel code https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sashiko-Linux-AI-Code-Review 22:38 Thunderbird shares their roadmaps https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/03/introducing-our-public-roadmaps/ 24:35 Playstation 5 runs Linux now https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-AMDGPU-PS5-Patches https://x.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841 25:53 DLSS 5 gets massively bad reactions https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/03/gamers-react-with-overwhelming-disgust-to-dlss-5s-generative-ai-glow-ups/

28:00

S03:E60 Mar 14, 2026

Kwin, Lutris & AMD drivers add AI generated code, SUSE could be sold, new hope for degoogled ROMs

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:01 AMD drivers, Kwin and Lutris now have AI-generated code https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/lutris-now-being-built-with-claude-ai-developer-decides-to-hide-it-after-backlash https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-HDR-KWin-Claude-Code 06:18 New EU led Android Integrity API https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paying-without-Google-New-consortium-wants-to-remove-custom-ROM-hurdles-11204037.html 08:40 SUSE could be sold, yet again https://www.reuters.com/business/eqt-eyes-potential-6-billion-sale-linux-pioneer-suse-sources-say-2026-03-09/ 10:16 LFS is now systemD only https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-announce/2026-03/msg00000.html 11:57 AI translations add hallucinations to Wikipedia articles https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/ 14:09 Anthropic detects tons of vulnerabilities in Firefox https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/anthropic-says-it-found-a-heap-of-firefox-security-flaws-using-new-claude-tools-says-ai-is-making-it-possible-to-detect-severe-security-vulnerabilities-at-highly-accelerated-speeds 15:52 Valve & RADV devs work on per-game driver optimization https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-RADV-More-Per-Game-Tuning 17:20 Proposal for age verification closed https://linuxiac.com/xdg-age-verification-interface-proposal-closed/ https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/116201429639953387 19:15 Chromium gets native ARM build for Linux https://blog.chromium.org/2026/03/bringing-chrome-to-arm64-linux-devices.html 20:42 Unity 3D will better support Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/unity-announce-expanded-supported-for-steam-linux-steam-deck-and-steam-machine/ 21:50 Valve details their new Steam Verified program https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/valve-detail-steam-frame-and-steam-machine-verified-requirements-at-gdc-2026/ 25:49 Next Xbox is a PC, could compete with Steam machine https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/xbox-project-helix-confirmed-to-run-xbox-and-pc-games-competition-for-the-steam-machine/

26:17

S03:E59 Mar 6, 2026

Age verification Laws could break Linux? GrapheneOS's new partner, Plasma drops X11 in August

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:07 Californian law forces distros to add age verification https://natlawreview.com/article/california-introduces-new-age-verification-requirements-software-applications https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-fedora-linux-mint-eye-age-verification-amid-california-law-backlash https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification 08:01 Motorola announces GrapheneOS partnership https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/ 09:25 Plasma will drop X11 in August this year https://community.kde.org/index.php?title=Plasma%2FWayland_Known_Significant_Issues&diff=106180&oldid=106129 11:01 Mesa ponders their AI or NO AI policy https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/40109/diffs?commit_id=0c1a286f2aea094f6a4709b160632ee1403db596 13:16 Manjaro gaming handheld delayed https://itsfoss.com/news/orange-pi-neo-delayed/ 15:18 Firefox shows its UI redesign https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-nova-redesign 16:53 LibreOffice takes shots as Microsoft and OnlyOffice https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/27/odf-is-just-the-first-of-lo-advantages/ 18:56 Google opens Android up to stores, reduces commissions https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-era-for-choice-and-openness.html https://www.theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032 22:26 EA hires to bring their anti cheat to Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ea-javelin-anticheat-job-listing-mentions-future-support-for-linux-and-proton/ 23:39 Playstation stops porting their games to PC https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/kiss-goodbye-to-ghost-of-yotei-on-pc-sony-is-u-turning-on-its-lets-put-our-games-on-pc-strategy-and-bunkering-back-down-with-console-exclusives-says-bloomberg/

23:17

S03:E58 Feb 28, 2026

Nvidia & Intel focus on Linux, KDE Connect redesign, New standard for digital ecosystems

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:34 Nvidia &Intel hire Linux devs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-hiring-linux-driver-engineers-to-help-with-vulkan-proton-and-more/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-Jobs-February-2026 04:19 KDE Connect plans full redesign https://tintotint.eu/programming/kde-connect/ 06:57 New open standard aims to unify digital services https://goodtech.info/openburo-standard-europeen-orchestration-alternative-microsoft-365-dinum-linagora/ https://open-buro.eu/#news 09:19 Ubuntu adds password feedback for sudo https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-26-04-sudo-password-asterisks 11:02 Firefox 148 out with AI killswitch https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/firefox-148-released-ai-kill-switch 14:00 LibreOffice Online resumes efforts https://linuxiac.com/libreoffice-online-project-reopened-with-new-community-focus/ 16:04 Australia shares open source malware analysis suite https://itsfoss.com/news/azul-malware-analysis-repository/ 17:29 ARM & Linaro create CoreCollective for ARM https://www.phoronix.com/news/CoreCollective 19:21 SystemD removes support for SysV Init https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v260-rc1 21:25 Microsoft improves compatibility between DX and Vulkan https://www.phoronix.com/news/DX-Shader-Compiler-Better-VLK

30:38

S03:E57 Feb 21, 2026

GNOME 50 and GNOME OS progress, KDE debunks systemD FUD

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com Links: 01:47 GNOME 50 got a massive beta https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-desktop-environment-enters-public-beta-testing-with-more-new-features 04:13 GNOME OS nearing stable release https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/02/18/gnome-os-hackfest-fosdem-2026/ 07:22 Plasma 6.6 released https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/ 10:21 KDE debunks FUD around systemD https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1r68jmi/a_quick_antifud_faq_to_debunk_the_kde_is_forcing/ 13:10 Budgie 11 gearing up for first preview https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/chirp-5 14:51 EU takes aim at infinite scrolling https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/ 17:48 Microsoft starts Trusted Tech Alliance https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-launches-trusted-tech-alliance-to-try-and-restore-some-faith-in-big-tech 19:43 Valve says parts shortages are the cause of Deck stock issues https://www.techradar.com/gaming/steam-deck/valve-confirms-steam-deck-oled-stock-issues-are-due-to-memory-and-storage-shortages-heres-what-it-means-for-the-steam-machine 21:44 EU parliament blocks AI features https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears/ 23:51 AsteroidOS brings Linux to your smartwatch https://itsfoss.com/news/asteroidos-2-release/ 25:55 Nextcloud Hub 26 brings big updates https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-winter/ 28:19 Project aims to bring NetBSD utilities to Linux https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

35:26

S03:E56 Feb 13, 2026

New kernel boosts Linux performance, Mint makes big changes, Discord Backlash

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:02 Mint thinks about making fewer releases https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4991 05:28 Discord facing backlash over privacy and ID checks https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/discord-tries-to-share-clarity-on-disastrous-age-verification-plans-amid-mass-cancellations-but-safe-to-say-its-not-helping-its-getting-thoroughly-community-noted 09:10 Linux kernel 6.19 released https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-19-released/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-6-19-kernel-features-amd-performance 11:39 Machine Learning proposed as a kernel recommendations tool https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/47d21a6821c4b2d085f7b97bcdaa205bfcb0e0ad.camel@ibm.com/ 13:55 Restoring older KDE themes https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/beating-an-old-but-not-dead-horse-what-to-do-with-the-oxygen-and-air-themes/ 16:35 Ubuntu drops their repo management GUI https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-26-04-drops-software-and-updates-gui 18:28 KDE Linux makes big progress with a beta https://pointieststick.com/2026/02/06/busy-months-in-kde-linux/ 21:28 KDE Linux adds their own container solution https://blog.lasath.org/2026/02/kapsule-it-shipped-and-nobody-died.html 23:01 Experimental Wayland protocol for multi windows app https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Experimental-Zones 25:10 Mesa 26 released with raytracing improvements https://9to5linux.com/mesa-26-0-open-source-graphics-stack-officially-released-heres-whats-new 26:53 Steam Deck sold out in North America and Asia https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-deck-completely-out-of-stock-in-the-us-canada-and-asia/ 28:55 Fake AI extensions stole 300K users’ credentials and emails https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-chrome-extensions-with-300k-users-steal-credentials-emails/ 31:37 New system proposed to fight AI slop contributions https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch?ref=itsfoss.com

