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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!

Episodes

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

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May 27, 2023•43 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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May 20, 2023•41 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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May 13, 2023•41 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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May 06, 2023•41 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Apr 29, 2023•41 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Apr 22, 2023•38 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Apr 16, 2023•42 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Apr 08, 2023•46 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast

Ubuntu 23.04 beta, Mobile Linux improvements, Italy blocks chatGPT

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Apr 02, 2023•44 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Mar 26, 2023•45 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Mar 18, 2023•45 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Mar 12, 2023•47 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Mar 05, 2023•44 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Feb 25, 2023•43 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Feb 18, 2023•46 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Feb 12, 2023•46 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Feb 04, 2023•43 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Jan 28, 2023•47 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Jan 21, 2023•50 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Jan 14, 2023•47 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

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

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Jan 07, 2023•43 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast