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even after all these years gnome and KD are still the main desktop environments for lint plenty of others are available now and some of them are just as advanced and just as good but the big ones they're still gnome and KDE and both these desktops have their very vocal supporters and detractors because they both have very different philosophies and that's good choice is good but it also means that newcomers and generally Linux users might not really know which one they should dedicate any time to learning and which one they should really use depending on their preferences the goal is absolutely not to tell you that one is better than the other it's just to give you all the facts so you can start using or move to something that really works for you and you can also start listening to the segue to our sponsor if you have ever read an article online and wondered who EX exactly was behind that website if they had a specific bias or agenda then boy do I have a good service for you it is ground news click the link in the description or scan the QR code that should appear somewhere on screen to follow along while I tell you how things work to explain let's take a look at this story on Google's carbon emissions Rising due to their focus on AI with ground news I can be up to speed on this story in seconds with their summaries and and a bias comparison showing me what the left what the center and what the right are focusing their reporting on for this specific story this is based on more than 90 articles here that ground news found covering this exact Story coming from across the world and across the political Spectrum for example there's this article from The Inquirer ground news shows me their reporting is somewhat credible it leans politically left and they are based in the Philippines I can either read their coverage or keep scrolling for a different perspective on this story or I can look at the visual breakdowns on the right for quick data on all the new sources covering this I really think ground news is a fantastic service for you to improve your understanding of various issues and various stories and also to understand what's your Echo chamber and to try and Escape it so click the link in the description or scan the QR code on screen to go to the ground News website and get 40% off the same Vantage plan that I use to get all my news Okay so back to our desktops and let's start with the design philosophies behind each one because they sort of condition everything else KY goes for simple by default powerful when needed as in the default layout of your desktop is very simple the defaults are really sane and abs T to only show the most used features but when you dig a bit deeper you have tons of extra features options and settings to really make things your own or to just do everything without needing a lot of third- party applications to fill in the gaps and KD absolutely succeeds at this anyone who ever used windows can get started using KDE and will not feel lost but when you start wanting to change a few options here and there you might be overwhelmed by the sheer number of settings pages and the sheer number of settings on each of these pages gnome on the other hand goes for super accessible and simple meaning they make conscious choices to not include a lot of options and to not clutter the interface the goal is to give you a very simple legible and easy to understand interface and to let third-party apps give you more advanced features that might not be in their default applications gnome also succeeds at this but the fact that they weigh every single option and its long-term cost in terms of Maintenance and stability and design means that some people feel that they're either too slow in implementing new features or that they're dumping down their desktop or that it's just too limiting for their use in the end KD will very likely be much more familiar with virtually everyone because let's be honest everyone at some point used Windows as their default operating system gnome does away with all of this and thus will be a bit harder to get to grips with at first but once you get the workflow it might just click and you just have one single key press on your keyboard to access the single view that lets you do everything it's also very efficient now from these design principles you can easily infer what the views of each desktop are in terms of customization KDE can be turned into anything and gnome is on the surface at least a lot more rigid just in terms of looks KD lets you apply themes for everything out of the box you can change the icons the look of the buttons the colors of every part of every window the accent color of the desktop the shape of your title bars the entire layout of the desktop everything can be tweaked if you want to KDE even has built-in stores to let you install Community made layouts themes icons widgets and everything in between these can have some security concerns of course but the focus is clearly on letting you make whatever the hell you want gnome on the other hand is often viewed as inflexible and limited and that's not necessarily the case either by default yes gnome does not give you the options to change the layout or the look you need a third party app to handle any of this gnome doesn't have accent colors yet either they will get them in their next release gome 47 which at the time I'm recording this is still 2 and 1/2 months away but with the gnome tweaks app and the extension manager app you get a lot of possibilities you can you can change the theme of your desktop and the apps you can change the cursors the icons the button Styles the colors extension manager lets you install extensions that can turn gnome into something else auntu creates their desktop based on gnome with extensions zorinos does the same the current version of popos before they start using their future Cosmic desktop also does it extensions can let you have a Windows like layout a global menu a system tray anything really the main difference here is that KD officially has the built-in mechanisms to tweak things to theme things and they want to expose all of these features to the user gnome doesn't really want you to do that and extensions and themes are in sort of a gray area you can use them you can do them but they're not necessarily officially supported by the gnome project meaning that extensions can break when you update your version of gnome and themes are definitely not something that gnome supports so you will definitely encounter some problem visually in certain apps that just won't work well with the theme you picked granted that can also happen on KDE but on KD this is an official feature of the desktop so KD obviously wins in terms of customization you can completely tailor Gloom to your needs but there's no telling if this customization will last your next death through upgrade but what about support for more modern features and future proofing of these desktops the Linux desktop as as a whole is moving away from the older X11 display server because its architecture is stuck in the past and too hard to evolve no one wants to deal with it so every major project is moving towards whand which has some limitations but enables a lot of stuff like HDR variable refresh rate better fractional scaling and the like and on this front let's be honest KD has the edge overnow both desktops have very solid whm support they just gained explicit sync support meaning users of Nvidia gpus should have a really good experience now provided they use the latest drivers and the latest gnome or KDE but after that KD just has made a lot more progress on all of this stuff HDR is officially supported on KD you have a toggle that is available in the display settings provided your display supported which mine doesn't there's still some work to be done to make sure color accuracy is solid but this work is already underway with the ability to load your own ICC color profile or to use the one your display might provide KD supports having both SDR and HDR content side by side and it can let you run full screen HDR content as well notably games and movies gnome only has an experimental command line to toggle HDR and right now it is not fully baked they have plans to improve it in Gnome 47 by letting you play SDR and and HDR content side by side but chances are it won't be a stable feature that people can just turn on in the regular settings same goes for variable refresh rate the feature that lets your display change its refresh rate to accommodate the content playing on screen something that can make gaming way smoother and also lets you save bettery life on laptops KD Has It by default built in and stable you can turn it on in the display settings gnome only has experimental support for it right now that you do need to enable manually with a command line or through a utility called decom and on the fractional scaling front plasma supports it better than gnome as well plasma has it natively and in a stable version in the settings where gnome still considers their implementation experimental and you need to enable it manually through dcon as well again gome 47 should finish this implementation but at the time I'm recording this it has not been made into stable option in the end the state of things is that KD has a sizable lead on variable refresh rate on hdr on fractional scaling and on color management over gnome gnome is probably going to catch up with gnome 47 and gnome 48 but whether these things will be made stable and a default option you can simply toggle is really uncertain if you don't need any of these features if your Hardware doesn't support it then both desktops are basically on par they have really good whand support and if you cannot or don't want to run whand they have really good X11 support as well but if your Hardware has these features and you want to take advantage of this you currently need to use KD over gnome now on the topic of applications gnome has the upper hand gnome by making a very clear and well-defined development platform for developers ensured that basically most people developed apps using gnomes guidelines the end result is that virtually every time you hear about a new app it is designed to integrate with gnome and not with KD now KD also has plenty of available applications and they're generally more powerful with more features but they're also generally much older and have very busy and not upto-date user interfaces things are changing a bit with a newer framework called kirigami that lets developers build simpler KD apps we have good examples of this like Mark note or mercuro but in the the end gnome just has a more vibrant app ecosystem with a lot of utilities that do one task well and some more advanced apps like planify which is an excellent project management app or Gaff for a uml modeling and diagram tool and of course you can run gnome apps inside of KDE or KD apps inside of gnome but they just will not look right they won't use your usual conventions they will just not look integrated if that's an important thing for you if you like your desktops to be coherent then you need to use gnome over KD now as per stability and bugs this will really depend on the distribution you use how well they package these desktops for you and even on your Hardware KD often has the image of being buggier than gnome because it had a relatively long period of time where they had a weird release cycle they pushed One release full of new features but which was also very buggy and then they pushed one polish release which fixed most of the bugs but not all of them KD since it has a lot of features also has a lot more potential compatibility problems between these features that can create bugs it's a fact with software the more you do the more features you have the more points of failure you have and the buggier your thing will be you have more components so you have more potential bugs it's also very difficult to use the number of open bugs as a judge for each desktop because obviously bugs are first reported against specific components of that desktop and also a pure number wouldn't really mean anything because some bugs might be very old and were just never closed some bugs might be very basic non-important non impactful stuff and some might be desktop breaking so it's hard to judge what I have found in use is that both desktops feel very similar now in terms of stability I virtually never encounter a big desktop breaking bug in KD or in G chances are gnome might be a bit more stable and have a little bit less bugs than what KD has but also it really depends if you use the vanilla KD desktop compared to a super customized gnome with 20 extensions maybe your gnome will be buggier and if you use a completely tailored and tweaked KD with every option turned on chances are you will have more bugs and you will be less stable as a platform than just vanilla gnome without extensions it will depend on your experience and Hardware so this one is hard to judge I will still say that gnome feels a bit more polished if only because they have less options to test so in the end what do you choose I think the most important decision factor is which philosophy do you prefer gnome offers a more polished more unified and more coherent experience at the expense of most conventions people will be used to and at the expense of customization you can Bridge these gaps with extend iions and themes but they're basically a hack and they might not be as easy to apply as on KD and they might make your desktop very unstable or buggy KD is basically a giant box of Lego or a toolbox they use this toolbox to build a simple default state but basically KD is a collection of things you can use to build the exact experience you want that looks like you want it to and behaves in your own very specific way the consequence of this is that gnome has a better selection of available applications because it's more of a fixed platform to Target something developers tend to enjoy and gnome might thus be a bit more stable but on the other hand KD implements more modern features faster because work gnome can sometimes overthink a features design or implementation not really starting the work or pushing it until they have sorted all the issues they could Envision KD tends to just go for the feature and to push it to users and then they start refining its implementation so they just move faster on a lot of stuff so personally I use KDE these days and I'm very satisfied with it it is probably what I would recommend for any new Linux beginner coming from the windows world because it will just be more familiar and if something doesn't work exactly like they want it to they can change it but I also use gnome for the longest time before I move to KD and I absolutely love the attention to detail the cohesion the look and feel the app ecosystem they're both fantastic choices you decide it's not a clearcut choice there is no one desktop is much better than anything else and everyone who tells you otherwise is just wrong just like it would be wrong to not talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box which is a sizable advantage over buying something from a manufacturer that only supports Windows because because you know that the hardware has been tested with Linux and Tuxedo actually submits patches Upstream to fix the potential compatibility problems that they encounter they have a giant range of computers that should cover every need and every price point I have plenty of reviews for their Hardware on my channel and they're really really solid they're all I use these days for running this channel it's one of their laptops for gaming it's one of their desktops they're all super customizable you can't go wrong with them so click the link in the description below if you need a new PC you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually contributes to Linux go with tuxedo computers they're really good okay so thanks for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and if you really enjoyed the channel there are plenty of links in the description to support it and gain some extra perks so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] he
even after all these years gnome and KD are still the main desktop environments for lint plenty of others are available now and some of them are just as advanced and just as good but the big ones they're still gnome and KDE and both these desktops have their very vocal supporters and detractors because they both have very different philosophies and that's good choice is good but it also means that newcomers and generally Linux users might not really know which one they should dedicate any time to learning and which one they should really use depending on their preferences the goal is absolutely not to tell you that one is better than the other it's just to give you all the facts so you can start using or move to something that really works for you and you can also start listening to the segue to our sponsor if you have ever read an article online and wondered who EX exactly was behind that website if they had a specific bias or agenda then boy do I have a good service for you it is ground news click the link in the description or scan the QR code that should appear somewhere on screen to follow along while I tell you how things work to explain let's take a look at this story on Google's carbon emissions Rising due to their focus on AI with ground news I can be up to speed on this story in seconds with their summaries and and a bias comparison showing me what the left what the center and what the right are focusing their reporting on for this specific story this is based on more than 90 articles here that ground news found covering this exact Story coming from across the world and across the political Spectrum for example there's this article from The Inquirer ground news shows me their reporting is somewhat credible it leans politically left and they are based in the Philippines I can either read their coverage or keep scrolling for a different perspective on this story or I can look at the visual breakdowns on the right for quick data on all the new sources covering this I really think ground news is a fantastic service for you to improve your understanding of various issues and various stories and also to understand what's your Echo chamber and to try and Escape it so click the link in the description or scan the QR code on screen to go to the ground News website and get 40% off the same Vantage plan that I use to get all my news Okay so back to our desktops and let's start with the design philosophies behind each one because they sort of condition everything else KY goes for simple by default powerful when needed as in the default layout of your desktop is very simple the defaults are really sane and abs T to only show the most used features but when you dig a bit deeper you have tons of extra features options and settings to really make things your own or to just do everything without needing a lot of third- party applications to fill in the gaps and KD absolutely succeeds at this anyone who ever used windows can get started using KDE and will not feel lost but when you start wanting to change a few options here and there you might be overwhelmed by the sheer number of settings pages and the sheer number of settings on each of these pages gnome on the other hand goes for super accessible and simple meaning they make conscious choices to not include a lot of options and to not clutter the interface the goal is to give you a very simple legible and easy to understand interface and to let third-party apps give you more advanced features that might not be in their default applications gnome also succeeds at this but the fact that they weigh every single option and its long-term cost in terms of Maintenance and stability and design means that some people feel that they're either too slow in implementing new features or that they're dumping down their desktop or that it's just too limiting for their use in the end KD will very likely be much more familiar with virtually everyone because let's be honest everyone at some point used Windows as their default operating system gnome does away with all of this and thus will be a bit harder to get to grips with at first but once you get the workflow it might just click and you just have one single key press on your keyboard to access the single view that lets you do everything it's also very efficient now from these design principles you can easily infer what the views of each desktop are in terms of customization KDE can be turned into anything and gnome is on the surface at least a lot more rigid just in terms of looks KD lets you apply themes for everything out of the box you can change the icons the look of the buttons the colors of every part of every window the accent color of the desktop the shape of your title bars the entire layout of the desktop everything can be tweaked if you want to KDE even has built-in stores to let you install Community made layouts themes icons widgets and everything in between these can have some security concerns of course but the focus is clearly on letting you make whatever the hell you want gnome on the other hand is often viewed as inflexible and limited and that's not necessarily the case either by default yes gnome does not give you the options to change the layout or the look you need a third party app to handle any of this gnome doesn't have accent colors yet either they will get them in their next release gome 47 which at the time I'm recording this is still 2 and 1/2 months away but with the gnome tweaks app and the extension manager app you get a lot of possibilities you can you can change the theme of your desktop and the apps you can change the cursors the icons the button Styles the colors extension manager lets you install extensions that can turn gnome into something else auntu creates their desktop based on gnome with extensions zorinos does the same the current version of popos before they start using their future Cosmic desktop also does it extensions can let you have a Windows like layout a global menu a system tray anything really the main difference here is that KD officially has the built-in mechanisms to tweak things to theme things and they want to expose all of these features to the user gnome doesn't really want you to do that and extensions and themes are in sort of a gray area you can use them you can do them but they're not necessarily officially supported by the gnome project meaning that extensions can break when you update your version of gnome and themes are definitely not something that gnome supports so you will definitely encounter some problem visually in certain apps that just won't work well with the theme you picked granted that can also happen on KDE but on KD this is an official feature of the desktop so KD obviously wins in terms of customization you can completely tailor Gloom to your needs but there's no telling if this customization will last your next death through upgrade but what about support for more modern features and future proofing of these desktops the Linux desktop as as a whole is moving away from the older X11 display server because its architecture is stuck in the past and too hard to evolve no one wants to deal with it so every major project is moving towards whand which has some limitations but enables a lot of stuff like HDR variable refresh rate better fractional scaling and the like and on this front let's be honest KD has the edge overnow both desktops have very solid whm support they just gained explicit sync support meaning users of Nvidia gpus should have a really good experience now provided they use the latest drivers and the latest gnome or KDE but after that KD just has made a lot more progress on all of this stuff HDR is officially supported on KD you have a toggle that is available in the display settings provided your display supported which mine doesn't there's still some work to be done to make sure color accuracy is solid but this work is already underway with the ability to load your own ICC color profile or to use the one your display might provide KD supports having both SDR and HDR content side by side and it can let you run full screen HDR content as well notably games and movies gnome only has an experimental command line to toggle HDR and right now it is not fully baked they have plans to improve it in Gnome 47 by letting you play SDR and and HDR content side by side but chances are it won't be a stable feature that people can just turn on in the regular settings same goes for variable refresh rate the feature that lets your display change its refresh rate to accommodate the content playing on screen something that can make gaming way smoother and also lets you save bettery life on laptops KD Has It by default built in and stable you can turn it on in the display settings gnome only has experimental support for it right now that you do need to enable manually with a command line or through a utility called decom and on the fractional scaling front plasma supports it better than gnome as well plasma has it natively and in a stable version in the settings where gnome still considers their implementation experimental and you need to enable it manually through dcon as well again gome 47 should finish this implementation but at the time I'm recording this it has not been made into stable option in the end the state of things is that KD has a sizable lead on variable refresh rate on hdr on fractional scaling and on color management over gnome gnome is probably going to catch up with gnome 47 and gnome 48 but whether these things will be made stable and a default option you can simply toggle is really uncertain if you don't need any of these features if your Hardware doesn't support it then both desktops are basically on par they have really good whand support and if you cannot or don't want to run whand they have really good X11 support as well but if your Hardware has these features and you want to take advantage of this you currently need to use KD over gnome now on the topic of applications gnome has the upper hand gnome by making a very clear and well-defined development platform for developers ensured that basically most people developed apps using gnomes guidelines the end result is that virtually every time you hear about a new app it is designed to integrate with gnome and not with KD now KD also has plenty of available applications and they're generally more powerful with more features but they're also generally much older and have very busy and not upto-date user interfaces things are changing a bit with a newer framework called kirigami that lets developers build simpler KD apps we have good examples of this like Mark note or mercuro but in the the end gnome just has a more vibrant app ecosystem with a lot of utilities that do one task well and some more advanced apps like planify which is an excellent project management app or Gaff for a uml modeling and diagram tool and of course you can run gnome apps inside of KDE or KD apps inside of gnome but they just will not look right they won't use your usual conventions they will just not look integrated if that's an important thing for you if you like your desktops to be coherent then you need to use gnome over KD now as per stability and bugs this will really depend on the distribution you use how well they package these desktops for you and even on your Hardware KD often has the image of being buggier than gnome because it had a relatively long period of time where they had a weird release cycle they pushed One release full of new features but which was also very buggy and then they pushed one polish release which fixed most of the bugs but not all of them KD since it has a lot of features also has a lot more potential compatibility problems between these features that can create bugs it's a fact with software the more you do the more features you have the more points of failure you have and the buggier your thing will be you have more components so you have more potential bugs it's also very difficult to use the number of open bugs as a judge for each desktop because obviously bugs are first reported against specific components of that desktop and also a pure number wouldn't really mean anything because some bugs might be very old and were just never closed some bugs might be very basic non-important non impactful stuff and some might be desktop breaking so it's hard to judge what I have found in use is that both desktops feel very similar now in terms of stability I virtually never encounter a big desktop breaking bug in KD or in G chances are gnome might be a bit more stable and have a little bit less bugs than what KD has but also it really depends if you use the vanilla KD desktop compared to a super customized gnome with 20 extensions maybe your gnome will be buggier and if you use a completely tailored and tweaked KD with every option turned on chances are you will have more bugs and you will be less stable as a platform than just vanilla gnome without extensions it will depend on your experience and Hardware so this one is hard to judge I will still say that gnome feels a bit more polished if only because they have less options to test so in the end what do you choose I think the most important decision factor is which philosophy do you prefer gnome offers a more polished more unified and more coherent experience at the expense of most conventions people will be used to and at the expense of customization you can Bridge these gaps with extend iions and themes but they're basically a hack and they might not be as easy to apply as on KD and they might make your desktop very unstable or buggy KD is basically a giant box of Lego or a toolbox they use this toolbox to build a simple default state but basically KD is a collection of things you can use to build the exact experience you want that looks like you want it to and behaves in your own very specific way the consequence of this is that gnome has a better selection of available applications because it's more of a fixed platform to Target something developers tend to enjoy and gnome might thus be a bit more stable but on the other hand KD implements more modern features faster because work gnome can sometimes overthink a features design or implementation not really starting the work or pushing it until they have sorted all the issues they could Envision KD tends to just go for the feature and to push it to users and then they start refining its implementation so they just move faster on a lot of stuff so personally I use KDE these days and I'm very satisfied with it it is probably what I would recommend for any new Linux beginner coming from the windows world because it will just be more familiar and if something doesn't work exactly like they want it to they can change it but I also use gnome for the longest time before I move to KD and I absolutely love the attention to detail the cohesion the look and feel the app ecosystem they're both fantastic choices you decide it's not a clearcut choice there is no one desktop is much better than anything else and everyone who tells you otherwise is just wrong just like it would be wrong to not talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box which is a sizable advantage over buying something from a manufacturer that only supports Windows because because you know that the hardware has been tested with Linux and Tuxedo actually submits patches Upstream to fix the potential compatibility problems that they encounter they have a giant range of computers that should cover every need and every price point I have plenty of reviews for their Hardware on my channel and they're really really solid they're all I use these days for running this channel it's one of their laptops for gaming it's one of their desktops they're all super customizable you can't go wrong with them so click the link in the description below if you need a new PC you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually contributes to Linux go with tuxedo computers they're really good okay so thanks for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and if you really enjoyed the channel there are plenty of links in the description to support it and gain some extra perks so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] he
means 22's beta phase is coming to an end and since they don't give any heads up for when they release a stable version I'm making a guess and I'm assuming it will be out by the time I'm publishing this video if I don't have a fixed release date I have to take a guess so when you watch this either M22 is not released yet but it should release like at most in a week or it is already out at any rate it was ready enough for me to actually take a real good good look at what it brings and it is a fantastic release I just have one little concern on how much workload the mint team is shouldering and I also just have this one segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton you probably know them they developed a suite of private and encrypted tools for your email online storage calendar contacts passwords and VPN speaking of which did you know you can double up on your privacy by connecting to the door Network through your VPN T will let you balce your traffic across multiple encrypted 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example they're now maintaining a Deb package for Thunderbird because auntu which is still the base for mint moved to a snap package for this application and mint doesn't want snaps at all and you might ask doesn't Thunderbird support an official flatback app and doesn't mean ship with flatback and flathub enabled and the answer to both is yes but they still decided that they would maintain a dab package anyway and add that to their burden this is going to be a recurring theme and we'll discuss this at the end of the video so stick around it's going to get interesting so on top of this relatively benine thing the software install app itself now loads much faster with the main window appearing almost instantly according to minc Dev and I can confirm that in my testing it's been really speedy this is thanks to improved multi-threading support you will also get a new preferences page in this app and the homepage gained a new Banner slideshow like every app store out there the big change is how mint will handle flat packs coming from flathub from now on mint comes with flat pack support enabled and flathub turned on meaning you do have access to a lot of software straight from their developers and yes I'm saying straight from the app developers because by default unverified flatbacks will not appear in mint's software manager these are apps that are packaged by third party individuals not by their original developers you do get an option to show these again in the store with a warning telling you that it's not really secure because anyone could be behind this package and you don't know what they put in it even if you decide to show these flat packs again you will not see any user reviews or ratings with the little stars because this would I suppose make them look legit and just like every other verified package this in my opinion is what we call in France a FSE bunny day or fake good idea it's an idea that seems good on the surface but is actually detrimental because what will happen is everyone will turn on unverified flat packs because these contain applications that people really want to install Google Chrome steam Spotify VLC and a lot more and once they do that they do not have the reviews and the ratings to make sure that these third part body applications could actually be safe or are well packaged the only way people could have known if these apps were problematic is with the ratings and the comments and you removed those a better design decision would probably have been to always have a warning popup when you try to install an unverified flatback app so every single install you are reminded that the app is unverified but at least you can check on the user reviews and the ratings to see if someone else has noticed something we and the app is still up for some reason now the second change to Mint 22 is the update to their cinnamon desktop environment namely cinnamon 6.2 and it's a very very small update when using the workspace switcher you can now middle click a workspace to close it the experimental whan session gains support for the Clutter pulit agent meaning the whan session should be able to display authentication prompts to run admin stuff and the user avatars are now used in these authentication windows and in various user applets when you add various rightclick menu items to the file manager you will now be able to reorder these elements and add separators and group things by submenus and you can tweak the labels and the icons of these menu entries that's a level of customization even KDE doesn't dare give their own users so that's something on the topic of applets there are improvements on how the VPN status is reported with a padlock appearing on the network icon when your VPN is active as per settings you can now search the key bindings cinnamon spices now support specific keybinds as well and the Corner Bar applet that appears by default at the bottom right of the cinnamon panel will now let you bind an action to a click when you also hold the shift key so yeah the cinnamon desktop shell itself hasn't really changed all that much I'm guessing a lot of developer effort is mostly focused on bringing that whan session to a solid state because if I remember correctly they want to make that the default for the next major mint version because yes Wayland will be the default on mint at some point the Wayland will be the default everywhere the Wayland will come for you now all of this doesn't mean that apps haven't changed there are a lot of changes on that front the main one is that mint is now sticking to older versions of a lot of default apps that are made by G so the phone viewer has been entirely removed from min's default install it's still available in the repost though the video player the calculator the scanning app the dis usage analyzer the system monitor the calendar and the archive manager were all reverted to their older gtk3 versions because they had all moved to gtk4 from the previous major Min version to this new one and they had moved to Liber V this means mint would not be able to apply their usual themes to these application and the problem is a bit more complex than Min developers saying I want predy colors so you're as the users are getting inferior older versions of apps mint doesn't really downgrade features for Aesthetics in general the rationale here is that mint likes to offer a cohesive desktop much like what gnome is doing and what KDE is doing with one set of guidelines for the user interface and one theme the problem is mint was using a lot of gnome apps which first started losing their menu bars in favor of header bars a while back meaning the user interface guidelines in mint got a bit muddied and second it meant that these apps were using the lib advita Library which hardcodes the advita theme itself mint could still change this theme because there are ways to do so but it's not very sustainable and it would basically lock users to one single theme mint would be building half of their cinnamon experience on a base they have zero control over and actually losing features this is why system 76 moved away from gnome to develop Cosmic this is why mint created cinnamon in the first place to move away from gnome just as well so it's totally fine that they want to do this and mint is also trying to do this in an intelligent fashion they noticed that xfce mate and others also wanted to use gtk apps but not gnome apps they wanted a closer to gnome 2 era kind of design and so Mint app ly reached out to these other desktops to see if they could all collaborate on this set of applications like they said they don't want to make mint apps they want to make Linux apps they will also very likely Fork all these gtk3 versions of apps in the future to be able to reach these goals and this is where I'm really worried about the workload even with the help of xfc and mate those are still very very small teams the min's team isn't huge either so three small teams might just not have the strength to maintain all of these applications especially since Min developers already maintain their own desktop environment they already tweak the obuntu base quite a bit they have a Debian based version as well they maintain their own D packages and they already have their own set of X apps that they work on that might be a lot of work for one single team even with the help of two other smaller desktops and that's what I discussed in the last part of this video so stick around to get my views on that now other applications that mint will now Ship by default include a new online accounts app that replaces the older online account settings panel which also moved to Liber V and as such could not be included in mint anymore so they built their own the good news is that it also brings this online accounts feature to the mate and xfce versions of mint which did not have that previously mint 22 also ships with a matrix client by default now to replace the discontinued hex chat app mint moved to Matrix for their chats instead of IRC and so they had to Shipe an app that uses this protocol the app is actually just a rapper to run element which is a web app they initially plan to have a new IRC client but after testing Matrix they decided they liked it better and they moved to that instead which I think is a good idea IRC is a good protocol it was awesome in the '90s but now people really are just used to Discord slack and teams and stuff like that and Matrix will be much much closer to that experience so it's probably for the best also element is shipped as a web app not an electron app so yeah it's not as bad as it could have been apart from that the sticky notes app can now be invoked from the command line you can also configure where new sticky notes will appear on screen the text editor can now duplicate the text you've selected by pressing Control Plus shift plus d time shift will display a confirmation dialogue when you trying to delete a snapshot game file formats have better thumbnail generation and there are a few other smaller minor changes okay so to finish this look at mint 22 let's see what's under the hood first mint 22 is based on obuntu 24.4 LTS meaning it will get security updates until 2029 this package base is also going to stay the same for mint until 2026 as always mint will ship minor updates but won't move to a newer Ubuntu base in turn this means mint 22 moved to pipe wire as the default because that's what Ubuntu uses now it also means mint comes with the kernel 6.8 and they will add the usual Hardware enablement stack to it so mint will keep supporting newer Hardware by default this 6.8 kernel is not an LTS though and has a very short support window so I would be surprised if they didn't move to something newer at some point to conclude Min 20 to is a mandatory update if you use mint whether you're a beginner an advanced User it's more of what mint users tend to use mint for and what mint user is like so there's no reason not to update to this one now I completely understand why they would want to move to their own Suite of apps because if your core experience depends on theming and guidelines that aren't head orar Centric then you cannot keep relying on gnome apps what gnome is doing is entirely fine and normal they're building their own platform for their own desktop they're not building gnome to be a base for every other desktop out there now for mints to keep control over their Linux Mint experience they need to have their own apps so forking gtk3 versions of these apps is a good plan what worries me is how they are going to handle all this extra work Min developers already have to uproot everything that is snap related from obuntu and so they have to maintain extra Debian packages they also have to maintain and develop the entire cinnamon desktop with a big whan transition that they've given themselves 2 years to finish they also have to maintain their own Suite of X apps and a separate spin with xfce and another spin with matate and now they will have seven more core apps to maintain and update themselves where previously they relied on updates from the people who developed the gnome versions of these apps this is a lot of extra work and even if they manag to Embark xfce and mat developers to build these apps for all three desktops both these other desktops have really small teams that barely manage to update their own stuff the pace of updates to mate and xfc is glacial and I'm not saying that everything needs to have an update every month or that these updates aren't cool but the more you shoulder in terms of development the more people you need and I'm afraid that with all of this extra work maybe some other areas of Linux Mint will start lagging behind I do hope they succeed in this endeavor because it would be really really cool to have this older view of the Linux ecosystem which is I'm making an app for Linux I don't care which desktop it's supposed to run it's going to look relatively fine on any desktop because it's using a toolkit that KD can theme that gnome can theme that mint can theme that xfc mate anything else can theme so it's going to look relatively at home it's how things work were in The Gnome 2 days and it was cool but I do wish mint all the best in their Endeavors I really do hope they can succeed it would be nice to have this second way of building another entirely different ecosystem and if someone can do it I think it's meant and if someone can make a solid Linux computer it's our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and computers in any form factor that run Linux out of the box the hardware has actually been tested to run well with Linux and they actually do contribute patches Upstream to make sure everything runs smoothly they have a wide range that will cover most price points and most use cases all of their devices have a solid choice of customizations from the 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means 22's beta phase is coming to an end and since they don't give any heads up for when they release a stable version I'm making a guess and I'm assuming it will be out by the time I'm publishing this video if I don't have a fixed release date I have to take a guess so when you watch this either M22 is not released yet but it should release like at most in a week or it is already out at any rate it was ready enough for me to actually take a real good good look at what it brings and it is a fantastic release I just have one little concern on how much workload the mint team is shouldering and I also just have this one segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton you probably know them they developed a suite of private and encrypted tools for your email online storage calendar contacts passwords and VPN speaking of which did you know you can double up on your privacy by connecting to the door Network through your VPN T will let you balce your traffic across multiple encrypted 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example they're now maintaining a Deb package for Thunderbird because auntu which is still the base for mint moved to a snap package for this application and mint doesn't want snaps at all and you might ask doesn't Thunderbird support an official flatback app and doesn't mean ship with flatback and flathub enabled and the answer to both is yes but they still decided that they would maintain a dab package anyway and add that to their burden this is going to be a recurring theme and we'll discuss this at the end of the video so stick around it's going to get interesting so on top of this relatively benine thing the software install app itself now loads much faster with the main window appearing almost instantly according to minc Dev and I can confirm that in my testing it's been really speedy this is thanks to improved multi-threading support you will also get a new preferences page in this app and the homepage gained a new Banner slideshow like every app store out there the big change is how mint will handle flat packs coming from flathub from now on mint comes with flat pack support enabled and flathub turned on meaning you do have access to a lot of software straight from their developers and yes I'm saying straight from the app developers because by default unverified flatbacks will not appear in mint's software manager these are apps that are packaged by third party individuals not by their original developers you do get an option to show these again in the store with a warning telling you that it's not really secure because anyone could be behind this package and you don't know what they put in it even if you decide to show these flat packs again you will not see any user reviews or ratings with the little stars because this would I suppose make them look legit and just like every other verified package this in my opinion is what we call in France a FSE bunny day or fake good idea it's an idea that seems good on the surface but is actually detrimental because what will happen is everyone will turn on unverified flat packs because these contain applications that people really want to install Google Chrome steam Spotify VLC and a lot more and once they do that they do not have the reviews and the ratings to make sure that these third part body applications could actually be safe or are well packaged the only way people could have known if these apps were problematic is with the ratings and the comments and you removed those a better design decision would probably have been to always have a warning popup when you try to install an unverified flatback app so every single install you are reminded that the app is unverified but at least you can check on the user reviews and the ratings to see if someone else has noticed something we and the app is still up for some reason now the second change to Mint 22 is the update to their cinnamon desktop environment namely cinnamon 6.2 and it's a very very small update when using the workspace switcher you can now middle click a workspace to close it the experimental whan session gains support for the Clutter pulit agent meaning the whan session should be able to display authentication prompts to run admin stuff and the user avatars are now used in these authentication windows and in various user applets when you add various rightclick menu items to the file manager you will now be able to reorder these elements and add separators and group things by submenus and you can tweak the labels and the icons of these menu entries that's a level of customization even KDE doesn't dare give their own users so that's something on the topic of applets there are improvements on how the VPN status is reported with a padlock appearing on the network icon when your VPN is active as per settings you can now search the key bindings cinnamon spices now support specific keybinds as well and the Corner Bar applet that appears by default at the bottom right of the cinnamon panel will now let you bind an action to a click when you also hold the shift key so yeah the cinnamon desktop shell itself hasn't really changed all that much I'm guessing a lot of developer effort is mostly focused on bringing that whan session to a solid state because if I remember correctly they want to make that the default for the next major mint version because yes Wayland will be the default on mint at some point the Wayland will be the default everywhere the Wayland will come for you now all of this doesn't mean that apps haven't changed there are a lot of changes on that front the main one is that mint is now sticking to older versions of a lot of default apps that are made by G so the phone viewer has been entirely removed from min's default install it's still available in the repost though the video player the calculator the scanning app the dis usage analyzer the system monitor the calendar and the archive manager were all reverted to their older gtk3 versions because they had all moved to gtk4 from the previous major Min version to this new one and they had moved to Liber V this means mint would not be able to apply their usual themes to these application and the problem is a bit more complex than Min developers saying I want predy colors so you're as the users are getting inferior older versions of apps mint doesn't really downgrade features for Aesthetics in general the rationale here is that mint likes to offer a cohesive desktop much like what gnome is doing and what KDE is doing with one set of guidelines for the user interface and one theme the problem is mint was using a lot of gnome apps which first started losing their menu bars in favor of header bars a while back meaning the user interface guidelines in mint got a bit muddied and second it meant that these apps were using the lib advita Library which hardcodes the advita theme itself mint could still change this theme because there are ways to do so but it's not very sustainable and it would basically lock users to one single theme mint would be building half of their cinnamon experience on a base they have zero control over and actually losing features this is why system 76 moved away from gnome to develop Cosmic this is why mint created cinnamon in the first place to move away from gnome just as well so it's totally fine that they want to do this and mint is also trying to do this in an intelligent fashion they noticed that xfce mate and others also wanted to use gtk apps but not gnome apps they wanted a closer to gnome 2 era kind of design and so Mint app ly reached out to these other desktops to see if they could all collaborate on this set of applications like they said they don't want to make mint apps they want to make Linux apps they will also very likely Fork all these gtk3 versions of apps in the future to be able to reach these goals and this is where I'm really worried about the workload even with the help of xfc and mate those are still very very small teams the min's team isn't huge either so three small teams might just not have the strength to maintain all of these applications especially since Min developers already maintain their own desktop environment they already tweak the obuntu base quite a bit they have a Debian based version as well they maintain their own D packages and they already have their own set of X apps that they work on that might be a lot of work for one single team even with the help of two other smaller desktops and that's what I discussed in the last part of this video so stick around to get my views on that now other applications that mint will now Ship by default include a new online accounts app that replaces the older online account settings panel which also moved to Liber V and as such could not be included in mint anymore so they built their own the good news is that it also brings this online accounts feature to the mate and xfce versions of mint which did not have that previously mint 22 also ships with a matrix client by default now to replace the discontinued hex chat app mint moved to Matrix for their chats instead of IRC and so they had to Shipe an app that uses this protocol the app is actually just a rapper to run element which is a web app they initially plan to have a new IRC client but after testing Matrix they decided they liked it better and they moved to that instead which I think is a good idea IRC is a good protocol it was awesome in the '90s but now people really are just used to Discord slack and teams and stuff like that and Matrix will be much much closer to that experience so it's probably for the best also element is shipped as a web app not an electron app so yeah it's not as bad as it could have been apart from that the sticky notes app can now be invoked from the command line you can also configure where new sticky notes will appear on screen the text editor can now duplicate the text you've selected by pressing Control Plus shift plus d time shift will display a confirmation dialogue when you trying to delete a snapshot game file formats have better thumbnail generation and there are a few other smaller minor changes okay so to finish this look at mint 22 let's see what's under the hood first mint 22 is based on obuntu 24.4 LTS meaning it will get security updates until 2029 this package base is also going to stay the same for mint until 2026 as always mint will ship minor updates but won't move to a newer Ubuntu base in turn this means mint 22 moved to pipe wire as the default because that's what Ubuntu uses now it also means mint comes with the kernel 6.8 and they will add the usual Hardware enablement stack to it so mint will keep supporting newer Hardware by default this 6.8 kernel is not an LTS though and has a very short support window so I would be surprised if they didn't move to something newer at some point to conclude Min 20 to is a mandatory update if you use mint whether you're a beginner an advanced User it's more of what mint users tend to use mint for and what mint user is like so there's no reason not to update to this one now I completely understand why they would want to move to their own Suite of apps because if your core experience depends on theming and guidelines that aren't head orar Centric then you cannot keep relying on gnome apps what gnome is doing is entirely fine and normal they're building their own platform for their own desktop they're not building gnome to be a base for every other desktop out there now for mints to keep control over their Linux Mint experience they need to have their own apps so forking gtk3 versions of these apps is a good plan what worries me is how they are going to handle all this extra work Min developers already have to uproot everything that is snap related from obuntu and so they have to maintain extra Debian packages they also have to maintain and develop the entire cinnamon desktop with a big whan transition that they've given themselves 2 years to finish they also have to maintain their own Suite of X apps and a separate spin with xfce and another spin with matate and now they will have seven more core apps to maintain and update themselves where previously they relied on updates from the people who developed the gnome versions of these apps this is a lot of extra work and even if they manag to Embark xfce and mat developers to build these apps for all three desktops both these other desktops have really small teams that barely manage to update their own stuff the pace of updates to mate and xfc is glacial and I'm not saying that everything needs to have an update every month or that these updates aren't cool but the more you shoulder in terms of development the more people you need and I'm afraid that with all of this extra work maybe some other areas of Linux Mint will start lagging behind I do hope they succeed in this endeavor because it would be really really cool to have this older view of the Linux ecosystem which is I'm making an app for Linux I don't care which desktop it's supposed to run it's going to look relatively fine on any desktop because it's using a toolkit that KD can theme that gnome can theme that mint can theme that xfc mate anything else can theme so it's going to look relatively at home it's how things work were in The Gnome 2 days and it was cool but I do wish mint all the best in their Endeavors I really do hope they can succeed it would be nice to have this second way of building another entirely different ecosystem and if someone can do it I think it's meant and if someone can make a solid Linux computer it's our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and computers in any form factor that run Linux out of the box the hardware has actually been tested to run well with Linux and they actually do contribute patches Upstream to make sure everything runs smoothly they have a wide range that will cover most price points and most use cases all of their devices have a solid choice of customizations from the internals and the components to your custom keyboard layout to your own logo engraved on the lid I only use tuxedo computers these days I run this entire channel on one of their laptops including editing all these videos and I do all my gaming on one of their desktops so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that contributes to Linux click the link in the description below and get yourself something from tuxedo they're really really good okay so thanks for watching the video If you enjoyed it there are all the usual YouTube buttons click them all leave a comment to make sure that the algorithm is pleased with whatever we're doing here and if you really enjoy the channel there are links in the description to support it and to get a few nice perks so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
hey everyone this is Nick and welcome to the Linux and open source news show this week we've got one major piece of news which is the major outage that started yesterday and made Millions probably of Windows PCS blue screen of death without really letting them recover very easily and that was all due to a third party program that also actually runs on Linux but didn't crash Linux boxes for some reason who knows what that could be we also have soua asking the open Souza Community Dro to Rebrand change their name and change their logo to be well not as close to sua as they currently are and we have a lot of other Linux and open- Source news and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace your all-in-one platform to create publish and manage your own website Squarespace has really easy tools to make sure anyone can end up with a NIC looking well optimized website no matter if you know how to code or not Squarespace has what they call their blueprint 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for a while the Swiss cyber security office blamed the crowd strike for the issue and it was then confirmed that the issue came from that crowd strike being a cyber security firm that provides a product called Falcon sensor which itself provides realtime monitoring and protection from cyber attacks and this thing seems used by a lot of major companies to try and protect their software and their servers the issue seems linked to a misconfiguration or a faulty update In Crowd strike which basically made Windows crash on a blue screen of death and it just could not reboot easily or at all after that it basically cost what I can only assume is billions of dollars worth of economic cost more than a thousand flights were cancelled by various Airlines payment systems were down for hours some hospitals couldn't work at all even the freaking Paris Olympics Games seemed affected now there was also an outage for Microsoft 365 but we later learned that this wasn't specifically due to crowd strike they had their own problems just as well other affected Parties By The Crowd strike problem included Visa Amazon the 911.gov website that handles emergencies in the US and more now fortunately a fix was found a few hours after the issue was first reported you could just delete a file from the crowd strike directory in system 32 drivers on Windows and it just stopped windows from crashing all the time the problem is you had to actually have access to the drive and if you were already in the blue screen of death configuration chances are you could not do that without using some kind of live USB Microsoft also said rebooting a PC 15 times would fix the problem uh which apparently it did for some people crowd strike couldn't push an update remotely to fix the problem every system had to be manually fixed which means hours were lost simply to make PCS bootable and the real issue here is that there is one single system crowd strike in this instance which is deployed by 60% of Fortune 500 companies by eight out of the 10 Financial firms and eight out of the 10 top tech companies it is a single point of failure that most major companies have in common and that's always a bad thing and it is important to remember that crowd strik tool works on Linux and Mac OS but Linux and Mac OS systems just did not crash with that update it's entirely a Windows related problem due to a problem with that software and this raises two major problems the first one is that one single system being deployed on so many computers that has access to that lower level operating system to the point where a faulty update will actually crash the entire OS that's unacceptable no program should have that level of access to any operating system second how badly does your OS have to be designed if a thirdparty app can publish an update with one file and this makes your entire OS unbootable where are the fail safes the deactivation the safe modes the recovery partitions whatever this is just unacceptable I'm not saying it could never happen on Linux or Mac OS I'm saying it didn't now Souza the company behind soua Enterprise Linux apparently asked the open Souza Community to stop using the Souza brand name for their Community Dro now apparently they have asked very calmly very nicely there are no threats no deadlines they just said hey you know what we would be more at ease if you could just stop using the Souza branding because it really links this community effort with our Enterprise drro and we're not sure that's how we want things to go there are still implications to this demand because obviously if the open Souza Community doesn't comply or drags their feet chances are Souza as a company might withdraw a lot of the support that they currently offer to open Souza including infrastructure and a lot of developer time in the end what soua wants is for open Souza to stop using the chameleon and the Souza name which is reason able Fedora isn't called open rail for example or open red hat having a different brand is acceptable in my opinion it's probably more of a let's not let our potential customers think that open soua is just free soua enterprise Linux kind of thing this is also compounded by some worries about the governance of open Souza which apparently isn't super proactive the board doesn't really meet often enough to address the issues a drro faces on a daily basis it is apparently not structured well enough to handle this kind of stuff now reading through the discussions on open Souza's mailing list it does look like a lot of prominent open soua community members are in agreement with this demand basically the idea is hey you know what maybe let's not make so much drama about this and let's comply with what the community providing us with so many resources is asking of us it's kind of a good Common Sense practice thing and they are within their every right to demand that of course some people will paint this as corpo bad harasses Linux Community but this is well within Souza's perview to ask it's their branding and it's their resources that they're lending or giving to open Souza to help it grow so I don't think there's any drama really around this it's just a nice polite ask from a company to its Community effort and it it looks like it might just be followed now Solus the drro that Rose relatively Rec recently from its ashes decided that they would do away with app armor and snaps app armor being canonical solution to add security profiles to various apps and programs it's basically SE Linux that a lot of other disr use but for obuntu Solus developers decided to stop applying the app armor patch sets to anything other than their current LTS kernels because apparently it's just too much work and this in turn means snaps will be dropped in solos as well because snaps heavily depend on app armor to run with solid sandboxing and confinement and if you don't have up armor on your drro snaps run with partial confinement which is not as safe as snaps advertise themselves to be now the plan for Solus is to stop supporting snaps entirely in the future with users encourag to move to Flat packs instead and it's not an ideological choice either it is mostly because it is a lot less maintenance for the solo steam the app armor patch set seems pretty gigantic with 60 individual patches that have to be applied to every single update of the Linux kernel which might be very easy for canonical and their developers but it's probably way harder to do for a community effort that doesn't have that much Manpower it also means that without these patch sets solos can generate their ISO images on their own infrastructure which apparently wasn't possible previously so in early 2025 solos will no longer support snaps and will encourage people to move to either the native soless packages or two flat packs it's not a giant drro with a giant user base so it's not like oh Snaps are dead but it is an indication that slowly but surely most distributions are siding with flat packs or with their own packages and snaps is slowly being just limited to auntu gnome 47 has its first First Alpha out now it's pointed to be a big release with support for accent colors in the gnome shell and liit V apps meaning that all your applications from most other toolkits will at least share a color it can also now be compiled with whand only although this will depend on what your dis decides to go with Fedora will ship gnome by default without X11 but probably most other disos will retain the X11 session in the install Gom 47 also adds support for VR headsets on Wayland with the DRM lease protocol it supports Hardware cursors even with KMS drivers it implemented the xdg dialogue protocol to handle how apps display modal Windows the shell has been slightly revamped to better work on smaller or bigger display sizes and gome software should have better performance thanks to asynchronous loading gnome 47 also supports persistent remote login sessions you can also Force the remote computer to not go into hibernate when you're logged into it remotely gnome calls is now ported to gtk4 web has a few UI improvements and gnome tracker the thing that indexes all your files and Powers gnome searches has apparently been replaced with new modules that perform better you can already try the alpha using the gnomos iso it's not a Dr for daily use it's just for testing but it looks like it is going to be a pretty major release obviously I'll cover it in a dedicated video I think it's on the 18th of September that it's supposed to come out and this is just the tip of the iceberg I'm pretty sure feature freeze is right before the beta stage so we might see even more stuff Landing in gome 47 before it has its stable release which is pretty big now the Linux kernel 6.10 was released over the weekend it adds a new system call called M seal that can prevent changes to specific parts of the memory which should help with improving security for certain applications the first that really supports that and basically the only one right now is Google Chrome but there are plans to expand that to other applications there's a new profiling subsystem as well to let developers better identify potential memory leaks the Linux kernel now also adds encrypted interactions with the TPM chips most recent computers have so this thing can be used reliably and more securely networking performance should also be improved as well as Hardware support with improved sound drivers for some Asus and Lenovo thinkpads Microsoft Surface Pro devices should now support fan profile switching and thermal sensors as well there's more arm support as well for specific laptops improved camera performance and quality for Intel ipu and MPI cameras and we also have the usual pstate driver improvements for Intel and AMD CPUs which should give better performance and better battery life for most people there are also plenty of gaming Hardware improvements for controllers for handhelds there's better risk 5 support and better rust support in the Linux Colonels code base as well basically it is the usual big release with tons of improvements for virtually everyone now depending on your dis R you might get the update immediately you might already have it or you might never get it if you use the dis that stays to fix colal versions third party Repose exist for that but use them at your own risk and let's finish this with the gaming news first we've got a big update to pcsx 2 the Playstation 2 emulator first it should look much better because they have ditched the WX widgets toolkit in favor of cute which is a good choice sdl2 is now integrated as well and this will let users configure controllers much more easily even with autoc controller mapping plugins have been removed from the emulator for now but they have added a library of preconfigured game fixes you can also save per game configurations as well and they added support for retro achievements and who doesn't love throwing 50 chickens in the air and hitting them with a grenade all at once that's always the kind of stuff you really want to do in a game especially in an older retro PS2 game now I'm joking if you like achievements that's fine I don't understand you but that's fine and wine 9 13 was also released this week continuing the big rewrite of the command. exe engine which might be very useful for certain install processes and for various post install scripts that certain Windows apps use for people who want to actually use the Windows command line on Linux I don't know why but you can and they've also improved return codes for that so the commands will actually tell you if they succeed or not wine also supports odbc Drive drivers for Windows which is a driver used by a lot of systems that need to access databases there were also 22 bugs fixed in this release including for Photoshop CC 2024 Victoria 2 Guild Wars 2 The Witcher 3 Assassin's Creed Revelations 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and to thing that my friends always ask me if there's enough to talk about in the Linux and open source World well yeah because this week we've got Fedora dropping X11 out of the default install for Fedora 41 we've got the big part of a lawsuit against GitHub co-pilot being dismissed by a judge in California and we also have some more news about Cosmic we've got gnome losing the gnome foundation's director Holly million who leaves after less than a year and a bunch of other things including this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton you probably know about them they make an all-in-one Suite of privacy Focus tools for your email online storage calendars contacts VPN and passwords everything is end to endend and zero access encrypted and it is designed to make sure that your data stays yours and proton just launched a brand new tool for that entire online suite and that's proton docs if you've ever used Google Docs you will be right at home here it is your fully 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latest NVIDIA drivers but there could be some compatibility problems here and there for various applications so people who need X11 can still get it and of course people who are upgrading from Fedora 40 will keep their XL session installed it will not be removed in the process obviously at some point this won't be possible in Fedora anymore it will be completely impossible to use X11 but you probably have two or three versions still uh before that happens personally I am all for this deprecation process Fedora has always been the place to do this kind of stuff and the more people use whan by default the more bug reports are going to flow in and the better whan we'll get with more users and more more things being fixed and of course you will always have plenty of other distributions who keep supporting X11 for probably a decade so yeah it's not really harming anyone's experience here now on The Gnome side of things it looks like holy Millions tenure as the executive director of The Gnome Foundation won't have been a very long one totaling 10 months the foundation announced that she would leave with Richard leow becoming interim director for the time being Holly will leave on the 31st of July and she says she's really proud of what she's been able to accomplish which for such a short time seems to be quite a lot she made sure that the foundation has a nice plan for the future she made sure that the books are Balan that the foundation is not hemorrhaging cash anymore and she found a bunch of potential funding Avenues as well she will apparently leave to pursue a PhD in Psychology and running her own private practice and judging from the foundation's communicate there doesn't seem to be a further reason than that the new director Richard L hour apparently has a lot of experience in open source as a contributor and at a few more leadership positions as well the foundation will start looking for a permanent executive director and they will announce their choice after guadec and I am 100% certain that some people in the Linux or open source Community will spend that as some kind of drama as it was inevitable she wasn't qualified but from where I stand holly leaves the gnome foundation in a better place than what she found it on so I think she did a good job and hopefully the G Foundation manages to find a new director that can keep writing the ship for maybe a bit longer this time now we also have some news about Cosmic they apparently only have 20 issues to resolve before the alpha is out so it is pretty damn close they have a few more features to share as well notably styling inactive windows with specific colors so it is more obvious what is currently in focus and what isn't they also have a settings page to configure keyboard shortcuts something plenty of people will be very happy about and they added an ALT tab or super tab window switching feature as well display mirroring is Now supported the panel now has an overflow section when there are too many applications or applets in there they fixed a lot of bugs related to gaming and a few performance issues as well and their compositor is now multi-threaded so it should perform better with multi monitor setups and when using High refresh rates and they also apparently have a bunch of thirdparty contributions lending in Cosmic which bodess well for the future of this desktop if there are already people contributing improving it and creating thirdparty applications even before Cosmic is out I think it's a good sign I will start toying with Cosmic before the alpha is out just to like maybe prepare the video I'm going to make about it of course it won't be a full review because it is an alpha they are going to be bugs I will only judge the features that are available and how well I think they measure up compared to other desktops now speaking of desktops gnom 47 has a lot of stuff coming on top of accent colors and a bunch of things I already discussed in previous episodes first the default font will very likely be replaced by inter gnome has been using the contel font for about 14 years although some dros already replaced it like obuntu for example the issue is counter L is unmaintained which for a font is more problematic than you'd think because it means potential problems in different languages can be reported and they just won't be fixed inter on the other hand is maintained and already used in elementaryos and other projects it's also completely open source so that nice and also it's the font I've been using in Gnome and KDE for I think the past four years it's pretty nice so the change is undergoing testing and it might not be voted on in the end if issues arise they are also experimenting with the font size they should use with inter gnome 47 will also have some HDR related improvements they already have an experimental HDR property that lets you test a few modes but as far as I know this hasn't really evolved since gnome 44 in Gnome 47 they have merged a 7-month old merge request which lets mutter The Gnome compositor just display HDR and SDR content side by side on top of that they have completed the implementation of Nautilus as the file Chooser the implementation of the global keyboard shortcuts feature is moving along nicely with a first draft implementation for lib portal the notification portal spec is being implemented as we speak with a first merge request close to completion and there's a proposal to have a common interface for platform libraries like advita or Granite from Elementary OS so any desktop could plug into gtk with their own widget library that is a pretty big set of changes for Gnome 47 and also a pretty big set of changes lined up for the future versions as well this is not going to be like gnome 45 or 46 where there were just very minor features this one is going to be big and of course I'll cover it in a video I think it will be in September when it releases now we have some news in the ongoing lawsuits against AI tools at least in the US GitHub and Microsoft had been sued over GitHub co-pilot and its use of Open Source Code to train the assistant a judge in San Francisco dismissed part of this class action lawsuit because the plaintiffs Apparently failed to establish that Microsoft unjustly enriched themselves by by using their code and thus these developers are not eligible for damages on that specific basis but there's another part that will be allowed to proceed the claim that GitHub co-pilot breaches The open- Source licenses of the code it used which might in the end be the more important part this can now go to court meaning that there is a chance that AI tools might have to follow attribution and Licensing rights even for just using material to train the AI this could potentially result in all the codes generated by these tools to be made open source under a license or another or maybe people who use codes generated using copilot would have to include in their project a link to an insanely long list of acknowledgements to mention everyone whose code copilot used to train itself none of this would be very practical though and I for one I'm really glad that this part of the lawsuit wasn't just dismissed out of hand because we need to know if an AI using publicly available material has the right to do so to train itself or if it has to follow and respect all the licenses attached to this content this is a very important part of whether AI can keep existing as it is or needs to start paying people for their content so I hope this goes to court I hope this is a ruling in favor of creators and not AI developers but we'll see I don't know I don't make the rules now as the EU forced Apple to open an iOS to third party stores it looks like they're not going down without a fight epic games have been trying to put their App Store on iOS for a while now but it looks like apple found some weird ways to reject the app the latest being because the install button on the epic games store was too similar to the one from the Apple store which well how many ways are there to create a flat colored button with the install text written on it really apart from changing the color now the inapp purchases button was also apparently too similar fortunately after epic complained publicly Apple decided to let the store pass anyway probably because they're already Under Fire from the EU for the various limitations and terms of services for the apps that want to escape the App Store with a fee structure that is completely insane they probably decided it wasn't worth fighting something that was going to happen anyway and then Tim Sweeney the CEO of game said that Apple told them that this approval of their epic store was only temporary and that they would still have to change these buttons in their next update and if you've watched the channel for a while you know I'm not a big fan of epic games because while they profess being on the side of the customer they apply restrictions to customer Choice by signing exclusivity deals which is exactly the kind of stuff that they say is bad when it comes from other actors so they're pretty hypocritical about all of this but Apple really needs to stop with this kind of trying to grasp at the last draws of their control it doesn't work they've lost this battle unless epic games absolutely copies the entire design of an app listing of the app store which yes would be misleading and would not be a good thing it's an install button let people make an install button that looks like what your platform professes and your platform guidelines you've lost the battle Apple stop it it's done okay let's finish this with the gaming news first dxvk got a new update version 2.4 and it now brings in support for directex 8 this means that this translation layer now handles DirectX 8 9 10 and 11 games with directex 12 games being handled by vkd3d or vkd3d proton the net benefit is that you're Now using Vulcan to render these games instead of using the usual wine d3d back end which as far as I know used open GL and had way worse compatibility and performance the xvk now includes the ability to automatically cap A Game's fps to the refresh rate of your display to make sure that things are rendered smoothly and they also improved dxvk native which is a port of dxvk that lets developers use it without using wine so they can Port the games to Linux more easily without having to rewrite for example the DirectX rendering backend they just have to compile the executable for Linux and they can keep using the direct text back end because dxvk will translate it properly there are also some improvements to memory usage Improvement to AMD GPU support and some game specific fixes notably for Guild Wars 2 prototype Star Citizen and more so basically it's much better performance for older DirectX 8 titles but it's also better performance for relatively recent games because most games released today still kind of 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app packaging is a heated topic on Linux these days on one side you generally have the Defenders of flat packs snaps and app images and on the other side you've got the Defenders of the good old Dro packages and I already talked at length about the advantages and drawbacks of these formats but there are still a bunch of preconceived notions floating around on how secure these packaging formats are on verified applications on the sandbox itself on dependencies and other things so I thought I would do a little bit of myth busting on these topics pointing out the real facts behind all of these different formats and I also thought I'd let you know about our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace your allinone platform to create publish and manage your own website Squarespace has really easy tools to make sure anyone can end up with a NIC looking well optimized website no matter if you know how to code or not Squarespace has what they call their blueprint system which lets you pick 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and installing comes straight from the developer of this app and it hasn't been packaged by a random third party you don't know it is an implicit guarantee that this thing is as the developer intended no feature has been arbitrarily removed or added by someone else you're getting the experience the app developer wants you to have it's also great for the developers because it means that they control the experience and they have an easier time repres producing bugs and fixing them what app verification isn't is a guarantee that the application itself is safe or secure and that it has no vulnerabilities the way app verification works on flathub for example is that the developer either links their GitHub or gitlab repo to the app listing on flathub or they had a little text snippet on their official website that flathub can check if the website is legit and is the right one for the app or if the code repo matches the app then then there you go the app is verified but it doesn't mean the code that is in the package is safe if the repo has been hacked if there's a back door in the application if the app itself is malicious then the package you're downloading also contains that malicious code we've seen things like this with the XZ library for instance where a maintainer had infiltrated the project by contributing normal code and slowly added a back door to the library no one suspected a thing and you could have had a verified version of this library at some point with the back door inside app verification doesn't mean the app itself is safe and secure it just means that it comes directly from the developers you still need to trust those app developers to have built something that is safe and won't hack your system Linux Mint for example seems a bit confused by this or at least didn't convey properly how this works they recently announced that they would hide unverified flatbacks by default stating that they are a big security durability but the wording around this lets people believe that verified flat packs are safe which isn't necessarily the case where app verification really matters is when you want to get the app as intended by the developers you know it's the developer packaging it a recent example is the maintainer for keypass XC on Debian who decided all on their own that some features were not needed and removed web browser integration for the password manager with a verified app on flathub you don't have these problems but it doesn't mean that the app to installing is 100% safe and if you're thinking ha I use native drro packages so I don't care about all of this well we have a little myth busting to do as well the general view of drro packages is that they can be safer because there is a trusted maintainer that will create the package and thus can detect any unwanted change back door or problem and will prevent you from getting uninfected or buggy version of the package this is really not the case though maintainers can do this and sometimes do but there are a lot of cases where all of these things slip through undetected the XZ Library again is the perfect example every single drr that packaged and ship XZ let this back door slide in undetected of course maintainers cannot be expected to conduct Security reviews of the entire code base of each project but this is what some people seemingly believe about drro packages that the maintainer is an extra buffer that will make sure no weird code or infected stuff will make it onto your system this is not the case it doesn't happen in most cases if you look at log forj if you look at the recent SSH vulnerability if you look at the XZ back door and basically every cve ever discovered it points to the fact that maintainers do not do code reviews on most packages they built this is not what is expected of a package maintainer their job is to make sure the program being packaged integrates with the drro is plugged into the right places calls the right dependencies and that the thing runs properly it is not to conduct a security audit of the code a lot of maintainers aren't even developers and could not conduct these audits in the first place this is a common misconception distro maintainers very rarely inhance the security of an application or Library simply by doing the packaging for that program if an official flat pack has been infected by malicious code chances are the native dis package will have the exact same problem even if there is a maintainer building that package another big misconception is around the sandbox for flat packs and snaps a Sandbox basically just means that the app you're running has a system of permissions that limits what the app can do and how it can interact with the system it can be more secure than not having a Sandbox but it doesn't mean it is always more secure a flat pack package for example might have all permissions turned on meaning the app has access to the entire drive your home directory the internet all executables configs basically everything your user has access to this would be the default state of something you install through your repo packages you install the package with admin Privileges and then you run it as your user and the app has all the same rights as your user meaning it can download things on your system run these downloaded things modify and delete files and everything else of course for drro packages you have security profiles provided by app armor or SE Linux and things like that now a flatback and a snap can have some of these permissions enabled or disabled and depending on that this application this package will be more or less safe to run on your system that's why you can check on the permissions of each flatback before installing it and you can enable or disable these permissions you need to be able to see and control what the app can or can't do as far as I know snaps don't have a graphical way of changing these permissions but correct me in the comments if something like that exists another example of the sandbox not doing anything to protect the user is with the recent scam crypto apps on the Snap Store these were sandboxed applications they just scammed you through a web view a website basically they didn't need access to anything other than the internet connection so the sandbox here didn't mean the app was safe and that's why we probably always will need humans to check these submissions onto flathub or the snap store that's where distro's repost might have had an advantage because a human maintainer would have had to package the scam app and there's no way they would have done this after using it for like 2 seconds so here for example drro repos will very likely have less intentionally malicious applications another common misconception around packages is how dependencies work you will often read that drro packages use the system dependencies and thus use less disk space but also are more secure because you know that the library the app relies upon is updated by your drro compared to a flat pack to a snap or to an app image where the developer might have bundled a dependency on their own and never really bothered to update that version in theory this is true flat packs snaps and app Images can and sometimes do come especially in the case of app images with pre-bundled libraries that aren't shipped as part of a shared runtime and sometimes these bundled libraries can be left unmaintained and unupdated by the app developer that's true but when you dig a bit deeper it's not as clear cut as in the Dr packages aren't necessarily better first you can check which versions of dependencies your flat pack comes with a flat pack is open you can see how it is built there's generally a manifest file that lists all the bundled dependencies bundling things this way is also not really a recommended practice flatback recommends you use run times which are shared libraries between flatbacks they save space and they are updated independently of the application so chances are they're more up to date and safer second Dro packages aren't always up to date either just because it's a shared Library doesn't mean it has all the latest security fixes plenty of dros stick to a fixed version of a library they will update that version if it doesn't break the system or the other packages but if it does break things then they will instead backport security fixes to the current version this is manual work they take Patches from newer versions and try to retrofit them to the older version that they ship and this isn't always possible sometimes the patch simply cannot fit on the older code base or it is just too time consuming to rewrite things around the fix that will not affect most people it also means the maintainer needs to know how to code and how to potentially apply a patch and recompile things in their package which is not always the case not all maintainers are developers and not all of them have the time to do all of this back porting work so sometimes when the Upstream library or app just doesn't provide these security fixes for older versions you're just not getting them in distributions that have fixed package versions this example will be clear Mariah DB got a security update in 2021 in November Arch and artics updated things the same day because they generally tend to always move to the latest version Debian took 3 months to apply this update and Alpine Linux took four same goes for fixed Linux kernel versions when your drro is locked to a specific kernel version it's been factually proven that this version becomes more and more buggy and more and more vulnerable over time maintainers simply do not apply every fix and do not backport everything for example the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 kernel has more than 4500 bugs open that have fixes in later kernel releases those fixed package versions in the repos aren't here to be safer they're here to offer a stable base for your entire system to run everything has been tested in accordance with this stable base this can and sometimes is less safe than getting the direct Upstream version of a new library and a new application it is also potentially more stable flat packs snaps and app Images can and do have old bundled versions of libraries that aren't updated but your repos also often do have the exact same thing so I hope this provided some context and some facts about how packages are made how safe they can be and various problems we have with all of our packaging efforts no matter if they are drro packages a containerized format or something else it is important to remember that in the vast majority of cases drro maintainers and packagers are volunteers indiv indviduals they might not know how to code and it is not their job to conduct security audits to verify that the code they ship is actually safe their job is to make a package and push it to the repos and ensure that this package doesn't break everything on your system thiso packages are not necessarily safer than a third-party flat pack or an official flat pack or an official snap these formats come straight from the ABD but it also doesn't mean they are 100% safe whether they're sandb or not ultimately it is always your responsibility as the user to check that what you install is safe enough and that you're comfortable using it whether it means looking at the source code if you're capable of that or looking at the permissions disabling enabling what you want looking at who built the packages it is your responsibility and this would also be true on iOS Android Windows or Mac OS none of their distribution methods are any safer than anything we do and you often hear applications being hacked or malicious apps going through these stores it's not a Linux specific problem we just have more packaging formats that have more different problems and issues so hopefully this dispelled a few misconceptions around packaging formats security the 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and to thing that my friends always ask me if there's enough to talk about in the Linux and open source World well yeah because this week we've got Fedora dropping X11 out of the default install for Fedora 41 we've got the big part of a lawsuit against GitHub co-pilot being dismissed by a judge in California and we also have some more news about Cosmic we've got gnome losing the gnome foundation's director Holly million who leaves after less than a year and a bunch of other things including this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton you probably know about them they make an all-in-one Suite of privacy Focus tools for your email online storage calendars contacts VPN and passwords everything is end to endend and zero access encrypted and it is designed to make sure that your data stays yours and proton just launched a brand new tool for that entire online suite and that's proton docs if you've ever used Google Docs you will be right at home here it is your fully 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latest NVIDIA drivers but there could be some compatibility problems here and there for various applications so people who need X11 can still get it and of course people who are upgrading from Fedora 40 will keep their XL session installed it will not be removed in the process obviously at some point this won't be possible in Fedora anymore it will be completely impossible to use X11 but you probably have two or three versions still uh before that happens personally I am all for this deprecation process Fedora has always been the place to do this kind of stuff and the more people use whan by default the more bug reports are going to flow in and the better whan we'll get with more users and more more things being fixed and of course you will always have plenty of other distributions who keep supporting X11 for probably a decade so yeah it's not really harming anyone's experience here now on The Gnome side of things it looks like holy Millions tenure as the executive director of The Gnome Foundation won't have been a very long one totaling 10 months the foundation announced that she would leave with Richard leow becoming interim director for the time being Holly will leave on the 31st of July and she says she's really proud of what she's been able to accomplish which for such a short time seems to be quite a lot she made sure that the foundation has a nice plan for the future she made sure that the books are Balan that the foundation is not hemorrhaging cash anymore and she found a bunch of potential funding Avenues as well she will apparently leave to pursue a PhD in Psychology and running her own private practice and judging from the foundation's communicate there doesn't seem to be a further reason than that the new director Richard L hour apparently has a lot of experience in open source as a contributor and at a few more leadership positions as well the foundation will start looking for a permanent executive director and they will announce their choice after guadec and I am 100% certain that some people in the Linux or open source Community will spend that as some kind of drama as it was inevitable she wasn't qualified but from where I stand holly leaves the gnome foundation in a better place than what she found it on so I think she did a good job and hopefully the G Foundation manages to find a new director that can keep writing the ship for maybe a bit longer this time now we also have some news about Cosmic they apparently only have 20 issues to resolve before the alpha is out so it is pretty damn close they have a few more features to share as well notably styling inactive windows with specific colors so it is more obvious what is currently in focus and what isn't they also have a settings page to configure keyboard shortcuts something plenty of people will be very happy about and they added an ALT tab or super tab window switching feature as well display mirroring is Now supported the panel now has an overflow section when there are too many applications or applets in there they fixed a lot of bugs related to gaming and a few performance issues as well and their compositor is now multi-threaded so it should perform better with multi monitor setups and when using High refresh rates and they also apparently have a bunch of thirdparty contributions lending in Cosmic which bodess well for the future of this desktop if there are already people contributing improving it and creating thirdparty applications even before Cosmic is out I think it's a good sign I will start toying with Cosmic before the alpha is out just to like maybe prepare the video I'm going to make about it of course it won't be a full review because it is an alpha they are going to be bugs I will only judge the features that are available and how well I think they measure up compared to other desktops now speaking of desktops gnom 47 has a lot of stuff coming on top of accent colors and a bunch of things I already discussed in previous episodes first the default font will very likely be replaced by inter gnome has been using the contel font for about 14 years although some dros already replaced it like obuntu for example the issue is counter L is unmaintained which for a font is more problematic than you'd think because it means potential problems in different languages can be reported and they just won't be fixed inter on the other hand is maintained and already used in elementaryos and other projects it's also completely open source so that nice and also it's the font I've been using in Gnome and KDE for I think the past four years it's pretty nice so the change is undergoing testing and it might not be voted on in the end if issues arise they are also experimenting with the font size they should use with inter gnome 47 will also have some HDR related improvements they already have an experimental HDR property that lets you test a few modes but as far as I know this hasn't really evolved since gnome 44 in Gnome 47 they have merged a 7-month old merge request which lets mutter The Gnome compositor just display HDR and SDR content side by side on top of that they have completed the implementation of Nautilus as the file Chooser the implementation of the global keyboard shortcuts feature is moving along nicely with a first draft implementation for lib portal the notification portal spec is being implemented as we speak with a first merge request close to completion and there's a proposal to have a common interface for platform libraries like advita or Granite from Elementary OS so any desktop could plug into gtk with their own widget library that is a pretty big set of changes for Gnome 47 and also a pretty big set of changes lined up for the future versions as well this is not going to be like gnome 45 or 46 where there were just very minor features this one is going to be big and of course I'll cover it in a video I think it will be in September when it releases now we have some news in the ongoing lawsuits against AI tools at least in the US GitHub and Microsoft had been sued over GitHub co-pilot and its use of Open Source Code to train the assistant a judge in San Francisco dismissed part of this class action lawsuit because the plaintiffs Apparently failed to establish that Microsoft unjustly enriched themselves by by using their code and thus these developers are not eligible for damages on that specific basis but there's another part that will be allowed to proceed the claim that GitHub co-pilot breaches The open- Source licenses of the code it used which might in the end be the more important part this can now go to court meaning that there is a chance that AI tools might have to follow attribution and Licensing rights even for just using material to train the AI this could potentially result in all the codes generated by these tools to be made open source under a license or another or maybe people who use codes generated using copilot would have to include in their project a link to an insanely long list of acknowledgements to mention everyone whose code copilot used to train itself none of this would be very practical though and I for one I'm really glad that this part of the lawsuit wasn't just dismissed out of hand because we need to know if an AI using publicly available material has the right to do so to train itself or if it has to follow and respect all the licenses attached to this content this is a very important part of whether AI can keep existing as it is or needs to start paying people for their content so I hope this goes to court I hope this is a ruling in favor of creators and not AI developers but we'll see I don't know I don't make the rules now as the EU forced Apple to open an iOS to third party stores it looks like they're not going down without a fight epic games have been trying to put their App Store on iOS for a while now but it looks like apple found some weird ways to reject the app the latest being because the install button on the epic games store was too similar to the one from the Apple store which well how many ways are there to create a flat colored button with the install text written on it really apart from changing the color now the inapp purchases button was also apparently too similar fortunately after epic complained publicly Apple decided to let the store pass anyway probably because they're already Under Fire from the EU for the various limitations and terms of services for the apps that want to escape the App Store with a fee structure that is completely insane they probably decided it wasn't worth fighting something that was going to happen anyway and then Tim Sweeney the CEO of game said that Apple told them that this approval of their epic store was only temporary and that they would still have to change these buttons in their next update and if you've watched the channel for a while you know I'm not a big fan of epic games because while they profess being on the side of the customer they apply restrictions to customer Choice by signing exclusivity deals which is exactly the kind of stuff that they say is bad when it comes from other actors so they're pretty hypocritical about all of this but Apple really needs to stop with this kind of trying to grasp at the last draws of their control it doesn't work they've lost this battle unless epic games absolutely copies the entire design of an app listing of the app store which yes would be misleading and would not be a good thing it's an install button let people make an install button that looks like what your platform professes and your platform guidelines you've lost the battle Apple stop it it's done okay let's finish this with the gaming news first dxvk got a new update version 2.4 and it now brings in support for directex 8 this means that this translation layer now handles DirectX 8 9 10 and 11 games with directex 12 games being handled by vkd3d or vkd3d proton the net benefit is that you're Now using Vulcan to render these games instead of using the usual wine d3d back end which as far as I know used open GL and had way worse compatibility and performance the xvk now includes the ability to automatically cap A Game's fps to the refresh rate of your display to make sure that things are rendered smoothly and they also improved dxvk native which is a port of dxvk that lets developers use it without using wine so they can Port the games to Linux more easily without having to rewrite for example the DirectX rendering backend they just have to compile the executable for Linux and they can keep using the direct text back end because dxvk will translate it properly there are also some improvements to memory usage Improvement to AMD GPU support and some game specific fixes notably for Guild Wars 2 prototype Star Citizen and more so basically it's much better performance for older DirectX 8 titles but it's also better performance for relatively recent games because most games released today still kind of have a DirectX 11 back end because not every GP supports directx12 fully even now we also have a new version of bottles the app that lets you automatically create prefixes for wine and running Windows programs on Linux in this version they added support for the latest version of dxvk that I just talked about they also improve performance of the entire app through better handling of the virtual C driv that bottles creates for each program and you will also get an option to skip the check some verification process if you want to install things faster at the expense of security menu entries for programs installed with bottles should also only appear when the executable is actually available which should help with cleaning up when you're removing programs to avoid having leftover launchers that will clutter your menu and don't have anything to launch and valve is also refining their game recording feature in the latest Steam beta the clip editing feature has been improved to make it easier 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome to the Linux and open source news show this week we've got one major piece of news which is the major outage that started yesterday and made Millions probably of Windows PCS blue screen of death without really letting them recover very easily and that was all due to a third party program that also actually runs on Linux but didn't crash Linux boxes for some reason who knows what that could be we also have soua asking the open Souza Community Dro to Rebrand change their name and change their logo to be well not as close to sua as they currently are and we have a lot of other Linux and open- Source news and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace your all-in-one platform to create publish and manage your own website Squarespace has really easy tools to make sure anyone can end up with a NIC looking well optimized website no matter if you know how to code or not Squarespace has what they call their blueprint 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for a while the Swiss cyber security office blamed the crowd strike for the issue and it was then confirmed that the issue came from that crowd strike being a cyber security firm that provides a product called Falcon sensor which itself provides realtime monitoring and protection from cyber attacks and this thing seems used by a lot of major companies to try and protect their software and their servers the issue seems linked to a misconfiguration or a faulty update In Crowd strike which basically made Windows crash on a blue screen of death and it just could not reboot easily or at all after that it basically cost what I can only assume is billions of dollars worth of economic cost more than a thousand flights were cancelled by various Airlines payment systems were down for hours some hospitals couldn't work at all even the freaking Paris Olympics Games seemed affected now there was also an outage for Microsoft 365 but we later learned that this wasn't specifically due to crowd strike they had their own problems just as well other affected Parties By The Crowd strike problem included Visa Amazon the 911.gov website that handles emergencies in the US and more now fortunately a fix was found a few hours after the issue was first reported you could just delete a file from the crowd strike directory in system 32 drivers on Windows and it just stopped windows from crashing all the time the problem is you had to actually have access to the drive and if you were already in the blue screen of death configuration chances are you could not do that without using some kind of live USB Microsoft also said rebooting a PC 15 times would fix the problem uh which apparently it did for some people crowd strike couldn't push an update remotely to fix the problem every system had to be manually fixed which means hours were lost simply to make PCS bootable and the real issue here is that there is one single system crowd strike in this instance which is deployed by 60% of Fortune 500 companies by eight out of the 10 Financial firms and eight out of the 10 top tech companies it is a single point of failure that most major companies have in common and that's always a bad thing and it is important to remember that crowd strik tool works on Linux and Mac OS but Linux and Mac OS systems just did not crash with that update it's entirely a Windows related problem due to a problem with that software and this raises two major problems the first one is that one single system being deployed on so many computers that has access to that lower level operating system to the point where a faulty update will actually crash the entire OS that's unacceptable no program should have that level of access to any operating system second how badly does your OS have to be designed if a thirdparty app can publish an update with one file and this makes your entire OS unbootable where are the fail safes the deactivation the safe modes the recovery partitions whatever this is just unacceptable I'm not saying it could never happen on Linux or Mac OS I'm saying it didn't now Souza the company behind soua Enterprise Linux apparently asked the open Souza Community to stop using the Souza brand name for their Community Dro now apparently they have asked very calmly very nicely there are no threats no deadlines they just said hey you know what we would be more at ease if you could just stop using the Souza branding because it really links this community effort with our Enterprise drro and we're not sure that's how we want things to go there are still implications to this demand because obviously if the open Souza Community doesn't comply or drags their feet chances are Souza as a company might withdraw a lot of the support that they currently offer to open Souza including infrastructure and a lot of developer time in the end what soua wants is for open Souza to stop using the chameleon and the Souza name which is reason able Fedora isn't called open rail for example or open red hat having a different brand is acceptable in my opinion it's probably more of a let's not let our potential customers think that open soua is just free soua enterprise Linux kind of thing this is also compounded by some worries about the governance of open Souza which apparently isn't super proactive the board doesn't really meet often enough to address the issues a drro faces on a daily basis it is apparently not structured well enough to handle this kind of stuff now reading through the discussions on open Souza's mailing list it does look like a lot of prominent open soua community members are in agreement with this demand basically the idea is hey you know what maybe let's not make so much drama about this and let's comply with what the community providing us with so many resources is asking of us it's kind of a good Common Sense practice thing and they are within their every right to demand that of course some people will paint this as corpo bad harasses Linux Community but this is well within Souza's perview to ask it's their branding and it's their resources that they're lending or giving to open Souza to help it grow so I don't think there's any drama really around this it's just a nice polite ask from a company to its Community effort and it it looks like it might just be followed now Solus the drro that Rose relatively Rec recently from its ashes decided that they would do away with app armor and snaps app armor being canonical solution to add security profiles to various apps and programs it's basically SE Linux that a lot of other disr use but for obuntu Solus developers decided to stop applying the app armor patch sets to anything other than their current LTS kernels because apparently it's just too much work and this in turn means snaps will be dropped in solos as well because snaps heavily depend on app armor to run with solid sandboxing and confinement and if you don't have up armor on your drro snaps run with partial confinement which is not as safe as snaps advertise themselves to be now the plan for Solus is to stop supporting snaps entirely in the future with users encourag to move to Flat packs instead and it's not an ideological choice either it is mostly because it is a lot less maintenance for the solo steam the app armor patch set seems pretty gigantic with 60 individual patches that have to be applied to every single update of the Linux kernel which might be very easy for canonical and their developers but it's probably way harder to do for a community effort that doesn't have that much Manpower it also means that without these patch sets solos can generate their ISO images on their own infrastructure which apparently wasn't possible previously so in early 2025 solos will no longer support snaps and will encourage people to move to either the native soless packages or two flat packs it's not a giant drro with a giant user base so it's not like oh Snaps are dead but it is an indication that slowly but surely most distributions are siding with flat packs or with their own packages and snaps is slowly being just limited to auntu gnome 47 has its first First Alpha out now it's pointed to be a big release with support for accent colors in the gnome shell and liit V apps meaning that all your applications from most other toolkits will at least share a color it can also now be compiled with whand only although this will depend on what your dis decides to go with Fedora will ship gnome by default without X11 but probably most other disos will retain the X11 session in the install Gom 47 also adds support for VR headsets on Wayland with the DRM lease protocol it supports Hardware cursors even with KMS drivers it implemented the xdg dialogue protocol to handle how apps display modal Windows the shell has been slightly revamped to better work on smaller or bigger display sizes and gome software should have better performance thanks to asynchronous loading gnome 47 also supports persistent remote login sessions you can also Force the remote computer to not go into hibernate when you're logged into it remotely gnome calls is now ported to gtk4 web has a few UI improvements and gnome tracker the thing that indexes all your files and Powers gnome searches has apparently been replaced with new modules that perform better you can already try the alpha using the gnomos iso it's not a Dr for daily use it's just for testing but it looks like it is going to be a pretty major release obviously I'll cover it in a dedicated video I think it's on the 18th of September that it's supposed to come out and this is just the tip of the iceberg I'm pretty sure feature freeze is right before the beta stage so we might see even more stuff Landing in gome 47 before it has its stable release which is pretty big now the Linux kernel 6.10 was released over the weekend it adds a new system call called M seal that can prevent changes to specific parts of the memory which should help with improving security for certain applications the first that really supports that and basically the only one right now is Google Chrome but there are plans to expand that to other applications there's a new profiling subsystem as well to let developers better identify potential memory leaks the Linux kernel now also adds encrypted interactions with the TPM chips most recent computers have so this thing can be used reliably and more securely networking performance should also be improved as well as Hardware support with improved sound drivers for some Asus and Lenovo thinkpads Microsoft Surface Pro devices should now support fan profile switching and thermal sensors as well there's more arm support as well for specific laptops improved camera performance and quality for Intel ipu and MPI cameras and we also have the usual pstate driver improvements for Intel and AMD CPUs which should give better performance and better battery life for most people there are also plenty of gaming Hardware improvements for controllers for handhelds there's better risk 5 support and better rust support in the Linux Colonels code base as well basically it is the usual big release with tons of improvements for virtually everyone now depending on your dis R you might get the update immediately you might already have it or you might never get it if you use the dis that stays to fix colal versions third party Repose exist for that but use them at your own risk and let's finish this with the gaming news first we've got a big update to pcsx 2 the Playstation 2 emulator first it should look much better because they have ditched the WX widgets toolkit in favor of cute which is a good choice sdl2 is now integrated as well and this will let users configure controllers much more easily even with autoc controller mapping plugins have been removed from the emulator for now but they have added a library of preconfigured game fixes you can also save per game configurations as well and they added support for retro achievements and who doesn't love throwing 50 chickens in the air and hitting them with a grenade all at once that's always the kind of stuff you really want to do in a game especially in an older retro PS2 game now I'm joking if you like achievements that's fine I don't understand you but that's fine and wine 9 13 was also released this week continuing the big rewrite of the command. exe engine which might be very useful for certain install processes and for various post install scripts that certain Windows apps use for people who want to actually use the Windows command line on Linux I don't know why but you can and they've also improved return codes for that so the commands will actually tell you if they succeed or not wine also supports odbc Drive drivers for Windows which is a driver used by a lot of systems that need to access databases there were also 22 bugs fixed in this release including for Photoshop CC 2024 Victoria 2 Guild Wars 2 The Witcher 3 Assassin's Creed Revelations and more and it kind of surprised me to see Photoshop CC 2024 on this list because I was under the assumption that photoshop just did not run at all under why but the buck report said that the app closes down and crashes after a little while meaning that the app actually runs which is very surprising so I'll have to dig deeper on that because my understanding was you cannot run any of the Creative Cloud Suite with wine right now what you can run though is Linux on one of our sponsors computers tuxedo computers makes computers that run with Linux pre-installed they're based in Germany but they ship to a lot of countries in the world and all their computers have Hardware specifically picked because it works really well with Linux and if in their testing they encountered any problem with the hardware they actually submit patches upstream and they have packages in various repos so you can install those fixes that haven't been upstreamed yet onto a lot of popular distributions they have a 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app packaging is a heated topic on Linux these days on one side you generally have the Defenders of flat packs snaps and app images and on the other side you've got the Defenders of the good old Dro packages and I already talked at length about the advantages and drawbacks of these formats but there are still a bunch of preconceived notions floating around on how secure these packaging formats are on verified applications on the sandbox itself on dependencies and other things so I thought I would do a little bit of myth busting on these topics pointing out the real facts behind all of these different formats and I also thought I'd let you know about our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace your allinone platform to create publish and manage your own website Squarespace has really easy tools to make sure anyone can end up with a NIC looking well optimized website no matter if you know how to code or not Squarespace has what they call their blueprint system which lets you pick from a variety of templates that are pre-built and will suit any type of website and they even have the SEO tools you need to make sure your website doesn't end up in the last page of Google search results to go further Squarespace has their own design engine to create your own Pages you can just drag and drop elements where you want them and you can change the colors the fonts and just tweak the template however you want and then you can add some extra features like creating your own online shop with a complete payment system you can design your own logo from Squarespace book your own domain name so click the link in the description below to give Squarespace a shot and you'll even get 10% off your first domain or website purchase okay so let's get the big topic out of the way first app verification how safe it is and how it works we've seen verified apps pop up on flathub and on the snap store for a while now this is a great addition it let you know that the package you're downloading and installing comes straight from the developer of this app and it hasn't been packaged by a random third party you don't know it is an implicit guarantee that this thing is as the developer intended no feature has been arbitrarily removed or added by someone else you're getting the experience the app developer wants you to have it's also great for the developers because it means that they control the experience and they have an easier time repres producing bugs and fixing them what app verification isn't is a guarantee that the application itself is safe or secure and that it has no vulnerabilities the way app verification works on flathub for example is that the developer either links their GitHub or gitlab repo to the app listing on flathub or they had a little text snippet on their official website that flathub can check if the website is legit and is the right one for the app or if the code repo matches the app then then there you go the app is verified but it doesn't mean the code that is in the package is safe if the repo has been hacked if there's a back door in the application if the app itself is malicious then the package you're downloading also contains that malicious code we've seen things like this with the XZ library for instance where a maintainer had infiltrated the project by contributing normal code and slowly added a back door to the library no one suspected a thing and you could have had a verified version of this library at some point with the back door inside app verification doesn't mean the app itself is safe and secure it just means that it comes directly from the developers you still need to trust those app developers to have built something that is safe and won't hack your system Linux Mint for example seems a bit confused by this or at least didn't convey properly how this works they recently announced that they would hide unverified flatbacks by default stating that they are a big security durability but the wording around this lets people believe that verified flat packs are safe which isn't necessarily the case where app verification really matters is when you want to get the app as intended by the developers you know it's the developer packaging it a recent example is the maintainer for keypass XC on Debian who decided all on their own that some features were not needed and removed web browser integration for the password manager with a verified app on flathub you don't have these problems but it doesn't mean that the app to installing is 100% safe and if you're thinking ha I use native drro packages so I don't care about all of this well we have a little myth busting to do as well the general view of drro packages is that they can be safer because there is a trusted maintainer that will create the package and thus can detect any unwanted change back door or problem and will prevent you from getting uninfected or buggy version of the package this is really not the case though maintainers can do this and sometimes do but there are a lot of cases where all of these things slip through undetected the XZ Library again is the perfect example every single drr that packaged and ship XZ let this back door slide in undetected of course maintainers cannot be expected to conduct Security reviews of the entire code base of each project but this is what some people seemingly believe about drro packages that the maintainer is an extra buffer that will make sure no weird code or infected stuff will make it onto your system this is not the case it doesn't happen in most cases if you look at log forj if you look at the recent SSH vulnerability if you look at the XZ back door and basically every cve ever discovered it points to the fact that maintainers do not do code reviews on most packages they built this is not what is expected of a package maintainer their job is to make sure the program being packaged integrates with the drro is plugged into the right places calls the right dependencies and that the thing runs properly it is not to conduct a security audit of the code a lot of maintainers aren't even developers and could not conduct these audits in the first place this is a common misconception distro maintainers very rarely inhance the security of an application or Library simply by doing the packaging for that program if an official flat pack has been infected by malicious code chances are the native dis package will have the exact same problem even if there is a maintainer building that package another big misconception is around the sandbox for flat packs and snaps a Sandbox basically just means that the app you're running has a system of permissions that limits what the app can do and how it can interact with the system it can be more secure than not having a Sandbox but it doesn't mean it is always more secure a flat pack package for example might have all permissions turned on meaning the app has access to the entire drive your home directory the internet all executables configs basically everything your user has access to this would be the default state of something you install through your repo packages you install the package with admin Privileges and then you run it as your user and the app has all the same rights as your user meaning it can download things on your system run these downloaded things modify and delete files and everything else of course for drro packages you have security profiles provided by app armor or SE Linux and things like that now a flatback and a snap can have some of these permissions enabled or disabled and depending on that this application this package will be more or less safe to run on your system that's why you can check on the permissions of each flatback before installing it and you can enable or disable these permissions you need to be able to see and control what the app can or can't do as far as I know snaps don't have a graphical way of changing these permissions but correct me in the comments if something like that exists another example of the sandbox not doing anything to protect the user is with the recent scam crypto apps on the Snap Store these were sandboxed applications they just scammed you through a web view a website basically they didn't need access to anything other than the internet connection so the sandbox here didn't mean the app was safe and that's why we probably always will need humans to check these submissions onto flathub or the snap store that's where distro's repost might have had an advantage because a human maintainer would have had to package the scam app and there's no way they would have done this after using it for like 2 seconds so here for example drro repos will very likely have less intentionally malicious applications another common misconception around packages is how dependencies work you will often read that drro packages use the system dependencies and thus use less disk space but also are more secure because you know that the library the app relies upon is updated by your drro compared to a flat pack to a snap or to an app image where the developer might have bundled a dependency on their own and never really bothered to update that version in theory this is true flat packs snaps and app Images can and sometimes do come especially in the case of app images with pre-bundled libraries that aren't shipped as part of a shared runtime and sometimes these bundled libraries can be left unmaintained and unupdated by the app developer that's true but when you dig a bit deeper it's not as clear cut as in the Dr packages aren't necessarily better first you can check which versions of dependencies your flat pack comes with a flat pack is open you can see how it is built there's generally a manifest file that lists all the bundled dependencies bundling things this way is also not really a recommended practice flatback recommends you use run times which are shared libraries between flatbacks they save space and they are updated independently of the application so chances are they're more up to date and safer second Dro packages aren't always up to date either just because it's a shared Library doesn't mean it has all the latest security fixes plenty of dros stick to a fixed version of a library they will update that version if it doesn't break the system or the other packages but if it does break things then they will instead backport security fixes to the current version this is manual work they take Patches from newer versions and try to retrofit them to the older version that they ship and this isn't always possible sometimes the patch simply cannot fit on the older code base or it is just too time consuming to rewrite things around the fix that will not affect most people it also means the maintainer needs to know how to code and how to potentially apply a patch and recompile things in their package which is not always the case not all maintainers are developers and not all of them have the time to do all of this back porting work so sometimes when the Upstream library or app just doesn't provide these security fixes for older versions you're just not getting them in distributions that have fixed package versions this example will be clear Mariah DB got a security update in 2021 in November Arch and artics updated things the same day because they generally tend to always move to the latest version Debian took 3 months to apply this update and Alpine Linux took four same goes for fixed Linux kernel versions when your drro is locked to a specific kernel version it's been factually proven that this version becomes more and more buggy and more and more vulnerable over time maintainers simply do not apply every fix and do not backport everything for example the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 kernel has more than 4500 bugs open that have fixes in later kernel releases those fixed package versions in the repos aren't here to be safer they're here to offer a stable base for your entire system to run everything has been tested in accordance with this stable base this can and sometimes is less safe than getting the direct Upstream version of a new library and a new application it is also potentially more stable flat packs snaps and app Images can and do have old bundled versions of libraries that aren't updated but your repos also often do have the exact same thing so I hope this provided some context and some facts about how packages are made how safe they can be and various problems we have with all of our packaging efforts no matter if they are drro packages a containerized format or something else it is important to remember that in the vast majority of cases drro maintainers and packagers are volunteers indiv indviduals they might not know how to code and it is not their job to conduct security audits to verify that the code they ship is actually safe their job is to make a package and push it to the repos and ensure that this package doesn't break everything on your system thiso packages are not necessarily safer than a third-party flat pack or an official flat pack or an official snap these formats come straight from the ABD but it also doesn't mean they are 100% safe whether they're sandb or not ultimately it is always your responsibility as the user to check that what you install is safe enough and that you're comfortable using it whether it means looking at the source code if you're capable of that or looking at the permissions disabling enabling what you want looking at who built the packages it is your responsibility and this would also be true on iOS Android Windows or Mac OS none of their distribution methods are any safer than anything we do and you often hear applications being hacked or malicious apps going through these stores it's not a Linux specific problem we just have more packaging formats that have more different problems and issues so hopefully this dispelled a few misconceptions around packaging formats security the 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hey everyone and today we're not going to be extremely positive for once because as much as I love open source and I very rarely come across a project I actively dislike our world is not all Roses and Rainbows and some stuff need to be talked about and I cannot stress this enough any of the issues I will raise here about any of these projects and entities are not attacks against those projects or entities they're just fairly well documented problems that some people might have an issue with and some people might not it also doesn't mean I endorse anything I didn't mention in this video other projects have other problems and you can let me know about them in the comments I will address them in a later video so now let's get started I'll try to be as objective as possible but of course bias might show its head at some point just like our sponsor will obviously show its head as well this video is sponsored by Squarespace and you probably have heard about them by now but if you haven't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to build your own website however complex or simple you want it to be you can completely customize the website to look and feel and have the features that you want you have a big selection of templates and then you can rearrange them by just dragging and dropping blocks into place you can change the general colors you can add new pages and you have a big library of modules like a complete online shop with online payment or a members only area a video gallery you can even pick your own domain name and book it from Squarespace and they even have a module to design your own logo so if you need a website but you don't really know how to get started or you don't have the time or the technical skills just head over to squarespace.com theel Linux experiment or click the link in the description below and you'll get 10% off your first purchase so let's begin with Modzilla yeah I told you it was going to be a bit controversial Modzilla has undeniably been a very important player in the F World they built Firefox which is still my browser of choice to this day and which allowed the web to move past Internet Explorer by grabbing all its market share and letting web devs make better things they also make Thunderbird my email client of choice and they contribute to and support a lot of other projects but Mozilla as an institution has a bunch of problems that you need to be aware of and they you can decide if there are actual issues for you or not one thing that is often leveled against Modzilla is that they allegedly argued for internet censorship in an Infamous post they said we needed more than deplatforming as a bunch of people were being kicked off popular social media sites for saying things that went against the terms of service back when some of these platforms actually had terms of service and moderation teams mozilla's post admittedly came out a bit bit wrong as they asked for tools to amplify facts over disinformation which obviously LED some people to say that they were trying to decide what was right or what was wrong and they also basically validated the deplatforming of people by saying we need to go further and let's be honest in plenty of cases what is factual truth and what is not true is very very welln and not subject to any discussion but in some cases it's more subjective now whether you want to believe that Mozilla wants to censor the web Ministry of Truth style or you just believe this post was misinterpreted I leave that up to you Mozilla has also some other sticking points notably their over Reliance on Google for funding which some could assume has an impact on the steps they take to counter privacy invasive things that Google might push there's also the fact that their executives are paid quite a lot of money for a nonprofit that is bleeding users market share at least in the browser space their CEO received $6.9 million in 2022 which was a solid 2 million more than 2021 while Firefox lost 30 million users they also fired about 250 people over the same period and here again whether you think paying these rates for a CEO is the only way to attract someone with the skills to ride the ship or whether you think this is just too much money to be paid for any kind of job it's up to you to decide I know where I stand on this one now another project that you're probably very aware of is snap a bunto solution for containerized apps the main criticism leveled against snaps is its proprietary centralized store while the snap packaging format and the snap demon that runs in the background to handle all of these apps are both open source the store back end isn't and the actual Snap Store is a closed Source thing it doesn't mean you could not run your own snap store though or that you even need one you can install individual snap packages manually not from any form of online repo and you can definitely host your own snap repo and use it and let other people use it as well or you can run a proxy for the snap store but in reality the only real Snap Store that exists is the one canals run and this store is not open source they said they have zero interest in open sourcing it because they had already done a lot of work to open- Source their Launchpad platform and basically no one used it after that anyway so they just don't see the point now whether that's enough of an issue for you to not use snaps is yours to decide if you like the concept of snaps but you want a fully open source solution I guess flat packs exist another app distribution format is app images and they're relatively popular and they also have the advantage of being portable in most cases theoretically you can copy any app image to a USB drive paste that onto another computer and they should run fine unless they were badly created and they rely on external dependencies that your system might not have but all app Images do rely on a specific Library which is lib fuse short for file system in user space the issue here is that app Images rely on lib fuse 2 which is deprecated and Obsolete and has been for a long while its last version was in 2019 meaning it's been left for 5 years without any security updates at all and generally basing your entire project on a 5-year-old unmaintained library is not a good choice the end result is that for example on open 2 by default you cannot run app Images because liuse 2 is not pre-installed because it is obsolete you can still install it from the repost it's an easy fix but there's a reason why it's not pre-installed other potential concerns about the app image project is the fact that they're generally compared with snaps and flatbacks but at the difference of both of these they're not sandboxed at all by default meaning you're just running un executable blindly and in the case of app Images most of them are made by third-party individuals not the original developers flat packs and snaps are also often times made by third party individuals but these are sandboxed although here again you could have older permissions turn turned on then the app could have access to the entire system but what you can do with flat packs and snaps is check on these permissions before you install and change those permissions afterwards with app Images you can't if it runs it runs on your system it has all the permissions of your user they have also been some pretty harsh comments and sort of harassment from one of app Images lead against apps that refuse to invest time to support the app image format a major example is OBS this developer had proposed some changes to make it easier to package OBS as an app image the OBS devs refused this work because they had a lot of concerns with that work and identified a bunch of bucks the app image Dev instead of fixing the work then proceeded to run about OBS being funded by red hat and thus favoring flatback this was the conclusion of what OBS devs defined as years of harassment and they banned the app image Dev from their GitHub and if you read the entire conversation that I left in the link you will see that the OBS devs really aren't to blame here they even left the door open to anyone else picking up the work and packaging the thing as an app image now also if you don't have a problem with these potential issues with app images and you love them keep using them that's fine there are ways to go around those problems as well and just because I pointed out some issues with snaps and app Images doesn't mean that flat packs and thiso packages don't have problems they both have problems as well they're just not of the ethical or security pretty kind of variety another project that has seen a fair few criticisms over the years is Manjaro while some of these issues like the lack of stability mainly come from people using manaro like it was arched by stuffing their system full of Aur packages when Manjaro devs clearly do not recommend this some other problems were more concerning manjaru has been known to package unstable versions of applications that weren't published as stable they added unreleased Patches from git which led to these apps being crashy and buggy and app developers getting bug reports that they couldn't do anything about this is what led a bunch of developers to write the don't ship it letter asking drro maintainers and packagers to stop shipping their apps in a modified State because they the app developers are the ones paying the price after that manaro also has a pretty bad track record with security failing to renew their certificates time and again which feels insane because it's extremely easy to automate or at the very least to set reminders for that it seems minor but it did prevent people from updating the repos or installing software and the fix that was proposed at the time was to change your computer's time and date to a date in the past and this probably took as much time to write as it would have taken them to renew the certificate now add to that the fact that manaro partnered with a proprietary ofice suite and shipped it as the default before backing down after some backlash or the company behind Manjaro firing their CFO when he refused to approve an expense for a new laptop or their tool pamac basically dsing the Aur by making too many requests and you have a few issues that definitely tarnished the distro's reputation and I am not aware of relatively recent problems along those lines with Manjaro if you like using Manjaro keep using it it's not a wrong choice these are just problems that have affected its reputation and they might explain why you see so much manjaru criticism online now another problematic issue we see more and more often is open- source project switching licenses to restrict what people can do and open source projects been taken over entirely by companies a recent example is Red Hats taking on some license agreements to get access to the source code of red hat Enterprise Linux meaning that if you redistribute the source code you get access to as a customer you won't be able to be a red hat customer anymore this could be perceived as adding restrictions on source code distribution which is forbidden by the GPL the license that a lot of red hat source code uses another example is canonical taking ownership of the lxd project a project that they had started but then gave to the Linux containers project and then grabbed back again presumably because they now saw value in it when they maybe didn't previously they also removed maintainers on that project that didn't work for canonical but had been contributing to the project for a while yet another example is redus moving to a source available license to try and stop giant Cloud providers like AWS from making money off of redders but this also limited other users rights in the process the license change also potentially breaks the BSD license used for some contributions and some people are argu in that these contributions should thus be removed this all prompted many Forks including valky from the Linux Foundation the same story happened previously with Hashi Corp and their terraform tool this license changes basically take away your rights to create a fork of the current version of the tool and to redistribute that fork which is fine for preventing those giant freeloaders that can be big cloud companies from just using your project making millions off of it and never giving back anything but it also restricts normal users rights which kind of sucks this is all very muddy and whether you think it's an issue is up to you and finally we have hyperland and this one I kept for last because it really depends on your views on free speech on what is harassment toxicity or the relationship between an individual's opinions and their project basically what some people have against hyperland is mostly against their lead developer and founder not against the project itself self he's been characterized as toxic and the general Community is often perceived as expressing hateful views in the form of what they would call jokes pretty bad stuff like endorsement of eugenics calls for hate related violence or transphobia for example they've been seen editing someone's pronouns to who SL cares like seriously why would you do this if you don't care and if you think no one cares then just leave the pronouns they can't hurt you now when a code of conduct was pitched to the hyperland project it was shut down and the Project's founder went on a few podcasts to explain away the toxicity his argument was basically I don't have time for this I'm writing code and anyone is free to say what they want the founder of hyperland was recently banned from the freedesktop.org community for their problematic Behavior which went against the fd's code of conduct hyperland founder then basically doxed the FDO member who banned him now do with this as you will if you use hyperland you can absolutely keep using it and decide not to interact with the community or maybe you've never encountered any weird Behavior but if you're like me you're probably having a hard time dissociating the person writing the thing from the thing itself and so you're probably not going to use that thing but also I regularly criticize Google and I still make videos on YouTube so I'm probably a hypocrite here anyway that's it for today's video I tried to be as objective as possible make up your own mind about those issues this is not an attack on these projects or entities and just because I did not mention another project doesn't mean it doesn't have any problems just let me know what other problems you've encountered on other projects and I maybe might make a video about them some will find security concerns in flat pack or system D or won't like a specific dist attitude we all have our biases and things we pay attention to just like I really pay attention to this segue to our sponsor if you're 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hey everyone and today we're not going to be extremely positive for once because as much as I love open source and I very rarely come across a project I actively dislike our world is not all Roses and Rainbows and some stuff need to be talked about and I cannot stress this enough any of the issues I will raise here about any of these projects and entities are not attacks against those projects or entities they're just fairly well documented problems that some people might have an issue with and some people might not it also doesn't mean I endorse anything I didn't mention in this video other projects have other problems and you can let me know about them in the comments I will address them in a later video so now let's get started I'll try to be as objective as possible but of course bias might show its head at some point just like our sponsor will obviously show its head as well this video is sponsored by Squarespace and you probably have heard about them by now but if you haven't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to build your own website however complex or simple you want it to be you can completely customize the website to look and feel and have the features that you want you have a big selection of templates and then you can rearrange them by just dragging and dropping blocks into place you can change the general colors you can add new pages and you have a big library of modules like a complete online shop with online payment or a members only area a video gallery you can even pick your own domain name and book it from Squarespace and they even have a module to design your own logo so if you need a website but you don't really know how to get started or you don't have the time or the technical skills just head over to squarespace.com theel Linux experiment or click the link in the description below and you'll get 10% off your first purchase so let's begin with Modzilla yeah I told you it was going to be a bit controversial Modzilla has undeniably been a very important player in the F World they built Firefox which is still my browser of choice to this day and which allowed the web to move past Internet Explorer by grabbing all its market share and letting web devs make better things they also make Thunderbird my email client of choice and they contribute to and support a lot of other projects but Mozilla as an institution has a bunch of problems that you need to be aware of and they you can decide if there are actual issues for you or not one thing that is often leveled against Modzilla is that they allegedly argued for internet censorship in an Infamous post they said we needed more than deplatforming as a bunch of people were being kicked off popular social media sites for saying things that went against the terms of service back when some of these platforms actually had terms of service and moderation teams mozilla's post admittedly came out a bit bit wrong as they asked for tools to amplify facts over disinformation which obviously LED some people to say that they were trying to decide what was right or what was wrong and they also basically validated the deplatforming of people by saying we need to go further and let's be honest in plenty of cases what is factual truth and what is not true is very very welln and not subject to any discussion but in some cases it's more subjective now whether you want to believe that Mozilla wants to censor the web Ministry of Truth style or you just believe this post was misinterpreted I leave that up to you Mozilla has also some other sticking points notably their over Reliance on Google for funding which some could assume has an impact on the steps they take to counter privacy invasive things that Google might push there's also the fact that their executives are paid quite a lot of money for a nonprofit that is bleeding users market share at least in the browser space their CEO received $6.9 million in 2022 which was a solid 2 million more than 2021 while Firefox lost 30 million users they also fired about 250 people over the same period and here again whether you think paying these rates for a CEO is the only way to attract someone with the skills to ride the ship or whether you think this is just too much money to be paid for any kind of job it's up to you to decide I know where I stand on this one now another project that you're probably very aware of is snap a bunto solution for containerized apps the main criticism leveled against snaps is its proprietary centralized store while the snap packaging format and the snap demon that runs in the background to handle all of these apps are both open source the store back end isn't and the actual Snap Store is a closed Source thing it doesn't mean you could not run your own snap store though or that you even need one you can install individual snap packages manually not from any form of online repo and you can definitely host your own snap repo and use it and let other people use it as well or you can run a proxy for the snap store but in reality the only real Snap Store that exists is the one canals run and this store is not open source they said they have zero interest in open sourcing it because they had already done a lot of work to open- Source their Launchpad platform and basically no one used it after that anyway so they just don't see the point now whether that's enough of an issue for you to not use snaps is yours to decide if you like the concept of snaps but you want a fully open source solution I guess flat packs exist another app distribution format is app images and they're relatively popular and they also have the advantage of being portable in most cases theoretically you can copy any app image to a USB drive paste that onto another computer and they should run fine unless they were badly created and they rely on external dependencies that your system might not have but all app Images do rely on a specific Library which is lib fuse short for file system in user space the issue here is that app Images rely on lib fuse 2 which is deprecated and Obsolete and has been for a long while its last version was in 2019 meaning it's been left for 5 years without any security updates at all and generally basing your entire project on a 5-year-old unmaintained library is not a good choice the end result is that for example on open 2 by default you cannot run app Images because liuse 2 is not pre-installed because it is obsolete you can still install it from the repost it's an easy fix but there's a reason why it's not pre-installed other potential concerns about the app image project is the fact that they're generally compared with snaps and flatbacks but at the difference of both of these they're not sandboxed at all by default meaning you're just running un executable blindly and in the case of app Images most of them are made by third-party individuals not the original developers flat packs and snaps are also often times made by third party individuals but these are sandboxed although here again you could have older permissions turn turned on then the app could have access to the entire system but what you can do with flat packs and snaps is check on these permissions before you install and change those permissions afterwards with app Images you can't if it runs it runs on your system it has all the permissions of your user they have also been some pretty harsh comments and sort of harassment from one of app Images lead against apps that refuse to invest time to support the app image format a major example is OBS this developer had proposed some changes to make it easier to package OBS as an app image the OBS devs refused this work because they had a lot of concerns with that work and identified a bunch of bucks the app image Dev instead of fixing the work then proceeded to run about OBS being funded by red hat and thus favoring flatback this was the conclusion of what OBS devs defined as years of harassment and they banned the app image Dev from their GitHub and if you read the entire conversation that I left in the link you will see that the OBS devs really aren't to blame here they even left the door open to anyone else picking up the work and packaging the thing as an app image now also if you don't have a problem with these potential issues with app images and you love them keep using them that's fine there are ways to go around those problems as well and just because I pointed out some issues with snaps and app Images doesn't mean that flat packs and thiso packages don't have problems they both have problems as well they're just not of the ethical or security pretty kind of variety another project that has seen a fair few criticisms over the years is Manjaro while some of these issues like the lack of stability mainly come from people using manaro like it was arched by stuffing their system full of Aur packages when Manjaro devs clearly do not recommend this some other problems were more concerning manjaru has been known to package unstable versions of applications that weren't published as stable they added unreleased Patches from git which led to these apps being crashy and buggy and app developers getting bug reports that they couldn't do anything about this is what led a bunch of developers to write the don't ship it letter asking drro maintainers and packagers to stop shipping their apps in a modified State because they the app developers are the ones paying the price after that manaro also has a pretty bad track record with security failing to renew their certificates time and again which feels insane because it's extremely easy to automate or at the very least to set reminders for that it seems minor but it did prevent people from updating the repos or installing software and the fix that was proposed at the time was to change your computer's time and date to a date in the past and this probably took as much time to write as it would have taken them to renew the certificate now add to that the fact that manaro partnered with a proprietary ofice suite and shipped it as the default before backing down after some backlash or the company behind Manjaro firing their CFO when he refused to approve an expense for a new laptop or their tool pamac basically dsing the Aur by making too many requests and you have a few issues that definitely tarnished the distro's reputation and I am not aware of relatively recent problems along those lines with Manjaro if you like using Manjaro keep using it it's not a wrong choice these are just problems that have affected its reputation and they might explain why you see so much manjaru criticism online now another problematic issue we see more and more often is open- source project switching licenses to restrict what people can do and open source projects been taken over entirely by companies a recent example is Red Hats taking on some license agreements to get access to the source code of red hat Enterprise Linux meaning that if you redistribute the source code you get access to as a customer you won't be able to be a red hat customer anymore this could be perceived as adding restrictions on source code distribution which is forbidden by the GPL the license that a lot of red hat source code uses another example is canonical taking ownership of the lxd project a project that they had started but then gave to the Linux containers project and then grabbed back again presumably because they now saw value in it when they maybe didn't previously they also removed maintainers on that project that didn't work for canonical but had been contributing to the project for a while yet another example is redus moving to a source available license to try and stop giant Cloud providers like AWS from making money off of redders but this also limited other users rights in the process the license change also potentially breaks the BSD license used for some contributions and some people are argu in that these contributions should thus be removed this all prompted many Forks including valky from the Linux Foundation the same story happened previously with Hashi Corp and their terraform tool this license changes basically take away your rights to create a fork of the current version of the tool and to redistribute that fork which is fine for preventing those giant freeloaders that can be big cloud companies from just using your project making millions off of it and never giving back anything but it also restricts normal users rights which kind of sucks this is all very muddy and whether you think it's an issue is up to you and finally we have hyperland and this one I kept for last because it really depends on your views on free speech on what is harassment toxicity or the relationship between an individual's opinions and their project basically what some people have against hyperland is mostly against their lead developer and founder not against the project itself self he's been characterized as toxic and the general Community is often perceived as expressing hateful views in the form of what they would call jokes pretty bad stuff like endorsement of eugenics calls for hate related violence or transphobia for example they've been seen editing someone's pronouns to who SL cares like seriously why would you do this if you don't care and if you think no one cares then just leave the pronouns they can't hurt you now when a code of conduct was pitched to the hyperland project it was shut down and the Project's founder went on a few podcasts to explain away the toxicity his argument was basically I don't have time for this I'm writing code and anyone is free to say what they want the founder of hyperland was recently banned from the freedesktop.org community for their problematic Behavior which went against the fd's code of conduct hyperland founder then basically doxed the FDO member who banned him now do with this as you will if you use hyperland you can absolutely keep using it and decide not to interact with the community or maybe you've never encountered any weird Behavior but if you're like me you're probably having a hard time dissociating the person writing the thing from the thing itself and so you're probably not going to use that thing but also I regularly criticize Google and I still make videos on YouTube so I'm probably a hypocrite here anyway that's it for today's video I tried to be as objective as possible make up your own mind about those issues this is not an attack on these projects or entities and just because I did not mention another project doesn't mean it doesn't have any problems just let me know what other problems you've encountered on other projects and I maybe might make a video about them some will find security concerns in flat pack or system D or won't like a specific dist attitude we all have our biases and things we pay attention to just like I really pay attention to this segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a new computer and you're planning to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually contributes to Linux click the link in the description below and check out tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and small Foam Factory computers that run with Linux out of the box they actually contribute fixes patches and drivers upstream and if these haven't been accepted yet you have repos to add all those patches onto the drro that you're using they have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point there's a lot of customization options available all the devices are very repairable and upgradeable and honestly I only use tuxedo computers these days my channel runs on one of their laptops my gaming needs are serviced by one of their desktops I don't use any other computer so if you're interested click the link in the description below they really solid so thanks everyone for watching the video you know what to do if you liked it there 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most of us use a graphical desktop of A Sort every day without really thinking about it Windows icons Mouse pointer panels or docks it's all pretty much ingrained because it's always been this way and there hasn't been much effort to try and deviate from this well-known metaphor but since we tend to overthink things a lot in here I thought it would be interesting to maybe take a look at some old interface conventions that we never bothered to change from start menus to system trays hamburger menus windows or icons we'll see why these things kind of suck but we'll also see maybe a concept to try and replace them all that's not to say that my concept is perfect or even good and that's not to say that no one ever tried to replace these old conventions but what's for sure is that no one really managed to make something better just like I could never manage to make a better segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by T scare they provide fantastic solutions to make sure your servers and workstations stay secure and up to date with as little downtime and maintenance as possible with life patching for your Linux kernels and with extended support for distributions going end of life and this week they're giving you free access to an ebook this excellent resource will not only list these 10 frequent mistakes that have been gathered using insights from the NSA and the cyber security and infrastructure Security Agency but it will also give you an in-depth analysis of each of those misconfigurations with the impact you can expect from them and how to mitigate those mistakes the ebook is available for free from the link in the description below and you don't even have to enter any info to download it so if you're in charge of the security of your organization or you know the person who is click the link and start reading so let's begin with the granddaddy of all interface inventions the desktop itself if you think about productivity and efficiency you can't help but think that having the default state of your computer being an image with a few icons on it is less than Stellar you use a computer to do things and all of these things are slaughtered in tiny little icons in a panel somewhere behind a launcher or in a menu the default state is emptiness with a mass of icons and widgets on top of it which probably is not not the best if you really think about it whether you prefer a file based metaphor where you create new files or open existing one no matter the app associated with it or you prefer an app-based metaphor in which you open an app to then open files you have to admit the desktop kind of sucks for opening files it will never be tidy enough to give you access to everything you need you need a launcher or a folder structure meaning the desktop is kind of bad at handling files for opening apps having visual shortcuts on the the desktop is a duplicate of whatever panel or launcher you have and you will never be able to display all the apps you actually need here without things becoming overloaded this all stems from xerox's original graphical interface which then was copied by Apple which then was copied by Microsoft which then was copied by virtually every Linux desktop out there and it was interesting at the time it was a reflection your desktop is actually your desk every app is a tool you would have on your desk and every file is a physical file you would have on your desk nowadays though most people just use a computer and the paperwork flow is sort of done so maybe this is not the best metaphor we can come up with today the way forwards is likely going to be something predictive where you would structure the default desktop as a dashboard with a to-do list on one side and its Associated files maybe recent files as well stuff you haven't finished Communications on another side of the screen like email or instant messaging you could probably accomplish all of this with desktop widgets but these never really seem to take off as part of the desktop gnome also tried something along those lines assuming that what you want to do first is opening a program and does defaulting to the overview when you boot your computer instead of having an empty desktop all in all for now we're stuck with the good old desktop it's not completely inefficient but it's also really not that great you can build muscle memory around the various shortcuts that you made but it will never be as complete or as tidy as everyone needs next are launchers start menus upgrades app lists whatever else if you think about it these things aren't pretty efficient either you have to either scroll through a list of categories click one then click the app you want or you have to scroll an alphabetical list of programs which makes no sense since most app names have no relation to what they do doesn't scream image editor Kaden life doesn't scream videoed editor Gwen view doesn't scream image viewer either those names have no relations with what the app actually does which is why all core apps should be named with their main function files mail photos images stuff like that now most of these menus or grids thus added favorites to fix that so you can place your preferred apps in a special place but in a small menu you will never have enough room for all your apps and in an app grid it requires you to reorder app icons to drag and drop and that's never been the fastest or most precise way of doing things either also it duplicates the functionality of having app shortcuts on a desktop or in a launcher or taskbar this inefficiency is also why most upgrades and menus now Implement a text field that is active by default so you can type the name of the app you're looking for which seems good but is also not that great because it requires you to know the name of the app as we've seen that's not always very explicit or to type the function of the app which is generally longer than than the app name and so more key presses are required great if you're good at using a keyboard less great if you're not or if you have a disability still we haven't really found anything better yet we have some circle based menus which involve muscle memory but require a lot of user configuration beforehand we have upgrades with extra sorting on top like in popos or gnome with folders but these aren't a really new way of doing things the way I could see this evolving would be by leaving the app ation and the window based metaphor behind to have a more task based metaphor instead of needing one app to create an image then another app to add that image to a presentation and add some text around it then another app to share that presentation with an audience the entire OS could evolve to have workflows that blend together where apps provide simple UI blocks to the OS you would create a file from the OS itself no matter its time and the Osos would display the relevant UI and would let you do the things you want without switching from app to app the file would just evolve to include all the things you need in it you would never start an app with a file type in mind you would just start a file and if you only need text you just have a UI block for text and you tap your text if at some point you need an image you just slot it inside and you don't have to switch applications to go to a word processor that supports images if at some point you want to have multiple pages and turn that into a presentation with animations you could just have the relevant y blog being displayed you can summon it from a bar of commands and you add those features and the file automatically becomes a presentation you never really worry about the app about the file type or about what you're trying to do you just do it and you save that workflow instead of saving to a specific file format this means no more app launching you just open a file or create a new one and everything is seamless and you don't have to figure out which app is needed to do what the OS just grabs those UI blocks that are provided for apps and displays them for you you never interact with an app itself next is the good old system tray this little area is probably the thing I despise the most in any operating system that's not because it's useless because it's really not but it's because it's completely inefficient and illegible you start apps from another place and some of them will stay in the tray afterwards some won't sometimes the icon disappears when you close the apps window sometimes it won't sometimes the icon is colored sometimes it's not if you have too many things in the tray it tends to fold so you have an extra click to view what's running click targets are small and imprecise it mixes apps and system features some apps will react to a right click some will react to a left click some will open a window some will open a menu it is a complete mess it's hard to aim for it it's not really usable with a keyboard it's not legible but we don't really have another way to handle those things the closest thing is how gnome's background apps will evolve where you have to click on the Quick Settings menu to display the apps running in the background and at some point you will get a context menu in there to interact with those apps but this isn't a new way of doing thing as much as it's just moving the system tray behind yet another click it makes click targets bigger for each app that's sure but it's still an extra click at least it makes things a little bit more uniform and it clearly splits system features from apps but it's still not great and I think the best way to evolve the system tray would be to just not need it if you have an app that needs to run in the background to provide features then you could just have those features displayed in a mini widget or a mini block on your dashboard they would be hidden by your app workflow or task workflow and you could just invoke them back again with a gesture or a screen Edge or something but you would actually see the features right there instead of having to aim for a very small icon right clicking and doing something it's probably not good to have them as icons probably would be better to have them as Widgets or mini features floating on your desktop now the old menus these things keep evolving and they're not getting better the traditional menu bar is not great it's tiny click targets aren't big enough keyboard navigation is slow and the Sorting of these menus is random and app dependent meaning you have to learn where each option is and how it's named for each program you use if you place that into a global menu you you save some space in the apps window and you're making clicking on menus easier since they're always in the same place but it doesn't solve the menu sorting problem and the small click targets if you place everything in a hamburger menu instead you're simplifying the default interface but you're making it harder to find more advanced features some apps try to move away from them like gnome apps but in the end even with header bars they do tend to end up having a hamburger menu anyway or you have apps from Microsoft that gain ribbons and tab interfaces for a while but again you have small click targets a mess of icons and text that's not very coherent why is this feature just an icon in the ribbon why is this one an icon plus text why are these in specific groups it's just not clear and again the Sorting of things needs to be memorized per app menus are not a good solution and ribbons aren't either but for now we haven't found something to replace them just yet apart from maybe not needing them all together but that's not really possible for more complex apps honestly the only thing I can imagine here is some variant of the HUD the unity desktop introduced a while back you get one big button or shortcut you type what you want to do and the app offers the relevant features easy to click descriptive works with voice control with the keyboard and could be unified at the OS level so you could start tasks create files and display the UI blocks from apps that I've talked about previously from one single shortcut or button and if this reminds you of AI assistance it's kind of what I have in mind except that the AI assistant would be OS wide and all apps would plug into it instead of having each app come with its own AI assistant which makes things as complicated or weird as just using menu bars so for example you could have an osy button you just type create a new image 1920 by 1080 with three layers on top and the logo of my company and you start a task with that with the image editing UI block on top of it and then if you need to add a filter or something else to your image you could just press the same shortcut type what kind of stuff you want to do and it would either suggest a menu entry or just do it for you if you have this sort of capability and of course people who don't want to type everything they do could just have keyboard shortcuts to do the things that they're used to or they just have the UI block with all the features that they need that they could fold and fold and just select with a mouse if they prefer finally windows and title bars we use app based metaphors right right now so we need to have a visual representation of each application whether it is a floating window or it is tiled we have Windows that we move that we resize maximize minimize or close again this is not super efficient resizing Windows to fit a task isn't great title bars are small and finicky to grab and drag to the point we had to implement keyboard shortcuts to drag from any point in the window window buttons are small and are moving targets depending on where you place the window if if you tile things then you will also need to adjust the layout multiple times to have tiles that have enough space for what you want to do it's not a great metaphor but we don't have anything new if we continue on the task focused metaphor that I started talking about you would get rid of app Windows entirely you would open just a canvas for example if you want to browse the web you open a web browsing canvas with the web browser UI element if at some point you decided that you wanted to take notes on what you were browsing you could just ask your general HUD or use a favorites HUD or whatever else you need to launch a task and say I want to take notes on this web page and then your browser would slide to the side you get a text based canvas if you start with text based tools and the UI for editing text if you drag an image onto the thing it automatically transforms into a rich text canvas if you add a video on top of it it transforms into another file type and it would just evolve displaying the right UI blocks all the time without needing to open a new app switch different apps save a file open it in something else you would just have a workflow based a task based environment instead of an app based environment at which point you don't really need Windows and title bars anymore because everything you do is just a movable canvas with floating UI blocks and of course all the criticism of these older UI paradigms are subjective I'm analyzing them from a UI and ux standpoint I think we could do better than old menus old window Windows your old desktop but they all have the value of being well known people are used to them and they know how to interact with those things moving to an entirely new metaphor would probably lose a bunch of people in the process so I'm not saying my ID is better or perfect now let me know down in the comments if you agree with me on these older UI elements if you don't and if my ideas look like something you might be interested in or not at all or if you have other ideas the comment section is here for all of this and in the meantime time I'll let you know about our sponsor if you're a Linux user and you're looking to replace your current computer maybe it's 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most of us use a graphical desktop of A Sort every day without really thinking about it Windows icons Mouse pointer panels or docks it's all pretty much ingrained because it's always been this way and there hasn't been much effort to try and deviate from this well-known metaphor but since we tend to overthink things a lot in here I thought it would be interesting to maybe take a look at some old interface conventions that we never bothered to change from start menus to system trays hamburger menus windows or icons we'll see why these things kind of suck but we'll also see maybe a concept to try and replace them all that's not to say that my concept is perfect or even good and that's not to say that no one ever tried to replace these old conventions but what's for sure is that no one really managed to make something better just like I could never manage to make a better segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by T scare they provide fantastic solutions to make sure your servers and workstations stay secure and up to date with as little downtime and maintenance as possible with life patching for your Linux kernels and with extended support for distributions going end of life and this week they're giving you free access to an ebook this excellent resource will not only list these 10 frequent mistakes that have been gathered using insights from the NSA and the cyber security and infrastructure Security Agency but it will also give you an in-depth analysis of each of those misconfigurations with the impact you can expect from them and how to mitigate those mistakes the ebook is available for free from the link in the description below and you don't even have to enter any info to download it so if you're in charge of the security of your organization or you know the person who is click the link and start reading so let's begin with the granddaddy of all interface inventions the desktop itself if you think about productivity and efficiency you can't help but think that having the default state of your computer being an image with a few icons on it is less than Stellar you use a computer to do things and all of these things are slaughtered in tiny little icons in a panel somewhere behind a launcher or in a menu the default state is emptiness with a mass of icons and widgets on top of it which probably is not not the best if you really think about it whether you prefer a file based metaphor where you create new files or open existing one no matter the app associated with it or you prefer an app-based metaphor in which you open an app to then open files you have to admit the desktop kind of sucks for opening files it will never be tidy enough to give you access to everything you need you need a launcher or a folder structure meaning the desktop is kind of bad at handling files for opening apps having visual shortcuts on the the desktop is a duplicate of whatever panel or launcher you have and you will never be able to display all the apps you actually need here without things becoming overloaded this all stems from xerox's original graphical interface which then was copied by Apple which then was copied by Microsoft which then was copied by virtually every Linux desktop out there and it was interesting at the time it was a reflection your desktop is actually your desk every app is a tool you would have on your desk and every file is a physical file you would have on your desk nowadays though most people just use a computer and the paperwork flow is sort of done so maybe this is not the best metaphor we can come up with today the way forwards is likely going to be something predictive where you would structure the default desktop as a dashboard with a to-do list on one side and its Associated files maybe recent files as well stuff you haven't finished Communications on another side of the screen like email or instant messaging you could probably accomplish all of this with desktop widgets but these never really seem to take off as part of the desktop gnome also tried something along those lines assuming that what you want to do first is opening a program and does defaulting to the overview when you boot your computer instead of having an empty desktop all in all for now we're stuck with the good old desktop it's not completely inefficient but it's also really not that great you can build muscle memory around the various shortcuts that you made but it will never be as complete or as tidy as everyone needs next are launchers start menus upgrades app lists whatever else if you think about it these things aren't pretty efficient either you have to either scroll through a list of categories click one then click the app you want or you have to scroll an alphabetical list of programs which makes no sense since most app names have no relation to what they do doesn't scream image editor Kaden life doesn't scream videoed editor Gwen view doesn't scream image viewer either those names have no relations with what the app actually does which is why all core apps should be named with their main function files mail photos images stuff like that now most of these menus or grids thus added favorites to fix that so you can place your preferred apps in a special place but in a small menu you will never have enough room for all your apps and in an app grid it requires you to reorder app icons to drag and drop and that's never been the fastest or most precise way of doing things either also it duplicates the functionality of having app shortcuts on a desktop or in a launcher or taskbar this inefficiency is also why most upgrades and menus now Implement a text field that is active by default so you can type the name of the app you're looking for which seems good but is also not that great because it requires you to know the name of the app as we've seen that's not always very explicit or to type the function of the app which is generally longer than than the app name and so more key presses are required great if you're good at using a keyboard less great if you're not or if you have a disability still we haven't really found anything better yet we have some circle based menus which involve muscle memory but require a lot of user configuration beforehand we have upgrades with extra sorting on top like in popos or gnome with folders but these aren't a really new way of doing things the way I could see this evolving would be by leaving the app ation and the window based metaphor behind to have a more task based metaphor instead of needing one app to create an image then another app to add that image to a presentation and add some text around it then another app to share that presentation with an audience the entire OS could evolve to have workflows that blend together where apps provide simple UI blocks to the OS you would create a file from the OS itself no matter its time and the Osos would display the relevant UI and would let you do the things you want without switching from app to app the file would just evolve to include all the things you need in it you would never start an app with a file type in mind you would just start a file and if you only need text you just have a UI block for text and you tap your text if at some point you need an image you just slot it inside and you don't have to switch applications to go to a word processor that supports images if at some point you want to have multiple pages and turn that into a presentation with animations you could just have the relevant y blog being displayed you can summon it from a bar of commands and you add those features and the file automatically becomes a presentation you never really worry about the app about the file type or about what you're trying to do you just do it and you save that workflow instead of saving to a specific file format this means no more app launching you just open a file or create a new one and everything is seamless and you don't have to figure out which app is needed to do what the OS just grabs those UI blocks that are provided for apps and displays them for you you never interact with an app itself next is the good old system tray this little area is probably the thing I despise the most in any operating system that's not because it's useless because it's really not but it's because it's completely inefficient and illegible you start apps from another place and some of them will stay in the tray afterwards some won't sometimes the icon disappears when you close the apps window sometimes it won't sometimes the icon is colored sometimes it's not if you have too many things in the tray it tends to fold so you have an extra click to view what's running click targets are small and imprecise it mixes apps and system features some apps will react to a right click some will react to a left click some will open a window some will open a menu it is a complete mess it's hard to aim for it it's not really usable with a keyboard it's not legible but we don't really have another way to handle those things the closest thing is how gnome's background apps will evolve where you have to click on the Quick Settings menu to display the apps running in the background and at some point you will get a context menu in there to interact with those apps but this isn't a new way of doing thing as much as it's just moving the system tray behind yet another click it makes click targets bigger for each app that's sure but it's still an extra click at least it makes things a little bit more uniform and it clearly splits system features from apps but it's still not great and I think the best way to evolve the system tray would be to just not need it if you have an app that needs to run in the background to provide features then you could just have those features displayed in a mini widget or a mini block on your dashboard they would be hidden by your app workflow or task workflow and you could just invoke them back again with a gesture or a screen Edge or something but you would actually see the features right there instead of having to aim for a very small icon right clicking and doing something it's probably not good to have them as icons probably would be better to have them as Widgets or mini features floating on your desktop now the old menus these things keep evolving and they're not getting better the traditional menu bar is not great it's tiny click targets aren't big enough keyboard navigation is slow and the Sorting of these menus is random and app dependent meaning you have to learn where each option is and how it's named for each program you use if you place that into a global menu you you save some space in the apps window and you're making clicking on menus easier since they're always in the same place but it doesn't solve the menu sorting problem and the small click targets if you place everything in a hamburger menu instead you're simplifying the default interface but you're making it harder to find more advanced features some apps try to move away from them like gnome apps but in the end even with header bars they do tend to end up having a hamburger menu anyway or you have apps from Microsoft that gain ribbons and tab interfaces for a while but again you have small click targets a mess of icons and text that's not very coherent why is this feature just an icon in the ribbon why is this one an icon plus text why are these in specific groups it's just not clear and again the Sorting of things needs to be memorized per app menus are not a good solution and ribbons aren't either but for now we haven't found something to replace them just yet apart from maybe not needing them all together but that's not really possible for more complex apps honestly the only thing I can imagine here is some variant of the HUD the unity desktop introduced a while back you get one big button or shortcut you type what you want to do and the app offers the relevant features easy to click descriptive works with voice control with the keyboard and could be unified at the OS level so you could start tasks create files and display the UI blocks from apps that I've talked about previously from one single shortcut or button and if this reminds you of AI assistance it's kind of what I have in mind except that the AI assistant would be OS wide and all apps would plug into it instead of having each app come with its own AI assistant which makes things as complicated or weird as just using menu bars so for example you could have an osy button you just type create a new image 1920 by 1080 with three layers on top and the logo of my company and you start a task with that with the image editing UI block on top of it and then if you need to add a filter or something else to your image you could just press the same shortcut type what kind of stuff you want to do and it would either suggest a menu entry or just do it for you if you have this sort of capability and of course people who don't want to type everything they do could just have keyboard shortcuts to do the things that they're used to or they just have the UI block with all the features that they need that they could fold and fold and just select with a mouse if they prefer finally windows and title bars we use app based metaphors right right now so we need to have a visual representation of each application whether it is a floating window or it is tiled we have Windows that we move that we resize maximize minimize or close again this is not super efficient resizing Windows to fit a task isn't great title bars are small and finicky to grab and drag to the point we had to implement keyboard shortcuts to drag from any point in the window window buttons are small and are moving targets depending on where you place the window if if you tile things then you will also need to adjust the layout multiple times to have tiles that have enough space for what you want to do it's not a great metaphor but we don't have anything new if we continue on the task focused metaphor that I started talking about you would get rid of app Windows entirely you would open just a canvas for example if you want to browse the web you open a web browsing canvas with the web browser UI element if at some point you decided that you wanted to take notes on what you were browsing you could just ask your general HUD or use a favorites HUD or whatever else you need to launch a task and say I want to take notes on this web page and then your browser would slide to the side you get a text based canvas if you start with text based tools and the UI for editing text if you drag an image onto the thing it automatically transforms into a rich text canvas if you add a video on top of it it transforms into another file type and it would just evolve displaying the right UI blocks all the time without needing to open a new app switch different apps save a file open it in something else you would just have a workflow based a task based environment instead of an app based environment at which point you don't really need Windows and title bars anymore because everything you do is just a movable canvas with floating UI blocks and of course all the criticism of these older UI paradigms are subjective I'm analyzing them from a UI and ux standpoint I think we could do better than old menus old window Windows your old desktop but they all have the value of being well known people are used to them and they know how to interact with those things moving to an entirely new metaphor would probably lose a bunch of people in the process so I'm not saying my ID is better or perfect now let me know down in the comments if you agree with me on these older UI elements if you don't and if my ideas look like something you might be interested in or not at all or if you have other ideas the comment section is here for all of this and in the meantime time I'll let you know about our sponsor if you're a Linux user and you're looking to replace your current computer maybe it's time to stop looking at devices that ship with Windows preinstalled and trying to put your favorite Dr on it and hoping everything runs maybe it's time to look at computers that were made to run Linux for example from tuxedo computers our sponsor they have a wide range of devices that should cover every price point and every need whether you need a laptop desktop a workstation a gaming laptop whatever they have everything you can tweak and change all the components you can personalize your computer with your own keyboard layout with your own logo engraved on the lid of your laptop you can open the devices repair them and upgrade them and they all have fantastic Linux support so you know things will work I only use tuxedo computers these days to run the channel or to game so if you want to try them out I left the link to them in the description below and uh I heavily recommend them they're really really good okay so thanks for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you know what to do all those buttons under the video immensely help the channel and if you want to help it even more I left links in the description to ways you can support it financially and you get a bunch of extra benefits on top of that so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
