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Linux & Open Source News

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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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Episodes

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

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Sep 30, 202344 minSeason 1Ep. 39

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

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Sep 24, 202342 minSeason 1Ep. 38

Another Linux tablet, HDR gaming & Linux malware

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Sep 17, 202342 minSeason 1Ep. 37

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

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Sep 09, 202343 minSeason 1Ep. 36

Accent colors standard & kernel performance boosts

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Sep 02, 202341 minSeason 1Ep. 35

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

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Aug 27, 202341 minSeason 1Ep. 34

New Linux tablet, SUSE goes private, GNOME 45 beta

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Aug 20, 202344 minSeason 1Ep. 33

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

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Aug 12, 202342 minSeason 1Ep. 32

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

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Aug 06, 202342 minSeason 1Ep. 31

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

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Jul 29, 202340 minSeason 1Ep. 30

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

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Jul 22, 202345 minSeason 1Ep. 29

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

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Jul 15, 202343 minSeason 1Ep. 28

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

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Jul 08, 202340 minSeason 1Ep. 27

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

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Jul 02, 202344 minSeason 1Ep. 26

Special: Interview with Tuxedo

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Jun 29, 202344 min

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

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Jun 25, 202343 minSeason 1Ep. 25

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

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Jun 18, 202343 minSeason 1Ep. 24

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

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Jun 10, 202340 minSeason 1Ep. 23

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

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Jun 03, 202342 minSeason 1Ep. 22

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

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May 27, 202343 minSeason 1Ep. 21

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

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May 20, 202341 minSeason 1Ep. 20

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

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May 13, 202341 minSeason 1Ep. 19

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

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May 06, 202341 minSeason 1Ep. 18

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

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Apr 29, 202341 minSeason 1Ep. 17

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

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Apr 22, 202338 minSeason 1Ep. 16

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

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Apr 16, 202342 minSeason 1Ep. 15

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

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Apr 08, 202346 minSeason 1Ep. 14

Ubuntu 23.04 beta, Mobile Linux improvements, Italy blocks chatGPT

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Apr 02, 202344 minSeason 1Ep. 13

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

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Mar 26, 202345 minSeason 1Ep. 12

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

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Mar 18, 202345 minSeason 1Ep. 11
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