25:57

S03:E55 Feb 7, 2026

Is Vibe coding killing open source? Big Cosmic desktop roadmap

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:57 Vibe coding is killing open source? https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/ 06:18 System76 details a big Cosmic Roadmap https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-epoch-2-and-3-roadmap 09:43 Steam machine and Frame delayed https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-machine-steam-frame-faq-ram-and-storage-crisis-to-blame-for-no-pricing-or-dates/ 12:02 More EU moves away from big tech https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/ https://www.techradar.com/pro/another-european-government-agency-is-preparing-to-ditch-microsoft-if-needed 14:48 GNOME 50 adds more features still https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-VRR-Not-Experimental https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Remote-Desktop-HiDPI 16:24 DuckDuck Go users say a massive no to AI search https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-asked-users-how-they-feel-about-ai-search-90-percent-hate-it https://voteyesornoai.com/ 18:06 SUSE proposes to better structure the openSUSE project https://linuxiac.com/suse-vp-jeff-mahoney-publishes-draft-governance-proposal-for-opensuse/ 20:03 Linux From Scratch drops System V Init https://linuxiac.com/linux-from-scratch-drops-system-v-init-calls-decision-regrettable/ 22:25 GIMP wants GPU acceleration https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-Post-3.2-Features 24:11 Sudo maintainer calls for financial sponsors https://www.millert.dev/

30:13

S03:E54 Jan 31, 2026

France moves to open source, modular Linux handheld PC, big Linux gaming progress

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:01 France moves to Open Source https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con 03:58 Modular handheld Linux PC raises €500K https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer/description 06:22 Open Gaming Collective shares resource for Linux gaming https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/open-gaming-collective-ogc-formed-to-push-linux-gaming-even-further/ 08:44 Contingency plan for the Linux kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Continuity-Doc 10:51 XFCE develops Wayland compositor https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html 12:59 SonicDE wants to keep KDE X11 alive https://www.phoronix.com/news/SonicDE-Improving-KDE-X11-Code 15:34 Cosmic shows their blurred transparent look https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/cosmic-desktop-frosted-glass-effect 17:01 Another Cosmic Update https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.4 18:14 Valve sued in the UK for dominant position https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/uk-lawsuit-against-valve-given-the-go-ahead-steam-owner-facing-up-to-656-million-in-damages/ 20:45 Bottles adds Analysis tool to make EXEs run better https://usebottles.com/blog/2026-01-25-bottles-61-with-eagle.md 22:54 GeForce Now has a Linux app https://www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-gaming/nvidia-just-gave-gamers-another-reason-to-switch-to-linux-a-shiny-new-geforce-now-app 24:50 Vortex Mod manager comes to Linux after all https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/nexus-mods-say-they-are-committed-to-supporting-vortex-on-steamos-linux/ 26:47 Vulkan adds more features for better DXVK compatibility https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/vulkan-1-4-340-released-with-new-extension-to-improve-directx-performance-on-linux/ 28:02 Mesa update to reduce game stuttering https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Merges-Present-Timing

26:40

S03:E53 Jan 24, 2026

New Linux + Android phone, Photoshop on Linux, Cosmic updates

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:44 New phone brings Android, Linux & Windows together https://nexphone.com/ 05:38 Photoshop can now install and run with Wine https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/adobe-creative-cloud-linux-wine-patches 08:02 A lot of Cosmic updates https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-adds-rounded-corners-and-window-shadows/ https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-epoch-1-updates https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-1-0-3-brings-file-manager-improvements/ 11:29 New Plasma Login manager requires SystemD https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-login-manager-wont-support-systemd-free-linux-or-bsd-systems/ 13:23 Ubuntu works on making NVidia faster on GNOME https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-Faster-NVIDIA 15:05 Snap malware rises up again https://linuxiac.com/linux-snap-users-warned-as-attackers-push-malware-through-old-trusted-apps/ 17:25 Parental controls work completes for GNOME https://blogs.gnome.org/ignapk/2026/01/20/digital-wellbeing-contract-conclusion/ 18:59 LLVM compiler sets AI policy https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Human-In-The-Loop 21:39 Nvidia apparently used pirated books for training its AI https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-secure-access-to-millions-of-pirated-books/ 24:15 Desktop portals updated https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/releases/tag/1.21.0

29:54

S03:E52 Jan 17, 2026

Budgie & GNOME drop X11, yet another desktop, Wikipedia signs deal with AI companies

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:52 Budgie 10.10 released, Budgie 11 based on Qt https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-of-the-budgie-2025 04:43 GNOME 50 alpha drops X11 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Shell-50-Alpha 07:27 KDE 6.6 beta released https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-beta-released/ 09:40 New GNOME based desktop being researched https://www.gyesme.org/ 11:49 Wikipedia signs deals with AI companies https://apnews.com/article/wikipedia-internet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7 13:21 Mint 22.3 released https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new 15:08 Orion Browser gets first alpha https://linuxiac.com/orion-browser-takes-first-step-toward-linux-availability/ 16:55 Opera GX coming to Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/opera-gx-linux-version-being-worked-on 18:47 Firefox 147 brings a lot of good stuff https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/firefox-147-released 21:04 Pacman replacement being worked on https://itsfoss.com/news/pacman-rust-treatment/ https://alpm.archlinux.page/ 22:52 Nexus mods Linux app discontinued https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15424 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/nexus-mods-retire-their-in-development-cross-platform-app-to-focus-back-on-vortex/ 25:05 Even more AMD performance boosts https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/even-more-amd-ray-tracing-performance-improvements-heading-to-mesa-on-linux/ 27:20 Wine 11 released https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0

26:10

S03:E51 Jan 10, 2026

Torvalds talks AI in the kernel, EU prepares for FOSS, Goodbye Middle click to paste?

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:51 Torvalds chimes in on AI code in the Linux kernel https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg0sdh_OF8zgFD-f6o9yFRK=tDOXhB1JAxfs11W9bX--Q@mail.gmail.com/ 05:07 EU consultation on making FOSS a priority https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en 07:19 GNOME & Firefox propose disabling middle click to paste https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Firefox-MiddleClick-Paste 09:31 Google locks down Android development even more https://www.androidauthority.com/aosp-source-code-schedule-3630018/ 11:19 loss32 wants to make a full Windows DE for Linux https://loss32.org/ 14:02 AMD drivers get big performance boost https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-RADV-RT-RDNA2-Faster https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT-Performance-2026 969 Rockchip’s repo closed after FFMPEg’s DMCA takedown https://linuxiac.com/github-takes-down-rockchip-mpp-repository-after-ffmpeg-copyright-claim/ 17:55 Fedora moves to the new Plasma Login manager https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3523 19:42 ChromeOS won’t die after all https://www.androidcentral.com/accessories/smart-home/googles-vp-confirms-chromeos-is-here-to-stay-amid-rumors-of-sunset 22:18 Linux reaches another high in gaming marketshare https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam 24:08 Geforce Now gets a Linux client https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-geforce-now-gains-native-linux-support/

25:12

S03:E50 Dec 27, 2025

New X11 server, New packaging solution, no more Steam Deck LCD

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:03 Brand new X11 server in the works https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/tree/README.md 04:53 New packaging solution for portable apps https://itsfoss.com/pkgforge/ 08:27 Steam Deck LCD is discontinued https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-discontinuing-the-last-steam-deck-lcd-model/ 10:28 Linux Foundation publishes annual report https://linuxiac.com/the-linux-foundation-spent-8-4-million-on-the-linux-kernel-project-in-2025/ 13:15 elementary OS 8.1 released https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/ 16:14 Older AMD GPUs get 30% performance boost https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-619-amdgpu-radeon/5 17:59 Arch Linux under DDoS attack again https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-website-hit-by-ddos-and-temporarily-limited-to-ipv6/ 18:47 CachyOS looks at the server now https://cachyos.org/blog/2025-christmas-new-year/ 21:25 Italy fines Apple for their privacy framework https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/italy-fines-apple-116-million-over-app-store-tracking-privacy-practices/

26:02

S03:E49 Dec 20, 2025

Firefox makes all the mistakes, more Wayland work

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:40 Firefox will become an AI browser https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-will-ship-with-an-ai-kill-switch-to-completely-disable-all-ai-features https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo 06:49 Servo making progress https://servo.org/blog/2025/12/15/november-in-servo/ 08:07 Plasma 6.6 will fix some big Wayland issues https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/13/this-week-in-plasma-wayland-screen-mirroring-and-custom-modes/ 09:44 Wayland protocols updated for better HDR https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.47 10:47 GNOME bans AI from extensions https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2025/12/06/ai-and-gnome-shell-extensions/ https://gjs.guide/extensions/review-guidelines/review-guidelines.html 12:56 Rust no longer experimental in Linux kernel https://thenewstack.io/rust-goes-mainstream-in-the-linux-kernel/ 14:16 Mint 22.3 beta released https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-enters-public-beta/ 15:54 Changes proposed to help Fedora work on Snapdragon https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_DTB_selection_for_aarch64_EFI_systems 17:40 Website lets you scan Snaps for vulnerabilities https://snapscope.popey.com/ 20:08 Danish admin plans move to Linux https://thedanishdream.com/news/denmark-ditches-microsoft-in-bold-tech-shift/ https://www.semaphor.dk/opensource/linuxpc 22:06 Asahi Linux makes solid progress https://asahilinux.org/2025/12/progress-report-6-18/ 23:50 NVK gets a huge performance boost https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/36450

25:07

S03:E48 Dec 13, 2025

EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:38 France starts adopting Nextcloud on a big scale https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-momentum-france/ 03:42 German state saves 15M€ per year moving to LibreOffice https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/ 05:52 Jolla launches new Linux smartphone https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/06/jolla-phone-launch-specs-price-sailfish-linux-os/ https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder 08:04 Cosmic and PopOS 24.04 released https://system76.com/pop/ 11:14 KDE reaches 275K euros in funding this year https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/ 12:43 Proton launches Proton Sheets https://proton.me/blog/sheets-proton-drive 14:19 Ubuntu adopts vanilla GNOME shell style with a few tweaks https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-26-04-yaru-theme-gnome-shell-changes 16:06 Ubuntu MATE and Unity won’t be LTS https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-unity-mate-26-04-lts-status 18:10 Major library goes unmaintained https://linuxiac.com/libxml2-becomes-officially-unmaintained/ 19:50 HDMI 2.1 still not possible on AMD on Linux https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html 22:03 D7VK released for older, DX7 games https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.0-Released

27:52

S03:E47 Dec 6, 2025

Valve builds a Proton for Android apps, Linux is at 11% ?

