45:58

S01:E52 Dec 30, 2023

X11 is a bad platform, More AI regulation, FOSS licenses aren't enough

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41:21

S01:E51 Dec 23, 2023

Open Source Nvidia drivers are good, Microsoft installs Linux for AI work, HDR support

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41:43

S01:E50 Dec 16, 2023

Torvalds on Linux's future, Linux gaming beats windows, Ubuntu might drop older CPUs

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43:12

S01:E49 Dec 9, 2023

Zorin OS 17, huge flaw on all Linux system & Linux gets BSOD

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41:18

S01:E48 Dec 2, 2023

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

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40:36

S01:E47 Nov 26, 2023

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

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42:18

S01:E46 Nov 19, 2023

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

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43:32

S01:E45 Nov 12, 2023

GNOME gets €1 million, Amazon wants its own Linux, Steam Deck OLED, Immutable Ubuntu

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42:22

S01:E44 Nov 6, 2023

Fedora KDE drops X11, Huge Nvidia Wayland fixes, Web DRM is dead, Linux kernel 6.6

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42:35

S01:E43 Oct 29, 2023

Wayland on Mint, is Youtube's adblock blocker legal? Fedora 39 delayed

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42:43

S01:E42 Oct 21, 2023

Ubuntu broke deb installs, new GNOME director controversy, OpenSUSE new installer

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43:07

S01:E41 Oct 14, 2023

Will GNOME drop X11? Ubuntu 23.10, Mastodon is more popular than we thought

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41:03

S01:E40 Oct 8, 2023

elementary OS 7.1, Snap malware, France wants to ban VPNs

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43:42

S01:E39 Sep 30, 2023

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

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42:04

S01:E38 Sep 24, 2023

Nouveau maintainer resigns, Fedora might drop X11 entirely, LTS now 2 years only

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42:01

S01:E37 Sep 17, 2023

Another Linux tablet, HDR gaming & Linux malware

Check out Thunderbird’s complete redesign (it became my email / calendar client of choice): https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak 👏 Support the show here: 👏 https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 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 00:50 New Linux tablet from Purism https://www.omglinux.com/purism-librem-11-linux-tablet/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-11/ 05:44 Linux malware ran rampant for 3 years https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/password-stealing-linux-malware-served-for-3-years-and-no-one-noticed/ 08:51 Plasma 6 and 5.27 updates https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/15/this-week-in-kde-more-plasma-6-dev/ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-40-to-offer-kde-plasma-6-desktop/ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-27-8-improves-hybrid-sleep-and-monitoring-of-nvidia-gpus 15:37 XFCE unveils a Wayland roadmap https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Wayland-Roadmap-2023 https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap 19:10 Sponsor: Thunderbird https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak 20:38 GNOME weekly updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/09/twig-113/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/2023/09/15/libadwaita-1-4/ 25:25 New OpenSUSE rolling release distro, LMDE 6, and Ubuntu encryption https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-debian-edition-6-faye-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing https://ubuntu.com/blog/tpm-backed-full-disk-encryption-is-coming-to-ubuntu https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-23-10-to-introduce-an-experimental-tpm-backed-fde/ 29:07 GNOME 45 RC is out https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-release-candidate-arrives-with-last-minute-changes 31:39 Linux drivers and performance updates https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Prereq-Xe https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-Wayland-Tearing https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPUFreq-Boost https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Workqueue 36:28 Gaming News: HDR gaming, Steam Deck sale https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/vkd3d-proton-v2-10-various-game-fixes-directstorage/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/dxvk-nvapi-064-out-now-expanding-hdr-support/ https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.16 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/valve-puts-the-steam-deck-and-dock-on-sale-again/ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3686804163591367815 41:29 Outro

