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.
New Ubuntu Store promotes snap only, GNOME 45 alpha and France privacy breaches
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Kernel 6.4 boosts AMD, FOSS Nvidia Driver, GNOME gaming improvements
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Special: Interview with Tuxedo
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Red Hat vs open source, Mint Beta, Plasma 6 progress report
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Big Nextcloud improvements, PopOS Cosmic tiling changes, and Steam redesign
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France arrested people for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, better FOSS firmware
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Ubuntu goes immutable, big GNOME updates, Touchpad gestures on Mint
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Fedora KDE abandons X11, Android's giant security flaw, Meta gets EU'd again
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More HDR work for Linux, Ubuntu revamps PPAs, KeePass security breach
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AMD moves to FOSS firmware, COSMIC panel customization, & Plasma 6 changes
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HDR & VRR Linux support, AMD challenges Apple Silicon, Microsoft Edge abuse
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Flathub redesign, Linux 6.3 + Intel performance boost, EU vs big platforms
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Fedora 38, Ubuntu 23.04, Solus survives & big KDE app updates
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Solus is dying, OpenAI defamation suit, EU builds its own Google
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Linux Mint theme changes, System76 in house laptop, Google Drive backtracks
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