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:55 Valve prepares their own Waydroid version https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valves-version-of-android-on-linux-based-on-waydroid-is-now-called-lepton/ https://steamdb.info/app/3043620/info/ 05:11 Valve was behind FEX all along https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffais 07:39 ZDNet thinks Linux desktop is at 11% https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-people-keep-flocking-to-linux-in-2025-and-its-not-just-to-escape-windows/ 11:01 Linux hits another high on Steam marketshare https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-November-2025 12:35 Linux kernel 6.18 released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/linux-kernel-6-18-new-features 14:47 Linux Kernel 6.19 will be packed with GPU improvements https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Graphics-Drivers https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-HWMON 16:46 KDE Connect has a vulnerability https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20251128-1.txt 17:54 NVK + Nouveau improving quickly https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-nvk-linux-618-mesa-26/10 19:46 Mint 22.3 will release around Christmas https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4968 21:10 AlmaLinux wants to be the standard for Media production https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-12-02-almalinux-media-entertainment-sig/ 22:55 Fedora replaces the kernel console https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseKmsconVTConsole 25:20 OpenDocument Format gets an update https://www.oasis-open.org/2025/12/03/oasis-approves-open-document-format-odf-v1-4-standard-marking-20-years-of-interoperable-document-innovation/

30:01

S03:E46 Nov 29, 2025

KDE drops X11 too, New Office Suite for Linux

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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/

27:42

S03:E45 Nov 22, 2025

KDE's new design, Nvidia finally focuses on Linux, EU caves in to Big Tech

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com Links: 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/

24:25

S03:E44 Nov 15, 2025

Hybrid GPU support will be fixed, Google walks back sideloading policy

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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/

25:46

S03:E43 Nov 8, 2025

GNOME drops X11, Debian adds Rust dependency, Ubuntu plans

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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/

27:47

S03:E42 Nov 1, 2025

Python refuses $1.5M grant, Unity's second demise, AUR DDos

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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/

28:53

S03:E41 Oct 25, 2025

Full Linux apps on Android, Plasma 6.5, Zorin OS does big numbers

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com Links: 02:00 Progress on Linux apps running on Android https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-10-linux-apps-gpu-acceleration-3608754/ 04:37 KDE Plasma 6.5 released https://youtu.be/2hf7TtqHVA0 https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2025/10/23/more-kms-offloading.html 07:19 Xubuntu download hacked over the weekend https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/xubuntu-website-malware-hack 09:16 Zorin OS 18 gets big download numbers https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-18-downloads-skyrocket-in-the-last-48-hours/ 11:33 Fedora approves AI policy https://linuxiac.com/fedora-opens-the-door-to-ai-tools/ 14:21 Ubuntu 25.10 has rust coreutils bugs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Broken-Upgrade 16:17 GIMP now has an official Snap https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/10/17/official-snap/ 18:13 1Another NTFS Linux driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-NTFSPLUS-NTFS-Driver 19:58 OpenAI launches Atlas, their ChatGPT powered browser https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/ 22:53 Ai browsers pose additional security risks https://www.techradar.com/pro/openais-new-atlas-browser-may-have-some-extremely-concerning-security-issues-experts-warn https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/ 24:38 BBC study finds AI assistants still bad at news summaries https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

25:23

S03:E40 Oct 18, 2025

Finally, some good FOSS smartphone news, new x86 actor

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:59 GrapheneOS coming to other phones https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/ 04:47 More details about LibrePhone https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project 07:30 New company working on x86 CPUs https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-Opcodes-Not-AMD-Or-Intel 09:23 KDE turns 29, and launches their end of year fundraiser https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/ 10:39 Windows 10 is EOL https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/windows-10-support-ends-today-but-its-just-the-first-of-many-deaths/ 12:52 LMDE 7 is released https://linuxmint.com/rel_gigi.php https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4923 14:36 Fedora 43 pushed back to fix some bugs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-No-Go 15:57 GNOME starts dropping 32 bit https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/10/13/flatpak-32bit/ 17:37 Firefox tests built-in VPN https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/mozilla_firefox_vpn_beta/ 19:38 German state completes FOSS migration https://news.itsfoss.com/schleswig-holstein-email-system-migration/ 21:18 Chat control still isn’t dead https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-vote-on-chat-control-has-been-postponed-but-the-fight-isnt-over-yet-heres-what-we-know 23:22 California passes laws to protect online privacy https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/08/governor-newsom-signs-data-privacy-bills-to-protect-tech-users/

26:13

S03:E39 Oct 11, 2025

Intel reconsiders Open Source, LibrePhone project, Ubuntu 25.10

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:43 Intel reconsiders their Open Source policy https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kan-Liang-Leaving-Intel https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-open-source-2025 04:57 Ubuntu 25.10 released http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faXkVN-AlqE https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/flatpak-broken-ubuntu-25-10-apparmor-bug 07:39 FSF announces LibrePhone project https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign https://linuxiac.com/free-software-foundation-turns-40-unveils-librephone/ 09:17 EU’s chat control law might be blocked https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/germany_chat_control_opposition/ https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/chat-control-is-like-a-malware-on-your-device-signal-slams-the-eu-proposal-to-scan-your-private-chats https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ 11:37 Nouveau driver patch offers big performance boost https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Larger-Page-Sizes 13:21 elementary OS gets a lot of updates https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-october-2025/ 15:51 PopOS 24.04 beta benchmarked https://www.phoronix.com/review/popos-2404-beta/5 17:48 Windows 11 doubles down on online accounts https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-is-removing-known-mechanisms-for-creating-a-local-account 20:02 Firefox gets mention for “best invention” https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-firefox-feature-gets-special-mention-in-times-best-inventions-of-2025/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/profile-management/ 21:58 Greg Koah Hartman reassures on the Cyber Resiliency Act https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/cyber_reiliance_act_opinion_column/

28:53

S03:E38 Oct 4, 2025

The end of F-Droid? Red Hat hacked, new Linux Kernel

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:15 Google’s Android change could mean the end of F Droid https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html 05:05 Red Hat Gitlab breached by hackers https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-confirms-security-incident-after-hackers-breach-gitlab-instance/ https://access.redhat.com/articles/7132207 07:27 Linux kernel 6.17 is out https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/linux-kernel-6-17-new-features 09:56 OpenSUSE Leap 16 released https://news.opensuse.org/2025/10/01/next-chapter-opens-with-leap-release/ 12:14 Plasma 6.5 beta released https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-beta-released-this-is-whats-new/ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.91/ 13:57 Artix ditches GNOME https://linuxiac.com/artix-linux-drops-gnome-desktop-support-over-systemd-dependence/ https://artixlinux.org/ 15:51 Fedora submits draft policy on AI in the distro https://linuxiac.com/fedora-council-proposes-policy-on-ai-assisted-contributions/ 18:36 Nvidia working with Red Hat on NVK https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-Red-Hat-NDA-Docs 20:28 Mint reveals new menu, changes to keyboard layouts https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4895 22:27 NixOS moderation team resigns https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828/6 25:36 Eric S Raymond is against all codes of conduct https://linuxiac.com/eric-s-raymond-codes-of-conduct-are-a-disaster/

22:56

S03:E37 Sep 26, 2025

The Cosmic & PopOS beta are here, Cookie banners could go away

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:36 Cosmic beta finally released https://system76.com/pop/pop-beta/ 04:39 Cookie banners might become less annoying https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-sets-out-to-fix-it/ 07:09 2 Multikernel Linux architectures proposed https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Multi-Kernel-Patches https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Parker-Proposal 10:13 New distributed Filesystem open sourced https://www.phoronix.com/news/TernFS-File-System-Open-Source 12:16 BcacheFS benchmarks show ext4 is still king https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-617-dkms/4 14:04 New TikTok US deal would make a separate US only app https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gj7mlg9vdo https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/the-us-version-of-tiktok-might-be-more-concerning-than-the-chinese-one 16:58 Microsoft building a marketplace of content for AI https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-reportedly-building-an-ai-marketplace-to-pay-publishers-for-content/ 19:49 Malibal wants to go USA made for their laptops https://www.malibal.com/features/project-liberation/