hey everyone and welcome to this edition of the Linux and open source news show this week we've got Fedora maybe planning to add some Telemetry in Fedora 42 but don't worry it will be oped in we have the potential death of chromos flex as Google plans to rebase Chrome OS on the Android stack and this is probably incompatible with letting anyone install Flex on any device and we also have deep in the Chinese drro testing the waters of AI and adding some relatively interesting features to their release candidate for deep in 23 and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare you've probably heard about them by now on the channel they are your One-Stop shop for making sure your Linux servers or workstations are always up to date and secured with the latest patches with minimal disruptions their Solutions enable you to automatically apply security patches without downtime or reboots as well as to extend the life cycle of end of life distributions they also 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transfer certain system settings like the language the input methods and some accessibility related settings as well you will transmit the apps that you're using the number of open workspaces how often you access the settings and some performance details like for example disk speeds or network speeds plus any evidence of issues and crashes you might have encountered now no IP address would be collected with this data and no personal info either all these data points would be grabbed and sent on their own not as a single Big Data dump so fingerprinting would be harder to do as well it is still a lot of data and the reason why developers are proposing this is so they know what to prioritize and what to focus their efforts on in the future obviously this is going to be controversial every piece of data being collected in the Linux world is always controversial but I think they are doing it in the right way you're not doing it like auntu where it's opt out here you decide to share things by default nothing is shared much like what KD offers for example where you've got that user feedback slider by default it is off so I think this is a good thing because if you don't want to give out any data you just don't have to change anything and if you want to contribute some data to to the Fedora project so they can optimize their work in the future you just turn this thing on and it should be safe and Anonymous so I don't think it's a big issue now deep in the Chinese distribution with its own admittedly quite nice looking but also admittedly quite under featured desktop is pushing for its own AI assistant and AI features in general first is a new personal knowledge assistant the way it works is you feed it your own documents and the AI will arrange them into a knowledge base that you can use in the future it's not a general purpose AI chatbot like chat GPT it's only going to know what you fed it so it's going to be useful for researchers on certain topics or when writing long student papers it all runs locally on the device with a local model the second part is the deepend system assistant and it's meant to explain and answer questions about how the system works it will give you answers to questions regarding system features the settings the shortcuts for specific actions and more it's basically an AI assistant for the manual of your computer this thing also apparently runs locally finally they added AI to the systemwide search feature called Grand search this thing lets you tell your system what you want to do and it will do it for you you can say things like change my wallpaper to waves. jpeg or change the audio volume to 50% or reduce the display brightness so turn off Bluetooth the model this uses apparently also accepts large language models in the open AI format so it is possible to extend it with more features and commands this one though I am not sure if it runs locally or if it calls to a Cloud Server somewhere if you want to test these things they are available in the deep in 23 release candidate and I know I am generally very critical of AI because when it comes from Big names in the AI sphere it's generally privacy invasive and generally the data they use to train their model hasn't been collected ethically when it runs locally on your computer and you feed it your own information so it acts as your own personal easily accessible database I don't have a problem with that I think it's actually a cool feature for tech support the tech support assistant is also not that bad as per the grand search I mean I guess for accessibility reasons it's probably good to have something like that but I do hope that this giant systemwide search and action system does not call to an online server and also runs locally I could not find info about that I do hope some other distributions implement the same kind of stuff if it runs locally and it's trained on your own data I really don't have a problem with it obviously I will test this release candidate on the channel as well and give you my Impressions about those features now you might know about Chrome OS Flex the install Chrome OS anywhere system that Google try to push at some point well it looks like this might follow the usual Google Playbook and it just might get abandoned as a project a blog post from the directors of product engineering and product management for Chrome OS points towards Chrome OS being integrated with Android the Android kernel and its Frameworks will become the foundation for Chrome OS and this has obvious implications regarding the ability to install Chrome OS on any computer because the Android kernel might be based on Linux but it's also severely stripped down and just doesn't run on most computers it doesn't have the necessary systems or the necessary drivers now there is the Android x86 project that Google might use to power chromeos flex but this project is not supported by Google and it lags a lot behind the current Android version it is at version 10 when Android is at version 14 so it is very unlikely to be used by Chrome to keep maintaining an x86 compatible version of Chrome OS Flex so this probably means that when Google moves to the entire Android stack for Chrome OS flex and probably just the general version of chromeos will no longer work on x86 computers I won't say it's a big loss because it isn't I gave a shot to chrom OS a while back and I found it severely underwhelming there is simply no real use case where Linux drro will not perform the same job better it has more Hardware compatibility than chromos Flex the desktop environments are generally more powerful have more features are more usable and more polished you have a bigger app selection the only real advantage of chrom flex is probably its integration with Google services if you really depend on every single Google Suite of tools then maybe chromos Flex is a better choice but in most cases Linux drro will just serve you better you can always run all of the services in any single web browser that you want so it's not a big deal now this week we also saw another pretty bad security vulnerability open SSH something a huge proportion of servers use apparently has a glaring security Gap introduced 4 years ago and that could affect up to 14 million servers worldwide this flaw is called regression where the sh sound is made by the SSH letters and it's a regression obviously of a previously fixed flaw that was reintroduced in the code base a while back this vulnerability lets attackers execute code with admin privileges and it can let them take over the entire system install malware create back doors and more this thing is classified as being as serious as the log 4J problem from 2021 because it is very widespread and very threatening hopefully by the time you're listening to this a fix is out so make sure to update your various systems that make use of open SSH most server drosos are probably going to be very very reactive in updating their package repos for this so chances are the fix is already out chances are your server is already up to date but just make sure to check for updates if there's something that you don't maintain every day check it out it can't hurt mint 22 now has its first beta the code name is Wilma and it's based on auntu 24.4 LTS although as always it drops a lot of what makes auntu into auntu there are no snaps and they actually built a dab package for Thunderbird because auntu decided to ship it with a snap by default there's obviously no gnome in there it's replaced with cinnamon 6.2 Min 22 will default to pipewire it comes with the colonel 6.8 and they have a new online accounts app to replace the settings panel that just couldn't be used by Mint anymore because it had moved to gtk before and couldn't be themed by Linux Mint the phone viewer was removed for the same reasons it is a labber Vitter app that mint cannot theme so they dropped it and a few other default apps were downgraded to their gtk3 versions including the video player the calculator the scanning utility the dis usage analyzer the system monitor the calendar the archive manager and one or two more another important change that I talked about in a previous episode is hiding unverified flatbacks by default and if you decide to reenable them in the software manager settings you still will not see their ratings and user comments which in my opinion is a poor decision because it removes a way to get your own information on whether a third-party flatback is well maintained even if it's not official you'll also get a new Matrix client by default a new layout Editor to change the order of actions in the file manager context menu you'll get improved whand support on the experimental session and and a few other smaller changes to the default apps if you currently enjoy the mint experience chances are mint 22 will be absolutely satisfactory for you as well my only concern honestly with Linux Mint is will they have enough manpower to maintain both a distribution base because they take auntu space but they do a lot of work to make it run as they want it to run by removing snap for example and changing other packages they build their own desktop environment which is no small task cinnamon is pretty feature complete and they're working on improving the wh session as well that's a lot of work and now they're going to have to maintain a lot of their default applications as well that previously were just basically gnome ABS that they didn't modify all that much so is that going to be too much work we'll have to see I hope not I hope they can handle this because mint is a fantastic distribution a proton keeps expanding their Suite of tools now with proton docks a privacy focused alternative to Google Docs you can already access proton docss from Proton Drive if you have a proton account and they're saying that it's not meant to replace standard notes standard nodes being an application that proton bought a while back proton docs is a word processor not a not taking application so the first release of this app supports Rich text obviously real-time collaborative editing where you can know where other people editing the same document as you are currently in the document there are comments and feedback there's support for Microsoft's docx format because unfortunately it is still the standard and it supports images audio and video although it only works on the web right now there's no desktop client and it doesn't seem to work on smartphones just yet proton said that they wanted to have every feature that Google Docs has eventually and they also said that everything here is endtoend encrypted as you might expect from something coming from proton every key press that you make every cursor movement is app cently encrypted and protected and cannot be accessed by proton's employees or anyone that is not logged into your account rational is of course to expand proton Suite of online tools and services to fight Google and to fight other privacy invasive Solutions I guess this is a pretty solid addition now full disclaimer proton is a regular sponsor of the channel they obviously did not sponsor this video or you would have seen a sponsored mention for them uh me personally I'm slowly moving to their ecosystem but I'm still waiting on a Linux client for Proton Drive which will let me sing files in the background until they have this I can't really use the entire Suite uh so proton do is cool but I'm waiting for a drive Client First and let's finish this with the Linux gaming news first linux's steam market share is apparently staying at above 2% for yet another month it did go down a little bit in June compared to May it dropped to 2.08% instead of 2.32% in May which is a significant loss Mac OS also dropped and windows obviously grew back from the Su total of what Mac OS and Linux lost this is not unexpected in steam's results all this data is based on a voluntary survey and it will thus fluctuate depending on which game is popular at the time whether it's compatible with anything else than Windows who is playing it on which computer and the like it also looks like less people used their steam deck as steo has dropped a bit in terms of which this R is being used it is still 41% of the Linux market share on Steam with Arch the flatback version of steam mint and auntu gaining a bit back on Steam OS I'm not saying it's the Elden ring DLC but it's probably the Elden ring DLC it apparently had a lot of performance problems and these maybe have been compounded on Linux so maybe people went back to Windows to play that stuff instead of playing on their steam de who knows anyways the steam market share for Linux is generally growing we are going up dropping down but we're generally dropping down by less than what we've gone up meaning that the overall trend is still a net positive which is encouraging it is still an insanely small market share but it is encouraging and we also have some more progress on fex the x86 emulator for arm on Linux there's been a big update to it that now enables support for the AVX and avx2 instructions that modern x86 CPUs have and that some games are starting to depend on this is on top of a bunch of other instructions being added with barbaric names like fma3 vaes or VPC LM L qdq yes this is actually a real instruction apparently now to make things short this new support lets you run games like Metro Exodus or Crisis 3 remastered on an arm CPU that obviously doesn't have access to these instructions because the emulator Maps these instructions to the ones that the arm CPUs have they also added some general optimizations to reduce the translation time between x86 to arm by about 10% which is a solid performance boost and if you're wondering who cares about arm CPUs and emulating x86 programs well everyone should probably care because it looks like arm is going to be an important part of the consumer PC market we're seeing more and more devices come out with arm CPUs running Windows and we even have some prototypes running Linux there's one from tuxedo that was announced at computex I think it was last month for open source programs we don't really care they will be recompiled for arm the code is open it will be doable with more or less effort but for proprietary titles that never really supported Linux and that you need for example proton to run having this emulation and translation layer is absolutely mandatory if we want to keep the hard one compatibility that we managed to get so far so an emulator is very important Mac OS has one Windows has one Linux needs one as well and FX looks like it is in a pretty good place just like this sponsor is placed pretty perfectly in this video it's tuxedo computers you have heard about them by now if you have watched any of my my videos they're based in Germany they ship to almost every country in the world they make laptops desktops and small 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hey everyone this is Nick I am back from my vacation and so here is your next installment of the Linux and open source news so this week we've got gnom announcing that yes you will get accent color support and yes it will plug in with every other desktop that supports this property and that's for Gnome 47 we also have Modzilla buying an ad analytics business and it's quite unclear for now what they aim to do with this and we also have Google moving forward with the Manifest V3 version of their browser extension API which is a terrible thing for most people at least people who use Chrome and also we have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and most of you probably already know about it but if you don't all you have to remember is that it's your all-in-one solution to build and publish your own website even if you don't know anything about how to build a website and you don't know how to code Square space just lets you get started in no time you pick a 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gnome apps and they would at least follow your accent color or you could run gnome and use KDE apps and they would use the right color as well which is pretty nice on top of that gnome also merged support for the DRM lease protocol on whand meaning VR headsets should also work properly on gnome now as the rendering manager can now give whand clients like a VR headset the ability to rer things directly other gnome related changes include the image viewer gaining some capabilities for image editing like rotating them and there's more work on the global keyboard shortcuts portal that will also help with accessibility notably with screen readers and orca the screen reader in question also got some love while a new protocol called Newton was developed to handle all accessibility related features on Linux not specifically just for Gnome but for every desktop that wants to implement it work on making Nautilus the file Chooser for Gnome is also progressing nicely so that's some pretty good stuff gnome 47 will definitely be a bigger release than gnome 46 was although I am not sure if everything I mentioned previously will land in 47 or if we'll have to wait for 48 to enjoy all of that now Google is finally pulling the trigger on manifest V3 the revision of the browser extensions API that will severely limit what extensions can do notably ad blockers and tracker blockers the main contention point is that ad blockers need to implement a lot of rules to block traffic from various ad servers and manifest V3 prevents them from implementing nearly enough of those rules uock origin needs about 300,000 and manifest V3 only allows 30,000 of these extensions also won't be able to modify browser requests as much as they did meaning that tracker blockers will be much less efficient to remove data and to anonymize requests made to various websites and tracking tools it is obviously a really bad move for privacy and for user Agency on their own computers and most browsers already said that they would not force users and extension developers to conform with manifest V3 apart from chrome most other browser developers will still support manifest V2 but Chrome users will definitely have an even less private experience to be fair if you wanted privacy you were not using Chrome anyway because it is a data grabbing machine and it's just not private in the slightest hopefully some people who didn't really mind about privacy but were using an ad blocker will notice that their experience has gotten worse on Chrome and will move to something else a Milla just acquired anonym a company working on ads targeting and analytics they apparently focus on privacy preserving tracking using encryption to make sure that the data stays safe and presumably Anonymous but still allows for targeted ads basically anonym employees don't get access to the data from users who will be targeted nor do advertisers and Publishers all analytics are anonymized and they have algorithms to add noise to the data for each individual so you can't trace the data back to a sing sing Le person the difference with most ad platforms is that the entire data set doesn't need to be shared with the ad platform itself you can just share the anonymized bits that are relevant for measurement anonym was founded by former meta Executives though and it is backed by Venture Capital firms and now Modzilla owns it the announcement from Modzilla is vague as to what they expect to do with this but it is an ad focused business so if they don't want to waste money here it means St will get into the ad business at some point which well I am not a fan of at all which well I'm not a fan of at all and I know it's ironic I make a living on ads because I make videos on YouTube but Modzilla is seemingly rebranding itself as everything privacy related except a lot of their stuff is just not up to Snuff compared to the competition Firefox is starting to really lag behind and I would have loved to see this monetary investment being invested in I don't know making their products better and regain market share but also in the long run maybe running anonym as an ad analytic and AD targeting platform will generate more money that they can reinvest in those products so who knows maybe it's a positive I'm just not a big fan of the idea of Modzilla getting involved with ads plasma 6.1 was released this week as well and I already have a video on the channel showcasing all the new features so you can go check it out if you want more details in the meantime just a quick run through of what is in there remote desktop settings are now part of the main system settings so you don't need an extra application to handle that anymore the edit mode of the desktop and panel has been revamped and is now more legible although I still think it's not as good as it could be with a few things position strangely on screen you're also getting triple buffering on Wayland which should improve the experience with weaker integrated gpus and you're getting explicit syn support for NVIDIA gpus although you will need an update to the NVIDIA drivers to be able to benefit from that there's also the basic features for a session restore on Wayland although apps won't remember their exact place on screen the shake cursor to find it effect is now on by default but the cursor was a bit blurry when being enlarged in my experience and there are tons of other changes like disabling the password when the screen is locked support for the input capture portal for sharing mouse and keyboard input with other PCs For example and a unified Corner radius on every element of the breeze theme now apart from a few nit pcks that I personally have plasma 6.1 is absolutely fantastic and in my opinion the best desktop environment you can get on Linux at least for most users it strikes the right balance between productivity efficiency options without just shoving every single option and feature in your face I think it's really really solid and it's the desktop I'm going to keep using for the foreseeable future now it looks like we're going to see different computers running with Linux soon first is a tuxedo arm prototype running with qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite the same chip that will power what Microsoft calls their copilot plus PCS and it is poised to apparently surpass Apple's M2 chips in terms of performance and battery life the difference here is that this this PC will run Linux out of the box meaning that this system on a chip should be well supported on our systems mostly thanks to Qualcomm who open sourced and upstreamed a lot of their drivers so this CPU has 12 cores running up to 4.6 GHz and Tuxedo showcased their Prototype at computex in Taiwan they also want to Port Their Own drro Tuxedo OS to arm with plasma 6 as the default still tuxedo says it could be coming within the next two kernel versions as there are some driver issues to fix still as one might expect from a relatively new chip and on top of that we have the first risk 5 laptop running auntu it's called the DC Roma laptop 2 and it's made by Deep Computing a company based in Hong Kong aiming to push risk 5 as an architecture their laptop is a 14in device with a 1080p 60 display it has an 8 core CPU running at up to 2 GHz it has an npu for AI tasks because everything needs to have that these days it can go up to 16 gigs of RAM and 1 tbyte of storage and it starts at $600 its GPU is apparently capable enough as well supporting Vulcan 1.2 open CL and encoding and decoding up to 4K for various popular codecs now obviously this laptop is not going to be a gaming device or a Powerhouse but 8 cores at 2 GHz is really nothing to Scuf at it's good enough for a lot of people as per the arm thing obviously since I have a partnership with tuxedo I will ask them to maybe let me try out this prototype when they feel it's ready enough because it will be very interesting to see how well Linux runs on arm and how this chip performs and if it really surpasses Apple's offerings and still on alternative architectures the framework laptop is getting a drop in replacement motherboard with a risk 5 CPU in it they're working with deep computing the company I just mentioned to provide the same kind of architecture to the framework laptop now we don't know yet when this will be avilable but it's not going to be very powerful it's a 64-bit CPU with four cores running at up to 1.5 GHz and it has a pretty tiny GPU with a clock speed of 600 MHz it's basically the same system on a chip as the one used in the pine Tab tablet meaning it's very underpowered and it will only be suitable for a few basic tasks now framework themselves said that the performance will not be competitive with x86 Solutions and that it's mostly for developers to start porting their applications or maybe working on drivers and support for Linux and obviously to just test the risk 5 architecture the motherboard will also not have upgradeable storage or upgradeable Ram so it is really just a risk five starter set still it is cool to see this architecture making its way into more and more products even if it's just for developers to test things out maybe at some point it will be a solid enough alternative to what we're seeing with arm or even to just the x86 architecture we also have some good news for the beginners who were recommended auntu by other people because the auntu Snap Store will finally add back support for installing individual Deb packages after two releases without having anything to handle that by default the app center as they called it lets you install deps from the repost but if you downloaded an individual dep package from the developer's website like a lot of applications provide double clicking it would just not work and you would have to look for help online and end up installing gab I or using the command line which for brand new people who are regularly pushed towards obuntu as their first Linux experience is entirely unacceptable fortunately this capability makes its way back to the app center with a few warnings that this really is not super secure and anyone who can install the app center should get the feature because it's a snap so it should just get the update and this is great I don't understand how and why auntu felt it was acceptable to ship a Dro that is really targeted towards beginner or at least has that image attached to it without any way of just double clicking a de package to install it I know I know it's not secure I know it's not how you're supposed to do it but a lot of applications just offer this install method they don't have a repo they don't have a PPA they don't have a universal packaging format they have a de that you double click and install not even shipping gab I by default was completely insane and it basically destroyed all credibility for Linux for anyone who got started by using abundo so it's good that they added that back in because that was ridiculous just like it would be ridiculous to not check out our sponsor tuxedo computers more seriously if you're looking for a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it just stop buying devices that were made to work with Windows where the manufacturer has never provided any support for Linux start buying computers that were meant to run with Linux from tuxedo computers for example they have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point they actually Upstream a lot of work a lot of fixers and a lot of drivers to make sure that the hardware they ship works perfectly and if those fixers haven't been upstreamed yet they have repos that you can add to a lot of popular disos to actually Implement those fixes on any Dr of your choosing I personally only use tuxedo computers these days my entire channel is run on their Infiniti Book Pro 16 and all my gaming is done on a tuxedo Cube which is one of their relatively small form factor pieces honestly if you need to run 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hey everyone and welcome to this edition of the Linux and open source news show this week we've got Fedora maybe planning to add some Telemetry in Fedora 42 but don't worry it will be oped in we have the potential death of chromos flex as Google plans to rebase Chrome OS on the Android stack and this is probably incompatible with letting anyone install Flex on any device and we also have deep in the Chinese drro testing the waters of AI and adding some relatively interesting features to their release candidate for deep in 23 and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare you've probably heard about them by now on the channel they are your One-Stop shop for making sure your Linux servers or workstations are always up to date and secured with the latest patches with minimal disruptions their Solutions enable you to automatically apply security patches without downtime or reboots as well as to extend the life cycle of end of life distributions they also 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transfer certain system settings like the language the input methods and some accessibility related settings as well you will transmit the apps that you're using the number of open workspaces how often you access the settings and some performance details like for example disk speeds or network speeds plus any evidence of issues and crashes you might have encountered now no IP address would be collected with this data and no personal info either all these data points would be grabbed and sent on their own not as a single Big Data dump so fingerprinting would be harder to do as well it is still a lot of data and the reason why developers are proposing this is so they know what to prioritize and what to focus their efforts on in the future obviously this is going to be controversial every piece of data being collected in the Linux world is always controversial but I think they are doing it in the right way you're not doing it like auntu where it's opt out here you decide to share things by default nothing is shared much like what KD offers for example where you've got that user feedback slider by default it is off so I think this is a good thing because if you don't want to give out any data you just don't have to change anything and if you want to contribute some data to to the Fedora project so they can optimize their work in the future you just turn this thing on and it should be safe and Anonymous so I don't think it's a big issue now deep in the Chinese distribution with its own admittedly quite nice looking but also admittedly quite under featured desktop is pushing for its own AI assistant and AI features in general first is a new personal knowledge assistant the way it works is you feed it your own documents and the AI will arrange them into a knowledge base that you can use in the future it's not a general purpose AI chatbot like chat GPT it's only going to know what you fed it so it's going to be useful for researchers on certain topics or when writing long student papers it all runs locally on the device with a local model the second part is the deepend system assistant and it's meant to explain and answer questions about how the system works it will give you answers to questions regarding system features the settings the shortcuts for specific actions and more it's basically an AI assistant for the manual of your computer this thing also apparently runs locally finally they added AI to the systemwide search feature called Grand search this thing lets you tell your system what you want to do and it will do it for you you can say things like change my wallpaper to waves. jpeg or change the audio volume to 50% or reduce the display brightness so turn off Bluetooth the model this uses apparently also accepts large language models in the open AI format so it is possible to extend it with more features and commands this one though I am not sure if it runs locally or if it calls to a Cloud Server somewhere if you want to test these things they are available in the deep in 23 release candidate and I know I am generally very critical of AI because when it comes from Big names in the AI sphere it's generally privacy invasive and generally the data they use to train their model hasn't been collected ethically when it runs locally on your computer and you feed it your own information so it acts as your own personal easily accessible database I don't have a problem with that I think it's actually a cool feature for tech support the tech support assistant is also not that bad as per the grand search I mean I guess for accessibility reasons it's probably good to have something like that but I do hope that this giant systemwide search and action system does not call to an online server and also runs locally I could not find info about that I do hope some other distributions implement the same kind of stuff if it runs locally and it's trained on your own data I really don't have a problem with it obviously I will test this release candidate on the channel as well and give you my Impressions about those features now you might know about Chrome OS Flex the install Chrome OS anywhere system that Google try to push at some point well it looks like this might follow the usual Google Playbook and it just might get abandoned as a project a blog post from the directors of product engineering and product management for Chrome OS points towards Chrome OS being integrated with Android the Android kernel and its Frameworks will become the foundation for Chrome OS and this has obvious implications regarding the ability to install Chrome OS on any computer because the Android kernel might be based on Linux but it's also severely stripped down and just doesn't run on most computers it doesn't have the necessary systems or the necessary drivers now there is the Android x86 project that Google might use to power chromeos flex but this project is not supported by Google and it lags a lot behind the current Android version it is at version 10 when Android is at version 14 so it is very unlikely to be used by Chrome to keep maintaining an x86 compatible version of Chrome OS Flex so this probably means that when Google moves to the entire Android stack for Chrome OS flex and probably just the general version of chromeos will no longer work on x86 computers I won't say it's a big loss because it isn't I gave a shot to chrom OS a while back and I found it severely underwhelming there is simply no real use case where Linux drro will not perform the same job better it has more Hardware compatibility than chromos Flex the desktop environments are generally more powerful have more features are more usable and more polished you have a bigger app selection the only real advantage of chrom flex is probably its integration with Google services if you really depend on every single Google Suite of tools then maybe chromos Flex is a better choice but in most cases Linux drro will just serve you better you can always run all of the services in any single web browser that you want so it's not a big deal now this week we also saw another pretty bad security vulnerability open SSH something a huge proportion of servers use apparently has a glaring security Gap introduced 4 years ago and that could affect up to 14 million servers worldwide this flaw is called regression where the sh sound is made by the SSH letters and it's a regression obviously of a previously fixed flaw that was reintroduced in the code base a while back this vulnerability lets attackers execute code with admin privileges and it can let them take over the entire system install malware create back doors and more this thing is classified as being as serious as the log 4J problem from 2021 because it is very widespread and very threatening hopefully by the time you're listening to this a fix is out so make sure to update your various systems that make use of open SSH most server drosos are probably going to be very very reactive in updating their package repos for this so chances are the fix is already out chances are your server is already up to date but just make sure to check for updates if there's something that you don't maintain every day check it out it can't hurt mint 22 now has its first beta the code name is Wilma and it's based on auntu 24.4 LTS although as always it drops a lot of what makes auntu into auntu there are no snaps and they actually built a dab package for Thunderbird because auntu decided to ship it with a snap by default there's obviously no gnome in there it's replaced with cinnamon 6.2 Min 22 will default to pipewire it comes with the colonel 6.8 and they have a new online accounts app to replace the settings panel that just couldn't be used by Mint anymore because it had moved to gtk before and couldn't be themed by Linux Mint the phone viewer was removed for the same reasons it is a labber Vitter app that mint cannot theme so they dropped it and a few other default apps were downgraded to their gtk3 versions including the video player the calculator the scanning utility the dis usage analyzer the system monitor the calendar the archive manager and one or two more another important change that I talked about in a previous episode is hiding unverified flatbacks by default and if you decide to reenable them in the software manager settings you still will not see their ratings and user comments which in my opinion is a poor decision because it removes a way to get your own information on whether a third-party flatback is well maintained even if it's not official you'll also get a new Matrix client by default a new layout Editor to change the order of actions in the file manager context menu you'll get improved whand support on the experimental session and and a few other smaller changes to the default apps if you currently enjoy the mint experience chances are mint 22 will be absolutely satisfactory for you as well my only concern honestly with Linux Mint is will they have enough manpower to maintain both a distribution base because they take auntu space but they do a lot of work to make it run as they want it to run by removing snap for example and changing other packages they build their own desktop environment which is no small task cinnamon is pretty feature complete and they're working on improving the wh session as well that's a lot of work and now they're going to have to maintain a lot of their default applications as well that previously were just basically gnome ABS that they didn't modify all that much so is that going to be too much work we'll have to see I hope not I hope they can handle this because mint is a fantastic distribution a proton keeps expanding their Suite of tools now with proton docks a privacy focused alternative to Google Docs you can already access proton docss from Proton Drive if you have a proton account and they're saying that it's not meant to replace standard notes standard nodes being an application that proton bought a while back proton docs is a word processor not a not taking application so the first release of this app supports Rich text obviously real-time collaborative editing where you can know where other people editing the same document as you are currently in the document there are comments and feedback there's support for Microsoft's docx format because unfortunately it is still the standard and it supports images audio and video although it only works on the web right now there's no desktop client and it doesn't seem to work on smartphones just yet proton said that they wanted to have every feature that Google Docs has eventually and they also said that everything here is endtoend encrypted as you might expect from something coming from proton every key press that you make every cursor movement is app cently encrypted and protected and cannot be accessed by proton's employees or anyone that is not logged into your account rational is of course to expand proton Suite of online tools and services to fight Google and to fight other privacy invasive Solutions I guess this is a pretty solid addition now full disclaimer proton is a regular sponsor of the channel they obviously did not sponsor this video or you would have seen a sponsored mention for them uh me personally I'm slowly moving to their ecosystem but I'm still waiting on a Linux client for Proton Drive which will let me sing files in the background until they have this I can't really use the entire Suite uh so proton do is cool but I'm waiting for a drive Client First and let's finish this with the Linux gaming news first linux's steam market share is apparently staying at above 2% for yet another month it did go down a little bit in June compared to May it dropped to 2.08% instead of 2.32% in May which is a significant loss Mac OS also dropped and windows obviously grew back from the Su total of what Mac OS and Linux lost this is not unexpected in steam's results all this data is based on a voluntary survey and it will thus fluctuate depending on which game is popular at the time whether it's compatible with anything else than Windows who is playing it on which computer and the like it also looks like less people used their steam deck as steo has dropped a bit in terms of which this R is being used it is still 41% of the Linux market share on Steam with Arch the flatback version of steam mint and auntu gaining a bit back on Steam OS I'm not saying it's the Elden ring DLC but it's probably the Elden ring DLC it apparently had a lot of performance problems and these maybe have been compounded on Linux so maybe people went back to Windows to play that stuff instead of playing on their steam de who knows anyways the steam market share for Linux is generally growing we are going up dropping down but we're generally dropping down by less than what we've gone up meaning that the overall trend is still a net positive which is encouraging it is still an insanely small market share but it is encouraging and we also have some more progress on fex the x86 emulator for arm on Linux there's been a big update to it that now enables support for the AVX and avx2 instructions that modern x86 CPUs have and that some games are starting to depend on this is on top of a bunch of other instructions being added with barbaric names like fma3 vaes or VPC LM L qdq yes this is actually a real instruction apparently now to make things short this new support lets you run games like Metro Exodus or Crisis 3 remastered on an arm CPU that obviously doesn't have access to these instructions because the emulator Maps these instructions to the ones that the arm CPUs have they also added some general optimizations to reduce the translation time between x86 to arm by about 10% which is a solid performance boost and if you're wondering who cares about arm CPUs and emulating x86 programs well everyone should probably care because it looks like arm is going to be an important part of the consumer PC market we're seeing more and more devices come out with arm CPUs running Windows and we even have some prototypes running Linux there's one from tuxedo that was announced at computex I think it was last month for open source programs we don't really care they will be recompiled for arm the code is open it will be doable with more or less effort but for proprietary titles that never really supported Linux and that you need for example proton to run having this emulation and translation layer is absolutely mandatory if we want to keep the hard one compatibility that we managed to get so far so an emulator is very important Mac OS has one Windows has one Linux needs one as well and FX looks like it is in a pretty good place just like this sponsor is placed pretty perfectly in this video it's tuxedo computers you have heard about them by now if you have watched any of my my videos they're based in Germany they ship to almost every country in the world they make laptops desktops and small pH Factory computers that run with Linux out of the box they provide support for these computers they actually contribute some driver support for them they have PPA if your drro doesn't have these patches or if these patches haven't been accepted Upstream they have repos for you to add this support back in all the devices are very customizable you can open the laptops repair them upgrade them you can change the keyboard layout you can pick the components they are really good I only use tuxedo computers these days my channel runs on one of their laptops my gaming is done one of their desktops I don't use anything else so if you need a new computer you plan to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actively supports Linux click the link in the description below so this will conclude this video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you really enjoy thean Channel and you like having the news 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hey everyone this is Nick and I have a bad case of the man flu so yeah bear with me because my voice is probably going to be pretty bad today so in this episode we've got Modzilla sued for allegedly discriminating against an employee after they came back from their medical leave for treating cancer we also have some big solid performance boosts for Intel CPUs coming to the Linux konel and we also have Nvidia finally Landing the new driver version that maybe hopefully this time will fix every problem with Wayland And Nvidia and we also have this segue to our sponsor it's ground news you can click the link in the description or scan the QR code on screen to follow along while I'll tell you more ground news was founded by a former NASA engineer who wanted a more objective way to read the world's news for example this story I recently found on open AI finding that Russian and Chinese groups are using its technology for propaganda campaigns ground news ComEd through their network of over 50,000 news sources to show that over 60 articles had reported on this story but you might have missed it if you only follow conservative news so for each news article in ground news you can see how credible the sources are and who funds them all factors that could influence their reporting then you can compare all sides of the same story to see the full picture from all political sites or you can sort by any of these factors to find the type of information you prefer of course I can also follow specific topics and create a personalized news feed to avoid being bombarded by unrelated info for example you can follow your favorite topics like Tech or AI plus their Discovery page makes it really easy to find new interests and trusted sources you can go to the link in the description to save 40% on the same Vantage plan I use for unlimited access to all their features subscribing not only gets you access to features like blind spot or my news bias that lets you see which news you're more interested in and the bias they have but it also helps support my work okay so this is not a good look for Modzilla if it's true but it looks like their Chief product officer is suing them for discrimination Steve teera Took medical leave for cancer treatment at the end of October 23 until February 2024 at which point he returned to Modzilla as soon as he came back he was apparently instructor to layoff 50 people 40 of which were from his own team when he brought his concerns about this as Modzilla was profitable and there was no real Financial reason to remove these people the then new CEO Laura Chambers suggested that he moves to a different role for cancer treatment which he wasn't even receiving anymore at the time when he found out that he did in fact need additional treatment for liver cancer Milla Co offered him a 40% pay cut and a demotion at that point they even apparently told him to accept the role and get to work or accept the role and take a medical leave or they would start talking about Severance deera is the suing Modzilla for discrimination obviously Modzilla is denying those claims because whatever the truth of the matter is you never admit to wrongdoing in any of these cases and if this is true this is a really really bad look for mozilla's management it's a terrible thing to do to someone who needs help not needs a kick in the ass and taxera is apparently credited for growing Firefox uh and making it profitable again and growing mozilla's at business as well and if you can believe him he was apparently earmarked for maybe being the next CEO before he took his medical leave the previous CEO was unexpectedly fired by the board and replaced by Laura Chambers so we'll see how it goes but this is not good now the latest NVIDIA drivers are here version 555 now supports explicit sync meaning that Linux users who have an Nvidia GPU should give another goto whan this feature is now also supported in grome 46.1 in plasma 6.1 and it means that you should no longer have latency issues graphical glitches crashes and other problems when using whand with an Nvidia GPU frame pacing issues should also be mostly solved other changes include a fix to make video capture more stable better support for Prime render of loading so for hybrid laptops for example plus fixes for various Crashers and kernel panics color accuracy should also be improved Vulcan support has been enhanced as well notably with support for the immediate presentation mode which can let you disable vsync on Wayland And does get better latency at the expense of screen tearing so that's great news for NVIDIA users if you have access to these drivers on a roading release drro or through a PPA and you're using gome 46.1 or plasma 6.1 you probably should give the whan session another go I personally was not affected by these problems as far as I could tell but I will still perform the update and maybe try running my laptop up in Nvidia only modes just to see if things work normally now we have a date for The Cosmic Alpha and it is far from the one that they had initially announced they initially planned it for March if I remember correctly but it was pushed back time and again and now they're saying the alpha will be in late July which probably means a new version of popos with this new desktop will not be available before the end of 2024 The Branding for the desktop has also been revealed with a stylized font and a stretched o for Cosmic that evokes a monitor and as they say it's O as in open source the logo is thus just that o underlined in Orange they're celebrating the announcement with a sale with a few discounts on various laptops and desktops that they sell and they have Cosmic merch on order right now if you're really hyped and you want to buy something even before knowing if the desktop will be any good or even any better than what we have currently so I guess we'll have to wait for the end of July to know if it's actually any good and I understand why they keep pushing it back it's better to have an alpha with all the features that you want to showcase to users even if there are bugs around that uh then to have an alpha lacking half the stuff that you're planning on releasing in the first table version because that doesn't give the right impression I will admit my hype for Cosmic has died down a little the more they show about it the more it just just looks like yet another desktop which doesn't do much new compared to what you can already do on gome KY or cinnamon but it's still a interesting new stack new code base without any Legacy weird stuff like what gnome or KY can have so it will be interesting to review and I will absolutely give it a fair shot in a dedicated video now still on desktops there it is gnome 47 can now be built without X11 support this means that any distribution that that wants to ditch the old display server can now provide gnome as a Wayland only option as the desktop doesn't require any of x1's built dependencies this closes a 2-year-old issue to make GN more X11 independed this does not mean gnome won't support X11 ever again any dro that wants to build it with X11 support can still do that of course but some dros have already announced that they wanted to phase out X11 in the future Fedora for example already stopped providing an X11 session by default for plasma and they already have a proposal for Fedora 41 to do the same thing with the gnome Edition and even if it's not for Fedora 41 it will happen sooner or later because Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 announced they would drop X11 entirely and I am sure that for the foreseeable future most distributions will still offer gnome with either the X11 or the Wayland session you'll be able to pick but in the future at some point let's be clear gnome will drop X11 entirely it can be in 2 years 5 years 10 years who knows but it will happen and KD will probably do the same at some point in the future meaning that if you really want to stick with X11 for the long run you're probably going to have to stick to another desktop environment or a tiling Window Manager made specifically for X11 now also so additional precision as far as I understand it compiling gnome shell and motor without X11 support doesn't mean you can't run X11 apps inside of whand X whand apparently still works perfectly it's just the gnome shell and motor that are compiled without any X11 libraries Intel users might get a performance boost in the future a new patch is being worked on for hybrid CPUs so anything that has efficiency cores and performance Cor the goal is to make sure that the driver that handles the frequency scaling for these CPUs can account for the fact that each core is not equal in terms of how fast it can run in turn it means that each task should be attributed to the right type of core which should lead to better efficiency battery life and performance there's no information yet on how much of an improvement this could yield but it might make it in the kernel 6.11 if things go well at any rate whether happens in the future or not patches for more efficiency and more battery life and more performance are always good so good work and speaking of this there's even more work on hybrid Intel CPUs this time to Grant up to 50% better performance in some cases apparently some Intel CPUs have buggy firmware meaning that the recent Pate driver sometimes incurs a 50% performance hit if the system doesn't report certain acpi cas capabilities this affects most current kernels all the way back to 5.19 the patch will basically just use another Avenue another variable to get the info on what the CPU is capable of instead of relying on the potentially Bergie firmware and so the driver will now be able to enable Intel's turbo boost when it would previously not have been used this in turn gives back the 50% performance that was lost and should help a lot of Intel 11 12 13th gen users this will be available in the kernel 6.10 and back ports of this bug fix will be pushed to all currently supported kernel versions as well including 5.9 and that's really really good news I'm not sure if my laptop is affected I do have a 13in gen Intel CPU but I never really noticed anything underwhelming in terms of performance but as soon as I have confirmation that the patch has been pushed to the kernel version I'm using I will absolutely run some benchmarks and compare them with the benchmarks that I ran when I got the device just to see if it changed anything and let's finish this with the gaming news first steam has launched game recording in beta it's a simple feature that lets you record your gameplay on the steam deck and on the steam client you can record in the background all the time with limits that you can set or you can start recording at the Press of a button developers can also plug into this system to show event markers on a recording timeline and you can obviously share these clips it is just a beta and Jason evangelo formerly of Linux for everyone and now working for Thunderbird he tested that thing and it looks like it performs much better on the steam deck where the performance drop is about 5% compared to his own other gaming device which took a much bigger hit valve is saying that they will have individual recording settings for each game in the future as well now this is nothing groundbreak you could already record your gameplay session using OBS or any other tool that you liked but having this baked into steam makes it a lot more accessible OBS can be finicky on certain devices it is a bit tricky to configure to have the right codec the right settings the right bit rates so having steam do that automatically if it's good quality and less impact because it's not a general purpose recording tool might be better for a lot of people we also have an improvement to the Mesa drivers coming which should give a nice boost to games using lots of video the issues with these games stems from the fact that proton uses dxvk to render the game itself meaning it's using Vulcan when the videos themselves are played with gstreamer which uses open GL mixing the two apis in the same game isn't necessarily great and the performance apparently suffers especially in video heavy titles like Blast blue the change in Mesa seems to be using compute shaders instead of uploading and downloading each video frame as a full image and this seems to be a lot more efficient rendering the same frames in 2/3 of the time it took previously and on top of that we have updates to the non steam launcher plugin for the steam deck which lets you easily add launchers for non- Steam games to your steam deck through the decky loader plug-in system this new version now supports mu deck for easier emulation and steamr manager to add your games in and it fixed Battle.net support as well this means that with one single plugin you can now let your steam deck easily access and show games from Amazon games Battle.net EA epic games Gog Galaxy humble games Indi Gala h. iio Legacy games Rockstar Games Ubisoft glyph PlayStation Plus and VK play some of which I had never heard about plus some various video streaming services and emulators all of this with one single plug and one single trip to uh the desktop mode to install Dey loader I think it's really worth it if you have a lot of games that aren't in your steam Library I don't think you'll regret adding that thing and having access to all your games in the nice steam gaming interface and I also think you won't regret listening to the segue to our sponsor tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and small Pham Factory computers that run Linux out of the box the advantage over buying something that comes with Windows is that you're fairly certain that everything that is inside the device will run because well they ship it with Linux so it has the drivers they actually contribute those drivers and fixes upstream and if those fixes haven't been accepted yet they have repos that you can add to a lot of popular dis Ros to implement those fixes inside any dis R they have a wide range of devices that should fit every need and every price point they release new models really often so don't hesitate to check back on them I only use tuxedo computers these days I run the channel on one of their laptops I game on one of their desktops and I basically don't use anything else so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually contributes to Linux click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo computer they're really really solid okay so thanks for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it even though my nose is stuffy and weird and well if you like the video you know what to do there are plenty of buttons underneath this little player uh like subscribe comments notifications whatever you know how things work and if you really enjoy the channel there are links in the description to support it as well so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
hey everyone this is Nick and I have a bad case of the man flu so yeah bear with me because my voice is probably going to be pretty bad today so in this episode we've got Modzilla sued for allegedly discriminating against an employee after they came back from their medical leave for treating cancer we also have some big solid performance boosts for Intel CPUs coming to the Linux konel and we also have Nvidia finally Landing the new driver version that maybe hopefully this time will fix every problem with Wayland And Nvidia and we also have this segue to our sponsor it's ground news you can click the link in the description or scan the QR code on screen to follow along while I'll tell you more ground news was founded by a former NASA engineer who wanted a more objective way to read the world's news for example this story I recently found on open AI finding that Russian and Chinese groups are using its technology for propaganda campaigns ground news ComEd through their network of over 50,000 news sources to show that over 60 articles had reported on this story but you might have missed it if you only follow conservative news so for each news article in ground news you can see how credible the sources are and who funds them all factors that could influence their reporting then you can compare all sides of the same story to see the full picture from all political sites or you can sort by any of these factors to find the type of information you prefer of course I can also follow specific topics and create a personalized news feed to avoid being bombarded by unrelated info for example you can follow your favorite topics like Tech or AI plus their Discovery page makes it really easy to find new interests and trusted sources you can go to the link in the description to save 40% on the same Vantage plan I use for unlimited access to all their features subscribing not only gets you access to features like blind spot or my news bias that lets you see which news you're more interested in and the bias they have but it also helps support my work okay so this is not a good look for Modzilla if it's true but it looks like their Chief product officer is suing them for discrimination Steve teera Took medical leave for cancer treatment at the end of October 23 until February 2024 at which point he returned to Modzilla as soon as he came back he was apparently instructor to layoff 50 people 40 of which were from his own team when he brought his concerns about this as Modzilla was profitable and there was no real Financial reason to remove these people the then new CEO Laura Chambers suggested that he moves to a different role for cancer treatment which he wasn't even receiving anymore at the time when he found out that he did in fact need additional treatment for liver cancer Milla Co offered him a 40% pay cut and a demotion at that point they even apparently told him to accept the role and get to work or accept the role and take a medical leave or they would start talking about Severance deera is the suing Modzilla for discrimination obviously Modzilla is denying those claims because whatever the truth of the matter is you never admit to wrongdoing in any of these cases and if this is true this is a really really bad look for mozilla's management it's a terrible thing to do to someone who needs help not needs a kick in the ass and taxera is apparently credited for growing Firefox uh and making it profitable again and growing mozilla's at business as well and if you can believe him he was apparently earmarked for maybe being the next CEO before he took his medical leave the previous CEO was unexpectedly fired by the board and replaced by Laura Chambers so we'll see how it goes but this is not good now the latest NVIDIA drivers are here version 555 now supports explicit sync meaning that Linux users who have an Nvidia GPU should give another goto whan this feature is now also supported in grome 46.1 in plasma 6.1 and it means that you should no longer have latency issues graphical glitches crashes and other problems when using whand with an Nvidia GPU frame pacing issues should also be mostly solved other changes include a fix to make video capture more stable better support for Prime render of loading so for hybrid laptops for example plus fixes for various Crashers and kernel panics color accuracy should also be improved Vulcan support has been enhanced as well notably with support for the immediate presentation mode which can let you disable vsync on Wayland And does get better latency at the expense of screen tearing so that's great news for NVIDIA users if you have access to these drivers on a roading release drro or through a PPA and you're using gome 46.1 or plasma 6.1 you probably should give the whan session another go I personally was not affected by these problems as far as I could tell but I will still perform the update and maybe try running my laptop up in Nvidia only modes just to see if things work normally now we have a date for The Cosmic Alpha and it is far from the one that they had initially announced they initially planned it for March if I remember correctly but it was pushed back time and again and now they're saying the alpha will be in late July which probably means a new version of popos with this new desktop will not be available before the end of 2024 The Branding for the desktop has also been revealed with a stylized font and a stretched o for Cosmic that evokes a monitor and as they say it's O as in open source the logo is thus just that o underlined in Orange they're celebrating the announcement with a sale with a few discounts on various laptops and desktops that they sell and they have Cosmic merch on order right now if you're really hyped and you want to buy something even before knowing if the desktop will be any good or even any better than what we have currently so I guess we'll have to wait for the end of July to know if it's actually any good and I understand why they keep pushing it back it's better to have an alpha with all the features that you want to showcase to users even if there are bugs around that uh then to have an alpha lacking half the stuff that you're planning on releasing in the first table version because that doesn't give the right impression I will admit my hype for Cosmic has died down a little the more they show about it the more it just just looks like yet another desktop which doesn't do much new compared to what you can already do on gome KY or cinnamon but it's still a interesting new stack new code base without any Legacy weird stuff like what gnome or KY can have so it will be interesting to review and I will absolutely give it a fair shot in a dedicated video now still on desktops there it is gnome 47 can now be built without X11 support this means that any distribution that that wants to ditch the old display server can now provide gnome as a Wayland only option as the desktop doesn't require any of x1's built dependencies this closes a 2-year-old issue to make GN more X11 independed this does not mean gnome won't support X11 ever again any dro that wants to build it with X11 support can still do that of course but some dros have already announced that they wanted to phase out X11 in the future Fedora for example already stopped providing an X11 session by default for plasma and they already have a proposal for Fedora 41 to do the same thing with the gnome Edition and even if it's not for Fedora 41 it will happen sooner or later because Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 announced they would drop X11 entirely and I am sure that for the foreseeable future most distributions will still offer gnome with either the X11 or the Wayland session you'll be able to pick but in the future at some point let's be clear gnome will drop X11 entirely it can be in 2 years 5 years 10 years who knows but it will happen and KD will probably do the same at some point in the future meaning that if you really want to stick with X11 for the long run you're probably going to have to stick to another desktop environment or a tiling Window Manager made specifically for X11 now also so additional precision as far as I understand it compiling gnome shell and motor without X11 support doesn't mean you can't run X11 apps inside of whand X whand apparently still works perfectly it's just the gnome shell and motor that are compiled without any X11 libraries Intel users might get a performance boost in the future a new patch is being worked on for hybrid CPUs so anything that has efficiency cores and performance Cor the goal is to make sure that the driver that handles the frequency scaling for these CPUs can account for the fact that each core is not equal in terms of how fast it can run in turn it means that each task should be attributed to the right type of core which should lead to better efficiency battery life and performance there's no information yet on how much of an improvement this could yield but it might make it in the kernel 6.11 if things go well at any rate whether happens in the future or not patches for more efficiency and more battery life and more performance are always good so good work and speaking of this there's even more work on hybrid Intel CPUs this time to Grant up to 50% better performance in some cases apparently some Intel CPUs have buggy firmware meaning that the recent Pate driver sometimes incurs a 50% performance hit if the system doesn't report certain acpi cas capabilities this affects most current kernels all the way back to 5.19 the patch will basically just use another Avenue another variable to get the info on what the CPU is capable of instead of relying on the potentially Bergie firmware and so the driver will now be able to enable Intel's turbo boost when it would previously not have been used this in turn gives back the 50% performance that was lost and should help a lot of Intel 11 12 13th gen users this will be available in the kernel 6.10 and back ports of this bug fix will be pushed to all currently supported kernel versions as well including 5.9 and that's really really good news I'm not sure if my laptop is affected I do have a 13in gen Intel CPU but I never really noticed anything underwhelming in terms of performance but as soon as I have confirmation that the patch has been pushed to the kernel version I'm using I will absolutely run some benchmarks and compare them with the benchmarks that I ran when I got the device just to see if it changed anything and let's finish this with the gaming news first steam has launched game recording in beta it's a simple feature that lets you record your gameplay on the steam deck and on the steam client you can record in the background all the time with limits that you can set or you can start recording at the Press of a button developers can also plug into this system to show event markers on a recording timeline and you can obviously share these clips it is just a beta and Jason evangelo formerly of Linux for everyone and now working for Thunderbird he tested that thing and it looks like it performs much better on the steam deck where the performance drop is about 5% compared to his own other gaming device which took a much bigger hit valve is saying that they will have individual recording settings for each game in the future as well now this is nothing groundbreak you could already record your gameplay session using OBS or any other tool that you liked but having this baked into steam makes it a lot more accessible OBS can be finicky on certain devices it is a bit tricky to configure to have the right codec the right settings the right bit rates so having steam do that automatically if it's good quality and less impact because it's not a general purpose recording tool might be better for a lot of people we also have an improvement to the Mesa drivers coming which should give a nice boost to games using lots of video the issues with these games stems from the fact that proton uses dxvk to render the game itself meaning it's using Vulcan when the videos themselves are played with gstreamer which uses open GL mixing the two apis in the same game isn't necessarily great and the performance apparently suffers especially in video heavy titles like Blast blue the change in Mesa seems to be using compute shaders instead of uploading and downloading each video frame as a full image and this seems to be a lot more efficient rendering the same frames in 2/3 of the time it took previously and on top of that we have updates to the non steam launcher plugin for the steam deck which lets you easily add launchers for non- Steam games to your steam deck through the decky loader plug-in system this new version now supports mu deck for easier emulation and steamr manager to add your games in and it fixed Battle.net support as well this means that with one single plugin you can now let your steam deck easily access and show games from Amazon games Battle.net EA epic games Gog Galaxy humble games Indi Gala h. iio Legacy games Rockstar Games Ubisoft glyph PlayStation Plus and VK play some of which I had never heard about plus some various video streaming services and emulators all of this with one single plug and one single trip to uh the desktop mode to install Dey loader I think it's really worth it if you have a lot of games that aren't in your steam Library I don't think you'll regret adding that thing and having access to all your games in the nice steam gaming interface and I also think you won't regret listening to the segue to our sponsor tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and small Pham Factory computers that run Linux out of the box the advantage over buying something that comes with Windows is that you're fairly certain that everything that is inside the device will run because well they ship it with Linux so it has the drivers they actually contribute those drivers and fixes upstream and if those fixes haven't been accepted yet they have repos that you can add to a lot of popular dis Ros to implement those fixes inside any dis R they have a wide range of devices that should fit every need and every price point they release new models really often so don't hesitate to check back on them I only use tuxedo computers these days I run the channel on one of their laptops I game on one of their desktops and I basically don't use anything else so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually contributes to Linux click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo computer they're really really solid okay so thanks for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it even though my nose is stuffy and weird and well if you like the video you know what to do there are plenty of buttons underneath this little player uh like subscribe comments notifications whatever you know how things work and if you really enjoy the channel there are links in the 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hey everyone this is Nick I am back from my vacation and so here is your next installment of the Linux and open source news so this week we've got gnom announcing that yes you will get accent color support and yes it will plug in with every other desktop that supports this property and that's for Gnome 47 we also have Modzilla buying an ad analytics business and it's quite unclear for now what they aim to do with this and we also have Google moving forward with the Manifest V3 version of their browser extension API which is a terrible thing for most people at least people who use Chrome and also we have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and most of you probably already know about it but if you don't all you have to remember is that it's your all-in-one solution to build and publish your own website even if you don't know anything about how to build a website and you don't know how to code Square space just lets you get started in no time you pick a 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gnome apps and they would at least follow your accent color or you could run gnome and use KDE apps and they would use the right color as well which is pretty nice on top of that gnome also merged support for the DRM lease protocol on whand meaning VR headsets should also work properly on gnome now as the rendering manager can now give whand clients like a VR headset the ability to rer things directly other gnome related changes include the image viewer gaining some capabilities for image editing like rotating them and there's more work on the global keyboard shortcuts portal that will also help with accessibility notably with screen readers and orca the screen reader in question also got some love while a new protocol called Newton was developed to handle all accessibility related features on Linux not specifically just for Gnome but for every desktop that wants to implement it work on making Nautilus the file Chooser for Gnome is also progressing nicely so that's some pretty good stuff gnome 47 will definitely be a bigger release than gnome 46 was although I am not sure if everything I mentioned previously will land in 47 or if we'll have to wait for 48 to enjoy all of that now Google is finally pulling the trigger on manifest V3 the revision of the browser extensions API that will severely limit what extensions can do notably ad blockers and tracker blockers the main contention point is that ad blockers need to implement a lot of rules to block traffic from various ad servers and manifest V3 prevents them from implementing nearly enough of those rules uock origin needs about 300,000 and manifest V3 only allows 30,000 of these extensions also won't be able to modify browser requests as much as they did meaning that tracker blockers will be much less efficient to remove data and to anonymize requests made to various websites and tracking tools it is obviously a really bad move for privacy and for user Agency on their own computers and most browsers already said that they would not force users and extension developers to conform with manifest V3 apart from chrome most other browser developers will still support manifest V2 but Chrome users will definitely have an even less private experience to be fair if you wanted privacy you were not using Chrome anyway because it is a data grabbing machine and it's just not private in the slightest hopefully some people who didn't really mind about privacy but were using an ad blocker will notice that their experience has gotten worse on Chrome and will move to something else a Milla just acquired anonym a company working on ads targeting and analytics they apparently focus on privacy preserving tracking using encryption to make sure that the data stays safe and presumably Anonymous but still allows for targeted ads basically anonym employees don't get access to the data from users who will be targeted nor do advertisers and Publishers all analytics are anonymized and they have algorithms to add noise to the data for each individual so you can't trace the data back to a sing sing Le person the difference with most ad platforms is that the entire data set doesn't need to be shared with the ad platform itself you can just share the anonymized bits that are relevant for measurement anonym was founded by former meta Executives though and it is backed by Venture Capital firms and now Modzilla owns it the announcement from Modzilla is vague as to what they expect to do with this but it is an ad focused business so if they don't want to waste money here it means St will get into the ad business at some point which well I am not a fan of at all which well I'm not a fan of at all and I know it's ironic I make a living on ads because I make videos on YouTube but Modzilla is seemingly rebranding itself as everything privacy related except a lot of their stuff is just not up to Snuff compared to the competition Firefox is starting to really lag behind and I would have loved to see this monetary investment being invested in I don't know making their products better and regain market share but also in the long run maybe running anonym as an ad analytic and AD targeting platform will generate more money that they can reinvest in those products so who knows maybe it's a positive I'm just not a big fan of the idea of Modzilla getting involved with ads plasma 6.1 was released this week as well and I already have a video on the channel showcasing all the new features so you can go check it out if you want more details in the meantime just a quick run through of what is in there remote desktop settings are now part of the main system settings so you don't need an extra application to handle that anymore the edit mode of the desktop and panel has been revamped and is now more legible although I still think it's not as good as it could be with a few things position strangely on screen you're also getting triple buffering on Wayland which should improve the experience with weaker integrated gpus and you're getting explicit syn support for NVIDIA gpus although you will need an update to the NVIDIA drivers to be able to benefit from that there's also the basic features for a session restore on Wayland although apps won't remember their exact place on screen the shake cursor to find it effect is now on by default but the cursor was a bit blurry when being enlarged in my experience and there are tons of other changes like disabling the password when the screen is locked support for the input capture portal for sharing mouse and keyboard input with other PCs For example and a unified Corner radius on every element of the breeze theme now apart from a few nit pcks that I personally have plasma 6.1 is absolutely fantastic and in my opinion the best desktop environment you can get on Linux at least for most users it strikes the right balance between productivity efficiency options without just shoving every single option and feature in your face I think it's really really solid and it's the desktop I'm going to keep using for the foreseeable future now it looks like we're going to see different computers running with Linux soon first is a tuxedo arm prototype running with qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite the same chip that will power what Microsoft calls their copilot plus PCS and it is poised to apparently surpass Apple's M2 chips in terms of performance and battery life the difference here is that this this PC will run Linux out of the box meaning that this system on a chip should be well supported on our systems mostly thanks to Qualcomm who open sourced and upstreamed a lot of their drivers so this CPU has 12 cores running up to 4.6 GHz and Tuxedo showcased their Prototype at computex in Taiwan they also want to Port Their Own drro Tuxedo OS to arm with plasma 6 as the default still tuxedo says it could be coming within the next two kernel versions as there are some driver issues to fix still as one might expect from a relatively new chip and on top of that we have the first risk 5 laptop running auntu it's called the DC Roma laptop 2 and it's made by Deep Computing a company based in Hong Kong aiming to push risk 5 as an architecture their laptop is a 14in device with a 1080p 60 display it has an 8 core CPU running at up to 2 GHz it has an npu for AI tasks because everything needs to have that these days it can go up to 16 gigs of RAM and 1 tbyte of storage and it starts at $600 its GPU is apparently capable enough as well supporting Vulcan 1.2 open CL and encoding and decoding up to 4K for various popular codecs now obviously this laptop is not going to be a gaming device or a Powerhouse but 8 cores at 2 GHz is really nothing to Scuf at it's good enough for a lot of people as per the arm thing obviously since I have a partnership with tuxedo I will ask them to maybe let me try out this prototype when they feel it's ready enough because it will be very interesting to see how well Linux runs on arm and how this chip performs and if it really surpasses Apple's offerings and still on alternative architectures the framework laptop is getting a drop in replacement motherboard with a risk 5 CPU in it they're working with deep computing the company I just mentioned to provide the same kind of architecture to the framework laptop now we don't know yet when this will be avilable but it's not going to be very powerful it's a 64-bit CPU with four cores running at up to 1.5 GHz and it has a pretty tiny GPU with a clock speed of 600 MHz it's basically the same system on a chip as the one used in the pine Tab tablet meaning it's very underpowered and it will only be suitable for a few basic tasks now framework themselves said that the performance will not be competitive with x86 Solutions and that it's mostly for developers to start porting their applications or maybe working on drivers and support for Linux and obviously to just test the risk 5 architecture the motherboard will also not have upgradeable storage or upgradeable Ram so it is really just a risk five starter set still it is cool to see this architecture making its way into more and more products even if it's just for developers to test things out maybe at some point it will be a solid enough alternative to what we're seeing with arm or even to just the x86 architecture we also have some good news for the beginners who were recommended auntu by other people because the auntu Snap Store will finally add back support for installing individual Deb packages after two releases without having anything to handle that by default the app center as they called it lets you install deps from the repost but if you downloaded an individual dep package from the developer's website like a lot of applications provide double clicking it would just not work and you would have to look for help online and end up installing gab I or using the command line which for brand new people who are regularly pushed towards obuntu as their first Linux experience is entirely unacceptable fortunately this capability makes its way back to the app center with a few warnings that this really is not super secure and anyone who can install the app center should get the feature because it's a snap so it should just get the update and this is great I don't understand how and why auntu felt it was acceptable to ship a Dro that is really targeted towards beginner or at least has that image attached to it without any way of just double clicking a de package to install it I know I know it's not secure I know it's not how you're supposed to do it but a lot of applications just offer this install method they don't have a repo they don't have a PPA they don't have a universal packaging format they have a de that you double click and install not even shipping gab I by default was completely insane and it basically destroyed all credibility for Linux for anyone who got started by using abundo so it's good that they added that back in because that was ridiculous just like it would be ridiculous to not check out our sponsor tuxedo computers more seriously if you're looking for a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it just stop buying devices that were made to work with Windows where the manufacturer has never provided any support for Linux start buying computers that were meant to run with Linux from tuxedo computers for example they have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point they actually Upstream a lot of work a lot of fixers and a lot of drivers to make sure that the hardware they ship works perfectly and if those fixers haven't been upstreamed yet they have repos that you can add to a lot of popular disos to actually Implement those fixes on any Dr of your choosing I personally only use tuxedo computers these days my entire channel is run on their Infiniti Book Pro 16 and all my gaming is done on a tuxedo Cube which is one of their relatively small form factor pieces honestly if you need to run 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it feels like plasma 6 was released yesterday but no it turns out it's been four months and it's time for plasma 6.1 already KD plans to have three releases per year until plasma 6 is judged stable enough by distributions at which point they will move to two releases per year so it is easier to include it in various disres so plasma 6.1 has a bunch of new stuff and also some very very good improvements especially for Nidia users meaning that I had to try this release on a computer with an Nvidia GPU because testing in a VM for a video that's lazy and I am lazy but not that lazy and since plasma gives you all the options to make your desktop yours imagine what would happen if you could do the same with the entire internet well I found that app for you it's ground news the sponsor of this video you can click the link in the description or scan the QR code on screen to follow along while I'll tell you more ground news was founded by a former NASA engineer who wanted a more objective way 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that clear before for example if you want to configure the panel in the edit mode you just left click the panel and the popup introduced in plasma 6 appears on the right with your desktop moving out of the way the command bar appears on top of the desktop and if you want to a widget the widget sidebar makes the desktop move right so you can drag things where you want them you also get a clearer exit edit mode button in the top right of your desktop it is a much nicer and much clearer experience in my opinion but there are also a few issues with it first if you change the mouse actions on the desktop and remove that rightclick menu to show an app launcher for example you kind of lose the edit functionality from the desktop you can still invoke it by right clicking the panel and selecting show panel configuration but the name of that option in the menu just doesn't tell you that you're going to go into edit mode second I'm not sure the command bar should be on top of your wallpaper I think it should make more sense to have it at the top of the screen itself in a fixed position third I don't quite get why the panel stays visible in its normal place and scale where the wallpaper itself zooms out I would have placed the panels on top of the desktop itself zooming out and moving around with the wallpaper finally if you make changes to the panel the easiest way to dismiss the popup to edit that panel is to click the done button but this closes the entire edit mode instead of just the panel configuration I would expect this config panel to be closed but to still remain in edit mode now these aren't really big problems they are just my preferences and interpretation of how the UI should look like in my opinion it's still a very very nice improvement over the current edit mode and it's way more legible now you will also get some solid changes to the desktop itself the one everyone will notice first and that will probably annoy a lot of people is the new rounded Corners everywhere plasma already had those Corners in a lot of places but they were pretty inconsistent they didn't have the same radius everywhere now the window Corners the context menus and the menus from the menu bars the tabs the text input field and the action buttons everywhere they all use the same radius I think it's five pixels if I'm not mistaken this gives everything a much more consistent look and it's a solid Improvement for something that might sound very minor I'm sure a lot of people will hate it and want to find a way to disable it I could not find one and I'm also sure that a bunch of people who felt KD was disjointed or just didn't look right but couldn't quite put their finger on why that was well it's probably was because every rounded Corner had different radiuses this is a pretty transparent change for most people but it does give the impression of much more polish and much more cohesiveness now for whand users you also get a form of session restore it will restore your open apps from the last session before you logged out or restarted your PC but whand still has that annoying limitation where windows cannot remember their exact place on screen meaning the applications will not be positioned in the exact same place you left them KD devs are working on that but for now you just get your previous apps reopened and they will handle their previous state themselves so applications need to remember where they were and what they had opened for this feature to really be useful now KD devs also added a feature to let you configure your remote desktop access straight from the settings unfortunately whether I tested it on a VM or on a real computer this option never showed for me at all in the system settings which is why you're seeing uh the video straight from KD's release announcement because I could not find access to it basically the only thing it means is that it lets you enable remote desktop access in your session and then you can use any remote desktop client from another computer to connect to that KD session unfortunately as I said it just would never show up on any test that I made using KD neon uh on the days before the release even with all updates applied so could not demo it for you there wellon users also get corner and Edge barriers you can set these in the display settings they're basically an additional distance you can move your mouse cursor before it moves to another display so if you have two monitors side by side and you have a hard time displaying your autohide panel that is between those two monitors you can set up this barrier so you will have some more space to trigger that panel to pop back up instead of having to aim for something like two pixels between your displays the overview effect now has a better layout algorithm as well meaning Windows should be scaled more homogeneously and placed in a more coherent and intelligent spacing in use I didn't notice that much of a change but I never really had an issue with how the overview placed my windows previously if you had issues where some windows were way bigger than others or they were just placed haphazardly on screen maybe this will change something for you for me I just really did not notice that change another small change is the ability to sync your computer's keyboard backlight color to your plasma accent CER at least if that backlight supports RGB and is well supported under Linux on the laptop I tried it on it did not work but your mileage may vary you will also get the shake cursor to find where it is effect enabled by default like in Mac OS where if you shake your mouse violently it enlarges the cursor from from time to time though the cursor in its enlarged state was pretty pixelated and pretty blurry it wasn't scaled smoothly at all finally you can also middle click the power and battery applet in the tray to block or unblock automatic sleep and screen lock and you can scroll over that applet to switch between power profiles headsets that report their battery will also show up in there and everywhere plasma shows battery statuses the web browser widget will also have an option to remember the last page you visited with it or to always open the same web page and you can hide the URL bar for that widget as well other small changes include the ability to display file sizes in various standards in the region and language settings like for example the metric system where 1,000 bytes is 1 kilobyte or with the gedc system where 1 kilobyte is 1,24 bytes or with the I standard where it's the same but you're calling them KB bytes instead of kilobytes nothing too huge here about from the rounded corners but these are still solid improvements to stuff that people use there are bigger changes under the hood though so let's talk about that first kwin now supports triple buffering on whand meaning that when you're using a relatively weak integrated GPU the animations and the general rendering of the desktop should feel much smoother and much faster X11 already had that feature so now both sessions should be on par the explicit sync protocol has also been implemented and this is a vital change for Wayland users who use Nvidia gpus as it will basically get rid of the stutters of the rendering artifacts of latency problems and slowdowns that some people seem to experience with Nvidia Hardware it is very likely that you will need to wait for the Nvidia proprietary drivers to be updated to support explicit sync as well this feature is currently in the beta drivers uh but once you have everything uh this should solve the problem another important change is that you can now set a single key as a shortcut so for example you can decide that you want to trigger the overview by pressing just super something you needed the command line to set previously same with mouse buttons you can map them to a single modifier key plasma 6.1 also added support for the input capture portal letting applications capture the input from a device like a mouse or keyboard This Means apps like barrier for example which let you seamlessly move mouse and keyboard input between different PCS this could work properly under Wayland And KDE plasma 6.1 can also Now find color profiles that are embedded in the display itself and it can use them not all displays have those it's generally provided with their edid file but if the file exists it should be an easy way to have good color accuracy without too much fussing around you can also decide to lock your screen without requiring a password to unlock it if you just want to have a screen saver for example but you don't want to unlock your screen each time there's also a new effect to let you hide the mouse pointer after you've been inactive for a while although this effect is disabled by default and the keyboard settings page has been Rewritten to use more modern components it now has nice visual tabs up top bold headers for categories and it's generally a lot more legible there's also a new kwin rule that you can use to configure adaptive sync on a per window or per app basis and finally discover which is KD's App Store now lets you replace a flatback app that is end of life by another flat pack that is still updated if the end of Life Flat pack has provided that information it can also display banners to show upgrades to a new version of a drro and that's it for the big to small stuff there are other smaller changes like some settings Pages being redesigned to look a little bit more clear or to have buttons placed in a more leg way you have the Welcome Center gaining new animations and more interactive elements to explain how KD works and you have a bunch of Polish and usability and quality of life improvements that were just too small to be included in here plasma 6.1 is great there's no two ways about it it fixes the last remaining major hurdle for whand with the input capture portal triple buffering and explicit sync so more people should have a good experience with Wayland it polishes the interface to gnow home like degrees and it adds some more advanced features on top of that something that always surprises me as KD is already super complete in my opinion plasma is now the best Linux desktop environment for most people it can be extremely simple and the default interface is very basic very easy to understand but it still retains all the super Advanced features but it's not overbearing with these you're not saturated with features and options they're only there if you look for them and I think that's the right compromise now KD plasma still lags in one major area and that's the app ecosystem if you don't mind mixing and matching apps from gnome KDE and other styles it won't be a problem but if you prefer your apps to use a coherent design KD apps are still less polished and less numerous than gnomes hopefully with the newly updated human interface guidelines and with progress on kirigami KDE can close the app Gap and truly become the best option for most people I currently use plasma 6.0 Point whatever minor number it is for buck fixes on my computer to run this channel I will move to 6.1 as soon as it's available in my drro right now I'm not seeing anything coming to other desktops that would sway me and make me want to move to something else and so yeah KD plasma is what I'm going to use and it's also what I'm going to recommend to every new user for Linux because it's just a complete package that should suit everyone one's needs just like today's sponsor can suit everyone's needs tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and small form factor PC that run with Linux out of the box compared to just buying an off-the-shelf laptop from a Windows only manufacturer this means that Linux just will run like a dream on your computer you don't have to worry about Hardware incompatibilities because tuxedo actually submits patches upst stream to support all that hardware and if those patches haven't 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hey everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Linux and open source news show this week we've got a new initiative to make better KD application something that is really needed we've got gnome announcing they had some major trouble with how they were handling the Sovereign Tech fund project but apparently it's all solved now and they're actually expanding this initiative to bring in more contract work to the gome foundation and we also have the EU investigating open AI for potential gdpr violations which is a another investigation against AI but in a really different area so I think it's going to be interesting and we also have the usual segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by kasm workspaces a great project for streaming apps operating systems and desktops straight to your browser the latest software release includes support for autoscaling on the open stack hypervisor this feature lets you dynamically allocate more resources for streaming workspaces on open stack in 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these small tasks all they need are goys to go on top of these so this is a relatively easy thing to do if developers are interested then there's the Improvement to existing apps they're mostly feature complete but sometimes they have pretty old or unwieldy user interfaces that really need a big refresh the initiative would also improve how these apps are marketed with a weekly post covering all the changes similar to what gnome does they also want to make it easier to start a new KD app with better templates and with tools similar to gnome workbench and they also want to support more languages than just C+ plus and I think this is a great idea gnome absolutely undeniably has has the edge when it comes to the number and the quality of the apps with bber v and with old workbench and the tooling that they've had in place basically it's super easy to write a new gnome app that does one little thing well when writing a KD app seems a bit more complicated even though things are improving so if we can see better revamped and brand new KD ABS that rival the breadth and the quality of the gnome ecosystem that I think we will all benefit speaking of gnome they announced early this week that they were facing an issue with the Sovereign Tech fund project what they called a major issue on The Gnome Foundation site but they just didn't give any details about this fortunately they posted an update right as I was starting to record this video to confirm that those problems are now solved they still did not explain what the issue was but the work on these projects will be continuing and gnome will even expand its various initiatives to do more work along the lines of what they are doing with the Sovereign Tech fund they actually hired a new program manager to handle these projects which makes me think the major issue was that no one communicated any progress to the stf directly and the stf got worried that they had been swindled out of their money it is just pure speculation I have no idea but a failure in communicating progress might be the major issue they were talking about gnome also wants to expand the work being done with a process to let the community give suggestions for work that is needed and a process for companies or organizations to offer grants to fund that work the gome foundation applied to the open Tech fund as well that's an American nonprofit focused on supporting projects that go for a more open approach around Tech and the foundation will also apply for more contract funding with the stf in mid June finally they launched a Development Fund to raise more funds through the community and and on top of that it looks like they managed to balance the books to reorganize a few things and they will apparently not be operating at a deficit this year which is nice so gnome seems to be going really well they solved the problems that they had in terms of organization they are apparently looking for way more funding Avenues to do way more work which is also really great and yeah who could have guessed that hiring someone with actual experience running nonprofits would be a good choice uh to run a non profit who who knew okay so the EU is looking into potential gdpr breaches in Chad GPT especially in the data it scraped off of the internet the data protection board has analyzed the practices from open Ai and they found some problematic things not only in how it scraped content but also in the accuracy of the data it displays and they even received some complaints about Chad gpt's hallucinations which they are investigating as well so so this is all just starting but there are already a few interesting things the main one is linked to the gdpr companies that operate in the EU need to either have the individual's consent to gather data about them or they need a legitimate interest to gather this without consent since open AI cannot really ask for your consent for scraping data online that might be about you for example your public Facebook profile they're relying on the legitimate interest use case and this is being contested a privacy expert seems to think that this legitimate interest has been completely distorted and doesn't apply here especially since the gdpr stipulates companies should make all the information they grabbed in this manner publicly available so everyone can check that this information collection is actually legitimate open AI doesn't do this at all meaning it's all a black box and no one can know what they gathered the second issue is hallucinations the gdpr stipulates that all information you can get about EU citizens should be accurate so when you ask a question to chat GPT about a specific person it shouldn't tell you things that it imagined the issue is current AI generative tools cannot abide by that rule they are by Nature inventing things because they don't understand most of the context of what they read or what they assimilated to train themselves now this is just the beginning of this inquiry and it only ended in broad advice that will have virtually no impact it's basically hey open AI put some safeguards and Implement some measures to fix this but leaving this to open AI will result in nothing good so let's hope that this will go further that they will actually manage to start regulating this type of Technologies and that this time we won't wait for these companies to be gigantic when we start trying to regulate them because that did not work with Google Apple Microsoft Facebook Amazon and the like and it still will not work with the likes of open AI if they ever reach the same kind of size so take this right now fix the problems right now and then when they're big they will already have a solid framework so we can make sure that they work in an ethical way sort of now the Fedora mirrors are apparently being heavily strained by millions of requests coming from AWS Fedora hosts the mirrors for the epel system the extra packages for Enterprise Linux those are basic basically sort of PPA for red hat and red hat based dros and these mirrors have seen a surge in traffic more than 5 million new systems pulling packages from the repos or just pulling the repos for available packages which basically doubled the amount of Connections in a few months the source is very clearly Amazon with traffic from AWS surging like crazy fortunately Amazon Engineers are apparently looking at the issue to see what happened and to try and fix it this is apparently not linked to people migrating from sentos s 7 or red hat Enterprise Linux 7 to another Dr which would require these repos that surge would not have lasted that long if this had been the case now you know what could be cool if a giant hosting company could actually host mirrors and use those mirrors for their own distributions instead of relying on a community hosted project and not contributing to it as far as I could tell that would be really nice and Microsoft really seems to want to continue with their windows subsystem for Linux the thing that lets you run Linux on a Windows system through the terminal or even through running graphical apps they have announced a few new things for WSL like automatically releasing the memory used by WSL to the underlying Windows system which is strange because it seems to implicate that WSL did not do that before so it just gobbled up Ram until you restarted your computer or completely Clos WL kind of badly designed more importantly Microsoft is bringing a graphical Settings app to configure WSL meaning you won't have to use a text file anymore thus probably making Unix Die Hard fans even more mad about the existence of WSL because they're even moving away from text configurations now you can still use the text file to configure things if you prefer or if you need to Windows users will also get a new end environments feature letting you create manage and launch development environments probably sort of like a VM manager but just for WSL and okay I know a lot of people don't like WSL and they think it's a play from Microsoft to embrace extend extinguish Linux but for now the data seems to point out it had zero impact on linux's growth because the Linux desktop has been growing faster than ever and it kind of started when Microsoft introduced WSL so yeah really weird anyway personally I think WSL is just another way that we're cementing linux's position as the right option for development even if your company forces you to use Windows you can still use the better development OS which is Linux and so it just cements the fact that Linux is the OS that you should use to develop even if it's just through W USL and not installed on bare metal and let's move on to the gaming news the steam deck passed the 15,000 game marked as in 10,000 games are playable and about 5,000 games are verified with 4,000 more being marked as unsupported recently verified titles include Rogue Trader something I absolutely want to play because I love this type of game but I was completely uninvested in Bor Gates 3 setting and story and characters they were just Bland and uninteresting to me and don't get all mad it's just that I always preferred science fiction and the universe of Warhammer 40K to anything fantasy based it's it's on me it's not on the game and the data around the steam deck still seems to show that it's selling like hot cakes as it's consistently in the top three or top five sellers on Steam since the beginning of the year meaning it probably sells tens of thousands of units every week that's a really good thing for Linux gaming the more people use this the more developers will focus on supporting it and the more games we'll have on Linux in general now I personally haven't been using my steam deck all that much for a while now I've been just concentrating on working on my Warhammer 40K armies for a while but with Rogue Trader being officially verified on it I will probably pick it back up and start a playthrough of this fantastic game and wi 9.10 was also released this week with improvements to their vkd3d version to better support directx12 games they also improved DPI awareness meaning High DPI displays should be better supported by apps and games running with wine the arm work also continued as well as the removal of Legacy wine d3d features that were obsolete 18 bugs were also fixed in this version for games like Silent Hill 4 Far Cry 3 Horizon zero Dawn Metro Exodus or the EA launcher and also for apps like Affinity photo or paint.net and as always those improvements to wine will at some point reach a version of proton that will be distributed directly to you by steam just like I'm distribu Computing this segue to our sponsor directly to you tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and any kind of computer running Linux out of the box they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a nice big range of devices that support Linux perfectly from small Ultra 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a bunch of comments have asked me more or less nicely to take a look at gaming focused distributions and since toxedo just sent me their small form factor gaming PC I thought this was the opportunity to turn two sticks with one thumb hey I'm not killing two birds so I had to tweak that metaphor okay so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to look at a cool PC to use for a Linux gaming console or just for gaming without using 3 cubic M worth of space but also and more importantly it was the perfect opportunity to look at the gaming performance differences between a bunch of different distributions three of them advertised as gaming dros and a more general purpose one so we will look at the tuxedo Atlas s it's a small form factor PC that is perfect for a home gaming console or just to avoid occupying too much space but we'll also look at whether a gaming distro is even worth it compared to any other distribution and we'll also look at this segue to our sponsor this video is 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i 94900 it can accommodate two m.2 ssds plus two SATA 3 drives up to 24 TB in total it can come with or without dedicated graphics which can go up to a radon RX 7700 XT or an Nvidia RTX 470 it can also get up to 96 gigs of ddr5 RAM and it obviously has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and it comes with Linux pre-installed tuxedo OS being the default so the model tuxedo sent me has an i7 13700 1 tbte of PCI 3 SSD 32 gigs of RAM and the RX7 700 XT with 12 gigs of vram it's sort of a middleof the road build definitely not entry level but you could spec it out a lot higher than this one so it's a nice test bench now looking at the case it is open on all sides kind of required to make sure it has enough air flow in such a small box you get a usba a 3.0 port in the front and a USBC 3.2 Gen 2 Port as well plus the power button all slotted in the wood panel and it looks really good at the back you have four usba a 3.2 gen 1 ports two usba a 2.0 ports plus one type-c 3.2 Gen 2 Port you have connectors for the antenna a display port and an HDMI port plus a 2.5 gig ethernet Jack and all the audio in and out you need plus of course all the ports from your GPU here it is three display ports and one HDMI you can easily open the top part of the case by just pulling on the little tab here it gives you access to the onoff switch for the power supply here it is a Corsair sf750 and you can remove and unplug anything you want it's a desktop it is a small form factor PC so the point isn't necessarily to have the absolute best performance for all the components you put inside it's to have really solid performance but also to avoid taking up too much space what's certain is that you won't want to jam this thing between two other devices or to just glue it to a wall or a part of furniture because obviously then the airf flow is going to be a problem now this desktop looks good and in its black form factor it will definitely not look out of place next to a gaming console or in your TV cabinet it should also fit in about any piece of furniture you might rest your TV on tuxedo ships it with tuxedo OS which is a very nice drro that I use to run this channel on my own laptop but this PC just has standard components so obviously you can install whatever you would like which is exactly what we will do in this video also this video is not sponsored by tuxedo you already saw the sponsor of this video and it's not tuxedo they sent me this device to review it and they are regular sponsors of the channel but I do have to send that device back once I'm done with it and also they never sponsor any hardware reviews that I do whether they're from competitors obviously all from themselves so today we'll take a look at basite nobara kir iOS Holo ISO and Tuxedo OS and compare the performance for three games in all of them to see if a gaming drro is even worth it today so first bite it is a weird one it's based on Fedora Atomic so it's an immutable Dro and it's built using Universal blue which is a build system that lets you create tailored drro images for plenty of purposes if that sounds weird and complex just know that bite is an immutable drro like Ste OS that includes everything you need for gaming straight from the iso you can pick the type of system you want before downloading I went with a desktop PC image with KD as the desktop for AMD gpus and since I wanted a gaming console I picked the steam gaming mode by default so it will boot into the new Big Picture steam interface you can of course get images with envidia drivers or for specific handhelds or laptops with all the customizations you need for full and perfect Hardware support already applied installing bite is just as easy as installing Fedora meaning it uses the same atrocious Anaconda installer it's not intuitive at all but it works and the installation is quick after rebooting I could configure a bunch of things like installing Dey loader by default mu deck and I had a bunch of other options available and after logging into steam I had a return to gaming mode shortcut on the desktop which dropped me into the usual new Big Picture Mode and the first run experience for Steam OS which for some reason had to install things that took about 20 minutes and it gave me a low battery warning even though I use a desktop now once everything was done I connected a wireless Xbox controller immediately through Bluetooth which was recognized and worked instantly after that I grabbed all the games I will be using for bench marks namely Horizon zero Dawn shadow of the Tomb Raider and Warhammer to War 3 with two of it benchmarks and I copied all of those to the internal disc of the atlas and I got started with the benchmarks I ran all of these at the native resolution of my ultrawide monitor so 3,440 by 1440p Horizon is run using the latest version of proton from valve the rest is just native Linux games everything was ran at their Max settings at the native resolution without any resolution scaling or FSR or anything like that and everything ran under Wayland on all dros with all the latest updates applied all these settings will be the same for every drro I test here so for Horizon zero Dawn running The Benchmark gave me an average of 80 FPS at these maxed out settings in Shadow of the Tomb Raider I got 105 FPS on average in The Benchmark and for Total War Warhammer 3 on the battle Benchmark it reached 56.4 FPS and 52.5 on the campaign bench mark and it is very solid performance all around for all these titles now Total War Warhammer 3 has never been really well optimized whether it's on Windows or on Linux and on any device I ever run on on Linux I never managed to hit 60 FPS reliably with Max settings it just doesn't want to do it it uses way too many resources now in terms of noise the atlas s will be noisier than your average gaming console it's a PC it's going to blow a lot more air and you're going to hear it but it's not super noisy to the point that it will distract you from your gaming experience so that's it for the results for basite but if you want me to dive deeper into this diso as a whole because it can be difficult to understand let me know and I will definitely take a look the comment section is here for you to request this kind of stuff now next is noara this one is not immutable it is Fedora and a lot of Kernel patches some add-ons dri and tools focused specifically on gaming and on improving performance nobara is made by the developer of GE proton and it's what I currently use on my own Linux gaming PC it also has its own updator tool that will update all the components nobara adds on top of the base Fedora and importantly it is not an official Fedora spin it is a custom drro built on top of Fedora much like mint is a custom version of Ubuntu for example so after pairing my gaming controller and copying all the games to the internal storage I ran the benchmarks here are the results in Shadow of the Tomb Raider I got 106 FPS on average in Total War Warhammer 3's battle Benchmark I got 57 FPS on average and 54.7 for the campaign Benchmark and in Horizon zero Dawn nobara got 80 FPS on average so very very similar results here between bazide and nobara they basically have the exact same performance whether you want to go with basite or Novara will be your choice between an immutable drro and a more traditional distribution instead I also gave a shot to Holo ISO in its new immutable form and that shot was extremely short LIF because it never managed to give me a bootable system no matter what I tried I could boot it from the USB key launch the installer install things but after a reboot it just got stuck on the black screen I could not do anything trying to to change UEFI settings or disabling CSM didn't work either this drro was just unbootable and that's the exact same experience I had on my tuxedo Cube which is my current gaming PC I ended up going with nobara instead of Hol ISO because it just would never buot up so no results on this one so I moved on to Chima OS this is an arch based distribution it's an atomic Dro so it's immutable and it includes a bunch of emulation tools as well as optimizations for gaming it defaults to gnome as its desktop compared to KDE for the other disos I tested the installer is extremely Spartan and will require an internet connection to download the latest image available so don't expect the usual userfriendly installer here it is not difficult but it looks atrocious although it is very fast the first setup is basically just a setup from Steam OS so it's a pretty decent console like experience right out of the box quitting to desktop opens an extremely barebones gnome which is from where I installed and ran all the three games in Shadow of the Tomb Raider I got 102 FPS on average in The Benchmark similar to the other dros I tested in Total War Warhammer 3's battle Benchmark I got 55 FPS on average and 51 for the campaign Benchmark a little lower than usual and in Horizon Zer daon chimira OS got 73 FPS strangely lower than other distributions so chimira OS gave me slightly lower results than other distributions I tested I reran The Horizon zero Dawn Benchmark multiple times and it always ended up on the exact same FPS number meaning that maybe something with gnome and proton doesn't work as well because the native Linux games that I ran alongside it Total War Warhammer 3 and uh shadow of the Tomb Raider they got pretty much the same performance as with other distributions so maybe there's something with gnome and proton that doesn't work quite right I'm not sure so just for fun I also decided to run all of these games on the pre-installed tuxedo OS on this computer to see if these gaming disos offer improved performance compared to a normal system and here are the results in Horizon zero Dawn at the max resolution and Max settings without any upscaling the atlas s with tuxedo OS got 81 FPS on average similar to other dis Ros in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at the max settings and resolution it reached 106 FPS on average again similar to other disres and in Total War Warhammer 3's battle Benchmark at the max settings and resolution I got 57 FPS on average and in the campaign Benchmark it reached 54.9 so if I can judge from this limited testing set of three games and four benchmarks it doesn't really look like gaming dros will do anything for your performance they will give you better better tools that are pre-installed specifically for gaming stuff that you don't have to go fetch in your package manager but if you compare it with a regular obuntu based Dro like tuxedo s it's just aun2 LTS with a newer kernel and drivers and that's about it when you compare the two you end up having the exact same results and between gaming dros they all perform really really similarly except maybe gnome seems to not perform as well as KD right now at least using Wayland maybe on X11 the results are different but at least if you run Wayland don't be bothered too much but by which this throw you should run for gaming as long as you use something with recent Colonels and recent drivers you should just have the same experience as everyone else and as per the atlas s if you're looking for a really small form factor PC these can be really annoying to put together yourself because it's super fiddly to manage to plug everything in in this small enclosure so if you would rather just buy one and turn it into a console the atlas s looks good will not make your living room into a nightmare if you slot it under your TV it doesn't make too much noise and the performance is actually pretty good for such a small PC with very little airflow so check it out I left a link to it in the description okay so this will conclude this video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like subscribe comment turn on notifications if you have used other gaming dis Ros if you would like me to take a look at specific gaming dis Ros with more tests let me know in the comments as well and in the meantime I guess you will see me in the next one bye [Music]
it feels like plasma 6 was released yesterday but no it turns out it's been four months and it's time for plasma 6.1 already KD plans to have three releases per year until plasma 6 is judged stable enough by distributions at which point they will move to two releases per year so it is easier to include it in various disres so plasma 6.1 has a bunch of new stuff and also some very very good improvements especially for Nidia users meaning that I had to try this release on a computer with an Nvidia GPU because testing in a VM for a video that's lazy and I am lazy but not that lazy and since plasma gives you all the options to make your desktop yours imagine what would happen if you could do the same with the entire internet well I found that app for you it's ground news the sponsor of this video you can click the link in the description or scan the QR code on screen to follow along while I'll tell you more ground news was founded by a former NASA engineer who wanted a more objective way 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that clear before for example if you want to configure the panel in the edit mode you just left click the panel and the popup introduced in plasma 6 appears on the right with your desktop moving out of the way the command bar appears on top of the desktop and if you want to a widget the widget sidebar makes the desktop move right so you can drag things where you want them you also get a clearer exit edit mode button in the top right of your desktop it is a much nicer and much clearer experience in my opinion but there are also a few issues with it first if you change the mouse actions on the desktop and remove that rightclick menu to show an app launcher for example you kind of lose the edit functionality from the desktop you can still invoke it by right clicking the panel and selecting show panel configuration but the name of that option in the menu just doesn't tell you that you're going to go into edit mode second I'm not sure the command bar should be on top of your wallpaper I think it should make more sense to have it at the top of the screen itself in a fixed position third I don't quite get why the panel stays visible in its normal place and scale where the wallpaper itself zooms out I would have placed the panels on top of the desktop itself zooming out and moving around with the wallpaper finally if you make changes to the panel the easiest way to dismiss the popup to edit that panel is to click the done button but this closes the entire edit mode instead of just the panel configuration I would expect this config panel to be closed but to still remain in edit mode now these aren't really big problems they are just my preferences and interpretation of how the UI should look like in my opinion it's still a very very nice improvement over the current edit mode and it's way more legible now you will also get some solid changes to the desktop itself the one everyone will notice first and that will probably annoy a lot of people is the new rounded Corners everywhere plasma already had those Corners in a lot of places but they were pretty inconsistent they didn't have the same radius everywhere now the window Corners the context menus and the menus from the menu bars the tabs the text input field and the action buttons everywhere they all use the same radius I think it's five pixels if I'm not mistaken this gives everything a much more consistent look and it's a solid Improvement for something that might sound very minor I'm sure a lot of people will hate it and want to find a way to disable it I could not find one and I'm also sure that a bunch of people who felt KD was disjointed or just didn't look right but couldn't quite put their finger on why that was well it's probably was because every rounded Corner had different radiuses this is a pretty transparent change for most people but it does give the impression of much more polish and much more cohesiveness now for whand users you also get a form of session restore it will restore your open apps from the last session before you logged out or restarted your PC but whand still has that annoying limitation where windows cannot remember their exact place on screen meaning the applications will not be positioned in the exact same place you left them KD devs are working on that but for now you just get your previous apps reopened and they will handle their previous state themselves so applications need to remember where they were and what they had opened for this feature to really be useful now KD devs also added a feature to let you configure your remote desktop access straight from the settings unfortunately whether I tested it on a VM or on a real computer this option never showed for me at all in the system settings which is why you're seeing uh the video straight from KD's release announcement because I could not find access to it basically the only thing it means is that it lets you enable remote desktop access in your session and then you can use any remote desktop client from another computer to connect to that KD session unfortunately as I said it just would never show up on any test that I made using KD neon uh on the days before the release even with all updates applied so could not demo it for you there wellon users also get corner and Edge barriers you can set these in the display settings they're basically an additional distance you can move your mouse cursor before it moves to another display so if you have two monitors side by side and you have a hard time displaying your autohide panel that is between those two monitors you can set up this barrier so you will have some more space to trigger that panel to pop back up instead of having to aim for something like two pixels between your displays the overview effect now has a better layout algorithm as well meaning Windows should be scaled more homogeneously and placed in a more coherent and intelligent spacing in use I didn't notice that much of a change but I never really had an issue with how the overview placed my windows previously if you had issues where some windows were way bigger than others or they were just placed haphazardly on screen maybe this will change something for you for me I just really did not notice that change another small change is the ability to sync your computer's keyboard backlight color to your plasma accent CER at least if that backlight supports RGB and is well supported under Linux on the laptop I tried it on it did not work but your mileage may vary you will also get the shake cursor to find where it is effect enabled by default like in Mac OS where if you shake your mouse violently it enlarges the cursor from from time to time though the cursor in its enlarged state was pretty pixelated and pretty blurry it wasn't scaled smoothly at all finally you can also middle click the power and battery applet in the tray to block or unblock automatic sleep and screen lock and you can scroll over that applet to switch between power profiles headsets that report their battery will also show up in there and everywhere plasma shows battery statuses the web browser widget will also have an option to remember the last page you visited with it or to always open the same web page and you can hide the URL bar for that widget as well other small changes include the ability to display file sizes in various standards in the region and language settings like for example the metric system where 1,000 bytes is 1 kilobyte or with the gedc system where 1 kilobyte is 1,24 bytes or with the I standard where it's the same but you're calling them KB bytes instead of kilobytes nothing too huge here about from the rounded corners but these are still solid improvements to stuff that people use there are bigger changes under the hood though so let's talk about that first kwin now supports triple buffering on whand meaning that when you're using a relatively weak integrated GPU the animations and the general rendering of the desktop should feel much smoother and much faster X11 already had that feature so now both sessions should be on par the explicit sync protocol has also been implemented and this is a vital change for Wayland users who use Nvidia gpus as it will basically get rid of the stutters of the rendering artifacts of latency problems and slowdowns that some people seem to experience with Nvidia Hardware it is very likely that you will need to wait for the Nvidia proprietary drivers to be updated to support explicit sync as well this feature is currently in the beta drivers uh but once you have everything uh this should solve the problem another important change is that you can now set a single key as a shortcut so for example you can decide that you want to trigger the overview by pressing just super something you needed the command line to set previously same with mouse buttons you can map them to a single modifier key plasma 6.1 also added support for the input capture portal letting applications capture the input from a device like a mouse or keyboard This Means apps like barrier for example which let you seamlessly move mouse and keyboard input between different PCS this could work properly under Wayland And KDE plasma 6.1 can also Now find color profiles that are embedded in the display itself and it can use them not all displays have those it's generally provided with their edid file but if the file exists it should be an easy way to have good color accuracy without too much fussing around you can also decide to lock your screen without requiring a password to unlock it if you just want to have a screen saver for example but you don't want to unlock your screen each time there's also a new effect to let you hide the mouse pointer after you've been inactive for a while although this effect is disabled by default and the keyboard settings page has been Rewritten to use more modern components it now has nice visual tabs up top bold headers for categories and it's generally a lot more legible there's also a new kwin rule that you can use to configure adaptive sync on a per window or per app basis and finally discover which is KD's App Store now lets you replace a flatback app that is end of life by another flat pack that is still updated if the end of Life Flat pack has provided that information it can also display banners to show upgrades to a new version of a drro and that's it for the big to small stuff there are other smaller changes like some settings Pages being redesigned to look a little bit more clear or to have buttons placed in a more leg way you have the Welcome Center gaining new animations and more interactive elements to explain how KD works and you have a bunch of Polish and usability and quality of life improvements that were just too small to be included in here plasma 6.1 is great there's no two ways about it it fixes the last remaining major hurdle for whand with the input capture portal triple buffering and explicit sync so more people should have a good experience with Wayland it polishes the interface to gnow home like degrees and it adds some more advanced features on top of that something that always surprises me as KD is already super complete in my opinion plasma is now the best Linux desktop environment for most people it can be extremely simple and the default interface is very basic very easy to understand but it still retains all the super Advanced features but it's not overbearing with these you're not saturated with features and options they're only there if you look for them and I think that's the right compromise now KD plasma still lags in one major area and that's the app ecosystem if you don't mind mixing and matching apps from gnome KDE and other styles it won't be a problem but if you prefer your apps to use a coherent design KD apps are still less polished and less numerous than gnomes hopefully with the newly updated human interface guidelines and with progress on kirigami KDE can close the app Gap and truly become the best option for most people I currently use plasma 6.0 Point whatever minor number it is for buck fixes on my computer to run this channel I will move to 6.1 as soon as it's available in my drro right now I'm not seeing anything coming to other desktops that would sway me and make me want to move to something else and so yeah KD plasma is what I'm going to use and it's also what I'm going to recommend to every new user for Linux because it's just a complete package that should suit everyone one's needs just like today's sponsor can suit everyone's needs tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and small form factor PC that run with Linux out of the box compared to just buying an off-the-shelf laptop from a Windows only manufacturer this means that Linux just will run like a dream on your computer you don't have to worry about Hardware incompatibilities because tuxedo actually submits patches upst stream to support all that hardware and if those patches haven't 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hey everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Linux and open- Source news and this time we have Linux Mint disabling any non-official flatback app which does come with a few problems we've got the new windows recall feature already being hacked and Microsoft deciding that it won't ship it by default or at least it will be turned off by default due to all that backlash we also have KDE asking you for feedback on the goals they should work on for the next 2 years and we have Linux passing the 2% market share on Steam and a bunch of other things and we also have the usual segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by protonvpn the encrypted and private VPN from the makers of proton mail protonvpn lets you access anything on the internet while bypassing censorship and region locking by connecting to a server anywhere in the world so you can stream any content you like from any service without resp restrictions or access parts of the internet your country doesn't want you to have access to protonvpn implements both VPN accelerators to keep your browsing really fast and netshield which will block ads malware and trackers on top of that proton VPN doesn't keep any logs meaning they don't record your browsing activity at all and they can't disclose it to anyone it can even integrate with the tour Network and it has apps for Windows Mac OS Linux Android and iOS plus browser extensions and on top of that they keep adding more and more available servers so things stay fast for everyone they already added more than 2,000 servers this year only and they passed the 5100 server Mark already protonvpn is free and if you want even faster speeds and more features you can upgrade to a paid plan as always I left the link in the description below so you can check out protonvpn so Linux Mint is making some moves on their software store and repost first they've implemented a bit of anonymous tracking on the repost to see where the bottlenecks are so everything is as fast as can be but more importantly they have improved their software manager a lot it should now load much faster and they've disabled unverified flat packs in that store meaning that in your Searchers you will not see anything that hasn't been published by the official developers unless you take a trip to the settings and enable that manually you will get a little warning telling knew that these apps aren't official and could be maintained by anyone even when enabled unverified flatbacks will have a red warning under the app name and they won't display any reviews and they won't have a score now as per their move away from gnome apps to build their own gtk versions they're apparently talking with a lot of involved parties including gnome developers and they're saying everything is very constructive even though they haven't reached any big decision on how to proceed just yet so so it's really cool to see that they're talking with gtk or gnome developers and that they're just aiming to do this the right way instead of just duplicating work all over again now as for the unofficial flatbacks why not hide them by default but also if you decide to display them yourselves you probably should leave the reviews and the scores because at least it lets you know if this specific application is well maintained wellb built and trustworthy judging from what other people said uh if you don't even have those reviews then you're just just installing things completely blindly and that's not great also apps from the repos are also not official and not maintained by their original developers so should they have the same warnings and limitations now someone already hacked recall windows's new horrendous feature that will take screenshots of your screen regularly and pass them to an AI so you can find stuff you've done in the past the tool that allows for this hack called Total Recall can pull everything that recall recorded because apparently the database is not encrypted and available in plain text now the hacker said recall is basically you built- in Trojan and they shared the tool publicly to incite Microsoft to fix that feature before they release it to everyone Total Recall can automatically find where the database of screenshots is located and then copy it while it passes its content and it can even extract data from a set time range and it does so in 2 seconds for a day worth of screenshots you can even search for specific terms in the database to find anything the user might have done in any app no matter how protected encrypted or secure this app is because it's a screenshot it has all the info and with all that negative press and the potential risks Microsoft even decided they would not enable the feature by default you will have to enable it yourself during your computer setup process when buying what they call a copilot plus p PC and it will require Windows hello this being the biometric authentication feature for either face or fingerprint unlock with this they will also Implement just in time decryption to make sure the screenshots cannot be viewed if the user doesn't authenticate still I would not enable this feature if at any point you buy what they call an aipc because right now Microsoft says they do not send anything to the cloud but they never said they wouldn't send any conclusions or AI training data generated from the screenshots and honestly we know Windows is a moving Target it will change settings for you without your input it will change things from under you so yeah don't enable something that takes screenshot of your desktop all the time it's just nonsense now KY is asking you and all the community to help them Define their goals for the next two years they created a board where you can open a ticket to explain your idea active KY contributors will then analyze every ticket ask questions to refine the goals and generally just tidy things up and then they will vote on which goals they want to pursue and those goals will be announced at Academy in early September this process is open to non-kd contributors and also to non developers although the person submitting the goal is expected to Rally people around it to ensure it can get done you have until July the 5th to submit your goals there are already a few in there like adding better rust and Swift support improving KD's user documentation reworking the workspace and tiling window management features or having better integration with mobile devices so if you have a good idea for KD let them know about it it can be a small feature or a giant let's rewrite this entire thing goal and you don't even have to code things yourself although you will have to be involved you cannot just drop the feature and expect someone else to do it for you you will have to Rally your team and support that goal and make sure it happens now there are some interesting updates for Elementary OS 8 first they will let you choose between X11 or Wayland in the lock screen uh they had said they would move to Wayland by default but they hadn't really talked about the future of X11 at all so it's good to know that they will still offer the option the doc will also gain the ability to launch ABS directly by pressing super plus a number like most other docks out there the system settings also received more work work and judging from the screenshots they look pretty nice and pretty legible like gnome settings but more visual with like higher quality icons and just more visual flare they also receed the page to select your additional drivers like NVIDIA drivers for example so these things are no longer located in the App Center meaning that the app center will no longer handle anything other than flat packs because it doesn't offer apps or packages from aun's repos and more importantly El inventory OS will now offer flathub as a remote meaning you will actually get some applications to install out of the box instead of having to manually download a flatback ref file from flathub and install it manually to add the repo to your system as per the Elementary OS developer platform to make Elementary OS apps they released a version that os8 will use in their own flatback remote meaning developers can either start working on or start updating their application it is based on the gnome 46 platform and it includes all the things that makes Elementary OS apps Elementary OS apps with their stylesheet the granite widget library that is sort of lib advit but for Elementary OS and lib portal to work properly with system features so that's one big mistake in Elementary OS that is finally fixed previously you only had access to about a 100 Elementary OS apps in the app center after you installed your system and none of of those were apps you would actually require you had no office suite no choice of browsers none of the popular well-known applications didn't have stuff like that so finally this is fixed and I think it's a great decision from elementaryos to finally correct that big big usability problem now hopefully Elementary OS 8 releases not too late this year and I will definitely give it a shot on this exact Channel Thunderbird is also making good progress on a bunch of cool features the first one is exchange support it's now almost finished with the main workflow being implemented you can set up an account it can grab all your folders and messages it can display messages as well and they still have some work to do to make sure messages are properly sent and stored and then there will be a broader call for testing before things go out to everyone another highly requested feature will be support for the system tray on Linux for people who still use that thing this is apparently due to their using rust to build certain modules in Thunderbird I don't quite understand how this was a limitation because plenty of ABS that don't rely on Rust actually managed to have a system try icon but apparently it made things easier other things include letting you choose an accent Coler in the app hopefully it will integrate with the accent color portal as well they will add multi folder selection and folder compaction to save some space and for Windows users they will add native notification support as well and there's no two ways about it exchange support is definitely a big big plus for Thunderbird and it will allow more people to move away from Windows and to use Linux because Outlook will no longer be a mandatory application if your company uses exchange so pretty cool and let's conclude this with some gaming news first Nvidia users will get some good stuff in the kernel 6.1 the novo drivers which will also be used if you go with nvk as your vcon driver those will gain support for using the command line to pass options and interact with the GPU system processor firmware the thing that lets you control your Nvidia GPU things like changing the display brightness through the GPU or changing performance levels should thus be possible meaning that anyone at some point could develop a graphical tool that lets you manage your GPU properly at least for recent Nvidia gpus RTX 2000 series and newer also desktop environment power profiles could Implement support for this if they detect an Nvidia GPU to automatically switch the performance profile of the GPU itself and so you would use less battery life or actually get the best performance when you're in high performance mode it would also give access to all of these options under whand because right now even with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers uh the tool Nvidia provides just doesn't have any of the options the X11 version has so yeah that's just great news all around and still on drivers there's a new Vulcan driver for Apple silicon Max which was really missing from the aahi experience it is called honey crisp with a K and it's apparently derived from nvk the open- source Nvidia Vulcan driver it's been started by aahi and Mesa developers although it hasn't been upstreamed yet because it's very early days the driver already conforms with Vulcan 1.3 but it does need a lot of work to support dxvk and vkd 3D at some point though this driver should let people run Steam games or just Windows games in General on Apple silicon devices running Linux using an x86 emulator like fex which proved it was quite capable already now the reason they base this on nvk is that it has a lot of Vulcan code that isn't specifically tied to Nvidia and probably at some point that code will be moved into the common Vulcan runtime of Mesa that all drivers could take advantage of they still had a lot of work to do to remove Nvidia specific stuff and to rewrite stuff that is adapted to Apple silicon Graphics but it did give them a pretty big head start pretty fantastic work here even if you don't really game having access to the Vulcan back end of most ABS that rely on your GPU will be much more efficient than using their potential open GL back in which is as far as I understand it a way older and way less capable API and finally Linux passed the 2% market share on Steam and by a big margin it's now at 2.32% this growth is fueled by your loss of market share for Windows even though it still had more than 96% Mac OS also progressed a little bit but it stays almost a full point under linux's market share of course this might not last for long steam market share tends to fluctuate wildly as more or less devices from China are counted each month month which mostly run Windows and can either boost windows's market share or make it drop in terms of dis Ros this market share is fueled by the steam Deck with Steam OS grabbing 45% of linux's market share Arch is almost 8% and interestingly the steam flatback is 6% now let's be honest it's still insanely small in terms of market share we are the second biggest PC gaming platform but that doesn't mean much when the first one has 96 % market share still more market share and More Steam decks sold mean developers will take more of an interest to support at least the steam deck and proton and does to support Linux in general now we only need to solve the anti-cheat issue hopefully valve some has something uh in their boxes somewhere or a developer trying to incite other game developers to enable support for antie not sure this is still the major issue that we need to solve hopefully they can do something about it and hopefully you can take take a look at our sponsor tuxedo computers they make computers that ship with Linux pre-installed which is very interesting because it means that the device will just work perfectly under Linux you can either pick from a selection of popular disos or you can install your own and they offer repos to get access to a few tweaks here and there if those changes haven't been upstreamed just yet they have a big range of devices that should cover every price point and every need from Office laptops all the way up to Giant workstations Gam laptops gaming 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hey everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Linux and open- Source news and this time we have Linux Mint disabling any non-official flatback app which does come with a few problems we've got the new windows recall feature already being hacked and Microsoft deciding that it won't ship it by default or at least it will be turned off by default due to all that backlash we also have KDE asking you for feedback on the goals they should work on for the next 2 years and we have Linux passing the 2% market share on Steam and a bunch of other things and we also have the usual segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by protonvpn the encrypted and private VPN from the makers of proton mail protonvpn lets you access anything on the internet while bypassing censorship and region locking by connecting to a server anywhere in the world so you can stream any content you like from any service without resp restrictions or access parts of the internet your country doesn't want you to have access to protonvpn implements both VPN accelerators to keep your browsing really fast and netshield which will block ads malware and trackers on top of that proton VPN doesn't keep any logs meaning they don't record your browsing activity at all and they can't disclose it to anyone it can even integrate with the tour Network and it has apps for Windows Mac OS Linux Android and iOS plus browser extensions and on top of that they keep adding more and more available servers so things stay fast for everyone they already added more than 2,000 servers this year only and they passed the 5100 server Mark already protonvpn is free and if you want even faster speeds and more features you can upgrade to a paid plan as always I left the link in the description below so you can check out protonvpn so Linux Mint is making some moves on their software store and repost first they've implemented a bit of anonymous tracking on the repost to see where the bottlenecks are so everything is as fast as can be but more importantly they have improved their software manager a lot it should now load much faster and they've disabled unverified flat packs in that store meaning that in your Searchers you will not see anything that hasn't been published by the official developers unless you take a trip to the settings and enable that manually you will get a little warning telling knew that these apps aren't official and could be maintained by anyone even when enabled unverified flatbacks will have a red warning under the app name and they won't display any reviews and they won't have a score now as per their move away from gnome apps to build their own gtk versions they're apparently talking with a lot of involved parties including gnome developers and they're saying everything is very constructive even though they haven't reached any big decision on how to proceed just yet so so it's really cool to see that they're talking with gtk or gnome developers and that they're just aiming to do this the right way instead of just duplicating work all over again now as for the unofficial flatbacks why not hide them by default but also if you decide to display them yourselves you probably should leave the reviews and the scores because at least it lets you know if this specific application is well maintained wellb built and trustworthy judging from what other people said uh if you don't even have those reviews then you're just just installing things completely blindly and that's not great also apps from the repos are also not official and not maintained by their original developers so should they have the same warnings and limitations now someone already hacked recall windows's new horrendous feature that will take screenshots of your screen regularly and pass them to an AI so you can find stuff you've done in the past the tool that allows for this hack called Total Recall can pull everything that recall recorded because apparently the database is not encrypted and available in plain text now the hacker said recall is basically you built- in Trojan and they shared the tool publicly to incite Microsoft to fix that feature before they release it to everyone Total Recall can automatically find where the database of screenshots is located and then copy it while it passes its content and it can even extract data from a set time range and it does so in 2 seconds for a day worth of screenshots you can even search for specific terms in the database to find anything the user might have done in any app no matter how protected encrypted or secure this app is because it's a screenshot it has all the info and with all that negative press and the potential risks Microsoft even decided they would not enable the feature by default you will have to enable it yourself during your computer setup process when buying what they call a copilot plus p PC and it will require Windows hello this being the biometric authentication feature for either face or fingerprint unlock with this they will also Implement just in time decryption to make sure the screenshots cannot be viewed if the user doesn't authenticate still I would not enable this feature if at any point you buy what they call an aipc because right now Microsoft says they do not send anything to the cloud but they never said they wouldn't send any conclusions or AI training data generated from the screenshots and honestly we know Windows is a moving Target it will change settings for you without your input it will change things from under you so yeah don't enable something that takes screenshot of your desktop all the time it's just nonsense now KY is asking you and all the community to help them Define their goals for the next two years they created a board where you can open a ticket to explain your idea active KY contributors will then analyze every ticket ask questions to refine the goals and generally just tidy things up and then they will vote on which goals they want to pursue and those goals will be announced at Academy in early September this process is open to non-kd contributors and also to non developers although the person submitting the goal is expected to Rally people around it to ensure it can get done you have until July the 5th to submit your goals there are already a few in there like adding better rust and Swift support improving KD's user documentation reworking the workspace and tiling window management features or having better integration with mobile devices so if you have a good idea for KD let them know about it it can be a small feature or a giant let's rewrite this entire thing goal and you don't even have to code things yourself although you will have to be involved you cannot just drop the feature and expect someone else to do it for you you will have to Rally your team and support that goal and make sure it happens now there are some interesting updates for Elementary OS 8 first they will let you choose between X11 or Wayland in the lock screen uh they had said they would move to Wayland by default but they hadn't really talked about the future of X11 at all so it's good to know that they will still offer the option the doc will also gain the ability to launch ABS directly by pressing super plus a number like most other docks out there the system settings also received more work work and judging from the screenshots they look pretty nice and pretty legible like gnome settings but more visual with like higher quality icons and just more visual flare they also receed the page to select your additional drivers like NVIDIA drivers for example so these things are no longer located in the App Center meaning that the app center will no longer handle anything other than flat packs because it doesn't offer apps or packages from aun's repos and more importantly El inventory OS will now offer flathub as a remote meaning you will actually get some applications to install out of the box instead of having to manually download a flatback ref file from flathub and install it manually to add the repo to your system as per the Elementary OS developer platform to make Elementary OS apps they released a version that os8 will use in their own flatback remote meaning developers can either start working on or start updating their application it is based on the gnome 46 platform and it includes all the things that makes Elementary OS apps Elementary OS apps with their stylesheet the granite widget library that is sort of lib advit but for Elementary OS and lib portal to work properly with system features so that's one big mistake in Elementary OS that is finally fixed previously you only had access to about a 100 Elementary OS apps in the app center after you installed your system and none of of those were apps you would actually require you had no office suite no choice of browsers none of the popular well-known applications didn't have stuff like that so finally this is fixed and I think it's a great decision from elementaryos to finally correct that big big usability problem now hopefully Elementary OS 8 releases not too late this year and I will definitely give it a shot on this exact Channel Thunderbird is also making good progress on a bunch of cool features the first one is exchange support it's now almost finished with the main workflow being implemented you can set up an account it can grab all your folders and messages it can display messages as well and they still have some work to do to make sure messages are properly sent and stored and then there will be a broader call for testing before things go out to everyone another highly requested feature will be support for the system tray on Linux for people who still use that thing this is apparently due to their using rust to build certain modules in Thunderbird I don't quite understand how this was a limitation because plenty of ABS that don't rely on Rust actually managed to have a system try icon but apparently it made things easier other things include letting you choose an accent Coler in the app hopefully it will integrate with the accent color portal as well they will add multi folder selection and folder compaction to save some space and for Windows users they will add native notification support as well and there's no two ways about it exchange support is definitely a big big plus for Thunderbird and it will allow more people to move away from Windows and to use Linux because Outlook will no longer be a mandatory application if your company uses exchange so pretty cool and let's conclude this with some gaming news first Nvidia users will get some good stuff in the kernel 6.1 the novo drivers which will also be used if you go with nvk as your vcon driver those will gain support for using the command line to pass options and interact with the GPU system processor firmware the thing that lets you control your Nvidia GPU things like changing the display brightness through the GPU or changing performance levels should thus be possible meaning that anyone at some point could develop a graphical tool that lets you manage your GPU properly at least for recent Nvidia gpus RTX 2000 series and newer also desktop environment power profiles could Implement support for this if they detect an Nvidia GPU to automatically switch the performance profile of the GPU itself and so you would use less battery life or actually get the best performance when you're in high performance mode it would also give access to all of these options under whand because right now even with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers uh the tool Nvidia provides just doesn't have any of the options the X11 version has so yeah that's just great news all around and still on drivers there's a new Vulcan driver for Apple silicon Max which was really missing from the aahi experience it is called honey crisp with a K and it's apparently derived from nvk the open- source Nvidia Vulcan driver it's been started by aahi and Mesa developers although it hasn't been upstreamed yet because it's very early days the driver already conforms with Vulcan 1.3 but it does need a lot of work to support dxvk and vkd 3D at some point though this driver should let people run Steam games or just Windows games in General on Apple silicon devices running Linux using an x86 emulator like fex which proved it was quite capable already now the reason they base this on nvk is that it has a lot of Vulcan code that isn't specifically tied to Nvidia and probably at some point that code will be moved into the common Vulcan runtime of Mesa that all drivers could take advantage of they still had a lot of work to do to remove Nvidia specific stuff and to rewrite stuff that is adapted to Apple silicon Graphics but it did give them a pretty big head start pretty fantastic work here even if you don't really game having access to the Vulcan back end of most ABS that rely on your GPU will be much more efficient than using their potential open GL back in which is as far as I understand it a way older and way less capable API and finally Linux passed the 2% market share on Steam and by a big margin it's now at 2.32% this growth is fueled by your loss of market share for Windows even though it still had more than 96% Mac OS also progressed a little bit but it stays almost a full point under linux's market share of course this might not last for long steam market share tends to fluctuate wildly as more or less devices from China are counted each month month which mostly run Windows and can either boost windows's market share or make it drop in terms of dis Ros this market share is fueled by the steam Deck with Steam OS grabbing 45% of linux's market share Arch is almost 8% and interestingly the steam flatback is 6% now let's be honest it's still insanely small in terms of market share we are the second biggest PC gaming platform but that doesn't mean much when the first one has 96 % market share still more market share and More Steam decks sold mean developers will take more of an interest to support at least the steam deck and proton and does to support Linux in general now we only need to solve the anti-cheat issue hopefully valve some has something uh in their boxes somewhere or a developer trying to incite other game developers to enable support for antie not sure this is still the major issue that we need to solve hopefully they can do something about it and hopefully you can take take a look at our sponsor tuxedo computers they make computers that ship with Linux pre-installed which is very interesting because it means that the device will just work perfectly under Linux you can either pick from a selection of popular disos or you can install your own and they offer repos to get access to a few tweaks here and there if those changes haven't been upstreamed just yet they have a big range of devices that should cover every price point and every need from Office laptops all the way up to Giant workstations Gam laptops gaming Towers I only use their computers these days my channel runs on one of their laptops the Infiniti Book Pro 16 and all my gaming is done on a tuxedo Cube which is one of their medium to small form factor PCS you can open all the laptops repair them upgrade them and you have a big choice of components for any of these devices so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux and develops drivers click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC they're really good okay so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you really enjoy the channel I left links in the description so you can support it financially and get a bunch of cool perks so thanks for watching there won't be any news video next week because I will be on holidays uh but I'll catch you uh the week after that bye [Music]
