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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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Google breakup, bcacheFS acts like ReiserFS, Steam Controller 2

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Nov 23, 202431 minSeason 2Ep. 46

Nvidia roadmap for Linux, Tuxedo Driver issue, Ubuntu 25.04

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Nov 16, 202433 minSeason 2Ep. 45

KDE and GNOME OS, Manjaro telemetry & Mozilla layoffs

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Nov 09, 202433 minSeason 2Ep. 44

AI isn't Open Source, Fedora 41, Apex blocks Linux

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Nov 02, 202429 minSeason 2Ep. 43

Linux drops Russian maintainers, CoreBoot nonsense & Snap drivers

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Oct 26, 202430 minSeason 2Ep. 42

Adblockers are dead, Valve talks Steam Deck 2, Nvidia wants better drivers

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Oct 19, 202431 minSeason 2Ep. 41

GNOME has money issues, Linux malware & Nvidia driver progress

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Oct 12, 202426 minSeason 2Ep. 40

Valve & Arch partnership, Nintendo kills Switch emulator, Thunderbird for Android is here

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Oct 05, 202436 minSeason 2Ep. 39

9.9 out of 10 severity flaw on Linux, ARM64 & Android support in proton, Valve devs want faster Wayland progress

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Sep 28, 202437 minSeason 2Ep. 38

Torvalds dismisses Rust haters, Mozilla kills their Mastodon instance, GNOME 47 is out

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Sep 21, 202443 minSeason 2Ep. 37

KDE's 3 main goals, Plasma 6.2 beta, Square Enix invests in a Linux OS

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Sep 14, 202437 minSeason 2Ep. 36

Linux grows again, KDE overspends (but it's fine), Ubuntu has upgrade problems

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Sep 07, 202437 minSeason 2Ep. 35

New Linux Console, Rust and BcacheFS drama, KDE donations

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Aug 31, 202439 minSeason 2Ep. 34

Microsoft broke Linux dual boots, Google coerces reviewers, GNOME 47 beta

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Aug 24, 202443 minSeason 2Ep. 33

Could the US break up Google? Deepin 23, SteamOS for other devices

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Aug 17, 202439 minSeason 2Ep. 32

Cosmic Alpha is out, elementary OS 8 in September, Nvidia scraped videos for its AI

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Aug 10, 202445 minSeason 2Ep. 31

A few nice Cosmic reveals, Linux market share gains, macOS more vulnerable than Windows

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Aug 03, 202440 minSeason 2Ep. 30

Firefox's Opt-out ad setting, AI tool pirated movies, SecureBoot broken

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Jul 27, 202442 minSeason 2Ep. 29

3rd party Bug killed Windows PCs across the world, openSUSE needs to change its name

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Jul 20, 202438 minSeason 2Ep. 28

Fedora 41 drops X11, Copilot lawsuit dismissed, GNOME 47 looks great

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Jul 13, 202442 minSeason 2Ep. 27

Fedora Telemetry, Deepin AI, ChromeOS Flex is dead?

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Jul 06, 202442 minSeason 2Ep. 26

Mozilla sued for discrimination, GNOME without X11, Performance boosts everywhere

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Jun 29, 202441 minSeason 2Ep. 25

GNOME accent colors, the end of ad blockers and Plasma 6.1

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Jun 22, 202440 minSeason 2Ep. 24

Mint disables unverified apps, Recall hacked already, KDE as ks for feedback

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Jun 08, 202440 minSeason 2Ep. 23

GNOME has plans, EU investigates OpenAI for GDPR violations, Ubuntu Real Time

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Jun 01, 202442 minSeason 2Ep. 22

GNOME's 5 year plan, Windows Recall is a nightmare, Qualcomm beats Apple?

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May 25, 202444 minSeason 2Ep. 21

Firefox data collection, France bans TikTok (sort of), Google AI is scary

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May 18, 202442 minSeason 2Ep. 20

Cosmic update, new attack bypasses VPNs, ClearLinux beats everything else?

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May 11, 202444 minSeason 2Ep. 19

No, NixOS isn't dying. GNOME icon & funding issues, everyone hates Windows 11

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May 04, 202440 minSeason 2Ep. 18

Why Google sucks now, US bans TikTok, Ubuntu 24.04 & Fedora 40

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Apr 27, 202442 minSeason 2Ep. 17
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