24:42

S03:E36 Sep 20, 2025

Some KDE drama, Fedora 43, Ubuntu 25.10 & GNOME 49

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:46 Some KDE drama https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/ https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/16/a-few-corrections-about-the-transition-from-blue-systems-to-techpaladin/ https://akselmo.dev/posts/bluesystems-to-techpaladin/ 05:44 GNOME 49 released https://youtu.be/SwSEWsUCkuE 08:36 Fedora 43 beta is out https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-43-beta/ 10:02 Ubuntu 25.10 beta is here https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/ubuntu-25-10-beta-released 12:05 Ubuntu’s move to Rust utilities unearth perf issues https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Perf 13:25 KDE 6.5 has a beta too https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-5-desktop-environment-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing 15:54 Linux Mint 22.3 has a roadmap https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4879 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/linux-mint-22-3-will-bring-revamped-app-menu-better-wayland-support 17:37 AMD terminates their own driver in favor of MESA https://linuxiac.com/amd-ends-amdvlk-development-shifts-focus-to-radv-vulkan-driver/ 18:44 Another Linux distro under attack https://linuxiac.com/after-arch-linux-mageia-faces-infrastructure-outage/ https://blog.mageia.org/en/2025/09/17/our-other-servers-are-down-again/ 20:15 OpenAI explains why LLMS hallucinate https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/openai_hallucinations_incentives/ 22:46 Steam ends 32 bit support, but not for Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Ending-32-bit-Windows

24:33

S03:E35 Sep 13, 2025

Red Hat being eaten by IBM, KDE Linux Alpha, is Budgie dead?

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:11 Red Hat’s being swallowed by IBM https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/red_hatters_to_be_big/ 04:26 KDE Linux alpha is here https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/ 06:42 Budgie gets minor update, still no news on its future https://linuxiac.com/budgie-10-9-3-released-with-gnome-49-alignment/ https://github.com/orgs/BuddiesOfBudgie/projects/2 09:02 Firefox keeps adding AI and ad related features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-google-lens-stock-market-ai-page-buddy-features 11:42 Firefox drops 32 bit entirely https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-ending 13:23 Small Ubuntu outage is felt for multiple days https://www.techradar.com/pro/ubuntu-users-faced-severe-update-delays-following-36-minute-canonical-server-downtime 15:10 BcacheFS outlines plans now that they’re not in the kernel https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/yokpt2d2g2lluyomtqrdvmkl3amv3kgnipmenobkpgx537kay7@xgcgjviv3n7x/T/#u 17:07 Fedora’s installer will be extended to all editions and spins https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/anaconda-webui-progress-update-and-roadmap/ 19:02 RSL aims to solve the AI licensing issue https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/rss-co-creator-launches-new-protocol-for-ai-data-licensing/ 21:49 Github users are getting fed up with Copilot https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/

24:45

S03:E34 Sep 6, 2025

Cosmic isn't dead, more SteamOS devices, GNOME keeps X11 after all

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:15 More Details about Cosmic, but still no beta https://linuxiac.com/system76-cosmic-desktop-hits-initial-setup-completion/ 05:08 GNOME 49 won’t remove X11 sessions after all https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-RC 06:46 Steam Deck 2 could be years away still https://www.techradar.com/gaming/steam-deck/waiting-for-the-steam-deck-2-rather-than-buying-an-asus-rog-xbox-ally-rumor-suggests-youll-need-to-be-very-very-patient 09:13 Lenovo has another SteamOS device in store https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/lenovo-isnt-done-with-valve-just-yet-leaked-legion-go-2-images-suggest-steamos-could-be-offered-as-a-windows-11-alternative 11:05 Steam Frame trademark registered by Valve https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/new-valve-trademark-for-steam-frame-looks-like-were-getting-new-hardware/ 12:08 BcacheFS won’t receive updates in the kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Externally-Maintained 13:58 Mint 22.2 released https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-22-2-zara-now-available-for-download/ 15:39 Google won’t have to sell or change anything https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html 17:50 FreeBSD says no to AI code for now https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/freebsd_project_update_no_ai/ 20:31 KDE gains much better app permissions UI https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/2025/09/04/permissions.html 22:59 Microsoft open sources their old BASIC https://linuxiac.com/microsofts-6502-basic-goes-open-source-under-mit-license/

26:42

S03:E33 Aug 30, 2025

AI used in Linux kernel, Android limits sideloading,new desktop environment

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com Ubuntu handbook link (code: THELINUXEXP15), not a sponsored deal, not an affiliate link either : https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/the-ultimate-ubuntu-handbook-9781835468876?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=96a0f78d-f81e-6011-bff9-689f45454c3e&utm_term=f45e039e-6d4e-2c37-b71c-5fd881929888&utm_content=B22039 02:42 AI used for backporting patches to the Linux kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Help-Backporting-Linux-Patch 05:03 GhostBSD launches Gerschwin Desktop, a Mac OS clone https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop 07:08 Bazaar app store is available on Flathub https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/bazaar-new-flatpak-app-store-gnome-linux 08:53 Firefox adds web apps backs, sort of https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/firefox-web-app-support-progress 10:37 Vivaldi says no to AI https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/ 12:20 SuperTux Kart illustrates open source issues https://blog.supertuxkart-evolution.com/2025/08/announcing-supertuxkart-evolution.html https://supertuxkart-evolution.com/STK_Evolution_FAQ 14:07 Proton shows the EU is far from digital sovereignty https://proton.me/business/europe-tech-watch 16:42 Google will block sideloading of unverified apps https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/ 18:44 Another Asahi dev leaves the project https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html 20:21 Nvidia open sources 1M hours of audio in 25 languages https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/speech-ai-dataset-models/ 22:12 Giant AI class action settled https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/anthropic-settles-major-ai-copyright-suit-brought-by-authors 23:50 Wikipedia editors reject AI https://www.webpronews.com/wikipedia-editors-reject-jimmy-waless-ai-tool-proposal-for-reviews/

27:27

S03:E32 Aug 23, 2025

Will Ablockers be banned? DoS on the AUR, Steam Console rumors

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:36 Germany could ban Adblockers https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/germanys-possible-ad-blocker-ban-could-threaten-user-freedom-and-privacy-says-mozilla 04:45 There’s no “post Torvalds” Linux plan https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/the_plan_for_linux_after/ 07:22 More potential Steam Console leaks https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/leaks-again-hint-at-valve-doing-a-proper-steam-machine-console/ 09:39 Ubuntu builds Dangerous Images https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-release-management-newsletter-august-2025/66242 11:17 The Arch websites suffer DoS attacks https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-aur-runs-into-recent-service-interruptions/ https://stats.uptimerobot.com/vmM5ruWEAB 13:02 GNOME 49 beta was released https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-beta-released-for-public-testing-on-gnomes-28th-anniversary 15:37 Pine64 gives up on Pinephone https://pine64.org/2025/08/14/august_2025_short_update/ https://pine64.org/2025/08/16/august_2025/ 18:05 Chromium gets HDR on Linux https://linuxiac.com/linux-gets-hdr-support-in-chromium-on-wayland/ 19:47 Ubuntu wants to improve ARM Linux support https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-ARM64-Stubble 21:35 Apple Silicon support making good progress https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Lid-Power-Buttons-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Silicon-USB3-RFC 23:29 More details on paid Thunderbird Pro services https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/tbpro-august-2025-update/

26:56

S03:E31 Aug 16, 2025

Windows 12 sounds like a nightmare, Mint 22.2 beta: Linux Weekly News

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:17 Windows 12 sounds like an absolute nightmare https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-execs-vision-of-windows-12-and-beyond-could-terrify-some-of-you 04:53 Debian 13 is out https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809 https://www.debian.org/releases/11/08/2025youtubetrixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#http-boot-support 06:12 Mint 22.2 has its beta https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-22-2-zara-enters-public-beta/ 07:47 Firefox’s AI features apparently drain resources https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/firefox-high-cpu-usage-inference-disable 09:10 Google ends Steam on Chrome OS https://9to5google.com/2025/08/07/steam-chromebook-2026/ 10:49 elementary OS gets some cool updates https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-august-2025/ 13:30 Orion browser makes progress https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/orion-browser-linux-milestone-2-webkit-alternative-chromium 15:35 Github absorbed into Microsoft’s structure https://www.techradar.com/pro/github-ceo-resigns-is-this-the-latest-sign-of-its-microsoft-absorption 17:17 LVFS asks for vendors to help fund it https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/lvfs-sustainability-plan-vendor-funding 20:17 Nvidia drivers improve Wayland support https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/252613/ 21:33 KDE Gear 25.08 update https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.08.0/ 23:42 AI companies could be doomed by recent class action https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