so since the previous video based on a little Community poll did pretty well I decided I would regularly ask you a few questions just to identify Trends and themes in the Linux community and to help me refocus on what really matters what I should talk about and what is already addressed but this time the focus was on the problems you're still facing on your Linux desktop I ran this Poll for an entire week I shared it on masteron and the YouTube Community page and I got 3368 answers which should be enough to look at a few Trends and as always there is some inherent bias due to the fact that people who answered are part of my community which obviously skews the result it's also a small fraction of the Linux desktop users so don't believe everything here don't take it as absolute truth just like you should not take anything you read as absolute truth on the internet and thankfully our sponsor can help with that this video is sponsored by ground news you might have noticed it's getting 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they had a lot to learn and 1% saying it was a brand new world now these results will of course inform the rest of the survey and the answers in certain cases I will also try to give you the answers for the beginners group and for the average of all answers because sometimes there are interesting differences but do note that if you're a beginner some of your problems might be under represented in this survey so what is difficult to accomplish on Linux what seems to be the most annoying thing to deal with is integrating Linux systems with other devices stuff like syncing with your phone or sharing data between devices 36% of people who answered picked this as a paino and I must say I have mixed feelings on this one because we have online accounts implementations to mount various storage spaces on your Linux desktop we have thirdparty clients to sync a lot of stuff with Google Drive one drive and others and we have KD connect to send files or share the clipboard and notifications between a PC and a smartphone no matter if it's Android or iOS you also have apps like warp inator to transfer files between computers I never really saw this as a problem so either the issue is that most people who Ed use iPhones and iCloud which obviously is not well supported at all for Linux or maybe I'm just lucky because I use nexcloud and everything is super seamless or maybe all of these apps I just talked about are super obscure and no one ever heard of them but I definitely did not see this as an issue a second major pain Point seems to be using existing Hardware 28% of people picked this as a problem and we will explore that into more detail in a minute in this video in the same vein finding compatible Hardware was a problem for 24% of people who answered as per the usability of our systems though it doesn't seem to be a real issue only 16% of people who answered said that they faced issues trying to get things done on Linux and it can either be a positive thing like oh only 16% of people just cannot do everything on Linux or it can be pretty negative as in oh out of all these people who definitely are interested in and probably use Linux 16% of them can't get everything done interestingly installing Linux was not picked as a paino only 4% of people said it was a problem but that's not super surprising since we established that most people who answered weren't complete beginners among the beginners only 7.2% said they encountered problems with installing Linux as well so it feels like this step is no longer a problem really now interestingly beginners found installing software and apps more difficult than experts 20% of them said it was a problem when the average for the survey is 10% okay so since we identified that Hardware is a problem on Linux let's get into more details most people who answered have experienced Hardware problems on Linux this is undeniable 44% said that they had a problem they could fix and 36% said they had an issue they couldn't solve only 3% said hardware issues made using Linux difficult or impossible though and 177% said that they had no Hardware problem at all now beginners seem more affected here with 41% of them saying that they faced an issue they couldn't solve compared to 36% of all answers 34% said that they faced a problem that they could fix compared to 44% on average and 19 % of them also said that they faced no problem at all compared to 177% for all answers so one might think that beginners probably are starting to use Linux on newer Hardware that is better supported but if they do encounter a problem they are less likely to find a way to solve it in terms of the main problematic components there were a few surprises here first are gpus 34% of people said they had trouble with their GPU which absolutely Ely deserves a deeper dive at some point because gpus on Linux are pretty much solved Intel gpus work flawlessly AMD gpus work out of the box nothing to install and Nvidia gpus work really well on X11 with the proprietary drivers and they work fine on whand these days as well also are surprise Gaming controllers and peripherals 9% of people who answered said they had troubles here where I never really personally had any issue connecting any controller to any Linux drro and yes VR headsets were a separate option they are not included here 6% of people answering said that VR headsets are problematic other things did not really surprise me like fingerprint readers with 21% of answers there are no drivers for these things on Linux they just don't work wi-fi and Bluetooth at 177% each are sort of surprising to me though I thought this was a thing of the past but apparently not so yeah pretty baffled by this results gpus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth still considered as issues on Linux today I didn't really see that coming because I have not had personally any problem with any of those components for at least 5 years so not sure what these people are using but apparently I'm the lucky one and people are having trouble with those now as per softwar related problems here again Linux has issues 48% of people who answered said that they faced a software problem that they could fix at some point and 35% said they faced a problem they could not solve only 14% said that they didn't face any software related problems for beginners the proportion is inverted 36% of them said they had a software problem that they could fix but 46% of them said they had a problem they could not solve and 7% of beginners said software issues made their experience difficult so clearly software is still also a problem on Linux if you're wondering what I'm including here it can be an app missing to do what you're doing a missing feature in the available apps difficulty installing software or bugs or crashes or anything along those lines basically if you have software you cannot find that doesn't work the way you want and you have no Alternatives or it crashes it goes into a software problem that was explained in the survey by the way as for the problematic software categories the biggest offender is apparently sleep wake and suspend functionality 30% of answers pointed to that as a problem app compatibility is also a big issue no surprise here 29% of people said Linux was not a supported platform for the software they needed to use gaming is a sore spot with 27% of people answering that they are facing problems here what really surprised me here was application bugs crashes and missing features 27% of people listed application bugs as a big enough issue that they had to select it and 25% picked application crashes 15% said they were missing features in core apps and 18% said they faced regular desktop environment or tiling Window Manager box and this is a complete surprise to me I was absolutely expecting people saying that we miss certain app categories that some apps are not available that some features are missing from the apps we have but crashes and bugs in the applications and the desktop environments this is news to me everything I've been using for yeah the past five or six years since I started this channel has been Rock Solid and super stable so not sure what's happening here but apparently again I am the lucky one here now I'm going to call this chapter in the video productivity but it's more being able to do anything you want whether it's work related or not so it's just like getting stuff done basically should I use that as the title so 37% of people who answered said they could do most of what they wanted on Linux but not everything 33% said they could do everything but some things were harder than on other platforms 26% said they could do everything they wanted on Linux and it's easy enough and only 4% in total said that many or most things they needed to do were not possible on Linux beginners have a harder time here as well with with 43% of them saying they can't do everything only 15% of them saying they can do everything they want and 9% saying Linux is too difficult or not suitable for what they want to do to address this it is likely that beginners will face issues and they will have a harder time fixing those issues whether it's finding the right app to download or fixing the bug that you're encountering or just fixing Hardware support on a specific device meaning that they will have a worse experience in general and feel they cannot do as much as they want to do the end result is still that that's a lot of people who cannot do everything they want on Linux even among experts and that's not the opinion I had uh before making this survey or this video as per the most difficult use cases for Linux gaming is the number one with 36% of answers office suits are also apparently a major problem 20% of people felt they didn't do what they needed graphic design and video production CAD are also cited as big issues All Above 10% of answers now at least the basics don't seem to cause issues with web browsing writing email note taking file management and the like receiving very little votes in terms of how problematic they are again sort of surprised here I guess people who said gaming was a problem must be playing the latest AAA multiplayer title with anti- cheat because single play player gaming on Linux just works like every game just click install run it it works there's no issues and office suites I'm not sure personally everything in there works for me you go to the tabed interface in lib office and you actually have a better experience than in Microsoft Office but of course if you need macros and the absolute perfect compatibility you should probably use only office and I'm sure a lot of people are not aware that this thing exists as for the general experience of using Linux most people seem to feel their system is very reliable 56% said they have a few issues but that they don't impact their trust in their OS 38% said they didn't worry about stability at all and only 6% in total said they had frequent issues that made them lose trust in Linux as their operating system 71% of people who answered also said their experience with Linux was very good better than other operating systems not extremely surprising when you know that most people who answered are watching a middle-aged man talk about Linux on YouTube so probably they think Linux is cool 6% said Linux was perfect without issues 16% said it was good and on par with other operating systems and 6% in total said that their experience was bad or very bad as in worse than other operating systems to downright unusable for beginners the very good person percentage drops to 62% the good percentage goes up to 23% compared to 16 and the accumulated bad percentages go up to 13% double the average of all answers in this form not really surprising to see beginners struggling a bit more here if you cannot find answers to solve your problems then obviously you're not going to have a good experience with Linux or at least not as good as people who managed to solve their problems still whether it's 6% or 133% of people who said their experience with Linux was just bad in general that's a lot of people especially since you consider that all of these people who Ed this form are like people who enjoy Linux and watch Linux content online most people also felt they absolutely needed the command line to fix problems on their systems 50% said they had to use it a bit and 28% said it was mandatory to get a usable system only 23% said they didn't need to use the command line at all and let's finish with how people found answers to their problems and how they interacted with the community 61% said that they had to look online to find Solutions but that it was easy enough 29% said finding Solutions was difficult 7% said they could not find Solutions online at all and only 3% said that they did not need online help altogether so first that is not as drastic as it sounds yes there's about 97% of people who looked online for help but that's normal if you had never used a computer and started using Windows you would probably also look online for help same goes for Mac OS computers are complex things and you do need help to get to grips with any operating system but second one person out of three said that it was not easy to find solutions to their problems online which seems to indicate we have a lot of work to do to document things better as per the Linux Community 35% of people did not interact with it I'm assuming they found their Solutions in articles and not forums 29% of anwers said most of their interactions were friendly 23% said all their interactions were nice and only 12% said that they had either mixed interactions with the Linux Community or very negative interactions those are only 1% of answers and well this also contradicts my preconceived notions but for once in the right way I really thought the Linux Community would be felt as way more toxic than it is in this survey so it kind of proves that it must be a few bad apples spoiling the bunch because in general for beginners you only have 18% of them who had a mixed interaction or a really really bad interaction but the bad interaction is so small it's 1% it's still too high but it's not as bad as I thought thought so there are a bunch of cool insights here personally I was not expecting gpus office suites application bugs installing applications or crashes on the desktop to be problems people would mention as specific big Linux issues I was expecting the Linux Community to be viewed as way more toxic than it is I was surprised by a bunch of stuff I was expecting installing Linux to be a major pain point but it really isn't not even for beginners so hey if you learn something here or if everything went according to plan and you already knew all of this it was exactly as you imagin things let me know down in the comments and in the meantime I'll let you know what our sponsor can do for you tuxedo computers makes computers that run with Linux out of 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hey everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Linux and open source news show this week we've got a new initiative to make better KD application something that is really needed we've got gnome announcing they had some major trouble with how they were handling the Sovereign Tech fund project but apparently it's all solved now and they're actually expanding this initiative to bring in more contract work to the gome foundation and we also have the EU investigating open AI for potential gdpr violations which is a another investigation against AI but in a really different area so I think it's going to be interesting and we also have the usual segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by kasm workspaces a great project for streaming apps operating systems and desktops straight to your browser the latest software release includes support for autoscaling on the open stack hypervisor this feature lets you dynamically allocate more resources for streaming workspaces on open stack in 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these small tasks all they need are goys to go on top of these so this is a relatively easy thing to do if developers are interested then there's the Improvement to existing apps they're mostly feature complete but sometimes they have pretty old or unwieldy user interfaces that really need a big refresh the initiative would also improve how these apps are marketed with a weekly post covering all the changes similar to what gnome does they also want to make it easier to start a new KD app with better templates and with tools similar to gnome workbench and they also want to support more languages than just C+ plus and I think this is a great idea gnome absolutely undeniably has has the edge when it comes to the number and the quality of the apps with bber v and with old workbench and the tooling that they've had in place basically it's super easy to write a new gnome app that does one little thing well when writing a KD app seems a bit more complicated even though things are improving so if we can see better revamped and brand new KD ABS that rival the breadth and the quality of the gnome ecosystem that I think we will all benefit speaking of gnome they announced early this week that they were facing an issue with the Sovereign Tech fund project what they called a major issue on The Gnome Foundation site but they just didn't give any details about this fortunately they posted an update right as I was starting to record this video to confirm that those problems are now solved they still did not explain what the issue was but the work on these projects will be continuing and gnome will even expand its various initiatives to do more work along the lines of what they are doing with the Sovereign Tech fund they actually hired a new program manager to handle these projects which makes me think the major issue was that no one communicated any progress to the stf directly and the stf got worried that they had been swindled out of their money it is just pure speculation I have no idea but a failure in communicating progress might be the major issue they were talking about gnome also wants to expand the work being done with a process to let the community give suggestions for work that is needed and a process for companies or organizations to offer grants to fund that work the gome foundation applied to the open Tech fund as well that's an American nonprofit focused on supporting projects that go for a more open approach around Tech and the foundation will also apply for more contract funding with the stf in mid June finally they launched a Development Fund to raise more funds through the community and and on top of that it looks like they managed to balance the books to reorganize a few things and they will apparently not be operating at a deficit this year which is nice so gnome seems to be going really well they solved the problems that they had in terms of organization they are apparently looking for way more funding Avenues to do way more work which is also really great and yeah who could have guessed that hiring someone with actual experience running nonprofits would be a good choice uh to run a non profit who who knew okay so the EU is looking into potential gdpr breaches in Chad GPT especially in the data it scraped off of the internet the data protection board has analyzed the practices from open Ai and they found some problematic things not only in how it scraped content but also in the accuracy of the data it displays and they even received some complaints about Chad gpt's hallucinations which they are investigating as well so so this is all just starting but there are already a few interesting things the main one is linked to the gdpr companies that operate in the EU need to either have the individual's consent to gather data about them or they need a legitimate interest to gather this without consent since open AI cannot really ask for your consent for scraping data online that might be about you for example your public Facebook profile they're relying on the legitimate interest use case and this is being contested a privacy expert seems to think that this legitimate interest has been completely distorted and doesn't apply here especially since the gdpr stipulates companies should make all the information they grabbed in this manner publicly available so everyone can check that this information collection is actually legitimate open AI doesn't do this at all meaning it's all a black box and no one can know what they gathered the second issue is hallucinations the gdpr stipulates that all information you can get about EU citizens should be accurate so when you ask a question to chat GPT about a specific person it shouldn't tell you things that it imagined the issue is current AI generative tools cannot abide by that rule they are by Nature inventing things because they don't understand most of the context of what they read or what they assimilated to train themselves now this is just the beginning of this inquiry and it only ended in broad advice that will have virtually no impact it's basically hey open AI put some safeguards and Implement some measures to fix this but leaving this to open AI will result in nothing good so let's hope that this will go further that they will actually manage to start regulating this type of Technologies and that this time we won't wait for these companies to be gigantic when we start trying to regulate them because that did not work with Google Apple Microsoft Facebook Amazon and the like and it still will not work with the likes of open AI if they ever reach the same kind of size so take this right now fix the problems right now and then when they're big they will already have a solid framework so we can make sure that they work in an ethical way sort of now the Fedora mirrors are apparently being heavily strained by millions of requests coming from AWS Fedora hosts the mirrors for the epel system the extra packages for Enterprise Linux those are basic basically sort of PPA for red hat and red hat based dros and these mirrors have seen a surge in traffic more than 5 million new systems pulling packages from the repos or just pulling the repos for available packages which basically doubled the amount of Connections in a few months the source is very clearly Amazon with traffic from AWS surging like crazy fortunately Amazon Engineers are apparently looking at the issue to see what happened and to try and fix it this is apparently not linked to people migrating from sentos s 7 or red hat Enterprise Linux 7 to another Dr which would require these repos that surge would not have lasted that long if this had been the case now you know what could be cool if a giant hosting company could actually host mirrors and use those mirrors for their own distributions instead of relying on a community hosted project and not contributing to it as far as I could tell that would be really nice and Microsoft really seems to want to continue with their windows subsystem for Linux the thing that lets you run Linux on a Windows system through the terminal or even through running graphical apps they have announced a few new things for WSL like automatically releasing the memory used by WSL to the underlying Windows system which is strange because it seems to implicate that WSL did not do that before so it just gobbled up Ram until you restarted your computer or completely Clos WL kind of badly designed more importantly Microsoft is bringing a graphical Settings app to configure WSL meaning you won't have to use a text file anymore thus probably making Unix Die Hard fans even more mad about the existence of WSL because they're even moving away from text configurations now you can still use the text file to configure things if you prefer or if you need to Windows users will also get a new end environments feature letting you create manage and launch development environments probably sort of like a VM manager but just for WSL and okay I know a lot of people don't like WSL and they think it's a play from Microsoft to embrace extend extinguish Linux but for now the data seems to point out it had zero impact on linux's growth because the Linux desktop has been growing faster than ever and it kind of started when Microsoft introduced WSL so yeah really weird anyway personally I think WSL is just another way that we're cementing linux's position as the right option for development even if your company forces you to use Windows you can still use the better development OS which is Linux and so it just cements the fact that Linux is the OS that you should use to develop even if it's just through W USL and not installed on bare metal and let's move on to the gaming news the steam deck passed the 15,000 game marked as in 10,000 games are playable and about 5,000 games are verified with 4,000 more being marked as unsupported recently verified titles include Rogue Trader something I absolutely want to play because I love this type of game but I was completely uninvested in Bor Gates 3 setting and story and characters they were just Bland and uninteresting to me and don't get all mad it's just that I always preferred science fiction and the universe of Warhammer 40K to anything fantasy based it's it's on me it's not on the game and the data around the steam deck still seems to show that it's selling like hot cakes as it's consistently in the top three or top five sellers on Steam since the beginning of the year meaning it probably sells tens of thousands of units every week that's a really good thing for Linux gaming the more people use this the more developers will focus on supporting it and the more games we'll have on Linux in general now I personally haven't been using my steam deck all that much for a while now I've been just concentrating on working on my Warhammer 40K armies for a while but with Rogue Trader being officially verified on it I will probably pick it back up and start a playthrough of this fantastic game and wi 9.10 was also released this week with improvements to their vkd3d version to better support directx12 games they also improved DPI awareness meaning High DPI displays should be better supported by apps and games running with wine the arm work also continued as well as the removal of Legacy wine d3d features that were obsolete 18 bugs were also fixed in this version for games like Silent Hill 4 Far Cry 3 Horizon zero Dawn Metro Exodus or the EA launcher and also for apps like Affinity photo or paint.net and as always those improvements to wine will at some point reach a version of proton that will be distributed directly to you by steam just like I'm distribu Computing this segue to our sponsor directly to you tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and any kind of computer running Linux out of the box they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a nice big range of devices that support Linux perfectly from small Ultra 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so since the previous video based on a little Community poll did pretty well I decided I would regularly ask you a few questions just to identify Trends and themes in the Linux community and to help me refocus on what really matters what I should talk about and what is already addressed but this time the focus was on the problems you're still facing on your Linux desktop I ran this Poll for an entire week I shared it on masteron and the YouTube Community page and I got 3368 answers which should be enough to look at a few Trends and as always there is some inherent bias due to the fact that people who answered are part of my community which obviously skews the result it's also a small fraction of the Linux desktop users so don't believe everything here don't take it as absolute truth just like you should not take anything you read as absolute truth on the internet and thankfully our sponsor can help with that this video is sponsored by ground news you might have noticed it's getting 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they had a lot to learn and 1% saying it was a brand new world now these results will of course inform the rest of the survey and the answers in certain cases I will also try to give you the answers for the beginners group and for the average of all answers because sometimes there are interesting differences but do note that if you're a beginner some of your problems might be under represented in this survey so what is difficult to accomplish on Linux what seems to be the most annoying thing to deal with is integrating Linux systems with other devices stuff like syncing with your phone or sharing data between devices 36% of people who answered picked this as a paino and I must say I have mixed feelings on this one because we have online accounts implementations to mount various storage spaces on your Linux desktop we have thirdparty clients to sync a lot of stuff with Google Drive one drive and others and we have KD connect to send files or share the clipboard and notifications between a PC and a smartphone no matter if it's Android or iOS you also have apps like warp inator to transfer files between computers I never really saw this as a problem so either the issue is that most people who Ed use iPhones and iCloud which obviously is not well supported at all for Linux or maybe I'm just lucky because I use nexcloud and everything is super seamless or maybe all of these apps I just talked about are super obscure and no one ever heard of them but I definitely did not see this as an issue a second major pain Point seems to be using existing Hardware 28% of people picked this as a problem and we will explore that into more detail in a minute in this video in the same vein finding compatible Hardware was a problem for 24% of people who answered as per the usability of our systems though it doesn't seem to be a real issue only 16% of people who answered said that they faced issues trying to get things done on Linux and it can either be a positive thing like oh only 16% of people just cannot do everything on Linux or it can be pretty negative as in oh out of all these people who definitely are interested in and probably use Linux 16% of them can't get everything done interestingly installing Linux was not picked as a paino only 4% of people said it was a problem but that's not super surprising since we established that most people who answered weren't complete beginners among the beginners only 7.2% said they encountered problems with installing Linux as well so it feels like this step is no longer a problem really now interestingly beginners found installing software and apps more difficult than experts 20% of them said it was a problem when the average for the survey is 10% okay so since we identified that Hardware is a problem on Linux let's get into more details most people who answered have experienced Hardware problems on Linux this is undeniable 44% said that they had a problem they could fix and 36% said they had an issue they couldn't solve only 3% said hardware issues made using Linux difficult or impossible though and 177% said that they had no Hardware problem at all now beginners seem more affected here with 41% of them saying that they faced an issue they couldn't solve compared to 36% of all answers 34% said that they faced a problem that they could fix compared to 44% on average and 19 % of them also said that they faced no problem at all compared to 177% for all answers so one might think that beginners probably are starting to use Linux on newer Hardware that is better supported but if they do encounter a problem they are less likely to find a way to solve it in terms of the main problematic components there were a few surprises here first are gpus 34% of people said they had trouble with their GPU which absolutely Ely deserves a deeper dive at some point because gpus on Linux are pretty much solved Intel gpus work flawlessly AMD gpus work out of the box nothing to install and Nvidia gpus work really well on X11 with the proprietary drivers and they work fine on whand these days as well also are surprise Gaming controllers and peripherals 9% of people who answered said they had troubles here where I never really personally had any issue connecting any controller to any Linux drro and yes VR headsets were a separate option they are not included here 6% of people answering said that VR headsets are problematic other things did not really surprise me like fingerprint readers with 21% of answers there are no drivers for these things on Linux they just don't work wi-fi and Bluetooth at 177% each are sort of surprising to me though I thought this was a thing of the past but apparently not so yeah pretty baffled by this results gpus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth still considered as issues on Linux today I didn't really see that coming because I have not had personally any problem with any of those components for at least 5 years so not sure what these people are using but apparently I'm the lucky one and people are having trouble with those now as per softwar related problems here again Linux has issues 48% of people who answered said that they faced a software problem that they could fix at some point and 35% said they faced a problem they could not solve only 14% said that they didn't face any software related problems for beginners the proportion is inverted 36% of them said they had a software problem that they could fix but 46% of them said they had a problem they could not solve and 7% of beginners said software issues made their experience difficult so clearly software is still also a problem on Linux if you're wondering what I'm including here it can be an app missing to do what you're doing a missing feature in the available apps difficulty installing software or bugs or crashes or anything along those lines basically if you have software you cannot find that doesn't work the way you want and you have no Alternatives or it crashes it goes into a software problem that was explained in the survey by the way as for the problematic software categories the biggest offender is apparently sleep wake and suspend functionality 30% of answers pointed to that as a problem app compatibility is also a big issue no surprise here 29% of people said Linux was not a supported platform for the software they needed to use gaming is a sore spot with 27% of people answering that they are facing problems here what really surprised me here was application bugs crashes and missing features 27% of people listed application bugs as a big enough issue that they had to select it and 25% picked application crashes 15% said they were missing features in core apps and 18% said they faced regular desktop environment or tiling Window Manager box and this is a complete surprise to me I was absolutely expecting people saying that we miss certain app categories that some apps are not available that some features are missing from the apps we have but crashes and bugs in the applications and the desktop environments this is news to me everything I've been using for yeah the past five or six years since I started this channel has been Rock Solid and super stable so not sure what's happening here but apparently again I am the lucky one here now I'm going to call this chapter in the video productivity but it's more being able to do anything you want whether it's work related or not so it's just like getting stuff done basically should I use that as the title so 37% of people who answered said they could do most of what they wanted on Linux but not everything 33% said they could do everything but some things were harder than on other platforms 26% said they could do everything they wanted on Linux and it's easy enough and only 4% in total said that many or most things they needed to do were not possible on Linux beginners have a harder time here as well with with 43% of them saying they can't do everything only 15% of them saying they can do everything they want and 9% saying Linux is too difficult or not suitable for what they want to do to address this it is likely that beginners will face issues and they will have a harder time fixing those issues whether it's finding the right app to download or fixing the bug that you're encountering or just fixing Hardware support on a specific device meaning that they will have a worse experience in general and feel they cannot do as much as they want to do the end result is still that that's a lot of people who cannot do everything they want on Linux even among experts and that's not the opinion I had uh before making this survey or this video as per the most difficult use cases for Linux gaming is the number one with 36% of answers office suits are also apparently a major problem 20% of people felt they didn't do what they needed graphic design and video production CAD are also cited as big issues All Above 10% of answers now at least the basics don't seem to cause issues with web browsing writing email note taking file management and the like receiving very little votes in terms of how problematic they are again sort of surprised here I guess people who said gaming was a problem must be playing the latest AAA multiplayer title with anti- cheat because single play player gaming on Linux just works like every game just click install run it it works there's no issues and office suites I'm not sure personally everything in there works for me you go to the tabed interface in lib office and you actually have a better experience than in Microsoft Office but of course if you need macros and the absolute perfect compatibility you should probably use only office and I'm sure a lot of people are not aware that this thing exists as for the general experience of using Linux most people seem to feel their system is very reliable 56% said they have a few issues but that they don't impact their trust in their OS 38% said they didn't worry about stability at all and only 6% in total said they had frequent issues that made them lose trust in Linux as their operating system 71% of people who answered also said their experience with Linux was very good better than other operating systems not extremely surprising when you know that most people who answered are watching a middle-aged man talk about Linux on YouTube so probably they think Linux is cool 6% said Linux was perfect without issues 16% said it was good and on par with other operating systems and 6% in total said that their experience was bad or very bad as in worse than other operating systems to downright unusable for beginners the very good person percentage drops to 62% the good percentage goes up to 23% compared to 16 and the accumulated bad percentages go up to 13% double the average of all answers in this form not really surprising to see beginners struggling a bit more here if you cannot find answers to solve your problems then obviously you're not going to have a good experience with Linux or at least not as good as people who managed to solve their problems still whether it's 6% or 133% of people who said their experience with Linux was just bad in general that's a lot of people especially since you consider that all of these people who Ed this form are like people who enjoy Linux and watch Linux content online most people also felt they absolutely needed the command line to fix problems on their systems 50% said they had to use it a bit and 28% said it was mandatory to get a usable system only 23% said they didn't need to use the command line at all and let's finish with how people found answers to their problems and how they interacted with the community 61% said that they had to look online to find Solutions but that it was easy enough 29% said finding Solutions was difficult 7% said they could not find Solutions online at all and only 3% said that they did not need online help altogether so first that is not as drastic as it sounds yes there's about 97% of people who looked online for help but that's normal if you had never used a computer and started using Windows you would probably also look online for help same goes for Mac OS computers are complex things and you do need help to get to grips with any operating system but second one person out of three said that it was not easy to find solutions to their problems online which seems to indicate we have a lot of work to do to document things better as per the Linux Community 35% of people did not interact with it I'm assuming they found their Solutions in articles and not forums 29% of anwers said most of their interactions were friendly 23% said all their interactions were nice and only 12% said that they had either mixed interactions with the Linux Community or very negative interactions those are only 1% of answers and well this also contradicts my preconceived notions but for once in the right way I really thought the Linux Community would be felt as way more toxic than it is in this survey so it kind of proves that it must be a few bad apples spoiling the bunch because in general for beginners you only have 18% of them who had a mixed interaction or a really really bad interaction but the bad interaction is so small it's 1% it's still too high but it's not as bad as I thought thought so there are a bunch of cool insights here personally I was not expecting gpus office suites application bugs installing applications or crashes on the desktop to be problems people would mention as specific big Linux issues I was expecting the Linux Community to be viewed as way more toxic than it is I was surprised by a bunch of stuff I was expecting installing Linux to be a major pain point but it really isn't not even for beginners so hey if you learn something here or if everything went according to plan and you already knew all of this it was exactly as you imagin things let me know down in the comments and in the meantime I'll let you know what our sponsor can do for you tuxedo computers makes computers that run with Linux out of 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a bunch of comments have asked me more or less nicely to take a look at gaming focused distributions and since toxedo just sent me their small form factor gaming PC I thought this was the opportunity to turn two sticks with one thumb hey I'm not killing two birds so I had to tweak that metaphor okay so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to look at a cool PC to use for a Linux gaming console or just for gaming without using 3 cubic M worth of space but also and more importantly it was the perfect opportunity to look at the gaming performance differences between a bunch of different distributions three of them advertised as gaming dros and a more general purpose one so we will look at the tuxedo Atlas s it's a small form factor PC that is perfect for a home gaming console or just to avoid occupying too much space but we'll also look at whether a gaming distro is even worth it compared to any other distribution and we'll also look at this segue to our sponsor this video is 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i 94900 it can accommodate two m.2 ssds plus two SATA 3 drives up to 24 TB in total it can come with or without dedicated graphics which can go up to a radon RX 7700 XT or an Nvidia RTX 470 it can also get up to 96 gigs of ddr5 RAM and it obviously has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and it comes with Linux pre-installed tuxedo OS being the default so the model tuxedo sent me has an i7 13700 1 tbte of PCI 3 SSD 32 gigs of RAM and the RX7 700 XT with 12 gigs of vram it's sort of a middleof the road build definitely not entry level but you could spec it out a lot higher than this one so it's a nice test bench now looking at the case it is open on all sides kind of required to make sure it has enough air flow in such a small box you get a usba a 3.0 port in the front and a USBC 3.2 Gen 2 Port as well plus the power button all slotted in the wood panel and it looks really good at the back you have four usba a 3.2 gen 1 ports two usba a 2.0 ports plus one type-c 3.2 Gen 2 Port you have connectors for the antenna a display port and an HDMI port plus a 2.5 gig ethernet Jack and all the audio in and out you need plus of course all the ports from your GPU here it is three display ports and one HDMI you can easily open the top part of the case by just pulling on the little tab here it gives you access to the onoff switch for the power supply here it is a Corsair sf750 and you can remove and unplug anything you want it's a desktop it is a small form factor PC so the point isn't necessarily to have the absolute best performance for all the components you put inside it's to have really solid performance but also to avoid taking up too much space what's certain is that you won't want to jam this thing between two other devices or to just glue it to a wall or a part of furniture because obviously then the airf flow is going to be a problem now this desktop looks good and in its black form factor it will definitely not look out of place next to a gaming console or in your TV cabinet it should also fit in about any piece of furniture you might rest your TV on tuxedo ships it with tuxedo OS which is a very nice drro that I use to run this channel on my own laptop but this PC just has standard components so obviously you can install whatever you would like which is exactly what we will do in this video also this video is not sponsored by tuxedo you already saw the sponsor of this video and it's not tuxedo they sent me this device to review it and they are regular sponsors of the channel but I do have to send that device back once I'm done with it and also they never sponsor any hardware reviews that I do whether they're from competitors obviously all from themselves so today we'll take a look at basite nobara kir iOS Holo ISO and Tuxedo OS and compare the performance for three games in all of them to see if a gaming drro is even worth it today so first bite it is a weird one it's based on Fedora Atomic so it's an immutable Dro and it's built using Universal blue which is a build system that lets you create tailored drro images for plenty of purposes if that sounds weird and complex just know that bite is an immutable drro like Ste OS that includes everything you need for gaming straight from the iso you can pick the type of system you want before downloading I went with a desktop PC image with KD as the desktop for AMD gpus and since I wanted a gaming console I picked the steam gaming mode by default so it will boot into the new Big Picture steam interface you can of course get images with envidia drivers or for specific handhelds or laptops with all the customizations you need for full and perfect Hardware support already applied installing bite is just as easy as installing Fedora meaning it uses the same atrocious Anaconda installer it's not intuitive at all but it works and the installation is quick after rebooting I could configure a bunch of things like installing Dey loader by default mu deck and I had a bunch of other options available and after logging into steam I had a return to gaming mode shortcut on the desktop which dropped me into the usual new Big Picture Mode and the first run experience for Steam OS which for some reason had to install things that took about 20 minutes and it gave me a low battery warning even though I use a desktop now once everything was done I connected a wireless Xbox controller immediately through Bluetooth which was recognized and worked instantly after that I grabbed all the games I will be using for bench marks namely Horizon zero Dawn shadow of the Tomb Raider and Warhammer to War 3 with two of it benchmarks and I copied all of those to the internal disc of the atlas and I got started with the benchmarks I ran all of these at the native resolution of my ultrawide monitor so 3,440 by 1440p Horizon is run using the latest version of proton from valve the rest is just native Linux games everything was ran at their Max settings at the native resolution without any resolution scaling or FSR or anything like that and everything ran under Wayland on all dros with all the latest updates applied all these settings will be the same for every drro I test here so for Horizon zero Dawn running The Benchmark gave me an average of 80 FPS at these maxed out settings in Shadow of the Tomb Raider I got 105 FPS on average in The Benchmark and for Total War Warhammer 3 on the battle Benchmark it reached 56.4 FPS and 52.5 on the campaign bench mark and it is very solid performance all around for all these titles now Total War Warhammer 3 has never been really well optimized whether it's on Windows or on Linux and on any device I ever run on on Linux I never managed to hit 60 FPS reliably with Max settings it just doesn't want to do it it uses way too many resources now in terms of noise the atlas s will be noisier than your average gaming console it's a PC it's going to blow a lot more air and you're going to hear it but it's not super noisy to the point that it will distract you from your gaming experience so that's it for the results for basite but if you want me to dive deeper into this diso as a whole because it can be difficult to understand let me know and I will definitely take a look the comment section is here for you to request this kind of stuff now next is noara this one is not immutable it is Fedora and a lot of Kernel patches some add-ons dri and tools focused specifically on gaming and on improving performance nobara is made by the developer of GE proton and it's what I currently use on my own Linux gaming PC it also has its own updator tool that will update all the components nobara adds on top of the base Fedora and importantly it is not an official Fedora spin it is a custom drro built on top of Fedora much like mint is a custom version of Ubuntu for example so after pairing my gaming controller and copying all the games to the internal storage I ran the benchmarks here are the results in Shadow of the Tomb Raider I got 106 FPS on average in Total War Warhammer 3's battle Benchmark I got 57 FPS on average and 54.7 for the campaign Benchmark and in Horizon zero Dawn nobara got 80 FPS on average so very very similar results here between bazide and nobara they basically have the exact same performance whether you want to go with basite or Novara will be your choice between an immutable drro and a more traditional distribution instead I also gave a shot to Holo ISO in its new immutable form and that shot was extremely short LIF because it never managed to give me a bootable system no matter what I tried I could boot it from the USB key launch the installer install things but after a reboot it just got stuck on the black screen I could not do anything trying to to change UEFI settings or disabling CSM didn't work either this drro was just unbootable and that's the exact same experience I had on my tuxedo Cube which is my current gaming PC I ended up going with nobara instead of Hol ISO because it just would never buot up so no results on this one so I moved on to Chima OS this is an arch based distribution it's an atomic Dro so it's immutable and it includes a bunch of emulation tools as well as optimizations for gaming it defaults to gnome as its desktop compared to KDE for the other disos I tested the installer is extremely Spartan and will require an internet connection to download the latest image available so don't expect the usual userfriendly installer here it is not difficult but it looks atrocious although it is very fast the first setup is basically just a setup from Steam OS so it's a pretty decent console like experience right out of the box quitting to desktop opens an extremely barebones gnome which is from where I installed and ran all the three games in Shadow of the Tomb Raider I got 102 FPS on average in The Benchmark similar to the other dros I tested in Total War Warhammer 3's battle Benchmark I got 55 FPS on average and 51 for the campaign Benchmark a little lower than usual and in Horizon Zer daon chimira OS got 73 FPS strangely lower than other distributions so chimira OS gave me slightly lower results than other distributions I tested I reran The Horizon zero Dawn Benchmark multiple times and it always ended up on the exact same FPS number meaning that maybe something with gnome and proton doesn't work as well because the native Linux games that I ran alongside it Total War Warhammer 3 and uh shadow of the Tomb Raider they got pretty much the same performance as with other distributions so maybe there's something with gnome and proton that doesn't work quite right I'm not sure so just for fun I also decided to run all of these games on the pre-installed tuxedo OS on this computer to see if these gaming disos offer improved performance compared to a normal system and here are the results in Horizon zero Dawn at the max resolution and Max settings without any upscaling the atlas s with tuxedo OS got 81 FPS on average similar to other dis Ros in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at the max settings and resolution it reached 106 FPS on average again similar to other disres and in Total War Warhammer 3's battle Benchmark at the max settings and resolution I got 57 FPS on average and in the campaign Benchmark it reached 54.9 so if I can judge from this limited testing set of three games and four benchmarks it doesn't really look like gaming dros will do anything for your performance they will give you better better tools that are pre-installed specifically for gaming stuff that you don't have to go fetch in your package manager but if you compare it with a regular obuntu based Dro like tuxedo s it's just aun2 LTS with a newer kernel and drivers and that's about it when you compare the two you end up having the exact same results and between gaming dros they all perform really really similarly except maybe gnome seems to not perform as well as KD right now at least using Wayland maybe on X11 the results are different but at least if you run Wayland don't be bothered too much but by which this throw you should run for gaming as long as you use something with recent Colonels and recent drivers you should just have the same experience as everyone else and as per the atlas s if you're looking for a really small form factor PC these can be really annoying to put together yourself because it's super fiddly to manage to plug everything in in this small enclosure so if you would rather just buy one and turn it into a console the atlas s looks good will not make your living room into a nightmare if you slot it under your TV it doesn't make too much noise and the performance is actually pretty good for such a small PC with very little airflow so check it out I left a link to it in the description okay so this will conclude this video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like subscribe comment turn on notifications if you have used other gaming dis Ros if you would like me to take a look at specific gaming dis Ros with more tests let me know in the comments as well and in the meantime I guess you will see me in the next one bye [Music]
hey everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Linux and open source news and this time we have the gnome Foundation announcing their Five-Year Plan to guide gnome towards well leaking less money we also have a very very scary feature making its way to Windows thanks to AI of course we have Qualcomm potentially beating the Apple M3 in terms of benchmarks and that's important because they do support Linux with official drivers that they're contributing to the kernel we have more progress on plasma 6.1 and a lot more and we of course also have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton makers of proton mail and proton VPN and you probably all know about them by now their services are open source they use zero access and endtoend encryption to make sure that your data stays yours they are focused on privacy and security and with Proton Drive and calendar you get a full featured Suite of online tools to escape the Privacy invasive solutions that most big tech companies offer and they now also have a password manager called proton pass it lets you store all your passwords and it also uses endtoend encryption of course you can use it as an extension for Firefox or any chromium based browser and they have mobile apps for Android and iOS as well with pass you can also generate passwords it offers a little icon in the login fields of websites to fill them in and it also supports pass keys they even monitor your passwords for potential threats and weak passwords that might be vulnerable and did I mention it's free with your proton account with unlimited passwords and devices and if you want more advanced features like dark web monitoring for leaked passwords you can upgrade to proton Pass Plus click the link in the description to get started I personally actually just migrated to proton pass so give it a shot so gnome published a first draft of their Five-Year Plan or at least the gnome Foundation did they published this to get a bit of feedback from the community from developers users and other parties who ship or might want to ship gnow they divided this plan into three big goals each having three separate objectives so first they want to have explosive growth of the community of what they call creators and users I guess creators meaning developers here the three objectives are to unify the community around a shared Vision something gnome has already been pushing hard they want to make gnome relevant and attractive to more diverse people through probably accessibility and they want to increase the commercial and economic value of gnome and this one I have no idea what this means maybe just make the project a more desirable Target for fundraising the second major goal is to create a unified and integrated Suite of programs services and processes this seems to Encompass building more integrated technology so maybe having more gnome apis that can be taken advantage of by apps and gnome itself but it also seems to Target how gnome is organized by reorganizing their events into a single annual event that could include more people at the same time finally the third goal is to strengthen the gnome Foundation as a nonprofit so presumably to make sure is well funded and works reliably with objectives such as documenting their impact and their value doubling the annual expense and revenue budget of the foundation and prioritizing the health and well-being of said foundation so obviously this is a plan for the gnome foundation not for the gnome desktop environment itself it's not a development road map but the plan seems pretty sound they want to grow the community and grow the number of users and to do that you need interesting techn techology so people want to work on it you need interesting products so people want to use them and to do that you also need to raise a bit of money to make sure you can hire people to work on those features and those Technologies so you need to make sure that the foundation is sound and can still fund raise uh for the project so I think it's a sound plan you can leave your feedback using the link I left in the description but obviously don't give your feedback on The Gnome desktop that's not what it is for you give your feedback on the plan if you want the minimize button B that's not the right place to ask for it now we also have some interesting news about the qualcom Snapdragon X Elite this is a CPU made by qualcom it's built on the arm platform and Qualcomm has been contributing to the Linux kernel everything that is needed to make this system on a chip work reliably and now we have some benchmarks for this thing which seems to indicate it will more than compete with Apple's latest computers it apparently beats the Apple M3 in Gig bench 6 by a pretty solid margin and an Intel Core Ultra 7 155h as well it runs a little hotter than Apple's M3 but the Snapdragon also apparently won in battery life tests with the M3 getting 16% less battery life while playing local video files now Graphics wise though it seems a bit less interesting it's been soundly beaten in blender render tests by the M3 and by the most recent Intel chip now still that is pretty impressive because that's the first time we've seen an arm chip not from Apple being able to compete with those M2 M3 chips obviously this is in benchmarks we know companies tend to just try and optimize four specific benchmarks so it doesn't mean much and also it doesn't compete with the Pro Ultra whatever else version of the chips Apple makes but it's still pretty nice and since Qualcomm is contributing direct driver support to the mainline l kernel it does mean we might at some point have a solid ARM device that no one needs to reverse engineer to make sure that it works Microsoft held a big conference about AI on Windows and what they call AI PCS also now branded as copilot plus PCS and among all the usual AI features there was one that stood out it's called Windows recall and on paper this thing seems insanely useful you just ask your AI assistant on your PC something and it's able to find anything you did on that PC that is remotely linked to what you're asking so for example if you were reading articles and you need to find one specific article back instead of trudging through your browser history you can just ask your PC to find it for you and it will bring up a screenshot of that exact article from when you read it and yes I said a screenshot because this has been done in the dumbest way possible it's just taking screenshots every few seconds of your entire screen and it's storing that and it's learning from that to identify objects and themes obviously this should raise a bunch of red flags because this means you will have screenshots that might display very private information or activities stored without your knowledge it can use up to 25 gigs of storage on your PC to do so which is more than an entire Linux dis R's worth of dis space and anyone who logs into your PC on your account or can just just access the disc's content will have access to all these screenshots which feels pretty bad now Microsoft said they won't take screenshots when using private browsing in Edge but they didn't mention if other browsers would also work with that and it also said it wouldn't take screenshots of copyrighted materials but no user cares about this this feature will be on by default and it looks like the screenshots might be encrypted which would lessen the risk a little bit but it is unclear if this encryption will only exist for Windows Pro and Enterprise users because these are the only ones who have access to encryption through bit Locker so maybe Windows Home users will have those screenshots completely unencrypted accessible to anyone with a live USB and it's easy to imagine all the potential Troublesome use cases of this thing if you log into to a public PC in a library or in a cyber cafe everybody will be able to see what you did because recall is probably on because no one will uncheck that cuz no one cares if you share a computer with your family on a single account same problem your whole family can search through your entire history if someone steals your computer and manages to log into your account admittedly you will have much bigger problems than this but also it could disclose some passwords or some things that they would have had a harder time to find so yeah pretty terrible feature as always it's AI going too fast and too far without any thinking about the consequences or the real use case now let's talk about KDE and KD developers are still working on plasma 6.1 it should release in less than a month and it saw its first beta released one of the things they fixed in here is theming on other desktops notably gnome where icons could just go missing since the advit icon theme doesn't aim to be a full icon theme and thus doesn't have the icons the KD apps could need the fix will be that KD apps will first try using the icon theme that the user has set and if certain icons aren there they will use the breeze icons instead which will always be provided alongside KD apps for now only Kate console and dolphin support this but any app can opt into that as well and in plasma 6.1 beta you can also expect triple buffering in kwin so rendering and animations should be a lot smoother especially on slower integrated gpus you will also get explicit sync support which should fix a lot of Wayland And Nvidia related problems on top of that dolphin will be able to generate previews for remote locations it will also let you become administrator or basically route inside the file manager way more easily with a nice big warning popup to let you know that you shouldn't mess around too much this cover will let you know when a flatback app is end of life and has been replaced by a new one and it will let you switch to that new app in one click you will also get some form of session restore where apps will reopen but not positioned in the same place you can sync your keyboard's RGB to your plasma accent color and the general visual consistency of plasma should be better with rounded Corner radii that have been made the same for every element and there are also some new details on how you will be able to edit the desktop in plasma 6.1 as in how you change the widgets add more widgets tweak the panel or add new panels currently the edit mode kind of overlays on top of your current desktop and it can be difficult to see if you're actually in or out of that mode and some elements cover parts of the desktop that you might want to interact with and it's just not super easy or convenient in 6.1 when you enter this edit mode your actual desktop and wallpaper will zoom out your panel will still occupy its current place on screen and every single element that opens after that will open outside of your desktop your desktop will move around to avoid these elements meaning that you will always see the entire desktop you will always have access to all the controls and you can just drag and drop things and click the buttons without having to move things out of the way so these are pretty great improvements to KD plasma now obviously this is still just in beta the final release is expected I think it's on the 18th of June and depending on your Dr you might get it pretty soon or reallyy not soon at all like in October if you use a buntu for example but hey at least it's worth the wait now Mozilla published a road map for the features they would like to implement in Firefox over the next year among these you have very useful stuff like tab grouping and virt vertical tabs which should let people get organized a bit better especially if you tend to always have tons of tabs open now to balance these very useful tab related features they will also add a pretty meaningless one which is tab wallpapers that I guess appear in empty new tabs the menus in Firefox will be streamlined to make the more important items more visible and accessible and of course they also want to focus on speed performance and compatibility they're apparently already have something that should improve responsiveness by 20% but I am unsure if they actually already shipped that or if it's developed but not shipped yet and judging from my use case of Firefox I don't think it has been shipped yet at all uh they're also working with the interop project which aims to make it easier for developers to make websites that work on more than just chromium finally and because it's 2024 they will be working on AI features that fortunately will run locally without infringing on your privacy and they will be used for useful accessibility stuff like generating alt text for images inserted into PDFs for example and I must admit this is a pretty underwhelming feature list for the web browser there's nothing I really care about my main gripe with Firefox right now is that it is much slower than any chromium based browser I'm sticking with it for now because I don't want to encourage uh Google's chromium Monopoly but it's getting harder and harder to justify when some website take like 5 seconds before displaying a popup after I click a button when they react instantly on Chrome and I'm not even just talking about Google websites there are also plenty of others that just don't care about Firefox anymore so if they can actually deliver this 20% responsiveness Improvement then great maybe that will be enough for me but if they imply that they already delivered it let me tell you I haven't seen any of those improvements in any website I've been using okay now let's finish this with the gaming news first we have an interesting project called netris it is basically stadia but self hostable and open source it uses steam so it works with your existing game library that you can then stream to other devices either from a server that they host or from your own server it offers steam Library sharing HD streams parental controls and apparently low latency thanks to something they called quick quic which apparently helps with streaming quality and responsiveness this this thing doesn't support third party launchers yet like EA Ubisoft rock stars or battl net or presumably the epic game store and they do use proton G to run games so you will only play games that work on Linux of course it is still an experimental thing and that self hosting requires an Nvidia GPU probably because their streaming improvements depend on Cuda so if you like cloud gaming but you would like to retain control over your games library and you want to still be able to play these games we streaming them on other devices I don't think it's a bad project the Nvidia requirement will probably annoy a few people because it's not the most popular GPU manufacturer on Linux but I think it looks like a cool project and finally Nvidia released a beta for their proprietary drivers version 555 this time and it's a big release it is not the version where they will switch to their open-source modules by default but it is still a version where they added support for explicit sync on Wayland meaning that all the graphical glitches slowdowns and artifacts should now have disappeared provided you also got the update to either plasma 6.1 or gome 46.1 these drivers also will use the GPU system processor firmware by default on RTX card I thought that was already the case but apparently not and you will need at least the kernel 4.15 to use these which should not be a problem because that's already pretty damn old the drivers also now support 10 bit per comp component over HDMI and a few more whand related features now of course those are still beta drivers you'll have to wait for I think at least a month before you get the final release of these but if you absolutely need Wayland on your PC with an Nvidia GPU now might be the time to upgrade and also move to a recent version of a desktop environment that also supports explicit sync it could fix the problem personally I will wait until my Dr gives me the update though my drro that is made by today's sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and small form factor computers that ship with Linux out of the box they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they ship tuxedo OS which is their own Dro it's a pretty good one but they also have other choices for popular options and they have repos containing all the potential fixes and improvements you might have if those haven't been upstreamed in the kernel just yet they have a wide range of devices that should fit every need and every price range whether you're looking for a small Ultra for office work all the way up to a gaming laptop gaming tower or workstation and everything in between every device is pretty configurable pretty customizable all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded they're just really really solid I only use them these days my 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hey everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Linux and open source news and this time we have the gnome Foundation announcing their Five-Year Plan to guide gnome towards well leaking less money we also have a very very scary feature making its way to Windows thanks to AI of course we have Qualcomm potentially beating the Apple M3 in terms of benchmarks and that's important because they do support Linux with official drivers that they're contributing to the kernel we have more progress on plasma 6.1 and a lot more and we of course also have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton makers of proton mail and proton VPN and you probably all know about them by now their services are open source they use zero access and endtoend encryption to make sure that your data stays yours they are focused on privacy and security and with Proton Drive and calendar you get a full featured Suite of online tools to escape the Privacy invasive solutions that most big tech companies offer and they now also have a password manager called proton pass it lets you store all your passwords and it also uses endtoend encryption of course you can use it as an extension for Firefox or any chromium based browser and they have mobile apps for Android and iOS as well with pass you can also generate passwords it offers a little icon in the login fields of websites to fill them in and it also supports pass keys they even monitor your passwords for potential threats and weak passwords that might be vulnerable and did I mention it's free with your proton account with unlimited passwords and devices and if you want more advanced features like dark web monitoring for leaked passwords you can upgrade to proton Pass Plus click the link in the description to get started I personally actually just migrated to proton pass so give it a shot so gnome published a first draft of their Five-Year Plan or at least the gnome Foundation did they published this to get a bit of feedback from the community from developers users and other parties who ship or might want to ship gnow they divided this plan into three big goals each having three separate objectives so first they want to have explosive growth of the community of what they call creators and users I guess creators meaning developers here the three objectives are to unify the community around a shared Vision something gnome has already been pushing hard they want to make gnome relevant and attractive to more diverse people through probably accessibility and they want to increase the commercial and economic value of gnome and this one I have no idea what this means maybe just make the project a more desirable Target for fundraising the second major goal is to create a unified and integrated Suite of programs services and processes this seems to Encompass building more integrated technology so maybe having more gnome apis that can be taken advantage of by apps and gnome itself but it also seems to Target how gnome is organized by reorganizing their events into a single annual event that could include more people at the same time finally the third goal is to strengthen the gnome Foundation as a nonprofit so presumably to make sure is well funded and works reliably with objectives such as documenting their impact and their value doubling the annual expense and revenue budget of the foundation and prioritizing the health and well-being of said foundation so obviously this is a plan for the gnome foundation not for the gnome desktop environment itself it's not a development road map but the plan seems pretty sound they want to grow the community and grow the number of users and to do that you need interesting techn techology so people want to work on it you need interesting products so people want to use them and to do that you also need to raise a bit of money to make sure you can hire people to work on those features and those Technologies so you need to make sure that the foundation is sound and can still fund raise uh for the project so I think it's a sound plan you can leave your feedback using the link I left in the description but obviously don't give your feedback on The Gnome desktop that's not what it is for you give your feedback on the plan if you want the minimize button B that's not the right place to ask for it now we also have some interesting news about the qualcom Snapdragon X Elite this is a CPU made by qualcom it's built on the arm platform and Qualcomm has been contributing to the Linux kernel everything that is needed to make this system on a chip work reliably and now we have some benchmarks for this thing which seems to indicate it will more than compete with Apple's latest computers it apparently beats the Apple M3 in Gig bench 6 by a pretty solid margin and an Intel Core Ultra 7 155h as well it runs a little hotter than Apple's M3 but the Snapdragon also apparently won in battery life tests with the M3 getting 16% less battery life while playing local video files now Graphics wise though it seems a bit less interesting it's been soundly beaten in blender render tests by the M3 and by the most recent Intel chip now still that is pretty impressive because that's the first time we've seen an arm chip not from Apple being able to compete with those M2 M3 chips obviously this is in benchmarks we know companies tend to just try and optimize four specific benchmarks so it doesn't mean much and also it doesn't compete with the Pro Ultra whatever else version of the chips Apple makes but it's still pretty nice and since Qualcomm is contributing direct driver support to the mainline l kernel it does mean we might at some point have a solid ARM device that no one needs to reverse engineer to make sure that it works Microsoft held a big conference about AI on Windows and what they call AI PCS also now branded as copilot plus PCS and among all the usual AI features there was one that stood out it's called Windows recall and on paper this thing seems insanely useful you just ask your AI assistant on your PC something and it's able to find anything you did on that PC that is remotely linked to what you're asking so for example if you were reading articles and you need to find one specific article back instead of trudging through your browser history you can just ask your PC to find it for you and it will bring up a screenshot of that exact article from when you read it and yes I said a screenshot because this has been done in the dumbest way possible it's just taking screenshots every few seconds of your entire screen and it's storing that and it's learning from that to identify objects and themes obviously this should raise a bunch of red flags because this means you will have screenshots that might display very private information or activities stored without your knowledge it can use up to 25 gigs of storage on your PC to do so which is more than an entire Linux dis R's worth of dis space and anyone who logs into your PC on your account or can just just access the disc's content will have access to all these screenshots which feels pretty bad now Microsoft said they won't take screenshots when using private browsing in Edge but they didn't mention if other browsers would also work with that and it also said it wouldn't take screenshots of copyrighted materials but no user cares about this this feature will be on by default and it looks like the screenshots might be encrypted which would lessen the risk a little bit but it is unclear if this encryption will only exist for Windows Pro and Enterprise users because these are the only ones who have access to encryption through bit Locker so maybe Windows Home users will have those screenshots completely unencrypted accessible to anyone with a live USB and it's easy to imagine all the potential Troublesome use cases of this thing if you log into to a public PC in a library or in a cyber cafe everybody will be able to see what you did because recall is probably on because no one will uncheck that cuz no one cares if you share a computer with your family on a single account same problem your whole family can search through your entire history if someone steals your computer and manages to log into your account admittedly you will have much bigger problems than this but also it could disclose some passwords or some things that they would have had a harder time to find so yeah pretty terrible feature as always it's AI going too fast and too far without any thinking about the consequences or the real use case now let's talk about KDE and KD developers are still working on plasma 6.1 it should release in less than a month and it saw its first beta released one of the things they fixed in here is theming on other desktops notably gnome where icons could just go missing since the advit icon theme doesn't aim to be a full icon theme and thus doesn't have the icons the KD apps could need the fix will be that KD apps will first try using the icon theme that the user has set and if certain icons aren there they will use the breeze icons instead which will always be provided alongside KD apps for now only Kate console and dolphin support this but any app can opt into that as well and in plasma 6.1 beta you can also expect triple buffering in kwin so rendering and animations should be a lot smoother especially on slower integrated gpus you will also get explicit sync support which should fix a lot of Wayland And Nvidia related problems on top of that dolphin will be able to generate previews for remote locations it will also let you become administrator or basically route inside the file manager way more easily with a nice big warning popup to let you know that you shouldn't mess around too much this cover will let you know when a flatback app is end of life and has been replaced by a new one and it will let you switch to that new app in one click you will also get some form of session restore where apps will reopen but not positioned in the same place you can sync your keyboard's RGB to your plasma accent color and the general visual consistency of plasma should be better with rounded Corner radii that have been made the same for every element and there are also some new details on how you will be able to edit the desktop in plasma 6.1 as in how you change the widgets add more widgets tweak the panel or add new panels currently the edit mode kind of overlays on top of your current desktop and it can be difficult to see if you're actually in or out of that mode and some elements cover parts of the desktop that you might want to interact with and it's just not super easy or convenient in 6.1 when you enter this edit mode your actual desktop and wallpaper will zoom out your panel will still occupy its current place on screen and every single element that opens after that will open outside of your desktop your desktop will move around to avoid these elements meaning that you will always see the entire desktop you will always have access to all the controls and you can just drag and drop things and click the buttons without having to move things out of the way so these are pretty great improvements to KD plasma now obviously this is still just in beta the final release is expected I think it's on the 18th of June and depending on your Dr you might get it pretty soon or reallyy not soon at all like in October if you use a buntu for example but hey at least it's worth the wait now Mozilla published a road map for the features they would like to implement in Firefox over the next year among these you have very useful stuff like tab grouping and virt vertical tabs which should let people get organized a bit better especially if you tend to always have tons of tabs open now to balance these very useful tab related features they will also add a pretty meaningless one which is tab wallpapers that I guess appear in empty new tabs the menus in Firefox will be streamlined to make the more important items more visible and accessible and of course they also want to focus on speed performance and compatibility they're apparently already have something that should improve responsiveness by 20% but I am unsure if they actually already shipped that or if it's developed but not shipped yet and judging from my use case of Firefox I don't think it has been shipped yet at all uh they're also working with the interop project which aims to make it easier for developers to make websites that work on more than just chromium finally and because it's 2024 they will be working on AI features that fortunately will run locally without infringing on your privacy and they will be used for useful accessibility stuff like generating alt text for images inserted into PDFs for example and I must admit this is a pretty underwhelming feature list for the web browser there's nothing I really care about my main gripe with Firefox right now is that it is much slower than any chromium based browser I'm sticking with it for now because I don't want to encourage uh Google's chromium Monopoly but it's getting harder and harder to justify when some website take like 5 seconds before displaying a popup after I click a button when they react instantly on Chrome and I'm not even just talking about Google websites there are also plenty of others that just don't care about Firefox anymore so if they can actually deliver this 20% responsiveness Improvement then great maybe that will be enough for me but if they imply that they already delivered it let me tell you I haven't seen any of those improvements in any website I've been using okay now let's finish this with the gaming news first we have an interesting project called netris it is basically stadia but self hostable and open source it uses steam so it works with your existing game library that you can then stream to other devices either from a server that they host or from your own server it offers steam Library sharing HD streams parental controls and apparently low latency thanks to something they called quick quic which apparently helps with streaming quality and responsiveness this this thing doesn't support third party launchers yet like EA Ubisoft rock stars or battl net or presumably the epic game store and they do use proton G to run games so you will only play games that work on Linux of course it is still an experimental thing and that self hosting requires an Nvidia GPU probably because their streaming improvements depend on Cuda so if you like cloud gaming but you would like to retain control over your games library and you want to still be able to play these games we streaming them on other devices I don't think it's a bad project the Nvidia requirement will probably annoy a few people because it's not the most popular GPU manufacturer on Linux but I think it looks like a cool project and finally Nvidia released a beta for their proprietary drivers version 555 this time and it's a big release it is not the version where they will switch to their open-source modules by default but it is still a version where they added support for explicit sync on Wayland meaning that all the graphical glitches slowdowns and artifacts should now have disappeared provided you also got the update to either plasma 6.1 or gome 46.1 these drivers also will use the GPU system processor firmware by default on RTX card I thought that was already the case but apparently not and you will need at least the kernel 4.15 to use these which should not be a problem because that's already pretty damn old the drivers also now support 10 bit per comp component over HDMI and a few more whand related features now of course those are still beta drivers you'll have to wait for I think at least a month before you get the final release of these but if you absolutely need Wayland on your PC with an Nvidia GPU now might be the time to upgrade and also move to a recent version of a desktop environment that also 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome to this week's edition of the Linux and open source news show and this week we have Nvidia making their open-source kernel modules the way forward for their recent gpus instead of the proprietary drivers we also have a new attack that makes all vpns basically useless and it does affect Linux Mac OS Windows the only OS that isn't affected is Android apparently and we also have some more news about Cosmic we have valve contributing to the nvk drivers and a lot more including this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail they make a suite of online tools focused on privacy with end and zero access encrypted email an online storage space a calendar a VPN and a password manager the goal is to offer an all-in-one Suite of services that respect your privacy and give you the tools to avoid being tracked in your inbox and buy the tools you use every day to get work done and if you're wondering why that's so important here is a perfect 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the Nvidia 560 driver series which is not released yet they're planning to use their open-source cural modules instead of the proprietary driver that's not nvo that's not nvk it's the open source driver Nvidia develops themselves and that isn't part of the Linux kernel meaning you will still have to install an additional package or you'll have to run a do run installed file from nvidia's website or alternatively this Ros will have to package these modules and decide whether they want to ship them as part of their default install which shouldn't be that problematic anymore because well they're open source you will still be able to pick the proprietor driver instead but Nvidia said that in the future chances are some gpus will only be supported by their open source modules now before you get excited do note that this is only for the kernel drivers the user space drivers that handle openg GL or Vulcan or Cuda these are still closed Source here as is the generic firmware for these gpus still it is good progress and with Nvidia developers contributing to Novo and nvk it's not entirely unreasonable to think that at some point on top of these open source kernel modules from Nvidia you might be able to just run nvk and have that full opensource stack which would be really cool we have more news about the cosmic desktop their developers have now almost finished implementing display mirroring which apparently also supports cases where the resolution the orientation or the refresh rates are different between your displays system 76 is also building arm 64 variants of their packages and their brand new app store is now completed apart from some minor ux issues although it just looks like any other app store it's apparently really fast though they say they found it more efficient than using the command line the file manager gained integration with gnome's virtual file system to handle all the external file storage the login manager is now done as well and they've also created a new widget in their lib Cosmic library to let developers Implement context menus some fixes were applied to theming as well and a bunch of other issues were dealt with with the compositor with the screenshot tool with scrolling and other things and Cosmic is also getting some attention from the community even though it's not out yet with a new GitHub template being created to Kickstart the creation of cosmic apps and a new web app manager being created as well and in the process of being added to flath hop an input sources Outlet was also created to change keyboard layouts and settings from the top panel of cosmic so I do hope the alpha is still planned for the end of this month I booked a video slot to demo what they've accomplished I'm not expecting it to be as full featured as KD or not even as gnome especially in terms of the default applications but it does look like they have covered all the basics and it will be interesting to look at a new desktop environment built from scratch with the modern Linux tack in mind instead of carrying around a lot of old Legacy code for X11 and stuff that's been here for like decades by now now there's a new attack that renders most vpns completely useless and when I say new I mean it has been found by researchers recently but it potentially could have existed and been used since 2002 the new method called tunnel vision lets an attacker read drop or modify any traffic that tries to go through a VPN all the while maintaining that connection to the VPN and to the internet meaning you wouldn't even know that it's happening it works by running a DHCP server in Gateway mode on the same network as the VPN user and then by using traffic forwarding rules to pass that traffic to a real Gateway spying everything that goes through the DHCP server in the meantime these routes are never encrypted through the VPN in that process this attack works on any OS apart from Android apparently because it doesn't implement the option which is what is being used in the attacker DHCP server on Linux you can minimize the effects of the attack but not entirely prevented and other operating systems are completely affected the attacker still needs to have admin privileges over your network like for example having access to the admin interface of your router which isn't too hard at least in France because most of the ISP routers are just using admin as a login and a password untrusted public networks could also be very easily targeted and this is where you would be most likely to use a VPN so you would connect to a very basic hotel or airport or cafe Wi-Fi you would turn on your VPN and feel like everything is safe and secure but it wouldn't be and you wouldn't even be able to know someone somewhere has a DHCP server that is getting all your traffic and then passing it back to a regular server that then passes it to the VPN and everything looks encrypted it's a man in the- Middle attack basically now open source is really cool because everyone can contribute but sometimes it also means we reach Peak stupidity because some Pokémon go players are apparently modifying real open street map data to add beaches where these don't exist in real life because this will never them increase chances of catching some rare Pokemon in their game now since Pokémon go uses real map data from osm to make their virtual creatures available in their app and to pinpoint certain points of interest that let you refill your Poke Balls and stuff like that some players just thought it would be acceptable to just change the real map the worst thing is that Pokemon go might not even update their open street map data regularly or at all meaning that first these modifications aren't even guaranteed to help people catch these Pokémon in their game and second they're actually modifying real mapping data something that is used by actual useful applications and programs all across the world sometimes the Griefers even draw their own pseudonym on the map and it also seems that some anti- pookemon go people are now removing real points of interest just because they are used in game to give certain game advantages to Pokémon go players obviously do not change real map data just to fit a game that might not even pull that data for 5 months it's stupid this is real data that has been contributed over the years by a dedicated Community do not do that but also apparently since Pokémon go moved to osm in 2017 I think a lot of people started implementing more data into osm because they want their CD to have the points of interest that could be used in game and so the quality of the data in osm has improved thanks to an influx of Pokémon go contributors which I mean that's okay doesn't give you the excuse to actually destroy the real map though now it looks like valve is taking an interest in the nvk open source Vulcan drivers for NVIDIA they've been working on bringing explicit sync to these drivers this is a feature that is needed to get better performance less latency and less graphical glitches on Nvidia it's something that both gnome and KY are working on as well to make sure that they can support it once the drivers actually have that feature so now thanks to valve the nvk driver will support that and the gamec scope compositor that valve users in Steam OS will also be able to make use of that the newvo kernel driver also received updates to support the feature so it will definitely make nvk a more viable option in the near future but what is really interesting here is that it's valve contributing to an Nvidia driver because valve generally just uses AMD stuff their steam deck and Steam OS is for now only rated to run on an AMD Apu so them contributing to some Nvidia code might mean they're getting ready to either open up steam o to more computers or to maybe start onboarding partners that might want to ship Nvidia gpus in their devices that could run Steam OS we not there yet but them contributing to Nvidia only stuff it's cool maybe they were just waiting for an open- Source driver to not have any licensing problems and legal issues by having to ship an Nvidia proprietary driver and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have Ste o 3.6 it's now in preview and it updates the entire Arch base of the distribution with the kernel 6.5 the latest Mesa 24.1 and so basically improved performance overall in terms of Steam OS specific features they apparently improved how the display looks on the steam Deck with better colar balance and better gamma uniformity the steam UI should also be more responsive which is an issue I've had on my steam deck where things are not stuttery but they're not that smooth either but the desktop mode of Steam OS is still stuck to KD 5.27 it doesn't get plasma 6 for now the BIOS was also updated for the steam deck bringing overclocking controls to the steam deck LCD there are a bunch of other interesting changes as well first pairing with airpods is improved you can now wake the device using a controller meaning it should now behave like a proper console where you can turn on the controller and start playing instead of having to turn on the device manually and the steam deck doc also supports TV remote input TV wake up and TV input switching over HDMI so technically you could you just put your steam deck to sleep in its deck dock you turn off your TV and when you turn on the controller it wakes up the steam deck it wakes up the TV and it works just like any gaming console which is cool I'll make sure to give that preview a shot just to see how well it works and if it does work maybe I'll try using Steam OS or Holo ISO again on my steam gaming console because that was an issue I had where I just had to get off my lazy ass and turn on the thing with the button it wasn't in a convenient location it just wasn't practical turning it on with a controller much better and we also have a few more details about platron OS the linux-based gaming OS that the platron company wants to bring to a few handhelds and other devices they have big plans for this they want to push it to TVs to PCS to handhelds and more and they actually received some sizable investment so now we know that the OS will let you play games from Steam epic games Gog and more and they say it has improved game game compatibility compared to other systems I guess because it will let you use things like the heroic launcher or another implementation of the legendary API to connect to the epic game store more easily than on Steam OS they said the pre-launch will be in 2024 and many devices are planned for 2025 although only one has been announced for now platron OS is apparently based on Fedora silver blue 40 and they also said they tested things on the steam deck the the Lenovo Legion go the GPD win for or the Rog allies they also said that they were backed by a handful of crypto companies which is never a good sign for any product and they also said that only the core OS code would be open source so probably their entire gaming interface and compatibility with other launchers will not be open source although that's also not the case with Steam OS the the interface and the steam client are not open source either so I don't think that's such a giant issue I'm always up for these kinds of projects that try to push Linux based systems to mass Market or at least consumer-based devices but the crypto stuff always smells fishy and until they've actually shown the system running on some actual hardware and until they announce some Partnerships some real physical stuff I will treat it as vaporware what isn't vaporware though is our sponsor tuxedo computers they make computers that are definitely real and that ship with Linux pre-installed you can buy them using the link in the description below they have a big range of devices from small Ultra books for office work all the way up to gaming laptops giant workstations giant gaming towers and everything in 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hey everyone and welcome to this new episode of the Linux and open source news this week we have Firefox implementing more data collection but don't be afraid it looks kind of fine and you can disable it we also have more stuff happening around AI which proves that it is an absolute disaster right now we also have the release of the Linux kernel 6.9 and France starting to ban Tik Tok in certain territories to quell some protest which is not great we also have this excellent Segway to our excellent sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag and drop it's really easy to use you can create all your pages but you also 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suggestions that you can see in the popup that appears when you start typing in the address bar they're saying that the data is anonymized with oblivious HTTP that's a tool that reroutes all the data so they cannot know your own IP address they cannot link it to your search dat data and they're also not linking this data to your Firefox account if you use one they say they don't collect the specific Search terms that you're typing or the websites that you visit just the broad categories you've searched for and if you disable usage data in firefox's settings you will also disable this data collection and honestly this looks sort of okay I am never a big fan of a tool I'm using implementing more data collection especially to power a feature that I'm sure no one really uses like Firefox suggest if it is to prepare for more features I would have preferred them to announce these features at the same time as the data collection but here it is completely Anonymous it is not linked to any personal data and you can turn it off and it is already turned off if you already disabled Telemetry in Firefox so I think it's okay and there's not much to worry about I would prefer if it wasn't there but it's not a big deal that it is keypass XC users that use Debian testing are in for a rough ride because the maintainer for this package arbitrarily decided to cut some features from the application in the default package most notably browser integration which lets you use the passwords you saved in your password manager inside of your web browser which is you know one of the biggest use cases for a password manager the developer also published a pretty infuriating and patronizing message when asked why this happened basically saying that a password manager should not interface with anything and that these developments are I quote misguided and that users could always install the I quote crappy version manually and that is a very entitled response a maintainer job is to distribute software not to decide how the software works if the default version of the app comes with these plugins enabled and and most users want them it's not up to the maintainer to decide if it's misguided or crap it's their job to give users what they need if they don't like the app or the direction it takes they can always resign from their position especially here when we're talking about using your passwords in a web browser with an extension instead of having to open your password manager unlock it find the password for the website you're visiting copying and pasting it like a caveman the rational behind this is that it's not secure to have these Integrations enabled and also that it increases the attack surface but you know what also increases the attack surface of your system using X11 where any app can be a key logger and you can't do anything about it or having the network enabled or having a service that lets apps communicate with each other like copy pasting which you need if you're disabled browser integration do you want to remove these score features of a system just like uh using browser integration for a password manager is a core feature of a password manager it's not up to the maintainer to decide if these core features should exist if you don't like that keypass XC has these plugins you should probably just stop maintaining keypass XC for Debian now fortunately you can still install the keypass XC Das full package to get the normal fully functional version and not use the crappy limited version the maintainer wants you to use now we have had a lot of stuff happening around AI this week and it just paints a pretty Bleak picture first Google had its annual developer conference Google IO which was mostly focused on AI and in terms of features it looks useful stuff like asking Google to show you how your kid swimming has progressed that will generate a slideshow of all the pictures of your kid swimming or asking what is your license plate number Google will now pull all the photos of your own car with the plate clearly visible in Gmail Google can sift through your emails and generate summaries for you and Google search will also start showing summaries on certain topics instead of the links first all AI generated of course but when you think about it Google's AI is now able to deduce personal information instead of collecting it when you type it or when you search for things or when you voluntarily contribute it so they can use your photos documents emails and more and just deduce everything they need to know to Target you with ads without you even contributing any of this data willingly and with AI answers now reaching Google Search right before you even see any links it's no longer Bing does that but it has like 2% market share so no one gives a crap it's now billions of people will see the one world view that Google has trained its AI to regurgitate and I'm not sure that's something that will benefit society as a whole now stay on AI netbsd has decided to ban contributions that are using AI generated code they updated their commit guide especially the second paragraph titled do not commit tainted code to the repo which now includes a ban on code generated by large language models or similar technology and they actually name names like GitHub and Microsoft's co-pilot open ai's chat GPT or meta and Facebook's llama they say they will presume any AI gener ated code is Tainted and must not be committed without approval which is normal as any ruling in any country could force a specific license on this AI generated code and could force projects to revisit a lot of older comets and remove or rewrite some code other projects did that previously like Gen 2 for example and I would be surprised if more open- Source projects didn't adopt a similar stance on AI and just started Banning AI code alog together now if you needed even more proof that AI is still a show we also have slack now scraping consumer data to develop new AI models this is done by default and it doesn't require any opin and all message contents and files typed in or uploaded to slack can now be used to train their AI model they say data will not leak between workplaces but when you look at how easy it is to make things like chat GPT spit out a Verbatim copy of online articles it probably won't be too hard to force slack AI to also spit out exact copies of messages sent by another company to opt out you actually have to contact the slack customer experience team via email you cannot even do it with a simple toggle in the settings and we also have open AI team focused on preventing the long risks of AI that has disbanded just one year after it was formed team members stated that they disagreed with Open ai's Leadership on the core priorities they also said that the company should be more focused on security monitoring safety and societal impact and that these concerns are not only not being addressed but that their team didn't even get access to the Computing resources they needed to conduct research on those topics and finally if you use Reddit well your posts are now used to train open AI as well as Reddit struck a deal with open AI to let them use their realtime API the CEO of open AI is actually a Reddit shareholder as well which probably helped smooth over the deal and it is no surprise open AI would want access to this data in a legal way because Reddit is basically now better than Google at giving you relevant results for a lot of Searchers and it also sort of proves that open AI is perfectly aware that they need to pay to actually use content that is publicly available online to train their AI model so that's probably not going to help them for their current ongoing cases against major Publishers who are requiring the exact same thing but also these Technologies are insanely useful they will definitely transform and improve the lives of many many people but they do need some safeguards and barriers and some oversight letting company decide how the world will work or how Society functions or the core tools that everyone uses has never worked in any period of time for anyone we need to make sure those things don't go too fast too far because if they do we're all kind of screwed now this week we also saw the release of the Linux kernel 6.9 headline features include better performance for Intel Core Ultra CPUs some AMD CPU performance improvements and also the implementation of AMD pstate preferred core meaning that on your specific AMD CPU the fastest core that you have will be identified and will be prioritized for heavy workloads to increase performance Intel CPUs with a hybrid design so with efficiency and performance scores should also see better support and performance the terminal or TT wise should look better when running them on a high resolution display thanks to higher quality fonts Intel fast boot wasn't enabled on all platforms and the new experimental Intel XE driver for modern Intel gpus has seen some improvements although it is still not the default for now and you can add to that the usual improvements to the performance of various file systems plus more Hardware support as always so it is a pretty solid version that should bring performance improvements for virtually everyone provided the dis R you use gives you an update to 6.9 and since it's not an LTS colel chances are if you're not using a rolling release drro you might not get access to it it will also only be supported for a few months uh so you probably will get those benefits with a later version of the colonel instead now in a pretty totalitarian move France decided to ban Tik Tock in new calonia a territory in the Pacific that is still part of France for now there are some violent clashes and protests going over there notably because France is planning a constitutional reform for the territory to let more people who aren't native to the territory vote in decisions regarding new calonia itself including a potential referendum to become an independent state so as protests organize it looks like Tik Tok was one of the main tools being used and so France decided to ban it in a move reminiscent of basically every totalitarian regime of course it serves no real purpose because most people they just turned to VPS tends to still use the application with certain Services reporting a 150% increase in the number of VPN users there and in case you were wondering this is what infringing on Free Speech looks like it's not a company deciding to ban you from its own private platform for saying something they don't like it's not a Discord server run by three people telling you you don't have the right to say something this is a government telling you that you cannot use this specific application because they don't like what you're saying on it that's the problem that's infringing on free speech and seeing France do that when other countries that have done that in the past don't really have the best track record in terms of Human Rights or even just democracy in general that's extremely worrying and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have some news about the new anti sync driver for wine and proton which promises to bring a lot of performance Improvement ments when gaming on Linux this driver should be included in the kernel 6.10 but unfortunately it's been marked as broken as the driver is not complete enough not all the patchers required have been merged and it is now too late to include them in 6.10 meaning the driver will not be compiled by default in 6.10 and we will have to wait for the next release to see how much it helps our gaming experience the developer for the driver someone working for code Weaver first the company that contributes most of Wine's code said that they're sorry for taking too long to get these patches into an acceptable State and seriously you don't have to apologize you're doing awesome work the fact that it took a little bit longer than you initially thought is really not a problem we'll wait for 6.11 to get access to this and it looks like it's going to be a major performance improvement over using regular wine we will have to compare how it does if you compare it with fsync or esync when using proton but there should be performance improvements there too and wine 9.9 was also released this week improving support for running 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit systems and making arm support smoother and more efficient by better detecting the CPU model some obsolete features in wi's direct X implementation were also removed and there are also 38 bug fixes in that release notably for crisis 2 for Siberia Assassin's Creed Syndicate unity and odyssey or Fallout 3 and as always these improvements will at some point make their way into proton as well so you will get those benefits when Val decides to rebase proton on the latest version of Y and how about you decide to rebase your computer experience thanks to our 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hey everyone and welcome to this new episode of the Linux and open source news this week we have Firefox implementing more data collection but don't be afraid it looks kind of fine and you can disable it we also have more stuff happening around AI which proves that it is an absolute disaster right now we also have the release of the Linux kernel 6.9 and France starting to ban Tik Tok in certain territories to quell some protest which is not great we also have this excellent Segway to our excellent sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag and drop it's really easy to use you can create all your pages but you also 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suggestions that you can see in the popup that appears when you start typing in the address bar they're saying that the data is anonymized with oblivious HTTP that's a tool that reroutes all the data so they cannot know your own IP address they cannot link it to your search dat data and they're also not linking this data to your Firefox account if you use one they say they don't collect the specific Search terms that you're typing or the websites that you visit just the broad categories you've searched for and if you disable usage data in firefox's settings you will also disable this data collection and honestly this looks sort of okay I am never a big fan of a tool I'm using implementing more data collection especially to power a feature that I'm sure no one really uses like Firefox suggest if it is to prepare for more features I would have preferred them to announce these features at the same time as the data collection but here it is completely Anonymous it is not linked to any personal data and you can turn it off and it is already turned off if you already disabled Telemetry in Firefox so I think it's okay and there's not much to worry about I would prefer if it wasn't there but it's not a big deal that it is keypass XC users that use Debian testing are in for a rough ride because the maintainer for this package arbitrarily decided to cut some features from the application in the default package most notably browser integration which lets you use the passwords you saved in your password manager inside of your web browser which is you know one of the biggest use cases for a password manager the developer also published a pretty infuriating and patronizing message when asked why this happened basically saying that a password manager should not interface with anything and that these developments are I quote misguided and that users could always install the I quote crappy version manually and that is a very entitled response a maintainer job is to distribute software not to decide how the software works if the default version of the app comes with these plugins enabled and and most users want them it's not up to the maintainer to decide if it's misguided or crap it's their job to give users what they need if they don't like the app or the direction it takes they can always resign from their position especially here when we're talking about using your passwords in a web browser with an extension instead of having to open your password manager unlock it find the password for the website you're visiting copying and pasting it like a caveman the rational behind this is that it's not secure to have these Integrations enabled and also that it increases the attack surface but you know what also increases the attack surface of your system using X11 where any app can be a key logger and you can't do anything about it or having the network enabled or having a service that lets apps communicate with each other like copy pasting which you need if you're disabled browser integration do you want to remove these score features of a system just like uh using browser integration for a password manager is a core feature of a password manager it's not up to the maintainer to decide if these core features should exist if you don't like that keypass XC has these plugins you should probably just stop maintaining keypass XC for Debian now fortunately you can still install the keypass XC Das full package to get the normal fully functional version and not use the crappy limited version the maintainer wants you to use now we have had a lot of stuff happening around AI this week and it just paints a pretty Bleak picture first Google had its annual developer conference Google IO which was mostly focused on AI and in terms of features it looks useful stuff like asking Google to show you how your kid swimming has progressed that will generate a slideshow of all the pictures of your kid swimming or asking what is your license plate number Google will now pull all the photos of your own car with the plate clearly visible in Gmail Google can sift through your emails and generate summaries for you and Google search will also start showing summaries on certain topics instead of the links first all AI generated of course but when you think about it Google's AI is now able to deduce personal information instead of collecting it when you type it or when you search for things or when you voluntarily contribute it so they can use your photos documents emails and more and just deduce everything they need to know to Target you with ads without you even contributing any of this data willingly and with AI answers now reaching Google Search right before you even see any links it's no longer Bing does that but it has like 2% market share so no one gives a crap it's now billions of people will see the one world view that Google has trained its AI to regurgitate and I'm not sure that's something that will benefit society as a whole now stay on AI netbsd has decided to ban contributions that are using AI generated code they updated their commit guide especially the second paragraph titled do not commit tainted code to the repo which now includes a ban on code generated by large language models or similar technology and they actually name names like GitHub and Microsoft's co-pilot open ai's chat GPT or meta and Facebook's llama they say they will presume any AI gener ated code is Tainted and must not be committed without approval which is normal as any ruling in any country could force a specific license on this AI generated code and could force projects to revisit a lot of older comets and remove or rewrite some code other projects did that previously like Gen 2 for example and I would be surprised if more open- Source projects didn't adopt a similar stance on AI and just started Banning AI code alog together now if you needed even more proof that AI is still a show we also have slack now scraping consumer data to develop new AI models this is done by default and it doesn't require any opin and all message contents and files typed in or uploaded to slack can now be used to train their AI model they say data will not leak between workplaces but when you look at how easy it is to make things like chat GPT spit out a Verbatim copy of online articles it probably won't be too hard to force slack AI to also spit out exact copies of messages sent by another company to opt out you actually have to contact the slack customer experience team via email you cannot even do it with a simple toggle in the settings and we also have open AI team focused on preventing the long risks of AI that has disbanded just one year after it was formed team members stated that they disagreed with Open ai's Leadership on the core priorities they also said that the company should be more focused on security monitoring safety and societal impact and that these concerns are not only not being addressed but that their team didn't even get access to the Computing resources they needed to conduct research on those topics and finally if you use Reddit well your posts are now used to train open AI as well as Reddit struck a deal with open AI to let them use their realtime API the CEO of open AI is actually a Reddit shareholder as well which probably helped smooth over the deal and it is no surprise open AI would want access to this data in a legal way because Reddit is basically now better than Google at giving you relevant results for a lot of Searchers and it also sort of proves that open AI is perfectly aware that they need to pay to actually use content that is publicly available online to train their AI model so that's probably not going to help them for their current ongoing cases against major Publishers who are requiring the exact same thing but also these Technologies are insanely useful they will definitely transform and improve the lives of many many people but they do need some safeguards and barriers and some oversight letting company decide how the world will work or how Society functions or the core tools that everyone uses has never worked in any period of time for anyone we need to make sure those things don't go too fast too far because if they do we're all kind of screwed now this week we also saw the release of the Linux kernel 6.9 headline features include better performance for Intel Core Ultra CPUs some AMD CPU performance improvements and also the implementation of AMD pstate preferred core meaning that on your specific AMD CPU the fastest core that you have will be identified and will be prioritized for heavy workloads to increase performance Intel CPUs with a hybrid design so with efficiency and performance scores should also see better support and performance the terminal or TT wise should look better when running them on a high resolution display thanks to higher quality fonts Intel fast boot wasn't enabled on all platforms and the new experimental Intel XE driver for modern Intel gpus has seen some improvements although it is still not the default for now and you can add to that the usual improvements to the performance of various file systems plus more Hardware support as always so it is a pretty solid version that should bring performance improvements for virtually everyone provided the dis R you use gives you an update to 6.9 and since it's not an LTS colel chances are if you're not using a rolling release drro you might not get access to it it will also only be supported for a few months uh so you probably will get those benefits with a later version of the colonel instead now in a pretty totalitarian move France decided to ban Tik Tock in new calonia a territory in the Pacific that is still part of France for now there are some violent clashes and protests going over there notably because France is planning a constitutional reform for the territory to let more people who aren't native to the territory vote in decisions regarding new calonia itself including a potential referendum to become an independent state so as protests organize it looks like Tik Tok was one of the main tools being used and so France decided to ban it in a move reminiscent of basically every totalitarian regime of course it serves no real purpose because most people they just turned to VPS tends to still use the application with certain Services reporting a 150% increase in the number of VPN users there and in case you were wondering this is what infringing on Free Speech looks like it's not a company deciding to ban you from its own private platform for saying something they don't like it's not a Discord server run by three people telling you you don't have the right to say something this is a government telling you that you cannot use this specific application because they don't like what you're saying on it that's the problem that's infringing on free speech and seeing France do that when other countries that have done that in the past don't really have the best track record in terms of Human Rights or even just democracy in general that's extremely worrying and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have some news about the new anti sync driver for wine and proton which promises to bring a lot of performance Improvement ments when gaming on Linux this driver should be included in the kernel 6.10 but unfortunately it's been marked as broken as the driver is not complete enough not all the patchers required have been merged and it is now too late to include them in 6.10 meaning the driver will not be compiled by default in 6.10 and we will have to wait for the next release to see how much it helps our gaming experience the developer for the driver someone working for code Weaver first the company that contributes most of Wine's code said that they're sorry for taking too long to get these patches into an acceptable State and seriously you don't have to apologize you're doing awesome work the fact that it took a little bit longer than you initially thought is really not a problem we'll wait for 6.11 to get access to this and it looks like it's going to be a major performance improvement over using regular wine we will have to compare how it does if you compare it with fsync or esync when using proton but there should be performance improvements there too and wine 9.9 was also released this week improving support for running 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit systems and making arm support smoother and more efficient by better detecting the CPU model some obsolete features in wi's direct X implementation were also removed and there are also 38 bug fixes in that release notably for crisis 2 for Siberia Assassin's Creed Syndicate unity and odyssey or Fallout 3 and as always these improvements will at some point make their way into proton as well so you will get those benefits when Val decides to rebase proton on the latest version of Y and how about you decide to rebase your computer experience thanks to our 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I often talk about Linux either as a unified operating system or as a unified kernel but the truth is the Linux kernel is not a unified thing where everyone uses or needs the exact same version that's both the blessing and the curse of our Beloved Community when you let people do exactly what the hell they want they tend to do just that and you end up with tons of different versions of the same thing so let's dive into all of these variants of the Linux kernel and also into the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare you've probably heard about them by now on the channel they are your One-Stop shop for making sure that your Linux servers or your workstations are always up todate and secured with the latest patches with minimal disruptions their Solutions enable you to automatically apply security patches without downtime or reboots as well as to extend the life cycle of endof Life distributions they also deliver Enterprise grade support for Alma Linux a very popular 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context of the sentence apart maybe from a few very well intentioned people I guess but in the end Linux is technically just the kernel the thing that has all the drivers and all the subsystems that lets the rest of your operating system use your Hardware it contains all you need to use the CPU the GPU the ram the discs and everything else plus all the systems to control all of that and all the subsystems to allocate the tasks and instructions to this Hardware it's the first program that runs when you boot your computer and it's the brain of your operating system Windows has the NT kernel Mac OS has Darwin BSD has well various BSD kernels and on Linux we have the Linux kernel but as with everything Linux there is no one single unified Linux version that everyone uses there are plenty of variants and so we're going to talk about them today now let's start with the basic version the generic stable Linux kernel this is the one you're most likely using it's the official Linux kernel straight from Linus tals and all the kernel developers the release schedule is not necessarily fixed but you generally see a new version every two to two and a half months depending on how long each version takes to be deemed suitable for a finished release they're generally not supported for very long often just for a few months after the new release is out this kernel is the basis for every single other variant and it sees contributions from people who work at a ton of companies including Amazon Microsoft Google and a bunch of others and Linux is very likely the biggest software development project at least in terms terms of the number of people who contribute to it all stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme so major number do minor number but they also have really strange code names some of the best including holy dancing manatees Batman for version 2.6.2 sheep on meth for 2.6.3 or just don't use for the first release candidate of version 5.12 now some distributions tend to slightly tweak weak these generic versions of the kernel which might be why for example on auntu you might see a kernel named with a dash auntu at the end because they added a few patches on top of the generic kernel obuntu also has what they call the hwe kernel for Hardware enablement kernel it's generally the same kernel version as what auntu shipped with but with updated drivers to support newer Hardware certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS for long-term support these are versions that will be supported for much longer up to 6 years but the Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years but it hasn't been really applied to any version yet as an example the latest version published at the time I'm making this video is 6.8 it is not an LTS and it will lose support in July 2024 the current LTS is 6.6 and it will be supported until December 2026 meaning it will have had a bit more than 3 years of support future LTS versions will only get 2 years although other actors could decide to maintain them for longer the patchers just will not be coming from the Linux kernel project itself LTS kernels is generally what you'll be using if you use an LTS drro although that's not always the case it's what you'll want to pick if your Hardware is already well supported with that LTS kernel and you want the most stable experience possible now since most distributions tend to ship their own kernel versions that include nonfree software or binary blobs there's the Linux konel Libre project which removes all of that to only ship software and code that is completely free as in Freedom these generally are released a few hours or days after the official Linux stable kernel version and and they have repository so you can install it instead of the current Linux kernel you're using just know that depending on the hardware you use it on it might not work well or at all some components might not have support at all for certain Wi-Fi chips or Bluetooth chips or for AMD dedicated gpus or Nvidia dedicated gpus some of them also require non-free firmware to even use the open source drivers that come in the kernel so you can try it out but chances are on some Hardware it will just not work as well as the generic Linux kernel next we have the hardened kernel it's not an official project per se it's a kernel version that certain dros ship in their repos like Arch Linux for example it is the stable kernel with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security wise it restricts access to certain kernel features to out of three drivers like the Nvidia propri drivers although you can still install those using dkms it can hide processes IDs from other users it can restrict loading certain modules or disable the emergency shell for example and a bunch of other things this colel probably will also break certain things on your system certain packages will not work it is generally pretty incompatible with systemd and systemd based systems so you're basically trading off increased security out of the box for certain things that are not going to work it's probably best to not use that unless you actually work in the cyber security sector and you want to use it to test some things out next we have the real time and low latency kernels these are meant to optimize how your computer's resources are used by scheduling and prioritizing tasks on your CPU differently the goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU and its execution and it is mainly meant for industrial applications or for audio production this in turn makes the realtime kernel less efficient for multitasking and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this specific kernel for example canonical recently announced that they will ship a real time coronal inside of auntu but it is not meant for the general public you need to know what what you're doing with this thing the low latency kernel variants do the same thing but to a lesser degree it still lets you pre-m some CPU threads like the realtime kernel but it isn't as predictable as that realtime kernel now here is a pretty big simplification the real time kernel is when you want to make sure that every instruction is performed in the exact order that you want no matter if it slows things down the low latency kernel is to make sure that every task you assign to your CPU is done immediately after you assign it at the expense of multitasking performance and the general kernel is for more throughput you put it through a lot and you want all of this done really fast no matter the order or no matter the predictability and now we get into a weirder variant the Android kernel because yes it is Linux based the Android kernel is focused on supporting a very specific category or of devices namely phones and tablets meaning that it has optimizations for these exact use cases with more power management features more sleep and wake lock features and a very different way of handling device drivers because most manufacturers do not open source the drivers for their Hardware on Android so Google had to implement a more modular approach it also adds a bunch of systems that only the Android operating system needs like a communication interface for Android processes to talk to each other a replacement for the system that kills apps and programs when you run out of memory or a new networking system that restricts access to the network to certain processes since Android is way less general purpose than the basic Linux kernel because it's meant for smartphones and tablets not for every single type of computing device it is obviously not suitable to be run on anything other than a smartphone or a tablet it just doesn't make sense to try and run an Android kernel on a laptop for example next we have the Zen cronal it applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for Linux desktop users it is also packaged as the lorx kernel for auntu and Debian and a few other dros although lorx isn't exactly like the Zen kernel it tends to be more aggressive and get better performance at the expense of resource usage so basically they're sort of similar the Zen and Licor ex kernels bring an improved CPU scheduler to reduce latency they use a more efficient compression algorithm for the swap space and they have more improvements to Ram read and right speeds plus a few other changes in theory it should result in better performance than the generic stable kernel although in their testing semi recently foric found that if these differences exist they are pretty minimal at least compared to the default kernel that Arch Linux shipped at the time another version is the xan mod kernel with sort of the same optimizations as the Zen kernel but a few more on top of that but it has the same goal it's improving the performance of Linux systems the xan mod kernel seems to get better performance than the vanilla kernels or at least it did a few years back on obuntu although not by a very significant margin again theoretically the Zen loric or xan mod kernels could give you better performance for stuff like gaming or general desktop usage but it will very much depend on how you use your systems and the hardware you have in them just know that you can install them alongside your current kernels reboot pick the Zen or xan mode or whatever else kernel that you want to try see if it works and if it doesn't you can always go back to your other kernel you don't have to replace it with the Zen or Zan mode you can have them install side by side finally we have the tkg kernels and I'm saying kernels because tkg isn't a specific Linux kernel version you can download and use as is it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with them it will let you apply some patches from the Zen kernels or from Clear Linux to optimize for newer Intel CPUs or you can change the CPU scheduler to something that works better for your own use case and a few other things like that it's generally going to be more useful for distributions themselves that want to ship a very specifically tailored kernel for the purpose of the dro or for users who want to experiment and try to focus on a specific workload without having to change dis Ros entirely so the question is what should you use for your own system and the general answer for 99% of people will be use what your Dro ships by default if you want to try out other kernels you absolutely can you can add the relevant repos or you can install these kernels from your disos repositories and you can just reboot on that kernel if things don't work out you can always go back to the previously used kernel and remove the one that doesn't work I don't think any of these kernel variants have ever been marked or noticed for being malicious or doing anything suspicious but some of them are just made by one person or very small group of people so you never know what could happen with that so use them knowing that they're not officially sanctioned by your distribution or that they are just thirdparty projects in general in the end most distributions will ship with the basic generic stable version of the kernel or the latest LTS with a few specific patch sets on top of that some very specific disos will come with either a real-time kernel for example disr a. multimedia product uction or some will come with Zen or xan mode if they're trying to be like the best gaming drro in the world but generally the generic stable version works fine for 99% of use cases so unless you're very curious just use what is provided right now in your system and speaking of your system if you need to change it why not take a look at our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and small Foam Factory computers that run with 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome to this week's edition of the Linux and open source news show and this week we have Nvidia making their open-source kernel modules the way forward for their recent gpus instead of the proprietary drivers we also have a new attack that makes all vpns basically useless and it does affect Linux Mac OS Windows the only OS that isn't affected is Android apparently and we also have some more news about Cosmic we have valve contributing to the nvk drivers and a lot more including this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail they make a suite of online tools focused on privacy with end and zero access encrypted email an online storage space a calendar a VPN and a password manager the goal is to offer an all-in-one Suite of services that respect your privacy and give you the tools to avoid being tracked in your inbox and buy the tools you use every day to get work done and if you're wondering why that's so important here is a perfect 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the Nvidia 560 driver series which is not released yet they're planning to use their open-source cural modules instead of the proprietary driver that's not nvo that's not nvk it's the open source driver Nvidia develops themselves and that isn't part of the Linux kernel meaning you will still have to install an additional package or you'll have to run a do run installed file from nvidia's website or alternatively this Ros will have to package these modules and decide whether they want to ship them as part of their default install which shouldn't be that problematic anymore because well they're open source you will still be able to pick the proprietor driver instead but Nvidia said that in the future chances are some gpus will only be supported by their open source modules now before you get excited do note that this is only for the kernel drivers the user space drivers that handle openg GL or Vulcan or Cuda these are still closed Source here as is the generic firmware for these gpus still it is good progress and with Nvidia developers contributing to Novo and nvk it's not entirely unreasonable to think that at some point on top of these open source kernel modules from Nvidia you might be able to just run nvk and have that full opensource stack which would be really cool we have more news about the cosmic desktop their developers have now almost finished implementing display mirroring which apparently also supports cases where the resolution the orientation or the refresh rates are different between your displays system 76 is also building arm 64 variants of their packages and their brand new app store is now completed apart from some minor ux issues although it just looks like any other app store it's apparently really fast though they say they found it more efficient than using the command line the file manager gained integration with gnome's virtual file system to handle all the external file storage the login manager is now done as well and they've also created a new widget in their lib Cosmic library to let developers Implement context menus some fixes were applied to theming as well and a bunch of other issues were dealt with with the compositor with the screenshot tool with scrolling and other things and Cosmic is also getting some attention from the community even though it's not out yet with a new GitHub template being created to Kickstart the creation of cosmic apps and a new web app manager being created as well and in the process of being added to flath hop an input sources Outlet was also created to change keyboard layouts and settings from the top panel of cosmic so I do hope the alpha is still planned for the end of this month I booked a video slot to demo what they've accomplished I'm not expecting it to be as full featured as KD or not even as gnome especially in terms of the default applications but it does look like they have covered all the basics and it will be interesting to look at a new desktop environment built from scratch with the modern Linux tack in mind instead of carrying around a lot of old Legacy code for X11 and stuff that's been here for like decades by now now there's a new attack that renders most vpns completely useless and when I say new I mean it has been found by researchers recently but it potentially could have existed and been used since 2002 the new method called tunnel vision lets an attacker read drop or modify any traffic that tries to go through a VPN all the while maintaining that connection to the VPN and to the internet meaning you wouldn't even know that it's happening it works by running a DHCP server in Gateway mode on the same network as the VPN user and then by using traffic forwarding rules to pass that traffic to a real Gateway spying everything that goes through the DHCP server in the meantime these routes are never encrypted through the VPN in that process this attack works on any OS apart from Android apparently because it doesn't implement the option which is what is being used in the attacker DHCP server on Linux you can minimize the effects of the attack but not entirely prevented and other operating systems are completely affected the attacker still needs to have admin privileges over your network like for example having access to the admin interface of your router which isn't too hard at least in France because most of the ISP routers are just using admin as a login and a password untrusted public networks could also be very easily targeted and this is where you would be most likely to use a VPN so you would connect to a very basic hotel or airport or cafe Wi-Fi you would turn on your VPN and feel like everything is safe and secure but it wouldn't be and you wouldn't even be able to know someone somewhere has a DHCP server that is getting all your traffic and then passing it back to a regular server that then passes it to the VPN and everything looks encrypted it's a man in the- Middle attack basically now open source is really cool because everyone can contribute but sometimes it also means we reach Peak stupidity because some Pokémon go players are apparently modifying real open street map data to add beaches where these don't exist in real life because this will never them increase chances of catching some rare Pokemon in their game now since Pokémon go uses real map data from osm to make their virtual creatures available in their app and to pinpoint certain points of interest that let you refill your Poke Balls and stuff like that some players just thought it would be acceptable to just change the real map the worst thing is that Pokemon go might not even update their open street map data regularly or at all meaning that first these modifications aren't even guaranteed to help people catch these Pokémon in their game and second they're actually modifying real mapping data something that is used by actual useful applications and programs all across the world sometimes the Griefers even draw their own pseudonym on the map and it also seems that some anti- pookemon go people are now removing real points of interest just because they are used in game to give certain game advantages to Pokémon go players obviously do not change real map data just to fit a game that might not even pull that data for 5 months it's stupid this is real data that has been contributed over the years by a dedicated Community do not do that but also apparently since Pokémon go moved to osm in 2017 I think a lot of people started implementing more data into osm because they want their CD to have the points of interest that could be used in game and so the quality of the data in osm has improved thanks to an influx of Pokémon go contributors which I mean that's okay doesn't give you the excuse to actually destroy the real map though now it looks like valve is taking an interest in the nvk open source Vulcan drivers for NVIDIA they've been working on bringing explicit sync to these drivers this is a feature that is needed to get better performance less latency and less graphical glitches on Nvidia it's something that both gnome and KY are working on as well to make sure that they can support it once the drivers actually have that feature so now thanks to valve the nvk driver will support that and the gamec scope compositor that valve users in Steam OS will also be able to make use of that the newvo kernel driver also received updates to support the feature so it will definitely make nvk a more viable option in the near future but what is really interesting here is that it's valve contributing to an Nvidia driver because valve generally just uses AMD stuff their steam deck and Steam OS is for now only rated to run on an AMD Apu so them contributing to some Nvidia code might mean they're getting ready to either open up steam o to more computers or to maybe start onboarding partners that might want to ship Nvidia gpus in their devices that could run Steam OS we not there yet but them contributing to Nvidia only stuff it's cool maybe they were just waiting for an open- Source driver to not have any licensing problems and legal issues by having to ship an Nvidia proprietary driver and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have Ste o 3.6 it's now in preview and it updates the entire Arch base of the distribution with the kernel 6.5 the latest Mesa 24.1 and so basically improved performance overall in terms of Steam OS specific features they apparently improved how the display looks on the steam Deck with better colar balance and better gamma uniformity the steam UI should also be more responsive which is an issue I've had on my steam deck where things are not stuttery but they're not that smooth either but the desktop mode of Steam OS is still stuck to KD 5.27 it doesn't get plasma 6 for now the BIOS was also updated for the steam deck bringing overclocking controls to the steam deck LCD there are a bunch of other interesting changes as well first pairing with airpods is improved you can now wake the device using a controller meaning it should now behave like a proper console where you can turn on the controller and start playing instead of having to turn on the device manually and the steam deck doc also supports TV remote input TV wake up and TV input switching over HDMI so technically you could you just put your steam deck to sleep in its deck dock you turn off your TV and when you turn on the controller it wakes up the steam deck it wakes up the TV and it works just like any gaming console which is cool I'll make sure to give that preview a shot just to see how well it works and if it does work maybe I'll try using Steam OS or Holo ISO again on my steam gaming console because that was an issue I had where I just had to get off my lazy ass and turn on the thing with the button it wasn't in a convenient location it just wasn't practical turning it on with a controller much better and we also have a few more details about platron OS the linux-based gaming OS that the platron company wants to bring to a few handhelds and other devices they have big plans for this they want to push it to TVs to PCS to handhelds and more and they actually received some sizable investment so now we know that the OS will let you play games from Steam epic games Gog and more and they say it has improved game game compatibility compared to other systems I guess because it will let you use things like the heroic launcher or another implementation of the legendary API to connect to the epic game store more easily than on Steam OS they said the pre-launch will be in 2024 and many devices are planned for 2025 although only one has been announced for now platron OS is apparently based on Fedora silver blue 40 and they also said they tested things on the steam deck the the Lenovo Legion go the GPD win for or the Rog allies they also said that they were backed by a handful of crypto companies which is never a good sign for any product and they also said that only the core OS code would be open source so probably their entire gaming interface and compatibility with other launchers will not be open source although that's also not the case with Steam OS the the interface and the steam client are not open source either so I don't think that's such a giant issue I'm always up for these kinds of projects that try to push Linux based systems to mass Market or at least consumer-based devices but the crypto stuff always smells fishy and until they've actually shown the system running on some actual hardware and until they announce some Partnerships some real physical stuff I will treat it as vaporware what isn't vaporware though is our sponsor tuxedo computers they make computers that are definitely real and that ship with Linux pre-installed you can buy them using the link in the description below they have a big range of devices from small Ultra books for office work all the way up to gaming laptops giant workstations giant gaming towers and everything in 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I often talk about Linux either as a unified operating system or as a unified kernel but the truth is the Linux kernel is not a unified thing where everyone uses or needs the exact same version that's both the blessing and the curse of our Beloved Community when you let people do exactly what the hell they want they tend to do just that and you end up with tons of different versions of the same thing so let's dive into all of these variants of the Linux kernel and also into the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare you've probably heard about them by now on the channel they are your One-Stop shop for making sure that your Linux servers or your workstations are always up todate and secured with the latest patches with minimal disruptions their Solutions enable you to automatically apply security patches without downtime or reboots as well as to extend the life cycle of endof Life distributions they also deliver Enterprise grade support for Alma Linux a very popular 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context of the sentence apart maybe from a few very well intentioned people I guess but in the end Linux is technically just the kernel the thing that has all the drivers and all the subsystems that lets the rest of your operating system use your Hardware it contains all you need to use the CPU the GPU the ram the discs and everything else plus all the systems to control all of that and all the subsystems to allocate the tasks and instructions to this Hardware it's the first program that runs when you boot your computer and it's the brain of your operating system Windows has the NT kernel Mac OS has Darwin BSD has well various BSD kernels and on Linux we have the Linux kernel but as with everything Linux there is no one single unified Linux version that everyone uses there are plenty of variants and so we're going to talk about them today now let's start with the basic version the generic stable Linux kernel this is the one you're most likely using it's the official Linux kernel straight from Linus tals and all the kernel developers the release schedule is not necessarily fixed but you generally see a new version every two to two and a half months depending on how long each version takes to be deemed suitable for a finished release they're generally not supported for very long often just for a few months after the new release is out this kernel is the basis for every single other variant and it sees contributions from people who work at a ton of companies including Amazon Microsoft Google and a bunch of others and Linux is very likely the biggest software development project at least in terms terms of the number of people who contribute to it all stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme so major number do minor number but they also have really strange code names some of the best including holy dancing manatees Batman for version 2.6.2 sheep on meth for 2.6.3 or just don't use for the first release candidate of version 5.12 now some distributions tend to slightly tweak weak these generic versions of the kernel which might be why for example on auntu you might see a kernel named with a dash auntu at the end because they added a few patches on top of the generic kernel obuntu also has what they call the hwe kernel for Hardware enablement kernel it's generally the same kernel version as what auntu shipped with but with updated drivers to support newer Hardware certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS for long-term support these are versions that will be supported for much longer up to 6 years but the Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years but it hasn't been really applied to any version yet as an example the latest version published at the time I'm making this video is 6.8 it is not an LTS and it will lose support in July 2024 the current LTS is 6.6 and it will be supported until December 2026 meaning it will have had a bit more than 3 years of support future LTS versions will only get 2 years although other actors could decide to maintain them for longer the patchers just will not be coming from the Linux kernel project itself LTS kernels is generally what you'll be using if you use an LTS drro although that's not always the case it's what you'll want to pick if your Hardware is already well supported with that LTS kernel and you want the most stable experience possible now since most distributions tend to ship their own kernel versions that include nonfree software or binary blobs there's the Linux konel Libre project which removes all of that to only ship software and code that is completely free as in Freedom these generally are released a few hours or days after the official Linux stable kernel version and and they have repository so you can install it instead of the current Linux kernel you're using just know that depending on the hardware you use it on it might not work well or at all some components might not have support at all for certain Wi-Fi chips or Bluetooth chips or for AMD dedicated gpus or Nvidia dedicated gpus some of them also require non-free firmware to even use the open source drivers that come in the kernel so you can try it out but chances are on some Hardware it will just not work as well as the generic Linux kernel next we have the hardened kernel it's not an official project per se it's a kernel version that certain dros ship in their repos like Arch Linux for example it is the stable kernel with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security