42:37

S01:E36 Sep 9, 2023

Plasma 6 not before 2024, new Ubuntu App Store, GNOME breaks extensions

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41:26

S01:E35 Sep 2, 2023

Accent colors standard & kernel performance boosts

This episode is sponsored by Thunderbird: https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak 👏 Support the show here: 👏 https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 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 00:53 Accent colors are added to the XDG desktop portal https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Desktop-Portal-1.17.1 https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/815 06:23 Linux Kernel 6.5 was released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/linux-kernel-6-5-features https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux65-ryzen-7950x 10:41 Kernel 6.6 will have big performance boosts https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Sysctl-Cleaning https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-IOmap-Improvements https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-EEVDF-Merged https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Early-Features https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-OverDrive-Linux 16:22 Sponsor: Thunderbird https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak 17:52 GNOME will get more UI updates https://www.omglinux.com/nautilus-split-pane-gnome-45/ https://feborg.es/gnome-settings-update-2023-2/ 22:11 France pushes another censorship law https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/france-plans-to-boost-internet-censorship-to-combat-online-fraud https://foundation.mozilla.org/fr/campaigns/sign-our-petition-to-stop-france-from-forcing-browsers-like-mozillas-firefox-to-censor-websites-en/ 26:53 Intel announces chips with 240% better efficiency https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-says-new-sierra-forest-chip-more-than-double-power-efficiency-2023-08-28/ 30:37 Flatpak implements Wayland security features https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-Wayland-Security-Ctx 32:02 Alma Linux adds 2 new repos https://linuxiac.com/almalinux-goes-its-way-adds-two-new-repositories/ 36:22 Gaming News: Starfield on Steam Deck, Wine + Wayland https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/roblox-support-returns-to-linux-with-wine/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/steam-deck-os-349-released-with-gpu-fix-for-starfield/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Part-6 40:59 Outro

41:22

S01:E34 Aug 27, 2023

Ubuntu desktop plans, NVIDIA BIOS lock broken, Budgie gets updates

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44:21

S01:E33 Aug 20, 2023

New Linux tablet, SUSE goes private, GNOME 45 beta

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41:35

S01:E32 Aug 12, 2023

New CPU flaws will lower performance, Linux enterprise shakeup, KDE Wayland support

👏 Support the show here: 👏 https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 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 00:52 Security flaws in CPUs mean less performance https://www.techradar.com/pro/all-amd-zen-cpus-hit-by-a-major-security-flaw-heres-what-we-know https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/downfall-inception-amd-intel-security/ 05:22 SUSE & Oracle create a foundation to provide RHEL compatible code https://openela.org/news/hello_world/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-suse-and-ciq-go-after-red-hat-with-the-open-enterprise-linux-association/ https://linuxiac.com/rocky-oracle-and-suse-join-forces-against-red-hat-in-openela/ 10:51 Red Hat hires to work on bootloaders https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/100038/principal-software-engineer/job https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Hiring-Bootloader 13:40 Wayland on Plasma 6 looks pretty great https://blog.broulik.de/2023/08/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-contd/ https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/wayland/qt/2023/08/08/xdg-toplevel-drag.html 18:27 GNOME 45 might add native screencasting support https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-45-native-screencast-support/ 21:32 Application updates for the week https://www.omglinux.com/xournal-plus-plus-handwritten-notes-update/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/firefox-117-private-translation 25:47 NVK improves and AMD performance increase https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-NVK-Linux-6.6-DRM-Next 29:27 Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu with some nice tools https://rhinolinux.org/news-6.html 32:50 The LXD project gets forked after Canonical shenanigans https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Containers-LXD-Incus 36:47 Gaming News: Refurbished Steam Decks, Overwatch 2 on Steam https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/now-official-you-can-buy-a-refurbished-steam-deck-from-valve/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/overwatch-2-out-on-steam-works-fine-on-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/ 41:13 Outro

41:41

S01:E31 Aug 6, 2023

ChromeOS becomes a Linux distro, GNOME Activities changes, Mint 21.3

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40:25

S01:E30 Jul 29, 2023

Google's new nightmare plan for the web, GNOME's new windowing system, Plasma 6 removes features