26:25

S03:E30 Aug 12, 2025

GNOME changes things, Linux at 6%, Android loses to Epic

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:41 GNOME’s governance structure is changing a lot https://www.bassi.io/articles/2025/08/03/governance-in-gnome/ 04:48 Linux desktop reaches 6% market share https://www.zdnet.com/article/think-linux-desktop-market-share-isnt-over-6-this-15-million-system-scan-says-otherwise/ 07:25 Linux’s Steam marketshare rises close to 3% https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/steam-survey-for-july-2025-shows-linux-approaching-3/ 09:05 Android has to crack open the Google Play Store https://www.theverge.com/news/717440/google-epic-open-play-store-emergency-stay 10:58 Chrome uses Wayland backend by default when possible https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/chrome-140-wayland-auto-detection-linux 12:34 MX Linux moves to systemD & Wayland by default https://mxlinux.org/blog/changes-coming-with-mx-25/ 15:17 Nvidia working on performance improvements for gaming https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/nvidia-are-working-on-a-general-optimization-for-vkd3d-directx12-games-on-linux/ 16:51 OpenSUSE Leap 16 brings massive changes https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/opensuse-leap-16-0-will-need-steam-gamers-to-install-some-extras-due-to-no-32-bit/ https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-leap-16-0-enters-rc-phase-with-selinux-by-default/ 19:07 Microsoft to open source WinUI library https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/10700 21:21 Mesa 25.2 brings a lot of good updates https://linuxiac.com/mesa-25-2-lands-with-vulkan-1-4-on-panvk-drops-x11-dri2-support/ 23:09 Nextcloud shows digital sovereignty is merely a dream right now https://linuxiac.com/finland-tops-nextcloud-first-digital-sovereignty-index/ https://dsi.nextcloud.com/

28:32

S03:E29 Aug 2, 2025

Official KDE distro, AUR and third party package problems

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:56 Official KDE Linux distro has a testing version https://kde.org/linux/ 04:21 Third party packages cause problems again https://linuxiac.com/duckstation-ps1-emulator-dev-may-drop-linux-support-after-aur-frustrations/ 07:49 Malware makes its way to the AUR again https://linuxiac.com/arch-aur-under-fire-once-more-as-malware-resurfaces/ 09:51 Linux kernel 6.16 released https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-16-released-this-is-whats-new/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/linux-6-16-released-openvpn-speed-boost-5-level-paging 11:32 Android runs Linux graphical apps now https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-apps-3580905/ 13:48 Hyprland launches paid subscription https://hypr.land/news/hyprperks/ 15:25 Samsung disables bootloader unlocking https://www.sammobile.com/news/say-goodbye-to-your-custom-roms-as-one-ui-8-kills-bootloader-unlock/ 16:50 Opera files complaint against Microsoft Edge https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/microsoft-hit-with-opera-complaint-brazilian-antitrust-regulator-2025-07-29/ 18:44 Ai tools fail catastrophically https://mashable.com/article/google-gemini-deletes-users-code 20:06 AI code is extremely insecure https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/ai-security-flaws-veracode-2025/ https://www.techradar.com/pro/developers-are-finding-it-hard-to-trust-ai-and-not-just-because-it-could-steal-their-jobs 22:23 EU turns to Google for age verification https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/thematic-roadmap-open-source-and-inputs-common-trust-principles 24:48 EU roadmap for open source adoption https://www.talkandroid.com/512861-eu-age-verification-app-google/

33:10

S03:E28 Jul 26, 2025

Flathub's issues, Steam Console, Malware in the AUR, Clear Linux is gone

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:45 Interesting post about Flathub’s remaining problems https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2025/07/21/fedora-must-carefully-embrace-flathub/ 05:59 Steam Deck 2 and Steam home Console could be coming https://www.techradar.com/gaming/steam-deck/the-steam-deck-2-and-a-home-console-are-reportedly-in-the-works-and-sony-may-be-helping-to-turn-the-handheld-into-the-portable-playstation-game-device-i-really-want 08:21 Malware found in the AUR https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/ 10:02 Clear Linux shuts down without warning https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716 https://linuxiac.com/intel-shuts-down-clear-linux-os/ 12:36 KDE 6.5 adds rounded bottom corners https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/19/this-week-in-plasma-rounded-bottom-corners/ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/12/this-week-in-plasma-tablet-dials-and-day/night-cycles/ 14:05 Firefox 141 improves performance and features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/firefox-141-release-ai-tabs-linux-memory 15:57 ARM laptop support is still shaky https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Struggles-WoA-Laptops https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Concept-Linux-6.16-X1E 18:35 Another SecureBoot disaster could happen soon https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/linux-users-are-about-to-face-another-major-microsoft-secure-boot-issue 20:58 Proton launches their own AI tool https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai 24:04 Github pushes for EU Sovereign tech fund https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/ 27:35 Another nasty cyberattack against France https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/french-government-agency-breach-may-have-exposed-data-on-340k-jobseekers 30:02 TikTok might still be shut down in the US https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/tiktok-will-shut-down-soon-if-china-wont-agree-to-trumps-deal-official-says/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/trumps-shaky-plan-to-save-tiktok-may-push-users-to-buggy-version-of-app/

28:18

S03:E27 Jul 19, 2025

Google merges Android & Chrome OS, AI slop invades FOSS

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:00 Google says Android and ChromeOS will merge https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/i-think-you-see-the-future-first-on-android-googles-android-leader-sameer-samat https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/is-chrome-os-merging-with-android 05:48 AI slop invades Curl’s bug reports https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/curl_creator_mulls_nixing_bug/ 08:53 GNOME Foundation firing on all cylinders https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07/12/2025-07-12-foundation-update/ 10:24 GNOME will get better parental controls https://blogs.gnome.org/ignapk/2025/07/11/digital-wellbeing-contract/ 11:58 PHP proposes license change https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update 13:57 Haiku gets a nice update https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-07-12-haiku_activity_contract_report_june_2025/ 15:39 NVK driver isn’t quite ready yet https://www.phoronix.com/review/mesa-252-nvk-nvidia/2 17:37 Mint 22.2 is close https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4860 19:56 Google wants Linux support for haptic touchpads https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250714-support-forcepads-v1-0-71c7c05748c9@google.com/T/ 22:03 Firefox adds WebGPU https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/ 23:51 Authors can start class action against AI company https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-authors-suing-anthropic-can-band-together-copyright-class-action-judge-rules-2025-07-17/ 25:44 x86 emulator for RISC V can now play games https://felix86.com/AAA-Games/

26:58

S03:E26 Jul 12, 2025

Browser extensions sell what you view to AI companies, GNOME funding, Wayback progresses

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:00 Hundreds of browser extensions use AI library https://secureannex.com/blog/mellow-drama/ https://www.mellowtel.com/blog/responding-to-ars-technica-and-mellow-drama-article 05:55 GNOME Foundation will fund developers https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07/05/2025-07-05-foundation-update/ 08:15 Wayback is now hosted by Freedesktop.org https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-FreeDesktop.org 10:09 GNOME 49 alpha is out https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-alpha-released/29720 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alpha 12:12 Bazzite launches their new Flatpak app store https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-july-2025-update-bazaar-z13-kernel-6-15-steam-hardware-survey/9501 13:47 Google forces Gemini integration into Android apps https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/unless-users-take-action-android-will-let-gemini-access-third-party-apps/ 15:56 Chromium browsers will get even faster https://blog.chromium.org/2025/07/introducing-skia-graphite-chromes.html 17:42 Plasma Big Screen lives again https://espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-bigscreen/ 20:17 Video game lobby push back against stop killing games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/video-games-europe-release-a-statement-on-stop-killing-games/ 23:04 German court finds Meta’s tracking illegal https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech

24:53

S03:E25 Jul 5, 2025

The end for BcacheFS, X11 compatibility layer, Flathub is massive

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:44 Torvalds kicks BcacheFS out of the kernel https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-bcachefs-drop/ 03:37 Wayback is an X11 on Wayland compatibility layer https://linuxiac.com/meet-wayback-a-bridge-between-x-desktops-and-wayland/ 05:37 Flathub reaches 3 billion downloads https://flathub.org/statistics 07:49 Nvidia developer joins the NOVA driver project https://www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Core-Co-Maintainer 09:16 Nvidia abandons GTX700,900 and 1000 series https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unix-graphics-feature-deprecation-schedule/60588 https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW 10:59 Fedora drops proposal to ditch 32 bit architecture https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/bazzite-would-shut-down-if-fedora-goes-ahead-with-removing-32-bit/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedora-linux-devs-discuss-dropping-32-bit-packages-potentially-bad-news-for-steam-gamers/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-To-Keep-x86-32-bit 12:51 Meta wins a court case related to AI and copyright https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-ops-and-tech/meta-beats-copyright-suit-from-authors-over-ai-training-on-books 14:24 French City ditches Microsoft as well https://www.lyon.fr/actualite/action-municipale/la-ville-de-lyon-renforce-sa-souverainete-numerique 15:58 Interesting GNOME collaborative app prototype https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/30/aardvark-summer-2025-update/ 17:42 GNOME 49 replaces a few default apps https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/papers-pdf-viewer-gnome-49 19:26 Stop Killing Games petition gets to 1M signatures https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stop-killing-games-consumer-movement-hits-some-major-milestones/ 21:52 New Copyleft Next license is launched https://next.copyleft.org/pages/license-text.html https://next.copyleft.org/

27:50

S03:E24 Jun 21, 2025

Big X.org code reverts, giant 16B entries data breach, KDE 6.4

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:58 X.org reverts changes made by XLibre developer https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1797#note_2800378 04:19 Biggest data breach ever contains 16B logins and passwords https://cybernews.com/security/billions-credentials-exposed-infostealers-data-leak/ 07:18 Plasma 6.4 is out https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/ 09:37 German state keeps replacing Microsoft products https://www.techradar.com/pro/were-done-major-government-organization-slams-microsoft-teams 12:27 Maui shell project is now on pause https://9to5linux.com/nitrux-linux-drops-its-kde-plasma-based-nx-desktop-for-hyprland 14:32 Uniwill/TongFang laptops getting mainline kernel support https://www.phoronix.com/news/Uniwill-Linux-Laptop-Driver https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/himoym/all_of_the_vendors_that_are_offering_the_tongfang/ 17:04 Meta’s model can spit out 42% of Harry Potter https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-percent 20:19 Microsoft’s text editor runs on Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/microsoft-edit-text-editor-ubuntu 21:42 The final year of the hackintosh https://www.techradar.com/computing/apple-has-finally-killed-the-mackintosh-and-my-diy-mac-dreams-have-died-with-it 24:24 Steam Deck hits 20 000 games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-deck-and-steamos-hit-20000-playable-games/ 25:05 Steam enables proton for all games, all the time https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler/

30:02

S03:E23 Jun 14, 2025

X11 fork, Denmark moves to Linux, Android gets more locked down

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:47 X11 dev forks it for all the wrong reasons https://linuxiac.com/xlibre-xserver-project-plans-revival-of-x11/ 05:01 Ubuntu & Manjaro go deeper on Wayland https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-dropping-xorg-support https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-kde-plasma-is-planned-to-move-to-wayland/178777 06:52 Denmark ditches Microsoft for Linux & LibreOffice https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/ 09:29 Google keeps locking Android down https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/ 12:09 GNOME increases dependency on systemd https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/ 14:16 Mint adds fingerprint support and forks Libadwaita https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4850 16:37 KDE working on touchpad gestures customisation https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/12/gesture-customization-mini-sprint/ 17:52 Firefox discontinues its AI extension https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/orbit-by-mozilla-shutting-down-june-26-2025 19:32 Linux Foundation launches Wordpress plugin repo https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-fair-package-manager-project-for-open-source-content-management-system-stability https://github.com/fairpm 21:24 Apple releases FOSS Linux-based container solutions https://nerds.xyz/apple-quietly-launches-container-on-github-to-bring-linux-development-to-macos-in-a-native-way/ 23:57 New Linux phones could arrive through crowdfunding https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3#/faq 26:43 Xbox handheld is revealed https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/rog-xbox-ally-handheld-gaming-devices-are-real-and-coming-this-holiday-171550555.html

26:47

S03:E22 Jun 7, 2025

Microsoft could fix USB C, GNOME OS is coming for your PC, AMD ditches proprietary drivers

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:01 Microsoft forces PC makers to support full USB C https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-promises-it-is-ending-usb-c-port-confusion-with-updated-windows-11-certified-program 04:11 GNOME OS will soon be a “real” distro https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/01/summer-of-gnome-os/ 06:28 AMD ditches their proprietary userspace drivers https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-AMDGPU-UNIFIED-LINUX-25-10-1.html 07:44 Arch has a process for sponsored work https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/blob/gromit/introducing-a-process-for-sponsorships/rfcs/0055-introducing-a-process-for-sponsorships.md?ref_type=heads 10:20 Chrome smashes speed records https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-chrome-latest-speedometer-3-test-smashes-old-records 12:27 RedoxOS adds X11 support https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-250531/ 13:39 /e/OS releases version 3.0 https://news.itsfoss.com/e-os-3-0/ 16:22 Ubuntu drops bazaar from their launchpad platform https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/launchpad-bazaar-support-being-removed 18:21 Packet is a new file transfer app for Linux & Android https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/packet-linux-android-file-transfer-app-quick-share 20:05 Apple tries to escape EU’s rulings https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-challenges-unreasonable-eu-order-open-up-rivals-2025-06-02/ 22:38 Meta and Yandex leak your history and cookies on Android https://localmess.github.io/ 24:29 Linux’s Steam marketshare grows again https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

25:23

S03:E21 May 31, 2025

SteamOS "destroys" Windows, kernel 6.15, Nice Firefox changes

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:57 SteamOS outperforms Windows on the same hardware https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/in-an-embarrassment-for-microsoft-steamos-seems-to-destroy-windows-11-on-gaming-performance-and-battery-life-as-well-as-usability 04:35 Linux kernel 6.15 is released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/linux-6-15-kernel-released 06:46 Firefox revamps the search and URL bar https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/address-bar/ 08:44 Firefox 139 brings faster uploads and more customisation https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/mozilla-firefox-139-released-new-features 10:30 Rust works on being a better Linux kernel citizen https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/26/april-project-goals-update/ 12:00 XFCE merges their Wayland compositor https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-xfwm4-Merges-Wayland-Code https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap 14:30 Linux Format magazine closes shop https://linuxiac.com/linux-format-magazine-ends-with-issue-329/ 15:52 Tuxedo Stellaris 16 looks like an insane workstation https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Stellaris-16-Gen7 17:52 Peertube launches campaign for their mobile app https://joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfunding-app-launch 20:29 Nvidia drivers 575 are released https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-575-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-support-for-nvidia-smooth-motion 22:25 GeForce Now is on Steam Deck https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/download/

27:06

S03:E20 May 24, 2025

Fedora and GNOME remove X.org, Microsoft open sources WSL

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:12 Fedora approves the removal of X11 for Fedora GNOME 43 https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3408 04:21 GNOME disables X11 in GDM https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GDM-Disable-X11-Default 06:00 Microsoft open sources WSL https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ 08:31 Microsoft makes a CLI text editor that’s open source https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/ 09:55 Mozilla closes Pocket and Fakespot https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/ 12:16 RHEL 10 is out https://linuxiac.com/red-hat-enterprise-linux-10-released/ 14:00 Nvidia updates Wayland roadmap https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/wayland-support-for-the-575-release-series/333827 16:11 Microsoft fixes dual boot breaking bug after 9 months https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-windows-11-dual-boot-to-finally-play-well-as-microsoft-fixes-nine-month-old-bug/ 18:25 Fender Studio releases on Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/fender-studio-linux-audio-recording-app 20:16 KDE is getting its own graphical VM manager https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/ 22:05 Steam Deck hits 19000 playable games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steam-deck-steamos-hits-19000-games-rated-verified-and-playable/ 24:02 SteamOS 3.7 is now stable, with big updates https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/820329049655084700

25:33

S03:E19 May 17, 2025

Plasma 6.4 beta, BIG Web Search changes, AI isn't fair use

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:11 Plasma 6.4 has a beta https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.4-Beta 05:05 Microsoft closes down Bing Search API https://www.wired.com/story/bing-microsoft-api-support-ending/ 07:24 Open Web Index offers an alternative for search engines https://openwebsearch.eu/june-event-announcement-the-open-web-index-goes-public/ 09:45 End of 10 campaign helps Windows users move to Linux https://endof10.org/ 11:46 Ubuntu 25.10 has some nice things in store https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-25-10-the-questing-quokka-roadmap/61159 13:50 Nobara 42 is a rolling release, moves to Brave https://nobaraproject.org/2025/05/13/may-132025/ 16:17 US copyright office thinks AI isn’t fair use https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-training-copyright-laws-big-tech-fair-use-openai-meta-2025-5 18:42 New Orion browser will use GTK4 and libadwaita https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/kagi-orion-browser-linux-port-uses-gtk4-libadwaita 20:48 SteamOS compatibility ratings appear https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/valve-announce-steamos-compatibility-ratings-an-extension-of-steam-deck-verified-for-more-devices/ 22:56 Swiss surveillance law could make Proton leave the country https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law

26:18

S03:E18 May 10, 2025

GNOME's new leadership, Mint themes libadwaita, OpenSUSE ditches Deepin

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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

25:53

S03:E17 May 3, 2025

KDE planning big changes, Wikipedia adopts AI, OpenSUSE leaps into the future

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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

26:13

S03:E16 Apr 26, 2025

OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, final COSMIC alpha, Fedora could drop X11 entirely

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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

25:20

S03:E15 Apr 19, 2025

Fedora 42, Manjaro Immutable, Arco Linux shuts down

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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

24:24

S03:E14 Apr 12, 2025

Firefox's AI summary, Wayland restores windows, Framework 12 preorders open

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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

28:29

S03:E13 Apr 5, 2025

Thunderbird's paid service, open source DNA database deleted, EU takes aim at encryption

