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.
Fedora 41 drops X11, Copilot lawsuit dismissed, GNOME 47 looks great
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00:00 Intro
01:27 Fedora 41 install will be Wayland only
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-WS-Wayland-Only-ISOs
04:16 GNOME 47 might replace their font with Inter
https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-may-switch-to-inter-font/
06:59 GNOME 47 will have some HDR support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-Color-State-Transform
09:01 Arch Linux running on Google Drive
https://www.techspot.com/news/103652-developer-somehow-got-entire-os-running-google-drive.html
10:44 Mint 22 Beta has some issues
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4728
13:27 Ubuntu App Center gains local deb support
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/app-center-update-adds-deb-install-support
16:10 NVK might run on other kernel and kernel drivers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Platform-Abstraction
18:50 GNOME Extensions website is getting a redesign
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/gnome-extensions-website-redesign-2024
21:15 Firefox is getting some cool new features
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-129-enters-beta-testing-with-improved-reader-view-other-changes
23:58 New code editor for Linux: Zed
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-on-linux
26:15 Judge dismisses half of a lawsuit against Github Copilot
29:45 Apple drags their feet on 3rd party stores
33:14 Youtube pushes harder against ads
https://www.techradar.com/pro/youtubes-server-side-ad-insertion-complicates-ad-blocking-efforts
37:12 Gaming: Steam recording, Bottles and DXVK
https://linuxiac.com/bottles-51-12-enhances-linux-gaming-with-d3d8-support/
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.4
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/steam-beta-adds-many-more-game-recording-improvements/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/
41:42 Outro
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