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45:09

S01:E29 Jul 22, 2023

EU's new law will hurt FOSS, Intel performance boost, repairable laptops

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43:25

S01:E28 Jul 15, 2023

SUSE takes on Red Hat, Mint 21.2 released & Thunderbird Supernova

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40:09

S01:E27 Jul 8, 2023

New Ubuntu Store promotes snap only, GNOME 45 alpha and France privacy breaches

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43:55

S01:E26 Jul 2, 2023

Kernel 6.4 boosts AMD, FOSS Nvidia Driver, GNOME gaming improvements

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 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3080 https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/06/twig-102/ 15:08 KDE weekly updates https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/30/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-development-continues/ 17:41 New Installer might debut in Fedora 39 https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-39-workstation-to-ship-with-a-more-modern-installer 20:48 ReactOS isn’t dead and is super interesting https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-102/ 23:41 Canonical redesigns the snap store https://ubuntu.com//blog/snapcraft-io-reloaded-check-out-the-new-look-and-feel 26:46 Zorin OS brings an in place updater tool https://blog.zorin.com/2023/06/28/the-zorin-os-upgrader-has-arrived/ 30:06 System76 releases their Thelio cases as a standalone https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/system76-reveal-the-nebula-a-new-pc-case-for-everyone/ https://system76.com/components 32:57 Irish Data Protection Commission legal shenanigans https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/data-security/2023/06/26/last-minute-law-change-bid-to-muzzle-critics-of-data-protection-commission-iccl/ 36:57 Gaming News: AMD driver improvements, Valve hiring, and more https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/amd-radv-gets-feature-to-help-emulation-and-translation-layers/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/valve-pulls-in-another-graphics-driver-developer-for-linux-gaming/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/steam-deck-hits-over-10000-verified-and-playable-games/ https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.11 https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/blob/771e442af16228a977eebba82224f06f6d0202fe/ANNOUNCE https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/part-4-of-the-wine-work-for-wayland-is-now-merged/ 43:30 Outro

43:14

S01:E25 Jun 25, 2023

Red Hat vs open source, Mint Beta, Plasma 6 progress report

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43:28

S01:E24 Jun 18, 2023

Big Nextcloud improvements, PopOS Cosmic tiling changes, and Steam redesign

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40:23

S01:E23 Jun 10, 2023

France arrested people for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, better FOSS firmware