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:02 Thunderbird will have a paid service https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning/T437cd854afcb1395 05:06 Large open source DNA database deleted https://www.404media.co/open-source-genetic-database-opensnp-shuts-down-to-protect-users-from-authoritarian-governments/ 07:46 EU takes aim at end to end encryption https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal 10:54 Wayland on big desktops beats X11 on small ones https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-x11-gaming/4 12:46 Windows 11 to block local accounts https://www.theverge.com/news/638967/microsoft-windows-11-account-internet-bypass-blocked 14:38 Firefox 137 adds a few cool things https://linuxiac.com/firefox-137-now-available-for-download/ 16:19 Ubuntu won’t default to compiler optimizations https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Details-No-O3-Everywhere 18:37 Apple fined €150M in France https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/apple-fined-over-eur150-million-in-france-for-discriminatory-consent-practices-surrounding-its-att-framework 21:30 Chrome for Android might get extensions https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/chrome-for-android-is-getting-extensions-but-not-like-youd-expect 23:21 Coreboot gets a new release https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2025/04/03/coreboot-25-03-has-been-released/ 25:56 Command & Conquer Generals gets a Linux port https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/linux-support-for-command-conquer-generals-zero-hour-is-coming-along-now-its-open-source/

29:38

S03:E12 Mar 29, 2025

AI harms Open Source projects, Android goes private

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:04 AI bots put heavy pressure on open source projects https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ https://www.goonhammer.com/black-library-writers-respond-to-meta-scraping-their-work/ 05:14 Android dev process goes private https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503/ 08:32 Linux kernel 6.14 released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/linux-kernel-6-14-released-delivers-big-boosts-to-linux-gaming 11:39 HP says they favour SteamOS for handhelds https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/03/24/hp-blasts-windows-on-gaming-handhelds-praises-valves-steamos/ 13:45 Ubuntu 25.04 beta released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu-25-04-beta-download 16:23 GRUB gets Rust code prototype https://linuxiac.com/grub-gets-a-taste-of-rust-with-new-prototype/ 18:11 France launches their own online services suite https://goodtech.info/suite-numerique-france-docs-lancement/ https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en 20:37 KDE devs propose replacement for SDDM https://linuxiac.com/kde-proposes-new-plasma-login-manager-to-replace-sddm/ 22:34 Some web browser shake-ups happening https://www.wired.com/2016/04/brave-software-publishers-respond/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleged-sale-of-copyrighted-data/491854/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/zorin-os-17-3-released-with-new-default-browser https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-joins-force-with-vivaldi-browser-to-help-you-break-free-from-big-tech 27:11 Nova driver gets more love https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nova-DRM-Skeleton-Driver-Patch

27:17

S03:E11 Mar 22, 2025

EU push for open source, GIMP3 is out, Firefox gets webapps back

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:16 GIMP 3 is out https://linuxiac.com/gimp-3-0-image-editor-released/ 04:46 Firefox nightly adds PWA support back, sort of https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefox-nightly-supports-web-apps-taskbar-tabs 07:10 GNOME 48 is out https://release.gnome.org/48/ 09:11 elementary OS gets an update https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-0-1-available-now/ 11:27 Asahi Linux loses another developer https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Lina-Steps-Down-Linux-GPU 12:50 Pebble is back with 2 new models https://linuxiac.com/pebble-is-back-introducing-two-open-source-smartwatches/ 15:12 EU firms push for a EuroStack that competes with the US https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/european-tech-industry-coalition-calls-for-radical-action-on-digital-sovereignty-starting-with-buying-local/ 18:26 EU orders Apple to unlock hardware and APIs in iOS https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-ordered-by-eu-antitrust-regulators-open-up-rivals-2025-03-19/ https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/eu-orders-apple-to-open-iphone-ecosystem-apple-says-decision-is-bad-for-its-products-and-users-2696245-2025-03-20 20:51 First SteamOS powered handheld is available for preorder https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/03/20/surprise-the-steamos-powered-legion-go-s-is-available-to-pre-order/ 23:01 SteamOS brings Plasma 6.2 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/steamos-3-7-0-preview-brings-the-beginnings-of-support-for-non-steam-deck-handhelds/ 24:37 AC Shadows is good on Deck, not on Linux with Nvidia https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/assassins-creed-shadows-out-now-steam-deck-verified-but-has-nvidia-problems-on-desktop-linux/

24:32

S03:E10 Mar 15, 2025

New Webkit browser for Linux, NVK becomes default, KDE splits X11 code

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:17 New Webkit based browser coming to Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/kag-orion-web-browser-coming-to-linux 04:53 KDE splits Kwin X11 codebase away https://www.phoronix.com/news/KWin-Wayland-X11-Split 06:55 New company will contract work on KDE https://pointieststick.com/2025/03/10/personal-and-professional-updates-announcing-techpaladin-software/ 08:35 Mesa replaces Nouveau with NVK https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/goodbye-nouveau-gl-hello-zink.html 11:17 Nova driver submitted for kernel 6.15 https://www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Driver-For-Linux-6.15 13:07 Ubuntu fixes touchscreen problems https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu-24-04-touchscreen-drag-drop-fix 14:44 First DMA fines might be for Apple and Meta https://www.techradar.com/pro/apple-and-meta-set-to-face-fines-for-alleged-breaches-of-eu-dma 16:35 France rejects encryption backdoor law https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/france-rejects-controversial-encryption-backdoor-provision 18:21 Xbox handheld might be bad news for Linux gaming https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-hardware-report-project-keenan-next-gen-xbox-2027 21:08 Valve talks Steam Deck and Steam year in review https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/751641001553035272

25:22

S03:E09 Mar 8, 2025

AMD wins at open source, GNOME makes drastic Wayland progress

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:15 AMD open sources entire AI model https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/artificial-intelligence/introducing-instella-3B/README.html 04:37 Latest AMD GPus aren’t all there yet on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-rx9070-linux/7 08:14 GNOME adds global shortcuts, cursor shape protocol, and more https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/02/twig-189/ 10:25 Firefox & Thunderbird 136 are huge updates https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefox-136-released-with-vertical-tabs-new-sidebar-more https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/136.0/releasenotes/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/thunderbird-for-android-january-february-2025-progress-report/ 14:34 Apple refuses to add backdoor for UK gov https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/uk-demands-apple-break-encryption-to-allow-govt-spying-worldwide-reports-say/ 16:44 Freedesktop.org found hosting, will be down for a week https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeDesktop-Down-1-Week-Soon 18:19 Huawei apparently has some Linux powered laptops coming https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/huawei-matebook-laptops-linux-leak 20:21 EA releases Command and Conquer source code https://www.techradar.com/gaming/ea-is-releasing-the-source-code-for-command-and-conquer-and-adding-steam-workshop-support-to-further-empower-the-community-to-create-content-for-the-classic-games 22:15 Path of Exile 2 devs support Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/path-of-exile-2-gets-a-fix-for-linux-steam-deck-being-detected-as-cheating/ 23:10 Wine adds DX11 to Vulkan Video translation layer https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Direct3D-Video-To-Vulkan

24:47

S03:E08 Feb 22, 2025

Torvalds says Yes to Rust, Fedora doesn't get Flathub

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# LINK TO CUSTOMIZATION POLL: https://forms.gle/i3s5Ep1N2vpEa35N8 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:53 Torvalds settles the Rust in Linux debate https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-On-Rust-Maintainers https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-On-New-Rust-Code 06:03 Fedora project lead seems to misrepresent Flathub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKP1hgdFJKo https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/02/19/the-fedora-project-leader-is-willfully-ignorant-about-flathub/ https://thelibre.news/why-obs-and-bottles-got-in-a-fight-with-fedora/ 08:54 Flathub posts detailed explanation of their security model https://docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safety-layered-approach-source-to-user 10:08 HDR support is now stable and merged in Wayland https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-CM-HDR-Merged https://www.phoronix.com/news/MPV-SDL-Land-Wayland-Color-HDR 11:45 GNOME 48 beta is released with triple buffering https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/02/twig-187/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-Beta-Released 13:41 FSF finally speaks about Red Hat’s source code clamp down https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/128837/fsf-opposes-rhel-going-closed-source-two-years-after-the-fact/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/ 15:56 Mozilla changes leadership, direction again https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates/ 18:02 Meta tries to argue torrenting without seeding isn’t piracy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/ 20:31 Valve publishes Team Fortress 2 source code https://gamerant.com/team-fortress-2-source-code-full-client-released/ 22:15 Codeweavers recruiting more Wine and Proton devs https://www.codeweavers.com/about/jobs#job-dev

30:52

S03:E07 Feb 15, 2025

OBS could sue Fedora, GNOME's new site & branding

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:22 OBS threatens to sue Fedora https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fedora-threatened-with-legal-action-from-obs-studio-due-to-their-flatpak-packaging/ 05:08 Fedora will ditch RPMs for apps in the future https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-955714 07:04 GNOME has a new website, and potentially branding ? https://www.gnome.org/ https://cassidyjames.com/blog/gnome-foot-logo-rebrand/ 10:02 GNOME 48 gets much improved notifications https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-Notifications-App 11:22 Plasma 6.3 is now out https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/ 13:35 KDE works on a unified theming engine https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2025-02/moving-kdes-styling-future 16:05 Google Chrome’s extension moves are unpopular https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-extensions-menu-testing https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/google_chrome_extensions/ 19:06 Firefox halves its RAM usage per tab https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6340-forkserver-coming-to-firefox-on-linux/ 21:20 Hector martin resigns from Asahi as well https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/ 24:14 Research shows AI is overhyped https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/shut-it-all-down-microsoft-research-suggests-ai-usage-is-making-us-feel-dumber-but-you-dont-need-to-panic-yet https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/australian_treasury_copilot_pilot_assessment/ https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/bbc-research-shows-issues-with-answers-from-artificial-intelligence-assistants 28:24 FEX update for better x86 emulation on ARM https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2502/