wise it restricts access to certain kernel features to out of three drivers like the Nvidia propri drivers although you can still install those using dkms it can hide processes IDs from other users it can restrict loading certain modules or disable the emergency shell for example and a bunch of other things this colel probably will also break certain things on your system certain packages will not work it is generally pretty incompatible with systemd and systemd based systems so you're basically trading off increased security out of the box for certain things that are not going to work it's probably best to not use that unless you actually work in the cyber security sector and you want to use it to test some things out next we have the real time and low latency kernels these are meant to optimize how your computer's resources are used by scheduling and prioritizing tasks on your CPU differently the goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU and its execution and it is mainly meant for industrial applications or for audio production this in turn makes the realtime kernel less efficient for multitasking and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this specific kernel for example canonical recently announced that they will ship a real time coronal inside of auntu but it is not meant for the general public you need to know what what you're doing with this thing the low latency kernel variants do the same thing but to a lesser degree it still lets you pre-m some CPU threads like the realtime kernel but it isn't as predictable as that realtime kernel now here is a pretty big simplification the real time kernel is when you want to make sure that every instruction is performed in the exact order that you want no matter if it slows things down the low latency kernel is to make sure that every task you assign to your CPU is done immediately after you assign it at the expense of multitasking performance and the general kernel is for more throughput you put it through a lot and you want all of this done really fast no matter the order or no matter the predictability and now we get into a weirder variant the Android kernel because yes it is Linux based the Android kernel is focused on supporting a very specific category or of devices namely phones and tablets meaning that it has optimizations for these exact use cases with more power management features more sleep and wake lock features and a very different way of handling device drivers because most manufacturers do not open source the drivers for their Hardware on Android so Google had to implement a more modular approach it also adds a bunch of systems that only the Android operating system needs like a communication interface for Android processes to talk to each other a replacement for the system that kills apps and programs when you run out of memory or a new networking system that restricts access to the network to certain processes since Android is way less general purpose than the basic Linux kernel because it's meant for smartphones and tablets not for every single type of computing device it is obviously not suitable to be run on anything other than a smartphone or a tablet it just doesn't make sense to try and run an Android kernel on a laptop for example next we have the Zen cronal it applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for Linux desktop users it is also packaged as the lorx kernel for auntu and Debian and a few other dros although lorx isn't exactly like the Zen kernel it tends to be more aggressive and get better performance at the expense of resource usage so basically they're sort of similar the Zen and Licor ex kernels bring an improved CPU scheduler to reduce latency they use a more efficient compression algorithm for the swap space and they have more improvements to Ram read and right speeds plus a few other changes in theory it should result in better performance than the generic stable kernel although in their testing semi recently foric found that if these differences exist they are pretty minimal at least compared to the default kernel that Arch Linux shipped at the time another version is the xan mod kernel with sort of the same optimizations as the Zen kernel but a few more on top of that but it has the same goal it's improving the performance of Linux systems the xan mod kernel seems to get better performance than the vanilla kernels or at least it did a few years back on obuntu although not by a very significant margin again theoretically the Zen loric or xan mod kernels could give you better performance for stuff like gaming or general desktop usage but it will very much depend on how you use your systems and the hardware you have in them just know that you can install them alongside your current kernels reboot pick the Zen or xan mode or whatever else kernel that you want to try see if it works and if it doesn't you can always go back to your other kernel you don't have to replace it with the Zen or Zan mode you can have them install side by side finally we have the tkg kernels and I'm saying kernels because tkg isn't a specific Linux kernel version you can download and use as is it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with them it will let you apply some patches from the Zen kernels or from Clear Linux to optimize for newer Intel CPUs or you can change the CPU scheduler to something that works better for your own use case and a few other things like that it's generally going to be more useful for distributions themselves that want to ship a very specifically tailored kernel for the purpose of the dro or for users who want to experiment and try to focus on a specific workload without having to change dis Ros entirely so the question is what should you use for your own system and the general answer for 99% of people will be use what your Dro ships by default if you want to try out other kernels you absolutely can you can add the relevant repos or you can install these kernels from your disos repositories and you can just reboot on that kernel if things don't work out you can always go back to the previously used kernel and remove the one that doesn't work I don't think any of these kernel variants have ever been marked or noticed for being malicious or doing anything suspicious but some of them are just made by one person or very small group of people so you never know what could happen with that so use them knowing that they're not officially sanctioned by your distribution or that they are just thirdparty projects in general in the end most distributions will ship with the basic generic stable version of the kernel or the latest LTS with a few specific patch sets on top of that some very specific disos will come with either a real-time kernel for example disr a. multimedia product uction or some will come with Zen or xan mode if they're trying to be like the best gaming drro in the world but generally the generic stable version works fine for 99% of use cases so unless you're very curious just use what is provided right now in your system and speaking of your system if you need to change it why not take a look at our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and small Foam Factory computers that run with 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hey everyone and welcome to this new episode which I have to record quickly because I have to go play a game of Warhammer 40K trying out my new Orcs so in this one we have gnome having trouble with their icon themes but also looking for more funding because apparently they started tapping into their reserves we also have the rumors of NX os's death being greatly exaggerated because while the project has some problems it is far from over and we also have some fun news about Windows 11 actually losing market share to Windows 10 which is going end of life really soon and we also have mins trying to Fork some gnome ABS because they just don't want to deal with gtk4 and liit V anymore and we also have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website space has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without 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issues were either ignored or silenced over the years it is not linked to the code or the project itself but more to its General governance first there have been moderation issues in the nyos community for a while there was no real coordination between moderators with mods reacting after the fact to insulting or offending Behavior instead of taking a more proactive stance meaning that some people were attacked repeatedly before their attackers were finally removed and it's never a great place to be in a code of conduct was later adopted but it didn't seem to really be followed and as usual when the code of conduct is introduced some people started complaining about being restricted in their free speech or whatever nonsense just should not even exist in a code oriented community seriously if you go to a forum about an application or a distribution and you start attacking people for anything other than their opinions on that project then you should get the hell out of here your free speech doesn't exist in here now then there was the issue of some nixos conventions being sponsored by companies involved in the military industrial complex which didn't sit well with the community but were repeated the following year without really taking these concerns into account at all finally there were concerns about the company built on top of Nyx OS the terminate systems acting like they would just call the shots for nycks and how the community should act with the main founder of nycks acting a bit toned deaf and silencing the concerns over moderation over inclusion as if they didn't exist and basically saying we can accept money from anyone as long as it helps the project grow the general feeling seems to be very negative right now around Nix with a bunch of maintainers and contributors flat out leaving the project now this does not mean NX OS is dying because the general package manager behind the Dr NYX and its repos NYX packages are very healthy and the Nyx OS Foundation isn't really the main way NYX as a project survives it gathers the funding but it doesn't mean funding would disappear if the Nyx OS Foundation was ditched there are some inklings that Forks could have happen or that the community could maybe jettison the current foundation and reorganize around something else but it's a bit early to tell what will happen so if you see anything super alarmist or clickbaity along the lines of Nix OS is dying then no it's not not really there have been plenty of other distributions that had the same community-based concerns look at menjar and the terrible no good management of that distribution and the company around it the drro is still fine even though they still fail to renew their certificates now and again and the Creator sort of ignored their Chief Financial officers warnings about buying hardware for certain contributors there were also problems with auntu with the Amazon link back in the day or them just grabbing projects and removing every maintainer that isn't from canonical but the both of these disos are still fine today and Nyx will probably be fine in the future as well they might have a smaller community in the end a more focused one maybe they split in two but in the end NYX OS will still exist as a drro there have been multiple reports of applications not made for Gnome so not using gtk that now look broken with missing icons everywhere one of the affected apps seem to be Kate KD's powerful text editor and this apparently isn't new because it's been the case since gnome 44 now this would not really be an issue if the bug reports hadn't been closed on the basis of we can't do any anything about it fortunately it was reopened afterwards with a few potential Solutions being discussed the core of the issue is that the gnome icon theme advita simply doesn't really follow the free desktop spec anymore for naming their icons and thus it will break things on applications made for other desktops but since the advisor icon theme is still installed as an icon theme in the correct folders it is made available to all apps like any other theme meaning that these apps will assume it supports everything they need when it doesn't now after some relatively heated conversations gnome offer to add a fallback to tango which is a pretty old theme that uses colored icons so things won't look too good but at least they won't be broken apps will use the ADV icons if they exist and use a Tango icon instead if advita doesn't have what they need another alternative that was offered is to use the advit icon theme from grome 43 which still has all these icons with this older naming convention people from KDE would also be amenable to just make Breeze the default icon theme as a fallback when the default icon theme the user set is missing an icon the app would start by using the users icon theme and if anything is missing they would fall back to Breeze and this all goes back to the much larger theming discussions some people think that apps from another desktop should be themed so they at least sort of look consistent some people think it gives a false sense of similarity when in fact applications will just not behave the same at all because they have very different uis and uxs but also that these applications will probably be broken because it is virtually impossible to create a onetoone replica of a gtk theme for cute apps and vice versa in the end I personally don't really care no matter the outcome if theming just dies I won't be too sad about it and if theming is maintained as the current status quo as sort of a hack that kind of works then great some people will enjoy that and that's no issue for me either and still on gnome The Gnome Foundation is going to focus on raising more funds as they apparently hid the buffers of their financial reserves after operating at a loss for more than 3 years they apparently had been living of big donations received a while back but they hadn't made enough money back to compensate for this spending and so they've now hit the Threshold at which they really should not tap into these reserves anymore and if you're thinking to yourself wait didn't they just get1 million euro as a development Grant yes but they cannot use that money for day-to-day operations the grant came with a few specific projects and they have to use the funds for these specific development projects now raising funds is apparently why they hired their recent new director Holly million for her experience on doing exactly that raising funds for nonprofit organizations she apparently is now more familiar with gnome and how it works and the missions and the goals and so there's now a plan in place to start fundraising to ensure gnome can keep operating they have a break even budget that the gnome foundation will have to approve in October gnome will also expand the board a little bit more going from seven to nine members so there are more opinions and voices and less work for each individual board member and they will also create non voting seats so other parts of the community can also be heard and I hope they can find good avenues for funding it's been quite impressive to see what they are able to achieve once they get proper funding with the Sovereign Tech fund this1 million euro Grant they've been firing on all cylinders and a lot of big features are happening and will come in Gnome 47 and 48 so if they can find some equivalent funding in the future we can probably expect gnome to go forwards even faster and that's good for everyone and we also have some pretty fun news about Windows it looks like Windows 11 is losing market share to Windows 10 Windows 11 is steadily declining now down to 26% of the windows market share with Windows 10 still holding 70% of Windows users which is kind of insane if you think about it because Windows 10 won't be supported for much longer for individuals and windows 11 has been out for ages now and of course if you look at the recent news about Windows 11 it is not too hard to understand why ads are everywhere in the OS it is more privacy invasive than ever it has very few new features compared to Windows 10 to entice people to switch and AI is being crammed everywhere which for some people is a plus but I'm pretty sure that for a lot of others it is a deterrent if you combine that with the horror stories about virtually every single update to Windows breaking a critical part of the system plus Microsoft's nagging inside of the OS for you to use Edge or ads in their own products like the file manager and I don't think many people will be surprised that a lot of people don't want to use Windows 11 and this is an excellent opportunity for Linux because Windows 10 users will get booted off once their OS is no longer supported some of them will look for a new home and some windows 11 users will just want to leave and well they can't go back to Windows so either they buy a brand new computer for a Mac or they go to Linux our best chance of growing has always been when the most popular OS makes a big blunder and that's what Windows has been doing repeatedly since Windows 11 has been introduced so this is probably why we're seeing such growth for Linux right now now and let's hope it continues now Linux Mint will apparently start forking gnome applications to make their own their app collection called X apps depends on gnome Technologies notably gtk but as gnome focuses on liid V that is designed for Gnome and not really for other desktops meant things that they should not rely on them anymore the other reason seems to try and make sure other desktops can bend together to collaborate on these applications stuff like mate xfc or budgie could collaborate on a single set of gtk based apps that respect all of these desktops guidelines mint says that they don't want to make Linux Mint apps they want to make Linux apps that work everywhere now mint also says that they want their apps to be designed by people who actually care about their desktop and thus they don't want to use lipit V apps they will Fork gtk 3 versions of these applications namely Celluloid gnome calculator simple scan the bowab disc space analyzer the system monitor gnome calendar and the archive manager mint says that they cannot blame gnome for building apps that are meant for Gnome it is entirely normal but mint wants to as they say send a strong signal that they won't support applications that don't support min's users and environment and so they also won't promote them it looks like they will have changed changes in the software manager to list applications that are compatible which just seems to mean applications that are themeable mint will also remove the advit icon theme from their install because it only provides icons that are used by gnome and so it can look broken on other desktops as we mentioned earlier in this episode other plan changes for mint include hiding unverified flatback apps by default in the software manager and adding a matrix client now this is all along the lines of what Linux Mint has been doing for ages they use a specific base but they mercilessly uproot everything that they don't like which is totally fine now on this particular issue I think they're right they should have apps that feel right at home on their desktop a desktop environment should not Shipe apps that look completely out of place by default but also I think they sort of misunderstand what working means because an app that doesn't look at home works it just doesn't look right the theme is not a mandatory condition for an application to be run on a specific computer so having the default apps look like mint apps by forking them that's awesome especially if they can make sure that every other desktop bends together so all of these apps can get more contributions but filtering out applications that don't support your theme I think that goes a bit too far it's really weird as a system now joining the New York Times in suing open Ai and Microsoft are now eight more newspapers including the New York daily news the Chicago Tribune and more this suit is filed in the same district as the one from the New York Times which potentially opens the door to combining both lawsuits and the plaintiff said that they elected to sue open AI instead of attempting to negotiate a deal the basis is the same as the New York Times suit open AI allegedly used their content without authoriz ation to fuel a commercial product and they removed any copyright management information like journalist names and titles they also accusing open AI of damaging their reputation by using their Publications names in Open ai's results and answers even when the AI hallucinates bad answers that would tarnish the image of said Publications and as with the New York Times open AI doesn't really have a real defense here they're fighting the nyt lawsuit by saying their AI reproducing entire articles verbatim is a bug but that doesn't answer the point of the suit which is that they use these articles without authorization and that's painfully obvious the fact that they also struck deals with other Publishers to compensate them for using their content also indicates that they know they should compensate creators I'm not a lawyer I'm not a judge and I'm not from the US so some technicalities probably Escape me but I really fail to see how open AI could ever win any of these lawsuits because it is very clear that they did use this content without authorization and it is very clear that they know they shouldn't have because they paid other Publishers to do the same thing so we'll see how judges rule but honestly this will be very impactful because if judges decide that this is completely unlawful then some AI tools will probably die they just don't have the business model to pay for everything they use in their training and if judges W the other way saying that training an AI on public data is completely fair use it will have really damaging repercussions on basically every single Creator and every single publication out there so we'll have to wait and see how things evolve but you won't have to wait to see this segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a new computer you plan to run Linux on it and you want to spend your money towards a company that supports Linux check out tuxedo computers in the link in the description below they make devices that ship with Linux out of the box they actually contribute their patches and fixes Upstream to support all this hardware and they actually have repos you can add to a lot of dis Ros to implement those fixes if they haven't been accepted Upstream yet they have a big range of devices that will cover every price point and every need all their computers are very customizable you can open repair and upgrade all their laptops and they just are a great choice all I use these days are tox computers my channel is run on one of their laptops and all my 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hey everyone and welcome to this new episode which I have to record quickly because I have to go play a game of Warhammer 40K trying out my new Orcs so in this one we have gnome having trouble with their icon themes but also looking for more funding because apparently they started tapping into their reserves we also have the rumors of NX os's death being greatly exaggerated because while the project has some problems it is far from over and we also have some fun news about Windows 11 actually losing market share to Windows 10 which is going end of life really soon and we also have mins trying to Fork some gnome ABS because they just don't want to deal with gtk4 and liit V anymore and we also have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website space has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without 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issues were either ignored or silenced over the years it is not linked to the code or the project itself but more to its General governance first there have been moderation issues in the nyos community for a while there was no real coordination between moderators with mods reacting after the fact to insulting or offending Behavior instead of taking a more proactive stance meaning that some people were attacked repeatedly before their attackers were finally removed and it's never a great place to be in a code of conduct was later adopted but it didn't seem to really be followed and as usual when the code of conduct is introduced some people started complaining about being restricted in their free speech or whatever nonsense just should not even exist in a code oriented community seriously if you go to a forum about an application or a distribution and you start attacking people for anything other than their opinions on that project then you should get the hell out of here your free speech doesn't exist in here now then there was the issue of some nixos conventions being sponsored by companies involved in the military industrial complex which didn't sit well with the community but were repeated the following year without really taking these concerns into account at all finally there were concerns about the company built on top of Nyx OS the terminate systems acting like they would just call the shots for nycks and how the community should act with the main founder of nycks acting a bit toned deaf and silencing the concerns over moderation over inclusion as if they didn't exist and basically saying we can accept money from anyone as long as it helps the project grow the general feeling seems to be very negative right now around Nix with a bunch of maintainers and contributors flat out leaving the project now this does not mean NX OS is dying because the general package manager behind the Dr NYX and its repos NYX packages are very healthy and the Nyx OS Foundation isn't really the main way NYX as a project survives it gathers the funding but it doesn't mean funding would disappear if the Nyx OS Foundation was ditched there are some inklings that Forks could have happen or that the community could maybe jettison the current foundation and reorganize around something else but it's a bit early to tell what will happen so if you see anything super alarmist or clickbaity along the lines of Nix OS is dying then no it's not not really there have been plenty of other distributions that had the same community-based concerns look at menjar and the terrible no good management of that distribution and the company around it the drro is still fine even though they still fail to renew their certificates now and again and the Creator sort of ignored their Chief Financial officers warnings about buying hardware for certain contributors there were also problems with auntu with the Amazon link back in the day or them just grabbing projects and removing every maintainer that isn't from canonical but the both of these disos are still fine today and Nyx will probably be fine in the future as well they might have a smaller community in the end a more focused one maybe they split in two but in the end NYX OS will still exist as a drro there have been multiple reports of applications not made for Gnome so not using gtk that now look broken with missing icons everywhere one of the affected apps seem to be Kate KD's powerful text editor and this apparently isn't new because it's been the case since gnome 44 now this would not really be an issue if the bug reports hadn't been closed on the basis of we can't do any anything about it fortunately it was reopened afterwards with a few potential Solutions being discussed the core of the issue is that the gnome icon theme advita simply doesn't really follow the free desktop spec anymore for naming their icons and thus it will break things on applications made for other desktops but since the advisor icon theme is still installed as an icon theme in the correct folders it is made available to all apps like any other theme meaning that these apps will assume it supports everything they need when it doesn't now after some relatively heated conversations gnome offer to add a fallback to tango which is a pretty old theme that uses colored icons so things won't look too good but at least they won't be broken apps will use the ADV icons if they exist and use a Tango icon instead if advita doesn't have what they need another alternative that was offered is to use the advit icon theme from grome 43 which still has all these icons with this older naming convention people from KDE would also be amenable to just make Breeze the default icon theme as a fallback when the default icon theme the user set is missing an icon the app would start by using the users icon theme and if anything is missing they would fall back to Breeze and this all goes back to the much larger theming discussions some people think that apps from another desktop should be themed so they at least sort of look consistent some people think it gives a false sense of similarity when in fact applications will just not behave the same at all because they have very different uis and uxs but also that these applications will probably be broken because it is virtually impossible to create a onetoone replica of a gtk theme for cute apps and vice versa in the end I personally don't really care no matter the outcome if theming just dies I won't be too sad about it and if theming is maintained as the current status quo as sort of a hack that kind of works then great some people will enjoy that and that's no issue for me either and still on gnome The Gnome Foundation is going to focus on raising more funds as they apparently hid the buffers of their financial reserves after operating at a loss for more than 3 years they apparently had been living of big donations received a while back but they hadn't made enough money back to compensate for this spending and so they've now hit the Threshold at which they really should not tap into these reserves anymore and if you're thinking to yourself wait didn't they just get1 million euro as a development Grant yes but they cannot use that money for day-to-day operations the grant came with a few specific projects and they have to use the funds for these specific development projects now raising funds is apparently why they hired their recent new director Holly million for her experience on doing exactly that raising funds for nonprofit organizations she apparently is now more familiar with gnome and how it works and the missions and the goals and so there's now a plan in place to start fundraising to ensure gnome can keep operating they have a break even budget that the gnome foundation will have to approve in October gnome will also expand the board a little bit more going from seven to nine members so there are more opinions and voices and less work for each individual board member and they will also create non voting seats so other parts of the community can also be heard and I hope they can find good avenues for funding it's been quite impressive to see what they are able to achieve once they get proper funding with the Sovereign Tech fund this1 million euro Grant they've been firing on all cylinders and a lot of big features are happening and will come in Gnome 47 and 48 so if they can find some equivalent funding in the future we can probably expect gnome to go forwards even faster and that's good for everyone and we also have some pretty fun news about Windows it looks like Windows 11 is losing market share to Windows 10 Windows 11 is steadily declining now down to 26% of the windows market share with Windows 10 still holding 70% of Windows users which is kind of insane if you think about it because Windows 10 won't be supported for much longer for individuals and windows 11 has been out for ages now and of course if you look at the recent news about Windows 11 it is not too hard to understand why ads are everywhere in the OS it is more privacy invasive than ever it has very few new features compared to Windows 10 to entice people to switch and AI is being crammed everywhere which for some people is a plus but I'm pretty sure that for a lot of others it is a deterrent if you combine that with the horror stories about virtually every single update to Windows breaking a critical part of the system plus Microsoft's nagging inside of the OS for you to use Edge or ads in their own products like the file manager and I don't think many people will be surprised that a lot of people don't want to use Windows 11 and this is an excellent opportunity for Linux because Windows 10 users will get booted off once their OS is no longer supported some of them will look for a new home and some windows 11 users will just want to leave and well they can't go back to Windows so either they buy a brand new computer for a Mac or they go to Linux our best chance of growing has always been when the most popular OS makes a big blunder and that's what Windows has been doing repeatedly since Windows 11 has been introduced so this is probably why we're seeing such growth for Linux right now now and let's hope it continues now Linux Mint will apparently start forking gnome applications to make their own their app collection called X apps depends on gnome Technologies notably gtk but as gnome focuses on liid V that is designed for Gnome and not really for other desktops meant things that they should not rely on them anymore the other reason seems to try and make sure other desktops can bend together to collaborate on these applications stuff like mate xfc or budgie could collaborate on a single set of gtk based apps that respect all of these desktops guidelines mint says that they don't want to make Linux Mint apps they want to make Linux apps that work everywhere now mint also says that they want their apps to be designed by people who actually care about their desktop and thus they don't want to use lipit V apps they will Fork gtk 3 versions of these applications namely Celluloid gnome calculator simple scan the bowab disc space analyzer the system monitor gnome calendar and the archive manager mint says that they cannot blame gnome for building apps that are meant for Gnome it is entirely normal but mint wants to as they say send a strong signal that they won't support applications that don't support min's users and environment and so they also won't promote them it looks like they will have changed changes in the software manager to list applications that are compatible which just seems to mean applications that are themeable mint will also remove the advit icon theme from their install because it only provides icons that are used by gnome and so it can look broken on other desktops as we mentioned earlier in this episode other plan changes for mint include hiding unverified flatback apps by default in the software manager and adding a matrix client now this is all along the lines of what Linux Mint has been doing for ages they use a specific base but they mercilessly uproot everything that they don't like which is totally fine now on this particular issue I think they're right they should have apps that feel right at home on their desktop a desktop environment should not Shipe apps that look completely out of place by default but also I think they sort of misunderstand what working means because an app that doesn't look at home works it just doesn't look right the theme is not a mandatory condition for an application to be run on a specific computer so having the default apps look like mint apps by forking them that's awesome especially if they can make sure that every other desktop bends together so all of these apps can get more contributions but filtering out applications that don't support your theme I think that goes a bit too far it's really weird as a system now joining the New York Times in suing open Ai and Microsoft are now eight more newspapers including the New York daily news the Chicago Tribune and more this suit is filed in the same district as the one from the New York Times which potentially opens the door to combining both lawsuits and the plaintiff said that they elected to sue open AI instead of attempting to negotiate a deal the basis is the same as the New York Times suit open AI allegedly used their content without authoriz ation to fuel a commercial product and they removed any copyright management information like journalist names and titles they also accusing open AI of damaging their reputation by using their Publications names in Open ai's results and answers even when the AI hallucinates bad answers that would tarnish the image of said Publications and as with the New York Times open AI doesn't really have a real defense here they're fighting the nyt lawsuit by saying their AI reproducing entire articles verbatim is a bug but that doesn't answer the point of the suit which is that they use these articles without authorization and that's painfully obvious the fact that they also struck deals with other Publishers to compensate them for using their content also indicates that they know they should compensate creators I'm not a lawyer I'm not a judge and I'm not from the US so some technicalities probably Escape me but I really fail to see how open AI could ever win any of these lawsuits because it is very clear that they did use this content without authorization and it is very clear that they know they shouldn't have because they paid other Publishers to do the same thing so we'll see how judges rule but honestly this will be very impactful because if judges decide that this is completely unlawful then some AI tools will probably die they just don't have the business model to pay for everything they use in their training and if judges W the other way saying that training an AI on public data is completely fair use it will have really damaging repercussions on basically every single Creator and every single publication out there so we'll have to wait and see how things evolve but you won't have to wait to see this segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a new computer you plan to run Linux on it and you want to spend your money towards a company that supports Linux check out tuxedo computers in the link in the description below they make devices that ship with Linux out of the box they actually contribute their patches and fixes Upstream to support all this hardware and they actually have repos you can add to a lot of dis Ros to implement those fixes if they haven't been accepted Upstream yet they have a big range of devices that will cover every price point and every need all their computers are very customizable you can open repair and upgrade all their laptops and they just are a great choice all I use these days are tox computers my channel is run on one of their laptops and all my gaming is done on one of their desktops so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux click the link in the description below and give them a shot they're really really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you know what to do there are the usual YouTube pleasantries under this video and if you really enjoy the channel there are plenty of ways to support it down in the description as well so thanks for watching and and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
we probably all have heard about the end crap ification of the internet yeah I'm not saying the exact word because well YouTube and profanity or just swearing in the first 30 seconds of a video this is the practice of making a service or a product worse and worse over time after you cornered a market or as you realize that you can squeeze more money out of something it's happening to video streaming services like Amazon Prime adding ads to its first paid tier it's happening to online services in general with Uber eat jacking up the price of every food item that you could get for a third cheaper from any store or it's happening to operating systems for example with Windows placing ads everywhere in an operating system you paid for when you bought your computer because yes the price of Windows was included in the price you paid for your PC so I thought it could be fun to look at what a Linux drro would look like with the same principles applied not just making it paid because that's perfectly fine but doing a lot of terrible things to try and earn more and more cash with dark patterns and those are just a few ideas sourced from myself and some patreon and YouTube members but if you have more of those leave them in the comments so hopefully your company can get inspired by them and start doing them for real okay so let's imagine a Linux drro made by a big Tech compy company at first they're giving it all for free free download all the features you would expect but with an awesome integration with their own Suite of online services desktop clients that only exist on their own drro it looks good they're gaining users lots of users they're using a modified version of KDE because that's more modular and it's easier for them to tweak things and add features they have their own super duper packaging format that is super flexible and better than anything else to the point many other distros are now using it as well and virtually everyone distributes their software through that and they also have direct relationships with Hardware manufacturers to make sure they can ship the best experience the experience is so good in fact that a lot of the Linux Community just moved to that big Tech Linux dit they're the savior of the Linux desktop they will bring the year of the Linux desktop upon us and sure there are some really weird neck beards talking about Embrace extend extinguish but they're all just weird blogs living in their mom's basement and then this big tech company realizes they have 42.0% of the Linux desktop market so maybe it's time to get some money out of this thing at first it's nothing too weird we're just going to make you log in with an account because you know the main reason you picked our Dro is to use our services so so it's actually helpful right instead of remembering two passwords now there's only one you log into the computer with the account you create your user account with it it's simple enough don't worry you can still log in while your computer is offline we are not monsters although you will have to connect to the internet at least once a month if you don't want to be permanently logged out because that's for security reasons now of course since you're using your account you will be giving us just a tiny bit of telemetry when you log in from whereare and a few details about the computer it's all for security so you can know if someone is trying to access your system from somewhere else but now you know what it would be better if we could get just a teeny tiny bit more data about you just basic things like what you're opening and when the commands you're typing how often do you use certain features the things you type in the OS search or folder structure just a few things to help us better understand how you use your Linux system and to improve things it's all for your convenience and of course all of this data is going to be attached to your account but don't worry we're not selling access to this data yet now that's the next step now that people have given us a bunch of data and have accepted its collection let's introduce some Partnerships again it's to make your experience experience better from the data we collected we know people tend to install these great applications or this game so why not just place a handy shortcut in your menu right after you install you've already installed the drro no worries we will add that icon in your task manager so you don't forget no it is not an add it is a recommendation that we've just incidentally been paid to add there don't you like discovering new software of course you do and also we're going to tailor these recommendations to you using your data because who wants to see recommendations that they never asked for that's why we placed for your convenience these recommendations in the taskbar on your desktop and in your start menu way easier to access sure people will start to Grumble because well yes you never requested these things but don't worry you can disable these in the settings down at the very bottom somewhere you will only find if you find an online article or tutorial to tell you how to get rid of them and now it's time to trade we know we placed a few unpopular things inside of your operating system so we know it's only just that we give you a new feature in exchange so say hi to your new AI assistant it's called tux because why not and it's adorable it pops up up when you press the Super Key instead of the main menu and it lets you run programs do online searches install apps run commands generate images and text and code and it's just the best thing ever and it's deeply integrated into the system because we collected a lot of data now and we know what you like so we trained it on that data and it will also be used to collect data but that's just for ongoing training and also for a few more personalized recommendations here and there you want this assistant to get better right so you need to give it more data okay now that you're happy about these features the OS is pretty much complete but we have noticed not everyone uses the same features So today we're happy to introduce a brand new system that lets everyone get a tailored experience and only the features that they they want it's an Innovative thing where you can still use the base system for free but more advanced features that we notic not everyone uses these will now require a paid subscription the free tier gives you the entire OS complete with our great AI assistant recommendations and helpful Telemetry but a lot of our users don't use the command line and don't install any package other than applications we also noticed not everyone uses every available port on their device all the time so free users will now no longer have access to the terminal or the package manager they will use tux our adorable AI assistant to install anything as long as it's a graphical app no libraries or individual packages allowed also you will be limited to USB 3 speeds instead of USB 4 because that's for power users who need to use more battery life but don't worry all of these great features are still available in our premium tier with it you get access to the entire command line and also to all the packages in the repost that you can install from the command line or our graphical tool you also don't get our recommendations because you are an advanced user and you know what you like you also get access to more personalization options than free users changing accent colors the wallpaper the sound theme you can even change certain advanced settings like the services running in the background or using the Legacy X server for your specific needs and of course with every new update you'll have to read and agree to our terms and conditions because these will change every month of course don't read it to the end because there's nothing important in here of course now some people might not be happy they want some features of our ultimate plan but they also don't need all the features in there or maybe they just don't like paying for something that should be entirely free like it was before nah that's not it they just want more tiers and more customization options that's certain because we noticed premium users were not really Advanced users so maybe they do need to have some recommendations after all free users also need more of those so we elongated the tile bars of the windows it's it's more accessible it's easier to click them and to move them around but also they look pretty empty so we added scrolling banners in them to recommend you to upgrade or to get more interesting features and apps we also removing the option to change the default apps for free users and making it available for premium and upwards because free users really did not change their web browser anyway yeah and if the EU starts knocking on our door just we we'll have a ballot screen that only appears if you find a very specific hidden option they're fine with that for at least two years and then we'll get a fine but it's okay we'll have made billions by then also free users will now have to wait for the end of each month for updates and security updates premium users get these weekly and ultimate users get these daily they need the updates more it's not like you have a choice anyway because our awesome packaging format has been adopted by virtually everyone Under the Sun and every commercial developer prop ER because we do have all the market share that the Linux desktop has by now sure some neg beards are trying to maintain older crappier disos with older packaging formats but there's no hope for them okay I'll stop here you get the point and also there are basically zero chances of that ever happening to a Linux drro although chromeos maybe could if it ever became successful but since the base Linux desktop has more market share than Chrome OS these days I don't see that as a likely outcome it might also sound like I just described Windows which well kind of because that's exactly what windows and on a smaller level Mac OS are doing right now chances are in the near future Microsoft is going to move Windows to a subscription service opening the door to all of this maybe not for Windows 12 but at least for 13 or 14 whatever number they want to pick after 12 this is definitely going to be a subscription service there is no reason why they would not do it still I thought it would be fun to look at what could happen if the ench ification of the entire web also started reaching Linux distribution so do you think I went too far or not far enough let me know in the comments and if you have other horrible ideas to ruin everyone's fun well let me know in the comments as well it's always nice to hear about them and usually there would be a sponsor here but for this kind of video it would not feel great so no sponsor I just leave you with the fact that there are plenty of links to support the channel in the 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we probably all have heard about the end crap ification of the internet yeah I'm not saying the exact word because well YouTube and profanity or just swearing in the first 30 seconds of a video this is the practice of making a service or a product worse and worse over time after you cornered a market or as you realize that you can squeeze more money out of something it's happening to video streaming services like Amazon Prime adding ads to its first paid tier it's happening to online services in general with Uber eat jacking up the price of every food item that you could get for a third cheaper from any store or it's happening to operating systems for example with Windows placing ads everywhere in an operating system you paid for when you bought your computer because yes the price of Windows was included in the price you paid for your PC so I thought it could be fun to look at what a Linux drro would look like with the same principles applied not just making it paid because that's perfectly fine but doing a lot of terrible things to try and earn more and more cash with dark patterns and those are just a few ideas sourced from myself and some patreon and YouTube members but if you have more of those leave them in the comments so hopefully your company can get inspired by them and start doing them for real okay so let's imagine a Linux drro made by a big Tech compy company at first they're giving it all for free free download all the features you would expect but with an awesome integration with their own Suite of online services desktop clients that only exist on their own drro it looks good they're gaining users lots of users they're using a modified version of KDE because that's more modular and it's easier for them to tweak things and add features they have their own super duper packaging format that is super flexible and better than anything else to the point many other distros are now using it as well and virtually everyone distributes their software through that and they also have direct relationships with Hardware manufacturers to make sure they can ship the best experience the experience is so good in fact that a lot of the Linux Community just moved to that big Tech Linux dit they're the savior of the Linux desktop they will bring the year of the Linux desktop upon us and sure there are some really weird neck beards talking about Embrace extend extinguish but they're all just weird blogs living in their mom's basement and then this big tech company realizes they have 42.0% of the Linux desktop market so maybe it's time to get some money out of this thing at first it's nothing too weird we're just going to make you log in with an account because you know the main reason you picked our Dro is to use our services so so it's actually helpful right instead of remembering two passwords now there's only one you log into the computer with the account you create your user account with it it's simple enough don't worry you can still log in while your computer is offline we are not monsters although you will have to connect to the internet at least once a month if you don't want to be permanently logged out because that's for security reasons now of course since you're using your account you will be giving us just a tiny bit of telemetry when you log in from whereare and a few details about the computer it's all for security so you can know if someone is trying to access your system from somewhere else but now you know what it would be better if we could get just a teeny tiny bit more data about you just basic things like what you're opening and when the commands you're typing how often do you use certain features the things you type in the OS search or folder structure just a few things to help us better understand how you use your Linux system and to improve things it's all for your convenience and of course all of this data is going to be attached to your account but don't worry we're not selling access to this data yet now that's the next step now that people have given us a bunch of data and have accepted its collection let's introduce some Partnerships again it's to make your experience experience better from the data we collected we know people tend to install these great applications or this game so why not just place a handy shortcut in your menu right after you install you've already installed the drro no worries we will add that icon in your task manager so you don't forget no it is not an add it is a recommendation that we've just incidentally been paid to add there don't you like discovering new software of course you do and also we're going to tailor these recommendations to you using your data because who wants to see recommendations that they never asked for that's why we placed for your convenience these recommendations in the taskbar on your desktop and in your start menu way easier to access sure people will start to Grumble because well yes you never requested these things but don't worry you can disable these in the settings down at the very bottom somewhere you will only find if you find an online article or tutorial to tell you how to get rid of them and now it's time to trade we know we placed a few unpopular things inside of your operating system so we know it's only just that we give you a new feature in exchange so say hi to your new AI assistant it's called tux because why not and it's adorable it pops up up when you press the Super Key instead of the main menu and it lets you run programs do online searches install apps run commands generate images and text and code and it's just the best thing ever and it's deeply integrated into the system because we collected a lot of data now and we know what you like so we trained it on that data and it will also be used to collect data but that's just for ongoing training and also for a few more personalized recommendations here and there you want this assistant to get better right so you need to give it more data okay now that you're happy about these features the OS is pretty much complete but we have noticed not everyone uses the same features So today we're happy to introduce a brand new system that lets everyone get a tailored experience and only the features that they they want it's an Innovative thing where you can still use the base system for free but more advanced features that we notic not everyone uses these will now require a paid subscription the free tier gives you the entire OS complete with our great AI assistant recommendations and helpful Telemetry but a lot of our users don't use the command line and don't install any package other than applications we also noticed not everyone uses every available port on their device all the time so free users will now no longer have access to the terminal or the package manager they will use tux our adorable AI assistant to install anything as long as it's a graphical app no libraries or individual packages allowed also you will be limited to USB 3 speeds instead of USB 4 because that's for power users who need to use more battery life but don't worry all of these great features are still available in our premium tier with it you get access to the entire command line and also to all the packages in the repost that you can install from the command line or our graphical tool you also don't get our recommendations because you are an advanced user and you know what you like you also get access to more personalization options than free users changing accent colors the wallpaper the sound theme you can even change certain advanced settings like the services running in the background or using the Legacy X server for your specific needs and of course with every new update you'll have to read and agree to our terms and conditions because these will change every month of course don't read it to the end because there's nothing important in here of course now some people might not be happy they want some features of our ultimate plan but they also don't need all the features in there or maybe they just don't like paying for something that should be entirely free like it was before nah that's not it they just want more tiers and more customization options that's certain because we noticed premium users were not really Advanced users so maybe they do need to have some recommendations after all free users also need more of those so we elongated the tile bars of the windows it's it's more accessible it's easier to click them and to move them around but also they look pretty empty so we added scrolling banners in them to recommend you to upgrade or to get more interesting features and apps we also removing the option to change the default apps for free users and making it available for premium and upwards because free users really did not change their web browser anyway yeah and if the EU starts knocking on our door just we we'll have a ballot screen that only appears if you find a very specific hidden option they're fine with that for at least two years and then we'll get a fine but it's okay we'll have made billions by then also free users will now have to wait for the end of each month for updates and security updates premium users get these weekly and ultimate users get these daily they need the updates more it's not like you have a choice anyway because our awesome packaging format has been adopted by virtually everyone Under the Sun and every commercial developer prop ER because we do have all the market share that the Linux desktop has by now sure some neg beards are trying to maintain older crappier disos with older packaging formats but there's no hope for them okay I'll stop here you get the point and also there are basically zero chances of that ever happening to a Linux drro although chromeos maybe could if it ever became successful but since the base Linux desktop has more market share than Chrome OS these days I don't see that as a likely outcome it might also sound like I just described Windows which well kind of because that's exactly what windows and on a smaller level Mac OS are doing right now chances are in the near future Microsoft is going to move Windows to a subscription service opening the door to all of this maybe not for Windows 12 but at least for 13 or 14 whatever number they want to pick after 12 this is definitely going to be a subscription service there is no reason why they would not do it still I thought it would be fun to look at what could happen if the ench ification of the entire web also started reaching Linux distribution so do you think I went too far or not far enough let me know in the comments and if you have other horrible ideas to ruin everyone's fun well let me know in the comments as well it's always nice to hear about them and usually there would be a sponsor here but for this kind of video it would not feel great so no sponsor I just leave you with the fact that there are plenty of links to support the channel in the 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auntu 24.4 is dropping today or maybe it has been out for four months by the time you're watching this video but this time it's an LTS that's because it's been 2 years since the last one and that's how things work this means that auntu will not only be supported for 5 or 10 or 12 years depending on how much money you're willing to give canonical but also that it's going to be the base for a lot of other distributions like Linux Mint Elementary Os zorin Os and and a lot more but of course you can also just use it as your desktop so let's take a look at everything that changed in 24.4 and it all of its main official variants and also what changed in this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and you probably have heard about them by now but if you haven't just know that they're your allinone solution to build your own website however complex or simple you want it to be you can completely customize the website to to look and feel and have the features that you want you have a big selection of templates and then you can rearrange them by just dragging and dropping blocks into place you can change the general colors you can add new pages and you have a big library of modules like a complete online shop with online payment or a members only area a video gallery you can even pick your own domain name and book it from Squarespace and they even have a module to design your own logo so if you need a website but you don't really know how to get started or you don't have the time or the technical skills just head over to squarespace.com thel Linux experiment or click the link in the description below and you'll get 10% off your first purchase so let's start by touching briefly on the Ubuntu installer this thing got some love and some redesigned screens most Pages now feature the same kind of layout with a big icon on the left and the elements you need to pick on the right this makes the whole thing feel a bit more cohesive which is always a reassuring factor for newcomers you can also elect to run an automated install this will be more useful for organizations and companies that want to deploy the exact same configuration on multiple devices you just create a yaml file that has all the configs you want you feed that to the installer when you pick the automated install option and it will run the same install on any computer you want you can also still use the experimental TP M backed full dis encryption but it is still not fully stable so do not use that on a production system now you also get to pick the default install which is basically the minimal install option of old with just a web browser and a few desktop utilities or the extended install that comes with more applications it's the normal install that was offered previously except now the games are not part of this install anymore you can still install them manually but they won't come by default additional Ally cheese has been replaced by gnome snapshot to handle your webcam and Thunderbird is now shipped as a snap package instead of a de although that snap is officially maintained by the Thunderbird developers I think it's good to have the minimal install as the default so you only get what you really need and then you can add exactly what you want on top of that but I would prefer a sort of list of applications that you could check or uncheck to have a more customized experience and save you a few steps I'm sure people using the automated configuration with the yaml file would also love being able to specify which applications they want to install as per Thunderbird moving to snap packages you have to get used to that on a buntu that's not stopping and it's probably Paving the way for the auntu core desktop drro which will be an immutable variant of auntu built exclusively with snaps they need to migrate all the apps to snaps for that to even be remotely usable now of course the main event in aun 22404 is gnome 46 the latest version of that desktop with all the usual added UB two bells and whistles like their own theme their talk their tiling assistant none of these changed in 24.4 so gome 46 gives you a first Glimpse at improved notifications for now they can just be expanded or collapsed and they'll now show a little symbolic icon next to their title to let you know which apps B them more interesting you get experimental support for variable refresh rate a feature that will let you sync your monitors refresh rate to the content currently playing on your screen whether it's a movie or a video game or even a web page meaning you can not only save battery life but also reduce latency as well it is not enabled by default you will need to use decom to turn it on fractional scaling also got better with fonts now looking less blurry and properly aligned when using fractional scaling and you can now log into a gnome user through RDP instead of having to remote into a session where someone was already logged in now Nautilus the file manager finally lets you edit the file path by clicking on the path bar instead of having to press contrl plus L to do so yes this is a real feature it is Nautilus will also search faster and through the entire file system by default now if you want to search in a specific folder there is a dedicated icon for that file transfers are moved to the sidebar instead of the toolbar it's a side grades that doesn't change much and you can also change a folders icon from the properties panel of that folder finally you also get a new option to change how dates are displayed and you can search through nautulus settings which is entirely useless as a feature because there's like 12 things you can tweak inside of the nelus settings but if at some point they decided to actually have options you will be able to search through them and not be too confused now the main system settings changed a bit as well with a new system page that groups the region and language the date and time the users the remote desktop the secure shell and the about pages and it also includes a link to software updates default application settings have been merged into the main apps settings page as a subcategory which also includes the default actions you can configure when you insert removable media the mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you want to trigger the right click on your touchpad and there's a new mouse test page to make sure those settings work for you you can also turn off the touchpad when typing or disable that setting if you like pain The Gnome online accounts also received some love notably for the back end it now uses the default browser for authentication into your online accounts instead of a basic web view meaning that first you can now see the full URL that you're connecting to which is safer and more reassuring second you can use your saved passwords from your password manager in your browser and third you can use USB authentication methods as well you can also add a webd account to get access to contacts calendars and files in all the gnome apps that integrate with online accounts and you can add a Microsoft personal account as well which will give you access to your one drive storage straight from Nautilus so Gom 46 is mostly just small touches here and there and small improvements it will not change how you use your desktop or how you use Ubuntu now as per applications gnome calendar gained performance improvements the image viewer Loop now has a keyboard shortcut to permanently delete an image it's shift plus delete and The Gnome system monitor was entirely ported to gtk4 now you can expect much bigger changes in gome 47 and gome 48 so respectively in abon 2 24.10 and 25.0 4 because these will bring Global keyboard shortcut support for whan they will bring an improved file picker based on Nautilus they will bring a lot of whand improvements as well plus a new accessibility framework more work on notifications and encryption of your home directory along a lot of other things but for now gome 46 in open 22404 doesn't really change much in how you will use your system now let's look at what's under the hood in 24.4 and first is the app center it was introduced in the previous version in 23.10 and it didn't really change in here it's still snap first and you can still search for dep packages and install these if you prefer but it doesn't let you install de packages that are not from the repos open 22404 comes with the kernel 6.8 the latest available right now the main thing in here is the new pstage drivers meaning your Intel CPUs will be able to hit their advertised boost speeds but also that using that kernel on laptops should yield better battery life whether you have an AMD or Intel CPU especially since auntu 24.0 4 now uses better power profiles based on these new Pate drivers all packages in the repost that could get an update also received one meaning you'll get more recent versions of libraries applications and also of the Mesa and NVIDIA drivers if you're coming from aun2 22.4 to 24.4 this will matter immensely because you're getting way higher version numbers for about everything but if you're coming from 23.10 you're probably not going to notice much of a difference auntu also moves to net plan a network management tool that should not change anything for regular users that just connect to basic Wi-Fi but it will definitely improve the life of people who have to create complex Network configurations and for gamers you're also getting a better experience here the virtual memory mapping limit was increased by a factor of 16 in 24.0 4 meaning that games that could crash at launch or after an hour of play time will no longer do so at least if the crash was related to them trying to grab a lot of memory it's a change that Arch also recently made another interesting change is that all services that are affected by a library update will automatically be restarted to ensure that these services will be running with the latest security fixes applied it's more important for servers than for desktops because you regularly reboot desktops generally but yeah it's a good change and if you really don't like it you can disable it so if you're already an abunto user there are basically no reasons not to proceed to the update but there's also no real reason to jump on that update as soon as it's available you're getting better Hardware support and potentially better battery life but that's about it the features in Gnome 46 are not must haves here if you were already using gome 45 although if you're coming from an older open 2 LTS then yes there's a lot of stuff that you're going to want to use here now as per the official obuntu flavors this time around it is slim pickings kubuntu apart from the changes to the underlying systems and libraries offers the exact same experience as 23.10 due to time constraints they are not moving to plasma 6 so you are still getting 5.27 meaning that there is nothing new for you at least in terms of desktop experience same goes for obuntu Studio it will stick to 5.27 zunu is still on xfc 4.18 although a lot of the default apps received updates since the previous release the most notable ones being the ability to print from the image viewer the application finder now correctly launching games and GPU demanding apps using the dedicated GPU on hybrid graphic system there's better support for dark themes in the settings and the file manager now has built-in recursive file search open to Cinnamon moves to Cinnamon 6 with better looking settings the initial bricks of whon support the ability to add context menu entries to the file manager from a new actions and spices store and there are some more customizable gestures as well luntu 24.4 sticks with calamares instead of moving to the new obuntu installer as they found it installs faster and it performs better the luntu 2404 minimal in sty also gets rid of snapd entirely interestingly and they added a goey for Bluetooth device handling plus a config editor for the login screen sddm it also gets an optional whand session open to Budgy got a better weather applet plus support for all screen edges and old screen Corners in the hard Corner settings applets can now also be globally spaced instead of having to place individual spacers between every single applet in a panel which will be much easier the built-in Budgy theme was revamped and the Raven panel no has an API that LEDs developers create new widgets for it one of these new widgets is a system monitor for example they've also switched to status Notifier for handling the system tray so icons here should scale correctly and should better support High DPI and they are a lot of other smaller changes all across the desktop and as always budgie and also Ubuntu Budgy have the most detailed release notes with every single Small Change being listed kudos to them I only wish gnome and KD did that for their major or minor releases as well it would make my job a lot easier now in the end I cannot say aun 2 24.0 4 is a very exciting release if you're an auntu user there's no reason not to upgrade it improves a few things here and there but gome 46 was a pretty small release in terms of visible day-to-day experience improvements and aunu could have continued the previous trend of starting to add more extensions and more things on top of gnome to really build the desktop they want to ship but this is an LTS and they're not going to take any risk by shipping something half broken or unstable in an LTS release now the end result here is a new version of auntu that leaves very little to be hyped about but it's still super competent it works well if you enjoy your buntu you will enjoy this one it's stable it's smooth it works if you don't hate snaps it's perfectly fine now the bigger changes will probably come with 24.10 and 25.4 with gome 47 and gome 48 which will have definitely a lot more new features and a lot more changes to 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hey everyone today we have a lot to talk about from the reasons why Google search is going down the drain in terms of result quality to the release of Fedora 40 and aun 22404 LTS to Nvidia now contributing to nvk on top of contributing to Novo and to the US passing a law that will either Force Tik Tok to sell its entire business or to just be banned it was a strange week and so to make it more normal I thought I would add the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably know about their open source endtoend and zero access encrypted email service it gives you all the tools you need to ensure that you're not tracked inside your inbox and to protect your privacy when sending and receiving emails with tracker blockers email aliases spam and fishing protections and a lot more but proton also gives you an ENT entire Suite of tools with a VPN a calendar a password manager and an online storage space and they also just announced that they are joining forces with 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is a pretty oriented post about specific people at Google that I don't personally know or have heard about so take it with a grain of salt but the gist of it is it looks like Google search is being eaten by the Google ads division meaning that the main point of Google search is no longer to provide results so people would use the engine and then potentially click on ads it's to push ads and add growth at all costs including using weird growth hacking techniques that makes the experience worse in the long run basically it seems like the manager behind Google ads who has now been promoted to the head of Google Search is a pure consultant and middle manager and he has repeatedly ignored the advice or concerns of long longer term Google employees that helped build Google search they turned it into a growth at all cost product the article is very much pointing the finger at this specific person which isn't always the best thing to do because this person would not have been able to implement what they did if the higher ups and the hierarchy were not on board with that but the article is still nicely documented and Recaps a story that seems to repeat itself in big tech companies you have good engineers and product people that built great tools that make the company work and grow in the first place and then they're being replaced by middle managers that only see numbers and don't look at long-term impacts or at the general experience that their product offers now it should come as a surprise to virtually no one that this is the main reason as those businesses sort of grow and the people who created those businesses are phased out and replaced by pure managers who only look at numbers they tend to go down the drain and just focus on gaining 0.01% growth instead of actually making the product better and in 2024 we need more barriers in these search engines to filter out spammy click bity lowquality websites because AI generated content is everywhere already and it is spamm your click Baier and lower quality than what people already wrote themselves now it looks like the US us really does not want Tik Tok to exist in their country or at least not in its current form the house passed a bill that will force Tik Tok to either sell its activities in the US to a US company or to be banned entirely the Senate ratified the bill this week as well which was then signed by President Biden meaning that it's Now official Tik Tok has to sell or be banned the gist of it is that there's a big fear in the US that Tik Tok is being used by the Chinese government to push propaganda and to interfere in the US elections this year or just to implement Mass surveillance on US citizens there isn't any real public evidence that this is happening right now but Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company called bite dance and while they say there's a firewall in Tik tok's officers in LA some have reported that data still moves to China anyway so Tik Tok will now have one year to find a buyer in the US or they will be banned the issue is bites Den said that they have no intentions of selling their algorithm without which I don't think the US would be satisfied they would rather be bad and even if this could be circumvented in any way Tik Tok is worth a lot of money and finding a buyer willing to pay that would not be extremely easy and if you really think about it this is not a good thing this law fixes nothing first you cannot ban an app because you dislike it that makes no sense second Banning it in a year doesn't solve the election interference problem if this is a real problem because the elections will happen before Tik Tok is banned and third even if Tik Tok agreed to sell well it would only be bought by a giant tech company in the US so Google Microsoft Amazon apple or whatever else and so it would be yet another giant data pool owned by a giant us company which doesn't solve the Privacy problem either so no matter how I dislike Tik Tok which is a lot I don't think it should be banned for these reasons and if you're afraid of data going from the US to China there are ways to put limitations in place without Banning the app the EU has done that with services from the US because the US did exactly what they're accusing China of doing so it's a weird thing and I don't think it's going to help anymore one now it looks like nvidia's investment in our open- source driver stack is ongoing after the former Novo Mainer now an Nvidia employee contributed a big set of patches to nvo there's now another Nvidia developer who's opening a merge request for the nvk Vulcan drivers the developer in question is called arur weier and he used to contribute to nvo as well before working for NVIDIA his contribution is basically at adding support for a Vulcan extension but what's interesting here is that Nvidia seems to be willing to work on open source drivers now and not just on their own open- source modules or their proprietary drivers there is no official announcement on how much of these contributions we can expect if it's just individuals electing to help on their own time or if it's company policy but it is still direct contribution from people working at Nvidia from their official Nvidia email addresses hopefully Nvidia can follow in the footsteps of AMD and can become as much of a good open source citizen as the red team can be and honestly this is great news if Nvidia lends a hand on Novo and nvk we might end up in the same situation as with AMD where 99% of Nvidia users on Linux will just use Nuvo and nvk and the 1% who need Cuda or compute specific tasks will use the propri drivers this is sort of the dream although it does put into question the future of nvidia's official open source modules will they drop them will they help contribute to the general thing that everyone is building but still release their own stuff it's unclear 22404 LTS was released this week alongside all of its official variants it is an LTS version so it does get up to 12 years of support and it will be the base for the next Linux Mint Elementary Os zorin Os skd neon and a lot more in terms of what it brings it is not a big update you get gnome 46 without any tweaks from auntu and you also get the kernel 6.8 so technically you should see improved battery life thanks to the new pstate drivers and improved performance profiles there are a few other changes under the hood notably with the installer now letting you do automatic installs with a yaml file and also having been redesigned a bit to look more cohesive and frankly to look a lot nicer there are also improvements for gamers which should see less game crashes if you're coming from aun 2 23.10 you are not going to have a drastically improved experience but if you're coming from the previous LTS you're going to have a lot to enjoy as for the other flavors it's a big nothing Burger everything sticks to the versions of their desktop environment that they used before aun to budgie saw some small improvements to their applets aun to Cinnamon moved to Cinnamon 6 but everything else is kind of stuck in the exact same place especially kobun 2 and obun 2 Studio which do not get plasma 6 unfortunately it is a boring release but for an LTS boring is good because this is not the place to make sweeping changes I think 24.10 and 25.0 4 will be way more interesting because gome 47 and gome 48 will come with a lot more exciting updates for now it's still worth worth looking at it although apparently a lot of people are reporting big problems when upgrading theiron 2 installs in place so maybe wait a bit on that because you might break your system if you do it right now and in the same vein Fedora 40 was released this week this time without too much delay it brings gome 46 as well for its main workstation Edition but they do get plasma 6 for their KD Spin and all the other spins also received as many updates as their respective desktops received them El which is to say not a lot they also took the opportunity to replace the immutable label for these sort of dros and they put them under the Fedora Atomic desktop Banner instead Fedora 40 is also the first version of this drro to come with a pre-built package for p torch something that is used for AI training and development and is apparently difficult to install and to get running properly that's very much in line with fedora's ambition to be the Linux drro for AI the first version of that package is not preconfigured to use the GPU or potential neural processing units that your computer might have so this is not a full-on solution immediately on top of that you're also getting the kernel 6.8 but the brand new Anaconda installer is not ready yet so it will be delayed again this launch of Fedora 40 is also accompanied by a dedicated laptop the Fedora slimbook 2 it's basically the exact same laptop that I'm using right now it's a sleek and lightweight 16in although it also comes in a 14in variant it's got Intel CPUs a 90 HZ refresh rate 3K display and an RTX 4060 if you go for the 16in model and also some Fedora branding it's a great laptop I've been using the exact same chassis and hardware for a while now although mine comes from another manufacturer but it is the exact same computer and it's great so congrats on the release to both auntu and fedora those are both relatively uninteresting new versions except if you're a KD user on Fedora because you're getting plasma 6 compared to a kubuntu user who doesn't and let's finish this with the gaming news we have some more work on the nvk open- source drivers for NVIDIA in Mesa 24.1 this driver will support implicit pipeline caching something that should provide better performance when using dxvk which is basically saying you're going to get better performance for every game you are playing on Linux because everything uses dxvk interestingly this feature is part of the new common Vulcan runtime that Mesa is working on so that there's less code duplication between drivers and future drivers will not have to rewrite their own implementation when they need to access that feature there's also the implementation of two new Vulcan extensions in nvk that should fix a bunch of rendering issues in certain games and also fix some rendering issues in older games they showcased genin impact for example but other titles should also benefit the stabo release of Mesa 24.1 is planned for miday so it will not be too long before this lands alongside a lot of other improvements to the nvk drivers now with the release of fola 40 and a bon 22404 we should see the first real tests of nvk as a replacement for the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and this should be pretty interesting I'll see if any good benchmarks or reviews come in the next coming weeks and if they don't I'll probably make my own video on this topic and Nintendo strikes again this time against Gary's mod of all things all Nintendo related content that could have been added to Gary's Mod through various mods and content packs was ordered to be removed from the Steam Workshop following dmca takedown notices face spch the developer of Gary's Mod said that they have confirmed these takedowns actually came from Nintendo it is not someone trolling and they also said that it was fair enough and that they had to respect that decision although I don't agree with that at all they also said that it will take a while because they have about 20 years of uploaded content to go through and they asked users who submitted these to help them and to delete them and also to never re-upload them again and thanks Nintendo for ruining everyone else's fun it's Gary's Mod content it's not like it's piracy or emulating your current games it's fanmade content for a old ass game to just recreate some Nintendo experiences it's basically fan games what are you doing Nintendo leave people alone you not going to tell me that any judge would say oh you never attacked a fan game for G is mod so you lost all rights to your own intellectual property you don't have to ruin everybody else's fun and also why isn't it steam that needs to remove all of this from the Steam Workshop uh instead of face punch I don't know it's kind of weird but thanks Nintendo you still really suck what doesn't suck though is this video sponsor tuxedo computers you all know about them I talk about them all the time but basically what you need to know is that if you need a new computer running l and you want to put your money towards a company that actually supports Linux instead of buying something from a Windows only company and trying to install Linux afterwards well tuxedo computers is probably your best bet they're from Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that covers every need and every price point with a lot of customization the ability to open repair and upgrade laptops and a lot more I only run their devices these days my channel is run of 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auntu 24.4 is dropping today or maybe it has been out for four months by the time you're watching this video but this time it's an LTS that's because it's been 2 years since the last one and that's how things work this means that auntu will not only be supported for 5 or 10 or 12 years depending on how much money you're willing to give canonical but also that it's going to be the base for a lot of other distributions like Linux Mint Elementary Os zorin Os and and a lot more but of course you can also just use it as your desktop so let's take a look at everything that changed in 24.4 and it all of its main official variants and also what changed in this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and you probably have heard about them by now but if you haven't just know that they're your allinone solution to build your own website however complex or simple you want it to be you can completely customize the website to to look and feel and have the features that you want you have a big selection of templates and then you can rearrange them by just dragging and dropping blocks into place you can change the general colors you can add new pages and you have a big library of modules like a complete online shop with online payment or a members only area a video gallery you can even pick your own domain name and book it from Squarespace and they even have a module to design your own logo so if you need a website but you don't really know how to get started or you don't have the time or the technical skills just head over to squarespace.com thel Linux experiment or click the link in the description below and you'll get 10% off your first purchase so let's start by touching briefly on the Ubuntu installer this thing got some love and some redesigned screens most Pages now feature the same kind of layout with a big icon on the left and the elements you need to pick on the right this makes the whole thing feel a bit more cohesive which is always a reassuring factor for newcomers you can also elect to run an automated install this will be more useful for organizations and companies that want to deploy the exact same configuration on multiple devices you just create a yaml file that has all the configs you want you feed that to the installer when you pick the automated install option and it will run the same install on any computer you want you can also still use the experimental TP M backed full dis encryption but it is still not fully stable so do not use that on a production system now you also get to pick the default install which is basically the minimal install option of old with just a web browser and a few desktop utilities or the extended install that comes with more applications it's the normal install that was offered previously except now the games are not part of this install anymore you can still install them manually but they won't come by default additional Ally cheese has been replaced by gnome snapshot to handle your webcam and Thunderbird is now shipped as a snap package instead of a de although that snap is officially maintained by the Thunderbird developers I think it's good to have the minimal install as the default so you only get what you really need and then you can add exactly what you want on top of that but I would prefer a sort of list of applications that you could check or uncheck to have a more customized experience and save you a few steps I'm sure people using the automated configuration with the yaml file would also love being able to specify which applications they want to install as per Thunderbird moving to snap packages you have to get used to that on a buntu that's not stopping and it's probably Paving the way for the auntu core desktop drro which will be an immutable variant of auntu built exclusively with snaps they need to migrate all the apps to snaps for that to even be remotely usable now of course the main event in aun 22404 is gnome 46 the latest version of that desktop with all the usual added UB two bells and whistles like their own theme their talk their tiling assistant none of these changed in 24.4 so gome 46 gives you a first Glimpse at improved notifications for now they can just be expanded or collapsed and they'll now show a little symbolic icon next to their title to let you know which apps B them more interesting you get experimental support for variable refresh rate a feature that will let you sync your monitors refresh rate to the content currently playing on your screen whether it's a movie or a video game or even a web page meaning you can not only save battery life but also reduce latency as well it is not enabled by default you will need to use decom to turn it on fractional scaling also got better with fonts now looking less blurry and properly aligned when using fractional scaling and you can now log into a gnome user through RDP instead of having to remote into a session where someone was already logged in now Nautilus the file manager finally lets you edit the file path by clicking on the path bar instead of having to press contrl plus L to do so yes this is a real feature it is Nautilus will also search faster and through the entire file system by default now if you want to search in a specific folder there is a dedicated icon for that file transfers are moved to the sidebar instead of the toolbar it's a side grades that doesn't change much and you can also change a folders icon from the properties panel of that folder finally you also get a new option to change how dates are displayed and you can search through nautulus settings which is entirely useless as a feature because there's like 12 things you can tweak inside of the nelus settings but if at some point they decided to actually have options you will be able to search through them and not be too confused now the main system settings changed a bit as well with a new system page that groups the region and language the date and time the users the remote desktop the secure shell and the about pages and it also includes a link to software updates default application settings have been merged into the main apps settings page as a subcategory which also includes the default actions you can configure when you insert removable media the mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you want to trigger the right click on your touchpad and there's a new mouse test page to make sure those settings work for you you can also turn off the touchpad when typing or disable that setting if you like pain The Gnome online accounts also received some love notably for the back end it now uses the default browser for authentication into your online accounts instead of a basic web view meaning that first you can now see the full URL that you're connecting to which is safer and more reassuring second you can use your saved passwords from your password manager in your browser and third you can use USB authentication methods as well you can also add a webd account to get access to contacts calendars and files in all the gnome apps that integrate with online accounts and you can add a Microsoft personal account as well which will give you access to your one drive storage straight from Nautilus so Gom 46 is mostly just small touches here and there and small improvements it will not change how you use your desktop or how you use Ubuntu now as per applications gnome calendar gained performance improvements the image viewer Loop now has a keyboard shortcut to permanently delete an image it's shift plus delete and The Gnome system monitor was entirely ported to gtk4 now you can expect much bigger changes in gome 47 and gome 48 so respectively in abon 2 24.10 and 25.0 4 because these will bring Global keyboard shortcut support for whan they will bring an improved file picker based on Nautilus they will bring a lot of whand improvements as well plus a new accessibility framework more work on notifications and encryption of your home directory along a lot of other things but for now gome 46 in open 22404 doesn't really change much in how you will use your system now let's look at what's under the hood in 24.4 and first is the app center it was introduced in the previous version in 23.10 and it didn't really change in here it's still snap first and you can still search for dep packages and install these if you prefer but it doesn't let you install de packages that are not from the repos open 22404 comes with the kernel 6.8 the latest available right now the main thing in here is the new pstage drivers meaning your Intel CPUs will be able to hit their advertised boost speeds but also that using that kernel on laptops should yield better battery life whether you have an AMD or Intel CPU especially since auntu 24.0 4 now uses better power profiles based on these new Pate drivers all packages in the repost that could get an update also received one meaning you'll get more recent versions of libraries applications and also of the Mesa and NVIDIA drivers if you're coming from aun2 22.4 to 24.4 this will matter immensely because you're getting way higher version numbers for about everything but if you're coming from 23.10 you're probably not going to notice much of a difference auntu also moves to net plan a network management tool that should not change anything for regular users that just connect to basic Wi-Fi but it will definitely improve the life of people who have to create complex Network configurations and for gamers you're also getting a better experience here the virtual memory mapping limit was increased by a factor of 16 in 24.0 4 meaning that games that could crash at launch or after an hour of play time will no longer do so at least if the crash was related to them trying to grab a lot of memory it's a change that Arch also recently made another interesting change is that all services that are affected by a library update will automatically be restarted to ensure that these services will be running with the latest security fixes applied it's more important for servers than for desktops because you regularly reboot desktops generally but yeah it's a good change and if you really don't like it you can disable it so if you're already an abunto user there are basically no reasons not to proceed to the update but there's also no real reason to jump on that update as soon as it's available you're getting better Hardware support and potentially better battery life but that's about it the features in Gnome 46 are not must haves here if you were already using gome 45 although if you're coming from an older open 2 LTS then yes there's a lot of stuff that you're going to want to use here now as per the official obuntu flavors this time around it is slim pickings kubuntu apart from the changes to the underlying systems and libraries offers the exact same experience as 23.10 due to time constraints they are not moving to plasma 6 so you are still getting 5.27 meaning that there is nothing new for you at least in terms of desktop experience same goes for obuntu Studio it will stick to 5.27 zunu is still on xfc 4.18 although a lot of the default apps received updates since the previous release the most notable ones being the ability to print from the image viewer the application finder now correctly launching games and GPU demanding apps using the dedicated GPU on hybrid graphic system there's better support for dark themes in the settings and the file manager now has built-in recursive file search open to Cinnamon moves to Cinnamon 6 with better looking settings the initial bricks of whon support the ability to add context menu entries to the file manager from a new actions and spices store and there are some more customizable gestures as well luntu 24.4 sticks with calamares instead of moving to the new obuntu installer as they found it installs faster and it performs better the luntu 2404 minimal in sty also gets rid of snapd entirely interestingly and they added a goey for Bluetooth device handling plus a config editor for the login screen sddm it also gets an optional whand session open to Budgy got a better weather applet plus support for all screen edges and old screen Corners in the hard Corner settings applets can now also be globally spaced instead of having to place individual spacers between every single applet in a panel which will be much easier the built-in Budgy theme was revamped and the Raven panel no has an API that LEDs developers create new widgets for it one of these new widgets is a system monitor for example they've also switched to status Notifier for handling the system tray so icons here should scale correctly and should better support High DPI and they are a lot of other smaller changes all across the desktop and as always budgie and also Ubuntu Budgy have the most detailed release notes with every single Small Change being listed kudos to them I only wish gnome and KD did that for their major or minor releases as well it would make my job a lot easier now in the end I cannot say aun 2 24.0 4 is a very exciting release if you're an auntu user there's no reason not to upgrade it improves a few things here and there but gome 46 was a pretty small release in terms of visible day-to-day experience improvements and aunu could have continued the previous trend of starting to add more extensions and more things on top of gnome to really build the desktop they want to ship but this is an LTS and they're not going to take any risk by shipping something half broken or unstable in an LTS release now the end result here is a new version of auntu that leaves very little to be hyped about but it's still super competent it works well if you enjoy your buntu you will enjoy this one it's stable it's smooth it works if you don't hate snaps it's perfectly fine now the bigger changes will probably come with 24.10 and 25.4 with gome 47 and gome 48 which will have definitely a lot more new features and a lot more changes to 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hey everyone this is Nick and today we're going to talk about something different we're going to talk about santoz the last real version of santoz that is still supported well it's only supported for a little bit now as it's going end of life in two months and we need to talk about it because this could leave a significant Gap in the Linux Enterprise space so since tux scare has been a sponsor of the channel for years now and they're actually experts at this Linux Enterprise thing I thought they could be very helpful in fleshing out this look at Centos what it is why it going end of life is not exactly the same as the usual end of life drro and potential solutions for people who might want to keep running Centos S7 or move to something else and that's also why tux scare is the sponsor of this entire video so let's just begin with a quick recap of what sentos s is and why sentos S7 is still pretty popular Santos is short for Community Enterprise operating system and it started as one of the first Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones it was built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and it was a 100% binary compatible the dro quickly became one of the most popular dros for servers even overtaking the good old Debian in 2010 for a little while at least Debian regained its Crown in 2014 red hat announced they would sponsor the s project probably seeing the advantage in fostering an ecosystem around their own Enterprise offering to convert organizations to Red Hat Enterprise Linux when they needed more support and to make sure developers had a solid platform to Target that's why Red Hat gained ownership of all the trademarks around Centos and also why they employed most major Centos contributors directly unfortunately at the end of 2020 Red Hat announced that Santos would be discontinued at relased in its current Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone form and it would now be distributed as sentos stream which isn't really the same kind of distribution instead of being a rebuild of rail which is what people mostly used sentos S4 it's basically rails up stream from which the next version of red hat Enterprise Linux will be built stream is also a rolling release meaning that it's likely not suitable for a lot of people who rely on sentos and with that sentos S8 was quickly discontinued in December 2021 leaving sentos S7 as the only version that is still supported and sentos S7 will now be end of life at the end of June 2024 meaning that if you want a full rebuild of rail and sento EST streem doesn't work for you you have to find another solution and this isn't really like any other drro going end of life because in most cases you usually have a direct upgrade path from one open to LTS to another or from one major open to a Le version to another or one major Red Hat version to another in the case of Santos there's no upgrade path it's either you go Santo stream or you move to something else entirely there is no continuation of sentos as it once was now sentos is still a very very popular Distribution on servers first a worrying statistic out of all current Centos users in early 2020 before more than half use sento S 6 or eight meaning they're using end of life dis Ros without security patches from their original developers now the main reasons why organizations would stick to either unmaintained and of live versions of Centos s or with Centos S7 as it is going end of life it's very likely because there is no direct upgrade path if you're on Centos S8 you can't move to something else from sentos s if you use sentos S 6 you could upgrade to 7 but migrating to a new Dro that goes end of life in two months isn't necessarily worth it and if you're on Cento S7 you cannot upgrade to version 8 because it is also end of life meaning that if your workflow or your server Fleet depends on using SOS exactly you're out of luck you can either move to another red hat Enterprise Linux clone like Rocky Linux or Alma Linux or you just have to stick with it even though it's unmaintained and well not a lot of current sent SOS users are planning on doing that only about 20% of Centos 7 and 8 users are going to migrate to another Enterprise Linux drro and about 177% of users of Centos s 7 or 8 plan on continuing to use these versions even without support which is obviously a very bad decision and do not do that seriously running your server without any security patches or support is the best way to get that server compromised and it's even worse if you do this as you're working for a specific company or an organization so what are the solutions if you're stuck on centos7 what can you do well I asked joa Korea from tux scare you might also know him from the Enterprise Linux security podcast which he co-host with Jay from learn Linux TV also available here on YouTube the the first thing I wanted to ask you is do you have any statistics about sento usage in general cuz I I plucked a few from uh the study taxcare did early this year uh on well the landscape of Enterprise Linux but I didn't see any statistics I saw statistics for Centos usage among Centos users but not necessarily Centos usage as a whole uh do you have any numbers on that well as you can imagine it's really tricky getting those numbers and having reliable numbers from it um no the the short answer is no we don't have a reliable way of providing you with those numbers anecdotal evidence has been that a couple of years ago Centos was the most widely used web server on the internet like three or four years ago and that was reported by the companies that do browser studies and all of that and they came out with that with that statistic how well that holds up or not I don't know if it's still accurate or not today there's actually um one interview with Greg Crow Hartman from the Linux Kel where he mentioned that uh most servers are running Debian anyway or Debian based anyway um so I don't know exactly what changed or why it changed but again I cannot provide you with those accurate numbers because I don't have them myself and it's really tricky to measure that okay so the next question uh will be generally what is the specific problem with Santos S7 going end of life how is it different from let's say an obuntu LTS going end of life specifically well with an Ubuntu LTS you have the next Ubuntu LTS to migrate to and you're going to stay on the same architecture and everything is going to stay in the same place on the new system so the the migration pass is there with Centos S7 weirdly enough going out of support after C S8 for some reason that red that came up with um but the the main difference there is that there's no obvious Target to move to there's nothing says that okay this is the next Centos um you have into a stream but from the start it was immediately shown not to be exactly the right path to migrate to you're not getting an Apples to Apples comparison when you move to stream um for one the the update Cadence is not the same you're not getting updates every three or four weeks you're getting updates every other day for example and that just doesn't fit with the with the regular Enterprise schedule uh so now let's talk a little bit about the options that you have if you're currently a sentos user hopefully sentos 7 and not six or eight without patches uh what what can you do the first one is obviously to stick to sentos S7 as it is without any support everyone that runs a server or or a company or organization knows that this is not a good idea but can can you just tell us quickly why this is really not something people should do let let me give you some context and for this we do have statistics um Centos S6 has been of support for four years something like that sento hasite for about two years two and something um there have been over 2,000 high and critical vulnerabilities that affect each of those since they went end of life over 2,000 vulnerabilities for which there will be no update Force coming for which your systems if you're still running them have no Remediation in place and they are vulnerable to those vulnerabilities and that's a very risky proposition if you're if you have even if it's just one server in the corner tucked away out of side nobody really cares too much about it that's the security Gap that you have in your infrastructure and that's what's going to be targeted by threat actors and additionally if your if your organization operates in some industry that has any form of Regulation around cyber security for example that says you need to patch within four weeks at most or something like that it doesn't matter how long you have to patch you will not have the patches so you will immediately fall out of compliance and that can be business threatening if if you're operating in healthcare for example and your equipment goes out of support because they're no longer maintain they no longer receive patches you have to stop using that equipment and that's very costly so running it and supported it's not just the risk it's the compliance it's the regulations and it's the fact that the threat actors know exactly the same as we all do so they know that if they spot the system that's running an out of support operating system that's what we're they are going to Target because it won't get fixes any time they can take their time in finding the right way to to exploit it and they're secure in knowing yeah nobody's being going to be able to remediate the new problem that just came out and we have all the time in the world to exploit it yeah so yeah it's not just like you would say oh I don't care I'm still running like Windows XP or or open 24.4 on my own personal computer that's not connected to the internet it's a server obviously it is connected to the internet and even if it's your home server or even if you think it's just like this little weird part to host your your personal files it's not a good solution to be more precise um if you're running in an environment where you just have a single server well that's easy to migrate you take a weekend off or something like that you take it down for a few hours you find an alternative you migrate your workload and you're done when scale gets in the way when you have thousands of systems running when you have hundreds of systems running a specific role and they all on top of SOS and now it's out of support that's when you have a problem that's when you have to plan you have to test you have to deploy the migration there will be problems you'll have to roll back and all of these steps take a lot of time and if you haven't started looking at the problem right now in the two months until the end of life date you're not having the time to do it properly anyway yeah so that that was the next option that that you can get if you're using sento 7 it's to move to something else you just leave Centos 7 and you try another distribution uh whether it's moving to something completely different like I don't know something Debian based or you're moving to another built on top of red hat source code distribution something maybe like Alma Linux like Rocky Linux you can move to open soua whatever moving to another distribution what are the challenges uh with that so obviously it is a lot of time to plan to prepare but generally what are the challenges first to move to something that isn't at all like red hat Enterprise Linux well um if you're moving to something completely different say you're moving from something that's red hat based like Centos to something that's de Debian based like auntu for example then basically it depends on your workload but you're going to have issues like Library versions not being the same as shipped with both systems files not being in the same place the configuration files not might not have exactly the same syntax package names might be different um files might not be where the system is expecting them the Syntax for certain commands might change just look at for example httpd versus Apache it immediately affects the name of the modules it immediately affects your deployment scripts that's a lot of work if you stay within the same ecosystem like you mentioned for example Alma Linux or rocky or even Oracle for example staying with those means that while it's not a direct upgrade pass at least you don't have to change your tooling extensively at least you can expect your automation scripts to continue to run and your monitoring tools to find the right values in the places that they have already been doing so far and that's an easier migration path that you have available staying in the same ecosystem to say something like that um and it's important to to realize here something that redhead seems to be missing with all of the changes that it's forcing but the value of rail itself it's in its ecosystem it's in the the number of distributions that are running running on top of the same code base it's not the code itself that chip to with rail it's that the environment is stable staying within that stable environment means that you can continue to run the same applications that have been developed for Rail and that's very important um moving to something different means that the certification for example again going back to the example of healthare suppose you have a CT scan machine that's cost a million bucks or something like that and it's running Centos S7 and now you have to migrate that way that machine has been certified to run with that specific software stack if you change the software stack enough you're going to have to recertify it and that takes time takes resources and it might even fail the certification and that's not a position that you want to be in so you want to avoid making as many changes as possible so you're going to ideally stick with something closer uh no that's two options uh moving to another dis r or staying without patches there's a final one which is well extended in the support and the life cycle of Centos S7 so you can at least stay on it for a bit longer and plan the migration can you tell us a little bit more about the principle how easy or hard it is to implement and and generally how longterm of a solution is it absolutely so extended life cycle support as the name immediately implies means that you extend the time in which you receive security updates um the deployment process itself it's extremely simple it's just adding a new repos repository to the system and now this the updates will simply come from that new repository rather than the one you were using before um so there is no disruption there is no downtime there's nothing like that you just deploy a new repository which is basically adding a package to the system that has a configuration file for that repo and then the the updates will continue that means all of the tooling that you use continues to work all the scripts that you use continue to work all the monitoring continues to run just as it did before and there is absolutely nothing else involved with that now the benefit is that instead of being forced into a migration that you're basically just going to have to do because a certain date approaches in the calendar now you have an additional up to five more years to plan that to find the right migration path and to properly do that migration this just gives you the option and basically it gives you back control over the decision it's no longer forced upon you but you can do that when you find it most adequate for example you can mirror the the upgrade for the operating system and you can make it match your Hardware renewal cycle for example you're upgrading your servers fine now I deploy a new operating system and now I migrate my workload rather than doing one thing now and another two two years from now and just keep repeating it having been a s admin previously and having faced the situation say for Centos S5 or even earlier than that and having to deal with that problem when it happened um at the time and this is something that over time has changed and over time has evolved but people don't really realize how it used to be Centos s was a distribution in which you didn't do upgrades whenever a new version came along the official position was that you don't upgrade you install a new system and you move your workload and that's entirely different from what we've had since C 6 and seven and even eight unfortunate for the people that move from seven to eight because those were the ones that got the the short end of the of the stick there um but it didn't used to be like that so having an option like extended life cycle support that gives you this amount of extra time in which you can continue to run your system securely this is really a GameChanger um this is why people care so much about long-term support systems they want to avoid as much as possible introducing change into the infrastructure because usually means disruption and possibility of breaking stuff so having the ability to run the same stuff for longer gives you that peace of mind and that's very valuable for the Enterprise space the the only question I would have is if you can get extended support should you get extended support for sentos S 8 or for sentos s 7 you can you can get for either of them we provide you with extended support for either of them but the the ultimate goal with extended support is that you will eventually have to migrate at some point um you're just postponing that date until such a time as it's convenient for you um so migrating from C S7 to Centos S8 you're essentially in the same dead end so if you're on seven and you have the ability to stay secure for an additional 5 years migrating in the meantime for8 is not necessarily an ideal position you can do so if there's any feature in N that you're still interested in um but you would ideally be looking at an alternative that is not that dead end solution yeah but basically you should probably just get extended support for what you already use because there's not much benefits the goal being to extend what you already know and not having too many migrations to handle migrating to something new then getting extended support is just an extra step that you don't really need yeah thanks a lot Nick it was a pleasure thank you for having me thanks bye okay so the gist of the issue here is that contrary to other distributions going end of life this time it's not the version of the dist that is being sheld it's the entire distribution itself and in the end it is an important topic because right now it's happening to Centos s but it could happen to another drro in the future maybe it goes immutable and that doesn't suit your workflow maybe it gets bought out or it gets closed down or it changes in ways that aren't suitable for what you want to accomplish it is a good case study in how you can make your whole server or even workstation Fleet more adaptable and more resilient to change okay so 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hey everyone today we have a lot to talk about from the reasons why Google search is going down the drain in terms of result quality to the release of Fedora 40 and aun 22404 LTS to Nvidia now contributing to nvk on top of contributing to Novo and to the US passing a law that will either Force Tik Tok to sell its entire business or to just be banned it was a strange week and so to make it more normal I thought I would add the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably know about their open source endtoend and zero access encrypted email service it gives you all the tools you need to ensure that you're not tracked inside your inbox and to protect your privacy when sending and receiving emails with tracker blockers email aliases spam and fishing protections and a lot more but proton also gives you an ENT entire Suite of tools with a VPN a calendar a password manager and an online storage space and they also just announced that they are joining forces with 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is a pretty oriented post about specific people at Google that I don't personally know or have heard about so take it with a grain of salt but the gist of it is it looks like Google search is being eaten by the Google ads division meaning that the main point of Google search is no longer to provide results so people would use the engine and then potentially click on ads it's to push ads and add growth at all costs including using weird growth hacking techniques that makes the experience worse in the long run basically it seems like the manager behind Google ads who has now been promoted to the head of Google Search is a pure consultant and middle manager and he has repeatedly ignored the advice or concerns of long longer term Google employees that helped build Google search they turned it into a growth at all cost product the article is very much pointing the finger at this specific person which isn't always the best thing to do because this person would not have been able to implement what they did if the higher ups and the hierarchy were not on board with that but the article is still nicely documented and Recaps a story that seems to repeat itself in big tech companies you have good engineers and product people that built great tools that make the company work and grow in the first place and then they're being replaced by middle managers that only see numbers and don't look at long-term impacts or at the general experience that their product offers now it should come as a surprise to virtually no one that this is the main reason as those businesses sort of grow and the people who created those businesses are phased out and replaced by pure managers who only look at numbers they tend to go down the drain and just focus on gaining 0.01% growth instead of actually making the product better and in 2024 we need more barriers in these search engines to filter out spammy click bity lowquality websites because AI generated content is everywhere already and it is spamm your click Baier and lower quality than what people already wrote themselves now it looks like the US us really does not want Tik Tok to exist in their country or at least not in its current form the house passed a bill that will force Tik Tok to either sell its activities in the US to a US company or to be banned entirely the Senate ratified the bill this week as well which was then signed by President Biden meaning that it's Now official Tik Tok has to sell or be banned the gist of it is that there's a big fear in the US that Tik Tok is being used by the Chinese government to push propaganda and to interfere in the US elections this year or just to implement Mass surveillance on US citizens there isn't any real public evidence that this is happening right now but Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company called bite dance and while they say there's a firewall in Tik tok's officers in LA some have reported that data still moves to China anyway so Tik Tok will now have one year to find a buyer in the US or they will be banned the issue is bites Den said that they have no intentions of selling their algorithm without which I don't think the US would be satisfied they would rather be bad and even if this could be circumvented in any way Tik Tok is worth a lot of money and finding a buyer willing to pay that would not be extremely easy and if you really think about it this is not a good thing this law fixes nothing first you cannot ban an app because you dislike it that makes no sense second Banning it in a year doesn't solve the election interference problem if this is a real problem because the elections will happen before Tik Tok is banned and third even if Tik Tok agreed to sell well it would only be bought by a giant tech company in the US so Google Microsoft Amazon apple or whatever else and so it would be yet another giant data pool owned by a giant us company which doesn't solve the Privacy problem either so no matter how I dislike Tik Tok which is a lot I don't think it should be banned for these reasons and if you're afraid of data going from the US to China there are ways to put limitations in place without Banning the app the EU has done that with services from the US because the US did exactly what they're accusing China of doing so it's a weird thing and I don't think it's going to help anymore one now it looks like nvidia's investment in our open- source driver stack is ongoing after the former Novo Mainer now an Nvidia employee contributed a big set of patches to nvo there's now another Nvidia developer who's opening a merge request for the nvk Vulcan drivers the developer in question is called arur weier and he used to contribute to nvo as well before working for NVIDIA his contribution is basically at adding support for a Vulcan extension but what's interesting here is that Nvidia seems to be willing to work on open source drivers now and not just on their own open- source modules or their proprietary drivers there is no official announcement on how much of these contributions we can expect if it's just individuals electing to help on their own time or if it's company policy but it is still direct contribution from people working at Nvidia from their official Nvidia email addresses hopefully Nvidia can follow in the footsteps of AMD and can become as much of a good open source citizen as the red team can be and honestly this is great news if Nvidia lends a hand on Novo and nvk we might end up in the same situation as with AMD where 99% of Nvidia users on Linux will just use Nuvo and nvk and the 1% who need Cuda or compute specific tasks will use the propri drivers this is sort of the dream although it does put into question the future of nvidia's official open source modules will they drop them will they help contribute to the general thing that everyone is building but still release their own stuff it's unclear 22404 LTS was released this week alongside all of its official variants it is an LTS version so it does get up to 12 years of support and it will be the base for the next Linux Mint Elementary Os zorin Os skd neon and a lot more in terms of what it brings it is not a big update you get gnome 46 without any tweaks from auntu and you also get the kernel 6.8 so technically you should see improved battery life thanks to the new pstate drivers and improved performance profiles there are a few other changes under the hood notably with the installer now letting you do automatic installs with a yaml file and also having been redesigned a bit to look more cohesive and frankly to look a lot nicer there are also improvements for gamers which should see less game crashes if you're coming from aun 2 23.10 you are not going to have a drastically improved experience but if you're coming from the previous LTS you're going to have a lot to enjoy as for the other flavors it's a big nothing Burger everything sticks to the versions of their desktop environment that they used before aun to budgie saw some small improvements to their applets aun to Cinnamon moved to Cinnamon 6 but everything else is kind of stuck in the exact same place especially kobun 2 and obun 2 Studio which do not get plasma 6 unfortunately it is a boring release but for an LTS boring is good because this is not the place to make sweeping changes I think 24.10 and 25.0 4 will be way more interesting because gome 47 and gome 48 will come with a lot more exciting updates for now it's still worth worth looking at it although apparently a lot of people are reporting big problems when upgrading theiron 2 installs in place so maybe wait a bit on that because you might break your system if you do it right now and in the same vein Fedora 40 was released this week this time without too much delay it brings gome 46 as well for its main workstation Edition but they do get plasma 6 for their KD Spin and all the other spins also received as many updates as their respective desktops received them El which is to say not a lot they also took the opportunity to replace the immutable label for these sort of dros and they put them under the Fedora Atomic desktop Banner instead Fedora 40 is also the first version of this drro to come with a pre-built package for p torch something that is used for AI training and development and is apparently difficult to install and to get running properly that's very much in line with fedora's ambition to be the Linux drro for AI the first version of that package is not preconfigured to use the GPU or potential neural processing units that your computer might have so this is not a full-on solution immediately on top of that you're also getting the kernel 6.8 but the brand new Anaconda installer is not ready yet so it will be delayed again this launch of Fedora 40 is also accompanied by a dedicated laptop the Fedora slimbook 2 it's basically the exact same laptop that I'm using right now it's a sleek and lightweight 16in although it also comes in a 14in variant it's got Intel CPUs a 90 HZ refresh rate 3K display and an RTX 4060 if you go for the 16in model and also some Fedora branding it's a great laptop I've been using the exact same chassis and hardware for a while now although mine comes from another manufacturer but it is the exact same computer and it's great so congrats on the release to both auntu and fedora those are both relatively uninteresting new versions except if you're a KD user on Fedora because you're getting plasma 6 compared to a kubuntu user who doesn't and let's finish this with the gaming news we have some more work on the nvk open- source drivers for NVIDIA in Mesa 24.1 this driver will support implicit pipeline caching something that should provide better performance when using dxvk which is basically saying you're going to get better performance for every game you are playing on Linux because everything uses dxvk interestingly this feature is part of the new common Vulcan runtime that Mesa is working on so that there's less code duplication between drivers and future drivers will not have to rewrite their own implementation when they need to access that feature there's also the implementation of two new Vulcan extensions in nvk that should fix a bunch of rendering issues in certain games and also fix some rendering issues in older games they showcased genin impact for example but other titles should also benefit the stabo release of Mesa 24.1 is planned for miday so it will not be too long before this lands alongside a lot of other improvements to the nvk drivers now with the release of fola 40 and a bon 22404 we should see the first real tests of nvk as a replacement for the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and this should be pretty interesting I'll see if any good benchmarks or reviews come in the next coming weeks and if they don't I'll probably make my own video on this topic and Nintendo strikes again this time against Gary's mod of all things all Nintendo related content that could have been added to Gary's Mod through various mods and content packs was ordered to be removed from the Steam Workshop following dmca takedown notices face spch the developer of Gary's Mod said that they have confirmed these takedowns actually came from Nintendo it is not someone trolling and they also said that it was fair enough and that they had to respect that decision although I don't agree with that at all they also said that it will take a while because they have about 20 years of uploaded content to go through and they asked users who submitted these to help them and to delete them and also to never re-upload them again and thanks Nintendo for ruining everyone else's fun it's Gary's Mod content it's not like it's piracy or emulating your current games it's fanmade content for a old ass game to just recreate some Nintendo experiences it's basically fan games what are you doing Nintendo leave people alone you not going to tell me that any judge would say oh you never attacked a fan game for G is mod so you lost all rights to your own intellectual property you don't have to ruin everybody else's fun and also why isn't it steam that needs to remove all of this from the Steam Workshop uh instead of face punch I don't know it's kind of weird but thanks Nintendo you still really suck what doesn't suck though is this video sponsor tuxedo computers you all know about them I talk about them all the time but basically what you need to know is that if you need a new computer running l and you want to put your money towards a company that actually supports Linux instead of buying something from a Windows only company and trying to install Linux afterwards well tuxedo computers is probably your best bet they're from Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that covers every need and every price point with a lot of customization the ability to open repair and upgrade laptops and a lot more I only run their devices these days my channel is run of 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hey everyone this is Nick and today we're going to talk about something different we're going to talk about santoz the last real version of santoz that is still supported well it's only supported for a little bit now as it's going end of life in two months and we need to talk about it because this could leave a significant Gap in the Linux Enterprise space so since tux scare has been a sponsor of the channel for years now and they're actually experts at this Linux Enterprise thing I thought they could be very helpful in fleshing out this look at Centos what it is why it going end of life is not exactly the same as the usual end of life drro and potential solutions for people who might want to keep running Centos S7 or move to something else and that's also why tux scare is the sponsor of this entire video so let's just begin with a quick recap of what sentos s is and why sentos S7 is still pretty popular Santos is short for Community Enterprise operating system and it started as one of the first Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones it was built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and it was a 100% binary compatible the dro quickly became one of the most popular dros for servers even overtaking the good old Debian in 2010 for a little while at least Debian regained its Crown in 2014 red hat announced they would sponsor the s project probably seeing the advantage in fostering an ecosystem around their own Enterprise offering to convert organizations to Red Hat Enterprise Linux when they needed more support and to make sure developers had a solid platform to Target that's why Red Hat gained ownership of all the trademarks around Centos and also why they employed most major Centos contributors directly unfortunately at the end of 2020 Red Hat announced that Santos would be discontinued at relased in its current Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone form and it would now be distributed as sentos stream which isn't really the same kind of distribution instead of being a rebuild of rail which is what people mostly used sentos S4 it's basically rails up stream from which the next version of red hat Enterprise Linux will be built stream is also a rolling release meaning that it's likely not suitable for a lot of people who rely on sentos and with that sentos S8 was quickly discontinued in December 2021 leaving sentos S7 as the only version that is still supported and sentos S7 will now be end of life at the end of June 2024 meaning that if you want a full rebuild of rail and sento EST streem doesn't work for you you have to find another solution and this isn't really like any other drro going end of life because in most cases you usually have a direct upgrade path from one open to LTS to another or from one major open to a Le version to another or one major Red Hat version to another in the case of Santos there's no upgrade path it's either you go Santo stream or you move to something else entirely there is no continuation of sentos as it once was now sentos is still a very very popular Distribution on servers first a worrying statistic out of all current Centos users in early 2020 before more than half use sento S 6 or eight meaning they're using end of life dis Ros without security patches from their original developers now the main reasons why organizations would stick to either unmaintained and of live versions of Centos s or with Centos S7 as it is going end of life it's very likely because there is no direct upgrade path if you're on Centos S8 you can't move to something else from sentos s if you use sentos S 6 you could upgrade to 7 but migrating to a new Dro that goes end of life in two months isn't necessarily worth it and if you're on Cento S7 you cannot upgrade to version 8 because it is also end of life meaning that if your workflow or your server Fleet depends on using SOS exactly you're out of luck you can either move to another red hat Enterprise Linux clone like Rocky Linux or Alma Linux or you just have to stick with it even though it's unmaintained and well not a lot of current sent SOS users are planning on doing that only about 20% of Centos 7 and 8 users are going to migrate to another Enterprise Linux drro and about 177% of users of Centos s 7 or 8 plan on continuing to use these versions even without support which is obviously a very bad decision and do not do that seriously running your server without any security patches or support is the best way to get that server compromised and it's even worse if you do this as you're working for a specific company or an organization so what are the solutions if you're stuck on centos7 what can you do well I asked joa Korea from tux scare you might also know him from the Enterprise Linux security podcast which he co-host with Jay from learn Linux TV also available here on YouTube the the first thing I wanted to ask you is do you have any statistics about sento usage in general cuz I I plucked a few from uh the study taxcare did early this year uh on well the landscape of Enterprise Linux but I didn't see any statistics I saw statistics for Centos usage among Centos users but not necessarily Centos usage as a whole uh do you have any numbers on that well as you can imagine it's really tricky getting those numbers and having reliable numbers from it um no the the short answer is no we don't have a reliable way of providing you with those numbers anecdotal evidence has been that a couple of years ago Centos was the most widely used web server on the internet like three or four years ago and that was reported by the companies that do browser studies and all of that and they came out with that with that statistic how well that holds up or not I don't know if it's still accurate or not today there's actually um one interview with Greg Crow Hartman from the Linux Kel where he mentioned that uh most servers are running Debian anyway or Debian based anyway um so I don't know exactly what changed or why it changed but again I cannot provide you with those accurate numbers because I don't have them myself and it's really tricky to measure that okay so the next question uh will be generally what is the specific problem with Santos S7 going end of life how is it different from let's say an obuntu LTS going end of life specifically well with an Ubuntu LTS you have the next Ubuntu LTS to migrate to and you're going to stay on the same architecture and everything is going to stay in the same place on the new system so the the migration pass is there with Centos S7 weirdly enough going out of support after C S8 for some reason that red that came up with um but the the main difference there is that there's no obvious Target to move to there's nothing says that okay this is the next Centos um you have into a stream but from the start it was immediately shown not to be exactly the right path to migrate to you're not getting an Apples to Apples comparison when you move to stream um for one the the update Cadence is not the same you're not getting updates every three or four weeks you're getting updates every other day for example and that just doesn't fit with the with the regular Enterprise schedule uh so now let's talk a little bit about the options that you have if you're currently a sentos user hopefully sentos 7 and not six or eight without patches uh what what can you do the first one is obviously to stick to sentos S7 as it is without any support everyone that runs a server or or a company or organization knows that this is not a good idea but can can you just tell us quickly why this is really not something people should do let let me give you some context and for this we do have statistics um Centos S6 has been of support for four years something like that sento hasite for about two years two and something um there have been over 2,000 high and critical vulnerabilities that affect each of those since they went end of life over 2,000 vulnerabilities for which there will be no update Force coming for which your systems if you're still running them have no Remediation in place and they are vulnerable to those vulnerabilities and that's a very risky proposition if you're if you have even if it's just one server in the corner tucked away out of side nobody really cares too much about it that's the security Gap that you have in your infrastructure and that's what's going to be targeted by threat actors and additionally if your if your organization operates in some industry that has any form of Regulation around cyber security for example that says you need to patch within four weeks at most or something like that it doesn't matter how long you have to patch you will not have the patches so you will immediately fall out of compliance and that can be business threatening if if you're operating in healthcare for example and your equipment goes out of support because they're no longer maintain they no longer receive patches you have to stop using that equipment and that's very costly so running it and supported it's not just the risk it's the compliance it's the regulations and it's the fact that the threat actors know exactly the same as we all do so they know that if they spot the system that's running an out of support operating system that's what we're they are going to Target because it won't get fixes any time they can take their time in finding the right way to to exploit it and they're secure in knowing yeah nobody's being going to be able to remediate the new problem that just came out and we have all the time in the world to exploit it yeah so yeah it's not just like you would say oh I don't care I'm still running like Windows XP or or open 24.4 on my own personal computer that's not connected to the internet it's a server obviously it is connected to the internet and even if it's your home server or even if you think it's just like this little weird part to host your your personal files it's not a good solution to be more precise um if you're running in an environment where you just have a single server well that's easy to migrate you take a weekend off or something like that you take it down for a few hours you find an alternative you migrate your workload and you're done when scale gets in the way when you have thousands of systems running when you have hundreds of systems running a specific role and they all on top of SOS and now it's out of support that's when you have a problem that's when you have to plan you have to test you have to deploy the migration there will be problems you'll have to roll back and all of these steps take a lot of time and if you haven't started looking at the problem right now in the two months until the end of life date you're not having the time to do it properly anyway yeah so that that was the next option that that you can get if you're using sento 7 it's to move to something else you just leave Centos 7 and you try another distribution uh whether it's moving to something completely different like I don't know something Debian based or you're moving to another built on top of red hat source code distribution something maybe like Alma Linux like Rocky Linux you can move to open soua whatever moving to another distribution what are the challenges uh with that so obviously it is a lot of time to plan to prepare but generally what are the challenges first to move to something that isn't at all like red hat Enterprise Linux well um if you're moving to something completely different say you're moving from something that's red hat based like Centos to something that's de Debian based like auntu for example then basically it depends on your workload but you're going to have issues like Library versions not being the same as shipped with both systems files not being in the same place the configuration files not might not have exactly the same syntax package names might be different um files might not be where the system is expecting them the Syntax for certain commands might change just look at for example httpd versus Apache it immediately affects the name of the modules it immediately affects your deployment scripts that's a lot of work if you stay within the same ecosystem like you mentioned for example Alma Linux or rocky or even Oracle for example staying with those means that while it's not a direct upgrade pass at least you don't have to change your tooling extensively at least you can expect your automation scripts to continue to run and your monitoring tools to find the right values in the places that they have already been doing so far and that's an easier migration path that you have available staying in the same ecosystem to say something like that um and it's important to to realize here something that redhead seems to be missing with all of the changes that it's forcing but the value of rail itself it's in its ecosystem it's in the the number of distributions that are running running on top of the same code base it's not the code itself that chip to with rail it's that the environment is stable staying within that stable environment means that you can continue to run the same applications that have been developed for Rail and that's very important um moving to something different means that the certification for example again going back to the example of healthare suppose you have a CT scan machine that's cost a million bucks or something like that and it's running Centos S7 and now you have to migrate that way that machine has been certified to run with that specific software stack if you change the software stack enough you're going to have to recertify it and that takes time takes resources and it might even fail the certification and that's not a position that you want to be in so you want to avoid making as many changes as possible so you're going to ideally stick with something closer uh no that's two options uh moving to another dis r or staying without patches there's a final one which is well extended in the support and the life cycle of Centos S7 so you can at least stay on it for a bit longer and plan the migration can you tell us a little bit more about the principle how easy or hard it is to implement and and generally how longterm of a solution is it absolutely so extended life cycle support as the name immediately implies means that you extend the time in which you receive security updates um the deployment process itself it's extremely simple it's just adding a new repos repository to the system and now this the updates will simply come from that new repository rather than the one you were using before um so there is no disruption there is no downtime there's nothing like that you just deploy a new repository which is basically adding a package to the system that has a configuration file for that repo and then the the updates will continue that means all of the tooling that you use continues to work all the scripts that you use continue to work all the monitoring continues to run just as it did before and there is absolutely nothing else involved with that now the benefit is that instead of being forced into a migration that you're basically just going to have to do because a certain date approaches in the calendar now you have an additional up to five more years to plan that to find the right migration path and to properly do that migration this just gives you the option and basically it gives you back control over the decision it's no longer forced upon you but you can do that when you find it most adequate for example you can mirror the the upgrade for the operating system and you can make it match your Hardware renewal cycle for example you're upgrading your servers fine now I deploy a new operating system and now I migrate my workload rather than doing one thing now and another two two years from now and just keep repeating it having been a s admin previously and having faced the situation say for Centos S5 or even earlier than that and having to deal with that problem when it happened um at the time and this is something that over time has changed and over time has evolved but people don't really realize how it used to be Centos s was a distribution in which you didn't do upgrades whenever a new version came along the official position was that you don't upgrade you install a new system and you move your workload and that's entirely different from what we've had since C 6 and seven and even eight unfortunate for the people that move from seven to eight because those were the ones that got the the short end of the of the stick there um but it didn't used to be like that so having an option like extended life cycle support that gives you this amount of extra time in which you can continue to run your system securely this is really a GameChanger um this is why people care so much about long-term support systems they want to avoid as much as possible introducing change into the infrastructure because usually means disruption and possibility of breaking stuff so having the ability to run the same stuff for longer gives you that peace of mind and that's very valuable for the Enterprise space the the only question I would have is if you can get extended support should you get extended support for sentos S 8 or for sentos s 7 you can you can get for either of them we provide you with extended support for either of them but the the ultimate goal with extended support is that you will eventually have to migrate at some point um you're just postponing that date until such a time as it's convenient for you um so migrating from C S7 to Centos S8 you're essentially in the same dead end so if you're on seven and you have the ability to stay secure for an additional 5 years migrating in the meantime for8 is not necessarily an ideal position you can do so if there's any feature in N that you're still interested in um but you would ideally be looking at an alternative that is not that dead end solution yeah but basically you should probably just get extended support for what you already use because there's not much benefits the goal being to extend what you already know and not having too many migrations to handle migrating to something new then getting extended support is just an extra step that you don't really need yeah thanks a lot Nick it was a pleasure thank you for having me thanks bye okay so the gist of the issue here is that contrary to other distributions going end of life this time it's not the version of the dist that is being sheld it's the entire distribution itself and in the end it is an important topic because right now it's happening to Centos s but it could happen to another drro in the future maybe it goes immutable and that doesn't suit your workflow maybe it gets bought out or it gets closed down or it changes in ways that aren't suitable for what you want to accomplish it is a good case study in how you can make your whole server or even workstation Fleet more adaptable and more resilient to change okay so 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome back to your weekly Linux and open- Source news video so this week we have a new vulnerability that lets flatback applications potentially escape the sandbox so check on your updates we have news about the cosmic desktop environment and how it will integrate other applications from other desktops especially with theming and we also have genu flout out refusing to add anything AI generated and they're kind of backed up by lenus tovos himself and we also have this segue to our sponsor if you're a Linux user and you want to replace your computer stop looking at devices that come with Windows pre-installed and start looking at manufacturers that actually officially support Linux like tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that come with Linux pre-installed and they also submit patches upstream and have so you can make sure that all the hardware works on any distribution you can pick from a wide variety of components you can have your own custom keyboard layout added onto the laptop you can have your own logo engraved on the lid and you have plenty of models to choose from my entire channel is run on one of their laptops the Infiniti Book Pro 16 and all my gaming is done on one of their tuxedo cubes so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux and you want to support a company that actively supports Linux click the link in the description below and check out tuxedo computers okay so a new vulnerability in flat pack was found which lets applications escape the sandbox technically that is the main point of flatback apps at least for users for developers its package ons distribute everywhere the point is applications run in a sandbox and they can only use portals to interact with the rest of the system but this time using the xdg desktop portal interface it looks like some applications could find a way to bypass that sandbox applications have the ability to append the dash dash command parameter and this is the issue it can be used to execute additional commands including running programs outside of the sandbox so a flatback app could give you a sense of security because it is sandboxed but it could then use some arguments to run something else and harm your system the flat pack team has already submitted a patch for this for all supported versions which is basically anything above 1.10.0 so if you run an old version absolutely upgrade either your dis r or your flatback version there's even a simple test to see if your system is currently affected you can run any flatback app by using flatback run followed by the name of your app then-- command equals-- followed by the application's full name like something like org. gnome do whatever if the command returns an error telling you the help command cannot be found then your system is safe if not then you need to update your system hopefully your Dro should have updated packages soon it is not really uncommon to find vulnerabilities in any piece of software but those hurt a bit more when they affect the sandbox of a packaging format whose entire point for users is to be sandboxed we also have news about Cosmic before it gets its first Alpha in May and the big one is that they've added theming support applications built with gtk3 and gtk4 whether they're packaged as flatback or through regular dep packages for popos they will all be able to be themed if the users wants that there's a dedicated option in the appearance settings and that's pretty nice it was one of my main questions about Cosmic how would it handle apps made for other desktops and would everything look completely disjointed so it looks like you will at least get the same colors and general style in TK apps it doesn't mean applications will all feel like they were made by the same people but at least visually there will be a form of consistency you will also be able to change icon themes of course and this will apply to both Cosmic applications and gtk applications there's no news on KD apps theming for now though they also showcase the cosmic App Store and its basic UI and it's nothing too different from what you know there's a sidebar for categories and a main panel with the application detail all the list of apps they've also implemented super plus Mouse drag to move Windows around which is really nice and the settings got some more love with the keyboard settings being now implemented they're also getting some nons system 76 contributions it looks like as someone submitted touchpad gestures to switch workspaces and thumbnail previews for open windows in the dark and also screen Edge window tiling and maximizing including half and quarter tiling there are also contributions for new applications that don't come from system 76 there's a new cosmic tasks app which might be the very first thirdparty app made using lip Cosmic and there are other in the works like a clipboard manager a fan control app or an emoji selector as per the compositor it got some fixes for Nvidia support for X whand for screen capture for keyboard LEDs and for touch screens and performance seems on par for gaming at least with cyberpunk 27 27 with the current version of cosmic based on gnow which isn't necessarily a great thing because the current version of cosmic is based on glome 42 which is 2 years old and misses a lot of performance improvements and fixes notably for Wayland And X whand still that is very solid progress here and it's nice to know that applications will be correctly themed inside of the desktop I was afraid of cosmic offering a very weird experience with their their own style plus gtk apps plus cute apps plus anything that isn't even from these toolkits so it is nice to see that they paid attention to that I'm not expecting Cosmic to be as full featured as something as gnome or its ecosystem of apps or even KD it's not going to be remotely as full featured as KD when it has its first stable version but at least it looks like the fundamentals are here and it should be a totally usable option when it comes out now it seems like Gen 2 de velers are not fans of AI as they've now implemented a complete ban on AI assisted contributions to the drro any content not just code that used AI in the process of its creation is now prohibited and the reasons are the ones that everyone with half a mind can point out to when discussing the current state of AI tools there's the copyright problem as accepting contributions that used AI might create legal problems in the future if a country or another rules that training AI on public content breaches copyright laws the second issue is quality related AI can't always generate high quality code or high quality images or any form of content which means it is not up to the task of what Gen 2 developers want to work with it could add an extra burden when reviewing the accuracy of AI assisted contributions finally there's the ethical problem AI training uses enormous amounts of Power and Water to cool all the data centers down and until the potential copyright infringement issue is settled it would be unethical to base your product on these tools there's also the issue of AI disrupting jobs creating a decline in service quality by replacing humans with chatbots and making scams and spam problems even worse and lenus stals is also skeptical of the current AI hype saying in a recent interview that it's hilarious to watch and also that current AI is just autocorrect on steroids much like Gen 2 his position is let's wait 10 years and see where it actually goes before making all these crazy announcements and in the end I just can't disagree with either lenus tals or the Gen 2 developers here AI can be a fantastic tool and at some point it might be trained on data ethically sourced where they actually got the permissions to use that to train their AI at some point it might also only use renewable energy and that won't be as much of a problem but right now I'm definitely not sure the benefits outweigh the problems and so I think it's sane to try and wait to see how this thing goes now framework makers of the modular and repairable laptops are having a bit of trouble with the software part of the equation drivers apparently remain stuck to their initial version from a year ago meaning that users are just not getting any bug fixes battery life or performance improvements or even security updates now that part is mostly for Windows users because on Linux the necessary drivers are in the kernel and they don't really depend on framework themselves but when it comes to the BIOS Linux and windows users are equally affected as an example the latest version of the framework laptop 13 just got a bios update a year and a half after it was released and after the company announced that all the USBC ports that can add to that laptop would also be Thunderbolt ports except they weren't because they needed that bios update for that to work and the BIOS update also included a fix for the quite nasty logo fail vulnerability way too late after it was disclosed and these kind of issues repeat on virtually every update with the company announcing a new update that will add support for newer parts or fixed problems and this version always arriving month if not a full year behind schedule and for Linux users a bios updator app never even happened meaning that framework themselves told some Linux users to swap their Linux SSD for one with Windows on it to update the BIOS this way and then resume using Linux and that's just not a good look the very point of framework laptops is to be able to slot in new cards new motherboards New Ports just basically change the components and for that to work properly you need not only dve dri updates for Windows users but also bios updates to take advantage of all of this and it's also very important for security reasons so not having a way to update that bios on Linux and not delivering on these updates as a whole is a pretty bad look now the company did take this problem into account they apparently sent emails to a bunch of their customers saying they are aware of the issue they're working to fix it but for now it's kind of a mess now Ben kegs the longtime Novo driver maintainer who resigned a few months back found employment at Nvidia that's not super surprising because he basically worked on NVIDIA drivers for a decade even though it was for an open-source driver and that work was basically full reverse engineering which is super impressive and it's probably the kind of person you want to hire to work on your official drivers so that's something but also Ben just contributed a series of 156 patches to the novo drivers this week to clean up the code for GSP support which was his last previous contribution to nvo that enabled the drivers to actually get decent performance on recent Nvidia gpus what's also interesting is that all that new code was submitted from Ben's Nvidia work address as well meaning it is not impossible that his work is now sponsored by Nvidia or maybe it was part of his contract with them to let him work on the novo drivers and it is fantastic to see Ben contributing to to Novo and it would be even more fantastic if it meant that Nvidia is actually taking a stance on helping nvo get better because if Ben's work on those drivers has been sponsored or funded by Nvidia while he's working there it means they're actually taking open source drivers seriously now it is sort of confusing because Nvidia does have their own open source kernel modules that aren't baked into the kernel but apparently work relatively well so why would they fund contributions to something else but it's still pretty interesting to follow I guess time will tell and let's finish this with the gaming news first it looks like the new NT sync driver will be merged in the Linux kernel 6.10 I talked about this driver a while back because it looks like it might give pretty big improvements in terms of frame rates when you're playing Windows games on Linux through wine it basically implements a Windows like system at the kernel level to handle synchronization primitive it's not run as a user process which would be potentially bottlenecked it's run as a virtual device in the kernel and potential improvements could go up to 678 for Dirt 3 196% for Resident Evil 2 34% for Total War Troy and basically any game that runs with wine would get good benefits out of this now this new driver does the same thing as esync or fsync as far as I understand it but at a lower level with better performance and less potential issues so unless lennus tals objects to this code it should land in the kernel 6.10 at which point we could all benefit from solid gaming performance and it will be interesting to see how well it Compares with fsync or esync because all those big performance boosts were compared with using Bo standard wine but proton does come with equivalent solutions that are run as user processes so having this comparison will be very interesting I'm pretty sure this new solution will be more efficient but we'll have to wait for proton and wine to be updated to actually take advantage of it and we also have some really solid progress on fex the x86 emulator for arm platforms basically the only and best way we have right now to play games on arm 64 computers on Linux it takes an x86 executable and it translates its SCS to ones that an arm CPU can understand the developers have released version 24.4 and it brings better performance when it comes to memory usage but also for CPU usage with just in time optimizations that should deliver about 3% faster performance in games the big change though is the speed with which FX can read from and write to memory with the new update it can take these operations from a speed of about 3 GB per second up to 88 GB per second which will obviously be a big Improvement for anyone using FX developers also showcased God of War 2018 running on arm 64 on an Nvidia Tegra Orin with an AMD radiant Pro w7500 GPU and the frame rate doesn't look super stable I would eyeball it as running closer to 30 than to 60 FPS but they didn't really include an FPS counter or anything so it is hard to say and that's still pretty impressive because the Tegra Orin is a little bit more powerful than a Raspberry Pi but not by much so even coupled with a dedicated AMD GPU being able to run a relatively recent game at about okay frame rates is pretty nice remember that something like the steam deck just cannot run God of War 2018 at 60 FPS whatever the settings at least not reliably so being able to do that on a relatively small integrated board is pretty amazing pretty amazing like you would be if you decided to click the like button the Subscribe button to leave a comment or to turn on notifications to stay informed of all new videos and if you 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome back to your weekly Linux and open- Source news video so this week we have a new vulnerability that lets flatback applications potentially escape the sandbox so check on your updates we have news about the cosmic desktop environment and how it will integrate other applications from other desktops especially with theming and we also have genu flout out refusing to add anything AI generated and they're kind of backed up by lenus tovos himself and we also have this segue to our sponsor if you're a Linux user and you want to replace your computer stop looking at devices that come with Windows pre-installed and start looking at manufacturers that actually officially support Linux like tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that come with Linux pre-installed and they also submit patches upstream and have so you can make sure that all the hardware works on any distribution you can pick from a wide variety of components you can have your own custom keyboard layout added onto the laptop you can have your own logo engraved on the lid and you have plenty of models to choose from my entire channel is run on one of their laptops the Infiniti Book Pro 16 and all my gaming is done on one of their tuxedo cubes so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux and you want to support a company that actively supports Linux click the link in the description below and check out tuxedo computers okay so a new vulnerability in flat pack was found which lets applications escape the sandbox technically that is the main point of flatback apps at least for users for developers its package ons distribute everywhere the point is applications run in a sandbox and they can only use portals to interact with the rest of the system but this time using the xdg desktop portal interface it looks like some applications could find a way to bypass that sandbox applications have the ability to append the dash dash command parameter and this is the issue it can be used to execute additional commands including running programs outside of the sandbox so a flatback app could give you a sense of security because it is sandboxed but it could then use some arguments to run something else and harm your system the flat pack team has already submitted a patch for this for all supported versions which is basically anything above 1.10.0 so if you run an old version absolutely upgrade either your dis r or your flatback version there's even a simple test to see if your system is currently affected you can run any flatback app by using flatback run followed by the name of your app then-- command equals-- followed by the application's full name like something like org. gnome do whatever if the command returns an error telling you the help command cannot be found then your system is safe if not then you need to update your system hopefully your Dro should have updated packages soon it is not really uncommon to find vulnerabilities in any piece of software but those hurt a bit more when they affect the sandbox of a packaging format whose entire point for users is to be sandboxed we also have news about Cosmic before it gets its first Alpha in May and the big one is that they've added theming support applications built with gtk3 and gtk4 whether they're packaged as flatback or through regular dep packages for popos they will all be able to be themed if the users wants that there's a dedicated option in the appearance settings and that's pretty nice it was one of my main questions about Cosmic how would it handle apps made for other desktops and would everything look completely disjointed so it looks like you will at least get the same colors and general style in TK apps it doesn't mean applications will all feel like they were made by the same people but at least visually there will be a form of consistency you will also be able to change icon themes of course and this will apply to both Cosmic applications and gtk applications there's no news on KD apps theming for now though they also showcase the cosmic App Store and its basic UI and it's nothing too different from what you know there's a sidebar for categories and a main panel with the application detail all the list of apps they've also implemented super plus Mouse drag to move Windows around which is really nice and the settings got some more love with the keyboard settings being now implemented they're also getting some nons system 76 contributions it looks like as someone submitted touchpad gestures to switch workspaces and thumbnail previews for open windows in the dark and also screen Edge window tiling and maximizing including half and quarter tiling there are also contributions for new applications that don't come from system 76 there's a new cosmic tasks app which might be the very first thirdparty app made using lip Cosmic and there are other in the works like a clipboard manager a fan control app or an emoji selector as per the compositor it got some fixes for Nvidia support for X whand for screen capture for keyboard LEDs and for touch screens and performance seems on par for gaming at least with cyberpunk 27 27 with the current version of cosmic based on gnow which isn't necessarily a great thing because the current version of cosmic is based on glome 42 which is 2 years old and misses a lot of performance improvements and fixes notably for Wayland And X whand still that is very solid progress here and it's nice to know that applications will be correctly themed inside of the desktop I was afraid of cosmic offering a very weird experience with their their own style plus gtk apps plus cute apps plus anything that isn't even from these toolkits so it is nice to see that they paid attention to that I'm not expecting Cosmic to be as full featured as something as gnome or its ecosystem of apps or even KD it's not going to be remotely as full featured as KD when it has its first stable version but at least it looks like the fundamentals are here and it should be a totally usable option when it comes out now it seems like Gen 2 de velers are not fans of AI as they've now implemented a complete ban on AI assisted contributions to the drro any content not just code that used AI in the process of its creation is now prohibited and the reasons are the ones that everyone with half a mind can point out to when discussing the current state of AI tools there's the copyright problem as accepting contributions that used AI might create legal problems in the future if a country or another rules that training AI on public content breaches copyright laws the second issue is quality related AI can't always generate high quality code or high quality images or any form of content which means it is not up to the task of what Gen 2 developers want to work with it could add an extra burden when reviewing the accuracy of AI assisted contributions finally there's the ethical problem AI training uses enormous amounts of Power and Water to cool all the data centers down and until the potential copyright infringement issue is settled it would be unethical to base your product on these tools there's also the issue of AI disrupting jobs creating a decline in service quality by replacing humans with chatbots and making scams and spam problems even worse and lenus stals is also skeptical of the current AI hype saying in a recent interview that it's hilarious to watch and also that current AI is just autocorrect on steroids much like Gen 2 his position is let's wait 10 years and see where it actually goes before making all these crazy announcements and in the end I just can't disagree with either lenus tals or the Gen 2 developers here AI can be a fantastic tool and at some point it might be trained on data ethically sourced where they actually got the permissions to use that to train their AI at some point it might also only use renewable energy and that won't be as much of a problem but right now I'm definitely not sure the benefits outweigh the problems and so I think it's sane to try and wait to see how this thing goes now framework makers of the modular and repairable laptops are having a bit of trouble with the software part of the equation drivers apparently remain stuck to their initial version from a year ago meaning that users are just not getting any bug fixes battery life or performance improvements or even security updates now that part is mostly for Windows users because on Linux the necessary drivers are in the kernel and they don't really depend on framework themselves but when it comes to the BIOS Linux and windows users are equally affected as an example the latest version of the framework laptop 13 just got a bios update a year and a half after it was released and after the company announced that all the USBC ports that can add to that laptop would also be Thunderbolt ports except they weren't because they needed that bios update for that to work and the BIOS update also included a fix for the quite nasty logo fail vulnerability way too late after it was disclosed and these kind of issues repeat on virtually every update with the company announcing a new update that will add support for newer parts or fixed problems and this version always arriving month if not a full year behind schedule and for Linux users a bios updator app never even happened meaning that framework themselves told some Linux users to swap their Linux SSD for one with Windows on it to update the BIOS this way and then resume using Linux and that's just not a good look the very point of framework laptops is to be able to slot in new cards new motherboards New Ports just basically change the components and for that to work properly you need not only dve dri updates for Windows users but also bios updates to take advantage of all of this and it's also very important for security reasons so not having a way to update that bios on Linux and not delivering on these updates as a whole is a pretty bad look now the company did take this problem into account they apparently sent emails to a bunch of their customers saying they are aware of the issue they're working to fix it but for now it's kind of a mess now Ben kegs the longtime Novo driver maintainer who resigned a few months back found employment at Nvidia that's not super surprising because he basically worked on NVIDIA drivers for a decade even though it was for an open-source driver and that work was basically full reverse engineering which is super impressive and it's probably the kind of person you want to hire to work on your official drivers so that's something but also Ben just contributed a series of 156 patches to the novo drivers this week to clean up the code for GSP support which was his last previous contribution to nvo that enabled the drivers to actually get decent performance on recent Nvidia gpus what's also interesting is that all that new code was submitted from Ben's Nvidia work address as well meaning it is not impossible that his work is now sponsored by Nvidia or maybe it was part of his contract with them to let him work on the novo drivers and it is fantastic to see Ben contributing to to Novo and it would be even more fantastic if it meant that Nvidia is actually taking a stance on helping nvo get better because if Ben's work on those drivers has been sponsored or funded by Nvidia while he's working there it means they're actually taking open source drivers seriously now it is sort of confusing because Nvidia does have their own open source kernel modules that aren't baked into the kernel but apparently work relatively well so why would they fund contributions to something else but it's still pretty interesting to follow I guess time will tell and let's finish this with the gaming news first it looks like the new NT sync driver will be merged in the Linux kernel 6.10 I talked about this driver a while back because it looks like it might give pretty big improvements in terms of frame rates when you're playing Windows games on Linux through wine it basically implements a Windows like system at the kernel level to handle synchronization primitive it's not run as a user process which would be potentially bottlenecked it's run as a virtual device in the kernel and potential improvements could go up to 678 for Dirt 3 196% for Resident Evil 2 34% for Total War Troy and basically any game that runs with wine would get good benefits out of this now this new driver does the same thing as esync or fsync as far as I understand it but at a lower level with better performance and less potential issues so unless lennus tals objects to this code it should land in the kernel 6.10 at which point we could all benefit from solid gaming performance and it will be interesting to see how well it Compares with fsync or esync because all those big performance boosts were compared with using Bo standard wine but proton does come with equivalent solutions that are run as user processes so having this comparison will be very interesting I'm pretty sure this new solution will be more efficient but we'll have to wait for proton and wine to be updated to actually take advantage of it and we also have some really solid progress on fex the x86 emulator for arm platforms basically the only and best way we have right now to play games on arm 64 computers on Linux it takes an x86 executable and it translates its SCS to ones that an arm CPU can understand the developers have released version 24.4 and it brings better performance when it comes to memory usage but also for CPU usage with just in time optimizations that should deliver about 3% faster performance in games the big change though is the speed with which FX can read from and write to memory with the new update it can take these operations from a speed of about 3 GB per second up to 88 GB per second which will obviously be a big Improvement for anyone using FX developers also showcased God of War 2018 running on arm 64 on an Nvidia Tegra Orin with an AMD radiant Pro w7500 GPU and the frame rate doesn't look super stable I would eyeball it as running closer to 30 than to 60 FPS but they didn't really include an FPS counter or anything so it is hard to say and that's still pretty impressive because the Tegra Orin is a little bit more powerful than a Raspberry Pi but not by much so even coupled with a dedicated AMD GPU being able to run a relatively recent game at about okay frame rates is pretty nice remember that something like the steam deck just cannot run God of War 2018 at 60 FPS whatever the settings at least not reliably so being able to do that on a relatively small integrated board is pretty amazing pretty amazing like you would be if you decided to click the like button the Subscribe button to leave a comment or to turn on notifications to stay informed of all new videos and if you want it to be even more amazing you could check out all the links in the description of the video to support the channel if you become a patreon member or a YouTube member you will get access to a daily version of this exact same show from Monday to Friday so check this out in the meantime thank you all for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
