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Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics.

This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.

I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!

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

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Mar 12, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 10

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

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Mar 05, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 9

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

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Feb 25, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 8

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

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Feb 18, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 7

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

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Feb 12, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 6

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

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Feb 04, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 5

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

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Jan 28, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 4

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

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Jan 21, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 3

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

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Jan 14, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2

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 fi...

Jan 07, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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