24:09

S03:E06 Feb 8, 2025

Fedora looks at adding AI, kernel maintainer resigns over Rust issues, GNOME 48 changes

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:53 Fedora looks at adding AI https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2025/02/03/looking-ahead-at-2025-and-fedora-workstation-and-jobs-on-offer/ 04:44 More debate on Rust in the kernel https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/mixing_rust_and_c_linux/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250207-rm-maint-v1-1-10f069a24f3d@marcan.st/#r 08:36 GNOME 48 changes fonts & adds HDR https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/gnome-introduces-new-ui-monospace-adwaita-fonts https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-HDR 11:22 Firefox has an AI detector now https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/deepfake-is-an-ai-detector-firefox-addon 13:27 Nova open source Nvidia driver has it’s first implementation https://www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Core-Patches 15:44 Alpine and Flathub also lose some of their hosting https://linuxiac.com/alpine-linux-appeals-for-hosting-support/ 17:47 EU bans harmful uses of AI https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/ 19:58 Rumors of Valve Steam Console are probably not true https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-latest-valve-steam-console-rumour-with-amd-rdna4-can-be-safely-ignored-heres-why/ 21:29 Blocking Linux gamers turned out great for Apex https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/blocking-linux-steam-deck-in-apex-legends-led-to-a-meaningful-reduction-in-cheaters/

23:58

S03:E05 Feb 1, 2025

Mesa, Wayland & X.org in trouble, Debian leaves X, GNOME 48 alpha

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:59 Mesa, Wayland and X.org lose their hosting https://www.phoronix.com/news/2025-XOrg-FreeDesktop-Cloud 04:14 Debian quits Twitter https://news.itsfoss.com/debian-logs-off-twitter/ 06:29 GNOME 48 alpha is out https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-48-alpha-released/26414 https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/48.alpha.8/NEWS 08:35 Triple buffering for GNOME still not coming https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Triple-Buffering-Direct 10:16 Kernel wifi maintainer steps down without replacement https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-surpasses-40-million-lines/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Wireless-Maintainer-2025 12:19 Facebook blocking posts linked to Linux https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/facebook_blocks_distrowatch/ 14:33 NTSync lands in kernel 6.14 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ntsync-for-proton-wine-now-in-linux-kernel-6-14-that-should-make-many-steamos-users-happy/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ntsync-driver-support-heads-to-wine-in-a-new-merge-request/ 16:00 OpenAI accuses another model of stealing their stolen work https://www.techradar.com/pro/us-navy-bans-use-of-deepseek-in-any-capacity-due-to-potential-security-and-ethical-concerns https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/openai-says-deepseek-used-its-models-illegally-and-it-has-evidence-to-prove-it-new-report-claims 18:01 Steam Deck is getting outclassed, by a lot https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/01/28/the-steam-deck-suddenly-has-a-serious-switch-2-problem/ 21:02 Steam Deck plugin to add frame generation https://www.techradar.com/gaming/steam-deck/steam-deck-fans-youre-in-for-a-good-one-amds-fsr-3-frame-generation-is-now-available-on-valves-handheld-thanks-to-a-new-decky-plugin

26:40

S03:E04 Jan 25, 2025

Intel rediscovers Modular PCs, Arch Survey results, Kernel 6.13

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:43 Intel reinvents modular PCs https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/intel_modular_pc_designs/ 04:56 Linux kernel 6.13 is out https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/linux-kernel-6-13-release-features 07:28 Deepin 25 is a big departure https://www.deepin.org/en/deepin-25-pre-is-officially-released/ https://linuxiac.com/deepin-linux-25-preview/ 09:53 Arch Linux survey yields interesting results https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1c1MAsXxMFp_UbNJur5-v7k5-4aBWzsm9fXmdZp7dmpA/viewanalytics 13:23 AI benchmark didn’t disclose funding from OpenAI https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/ai-benchmarking-organization-criticized-for-waiting-to-disclose-funding-from-openai/ 15:41 Wine 10 is released https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0 19:18 Ubuntu improves Flutter with multi window support https://ubuntu.com//blog/multiple-window-flutter-desktop 21:15 AMD builds their own optimized Wayland compositor https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/amd-reveals-amdgpu-composition-stack-a-fork-of-waylands-weston-compositor-for-advancing-the-linux-desktop/ 23:36 Game devs start taking Linux into account https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/gdc-2025-survey-shows-pc-game-development-growing-with-lots-interested-in-valves-steam-deck/

28:26

S03:E03 Jan 18, 2025

Facebook bans Fediverse Links, big Valve interview on SteamOS, Apple pulls their AI

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:30 Valve dev talks SteamOS, Steam machines https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/intel-and-nvidia-drivers-holding-back-a-public-steamos-release-valve-not-trying-to-compete-with-windows/ https://www.frandroid.com/marques/valve/2462758_il-y-a-12-ans-de-travail-pour-en-arriver-la-interview-de-pierre-loup-griffais-developpeur-de-steamos-los-phare-du-steam-deck 07:45 Meta bans links to Pixelfed https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/ 10:11 Pixelfed is now out with stable apps https://www.engadget.com/social-media/pixelfed-instagrams-decentralized-competitor-is-now-on-ios-and-android-205059236.html 11:18 Apple pulls its misleading AI summaries https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/16/media/apple-ai-news-fake-headlines/index.html 13:40 Mint 22.1 is out https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_xia_whatsnew.php 15:49 Fedora working on their KDE spin https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Promote_KDE_Plasma_Desktop_variant_to_Edition 18:24 Fedora proposes optimized packages for modern CPUs https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Optimized_Binaries_for_the_AMD64_Architecture_v2 20:44 GNOME 48 brings digital wellbeing features https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Muter-48-Alpha 22:38 GNOME 48 gets new default audio player https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/gnome-48-new-audio-player 24:22 VLC adds AI powered auto subtitles https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/vlc-demo-ai-real-time-subtitles-for-any-video 26:14 NTSYNC driver should arrive in March https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ntsync-driver-for-improving-windows-games-on-linux-with-wine-proton-should-finally-land-in-linux-kernel-614/

28:13

S03:E02 Jan 11, 2025

Linux Foundation endorses Chromium, SteamOS ISO is coming

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:24 Linux Foundation teams up with Google on Chromium https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-supporters-of-chromium-based-browsers 05:51 SteamOS ISO is coming with Legion Go S https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-legion-unleashes-next-gen-gaming-power-at-ces-2025/ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/529834914570306831 08:06 Microsoft working on a SteamOS competing interface https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-is-finally-fighting-back-against-the-rise-of-steamos-by-overhauling-windows-11-to-be-better-on-handhelds 10:00 Budgie has a few things to announce https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-of-the-budgie-2024 12:11 Cosmic alpha 5 is out https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-5-released 14:14 KDE Plasma 6.3 beta is out https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.2.5-6.2.90/ 16:13 Geforce Now will have an official Steam Deck app https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-ces-2025/ 18:03 AUR removes ARM only software https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-Requires-x86_64 19:31 Firefox 134 has some nice features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/firefox-134-brings-touch-hold-gestures-to-linux-ecosia-search-more 21:49 Marvel Rivals dev lifts Linux gamers ban https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/marvel-rivals-lifts-100-year-cheating-bans-on-mac-and-steam-deck-players/ 23:29 Dell kills XPS brand, Linux support uncertain https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/the-end-of-an-era-dell-will-no-longer-make-xps-computers/ 25:06 Apple’s AI is as bad as everyone else’s https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/apples-ai-headlines-are-more-of-a-break-from-reality-than-breaking-news

24:26

S03:E01 Jan 4, 2025

Github's fake stars, Nvidia's $700M open source bet, KDE looks healthy

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 01:55 Github has a big malware problem https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/github-has-a-major-problem-with-fake-rankings-which-could-put-users-at-risk-of-attack https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13459 05:33 KDE’s dev community looks very healthy http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/i-measured-kdes-commit-stats-and-the-results-surprised-me/ 08:53 Nvidia open sources $700M tech https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-acquires-software-maker-runai-to-orchestrate-gpu-clouds-for-ai/ https://www.run.ai/blog/run-ai-joins-nvidia 11:43 Linux’s steam marketshare breaks its barrier https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux 14:28 Mozilla’s AI assistant is here https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/orbit-by-mozilla-ai-assistant-firefox-extension 17:04 X.org is an undead project https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-2024-GitStats 19:46 Bottles moves to Rust and Libcosmic https://usebottles.com/posts/2024-12-27-rust-libcosmic-next/?s=09 https://usebottles.com/posts/2023-10-05-bottles-next-a-new-chapter/