it is not a rare site to see people saying that they experience worse battery life on Linux than on windows with the same Hardware some people might have better battery life but some will have drastically worse experiences so I thought it would be nice to take a look at what you can actually do to improve that if your laptop is a bit premature and finishes before you're actually done with it so we'll see how you can squeeze out more juice from your laptop running Linux but first we got to talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops and desktops and kns that ship with Linux out of the box they let you pick from a selection of popular disres but you can also just install your own because in their testing tuxedo submit patches OB stream to make sure that all the hardware is well supported and if those patches haven't been accepted yet by the kernel or the Mesa drivers or any other system they have repost that you can add to most major dis Ros to actually fix this issu on your Hardware as well so when you go with tuxedo you know that the hardware is going to run under Linux no questions asked they have a broad range of devices from laptops for office work all the way up to workstations or gaming PCs or whatever else you want they are all pretty customizable with your own keyboard layout on your laptops your own logo engrave dundoid a solid selection of components of hard drive sizes of RAM and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer computer you want to run Linux and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux click the link in the description below and get yourself something from toxo okay so the first thing we're going to take a look at when it comes to battery life is the actual health of your battery because if it's 10 years old and actually dying there's nothing much you're going to be able to do so if you use KDE you can check that battery health graphically you just open the settings then you click about this system and click on energy here you will see all the stats for battery including its health for my own laptop it's 94% solid enough especially considering this thing is charging and discharging constantly for a more desktop agnostic solution you can run the following command line present in the video description up power-i slorg slf freedesktop SLU power/ devices SL bb0 this command will tell you everything you need to know especially in the capacity stat if your battery is already very degraded in terms of capacity the obvious first thing to do is trying to replace it because you are not going to get 10 hours of battery life on a 10-year-old battery and I'm sure someone will tell me that their 2005 secondhand ThinkPad still has like battery life for days but I'm also pretty sure that that's not the case for most people with such old Hardware now our next thing will be a pretty obvious one if you watch videos or stream mov movies and shows from your browser check that it is actually using your GPU to accelerate that video decoding or even to render web pages if not then your computer is using the CPU which sucks for this kind of tasks and it will use more battery to check that in Firefox type about support in the URL bar then search for compositing in the page if it says web render you're good you're using the GPU if it says web render software then it's the CPU and that's no good to check if the GPU is used to decode videos you can also search for Hardware video uncore decoding if it says default available then you're good you're using the GPU on chromium based browsers to check for that you can type Chrome colon GPU in the URL bar and you will see if video decode is Hardware accelerated and if not you really need to enable Hardware acceleration for rendering web pages and for the coding videos because that's one of the biggest reasons that your computer might drain a lot more battery than what it's actually supposed to the CPU is not meant for drawing stuff on screen the GPU will be more efficient and use less battery life to do so so on Firefox to enable that you can open the about config page then you can search for media. Hardware DV video- decoding do enabled double click the value to set it to true you might need some additional packages for that to work if you use the Nvidia proprietary drivers you're good to go out of the box it comes with everything you need for Intel and AMD you need to add VA API support if your dis R doesn't ship that by default this will depend on the distribution you use you will have to check your dis Ros documentation for that most distributions should come with that out of the box you shouldn't have anything to install but if you use a very no nonf free software drro like for example certain variants of fedora or certain variants of Debian you might not have them installed check on your dis Ros documentation I just cannot give you all the instructions for all the disr in there on any Chrome based browser you can just go to the settings you can go to system and toggle use Graphics acceleration when available provided your Dro has the required packages you should be good also if your chromium based browser also completely change how the settings look and feel like for example with brave you might need to search through the settings for something called GPU or acceleration and if you have an older chipset that isn't able to decode all modern video formats using the GPU like for example vp8 or vp9 which are really frequently used on YouTube you have browser extensions called enhanced h264 eii for Firefox or just h264 IFI for Chrome which will let you set h264 as the default codec on YouTube meaning that you will always have Hardware accelerated video at least on YouTube and does save battery life h264 decoding should be available for virtually every single chips set out there unless it's really really really old so if you enable that at least on YouTube You should also save some battery life if you have an older integrated GPU now that's one thing out of the way most dros should already have all of that set up correctly but it never hurts to check because this could be a big reason why your laptop doesn't last as long as as it's supposed to now another very useful tool here will be TLP it's an all encompassing tool that will let you tweak a lot of settings to enable disable delay and generally configure your system so it draws less power it is on the surface a command line only tool but fear not there's a graphical user interface that is much more user friendly here called TLP UI it is available on flathub in the a for Arch users or you can install it with p pii as it is a python app obviously it needs the base TLP program to work you need to install that most dist repos should have it if you use auntu Fedora open soua gentu or Arch you have that in your repos or maybe even pre-installed the package should be called TLP or TLP RDW that second one RDW is to let you control Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to turn them off from time to time to save power when you're not using them now once install TLP will run automatically in the background after the first reboot if you open TLP UI after that you should see that it is enabled and you should get access to all the various settings they don't have super human legible names but if you go check on tlps documentation you have all the explanation of each one and what they do the most important ones will probably be on the diss tab when you can set the time in seconds before your disc goes into Idol to save some power if you set it to two on battery for example two seconds after the disc has stopped doing anything it will go idle and stop using as much battery as it did before in the graphics tab you can set the minimum and maximum frequency of your Intel GPU if you have one on battery and when plugged in same goes for your AMD GPU if you have that in the radon power profile settings Nvidia is not handled by this tool though probably because they do not have open source driver is available widely yet so you just cannot configure that from an open source tool right now you can also turn on Wi-Fi power saving mode or you can change the CPU scaling Governor from performance to power safe when using the battery for example another useful thing might be to disable CPU boost when on battery to make sure the CPU never quite takes off when you're not plugged in you also have the USB tab to put certain USB devices to sleep when they're not in use and if you use a ThinkPad there's even a dedicated tab for that it is a very complete tool that will let you tweak a lot of the behaviors of your Hardware think of it as the advanced options you could get on Windows in the old control panel settings TLP and also TLP UI will come with a default set of settings which should work better than the default for most dros for most people but if certain things are just not useful to you you are welcome to try and disable some things improve the delays tlpi will not let you input invalid settings so at worst you've disabled your Wi-Fi or your Bluetooth and you can just reenable it from tlpi there's virtually no chance it will break your computer or harm it in any way now if your computer has two gpus an integrated one and a dedicated one you might also want to check which one you're using right now when using your laptop unplugged you might want to use just the integrated GPU and when plugged in the dedicated GPU instead now the easiest way to do so is by staying in hybrid graphics mode if you have an Nvidia GPU and the proprietary drivers you can just open the Nvidia Settings app and head over to the prime profiles Tab and you can select Nvidia on demand you close the program you reboot and you'll be using the integrated GPU for everything unless an application requires the dedicated GPU in which case it will be run using the Nvidia GPU most good desktop environments will also let you force an application to use the dedicated GPU by right clicking it in the menu or upgrade and selecting run using dedicated GPU or run using discreete Graphics it also works on whand with Nvidia by the way that's what I currently use on my own laptop so you don't need to use X11 for that to work for AMD gpus though I am not aware of solid graphical tools that let you switch between these so you probably will have to use the BIOS to select that hybrid graphics mode personally though I don't find the savings from turning the dedicated GPU really balance out against the usefulness of having that GPU at a fingertip so I would much rather use hybrid graphics than completely disabling the dedicated GPU but sometimes it might be what you need also it is a good place to mention that if you use a computer from today's sponsor tuxedo you can get their tuxedo Control Center app and it lets you handle that switching from a little applet on top of letting you create really custom power profiles like for example I have one for battery and I have one for max power when I'm editing or gaming and of course there are some other usual basic changes you can make there's the usual screen brightness thing that can save you a ton of battery but obviously if you're not inside it might affect legibility the display's refresh rate though is also a factor when on battery you probably don't want to run your display at 144 HZ or even 90 HZ 60 is fine for most use cases when you're not plugged in if your display supports variable refresh rate it will also let you save some power some desktops already supported like KDE you can also turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth if you really don't need them but you didn't need me to tell you that and obviously the more recent your Hardware is the better the chances that a more recent kernel and drivers will give you better Hardware support and better performance in battery life if you have a very recent CPU or GPU from Intel AMD Nvidia or whoever else do not stick to an old Debian LTS or an old Ubuntu LTS or anything based on that use something more recent the latest upun 2 releases generally have good Hardware support but also the latest Fedora or a rolling release drro something Arch based or open to the tumble weed do not use old LDS for recent Hardware because obviously you do not have all the latest features all the latest support and all the latest improvements might not even have solid enough drivers to run this Hardware competently on older kernels so don't stick to LTS if you have very Modern Hardware you can also periodically run your system monitor to see what application or system uses the most CPU and close these programs or uninstall them or disable the related service if you don't need them and finally there are also some very lightweight disos that will use the least amount of resources possible stay tuned for a future video on the that exact topic though I have some pretty cool recommendations that I want to share probably next month so if you have everything said correctly according to this guide then you should definitely see some improvements to how long your laptop lasts when using Linux I personally applied all of these tips to my laptop with a dedicated Nvidia GPU and a recent 12th gen Intel CPU and I routinely see s to 8 hours of battery life with Wi-Fi on 50% brightness browsing the web writing scripts what ing videos I just don't do video editing when I do I get like 3 or 4 hours max which is still not that bad and of course there are other tools like Auto CPU Frack or power top but both of these can have some impacts on how usable your computer Auto CPU frck conflicts with TLP and TLP is way more feature complete so I would much rather use that and power toop I tried but it tended to disable my mouse and keyboard way too often on its default settings meaning that sometimes I typed something or clicked on something and my computer would take a second to react or not even register these key strokes or clicks so I would much rather not put it in this video for those reasons but of course those are tools you can still check out so hopefully you learned a thing or two and maybe this will help you improve your battery life on Linux just like it did for me so thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed the video if you did you know what to do there's this like button subscribe the notification Bell the comment section whatever else and if you really enjoyed the channel I left plenty of links in the description of the video becoming a patron member or a YouTube member will let you get access to a daily Linux and open source news show on top of voting on my topics a weekly patreon cast and a lot of other stuff so check that out in the description in the meantime thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye
it is not a rare site to see people saying that they experience worse battery life on Linux than on windows with the same Hardware some people might have better battery life but some will have drastically worse experiences so I thought it would be nice to take a look at what you can actually do to improve that if your laptop is a bit premature and finishes before you're actually done with it so we'll see how you can squeeze out more juice from your laptop running Linux but first we got to talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops and desktops and kns that ship with Linux out of the box they let you pick from a selection of popular disres but you can also just install your own because in their testing tuxedo submit patches OB stream to make sure that all the hardware is well supported and if those patches haven't been accepted yet by the kernel or the Mesa drivers or any other system they have repost that you can add to most major dis Ros to actually fix this issu on your Hardware as well so when you go with tuxedo you know that the hardware is going to run under Linux no questions asked they have a broad range of devices from laptops for office work all the way up to workstations or gaming PCs or whatever else you want they are all pretty customizable with your own keyboard layout on your laptops your own logo engrave dundoid a solid selection of components of hard drive sizes of RAM and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer computer you want to run Linux and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux click the link in the description below and get yourself something from toxo okay so the first thing we're going to take a look at when it comes to battery life is the actual health of your battery because if it's 10 years old and actually dying there's nothing much you're going to be able to do so if you use KDE you can check that battery health graphically you just open the settings then you click about this system and click on energy here you will see all the stats for battery including its health for my own laptop it's 94% solid enough especially considering this thing is charging and discharging constantly for a more desktop agnostic solution you can run the following command line present in the video description up power-i slorg slf freedesktop SLU power/ devices SL bb0 this command will tell you everything you need to know especially in the capacity stat if your battery is already very degraded in terms of capacity the obvious first thing to do is trying to replace it because you are not going to get 10 hours of battery life on a 10-year-old battery and I'm sure someone will tell me that their 2005 secondhand ThinkPad still has like battery life for days but I'm also pretty sure that that's not the case for most people with such old Hardware now our next thing will be a pretty obvious one if you watch videos or stream mov movies and shows from your browser check that it is actually using your GPU to accelerate that video decoding or even to render web pages if not then your computer is using the CPU which sucks for this kind of tasks and it will use more battery to check that in Firefox type about support in the URL bar then search for compositing in the page if it says web render you're good you're using the GPU if it says web render software then it's the CPU and that's no good to check if the GPU is used to decode videos you can also search for Hardware video uncore decoding if it says default available then you're good you're using the GPU on chromium based browsers to check for that you can type Chrome colon GPU in the URL bar and you will see if video decode is Hardware accelerated and if not you really need to enable Hardware acceleration for rendering web pages and for the coding videos because that's one of the biggest reasons that your computer might drain a lot more battery than what it's actually supposed to the CPU is not meant for drawing stuff on screen the GPU will be more efficient and use less battery life to do so so on Firefox to enable that you can open the about config page then you can search for media. Hardware DV video- decoding do enabled double click the value to set it to true you might need some additional packages for that to work if you use the Nvidia proprietary drivers you're good to go out of the box it comes with everything you need for Intel and AMD you need to add VA API support if your dis R doesn't ship that by default this will depend on the distribution you use you will have to check your dis Ros documentation for that most distributions should come with that out of the box you shouldn't have anything to install but if you use a very no nonf free software drro like for example certain variants of fedora or certain variants of Debian you might not have them installed check on your dis Ros documentation I just cannot give you all the instructions for all the disr in there on any Chrome based browser you can just go to the settings you can go to system and toggle use Graphics acceleration when available provided your Dro has the required packages you should be good also if your chromium based browser also completely change how the settings look and feel like for example with brave you might need to search through the settings for something called GPU or acceleration and if you have an older chipset that isn't able to decode all modern video formats using the GPU like for example vp8 or vp9 which are really frequently used on YouTube you have browser extensions called enhanced h264 eii for Firefox or just h264 IFI for Chrome which will let you set h264 as the default codec on YouTube meaning that you will always have Hardware accelerated video at least on YouTube and does save battery life h264 decoding should be available for virtually every single chips set out there unless it's really really really old so if you enable that at least on YouTube You should also save some battery life if you have an older integrated GPU now that's one thing out of the way most dros should already have all of that set up correctly but it never hurts to check because this could be a big reason why your laptop doesn't last as long as as it's supposed to now another very useful tool here will be TLP it's an all encompassing tool that will let you tweak a lot of settings to enable disable delay and generally configure your system so it draws less power it is on the surface a command line only tool but fear not there's a graphical user interface that is much more user friendly here called TLP UI it is available on flathub in the a for Arch users or you can install it with p pii as it is a python app obviously it needs the base TLP program to work you need to install that most dist repos should have it if you use auntu Fedora open soua gentu or Arch you have that in your repos or maybe even pre-installed the package should be called TLP or TLP RDW that second one RDW is to let you control Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to turn them off from time to time to save power when you're not using them now once install TLP will run automatically in the background after the first reboot if you open TLP UI after that you should see that it is enabled and you should get access to all the various settings they don't have super human legible names but if you go check on tlps documentation you have all the explanation of each one and what they do the most important ones will probably be on the diss tab when you can set the time in seconds before your disc goes into Idol to save some power if you set it to two on battery for example two seconds after the disc has stopped doing anything it will go idle and stop using as much battery as it did before in the graphics tab you can set the minimum and maximum frequency of your Intel GPU if you have one on battery and when plugged in same goes for your AMD GPU if you have that in the radon power profile settings Nvidia is not handled by this tool though probably because they do not have open source driver is available widely yet so you just cannot configure that from an open source tool right now you can also turn on Wi-Fi power saving mode or you can change the CPU scaling Governor from performance to power safe when using the battery for example another useful thing might be to disable CPU boost when on battery to make sure the CPU never quite takes off when you're not plugged in you also have the USB tab to put certain USB devices to sleep when they're not in use and if you use a ThinkPad there's even a dedicated tab for that it is a very complete tool that will let you tweak a lot of the behaviors of your Hardware think of it as the advanced options you could get on Windows in the old control panel settings TLP and also TLP UI will come with a default set of settings which should work better than the default for most dros for most people but if certain things are just not useful to you you are welcome to try and disable some things improve the delays tlpi will not let you input invalid settings so at worst you've disabled your Wi-Fi or your Bluetooth and you can just reenable it from tlpi there's virtually no chance it will break your computer or harm it in any way now if your computer has two gpus an integrated one and a dedicated one you might also want to check which one you're using right now when using your laptop unplugged you might want to use just the integrated GPU and when plugged in the dedicated GPU instead now the easiest way to do so is by staying in hybrid graphics mode if you have an Nvidia GPU and the proprietary drivers you can just open the Nvidia Settings app and head over to the prime profiles Tab and you can select Nvidia on demand you close the program you reboot and you'll be using the integrated GPU for everything unless an application requires the dedicated GPU in which case it will be run using the Nvidia GPU most good desktop environments will also let you force an application to use the dedicated GPU by right clicking it in the menu or upgrade and selecting run using dedicated GPU or run using discreete Graphics it also works on whand with Nvidia by the way that's what I currently use on my own laptop so you don't need to use X11 for that to work for AMD gpus though I am not aware of solid graphical tools that let you switch between these so you probably will have to use the BIOS to select that hybrid graphics mode personally though I don't find the savings from turning the dedicated GPU really balance out against the usefulness of having that GPU at a fingertip so I would much rather use hybrid graphics than completely disabling the dedicated GPU but sometimes it might be what you need also it is a good place to mention that if you use a computer from today's sponsor tuxedo you can get their tuxedo Control Center app and it lets you handle that switching from a little applet on top of letting you create really custom power profiles like for example I have one for battery and I have one for max power when I'm editing or gaming and of course there are some other usual basic changes you can make there's the usual screen brightness thing that can save you a ton of battery but obviously if you're not inside it might affect legibility the display's refresh rate though is also a factor when on battery you probably don't want to run your display at 144 HZ or even 90 HZ 60 is fine for most use cases when you're not plugged in if your display supports variable refresh rate it will also let you save some power some desktops already supported like KDE you can also turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth if you really don't need them but you didn't need me to tell you that and obviously the more recent your Hardware is the better the chances that a more recent kernel and drivers will give you better Hardware support and better performance in battery life if you have a very recent CPU or GPU from Intel AMD Nvidia or whoever else do not stick to an old Debian LTS or an old Ubuntu LTS or anything based on that use something more recent the latest upun 2 releases generally have good Hardware support but also the latest Fedora or a rolling release drro something Arch based or open to the tumble weed do not use old LDS for recent Hardware because obviously you do not have all the latest features all the latest support and all the latest improvements might not even have solid enough drivers to run this Hardware competently on older kernels so don't stick to LTS if you have very Modern Hardware you can also periodically run your system monitor to see what application or system uses the most CPU and close these programs or uninstall them or disable the related service if you don't need them and finally there are also some very lightweight disos that will use the least amount of resources possible stay tuned for a future video on the that exact topic though I have some pretty cool recommendations that I want to share probably next month so if you have everything said correctly according to this guide then you should definitely see some improvements to how long your laptop lasts when using Linux I personally applied all of these tips to my laptop with a dedicated Nvidia GPU and a recent 12th gen Intel CPU and I routinely see s to 8 hours of battery life with Wi-Fi on 50% brightness browsing the web writing scripts what ing videos I just don't do video editing when I do I get like 3 or 4 hours max which is still not that bad and of course there are other tools like Auto CPU Frack or power top but both of these can have some impacts on how usable your computer Auto CPU frck conflicts with TLP and TLP is way more feature complete so I would much rather use that and power toop I tried but it tended to disable my mouse and keyboard way too often on its default settings meaning that sometimes I typed something or clicked on something and my computer would take a second to react or not even register these key strokes or clicks so I would much rather not put it in this video for those reasons but of course those are tools you can still check out so hopefully you learned a thing or two and maybe this will help you improve your battery life on Linux just like it did for me so thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed the video if you did you know what to do there's this like button subscribe the notification Bell the comment section whatever else and if you really enjoyed the channel I left plenty of links in the description of the video becoming a patron member or a YouTube member will let you get access to a daily Linux and open source news show on top of voting on my topics a weekly patreon cast and a lot of other stuff so check that out in the description in the meantime thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye
hey everyone this is Nick and welcome back to your Linux and open- Source news show so this week we have Fedora planning to go all in on AI fortunately it looks to be ethical AI but it's AI nonetheless we have proton buying standard notes to maybe add a proton notes tool to their whole Suite of services and we also have the last remaining pieces falling in place to fix Nvidia on Wayland with the explicit sync protocol Landing in whand but also in X whand so you can say goodbye to frame pacing problems and flickering issues and of course we also have the usual segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag 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a tool and that it won't really replace people developers won't turn into prompt engineers and artists will still be able to create and he also says that Linux needs to get in on AI if we don't want to be left behind and I do agree that once people get chat GPT shoved into their faces by Microsoft at every turn and once Apple delivers something similar for Mac OS people moving to Linux will expect the same kind of feature but it doesn't mean we should hurry up too much Matthew has a few examples of AI that could be useful like speech synthesis that has always been pretty bad on Linux but could now be ultra realistic and actually useful or even for translating open- Source projects in more languages he also says that right now all of this AI work is mostly proprietary it's trained on hidden data it's running on Hardware that doesn't really have open source drivers by companies that generally don't care about open source and personally as someone very skeptical about Ai and the balance between the good it can bring versus the harm it will absolutely cause I was pretty dismayed by this blog post until I reached the point where Matthew pointed out that they need to work with the rest of the open- source world to Define which AI tools align with their values with policies to allow or deny certain tools depending I guess on how they are trained on how open the model is and other things like that Matthew also says they could deploy models in the OS itself like a local assistant that doesn't send anything to any server or sell your personal data and sure if Fedora and the open source world can land on an ethical AI model or tool that they can use then why not but they need to make sure that first it's not privacy invasive or controlled by a big tech company and second they need to make sure it's trength on ethically sourced data just because something was published publicly on the internet doesn't mean it's free to use for anyone there are licenses attached to the code to images I could just grab an image from gety image it's been publicly published but that doesn't mean I have the right to use it for any purpose I want same goes for data used to train AI models public doesn't mean free to use for every use case now open 22404 LTS got its Beta release delayed one week because of the recent problem with the XZ Library 24.4 will be a long-term support release and you can expect a few improvements first it comes with gome 46 with its experimental variable refresh rate support with improved whan support a much better file manager collapsable and expandable notifications reorganized settings and the ability to log into a gnome session through RDP on top of that obun 2's installer got a bit of a redesign on most of it screens and it looks a lot better than its first iteration and it also now supports automated deployments through yaml config files the default app selection changed just a little bit as well with cheese being replaced by the much more modern snapshot camera app gnome games being ditched from the install entirely and Thunderbird moving to a snap instead of a Deb but this snap is being officially supported by the Thunderbird team you will also get the kernel 6 point 8 as well as some power efficiency improvements thanks to the new Pate drivers that should deliver better battery life mostly for AMD but also for Intel CPUs you will also get a better gaming experience thanks to the virtual memory mapping limit being increased to the same amount as Fedora and as Arch as well and obviously you can expect a dedicated video to review a 22404 once it's out and also all of its flavors although this time around it seems like there's not going to be much changes because even kubuntu is not moving to plasma 6 now this week we have a nice blog post from Xavier hugle a KD team member who explains what explicit sync is and why it is great that it's coming to the whan protocols the gist of it is that explicit sync is a method that lets the application tell the drivers the kernel and the compositor when this application has finished rendering its next frame and when to synchronize that frame to the display meaning that performance is better because the drivers don't have to do as much work to see if something is ready and then to display it with explicit sync Landing in the Wayland protocols it means Nvidia users are finally going to get as good an experience as users of any other GPU because NVIDIA drivers at least the proprietary ones do not support implicit sync the method used previously and this led to some whand and X whand related glitches frame paste in issues and various flickering problems all of that will be gone once the proprietary drivers are updated and once xwayland also supports it which is going to be the case very soon because that code is merged already it's been submitted by Nvidia and the code apparently takes inspiration from the corresponding Wayland protocol so it's easier to support it's 11 patches that have been worked on since August 2022 so seeing it finally merged is pretty nice and Nvidia should soon have an updated proprietary driver to take advantage of that as well but the Mesa drivers can already handle the new protocol gnome's compositor motor already supports it as well and as far as I know kwin will support that too in plasma 6.1 planned for June so we are not far off from finally getting rid of those frame pacing problems and flickering on Nvidia when using Wayland which is really cool now personally I never experienced these frame pacing of flickering issues on Nvidia on whan but a lot of people seem to have that problem which prevents them either from gaming or from moving to wh so it's nice to see that finally fixed hopefully in a few months we'll be good and if there are still issues by that point we should have nvk and nvo fully ready and probably up to the task for most people now proton makers of proton mail and proton VPN acquired standard notes an open-source note taking application that is end to end encrypted presumably to bring notes to life as its own product in the proton Suite of tools standard notes will remain open source of course and it will still undergo independent Audits and their pricing also will not change standard notes actually confirmed this as they said they would still operate as their own independent product and they also said that they would benefit from proton resources to make the app better in the long run the goal for proton seems more to be integrated in standard notes into the proton Suite of tools probably by letting you use your proton account to sync notes between devices maybe add some point getting a web- based interface to access your notes things like that seem logical and pretty likely and it seems like a good match because both proton and standard nodes have grown organically they do not take in Venture Capital Money meaning that they're only beholden to their users and not to investors and also notes is something proton users have been requested for a long time if the integration of simple login inside of proton is anything to go by I think standard notes users have nothing to fear and proton users can just Rejoice they're getting a notes product for free I guess and now we're going to talk desktop environments let's start with KDE because there are some nice updates coming to plasma 6.1 the first one is a streamlined way of setting key bindings and keyboard shortcuts meaning you will now be able to set the super key to do whatever you want like opening the overview or krunner or anything else currently you can only do that through the command line and apparently it was not such an easy thing to implement but at least now it's done and you'll be able to use your super key to open whatever you want just like in any other desktop in 6.1 you will also be able to sync your RGB lighting with your plasma accent color which is cool if you like RGB I guess and this discover will let you update snap packages manually instead of off automatically and that's all good stuff I still don't have plasma 6 on toxedo OS for now but I did get to use it more on noara which is the D I decided to install on my Linux gaming console because Holo ISO the upgrade to the immutable version just did not go well and in gnomeland we have the team working on using Nautilus as a provider for the file Chooser portal meaning that you would get all the nice improvements of recent Nautilus versions when you're trying to open a file instead of using the G GK file picker printing support is also coming to webkit gtk meaning flatback Epiphany could now print using the printing portal and there's more work on implementing encryption of the home directory through system D Home D there's also more work on gnome's online accounts to better support webdav and to better support Microsoft 365 and we even have some mockups for an OS installer that could be used by any drro that decides to ship G same goes for Global short short cut support in Gnome there are now mockups to describe how you would register these shortcuts something pretty crucial for handling certain apps under Wayland for example OBS especially since the global shortcuts portal is now implemented and should land in Gnome 47 that's also pretty good stuff like I said in my gnome 46 review the major things being funded by The Sovereign Tech fund that giant 1 million grant that gnome got all of those things are landing in Gnome 47 and gnome 48 so these are going to be pretty major releases with good improvements for everyone now let's move on to gaming first we're losing access to League of Legends soon which personally I don't care about I find this kind of game absolutely boring and the community is so toxic I'm not even getting close to it but a lot of people might be very unhappy with that Riot games is implementing their Vanguard anti-che tools soon which doesn't support Linux they address that exact issue in an FAQ saying that they never officially supported Linux and that the current use of wine to run the game just will not work anymore they said that Linux doesn't give them enough ways to affect boot state or kernel modules which sounds like a very positive thing to me because no game or app should have the ability to read or write or affect in any way your boot State your boot process or your kernel modules now Riot also said that there are too many differences between this shows for them to even try to implement a solution as per building a workaround for proton or wine they said it would amount to leaving a back door open specifically for Linux and that one would be sure to be exploited by cheaters on other platforms they also said that they seem to only have about 800 daily players on Linux and that's just not worth supporting the core of the problem remains kernel level anticheat tools should just not exist they are not a good way of BU Building anti-che Solutions they might be more effective than others but they're so invasive no operating system should let any application whether it's a game or an app or a professional tool Implement something like this that messes with the kernel or can read such lowlevel information if it means that on Linux we can play games it sucks but I would much rather we never Implement anything close to that than having access to those games and well we also have some pretty weird news for UL as Discord removed the servers created by new Nintendo switch emulators like suyu and sudhi not only are the associated Discord servers gone but the accounts for the lead developers have also been completely disabled apparently all Discord said is that they answered a court injunction but it seems quite strange because nowhere does it say in discord's policies that this complete dele is something that could happen without any warning and since Yuzu settled out of court with Nintendo a court injunction seems very unlikely because this never went to court of course as a close platform Discord has every right to terminate any account or server they want but this feels a bit strange and I guess this is a good example of why when you're building something in a legal gray area you should always self host all your community all your Repose all your code because at least you can't be taken down by the tool that you currently use doesn't mean that a company won't try to sue you but at least you do have a fighting chance to try and defend your product instead of just being wiped off the internet without any recourse okay and now it's time to tell you about this video sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed you can pick from a selection of popular dros or you can install your own Dro because tuxedo contribute patches Upstream to most projects when they encounter problems when testing new hardware and if those patches haven't been accepted yet they have repos you can add to 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome back to your Linux and open- Source news show so this week we have Fedora planning to go all in on AI fortunately it looks to be ethical AI but it's AI nonetheless we have proton buying standard notes to maybe add a proton notes tool to their whole Suite of services and we also have the last remaining pieces falling in place to fix Nvidia on Wayland with the explicit sync protocol Landing in whand but also in X whand so you can say goodbye to frame pacing problems and flickering issues and of course we also have the usual segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag 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a tool and that it won't really replace people developers won't turn into prompt engineers and artists will still be able to create and he also says that Linux needs to get in on AI if we don't want to be left behind and I do agree that once people get chat GPT shoved into their faces by Microsoft at every turn and once Apple delivers something similar for Mac OS people moving to Linux will expect the same kind of feature but it doesn't mean we should hurry up too much Matthew has a few examples of AI that could be useful like speech synthesis that has always been pretty bad on Linux but could now be ultra realistic and actually useful or even for translating open- Source projects in more languages he also says that right now all of this AI work is mostly proprietary it's trained on hidden data it's running on Hardware that doesn't really have open source drivers by companies that generally don't care about open source and personally as someone very skeptical about Ai and the balance between the good it can bring versus the harm it will absolutely cause I was pretty dismayed by this blog post until I reached the point where Matthew pointed out that they need to work with the rest of the open- source world to Define which AI tools align with their values with policies to allow or deny certain tools depending I guess on how they are trained on how open the model is and other things like that Matthew also says they could deploy models in the OS itself like a local assistant that doesn't send anything to any server or sell your personal data and sure if Fedora and the open source world can land on an ethical AI model or tool that they can use then why not but they need to make sure that first it's not privacy invasive or controlled by a big tech company and second they need to make sure it's trength on ethically sourced data just because something was published publicly on the internet doesn't mean it's free to use for anyone there are licenses attached to the code to images I could just grab an image from gety image it's been publicly published but that doesn't mean I have the right to use it for any purpose I want same goes for data used to train AI models public doesn't mean free to use for every use case now open 22404 LTS got its Beta release delayed one week because of the recent problem with the XZ Library 24.4 will be a long-term support release and you can expect a few improvements first it comes with gome 46 with its experimental variable refresh rate support with improved whan support a much better file manager collapsable and expandable notifications reorganized settings and the ability to log into a gnome session through RDP on top of that obun 2's installer got a bit of a redesign on most of it screens and it looks a lot better than its first iteration and it also now supports automated deployments through yaml config files the default app selection changed just a little bit as well with cheese being replaced by the much more modern snapshot camera app gnome games being ditched from the install entirely and Thunderbird moving to a snap instead of a Deb but this snap is being officially supported by the Thunderbird team you will also get the kernel 6 point 8 as well as some power efficiency improvements thanks to the new Pate drivers that should deliver better battery life mostly for AMD but also for Intel CPUs you will also get a better gaming experience thanks to the virtual memory mapping limit being increased to the same amount as Fedora and as Arch as well and obviously you can expect a dedicated video to review a 22404 once it's out and also all of its flavors although this time around it seems like there's not going to be much changes because even kubuntu is not moving to plasma 6 now this week we have a nice blog post from Xavier hugle a KD team member who explains what explicit sync is and why it is great that it's coming to the whan protocols the gist of it is that explicit sync is a method that lets the application tell the drivers the kernel and the compositor when this application has finished rendering its next frame and when to synchronize that frame to the display meaning that performance is better because the drivers don't have to do as much work to see if something is ready and then to display it with explicit sync Landing in the Wayland protocols it means Nvidia users are finally going to get as good an experience as users of any other GPU because NVIDIA drivers at least the proprietary ones do not support implicit sync the method used previously and this led to some whand and X whand related glitches frame paste in issues and various flickering problems all of that will be gone once the proprietary drivers are updated and once xwayland also supports it which is going to be the case very soon because that code is merged already it's been submitted by Nvidia and the code apparently takes inspiration from the corresponding Wayland protocol so it's easier to support it's 11 patches that have been worked on since August 2022 so seeing it finally merged is pretty nice and Nvidia should soon have an updated proprietary driver to take advantage of that as well but the Mesa drivers can already handle the new protocol gnome's compositor motor already supports it as well and as far as I know kwin will support that too in plasma 6.1 planned for June so we are not far off from finally getting rid of those frame pacing problems and flickering on Nvidia when using Wayland which is really cool now personally I never experienced these frame pacing of flickering issues on Nvidia on whan but a lot of people seem to have that problem which prevents them either from gaming or from moving to wh so it's nice to see that finally fixed hopefully in a few months we'll be good and if there are still issues by that point we should have nvk and nvo fully ready and probably up to the task for most people now proton makers of proton mail and proton VPN acquired standard notes an open-source note taking application that is end to end encrypted presumably to bring notes to life as its own product in the proton Suite of tools standard notes will remain open source of course and it will still undergo independent Audits and their pricing also will not change standard notes actually confirmed this as they said they would still operate as their own independent product and they also said that they would benefit from proton resources to make the app better in the long run the goal for proton seems more to be integrated in standard notes into the proton Suite of tools probably by letting you use your proton account to sync notes between devices maybe add some point getting a web- based interface to access your notes things like that seem logical and pretty likely and it seems like a good match because both proton and standard nodes have grown organically they do not take in Venture Capital Money meaning that they're only beholden to their users and not to investors and also notes is something proton users have been requested for a long time if the integration of simple login inside of proton is anything to go by I think standard notes users have nothing to fear and proton users can just Rejoice they're getting a notes product for free I guess and now we're going to talk desktop environments let's start with KDE because there are some nice updates coming to plasma 6.1 the first one is a streamlined way of setting key bindings and keyboard shortcuts meaning you will now be able to set the super key to do whatever you want like opening the overview or krunner or anything else currently you can only do that through the command line and apparently it was not such an easy thing to implement but at least now it's done and you'll be able to use your super key to open whatever you want just like in any other desktop in 6.1 you will also be able to sync your RGB lighting with your plasma accent color which is cool if you like RGB I guess and this discover will let you update snap packages manually instead of off automatically and that's all good stuff I still don't have plasma 6 on toxedo OS for now but I did get to use it more on noara which is the D I decided to install on my Linux gaming console because Holo ISO the upgrade to the immutable version just did not go well and in gnomeland we have the team working on using Nautilus as a provider for the file Chooser portal meaning that you would get all the nice improvements of recent Nautilus versions when you're trying to open a file instead of using the G GK file picker printing support is also coming to webkit gtk meaning flatback Epiphany could now print using the printing portal and there's more work on implementing encryption of the home directory through system D Home D there's also more work on gnome's online accounts to better support webdav and to better support Microsoft 365 and we even have some mockups for an OS installer that could be used by any drro that decides to ship G same goes for Global short short cut support in Gnome there are now mockups to describe how you would register these shortcuts something pretty crucial for handling certain apps under Wayland for example OBS especially since the global shortcuts portal is now implemented and should land in Gnome 47 that's also pretty good stuff like I said in my gnome 46 review the major things being funded by The Sovereign Tech fund that giant 1 million grant that gnome got all of those things are landing in Gnome 47 and gnome 48 so these are going to be pretty major releases with good improvements for everyone now let's move on to gaming first we're losing access to League of Legends soon which personally I don't care about I find this kind of game absolutely boring and the community is so toxic I'm not even getting close to it but a lot of people might be very unhappy with that Riot games is implementing their Vanguard anti-che tools soon which doesn't support Linux they address that exact issue in an FAQ saying that they never officially supported Linux and that the current use of wine to run the game just will not work anymore they said that Linux doesn't give them enough ways to affect boot state or kernel modules which sounds like a very positive thing to me because no game or app should have the ability to read or write or affect in any way your boot State your boot process or your kernel modules now Riot also said that there are too many differences between this shows for them to even try to implement a solution as per building a workaround for proton or wine they said it would amount to leaving a back door open specifically for Linux and that one would be sure to be exploited by cheaters on other platforms they also said that they seem to only have about 800 daily players on Linux and that's just not worth supporting the core of the problem remains kernel level anticheat tools should just not exist they are not a good way of BU Building anti-che Solutions they might be more effective than others but they're so invasive no operating system should let any application whether it's a game or an app or a professional tool Implement something like this that messes with the kernel or can read such lowlevel information if it means that on Linux we can play games it sucks but I would much rather we never Implement anything close to that than having access to those games and well we also have some pretty weird news for UL as Discord removed the servers created by new Nintendo switch emulators like suyu and sudhi not only are the associated Discord servers gone but the accounts for the lead developers have also been completely disabled apparently all Discord said is that they answered a court injunction but it seems quite strange because nowhere does it say in discord's policies that this complete dele is something that could happen without any warning and since Yuzu settled out of court with Nintendo a court injunction seems very unlikely because this never went to court of course as a close platform Discord has every right to terminate any account or server they want but this feels a bit strange and I guess this is a good example of why when you're building something in a legal gray area you should always self host all your community all your Repose all your code because at least you can't be taken down by the tool that you currently use doesn't mean that a company won't try to sue you but at least you do have a fighting chance to try and defend your product instead of just being wiped off the internet without any recourse okay and now it's time to tell you about this video sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed you can pick from a selection of popular dros or you can install your own Dro because tuxedo contribute patches Upstream to most projects when they encounter problems when testing new hardware and if those patches haven't been accepted yet they have repos you can add to 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome back to your Linux and open source news video this week we've got a pretty weird proposal that has virtually no chance to happen but that would turn Fedora into a KD first distribution starting with Fedora 42 we have a German federal state moving their entire computer Fleet to Linux and lib office which is awesome and we have more repercussions of the pretty nasty XY back door that was found last week and and we also have our usual sponsor tuxedo computers if you're looking for a new pc and you want to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that come with Windows pre-installed and try to install Linux on it only to find out that some Hardware doesn't work buy from a manufacturer that actually supports Linux tuxedo does just that they have a wide range of devices that will cover every price point and every need whether you're looking for a small laptop for office work all the way up to a giant work St or gaming tower or gaming laptop they have it all all the devices are very customizable especially the laptops you can have your own custom keyboard layout you can have your own logo engraved on the lid and you can also open repair and upgrade all these laptops I only use tuxedo computers these days this whole channel is run on one of their laptops and all my gaming needs are served from one of their tuxedo cubes which is a relatively small form factor PC so if you need a new computer and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux click the link in the description and get yourself a PC from tuxedo okay so this week there was a proposal for Fedora 42 to move to KD plasma instead of gnow this is apparently not an April's Fool's joke even though it might look like one and it was submitted on April 1st it was actually proposed by Joshua strobo the lead for the budgie desktop and the justification is that plasma provides a more flexible experience for users that it is now stable enough that it supports more standards than gnome and has better whan support as a whole they also argue that KD has pushed for a lot more advancements to the Linux desktop than gnome recently with a lot of protocols being driven by KD people another argument is that plasma is used on the steam deck on the desktop mode or on Pine 64 products and on distros from Linux manufacturers like the aforementioned tuxedo meaning plasma could now be more familiar to a lot of users they thus propose to have the default spin of Fedora the official Edition use KD and to move the gnome version to a separate spin Joshua says that while he's the lead for an entirely different desktop namely budgie he thinks that having plasma as the default would make Fedora more appealing to people and seeing as Fedora is a very popular drro it would also make Linux as a whole more popular by providing a more featureful experience to more users now I will freely admit I do not think this proposal has a chance to be adopted at all as Fedora and red hat have close working relationships with gnome and they've invested a lot in that desktop now Fedora contributors pointed out that Fedora is independent on these things and they could do it but it also looks like the discussion topic has been closed as the change process used by Joshua is the purview of fedora's steering committee and this conversation around changing the default Edition should be handled by the Fedora workstation work group instead and also the conversation predictably devolved into Gom is better or KD is better and just was completely unproductive now in the discussion thread a credible alternative would be to promote the KD spin to a full workstation Edition so it could enjoy more promotion there is a process to try and do that but it apparently doesn't have a good shot of happening either according to a fedora council member Matthew Miller although he said that if every other Avenue just rejected that proposal to make the kd spin an official Edition the Fedora Council would take a really good look at it to try and see if it could be done I don't think this will happen but it would be cool to have like two additions one with gnome one with KDE it would put both desktops on par with each other for Fedora users now the repercussions of the back door in the very popular XZ Library continue as it pushed canonical to delay the beta of auntu 22404 LTS that was planned for this week on April the 4th it will now be released in a few days on the 11th as a bunto devs are trying to review and rebuild all the packages that could have been affected and that were built using XZ as a dependency all these rebuilds are in brand new environments to make sure that everything is above board and this is something other disos are doing as well like open sua Tumbleweed which was also affected by the back door or Debian 12 point six which also postponed that next release to fix the problem now technically the final stable release of 24.4 LTS should not be affected it is still planned for April 25 there will just be one less week for beta testing the dist and still on that back door problem systemd detractors will maybe start wanting more vulnerabilities out there as with the XY issue systemd decided to take a look at how they could reduce their dependencies at least those dependency used to build lip system D which is the heart of the init system the goal is to reduce the surface of attack for the very prevalent system D and thus to remove all external dependencies and limit themselves to lib C it is just a proposal for now but it seems to gain some traction and it would require a good reorganization of the library's code splitting it into multiple libraries for each API that systemd provides some of these changes were already implemented a while back with lib system D no longer mandating the use of a compression Library like XZ for example and honestly even apart from security reasons having the main systemd library lip systemd be split into multiple parts for every system or component would be much better because it would mean people could adopt certain systemd apis and functions without grabbing everything that they do not want so it would be a more modular buil and I think it would solve a lot of what people just have against systemd now as everyone is scrambling to fix those issues there's still good news to avoid this back door repeating again in the future biner was created to deal with this it is a scanner that will detect this specific back door in any file that might implement it so if the malicious contributor who added that to XZ did it somewhere else or if someone used the same technique in another project we should know pretty soon the scanner can detect that back door even with code changes to it or recompilation of libraries and packages and you can either just drop a file onto their website to analyze it or you can use their freely accessible API to scan files in bulk meaning that at least with this exact back door we should be safe for now of course this will not fix the root of the problem which is if malicious actors start embedding themselves into projects two or three years in advance by submitting good code normal code without back doors and once they gain the trust then they start submitting the back doors and the exploits it's going to be a problem because you're always going to look very hardly at a first commit from someone you have never heard about but someone who's been contributing normal solid code for 2 years you're probably not going to check for exploits or security problems and we're going to have to start doing that one of Germany's federal states schic Holstein decided to move from Windows and mic moft office to Linux and lib office this move will transition 30,000 computers to open-source software which is really nice this is obviously part of the recent European moves for more digital sovereignty having better control over the data that is being collected and where it is transferred but also simply to keep control of the software they use and to not be beholden to any company or country where this company operates the transition will also move them to things like next Cloud to Thunderbird and open exchange it will replace Microsoft active directory and a few other things we don't know which distro they will pick or if they will make their own and they also thought about training apparently to make sure employees will be able to understand and master this new software environment and not lose too much productivity during the transition period now this move to Linux is mandatory for every computer affected but they're willing to take their time and gr possible delays and exceptions to avoid certain important systems breaking and it is a great move congratulation to the federal state in question now it's not the first time that a German city or state has tried that move and usually they move back to Windows after a few years but usually it's also because they just didn't plan that transition very well they didn't include training they just didn't Grant any exception so they just realize after a few years that some stuff doesn't work at all if they take that time if they do it right I think it's a great thing to do and I do think that public funds should never be used to buy or rent software that is proprietary and only benefits one company the same funds should be used to advance open- Source software and share that knowledge freely it's your money it should be used for everyone not just for one company now we have news of Linux mins 22 the future release of the popular Dro and it looks like they're going to be making some interesting changes first the dro will move to pipe wire as its main sound server because this thing is now pretty solid compared to the Alternatives the new version will also undo aun's recent change to distribute Thunderbird as a snap and they will provide their own Deb package instead just like what they do with Firefox mint 22 will also bring two new applications one being dragonaut a new IRC client that isn't really an IRC client but more of a support tool to let users ask their questions about mint on IRC with a more userfriendly interface the other app is gnome online accounts gtk a fork of gnome onlines account that can be used by mint's own applications now that's not all though as mins 22 will start changing how they distribute kernel updates they will now automatically distribute all Hardware enablement updates to the kernel version that they ship instead of offering that as a manual update meaning every mint user will use the same kernel more or less and the dis R will remain installable on recent Hardware without the need for an edge ISO like what they started providing early this year of course if you prefer using the LTS kernel without all the extra Hardware support you will be able to do so basically it is a continuation of M's trajectory they are undoing every change that auntu makes that they don't like especially stuff related to snaps which begs the question why aren't they really moving to Linux Min Debian Edition as the default because it seems like it would be less work and they're also undoing any change from The Gnome tools that they still use to keep using them without having to Embark stuff like liit V or versions of gtk4 that they do not like now AMD is apparently going to do even more work on open source and they're going to open their stuff to the community they teased early this week that they would open source more portions of their software stack and it has now been revealed that it's the documentation and source code for their micro engine scheduler it's a microcontroller that has been added to AMD gpus a while back to control scheduling of processes and tasks on the GPU probably the equivalent of the GSP on Nvidia gpus this thing has proprietary firmware for now but AMD will release documentation for it at the end of May and the source code after that this is a great move it will make testing and debugging and improving AMD drivers on Linux a lot easier now apparently according to fonics there are other parts of AMD gpus that aren't open source yet and won't be covered by that new documentation and code but it is still a nice step forward and you have to give it to AMD for their continued support of Open Source and Linux they're really doing a good job here they're one of the best manufacturers when it comes to that not everything is open sourced yet but we're getting close we have some news from Thunderbird as well this week as they make progress on the addition of exchange support natively in the email client they have now implemented exchange Auto Discovery and oo compatibility in the account setup meaning the app should be able to autod detect your Exchange Server based on your email address and to open a web browser window for you to log in and pass that login back to Thunderbird all folders can now also be fetched and displayed in the app as well these features will be added as an optin in the next Beta release so people who want to start testing testing them can and people who aren't interested will not be polluted by a non-complete feature for nonexchange users there was also work on better handling mailing list subscriptions plus a transition to JavaScript modules to improve the state of the codebase the other areas of focus for the month are finishing the revamp of the cards view user interface for email improving the quick filters bar improving the API for add-ons and more and the Thunderbird team will also now take control of their snap package as well canonical had been maintaining that package themselves for all of its existence and since it will now be the default format used for Thunderbird in 24.4 instead of using a dep package the Thunderbird team decided they'd better make sure that thing was up to the task so they will now officially support both flatback and snap and the snap package has been added to their built infrastructure to make sure everything is always nice and up to date whenever a new version is pushed to the under bird snap GitHub repo the existing Launchpad mirror that open to setup when they started doing the snap package that mirror will grab the update and automatically build the snap and if that build is successful the new updated snap will be published to its relevant snap Channel all the bugs will have to be reported in the main bugzilla instance of the Thunderbird project not on the Thunderbird snap GitHub repo and well why not aun 22404 will force this snap package on to their users instead of the de so you might as well make sure that what they distribute is good enough now judging from the recent Community survey that I did at least in the portion of the audience that watches my content Snaps are just not a popular format like 72% of people use flat packs 84% of people do not use snaps so yeah it's not a very viable format for a lot of people but still auntu is not backing down they're pushing it and so if a lot of potential abun to users are going to be confronted with this package you might as well make sure it's as good as can be because if it's not people will assume it's Thunderbird being bad they won't assume it's a to package that is pretty trashy so they have to fix that and this will conclude this episode I hope you enjoyed listening to it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't there's always that dislike button and the comment section as well and if you really enjoy the channel I left plenty of links in the description to support it including the ones for patreon memberships and YouTube memberships if you join at any tier you will get a daily version of this show in audio format from Monday to Friday you get 5 to 10 minutes of Linux news so you don't have to wait for the end of the week so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome back to your Linux and open source news video this week we've got a pretty weird proposal that has virtually no chance to happen but that would turn Fedora into a KD first distribution starting with Fedora 42 we have a German federal state moving their entire computer Fleet to Linux and lib office which is awesome and we have more repercussions of the pretty nasty XY back door that was found last week and and we also have our usual sponsor tuxedo computers if you're looking for a new pc and you want to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that come with Windows pre-installed and try to install Linux on it only to find out that some Hardware doesn't work buy from a manufacturer that actually supports Linux tuxedo does just that they have a wide range of devices that will cover every price point and every need whether you're looking for a small laptop for office work all the way up to a giant work St or gaming tower or gaming laptop they have it all all the devices are very customizable especially the laptops you can have your own custom keyboard layout you can have your own logo engraved on the lid and you can also open repair and upgrade all these laptops I only use tuxedo computers these days this whole channel is run on one of their laptops and all my gaming needs are served from one of their tuxedo cubes which is a relatively small form factor PC so if you need a new computer and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux click the link in the description and get yourself a PC from tuxedo okay so this week there was a proposal for Fedora 42 to move to KD plasma instead of gnow this is apparently not an April's Fool's joke even though it might look like one and it was submitted on April 1st it was actually proposed by Joshua strobo the lead for the budgie desktop and the justification is that plasma provides a more flexible experience for users that it is now stable enough that it supports more standards than gnome and has better whan support as a whole they also argue that KD has pushed for a lot more advancements to the Linux desktop than gnome recently with a lot of protocols being driven by KD people another argument is that plasma is used on the steam deck on the desktop mode or on Pine 64 products and on distros from Linux manufacturers like the aforementioned tuxedo meaning plasma could now be more familiar to a lot of users they thus propose to have the default spin of Fedora the official Edition use KD and to move the gnome version to a separate spin Joshua says that while he's the lead for an entirely different desktop namely budgie he thinks that having plasma as the default would make Fedora more appealing to people and seeing as Fedora is a very popular drro it would also make Linux as a whole more popular by providing a more featureful experience to more users now I will freely admit I do not think this proposal has a chance to be adopted at all as Fedora and red hat have close working relationships with gnome and they've invested a lot in that desktop now Fedora contributors pointed out that Fedora is independent on these things and they could do it but it also looks like the discussion topic has been closed as the change process used by Joshua is the purview of fedora's steering committee and this conversation around changing the default Edition should be handled by the Fedora workstation work group instead and also the conversation predictably devolved into Gom is better or KD is better and just was completely unproductive now in the discussion thread a credible alternative would be to promote the KD spin to a full workstation Edition so it could enjoy more promotion there is a process to try and do that but it apparently doesn't have a good shot of happening either according to a fedora council member Matthew Miller although he said that if every other Avenue just rejected that proposal to make the kd spin an official Edition the Fedora Council would take a really good look at it to try and see if it could be done I don't think this will happen but it would be cool to have like two additions one with gnome one with KDE it would put both desktops on par with each other for Fedora users now the repercussions of the back door in the very popular XZ Library continue as it pushed canonical to delay the beta of auntu 22404 LTS that was planned for this week on April the 4th it will now be released in a few days on the 11th as a bunto devs are trying to review and rebuild all the packages that could have been affected and that were built using XZ as a dependency all these rebuilds are in brand new environments to make sure that everything is above board and this is something other disos are doing as well like open sua Tumbleweed which was also affected by the back door or Debian 12 point six which also postponed that next release to fix the problem now technically the final stable release of 24.4 LTS should not be affected it is still planned for April 25 there will just be one less week for beta testing the dist and still on that back door problem systemd detractors will maybe start wanting more vulnerabilities out there as with the XY issue systemd decided to take a look at how they could reduce their dependencies at least those dependency used to build lip system D which is the heart of the init system the goal is to reduce the surface of attack for the very prevalent system D and thus to remove all external dependencies and limit themselves to lib C it is just a proposal for now but it seems to gain some traction and it would require a good reorganization of the library's code splitting it into multiple libraries for each API that systemd provides some of these changes were already implemented a while back with lib system D no longer mandating the use of a compression Library like XZ for example and honestly even apart from security reasons having the main systemd library lip systemd be split into multiple parts for every system or component would be much better because it would mean people could adopt certain systemd apis and functions without grabbing everything that they do not want so it would be a more modular buil and I think it would solve a lot of what people just have against systemd now as everyone is scrambling to fix those issues there's still good news to avoid this back door repeating again in the future biner was created to deal with this it is a scanner that will detect this specific back door in any file that might implement it so if the malicious contributor who added that to XZ did it somewhere else or if someone used the same technique in another project we should know pretty soon the scanner can detect that back door even with code changes to it or recompilation of libraries and packages and you can either just drop a file onto their website to analyze it or you can use their freely accessible API to scan files in bulk meaning that at least with this exact back door we should be safe for now of course this will not fix the root of the problem which is if malicious actors start embedding themselves into projects two or three years in advance by submitting good code normal code without back doors and once they gain the trust then they start submitting the back doors and the exploits it's going to be a problem because you're always going to look very hardly at a first commit from someone you have never heard about but someone who's been contributing normal solid code for 2 years you're probably not going to check for exploits or security problems and we're going to have to start doing that one of Germany's federal states schic Holstein decided to move from Windows and mic moft office to Linux and lib office this move will transition 30,000 computers to open-source software which is really nice this is obviously part of the recent European moves for more digital sovereignty having better control over the data that is being collected and where it is transferred but also simply to keep control of the software they use and to not be beholden to any company or country where this company operates the transition will also move them to things like next Cloud to Thunderbird and open exchange it will replace Microsoft active directory and a few other things we don't know which distro they will pick or if they will make their own and they also thought about training apparently to make sure employees will be able to understand and master this new software environment and not lose too much productivity during the transition period now this move to Linux is mandatory for every computer affected but they're willing to take their time and gr possible delays and exceptions to avoid certain important systems breaking and it is a great move congratulation to the federal state in question now it's not the first time that a German city or state has tried that move and usually they move back to Windows after a few years but usually it's also because they just didn't plan that transition very well they didn't include training they just didn't Grant any exception so they just realize after a few years that some stuff doesn't work at all if they take that time if they do it right I think it's a great thing to do and I do think that public funds should never be used to buy or rent software that is proprietary and only benefits one company the same funds should be used to advance open- Source software and share that knowledge freely it's your money it should be used for everyone not just for one company now we have news of Linux mins 22 the future release of the popular Dro and it looks like they're going to be making some interesting changes first the dro will move to pipe wire as its main sound server because this thing is now pretty solid compared to the Alternatives the new version will also undo aun's recent change to distribute Thunderbird as a snap and they will provide their own Deb package instead just like what they do with Firefox mint 22 will also bring two new applications one being dragonaut a new IRC client that isn't really an IRC client but more of a support tool to let users ask their questions about mint on IRC with a more userfriendly interface the other app is gnome online accounts gtk a fork of gnome onlines account that can be used by mint's own applications now that's not all though as mins 22 will start changing how they distribute kernel updates they will now automatically distribute all Hardware enablement updates to the kernel version that they ship instead of offering that as a manual update meaning every mint user will use the same kernel more or less and the dis R will remain installable on recent Hardware without the need for an edge ISO like what they started providing early this year of course if you prefer using the LTS kernel without all the extra Hardware support you will be able to do so basically it is a continuation of M's trajectory they are undoing every change that auntu makes that they don't like especially stuff related to snaps which begs the question why aren't they really moving to Linux Min Debian Edition as the default because it seems like it would be less work and they're also undoing any change from The Gnome tools that they still use to keep using them without having to Embark stuff like liit V or versions of gtk4 that they do not like now AMD is apparently going to do even more work on open source and they're going to open their stuff to the community they teased early this week that they would open source more portions of their software stack and it has now been revealed that it's the documentation and source code for their micro engine scheduler it's a microcontroller that has been added to AMD gpus a while back to control scheduling of processes and tasks on the GPU probably the equivalent of the GSP on Nvidia gpus this thing has proprietary firmware for now but AMD will release documentation for it at the end of May and the source code after that this is a great move it will make testing and debugging and improving AMD drivers on Linux a lot easier now apparently according to fonics there are other parts of AMD gpus that aren't open source yet and won't be covered by that new documentation and code but it is still a nice step forward and you have to give it to AMD for their continued support of Open Source and Linux they're really doing a good job here they're one of the best manufacturers when it comes to that not everything is open sourced yet but we're getting close we have some news from Thunderbird as well this week as they make progress on the addition of exchange support natively in the email client they have now implemented exchange Auto Discovery and oo compatibility in the account setup meaning the app should be able to autod detect your Exchange Server based on your email address and to open a web browser window for you to log in and pass that login back to Thunderbird all folders can now also be fetched and displayed in the app as well these features will be added as an optin in the next Beta release so people who want to start testing testing them can and people who aren't interested will not be polluted by a non-complete feature for nonexchange users there was also work on better handling mailing list subscriptions plus a transition to JavaScript modules to improve the state of the codebase the other areas of focus for the month are finishing the revamp of the cards view user interface for email improving the quick filters bar improving the API for add-ons and more and the Thunderbird team will also now take control of their snap package as well canonical had been maintaining that package themselves for all of its existence and since it will now be the default format used for Thunderbird in 24.4 instead of using a dep package the Thunderbird team decided they'd better make sure that thing was up to the task so they will now officially support both flatback and snap and the snap package has been added to their built infrastructure to make sure everything is always nice and up to date whenever a new version is pushed to the under bird snap GitHub repo the existing Launchpad mirror that open to setup when they started doing the snap package that mirror will grab the update and automatically build the snap and if that build is successful the new updated snap will be published to its relevant snap Channel all the bugs will have to be reported in the main bugzilla instance of the Thunderbird project not on the Thunderbird snap GitHub repo and well why not aun 22404 will force this snap package on to their users instead of the de so you might as well make sure that what they distribute is good enough now judging from the recent Community survey that I did at least in the portion of the audience that watches my content Snaps are just not a popular format like 72% of people use flat packs 84% of people do not use snaps so yeah it's not a very viable format for a lot of people but still auntu is not backing down they're pushing it and so if a lot of potential abun to users are going to be confronted with this package you might as well make sure it's as good as can be because if it's not people will assume it's Thunderbird being bad they won't assume it's a to package that is pretty trashy so they have to fix that and this will conclude this episode I hope you enjoyed listening to it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't there's always that dislike button and the comment section as well and if you really enjoy the channel I left plenty of links in the description to support it including the ones for patreon memberships and YouTube memberships if you join at any tier you will get a daily version of this show in audio format from Monday to Friday you get 5 to 10 minutes of Linux news so you don't have to wait for the end of the week so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me 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now since you seem to enjoy me crowdsourcing a few cool terminal programs last month I decided to repeat the process but this time to gather some data about what people actually use on Linux so I made a little non-exhaustive nonscientific survey that I posted on the YouTube Channel's Community page and on masteron and I gathered more than 9500 answers on the disos the type of Hardware the windowing servers the web browsers and the other things that you use so in this video we'll look at the statistics at what surprised me what I was expecting what I was absolutely not expecting and try and find some justifications or explanations for these differences and we'll also look at this Segway to our sponsor this video is sponsored by kasm workspaces and it's a great project for streaming any kind of apps or operating system or desktop straight to your web browser they recently released a new version of kasm VNC that's one of the open- source projects that I featured in my remote desktop video in August and this new version of kasm VNC adds support for multiple monitors for the Linux desktops that you're streaming to your browser meaning that you can now span that desktop across multiple browser windows without having to install an agent or a plugin it's all Native so you can now be a lot more productive when you're streaming those Linux desktops to your browser because because you can take advantage of your multi monitor setup even when you're just streaming that desktop or operating system the kasm VNC open source project is available in the kasm tech GitHub page or you can also find it within the chasm workspaces Community Edition using the links provided in the description so just a quick disclaimer this is only based on a survey that 9500 people who follow me on Mastodon and on YouTube answered it is not supposed to represent the entirety of the Linux desktop Community obviously people who follow me are more likely to like what I create meaning that they're likely relatively interested in flatback whand and a userfriendly desktop experience Ultra Hardcore Rising enthusiasts tying Window Manager fans and the like are probably under represented here also the survey was only about Linux desktop experience so using it as a daily personal computer not for Sur result would probably be very different and Arch would probably not be in the lead in this case and of course it is a small sample 9500 answers isn't bad it's statistically significant but it's still only a fraction of the people who use Linux so take those numbers with a grain of salt okay so let's start with distros and right off the bat I am very surprised at the results Arch and Arch based dros seem to represent 20 29% of answers way higher than auntu and auntu based dros at 22% if we include Linux Mint or 16% if we don't include it it's higher than Fedora which sits at 19% of answers or 22% if we include Fedora derivatives like nobara and that was pretty surprising to me I always felt that in my community Arch and Arch based dros were also ran I was EXP expecting predominantly auntu based dros or Fedora based distributions so yeah Arch is definitely way more popular than I thought so maybe I should stop poking fun at that Dro at some point another surprising number is Nix OS sitting at 7% it is more than Linux Mint it is more than open soua and more than Debian I also was not expecting Nix to be as popular because it's sort of a complex distribution to get to grips with and I always assume my audience would lean more towards simple to setup simple to use things so if we take into consideration the arch numbers and Nyx 's relative popularity I think I have to reexamine one of my biases here even in my relatively userfriendly Linux Community people do have the skills and do have the tendency to run way more complex discs that aren't necessarily Plug and Play Now another thing that surprised me is Steam OS it only got 30 9 answers out of the 9500 meaning virtually no one seems to use their steam deck as their main computer since valve sold millions of these I was expecting to be relatively well represented probably at 3 or 4% turns out that decks probably were sold to people who already enjoy Linux and already have a Linux desktop or laptop that they use as their main computer now still on the drro side of things it's also clear that what we un ceremoniously lump into the immutable dros category isn't where most people go for their desktop systems 89% of people who answered the survey said that they do not use an immutable Dro meaning that these things might very well be the future but they are not the present for most users at least not those who took the survey of course we need to take into account that this survey was meant to represent the main system that people run some people might have a secondary system where they play around with an immutable Dr still it does mean that most people in my community at least just do not run immutable distributions they prefer the tried and true package based non-image-based version of their distributions so already a bunch of surprising results to me and don't hesitate to let me know in the comments if those surprise you as well or if further results in this video also surprise you I'm always open to hearing what you think about this and some potential reasons why certain things might be over represented compared to what I thought they would be next we have the desktop environments and tiling window managers and here again I was surprised at the results plasma is on the surface the most used desktop environment out there at least by people who were reached by and answered the survey it sits at 30% way above tiling window managers but also I voluntarily split the gnome answer into more categories vanilla gnome or gnome with very few extensions gnome with more extensions and various very Divergent implementations of gnome like what obuntu or po ship vanilla gnome sits at 14% but if we tally up all the gnome implementations we land on 35% beating KDE soundly the reason why I split those answers was to try and see if people use gnome as intended by the developers or if they always try to extend it and the answer seems to be that vanilla gnome is not as popular as gnome with more extensions still gnome is a very popular desktop probably because it is the default on a lot of distributions but also because no matter if it doesn't have as many options as KD it is actually very easy to customize using extensions we also see that in my community at least everything else is an also rant cinnamon has good results at 7% xfc sits at at 3% but everything else is pretty much non-existent whether it's mate Elementary os's desktop called Pantheon Budgy Unity deep in and the like which also means that fragmentation isn't nearly as bad as what people think because you basically only have two major options it's KD or it's gnow and it can also be tying window managers these gathered up 21% of votes meaning that they're actually the third thing used by people far above any other desktop than gnome or KD I asked people which styling Window Manager they used and here we do have some fragmentation hyperland seems to be very popular right now at almost 48% of answers we also have sway at 12% I3 at 11% and then a smattering of others like awesome WM ppwm qtile xmonad and more and here I definitely did make a mistake in that form because I left out a bunch of popular options that I just didn't really know about because the other category gathered up 15% of votes meaning that I forgot at least one major tying WM in there let me know which one you think it is but yeah next time I'll make sure to learn more about window managers to include more relevant options in there still I was also surprised at the results here I was not expecting whan compositors to gobble up 2third of the answers my own person personal preconceived notion was that first tying Window Manager users were a vocal minority compared to desktop users but it's clearly not the case and I was expecting tiling Window Manager users to mostly not like whand and to want to stick to X11 since X11 offers a lot more choice and I was wrong on both accounts not only in my community people seem to really enjoy tiling window managers but they also really seem to enjoy whon compositors which I was not expecting speaking of which whan got 66% of answers here versus 34% for X11 meaning that while Wayland is often criticized in the comments of my videos with stuff ranging from it doesn't work well to it should be abandoned immediately it's Garbo well it looks like most people are actually using whan now again it is a it's my community thing here since I regularly talk positively about whan and try to promote it most people who probably Wayland just do not watch my channel I would assume and so if you asked another Linux Channel about Wayland or X11 you probably would get widely different results I am surprised by this though probably because of the amounts of comments I get criticizing whand compared to virtually no one commenting and saying that Wayland is great so it's probably another vocal minority thing here as for Hardware I asked people which kind of GPU and CPU they used for CPUs AMD and Intel are really evenly matched at 50% for AMD and 49% for Intel the last perc being for Arm based CPUs judging from results from the steam survey that usually places AMD at 70% of Linux Gamers I was expecting AMD CPUs to be over represented here but that doesn't seem to be the case as per gpus AMD takes the lead here but not by much people who only have a dedicated AMD GPU represent 24% of answers and if we add that to people who only have an integrated AMD GPU or some combo using integrated graphics and a dedicated AMD GPU we get to 39% of answer combining the same statistics for NVIDIA we land on 37% only two points lower than for AMD pure Intel configurations represent 22% of answers for integrated graphics and 1% for dedicated intel only plus another per for people who run a hybrid config with a dedicated Intel GPU so at most 24% it is a pretty even distribution of devices here I was expecting AMD to have a lot more I was expecting Intel to have a lot less because they didn't sell a lot of dedicated gpus but I guess a lot of people just run the integrated Intel GPU and I was also surprised at Nvidia having that much support from Linux users and speaking of which people who run an Nvidia GPU predominantly use the proprietary drivers 87% of people who run a dedicated Nvidia GPU use these when only 14% use the nvo drivers presumably these are people with older cards that Nvidia sort of abandoned and for which nvo provides better performance as per the provence of that Hardware a lot of people seem to build their own computers to run Linux on at 44% of answers 40% of people who took the survey bought a PC from a major Windows manufacturer with Windows pre-installed or no operating system if the option was available this is an option I should have added to the form probably I just wasn't expecting major manufacturers to actually let you buy without Windows pre-install apart from that only 4% said they used a computer from a Linux manufacturer like tuxedo system 76 slimbook and the like only 2% use a Mac and interestingly 5% bought a computer from a major manufacturer that came with Linux pre-installed so presumably from Dell or Lenovo as these are the two main ones that have the option as far as I know and it's pretty interesting stuff because it means that people prefer buying from bigname manufacturers with Windows or no operating system rather than buying from dedicated manufacturers that ship with Linux preinstall I paired that question with another one asking how well Linux ran on people's computers and overwhelmingly it seems that Hardware compatibility is really good these days 63% of respondents said that they experienced zero issues after installing Linux and 23% said they did have small problems that they managed to fix only 133% said that there's still Hardware that doesn't work at all on their PCS and 1% said that their computer performs really badly under Linux and of course since a lot of people answered that they built their own PCS chances are things were going to work well in the first place because they presumably pick the components well to run with Linux if they buil that computer specifically for Linux but still it does seem to indicate that Linux Hardware troubles are mostly a thing of the past for a lot of users now as per specific packaging formats I also asked people if they used flat packs snaps or app Images exclusively mixed with other packages or not at all here again the results seem to contradict the VOC local minority that criticizes flat pack because 66% of people who answered use these flat packs mixed in with packages from other sources and 6% only use flatback apps meaning that we're at almost three qus of respondents that do use flat packs daily the results are not as positive for other formats though Snaps are not being used at all by 84% of people who answered and 54% of people are just not using app Images at all and of course since I regularly talk positively about flatback and way less so about snaps and app Images chances are people who follow me are already pretty much liking flatback so that could explain this cue but also I think it's pretty clear that flatback is the format that people will just go towards if they have to pick between flatback snaps and app Images it's just the most accomplished of the three right now on the topic of applications Firefox seems to be the absolute most popular browser here at 68% with an extra 9% for Firefox derivatives like Liber wolf Brave takes a sizable 8% Chrome 6% and the rest is pretty anecdotal of course here as well since I regularly talk about privacy and how chromium based browsers are the bane of the open web maybe people who follow me use Firefox a lot more than the rest of Linux users but also Firefox is the default for virtually every Linux drro so I am not super surprised here as for using applications made for a specific desktop environment most people seem not to care too much about that 59% of people who answered said that they prefer apps made for the desktop environment they use but they wouldn't limit themselves to them if there's a gap that is filled by an app made for something else 37% of people just do not care about that at all and will use any app using any toolkit on any desktop and only 4% draw a hard line at the toolkit used by an application completely limiting themselves to what looks right on their desktop this one doesn't really surprise me I am pretty hardcore myself on using apps that are meant for my desktop but even I will use stuff that was not designed for KD plusma specifically if it works better than the alternative now a few other things to finish most people who answered run Linux only without another OS that's 63% of answer 30% run a dual boot with Windows 1% dual boot Linux with Mac OS and 2% run a Linux plus Linux dual boot the remaining 4% run various configurations of Windows plus multiple Linux distros or Windows plus Mac OS plus Linux people also don't seem to Define themselves as Dro Hoppers as 42% answered they've been using the same Dro for a while 33% said they almost never switch dros and 21% said they do switch from time to time but they will stick to what they use for long periods of time and of course I did not set specific time limits that I would consider to be a long time for using a drro because it will be different for most people so I let people Define themselves into each of these categories without assigning arbitrary time values and finally people use their Linux species for virtually everything under the sun 80% of respondents said they use them for laser and learning 80% for general office work 58% for gaming 44% for developing native programs as in not web apps and websites 41% for web dev 34% for other Pro activities like Graphics design video editing and the like which seems to confirm my viewpoint that people saying that Linux is not ready for General desktop use or for professional instances they just misinformed like a lot of people are using Linux for any kind of task available we might have some gaps but we're definitely a usable solution right now okay so what did we learn here well personally I can now re-evaluate my biases at least for my community I thought Arch Linux was kind of a niche thing and Nyx OS as well but I learned that a lot of users who watch my content are also pretty Advanced or at least are able to use this Ros that aren just plug and play with a graphical installer and click next 20 times which is interesting I also learned that gnome and KD are really kind of on par in terms of usage but tying window managers are way more popular than I thought just like Wayland is way more popular than I thought as well just like flatbacks are way more popular than I thought as well and Nvidia is in the same case also so I have to reevaluate my priorities on what I cover on the channel now and maybe hopefully this taught you a thing or two so don't hesitate to let me know in the comments what you think about those numbers did they surprise you did they not do you have any explanation on why these numbers might be so high or so low are there any biases linked to my Channel or the community or do they reflect what you were thinking about what people actually use let me know in the comments don't hesitate to like the video as well so I know you enjoy this kind of content and I can make more in the future and in the meantime let me tell you about this video sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed as we've seen in the server this isn't necessarily your favorite way of getting a computer but it's definitely one that you 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hey everyone and today we have some potentially scary stuff as a major Library used in most Linux distributions has been compromised and could lead to attackers taking remote control of your systems we also have redus ditching their free and open- Source label and thus being forked and we have some good news about the future of Linux and what is being worked on and we also have canonical finally addressing the scam apps problem and we we also have this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by square X they give you access to a suite of disposable tools that open everything in the cloud instead of locally so your system and your data are never at risk you get access to a burner browser that blocks all trackers and lets you change your location and all your session data is deleted as soon as you close the window you also get a disposable email address that you can use to create accounts or subscribe to newsletters so you're not at risk from fishing and spam attacks and you 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which version of lib lzma you have installed if any this is so bad that GitHub even preemptively disabled the repo for XZ for a violation of the terms of service presumably the fact that it distributes malicious software no fix has been issued yet and discussions are ongoing to either Fork that project to stick to an older version and backport security fixes to it or to move to an entire other compression system Instead at any rate it is not a bad idea to check which version of lib lzma you have on your current drro if you have it installed not all dros that have version 5.6 or higher will be affected because apparently a part of the attack was only in the release tar bbls and not in the GitHub code but depending on how you drro build its packages if they built it using the release archives then your chances are that yes you are infected so redus decided to switch to a source available license instead of the BSD 3 Clause license thus ending its status as an open source of free software project at least as defined by The open- Source initiative because the new licenses they picked Place restrictions on what you can do with the source code the Linux Foundation decided to provide provide an alternative in the form of a fork called valky it has the same purposes as redus it is an inmemory object storage solution that is used for caching but also for a lot of other database related use cases valky is based on the last version of redis that was licensed under the BSD 3 Clause license and it is backed by AWS Google Cloud Oracle Ericson and more and it will live under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation to provide a still open source alternative to redus apparently a lot of the contributors to redus moved to working on valky instead now redis said that moving to this Source available license was to fight big cloud providers such as the ones backing valky from shipping redders to their users without paying anything and their new license would mean that these providers just have to pay to deliver reders to their customers after they agree to licensing terms so basically the move here is to constrain those big cloud provid ERS that ship redus to their customers to pay something to redus which seems fair at a glance the issue here is that the licenses that they pick are also restricting the freedoms of General users because if you decided to Fork redders right now you could never redistribute that fork to other people you could just use it for yourself I am not an expert in legal ease and open- Source licenses but from what I understand the Clause that would let you redistribute Forks of redders is also implying that you should have to redistribute all other code around redus as the same license which is fundamentally incompatible with basically every other free software license like the GPL that means that you have to redistribute the code under the GPL you cannot redistribute that code under the two licenses because they just do not have the same terms correct me if I'm wrong in the comments this seems like a complicated topic so to me in the end what it looks like is the usual let's use open source volunteers and and contributors to make our project bigger and better and then let's do 180 and try to monetize the hell out of this and ditch open source on the way there are some cool things coming to the Linux desktop Christian Scher who is the lead for Fedora workstation and red Hat's desktop experiences in general published an interesting post on what the Fedora team is working on on flat packs first they're trying to implement a way for applications that require access to system demons to work properly and this will of course go through system d and a permission system toolbox the project that lets you run dis Ros in containers is going to get full Nvidia proprietary driers support especially crucial to get Cuda support the team is also working on Nova a new open- source kernel driver for recent Nvidia gpus which we'll talk about a bit later in the video plus there's work being done on explicit sync a feature useful to bring performance improvements for GPU related tasks and thanks to the team's work pipewire can now handle video properly remote desktop can work properly on gnom and whand including logging into a new session instead of just remoting into an already logged in session and finally they're also working on adding HDR support to mutter which is gnome's compositor and this is some pretty cool stuff happening here it's basically bringing the little finishing touches to most little sticking points that the Linux desktop still has the Wayland transition cannot be complete until we have the same experience as in X11 so they're working on that NVIDIA drivers have been a problem so they're fixing how well they're implemented and writing a new Open Source One to avoid issues linked to the proprietary drivers and ab Distribution on Linux has been its biggest weak point and working on flat pack to make sure that flat pack apps can basically Encompass every single application type out there is also pretty cool now let's talk about auntu the next LTS which will release in about a month will fix a problem that has apparently plagued a lot of people on auntu this problem being a pretty small virtual memory mapping limit most other dros like Fedora or open soua and anything based on those allow a lot of memory map areas per process auntu though stuck to the older value of 65,536 which is absolutely fine for a lot of programs but for certain really demanding work workflows including gaming not so much this apparently resulted in some games crashing before they even opened and some games crashing or showing degraded performance after a little play time like Hogwarts Legacy Payday 2 Counter-Strike goto or Star Citizen aun 22404 will multiply this Max number by 16 which brings it to the same value that Fedora or popos use this should also help with other software I've seen people reporting issues when using elastic search as well for example and the fix is to increase this virtual memory mapping limit I'll admit I learned about this limitation while writing this video and since I run an aun2 based drro in the form of toxedo os I checked what my limitation was and sure enough it was the same as what obuntu currently has I increased that limit to what obuntu is going to move towards and it fixed my issues in Hell divers 2o after a an hour of play time or so my performance tanked from 60 fps to 30 FPS and by impr approving this limit I don't have the issue anymore not sure if that's the fix or an update to the game but it seems to have an effect so good now after the recent influx of malicious snaps on the Snap Store notably fake crypto wallets canonical decided to change how one can registrate a new Snap app on the store manual reviews will be required for every new application so the actual workflow is you enter the name of your Snap app and a description then you upload the snap itself and it is reviewed by an actual human who will check the information provided or contact you for more details if everything seems legit the snap will be published if not well it won't canonical's aim is to review snaps in two business days and they also specifically mentioned that if the snap is crypto wallet related it will automatically be rejected so it looks like they're taking a stance against crypto apps for now in the snap store now they also said that they would publish a specific policy for crypto cryto apps and other sensitive snaps with guidelines for how to publish such an application the crypto ban is a temporary thing and it's really good to see canonical finally reacting to the problem you do not want your centralized app distribution platform to be associated with malware in the minds of users or developers because if users don't use your platform because they're afraid they're going to get scammed or hacked then no developer will publish and then your platform just dies and still on repost flathub is trying out new badges to let people know apps have not been verified or published by their original developers just like you can see verified blue ticks next to officially distributed apps you will now be able to see unverified orange tags for apps that are Community efforts not from the original deps it seems it's just a test for now but I think it is a great idea especially seeing as scam apps seem to proliferate on the snap store at least people on flathub will know when an application isn't 100% official which for most apps won't really matter but for certain app categories like for example anything that might hold or request personal data or anything related to money for these categories it is invaluable I am sure some people will think that it devaluates Community packages but in my opinion it is necessary as we move towards centralized app repost and it is something drro packages should always have had as well they are most old repackaging efforts and it was never made clear to anyone not well versed in how Linux disos work that these packages were not coming from their original developers and everything that informs the user is always good practice it doesn't mean that an app distributed by their official developers is safe see the first point of this video about the XZ library and it doesn't mean that anything packaged by the community isn't safe but at least it informs the user and they can make a decision and if they trust the developer then they can install the app if they don't then they have nothing to do here and they move along and let's move on to the gaming News Now red hat announced that we're working on a new rust based graphics driver for NVIDIA gpus to replace nvo it is designed to work only with Nvidia gpus that rely on the GSP or GPU system processor meaning that it is mostly for recent envidia gpus of the RTX series and the goal is to use rust as a language because it would apparently decrease the complexity of the code of the driver they also say that making Novo evolve instead would require major reworks so writing something new is not necessarily a lot more work and they're only focusing on recent Nvidia gpus because it just makes their job easier and nvo already handles pre-tx gpus relatively well the driver is of course open source and they would like it to be upstreamed to the Linux kernel in the future although the kernel will need to support rust better before that happens and nvk would also very likely work on top of that driver meaning we would get a brand new stack for NVIDIA gpus at least for recent models with nvo still being around for older gpus that Nova doesn't support and that's a great thing nvo does support GSP firmware requiring gpus from Nvidia but having a brand new driver with an architecture and code that is built specifically for recent Nvidia gpus without the baggage of all the older architectures is just going to result in better performance there's no doubt about this so good effort and I can't wait to see how it turns out and to conclude we have some relatively bad news for Linux gaming at least for Battlefield 5 players but also for any EA title this game is getting EA anticheat in April this solution is being rolled out to most current gen and a lot of older EA Games as well and of course it has no support for Linux or the steam deck meaning that these games will just not work on Linux anymore EA anti Che is a kernel level tool meaning that it has no real way to run on Linux and the company never expressed any interest for Linux either and while Battlefield 5 is a relatively old game released in 2018 it's apparently still popular and it is just the latest to get this anti-che solution as EA seems to want to rely on this thing more and more that's worrying because another very popular title Apex Legends comes from EA and while it currently uses easy anticheat it could very well move to EA anti-che in the future thus preventing Linux Gamers from playing it and I will never say it enough anti-che Solutions just suck they don't really prevent cheating because they just catch up with the latest cheats that are being developed and they are actually super invasive if you use them on Windows especially if they're kernel level tools and they actively prevent us Linux Gamers from playing certain titles they're just a bad solution and honestly instead of pushing weird chatbot and generative AI why not just use AI where it could be useful in identifying problematic player behaviors and using that as an antiche system instead of forcing the installation of something completely broken that will just invade your system like stop doing weird stuff with AI do something useful for once and and yeah this could be a use case I think and speaking of use cases depending on yours you might be interested in our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed you 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hey everyone and today we have some potentially scary stuff as a major Library used in most Linux distributions has been compromised and could lead to attackers taking remote control of your systems we also have redus ditching their free and open- Source label and thus being forked and we have some good news about the future of Linux and what is being worked on and we also have canonical finally addressing the scam apps problem and we we also have this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by square X they give you access to a suite of disposable tools that open everything in the cloud instead of locally so your system and your data are never at risk you get access to a burner browser that blocks all trackers and lets you change your location and all your session data is deleted as soon as you close the window you also get a disposable email address that you can use to create accounts or subscribe to newsletters so you're not at risk from fishing and spam attacks and you 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which version of lib lzma you have installed if any this is so bad that GitHub even preemptively disabled the repo for XZ for a violation of the terms of service presumably the fact that it distributes malicious software no fix has been issued yet and discussions are ongoing to either Fork that project to stick to an older version and backport security fixes to it or to move to an entire other compression system Instead at any rate it is not a bad idea to check which version of lib lzma you have on your current drro if you have it installed not all dros that have version 5.6 or higher will be affected because apparently a part of the attack was only in the release tar bbls and not in the GitHub code but depending on how you drro build its packages if they built it using the release archives then your chances are that yes you are infected so redus decided to switch to a source available license instead of the BSD 3 Clause license thus ending its status as an open source of free software project at least as defined by The open- Source initiative because the new licenses they picked Place restrictions on what you can do with the source code the Linux Foundation decided to provide provide an alternative in the form of a fork called valky it has the same purposes as redus it is an inmemory object storage solution that is used for caching but also for a lot of other database related use cases valky is based on the last version of redis that was licensed under the BSD 3 Clause license and it is backed by AWS Google Cloud Oracle Ericson and more and it will live under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation to provide a still open source alternative to redus apparently a lot of the contributors to redus moved to working on valky instead now redis said that moving to this Source available license was to fight big cloud providers such as the ones backing valky from shipping redders to their users without paying anything and their new license would mean that these providers just have to pay to deliver reders to their customers after they agree to licensing terms so basically the move here is to constrain those big cloud provid ERS that ship redus to their customers to pay something to redus which seems fair at a glance the issue here is that the licenses that they pick are also restricting the freedoms of General users because if you decided to Fork redders right now you could never redistribute that fork to other people you could just use it for yourself I am not an expert in legal ease and open- Source licenses but from what I understand the Clause that would let you redistribute Forks of redders is also implying that you should have to redistribute all other code around redus as the same license which is fundamentally incompatible with basically every other free software license like the GPL that means that you have to redistribute the code under the GPL you cannot redistribute that code under the two licenses because they just do not have the same terms correct me if I'm wrong in the comments this seems like a complicated topic so to me in the end what it looks like is the usual let's use open source volunteers and and contributors to make our project bigger and better and then let's do 180 and try to monetize the hell out of this and ditch open source on the way there are some cool things coming to the Linux desktop Christian Scher who is the lead for Fedora workstation and red Hat's desktop experiences in general published an interesting post on what the Fedora team is working on on flat packs first they're trying to implement a way for applications that require access to system demons to work properly and this will of course go through system d and a permission system toolbox the project that lets you run dis Ros in containers is going to get full Nvidia proprietary driers support especially crucial to get Cuda support the team is also working on Nova a new open- source kernel driver for recent Nvidia gpus which we'll talk about a bit later in the video plus there's work being done on explicit sync a feature useful to bring performance improvements for GPU related tasks and thanks to the team's work pipewire can now handle video properly remote desktop can work properly on gnom and whand including logging into a new session instead of just remoting into an already logged in session and finally they're also working on adding HDR support to mutter which is gnome's compositor and this is some pretty cool stuff happening here it's basically bringing the little finishing touches to most little sticking points that the Linux desktop still has the Wayland transition cannot be complete until we have the same experience as in X11 so they're working on that NVIDIA drivers have been a problem so they're fixing how well they're implemented and writing a new Open Source One to avoid issues linked to the proprietary drivers and ab Distribution on Linux has been its biggest weak point and working on flat pack to make sure that flat pack apps can basically Encompass every single application type out there is also pretty cool now let's talk about auntu the next LTS which will release in about a month will fix a problem that has apparently plagued a lot of people on auntu this problem being a pretty small virtual memory mapping limit most other dros like Fedora or open soua and anything based on those allow a lot of memory map areas per process auntu though stuck to the older value of 65,536 which is absolutely fine for a lot of programs but for certain really demanding work workflows including gaming not so much this apparently resulted in some games crashing before they even opened and some games crashing or showing degraded performance after a little play time like Hogwarts Legacy Payday 2 Counter-Strike goto or Star Citizen aun 22404 will multiply this Max number by 16 which brings it to the same value that Fedora or popos use this should also help with other software I've seen people reporting issues when using elastic search as well for example and the fix is to increase this virtual memory mapping limit I'll admit I learned about this limitation while writing this video and since I run an aun2 based drro in the form of toxedo os I checked what my limitation was and sure enough it was the same as what obuntu currently has I increased that limit to what obuntu is going to move towards and it fixed my issues in Hell divers 2o after a an hour of play time or so my performance tanked from 60 fps to 30 FPS and by impr approving this limit I don't have the issue anymore not sure if that's the fix or an update to the game but it seems to have an effect so good now after the recent influx of malicious snaps on the Snap Store notably fake crypto wallets canonical decided to change how one can registrate a new Snap app on the store manual reviews will be required for every new application so the actual workflow is you enter the name of your Snap app and a description then you upload the snap itself and it is reviewed by an actual human who will check the information provided or contact you for more details if everything seems legit the snap will be published if not well it won't canonical's aim is to review snaps in two business days and they also specifically mentioned that if the snap is crypto wallet related it will automatically be rejected so it looks like they're taking a stance against crypto apps for now in the snap store now they also said that they would publish a specific policy for crypto cryto apps and other sensitive snaps with guidelines for how to publish such an application the crypto ban is a temporary thing and it's really good to see canonical finally reacting to the problem you do not want your centralized app distribution platform to be associated with malware in the minds of users or developers because if users don't use your platform because they're afraid they're going to get scammed or hacked then no developer will publish and then your platform just dies and still on repost flathub is trying out new badges to let people know apps have not been verified or published by their original developers just like you can see verified blue ticks next to officially distributed apps you will now be able to see unverified orange tags for apps that are Community efforts not from the original deps it seems it's just a test for now but I think it is a great idea especially seeing as scam apps seem to proliferate on the snap store at least people on flathub will know when an application isn't 100% official which for most apps won't really matter but for certain app categories like for example anything that might hold or request personal data or anything related to money for these categories it is invaluable I am sure some people will think that it devaluates Community packages but in my opinion it is necessary as we move towards centralized app repost and it is something drro packages should always have had as well they are most old repackaging efforts and it was never made clear to anyone not well versed in how Linux disos work that these packages were not coming from their original developers and everything that informs the user is always good practice it doesn't mean that an app distributed by their official developers is safe see the first point of this video about the XZ library and it doesn't mean that anything packaged by the community isn't safe but at least it informs the user and they can make a decision and if they trust the developer then they can install the app if they don't then they have nothing to do here and they move along and let's move on to the gaming News Now red hat announced that we're working on a new rust based graphics driver for NVIDIA gpus to replace nvo it is designed to work only with Nvidia gpus that rely on the GSP or GPU system processor meaning that it is mostly for recent envidia gpus of the RTX series and the goal is to use rust as a language because it would apparently decrease the complexity of the code of the driver they also say that making Novo evolve instead would require major reworks so writing something new is not necessarily a lot more work and they're only focusing on recent Nvidia gpus because it just makes their job easier and nvo already handles pre-tx gpus relatively well the driver is of course open source and they would like it to be upstreamed to the Linux kernel in the future although the kernel will need to support rust better before that happens and nvk would also very likely work on top of that driver meaning we would get a brand new stack for NVIDIA gpus at least for recent models with nvo still being around for older gpus that Nova doesn't support and that's a great thing nvo does support GSP firmware requiring gpus from Nvidia but having a brand new driver with an architecture and code that is built specifically for recent Nvidia gpus without the baggage of all the older architectures is just going to result in better performance there's no doubt about this so good effort and I can't wait to see how it turns out and to conclude we have some relatively bad news for Linux gaming at least for Battlefield 5 players but also for any EA title this game is getting EA anticheat in April this solution is being rolled out to most current gen and a lot of older EA Games as well and of course it has no support for Linux or the steam deck meaning that these games will just not work on Linux anymore EA anti Che is a kernel level tool meaning that it has no real way to run on Linux and the company never expressed any interest for Linux either and while Battlefield 5 is a relatively old game released in 2018 it's apparently still popular and it is just the latest to get this anti-che solution as EA seems to want to rely on this thing more and more that's worrying because another very popular title Apex Legends comes from EA and while it currently uses easy anticheat it could very well move to EA anti-che in the future thus preventing Linux Gamers from playing it and I will never say it enough anti-che Solutions just suck they don't really prevent cheating because they just catch up with the latest cheats that are being developed and they are actually super invasive if you use them on Windows especially if they're kernel level tools and they actively prevent us Linux Gamers from playing certain titles they're just a bad solution and honestly instead of pushing weird chatbot and generative AI why not just use AI where it could be useful in identifying problematic player behaviors and using that as an antiche system instead of forcing the installation of something completely broken that will just invade your system like stop doing weird stuff with AI do something useful for once and and yeah this could be a use case I think and speaking of use cases depending on yours you might be interested in our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed you can pick from a selection of popular disos or you can just install your own because tuxedo does provide patches Upstream to help support all their hardware and if those patches haven't been accepted yet they have ppas and repos that you can add to popular distributions and their derivatives to add all of these fixes as well so you know Linux will run well on those devices compared to buying something from a Windows manufacturer and you'll just have to pray that things are well supported and you can never expect any fix out there tuxedo computers has a big range of computers that should fit basically every need and every price point whether you just need a small laptop for office work all the way up to a gaming tower or workstation they have it all I only use their devices these days I have a laptop from them to run this channel I have a desktop to run all my gaming needs using Holo ISO and also all the devices are very customizable you can open the laptops repair them upgrade them you 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now since you seem to enjoy me crowdsourcing a few cool terminal programs last month I decided to repeat the process but this time to gather some data about what people actually use on Linux so I made a little non-exhaustive nonscientific survey that I posted on the YouTube Channel's Community page and on masteron and I gathered more than 9500 answers on the disos the type of Hardware the windowing servers the web browsers and the other things that you use so in this video we'll look at the statistics at what surprised me what I was expecting what I was absolutely not expecting and try and find some justifications or explanations for these differences and we'll also look at this Segway to our sponsor this video is sponsored by kasm workspaces and it's a great project for streaming any kind of apps or operating system or desktop straight to your web browser they recently released a new version of kasm VNC that's one of the open- source projects that I featured in my remote desktop video in August and this new version of kasm VNC adds support for multiple monitors for the Linux desktops that you're streaming to your browser meaning that you can now span that desktop across multiple browser windows without having to install an agent or a plugin it's all Native so you can now be a lot more productive when you're streaming those Linux desktops to your browser because because you can take advantage of your multi monitor setup even when you're just streaming that desktop or operating system the kasm VNC open source project is available in the kasm tech GitHub page or you can also find it within the chasm workspaces Community Edition using the links provided in the description so just a quick disclaimer this is only based on a survey that 9500 people who follow me on Mastodon and on YouTube answered it is not supposed to represent the entirety of the Linux desktop Community obviously people who follow me are more likely to like what I create meaning that they're likely relatively interested in flatback whand and a userfriendly desktop experience Ultra Hardcore Rising enthusiasts tying Window Manager fans and the like are probably under represented here also the survey was only about Linux desktop experience so using it as a daily personal computer not for Sur result would probably be very different and Arch would probably not be in the lead in this case and of course it is a small sample 9500 answers isn't bad it's statistically significant but it's still only a fraction of the people who use Linux so take those numbers with a grain of salt okay so let's start with distros and right off the bat I am very surprised at the results Arch and Arch based dros seem to represent 20 29% of answers way higher than auntu and auntu based dros at 22% if we include Linux Mint or 16% if we don't include it it's higher than Fedora which sits at 19% of answers or 22% if we include Fedora derivatives like nobara and that was pretty surprising to me I always felt that in my community Arch and Arch based dros were also ran I was EXP expecting predominantly auntu based dros or Fedora based distributions so yeah Arch is definitely way more popular than I thought so maybe I should stop poking fun at that Dro at some point another surprising number is Nix OS sitting at 7% it is more than Linux Mint it is more than open soua and more than Debian I also was not expecting Nix to be as popular because it's sort of a complex distribution to get to grips with and I always assume my audience would lean more towards simple to setup simple to use things so if we take into consideration the arch numbers and Nyx 's relative popularity I think I have to reexamine one of my biases here even in my relatively userfriendly Linux Community people do have the skills and do have the tendency to run way more complex discs that aren't necessarily Plug and Play Now another thing that surprised me is Steam OS it only got 30 9 answers out of the 9500 meaning virtually no one seems to use their steam deck as their main computer since valve sold millions of these I was expecting to be relatively well represented probably at 3 or 4% turns out that decks probably were sold to people who already enjoy Linux and already have a Linux desktop or laptop that they use as their main computer now still on the drro side of things it's also clear that what we un ceremoniously lump into the immutable dros category isn't where most people go for their desktop systems 89% of people who answered the survey said that they do not use an immutable Dro meaning that these things might very well be the future but they are not the present for most users at least not those who took the survey of course we need to take into account that this survey was meant to represent the main system that people run some people might have a secondary system where they play around with an immutable Dr still it does mean that most people in my community at least just do not run immutable distributions they prefer the tried and true package based non-image-based version of their distributions so already a bunch of surprising results to me and don't hesitate to let me know in the comments if those surprise you as well or if further results in this video also surprise you I'm always open to hearing what you think about this and some potential reasons why certain things might be over represented compared to what I thought they would be next we have the desktop environments and tiling window managers and here again I was surprised at the results plasma is on the surface the most used desktop environment out there at least by people who were reached by and answered the survey it sits at 30% way above tiling window managers but also I voluntarily split the gnome answer into more categories vanilla gnome or gnome with very few extensions gnome with more extensions and various very Divergent implementations of gnome like what obuntu or po ship vanilla gnome sits at 14% but if we tally up all the gnome implementations we land on 35% beating KDE soundly the reason why I split those answers was to try and see if people use gnome as intended by the developers or if they always try to extend it and the answer seems to be that vanilla gnome is not as popular as gnome with more extensions still gnome is a very popular desktop probably because it is the default on a lot of distributions but also because no matter if it doesn't have as many options as KD it is actually very easy to customize using extensions we also see that in my community at least everything else is an also rant cinnamon has good results at 7% xfc sits at at 3% but everything else is pretty much non-existent whether it's mate Elementary os's desktop called Pantheon Budgy Unity deep in and the like which also means that fragmentation isn't nearly as bad as what people think because you basically only have two major options it's KD or it's gnow and it can also be tying window managers these gathered up 21% of votes meaning that they're actually the third thing used by people far above any other desktop than gnome or KD I asked people which styling Window Manager they used and here we do have some fragmentation hyperland seems to be very popular right now at almost 48% of answers we also have sway at 12% I3 at 11% and then a smattering of others like awesome WM ppwm qtile xmonad and more and here I definitely did make a mistake in that form because I left out a bunch of popular options that I just didn't really know about because the other category gathered up 15% of votes meaning that I forgot at least one major tying WM in there let me know which one you think it is but yeah next time I'll make sure to learn more about window managers to include more relevant options in there still I was also surprised at the results here I was not expecting whan compositors to gobble up 2third of the answers my own person personal preconceived notion was that first tying Window Manager users were a vocal minority compared to desktop users but it's clearly not the case and I was expecting tiling Window Manager users to mostly not like whand and to want to stick to X11 since X11 offers a lot more choice and I was wrong on both accounts not only in my community people seem to really enjoy tiling window managers but they also really seem to enjoy whon compositors which I was not expecting speaking of which whan got 66% of answers here versus 34% for X11 meaning that while Wayland is often criticized in the comments of my videos with stuff ranging from it doesn't work well to it should be abandoned immediately it's Garbo well it looks like most people are actually using whan now again it is a it's my community thing here since I regularly talk positively about whan and try to promote it most people who probably Wayland just do not watch my channel I would assume and so if you asked another Linux Channel about Wayland or X11 you probably would get widely different results I am surprised by this though probably because of the amounts of comments I get criticizing whand compared to virtually no one commenting and saying that Wayland is great so it's probably another vocal minority thing here as for Hardware I asked people which kind of GPU and CPU they used for CPUs AMD and Intel are really evenly matched at 50% for AMD and 49% for Intel the last perc being for Arm based CPUs judging from results from the steam survey that usually places AMD at 70% of Linux Gamers I was expecting AMD CPUs to be over represented here but that doesn't seem to be the case as per gpus AMD takes the lead here but not by much people who only have a dedicated AMD GPU represent 24% of answers and if we add that to people who only have an integrated AMD GPU or some combo using integrated graphics and a dedicated AMD GPU we get to 39% of answer combining the same statistics for NVIDIA we land on 37% only two points lower than for AMD pure Intel configurations represent 22% of answers for integrated graphics and 1% for dedicated intel only plus another per for people who run a hybrid config with a dedicated Intel GPU so at most 24% it is a pretty even distribution of devices here I was expecting AMD to have a lot more I was expecting Intel to have a lot less because they didn't sell a lot of dedicated gpus but I guess a lot of people just run the integrated Intel GPU and I was also surprised at Nvidia having that much support from Linux users and speaking of which people who run an Nvidia GPU predominantly use the proprietary drivers 87% of people who run a dedicated Nvidia GPU use these when only 14% use the nvo drivers presumably these are people with older cards that Nvidia sort of abandoned and for which nvo provides better performance as per the provence of that Hardware a lot of people seem to build their own computers to run Linux on at 44% of answers 40% of people who took the survey bought a PC from a major Windows manufacturer with Windows pre-installed or no operating system if the option was available this is an option I should have added to the form probably I just wasn't expecting major manufacturers to actually let you buy without Windows pre-install apart from that only 4% said they used a computer from a Linux manufacturer like tuxedo system 76 slimbook and the like only 2% use a Mac and interestingly 5% bought a computer from a major manufacturer that came with Linux pre-installed so presumably from Dell or Lenovo as these are the two main ones that have the option as far as I know and it's pretty interesting stuff because it means that people prefer buying from bigname manufacturers with Windows or no operating system rather than buying from dedicated manufacturers that ship with Linux preinstall I paired that question with another one asking how well Linux ran on people's computers and overwhelmingly it seems that Hardware compatibility is really good these days 63% of respondents said that they experienced zero issues after installing Linux and 23% said they did have small problems that they managed to fix only 133% said that there's still Hardware that doesn't work at all on their PCS and 1% said that their computer performs really badly under Linux and of course since a lot of people answered that they built their own PCS chances are things were going to work well in the first place because they presumably pick the components well to run with Linux if they buil that computer specifically for Linux but still it does seem to indicate that Linux Hardware troubles are mostly a thing of the past for a lot of users now as per specific packaging formats I also asked people if they used flat packs snaps or app Images exclusively mixed with other packages or not at all here again the results seem to contradict the VOC local minority that criticizes flat pack because 66% of people who answered use these flat packs mixed in with packages from other sources and 6% only use flatback apps meaning that we're at almost three qus of respondents that do use flat packs daily the results are not as positive for other formats though Snaps are not being used at all by 84% of people who answered and 54% of people are just not using app Images at all and of course since I regularly talk positively about flatback and way less so about snaps and app Images chances are people who follow me are already pretty much liking flatback so that could explain this cue but also I think it's pretty clear that flatback is the format that people will just go towards if they have to pick between flatback snaps and app Images it's just the most accomplished of the three right now on the topic of applications Firefox seems to be the absolute most popular browser here at 68% with an extra 9% for Firefox derivatives like Liber wolf Brave takes a sizable 8% Chrome 6% and the rest is pretty anecdotal of course here as well since I regularly talk about privacy and how chromium based browsers are the bane of the open web maybe people who follow me use Firefox a lot more than the rest of Linux users but also Firefox is the default for virtually every Linux drro so I am not super surprised here as for using applications made for a specific desktop environment most people seem not to care too much about that 59% of people who answered said that they prefer apps made for the desktop environment they use but they wouldn't limit themselves to them if there's a gap that is filled by an app made for something else 37% of people just do not care about that at all and will use any app using any toolkit on any desktop and only 4% draw a hard line at the toolkit used by an application completely limiting themselves to what looks right on their desktop this one doesn't really surprise me I am pretty hardcore myself on using apps that are meant for my desktop but even I will use stuff that was not designed for KD plusma specifically if it works better than the alternative now a few other things to finish most people who answered run Linux only without another OS that's 63% of answer 30% run a dual boot with Windows 1% dual boot Linux with Mac OS and 2% run a Linux plus Linux dual boot the remaining 4% run various configurations of Windows plus multiple Linux distros or Windows plus Mac OS plus Linux people also don't seem to Define themselves as Dro Hoppers as 42% answered they've been using the same Dro for a while 33% said they almost never switch dros and 21% said they do switch from time to time but they will stick to what they use for long periods of time and of course I did not set specific time limits that I would consider to be a long time for using a drro because it will be different for most people so I let people Define themselves into each of these categories without assigning arbitrary time values and finally people use their Linux species for virtually everything under the sun 80% of respondents said they use them for laser and learning 80% for general office work 58% for gaming 44% for developing native programs as in not web apps and websites 41% for web dev 34% for other Pro activities like Graphics design video editing and the like which seems to confirm my viewpoint that people saying that Linux is not ready for General desktop use or for professional instances they just misinformed like a lot of people are using Linux for any kind of task available we might have some gaps but we're definitely a usable solution right now okay so what did we learn here well personally I can now re-evaluate my biases at least for my community I thought Arch Linux was kind of a niche thing and Nyx OS as well but I learned that a lot of users who watch my content are also pretty Advanced or at least are able to use this Ros that aren just plug and play with a graphical installer and click next 20 times which is interesting I also learned that gnome and KD are really kind of on par in terms of usage but tying window managers are way more popular than I thought just like Wayland is way more popular than I thought as well just like flatbacks are way more popular than I thought as well and Nvidia is in the same case also so I have to reevaluate my priorities on what I cover on the channel now and maybe hopefully this taught you a thing or two so don't hesitate to let me know in the comments what you think about those numbers did they surprise you did they not do you have any explanation on why these numbers might be so high or so low are there any biases linked to my Channel or the community or do they reflect what you were thinking about what people actually use let me know in the comments don't hesitate to like the video as well so I know you enjoy this kind of content and I can make more in the future and in the meantime let me tell you about this video sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed as we've seen in the server this isn't necessarily your favorite way of getting a computer but it's definitely one that you 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hey everyone and welcome back to the Linux and open source news show where we discuss everything that happened in the Linux open source world but also in the privacy and open web spaces so first the US Department of Justice is suing Apple because they are very clearly abusing their dominant position with iOS at least in the US we also have the release of gnome 46 this week and we have a bit of a problem for KY Global themes and widgets which appar ly can run arbitrary code and can wipe your entire hard drive if they decide to do so and we also have some more scam apps coming to the snap store we have another switch emulator being taken down sort of and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably all know about it but if you don't it's your private zero access and endtoend encrypted email service that also comes with a calendar online storage a password manager and a VPN proton mail has all the features you need to block email trackers and 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their ecosystem and of their Monopoly to extract more money from developers and consumers and that instead of trying to compete fairly with other Innovations they instead imposed a series of rules and restrictions in their App Store and platform including blocking crossplatform messenging apps limiting wallet and smartw features on other platforms and disrupting game streaming services and various other apps that just didn't want to appear in the App Store basically the main complaint is that Apple implemented barriers to leaving their platform instead of competing fairly on price and features locking users in and according to the doj smothering an entire industry of course Apple isn't having any of it they're saying the lawsuit threatens their identity and that their policies are crucial to keeping their devices secure and private which is sort of nonsense because most of the policies in question have nothing to do with security or privacy now we'll have to see if the US has the same capacity as the EU to regulate apple and to make them a bit more open to thirdparty apps and services in the US Apple's market share is way higher than in the rest of the world as well apparently iPhones occupy 60% of the smartphone market in the US compared to the rest of the world where Android has 70% market share so it's even more important to make sure Apple plays fair in the US and one might argue that iPhone doesn't have a monopoly but the Monopoly Here is the App Store you cannot distribute an application on the whole iOS platform without using the App Store thus apple has a monopoly on app Distribution on iOS which holds a dominant position in the US with its 60% market share there's just no going around this and if we consider the smartphone market as a whole Apple does indeed have some barriers erected for people who currently use Apple software or Apple devices that would like to move to Android because most of their Hardware doesn't really work well with Android most of their cloud services or services in general don't really work well on Android and Android manufacturers and developers also do not have the same capabilities that apple is giving themselves on iOS meaning that Apple does give them eles an unfair competitive advantage on their own platform which is abusing their dominant position now of course this week GN 46 was released I covered it in detail in a dedicated video on this exact YouTube channel so go check that one out if you want to learn more about it but the tldr version is it is a transition release it doesn't have tons of new features but there are a few cool things in there like better notifications that you can collapse or expand experimental variable refresh rate support Nautilus finally letting you click on the path bar to edit the location verified badges for flathub apps in gome software a few revamped and change settings and improved fractional scaling notably when rendering fonts most default apps also received updates Nautilus being the focus here with a new file transfer progress bar new options to display dates for files an easier way to change folder icons and Global search by default with a new button for search in only the current folder most of the really cool stuff will come for Gnome 47 and 48 though with a lot more being currently worked on to improve notifications further to have a solid accessibility framework to have home directory encryption to make background apps actually actionable like there were system tray elements and more so Gom 46 is worth the upgrade of course if you this through offers it you should update it provided it doesn't break any extension that you might rely upon but what's really exciting is what's coming to the Future versions 47 and 48 gome 46 just laid the foundations for these two releases now on the plasma front there's apparently a big problem in plasma 6 but it probably also exists in 5.27 when you're installing Global themes or even just widgets in general it looks like these are able to run a bunch of scripts in the background and one of these themes seemed to trigger the execution of the infamous R m- rf/ command which will wipe everything on your hard drive or at least everything that you have the permissions to remove as the current user the theme in question was removed from the KD store but there might be others that do the same thing it apparently wasn't intentional or malicious it was an error in how the script was pared but it definitely means that any other theme could do the same thing maliciously or otherwise and it also means that there's some work to do to have better quality control in the get new stuff part of KDE because people could definitely make something malicious that voluntarily deletes everything the main issue is that Global themes or widgets aren't just a collection of plugins and themes and layout files they can actually run any type of command which is obviously a pretty big security risk now the KD team is of course aware of the issue but for now they're just warning you from trying to download anything from this it's at your own risk the real problem is why is that even possible why does a widget or a global theme need to run commands why isn't it just a Json file listing all the resources it needs and then just KD applying all those resources it's kind of weird now I already reported on the scam crypto Wallet app that appeared on the snap store but this time it is worse at least 10 new apps with the exact same scammy purposes were now reported in the same Snap Store they were all published by the same developer called digital safe and they were called things like Tron link uniswap Jack Liberty Avalanche trust wallet electrum and exodus again which I'm assuming are all real names of real wallets now they were promptly all removed but then they popped up again right after with another account called code shield and Alan Pope who reported these 10 apps at first reported these again the apps apparently do not let you create a new wet obviously because they want you to add an existing one so they can siphon everything that's in it they're all just a wrapper for web View and so they can be sandboxed without triggering a human review on the snap store now as Alan Pope says it is Trivial to keep pushing those apps as they get removed you just need another email account and you can just publish everything there's no manual review everything goes directly onto the snap store and onto the eyes of millions of abunto users using the default open to store canonical needs to address this right now there's been discussions on how do you secure the snap store right now you need to take a stance on just removing everything crypto related until you figure out something else now there are bad news for a lot of ABS that depend on location services on Linux Modzilla announced that they would shut down access to their Modzilla location services or MLS this is used by the freedesktop.org location framework by gome Maps gnome weather and a lot of other applications and they will have to find something else before June 12th where all thirdparty API keys will be removed for that service this is apparently part of the cuts made by mozilla's new CEO and the main reason is also that mozzilla had to settle a patent infringement lawsuit in 2019 meaning that they really could not invest or update or probably even exploit that service commercially it's not the end of the world for apps that depend on it most of them will support detecting your location through your IP but it's not as precise for something really accurate the only proposed option right now seems to be Google location services which well you better not because using something from Google by default in a desktop environment an application or Linux drro is just no good like a lot of people use Linux because it's more private if you slot in Google services inside that then automatically your back stabbing a lot of the community you do not add Google services by default onto a Linux drro please now fonx has an interesting article about the Mesa drivers pointing out how the project has evolved from Mostly a reverse engineering effort mostly for Community purposes to a complete repo of drivers and the main way for companies to push their Graphics drivers to the Linux community in general performance is now on par with what you can expect in Windows or even surpasses that in some cases but this all comes with more responsibilities and more work for Mesa developers and maintainers for example a recent merge request reverted a change made to Mesa to force Mesa to stick to an older version of zip because moving to a newer one would break a specific Graphics Benchmark that a lot of Hardware vendors use now the issue doesn't lie with Mesa it's the Benchmark itself because it relies on an older version that should probably not be used anymore and it's also not being distributed in a way that would remove this dependency problem for example if they shipped their own version of zib in a flatback or an app image but in the end Mesa had to accept to rely on the older version of the library because if the Benchmark didn't work then some companies contributing to Mesa would prefer moving to something closed source that works exactly how they want it and that supports everything that they want as Mesa developers point out doubt it is not a technical issue it is a political issue you cannot decide that something that the industry relies upon will not work anymore because this thing refuses to update their own dependencies it would in the end hurt mesa's reputation not the benchmarks and it would make it look inflexible and unsuitable to its partners that create hardware and the drivers that go with it now this is just one example but it perfectly illustrates the problem you get once you get big in the Linux and open source community and companies start getting involved on the one hand it's great because it provides you with a bunch of jobs a bunch of opportunities a bunch of funding and more support but on the other hand if you don't cave into the corporate demands then you will lose access to all that funding and all those jobs because they will decide they just don't want to work with you anymore and in the end you will hurt your project so focusing on the technical Purity in some cases is not the right answer but also you need to sometimes take that stance because if not you're just losing control of your project now in this specific case I think they made the right call because a driver's job is to run applications even if the application is badly written or badly packaged Graphics drivers very often have game specific fixes because games are just not written realistically well for those drivers or for a specific Graphics API so why not do the same for a benchmark and speaking of gaming we have a few things to cover first is suyu it was the first Fork of Yuzu that became available it is nonprofit and it doesn't accept donations of any kind to try and deter Nintendo's lawyers and it comes with a few new features compared to Yuzu and well it's already been taken down by gitlab after a dmca takedown notice from an unknown source was sent but yeah it was very likely Nintendo since the project was based on something that was already taken down there was no arguing or discussion and suu was instantly removed of course the code is still around it is available in a self-hosted git repo at least for the moment but the project will have to be relatively stealthy which will be pretty hard for an emulator like this we're talking about the internet not sharing something that they use that just seems impossible but thanks Nintendo you still suck now FSR 3.1 was also an announced this week to upscale your games even more smoothly it promises less flickering and blurriness around objects in motion and it will reduce ghosting and it will better preserve details plus the frame generation features are no longer linked to the upscaling features meaning you could use the dlss frame generation to get to 60 FPS in a game all while using FSR instead of nvidia's dlss for upscaling the resolution Ratchet and Clank Rift apart will support for it and judging from a little animation they shared it does look much better with moving object other games that will jump on that new version are cyber Punk Dying Light 2 ghost of tsushima and Space Marine 2 and I really like these upscaling Technologies because not only do they make sure that you use less resources and you can still get a very nice graphical result but it also means you generally have to change your GPU way less often because as these Technologies mature your old GPU is still able to render at something that looks highres but really isn't now what's a good thing for you Linux users is the segue to our sponsor the people at tuxedo computers make devices that run with Linux out of the box and if 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gnome 46 is here and it comes with a bunch of improvements not to the general gnome desktop experience but more to the applications it brings and it's also the first version of many that brings the results of the huge 1 million euro grant that gnome got last year so today we'll take a look at everything you'll get once gnome 46 hits your dis whether it's better file management better notifications improved settings General changes to the desktops and a bunch of changes to the apps and we'll also take a look at our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag and drop it's really easy to use you can create all your 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you can now either collapse what you don't want to interact with right now or you can make sure you see everything there is to see immediately and these were necessary changes notifications in Gnome were pretty much useless or sometimes even downright annoying now what this All Leads up to is notification grouping which is not going to come for gome 46 but probably for Gnome 47 on top of that notifications telling you that a USB device can be safely removed will now automatically be dismissed after you remove that drive instead of being there for hours even though the device had been unplugged a while back there are plenty of other smaller changes though the first one is experimental support for variable refresh rate it is turned off by default and you will have to use decom to turn it on once you do that you will get a switch for that feature in the display settings provided your display supports it with a preferred refresh rate list letting you set the one you want as the default that's not stable yet but it's still really cool to have that option and if you're wondering why variable refresh rate is important it is mostly for playing video games on your PC it basically tells the monitor to sync its refresh rate to the frame rate of the game you're playing so the monitor doesn't have to play catch up you eliminate screen tearing most latency and some performance problems another change is in how fonts are rendered using fractional scaling they are now less blurry and they will look more consistent two instances of the same character will now look the same when previously they would either look bigger or smaller or even not properly aligned this is because fonts are not rendered directly at the scale you picked for example 125% instead of being scaled to 200% then scaled back down down to the desired scaling Factor fractional scaling is still off by default though you will have to enable it in decom now depending on your dis row fractional scaling might be enabled right off the bat and you probably will not have to enable it yourself other smaller changes include the ability to press control plus super and a number to launch the associated app from your dock Control Plus super plus one starts the first app in the doc for example you also get remote login using RDP so you could use use another computer that has access to RDP client and log into your gnome computer if no one is currently logged into it so your desktop experience will be pretty much the same as in gome 45 These are nice little touches but they're just the first drafts of what will come in gome 47 or 48 variable refresh rate and better fractional scaling they are both really good to have improveed notifications as well but we'll really see them come into their own in the next release now fortunately there are a lot of other changes in gome 46 the file manager Nautilus got way better in this release first you can now click the path bar to edit the location manually instead of having to press control+ L to do so yeah I know this is all everyone ever wanted we could probably end the video here but we won't next is search it now performs much faster than it used to and the search button now does a global search direct no need to click the global search button anymore if you only want to search in the current directory you have a dedicated search current folder button right next to the path bar Global search will also search in all the locations that you picked in the search page of the main gnome settings including custom locations or custom drives when transferring files the progress bar has been moved to the bottom of the sidebar instead of being in a little circle next to the toolbar buttons as before clicking on that area will show you more information like the time remaining or the transfer speeds changing a folder icon is now much easier as well you can just open the properties through the rightclick menu of that folder and you have a little edit icon to set the icon to whatever you want the settings for nautulus also gain the search field to find what you're looking for although since there are 12 things you can tweak overall I am not sure it was absolutely necessary but you do get a new setting to change how date and time formats are displayed for files either as human readable dates or more numeric ones not just the ability to manually type the location you want to get to is a huge timesaver why wasn't it here since the beginning of gnome 3 who knows but now it's there now the settings have changed as well because settings always need to change in every update to every desktop first there's a new system page it groups the region and language date and time users remote desktop secure shell and about Pages plus a link to the software updates default apps have been merged into the main apps settings page as a subcategory which now also includes the default actions you can configure when you insert a CD DVD music player camera or something else the mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you trigger the right click either through a button or touchpad area or with a two finger click and there's a new mouse test page to make sure these settings work for you you can also turn off the touchpad when typing or disable that setting if you don't like it the online accounts page also received some love notably for its back end it now uses your default web browser for authentication into accounts instead of the basic integrated web view meaning that first you can now see the full URL which is safer and more reassuring you can use your saved passwords in your password manager in your browser you can use us B authentication methods as well and it's one less moving part to maintain for Gnome developers you can also add a webdav account to get access to contacts calendars and files in all the gnome apps that integrate with these online accounts and you can add a Microsoft personal account as well which will give you access to your one drive storage straight from nautulus accessibility wise you can now add the on or off shapes for toggles to better understand if something is on or off and you can display Crosshair lines when zooming in on the desktop to better see where your pointer is when moving it the online accounts change will definitely make it way easier for people to log in to stuff that requires more advanced authentication or even to factor authentication which is nice and having reordered settings is probably good as well I guess now in terms of the default gnome apps there are plenty of changes as well gnome software the App Store now shows the verified badg on flathub applications that have them meaning you now know if an app has been published by their original developers or if it's a third party repackaging effort most Pages were also ported to the latest liit Vita controls gnome calendar gained performance improvements which I didn't really know it needed and it now displays the current month a lot more visibly in the month view so you always know where you are the little calendar that's in the sidebar also received some improvements Now using the same week numbers as the ones in Gnome shell calendar will also use the settings portal to set the current date the image viewer Loop know has a keyboard shortcut to permanently delete an image it's shift plus delete when using the arrow keys to navigate between images there will no longer be an animation this animation will only trigger Now when using the inapp navigation buttons and I don't really know why that change was made Epiphany the web browser now automatically retrieves app names and icons from web sites using their Progressive web apps manifest if they have one so everything will be already nice and tidy when you create a web app from the browser it also fixes some issues with how it syncs with your Firefox account and it gains support for smart card authentication as well meaning you can authenticate using USB devices while using Epiphany G Maps move their controls to the bottom of the application and gained improvements to the vector map layer although this one is still experimental for now it also improved how Favorite Places work with a default empty state that explains what favorites are finally gnom music has been ported to use the latest Liber Vita widget but it also lost a bunch of things along the way it no longer has support for last. FM scrobbling and it lost its song list view it gained a preferences dialogue which doesn't contain much but it still lets you said the repeat mode enable replay gain or inhibiting suspend when playing music finally the can system monitor was entirely ported to gtk4 finally completing the transition and the orcas screen reader also received some improvements especially gaining support for the new Spiel speech synthesis API so gnome 46 feels like a transition release you can notice that a lot of work has been put into it but also it just looks like the first bricks for what is to come in the next versions of gnow things you can look forward to in the future include better notification with a new portal that apps can tap into with the ability to play sound or vibrate on mobile devices with permanent notification support standardized layouts and actions grouping and reach content like images and progress bars you can look forward to better accessibility as well with a new framework that will make these features much more reliable across apps and toolkits variable refresh rate as a stable setting will also come and there's work planned on making background apps actionable with a a little menu to actually interact with these background apps th turning this section into a full system tray replacement home directory encryption is also on the way with system D Home D better fractional scaling including for X whand is also being worked on and all of that was made possible by the1 million euro grant that gnome got last year and some first parts of these features are landing in Gnome 46 but the real big changes will be in Gnome 47 or gnome 48 so gnome 46 had the unviable task of starting with these features but also of competing with plasma 6 in terms of changes and features and of course plasma 6 has a lot more to talk about because it received a full year of work compared to 6 months for Gnome 46 but in the end they're both quite similar in terms of what they offer they do not revolutionize your desktop experience they're just laying better foundations for what's to come in in the future and honestly I'm okay with that if these are just the first indications of what's to come to gnome in the future then I'm very excited to see what 47 and 48 will bring with all this new cool stuff now gnome 46 will be available widely on a 22404 and Fedora 40 and I'm pretty sure a bunch of rolling releases will also get it relatively soon everything I recorded and showed here was recorded using gnomos on real Hardware uh but obviously it's not something something that you should use as a daily driver even if you really really want gnome 46 but if you really really want a new computer to run Linux on then there's our sponsored tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed the main reason why you would want that compared to a manufacturer that only supports Windows is that you don't really have to cross your fingers and hope that your Hardware will be supported with your favorite drro when you buy from tuxedo you know it works because they actually submit patches Upstream to the Linux kernel and various drivers to fix the issues the encounter during testing and if these patches are not accepted just yet they have repost that lets you install them on various other distributions than the one that they pre-install with and they have a nice big range that should fit every need and every price point whether you need a small laptop for office work all the way up to a giant workstation for video editing 3D rendering or just a big fat gaming PC you can have everything all of them are very customizable especially on the laptop side where you can have your own logo engraved on theid your own custom keyboard layout and you can open repair and upgrade all the laptops so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux well click the link in the description below and get yourself something from tuxedo they're really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications or to write a comment and if you really enjoy the channel there are plenty of links in the description of the video as well to do just that patreon members and YouTube members at any tier will actually gain access to a daily Linux and open source news show from Monday to Friday so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music]