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42:09

S01:E22 Jun 3, 2023

Ubuntu goes immutable, big GNOME updates, Touchpad gestures on Mint

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42:30

S01:E21 May 27, 2023

Fedora KDE abandons X11, Android's giant security flaw, Meta gets EU'd again

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41:15

S01:E20 May 20, 2023

More HDR work for Linux, Ubuntu revamps PPAs, KeePass security breach

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41:04

S01:E19 May 13, 2023

AMD moves to FOSS firmware, COSMIC panel customization, & Plasma 6 changes

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40:32

S01:E18 May 6, 2023

HDR & VRR Linux support, AMD challenges Apple Silicon, Microsoft Edge abuse

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41:25

S01:E17 Apr 29, 2023

Flathub redesign, Linux 6.3 + Intel performance boost, EU vs big platforms

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38:00

S01:E16 Apr 22, 2023

Fedora 38, Ubuntu 23.04, Solus survives & big KDE app updates

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42:04

S01:E15 Apr 16, 2023

Solus is dying, OpenAI defamation suit, EU builds its own Google

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45:43

S01:E14 Apr 8, 2023

Linux Mint theme changes, System76 in house laptop, Google Drive backtracks

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43:41

S01:E13 Apr 2, 2023

Ubuntu 23.04 beta, Mobile Linux improvements, Italy blocks chatGPT

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45:13

S01:E12 Mar 26, 2023

Giant Nextcloud update, Twitter goes Open Source, Wayland screen sharing fixed

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45:07

S01:E11 Mar 18, 2023

Docker vs Open Source, Ubuntu wants less Python issues, Fedora 38 beta

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47:26

S01:E10 Mar 12, 2023

Meta in the Fediverse, Duck Duck Go works on AI, Flathub Roadmap

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43:52

S01:E09 Mar 5, 2023

HP gives up, Flathub & paid apps, companies are using FOSS wrong

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42:49

S01:E08 Feb 25, 2023

Ubuntu hates flatpak, Microsoft's anti consumer practices, GNOME 44 beta

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45:53

S01:E07 Feb 18, 2023

FOSS funding is broken, Mycroft shuts down, KDE Plasma 5.27

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45:32

S01:E06 Feb 12, 2023

Windows is spyware, Fedora adds Flathub, AI tool violates FOSS

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43:20

S01:E05 Feb 4, 2023

A peek at Cosmic DE's design, Mint + Wayland, elementary OS 7 released

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47:01

S01:E04 Jan 28, 2023

New EU law hurts FOSS, GNOME 44 alpha, Chrome beats Firefox

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50:21

S01:E03 Jan 21, 2023

Linux Foundation's metaverse, Stable Diffusion sued, KDE 5.27 Beta

🎙️ Leave your feedback here: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 👏 Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 👕 Buy TLE Merch : https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch my Linux videos : https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment Timecodes and links: 00:00 Intro 01:43 Linux Foundation is trying to build an open metaverse https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/open-metaverse-foundation https://www.openmv.org/on-the-path-to-an-open-metaverse/ 07:09 Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit 12:50 Adobe clarifies their use of user data regarding AI https://petapixel.com/2023/01/18/adobe-says-it-isnt-using-your-photos-to-train-ai-image-generators/ 15:53 KDE Plasma 5.27 beta is now out for testing https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.26.90/ 21:27 GNOME telemetry data shows it needs a notification tray https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2023/01/18/gnome-info-collect-what-we-learned/ 27:38 India builds the Ministry of Truth https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/india-proposes-social-media-firms-rely-on-fact-checking-by-government-agencies/ https://www.altnews.in/pib-fact-check-blunders-again-incorrectly-declares-up-stf-advisory-on-chinese-apps-as-fake-news/ 32:11 The new Ubuntu installer looks identical to the old one https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-new-flutter-installer-first-look 35:32 Fedora wants your feedback on their new installer https://fedoramagazine.org/anaconda-web-ui-storage-feedback-requested/ 39:11 Wikipedia gets a new redesign that looks the same https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/wikipedia-redesign-vector-2022-skin.html 43:36 Gaming News: AyaneoOS is coming, and Stadia is now dead https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ayaneo-confirm-their-linux-based-ayaneo-os-arrives-this-year/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/18/googles-stadia-shuts-down-today/ 49:09 Outro

47:23

S01:E02 Jan 14, 2023

Apple isn't private, Mastodon loses users, Mozilla joins the fediverse

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S01:E01 Jan 7, 2023

Arch isn't N°1, X.org dying, Meta fined €390M: Linux & Open Source News

🎙️ Leave your feedback here: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 👏 Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 📹 Watch my Linux videos: : https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🕰️ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro (listen to it, it’s important) 02:00 Is Arch Linux the most popular distribution? https://linuxiac.com/most-popular-linux-distros-according-to-reddit/ 05:18 X.org is dead at that point https://www.phoronix.com/news/XServer-2022-Development-Pace 08:35 Meta gets huge fines from the EU for breaching GDPR https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/04/facebook-instagram-gdpr-forced-consent-final-decisions/ 13:56 Finally a full AMD (including GPUs) Linux computer https://9to5linux.com/meet-the-slimbook-kymera-ventus-amd-black-limited-edition-linux-pc https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-kymera/kymera-ventus-amd-6-comprar 17:08 Google is working on a moderation tool for small websites https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/google-develops-free-terrorism-moderation-tool-for-smaller-websites/ 21:13 Google is porting Android to RISC V https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/ 27:07 System76 shares more details about COSMIC https://blog.system76.com/post/2022-at-system76-a-year-in-review 29:46 GNOME application updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/12/twig-76/ 32:30 KDE has quality of life improvements https://pointieststick.com/2022/12/30/this-week-in-kde-end-of-year-goodies/ 35:30 The MAUI project is very much alive https://mauikit.org/blog/maui-report-20/ 37:19 Budgie and Sway get their official Fedora spins https://9to5linux.com/its-official-fedora-linux-38-will-offer-fedora-budgie-and-sway-spins 39:09 Gaming news: HDR for Linux gaming, and AMD Ray Tracing https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/latest-steam-survey-sees-a-minor-dip-for-linux-steam-deck-still-trending-nicely-overall/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/valve-dev-teases-hdr-support-for-linux-gaming/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-ray-tracing-on-linux-gets-closer-with-mesa-enabling-specific-games/ 42:10 Outro