gnome 46 is here and it comes with a bunch of improvements not to the general gnome desktop experience but more to the applications it brings and it's also the first version of many that brings the results of the huge 1 million euro grant that gnome got last year so today we'll take a look at everything you'll get once gnome 46 hits your dis whether it's better file management better notifications improved settings General changes to the desktops and a bunch of changes to the apps and we'll also take a look at our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag and drop it's really easy to use you can create all your 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you can now either collapse what you don't want to interact with right now or you can make sure you see everything there is to see immediately and these were necessary changes notifications in Gnome were pretty much useless or sometimes even downright annoying now what this All Leads up to is notification grouping which is not going to come for gome 46 but probably for Gnome 47 on top of that notifications telling you that a USB device can be safely removed will now automatically be dismissed after you remove that drive instead of being there for hours even though the device had been unplugged a while back there are plenty of other smaller changes though the first one is experimental support for variable refresh rate it is turned off by default and you will have to use decom to turn it on once you do that you will get a switch for that feature in the display settings provided your display supports it with a preferred refresh rate list letting you set the one you want as the default that's not stable yet but it's still really cool to have that option and if you're wondering why variable refresh rate is important it is mostly for playing video games on your PC it basically tells the monitor to sync its refresh rate to the frame rate of the game you're playing so the monitor doesn't have to play catch up you eliminate screen tearing most latency and some performance problems another change is in how fonts are rendered using fractional scaling they are now less blurry and they will look more consistent two instances of the same character will now look the same when previously they would either look bigger or smaller or even not properly aligned this is because fonts are not rendered directly at the scale you picked for example 125% instead of being scaled to 200% then scaled back down down to the desired scaling Factor fractional scaling is still off by default though you will have to enable it in decom now depending on your dis row fractional scaling might be enabled right off the bat and you probably will not have to enable it yourself other smaller changes include the ability to press control plus super and a number to launch the associated app from your dock Control Plus super plus one starts the first app in the doc for example you also get remote login using RDP so you could use use another computer that has access to RDP client and log into your gnome computer if no one is currently logged into it so your desktop experience will be pretty much the same as in gome 45 These are nice little touches but they're just the first drafts of what will come in gome 47 or 48 variable refresh rate and better fractional scaling they are both really good to have improveed notifications as well but we'll really see them come into their own in the next release now fortunately there are a lot of other changes in gome 46 the file manager Nautilus got way better in this release first you can now click the path bar to edit the location manually instead of having to press control+ L to do so yeah I know this is all everyone ever wanted we could probably end the video here but we won't next is search it now performs much faster than it used to and the search button now does a global search direct no need to click the global search button anymore if you only want to search in the current directory you have a dedicated search current folder button right next to the path bar Global search will also search in all the locations that you picked in the search page of the main gnome settings including custom locations or custom drives when transferring files the progress bar has been moved to the bottom of the sidebar instead of being in a little circle next to the toolbar buttons as before clicking on that area will show you more information like the time remaining or the transfer speeds changing a folder icon is now much easier as well you can just open the properties through the rightclick menu of that folder and you have a little edit icon to set the icon to whatever you want the settings for nautulus also gain the search field to find what you're looking for although since there are 12 things you can tweak overall I am not sure it was absolutely necessary but you do get a new setting to change how date and time formats are displayed for files either as human readable dates or more numeric ones not just the ability to manually type the location you want to get to is a huge timesaver why wasn't it here since the beginning of gnome 3 who knows but now it's there now the settings have changed as well because settings always need to change in every update to every desktop first there's a new system page it groups the region and language date and time users remote desktop secure shell and about Pages plus a link to the software updates default apps have been merged into the main apps settings page as a subcategory which now also includes the default actions you can configure when you insert a CD DVD music player camera or something else the mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you trigger the right click either through a button or touchpad area or with a two finger click and there's a new mouse test page to make sure these settings work for you you can also turn off the touchpad when typing or disable that setting if you don't like it the online accounts page also received some love notably for its back end it now uses your default web browser for authentication into accounts instead of the basic integrated web view meaning that first you can now see the full URL which is safer and more reassuring you can use your saved passwords in your password manager in your browser you can use us B authentication methods as well and it's one less moving part to maintain for Gnome developers you can also add a webdav account to get access to contacts calendars and files in all the gnome apps that integrate with these online accounts and you can add a Microsoft personal account as well which will give you access to your one drive storage straight from nautulus accessibility wise you can now add the on or off shapes for toggles to better understand if something is on or off and you can display Crosshair lines when zooming in on the desktop to better see where your pointer is when moving it the online accounts change will definitely make it way easier for people to log in to stuff that requires more advanced authentication or even to factor authentication which is nice and having reordered settings is probably good as well I guess now in terms of the default gnome apps there are plenty of changes as well gnome software the App Store now shows the verified badg on flathub applications that have them meaning you now know if an app has been published by their original developers or if it's a third party repackaging effort most Pages were also ported to the latest liit Vita controls gnome calendar gained performance improvements which I didn't really know it needed and it now displays the current month a lot more visibly in the month view so you always know where you are the little calendar that's in the sidebar also received some improvements Now using the same week numbers as the ones in Gnome shell calendar will also use the settings portal to set the current date the image viewer Loop know has a keyboard shortcut to permanently delete an image it's shift plus delete when using the arrow keys to navigate between images there will no longer be an animation this animation will only trigger Now when using the inapp navigation buttons and I don't really know why that change was made Epiphany the web browser now automatically retrieves app names and icons from web sites using their Progressive web apps manifest if they have one so everything will be already nice and tidy when you create a web app from the browser it also fixes some issues with how it syncs with your Firefox account and it gains support for smart card authentication as well meaning you can authenticate using USB devices while using Epiphany G Maps move their controls to the bottom of the application and gained improvements to the vector map layer although this one is still experimental for now it also improved how Favorite Places work with a default empty state that explains what favorites are finally gnom music has been ported to use the latest Liber Vita widget but it also lost a bunch of things along the way it no longer has support for last. FM scrobbling and it lost its song list view it gained a preferences dialogue which doesn't contain much but it still lets you said the repeat mode enable replay gain or inhibiting suspend when playing music finally the can system monitor was entirely ported to gtk4 finally completing the transition and the orcas screen reader also received some improvements especially gaining support for the new Spiel speech synthesis API so gnome 46 feels like a transition release you can notice that a lot of work has been put into it but also it just looks like the first bricks for what is to come in the next versions of gnow things you can look forward to in the future include better notification with a new portal that apps can tap into with the ability to play sound or vibrate on mobile devices with permanent notification support standardized layouts and actions grouping and reach content like images and progress bars you can look forward to better accessibility as well with a new framework that will make these features much more reliable across apps and toolkits variable refresh rate as a stable setting will also come and there's work planned on making background apps actionable with a a little menu to actually interact with these background apps th turning this section into a full system tray replacement home directory encryption is also on the way with system D Home D better fractional scaling including for X whand is also being worked on and all of that was made possible by the1 million euro grant that gnome got last year and some first parts of these features are landing in Gnome 46 but the real big changes will be in Gnome 47 or gnome 48 so gnome 46 had the unviable task of starting with these features but also of competing with plasma 6 in terms of changes and features and of course plasma 6 has a lot more to talk about because it received a full year of work compared to 6 months for Gnome 46 but in the end they're both quite similar in terms of what they offer they do not revolutionize your desktop experience they're just laying better foundations for what's to come in in the future and honestly I'm okay with that if these are just the first indications of what's to come to gnome in the future then I'm very excited to see what 47 and 48 will bring with all this new cool stuff now gnome 46 will be available widely on a 22404 and Fedora 40 and I'm pretty sure a bunch of rolling releases will also get it relatively soon everything I recorded and showed here was recorded using gnomos on real Hardware uh but obviously it's not something something that you should use as a daily driver even if you really really want gnome 46 but if you really really want a new computer to run Linux on then there's our sponsored tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed the main reason why you would want that compared to a manufacturer that only supports Windows is that you don't really have to cross your fingers and hope that your Hardware will be supported with your favorite drro when you buy from tuxedo you know it works because they actually submit patches Upstream to the Linux kernel and various drivers to fix the issues the encounter during testing and if these patches are not accepted just yet they have repost that lets you install them on various other distributions than the one that they pre-install with and they have a nice big range that should fit every need and every price point whether you need a small laptop for office work all the way up to a giant workstation for video editing 3D rendering or just a big fat gaming PC you can have everything all of them are very customizable especially on the laptop side where you can have your own logo engraved on theid your own custom keyboard layout and you can open repair and upgrade all the laptops so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux well click the link in the description below and get yourself something from tuxedo they're really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications or to write a comment and if you really enjoy the channel there are plenty of links in the description of the video as well to do just that patreon members and YouTube members at any tier will actually gain access to a daily Linux and open source news show from Monday to Friday so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music]
hey everyone and welcome back to the Linux and open source news show where we discuss everything that happened in the Linux open source world but also in the privacy and open web spaces so first the US Department of Justice is suing Apple because they are very clearly abusing their dominant position with iOS at least in the US we also have the release of gnome 46 this week and we have a bit of a problem for KY Global themes and widgets which appar ly can run arbitrary code and can wipe your entire hard drive if they decide to do so and we also have some more scam apps coming to the snap store we have another switch emulator being taken down sort of and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably all know about it but if you don't it's your private zero access and endtoend encrypted email service that also comes with a calendar online storage a password manager and a VPN proton mail has all the features you need to block email trackers and 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their ecosystem and of their Monopoly to extract more money from developers and consumers and that instead of trying to compete fairly with other Innovations they instead imposed a series of rules and restrictions in their App Store and platform including blocking crossplatform messenging apps limiting wallet and smartw features on other platforms and disrupting game streaming services and various other apps that just didn't want to appear in the App Store basically the main complaint is that Apple implemented barriers to leaving their platform instead of competing fairly on price and features locking users in and according to the doj smothering an entire industry of course Apple isn't having any of it they're saying the lawsuit threatens their identity and that their policies are crucial to keeping their devices secure and private which is sort of nonsense because most of the policies in question have nothing to do with security or privacy now we'll have to see if the US has the same capacity as the EU to regulate apple and to make them a bit more open to thirdparty apps and services in the US Apple's market share is way higher than in the rest of the world as well apparently iPhones occupy 60% of the smartphone market in the US compared to the rest of the world where Android has 70% market share so it's even more important to make sure Apple plays fair in the US and one might argue that iPhone doesn't have a monopoly but the Monopoly Here is the App Store you cannot distribute an application on the whole iOS platform without using the App Store thus apple has a monopoly on app Distribution on iOS which holds a dominant position in the US with its 60% market share there's just no going around this and if we consider the smartphone market as a whole Apple does indeed have some barriers erected for people who currently use Apple software or Apple devices that would like to move to Android because most of their Hardware doesn't really work well with Android most of their cloud services or services in general don't really work well on Android and Android manufacturers and developers also do not have the same capabilities that apple is giving themselves on iOS meaning that Apple does give them eles an unfair competitive advantage on their own platform which is abusing their dominant position now of course this week GN 46 was released I covered it in detail in a dedicated video on this exact YouTube channel so go check that one out if you want to learn more about it but the tldr version is it is a transition release it doesn't have tons of new features but there are a few cool things in there like better notifications that you can collapse or expand experimental variable refresh rate support Nautilus finally letting you click on the path bar to edit the location verified badges for flathub apps in gome software a few revamped and change settings and improved fractional scaling notably when rendering fonts most default apps also received updates Nautilus being the focus here with a new file transfer progress bar new options to display dates for files an easier way to change folder icons and Global search by default with a new button for search in only the current folder most of the really cool stuff will come for Gnome 47 and 48 though with a lot more being currently worked on to improve notifications further to have a solid accessibility framework to have home directory encryption to make background apps actually actionable like there were system tray elements and more so Gom 46 is worth the upgrade of course if you this through offers it you should update it provided it doesn't break any extension that you might rely upon but what's really exciting is what's coming to the Future versions 47 and 48 gome 46 just laid the foundations for these two releases now on the plasma front there's apparently a big problem in plasma 6 but it probably also exists in 5.27 when you're installing Global themes or even just widgets in general it looks like these are able to run a bunch of scripts in the background and one of these themes seemed to trigger the execution of the infamous R m- rf/ command which will wipe everything on your hard drive or at least everything that you have the permissions to remove as the current user the theme in question was removed from the KD store but there might be others that do the same thing it apparently wasn't intentional or malicious it was an error in how the script was pared but it definitely means that any other theme could do the same thing maliciously or otherwise and it also means that there's some work to do to have better quality control in the get new stuff part of KDE because people could definitely make something malicious that voluntarily deletes everything the main issue is that Global themes or widgets aren't just a collection of plugins and themes and layout files they can actually run any type of command which is obviously a pretty big security risk now the KD team is of course aware of the issue but for now they're just warning you from trying to download anything from this it's at your own risk the real problem is why is that even possible why does a widget or a global theme need to run commands why isn't it just a Json file listing all the resources it needs and then just KD applying all those resources it's kind of weird now I already reported on the scam crypto Wallet app that appeared on the snap store but this time it is worse at least 10 new apps with the exact same scammy purposes were now reported in the same Snap Store they were all published by the same developer called digital safe and they were called things like Tron link uniswap Jack Liberty Avalanche trust wallet electrum and exodus again which I'm assuming are all real names of real wallets now they were promptly all removed but then they popped up again right after with another account called code shield and Alan Pope who reported these 10 apps at first reported these again the apps apparently do not let you create a new wet obviously because they want you to add an existing one so they can siphon everything that's in it they're all just a wrapper for web View and so they can be sandboxed without triggering a human review on the snap store now as Alan Pope says it is Trivial to keep pushing those apps as they get removed you just need another email account and you can just publish everything there's no manual review everything goes directly onto the snap store and onto the eyes of millions of abunto users using the default open to store canonical needs to address this right now there's been discussions on how do you secure the snap store right now you need to take a stance on just removing everything crypto related until you figure out something else now there are bad news for a lot of ABS that depend on location services on Linux Modzilla announced that they would shut down access to their Modzilla location services or MLS this is used by the freedesktop.org location framework by gome Maps gnome weather and a lot of other applications and they will have to find something else before June 12th where all thirdparty API keys will be removed for that service this is apparently part of the cuts made by mozilla's new CEO and the main reason is also that mozzilla had to settle a patent infringement lawsuit in 2019 meaning that they really could not invest or update or probably even exploit that service commercially it's not the end of the world for apps that depend on it most of them will support detecting your location through your IP but it's not as precise for something really accurate the only proposed option right now seems to be Google location services which well you better not because using something from Google by default in a desktop environment an application or Linux drro is just no good like a lot of people use Linux because it's more private if you slot in Google services inside that then automatically your back stabbing a lot of the community you do not add Google services by default onto a Linux drro please now fonx has an interesting article about the Mesa drivers pointing out how the project has evolved from Mostly a reverse engineering effort mostly for Community purposes to a complete repo of drivers and the main way for companies to push their Graphics drivers to the Linux community in general performance is now on par with what you can expect in Windows or even surpasses that in some cases but this all comes with more responsibilities and more work for Mesa developers and maintainers for example a recent merge request reverted a change made to Mesa to force Mesa to stick to an older version of zip because moving to a newer one would break a specific Graphics Benchmark that a lot of Hardware vendors use now the issue doesn't lie with Mesa it's the Benchmark itself because it relies on an older version that should probably not be used anymore and it's also not being distributed in a way that would remove this dependency problem for example if they shipped their own version of zib in a flatback or an app image but in the end Mesa had to accept to rely on the older version of the library because if the Benchmark didn't work then some companies contributing to Mesa would prefer moving to something closed source that works exactly how they want it and that supports everything that they want as Mesa developers point out doubt it is not a technical issue it is a political issue you cannot decide that something that the industry relies upon will not work anymore because this thing refuses to update their own dependencies it would in the end hurt mesa's reputation not the benchmarks and it would make it look inflexible and unsuitable to its partners that create hardware and the drivers that go with it now this is just one example but it perfectly illustrates the problem you get once you get big in the Linux and open source community and companies start getting involved on the one hand it's great because it provides you with a bunch of jobs a bunch of opportunities a bunch of funding and more support but on the other hand if you don't cave into the corporate demands then you will lose access to all that funding and all those jobs because they will decide they just don't want to work with you anymore and in the end you will hurt your project so focusing on the technical Purity in some cases is not the right answer but also you need to sometimes take that stance because if not you're just losing control of your project now in this specific case I think they made the right call because a driver's job is to run applications even if the application is badly written or badly packaged Graphics drivers very often have game specific fixes because games are just not written realistically well for those drivers or for a specific Graphics API so why not do the same for a benchmark and speaking of gaming we have a few things to cover first is suyu it was the first Fork of Yuzu that became available it is nonprofit and it doesn't accept donations of any kind to try and deter Nintendo's lawyers and it comes with a few new features compared to Yuzu and well it's already been taken down by gitlab after a dmca takedown notice from an unknown source was sent but yeah it was very likely Nintendo since the project was based on something that was already taken down there was no arguing or discussion and suu was instantly removed of course the code is still around it is available in a self-hosted git repo at least for the moment but the project will have to be relatively stealthy which will be pretty hard for an emulator like this we're talking about the internet not sharing something that they use that just seems impossible but thanks Nintendo you still suck now FSR 3.1 was also an announced this week to upscale your games even more smoothly it promises less flickering and blurriness around objects in motion and it will reduce ghosting and it will better preserve details plus the frame generation features are no longer linked to the upscaling features meaning you could use the dlss frame generation to get to 60 FPS in a game all while using FSR instead of nvidia's dlss for upscaling the resolution Ratchet and Clank Rift apart will support for it and judging from a little animation they shared it does look much better with moving object other games that will jump on that new version are cyber Punk Dying Light 2 ghost of tsushima and Space Marine 2 and I really like these upscaling Technologies because not only do they make sure that you use less resources and you can still get a very nice graphical result but it also means you generally have to change your GPU way less often because as these Technologies mature your old GPU is still able to render at something that looks highres but really isn't now what's a good thing for you Linux users is the segue to our sponsor the people at tuxedo computers make devices that run with Linux out of the box and if 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if you're starting out with Linux chances are you might be a bit lost in certain areas whether you're trying to learn the command line how to customize your desktop how to use Linux on your server or how to play games on it everything might feel different to what you're used to and so I felt it was a good idea to look at various online resources that I personally used or that I looked at and can recommend to help you during your Linux Journey because after all if you manage to find what you're looking for chances are you will stick with Linux which makes the community grow which is always a good thing so we'll look at websites databases YouTube channels podcasts and more on most topics you might want to learn about and of course if you have other cool resources that you use and you want to share well you're welcome to write a comment and to let everyone benefit and in the meantime I'll let you know about our sponsor this video is sponsored by kasm workspaces a great project for streaming apps operating system systems and desktops straight to your browser they just released version 1.15 which adds support for multiple monitors for your Linux desktop along with a redesigned control panel to enhance the mobile workspace experience additional updates include session recording open stack Auto scaling enhanced multiactor authentication and new images for Fedora Alpine parrot OS and even the redroid Android emulator this update makes it easier than ever to host on on demand access to your desktops and applications the km workspaces Community Edition can be self-hosted or they also have a cloud software as a service subscription to learn more about kasm workspaces click the link in the description okay so first where can you go if you want to deepen your general knowledge of Linux its architecture and the various systems that it uses one solid entry point is the arch Wiki it's meant for Arch Linux as in the instruction it gives are tailored for Arch but it's also a gold mine of general information about virtually every system you might want to know more about for example if you're confused about system D and how to use it the arch Wiki will tell you what it is what it does and some general usage tips to help you get to grips with it some things will definitely be Arch specific in there so if you don't run Arch do not blindly run commands from there but it's a good resource to better understand how the various components of a Linux system work together I don't use Arch by the way but I do use their wikii to learn more about specific systems or find a quick fix for certain things that will work no matter the dis R you run them on I'm not saying you should run Arch but you should definitely use the knowledge that they've gathered now if you have ever used du lingo to try and learn a new language you might like this website it's called Linux journey and it breaks down a lot of what you need to learn in various categories as you mature and understand things better so with the grasshopper set of courses you can learn the general basics of the command line managing packages processes users and more and then you can move on to learning about how to handle devices logs networking basically everything it's a pretty verbos website meaning it's mostly text to explain how things work but you do get some small exercises to try with a quiz question it is not the deepest set of exerc sizes but it does give you a solid overview of the basics of your Linux system now this one is not for the faint of heart it's Linux from scratch seriously don't run away it's going to consume months of your life because it's basically a Dro where you have to compile everything yourself bit by bit it's a project you should undertake as a hobby but once you've actually managed to build your entire system from scratch with the help of the Linux from scratch book available for free of course you will know everything about how a Linux system works and is built and its various components I will freely admit I never completed a Linux from scratch install I actually stopped at compiling gipc because I just did not have the time to do it but if you really want to go in depth into every single bit of your system then it's probably the best way to learn about it do note that it's going to be very time consuming you're not just going to whip that out in an afternoon you have to use it as a hobby project to learn how things work and finally you also have free courses on the Linux foundations website they cover a lot of things from the basics of Open Source licenses to cental development developing software on Linux cyber security and more one I would recommend is the introduction to Linux or lfs 101X you will have to create an account and it's more of a structured course like an e-learning thing over multiple weeks but it's very comprehensive so if you tend to perform better in a more structured environment it is a good one now let's look at various resources focused on specific topics one thing a lot of people go into Linux 4 is the command line and learning how this works can be a bit tricky especially if you have no prior experience with any non-graphical way to use a computer now if you prefer to learn by following along a nice little tutorial Linux survival is a handy website it will take some time to go through but it explains things really well with all the basics of navigating the file system interacting with files permissions discs or processes it's really just the fundamentals of the command line but it has all you need to get started now the interface is not super pretty but it works if you don't care about exercises but you just want the theory and the explanations Linux command. org is also a very good website to get started it also covers more indepth stuff like writing shell scripts which is something you might like to learn as well now if you're looking for deep dives into one specific command or tool then there are two YouTube channels I would recommend the first one is learn Linux TV it's probably one of the biggest if not the biggest English-speaking Linux channels and they have a ton of tips for Linux plus some reviews as well there are a huge number of well-crafted videos about specific tools that you might want to learn about you can use the little search icon on the Channel's page to look for the specific command you're interested in the second channel is Veronica explains and it's also full of nice lessons about specific tools and command line utilities plus some general Linux related topics as well it's a more recent Channel with less videos but it's still a very nice one to follow now you can find a ton of resources about specific command line utilities on YouTube or on peer but these are two channels I reference often when I need to learn about something new which is very often and also when I need to refresh my knowledge on something which is also very often because I forget everything now if you like to learn with something more akin to a game then there's Terminus it's basically a Choose Your Own Adventure game but using Linux terminal commands to navigate like LS to show where you can go less to get details about an item and CD to move somewhere else it's not really going to teach you all that much but it's pretty fun if you like these types of old text based adventure games and also it's going to make it look like you're working when you're gaming and to test your knowledge in more practical exercises you have command challenge it will give you instructions to follow with quick exercises and of course potential Solutions when clicking the little arrow next to the prompt it's a really nice way to test what you've actually learned and it also made me realize by making this video that my knowledge of specific commands it's very very superficial now if you want to learn more about a specific Linux desktop environment then the main resource you'll want is the actual help Pages for the desktop all of them have a help center that will give you the very basics of how to use the desktop for KI you can get much deeper into the various settings with the Ki user base Wiki it's not always entirely up toate because KD changes very often and with plasma 6 I'm sure there's a lot of work to make things more current but it is still a good resource to learn more about specific features of your desktop and what you can do with it with g less of an issue because it is very simple and you can explore it by yourself for tiling window managers you can refer to either the GitHub repos which generally have a nice detailed rundown on how to customize and use them for example for sway I3 has its own documentation website with everything you need to know hyperland has a master tutorial covering everything as well and of course looking on YouTube for KD or gome tips KD or gnome applications and tutorials you will find plenty of resources there I actually made a bunch of these videos myself I still do from time to time but there are plenty of other channels that cover these desktops now if what you want to learn about is how to customize that desktop by changing its layout its theme or adding extra features I can only recommend the Linux scoop Channel they make detailed tutorials on how to change the appearance of gnome and KDE to something else and even if you don't want to end up with the exact same result it will still teach you a lot about how to install gnome extensions plasma themes Quantum themes widgets icon themes and more you can just follow along any of their tutorials and by the end you will know exactly how to apply your own customizations to get to the results you want now if you think your default Linux desktop just doesn't look super good chances are there's a video on Linux scop that has an end result that fits your needs at least in terms of theming but sometimes also in terms of layout for more inspiration you also have Unix porn on Reddit but this mostly seems focused on tiling window manager so it might not be for everyone now for Linux gaming there are plenty of resources out there first to stay up toate on everything there's the gaming on Linux website it's the most comprehensive one out there with all the latest news about the steam deck General Linux gaming how certain games run on Linux and the various developments in that space then you have proton DB it is the database to know if if a game runs on Linux or not it covers only Steam games that run with proton but that's 99% of games you can check if a game works and the various tweaks people are suggesting to improve the experience if that's needed and after that you can look into other tools like bottles the heroic launcher or lutris but these are pretty self-explanatory and you don't really need a guide on how to use them or install them just visit their website I actually made a video which is a complete guide on how to set up Linux gaming but it's pretty old now and it might be completely outdated if what you want to focus on is what's happening in the Linux and open source world like General news and updates there are a ton of resources out there as well for updates on what is going on in the Linux development world and the progress of various Linux and open source projects bro has it all he makes videos about every day on the latest topics developer conversations and the general progress of various important projects it's a fantastic channel to get your finger on the pulse of the Linux Community for podcast you have destination Linux a weekly show covering the latest major news stories in the Linux and open source world plus some interviews it is not just for experienced Linux users either it stays very legible and accessible and for more in-depth coverage of every single one of these issues you have the best source out there trust me bro it's my own audio podcast yes I do make that it's a 40 minute weekly where I basically talk about the same topics as the Linux and open source News videos but in more detail with more topics and with more opinions I also make a daily version of this show for patreon members and YouTube members you can access that by any tier like $1 a month is fine you'll get that but yeah if you're tired like me of hearing my stupid voice and my French accent maybe that's not for you now asper Linux news websites good resources are OMG obuntu and OMG Linux the former I've been following basically since it was created back when I started using Linux you also have Linux AC a great source of news and information about Linux and open source and of course for ronx for more benchmarks and development focused updates these are sources that I browse virtually every day and that I can definitely recommend if you want to learn more about what's happening in the Linux world and for the latest news about gnome and KDE they have weekly posts and updates with the this week in Gnome and this week in KD series of posts they will tell you everything you need to know about how these projects are evolving so that's about it I didn't teach you anything here the internet is a gold mine of resources to learn about everything you want these are also just resources that I found useful during my Linux Journey that is not the extent of what you can find so of course do not hesitate to recommend other good information sources that you use so everyone can benefit just leave a comment and in the meantime I'll just let you know about today sponsor tuxedo computers if you need a new device and you plan to run Linux on it and you want to support companies that actually contribute to linux's growth and development why not take a look at the computers made by tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware was picked because it's very compatible with Linux they 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hey everyone it is time to get up to date with everything that happened in the Linux open source and privacy spaces this week so first system 76 announced that they would push back the cosmic desktop Alpha because they want more time to refine the core applications we have a massive data breach in France exposing Social Security numbers and a lot more personal data on potentially 43 million French citizens and we also have the EU backing down on trying to regulate free and open source software as if it was commercial software thanks to the free software foundation and obviously we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare they're your all-in-one service provider if you run a Linux server or workstation Fleet and you want to keep it secure up to date and with minimum downtime thanks to Kernel life patching and extended support for end of life distributions like sentos S7 for example in June 2024 any system running Centos S7 will be left without official 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and get some time to prepare your migration and know that you will be ready and you'll have some help when the time actually comes to change to something new so it looks like the cosmic desktop Alpha will be pushed back it was initially planned to release at the end of March but it will now come in late May instead they apparently want to make sure all the core apps that they're working on reach the minimal viable product stage so basically something that has all the basic features instead of pushing out a desktop Alpha with Half Baked applications there will also apparently be a second Alpha once some testing has been done now this does mean there's still some progress to talk about though and first hybrid graphic support is now complete with an appled to let you see which apps are using your dedicated GPU and the ability to close these apps so the GPU is no longer used to save battery life minimizing and restoring Windows is also implemented now and these windows will apparently be placed in a dedicated applet in the dock probably similarly to what Mac OS does the tiling applet is also complete letting users enable auto tiling for all workspaces or per workspace input device settings have also been implemented with features like tap to click Edge scrolling touchpad acceleration or selecting input sources and changing keyboard shortcuts now what remains is to implement drag and drop in the terminal to get file Pass Plus a confirmation dialogue before closing a terminal window if a process is currently running the text editor needs to get spellchecking and session restore features and the cosmic file manager is also progressing nicely and also it's the first app they've shown that has a menu bar so it's not going to be old gnome style apps with header bars you are getting these old menu bars in there M will also support the desktop portal for dark mode and accent colors and on top of that the current Pop Shop based on the Elementary OS app center will be replaced by a new cosmic store it's a brand new rust app and it's apparently very fast to open and to search for applications to install in it and it will support flatback so I'm a bit sad that the alpha is being delayed I had a video planned for the end of this month to talk about it it will be pushed back to may but I guess it's the best thing they could do because I would much rather take a look at a feature complete Alpha just saying okay there are still some bugs but it's normal it's an alpha rather than taking a look at something that is Half Baked and is missing crucial features which would not give a great first impression of that desktop France got a giant data breach this week with data from potentially 43 million people being grabbed by malicious actors it's data that comes from the unemployment databases which includes anyone who ever reported to be unemployed at some point or wanted to receive access to training for a career change or even just had a short period where they were in between jobs and this data dates back 20 years it includes things like email addresses Social Security numbers phone numbers dates of birth and names so it is ripe for identity theft and fraud and it could be linked to other data grabbed in other breaches to build even more comprehensive profiles it is a giant problem apparently achieved through social engineering and the affected French service will now have to inform everyone affected I think I'm probably in there as well even though I've never reported to Unemployment Services as I never needed it fortunately but it still might contain some of my data from some old sermer jobs at some point now the other problem is why is that data dating back 20 years French laws are pretty strict for data conservation and generally it's 10 years maximum so the only reason I can say see is to calculate pensions once you retire but that's the only reason now second these types of governmental Services really need better training to handle social engineering attacks and they need a serious cyber security threat assessment no system is bulletproof and it's also run by humans all humans are fallible but also come on it's 43 million people you have to protect that data somehow now fortunately most important systems and websites in France will require you to use your fiscal number so the one you use to declare taxes the social security number is still important for everything related to healthcare but it's not as important as your fiscal number so it's probably not the end of the world but it's still pretty bad the Linux kernel 6.8 is now out it includes the new experimental Intel XE driver that will replace I 915 for recent Intel gpus in the future the kernel also improv support for upcoming AMD Hardware CPUs and gpus included there's also better support for the Raspberry Pi 5 notably on the graphics side of things the Z swap subsystem is now able to force old Pages out of the ram when you really need that RAM available for something else the kernel can prevent direct rights to block devices that have a mounted file system to prevent file system corruption the Intel CPU frequency scaling will also be much better for recent CPUs which will be able to hit their Max boost speeds on Linux and ryzen 7000 CPUs get a fix to avoid radio frequency interference from the Wi-Fi and GPU memory clocks running multiple TCP connections will also be much faster as well up to 40% faster and you're also gaining support for the Nintendo switch online controllers a few game pads and handhelds and color management for the steam deck so all in all it is a smaller update than 6.7 but it is still a pretty important one as it will be the default in a buntu 24 .04 which is an LTS it will probably also be in Fedora 40 so it's a major one now while the EU generally does pretty well at regulating big companies they also had some pretty big misses and one of these was the Cyber resiliency act which on paper was solid it forced companies to follow procedures to disclose vulnerabilities and to ensure that their software is secure before commercializing it to users with a bunch of checks and certifications to follow and this was probably a good thing for big companies that sell proprietary software but it was not as good for open- Source projects which were regulated in the exact same way in this regulations draft and they would basically be incapable of following the regulations or afford the Audits and certifications needed the other issue would be that the open source developers would be held liable under this new regulation if anyone using their software suffered from various attacks even though open source licenses generally absolve developers from responsibility the free software Foundation campaigned within the EU to try and get an exemption for open source and free software and it looks like they managed to get it free software will have a broad exemption and will no longer be considered as commercial software through this regulation and it looks like the liability will lie with companies who significantly benefit financially from that software instead it is a very interesting thing because on the one hand it means open source can keep on business as usual you provide something as is someone decides to use it it's their responsibility to keep it up to date or to contribute to fix any problems on the other hand it also means that open source software might feel like it's not a good deal for companies who might want to add it to a commercial product because it is not covered by any of these regulations certifications or audits now in a pretty funny investigative Circle the EU is investigating itself over data privacy and the use of big tech services the EU data protection supervisor found that the European commission the organism in the EU that generally deals out giant fines to Apple Microsoft Google and the like well they found that this commission itself was in breach of data transfer rules turns out the European commission uses Microsoft 365 and there are absolutely no safeguards in place to make sure the data the app collects is transmitted to servers outside the EU which is a big no no when it comes to privacy in the EU the European data protection supervisor said that the EU didn't really specify which types of data were collected by Microsoft 365 and for which purpose the commission has to apply corrective measures by December 9th 2024 or to stop using Microsoft's Cloud Suite entirely so for now all data flows between the European commission and Microsoft servers must be stopped and they will have to do some data mapping to see what comes out of their use of the solution and where it goes exactly which means they will have to work with Microsoft and they will also have to fix the contracts they have with the company to ensure these include all the necessary saf guards for this EU data to be limited to only what is absolutely necessary for the service to run the European commission agreed to review all of this but also said that compliant would undermine their current level of services because it not only applies to Microsoft products but also other services and well maybe it's time to tell the EU that there are European solutions that do the exact same job as Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 for cheaper more privately and are open source and probably also are based in the EU the European commission cannot just use one of their hands to hit every big tech company over the head and deal out fines for privacy violations but use the other hand to actually give Mone money to these companies and encourage them to continue this crap they should at least review their contracts to make sure that they fit with the regulation they themselves set in place now you might be aware of the lawsuit currently in process between the New York Times and open AI where the former accuses the latter of scrapping their articles to train their AI without any authorization or compensation the New York Times ran some prompts and found out that chat GPT could just spit out entire portions of their articles or the entire article and they use that fact to sue open Ai and the company's defense is pretty weird they're saying the New York Times hired people to craft specific prompts to get chat GPT to reproduce articles and that people will never land on these results on their own and the New York Times completely agrees they say they just copy pasted a few sentences of the article as a chat GPT prompt but they also say that this defense doesn't work yes it is not a that anyone would reasonably type but also that's not what the lawsuit is about no matter how you reach the state where chat GPT reproduces the entire article what matters is that the article is indeed reproduced which proves open AI used it to train their AI without any authorization which is what the lawsuit is about and I don't know what open ai's lawyers were expecting to achieve here it's like defending yourself against the lawsuit arguing that you forged something by saying that the forgery was hard to make it just doesn't work You just prove that yes you forged something now whether the courts decide that AI tools have the right to just scrap content of the internet and train their models off of it we'll have to see that's what the lawsuit is exactly about but in this case open AI doesn't really have a defense they're just saying hey you did that weirdly yes but this still proves that you scrp the Articles and that's what you're being accused of so we'll have to let the courts decide if this is something wrong or not your defense just doesn't work it seems like Nintendo's attack on the Yuzu emulator had wide repercussions on the entire emulation world as a lot of developers are stepping down or changing how to promote their tools Citra the DS and 3DS emulator is now gone because it was made by the same people behind user pizza boy an emulator for GBA and Game Boy CER is also gone drastic a DS emulator went free instead of then will probably be removed as well Strat another switch emulator lost its main developer Doric a tool to speed up various emulators and a development a contributor to ryogen X another switch emulator has stepped down an ether sx2 a PS2 emulator is also gone after development was suspended a year ago other emulators are obviously still active saying that they have solid legal grounds to stand up and they are probably emulators that Target consoles that are no no longer sold with games that aren't purchasable anymore but Nintendo definitely scared people away from contributing to emulators even the forks of Yuzu are making it more difficult to use them as they now require you to bring all the various decryption keys and the firmware from your own switch instead of trying to replicate or break them in the emulator itself a lot of emulators are also no longer pay Walling anything or even asking for donations to remove the we are profiting from your work aspect that could be used against them all in all it did have an important impact even though it never went to court and there never was a ruling saying that Yuzu did indeed breach Nintendo's copyright or anything else the fact is no one wants to fight the army of lawyers that Nintendo has and no one has pockets deep enough to do so and whether that's Nintendo Sony or anyone else no one really wants to face that kind of stuff it still remains that it's a terrible thing for game conservation in general some games can only be played through emulators these days and if emulators disappear then it means we lose an entire part of this medium's history which is obviously really really bad now what's really really good though is our sponsor tuxedo computers if you're looking for a new computer and you don't really want to look all over the Internet to see how well it can work on Linux what you're going to have to fix or just accept that some Hardware 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hey everyone do you like your good Linux and open source news mixed in with some general bad stuff well you've come to the right place first we have Linux passing 4% market share on the desktop we also have Fedora gnome decided to drop the X11 session from the default install which might be a good or a bad thing depending on where you stand on Wayland let me know in the comments and we also have apple making a giant mess of their compliance with the new EU regulations and just getting beat over the head again and again plus a giant 1.8 billion e fine they just got and of course we also have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by protonvpn the encrypted and private VPN from the makers of proton mail protonvpn lets you access anything on the internet while bypassing censorship and region locking by connecting to a server anywhere in the world so you can stream any content you like from any service without restrictions or access parts of the internet your country doesn't want 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that to Chrome OS this means Linux as a whole is now at 6.3% of the desktop operating systems although it might be more since stat counter also has an unknown OS category that sits at 6.1% and this category probably contains some amount of Linux based operating systems as well 4% is still pretty small but it is a nice progression more than 1% in 8 months so it is still an encouraging Trend but also people are wondering what is driving this growth and one article from ZDNet seems to have plausible reasons for that the first reason they Advance is that Microsoft is is not that interested in Windows anymore most of their profits come from Services these days Azure and their Cloud platform Microsoft 365 and others meaning that Microsoft is not pushing Windows as hard as it once did this might change if or more likely when Windows becomes a subscription service the second reason would be that Linux gaming is also growing thanks to valve and the steam deck making more people interested in trying Linux on a regular computer to see if it could fit the baill for their gaming needs and thus Linux slowly replaces windows on those devices third the reputation Linux has for being difficult is being adjusted in users Minds since we have had very userfriendly disos for a long while and users are finally realizing it also finding and installing software for Linux is easier than ever now with more apps working on Linux natively and flat packs and snaps making it way easier to get access to a large very upto-date repo instead of having to add third party repos for every app you'd like to add or to keep up to dat and finally they're saying that India is a huge driver for Linux growth as Linux represents 15% of the desktop market share there way above Mac OS that only reaches 3% and personally I think the main reason is the gaming push from Val people are realizing that Linux is a 100% valuable gaming platform for a lot of Gamers and so they might want to try Linux on their dedicated desktop computer and since Linux is indeed way easier to use to install to keep up to date and has access to a bunch of apps these days people are just sticking with it more than they used to in the past now it is finally happening Fedora is dropping the X11 session for Gnome starting with Fedora 41 there were discussions to drop X11 in the KD variant and this is happening for Fedora 40 but for the main M gnome version of Fedora a decision had not been reached yet so in the end what will happen is that with Fedora 41 in October the gnome X11 session will no longer be installed by default only the whon session will be offered to users because it was already the default you will still be able to install that X11 session from the repost it is not completely removed but it will not be offered as a fallback anymore which I think is a good thing it will take up less disc space even if it's not insanely heavy and it will make more people give a real shot to Wayland instead of dismissing it out of hand based on 5-year-old preconceived notions and for people who experience big problems because that will happen depending on the hardware you use or your use case well for people like that you can still install the older X11 session and have a fully functioning system it is a good decision Fedora has always been sort of a test bed for this kind of stuff Wayland has matured enough that it can be put as a default in the hands of users without the fallback net of X11 especially if you pair it with X whan Video Bridge which means that applications that never updated their electron back end to support whan properly will still be able to do screen sharing something like Discord for example now let's talk about open platforms and especially how apple is just getting clobbered by the EU so first Apple has pursued their malicious compliance as Epic games tried to open a developer account in the EU to work on their own app store which is now allowed in the EU and apple terminated that account almost immediately arguing that epic games just cannot be trusted to respect Apple's policies and that epic publicly criticized Apple's dma compliance Apple even denied epic a dma consultation that's a meeting in which they can discuss how best to implement the things that the new EU regulation Grant companies if they want to distribute apps on Apple's platforms now right after epic complaint about Apple terminating their account the EU already said they were looking into the matter they have requested further explanations from Apple and they're also evaluating whether Apple's actions raise doubts about their compliance with other European laws especially the platform to business regulations that prevent sudden and unexpected account terminations in the EU unless you can actually provide clear reasons for that termination which Apple hasn't done here they just cited a US Court ruling as the justification which obviously doesn't work because this account was for the EU branch of Epic where us courts just do not have any jurisdiction and just as I was recording this epic announced that Apple reinstated their account probably because they were afraid the EU would hit them again with another giant fine because yes they just got dished out a 1.8 billion e fine in the EU this is all linked to the European commission deeming Apple's policies anti-competitive the policies in question are related to how Apple prevents app developers from telling users about cheaper options to subscribe to services on iOS notably from music streaming services since it's Spotify who brought this case before the EU now Apple takes a 30% Commission on inapp subscriptions which means that Developers tend to increase their prices on iOS by the same amount but those developers just do not have the right to tell their users that they could subscribe for cheaper using the website they can't even include a link to their own website where people could buy these cheaper subscriptions and companies can't even send emails to users once they subscribe to tell them to renew through the website where they would pay less so the European commission ruled that this is unfair trading this is neither necessary or proportionate to the protection of Apple's interest and it negatively affects iOS users by preventing them from making an informed decision on how to subscribe so Apple will have to pay $1.8 billion in fines for abusing their dominant position and more importantly they will have to remove all these barriers meaning that app developers will now be able to talk about pricing options in their apps and Link users to their website to subscribe if they do not want to pay more for the exact same G service and this is wonderful news because it means that the EU is not just laying some words on paper and seeing what sticks they're actually enforcing these policies and the results are clear apple is now running around trying to fix all their malicious compliance because they know they're going to have to pay a lot of money if they don't so Props to the EU they don't always hit the mark but on this one they've been super reactive and it's nice to see big tech companies running a bit scared even though 1.8 billion for apple is probably not that much now unfortunately it looks like Nintendo's pressure was too much for the Yuzu emulator they agreed to settle with Nintendo and to pay $2.4 million in Damages and to shut down Yuzu and the Citra emulator for DS and 3DS the makers of the emulator will stop Distributing advertising and promoting Yuzu and the source code is no longer public they also turned their whole website over to Nintendo and they were mandated to delete any tool used for yuzu's development and funnily enough all copies of Yuzu which well they can't do that because they don't have control over what people installed on their computers and like I said Citra got caught in the crossfire since it was developed by the same people it will cease to exist as well both GitHub repos are already deleted but I am pretty sure they were forked like crazy right after Nintendo sued the project I am 99% sure we will see those two exact emulators pop back up again under a different name and probably more stealthily to avoid attracting Nintendo's attention although as soon as the companies made aware of these they will probably sue them just as well Nintendo has always been a terrible company about this they just do not want people to have access to any fun even if it's done legally I know they could lose a bit of money from emulation but honestly compared to the sales they have it's just destroying their reputation for mere pennies now something I missed last month but that's interesting enough to report on a French court has issued damages for a GPL violation something that is rare enough in the world in general to be mentioned orange a big Telecom provider in France apparently Ed some GPL software called lasso to enable single sign on in a portal developed for the French govern government to let the French people access their public services online but apparently orange did not pass on their changes to the community and they didn't make the source code for their modifications available either they were then sued by the makers of the lasso Library a case that was rejected at first but was then overturned in the appeals court thus cementing that breaching the GPL is first a violation of contract and second a violation of copyright at least in front so orange will have to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and €150,000 in moral damages as well this is not much for orange as a business but it is still a win for open- source and free software licenses and it might also make a lot of other developers look at how their code is being used by other big companies at least in France it sets a nice precedent that infringing on a copy LIF license of res software or open source license is indeed a breach of contract and of copyright so that's pretty cool okay now let's finish this with the gaming news for AMD GPU users Linux kernel developers decided it was not a good idea to let people completely undervolt their AMD gpus like it's currently possible as it could lead to Hardware damage so in the kernel 6.7 you will not be able to set Power limits below the recommended values AMD provides anymore they also clearly stated that they would not revert that change no matter how many people are complaining because yes apparently some people are complaining about that change which is weird because a driver should never let any user whether they know what they're doing or not risk damages to their Hardware just to grab like 5 minutes more battery life or to save a few watts of power it makes no sense if you like undervolting your GPU and maybe breaking it you're free to patch your kernel and use that instead but the default Behavior should never allow for any hardware damage at all now I talked about the issues AMD is facing with adding newer HDMI features to their open source drivers thanks to the HDMI Forum refusing to open the spec for the HDMI standard but apparently Nvidia users will not be facing the same issues even when using open- Source nvo drivers because a lot of the display handling for these is left to nvidia's Firmware blobs which are closed Source nvo developers say that it looks backwards but that nvidia's insistence to maintain this proprietary firmware is actually helping nvo to add support for HDMI features and yeah we are at that point where having proprietary firmware is basically an advantage to implement more features for a standard that should obviously be open so yeah it sucks but at least for NVIDIA users we are safe in knowing that yes we will be able to drive 4K monitors at 120 HZ if we want to and still on Nvidia it seems like the open-source modules that Nvidia publishes themselves which are different from nvo or nvk while those modules are now performing very nicely on GeForce gpus with the latest 550 updates these modules are now certified for workstations and GeForce gpus so fonx decided to give them ago compared to the proprietary NVIDIA drivers they did not compare that with nvo and nvk just yet in CSO to they found the performance to be the exact same at 4K and power consumption was also virtually identical same with Dodge righ 2 Formula 1 2022 Hitman 3 shadow of the Tomb Raider and a bunch of Graphics benchmarks even using compute benchmarks they found the differences in performance to be very minimal so it does look like nvidia's official open- Source drivers are actually pretty good now apparently their architecture and the way they're coded doesn't make them a good fit to be included in the mainline branch of the kernel so you will probably always have to compile them yourself or install them from an external repo just like you do with the proprietary drivers but if you don't want to wait for nvo and nvk to be widely available or to be mature and performant enough but you do want to run fully open source systems for your Nvidia gpus well you can now use those modules they're apparently pretty good and this is exciting because we will have two good open-source options to run Nvidia gpus in the future I guess the open source official modules will be better for compute tasks because they will probably better support stuff like Cuda and the other will probably be better in the long run because well they will be built in the kernel and the Mesa drivers and since we're on the topic of Hardware well let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and kns that ship with Linux out of the box all the hardware inside their devices is picked specifically because it works well with Linux and they actually contribute patchers Upstream to fix some of those issues and if these patches cannot be accepted in time they have their own repos you can add to a variety of dis Ros to get access to all these fixes as 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hey everyone it is time to get up to date with everything that happened in the Linux open source and privacy spaces this week so first system 76 announced that they would push back the cosmic desktop Alpha because they want more time to refine the core applications we have a massive data breach in France exposing Social Security numbers and a lot more personal data on potentially 43 million French citizens and we also have the EU backing down on trying to regulate free and open source software as if it was commercial software thanks to the free software foundation and obviously we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare they're your all-in-one service provider if you run a Linux server or workstation Fleet and you want to keep it secure up to date and with minimum downtime thanks to Kernel life patching and extended support for end of life distributions like sentos S7 for example in June 2024 any system running Centos S7 will be left without official 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and get some time to prepare your migration and know that you will be ready and you'll have some help when the time actually comes to change to something new so it looks like the cosmic desktop Alpha will be pushed back it was initially planned to release at the end of March but it will now come in late May instead they apparently want to make sure all the core apps that they're working on reach the minimal viable product stage so basically something that has all the basic features instead of pushing out a desktop Alpha with Half Baked applications there will also apparently be a second Alpha once some testing has been done now this does mean there's still some progress to talk about though and first hybrid graphic support is now complete with an appled to let you see which apps are using your dedicated GPU and the ability to close these apps so the GPU is no longer used to save battery life minimizing and restoring Windows is also implemented now and these windows will apparently be placed in a dedicated applet in the dock probably similarly to what Mac OS does the tiling applet is also complete letting users enable auto tiling for all workspaces or per workspace input device settings have also been implemented with features like tap to click Edge scrolling touchpad acceleration or selecting input sources and changing keyboard shortcuts now what remains is to implement drag and drop in the terminal to get file Pass Plus a confirmation dialogue before closing a terminal window if a process is currently running the text editor needs to get spellchecking and session restore features and the cosmic file manager is also progressing nicely and also it's the first app they've shown that has a menu bar so it's not going to be old gnome style apps with header bars you are getting these old menu bars in there M will also support the desktop portal for dark mode and accent colors and on top of that the current Pop Shop based on the Elementary OS app center will be replaced by a new cosmic store it's a brand new rust app and it's apparently very fast to open and to search for applications to install in it and it will support flatback so I'm a bit sad that the alpha is being delayed I had a video planned for the end of this month to talk about it it will be pushed back to may but I guess it's the best thing they could do because I would much rather take a look at a feature complete Alpha just saying okay there are still some bugs but it's normal it's an alpha rather than taking a look at something that is Half Baked and is missing crucial features which would not give a great first impression of that desktop France got a giant data breach this week with data from potentially 43 million people being grabbed by malicious actors it's data that comes from the unemployment databases which includes anyone who ever reported to be unemployed at some point or wanted to receive access to training for a career change or even just had a short period where they were in between jobs and this data dates back 20 years it includes things like email addresses Social Security numbers phone numbers dates of birth and names so it is ripe for identity theft and fraud and it could be linked to other data grabbed in other breaches to build even more comprehensive profiles it is a giant problem apparently achieved through social engineering and the affected French service will now have to inform everyone affected I think I'm probably in there as well even though I've never reported to Unemployment Services as I never needed it fortunately but it still might contain some of my data from some old sermer jobs at some point now the other problem is why is that data dating back 20 years French laws are pretty strict for data conservation and generally it's 10 years maximum so the only reason I can say see is to calculate pensions once you retire but that's the only reason now second these types of governmental Services really need better training to handle social engineering attacks and they need a serious cyber security threat assessment no system is bulletproof and it's also run by humans all humans are fallible but also come on it's 43 million people you have to protect that data somehow now fortunately most important systems and websites in France will require you to use your fiscal number so the one you use to declare taxes the social security number is still important for everything related to healthcare but it's not as important as your fiscal number so it's probably not the end of the world but it's still pretty bad the Linux kernel 6.8 is now out it includes the new experimental Intel XE driver that will replace I 915 for recent Intel gpus in the future the kernel also improv support for upcoming AMD Hardware CPUs and gpus included there's also better support for the Raspberry Pi 5 notably on the graphics side of things the Z swap subsystem is now able to force old Pages out of the ram when you really need that RAM available for something else the kernel can prevent direct rights to block devices that have a mounted file system to prevent file system corruption the Intel CPU frequency scaling will also be much better for recent CPUs which will be able to hit their Max boost speeds on Linux and ryzen 7000 CPUs get a fix to avoid radio frequency interference from the Wi-Fi and GPU memory clocks running multiple TCP connections will also be much faster as well up to 40% faster and you're also gaining support for the Nintendo switch online controllers a few game pads and handhelds and color management for the steam deck so all in all it is a smaller update than 6.7 but it is still a pretty important one as it will be the default in a buntu 24 .04 which is an LTS it will probably also be in Fedora 40 so it's a major one now while the EU generally does pretty well at regulating big companies they also had some pretty big misses and one of these was the Cyber resiliency act which on paper was solid it forced companies to follow procedures to disclose vulnerabilities and to ensure that their software is secure before commercializing it to users with a bunch of checks and certifications to follow and this was probably a good thing for big companies that sell proprietary software but it was not as good for open- Source projects which were regulated in the exact same way in this regulations draft and they would basically be incapable of following the regulations or afford the Audits and certifications needed the other issue would be that the open source developers would be held liable under this new regulation if anyone using their software suffered from various attacks even though open source licenses generally absolve developers from responsibility the free software Foundation campaigned within the EU to try and get an exemption for open source and free software and it looks like they managed to get it free software will have a broad exemption and will no longer be considered as commercial software through this regulation and it looks like the liability will lie with companies who significantly benefit financially from that software instead it is a very interesting thing because on the one hand it means open source can keep on business as usual you provide something as is someone decides to use it it's their responsibility to keep it up to date or to contribute to fix any problems on the other hand it also means that open source software might feel like it's not a good deal for companies who might want to add it to a commercial product because it is not covered by any of these regulations certifications or audits now in a pretty funny investigative Circle the EU is investigating itself over data privacy and the use of big tech services the EU data protection supervisor found that the European commission the organism in the EU that generally deals out giant fines to Apple Microsoft Google and the like well they found that this commission itself was in breach of data transfer rules turns out the European commission uses Microsoft 365 and there are absolutely no safeguards in place to make sure the data the app collects is transmitted to servers outside the EU which is a big no no when it comes to privacy in the EU the European data protection supervisor said that the EU didn't really specify which types of data were collected by Microsoft 365 and for which purpose the commission has to apply corrective measures by December 9th 2024 or to stop using Microsoft's Cloud Suite entirely so for now all data flows between the European commission and Microsoft servers must be stopped and they will have to do some data mapping to see what comes out of their use of the solution and where it goes exactly which means they will have to work with Microsoft and they will also have to fix the contracts they have with the company to ensure these include all the necessary saf guards for this EU data to be limited to only what is absolutely necessary for the service to run the European commission agreed to review all of this but also said that compliant would undermine their current level of services because it not only applies to Microsoft products but also other services and well maybe it's time to tell the EU that there are European solutions that do the exact same job as Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 for cheaper more privately and are open source and probably also are based in the EU the European commission cannot just use one of their hands to hit every big tech company over the head and deal out fines for privacy violations but use the other hand to actually give Mone money to these companies and encourage them to continue this crap they should at least review their contracts to make sure that they fit with the regulation they themselves set in place now you might be aware of the lawsuit currently in process between the New York Times and open AI where the former accuses the latter of scrapping their articles to train their AI without any authorization or compensation the New York Times ran some prompts and found out that chat GPT could just spit out entire portions of their articles or the entire article and they use that fact to sue open Ai and the company's defense is pretty weird they're saying the New York Times hired people to craft specific prompts to get chat GPT to reproduce articles and that people will never land on these results on their own and the New York Times completely agrees they say they just copy pasted a few sentences of the article as a chat GPT prompt but they also say that this defense doesn't work yes it is not a that anyone would reasonably type but also that's not what the lawsuit is about no matter how you reach the state where chat GPT reproduces the entire article what matters is that the article is indeed reproduced which proves open AI used it to train their AI without any authorization which is what the lawsuit is about and I don't know what open ai's lawyers were expecting to achieve here it's like defending yourself against the lawsuit arguing that you forged something by saying that the forgery was hard to make it just doesn't work You just prove that yes you forged something now whether the courts decide that AI tools have the right to just scrap content of the internet and train their models off of it we'll have to see that's what the lawsuit is exactly about but in this case open AI doesn't really have a defense they're just saying hey you did that weirdly yes but this still proves that you scrp the Articles and that's what you're being accused of so we'll have to let the courts decide if this is something wrong or not your defense just doesn't work it seems like Nintendo's attack on the Yuzu emulator had wide repercussions on the entire emulation world as a lot of developers are stepping down or changing how to promote their tools Citra the DS and 3DS emulator is now gone because it was made by the same people behind user pizza boy an emulator for GBA and Game Boy CER is also gone drastic a DS emulator went free instead of then will probably be removed as well Strat another switch emulator lost its main developer Doric a tool to speed up various emulators and a development a contributor to ryogen X another switch emulator has stepped down an ether sx2 a PS2 emulator is also gone after development was suspended a year ago other emulators are obviously still active saying that they have solid legal grounds to stand up and they are probably emulators that Target consoles that are no no longer sold with games that aren't purchasable anymore but Nintendo definitely scared people away from contributing to emulators even the forks of Yuzu are making it more difficult to use them as they now require you to bring all the various decryption keys and the firmware from your own switch instead of trying to replicate or break them in the emulator itself a lot of emulators are also no longer pay Walling anything or even asking for donations to remove the we are profiting from your work aspect that could be used against them all in all it did have an important impact even though it never went to court and there never was a ruling saying that Yuzu did indeed breach Nintendo's copyright or anything else the fact is no one wants to fight the army of lawyers that Nintendo has and no one has pockets deep enough to do so and whether that's Nintendo Sony or anyone else no one really wants to face that kind of stuff it still remains that it's a terrible thing for game conservation in general some games can only be played through emulators these days and if emulators disappear then it means we lose an entire part of this medium's history which is obviously really really bad now what's really really good though is our sponsor tuxedo computers if you're looking for a new computer and you don't really want to look all over the Internet to see how well it can work on Linux what you're going to have to fix or just accept that some Hardware 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if you're starting out with Linux chances are you might be a bit lost in certain areas whether you're trying to learn the command line how to customize your desktop how to use Linux on your server or how to play games on it everything might feel different to what you're used to and so I felt it was a good idea to look at various online resources that I personally used or that I looked at and can recommend to help you during your Linux Journey because after all if you manage to find what you're looking for chances are you will stick with Linux which makes the community grow which is always a good thing so we'll look at websites databases YouTube channels podcasts and more on most topics you might want to learn about and of course if you have other cool resources that you use and you want to share well you're welcome to write a comment and to let everyone benefit and in the meantime I'll let you know about our sponsor this video is sponsored by kasm workspaces a great project for streaming apps operating system systems and desktops straight to your browser they just released version 1.15 which adds support for multiple monitors for your Linux desktop along with a redesigned control panel to enhance the mobile workspace experience additional updates include session recording open stack Auto scaling enhanced multiactor authentication and new images for Fedora Alpine parrot OS and even the redroid Android emulator this update makes it easier than ever to host on on demand access to your desktops and applications the km workspaces Community Edition can be self-hosted or they also have a cloud software as a service subscription to learn more about kasm workspaces click the link in the description okay so first where can you go if you want to deepen your general knowledge of Linux its architecture and the various systems that it uses one solid entry point is the arch Wiki it's meant for Arch Linux as in the instruction it gives are tailored for Arch but it's also a gold mine of general information about virtually every system you might want to know more about for example if you're confused about system D and how to use it the arch Wiki will tell you what it is what it does and some general usage tips to help you get to grips with it some things will definitely be Arch specific in there so if you don't run Arch do not blindly run commands from there but it's a good resource to better understand how the various components of a Linux system work together I don't use Arch by the way but I do use their wikii to learn more about specific systems or find a quick fix for certain things that will work no matter the dis R you run them on I'm not saying you should run Arch but you should definitely use the knowledge that they've gathered now if you have ever used du lingo to try and learn a new language you might like this website it's called Linux journey and it breaks down a lot of what you need to learn in various categories as you mature and understand things better so with the grasshopper set of courses you can learn the general basics of the command line managing packages processes users and more and then you can move on to learning about how to handle devices logs networking basically everything it's a pretty verbos website meaning it's mostly text to explain how things work but you do get some small exercises to try with a quiz question it is not the deepest set of exerc sizes but it does give you a solid overview of the basics of your Linux system now this one is not for the faint of heart it's Linux from scratch seriously don't run away it's going to consume months of your life because it's basically a Dro where you have to compile everything yourself bit by bit it's a project you should undertake as a hobby but once you've actually managed to build your entire system from scratch with the help of the Linux from scratch book available for free of course you will know everything about how a Linux system works and is built and its various components I will freely admit I never completed a Linux from scratch install I actually stopped at compiling gipc because I just did not have the time to do it but if you really want to go in depth into every single bit of your system then it's probably the best way to learn about it do note that it's going to be very time consuming you're not just going to whip that out in an afternoon you have to use it as a hobby project to learn how things work and finally you also have free courses on the Linux foundations website they cover a lot of things from the basics of Open Source licenses to cental development developing software on Linux cyber security and more one I would recommend is the introduction to Linux or lfs 101X you will have to create an account and it's more of a structured course like an e-learning thing over multiple weeks but it's very comprehensive so if you tend to perform better in a more structured environment it is a good one now let's look at various resources focused on specific topics one thing a lot of people go into Linux 4 is the command line and learning how this works can be a bit tricky especially if you have no prior experience with any non-graphical way to use a computer now if you prefer to learn by following along a nice little tutorial Linux survival is a handy website it will take some time to go through but it explains things really well with all the basics of navigating the file system interacting with files permissions discs or processes it's really just the fundamentals of the command line but it has all you need to get started now the interface is not super pretty but it works if you don't care about exercises but you just want the theory and the explanations Linux command. org is also a very good website to get started it also covers more indepth stuff like writing shell scripts which is something you might like to learn as well now if you're looking for deep dives into one specific command or tool then there are two YouTube channels I would recommend the first one is learn Linux TV it's probably one of the biggest if not the biggest English-speaking Linux channels and they have a ton of tips for Linux plus some reviews as well there are a huge number of well-crafted videos about specific tools that you might want to learn about you can use the little search icon on the Channel's page to look for the specific command you're interested in the second channel is Veronica explains and it's also full of nice lessons about specific tools and command line utilities plus some general Linux related topics as well it's a more recent Channel with less videos but it's still a very nice one to follow now you can find a ton of resources about specific command line utilities on YouTube or on peer but these are two channels I reference often when I need to learn about something new which is very often and also when I need to refresh my knowledge on something which is also very often because I forget everything now if you like to learn with something more akin to a game then there's Terminus it's basically a Choose Your Own Adventure game but using Linux terminal commands to navigate like LS to show where you can go less to get details about an item and CD to move somewhere else it's not really going to teach you all that much but it's pretty fun if you like these types of old text based adventure games and also it's going to make it look like you're working when you're gaming and to test your knowledge in more practical exercises you have command challenge it will give you instructions to follow with quick exercises and of course potential Solutions when clicking the little arrow next to the prompt it's a really nice way to test what you've actually learned and it also made me realize by making this video that my knowledge of specific commands it's very very superficial now if you want to learn more about a specific Linux desktop environment then the main resource you'll want is the actual help Pages for the desktop all of them have a help center that will give you the very basics of how to use the desktop for KI you can get much deeper into the various settings with the Ki user base Wiki it's not always entirely up toate because KD changes very often and with plasma 6 I'm sure there's a lot of work to make things more current but it is still a good resource to learn more about specific features of your desktop and what you can do with it with g less of an issue because it is very simple and you can explore it by yourself for tiling window managers you can refer to either the GitHub repos which generally have a nice detailed rundown on how to customize and use them for example for sway I3 has its own documentation website with everything you need to know hyperland has a master tutorial covering everything as well and of course looking on YouTube for KD or gome tips KD or gnome applications and tutorials you will find plenty of resources there I actually made a bunch of these videos myself I still do from time to time but there are plenty of other channels that cover these desktops now if what you want to learn about is how to customize that desktop by changing its layout its theme or adding extra features I can only recommend the Linux scoop Channel they make detailed tutorials on how to change the appearance of gnome and KDE to something else and even if you don't want to end up with the exact same result it will still teach you a lot about how to install gnome extensions plasma themes Quantum themes widgets icon themes and more you can just follow along any of their tutorials and by the end you will know exactly how to apply your own customizations to get to the results you want now if you think your default Linux desktop just doesn't look super good chances are there's a video on Linux scop that has an end result that fits your needs at least in terms of theming but sometimes also in terms of layout for more inspiration you also have Unix porn on Reddit but this mostly seems focused on tiling window manager so it might not be for everyone now for Linux gaming there are plenty of resources out there first to stay up toate on everything there's the gaming on Linux website it's the most comprehensive one out there with all the latest news about the steam deck General Linux gaming how certain games run on Linux and the various developments in that space then you have proton DB it is the database to know if if a game runs on Linux or not it covers only Steam games that run with proton but that's 99% of games you can check if a game works and the various tweaks people are suggesting to improve the experience if that's needed and after that you can look into other tools like bottles the heroic launcher or lutris but these are pretty self-explanatory and you don't really need a guide on how to use them or install them just visit their website I actually made a video which is a complete guide on how to set up Linux gaming but it's pretty old now and it might be completely outdated if what you want to focus on is what's happening in the Linux and open source world like General news and updates there are a ton of resources out there as well for updates on what is going on in the Linux development world and the progress of various Linux and open source projects bro has it all he makes videos about every day on the latest topics developer conversations and the general progress of various important projects it's a fantastic channel to get your finger on the pulse of the Linux Community for podcast you have destination Linux a weekly show covering the latest major news stories in the Linux and open source world plus some interviews it is not just for experienced Linux users either it stays very legible and accessible and for more in-depth coverage of every single one of these issues you have the best source out there trust me bro it's my own audio podcast yes I do make that it's a 40 minute weekly where I basically talk about the same topics as the Linux and open source News videos but in more detail with more topics and with more opinions I also make a daily version of this show for patreon members and YouTube members you can access that by any tier like $1 a month is fine you'll get that but yeah if you're tired like me of hearing my stupid voice and my French accent maybe that's not for you now asper Linux news websites good resources are OMG obuntu and OMG Linux the former I've been following basically since it was created back when I started using Linux you also have Linux AC a great source of news and information about Linux and open source and of course for ronx for more benchmarks and development focused updates these are sources that I browse virtually every day and that I can definitely recommend if you want to learn more about what's happening in the Linux world and for the latest news about gnome and KDE they have weekly posts and updates with the this week in Gnome and this week in KD series of posts they will tell you everything you need to know about how these projects are evolving so that's about it I didn't teach you anything here the internet is a gold mine of resources to learn about everything you want these are also just resources that I found useful during my Linux Journey that is not the extent of what you can find so of course do not hesitate to recommend other good information sources that you use so everyone can benefit just leave a comment and in the meantime I'll just let you know about today sponsor tuxedo computers if you need a new device and you plan to run Linux on it and you want to support companies that actually contribute to linux's growth and development why not take a look at the computers made by tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware was picked because it's very compatible with Linux they 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hey everyone do you like your good Linux and open source news mixed in with some general bad stuff well you've come to the right place first we have Linux passing 4% market share on the desktop we also have Fedora gnome decided to drop the X11 session from the default install which might be a good or a bad thing depending on where you stand on Wayland let me know in the comments and we also have apple making a giant mess of their compliance with the new EU regulations and just getting beat over the head again and again plus a giant 1.8 billion e fine they just got and of course we also have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by protonvpn the encrypted and private VPN from the makers of proton mail protonvpn lets you access anything on the internet while bypassing censorship and region locking by connecting to a server anywhere in the world so you can stream any content you like from any service without restrictions or access parts of the internet your country doesn't want 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that to Chrome OS this means Linux as a whole is now at 6.3% of the desktop operating systems although it might be more since stat counter also has an unknown OS category that sits at 6.1% and this category probably contains some amount of Linux based operating systems as well 4% is still pretty small but it is a nice progression more than 1% in 8 months so it is still an encouraging Trend but also people are wondering what is driving this growth and one article from ZDNet seems to have plausible reasons for that the first reason they Advance is that Microsoft is is not that interested in Windows anymore most of their profits come from Services these days Azure and their Cloud platform Microsoft 365 and others meaning that Microsoft is not pushing Windows as hard as it once did this might change if or more likely when Windows becomes a subscription service the second reason would be that Linux gaming is also growing thanks to valve and the steam deck making more people interested in trying Linux on a regular computer to see if it could fit the baill for their gaming needs and thus Linux slowly replaces windows on those devices third the reputation Linux has for being difficult is being adjusted in users Minds since we have had very userfriendly disos for a long while and users are finally realizing it also finding and installing software for Linux is easier than ever now with more apps working on Linux natively and flat packs and snaps making it way easier to get access to a large very upto-date repo instead of having to add third party repos for every app you'd like to add or to keep up to dat and finally they're saying that India is a huge driver for Linux growth as Linux represents 15% of the desktop market share there way above Mac OS that only reaches 3% and personally I think the main reason is the gaming push from Val people are realizing that Linux is a 100% valuable gaming platform for a lot of Gamers and so they might want to try Linux on their dedicated desktop computer and since Linux is indeed way easier to use to install to keep up to date and has access to a bunch of apps these days people are just sticking with it more than they used to in the past now it is finally happening Fedora is dropping the X11 session for Gnome starting with Fedora 41 there were discussions to drop X11 in the KD variant and this is happening for Fedora 40 but for the main M gnome version of Fedora a decision had not been reached yet so in the end what will happen is that with Fedora 41 in October the gnome X11 session will no longer be installed by default only the whon session will be offered to users because it was already the default you will still be able to install that X11 session from the repost it is not completely removed but it will not be offered as a fallback anymore which I think is a good thing it will take up less disc space even if it's not insanely heavy and it will make more people give a real shot to Wayland instead of dismissing it out of hand based on 5-year-old preconceived notions and for people who experience big problems because that will happen depending on the hardware you use or your use case well for people like that you can still install the older X11 session and have a fully functioning system it is a good decision Fedora has always been sort of a test bed for this kind of stuff Wayland has matured enough that it can be put as a default in the hands of users without the fallback net of X11 especially if you pair it with X whan Video Bridge which means that applications that never updated their electron back end to support whan properly will still be able to do screen sharing something like Discord for example now let's talk about open platforms and especially how apple is just getting clobbered by the EU so first Apple has pursued their malicious compliance as Epic games tried to open a developer account in the EU to work on their own app store which is now allowed in the EU and apple terminated that account almost immediately arguing that epic games just cannot be trusted to respect Apple's policies and that epic publicly criticized Apple's dma compliance Apple even denied epic a dma consultation that's a meeting in which they can discuss how best to implement the things that the new EU regulation Grant companies if they want to distribute apps on Apple's platforms now right after epic complaint about Apple terminating their account the EU already said they were looking into the matter they have requested further explanations from Apple and they're also evaluating whether Apple's actions raise doubts about their compliance with other European laws especially the platform to business regulations that prevent sudden and unexpected account terminations in the EU unless you can actually provide clear reasons for that termination which Apple hasn't done here they just cited a US Court ruling as the justification which obviously doesn't work because this account was for the EU branch of Epic where us courts just do not have any jurisdiction and just as I was recording this epic announced that Apple reinstated their account probably because they were afraid the EU would hit them again with another giant fine because yes they just got dished out a 1.8 billion e fine in the EU this is all linked to the European commission deeming Apple's policies anti-competitive the policies in question are related to how Apple prevents app developers from telling users about cheaper options to subscribe to services on iOS notably from music streaming services since it's Spotify who brought this case before the EU now Apple takes a 30% Commission on inapp subscriptions which means that Developers tend to increase their prices on iOS by the same amount but those developers just do not have the right to tell their users that they could subscribe for cheaper using the website they can't even include a link to their own website where people could buy these cheaper subscriptions and companies can't even send emails to users once they subscribe to tell them to renew through the website where they would pay less so the European commission ruled that this is unfair trading this is neither necessary or proportionate to the protection of Apple's interest and it negatively affects iOS users by preventing them from making an informed decision on how to subscribe so Apple will have to pay $1.8 billion in fines for abusing their dominant position and more importantly they will have to remove all these barriers meaning that app developers will now be able to talk about pricing options in their apps and Link users to their website to subscribe if they do not want to pay more for the exact same G service and this is wonderful news because it means that the EU is not just laying some words on paper and seeing what sticks they're actually enforcing these policies and the results are clear apple is now running around trying to fix all their malicious compliance because they know they're going to have to pay a lot of money if they don't so Props to the EU they don't always hit the mark but on this one they've been super reactive and it's nice to see big tech companies running a bit scared even though 1.8 billion for apple is probably not that much now unfortunately it looks like Nintendo's pressure was too much for the Yuzu emulator they agreed to settle with Nintendo and to pay $2.4 million in Damages and to shut down Yuzu and the Citra emulator for DS and 3DS the makers of the emulator will stop Distributing advertising and promoting Yuzu and the source code is no longer public they also turned their whole website over to Nintendo and they were mandated to delete any tool used for yuzu's development and funnily enough all copies of Yuzu which well they can't do that because they don't have control over what people installed on their computers and like I said Citra got caught in the crossfire since it was developed by the same people it will cease to exist as well both GitHub repos are already deleted but I am pretty sure they were forked like crazy right after Nintendo sued the project I am 99% sure we will see those two exact emulators pop back up again under a different name and probably more stealthily to avoid attracting Nintendo's attention although as soon as the companies made aware of these they will probably sue them just as well Nintendo has always been a terrible company about this they just do not want people to have access to any fun even if it's done legally I know they could lose a bit of money from emulation but honestly compared to the sales they have it's just destroying their reputation for mere pennies now something I missed last month but that's interesting enough to report on a French court has issued damages for a GPL violation something that is rare enough in the world in general to be mentioned orange a big Telecom provider in France apparently Ed some GPL software called lasso to enable single sign on in a portal developed for the French govern government to let the French people access their public services online but apparently orange did not pass on their changes to the community and they didn't make the source code for their modifications available either they were then sued by the makers of the lasso Library a case that was rejected at first but was then overturned in the appeals court thus cementing that breaching the GPL is first a violation of contract and second a violation of copyright at least in front so orange will have to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and €150,000 in moral damages as well this is not much for orange as a business but it is still a win for open- source and free software licenses and it might also make a lot of other developers look at how their code is being used by other big companies at least in France it sets a nice precedent that infringing on a copy LIF license of res software or open source license is indeed a breach of contract and of copyright so that's pretty cool okay now let's finish this with the gaming news for AMD GPU users Linux kernel developers decided it was not a good idea to let people completely undervolt their AMD gpus like it's currently possible as it could lead to Hardware damage so in the kernel 6.7 you will not be able to set Power limits below the recommended values AMD provides anymore they also clearly stated that they would not revert that change no matter how many people are complaining because yes apparently some people are complaining about that change which is weird because a driver should never let any user whether they know what they're doing or not risk damages to their Hardware just to grab like 5 minutes more battery life or to save a few watts of power it makes no sense if you like undervolting your GPU and maybe breaking it you're free to patch your kernel and use that instead but the default Behavior should never allow for any hardware damage at all now I talked about the issues AMD is facing with adding newer HDMI features to their open source drivers thanks to the HDMI Forum refusing to open the spec for the HDMI standard but apparently Nvidia users will not be facing the same issues even when using open- Source nvo drivers because a lot of the display handling for these is left to nvidia's Firmware blobs which are closed Source nvo developers say that it looks backwards but that nvidia's insistence to maintain this proprietary firmware is actually helping nvo to add support for HDMI features and yeah we are at that point where having proprietary firmware is basically an advantage to implement more features for a standard that should obviously be open so yeah it sucks but at least for NVIDIA users we are safe in knowing that yes we will be able to drive 4K monitors at 120 HZ if we want to and still on Nvidia it seems like the open-source modules that Nvidia publishes themselves which are different from nvo or nvk while those modules are now performing very nicely on GeForce gpus with the latest 550 updates these modules are now certified for workstations and GeForce gpus so fonx decided to give them ago compared to the proprietary NVIDIA drivers they did not compare that with nvo and nvk just yet in CSO to they found the performance to be the exact same at 4K and power consumption was also virtually identical same with Dodge righ 2 Formula 1 2022 Hitman 3 shadow of the Tomb Raider and a bunch of Graphics benchmarks even using compute benchmarks they found the differences in performance to be very minimal so it does look like nvidia's official open- Source drivers are actually pretty good now apparently their architecture and the way they're coded doesn't make them a good fit to be included in the mainline branch of the kernel so you will probably always have to compile them yourself or install them from an external repo just like you do with the proprietary drivers but if you don't want to wait for nvo and nvk to be widely available or to be mature and performant enough but you do want to run fully open source systems for your Nvidia gpus well you can now use those modules they're apparently pretty good and this is exciting because we will have two good open-source options to run Nvidia gpus in the future I guess the open source official modules will be better for compute tasks because they will probably better support stuff like Cuda and the other will probably be better in the long run because well they will be built in the kernel and the Mesa drivers and since we're on the topic of Hardware well let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers they make laptops desktops and kns that ship with Linux out of the box all the hardware inside their devices is picked specifically because it works well with Linux and they actually contribute patchers Upstream to fix some of those issues and if these patches cannot be accepted in time they have their own repos you can add to a variety of dis Ros to get access to all these fixes as well they have a wide range of devices for all price points and all needs whether you need a simple Ultra Book for office work up to a giant gaming laptop or workstation they have it all all the devices are very customizable including your own keyboard layout on your laptop your own logo engraved on theid and a choice of components for most devices and all laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded I only use tuxedo computers these days this channel runs on one of their laptops and my gaming needs are served by a toxedo CU which is basically just a relatively small desktop PC on which I run Holo ISO so if you need a a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux well click the link in the description below and get yourself a device from tuxedo so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you really enjoyed the 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most laptops I reviewed on this channel either had no dedicated GPU or one from Nvidia and we all know that Nvidia can sometimes be problematic on Linux so today is an exciting day because I will be looking at a full AMD laptop that runs Linux out of the box it's the tuxedo serus 16 and it comes with a dedicated AMD GPU and Orizon CPU with some pretty impressive specs but before we begin here's the usual disclaimer yes tuxedo is a regular sponsor of the channel but they did not sponsor this video they didn't get to see it beforehand and they didn't get to see the script either so all opinions here are my own and if tuxedo doesn't like anything I have to say and they decide to stop sponsoring me the channel will still be perfectly fine so now let's get started so the serus 16 is decidedly aimed at Linux gaming or world workstation use cases it is not an Ultra Book it is sort of a powerhouse it's 16.1 in with a 2K resolution of 2560x1440 so it's 16x 9 better for gaming in my opinion than 16 by10 but less good for other tasks that display supports up to 165 HZ it has a full aluminum chassis an 80w hour battery it can accommodate up to 96 gigs of RAM 8 terab of PCI 4 SSD and it comes with USB 4 the latest HDMI 2.1 and Wifi 6E but what matters more is what is inside this laptop which is a ryzen 77840 HS and a radian 7600 MXT GPU this means that this thing with its 8 gigs of ddr6 vram is ready to play about anything you'd want to play on a laptop or plugged into an external mod monitor so let's start with the design and the build quality and while I am not usually a fan of the gamer aesthetic this thing is understated enough that I find it looks really good it's still relatively thin at 2.2 CM so a bit less than an inch thick and it just oozes quality the aluminium chassis really feels solid and the whole laptop is pretty hefty at 2.2 kilos or 4.8 lb the only thing that is not aluminium is the bezel around the screen which is very very chunky this could have easily accommodated a 16 by10 screen instead because this is a big chin under the display that's the only element I'm not a fan of the rest just looks great you get an understated tuxedo logo on the lid and you can ask them to engrave anything else and that's it the rest is matte black or gunmal gray depending on how the lights hits it it has very smooth lines and nothing too gamery apart maybe from the shape of the power button and the little inserts next to it the hinges are wonderful they sort of slide out of the chassis as two small arcs and I honestly wonder how they fit when you close the display because it feels like they shouldn't but it is very sturdy it doesn't wobble it opens super smoothly and with just one finger the chassis is also very resistant to fingerprints which is nice and there is is very little Flex anywhere on the laptop it feels solid and well built it's a quality device honestly with that design this laptop would absolutely fit in any form of corporate environment it is not like Alienware levels of gamer design apparently tuxedo started working with a new original design manufacturer or odm to build this one so it comes out from a new Factory that tuxedo never worked with before this laptop and honestly I think they should keep working with them the design and the build quality is just one notch above everything else that tuxedo has produced until now and what they did before was not too shabby because I use a tuxedo laptop and I've been using that as my daily driver for a while and it is one of the nicest most well-built laptops I've ever had including recent MacBooks next let's take a look at the performance because that's the main reason to get this thing so the CPU is a ryzen 77840 HS it's eight cores 16 threads running at a top speed of 5.1 GHz in Gig bench 6 it got 2640 in single core and 12,635 in multicore so it is more powerful than the i7 1700h that I use daily on my own laptop in terms of gaming I ran the Benchmark for Horizon zero Dawn at the native resolution of 1440p and Max settings the game got 77 FPS perfectly playable with a very nice looking experience lowering that to 1080P and using FSR on the quality setting still with all details maxed out I got 116 FPS and at high details at 1080p with FSR on quality you reach 118 to 120 so you will be able to make use of that display's high refresh rate so yeah the 7600m XT is not the most powerful graphics card on the planet for lapt tops but it is very very capable and you will be able to play about anything on that with reasonably good graphics and all of that runs in hybrid graphics mode by default at least on the pre-installed tuxedo OS that my review unit came with I didn't experience any issues here multim monitor worked great using the HDMI port that plugs into the dedicated GPU all ABS that needed to use the dedicated GPU open using it and benefiting from the best performance it was all smooth sale ing nothing to report here to be noted though since this is the first computer tuxedo has that uses a hybrid configuration with an AMD GPU their control center doesn't yet support switching from hybrid graphics to integrated Graphics only or dedicated only you can do that in the UEFI interface if you want but in my tests the performance of using the dedicated GPU only was the exact same as with hybrid mode and Tuxedo confirmed this to me as well now in terms of battery life running at half brightness with Wi-Fi on playing videos in a loop in Firefox the laptop lasted for 6 hours which isn't bad but also isn't completely full day battery life you can also expect less battery life when gaming or doing some graphics intensive tasks while unplug fan control isn't implemented yet in the control center either but it is coming you can still create power profiles but you don't have as granular a control over the fan speeds as with other tuxedo devices that you can buy right now in terms of ports you do get a solid selection here on the left side you have a usba a 3.2 Gen 2 port a headphone jack and a separate mic Jack on the right you have a fingerprint reader which unfortunately doesn't support Linux at least I could not find any option to enable or use it using toxedo OS and KD plasma and yeah it feels like this thing just doesn't have Linux driver which sucks for a Linux laptop you also get a USBC Port 4.0 gen 3x2 it supports power delivery and display port 1.4 and it is hardwired to the integrated GPU and on the right you also have another usba 3.2 Gen 2 finally on the back you get a barrel charger a gab ethernet port an HDMI 2.1 Port that supports freyn and is hardwired to the dedicated GPU and a USBC 3.2 gen 2x1 Port that supports display port free sync and is also hardwired to the dedicated GPU so yeah you can drive a bunch of external monitors plug in through Ethernet and basically just run anything you like off of all of these ports including charging the laptop with USBC so yeah no blunder here it's perfect now the display on the laptop is also pretty good if you don't have a problem with 16x9 it can run up to 165 Herz but it can go down to 120 96 72 or 60 HZ viewing angles are perfect and it covers 100% of srgb with a contrast ratio of 1,000 to1 it's only 300 nits of brightness it's not bad but it's not the brightest ever but it also supports AMD freeing it's 2K so 2560 by 1440p which in my opinion is great for a 16-in display because it means you don't really need to use fractional scaling in or scaling at all now let's look at the inputs because these are what makes or breaks a laptop if you have a crappy touchpad or a crappy keyboard then you might as well not bother at all now the keyboard is a rubber membrane Affair that feels really good to type on it's quiet key travel is okay and the keys don't get stuck they're stable so you can press from a corner and activate them and you also get a numpad which is a personal preference you get a tux branded key you get fullsize arrow keys that are slightly off compared to the rest of the keyboard I hated that at first but I kind of like it now because it makes them really easy to find the keyboard is RGB backlit you can control that in the tuxedo control center to change the color and the brightness to anything you like or you can press function plus space bar to turn it on or off the touchpad is really smooth and sturdy it's big enough it's really off center though which some people like but I absolutely don't I like things centered it produces is a very reassuring solid click it doesn't rattle at all and it's really nice it works with gestures as well it's a good touchpad it is a good keyboard and touchpad combo it's not the best I've ever used that award goes to my current daily driver the infinity Book Pro 16 which has the best touchpad I've ever used and the nicest keyboard to type on but this thing on the Serius 16 is really really solid now the Serius 16 comes with four speakers which sound pretty nice they don't rattle the chassis they have decent base and while they're bottom firing they don't get muffled too much when you rest the laptop on the soft surface they're good although I would have liked if they went a little bit [Music] louder the mic is nothing to write home about it's okay for small chats but you're not recording a podcast on this day it sounds tinny and distant but it is far from the worst I've ever seen in a laptop as for the webcam it goes up to 1080p30 which isn't bad and it doesn't yield horrible results at all it's still a webcam but it's decent compared to most it also has a built-in privacy shutter that you can slide over it to block the image if you're worried about that so yeah the speakers are nice and the mic and webcam are serviceable they're not the worst I've ever used but they're definitely not MacBook Pro quality either so this thing is a very nice laptop it's also expensive it starts at 1,740 including vat if you have to pay that and that's for 16 gigs of RAM and 500 gigs of SSD you can spec it up to 96 gigs of RAM which tuxedo tells me was only possible thanks to the AMD CPU which generates less heat than an Intel CPU and so can accommodate more RAM the storage can go up to 8 terabyt of PCI 4 SSD with two m.2 slots and you can pick from a variety of keyboard layouts and dros and since full AMD laptops are pretty rare these days even outside of the Linux devices world I think it's a solid proposition it is an expensive device for sure but the build quality and performance are pretty good here there are only three things I'm not a fan of on this laptop it's first the really off center touchpad but that's a personal preference second is the big chin under the display I would have preferred a 16 by10 display that really occupies the whole height of the laptop and I'm also not a huge fan of the fact that it only has 6 hours of battery life even at Mid brightness doing office work it's not full day it is a portable workstation so I can understand it but I really wish it could have reached something like 7 or 7 and 1 half hours so all in all it's a really enjoyable laptop to use it's welld designed it's very powerful and it's extremely rare to get full AMD laptops that run Linux out of the box the fingerprint reader unfortunately doesn't support Linux which is I guess another negative but apart from that I can really recommend this thing I looked online a little bit and I could not find at least on Amazon France a single device that comes with a dedicated AMD GPU even running Windows so if it's something that you're looking for this might be a solid option so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoy enjoyed it if you did you can always like subscribe turn on notifications write a comment or everything along those lines and if you want to support what I do there are plenty of links in the description of the video as well and if you become a patreon member or a YouTube member you'll get access to a daily Linux and open source news 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most laptops I reviewed on this channel either had no dedicated GPU or one from Nvidia and we all know that Nvidia can sometimes be problematic on Linux so today is an exciting day because I will be looking at a full AMD laptop that runs Linux out of the box it's the tuxedo serus 16 and it comes with a dedicated AMD GPU and Orizon CPU with some pretty impressive specs but before we begin here's the usual disclaimer yes tuxedo is a regular sponsor of the channel but they did not sponsor this video they didn't get to see it beforehand and they didn't get to see the script either so all opinions here are my own and if tuxedo doesn't like anything I have to say and they decide to stop sponsoring me the channel will still be perfectly fine so now let's get started so the serus 16 is decidedly aimed at Linux gaming or world workstation use cases it is not an Ultra Book it is sort of a powerhouse it's 16.1 in with a 2K resolution of 2560x1440 so it's 16x 9 better for gaming in my opinion than 16 by10 but less good for other tasks that display supports up to 165 HZ it has a full aluminum chassis an 80w hour battery it can accommodate up to 96 gigs of RAM 8 terab of PCI 4 SSD and it comes with USB 4 the latest HDMI 2.1 and Wifi 6E but what matters more is what is inside this laptop which is a ryzen 77840 HS and a radian 7600 MXT GPU this means that this thing with its 8 gigs of ddr6 vram is ready to play about anything you'd want to play on a laptop or plugged into an external mod monitor so let's start with the design and the build quality and while I am not usually a fan of the gamer aesthetic this thing is understated enough that I find it looks really good it's still relatively thin at 2.2 CM so a bit less than an inch thick and it just oozes quality the aluminium chassis really feels solid and the whole laptop is pretty hefty at 2.2 kilos or 4.8 lb the only thing that is not aluminium is the bezel around the screen which is very very chunky this could have easily accommodated a 16 by10 screen instead because this is a big chin under the display that's the only element I'm not a fan of the rest just looks great you get an understated tuxedo logo on the lid and you can ask them to engrave anything else and that's it the rest is matte black or gunmal gray depending on how the lights hits it it has very smooth lines and nothing too gamery apart maybe from the shape of the power button and the little inserts next to it the hinges are wonderful they sort of slide out of the chassis as two small arcs and I honestly wonder how they fit when you close the display because it feels like they shouldn't but it is very sturdy it doesn't wobble it opens super smoothly and with just one finger the chassis is also very resistant to fingerprints which is nice and there is is very little Flex anywhere on the laptop it feels solid and well built it's a quality device honestly with that design this laptop would absolutely fit in any form of corporate environment it is not like Alienware levels of gamer design apparently tuxedo started working with a new original design manufacturer or odm to build this one so it comes out from a new Factory that tuxedo never worked with before this laptop and honestly I think they should keep working with them the design and the build quality is just one notch above everything else that tuxedo has produced until now and what they did before was not too shabby because I use a tuxedo laptop and I've been using that as my daily driver for a while and it is one of the nicest most well-built laptops I've ever had including recent MacBooks next let's take a look at the performance because that's the main reason to get this thing so the CPU is a ryzen 77840 HS it's eight cores 16 threads running at a top speed of 5.1 GHz in Gig bench 6 it got 2640 in single core and 12,635 in multicore so it is more powerful than the i7 1700h that I use daily on my own laptop in terms of gaming I ran the Benchmark for Horizon zero Dawn at the native resolution of 1440p and Max settings the game got 77 FPS perfectly playable with a very nice looking experience lowering that to 1080P and using FSR on the quality setting still with all details maxed out I got 116 FPS and at high details at 1080p with FSR on quality you reach 118 to 120 so you will be able to make use of that display's high refresh rate so yeah the 7600m XT is not the most powerful graphics card on the planet for lapt tops but it is very very capable and you will be able to play about anything on that with reasonably good graphics and all of that runs in hybrid graphics mode by default at least on the pre-installed tuxedo OS that my review unit came with I didn't experience any issues here multim monitor worked great using the HDMI port that plugs into the dedicated GPU all ABS that needed to use the dedicated GPU open using it and benefiting from the best performance it was all smooth sale ing nothing to report here to be noted though since this is the first computer tuxedo has that uses a hybrid configuration with an AMD GPU their control center doesn't yet support switching from hybrid graphics to integrated Graphics only or dedicated only you can do that in the UEFI interface if you want but in my tests the performance of using the dedicated GPU only was the exact same as with hybrid mode and Tuxedo confirmed this to me as well now in terms of battery life running at half brightness with Wi-Fi on playing videos in a loop in Firefox the laptop lasted for 6 hours which isn't bad but also isn't completely full day battery life you can also expect less battery life when gaming or doing some graphics intensive tasks while unplug fan control isn't implemented yet in the control center either but it is coming you can still create power profiles but you don't have as granular a control over the fan speeds as with other tuxedo devices that you can buy right now in terms of ports you do get a solid selection here on the left side you have a usba a 3.2 Gen 2 port a headphone jack and a separate mic Jack on the right you have a fingerprint reader which unfortunately doesn't support Linux at least I could not find any option to enable or use it using toxedo OS and KD plasma and yeah it feels like this thing just doesn't have Linux driver which sucks for a Linux laptop you also get a USBC Port 4.0 gen 3x2 it supports power delivery and display port 1.4 and it is hardwired to the integrated GPU and on the right you also have another usba 3.2 Gen 2 finally on the back you get a barrel charger a gab ethernet port an HDMI 2.1 Port that supports freyn and is hardwired to the dedicated GPU and a USBC 3.2 gen 2x1 Port that supports display port free sync and is also hardwired to the dedicated GPU so yeah you can drive a bunch of external monitors plug in through Ethernet and basically just run anything you like off of all of these ports including charging the laptop with USBC so yeah no blunder here it's perfect now the display on the laptop is also pretty good if you don't have a problem with 16x9 it can run up to 165 Herz but it can go down to 120 96 72 or 60 HZ viewing angles are perfect and it covers 100% of srgb with a contrast ratio of 1,000 to1 it's only 300 nits of brightness it's not bad but it's not the brightest ever but it also supports AMD freeing it's 2K so 2560 by 1440p which in my opinion is great for a 16-in display because it means you don't really need to use fractional scaling in or scaling at all now let's look at the inputs because these are what makes or breaks a laptop if you have a crappy touchpad or a crappy keyboard then you might as well not bother at all now the keyboard is a rubber membrane Affair that feels really good to type on it's quiet key travel is okay and the keys don't get stuck they're stable so you can press from a corner and activate them and you also get a numpad which is a personal preference you get a tux branded key you get fullsize arrow keys that are slightly off compared to the rest of the keyboard I hated that at first but I kind of like it now because it makes them really easy to find the keyboard is RGB backlit you can control that in the tuxedo control center to change the color and the brightness to anything you like or you can press function plus space bar to turn it on or off the touchpad is really smooth and sturdy it's big enough it's really off center though which some people like but I absolutely don't I like things centered it produces is a very reassuring solid click it doesn't rattle at all and it's really nice it works with gestures as well it's a good touchpad it is a good keyboard and touchpad combo it's not the best I've ever used that award goes to my current daily driver the infinity Book Pro 16 which has the best touchpad I've ever used and the nicest keyboard to type on but this thing on the Serius 16 is really really solid now the Serius 16 comes with four speakers which sound pretty nice they don't rattle the chassis they have decent base and while they're bottom firing they don't get muffled too much when you rest the laptop on the soft surface they're good although I would have liked if they went a little bit [Music] louder the mic is nothing to write home about it's okay for small chats but you're not recording a podcast on this day it sounds tinny and distant but it is far from the worst I've ever seen in a laptop as for the webcam it goes up to 1080p30 which isn't bad and it doesn't yield horrible results at all it's still a webcam but it's decent compared to most it also has a built-in privacy shutter that you can slide over it to block the image if you're worried about that so yeah the speakers are nice and the mic and webcam are serviceable they're not the worst I've ever used but they're definitely not MacBook Pro quality either so this thing is a very nice laptop it's also expensive it starts at 1,740 including vat if you have to pay that and that's for 16 gigs of RAM and 500 gigs of SSD you can spec it up to 96 gigs of RAM which tuxedo tells me was only possible thanks to the AMD CPU which generates less heat than an Intel CPU and so can accommodate more RAM the storage can go up to 8 terabyt of PCI 4 SSD with two m.2 slots and you can pick from a variety of keyboard layouts and dros and since full AMD laptops are pretty rare these days even outside of the Linux devices world I think it's a solid proposition it is an expensive device for sure but the build quality and performance are pretty good here there are only three things I'm not a fan of on this laptop it's first the really off center touchpad but that's a personal preference second is the big chin under the display I would have preferred a 16 by10 display that really occupies the whole height of the laptop and I'm also not a huge fan of the fact that it only has 6 hours of battery life even at Mid brightness doing office work it's not full day it is a portable workstation so I can understand it but I really wish it could have reached something like 7 or 7 and 1 half hours so all in all it's a really enjoyable laptop to use it's welld designed it's very powerful and it's extremely rare to get full AMD laptops that run Linux out of the box the fingerprint reader unfortunately doesn't support Linux which is I guess another negative but apart from that I can really recommend this thing I looked online a little bit and I could not find at least on Amazon France a single device that comes with a dedicated AMD GPU even running Windows so if it's something that you're looking for this might be a solid option so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoy enjoyed it if you did you can always like subscribe turn on notifications write a comment or everything along those lines and if you want to support what I do there are plenty of links in the description of the video as well and if you become a patreon member or a YouTube member you'll get access to a daily Linux and open source news 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hey everyone and welcome back to your Linux and open source news fix for this week and this time we have Nvidia CEO saying to kids that they basically should not learn how to code because AI will do that for us in the future we also have the release of flasma 6 with all of its goodies and work already starting on what's coming next and we have Nintendo suing the makers of the Yuzu open-source Nintendo switch emulator and we also have this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag and drop it's really easy to use you can can create all your pages but you also have plenty of modules like anything 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be downright impossible without circumventing copyright protections which might or might not be fair Ed depending on where you live and rulings that are generally on a caseby Case basis so in the case of Yuzu Nintendo argues that the emulator needs to run illegally obtained decryption Keys even if you grab them from your own switch and so without these Keys no games could be played they also say that their license agreement doesn't give you the right to play switch games on anything other than a switch an argument that is pretty weak as there are a bunch of limitations on what license agreements can impose on users Nintendo also says that most websites that have pirated copies of their games link to Yuzu as the way to play them and that Yuzu is profiting from this earning at least $50,000 in what they call paid downloads whatever that is in the case of Yuzu and that also the team's patreon earns them $30,000 per month so they're asking for damages and for the courts to shut down the project on yuzu's side there's the fact that the emulator also allows people to play home brew games that aren't available on switch which is definitely a legitimate use case for the continued existence of the tool it's not just to play pirated switch games there's also the fact that Yuzu lets people play games with a controller of their choice which is a plus for accessibility and could be another valid reason to keep the tool around and no one should be surprised right Nintendo has always been one of the worst gaming companies when it comes to legal action and there's basically no chance that this thing will go to trial Because unless Yuzu has incredibly Deep Pockets there's no way they can fight the army of lawyers that Nintendo has so we'll see how it goes they haven't made a public response to Nintendo yet but hopefully they could manage to win something in this case so emulation will be considered a bit safer than it is right now because it's always been pretty gray in terms of whether an emulator will get attacked or not now in the long series of stupid things Tech CEO said this one might take the cake Nvidia CEO Jensen Huong argued that coding is no longer a skill that kids should learn and that people should just not bother anymore because AI will do all the coding by the time that these kids are able to find the job he instead says that humans should focus on other areas of work since anyone will be able to code anything by just talking normally with an AI and uh yeah that's just complete nonsense first an AI needs code to fit into its model I'm sure no one would argue that we've reached the peak of the code that could ever be written that we could never make anything better than than we already have I'm sure no one would also argue that no new programming language would ever see the light of day so limiting ourselves to the code that's already created that serve to train our pretty mediocre AIS for today is a very narrow view second if no one knows how to code who's checking the ai's code or debugging it because the current code produced by AI seem to point out that they're not quite able to write well optimized secure or bug free code and third AIS need to be programmed as well less developers means less people to work on the actual AI so what Nvidia Co is offering is a world where AIS write code for humans without anyone to check it and letting AIS learn how to improve based on their own code not a very enticing world and a pretty nonsensical statement all around an AI will probably never be able to completely create a full program out of Scrat crash that runs well and doesn't need any human supervision an AI is a man-made system it will always need humans in the background to check it so KD plasma 6 was released this week and I already have a dedicated video covering all the changes on the channel but I'll still give you the gist of it here so the release moves entirely to cute 6 and uses whand by default dros will do whatever they want they could use X11 instead but Wayland is now the primary focus and X11 will still get features but only if they are doable on this platform and they're not too timec consuming on top of that base the desktop saw small improvements to the theme to make it less busy the settings were reordered and streamlined with less rows of buttons and less nested pages and you get a new overview effect that is basically exactly gnome's activities with great touchpad gestures it's a solid Improvement the desktop cube is back as well the the desktop supports HDR color profiles and color blindness correction filters and the defaults were made easier to grasp for newcomers with single click by default tap to click on touchpads a thumbnail Grid in the alt tab switcher and floating panels by default and these floating panels gained a much better configuration interface to actually place them on screen as well krunner is much faster now and lets you reorder elements around to have the results you want first and most defa apps received improvements as well it is a very very good release on a brand new install using the daily isos of Fedora 40 since the second release candidate I experienced zero crashes and a very very limited selection of bugs that didn't break the experience other reports seem to say that upgrading KD neon in place might generate some issues so you're probably better off waiting for your Dr to give you the actual update with actually well tested packages Jacob Kaplan Moss one of the main developers on D Jango wrote a very interesting blog post on open- Source funding it was prompted after he published a masteron post denouncing the very usual reactions that a lot of people have when someone tries to make a living writing open- Source software generally these reactions amount to we want people to be able to earn money through open source why aren't more people maintaining open source software but you should not use VC funding you should not use commercial features you should not use any form of investment and you should not work for a large tech company to fund the project so Jacob basically says that currently writing open source software is hardly sustainable open source projects do not have nearly enough paid maintainers compared to the numbers of users they have he cites the examples of python used by millions of people with only a few full-time developers or Jango used by hundreds of thousands and they apparently have less than two full-time people working on it he also points said that yes in an Ideal World governments would recognize the crucial mission of Open Source and the advantages for them and they would fund open source software instead of giving handouts to big companies but he also says that we do not live in that world and that in the meantime simply pointing out that open source should depend on Government funding doesn't solve the problem he concludes by saying that currently every way someone can find to develop open source software and get paid for that is a good way and it's a win whether it's by a ground by being employed by a big tech company by raising capital or by having paid features he acknowledges that all of these Avenues of funding do have strings attached but that in our current world it's either that or no one could ever make a living working on open source which means less open source software and abandoned projects it's a very interesting read I left the link to it in the description of the video as with all articles I use to make these videos and I just cannot disagree with him like every time you try to bring money into open source or Linux there's always a bunch of people think that it's going to taint the project no matter how that money is obtained and no matter that the code is open source and if something weird happens it can always be forked and used by someone else instead and it looks like us Linux users just cannot have nice things because of stupid legal requirements AMD has been trying for a while to add HDMI 2.1 plus support to its open-source kernel driver for Linux but apparently the HDMI Forum being the organization that monitors and controls all things related to the implementations of the HDMI standard where that HDMI Forum have rejected all of amd's efforts and this lack of support means that for example you can't do 4K at 120 HZ or you can do 5K at 240 HZ on Linux with an AMD GPU those are not the most common use cases but it sucks that we can't do it and it's also a very bad indication that future HDMI progress will not be working on Linux either and this is all linked to the fact that the HDMI Forum closed public access to the HDMI spec in 2021 meaning that it's now legally complicated or even impossible to implement new HDMI features in open- Source drivers because doing so would open the workings of the standard to the public which the HDMI Forum doesn't want AMD Engineers have spent months working with their legal team trying to come up with a solution but every effort was turned down even though they actually produced code to try and satisfy the requirements of the HDMI forum and uh yeah HDMI is basically the standard everyone uses on every TV monitor GPU or device you have something that works with HDMI so not being able to to implement the latest HDMI features in open source drivers is a big big problem so now if you want to be an absolute open source supporter you need to ditch HDMI and use display port which is apparently a bit more open which is dumb like come on it's a standard it should be open to everyone but it's probably a money related problem or something linked to stupid DRM again okay so let's finish this with the gaming news and we're going to start with the nvk driver this is the open-source Vulcan driver for NVIDIA and it is now Vulcan 1.3 conformant meaning that it now supports the latest version of Vulcan and with that Mesa 24.1 will build that driver by default and use it instead of flagging it as experimental now to work properly it requires the latest development snapshot of the Linux kernel 6.8 but when a drro ships 6.8 and Mesa 24.1 you will basically be using nvo and nvk out of the box and that's the first time in a very long while that the open source driver stack for NVIDIA will be good and actually usable on top of that the nvk developers also started work on a common Vulcan runtime for all Mesa drivers the goal would be to have a single implementation for stuff like shaders and pipelines so every driver doesn't have to redevelop all of that stuff when they want to support Vulcan and this is all really great news congrats to the developers who have been moving insanely fast on this new driver and I cannot wait to get an updated platform to try it out on my Nvidia GPU and still on the topic of nvk in Mesa 24.1 they will support rebar or resizable bar that's a feature that lets the CPU access the entirety of the gpu's memory to reduce the number of transfers between the two and thus reduce any bottleneck effect and improve performance if you don't have have support for that it means that the CPU can only get data from the gpu's memory in little chunks of 256 megabytes which is obviously suboptimal when you know that modern gpus tend to have at least 4 gigs of vram and can often have 68 or even 12 gigs so nvk will now be aware of whether your system supports rebar or not because not all PCI implementations support that and they will be able to use it if it's available and this also works in tandem with the necessary interfaces in the novo driver that will land in the kernel 6.8 and this should bring way better performance for nvk on relatively modern or recent systems that have access to resizable bar and it also means that maybe the performance of nvk might be good enough that people would consider just not bothering with the proprietary driver you might lose 15% performance but at least you don't have any other weird issues around that and finally the wine whan driver is getting some more work done this time with enabling basic open GL support a new merge request will let Wine Run openg GL apps under Wayland natively although this support is far from complete for now there's a lot of features still needing to be implemented now the whand driver for wine already supports Vulcan which is arguably far more important because Wine's primary use case these days is for gaming and most Linux gaming uses Vulcan but some games programs that rely on openg GL will at least be usable as well and hopefully that whand driver can reach feature parody with the X11 based implementation of wine and will have one less barrier for the adoption of whand by most Linux users and that's just great news if this driver can reach feature parity with x1's implementation for wine there's basically One Less Reason to not use whan and actually it looks like from some earlier testing running a game with with wine on whand natively performs better than running 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plasma 6 is now officially released and it's been more than a year since the previous release of that desktop while 5.27 was awesome plasma 6 brings a ton of good stuff whether you're already a KD user or you would just like to try it and maybe move to it so we're going to look at everything new in plasma 6 my experience with it and also add this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by protonvpn the encrypted and private virtual private network from the creators of proton mail protonvpn lets you bypass censorship and region locking by connecting to a server anywhere in the world so you can stream any content you like from any service without restrictions or access parts of the internet that your country doesn't want you to have access to and thanks to their VPN accelerator proton VPN is also really fast it also comes with net Shield an ad malware and tracker blocker that makes your private browsing even better and safer and protonvpn doesn't keep any logs meaning that they 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a better base for the plasma developers to work on plasma 6 is also the first version that makes whan it's default recommendation they ship with Wayland and all the focus for new features is on way although certain features might make it to X11 if they have the time or if it's even possible to make them on X11 dros can still choose to ship plasma 6 with X11 as the default but that is not what the desktop recommends and that whand support is pretty Flawless in my experience everything was Zippy smooth it didn't crash it's super reliable even on an Nvidia GPU of course it doesn't fix the issues that whan has itself or the applications that don't support it natively like wine or proton for example but where the general experience of whand in plasma 5.27 was solid in plasma 6 it is just perfect the mouse cursor is more responsive even when the desktop itself stutters under load latency was greatly improved especially for games and on top of that if the composit or crashes it will no longer kill all your open apps they'll be safely moved to a backup compon depositor while kwin recovers and takes over again it also looks like the X whand Video Bridge has been added to handle screen sharing from X11 apps running on whan although it might have been the dr's work to add that I've seen it included by default in feda 40 and in KD neon so if you used whan previously on KD you will keep using it and it's going to be better than in the previous version and if you didn't like whon before chances are your problem is fixed in here but if you just liked whan because it's whan then well yeah you're sticking to X11 anyway now this release also brings a few cool things courtesy of whand HDR is Now supported provided your display also supports it it's not complete yet it lacks the ability to render mixed SDR and HDR content at the same time but for full screen videos games or pictures you'll be able to see them in HDR you can also set a color profile for each display individually on Wayland as well plasma will then adjust the colors on screen following that profile apps will still only use the srgb color space but the plasma team has plans to add more spaces and finally you also get color blindness correction filters in the settings to make things more legible I'm not color blind so I cannot judge their efficiency but there are plenty of options to handle most color blindness types so I'm sure it will make a difference for a lot of people so yeah the backbone of PL Asma 6 is really really solid I've been using it since the second release candidate and it never crashed on me once and I can safely say it is not the bug ridden mess that KD5 was when it released this one is super polished and very stable now for the pretty visual changes there isn't a lot to cover here but there are a few changes plasma still looks like plasma it is still using the breeze theme and icons but they were refined a little bit first the theme is now lighter on the eyes they have removed a bunch of the borders that every single panel inside of an app had so the whole feel of the desktop is similar but also nicer you don't have as many lines to separate the content to draw your eyes separators are just one pixel lines now there's no blue overlay on top of each selected panel it just looks better nothing looks like it's nested inside of the app it's just more streamlined status bars at the bottom of apps also now have a line above them to separate them from the rest of the application highlighted items in list views are also different now with rounded corners and a little bit of spacing I think it looks okay it's similar to The Highlight effect that you would get in a menu bar the controls have been made more consistent they tend to have more similar Heights and sizes meaning that the alignment of buttons and combo boxes and search fields in the toolbars will feel better as well it is definitely not a huge change but apps do look less busy and more polished so it's a good change all around it's just not a revolution in terms of how plasma looks another visual change is the floating panel by default your own settings won't be overwritten but for new users the panel will now hover over the bottom edge of the screen and in terms of usability it is unchanged compared to how it was you don't have to aim precisely for the exact icon you can click under the panel and it will still activate what you clicked or what you intended to click and that's about it for the visual changes plasma 6 looks like KD plasma 5.27 it's just a little bit less busy more legible more streamlined I think the changes are good but if you didn't like breeze before you will still not like how plasma 6 looks now for the desktop related features because that's really what will change your experience with plasma so first the default they have changed drastically it will not affect how you use your computer if you just upgrade in place but for new users those defaults make a lot more sense first single click to select is Now the default with double click to open in theory single click to open is easier and more logical but the truth is most users that come to Linux are already used to another OS and all other operating systems use double click to open so it makes sense to to move to that you obviously can still go back to single click to open if you prefer that tap to click on touchpads is also the default now which is normal it should always have been and the task switcher that comes up when you press alt plus tab is a more familiar grid of thumbnails instead of the side column plasma used before the team also disabled scrolling on the desktop to switch workspaces the option is still there if you want to enable it but for newcomers it will avoid weird behaviors that they just did not understand now that's it for the defaults they also removed a few options from the rightclick menu on the desktop you can still reenable them but the menu looks less busy those are same defaults and they'll be better for newcomers to Linux and 2kd because they're closer to what they're used to now for the changes that will affect everyone first panel configuration the previous messy popups and rulers were replaced by something much more visual which which will absolutely be a better experience you get visual representations of the settings that you're changing with combo boxes to select what you want you can change the heights the opacity the position the alignment the length and the visibility all in one place and you also gained a new Option the ability for the panel to dodge Windows meaning that the panel will be visible at all times unless a window covers it at which point it just gets out of the way and you can bring it back by pushing your mouse cursor against the Ed Ed that the panel rests on it is the auto height feature that I needed that has been missing in plasma for a long while it's long overdue and it's awesome to finally have it again now another big change is the combination of the overview and the present Windows effect in itself it feels like the older overview except it looks a lot like gnomes where your current desktop has rounded Corners hovers over a blurred translucent background with a strip of virtual ual desktops on top and a krunner search field under it what also changed are the touchpad gestures and these are much much better you don't have to repeat the same gesture twice to go back to your desktop after opening the overview it is now as good as gnome's activity View and as nice to use with Dodge pad gestures I have nothing to criticize here it's just a stellar improvement over everything you don't feel like these animations and effects have been tacked on the based desktop you feel like you're actually interacting with the desktop itself which was the goal so Props it really really works well now you can also get the desktop Cube back I could only make it work if I had four virtual desktops I didn't write with more it's not more functional than the overview it's probably worse it's not more usable than the overview it's probably worse but it is pretty and it did help convert a lot of users back in the day so why not another change is the ability to just click inside of her scroll Bar's area to move the content directly to that area you don't have to drag the scroll bar or use the mouse wheel you just click where you'd like to go and the scroll bar jumps there finally krunner got faster way faster and it now lets you reorder the various elements that it shows when you search for something provided you add them to your favorit and the reordering is not really wizzy Weg like you have to drag an element and drop it on top of another before it gets reordered it's not super usable in terms of interface but you can actually sold the results in the order that you want them to so these are some pretty cool refinements and cool features it's not as much as I had hoped for a full year of development but at the same time it does make KD feel a lot more polished especially on the overview side of things and the panel configuration so those are really great changes and whether you're newcomer or someone used to KD they're just going to make your workflow better now for the changes in the settings because it's plasma and it needs to change its settings with every single release first visually the settings are less busy gone are the double rows of icons at the bottom of pages they now mostly move to the toolbar of the settings app meaning that settings Pages now look a bit nicer and the space that the app uses is used better as well they've also reduced the number of pages that were opened by clicking a button inside of another page so things are easier to find and the settings were reordered into other categories that will make more sense to certain people and less sense to others it is a side grade it doesn't really improve navigation in the settings it's just a different way of sorting them some people will like it I personally don't care now you do get a new sound theme preference page to change the sounds that your desk toop will play for certain actions and the default sound theme was also revamped it's now called ocean it sounds okay it reminds me a lot of the PS5 sound effects I generally just disable most of these sounds anyway and finally you also get easier configuration of which app will open a broad category of files you can set for example an app for all audio files or an app for all video files instead of handling that for each file type you can still do that of course but it's easier to apply sweeping changes they also touched up and merged and revamped and made other settings Pages more legible it's definitely an improvement but it doesn't make those settings easier to navigate there's still a lot of options everywhere if you like that you're going to be okay with it if you didn't you're still going to be lost personally I'm used to it by now but I will admit the settings in KD will never look streamlined or easy because there are just too many options and that's what what KD is here for and let's finish this tour with the changes to the applications dolphin received changes to its settings as well reordering a bunch of things and it gained keyboard shortcuts to access the toolbar buttons and the dis space usage bar that lives in the status bar you can also now right click a folder to open it in split view spectacle the screen recorder now shows a tray icon when it's recording your screen you can click that icon to end the recording it also supports recording just a part of your screen and it has new keyboard shortcuts to handle all of this everything will now be saved by default in the pictures SL screenshots directory or the pictures SLC screencasts directory and of course you can change that it also supports vp9 to record videos and you can also invoke it using the command line Kate the text editor has a new Json parser that's apparently way faster it now supports text to speech it can also sync the scrolling in split view and it has more automatic setup options for a variety of languages console has redesigned settings as well and will now use less Ram text selection now works for Chinese Korean or Japanese languages and every tab now runs in a separate cgroup meaning the entire app will no longer be killed if your system needs to kill a process to save some resources KD connect can now connect to other devices using Bluetooth only and it now supports mdns meaning you should see available devices now instead of having to hunt them down or use their IP address to connect to them its settings also now live in the system settings instead of their own window and a bunch of apps also receive changes like the contact Suite received a ton of work although the interface is still extremely complex and unwieldy kadon live received the ability to replace an audio or a video clip in the timeline and also better easing modes for various transitions neoch chat The Matrix client now has a welcome page to set up an account or create one and it now supports spaces and toodon the masteron client now let you set focal points on images you can hide boosts and replies in the timeline and it has a better first launch experience so plasma 6 it took a year to arrive and was it worth the wait honestly I think so yes it is not a revolution it's not like the transition from KD 3.5 to kd4 or even from 4 to 5 it's more like a move from KD 5.27 to something like KD 5.50 you do get a lot of refinements to the theme to the settings and to the apps and the desktop feels more polished and less like a jum ball of parts that sort of plug into each other but it is still KD plasma if you loved it you will probably love it even more it just got better if you didn't like it chances are you will still not like it and if you're a newcomer to Linux it's probably going to be a better starting point than it ever was before what is more interesting is the new underlying stack with a solid foundation using cute 6 and with whan support being as close to perfect as can be while we wait for the last few protocols that are still missing plasma 6 is in a fantastic place to move the Linux desktop into the future or into the present if like me you have moved to Wayland a while back and you haven't touched X11 that all old thing in a long long one whatever your case is you can still use KD plasma with X11 and if you use whand you will love your experience even more because plasma 6 basically fixes all the remaining issues that KD had under whand so yeah now you can wait for your Dro to actually ship plasma 6 to you if you use Fedora you'll get it in April with Fedora 40 if you use kubuntu or any obuntu base drro you will not get it until October which is a long while if you use Katy neon you'll get it automatically and if you use a rolling release drro chances are it's going to come in the coming weeks or month personally 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hey everyone and welcome back to your Linux and open source news fix for this week and this time we have Nvidia CEO saying to kids that they basically should not learn how to code because AI will do that for us in the future we also have the release of flasma 6 with all of its goodies and work already starting on what's coming next and we have Nintendo suing the makers of the Yuzu open-source Nintendo switch emulator and we also have this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag and drop it's really easy to use you can can create all your pages but you also have plenty of modules like anything you need to run a store complete with online payment you have a members only area you have a logo creator you can even buy your own domain name that you will need to have a serious website straight from Squarespace so they're your all-in-one platform to let you create and run that website so to get started with Squarespace just click the link in the description or head over to squarespace.com thee Linux experiment and you'll get 10% off your first website so Nintendo decided to sue the creators of Yuzu The open- Source emulator for the Nintendo switch the company filed a lawsuit in the US arguing that there is no legal way to use Yuzu as an emulator and so that it is in itself illegal emulation has been a gray area in legal terms for a while because technically emulating a game isn't illegal if you own a copy of that game yourself but but running downloaded ROMs is piracy and sometimes you will also need specific keys or bios files to make those emulators run and obtaining these could be downright impossible without circumventing copyright protections which might or might not be fair Ed depending on where you live and rulings that are generally on a caseby Case basis so in the case of Yuzu Nintendo argues that the emulator needs to run illegally obtained decryption Keys even if you grab them from your own switch and so without these Keys no games could be played they also say that their license agreement doesn't give you the right to play switch games on anything other than a switch an argument that is pretty weak as there are a bunch of limitations on what license agreements can impose on users Nintendo also says that most websites that have pirated copies of their games link to Yuzu as the way to play them and that Yuzu is profiting from this earning at least $50,000 in what they call paid downloads whatever that is in the case of Yuzu and that also the team's patreon earns them $30,000 per month so they're asking for damages and for the courts to shut down the project on yuzu's side there's the fact that the emulator also allows people to play home brew games that aren't available on switch which is definitely a legitimate use case for the continued existence of the tool it's not just to play pirated switch games there's also the fact that Yuzu lets people play games with a controller of their choice which is a plus for accessibility and could be another valid reason to keep the tool around and no one should be surprised right Nintendo has always been one of the worst gaming companies when it comes to legal action and there's basically no chance that this thing will go to trial Because unless Yuzu has incredibly Deep Pockets there's no way they can fight the army of lawyers that Nintendo has so we'll see how it goes they haven't made a public response to Nintendo yet but hopefully they could manage to win something in this case so emulation will be considered a bit safer than it is right now because it's always been pretty gray in terms of whether an emulator will get attacked or not now in the long series of stupid things Tech CEO said this one might take the cake Nvidia CEO Jensen Huong argued that coding is no longer a skill that kids should learn and that people should just not bother anymore because AI will do all the coding by the time that these kids are able to find the job he instead says that humans should focus on other areas of work since anyone will be able to code anything by just talking normally with an AI and uh yeah that's just complete nonsense first an AI needs code to fit into its model I'm sure no one would argue that we've reached the peak of the code that could ever be written that we could never make anything better than than we already have I'm sure no one would also argue that no new programming language would ever see the light of day so limiting ourselves to the code that's already created that serve to train our pretty mediocre AIS for today is a very narrow view second if no one knows how to code who's checking the ai's code or debugging it because the current code produced by AI seem to point out that they're not quite able to write well optimized secure or bug free code and third AIS need to be programmed as well less developers means less people to work on the actual AI so what Nvidia Co is offering is a world where AIS write code for humans without anyone to check it and letting AIS learn how to improve based on their own code not a very enticing world and a pretty nonsensical statement all around an AI will probably never be able to completely create a full program out of Scrat crash that runs well and doesn't need any human supervision an AI is a man-made system it will always need humans in the background to check it so KD plasma 6 was released this week and I already have a dedicated video covering all the changes on the channel but I'll still give you the gist of it here so the release moves entirely to cute 6 and uses whand by default dros will do whatever they want they could use X11 instead but Wayland is now the primary focus and X11 will still get features but only if they are doable on this platform and they're not too timec consuming on top of that base the desktop saw small improvements to the theme to make it less busy the settings were reordered and streamlined with less rows of buttons and less nested pages and you get a new overview effect that is basically exactly gnome's activities with great touchpad gestures it's a solid Improvement the desktop cube is back as well the the desktop supports HDR color profiles and color blindness correction filters and the defaults were made easier to grasp for newcomers with single click by default tap to click on touchpads a thumbnail Grid in the alt tab switcher and floating panels by default and these floating panels gained a much better configuration interface to actually place them on screen as well krunner is much faster now and lets you reorder elements around to have the results you want first and most defa apps received improvements as well it is a very very good release on a brand new install using the daily isos of Fedora 40 since the second release candidate I experienced zero crashes and a very very limited selection of bugs that didn't break the experience other reports seem to say that upgrading KD neon in place might generate some issues so you're probably better off waiting for your Dr to give you the actual update with actually well tested packages Jacob Kaplan Moss one of the main developers on D Jango wrote a very interesting blog post on open- Source funding it was prompted after he published a masteron post denouncing the very usual reactions that a lot of people have when someone tries to make a living writing open- Source software generally these reactions amount to we want people to be able to earn money through open source why aren't more people maintaining open source software but you should not use VC funding you should not use commercial features you should not use any form of investment and you should not work for a large tech company to fund the project so Jacob basically says that currently writing open source software is hardly sustainable open source projects do not have nearly enough paid maintainers compared to the numbers of users they have he cites the examples of python used by millions of people with only a few full-time developers or Jango used by hundreds of thousands and they apparently have less than two full-time people working on it he also points said that yes in an Ideal World governments would recognize the crucial mission of Open Source and the advantages for them and they would fund open source software instead of giving handouts to big companies but he also says that we do not live in that world and that in the meantime simply pointing out that open source should depend on Government funding doesn't solve the problem he concludes by saying that currently every way someone can find to develop open source software and get paid for that is a good way and it's a win whether it's by a ground by being employed by a big tech company by raising capital or by having paid features he acknowledges that all of these Avenues of funding do have strings attached but that in our current world it's either that or no one could ever make a living working on open source which means less open source software and abandoned projects it's a very interesting read I left the link to it in the description of the video as with all articles I use to make these videos and I just cannot disagree with him like every time you try to bring money into open source or Linux there's always a bunch of people think that it's going to taint the project no matter how that money is obtained and no matter that the code is open source and if something weird happens it can always be forked and used by someone else instead and it looks like us Linux users just cannot have nice things because of stupid legal requirements AMD has been trying for a while to add HDMI 2.1 plus support to its open-source kernel driver for Linux but apparently the HDMI Forum being the organization that monitors and controls all things related to the implementations of the HDMI standard where that HDMI Forum have rejected all of amd's efforts and this lack of support means that for example you can't do 4K at 120 HZ or you can do 5K at 240 HZ on Linux with an AMD GPU those are not the most common use cases but it sucks that we can't do it and it's also a very bad indication that future HDMI progress will not be working on Linux either and this is all linked to the fact that the HDMI Forum closed public access to the HDMI spec in 2021 meaning that it's now legally complicated or even impossible to implement new HDMI features in open- Source drivers because doing so would open the workings of the standard to the public which the HDMI Forum doesn't want AMD Engineers have spent months working with their legal team trying to come up with a solution but every effort was turned down even though they actually produced code to try and satisfy the requirements of the HDMI forum and uh yeah HDMI is basically the standard everyone uses on every TV monitor GPU or device you have something that works with HDMI so not being able to to implement the latest HDMI features in open source drivers is a big big problem so now if you want to be an absolute open source supporter you need to ditch HDMI and use display port which is apparently a bit more open which is dumb like come on it's a standard it should be open to everyone but it's probably a money related problem or something linked to stupid DRM again okay so let's finish this with the gaming news and we're going to start with the nvk driver this is the open-source Vulcan driver for NVIDIA and it is now Vulcan 1.3 conformant meaning that it now supports the latest version of Vulcan and with that Mesa 24.1 will build that driver by default and use it instead of flagging it as experimental now to work properly it requires the latest development snapshot of the Linux kernel 6.8 but when a drro ships 6.8 and Mesa 24.1 you will basically be using nvo and nvk out of the box and that's the first time in a very long while that the open source driver stack for NVIDIA will be good and actually usable on top of that the nvk developers also started work on a common Vulcan runtime for all Mesa drivers the goal would be to have a single implementation for stuff like shaders and pipelines so every driver doesn't have to redevelop all of that stuff when they want to support Vulcan and this is all really great news congrats to the developers who have been moving insanely fast on this new driver and I cannot wait to get an updated platform to try it out on my Nvidia GPU and still on the topic of nvk in Mesa 24.1 they will support rebar or resizable bar that's a feature that lets the CPU access the entirety of the gpu's memory to reduce the number of transfers between the two and thus reduce any bottleneck effect and improve performance if you don't have have support for that it means that the CPU can only get data from the gpu's memory in little chunks of 256 megabytes which is obviously suboptimal when you know that modern gpus tend to have at least 4 gigs of vram and can often have 68 or even 12 gigs so nvk will now be aware of whether your system supports rebar or not because not all PCI implementations support that and they will be able to use it if it's available and this also works in tandem with the necessary interfaces in the novo driver that will land in the kernel 6.8 and this should bring way better performance for nvk on relatively modern or recent systems that have access to resizable bar and it also means that maybe the performance of nvk might be good enough that people would consider just not bothering with the proprietary driver you might lose 15% performance but at least you don't have any other weird issues around that and finally the wine whan driver is getting some more work done this time with enabling basic open GL support a new merge request will let Wine Run openg GL apps under Wayland natively although this support is far from complete for now there's a lot of features still needing to be implemented now the whand driver for wine already supports Vulcan which is arguably far more important because Wine's primary use case these days is for gaming and most Linux gaming uses Vulcan but some games programs that rely on openg GL will at least be usable as well and hopefully that whand driver can reach feature parody with the X11 based implementation of wine and will have one less barrier for the adoption of whand by most Linux users and that's just great news if this driver can reach feature parity with x1's implementation for wine there's basically One Less Reason to not use whan and actually it looks like from some earlier testing running a game with with wine on whand natively performs better than running 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so last week I asked my community on masdon to recommend terminal utilities and programs that they couldn't live without on Linux and well even though I made that form expire after only 48 hours I got over 187 answers most of which had three different recommendations so I looked through every single one and I picked the ones that I felt would be most useful to most people and of course if you missed that boat because I only shared that specific form on masteron for two days you can also recommend all the terminal utilities you use very regularly down in the comments below and if you like this concept of asking the community what they like and then recommending those things in a specific video then like this video specifically and I'll make sure to make more along the same lines not just for terminal but for everything Linux related now before we get started I'm going to tell you all about today's sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably know about them already they 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I'll recommend there can be installed using Homebrew which is why I'm starting with it now our second pick is fzf for fuzzy find it lets you search files extremely fast using their names but it can also look through command history processes bookmarks git commits and more you can just type FZ f-q followed by a string of characters and it will look through all the files in the current directory you're in although it will return any path that contains your string of characters not necessarily the exact word you typed you can run it with- e to find only exact matches which will narrow down the search it also has a Vim plugin and you can of course use a pipe to make it search for something another command returned it also has a bit of a syntax that you can use for example you can add a dollar sign at the end of the search term to find items that end with it or you can add an exclamation point before the search term to find stuff that doesn't contain it it is blazing fast and it will definitely enhance any file search that you need to do on your system using the terminal it's available using home brw now if like me you have wasted minutes maybe even hours pressing up in your terminal to try and find a specific command that you ran a few months ago you might want to try add to in this thing replaces your shell history with a database that you can search through super easily once it is installed with Brew you will have to configure it their website has all the steps to do that and after you've restarted your shell as in just log out and back in once you press the up Arrow key or control+ R you will get a search interface to look for all your commands you can type what you're looking for in my case most of the time it's FFM pag and you'll filter through the entire history select the command with the arrow keys and either press enter to run it again or press tab to edit the command before running it it is a really really useful program one that I plan to use from now on instead of the up Arrow key strategy because yeah it's just much better it is available through Homebrew as well now I couldn't avoid this next one it's called Shima because it's a French name it means my home or at my home this tool lets you manage your personal configuration files called dot files because well they tend to start with a DOT because they're hidden files shoa lets you share these config files across devices by syncing them to a git repo and it can interface with a very large variety of password managers to keep everything safe if you spend an insane amount of time customizing everything that you use or do and you know how git Works Shima is probably the thing you need as it has a similar command structure than git you can back up everything so if you need to reinstall you don't lose anything and if you need to replicate that configuration on another device you also can the difference with other dot file managers is that it can encrypt all the secrets that might be inside these dot files and it works as a single binary so if you usually have your own custom scripts to handle all of this well it saves you the install of a full environment to be able to run those scripts now personally I do not need this I don't spend a lot of time customizing things and I don't care if I lose my DOT files honestly but if you spend hours or months Rising your desktop or really tweaking your system you might really want to use something like this now if you use a laptop and you find linux's battery life to be a bit subar well first check that your browser has Hardware acceleration on because that's the most common cause of battery usage for people who watch videos and second maybe look at powertop this is a tool developed by Intel that lets you monitor your power usage and lets you automatically tune things so you can get the best battery life without killing your performance entirely this one is not available from Homebrew but most distributions should have it either pre-installed or at least in their repos now if you want to check what is waking up your CPU often you can just run the command powertop and you'll see all processes using tab you can navigate to various statistics but also to the tunables screen which will show you what powertop identifies as a bad configuration for battery life if you would like to change these you can run powertop D- auto-tune and it will change all the settings to what it believes are good options for battery life saving although it might impact the performance and you can also run power top as a system Des service if you want so you can ensure that all these tuning is also done every time you restart the computer it is a nice tool to try and regain some battery life but don't blindly apply all of the configurations you might end up with some data loss if for example you tell your hard drives to shut down as quickly as possible or you might lose some performance so test out all the options and see what works for you and what doesn't now if you would like to quickly analyze what uses a lot of dis space on your computer or in a remote server you might want to replace the DU and DF commands with dust dust will give you a more detailed representation of your dis space consumption with ASI bars and a very legible color system with that it's super easy to identify what is hogging up your hard drive and either clean that up or take the necessary actions you can of course get a more minimal View using the dashb option to remove the bars or the- C option to remove the colors and you can run that program in a specific directory or you can exclude certain directories and files in my opinion it's much more legible than what du offers because it's not necessarily meant to be piped through another command which is how du is generally used and I can only recommend dust instead and you can install from home brw as well just like most of these programs now if you run a dual boot and you're facing problems with accessing one of your install systems you might not know that you can force grub to reboot into a specific system just for the next boot it's also useful if your computer tends to skip that grub screen and you're not fast enough to tap the necessary function or Escape key to display that screen now you can do this using the grub Das reboot command followed by the number or the name of the grub entry for the system you want to reboot in very useful if you can't manage to boot into a specific system you have installed or if you completely broke the one that you're currently using you ended up in a command line and you don't quite know what you're doing or if you're going to be able to reboot into something else now if you need to monitor for resource usage on your computer you might be using top or htop but btop is in my opinion a better option it looks much much better than htop or just top and it's also more legible it can monitor your dis usage the RAM usage the network use the battery life and even the GPU if you want you can sort all of the processes using the arrow keys the current filter is displayed in the top right corner of the processes list and you can hit a letter key to interact with a process like pressing k for kill it's basically a full system monitor in your terminal it's very very nice I have replaced top and HTP with btop now it's just good it's available through home brew if you often use the cat command to read a file maybe try bat instead it does the same thing but it also has syntax highlighting for a bunch of files and it communicates with Git to show modifications in files with the usual plus and minuses symbols for the lines that changed it can also show tabs and spaces and it integrates with other tools like fzf rip grap or even the man command so your command line manuals will look much more legible it is a great replacement for cat if you'd like to use something fancier and it's also available from Homebrew now speaking of manuals if man is too much for you and it's just too much reading why not try tldr I'm pretty sure I mentioned it previously on the channel but it's really good it gives you an Abridged version of the contents of man for most of the available programs and commands and it makes things more legible and easier to par at a glance you can run it using tldr followed by the command name and you're done I basically replace 90% of my use of the man command with tldr and if you need the full manual it's still available so yeah install it using home brew as with virtually everything I already mentioned now if you like to split a terminal or a TTY into multiple terminals zel J or zage is a nice alternative to something like t-x it's basically a tiling Window Manager for your terminal workspace you can Define your own layout it supports plugins floating panes and more you can run it by by running the zeage command and then you can create a new pane pressing alt plus n you can move a pane using contrl plus h and then placing it where you want and pressing enter or you can make a pane floating with ctrl+ P then W pains can be resized as well with alt plus the Plus or the minus key and with alt plus a bracket key you can move a pane to the bottom or the top of another one in a vertical stacking layout now personally I'm not a fan of tiling Window Manager and I don't really need a terminal multiplexer like this one but if you do zelig J or zage not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced is actually a very good choice another one that was recommended was bobu or biobu uh and both of those are available in home brew now if you often use LS to find files in a directory you might want to take a look at EA it does the same job as in it lists the content of a directory but it does it with way more details and a more legible interface it can give you the status of files in a git repo it can give you more readable dates and readable file sizes it can give you the SE Linux context some mountpoint details and more now you will have to learn the various options for EA because they're not exactly the same as with the ls command but honestly it provides a more legible output and I think it's going to simplify the life of a bunch of people you can install it using home broom and these are just a few examples of what has been recommended the list was obviously too long for me to cover all of those but if you like the video enough I might revisit this topic in the future and take a look at the options I didn't elect to cover in this specific video but in the meantime let me tell you about our sponsor tuxedo computers if you need a new device to run Linux on maybe it's time to stop buying devices that only support Windows and to actually buy something from a manufacturer that supports Linux like like tuxedo they have a big range of devices from laptops no and desktops whether you need something for office work for gaming or workstation whatever they have it all all the hardware is 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plasma 6 is now officially released and it's been more than a year since the previous release of that desktop while 5.27 was awesome plasma 6 brings a ton of good stuff whether you're already a KD user or you would just like to try it and maybe move to it so we're going to look at everything new in plasma 6 my experience with it and also add this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by protonvpn the encrypted and private virtual private network from the creators of proton mail protonvpn lets you bypass censorship and region locking by connecting to a server anywhere in the world so you can stream any content you like from any service without restrictions or access parts of the internet that your country doesn't want you to have access to and thanks to their VPN accelerator proton VPN is also really fast it also comes with net Shield an ad malware and tracker blocker that makes your private browsing even better and safer and protonvpn doesn't keep any logs meaning that they 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a better base for the plasma developers to work on plasma 6 is also the first version that makes whan it's default recommendation they ship with Wayland and all the focus for new features is on way although certain features might make it to X11 if they have the time or if it's even possible to make them on X11 dros can still choose to ship plasma 6 with X11 as the default but that is not what the desktop recommends and that whand support is pretty Flawless in my experience everything was Zippy smooth it didn't crash it's super reliable even on an Nvidia GPU of course it doesn't fix the issues that whan has itself or the applications that don't support it natively like wine or proton for example but where the general experience of whand in plasma 5.27 was solid in plasma 6 it is just perfect the mouse cursor is more responsive even when the desktop itself stutters under load latency was greatly improved especially for games and on top of that if the composit or crashes it will no longer kill all your open apps they'll be safely moved to a backup compon depositor while kwin recovers and takes over again it also looks like the X whand Video Bridge has been added to handle screen sharing from X11 apps running on whan although it might have been the dr's work to add that I've seen it included by default in feda 40 and in KD neon so if you used whan previously on KD you will keep using it and it's going to be better than in the previous version and if you didn't like whon before chances are your problem is fixed in here but if you just liked whan because it's whan then well yeah you're sticking to X11 anyway now this release also brings a few cool things courtesy of whand HDR is Now supported provided your display also supports it it's not complete yet it lacks the ability to render mixed SDR and HDR content at the same time but for full screen videos games or pictures you'll be able to see them in HDR you can also set a color profile for each display individually on Wayland as well plasma will then adjust the colors on screen following that profile apps will still only use the srgb color space but the plasma team has plans to add more spaces and finally you also get color blindness correction filters in the settings to make things more legible I'm not color blind so I cannot judge their efficiency but there are plenty of options to handle most color blindness types so I'm sure it will make a difference for a lot of people so yeah the backbone of PL Asma 6 is really really solid I've been using it since the second release candidate and it never crashed on me once and I can safely say it is not the bug ridden mess that KD5 was when it released this one is super polished and very stable now for the pretty visual changes there isn't a lot to cover here but there are a few changes plasma still looks like plasma it is still using the breeze theme and icons but they were refined a little bit first the theme is now lighter on the eyes they have removed a bunch of the borders that every single panel inside of an app had so the whole feel of the desktop is similar but also nicer you don't have as many lines to separate the content to draw your eyes separators are just one pixel lines now there's no blue overlay on top of each selected panel it just looks better nothing looks like it's nested inside of the app it's just more streamlined status bars at the bottom of apps also now have a line above them to separate them from the rest of the application highlighted items in list views are also different now with rounded corners and a little bit of spacing I think it looks okay it's similar to The Highlight effect that you would get in a menu bar the controls have been made more consistent they tend to have more similar Heights and sizes meaning that the alignment of buttons and combo boxes and search fields in the toolbars will feel better as well it is definitely not a huge change but apps do look less busy and more polished so it's a good change all around it's just not a revolution in terms of how plasma looks another visual change is the floating panel by default your own settings won't be overwritten but for new users the panel will now hover over the bottom edge of the screen and in terms of usability it is unchanged compared to how it was you don't have to aim precisely for the exact icon you can click under the panel and it will still activate what you clicked or what you intended to click and that's about it for the visual changes plasma 6 looks like KD plasma 5.27 it's just a little bit less busy more legible more streamlined I think the changes are good but if you didn't like breeze before you will still not like how plasma 6 looks now for the desktop related features because that's really what will change your experience with plasma so first the default they have changed drastically it will not affect how you use your computer if you just upgrade in place but for new users those defaults make a lot more sense first single click to select is Now the default with double click to open in theory single click to open is easier and more logical but the truth is most users that come to Linux are already used to another OS and all other operating systems use double click to open so it makes sense to to move to that you obviously can still go back to single click to open if you prefer that tap to click on touchpads is also the default now which is normal it should always have been and the task switcher that comes up when you press alt plus tab is a more familiar grid of thumbnails instead of the side column plasma used before the team also disabled scrolling on the desktop to switch workspaces the option is still there if you want to enable it but for newcomers it will avoid weird behaviors that they just did not understand now that's it for the defaults they also removed a few options from the rightclick menu on the desktop you can still reenable them but the menu looks less busy those are same defaults and they'll be better for newcomers to Linux and 2kd because they're closer to what they're used to now for the changes that will affect everyone first panel configuration the previous messy popups and rulers were replaced by something much more visual which which will absolutely be a better experience you get visual representations of the settings that you're changing with combo boxes to select what you want you can change the heights the opacity the position the alignment the length and the visibility all in one place and you also gained a new Option the ability for the panel to dodge Windows meaning that the panel will be visible at all times unless a window covers it at which point it just gets out of the way and you can bring it back by pushing your mouse cursor against the Ed Ed that the panel rests on it is the auto height feature that I needed that has been missing in plasma for a long while it's long overdue and it's awesome to finally have it again now another big change is the combination of the overview and the present Windows effect in itself it feels like the older overview except it looks a lot like gnomes where your current desktop has rounded Corners hovers over a blurred translucent background with a strip of virtual ual desktops on top and a krunner search field under it what also changed are the touchpad gestures and these are much much better you don't have to repeat the same gesture twice to go back to your desktop after opening the overview it is now as good as gnome's activity View and as nice to use with Dodge pad gestures I have nothing to criticize here it's just a stellar improvement over everything you don't feel like these animations and effects have been tacked on the based desktop you feel like you're actually interacting with the desktop itself which was the goal so Props it really really works well now you can also get the desktop Cube back I could only make it work if I had four virtual desktops I didn't write with more it's not more functional than the overview it's probably worse it's not more usable than the overview it's probably worse but it is pretty and it did help convert a lot of users back in the day so why not another change is the ability to just click inside of her scroll Bar's area to move the content directly to that area you don't have to drag the scroll bar or use the mouse wheel you just click where you'd like to go and the scroll bar jumps there finally krunner got faster way faster and it now lets you reorder the various elements that it shows when you search for something provided you add them to your favorit and the reordering is not really wizzy Weg like you have to drag an element and drop it on top of another before it gets reordered it's not super usable in terms of interface but you can actually sold the results in the order that you want them to so these are some pretty cool refinements and cool features it's not as much as I had hoped for a full year of development but at the same time it does make KD feel a lot more polished especially on the overview side of things and the panel configuration so those are really great changes and whether you're newcomer or someone used to KD they're just going to make your workflow better now for the changes in the settings because it's plasma and it needs to change its settings with every single release first visually the settings are less busy gone are the double rows of icons at the bottom of pages they now mostly move to the toolbar of the settings app meaning that settings Pages now look a bit nicer and the space that the app uses is used better as well they've also reduced the number of pages that were opened by clicking a button inside of another page so things are easier to find and the settings were reordered into other categories that will make more sense to certain people and less sense to others it is a side grade it doesn't really improve navigation in the settings it's just a different way of sorting them some people will like it I personally don't care now you do get a new sound theme preference page to change the sounds that your desk toop will play for certain actions and the default sound theme was also revamped it's now called ocean it sounds okay it reminds me a lot of the PS5 sound effects I generally just disable most of these sounds anyway and finally you also get easier configuration of which app will open a broad category of files you can set for example an app for all audio files or an app for all video files instead of handling that for each file type you can still do that of course but it's easier to apply sweeping changes they also touched up and merged and revamped and made other settings Pages more legible it's definitely an improvement but it doesn't make those settings easier to navigate there's still a lot of options everywhere if you like that you're going to be okay with it if you didn't you're still going to be lost personally I'm used to it by now but I will admit the settings in KD will never look streamlined or easy because there are just too many options and that's what what KD is here for and let's finish this tour with the changes to the applications dolphin received changes to its settings as well reordering a bunch of things and it gained keyboard shortcuts to access the toolbar buttons and the dis space usage bar that lives in the status bar you can also now right click a folder to open it in split view spectacle the screen recorder now shows a tray icon when it's recording your screen you can click that icon to end the recording it also supports recording just a part of your screen and it has new keyboard shortcuts to handle all of this everything will now be saved by default in the pictures SL screenshots directory or the pictures SLC screencasts directory and of course you can change that it also supports vp9 to record videos and you can also invoke it using the command line Kate the text editor has a new Json parser that's apparently way faster it now supports text to speech it can also sync the scrolling in split view and it has more automatic setup options for a variety of languages console has redesigned settings as well and will now use less Ram text selection now works for Chinese Korean or Japanese languages and every tab now runs in a separate cgroup meaning the entire app will no longer be killed if your system needs to kill a process to save some resources KD connect can now connect to other devices using Bluetooth only and it now supports mdns meaning you should see available devices now instead of having to hunt them down or use their IP address to connect to them its settings also now live in the system settings instead of their own window and a bunch of apps also receive changes like the contact Suite received a ton of work although the interface is still extremely complex and unwieldy kadon live received the ability to replace an audio or a video clip in the timeline and also better easing modes for various transitions neoch chat The Matrix client now has a welcome page to set up an account or create one and it now supports spaces and toodon the masteron client now let you set focal points on images you can hide boosts and replies in the timeline and it has a better first launch experience so plasma 6 it took a year to arrive and was it worth the wait honestly I think so yes it is not a revolution it's not like the transition from KD 3.5 to kd4 or even from 4 to 5 it's more like a move from KD 5.27 to something like KD 5.50 you do get a lot of refinements to the theme to the settings and to the apps and the desktop feels more polished and less like a jum ball of parts that sort of plug into each other but it is still KD plasma if you loved it you will probably love it even more it just got better if you didn't like it chances are you will still not like it and if you're a newcomer to Linux it's probably going to be a better starting point than it ever was before what is more interesting is the new underlying stack with a solid foundation using cute 6 and with whan support being as close to perfect as can be while we wait for the last few protocols that are still missing plasma 6 is in a fantastic place to move the Linux desktop into the future or into the present if like me you have moved to Wayland a while back and you haven't touched X11 that all old thing in a long long one whatever your case is you can still use KD plasma with X11 and if you use whand you will love your experience even more because plasma 6 basically fixes all the remaining issues that KD had under whand so yeah now you can wait for your Dro to actually ship plasma 6 to you if you use Fedora you'll get it in April with Fedora 40 if you use kubuntu or any obuntu base drro you will not get it until October which is a long while if you use Katy neon you'll get it automatically and if you use a rolling release drro chances are it's going to come in the coming weeks or month personally 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so last week I asked my community on masdon to recommend terminal utilities and programs that they couldn't live without on Linux and well even though I made that form expire after only 48 hours I got over 187 answers most of which had three different recommendations so I looked through every single one and I picked the ones that I felt would be most useful to most people and of course if you missed that boat because I only shared that specific form on masteron for two days you can also recommend all the terminal utilities you use very regularly down in the comments below and if you like this concept of asking the community what they like and then recommending those things in a specific video then like this video specifically and I'll make sure to make more along the same lines not just for terminal but for everything Linux related now before we get started I'm going to tell you all about today's sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably know about them already they 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I'll recommend there can be installed using Homebrew which is why I'm starting with it now our second pick is fzf for fuzzy find it lets you search files extremely fast using their names but it can also look through command history processes bookmarks git commits and more you can just type FZ f-q followed by a string of characters and it will look through all the files in the current directory you're in although it will return any path that contains your string of characters not necessarily the exact word you typed you can run it with- e to find only exact matches which will narrow down the search it also has a Vim plugin and you can of course use a pipe to make it search for something another command returned it also has a bit of a syntax that you can use for example you can add a dollar sign at the end of the search term to find items that end with it or you can add an exclamation point before the search term to find stuff that doesn't contain it it is blazing fast and it will definitely enhance any file search that you need to do on your system using the terminal it's available using home brw now if like me you have wasted minutes maybe even hours pressing up in your terminal to try and find a specific command that you ran a few months ago you might want to try add to in this thing replaces your shell history with a database that you can search through super easily once it is installed with Brew you will have to configure it their website has all the steps to do that and after you've restarted your shell as in just log out and back in once you press the up Arrow key or control+ R you will get a search interface to look for all your commands you can type what you're looking for in my case most of the time it's FFM pag and you'll filter through the entire history select the command with the arrow keys and either press enter to run it again or press tab to edit the command before running it it is a really really useful program one that I plan to use from now on instead of the up Arrow key strategy because yeah it's just much better it is available through Homebrew as well now I couldn't avoid this next one it's called Shima because it's a French name it means my home or at my home this tool lets you manage your personal configuration files called dot files because well they tend to start with a DOT because they're hidden files shoa lets you share these config files across devices by syncing them to a git repo and it can interface with a very large variety of password managers to keep everything safe if you spend an insane amount of time customizing everything that you use or do and you know how git Works Shima is probably the thing you need as it has a similar command structure than git you can back up everything so if you need to reinstall you don't lose anything and if you need to replicate that configuration on another device you also can the difference with other dot file managers is that it can encrypt all the secrets that might be inside these dot files and it works as a single binary so if you usually have your own custom scripts to handle all of this well it saves you the install of a full environment to be able to run those scripts now personally I do not need this I don't spend a lot of time customizing things and I don't care if I lose my DOT files honestly but if you spend hours or months Rising your desktop or really tweaking your system you might really want to use something like this now if you use a laptop and you find linux's battery life to be a bit subar well first check that your browser has Hardware acceleration on because that's the most common cause of battery usage for people who watch videos and second maybe look at powertop this is a tool developed by Intel that lets you monitor your power usage and lets you automatically tune things so you can get the best battery life without killing your performance entirely this one is not available from Homebrew but most distributions should have it either pre-installed or at least in their repos now if you want to check what is waking up your CPU often you can just run the command powertop and you'll see all processes using tab you can navigate to various statistics but also to the tunables screen which will show you what powertop identifies as a bad configuration for battery life if you would like to change these you can run powertop D- auto-tune and it will change all the settings to what it believes are good options for battery life saving although it might impact the performance and you can also run power top as a system Des service if you want so you can ensure that all these tuning is also done every time you restart the computer it is a nice tool to try and regain some battery life but don't blindly apply all of the configurations you might end up with some data loss if for example you tell your hard drives to shut down as quickly as possible or you might lose some performance so test out all the options and see what works for you and what doesn't now if you would like to quickly analyze what uses a lot of dis space on your computer or in a remote server you might want to replace the DU and DF commands with dust dust will give you a more detailed representation of your dis space consumption with ASI bars and a very legible color system with that it's super easy to identify what is hogging up your hard drive and either clean that up or take the necessary actions you can of course get a more minimal View using the dashb option to remove the bars or the- C option to remove the colors and you can run that program in a specific directory or you can exclude certain directories and files in my opinion it's much more legible than what du offers because it's not necessarily meant to be piped through another command which is how du is generally used and I can only recommend dust instead and you can install from home brw as well just like most of these programs now if you run a dual boot and you're facing problems with accessing one of your install systems you might not know that you can force grub to reboot into a specific system just for the next boot it's also useful if your computer tends to skip that grub screen and you're not fast enough to tap the necessary function or Escape key to display that screen now you can do this using the grub Das reboot command followed by the number or the name of the grub entry for the system you want to reboot in very useful if you can't manage to boot into a specific system you have installed or if you completely broke the one that you're currently using you ended up in a command line and you don't quite know what you're doing or if you're going to be able to reboot into something else now if you need to monitor for resource usage on your computer you might be using top or htop but btop is in my opinion a better option it looks much much better than htop or just top and it's also more legible it can monitor your dis usage the RAM usage the network use the battery life and even the GPU if you want you can sort all of the processes using the arrow keys the current filter is displayed in the top right corner of the processes list and you can hit a letter key to interact with a process like pressing k for kill it's basically a full system monitor in your terminal it's very very nice I have replaced top and HTP with btop now it's just good it's available through home brew if you often use the cat command to read a file maybe try bat instead it does the same thing but it also has syntax highlighting for a bunch of files and it communicates with Git to show modifications in files with the usual plus and minuses symbols for the lines that changed it can also show tabs and spaces and it integrates with other tools like fzf rip grap or even the man command so your command line manuals will look much more legible it is a great replacement for cat if you'd like to use something fancier and it's also available from Homebrew now speaking of manuals if man is too much for you and it's just too much reading why not try tldr I'm pretty sure I mentioned it previously on the channel but it's really good it gives you an Abridged version of the contents of man for most of the available programs and commands and it makes things more legible and easier to par at a glance you can run it using tldr followed by the command name and you're done I basically replace 90% of my use of the man command with tldr and if you need the full manual it's still available so yeah install it using home brew as with virtually everything I already mentioned now if you like to split a terminal or a TTY into multiple terminals zel J or zage is a nice alternative to something like t-x it's basically a tiling Window Manager for your terminal workspace you can Define your own layout it supports plugins floating panes and more you can run it by by running the zeage command and then you can create a new pane pressing alt plus n you can move a pane using contrl plus h and then placing it where you want and pressing enter or you can make a pane floating with ctrl+ P then W pains can be resized as well with alt plus the Plus or the minus key and with alt plus a bracket key you can move a pane to the bottom or the top of another one in a vertical stacking layout now personally I'm not a fan of tiling Window Manager and I don't really need a terminal multiplexer like this one but if you do zelig J or zage not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced is actually a very good choice another one that was recommended was bobu or biobu uh and both of those are available in home brew now if you often use LS to find files in a directory you might want to take a look at EA it does the same job as in it lists the content of a directory but it does it with way more details and a more legible interface it can give you the status of files in a git repo it can give you more readable dates and readable file sizes it can give you the SE Linux context some mountpoint details and more now you will have to learn the various options for EA because they're not exactly the same as with the ls command but honestly it provides a more legible output and I think it's going to simplify the life of a bunch of people you can install it using home broom and these are just a few examples of what has been recommended the list was obviously too long for me to cover all of those but if you like the video enough I might revisit this topic in the future and take a look at the options I didn't elect to cover in this specific video but in the meantime let me tell you about our sponsor tuxedo computers if you need a new device to run Linux on maybe it's time to stop buying devices that only support Windows and to actually buy something from a manufacturer that supports Linux like like tuxedo they have a big range of devices from laptops no and desktops whether you need something for office work for gaming or workstation whatever they have it all all the hardware is pretty customizable and for laptops you can open them repair them upgrade them you can have your own logo and grav down theid you can pick your own keyboard layout it's just really really nice I only use devices from tuxedo computers these days my main computer that I run the channel on is an Infiniti Book Pro 16 and my gaming console is a toxedo Cube that I run Steam OS on so if you need a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux because tuxedo computers does contribute patches Upstream to fix some issues that they encounter in their testing well then you can just click the link in the description below and get yourself a device from tuxedo they're really really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you really really enjoy the video well there are plenty of links in the description to do just 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hey everyone this is Nick and I don't have an intro so this week we have a big malware making its way onto the snap store and a subsequent reaction from canonical to try and deal with that we've got a planned API for handling all your computers RGB on Linux and we have the warp terminal coming to Linux although it is not open source oh and we also have some new features finally coming to Firefox we have more work being planned on HDR we have some new NVIDIA drivers and we have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuare they provide Linux kernel life patching and extended support for endof Life Linux distributions so you can keep your Linux server and workstation Fleet secure and up to-date without disruptions or downtime and this week they're giving you access to their new report the 20124 Enterprise Linux and open-source landscape report which features data generated from their massive annual wide ranging industry survey the report aims to help organizations shape their Linux their open source and also their AI strategies with 47 Pages detailing Trends forecasts security insights and much more the reports covers how modern organizations are behaving in regards to Linux distribution usage AI strategies arm server adoption security patching and much more so you can just click the link to get that free report and you don't even need to give out your email address or any other personal detail to download it so let's begin with the Snap Store Alan Pope formerly of the canonical snapcraft team wrote a very detailed analysis of what happened recently on the Snap Store where an app masquerading as a popular crypto wallet was able to be published and to steal about half a million dollars in Bitcoin from at least one reported user it is not the first time a malicious app made its way onto the snap store and generally there was basically no response apart from quarantining the affected snap so what happened this time was that an app called Exodus was published in early February on the Snap Store the listing looked legitimate using the official logo organization name some marketing text that felt legit and the snap package was listed as safe meaning it did use the snap sandbox unfortunately this package was not official and it was just a scam Alan Pope conducted an investigation on the package itself first finding that the snap was never even mentioned on the website for the official Exodus wallet they do have a Deb or an archive for Linux but no mention of the snap now this in itself is not necessarily a red flag some developers just like to try out a snap package or a flat pack but don't list them on their websites until they've actually reached feature parity and had enough testing but there are other differences first the official app uses electron the scam app uses flutter but the real indication that this was a scam is that the first thing that is asked of the user in the scam app is to enter their 12w passphrase to recover their wallet this is something that you should never do even the official Exodus website tells you that they will never ask you for that recovery passphrase looking deeper Alan found that the app would very likely use that pass phrase to access the wallet and then use an API to empty it the app has since been quarantined by canonical of course and it shouldn't be visible anymore on the Snap Store the issue here is how did this app make it through the Snap Store validation process and the answer is it was really easy all the scammers needed was a Snap Store account easy to create and then they could just register the name of the app and publish it since they used the sandbox there was no human validation involved as the package was just published as is Mark shuttleworth founder of canonical has since then said that while he agrees that cryptocurrencies are and I quote largely a cspit of ignorable intentions end quote they don't want to ban crypto apps from the snap store because if they did people would download them from less reputable or trustworthy sources that wouldn't be sandbox and of course in The Exodus scam wallet story The Sandbox just did not to anything because the app did not need to bypass it to actually harm people Mark also started a new threat to discuss adding stronger identity verification for all snap Publishers one proposition is to require a credit card to publish a snap on the snap store and then use industry standard technology to verify that the person publishing the app is truly who they say they are now of course you could steal a credit card so he's also mentioning the possibility of charging a fee and wait waiting a few months to see if it goes through or if it's revoked but this would add as he points out a long delay for publishing an app and he also says he does not want to charge for publication on the Snap Store what is important is that kodal wants to tackle that problem and they're asking for feedback on how to handle this issue and also to fix the problem of these malicious snaps having been installed by people even though they're quarantined they're still on a bunch of computers so now kol seems to be pushing completely snap packages to erase the malicious snaps to make sure that no one who might not have heard about this story would still be using that snap they won't be able to and this is obviously going to be a very important issue to solve whether it's on flathub or on the snap store we do want people to be able to download free apps we do want developers to be able to publish their apps for free but also we don't want these apps to be fully malicious and if you're not asking for any money you have a hard time implementing the human validation that would help detect these scams and snaps or flat packs are absolutely critical to the success of the Linux desktop without them we have absolutely no chance of ever having a centralized distribution platform which is absolutely needed for third party developers to actually get invested in Linux so I really hope we can fix these issues now you might have heard about warp it's a Juiced up terminal app that supports Hardware acceleration collaborative work and features you would often find in an IDE like multiple cursors Auto completion syntax highlighting and more it was previously only available for Mac OS but they just introduced a Linux version available as a Deb or an app image it comes with all the features that the app has on Mac OS as it apparently shares 98% of the code base but it also comes with better performance on Linux than in Mac OS as they have applied a few Linux specific optimizations the terminal is built using rust and interestingly it also uses Cosmic text which is a library developed by System 76 for their Cosmic desktop now do note that the app isn't open source yet developers apparently have plans to open source bits of the app maybe the entire client but their server component will stay closed Source because yes there is a server component you need to log in to a free or paid account to use the app which will probably deter a few of you their privacy policy seems okay but who knows and if you're a fan of AI which personally I'm not warp also supports that to generate commands from normal text as in you could ask the terminal in plain text to help you install audacity or to compile a program in a specific directory and it will try to generate a command to do that now it does look like a very powerful app especially if you do development work now whether you like the non-op source nature of it it's AI Integrations the need to use an account with it that's up to you but it's always good to have some relatively popular apps coming to Linux even though I would have preferred if it had been open source now if you enjoy RGB everywhere you will be happy to know that Linux might gain a dedicated API to handle all of that it's being worked on by tuxedo computers which for disclosure they are a regular sponsor of the channel but they did not ask me to mention this specific piece of news I didn't even learn about it from them so their engineer has been talking with kernel developers and with the open RGB maintainers to work on a dedicated kernel interface to handle all of the complex RGB devices and interactions that computers unfortunately tend to come with these days now of course it's not out of the goodness of their heart they probably hope to make it simpler for them to handle all the RGB back light on the keyboards the light bars and basically just all the RGB that they ship on their own devices but at least it will make things better for everyone in the process the discussion is still ongoing but it looks like the proposal is well received and it would indeed be very nice to have a unified interface to handle all of this it's one more barrier lifted from people who really like their tacky lights to move on to Linux now personally I absolutely despise RGB I think it's a waste of battery life it's a waste of power and it doesn't even look good but if people like it at least they'll be able to use it it looks like the cosmic desktop will not be limited to pop OS as there is already a proposition to make a fedora spin using it they're currently evaluating creating a fedora special interest group to create desktop images using that specific desktop environment so this group would handle creating the RPM packages for Cosmic they would handle promotion for the Fedora spin but they would also contribute to the desktop itself contribute to Upstream and they would create an atomic variant Atomic being the umbrella under which Fedora publishes their immutable dros now with the alpha for Cosmic probably coming in early March and the first table version being planned for poos 24.4 so before the end of this year it is not too far-fetched to see a fedora spin coming either in October or in early 2025 and it's really cool to see that there's interest for Cosmic outside of just popos because you might have the best desktop environment in the world if no app uses its features they're completely useless so the more contributors they have the more dis Ros ship that desktop the more chances we have to have a solid app ecosystem that takes advantage of cosmic so good now there is another hackfest plans to keep the momentum going on the work being done on HDR support on color management and on variable refresh rate igalia will host this year's hackfest in Spain in May in the hope of making sure that things go smoothly for all of these schol developments ealia also already work with AMD and valve to implement all of that on the steam deck so I think they're perfectly placed to host this and to coordinate effort so we only have one set of protocols that everyone can Implement because gnome already started working on HDR and variable refresh rate KD already has some implementations of that as well so hopefully everyone can land on a single implement ation by pulling all their work and I really really love seeing this kind of concerted efforts everybody's just picking one topic and working hard together to fix it and implement it in a way that works for virtually everyone I hope we'll see this kinds of concerted efforts in the future on more topics than just HDR variable refresh rate and column management because it's exactly the spirit of Linux and the open source Community now we also got the release of Firefox 120 3 this week which seems to be feature packed this time around the built-in translation feature can now translate titles in the tool tips of tabs and it can also translate any text in control fields in search boxes and in other various controls that appear on the translated websit you can also now pick what the unified search bar suggests when you use it to search for something you can disable or enable your browsing history your bookmarks your open tabs or your search engines so you don't get a bunch of recommend ations in there that you just don't care about Firefox also now better supports controllers by adopting EV Dev meaning that for example if you stream games from a game streaming service your controller experience should be much improved especially with dual shock 4 and Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers now there were also a few visual bugs fixed for aun two users something just didn't have enough contrast or didn't look right but also using Firefox on arm devices will now let you play 2K and 4K content on YouTube provided your Hardware can decode that obviously and finally Firefox implements a bunch of other underlying things in their engine which should make it easier for developers to actually support modern web features and for Firefox to be able to render them well and it is really cool to see Firefox going back to adding interesting features and upgrading the engine inside of Firefox it feels like they haven't done that for a long while I can't attribute this version to the new management at Modzilla because probably these features were in development way before Laura Chambers arrived as the new CEO but it's good to see that renewed Focus anyway and let's finish this with the gaming news there's some progress on the proposed NT sync driver for the Linux kernel this thing aims to implement a better way to use the Windows NT synchronization when running Windows games through proton or wine and it received its version two to try and fix what didn't work well and also to have better documentation and this patch set is nothing to scarf at compared to regular wine it brings huge FPS improvements for a lot of games from 21% in Metro 2033 up to 678 in Dirt 3 196% in Resident Evil 2 or 34% in Total War Troy these are massive Gams and we can only hope that this patch set is reviewed and accepted in the kernel so we can all benefit from some pretty massive performance boosts at that point if the project was rejected on the basis of its code or its architecture sure why not but if it's rejected because it's an implementation of a window's way of doing things as an optional driver I would be very disappointed I know we could always build gaming specific kernels that implement this patch set but having this in the Upstream kernel would probably be better for most people now it looks looks like the latest nvo drivers and nvk are considered solid enough nowadays as in the new release of Mesa version 24.1 the developers want to push using zinc and nvk instead of the Native open GL drivers that Novo provides now if you don't know zinc is a little layer that lets you run open GL apps using the Vulcan drivers instead and the fact that Mesa is planning to replace that native open G driver with zinc is a good indication that nvk is in a very good place now there's also of course an environment parameter to decide to use zinc or not which means that you can still have control over that if you need to and that makes me pretty excited because it's a very good indication that nvk is in a really solid place right now so I cannot wait to give it a shot on my Nvidia GPU and see how well this goes and the performance difference with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers speaking of which we just got the release of the stable version of the Nvidia 5 I 50 Branch with improved Vulcan extension support support for various color formats HDR improvements but also fixes for whand on older Nvidia gpus notably for the GTX 10 Series where there was a problem where Wayland could run basically at 1 FPS all the time which is no longer the case there's also a fix for variable refresh rate not working well and a lot more including some game specific fixes it should be a very interesting update for most most Nvidia users on Linux especially if you had an older GPU and you couldn't use whan because it just didn't run well I think these new drivers might be interesting to test out maybe it fixes the problem for you and we also got the release of the first public beta for proton 9.0 it's obviously based on wine 9.0 and it also bundles the latest vkd3d proton the latest dxvk dxvk NV API and all other underlying libraries that let you play games on Linux and it makes a bunch of games officially playable including games that were already available in proton experimental like the incredible Lord of the Rings Golem and I mean incredible in all the worst ways video playback in Games should now be more reliable as well input devices that have more than eight axes should behave better and disk space should be lowered a little bit now don't expect major performance improvements or anything it's mostly an update to the Y 9.0 version and it's mostly game specific fixes which in itself is a pretty strong indication that proton already works very reliably for most things if we're at the point where we need to implement game specific fixes instead of wide ranging bug fixes for most of our systems then I think we're in a good place and speaking of a good place a good place to buy a 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hey everyone this is Nick and I don't have an intro so this week we have a big malware making its way onto the snap store and a subsequent reaction from canonical to try and deal with that we've got a planned API for handling all your computers RGB on Linux and we have the warp terminal coming to Linux although it is not open source oh and we also have some new features finally coming to Firefox we have more work being planned on HDR we have some new NVIDIA drivers and we have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuare they provide Linux kernel life patching and extended support for endof Life Linux distributions so you can keep your Linux server and workstation Fleet secure and up to-date without disruptions or downtime and this week they're giving you access to their new report the 20124 Enterprise Linux and open-source landscape report which features data generated from their massive annual wide ranging industry survey the report aims to help organizations shape their Linux their open source and also their AI strategies with 47 Pages detailing Trends forecasts security insights and much more the reports covers how modern organizations are behaving in regards to Linux distribution usage AI strategies arm server adoption security patching and much more so you can just click the link to get that free report and you don't even need to give out your email address or any other personal detail to download it so let's begin with the Snap Store Alan Pope formerly of the canonical snapcraft team wrote a very detailed analysis of what happened recently on the Snap Store where an app masquerading as a popular crypto wallet was able to be published and to steal about half a million dollars in Bitcoin from at least one reported user it is not the first time a malicious app made its way onto the snap store and generally there was basically no response apart from quarantining the affected snap so what happened this time was that an app called Exodus was published in early February on the Snap Store the listing looked legitimate using the official logo organization name some marketing text that felt legit and the snap package was listed as safe meaning it did use the snap sandbox unfortunately this package was not official and it was just a scam Alan Pope conducted an investigation on the package itself first finding that the snap was never even mentioned on the website for the official Exodus wallet they do have a Deb or an archive for Linux but no mention of the snap now this in itself is not necessarily a red flag some developers just like to try out a snap package or a flat pack but don't list them on their websites until they've actually reached feature parity and had enough testing but there are other differences first the official app uses electron the scam app uses flutter but the real indication that this was a scam is that the first thing that is asked of the user in the scam app is to enter their 12w passphrase to recover their wallet this is something that you should never do even the official Exodus website tells you that they will never ask you for that recovery passphrase looking deeper Alan found that the app would very likely use that pass phrase to access the wallet and then use an API to empty it the app has since been quarantined by canonical of course and it shouldn't be visible anymore on the Snap Store the issue here is how did this app make it through the Snap Store validation process and the answer is it was really easy all the scammers needed was a Snap Store account easy to create and then they could just register the name of the app and publish it since they used the sandbox there was no human validation involved as the package was just published as is Mark shuttleworth founder of canonical has since then said that while he agrees that cryptocurrencies are and I quote largely a cspit of ignorable intentions end quote they don't want to ban crypto apps from the snap store because if they did people would download them from less reputable or trustworthy sources that wouldn't be sandbox and of course in The Exodus scam wallet story The Sandbox just did not to anything because the app did not need to bypass it to actually harm people Mark also started a new threat to discuss adding stronger identity verification for all snap Publishers one proposition is to require a credit card to publish a snap on the snap store and then use industry standard technology to verify that the person publishing the app is truly who they say they are now of course you could steal a credit card so he's also mentioning the possibility of charging a fee and wait waiting a few months to see if it goes through or if it's revoked but this would add as he points out a long delay for publishing an app and he also says he does not want to charge for publication on the Snap Store what is important is that kodal wants to tackle that problem and they're asking for feedback on how to handle this issue and also to fix the problem of these malicious snaps having been installed by people even though they're quarantined they're still on a bunch of computers so now kol seems to be pushing completely snap packages to erase the malicious snaps to make sure that no one who might not have heard about this story would still be using that snap they won't be able to and this is obviously going to be a very important issue to solve whether it's on flathub or on the snap store we do want people to be able to download free apps we do want developers to be able to publish their apps for free but also we don't want these apps to be fully malicious and if you're not asking for any money you have a hard time implementing the human validation that would help detect these scams and snaps or flat packs are absolutely critical to the success of the Linux desktop without them we have absolutely no chance of ever having a centralized distribution platform which is absolutely needed for third party developers to actually get invested in Linux so I really hope we can fix these issues now you might have heard about warp it's a Juiced up terminal app that supports Hardware acceleration collaborative work and features you would often find in an IDE like multiple cursors Auto completion syntax highlighting and more it was previously only available for Mac OS but they just introduced a Linux version available as a Deb or an app image it comes with all the features that the app has on Mac OS as it apparently shares 98% of the code base but it also comes with better performance on Linux than in Mac OS as they have applied a few Linux specific optimizations the terminal is built using rust and interestingly it also uses Cosmic text which is a library developed by System 76 for their Cosmic desktop now do note that the app isn't open source yet developers apparently have plans to open source bits of the app maybe the entire client but their server component will stay closed Source because yes there is a server component you need to log in to a free or paid account to use the app which will probably deter a few of you their privacy policy seems okay but who knows and if you're a fan of AI which personally I'm not warp also supports that to generate commands from normal text as in you could ask the terminal in plain text to help you install audacity or to compile a program in a specific directory and it will try to generate a command to do that now it does look like a very powerful app especially if you do development work now whether you like the non-op source nature of it it's AI Integrations the need to use an account with it that's up to you but it's always good to have some relatively popular apps coming to Linux even though I would have preferred if it had been open source now if you enjoy RGB everywhere you will be happy to know that Linux might gain a dedicated API to handle all of that it's being worked on by tuxedo computers which for disclosure they are a regular sponsor of the channel but they did not ask me to mention this specific piece of news I didn't even learn about it from them so their engineer has been talking with kernel developers and with the open RGB maintainers to work on a dedicated kernel interface to handle all of the complex RGB devices and interactions that computers unfortunately tend to come with these days now of course it's not out of the goodness of their heart they probably hope to make it simpler for them to handle all the RGB back light on the keyboards the light bars and basically just all the RGB that they ship on their own devices but at least it will make things better for everyone in the process the discussion is still ongoing but it looks like the proposal is well received and it would indeed be very nice to have a unified interface to handle all of this it's one more barrier lifted from people who really like their tacky lights to move on to Linux now personally I absolutely despise RGB I think it's a waste of battery life it's a waste of power and it doesn't even look good but if people like it at least they'll be able to use it it looks like the cosmic desktop will not be limited to pop OS as there is already a proposition to make a fedora spin using it they're currently evaluating creating a fedora special interest group to create desktop images using that specific desktop environment so this group would handle creating the RPM packages for Cosmic they would handle promotion for the Fedora spin but they would also contribute to the desktop itself contribute to Upstream and they would create an atomic variant Atomic being the umbrella under which Fedora publishes their immutable dros now with the alpha for Cosmic probably coming in early March and the first table version being planned for poos 24.4 so before the end of this year it is not too far-fetched to see a fedora spin coming either in October or in early 2025 and it's really cool to see that there's interest for Cosmic outside of just popos because you might have the best desktop environment in the world if no app uses its features they're completely useless so the more contributors they have the more dis Ros ship that desktop the more chances we have to have a solid app ecosystem that takes advantage of cosmic so good now there is another hackfest plans to keep the momentum going on the work being done on HDR support on color management and on variable refresh rate igalia will host this year's hackfest in Spain in May in the hope of making sure that things go smoothly for all of these schol developments ealia also already work with AMD and valve to implement all of that on the steam deck so I think they're perfectly placed to host this and to coordinate effort so we only have one set of protocols that everyone can Implement because gnome already started working on HDR and variable refresh rate KD already has some implementations of that as well so hopefully everyone can land on a single implement ation by pulling all their work and I really really love seeing this kind of concerted efforts everybody's just picking one topic and working hard together to fix it and implement it in a way that works for virtually everyone I hope we'll see this kinds of concerted efforts in the future on more topics than just HDR variable refresh rate and column management because it's exactly the spirit of Linux and the open source Community now we also got the release of Firefox 120 3 this week which seems to be feature packed this time around the built-in translation feature can now translate titles in the tool tips of tabs and it can also translate any text in control fields in search boxes and in other various controls that appear on the translated websit you can also now pick what the unified search bar suggests when you use it to search for something you can disable or enable your browsing history your bookmarks your open tabs or your search engines so you don't get a bunch of recommend ations in there that you just don't care about Firefox also now better supports controllers by adopting EV Dev meaning that for example if you stream games from a game streaming service your controller experience should be much improved especially with dual shock 4 and Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers now there were also a few visual bugs fixed for aun two users something just didn't have enough contrast or didn't look right but also using Firefox on arm devices will now let you play 2K and 4K content on YouTube provided your Hardware can decode that obviously and finally Firefox implements a bunch of other underlying things in their engine which should make it easier for developers to actually support modern web features and for Firefox to be able to render them well and it is really cool to see Firefox going back to adding interesting features and upgrading the engine inside of Firefox it feels like they haven't done that for a long while I can't attribute this version to the new management at Modzilla because probably these features were in development way before Laura Chambers arrived as the new CEO but it's good to see that renewed Focus anyway and let's finish this with the gaming news there's some progress on the proposed NT sync driver for the Linux kernel this thing aims to implement a better way to use the Windows NT synchronization when running Windows games through proton or wine and it received its version two to try and fix what didn't work well and also to have better documentation and this patch set is nothing to scarf at compared to regular wine it brings huge FPS improvements for a lot of games from 21% in Metro 2033 up to 678 in Dirt 3 196% in Resident Evil 2 or 34% in Total War Troy these are massive Gams and we can only hope that this patch set is reviewed and accepted in the kernel so we can all benefit from some pretty massive performance boosts at that point if the project was rejected on the basis of its code or its architecture sure why not but if it's rejected because it's an implementation of a window's way of doing things as an optional driver I would be very disappointed I know we could always build gaming specific kernels that implement this patch set but having this in the Upstream kernel would probably be better for most people now it looks looks like the latest nvo drivers and nvk are considered solid enough nowadays as in the new release of Mesa version 24.1 the developers want to push using zinc and nvk instead of the Native open GL drivers that Novo provides now if you don't know zinc is a little layer that lets you run open GL apps using the Vulcan drivers instead and the fact that Mesa is planning to replace that native open G driver with zinc is a good indication that nvk is in a very good place now there's also of course an environment parameter to decide to use zinc or not which means that you can still have control over that if you need to and that makes me pretty excited because it's a very good indication that nvk is in a really solid place right now so I cannot wait to give it a shot on my Nvidia GPU and see how well this goes and the performance difference with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers speaking of which we just got the release of the stable version of the Nvidia 5 I 50 Branch with improved Vulcan extension support support for various color formats HDR improvements but also fixes for whand on older Nvidia gpus notably for the GTX 10 Series where there was a problem where Wayland could run basically at 1 FPS all the time which is no longer the case there's also a fix for variable refresh rate not working well and a lot more including some game specific fixes it should be a very interesting update for most most Nvidia users on Linux especially if you had an older GPU and you couldn't use whan because it just didn't run well I think these new drivers might be interesting to test out maybe it fixes the problem for you and we also got the release of the first public beta for proton 9.0 it's obviously based on wine 9.0 and it also bundles the latest vkd3d proton the latest dxvk dxvk NV API and all other underlying libraries that let you play games on Linux and it makes a bunch of games officially playable including games that were already available in proton experimental like the incredible Lord of the Rings Golem and I mean incredible in all the worst ways video playback in Games should now be more reliable as well input devices that have more than eight axes should behave better and disk space should be lowered a little bit now don't expect major performance improvements or anything it's mostly an update to the Y 9.0 version and it's mostly game specific fixes which in itself is a pretty strong indication that proton already works very reliably for most things if we're at the point where we need to implement game specific fixes instead of wide ranging bug fixes for most of our systems then I think we're in a good place and speaking of a good place a good place to buy a Linux device is our sponsor tuxedo tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and no that run Linux out of the box all the components inside have been picked specifically because they run well with Linux and in their testing they actually submit patches upstream and publish all their drivers in open- Source format so everyone can benefit they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a wide range of devices that should fit every price point and every need whether you need a small laptop for office work all the way up to a giant gaming tower or a giant workstation for 3D r ing they have it all all the devices are very customizable especially on the laptops where you can have your own logo engraved on the lid you can have your own custom keyboard layout you can open the laptop repair it and upgrade it so all I use these days are tuxedo computers devices I run this whole channel on a tuxedo Infinity Book Pro 16 and I do all my gaming on a tuxedo Cube which I turned into my Steam OS console so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you actually want to support a company that actively supports Linux click the link in the description below and get yourself a device from tuxedo they're really really good so thanks everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed it if you did you know what to do there's the like button subscribe button Bell notification icon whatever and the comment section and if you really enjoy the channel I left plenty of links so you can support it they're all in the description as well so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] he
do you want some bad news because we do have some bad news this week as Modzilla announced a round of layoffs in their new strategy to refocus on Firefox and their core product we also have India moving to ban proton male in the whole country but fortunately we do also have some cool stuff like the cosmic desktop approaching its first Alfa release some cool Ubuntu related things on the desktop and some interesting gaming news now what isn't game related though is this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuare they're your all-in-one service provider if you run a Linux server or workstation Fleet and you want to keep it secure up to date and with minimum downtime thanks to Kernel life patching and extended support for end of life distributions like sentos S7 for example in June 2024 any system running Centos S7 will be left without official patches or support organizations are now confronted with the critical need to migrate their server fleets to a new Linux 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comes to change to something new so Modzilla announced that they would reduce their Workforce as they scale back development on certain products as a result 60 employees will lose their job which is around 5% of mozilla's Workforce projects affected by this are mozzilla monitor plus the very recently announced paid Sur service to remove personal data from leaks but also Modzilla VPN Firefox relay and other privacy focused Services the general impression at Modzilla seems to be that these aren't really offering anything too different or interesting compared to competitors and thus these services are struggling to grow the Mozilla dos social instance on Mastodon will also see reduced investment but it will stay online now these cuts are made to better concentrate on Firefox especially on the mobile app where they feel they can grow the most and apparently AI hasn't been abandoned as I thought since an internal memo apparently told employees that Modzilla wants to bring trustworthy AI into Firefox and that they're merging their AI team with their content team and the pocket team and it's hard not to see the new CEO at work here it always sucks when talented contributors to open source projects lose their job so I really do hope that they'll find something that is suited to their skills and to what they actually want to do as per the focus on Firefox at Mozilla I think that's what basically everyone wants to see from the nonprofit and if they have to add some AI stuff I hope it is at least what they talked about already which is a local only helper for your own research and not an all-encompassing black box that lives in the cloud and just siphons your personal data and we're getting very close to a cosmic desktop Alpha now in a blog post published yesterday system 76 talked about their progress and they've now completed the screenshot tool for the desktop it supports capturing the whole screen a window or a screen area they've also implemented window stacks for floating windows letting you drag windows on top of one another and group them in tabed groups like what you would find on many tiling window managers but for floating windows and they've also designed their on screen display Elements which will show up when you increase or decrease the volume the brightness when you disable the touchpad or enable airplane mode they also added maximize and un maximized animation they finalized the display settings and the wallpaper settings and what they want to focus on now before the alpha is having good support for hybrid graphics letting you see which apps use the dedicated GPU and shut them down if you want to save battery life other remaining areas include improving the terminal with a split window mode doing the same for the text editor finishing the tiling applet with per work space Auto tiling designing the app and applet icons to start working on the file manager for Cosmic and a few other things Cosmic will be shipped in popos 24.4 based on you guessed it auntu 24.4 LTS it is pretty solid progress here and I guess it also confirms that they will have their own file manager and they won't use something else like Nemo or Nautilus or dolphin or whatever so at least the core apps for Cosmic will all be very cohesive and look the same now how they will handle apps designed for Gnome or for KDE remains to be seen but I'm very excited to start testing the alpha when it releases I think it's in early March now the it Ministry of India decided to issue an order to block proton male in the country 13 private schools received fake bomb threats that were hoaxes and these threats were sent from proton male so apparently the only logical reaction from the government was to blog the entire Sur service the order hasn't been sent yet but it is bound to happen soon although it is unclear if the mobile apps will be blocked from Apple's App Store and Google play for now only the website seems targeted proton acknowledged that they received notice for that potential block and obviously they are not amused they're saying that it's misguided and inappropriate because it won't block anyone from sending threats from another email address and it won't even be any use if the people who send these threats were not located in India now the block is made possible by a relatively recent law that lets a committee decide to block anything they would like in the whole country for national security reasons the committee noted that getting information about the people using proton mail has been an issue because well it's encrypted and they can't give you the contents of the email or the personal info of the user so it does feel more like an attempt to remove a tool that India cannot spy on or monitor or control than a real Justified reaction so congratulations to the absolute bastards who thought it was funny to send bomb threats to various schools of all things but also would India have blocked Gmail for example assuming Gmail is as popular in India as it is in the rest of the world cuz it doesn't feel like they would have done that and would have paralyzed millions of people and companies so it does feel like an opportunistic way to get rid of a service that they can't actually control and they just found the right justification to do it now the servo project is being picked back up again Servo was an experimental browser engine meant to replace gecko the long-standing Firefox engine it was developed by Modzilla it uses rust and it was pretty much abandoned by the nonprofit they did use some of these features inside of gecko but the whole engine was pretty much ditched but it looks like at F them it was mentioned that the project is being restarted however it's not being restarted by Modzilla it's the team at ealia that decided to reboot it still the project now has an updated road map for 2024 which hopefully might result in the engine being adopted by some browsers in the future and it might not result in anything maybe no browser will decide to use it but I think it's an opportunity to bring more diversity into the browser engine space because having just blink controlled by Google is an absolute nightmare for the open web and how websites can be designed what features they can pick it's just not good so hopefully Servo will land in Firefox maybe in some Linux only browsers who knows but I really hope it results in something good and still on the topic of browsers chromium will integrate the web monetization API in the browser base and it will make its way into Chrome 127 in July this thing is a new API that lets website declare that they accept micro payments from Their audience and people using a web browser can now automatically contribute a teeny tiny amount of money when they visit a specific website for example I could enable web monetization on my website if I ever decided to write something there and you could say hey every time I visit this website I agree to donate 1 cent and then every time you visit my website and you read a page or watch a video you automatically transfer one cent from your wallet to mine it's obviously all voluntary and the user decides how much each micro payment is it's not up to the website to set a minimum users also decide the frequency of the payments for every website that they want to support and it does look like a very solid idea especially since it's hitting chromium meaning that about 90% of the browser market share will have access to that feature now if it's not too buried in the settings it does have the potential to make the ad-based internet less relevant and let people make a living from micro donations from Their audience so yeah it's I think it's a good thing and I as a Creator am pretty excited to see how this thing will go now open 2 will gain a new desktop security Center in the future this thing is a new app using flutter as with everything else open to develops and it will expose a bunch of security related settings that were previously either spread across many different tools and settings Pages or command line only so it will support things like attaching a device to your open2 pro subscription enable incal life patching or managing system permissions for applications packaged as snaps you will also be able to access encryption related options for their future TPM backed dis encryption and you can get your encryption recovery keys from there you'll also be able to manage the firewall and a few other things now the tool is currently in very early stages of development so even if you can already install it and try it it is super early days but I do like seeing auntu regain control over the desktop experience that they provided sort of reminds me of the good old days when obuntu was the absolute best desktop distro there was no discussion about it I still don't like the snaps but I like that they're trying to tweak gnome and add their own spin on top of it much like what open Souza would be doing with yast for example and obuntu installer will also get a little revamp in obuntu 24.4 apparently that new installer wasn't the best thing for oems it wasn't really focused on provision meaning it was harder to handle multiple installs with this tool or to let the user set up their account after the install was already done now in 24.4 they will not fix all of that but the installer will get a refresh they will now show you accessibility options as the second step right after you pick your language and these settings will carry over into your final install the keyboard layout selection also looks nicer now just like the internet connection step of the installer or the install options which also now look much better basically every page got the same design with a visual or icon on the left and the options and settings on the right and it all looks much more legible and engaging all the other steps also receive the same updated designs that aren't implemented just yet including for using encryption creating your user account or partitioning and you might think who cares it's the installer but actually it's the most important part of the whole experience because it's the first point of contact anyone will have with the drro replacing your Os or installing a new one or partitioning is extremely scary for a lot of people that have never done it before so offering a very legible very clear well-designed and reassuring installer is absolutely crucial so it's great to see that obuntu is actually doing that and let's finish this with the gaming news now the insanely talented developers of aahi Linux have passed yet another Milestone their support for openg GL and openg G is now newer than what apple offers themselves in Mac OS the latest open G driver for Apple silicon on Linux now conforms with version 4.6 while apple is stuck at 4.1 which is almost 14 years old but this also means that now the team is going to be able to focus on Vulcan support which will be very useful especially for anything gaming related it didn't give any specifics on how that work is moving mov along apart from the fact that they are well on the road to supporting now as per M3 support they said it will take at least 6 months to get basic support in the meantime the M1 and M2 platforms are almost completely supported apart from Thunderbolts Touch ID the built-in mic or using an external monitor over USBC and it is just insane to see a group of volunteers managing to beat Apple in terms of how good their drivers are without any documentation or any help Stellar work there and finally we have some more details about the manaro orange pie that gaming handheld running Manjaro that was announced at Fan so first it will not run the usual edition of Manjaro it will be manjaru gaming Edition which is an immutable distribution that comes with a heavy focus on flat pack support obviously plus specific patches for gamees scope open Gamepad UI and more it will also come with KDE for 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I already made a video on how to run Mac OS on Linux a while back thanks to a snap package but it hasn't been updated in 4 years and it's a very old version of Mac OS now so I thought I would revisit the topic and if you are wondering why anyone would ever want to run Mac OS when they already have access to Linux well there are plenty of use cases to test crossplatform apps to test websites or just to have a mic OS system without having to spend the cash to buy a Mac so let's look at how you can do all of this and let's look at our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and you probably have heard about them by now but if you haven't just know that they're your allinone solution to build your own website however complex or simple you want it to be you can completely customize the website to look and feel and have the features that you want you have a big selection of templates and then you can rearrange them by just dragging and dropping blocks into place you can change the 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but I never got a functional Mac OS session the system just crashed again and again so after Consulting with my good friends from patreon they recommended quick mu which was the right call this thing is a very simple program that uses qmu to automatically create VMS for a bunch of operating systems whether that's Mac OS Linux or Windows and it will download all you need and configure the VM for you so you don't have to run through a bunch of Hoops and we can also install a graphical app to handle all of this although that is totally optional and it's called quick gooey so I left links on how to install quick mu and quick guoy in the description basically if you use an arch based drro or nuunu based drro you can either get them from the Aur or from a PPA if you use something else they are instructions down in the description and don't worry if you don't want to use the guey I will also give you instructions you using the command line to install the VM and to run it so if you went for the guey it is all extremely simple you install the quick gooey app and you launch it the app might take a while to display anything inside the window but once it does you can click on create new machine now on my end quick guey had a window that was too small it cut off the buttons I couldn't scroll I couldn't resize it but if that happens to you as well you can still click on the buttons you will see them sticking out a little bit now you then get to pick the directory where you want to set things up and the operating system you want to install so go ahead and either find Mac OS in the list or type Mac and click on that in the version button you can pick which version you want I went with monter that's the latest Mac OS version quick mu supports trying to update that to Sonoma resulted in a broken VM for me and finally click the download button to grab all you need to get started now technically going further than that is against Apple's end user license agreement you are not allowed to run Mac OS on Nona Hardware depending on where you live this license agreement might be enforcable or not but do note that by just accepting to install Mac OS after that you're basically breaking the install term so Apple might do as they please they might sue you if they really want to do that they might remove your iCloud account if they detect you used it on something that is not allowed there are no documented cases of this but be warned now once the download is done click dismiss and then click the little X in the top left to close the downloader part of the app you can then click manage existing machines and click the little play button next to your Mac OS VM and you're good to go you should land in the setup for Mac OS now if you don't want to use a goei you can run quick mu using the command line to do so you can open your terminal app of choice on Linux and run quick get Mac OS Monteray let the program do its thing and once it's done you can run quick mu-- VM ma os- mon.com to run the VM this will run the VM and land in the Mac OS setup utility now whatever method you picked you should now have an open window with your Macos virtual machine running it's using spicy it's a gtk based guey to run virtual machines using the spice remote desktop protocol it's a very simple guey with options to resize the window to share the clipboard between your system and the VM and to pass through USB devices note that if you run your VM from the command line you will not get the spicy client you will just get a window without any buttons or toolbars I don't know why but it's not the same experience now you can resize the window to suit your needs the VM will also scale to fit and then we can proceed to install Mac OS click inside the VM window so it can grab your inputs and then select the Mac OS base system entry with the arrow keys then press enter if you need to regain control of your mouse and keyboard you can press shift and F12 so the VM doesn't keep control of it then once you're inside the Mac OS install interface you can open the Disk Utility and you need to select the hard drive that was created for you click the erase button in the top right corner and rename that dis I called it Mac OS do not that the keyboard will be using a query layout by default confirm and then close the dis utility window by clicking on the little red button up top click reinstall Mac OS Monteray and then proceed to select your recently erased hard drive and proceed to accepting the licensing terms again be wary of that blah blah it's illegal to do that if your country recognizes that user license agreement as valid which some countries might some countries might not the install will then run it takes a long while on my own computer it took about 1 hour to complete so be patient once the install is done you should be able to reboot into a Mac OS session and create your user and Skip all the BS steps that Apple puts in that step of the install now you might have to restart manually to complete the install uh if after running the installer the bar goes to the end and drops you back into the reinstall mic OS Monteray window you can just click the little apple menu uh on the top left select restart and then on reboot you can select the Mac OS dis that you just created and the install will continue and finish this way it might do it automatically it didn't for me now all of this runs in a qmu VM so you can obviously configure it to better use your PC's Hardware to use more CPU cores use more RAM stuff like that because by default Mac OS runs like crap on this VM now to change the configuration of the VM you use a text file that is stored in the directory you picked at install in my case it's in my home folder it should be called Mac os- mon.com you can open it with your text editor of choice and tweak things in there by default you will only use two CPU CES I changed that to four as my system can handle that without any problem just change the number after the CPU uncore course parameter if you want to give the VM more RAM you can add the following line at the end of the file Ram equals 16g I gave 16 gigs because my laptop has 32 but you can give it just 8 gigs it should theoretically run with four but it might not perform too well you will also want to enable trim it will let the VM be compacted when you delete files so it doesn't end up using too much hard drive space after a while if you don't do it the VM image will grow and grow and will never scale back even when you remove things inside of your Mac osvm to enable trim open the terminal app from Mac ma OS it's in the utility subdirectory of the applications folder type pseudo trim Force enable and then type your Mac OS accounts password that you set up when booting Mac OS answer with the letter Y to confirm you want to proceed then type enter and do so a second time to reboot the VM and after that you will have trim enabled and your VM will not balloon up to swallow your entire hard drive now if you want to pass a CD ROM as an ISO to the VM to maybe install something you can also do that just add the following line to the vm's config file we use to change the RAM and the CPU cores you can add fixed uncore ISO equals the path to your ISO file now this should result in a usable system this is qmu so you can change a lot more things in there but this is kind of out of scope for this video if you want to learn more about qmu there are plenty of resources online to do so now of course it is a VM so there there are limitations first 3D acceleration will not be good here as in it doesn't even exist Mac OS doesn't supported so your system will feel a bit slow and you will not get smooth animations video playback might also be a bit stuttery and you will not be able to play any games although if you're running Linux as the host system chances are you already have a much more capable gaming system than any Mac will probably ever be you could theoretically Buy a GPU that is officially supported by Apple for example an AMD RX 580 or something and try to do dual GPU with one GPU for your Linux system and one that you pass through to the VM but that's a long shot and honestly it's also out of scope for this video now another limitation is that you do have to accept Apple's license agreement when installing the system and in theory this does not allow you to run Mac OS on non- Mac hardware so just know that it is not a supported or authorized use case it doesn't prevent you from using your iCloud account in the Mac osvm I do it I did it a while back on a bunch of VMS and I never got a problem but if Apple changes policies and manages to detect that you're using iCloud on a non-authorized install of mic OS they might outright ban your account we don't know there are no reports of this but it could happen so just be wary of this now if you can't log in to any iCloud services or the Mac App Store you will have to run a little command the error comes from your device not being verified by Apple because your wired ethernet device doesn't match what Mac OS expects to solve that you can open the Mac OS system preferences then go to network and delete all the network devices then you will need to open the Mac OS terminal app and type the following command line pseudo rm/ Library SL preferences SLS system configuration SL Network interfaces. pist after a reboot the issue should be fixed and you should be able to log in through any iCloud service and using the Mac App Store now some features of Mac OS will probably not work either like continuity or iMessage because everything is in a VM and it might not have access to the required hardware or network features if you need to change the resolution of the VM you will need to use Mac OS as display preferences changing it using the vm's guei doesn't work and you will not be able to share the clip board using the VM GUI either Mac OS does not support that now you should get USB passed through for all devices although if you install Catalina or an older version you will only get USB 2 more recent versions will give you USB 3 and also note that just closing the window in which the VM is running does not stop the VM you will either need to completely close the terminal window where you launch the command line to run the VM or you will need to stop the VM from the quick guey interface if you don't the VM keeps running in the background and uses up resources now what you can do in that VM though is run xcode to develop iOS apps for example you can run Apple only applications like numbers Pages or keynote to open edit and create these file formats you have access to most apps from the Mac App Store as well at least those that don't need graphical acceleration you can test your websites or web apps using Safari or you can run your crossplatform apps in there to test them on Mac OS you can o share files from your Linux system to the Macos VM if you already have sambar installed on your Linux system the Mac OS VM will detect it and enable it so your shares will be accessible from the Mac OS finder you can also access the VM using the spice protocol as a remote desktop so you could run that VM without a graphical user interface on any server or computer and access it when you need it from another device you can just run the VM using the command line quick mu- - VM Mac os- mon.com d-d display none this will start the VM on your system without a graphical interface and you can then access it using a remote desktop app that supports the spice protocol on any other computer now in theory you can also do system updates from the VM but updates might break things depending on what Apple changes in there I did perform the update to Mac OS Sonoma from the VM and it broke it so you probably should not do that just wait for the project to support somoma and there you go now you can use Mac OS for your personal needs professional needs to just learn about it for your career to just test things out or to just realize how limiting and pretty bad of an operating system it is and yeah I do not like micos I have videos about that somewhere on my channel that explain why it kind of sucks and of course quick mu is not limited to Mac OS you can also use it to quickly spin a VM of Windows 10 or Windows 11 without having to mess with regedit or the registry which you kind of have to do to install Windows 11 in a VM it's a great little project you can also install any Linux drro you might want to run in a VM so you can keep that installed even if you don't use Mac OS afterwards because you realized it really sucked so thanks for all my patreon supporters who suggested it because you first saved that video and second made me discover a really really cool tool and in return I'll make you discover our sponsor tuxy computers if you are a Linux user you know how painful it can be to buy a brand new computer to run Linux on and end up having to solve a bunch of issues 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do you want some bad news because we do have some bad news this week as Modzilla announced a round of layoffs in their new strategy to refocus on Firefox and their core product we also have India moving to ban proton male in the whole country but fortunately we do also have some cool stuff like the cosmic desktop approaching its first Alfa release some cool Ubuntu related things on the desktop and some interesting gaming news now what isn't game related though is this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuare they're your all-in-one service provider if you run a Linux server or workstation Fleet and you want to keep it secure up to date and with minimum downtime thanks to Kernel life patching and extended support for end of life distributions like sentos S7 for example in June 2024 any system running Centos S7 will be left without official patches or support organizations are now confronted with the critical need to migrate their server fleets to a new Linux 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comes to change to something new so Modzilla announced that they would reduce their Workforce as they scale back development on certain products as a result 60 employees will lose their job which is around 5% of mozilla's Workforce projects affected by this are mozzilla monitor plus the very recently announced paid Sur service to remove personal data from leaks but also Modzilla VPN Firefox relay and other privacy focused Services the general impression at Modzilla seems to be that these aren't really offering anything too different or interesting compared to competitors and thus these services are struggling to grow the Mozilla dos social instance on Mastodon will also see reduced investment but it will stay online now these cuts are made to better concentrate on Firefox especially on the mobile app where they feel they can grow the most and apparently AI hasn't been abandoned as I thought since an internal memo apparently told employees that Modzilla wants to bring trustworthy AI into Firefox and that they're merging their AI team with their content team and the pocket team and it's hard not to see the new CEO at work here it always sucks when talented contributors to open source projects lose their job so I really do hope that they'll find something that is suited to their skills and to what they actually want to do as per the focus on Firefox at Mozilla I think that's what basically everyone wants to see from the nonprofit and if they have to add some AI stuff I hope it is at least what they talked about already which is a local only helper for your own research and not an all-encompassing black box that lives in the cloud and just siphons your personal data and we're getting very close to a cosmic desktop Alpha now in a blog post published yesterday system 76 talked about their progress and they've now completed the screenshot tool for the desktop it supports capturing the whole screen a window or a screen area they've also implemented window stacks for floating windows letting you drag windows on top of one another and group them in tabed groups like what you would find on many tiling window managers but for floating windows and they've also designed their on screen display Elements which will show up when you increase or decrease the volume the brightness when you disable the touchpad or enable airplane mode they also added maximize and un maximized animation they finalized the display settings and the wallpaper settings and what they want to focus on now before the alpha is having good support for hybrid graphics letting you see which apps use the dedicated GPU and shut them down if you want to save battery life other remaining areas include improving the terminal with a split window mode doing the same for the text editor finishing the tiling applet with per work space Auto tiling designing the app and applet icons to start working on the file manager for Cosmic and a few other things Cosmic will be shipped in popos 24.4 based on you guessed it auntu 24.4 LTS it is pretty solid progress here and I guess it also confirms that they will have their own file manager and they won't use something else like Nemo or Nautilus or dolphin or whatever so at least the core apps for Cosmic will all be very cohesive and look the same now how they will handle apps designed for Gnome or for KDE remains to be seen but I'm very excited to start testing the alpha when it releases I think it's in early March now the it Ministry of India decided to issue an order to block proton male in the country 13 private schools received fake bomb threats that were hoaxes and these threats were sent from proton male so apparently the only logical reaction from the government was to blog the entire Sur service the order hasn't been sent yet but it is bound to happen soon although it is unclear if the mobile apps will be blocked from Apple's App Store and Google play for now only the website seems targeted proton acknowledged that they received notice for that potential block and obviously they are not amused they're saying that it's misguided and inappropriate because it won't block anyone from sending threats from another email address and it won't even be any use if the people who send these threats were not located in India now the block is made possible by a relatively recent law that lets a committee decide to block anything they would like in the whole country for national security reasons the committee noted that getting information about the people using proton mail has been an issue because well it's encrypted and they can't give you the contents of the email or the personal info of the user so it does feel more like an attempt to remove a tool that India cannot spy on or monitor or control than a real Justified reaction so congratulations to the absolute bastards who thought it was funny to send bomb threats to various schools of all things but also would India have blocked Gmail for example assuming Gmail is as popular in India as it is in the rest of the world cuz it doesn't feel like they would have done that and would have paralyzed millions of people and companies so it does feel like an opportunistic way to get rid of a service that they can't actually control and they just found the right justification to do it now the servo project is being picked back up again Servo was an experimental browser engine meant to replace gecko the long-standing Firefox engine it was developed by Modzilla it uses rust and it was pretty much abandoned by the nonprofit they did use some of these features inside of gecko but the whole engine was pretty much ditched but it looks like at F them it was mentioned that the project is being restarted however it's not being restarted by Modzilla it's the team at ealia that decided to reboot it still the project now has an updated road map for 2024 which hopefully might result in the engine being adopted by some browsers in the future and it might not result in anything maybe no browser will decide to use it but I think it's an opportunity to bring more diversity into the browser engine space because having just blink controlled by Google is an absolute nightmare for the open web and how websites can be designed what features they can pick it's just not good so hopefully Servo will land in Firefox maybe in some Linux only browsers who knows but I really hope it results in something good and still on the topic of browsers chromium will integrate the web monetization API in the browser base and it will make its way into Chrome 127 in July this thing is a new API that lets website declare that they accept micro payments from Their audience and people using a web browser can now automatically contribute a teeny tiny amount of money when they visit a specific website for example I could enable web monetization on my website if I ever decided to write something there and you could say hey every time I visit this website I agree to donate 1 cent and then every time you visit my website and you read a page or watch a video you automatically transfer one cent from your wallet to mine it's obviously all voluntary and the user decides how much each micro payment is it's not up to the website to set a minimum users also decide the frequency of the payments for every website that they want to support and it does look like a very solid idea especially since it's hitting chromium meaning that about 90% of the browser market share will have access to that feature now if it's not too buried in the settings it does have the potential to make the ad-based internet less relevant and let people make a living from micro donations from Their audience so yeah it's I think it's a good thing and I as a Creator am pretty excited to see how this thing will go now open 2 will gain a new desktop security Center in the future this thing is a new app using flutter as with everything else open to develops and it will expose a bunch of security related settings that were previously either spread across many different tools and settings Pages or command line only so it will support things like attaching a device to your open2 pro subscription enable incal life patching or managing system permissions for applications packaged as snaps you will also be able to access encryption related options for their future TPM backed dis encryption and you can get your encryption recovery keys from there you'll also be able to manage the firewall and a few other things now the tool is currently in very early stages of development so even if you can already install it and try it it is super early days but I do like seeing auntu regain control over the desktop experience that they provided sort of reminds me of the good old days when obuntu was the absolute best desktop distro there was no discussion about it I still don't like the snaps but I like that they're trying to tweak gnome and add their own spin on top of it much like what open Souza would be doing with yast for example and obuntu installer will also get a little revamp in obuntu 24.4 apparently that new installer wasn't the best thing for oems it wasn't really focused on provision meaning it was harder to handle multiple installs with this tool or to let the user set up their account after the install was already done now in 24.4 they will not fix all of that but the installer will get a refresh they will now show you accessibility options as the second step right after you pick your language and these settings will carry over into your final install the keyboard layout selection also looks nicer now just like the internet connection step of the installer or the install options which also now look much better basically every page got the same design with a visual or icon on the left and the options and settings on the right and it all looks much more legible and engaging all the other steps also receive the same updated designs that aren't implemented just yet including for using encryption creating your user account or partitioning and you might think who cares it's the installer but actually it's the most important part of the whole experience because it's the first point of contact anyone will have with the drro replacing your Os or installing a new one or partitioning is extremely scary for a lot of people that have never done it before so offering a very legible very clear well-designed and reassuring installer is absolutely crucial so it's great to see that obuntu is actually doing that and let's finish this with the gaming news now the insanely talented developers of aahi Linux have passed yet another Milestone their support for openg GL and openg G is now newer than what apple offers themselves in Mac OS the latest open G driver for Apple silicon on Linux now conforms with version 4.6 while apple is stuck at 4.1 which is almost 14 years old but this also means that now the team is going to be able to focus on Vulcan support which will be very useful especially for anything gaming related it didn't give any specifics on how that work is moving mov along apart from the fact that they are well on the road to supporting now as per M3 support they said it will take at least 6 months to get basic support in the meantime the M1 and M2 platforms are almost completely supported apart from Thunderbolts Touch ID the built-in mic or using an external monitor over USBC and it is just insane to see a group of volunteers managing to beat Apple in terms of how good their drivers are without any documentation or any help Stellar work there and finally we have some more details about the manaro orange pie that gaming handheld running Manjaro that was announced at Fan so first it will not run the usual edition of Manjaro it will be manjaru gaming Edition which is an immutable distribution that comes with a heavy focus on flat pack support obviously plus specific patches for gamees scope open Gamepad UI and more it will also come with KDE for 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I already made a video on how to run Mac OS on Linux a while back thanks to a snap package but it hasn't been updated in 4 years and it's a very old version of Mac OS now so I thought I would revisit the topic and if you are wondering why anyone would ever want to run Mac OS when they already have access to Linux well there are plenty of use cases to test crossplatform apps to test websites or just to have a mic OS system without having to spend the cash to buy a Mac so let's look at how you can do all of this and let's look at our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and you probably have heard about them by now but if you haven't just know that they're your allinone solution to build your own website however complex or simple you want it to be you can completely customize the website to look and feel and have the features that you want you have a big selection of templates and then you can rearrange them by just dragging and dropping blocks into place you can change the 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but I never got a functional Mac OS session the system just crashed again and again so after Consulting with my good friends from patreon they recommended quick mu which was the right call this thing is a very simple program that uses qmu to automatically create VMS for a bunch of operating systems whether that's Mac OS Linux or Windows and it will download all you need and configure the VM for you so you don't have to run through a bunch of Hoops and we can also install a graphical app to handle all of this although that is totally optional and it's called quick gooey so I left links on how to install quick mu and quick guoy in the description basically if you use an arch based drro or nuunu based drro you can either get them from the Aur or from a PPA if you use something else they are instructions down in the description and don't worry if you don't want to use the guey I will also give you instructions you using the command line to install the VM and to run it so if you went for the guey it is all extremely simple you install the quick gooey app and you launch it the app might take a while to display anything inside the window but once it does you can click on create new machine now on my end quick guey had a window that was too small it cut off the buttons I couldn't scroll I couldn't resize it but if that happens to you as well you can still click on the buttons you will see them sticking out a little bit now you then get to pick the directory where you want to set things up and the operating system you want to install so go ahead and either find Mac OS in the list or type Mac and click on that in the version button you can pick which version you want I went with monter that's the latest Mac OS version quick mu supports trying to update that to Sonoma resulted in a broken VM for me and finally click the download button to grab all you need to get started now technically going further than that is against Apple's end user license agreement you are not allowed to run Mac OS on Nona Hardware depending on where you live this license agreement might be enforcable or not but do note that by just accepting to install Mac OS after that you're basically breaking the install term so Apple might do as they please they might sue you if they really want to do that they might remove your iCloud account if they detect you used it on something that is not allowed there are no documented cases of this but be warned now once the download is done click dismiss and then click the little X in the top left to close the downloader part of the app you can then click manage existing machines and click the little play button next to your Mac OS VM and you're good to go you should land in the setup for Mac OS now if you don't want to use a goei you can run quick mu using the command line to do so you can open your terminal app of choice on Linux and run quick get Mac OS Monteray let the program do its thing and once it's done you can run quick mu-- VM ma os- mon.com to run the VM this will run the VM and land in the Mac OS setup utility now whatever method you picked you should now have an open window with your Macos virtual machine running it's using spicy it's a gtk based guey to run virtual machines using the spice remote desktop protocol it's a very simple guey with options to resize the window to share the clipboard between your system and the VM and to pass through USB devices note that if you run your VM from the command line you will not get the spicy client you will just get a window without any buttons or toolbars I don't know why but it's not the same experience now you can resize the window to suit your needs the VM will also scale to fit and then we can proceed to install Mac OS click inside the VM window so it can grab your inputs and then select the Mac OS base system entry with the arrow keys then press enter if you need to regain control of your mouse and keyboard you can press shift and F12 so the VM doesn't keep control of it then once you're inside the Mac OS install interface you can open the Disk Utility and you need to select the hard drive that was created for you click the erase button in the top right corner and rename that dis I called it Mac OS do not that the keyboard will be using a query layout by default confirm and then close the dis utility window by clicking on the little red button up top click reinstall Mac OS Monteray and then proceed to select your recently erased hard drive and proceed to accepting the licensing terms again be wary of that blah blah it's illegal to do that if your country recognizes that user license agreement as valid which some countries might some countries might not the install will then run it takes a long while on my own computer it took about 1 hour to complete so be patient once the install is done you should be able to reboot into a Mac OS session and create your user and Skip all the BS steps that Apple puts in that step of the install now you might have to restart manually to complete the install uh if after running the installer the bar goes to the end and drops you back into the reinstall mic OS Monteray window you can just click the little apple menu uh on the top left select restart and then on reboot you can select the Mac OS dis that you just created and the install will continue and finish this way it might do it automatically it didn't for me now all of this runs in a qmu VM so you can obviously configure it to better use your PC's Hardware to use more CPU cores use more RAM stuff like that because by default Mac OS runs like crap on this VM now to change the configuration of the VM you use a text file that is stored in the directory you picked at install in my case it's in my home folder it should be called Mac os- mon.com you can open it with your text editor of choice and tweak things in there by default you will only use two CPU CES I changed that to four as my system can handle that without any problem just change the number after the CPU uncore course parameter if you want to give the VM more RAM you can add the following line at the end of the file Ram equals 16g I gave 16 gigs because my laptop has 32 but you can give it just 8 gigs it should theoretically run with four but it might not perform too well you will also want to enable trim it will let the VM be compacted when you delete files so it doesn't end up using too much hard drive space after a while if you don't do it the VM image will grow and grow and will never scale back even when you remove things inside of your Mac osvm to enable trim open the terminal app from Mac ma OS it's in the utility subdirectory of the applications folder type pseudo trim Force enable and then type your Mac OS accounts password that you set up when booting Mac OS answer with the letter Y to confirm you want to proceed then type enter and do so a second time to reboot the VM and after that you will have trim enabled and your VM will not balloon up to swallow your entire hard drive now if you want to pass a CD ROM as an ISO to the VM to maybe install something you can also do that just add the following line to the vm's config file we use to change the RAM and the CPU cores you can add fixed uncore ISO equals the path to your ISO file now this should result in a usable system this is qmu so you can change a lot more things in there but this is kind of out of scope for this video if you want to learn more about qmu there are plenty of resources online to do so now of course it is a VM so there there are limitations first 3D acceleration will not be good here as in it doesn't even exist Mac OS doesn't supported so your system will feel a bit slow and you will not get smooth animations video playback might also be a bit stuttery and you will not be able to play any games although if you're running Linux as the host system chances are you already have a much more capable gaming system than any Mac will probably ever be you could theoretically Buy a GPU that is officially supported by Apple for example an AMD RX 580 or something and try to do dual GPU with one GPU for your Linux system and one that you pass through to the VM but that's a long shot and honestly it's also out of scope for this video now another limitation is that you do have to accept Apple's license agreement when installing the system and in theory this does not allow you to run Mac OS on non- Mac hardware so just know that it is not a supported or authorized use case it doesn't prevent you from using your iCloud account in the Mac osvm I do it I did it a while back on a bunch of VMS and I never got a problem but if Apple changes policies and manages to detect that you're using iCloud on a non-authorized install of mic OS they might outright ban your account we don't know there are no reports of this but it could happen so just be wary of this now if you can't log in to any iCloud services or the Mac App Store you will have to run a little command the error comes from your device not being verified by Apple because your wired ethernet device doesn't match what Mac OS expects to solve that you can open the Mac OS system preferences then go to network and delete all the network devices then you will need to open the Mac OS terminal app and type the following command line pseudo rm/ Library SL preferences SLS system configuration SL Network interfaces. pist after a reboot the issue should be fixed and you should be able to log in through any iCloud service and using the Mac App Store now some features of Mac OS will probably not work either like continuity or iMessage because everything is in a VM and it might not have access to the required hardware or network features if you need to change the resolution of the VM you will need to use Mac OS as display preferences changing it using the vm's guei doesn't work and you will not be able to share the clip board using the VM GUI either Mac OS does not support that now you should get USB passed through for all devices although if you install Catalina or an older version you will only get USB 2 more recent versions will give you USB 3 and also note that just closing the window in which the VM is running does not stop the VM you will either need to completely close the terminal window where you launch the command line to run the VM or you will need to stop the VM from the quick guey interface if you don't the VM keeps running in the background and uses up resources now what you can do in that VM though is run xcode to develop iOS apps for example you can run Apple only applications like numbers Pages or keynote to open edit and create these file formats you have access to most apps from the Mac App Store as well at least those that don't need graphical acceleration you can test your websites or web apps using Safari or you can run your crossplatform apps in there to test them on Mac OS you can o share files from your Linux system to the Macos VM if you already have sambar installed on your Linux system the Mac OS VM will detect it and enable it so your shares will be accessible from the Mac OS finder you can also access the VM using the spice protocol as a remote desktop so you could run that VM without a graphical user interface on any server or computer and access it when you need it from another device you can just run the VM using the command line quick mu- - VM Mac os- mon.com d-d display none this will start the VM on your system without a graphical interface and you can then access it using a remote desktop app that supports the spice protocol on any other computer now in theory you can also do system updates from the VM but updates might break things depending on what Apple changes in there I did perform the update to Mac OS Sonoma from the VM and it broke it so you probably should not do that just wait for the project to support somoma and there you go now you can use Mac OS for your personal needs professional needs to just learn about it for your career to just test things out or to just realize how limiting and pretty bad of an operating system it is and yeah I do not like micos I have videos about that somewhere on my channel that explain why it kind of sucks and of course quick mu is not limited to Mac OS you can also use it to quickly spin a VM of Windows 10 or Windows 11 without having to mess with regedit or the registry which you kind of have to do to install Windows 11 in a VM it's a great little project you can also install any Linux drro you might want to run in a VM so you can keep that installed even if you don't use Mac OS afterwards because you realized it really sucked so thanks for all my patreon supporters who suggested it because you first saved that video and second made me discover a really really cool tool and in return I'll make you discover our sponsor tuxy computers if you are a Linux user you know how painful it can be to buy a brand new computer to run Linux on and end up having to solve a bunch of issues 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in the Linux Community there's a very common way of seeing things when you get started with Linux you start with a desktop environment and when you're more comfortable you move on to a tiling window manager and you ascend to another plane of existence where productivity is insane and you don't even need a mouse and still I personally do not use a tiling Window Manager even though I started using Linux in 2006 and there are plenty of use cases for which it's just not better than a regular desktop so today I wanted to finally give a look at styling window managers at why you would want to use one and at why I will personally probably never do so and also add this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag and drop it's really easy to use you can create all your pages but you also have plenty of modules like anything you need to run a store complete with online payment you have a members only area you have a logo creator you can even buy your own domain name that you will need to have a serious website straight from from Squarespace so they are your all-in-one platform to let you create and run that website so to get started with Squarespace just click the link in the description or head over to squarespace.com thee Linux experiment and you'll get 10% off your first website so window managers they manage your windows yeah all desktop environments provide a window manager you need one it's in charge of displaying your windows of handling their position and state as in maximized minimized the size of the window window the currently focused one and everything along those lines but on top of these window managers that are baked in the desktops like motor for Gnome or kwin for KDE you have tiling window managers that can basically replace your entire desktop environment shell and leave you with a completely different experience in the X11 era there were a ton of these stuff like I3 awesome WM bspwm xmonad qtile rat poys and a lot more in the whan era there are a lot less because well it's way harder to write a window manager for Wayland since you have to reimplement all the protocols so other you use an already made implementation and tweak just a few things or you have to write something huge from scratch the most well-known for whan would be hyperland or sway but there are a bunch of others in various states of completion now these styling window managers offer a different way of using your computer instead of having free floating windows everything you open is placed in a tile being a fraction of your screen that can be the entirety of it a half a quarter or any other rectangular shape that you define yourself this means that you do not have to manage dragging Windows everywhere to see what you'd like to see you don't have to handle minimizing or restoring Windows everything just uses the space you want and is visible at the same time and this combines really well with virtual desktops because you can basically set groups of apps that are all visible and well placed at the same time for different virtual desktops it's very efficient now you can also generally do everything with keyboard shortcuts like moving a window to another tile resize those Styles switch Focus from one window to another so your hands don't have to leave the keyboard much and since most of these styling window managers can be customized heavily you can set them up exactly how you like them no more Mouse no more inefficiencies and your regular desktop environments also have taken a page from their book because in the past five six or 10 years there's basically no good desktop that hasn't implemented some way of dragging a window to an edge of the screen and have it use half of your screen or maximize it by dragging it to the top and other desktops even have hybrid features poos for example starts in free floating mode where you'll drag your window with a mouse but you can switch it to Auto tiling when you're basically using a tiling window manager but with all the desktop environment goodness that you're used to each new window will occupy some space on screen and some windows can be left floating if you need that so if even those desktop environments are stealing features from tiling window managers they must be doing something right now not all tiling window managers will behave the same some are manual tyers some are Dynamic manual tiers will basically open each new window where you tell it to to the right to the top to the left or the bottom of the currently focused window Dynamic tiers on the other hand will open each new window following something that you defined a specific layout for example always using the space on the right side of the screen by resizing the windows that are already there or always doing that on the top half of the screen or following the golden ratio where each new window is a precise fraction of the one that was open before and of course most filing window managers let you change the size of each section of the screen as you need so basically you have plenty of options and they're doing something right because even desktop environments are now trying to implement some of these features KD even has a brand new complete tiling mode that started in 5.27 so tiling window managers let you save some screen space they let you avoid using the mouse too much so your hands can stay on the keyboard and they're generally keyboard driven which means they're viewed as more efficient so let's look at why you would want to use these so the first obvious Advantage is that you never get anything overlapping anything else unless you actively want to do so on a regular desktop you will always inevitably at some point end up with plenty of open windows that float on top of another you will have to move them out of the way close them or minimize them or resize them and this is basically wasted time it's time not spent using the computer and accomplishing something it's time time spent organizing the workspace to get to the thing you want to do now this wasted time still exists with tiling window managers but it's generally deferred to the beginning of when you start using it you configure it once and then all your windows will open exactly how you want them and you will basically never really have to bother with that now of course we all know this isn't true because you're going to keep messing with your configuration over and over and over but you get the point now the second advantage of tiling window managers is is that they sort of remove the need to use the mouse or the touchpad 99% of the time the only time you will probably need to use it is to interact with the contents of the window itself like clicking a link in the web browser or clicking a button in a window and sure you can do all that using the keyboard as well but I dare anyone to tell me that it's more efficient to hunt for a specific Link in a web page in a web browser using the keyboard than with using a mouse it's not it's really not now this still reduces the time spent moving your hands from one peripheral to another and it can even reduce muscle strain and fatigue as you're not moving your arms all around from your keyboard to your mouse all the time you can still use the mouse if you want to but you don't have to use it as much once you've memorized the keyboard shortcuts now that's a common misconception about tiling Window Manager some people seem to think that you have to throw your mouse in the bin to use a tiling WM that's not the case you can still use the mouse with virtually every Window Manager out there you just don't need to use it now another Advantage is resource usage a tiling Window Manager generally doesn't bring with it a whole system of panels of overviews of upgrades menus effects and more a lot of them will come with a main panel with access to Notifications the time a virtual desktop switcher or even a task manager but this is generally reduced to its simplest form meaning that you don't load as many things in memory as with a complete desktop now this can be endlessly debated on whether a tiling window manager will actually save some resources on whether some desktops are more efficient than others but basically since you're using just a window manager it's inevitably going to be lighter than using a full-on desktop environment with all its panels and its Little Helpers and demons running in the background now a big Advantage is also screen usage without a big panel and a dock tying Windows always uses the most space available on on your screen add to that the fact that you no longer really need a title bar for your windows because you don't really need to move them around and you're also saving vertical space on each window basically whether you have one single window open or 10 on the same screen the only wasted space is the panel the window manager might display and the gaps between Windows which you can generally reduce to zero if you hate legibility and your eyesight the end result is that you never just have an empty part of your desktop showing a pretty wallpaper you always have the maximum amount of space dedicated to your applications which are what you're using your computer for technically so with so many advantages why am I and a lot of other people not just using a tiling Window Manager I mean I'm dumb but I'm no dumber than the average Linux user and I can certainly memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts well the reasons are many the first one not everyone will agree with I am a sucker for consistency I like using things as they were designed looking how they were designed to look and with the feature set that they came with this is why I like desktop environments they give you an entire Suite of tools settings apps and a desktop to handle all of it I do not want to have a hybrid graphical thing that is just a pile of components and abs duct tape together I want a consistent thout interface and that's what Linux desktop environments give me and I am not saying that tiling window managers are unstable or badly written or make a mess off your system they are just not the thing that is shipped with the desktop and I want to use the desktop second reason is simple most desktops already give me enough of the tiling features to suit my personal use case using KD or gnome I can already tile my windows if I want to I can drag them to any corner or Edge and have them use that screen space in KY I even have a full tiling manager that I never use because I don't need it sure this Edge tiling does not give you as much flexibility as a full tiling window manager but for me personally it's actually better because my default use case isn't five or six or seven windows that will overlap it's very specific because I make videos which means I have two modes research and writing mode and video editing mode in the first I only need two Windows a browser for research and qo notes to write sometimes I'll have a virtual machine as well but tiling this on a laptop display just doesn't work it's way too small so I open it full screen on a virtual desktop a tiling window manager just doesn't help with this use case it doesn't do more than what I need and its default state is actually worse than the default state of my desktop in editing mode I have my video editor the VIN resolve in full screen again not something tiling window manager would help me with and now you might be saying that a tiling window manager would help me save some screen real estate compared to KD but no not really because my panel Auto hides behind windows so it doesn't take any space And while I do have title bars I also don't have gaps between my windows when they're tiled or between a window and a screen Edge so I'm actually pretty sure it's the exact same screen space usage as with the tiling window manager but what about Mouse usage it is inefficient to use your mouse to drag a window to a specific corner to tile it or untile it well first I do have keyboard shortcuts to do that in a desktop environment they all have that and second I like using a mouse to handle Windows it creates a connection with my computer and the system it reacts to my exact movements compared to pressing a shortcut and seeing a part of my screen just jump somewhere without any animation or movement I am a visual guy I like my things to react in real time and to see where they're going and why and mouse usage does that for me and I also don't lose out on configuration options at least on KDE I can change all the shortcuts if I want to I can change how windows open by default they remember their previous size it just works for my workflow and finally the main reason is that most of the time I work on a laptop it's a 16-in screen but it's still a laptop and so having more than two windows tiled side by side makes things way too small to be usable for me so to conclude a tiling window manager is a fantastic tool to use your computer if you have a lot of windows open regularly if you only interact with one or two apps at the same time I'm of the mind that a tiling window manager is actively detrimental to your use case because its default state is worse than the default state of using floating windows and I don't think there's a big gap to learn how how a tiling Window Manager works because yes most people will be educated on floating windows because most people started using computers using Windows which doesn't have a tiling window manager but it's not hard to relearn all of this it makes sense pretty quickly if you 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some people ask me if I ever run out of things to cover in the Linux open source privacy or open web space and uh well no because here is another jam-packed edition of the Linux and open source news show and so this week we have Modzilla getting a brand new CEO just after launching a very very overpriced service we have apple continuing their malicious compliance and disabling support for pwas in the EU we also have wine coming to Android but in closed Source format and we also have xfce decided to keep support for X11 and we have the Elementary OS 8 ISO in Early Access and we have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably already know them they are private and secure email service with end to end and zero access encryption and on top of that they give you access to a full Suite of online tools like a calendar contact storage space VPN and password manager all encrypted of course and proton mail keeps evolving as it now can help you better manage your time with its new snooze and scheduled features you can now snooze an email that you don't want to read right now and it will reappear in your inbox when you need it or when you have time and if you work in a global team or if you have news to share but not before a specific time and date you can also now schedule emails to be sent at a specific time so the recipient will get it at the most convenient moment and not before you're ready your proton account is free and if you need more advanced privacy and security features or more storage space they have paid plans to help with that so click the link in the description of the video and start reclaiming your privacy so Modzilla has a new CEO following the state of Mozilla that was published a few weeks ago it looks like Mitchell baker has stepped down as CEO for Modzilla and will retain her position of executive chairwoman in her place comes Laura Chambers who worked for Airbnb PayPal eBay and served on mozilla's board for 3 years and she's apparently mostly a product person so not an engineer I'm sure some people will find that problematic I personally think that's fine she outlined the main focus for the nonprofit and this is of course defining a clear strategy something Modzilla has seemingly lacked for a while or maybe they didn't communicate it well enough and second doubling down on their core products like Firefox plus bringing new products to Market because mozzilla still needs to get under the thumb of Google's funding and hopefully the latest overpriced monitor plus service that they launched recently was a last ditch effort from the previous CEO and not the first one of these new products from the new CEO monitor plus if you don't know is a service that lets you maybe scrub your leaked data from a big selection of data Brokers for $14 per month this feels way too expensive for what it does as first there is no guarantee any data broker will actually remove the personal info they're selling after it leaked or was hacked and second there's also no guarantee that this data is also not available on even less reputable marketplaces that mozzilla doesn't monitor or that it wasn't already bought and used by malicious actors 4 for that feels like a lot now Laura Chambers the new CEO also wants to have more engagement with the community and to focus on open source which cannot hurt as it sometimes fil Modzilla can be sort of a blackbox they're launching and starting things at random with very few discussions and interactions with the community interestingly there is no mention of AI apart from saying that everyone battles to own the future of Ai No mention of the pivot towards AI Modzilla announced anounced a few weeks ago now one might think that the previous announcement that they were focusing on AI was very poorly received and thus mozzilla decided the shakeup was in order and they got a new CEO I think the priorities here are in order focusing on the current products that really need to improve like Firefox and launching some new stuff which hopefully will be relevant and useful I think that's the core goal that we all expect from Modzilla we want a better more competitive we we browser and we don't really want another weird tool that no one is ever going to use so Microsoft decided to extend support for abun 21 18.04 for vs code I reported last week on the update Microsoft applied to their ID that broke compatibility with the old LTS version which left a bunch of users unable to access their infrastructure and it looks like Microsoft agrees that it wasn't done in the best way or with the best timing as they decided to give give 18.04 another 12 months of support they will publish what they call a recover update to restore that support which will let people keep getting updates without breaking their workflow of course Microsoft had previously announced they would drop 18.04 it was a while back they mentioned that loss of compatibility in their release notes but since VSS code like a lot of electron apps tends to auto update anyone who had not disabled that was caught off guard and a nice War morning Banner or popup would have helped with the issue I guess and as a lot of people pointed out to me having auto updates on for a crucial part of your workflow is probably a bad idea especially on an app that is proprietary and that you don't exactly control but it's also true for open- Source apps if you absolutely depend on a program to work you should at least get the time to read the release notes to make sure that it doesn't break what you rely upon now it looks like kuun 2 24.4 and other variants of the next LTS that use KDE like OBU studio will not use plasma 6 their feature freeze is right at the same time as the planned plasma 6 release meaning they don't feel they will have enough time to test everything to the standard of an LTS and so Ubuntu users will have to wait for obuntu 24.10 to get the latest plasma release which is a bit annoying the kubuntu council was unanimous on the matter and and I guess it is the best decision for an LTS since you would want to provide the most stable Dr you can now of course there will always be the backports PPA that provides newer versions of packages and desktop environments for auntu and it will probably let users upgrade to plasma 6 on 24.4 but generally these packages only appear once the next release of auntu that has them is out so you will still have to wait for 2410 anyway it is a bit disappointing that people switching to obun 22404 will not get to use plasma 6 for another 6 month because it comes with a lot of improvements and much better whand support and a bunch of cool new features but I guess it was the smart decision for an LTS if they didn't want to push it back a month or two now it looks like Apple's malicious compliance with the EU regulations continues as the betas for iOS 17 keep arriving and something things are just not working as intended they're actually intended to not work this time it's Progressive web apps which seem to just not function anymore you can still create a shortcut on your home screen for any website or web app but it will not open as a full screen app it will open as a browser page with all the usual Safari UI that you generally do not want in a progressive web app it's also been reported that these web apps will do lose the stored local data since they're handled as a safari tab that might be purged at some point and notifications will also not work making these pwas perfectly useless and to confirm that these changes are intentional and not just a beta related problem some people have seen a specific system iOS popup appear stating that these pwas will open in Safari from now on hinting at the fact that Apple just doesn't want you to use any of those it seems limited to the EU for some reason users from other countries do not seem affected and this is probably all linked to the fact that Apple has to open iOS to third-party browser engines when they control the only browser engine on iOS they could voluntarily hring pwas to make them less interesting than native apps you could download from their App Store but when they lose control over the rendering engine then there's no saying if Firefox or Chrome when they have their own rendering engine on iOS will not support all the features for pwas and if developers will just not decide to go this route instead of paying the Hefty fees that Apple wants to distribute an app on iOS so the only way they found is to just completely remove pwa support in the EU all together from the system you just do not have a choice right now which really sucks Apple fix your seriously and apparently xfce alongside cinnamon might be the desktop for people who don't want to move to way too soon as xfc announced that with version 420 haha funny number so while xfc 4.20 will bring whan support they will also keep supporting X11 and they have no plans to ditch it in the near future they were uncertain on whether they should maintain that compatibility but they elected to keep it in the end the whan session will be a first draft in the new version with the minimal set of features needed to run a desktop and they will build on top top of that with each update they will rely on WL Roots a base implementation of most of whan's protocols that is already used by a bunch of tiling window managers and the xfc developers have updated their road map for whand support as well and what's interesting is that they're also using something called lib xfc for windowing and that's a library that abstracts a bunch of operations and Concepts so they can work with Wayland And X11 without having to maintain two different code basis for each component of the desktop you just add stuff to that Library itself and whether you run on X11 or whan stuff reacts as you would expect this is a cool approach and it looks like at least one other desktop namely Budgy is also interested in using it for their own Wayland implementation so there is no planned release date for 4.20 just yet it will release when it's ready but for xfc users you're used to not getting major updates every weekend so that's that's probably fine and if you didn't like xfc before adding Wayland support will probably not change how you feel about the experience of using that one now Elementary OS 8 is now available in Early Access meaning that if you support the project on patreon or GitHub you can already get an ISO and test things out it is all super experimental so do not run that on a production PC but there are a bunch of nice changes in there updates have moved to the settings instead of the app center and can be downloaded automatically on top of letting you know if there are security updates in there so you can apply them quickly search in the settings is now much better and ranks settings pages in a more logical way other settings Pages received some love as well and the app got a new icon the multitasking view replaced its dull gray background with a blurred version of the wallpaper which looks much nicer and the workspace switcher now uses rounded corners and supports light and dark mode and on top of that when you click an apps icon when this app has multiple windows open instead of minimizing everything you will open a window spread so you can select the window you actually wanted to bring to focus so it's looking good for Elementary OS 8 it will probably release a bunch of months after Aon 22404 LTS which it will use as its base and it will not redefine the whole desktop experience but it looks polished and thought out and I'll make sure to give it a shot when it has a T release and now let's talk about Linux gaming and we have some interesting things happening specifically a new project to bring Windows games to Android of all things the goal would be to bring wine dxvk and vkd3d to Android to have the complete translation layer and then to combine that with fex to emulate an x86 platform on armed devices the solution called cassia was presented by igalia at fdam 2024 which happened last weekend in Brussels it's obviously still a work in progress and it probably will not give you the absolute best performance since there's an architecture emulation layer in there and apparently and very surprisingly this thing will be distributed as a closed Source Android app they will Upstream any modification they make to the open source projects that they use to conform with the licenses but the complete package will not be open source which feels really weird they did commit to open- sourcing everything if they decided to stop working on the project but that's just not great it is a very interesting project with a bunch of challenges to overcome namely how are games going to perform you're probably never going to play Super recent AAA titles on an Android phone but you might be able to play a bunch of stuff but seeing that as closed Source especially for something announced at fdam which is for free and open source software feels kind of weird and manaro unveiled the orange P Neo on at for Dem as well it's a handheld gaming console powered by you guest it manaro it uses a ryzen 77840 u so pretty powerful 8 core 16 threads it's paired with a 1920x 1200 screen at 7 in and a 120 HZ refresh rate it has apparently a very solid cooling system it has whole effect triggers for more precise inputs and either 16 or 32 gigs of ddr5 RAM and up to 2 terby of PCI for SSD storage the battery is 50w hour and you will get two USB 4 type-c ports and a headphone jack we don't know yet how much it will cost or when it will be available but it looks like an interesting device especially since it will run a Linux Dro out of the box meaning you will very likely be able to install anything else you would like in there instead of manaro like Holo ISO bazide nobara or any other gaming Focus drro personally I would would not run manaro on this thing because why if you just want a gaming handheld you have much better options out there and if you run a desktop there are much better options than mararo as well and I personally also do not need a new handheld but if the steam deck feels a little bit too underpowered for you this one might be just a bit better depending on the price it could be a cool solution and if you're looking at more powerful Hardware to game on Linux or just to use Linux why not check out today's sponsor tuxedo they make laptop desktops and no that ship with Linux out of the box they picked all the hardware in all these computers because it specifically is well supported by Linux you have plenty of choice for any Ultra Book gaming laptop Nook Tower workstation gaming PC anything that you might want you can customize a bunch of the components inside you can change the ram the SSD you can change the CPU the GPU in a lot of devices you can open all the laptops repair them and upgrade them and you can even have your own custom keyboard layout on your laptop or your own logo engraved on the lid I only use tuxedo computers these days I edit all these videos on a tuxedo laptop the Infiniti Book Pro 16 and I run all my gaming stuff on a tuxedo Cube which runs Holo ISO for a good gaming experience so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux click the link in the description of the video and get yourself a new tuxedo PC there really really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and to write a comment as well and if you really enjoyed it you can become a patreon member or a YouTube member and you'll get access to a daily Linux and open source news show so check that out in the description of the video in the meantime thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] he
some people ask me if I ever run out of things to cover in the Linux open source privacy or open web space and uh well no because here is another jam-packed edition of the Linux and open source news show and so this week we have Modzilla getting a brand new CEO just after launching a very very overpriced service we have apple continuing their malicious compliance and disabling support for pwas in the EU we also have wine coming to Android but in closed Source format and we also have xfce decided to keep support for X11 and we have the Elementary OS 8 ISO in Early Access and we have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably already know them they are private and secure email service with end to end and zero access encryption and on top of that they give you access to a full Suite of online tools like a calendar contact storage space VPN and password manager all encrypted of course and proton mail keeps evolving as it now can help you better manage your time with its new snooze and scheduled features you can now snooze an email that you don't want to read right now and it will reappear in your inbox when you need it or when you have time and if you work in a global team or if you have news to share but not before a specific time and date you can also now schedule emails to be sent at a specific time so the recipient will get it at the most convenient moment and not before you're ready your proton account is free and if you need more advanced privacy and security features or more storage space they have paid plans to help with that so click the link in the description of the video and start reclaiming your privacy so Modzilla has a new CEO following the state of Mozilla that was published a few weeks ago it looks like Mitchell baker has stepped down as CEO for Modzilla and will retain her position of executive chairwoman in her place comes Laura Chambers who worked for Airbnb PayPal eBay and served on mozilla's board for 3 years and she's apparently mostly a product person so not an engineer I'm sure some people will find that problematic I personally think that's fine she outlined the main focus for the nonprofit and this is of course defining a clear strategy something Modzilla has seemingly lacked for a while or maybe they didn't communicate it well enough and second doubling down on their core products like Firefox plus bringing new products to Market because mozzilla still needs to get under the thumb of Google's funding and hopefully the latest overpriced monitor plus service that they launched recently was a last ditch effort from the previous CEO and not the first one of these new products from the new CEO monitor plus if you don't know is a service that lets you maybe scrub your leaked data from a big selection of data Brokers for $14 per month this feels way too expensive for what it does as first there is no guarantee any data broker will actually remove the personal info they're selling after it leaked or was hacked and second there's also no guarantee that this data is also not available on even less reputable marketplaces that mozzilla doesn't monitor or that it wasn't already bought and used by malicious actors 4 for that feels like a lot now Laura Chambers the new CEO also wants to have more engagement with the community and to focus on open source which cannot hurt as it sometimes fil Modzilla can be sort of a blackbox they're launching and starting things at random with very few discussions and interactions with the community interestingly there is no mention of AI apart from saying that everyone battles to own the future of Ai No mention of the pivot towards AI Modzilla announced anounced a few weeks ago now one might think that the previous announcement that they were focusing on AI was very poorly received and thus mozzilla decided the shakeup was in order and they got a new CEO I think the priorities here are in order focusing on the current products that really need to improve like Firefox and launching some new stuff which hopefully will be relevant and useful I think that's the core goal that we all expect from Modzilla we want a better more competitive we we browser and we don't really want another weird tool that no one is ever going to use so Microsoft decided to extend support for abun 21 18.04 for vs code I reported last week on the update Microsoft applied to their ID that broke compatibility with the old LTS version which left a bunch of users unable to access their infrastructure and it looks like Microsoft agrees that it wasn't done in the best way or with the best timing as they decided to give give 18.04 another 12 months of support they will publish what they call a recover update to restore that support which will let people keep getting updates without breaking their workflow of course Microsoft had previously announced they would drop 18.04 it was a while back they mentioned that loss of compatibility in their release notes but since VSS code like a lot of electron apps tends to auto update anyone who had not disabled that was caught off guard and a nice War morning Banner or popup would have helped with the issue I guess and as a lot of people pointed out to me having auto updates on for a crucial part of your workflow is probably a bad idea especially on an app that is proprietary and that you don't exactly control but it's also true for open- Source apps if you absolutely depend on a program to work you should at least get the time to read the release notes to make sure that it doesn't break what you rely upon now it looks like kuun 2 24.4 and other variants of the next LTS that use KDE like OBU studio will not use plasma 6 their feature freeze is right at the same time as the planned plasma 6 release meaning they don't feel they will have enough time to test everything to the standard of an LTS and so Ubuntu users will have to wait for obuntu 24.10 to get the latest plasma release which is a bit annoying the kubuntu council was unanimous on the matter and and I guess it is the best decision for an LTS since you would want to provide the most stable Dr you can now of course there will always be the backports PPA that provides newer versions of packages and desktop environments for auntu and it will probably let users upgrade to plasma 6 on 24.4 but generally these packages only appear once the next release of auntu that has them is out so you will still have to wait for 2410 anyway it is a bit disappointing that people switching to obun 22404 will not get to use plasma 6 for another 6 month because it comes with a lot of improvements and much better whand support and a bunch of cool new features but I guess it was the smart decision for an LTS if they didn't want to push it back a month or two now it looks like Apple's malicious compliance with the EU regulations continues as the betas for iOS 17 keep arriving and something things are just not working as intended they're actually intended to not work this time it's Progressive web apps which seem to just not function anymore you can still create a shortcut on your home screen for any website or web app but it will not open as a full screen app it will open as a browser page with all the usual Safari UI that you generally do not want in a progressive web app it's also been reported that these web apps will do lose the stored local data since they're handled as a safari tab that might be purged at some point and notifications will also not work making these pwas perfectly useless and to confirm that these changes are intentional and not just a beta related problem some people have seen a specific system iOS popup appear stating that these pwas will open in Safari from now on hinting at the fact that Apple just doesn't want you to use any of those it seems limited to the EU for some reason users from other countries do not seem affected and this is probably all linked to the fact that Apple has to open iOS to third-party browser engines when they control the only browser engine on iOS they could voluntarily hring pwas to make them less interesting than native apps you could download from their App Store but when they lose control over the rendering engine then there's no saying if Firefox or Chrome when they have their own rendering engine on iOS will not support all the features for pwas and if developers will just not decide to go this route instead of paying the Hefty fees that Apple wants to distribute an app on iOS so the only way they found is to just completely remove pwa support in the EU all together from the system you just do not have a choice right now which really sucks Apple fix your seriously and apparently xfce alongside cinnamon might be the desktop for people who don't want to move to way too soon as xfc announced that with version 420 haha funny number so while xfc 4.20 will bring whan support they will also keep supporting X11 and they have no plans to ditch it in the near future they were uncertain on whether they should maintain that compatibility but they elected to keep it in the end the whan session will be a first draft in the new version with the minimal set of features needed to run a desktop and they will build on top top of that with each update they will rely on WL Roots a base implementation of most of whan's protocols that is already used by a bunch of tiling window managers and the xfc developers have updated their road map for whand support as well and what's interesting is that they're also using something called lib xfc for windowing and that's a library that abstracts a bunch of operations and Concepts so they can work with Wayland And X11 without having to maintain two different code basis for each component of the desktop you just add stuff to that Library itself and whether you run on X11 or whan stuff reacts as you would expect this is a cool approach and it looks like at least one other desktop namely Budgy is also interested in using it for their own Wayland implementation so there is no planned release date for 4.20 just yet it will release when it's ready but for xfc users you're used to not getting major updates every weekend so that's that's probably fine and if you didn't like xfc before adding Wayland support will probably not change how you feel about the experience of using that one now Elementary OS 8 is now available in Early Access meaning that if you support the project on patreon or GitHub you can already get an ISO and test things out it is all super experimental so do not run that on a production PC but there are a bunch of nice changes in there updates have moved to the settings instead of the app center and can be downloaded automatically on top of letting you know if there are security updates in there so you can apply them quickly search in the settings is now much better and ranks settings pages in a more logical way other settings Pages received some love as well and the app got a new icon the multitasking view replaced its dull gray background with a blurred version of the wallpaper which looks much nicer and the workspace switcher now uses rounded corners and supports light and dark mode and on top of that when you click an apps icon when this app has multiple windows open instead of minimizing everything you will open a window spread so you can select the window you actually wanted to bring to focus so it's looking good for Elementary OS 8 it will probably release a bunch of months after Aon 22404 LTS which it will use as its base and it will not redefine the whole desktop experience but it looks polished and thought out and I'll make sure to give it a shot when it has a T release and now let's talk about Linux gaming and we have some interesting things happening specifically a new project to bring Windows games to Android of all things the goal would be to bring wine dxvk and vkd3d to Android to have the complete translation layer and then to combine that with fex to emulate an x86 platform on armed devices the solution called cassia was presented by igalia at fdam 2024 which happened last weekend in Brussels it's obviously still a work in progress and it probably will not give you the absolute best performance since there's an architecture emulation layer in there and apparently and very surprisingly this thing will be distributed as a closed Source Android app they will Upstream any modification they make to the open source projects that they use to conform with the licenses but the complete package will not be open source which feels really weird they did commit to open- sourcing everything if they decided to stop working on the project but that's just not great it is a very interesting project with a bunch of challenges to overcome namely how are games going to perform you're probably never going to play Super recent AAA titles on an Android phone but you might be able to play a bunch of stuff but seeing that as closed Source especially for something announced at fdam which is for free and open source software feels kind of weird and manaro unveiled the orange P Neo on at for Dem as well it's a handheld gaming console powered by you guest it manaro it uses a ryzen 77840 u so pretty powerful 8 core 16 threads it's paired with a 1920x 1200 screen at 7 in and a 120 HZ refresh rate it has apparently a very solid cooling system it has whole effect triggers for more precise inputs and either 16 or 32 gigs of ddr5 RAM and up to 2 terby of PCI for SSD storage the battery is 50w hour and you will get two USB 4 type-c ports and a headphone jack we don't know yet how much it will cost or when it will be available but it looks like an interesting device especially since it will run a Linux Dro out of the box meaning you will very likely be able to install anything else you would like in there instead of manaro like Holo ISO bazide nobara or any other gaming Focus drro personally I would would not run manaro on this thing because why if you just want a gaming handheld you have much better options out there and if you run a desktop there are much better options than mararo as well and I personally also do not need a new handheld but if the steam deck feels a little bit too underpowered for you this one might be just a bit better depending on the price it could be a cool solution and if you're looking at more powerful Hardware to game on Linux or just to use Linux why not check out today's sponsor tuxedo they make laptop desktops and no that ship with Linux out of the box they picked all the hardware in all these computers because it specifically is well supported by Linux you have plenty of choice for any Ultra Book gaming laptop Nook Tower workstation gaming PC anything that you might want you can customize a bunch of the components inside you can change the ram the SSD you can change the CPU the GPU in a lot of devices you can open all the laptops repair them and upgrade them and you can even have your own custom keyboard layout on your laptop or your own logo engraved on the lid I only use tuxedo computers these days I edit all these videos on a tuxedo laptop the Infiniti Book Pro 16 and I run all my gaming stuff on a tuxedo Cube which runs Holo ISO for a good gaming experience so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually supports Linux click the link in the description of the video and get yourself a new tuxedo PC there really really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and to write a comment as well and if you really enjoyed it you can become a patreon member or a YouTube member and you'll get access to a daily Linux and open source news show so check that out in the description of the video in the meantime thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] he
hey everyone and welcome to the Microsoft socks edition of the Linux and open source news because not only do we have vs code dropping aun 21 18.04 support without any warning as an auto update but we also have Microsoft Edge grabbing data from Google Chrome without any user consent we also have Fedora KD who could potentially reconsider dropping X11 and we have a lot of improvements to whand and to Wine on Wayland as well and we also have this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuare they provide solutions for Enterprise Linux fleets to ensure that they're kept up to dat and supported with as little downtime as possible even when the Dr you run is end of life or you're working with multiple drrs and one of their main Solutions is Colonel Care Enterprise a life patching solution that lets you apply security updates while the kernel is running without disruptions meaning you don't have to reboot systems or plain maintenance Windows which often delay the application of these security patches and if you want to learn more about kernel Care Enterprise life patching well you're in luck all you have to do is click the link in the description below it will take you to all the resources tuare has on live patching to explain what it is how it works why it's important and how you can automate it so if you run one or many Linux servers and you would like to make all that maintenance and security work easier by putting patching on autopilot just click the link in the description so vs code Microsoft's IDE decided to drop support for aun 21 18.04 LTS as they now require a newer version of gipc than the one the old LTS provides this obviously created a bunch of problems because a lot of people are still running a bunch of 18.04 servers which are still reported by a free auntu Pro subscription and they can't remotely access these servers anymore when using the latest version of VSS code now upping the requirements for your app is absolutely normal and 18.04 is almost 6 years old and only in extended support and two LTS have already been released since then 20.04 and 22.4 and there's a new one about to drop but auntu 18.04 is still supported by auntu and it looks like Microsoft did not communicate on this change so no one could prepare and the update was applied automatically for most users so a lot of users just noticed this when trying to connect to a remote server and they had that connection just failed now obviously you can still downgrade to an older version of vs code or more drastically you can update your server to 20.04 LTS or higher but that is not an ideal situation or you know the other solution could be to just not use a Microsoft product it's a company known for abusing their dominant position for just invading their users privacy limiting what they can do and generally just not caring about who uses their software there are plenty of other IDs out there especially op Source versions of vs code which to be honest haven't really said if they were going to apply the same update or if they were going to work around it and Microsoft has also been caught red-handed as Edge seems to use Chrome's browsing history with without any consent from the user to restore your Chrome tabs inside of edge The Verge reported that they never imported any data into Edge they never used it and still the browser just opened out of the blue as it always does on windows with all their Chrome tabs in it and they only noticed it was Edge because they weren't logged into any of these websites there's technically a setting to handle this in Edge but in this case it was already disabled other users are reporting they're experiencing the same behavior on their own devices with a prompt asking them to allow this then crashing and disappearing which Microsoft seems to take as user consent and all this data while it is technically stored locally will be sent to Microsoft if you're logged into a Microsoft account and you haven't disabled this data being synced with the cloud which means that basically on most Windows systems where it's super hard to install the OS without using a Microsoft account while Microsoft is just taking users browsing data and uploading it to their servers without any user input yeah Windows is just wonderful I am still baffled why the browser Choice ballot is no longer a thing because it wasn't tied to the fact that Internet Explorer at the time was a dominant browser it was tied to the fact that Microsoft had the biggest market share on desktop operating systems and they still have that so they should still offer a choice out of the box for users now it looks like Fedora 40's decision to drop X11 entirely from the KD spin isn't set in stone just yet while this decision has been voted on by the steering committee there are new review requests being posted to reintroduce a kwin and a plasma package to support X11 again the KD team for Fedora is proposing instead to have these in a copper repo for those who really want X11 but this would also mean that first you would have to add that repo manually and second support wouldn't really be on the same level as a native integrated Fedora package straight from the official repost now on top of that Fedora 40 announced that the network install images would no longer be constrained to their 700 megab limit which is the limit to fit those images on the standard CD the size of the firmware that you kind of need to include to boot the image uh is just too high so Fedora will allow themselves to exceed that 700 MB limit and the end result is that the network image will not be usable on a CD anymore but is that really an issue when most people would use a USB drive or at the very least a DVD drive now personally I hope Fedora won't back down on their decision to drop X11 Fedora is the perfect drro to implement these kinds of changes they've always done that first and before other dros and I think it would also give a huge test bet for plasma on Wayland for Wayland on Fedora and for Wayland in general adding it as a copper repo would be absolutely fine in my opinion now there are some good news for Thunderbird users thanks to implementing rust in the app they're going to be able to add native support for exchange meaning that you will be able to use Thunderbird more easily in various companies that decided to go with Microsoft products and services it is all done using a rust crate that will of course be open source as well on on top of that they're finalizing a revamp of the cards View for the email module of Thunderbird which should not only look better but also be a bit more legible especially for conversations and finally they're also revamping the whole message database which uses a pretty old framework that's a big limit to what they can actually do with this message database it's going to take a while to make that change but it should result in a lot more flexibility in better handling of threaded conversations and probably in some performance improvements so that looks like a good move so it's great to see Thunderbird evolving again not only in the ux department but also on the backand side of things their 115 release was already a big hit but if they keep on that road yeah Thunderbird is going to be just awesome for everyone now whan support in wine is improving again this time with another set of features notably display mode change emulation this will let games run full screen on wh without using the native displays resolution which is obviously an important feature especially if you would want to use stuff like dlss or FSR the merge request will probably land in y 9.2 and the developers plan to add a bunch of features in 2024 including support for window minimizing because they have everything related to window management except that they want better open GL support better handling of the clipboard or just handling of the clipboard period drag and drop and a few other things collabora has a blog post that listed everything they accomplished in 2023 and what they want to work on in 2024 and the work they've already done is pretty big they have basic window management software rendering mouse support and mouse look for FPS keyboard support including handling of specific key mappings and specific keyboard layouts support for Vulcan through win's implementation or dxvk and basic support for high DPI and other things they would like to add add some point in the future our support for the upcoming HDR protocol for Wayland Plus Auto DPI detection to handle High DPI displays correctly plus per monitor handling of scaling in wine directly and still on Wayland while some Wayland protocols generate a lot of discussion some are also quickly agreed upon well I say quickly but this one has been in discussion for the past 9 months so it's not exactly fast but still the top level drag protocol has now been merged which should solve a bunch of issues with dragging tabs out of Windows and spawning new windows from them or reattaching tabs to Windows it will also let various dockable components work as intended which could be cool for KD as they have a lot of that in their applications kwin Chrome and the cute framework already Implement a version of this but this protocol should make things more streamlined and unified across desktops and toolkits now I will admit I never encountered any issue with dragging a Tab out of a window whether it's a browser or file manager on whand whether it was in Gnome or in K but apparently some apps just didn't work well with that so it's good to have that fixed as a normal protocol that every desktop can Implement and it looks like red Hat's recent moves to limit who can access their source code has repercussions on their wider ecosystem now certain special interest groups or Si's for sentos are reporting issues notably the kods SI which is focused on building additional packages that contain kernel modules for extra Hardware support for sento EST streem one of red Hat's distributions they cannot legally produce these packages anymore due to the licensing changes and thus their packages are no longer updated they're apparently working with red hat to try and solve that issue the hyp scale special interest group which is meant to enhance Cento stream for big infrastructures like those used by meta Facebook Twitter and the like also has some issues and they decided to now build their packages using Fedora kernels instead of the sentos and red hat kernels as they just cannot legally redistribute the source code from Red Hat so yeah it is clear proof that red hat is tacking on additional limitations on top of what the GPL authorizes which is against the GPL itself so I hope these licensing changes will be considered contrary to what the GPL allows and they'll have to walk them back still it's insane to me that red Hat's moves are actually hurting their own ecosystem for everyone who wants to use Cento stream and has specific needs SS might no longer work which is a big blow to Cento stream which in turn might be exactly what red hat wants because they might prefer that people use red hat Enterprise Linux instead and let's finish this with the gaming news Holo ISO as we know it is now dead it is replaced by an immutable distribution the non-official Steam OS rebuil encountered a bunch of issues over its lifetime which resulted in very few updates over the past year and now it's been archived and replaced with an immutable distribution which is apparently already usable day to-day the old builds that I currently run on my own sort of Steam OS console will no longer receive updates and users are encouraged to move to the new drro although there is no direct upgrade path yet yet the devs want to add that but they don't know when it will happen there's now a new GitHub repo to download that new build now the Mesa drivers got a new major release version 24 you can expect a lot of improvements for AMD gpus with much faster rate tracing support and support for a lot of new Vulcan extensions and the same goes for Intel's Vulcan driver Mesa 24 also brings a lot of performance improvements to nvk the open- source Vulcan driver for NVIDIA gpus and it also brings a new Shader compiler to go with it the aahi graphics drivers also got open G 3.3 support meaning that using Linux on an Apple silicon Mac should feel a bit better on top of that there's an open source Vulcan driver for power VR Graphics found in a lot of armed devices although it will not get an open GL driver this will be handled through zinc which basically brings openg GL through Vulcan so yeah really solid update here and Mesa 24 will probably land just in time to be included in obon 22404 or Fedora 40 meaning that in a few months a lot of people might actually be able to daily drive a fully open source stack for the Nvidia GPU so I'll be expecting a bunch of benchmarks from websites like fonx and if non come I will probably just make my own in a video and it looks like the Linux market share on Steam has sort of plateaued as it dropped slightly to 1.95% % at the end of January down from 1.97% at the end of December it is not a significant drop but it is no longer growth either Mac OS fell as well down to 1.54% and windows is still at more than 95% 96.5 actually Holo ISO or Steam OS are still driving linux's market share at 42.2% of Linux systems being used to gain which also means that AMD represents 70% of the CPUs used to game on Linux where it's at 35% on Windows and it's really interesting stuff because it shows that linux's gaming progress is completely tied to the steam deck if the steam deck stops selling our market share will plummet if the steam deck keeps growing it's going to keep growing for Linux in general as well but it's also not a great situation to be in because we're basically just relying on one single company and one single single product line to actually gain market share in gaming and get developers on board with supporting proton or adding antiche support for Linux so I do hope valve at some point starts creating Partnerships with other brands to ship other Ste uh images and other Steam OS devices so there's not just one company taking part in the ecosystem and they just spread the love around and since we're on the topic of devices let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers tuxedo makes laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware they use has been picked specifically because it is very compatible with Linux and in their testing of these computers if they encounter any problem they submit patches Upstream so everyone can benefit from the fixes they have a huge range of devices from Ultra books from KN from gaming PCs workstations gaming laptops whatever they have everything for all price points and all use cases all the hardware is pretty customizable especially on laptops where you can have your own keyboard layout your own 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hey everyone and welcome to the Microsoft socks edition of the Linux and open source news because not only do we have vs code dropping aun 21 18.04 support without any warning as an auto update but we also have Microsoft Edge grabbing data from Google Chrome without any user consent we also have Fedora KD who could potentially reconsider dropping X11 and we have a lot of improvements to whand and to Wine on Wayland as well and we also have this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuare they provide solutions for Enterprise Linux fleets to ensure that they're kept up to dat and supported with as little downtime as possible even when the Dr you run is end of life or you're working with multiple drrs and one of their main Solutions is Colonel Care Enterprise a life patching solution that lets you apply security updates while the kernel is running without disruptions meaning you don't have to reboot systems or plain maintenance Windows which often delay the application of these security patches and if you want to learn more about kernel Care Enterprise life patching well you're in luck all you have to do is click the link in the description below it will take you to all the resources tuare has on live patching to explain what it is how it works why it's important and how you can automate it so if you run one or many Linux servers and you would like to make all that maintenance and security work easier by putting patching on autopilot just click the link in the description so vs code Microsoft's IDE decided to drop support for aun 21 18.04 LTS as they now require a newer version of gipc than the one the old LTS provides this obviously created a bunch of problems because a lot of people are still running a bunch of 18.04 servers which are still reported by a free auntu Pro subscription and they can't remotely access these servers anymore when using the latest version of VSS code now upping the requirements for your app is absolutely normal and 18.04 is almost 6 years old and only in extended support and two LTS have already been released since then 20.04 and 22.4 and there's a new one about to drop but auntu 18.04 is still supported by auntu and it looks like Microsoft did not communicate on this change so no one could prepare and the update was applied automatically for most users so a lot of users just noticed this when trying to connect to a remote server and they had that connection just failed now obviously you can still downgrade to an older version of vs code or more drastically you can update your server to 20.04 LTS or higher but that is not an ideal situation or you know the other solution could be to just not use a Microsoft product it's a company known for abusing their dominant position for just invading their users privacy limiting what they can do and generally just not caring about who uses their software there are plenty of other IDs out there especially op Source versions of vs code which to be honest haven't really said if they were going to apply the same update or if they were going to work around it and Microsoft has also been caught red-handed as Edge seems to use Chrome's browsing history with without any consent from the user to restore your Chrome tabs inside of edge The Verge reported that they never imported any data into Edge they never used it and still the browser just opened out of the blue as it always does on windows with all their Chrome tabs in it and they only noticed it was Edge because they weren't logged into any of these websites there's technically a setting to handle this in Edge but in this case it was already disabled other users are reporting they're experiencing the same behavior on their own devices with a prompt asking them to allow this then crashing and disappearing which Microsoft seems to take as user consent and all this data while it is technically stored locally will be sent to Microsoft if you're logged into a Microsoft account and you haven't disabled this data being synced with the cloud which means that basically on most Windows systems where it's super hard to install the OS without using a Microsoft account while Microsoft is just taking users browsing data and uploading it to their servers without any user input yeah Windows is just wonderful I am still baffled why the browser Choice ballot is no longer a thing because it wasn't tied to the fact that Internet Explorer at the time was a dominant browser it was tied to the fact that Microsoft had the biggest market share on desktop operating systems and they still have that so they should still offer a choice out of the box for users now it looks like Fedora 40's decision to drop X11 entirely from the KD spin isn't set in stone just yet while this decision has been voted on by the steering committee there are new review requests being posted to reintroduce a kwin and a plasma package to support X11 again the KD team for Fedora is proposing instead to have these in a copper repo for those who really want X11 but this would also mean that first you would have to add that repo manually and second support wouldn't really be on the same level as a native integrated Fedora package straight from the official repost now on top of that Fedora 40 announced that the network install images would no longer be constrained to their 700 megab limit which is the limit to fit those images on the standard CD the size of the firmware that you kind of need to include to boot the image uh is just too high so Fedora will allow themselves to exceed that 700 MB limit and the end result is that the network image will not be usable on a CD anymore but is that really an issue when most people would use a USB drive or at the very least a DVD drive now personally I hope Fedora won't back down on their decision to drop X11 Fedora is the perfect drro to implement these kinds of changes they've always done that first and before other dros and I think it would also give a huge test bet for plasma on Wayland for Wayland on Fedora and for Wayland in general adding it as a copper repo would be absolutely fine in my opinion now there are some good news for Thunderbird users thanks to implementing rust in the app they're going to be able to add native support for exchange meaning that you will be able to use Thunderbird more easily in various companies that decided to go with Microsoft products and services it is all done using a rust crate that will of course be open source as well on on top of that they're finalizing a revamp of the cards View for the email module of Thunderbird which should not only look better but also be a bit more legible especially for conversations and finally they're also revamping the whole message database which uses a pretty old framework that's a big limit to what they can actually do with this message database it's going to take a while to make that change but it should result in a lot more flexibility in better handling of threaded conversations and probably in some performance improvements so that looks like a good move so it's great to see Thunderbird evolving again not only in the ux department but also on the backand side of things their 115 release was already a big hit but if they keep on that road yeah Thunderbird is going to be just awesome for everyone now whan support in wine is improving again this time with another set of features notably display mode change emulation this will let games run full screen on wh without using the native displays resolution which is obviously an important feature especially if you would want to use stuff like dlss or FSR the merge request will probably land in y 9.2 and the developers plan to add a bunch of features in 2024 including support for window minimizing because they have everything related to window management except that they want better open GL support better handling of the clipboard or just handling of the clipboard period drag and drop and a few other things collabora has a blog post that listed everything they accomplished in 2023 and what they want to work on in 2024 and the work they've already done is pretty big they have basic window management software rendering mouse support and mouse look for FPS keyboard support including handling of specific key mappings and specific keyboard layouts support for Vulcan through win's implementation or dxvk and basic support for high DPI and other things they would like to add add some point in the future our support for the upcoming HDR protocol for Wayland Plus Auto DPI detection to handle High DPI displays correctly plus per monitor handling of scaling in wine directly and still on Wayland while some Wayland protocols generate a lot of discussion some are also quickly agreed upon well I say quickly but this one has been in discussion for the past 9 months so it's not exactly fast but still the top level drag protocol has now been merged which should solve a bunch of issues with dragging tabs out of Windows and spawning new windows from them or reattaching tabs to Windows it will also let various dockable components work as intended which could be cool for KD as they have a lot of that in their applications kwin Chrome and the cute framework already Implement a version of this but this protocol should make things more streamlined and unified across desktops and toolkits now I will admit I never encountered any issue with dragging a Tab out of a window whether it's a browser or file manager on whand whether it was in Gnome or in K but apparently some apps just didn't work well with that so it's good to have that fixed as a normal protocol that every desktop can Implement and it looks like red Hat's recent moves to limit who can access their source code has repercussions on their wider ecosystem now certain special interest groups or Si's for sentos are reporting issues notably the kods SI which is focused on building additional packages that contain kernel modules for extra Hardware support for sento EST streem one of red Hat's distributions they cannot legally produce these packages anymore due to the licensing changes and thus their packages are no longer updated they're apparently working with red hat to try and solve that issue the hyp scale special interest group which is meant to enhance Cento stream for big infrastructures like those used by meta Facebook Twitter and the like also has some issues and they decided to now build their packages using Fedora kernels instead of the sentos and red hat kernels as they just cannot legally redistribute the source code from Red Hat so yeah it is clear proof that red hat is tacking on additional limitations on top of what the GPL authorizes which is against the GPL itself so I hope these licensing changes will be considered contrary to what the GPL allows and they'll have to walk them back still it's insane to me that red Hat's moves are actually hurting their own ecosystem for everyone who wants to use Cento stream and has specific needs SS might no longer work which is a big blow to Cento stream which in turn might be exactly what red hat wants because they might prefer that people use red hat Enterprise Linux instead and let's finish this with the gaming news Holo ISO as we know it is now dead it is replaced by an immutable distribution the non-official Steam OS rebuil encountered a bunch of issues over its lifetime which resulted in very few updates over the past year and now it's been archived and replaced with an immutable distribution which is apparently already usable day to-day the old builds that I currently run on my own sort of Steam OS console will no longer receive updates and users are encouraged to move to the new drro although there is no direct upgrade path yet yet the devs want to add that but they don't know when it will happen there's now a new GitHub repo to download that new build now the Mesa drivers got a new major release version 24 you can expect a lot of improvements for AMD gpus with much faster rate tracing support and support for a lot of new Vulcan extensions and the same goes for Intel's Vulcan driver Mesa 24 also brings a lot of performance improvements to nvk the open- source Vulcan driver for NVIDIA gpus and it also brings a new Shader compiler to go with it the aahi graphics drivers also got open G 3.3 support meaning that using Linux on an Apple silicon Mac should feel a bit better on top of that there's an open source Vulcan driver for power VR Graphics found in a lot of armed devices although it will not get an open GL driver this will be handled through zinc which basically brings openg GL through Vulcan so yeah really solid update here and Mesa 24 will probably land just in time to be included in obon 22404 or Fedora 40 meaning that in a few months a lot of people might actually be able to daily drive a fully open source stack for the Nvidia GPU so I'll be expecting a bunch of benchmarks from websites like fonx and if non come I will probably just make my own in a video and it looks like the Linux market share on Steam has sort of plateaued as it dropped slightly to 1.95% % at the end of January down from 1.97% at the end of December it is not a significant drop but it is no longer growth either Mac OS fell as well down to 1.54% and windows is still at more than 95% 96.5 actually Holo ISO or Steam OS are still driving linux's market share at 42.2% of Linux systems being used to gain which also means that AMD represents 70% of the CPUs used to game on Linux where it's at 35% on Windows and it's really interesting stuff because it shows that linux's gaming progress is completely tied to the steam deck if the steam deck stops selling our market share will plummet if the steam deck keeps growing it's going to keep growing for Linux in general as well but it's also not a great situation to be in because we're basically just relying on one single company and one single single product line to actually gain market share in gaming and get developers on board with supporting proton or adding antiche support for Linux so I do hope valve at some point starts creating Partnerships with other brands to ship other Ste uh images and other Steam OS devices so there's not just one company taking part in the ecosystem and they just spread the love around and since we're on the topic of devices let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers tuxedo makes laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware they use has been picked specifically because it is very compatible with Linux and in their testing of these computers if they encounter any problem they submit patches Upstream so everyone can benefit from the fixes they have a huge range of devices from Ultra books from KN from gaming PCs workstations gaming laptops whatever they have everything for all price points and all use cases all the hardware is pretty customizable especially on laptops where you can have your own keyboard layout your own logo and you can open the laptops repair them and upgrade them tuxedo computers is all I use these days my steam o console is a tuxedo Q PC my main computer that I use to run the channel edit videos and do everything is a tuxedo infinti Book Pro 16 so yeah I can only recommend them and if you need a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it just click the link in the description and check out tuxedo computers there really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you know what to do click the like the Subscribe the Bell notification thingy leave a comment whatever you know how this works and if you really enjoy the channel there are plenty of links to support it and if you become a patreon or a YouTube member at any tier you will get a daily Linux and open source News podcast whether it's on YouTube or on patreon so check that out into the description in the meantime thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
in the Linux Community there's a very common way of seeing things when you get started with Linux you start with a desktop environment and when you're more comfortable you move on to a tiling window manager and you ascend to another plane of existence where productivity is insane and you don't even need a mouse and still I personally do not use a tiling Window Manager even though I started using Linux in 2006 and there are plenty of use cases for which it's just not better than a regular desktop so today I wanted to finally give a look at styling window managers at why you would want to use one and at why I will personally probably never do so and also add this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and chances are you all know what Squarespace is but if you don't just know that they're your all-in-one solution to create and run your own website Squarespace has all the tools you need to start your website improve it even without knowing anything about code they have pre-made layouts that you can customize heavily in terms of the colors of block placement just by drag and drop it's really easy to use you can create all your pages but you also have plenty of modules like anything you need to run a store complete with online payment you have a members only area you have a logo creator you can even buy your own domain name that you will need to have a serious website straight from from Squarespace so they are your all-in-one platform to let you create and run that website so to get started with Squarespace just click the link in the description or head over to squarespace.com thee Linux experiment and you'll get 10% off your first website so window managers they manage your windows yeah all desktop environments provide a window manager you need one it's in charge of displaying your windows of handling their position and state as in maximized minimized the size of the window window the currently focused one and everything along those lines but on top of these window managers that are baked in the desktops like motor for Gnome or kwin for KDE you have tiling window managers that can basically replace your entire desktop environment shell and leave you with a completely different experience in the X11 era there were a ton of these stuff like I3 awesome WM bspwm xmonad qtile rat poys and a lot more in the whan era there are a lot less because well it's way harder to write a window manager for Wayland since you have to reimplement all the protocols so other you use an already made implementation and tweak just a few things or you have to write something huge from scratch the most well-known for whan would be hyperland or sway but there are a bunch of others in various states of completion now these styling window managers offer a different way of using your computer instead of having free floating windows everything you open is placed in a tile being a fraction of your screen that can be the entirety of it a half a quarter or any other rectangular shape that you define yourself this means that you do not have to manage dragging Windows everywhere to see what you'd like to see you don't have to handle minimizing or restoring Windows everything just uses the space you want and is visible at the same time and this combines really well with virtual desktops because you can basically set groups of apps that are all visible and well placed at the same time for different virtual desktops it's very efficient now you can also generally do everything with keyboard shortcuts like moving a window to another tile resize those Styles switch Focus from one window to another so your hands don't have to leave the keyboard much and since most of these styling window managers can be customized heavily you can set them up exactly how you like them no more Mouse no more inefficiencies and your regular desktop environments also have taken a page from their book because in the past five six or 10 years there's basically no good desktop that hasn't implemented some way of dragging a window to an edge of the screen and have it use half of your screen or maximize it by dragging it to the top and other desktops even have hybrid features poos for example starts in free floating mode where you'll drag your window with a mouse but you can switch it to Auto tiling when you're basically using a tiling window manager but with all the desktop environment goodness that you're used to each new window will occupy some space on screen and some windows can be left floating if you need that so if even those desktop environments are stealing features from tiling window managers they must be doing something right now not all tiling window managers will behave the same some are manual tyers some are Dynamic manual tiers will basically open each new window where you tell it to to the right to the top to the left or the bottom of the currently focused window Dynamic tiers on the other hand will open each new window following something that you defined a specific layout for example always using the space on the right side of the screen by resizing the windows that are already there or always doing that on the top half of the screen or following the golden ratio where each new window is a precise fraction of the one that was open before and of course most filing window managers let you change the size of each section of the screen as you need so basically you have plenty of options and they're doing something right because even desktop environments are now trying to implement some of these features KD even has a brand new complete tiling mode that started in 5.27 so tiling window managers let you save some screen space they let you avoid using the mouse too much so your hands can stay on the keyboard and they're generally keyboard driven which means they're viewed as more efficient so let's look at why you would want to use these so the first obvious Advantage is that you never get anything overlapping anything else unless you actively want to do so on a regular desktop you will always inevitably at some point end up with plenty of open windows that float on top of another you will have to move them out of the way close them or minimize them or resize them and this is basically wasted time it's time not spent using the computer and accomplishing something it's time time spent organizing the workspace to get to the thing you want to do now this wasted time still exists with tiling window managers but it's generally deferred to the beginning of when you start using it you configure it once and then all your windows will open exactly how you want them and you will basically never really have to bother with that now of course we all know this isn't true because you're going to keep messing with your configuration over and over and over but you get the point now the second advantage of tiling window managers is is that they sort of remove the need to use the mouse or the touchpad 99% of the time the only time you will probably need to use it is to interact with the contents of the window itself like clicking a link in the web browser or clicking a button in a window and sure you can do all that using the keyboard as well but I dare anyone to tell me that it's more efficient to hunt for a specific Link in a web page in a web browser using the keyboard than with using a mouse it's not it's really not now this still reduces the time spent moving your hands from one peripheral to another and it can even reduce muscle strain and fatigue as you're not moving your arms all around from your keyboard to your mouse all the time you can still use the mouse if you want to but you don't have to use it as much once you've memorized the keyboard shortcuts now that's a common misconception about tiling Window Manager some people seem to think that you have to throw your mouse in the bin to use a tiling WM that's not the case you can still use the mouse with virtually every Window Manager out there you just don't need to use it now another Advantage is resource usage a tiling Window Manager generally doesn't bring with it a whole system of panels of overviews of upgrades menus effects and more a lot of them will come with a main panel with access to Notifications the time a virtual desktop switcher or even a task manager but this is generally reduced to its simplest form meaning that you don't load as many things in memory as with a complete desktop now this can be endlessly debated on whether a tiling window manager will actually save some resources on whether some desktops are more efficient than others but basically since you're using just a window manager it's inevitably going to be lighter than using a full-on desktop environment with all its panels and its Little Helpers and demons running in the background now a big Advantage is also screen usage without a big panel and a dock tying Windows always uses the most space available on on your screen add to that the fact that you no longer really need a title bar for your windows because you don't really need to move them around and you're also saving vertical space on each window basically whether you have one single window open or 10 on the same screen the only wasted space is the panel the window manager might display and the gaps between Windows which you can generally reduce to zero if you hate legibility and your eyesight the end result is that you never just have an empty part of your desktop showing a pretty wallpaper you always have the maximum amount of space dedicated to your applications which are what you're using your computer for technically so with so many advantages why am I and a lot of other people not just using a tiling Window Manager I mean I'm dumb but I'm no dumber than the average Linux user and I can certainly memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts well the reasons are many the first one not everyone will agree with I am a sucker for consistency I like using things as they were designed looking how they were designed to look and with the feature set that they came with this is why I like desktop environments they give you an entire Suite of tools settings apps and a desktop to handle all of it I do not want to have a hybrid graphical thing that is just a pile of components and abs duct tape together I want a consistent thout interface and that's what Linux desktop environments give me and I am not saying that tiling window managers are unstable or badly written or make a mess off your system they are just not the thing that is shipped with the desktop and I want to use the desktop second reason is simple most desktops already give me enough of the tiling features to suit my personal use case using KD or gnome I can already tile my windows if I want to I can drag them to any corner or Edge and have them use that screen space in KY I even have a full tiling manager that I never use because I don't need it sure this Edge tiling does not give you as much flexibility as a full tiling window manager but for me personally it's actually better because my default use case isn't five or six or seven windows that will overlap it's very specific because I make videos which means I have two modes research and writing mode and video editing mode in the first I only need two Windows a browser for research and qo notes to write sometimes I'll have a virtual machine as well but tiling this on a laptop display just doesn't work it's way too small so I open it full screen on a virtual desktop a tiling window manager just doesn't help with this use case it doesn't do more than what I need and its default state is actually worse than the default state of my desktop in editing mode I have my video editor the VIN resolve in full screen again not something tiling window manager would help me with and now you might be saying that a tiling window manager would help me save some screen real estate compared to KD but no not really because my panel Auto hides behind windows so it doesn't take any space And while I do have title bars I also don't have gaps between my windows when they're tiled or between a window and a screen Edge so I'm actually pretty sure it's the exact same screen space usage as with the tiling window manager but what about Mouse usage it is inefficient to use your mouse to drag a window to a specific corner to tile it or untile it well first I do have keyboard shortcuts to do that in a desktop environment they all have that and second I like using a mouse to handle Windows it creates a connection with my computer and the system it reacts to my exact movements compared to pressing a shortcut and seeing a part of my screen just jump somewhere without any animation or movement I am a visual guy I like my things to react in real time and to see where they're going and why and mouse usage does that for me and I also don't lose out on configuration options at least on KDE I can change all the shortcuts if I want to I can change how windows open by default they remember their previous size it just works for my workflow and finally the main reason is that most of the time I work on a laptop it's a 16-in screen but it's still a laptop and so having more than two windows tiled side by side makes things way too small to be usable for me so to conclude a tiling window manager is a fantastic tool to use your computer if you have a lot of windows open regularly if you only interact with one or two apps at the same time I'm of the mind that a tiling window manager is actively detrimental to your use case because its default state is worse than the default state of using floating windows and I don't think there's a big gap to learn how how a tiling Window Manager works because yes most people will be educated on floating windows because most people started using computers using Windows which doesn't have a tiling window manager but it's not hard to relearn all of this it makes sense pretty quickly if you pick your tiling Window Manager right but for me personally and for a lot of other users a tiling window manager is just not the right choice and it should not be pushed onto everyone as the end all be all of productivity if you don't use a tiling window manager and someone is trying to tell you you're stupid or a noob because you prefer floating windows that person is an idiot so that will be it for this one but I can't let you leave without telling you about our sponsor tuxedo if you're looking for a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it you should stop buying computers that come with Windows pre-installed and trying to retrofit Linux on top of it crossing your fingers for everything to work right and trying to find online help help and utilities to fix the problems you should just buy something that comes with Linux out of the box and that's what tuxedo does they offer laptops desktops and no with Linux pre-installed and all the hardware has been picked specifically because 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every time I review a Linux laptop on this channel I get the same comment where are the affordable options and of course affordable doesn't mean the same thing to everyone but in this case we have sub 500 laptops if you don't have to pay vat and if you have to pay that it's still sub $550 which I would say is pretty much as low as you can get if you want something of reasonable quality if you're buying new so these are the slimbook elemental laptops and they are designed to give you a device that is perfectly Linux compatible at a decent price and as we will see without skimping on the build quality or the specs so let's see what you're getting for this kind of money and let's also see which sponsor you're getting in this video this video is sponsored by Thunderbird most of you probably know about it but for those who don't it's an all-in-one Suite that handles email calendar contacts tasks RSS feeds and chats Thunderbird recently received a giant update with a full redesign of the app that makes it easier than ever to set up your accounts and to be productive the interface is very customizable with multiple choices for interface density view modes panels and the ability to place any button you need in the top bar after this update Thunderbird is now my email and calendar the client of choice also it's fully open source it's free of charge and it's available for any Linux distribution Windows and Mac OS so whether you used Thunderbird in the past or not click the link in the description below and give the new release a try you will not regret it so first what are the specs for these affordable Linux laptops so the slimbook elemental comes in two variants a 14 in and a 15.6 in they are both matte black and and they share a lot of the same internals both come with either an i5 1235 U or an i7 1255 U these are 10 core 12 gen Intel CPUs that can go up to 4.4 gahz or 4.7 GHz respectively both laptops have a 1080p display matte with an anti-glare coating they both offer two non solder DDR 4 Ram slots running at 3200 mehz and one nvme SSD slot with pcie4 they both use Intel's XE graphics and they are both made mostly out of aluminium and they both have Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.2 a 720p webcam and a 49w hour battery you can spec the SSD up to 2 TB and the ram up to 64 gigs but the devices start with 250 gigs of SSD and 8 gigs of RAM so they're relatively standard Ultra books at that price except you get a full aluminum frame which is not often the case in this price range it's generally just plastic that will get worn out on the palmrest and you can't realistically expect a 4K display or dedicated GPU or whatever latest gen CPU that you would want on a higher pric laptop at that price point it's actually pretty decent now both laptops are mostly built out of aluminium the Palm rest the sides the bottom plate and the lid the screen bezels and the hinge guards are made out of plastic the end result is something that looks like your average laptop I can't say that I love this look or that I don't like it it's your usual black laptop with a tapered profile it's the Intel MacBook Air inspired design now these laptops don't flex much there is a bit of give in the middle of the keyboard but that's nothing worrying it's pretty usual the hinge feels solid enough it doesn't wobble too much when typing and it gives a decent amount of resistance when opening or closing the laptop which you can do with just one finger which is important for people who might not have the full motion range of their two arms or two hands The Branding is the usual for slim book with a logo on the lid and another big slimbook logo under the display plus all the stickers because you got to have them stickers I guess now if you do not like all that branding though you can probably ask them to remove it or replace it with something else they're generally very open about that now the 14in has some kind of little outward Notch to host the webcam which I don't like aesthetically the 15in doesn't have it but apart from that they look the same they have recessed keyboards a tapered profile the ports are in the same spots they just look pretty much identical except for the power button on the 14in it is on the left side next to a USB port and the audio jack which is going to be a source of frustration as you will absolutely press it by accident when trying to plug something in but you can always disable anything from happening when you press that button while the laptop is on to avoid issues on the 15in the button is in a normal spot above the keyboard all in all both laptops feel like Ultrabooks of that price range with nicer materials usually at that price it's all plastic here you will get a bit more durability in the Palm rest area and the lid I think it's above the build quality or solidity you would expect for a sub 600 device it's not built like a tank but it is above average now let's talk performance the I5 and i7 U series are low power CPUs they're made for Ultra books they will not blow your socks off but they are pretty decent the i7 1255 U gets 2529 in single core on gig bench 6 and 6835 in multicore which is very decent both review units I got used the i7 but when looking online the I5 1235 U gets around 2150 in single core and 6500 to 7,000 in multicore so honestly if you're looking for an affordable device I would go with the I5 it's probably more than enough for most people's needs objectively whether you go for the I5 or the i7 you going to get the same experience for the intended use case of these laptops which is web browsing office work watching videos online or movies or TV shows they can both handle that very well I would go for the I5 to save a bit of cash as per gaming shadow of the Tomb Raider just crashed before opening the main menu so I tried mechanicus instead which first is an absolutely perfect game and second ran at 30 to 35 FPS at 1080p on the i7 model so you will not be playing AAA titles on any of these slimbook Elemental laptops but for Indie titles yes you're going to get a decent experience at around 60 FPS but that's not what these laptops are made for as per battery life at Mid brightness running videos in a loop in Firefox over Wi-Fi I Got 5 and a half to 6 hours on both which is okay but not spectacular for a u series CPU from Intel the 49w hour battery would probably benefit from being a bit bigger to reach seven or 8 hours instead for a full all day use the ports are a bit different on the 14in and the 15in they both have an HDMI port and a USBC 3.2 Gen 2 Port that supports display port 1.4 and charging they both have a gigb ethernet pop out Jack they have an audio jack and they have a micro SD card slot they also both have one USB 3.2 gen 1 type a port One USB 3.2 Gen 2 type a port and the 15in adds a usb2 port on top of that and a SIM card module if you want to use 4G or LTE on the laptop and you also get the usual Barrel charger on both although you don't have to use it because it supports power delivery through USBC which is more convenient as for the display in both cases it is 1080p at 60 HZ with a matte anti-glare coating they both have sizable bezels especially at the bottom and of course the display will look crisper on the 14 in than on the 15.6 in but 1080p is absolutely acceptable for any laptop these days like 1440p is too high for 14 in and higher than that is completely unreasonable for this price range or down right detrimental as you will have to use scaling which will use more resources and more battery life on both the laptops the viewing angles are good and the colors are okay but they are not the best panels you will ever see the 60 HZ refresh rate is perfectly fine here these laptops don't really have the hardware to run any type of game at higher than that anyway nothing disappointing here it is what you would expect from laptops at that price range now both laptops don't have the same touch pads and keyboards on the 15 in you get a fullsize keyboard here it is using the Spanish layout but you can have both laptops with just about any layout you prefer you do get a num pad on the 15in but you don't get one obviously on the 14in so on the 15in keys are very soft they are nice and easy to press and very stable but the actuation feels super smooth like the rubber membrane is very thick underneath the keys do bounce back fast and they don't make much sound I liked typing on that keyboard and it is backlit with RGB so you can pick the backlight color through an app like slim book RGB on the 14in the keyboard feels really small it doesn't go edge to edge and it is kind of cramped and reminiscent of Netbook keyboards the keys are small especially the arrow keys that have that half height design that I really dislike it doesn't feel bad to type on it it is a bit stiffer than the 15in a bit noisier but it is not bad the layout just feels very cramped to me I'm used to typing on a 16-in laptop so yeah this keyboard is also back lit but with just white as the color so both have decent keyboards I personally much prefer the one on the 15in but it's probably because the one on the 14in is so cramped and the layout is so packed that it just doesn't feel good to me I am not used to that as for the touchpads they are your usual hinge based design they don't feel like glass touch pads they're not Ultra smooth but they do feel precise they have a nice click they work well with gestures they don't wobble or rattle the one on the 14in model feels a bit more rigid with less travel before the click but they're about on par with a solid PC touchpad for 2023 now for the webcams they are just 720p they are not terrible they actually perform decently with various lighting conditions but yeah they are not MacBook quality on the 14in you actually get a built-in webcam shutter so you can hide that webcam if you want and both laptops have bios switches to disable the webcam and the mic if you never use them the onboard mics are not worth talking about they're bad like every laptop mic is they're tinny they don't sound good the speakers on both laptops are okay though they have some amount of Basse they don't vibrate the chassis and they're definitely enough to listen to music or to watch YouTube a movie or a TV show so it is the usual Fair here decent enough webcam really bad mic and solid speakers it's what you get on virtually every Linux laptop these days so the slimbook Elementals these are solid Ultra books for the price depending on where you live and if you're an individual or a company you might have to add vat to the price but whether you have to pay that or not I think the Elementals are a good pick you're not getting an insane deal with Incredible specs here but you get an allrounder Good device that will do whatever you need a sub 500 sub 550 to do you can probably find a cheaper alternative from another manufacturer that only supports Windows but if you want to support Linux and its development it is tough to beat the proposition here and they come with Linux pre-installed since the hardware isn't anything crazy you know that any dis R will run absolutely fine on them you can open those laptops repair them and upgrade them and slimbook has a downloads category for various guides drivers for other operating systems and you can order replacement parts online as well so yeah in the world of Linux laptops these are decently affordable options and they don't skimp on the materials or the quality you still get good inputs you get an all aluminium body you get a decent screen you're not getting cheated here so yeah I can recommend those laptops so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video well you can always click that dislike button and tell me why in the comments as well and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of ways to do so down in the descriptions as well do note that patrons and YouTube members will get a Daily News podcast from Monday to Friday so if you're interested in that uh well just click on one of those links uh in the description so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music]
every time I review a Linux laptop on this channel I get the same comment where are the affordable options and of course affordable doesn't mean the same thing to everyone but in this case we have sub 500 laptops if you don't have to pay vat and if you have to pay that it's still sub $550 which I would say is pretty much as low as you can get if you want something of reasonable quality if you're buying new so these are the slimbook elemental laptops and they are designed to give you a device that is perfectly Linux compatible at a decent price and as we will see without skimping on the build quality or the specs so let's see what you're getting for this kind of money and let's also see which sponsor you're getting in this video this video is sponsored by Thunderbird most of you probably know about it but for those who don't it's an all-in-one Suite that handles email calendar contacts tasks RSS feeds and chats Thunderbird recently received a giant update with a full redesign of the app that makes it easier than ever to set up your accounts and to be productive the interface is very customizable with multiple choices for interface density view modes panels and the ability to place any button you need in the top bar after this update Thunderbird is now my email and calendar the client of choice also it's fully open source it's free of charge and it's available for any Linux distribution Windows and Mac OS so whether you used Thunderbird in the past or not click the link in the description below and give the new release a try you will not regret it so first what are the specs for these affordable Linux laptops so the slimbook elemental comes in two variants a 14 in and a 15.6 in they are both matte black and and they share a lot of the same internals both come with either an i5 1235 U or an i7 1255 U these are 10 core 12 gen Intel CPUs that can go up to 4.4 gahz or 4.7 GHz respectively both laptops have a 1080p display matte with an anti-glare coating they both offer two non solder DDR 4 Ram slots running at 3200 mehz and one nvme SSD slot with pcie4 they both use Intel's XE graphics and they are both made mostly out of aluminium and they both have Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.2 a 720p webcam and a 49w hour battery you can spec the SSD up to 2 TB and the ram up to 64 gigs but the devices start with 250 gigs of SSD and 8 gigs of RAM so they're relatively standard Ultra books at that price except you get a full aluminum frame which is not often the case in this price range it's generally just plastic that will get worn out on the palmrest and you can't realistically expect a 4K display or dedicated GPU or whatever latest gen CPU that you would want on a higher pric laptop at that price point it's actually pretty decent now both laptops are mostly built out of aluminium the Palm rest the sides the bottom plate and the lid the screen bezels and the hinge guards are made out of plastic the end result is something that looks like your average laptop I can't say that I love this look or that I don't like it it's your usual black laptop with a tapered profile it's the Intel MacBook Air inspired design now these laptops don't flex much there is a bit of give in the middle of the keyboard but that's nothing worrying it's pretty usual the hinge feels solid enough it doesn't wobble too much when typing and it gives a decent amount of resistance when opening or closing the laptop which you can do with just one finger which is important for people who might not have the full motion range of their two arms or two hands The Branding is the usual for slim book with a logo on the lid and another big slimbook logo under the display plus all the stickers because you got to have them stickers I guess now if you do not like all that branding though you can probably ask them to remove it or replace it with something else they're generally very open about that now the 14in has some kind of little outward Notch to host the webcam which I don't like aesthetically the 15in doesn't have it but apart from that they look the same they have recessed keyboards a tapered profile the ports are in the same spots they just look pretty much identical except for the power button on the 14in it is on the left side next to a USB port and the audio jack which is going to be a source of frustration as you will absolutely press it by accident when trying to plug something in but you can always disable anything from happening when you press that button while the laptop is on to avoid issues on the 15in the button is in a normal spot above the keyboard all in all both laptops feel like Ultrabooks of that price range with nicer materials usually at that price it's all plastic here you will get a bit more durability in the Palm rest area and the lid I think it's above the build quality or solidity you would expect for a sub 600 device it's not built like a tank but it is above average now let's talk performance the I5 and i7 U series are low power CPUs they're made for Ultra books they will not blow your socks off but they are pretty decent the i7 1255 U gets 2529 in single core on gig bench 6 and 6835 in multicore which is very decent both review units I got used the i7 but when looking online the I5 1235 U gets around 2150 in single core and 6500 to 7,000 in multicore so honestly if you're looking for an affordable device I would go with the I5 it's probably more than enough for most people's needs objectively whether you go for the I5 or the i7 you going to get the same experience for the intended use case of these laptops which is web browsing office work watching videos online or movies or TV shows they can both handle that very well I would go for the I5 to save a bit of cash as per gaming shadow of the Tomb Raider just crashed before opening the main menu so I tried mechanicus instead which first is an absolutely perfect game and second ran at 30 to 35 FPS at 1080p on the i7 model so you will not be playing AAA titles on any of these slimbook Elemental laptops but for Indie titles yes you're going to get a decent experience at around 60 FPS but that's not what these laptops are made for as per battery life at Mid brightness running videos in a loop in Firefox over Wi-Fi I Got 5 and a half to 6 hours on both which is okay but not spectacular for a u series CPU from Intel the 49w hour battery would probably benefit from being a bit bigger to reach seven or 8 hours instead for a full all day use the ports are a bit different on the 14in and the 15in they both have an HDMI port and a USBC 3.2 Gen 2 Port that supports display port 1.4 and charging they both have a gigb ethernet pop out Jack they have an audio jack and they have a micro SD card slot they also both have one USB 3.2 gen 1 type a port One USB 3.2 Gen 2 type a port and the 15in adds a usb2 port on top of that and a SIM card module if you want to use 4G or LTE on the laptop and you also get the usual Barrel charger on both although you don't have to use it because it supports power delivery through USBC which is more convenient as for the display in both cases it is 1080p at 60 HZ with a matte anti-glare coating they both have sizable bezels especially at the bottom and of course the display will look crisper on the 14 in than on the 15.6 in but 1080p is absolutely acceptable for any laptop these days like 1440p is too high for 14 in and higher than that is completely unreasonable for this price range or down right detrimental as you will have to use scaling which will use more resources and more battery life on both the laptops the viewing angles are good and the colors are okay but they are not the best panels you will ever see the 60 HZ refresh rate is perfectly fine here these laptops don't really have the hardware to run any type of game at higher than that anyway nothing disappointing here it is what you would expect from laptops at that price range now both laptops don't have the same touch pads and keyboards on the 15 in you get a fullsize keyboard here it is using the Spanish layout but you can have both laptops with just about any layout you prefer you do get a num pad on the 15in but you don't get one obviously on the 14in so on the 15in keys are very soft they are nice and easy to press and very stable but the actuation feels super smooth like the rubber membrane is very thick underneath the keys do bounce back fast and they don't make much sound I liked typing on that keyboard and it is backlit with RGB so you can pick the backlight color through an app like slim book RGB on the 14in the keyboard feels really small it doesn't go edge to edge and it is kind of cramped and reminiscent of Netbook keyboards the keys are small especially the arrow keys that have that half height design that I really dislike it doesn't feel bad to type on it it is a bit stiffer than the 15in a bit noisier but it is not bad the layout just feels very cramped to me I'm used to typing on a 16-in laptop so yeah this keyboard is also back lit but with just white as the color so both have decent keyboards I personally much prefer the one on the 15in but it's probably because the one on the 14in is so cramped and the layout is so packed that it just doesn't feel good to me I am not used to that as for the touchpads they are your usual hinge based design they don't feel like glass touch pads they're not Ultra smooth but they do feel precise they have a nice click they work well with gestures they don't wobble or rattle the one on the 14in model feels a bit more rigid with less travel before the click but they're about on par with a solid PC touchpad for 2023 now for the webcams they are just 720p they are not terrible they actually perform decently with various lighting conditions but yeah they are not MacBook quality on the 14in you actually get a built-in webcam shutter so you can hide that webcam if you want and both laptops have bios switches to disable the webcam and the mic if you never use them the onboard mics are not worth talking about they're bad like every laptop mic is they're tinny they don't sound good the speakers on both laptops are okay though they have some amount of Basse they don't vibrate the chassis and they're definitely enough to listen to music or to watch YouTube a movie or a TV show so it is the usual Fair here decent enough webcam really bad mic and solid speakers it's what you get on virtually every Linux laptop these days so the slimbook Elementals these are solid Ultra books for the price depending on where you live and if you're an individual or a company you might have to add vat to the price but whether you have to pay that or not I think the Elementals are a good pick you're not getting an insane deal with Incredible specs here but you get an allrounder Good device that will do whatever you need a sub 500 sub 550 to do you can probably find a cheaper alternative from another manufacturer that only supports Windows but if you want to support Linux and its development it is tough to beat the proposition here and they come with Linux pre-installed since the hardware isn't anything crazy you know that any dis R will run absolutely fine on them you can open those laptops repair them and upgrade them and slimbook has a downloads category for various guides drivers for other operating systems and you can order replacement parts online as well so yeah in the world of Linux laptops these are decently affordable options and they don't skimp on the materials or the quality you still get good inputs you get an all aluminium body you get a decent screen you're not getting cheated here so yeah I can recommend those laptops so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video well you can always click that dislike button and tell me why in the comments as well and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of ways to do so down in the descriptions as well do note that patrons and YouTube members will get a Daily News podcast from Monday to Friday so if you're interested in that uh well just click on one of those links uh in the description so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music]
hey everyone this is Nick and oh boy do we have a monkey pow situation right there with the EU implementing their new set of regulations against Gatekeepers which prompted Apple to actually make their terms worse for most of their developers we also have flathub reaching 1 million active users and we have some whan drama around the most basic of features and we also have this SE way to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail which is fitting because as you obviously all know this week was Data privacy week the annual celebration of the first legally binding International treaty that deals with privacy and data protection and also a nice reminder that you can take steps to improve your privacy online like using proton mail it's your all-in-one open-source private and encrypted Suite complete with an email address a VPN a calendar an online storage space and a password manager everything uses zero access encryption so not even proton employees can look at your data and it's 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annual subscription to be an apple developer because apps will still have to be notorized if developers decide to implement their own payment method for inapp purchases Apple won't take any Commission on that but if developers want to use Apple's payment system they will obviously have to pay the usual 30% fee apps available in the official app store will also be able to use another payment system than Apple's in which case the company will still take a 177% fee which is the first problem it's Bonkers that Apple would take a commission for an application that doesn't use their payment system system developers are already paying to be on the App Store through the Apple developer annual fee Apple will also add an additional fee for popular apps once you pass 1 million annual installs in the EU Apple will charge 50 cents per install which obviously is not justified at all there's also a sizable limitation to side loading and alternative app stores developers have to provide a single version of their app on different stores meaning developers cannot provide a version with more features in the alternative app store and a less powerful one on Apple's App Store now next apple will let users run third-party browsers on iPhones and iPads and I mean real thirdparty browsers not just Safari with a different user interface obviously this is only in the EU and apple will still retain the right to approve these browsers but it's a great step for a more open web where people can use their browser of choice but also it's a terrible thing for the open web because people will just use Chrome and so Chrome's rendering engine will be an even bigger Monopoly and Google will have even more control over how the web works and is rendered and since this changes only for the EU I think companies might not bother with developing or porting their engines to iOS because they won't be able to ship these new versions to the entire world so they have to maintain two versions of the same app with different engines app developers are not happy about these changes Spotify called them a farce epic said it's a horror show and mozzilla said that having to maintain two versions of the browser is a burden that Apple doesn't have to bear which is unjust proton CEO also said that these changes have so many strings attached that it makes it impossible for developers to benefit from them so at first I looked at these and I felt yeah these are good changes for users but actually a lot of developers might not even bother since there are so many limitations validations and steps that Apple can take to make life miserable for everyone that doesn't use their own app store so as usual apple sucks they just don't want to give up the control they have over their platform even though that control is completely unjustified anti-competitive and anti-consumer so yeah not surprised that developers are super unhappy with this hopefully these changes when they are examined by the EU will be sanctioned or at least Apple will have to modify how they implemented all of this because this is not in the spirit of the law at all now there was a new version of the whan protocols last week with a few interesting additions first there's a new transient seat protocol which will be used to better support remote desktops and it is already supported through way VNC in WL rots and sway the dma buff protocol is also also stable to improve how compositors and apps communicate and draw things on screen this is no longer experimental and it also looks like Enlightenment has now been dropped from the protocol member group as they weren't really engaging with the project of course if they decide to get more involved they will be welcomed back now not necessarily wh un focused but there's a new portal being implemented as well to let applications grab the high contrast preference that you set on your desktop and to apply it to all apps that support that including flat packs this has been added to the xdg standards and most major desktops have acknowledged it and are working to support it as well which is a win for accessibility and we also have another protocol being submitted to allow apps to set their own app icon for specific windows on wh and this one appears surprisingly controversial and seems to generate a lot of debate The Proposal looks absolutely logical basically using the icon that is set in the dot desktop file first and if there is none of that the app could specify an icon from the xdg specification which would then respect the user's icon theme and some people are unhappy obviously because we're talking about whand and Linux so people are saying that dot desktop icons should not be the priority app image devs want more than just desktop icons and are trying to cram that into the protocol and kwin developers also pointed out that they need way more icon sizes which the protocol could handle but apparently they don't want to do it this way it's all a giant mess so it's good to see that the Wayland Protocols are being extended but what isn't good to see is that we still cannot agree on anything even the most basic of features which is displaying a freaking icon for a freaking window and obviously this is all linked to fragmentation if we didn't have 20 different ways of shipping software 20 different desktops TOs and 20 different background systems well we would not have these issues and all of this would be solved and would have been solved for years now flathub has cemented its place as one of the biggest app stores for Linux as they reached a big milestone over one million active users they have reached 1.6 billion app downloads and are hosting more than 2400 applications 850 of which are currently verified meaning that they're coming from the original developers and they aren't third-party repackaging efforts like what you would find on a Dr repost obviously flathub doesn't track their users but they do know how many people have downloaded and updated the free desktop SDK which is necessary for flat packs to run and so they know how many people actively use flat packs by updating this framework they feel that their growth comes from the fact that they have the most popular Linux apps available in there and also from the fact that the steam team deck has been very popular as a lot of the most downloaded apps are emulators and game oriented applications a lot of popular dros also have flat Hub enabled by default including Linux Mint popos or Fedora which cannot hurt and it is really good to see flath Hub growing and slowly becoming the standard App Store there's still a lot of work to do to implement payments and restoring purchases and there's still a lot of work to do on flat pack as a format itself but we're slowly closing into a unified packaging format which as I mentioned in the previous article is probably a good thing now the budie desktop has a nice road map for 2024 and beyond for the first quarter they want to get started on whand an improving flat pack and portal support the second quarter should finish the Wayland session and Q3 and four will see the release of a whand only Budgy 10 desktop with continuous bug fixing and improvements based on community feedback until they think budgie is ready at which point they will put budgie 10 in maintenance mode and they'll only focus on Budgy 11 which will pretty much be a full rewrite of the desktop they will start work on that during this year as well starting with pulling various backend components and implementing the basics of the desktop so yeah another fully Rewritten desktop which is not going to be based on gnome because gnome has refocused their efforts on developing things that work for them which I think is normal but also more fragmentation so we'll have to see if Budgy becoming its own thing actually bring something to the Linux desktop ecosystem or if it's just going to be an also ran which has spent years redeveloping something for no real benefit for end users now Linux mint's Edge ISO is now available if you haven't followed along Linux Mint will now provide an install image shipping with a newer kernel as Linux Mint relies on on a bon 2 LTS and this means that at the end of the life of the drro it tends not to work well on recent Hardware or to not be installable at all so the edge ISO is here to provide a recent kernel out of the box in this case jumping from 5.15 to 6.5 which should alleviate a lot of the problems you can already download it from min's website and I think it's a great initiative because 5.15 is a very old Jal and you're missing out on virtually every performance Improvement of the past what 2 years so yeah even if you don't have the most recent Hardware you should probably just install mint using the edge ISO instead of the regular one and honestly I think Min should make the edge ISO the default once they have sufficient testing and let's finish this with gaming and first we have some disappointing news it looks like aano decided against using Holo ISO as the default for their new handheld they had previously announced that the aan Neo next light would ship with Steam OS then they revealed it would just be Hollow ISO an unofficial buil of Steam OS and now they're saying that the device will instead ship with Windows 11 by default although you will get the option to get it with Holo ISO if you want this apparently comes from some feedback from customers that would prefer using Windows on a handheld for some reason this obviously is a disappointment I was really happy to see Linux based systems making their way onto more gaming devices out of the box as the default option but I guess if more people want Windows they kind of have to give them that although I will admit I don't understand why anyone would prefer Windows 11 on an underpowered handheld that let's remember is less powerful than the steam deck the games that the steam deck or Steam OS would not support will not run well on this device at all so you're sacrificing controller friendliness performance battery life and the general interface and user friendliness of the operating system to run a few games poorly I I don't get it now there are some proposed modifications to the Linux kernel to make running Windows games and apps faster when using wine or proton this all consists in a new driver called NT sync that would expose a new virtual device in /dev to implement some of the windows synchronization apis these currently run as a normal process but this also means that this process can become a bottleneck that slows down how Windows programs are executed on Linux and with these changes the issue would be removed which would result in much better performance when gaming on Linux through wine or proton as in plus 21% in Metro 2033 or plus 678 in Dirt 3 generally it looks like it helps a lot of games to double their performance on Linux and this doesn't mean it's going to be plus 600% FPS in certain games it's probably just 600% faster at executing the specific calls that this API implements but it should translate in a lot more FPS in a lot of games and there's an interesting new project for gaming on Linux outside of steam it's called unified Linux Wine game launcher or ul lwg and no it's not yet another launcher application it is a runtime that is meant to be used by our various graphical launchers to unify how games are run it's developed by the prolific glorious egg roll who is the maker of nobara and GE proton and it's pretty much a reimplementation of the steam Linux runtime which will let most launchers use proton outside of steam something that has been relatively problematic in the past meaning that most launchers use wine and this just doesn't work as well as proton the goal is to have most launchers rely on this instead of various wine rebuilds so all the fixes all the tweaks and all the various arguments you can add to run a game as best as can be can be shared between tools you would basically just have one way of launching a game no matter the launcher or the tool and it's absolutely amazing and I really hope it catches on and it works well because it would mean you can just pick any graphical app you want and it wouldn't have any impact on how well the game you're planning to run works right now if you run a game through lutrus or through heroic you might not get the same experience at all with the unified wine game launcher whatever it would probably be much more unified because you would just use the proton version you have on your system for every single launcher and so a game would run exactly the same whatever the launcher you're using which is obviously great for new users coming to Linux there's much less work to be done and much less knowledge to be had to actually be able to play something and if you want to play games on Linux why not check out our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux out 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hey everyone this is Nick and oh boy do we have a monkey pow situation right there with the EU implementing their new set of regulations against Gatekeepers which prompted Apple to actually make their terms worse for most of their developers we also have flathub reaching 1 million active users and we have some whan drama around the most basic of features and we also have this SE way to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton mail which is fitting because as you obviously all know this week was Data privacy week the annual celebration of the first legally binding International treaty that deals with privacy and data protection and also a nice reminder that you can take steps to improve your privacy online like using proton mail it's your all-in-one open-source private and encrypted Suite complete with an email address a VPN a calendar an online storage space and a password manager everything uses zero access encryption so not even proton employees can look at your data and it's 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annual subscription to be an apple developer because apps will still have to be notorized if developers decide to implement their own payment method for inapp purchases Apple won't take any Commission on that but if developers want to use Apple's payment system they will obviously have to pay the usual 30% fee apps available in the official app store will also be able to use another payment system than Apple's in which case the company will still take a 177% fee which is the first problem it's Bonkers that Apple would take a commission for an application that doesn't use their payment system system developers are already paying to be on the App Store through the Apple developer annual fee Apple will also add an additional fee for popular apps once you pass 1 million annual installs in the EU Apple will charge 50 cents per install which obviously is not justified at all there's also a sizable limitation to side loading and alternative app stores developers have to provide a single version of their app on different stores meaning developers cannot provide a version with more features in the alternative app store and a less powerful one on Apple's App Store now next apple will let users run third-party browsers on iPhones and iPads and I mean real thirdparty browsers not just Safari with a different user interface obviously this is only in the EU and apple will still retain the right to approve these browsers but it's a great step for a more open web where people can use their browser of choice but also it's a terrible thing for the open web because people will just use Chrome and so Chrome's rendering engine will be an even bigger Monopoly and Google will have even more control over how the web works and is rendered and since this changes only for the EU I think companies might not bother with developing or porting their engines to iOS because they won't be able to ship these new versions to the entire world so they have to maintain two versions of the same app with different engines app developers are not happy about these changes Spotify called them a farce epic said it's a horror show and mozzilla said that having to maintain two versions of the browser is a burden that Apple doesn't have to bear which is unjust proton CEO also said that these changes have so many strings attached that it makes it impossible for developers to benefit from them so at first I looked at these and I felt yeah these are good changes for users but actually a lot of developers might not even bother since there are so many limitations validations and steps that Apple can take to make life miserable for everyone that doesn't use their own app store so as usual apple sucks they just don't want to give up the control they have over their platform even though that control is completely unjustified anti-competitive and anti-consumer so yeah not surprised that developers are super unhappy with this hopefully these changes when they are examined by the EU will be sanctioned or at least Apple will have to modify how they implemented all of this because this is not in the spirit of the law at all now there was a new version of the whan protocols last week with a few interesting additions first there's a new transient seat protocol which will be used to better support remote desktops and it is already supported through way VNC in WL rots and sway the dma buff protocol is also also stable to improve how compositors and apps communicate and draw things on screen this is no longer experimental and it also looks like Enlightenment has now been dropped from the protocol member group as they weren't really engaging with the project of course if they decide to get more involved they will be welcomed back now not necessarily wh un focused but there's a new portal being implemented as well to let applications grab the high contrast preference that you set on your desktop and to apply it to all apps that support that including flat packs this has been added to the xdg standards and most major desktops have acknowledged it and are working to support it as well which is a win for accessibility and we also have another protocol being submitted to allow apps to set their own app icon for specific windows on wh and this one appears surprisingly controversial and seems to generate a lot of debate The Proposal looks absolutely logical basically using the icon that is set in the dot desktop file first and if there is none of that the app could specify an icon from the xdg specification which would then respect the user's icon theme and some people are unhappy obviously because we're talking about whand and Linux so people are saying that dot desktop icons should not be the priority app image devs want more than just desktop icons and are trying to cram that into the protocol and kwin developers also pointed out that they need way more icon sizes which the protocol could handle but apparently they don't want to do it this way it's all a giant mess so it's good to see that the Wayland Protocols are being extended but what isn't good to see is that we still cannot agree on anything even the most basic of features which is displaying a freaking icon for a freaking window and obviously this is all linked to fragmentation if we didn't have 20 different ways of shipping software 20 different desktops TOs and 20 different background systems well we would not have these issues and all of this would be solved and would have been solved for years now flathub has cemented its place as one of the biggest app stores for Linux as they reached a big milestone over one million active users they have reached 1.6 billion app downloads and are hosting more than 2400 applications 850 of which are currently verified meaning that they're coming from the original developers and they aren't third-party repackaging efforts like what you would find on a Dr repost obviously flathub doesn't track their users but they do know how many people have downloaded and updated the free desktop SDK which is necessary for flat packs to run and so they know how many people actively use flat packs by updating this framework they feel that their growth comes from the fact that they have the most popular Linux apps available in there and also from the fact that the steam team deck has been very popular as a lot of the most downloaded apps are emulators and game oriented applications a lot of popular dros also have flat Hub enabled by default including Linux Mint popos or Fedora which cannot hurt and it is really good to see flath Hub growing and slowly becoming the standard App Store there's still a lot of work to do to implement payments and restoring purchases and there's still a lot of work to do on flat pack as a format itself but we're slowly closing into a unified packaging format which as I mentioned in the previous article is probably a good thing now the budie desktop has a nice road map for 2024 and beyond for the first quarter they want to get started on whand an improving flat pack and portal support the second quarter should finish the Wayland session and Q3 and four will see the release of a whand only Budgy 10 desktop with continuous bug fixing and improvements based on community feedback until they think budgie is ready at which point they will put budgie 10 in maintenance mode and they'll only focus on Budgy 11 which will pretty much be a full rewrite of the desktop they will start work on that during this year as well starting with pulling various backend components and implementing the basics of the desktop so yeah another fully Rewritten desktop which is not going to be based on gnome because gnome has refocused their efforts on developing things that work for them which I think is normal but also more fragmentation so we'll have to see if Budgy becoming its own thing actually bring something to the Linux desktop ecosystem or if it's just going to be an also ran which has spent years redeveloping something for no real benefit for end users now Linux mint's Edge ISO is now available if you haven't followed along Linux Mint will now provide an install image shipping with a newer kernel as Linux Mint relies on on a bon 2 LTS and this means that at the end of the life of the drro it tends not to work well on recent Hardware or to not be installable at all so the edge ISO is here to provide a recent kernel out of the box in this case jumping from 5.15 to 6.5 which should alleviate a lot of the problems you can already download it from min's website and I think it's a great initiative because 5.15 is a very old Jal and you're missing out on virtually every performance Improvement of the past what 2 years so yeah even if you don't have the most recent Hardware you should probably just install mint using the edge ISO instead of the regular one and honestly I think Min should make the edge ISO the default once they have sufficient testing and let's finish this with gaming and first we have some disappointing news it looks like aano decided against using Holo ISO as the default for their new handheld they had previously announced that the aan Neo next light would ship with Steam OS then they revealed it would just be Hollow ISO an unofficial buil of Steam OS and now they're saying that the device will instead ship with Windows 11 by default although you will get the option to get it with Holo ISO if you want this apparently comes from some feedback from customers that would prefer using Windows on a handheld for some reason this obviously is a disappointment I was really happy to see Linux based systems making their way onto more gaming devices out of the box as the default option but I guess if more people want Windows they kind of have to give them that although I will admit I don't understand why anyone would prefer Windows 11 on an underpowered handheld that let's remember is less powerful than the steam deck the games that the steam deck or Steam OS would not support will not run well on this device at all so you're sacrificing controller friendliness performance battery life and the general interface and user friendliness of the operating system to run a few games poorly I I don't get it now there are some proposed modifications to the Linux kernel to make running Windows games and apps faster when using wine or proton this all consists in a new driver called NT sync that would expose a new virtual device in /dev to implement some of the windows synchronization apis these currently run as a normal process but this also means that this process can become a bottleneck that slows down how Windows programs are executed on Linux and with these changes the issue would be removed which would result in much better performance when gaming on Linux through wine or proton as in plus 21% in Metro 2033 or plus 678 in Dirt 3 generally it looks like it helps a lot of games to double their performance on Linux and this doesn't mean it's going to be plus 600% FPS in certain games it's probably just 600% faster at executing the specific calls that this API implements but it should translate in a lot more FPS in a lot of games and there's an interesting new project for gaming on Linux outside of steam it's called unified Linux Wine game launcher or ul lwg and no it's not yet another launcher application it is a runtime that is meant to be used by our various graphical launchers to unify how games are run it's developed by the prolific glorious egg roll who is the maker of nobara and GE proton and it's pretty much a reimplementation of the steam Linux runtime which will let most launchers use proton outside of steam something that has been relatively problematic in the past meaning that most launchers use wine and this just doesn't work as well as proton the goal is to have most launchers rely on this instead of various wine rebuilds so all the fixes all the tweaks and all the various arguments you can add to run a game as best as can be can be shared between tools you would basically just have one way of launching a game no matter the launcher or the tool and it's absolutely amazing and I really hope it catches on and it works well because it would mean you can just pick any graphical app you want and it wouldn't have any impact on how well the game you're planning to run works right now if you run a game through lutrus or through heroic you might not get the same experience at all with the unified wine game launcher whatever it would probably be much more unified because you would just use the proton version you have on your system for every single launcher and so a game would run exactly the same whatever the launcher you're using which is obviously great for new users coming to Linux there's much less work to be done and much less knowledge to be had to actually be able to play something and if you want to play games on Linux why not check out our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux out of the box all the hardware inside these devices has been picked specifically because it runs really well with Linux and in their testing if they encounter any issues or problems they actually submit patches Upstream to fix the problems for everyone not just for themselves they have a big big range of devices that will cover every price point and every need you can customize the internals you can choose your own keyboard layout for your laptop you can have your own logo engraved on the lid it's all very customizable all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded and well you just know that Linux is going to run on your device and that you're helping supporting linux's development as well so if you need a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it and you don't really want to have to do all the guesswork of whether something will run well or not and put in some elbow grease to add the few pieces that are missing just click the link in the description below and get your PC from tuxedo everything will run and you'll probably be happier for it so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and all the other things that YouTube likes and if you really enjoy the channel I have plenty of links in the description to help support it and if you become a patreon member or a YouTube member you will actually get a daily audio show for all these Linux and open source news so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
did you know we moved into 2024 now which means I now have the right to do another Linux drro tier list because yeah I'm limiting myself to one of these per year and since the last one I tried a lot of other distributions either in a video on the channel or in my own time and the dros I ranked last time have also evolved so let's see how I would rank everything at the beginning of 2024 and what I would personally use and what I would pass on but what I wouldn't pass on is this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by square X and if you like to browse the web privately and securely you really should give them a shot Square X can be installed as a browser extension for chromium based browsers and it also has a web app for any other browser and it will give you access to a suite of disposable tools that open everything in the cloud instead of locally so your system and your data are never at risk with square X you get a burner browser that will block ads and trackers and give you 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likely I would be to use them for my own use case which is content production and running a business and everyone will have different criteria so don't get offended if I ranked your drro lower than what you would have and don't hesitate to let me know in the comments if you would have ranked it higher and why so we'll have the following categories we'll have great as in I could absolutely recommend this with my closed we'll have good which is I would use that drro we'll have average which is it's good but it's not for me we'll have no thanks as in I would not run that and we have hell no as in I'm not touching that ever so let's start with the big one obuntu I feel it has progressed a lot since last time the obuntu team has a renewed focus on improving their implementation of gnome with plenty of patches to improve performance and newer addition in the form of extensions like a tiling assistant you know it is going to work reliably it has tons of help online and if an app exists on Linux it has an auntu package but their insistence on pushing snap packages for desktop applications really irritates me because I feel flat pack would be a far superior solution and also I'm not a big fan of how canonical treats various open- Source projects recently so I'm only putting this one in average it's like last time it's not incredible and to use it I would have to remove snap and reinstall some stuff so it's not great it's just decent and I would place all its derivatives at the same spot because they suffer from the same problem Linux Mint though I feel still deserves its place in the great category not only does it provide the most complete graphical experience out of the box with utilities for everything but they also fixed most of my annoying with it as in they have started work on whan support to Future proof their drro and their first draft of a whan session is actually not bad at all and they now have an edge ISO with a newer kernel so you can actually install it on recent Hardware so it is definitely still a great Linux Dr recommended for any beginner or even for advanced users the only reason I'm not using Linux Mint as a daily driver is because I'm not a huge fan of the cinnamon desktop for myself now zorinos is going to move up to the average category it's not a bad Dr it looks good it has plenty of improvements and layouts for Gnome but for a desktop drro it is still moving way too slow zorinos S7 just came out and it's based on auntu 22.4 which is going to be replaced in a few months by a new LTS it's not a terrible choice but with their current release reschedule you will get something that is half recent in 2025 and that's just not acceptable for a desktop in my opinion it is not as much of a problem as it once was because with flatback you can basically get recent applications even if your base is pretty old but the desktop they use is old and I just could not see myself sticking with that for 2 years Elementary OS will unfortunately stay in the no thanks category for now as well I love the drro I love their desktop but I just cannot use it nowadays it's updated way too slowly and Elementary os8 will bring some cool stuff they'll finish the transition to gtk4 they'll bring a Wayland session so it will move into the modern Linux era but it just doesn't offer enough for me anymore today it's not a bad drro but as it stands right now with Elementary os7 it is just not for me now for Dora is a drro I used for a long while as a daily driver until very recently and this drro I'll place in the great category it is very stable it is updated often it is pushing the new Linux desktop stack with portals whan pipe wire and flatback and it's the embodiment of everything I enjoy about Linux constant improvements and Innovation and risk taking that pays off and sure it's a red hat thing red hat is not my favorite company right now but as a distribution it's one I could recommend to everyone especially if you want to move into the present or the future of Linux they're not afraid to drop all the things to help everyone progress and I love that as per Debian I only ever used the stable version and I will put it in average for my use case deian 12 was released relatively recently and so it is not utter L outdated yet but it will be utterly outdated by the time Debian 13 gets updated the desktop it uses the apps in the repost they will all be terribly terribly old and for apps it's not as much of a problem because obviously now you have flat pack that can solve the problem but for the desktop you use it's just not for me I like my stuff to get updates when the new desktops comes out and Debian just doesn't give me that maybe the unstable version would be worth a shot to see if it changes my opinion still Dean offers a solid experience it's easy to use there's plenty of documentation and they now have proprietary firmware ready to be installed if you need it so it's a solid drro no matter the use case now open soua tumble weed is next and I will put this one in the good category it's a really good rolling release and while my experience with soua is limited they do have some really good admin tools to configure a bunch of things that other disos simply do not have a graphical user interface for and in my testing it was rock solid as far as rolling releases go I could definitely see myself using it as per op soua leap I'll put it in average it's virtually the same experience as with tumble weed in terms of the benefits of using open Souza but it's just not interesting to me as a distribution it it's a bit too slow moving it's a bit too Enterprise focused for my own tastes and the current way this dis R Works will be changed soon with the future of leap lying with Alp making it an image-based operating system so it is not bad not at all but I just don't find it interesting or suitable for my needs now the good old Arch Linux will go in average for me because I would personally not use it on my computer but it's not not because it's a bad Dro it's because it's not for me all my experiences with Arch and Arch based dros were cut short by issues after updating my computer and I cannot deal with that on a daily basis I need a system where I can just click the update button with my eyes closed reboot and expect everything to work when the computer comes back alive without having to read update notes or look over various install scripts to check if they are safe or not and Arch just does not provide that experience for me and I understand why people love and use Arch and a bunch of its derivatives and if you have the time to invest in making sure it's solid it can be very very stable but for me it's just not cutting it and speaking of arge derivatives manaro I will place in the no thanks category again this year the way it is built just doesn't make sense to me you're getting access to the a but since you're also not using the latest Arch packages you will have issues with that as there will be mismatches between libraries and package versions and if you don't use the Aur on it you're left with a roding release that takes bad decisions like shipping unstable versions of apps that developers don't want them to ship yet and not testing updates that come from Arch adequately like the grub incident I feel there are better rolling releases to use like tumble wheat for example so yeah it's just not for me it's too unstable now tuxedo OS is the Dr I use these days and I will place it in good it's a semi- rolling release meaning you don't get major updates every six months like what obuntu does but you're getting regular updates to the kernel to the drivers and the apps plus a rolling release model for the KD plasma desktop it has been super stable for me it's the best KD distribution I have ever used and while it is based on a bunch to 22.4 since you're getting updates to the critical Hardware support components it's not really an issue and the tools tuxedo ads like their control center are also really good on a tuxedo laptop so I love using it and the only reason why it's not in the great category is they're still basing themselves on a b 2 LTS and yes they do update the hardware support components like drivers and the kernel but the packages in the repos are pretty damn old it's not been a big issue for me but it could be so I'll wait to see how fast they will rebase on 24.4 before placing this one in the great category now as per popos it will be in the no thanks category for me this year it is not a bad disc R it's pretty much the same behavior as tuxedo OS you get updates to the drivers and the kernel but the desktop they ship is just completely outdated it's based on a very old gnome version with a bunch of extensions and the experience has not changed in 2 years and that's just not acceptable for me and I would expect that to change by the time 24.4 releases for pop OS which is going to be apparently in the Summer with the brand new Rewritten from scratch Cosmic desktop but for now installing 22.4 on my desktop or on my laptop would be a big big regression in terms of workflow and performance and features now Solus is a Dr I expected to not even mention in that tier list since it was pretty much dead last year but since then it apparently revived and it looks like they have plans now it is still going to go in hell no for me because I cannot tell if this is a temporary Revival or if it is here to stay I need more time to see if they will repeat the mistakes of the past and since they also want to completely change how the drro is built and works for soless 5 I cannot place any long-term trust in them for now when I install something I like it to last for a year or two and soless just does not give me the confidence I need to reliably have that experience so it's in hell no for me now Gen 2 I will put in no thanks for my own use case again I understand why people want to use it but personally I do not find it a compelling proposition at all I don't want to compile any of my programs to gain one to 3% performance and using the binary packages on Gen 2 why just use any other drro that has binary packages so if you love Gen 2 that's cool but the very concept is simply just not working for me at all now KD neon will go in average I like the rolling release model for the desktop and the rebasing on a new LTS when it's available but also it hasn't been extremely stable the last time I tried it and I feel that nowadays tuxa os does the same job but much better so I just wouldn't use neon personally now aahi Linux and Fedora aahi are in a weird spot here I cannot use any of these myself but it's not because they're bad it's because it runs on Hardware I don't like my MacBook Pro M1 will be sold soon it's way too heavy and it lacks useful ports and it is arm so there is no D Vinci resolve on that meaning that I can just not use these disos but aahi as a Dr is awesome and almost feature complete so I will put it in average because placing it lower would not really be justified now let's talk about NY OS and this one will make some people grid their teeth but it's only going in average for me meaning I could see myself using it but currently I don't see the point having a reproducible system is great and I loved learning the syntax to configure the system but some things were just annoying to get to work like the Venture res which the studio version I could never run or NVIDIA drivers and for my use case there is no point really I don't reinstall often enough that I need a config file that would recreate my own system and other dros are stable enough that I don't feel like I need to use something like NYX it is a really good Dr and I loved experimenting with it but I just don't see the point for my own use case personally now Holo ISO is a weird one because you don't use it for desktop use it's for gaming related stuff and for that specific use case I will place it in great I have recently reinstalled it on my own console which is basically just a tower PC from toxedo and this time I had nothing to configure or change it just installed and worked perfectly right at the bat so for my gaming needs it's basically the steam deck experience on a big TV with good hardware and performance and for that it's wonderful now for more mixed gaming and desktop usage I would place nobara in good it's a solid improvement over Fedora it actually delivers better performance the suite of tools that are pre-installed is great the only thing I don't quite like is that it's a smaller project and as such I would be wary of running it as a daily driver because it's not seeing a ton of external contributions and I am not sure I would find enough help online if I needed it now for vanilla OS I would place that in no thanks for my own use case I like the concept of running dros in containers to get access to any package or app you want but also I don't need that I can already run any app on any dros these days and it's more men for development purposes and that is not my use case so I would not run vanilla OS as my main operating system now for fun I will include Chrome OS Flex because it's basically a regular Linux dis these days with a proprietary desktop and I will place it in hell no because well it completely sucks it lags the most basic of features the desktop is Bare Bones and performs badly and installing anything that is not a web app requires you to use but it's basically a VM so performance is really bad it is a bad operating system a bad desktop there's proprietary stuff all around and it's also privacy invasive so hell no for chromos flex and as per deepen it's still going in hell no as well because it has Telemetry baked in it's using a very old Debian base and the desktop might look nice but all of its apps are super limited and installing anything else on top of that just breaks the unified look and feel I would never use that Dro but if you like the desktop the deep in desktop I would recommend maybe using it on another Dro because it can look really good so that's it for all the dros I have used on my own time or on the channel and how I would rank them for my own use case obviously yours might be different so let me know where you would have placed all those distributions yourself using the same ranking system and in the meantime I will let you know about sponsor it's tuxedo computers if you need a new device to run Linux on you should probably stop buying devices from bigname manufacturers that only support Windows natively and trying to install Linux on that and fighting the various Hardware that is not well supported you should buy something that supports Linux natively and that's tuxedo computers they have laptops desktops and N at all form factors all performance levels all price points all the hardware is very customizable and it is picked specifically because it works well with Linux and if it didn't in their testing they actually submit patches Upstream to fix those issues for everyone you can customize the keyboard layout you can have your own logo on the LD of your laptop you can open the laptop repair it and upgrade it these are really good it's all I use these days I run this channel on a tuxedo Infiniti Book Pro 16 and all my gaming is done on a tuxedo Cube which is just a PC I install Holo ISO on so if you want a new computer you want to Linux on it and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a computer from tuxedo I can only recommend them so thanks everyone for watching the tier list I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and to write a comment and if you didn't like the video well you can always click the dislike button and let me know why in the comments it's probably because I rated Arch not in the great category probably so if you and also if you really like the channel there are 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hey everyone this is Nick and we're finally nearing the end of January the worst month it's just the worst right anyway this week we have open soua leap which is in the process of becoming an immutable dis Rob but don't worry they're not leaving anyone behind we also have aun to's steam snap causing headaches for valve to the point that they actually recommend no one use it and we also have Google pretty much giving up on their fuchia operating system at least for general computing oh and we also have a study confirming what everyone already knew online search is now complete crap and we also have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare your all-in-one solution to make sure that your Linux Fleet stays secure and up toate while reducing downtime to a minimum thanks to kernal life patching and additional support for end of life distributions speaking of which if if you have systems running Centos S7 you probably already know that it will be end of life in June this year which means you only have a few months to plan a transition to another system if that's a bit on the short side though tux scare has you covered they have launched their extended life cycle support solution for Centos S7 in Early Access which will let you keep receiving security patches and updates to the core system and a lot of critical packages living you with a lot more time to prepare to migrate to a newer distribution and they've also included transparent pricing on their website so you can adequately plan your budget and if you're wondering why you should jump on that right now it's because tux care provides you with essential security patches for over 60 unresolved high and critical risk vulnerabilities in Centos S7 and those are gaps that are not addressed by the OS vendor ignoring these vulnerabilities May expose your organization to a significant cyber security risk so don't wait too long click the link in the description and secure your Cento S7 systems for now and for the future so open soua leap 16 which is planned for 2025 will not be the continuation of this distribution on its current model which is the traditional drro model much like how obuntu or Fedora are built leap 16 will instead be built using alp for adaptable Linux platform it's a building system that soua developed to be able to build many different dis Ros and this is a major change because it means that leap 16 will be what we call an immutable operating system which is a bad term because it doesn't mean you can't change anything just that it's a different way of making changes to your system there's a clear separation between the kernel and operating system tools and the applications which will be containerized as in they'll use flat pack it is thus an image based system based on open sua micro OS and as such it seems focused as the open soua Team says on cloud native workloads and is described as combining the benefits of an advanced Enterprise server drro with userfriendly maintenance and security and since this is a major departure in how the drro works and is operated the open soua team has contingency plans to either extend the life of leap 15.6 or to release 15.7 while they make sure leap 16 is as good as it can be and the open Souza team has also clarified after the initial announcement this week that they want to offer a non immutable variant of leap as well although they did not explain how they plan to do so yet or for how long this will be the case and as usual the communication around their Alp platform is nebulous at best they never quite explain how it works or maybe I'm just not smart or knowledgeable enough to understand anything they say about it still it is clear that open Souza wants to take that direction of immutable systems just like a bunch of other disos are offering these auntu wants to focus on auntu core for the desktop Fedora has Kino ey to silver blue a lot of distributions want to push this new model for now at least open Souza will still offer a normal regular version of leap but who knows for how long this will last now for a while it seemed like Google wanted to build their own alternative to their Linux based operating systems namely Android and Chrome OS by working on something called fuchsia but everything points to this thing being relegated to way smaller use cases as Google announced they would stop working on trying to bring the Google Chrome browser to it and if Google decides not to bring their a big product to a system it pretty much means that they do not think they can even release that for any regular computer or smartphone user fuchsia also saw some significant layoffs at the beginning of 2023 and the team made it clear that they would stop working on the workstation build of that operating system meaning that Google Chrome was basically the only user-facing project that remained for fuchsia and this is also now Cann fuchsia is now absolutely intended as a developer tool only and the base system for their nest products but that's it so it looks like Google realized that replacing Linux at the core of your major operating systems is probably not a great idea you already have invested so much time and effort in it you have built an ecosystem around it and also you're benefiting from the contributions of so many other people so yeah fuchsia is probably dead for General computer comp use it's going to be sticking to Smart Home Appliances and stuff like that it looks like open 2's insistence on snaps is causing issues for valve as the steam snap generates a lot of bug reports that should be addressed to the snap package itself timot Bess a software engineer for valve said that people should use the official Deb package instead on auntu and people who don't want to use that should use the flat pack even though it's unofficial so you know open to messed up EV valve themselves recommend using an other unofficial package which apparently is better than the wuntu is making he also said that they might start displaying a warning to users of the snap package to tell them where they should send their bug reports and this all circles back to unofficial repackaging of applications if there is an official package distros should stop repackaging software and just ship the official package whether it's for steam lib office or anything else stop repackaging apps that have an official build for your drro or an official package that works on every Dr like an official snap or flatback a lot of users do not understand that the package they're using is not made by the developer and so they might report a ton of bugs that have nothing to do with the application itself and speaking of flatback it looks like flathub has revised their guidelines to try and promote higher quality applications and listings since the platform has noticed an influx of apps lacking metadata using really bad icons or really outdated screenshots which obviously gives a Windows phone store kind of vibe to users all the excellent people who used Windows phone back in the day will know what I mean by that so first flathub will highlight the apps that have the best listings with a checklist for the quality of that listing to make sure that the description is well formatted that the app icon looks decent and has good contrast or that the screenshots represent the app accurately developers will see these ratings so they can fix their listings and make things look a bit nicer and flathub will also at some point curate some apps on the homepage of the website based on these ratings this should also lead to better pages in the various graphical app stores we have on Linux so that's all good in my book and if you want to know why it's important have good listings and decent looking icons head over to the website called app image Hub and tell me if you're filled with confidence and if you think any of these apps look trustworthy to you there was an interesting article last week about AI legislation that I just became aware of it's just a proposal it's an article by Jonathan Bartlett he's a fellow at a research center on natural and artificial intelligence and he's a software developer so it's nothing offered by a legis later or country but I felt the idea was interesting it would apply content markings for AI generated works with different levels you would get content that is purely AI generated with no one assuming human responsibility for so basically it's the lowest trust level that would be reflected by a little HTML tag there would be content that AI generated but is then backed by a company or a person so you could have a bit more confidence in its veracity you could have content that is a combination of AI and human work in which case the human is responsible for that content and content that you can't really be determined the Providence of for example User submitted content where you have no way of telling who actually made it asper handling copyright The Proposal doesn't quite address that it's the major issue with these new tools is using copyright Works to train an AI okay or not and until countries have resolved the various cases that have been started basically Al everywhere we won't really know I think this HTML based tax system would absolutely work it will not completely solve the issue of misinformation but at least it would let users determine on their own basis if they think this is trustworthy or not and who is responsible for the content if it's actually misinformation now if you use Google or another search engine and you felt the quality of the results has been falling steadily it's not just an impr ression German researchers examined a bunch of product review queries on Google on Bing and on Doug Dugo for a whole year and they found what they describe as a torrent of lowquality content especially for product search that completely drowns any useful information they said a sizable part of the results were just SEO spam as obviously a ton of websites are just chasing the latest algorithm meta by trying to game the search engine to make their Pages be more visible and to gain more ad Revenue researchers found that between the beginning of the study and its end results improved a little bit but they found an overall downwards Trend in the quality of results not just on Google but also on Bing and Doug Dugo and they also warned that AI generated spam will make things worse really quickly Google responded saying that this didn't adequately cover the usefulness of Google search because the research focused on product reviews only and that's fair interestingly the study said Google faed better than Bing or Doug Dugo overall and yeah that's fair it's only for product reviews but also it's one of the biggest use cases of a search engine and one of the most important for people because when you're looking for product reviews it means that you're willing to part with some hard-earned money and if you cannot trust your search engine to provide good results to spend that money on something that is adequate then yeah it is a big problem now personally I completely stopped using search engines to actually find products that I want to buy I will just go onto specific websites that I trust or specific YouTube channels that I know will give me accurate information but search engines for this no matter the search engine they're just all bad and Google is now complying with the eu's digital Market act now meaning that they will give EU citizens a way to unlink the very ious Google services that you might use this means that they will not share data between services that you've unlined and it will thus reduce the efficiency and the completeness of the user profile they are building on you and the efficiency of online tracking as well now of course this only applies in the EU where you will be able to unlink stuff like Google search YouTube ad Services Google Play Google Chrome Google shopping and Google Maps meaning what you search for in Google search won't be used to recommend videos on YouTube or the places you visit in Google Maps will not be used to Target you with ads or other similar things it will not make you private because Google will still collect information about you on any of these services but at least they won't aggregate all of that into a single profile which is definitely better and let's finish this with the gaming news wine 9.0 is now out it's the compilation of every update since 8.0 in a stable package and and there's a lot here it includes a lot of improvements to running 32-bit Windows apps on a 64-bit Linux system with the implementation of Windows on Windows 64 there's the experimental whand driver that implements a lot of what's needed to run any game natively under Wayland without the performance penalty and potential issues linked to X whand although this Wayland back end is not enabled by default there is still some work to do arm 64 support is also much improved as is the native direct tech support wine implements the audio and video support and a lot of other underlying systems I would expect proton from valve to use wi 9 as its base soon which will probably bring performance improvements and better compatibility with a lot of games what I'm really hoping for is that we'll see before the end of the year the whon support being absolutely complete so we can finally ditch X11 even for gaming and this week I also learned about the hangover project which no doesn't mean I'm going to get drunk this weekend it is a wine based tool that lets you run 32-bit Windows apps on Arm based Linux systems so it's running wine on top of various emulators like qmu fax or box 64 to translate the x86 Windows instructions into x86 Linux instructions and then into arm Linux instructions hangover 9.0 is now out based on wine 9.0 and they have now fully integrated box 64 support and they now have Debian packages for easier install on some dros developers also have plans to try and bring the tool to risk five systems as well and it is an interesting project not only to futureproof Linux if at some point arm devices become the norm for the general PC space but also for example for aahi Linux users running this operating system on their apple silicon Max and since we're on on the topic of devices let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and KN that run Linux out of the box all the hardware in these computers has been picked specifically because it supports Linux well and if they encountered any issue during their testing they actually submit patches Upstream to fix them for everyone they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a wide range of devices that will cover every need or every price point all the devices are very customizable from the components you have inside to your own logo laser edged on your laptop or your own keyboard layout you decide what you want to bring all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded which is a nice plus and basically tuxedo computers is all I use these days to run the channel my main computer to run the channel is a tuxedo laptop an Infiniti Book Pro 16 and for my gaming I use a tuxedo Cube which I turned into a Steam OS console so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and check out tuxedo computers so thanks everyone for watching you know what to do to make this video more popular on YouTube click the like button the Subscribe button the Bell whatever else and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of links to do just that in the description and patreon supporters and YouTube members get some extra advantages each day so uh let me know what you think in the comments and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
hey everyone this is Nick and we're finally nearing the end of January the worst month it's just the worst right anyway this week we have open soua leap which is in the process of becoming an immutable dis Rob but don't worry they're not leaving anyone behind we also have aun to's steam snap causing headaches for valve to the point that they actually recommend no one use it and we also have Google pretty much giving up on their fuchia operating system at least for general computing oh and we also have a study confirming what everyone already knew online search is now complete crap and we also have the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare your all-in-one solution to make sure that your Linux Fleet stays secure and up toate while reducing downtime to a minimum thanks to kernal life patching and additional support for end of life distributions speaking of which if if you have systems running Centos S7 you probably already know that it will be end of life in June this year which means you only have a few months to plan a transition to another system if that's a bit on the short side though tux scare has you covered they have launched their extended life cycle support solution for Centos S7 in Early Access which will let you keep receiving security patches and updates to the core system and a lot of critical packages living you with a lot more time to prepare to migrate to a newer distribution and they've also included transparent pricing on their website so you can adequately plan your budget and if you're wondering why you should jump on that right now it's because tux care provides you with essential security patches for over 60 unresolved high and critical risk vulnerabilities in Centos S7 and those are gaps that are not addressed by the OS vendor ignoring these vulnerabilities May expose your organization to a significant cyber security risk so don't wait too long click the link in the description and secure your Cento S7 systems for now and for the future so open soua leap 16 which is planned for 2025 will not be the continuation of this distribution on its current model which is the traditional drro model much like how obuntu or Fedora are built leap 16 will instead be built using alp for adaptable Linux platform it's a building system that soua developed to be able to build many different dis Ros and this is a major change because it means that leap 16 will be what we call an immutable operating system which is a bad term because it doesn't mean you can't change anything just that it's a different way of making changes to your system there's a clear separation between the kernel and operating system tools and the applications which will be containerized as in they'll use flat pack it is thus an image based system based on open sua micro OS and as such it seems focused as the open soua Team says on cloud native workloads and is described as combining the benefits of an advanced Enterprise server drro with userfriendly maintenance and security and since this is a major departure in how the drro works and is operated the open soua team has contingency plans to either extend the life of leap 15.6 or to release 15.7 while they make sure leap 16 is as good as it can be and the open Souza team has also clarified after the initial announcement this week that they want to offer a non immutable variant of leap as well although they did not explain how they plan to do so yet or for how long this will be the case and as usual the communication around their Alp platform is nebulous at best they never quite explain how it works or maybe I'm just not smart or knowledgeable enough to understand anything they say about it still it is clear that open Souza wants to take that direction of immutable systems just like a bunch of other disos are offering these auntu wants to focus on auntu core for the desktop Fedora has Kino ey to silver blue a lot of distributions want to push this new model for now at least open Souza will still offer a normal regular version of leap but who knows for how long this will last now for a while it seemed like Google wanted to build their own alternative to their Linux based operating systems namely Android and Chrome OS by working on something called fuchsia but everything points to this thing being relegated to way smaller use cases as Google announced they would stop working on trying to bring the Google Chrome browser to it and if Google decides not to bring their a big product to a system it pretty much means that they do not think they can even release that for any regular computer or smartphone user fuchsia also saw some significant layoffs at the beginning of 2023 and the team made it clear that they would stop working on the workstation build of that operating system meaning that Google Chrome was basically the only user-facing project that remained for fuchsia and this is also now Cann fuchsia is now absolutely intended as a developer tool only and the base system for their nest products but that's it so it looks like Google realized that replacing Linux at the core of your major operating systems is probably not a great idea you already have invested so much time and effort in it you have built an ecosystem around it and also you're benefiting from the contributions of so many other people so yeah fuchsia is probably dead for General computer comp use it's going to be sticking to Smart Home Appliances and stuff like that it looks like open 2's insistence on snaps is causing issues for valve as the steam snap generates a lot of bug reports that should be addressed to the snap package itself timot Bess a software engineer for valve said that people should use the official Deb package instead on auntu and people who don't want to use that should use the flat pack even though it's unofficial so you know open to messed up EV valve themselves recommend using an other unofficial package which apparently is better than the wuntu is making he also said that they might start displaying a warning to users of the snap package to tell them where they should send their bug reports and this all circles back to unofficial repackaging of applications if there is an official package distros should stop repackaging software and just ship the official package whether it's for steam lib office or anything else stop repackaging apps that have an official build for your drro or an official package that works on every Dr like an official snap or flatback a lot of users do not understand that the package they're using is not made by the developer and so they might report a ton of bugs that have nothing to do with the application itself and speaking of flatback it looks like flathub has revised their guidelines to try and promote higher quality applications and listings since the platform has noticed an influx of apps lacking metadata using really bad icons or really outdated screenshots which obviously gives a Windows phone store kind of vibe to users all the excellent people who used Windows phone back in the day will know what I mean by that so first flathub will highlight the apps that have the best listings with a checklist for the quality of that listing to make sure that the description is well formatted that the app icon looks decent and has good contrast or that the screenshots represent the app accurately developers will see these ratings so they can fix their listings and make things look a bit nicer and flathub will also at some point curate some apps on the homepage of the website based on these ratings this should also lead to better pages in the various graphical app stores we have on Linux so that's all good in my book and if you want to know why it's important have good listings and decent looking icons head over to the website called app image Hub and tell me if you're filled with confidence and if you think any of these apps look trustworthy to you there was an interesting article last week about AI legislation that I just became aware of it's just a proposal it's an article by Jonathan Bartlett he's a fellow at a research center on natural and artificial intelligence and he's a software developer so it's nothing offered by a legis later or country but I felt the idea was interesting it would apply content markings for AI generated works with different levels you would get content that is purely AI generated with no one assuming human responsibility for so basically it's the lowest trust level that would be reflected by a little HTML tag there would be content that AI generated but is then backed by a company or a person so you could have a bit more confidence in its veracity you could have content that is a combination of AI and human work in which case the human is responsible for that content and content that you can't really be determined the Providence of for example User submitted content where you have no way of telling who actually made it asper handling copyright The Proposal doesn't quite address that it's the major issue with these new tools is using copyright Works to train an AI okay or not and until countries have resolved the various cases that have been started basically Al everywhere we won't really know I think this HTML based tax system would absolutely work it will not completely solve the issue of misinformation but at least it would let users determine on their own basis if they think this is trustworthy or not and who is responsible for the content if it's actually misinformation now if you use Google or another search engine and you felt the quality of the results has been falling steadily it's not just an impr ression German researchers examined a bunch of product review queries on Google on Bing and on Doug Dugo for a whole year and they found what they describe as a torrent of lowquality content especially for product search that completely drowns any useful information they said a sizable part of the results were just SEO spam as obviously a ton of websites are just chasing the latest algorithm meta by trying to game the search engine to make their Pages be more visible and to gain more ad Revenue researchers found that between the beginning of the study and its end results improved a little bit but they found an overall downwards Trend in the quality of results not just on Google but also on Bing and Doug Dugo and they also warned that AI generated spam will make things worse really quickly Google responded saying that this didn't adequately cover the usefulness of Google search because the research focused on product reviews only and that's fair interestingly the study said Google faed better than Bing or Doug Dugo overall and yeah that's fair it's only for product reviews but also it's one of the biggest use cases of a search engine and one of the most important for people because when you're looking for product reviews it means that you're willing to part with some hard-earned money and if you cannot trust your search engine to provide good results to spend that money on something that is adequate then yeah it is a big problem now personally I completely stopped using search engines to actually find products that I want to buy I will just go onto specific websites that I trust or specific YouTube channels that I know will give me accurate information but search engines for this no matter the search engine they're just all bad and Google is now complying with the eu's digital Market act now meaning that they will give EU citizens a way to unlink the very ious Google services that you might use this means that they will not share data between services that you've unlined and it will thus reduce the efficiency and the completeness of the user profile they are building on you and the efficiency of online tracking as well now of course this only applies in the EU where you will be able to unlink stuff like Google search YouTube ad Services Google Play Google Chrome Google shopping and Google Maps meaning what you search for in Google search won't be used to recommend videos on YouTube or the places you visit in Google Maps will not be used to Target you with ads or other similar things it will not make you private because Google will still collect information about you on any of these services but at least they won't aggregate all of that into a single profile which is definitely better and let's finish this with the gaming news wine 9.0 is now out it's the compilation of every update since 8.0 in a stable package and and there's a lot here it includes a lot of improvements to running 32-bit Windows apps on a 64-bit Linux system with the implementation of Windows on Windows 64 there's the experimental whand driver that implements a lot of what's needed to run any game natively under Wayland without the performance penalty and potential issues linked to X whand although this Wayland back end is not enabled by default there is still some work to do arm 64 support is also much improved as is the native direct tech support wine implements the audio and video support and a lot of other underlying systems I would expect proton from valve to use wi 9 as its base soon which will probably bring performance improvements and better compatibility with a lot of games what I'm really hoping for is that we'll see before the end of the year the whon support being absolutely complete so we can finally ditch X11 even for gaming and this week I also learned about the hangover project which no doesn't mean I'm going to get drunk this weekend it is a wine based tool that lets you run 32-bit Windows apps on Arm based Linux systems so it's running wine on top of various emulators like qmu fax or box 64 to translate the x86 Windows instructions into x86 Linux instructions and then into arm Linux instructions hangover 9.0 is now out based on wine 9.0 and they have now fully integrated box 64 support and they now have Debian packages for easier install on some dros developers also have plans to try and bring the tool to risk five systems as well and it is an interesting project not only to futureproof Linux if at some point arm devices become the norm for the general PC space but also for example for aahi Linux users running this operating system on their apple silicon Max and since we're on on the topic of devices let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers makes laptops desktops and KN that run Linux out of the box all the hardware in these computers has been picked specifically because it supports Linux well and if they encountered any issue during their testing they actually submit patches Upstream to fix them for everyone they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a wide range of devices that will cover every need or every price point all the devices are very customizable from the components you have inside to your own logo laser edged on your laptop or your own keyboard layout you decide what you want to 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did you know we moved into 2024 now which means I now have the right to do another Linux drro tier list because yeah I'm limiting myself to one of these per year and since the last one I tried a lot of other distributions either in a video on the channel or in my own time and the dros I ranked last time have also evolved so let's see how I would rank everything at the beginning of 2024 and what I would personally use and what I would pass on but what I wouldn't pass on is this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by square X and if you like to browse the web privately and securely you really should give them a shot Square X can be installed as a browser extension for chromium based browsers and it also has a web app for any other browser and it will give you access to a suite of disposable tools that open everything in the cloud instead of locally so your system and your data are never at risk with square X you get a burner browser that will block ads and trackers and give you 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likely I would be to use them for my own use case which is content production and running a business and everyone will have different criteria so don't get offended if I ranked your drro lower than what you would have and don't hesitate to let me know in the comments if you would have ranked it higher and why so we'll have the following categories we'll have great as in I could absolutely recommend this with my closed we'll have good which is I would use that drro we'll have average which is it's good but it's not for me we'll have no thanks as in I would not run that and we have hell no as in I'm not touching that ever so let's start with the big one obuntu I feel it has progressed a lot since last time the obuntu team has a renewed focus on improving their implementation of gnome with plenty of patches to improve performance and newer addition in the form of extensions like a tiling assistant you know it is going to work reliably it has tons of help online and if an app exists on Linux it has an auntu package but their insistence on pushing snap packages for desktop applications really irritates me because I feel flat pack would be a far superior solution and also I'm not a big fan of how canonical treats various open- Source projects recently so I'm only putting this one in average it's like last time it's not incredible and to use it I would have to remove snap and reinstall some stuff so it's not great it's just decent and I would place all its derivatives at the same spot because they suffer from the same problem Linux Mint though I feel still deserves its place in the great category not only does it provide the most complete graphical experience out of the box with utilities for everything but they also fixed most of my annoying with it as in they have started work on whan support to Future proof their drro and their first draft of a whan session is actually not bad at all and they now have an edge ISO with a newer kernel so you can actually install it on recent Hardware so it is definitely still a great Linux Dr recommended for any beginner or even for advanced users the only reason I'm not using Linux Mint as a daily driver is because I'm not a huge fan of the cinnamon desktop for myself now zorinos is going to move up to the average category it's not a bad Dr it looks good it has plenty of improvements and layouts for Gnome but for a desktop drro it is still moving way too slow zorinos S7 just came out and it's based on auntu 22.4 which is going to be replaced in a few months by a new LTS it's not a terrible choice but with their current release reschedule you will get something that is half recent in 2025 and that's just not acceptable for a desktop in my opinion it is not as much of a problem as it once was because with flatback you can basically get recent applications even if your base is pretty old but the desktop they use is old and I just could not see myself sticking with that for 2 years Elementary OS will unfortunately stay in the no thanks category for now as well I love the drro I love their desktop but I just cannot use it nowadays it's updated way too slowly and Elementary os8 will bring some cool stuff they'll finish the transition to gtk4 they'll bring a Wayland session so it will move into the modern Linux era but it just doesn't offer enough for me anymore today it's not a bad drro but as it stands right now with Elementary os7 it is just not for me now for Dora is a drro I used for a long while as a daily driver until very recently and this drro I'll place in the great category it is very stable it is updated often it is pushing the new Linux desktop stack with portals whan pipe wire and flatback and it's the embodiment of everything I enjoy about Linux constant improvements and Innovation and risk taking that pays off and sure it's a red hat thing red hat is not my favorite company right now but as a distribution it's one I could recommend to everyone especially if you want to move into the present or the future of Linux they're not afraid to drop all the things to help everyone progress and I love that as per Debian I only ever used the stable version and I will put it in average for my use case deian 12 was released relatively recently and so it is not utter L outdated yet but it will be utterly outdated by the time Debian 13 gets updated the desktop it uses the apps in the repost they will all be terribly terribly old and for apps it's not as much of a problem because obviously now you have flat pack that can solve the problem but for the desktop you use it's just not for me I like my stuff to get updates when the new desktops comes out and Debian just doesn't give me that maybe the unstable version would be worth a shot to see if it changes my opinion still Dean offers a solid experience it's easy to use there's plenty of documentation and they now have proprietary firmware ready to be installed if you need it so it's a solid drro no matter the use case now open soua tumble weed is next and I will put this one in the good category it's a really good rolling release and while my experience with soua is limited they do have some really good admin tools to configure a bunch of things that other disos simply do not have a graphical user interface for and in my testing it was rock solid as far as rolling releases go I could definitely see myself using it as per op soua leap I'll put it in average it's virtually the same experience as with tumble weed in terms of the benefits of using open Souza but it's just not interesting to me as a distribution it it's a bit too slow moving it's a bit too Enterprise focused for my own tastes and the current way this dis R Works will be changed soon with the future of leap lying with Alp making it an image-based operating system so it is not bad not at all but I just don't find it interesting or suitable for my needs now the good old Arch Linux will go in average for me because I would personally not use it on my computer but it's not not because it's a bad Dro it's because it's not for me all my experiences with Arch and Arch based dros were cut short by issues after updating my computer and I cannot deal with that on a daily basis I need a system where I can just click the update button with my eyes closed reboot and expect everything to work when the computer comes back alive without having to read update notes or look over various install scripts to check if they are safe or not and Arch just does not provide that experience for me and I understand why people love and use Arch and a bunch of its derivatives and if you have the time to invest in making sure it's solid it can be very very stable but for me it's just not cutting it and speaking of arge derivatives manaro I will place in the no thanks category again this year the way it is built just doesn't make sense to me you're getting access to the a but since you're also not using the latest Arch packages you will have issues with that as there will be mismatches between libraries and package versions and if you don't use the Aur on it you're left with a roding release that takes bad decisions like shipping unstable versions of apps that developers don't want them to ship yet and not testing updates that come from Arch adequately like the grub incident I feel there are better rolling releases to use like tumble wheat for example so yeah it's just not for me it's too unstable now tuxedo OS is the Dr I use these days and I will place it in good it's a semi- rolling release meaning you don't get major updates every six months like what obuntu does but you're getting regular updates to the kernel to the drivers and the apps plus a rolling release model for the KD plasma desktop it has been super stable for me it's the best KD distribution I have ever used and while it is based on a bunch to 22.4 since you're getting updates to the critical Hardware support components it's not really an issue and the tools tuxedo ads like their control center are also really good on a tuxedo laptop so I love using it and the only reason why it's not in the great category is they're still basing themselves on a b 2 LTS and yes they do update the hardware support components like drivers and the kernel but the packages in the repos are pretty damn old it's not been a big issue for me but it could be so I'll wait to see how fast they will rebase on 24.4 before placing this one in the great category now as per popos it will be in the no thanks category for me this year it is not a bad disc R it's pretty much the same behavior as tuxedo OS you get updates to the drivers and the kernel but the desktop they ship is just completely outdated it's based on a very old gnome version with a bunch of extensions and the experience has not changed in 2 years and that's just not acceptable for me and I would expect that to change by the time 24.4 releases for pop OS which is going to be apparently in the Summer with the brand new Rewritten from scratch Cosmic desktop but for now installing 22.4 on my desktop or on my laptop would be a big big regression in terms of workflow and performance and features now Solus is a Dr I expected to not even mention in that tier list since it was pretty much dead last year but since then it apparently revived and it looks like they have plans now it is still going to go in hell no for me because I cannot tell if this is a temporary Revival or if it is here to stay I need more time to see if they will repeat the mistakes of the past and since they also want to completely change how the drro is built and works for soless 5 I cannot place any long-term trust in them for now when I install something I like it to last for a year or two and soless just does not give me the confidence I need to reliably have that experience so it's in hell no for me now Gen 2 I will put in no thanks for my own use case again I understand why people want to use it but personally I do not find it a compelling proposition at all I don't want to compile any of my programs to gain one to 3% performance and using the binary packages on Gen 2 why just use any other drro that has binary packages so if you love Gen 2 that's cool but the very concept is simply just not working for me at all now KD neon will go in average I like the rolling release model for the desktop and the rebasing on a new LTS when it's available but also it hasn't been extremely stable the last time I tried it and I feel that nowadays tuxa os does the same job but much better so I just wouldn't use neon personally now aahi Linux and Fedora aahi are in a weird spot here I cannot use any of these myself but it's not because they're bad it's because it runs on Hardware I don't like my MacBook Pro M1 will be sold soon it's way too heavy and it lacks useful ports and it is arm so there is no D Vinci resolve on that meaning that I can just not use these disos but aahi as a Dr is awesome and almost feature complete so I will put it in average because placing it lower would not really be justified now let's talk about NY OS and this one will make some people grid their teeth but it's only going in average for me meaning I could see myself using it but currently I don't see the point having a reproducible system is great and I loved learning the syntax to configure the system but some things were just annoying to get to work like the Venture res which the studio version I could never run or NVIDIA drivers and for my use case there is no point really I don't reinstall often enough that I need a config file that would recreate my own system and other dros are stable enough that I don't feel like I need to use something like NYX it is a really good Dr and I loved experimenting with it but I just don't see the point for my own use case personally now Holo ISO is a weird one because you don't use it for desktop use it's for gaming related stuff and for that specific use case I will place it in great I have recently reinstalled it on my own console which is basically just a tower PC from toxedo and this time I had nothing to configure or change it just installed and worked perfectly right at the bat so for my gaming needs it's basically the steam deck experience on a big TV with good hardware and performance and for that it's wonderful now for more mixed gaming and desktop usage I would place nobara in good it's a solid improvement over Fedora it actually delivers better performance the suite of tools that are pre-installed is great the only thing I don't quite like is that it's a smaller project and as such I would be wary of running it as a daily driver because it's not seeing a ton of external contributions and I am not sure I would find enough help online if I needed it now for vanilla OS I would place that in no thanks for my own use case I like the concept of running dros in containers to get access to any package or app you want but also I don't need that I can already run any app on any dros these days and it's more men for development purposes and that is not my use case so I would not run vanilla OS as my main operating system now for fun I will include Chrome OS Flex because it's basically a regular Linux dis these days with a proprietary desktop and I will place it in hell no because well it completely sucks it lags the most basic of features the desktop is Bare Bones and performs badly and installing anything that is not a web app requires you to use but it's basically a VM so performance is really bad it is a bad operating system a bad desktop there's proprietary stuff all around and it's also privacy invasive so hell no for chromos flex and as per deepen it's still going in hell no as well because it has Telemetry baked in it's using a very old Debian base and the desktop might look nice but all of its apps are super limited and installing anything else on top of that just breaks the unified look and feel I would never use that Dro but if you like the desktop the deep in desktop I would recommend maybe using it on another Dro because it can look really good so that's it for all the dros I have used on my own time or on the channel and how I would rank them for my own use case obviously yours might be different so let me know where you would have placed all those distributions yourself using the same ranking system and in the meantime I will let you know about sponsor it's tuxedo computers if you need a new device to run Linux on you should probably stop buying devices from bigname manufacturers that only support Windows natively and trying to install Linux on that and fighting the various Hardware that is not well supported you should buy something that supports Linux natively and that's tuxedo computers they have laptops desktops and N at all form factors all performance levels all price points all the hardware is very customizable and it is picked specifically because it works well with Linux and if it didn't in their testing they actually submit patches Upstream to fix those issues for everyone you can customize the keyboard layout you can have your own logo on the LD of your laptop you can open the laptop repair it and upgrade it these are really good it's all I use these days I run this channel on a tuxedo Infiniti Book Pro 16 and all my gaming is done on a tuxedo Cube which is just a PC I install Holo ISO on so if you want a new computer you want to Linux on it and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a computer from tuxedo I can only recommend them so thanks everyone for watching the tier list I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and to write a comment and if you didn't like the video well you can always click the dislike button and let me know why in the comments it's probably because I rated Arch not in the great category probably so if you and also if you really like the channel there are 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Linux Mint 21.3 was released last week and while you should not expect a ton of visual or functional enhancements it does come with one pretty major feature a whan session obviously it is still experimental but it's complete enough that I could give it a fair Shake on top of looking at everything else that Min 21.3 brings to the table so here is a little walkr of all the changes to this very popular dis Dro and here is also another walk through to this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Thunderbird most of you probably know about it but for those who don't it's an all-in-one Suite that handles email calendar contacts tasks RSS feeds and chats Thunderbird recently received a giant update with a full redesign of the app that makes it easier than ever to set up your accounts and to be productive the interface is very customizable with multiple choices for interface density view modes panels and the ability to place any button you need in the top bar after this update Thunderbird is now my email and calendar client of choice although it's fully open source it's free of charge and it's available for any Linux distribution Windows and Mac OS so whether you used Thunderbird in the past or not click the link in the description below and give the new release a try you will not regret it so let's begin with the basics min 21.3 is still based on auntu 22.4 their next release will be based on 24.4 but for now you still have that old auntu LTS base its old packages and its super old kernel version 5.15 you do get the Mesa drivers version 23 but not the latest Point update and you don't get the latest NVIDIA drivers either you're still on 535 now mint does have a newer ISO Plan called The Edge ISO which will pack in a newer Linux kernel at least so you can run mint on newer Hardware but the base version is still pretty damn old apart from that you're getting cinnamon 6 the latest update to the default desktop environment and you can also get the usual mate and xfce variants although these didn't get any updates to their desktop environments you're just getting the app updates here and so with that out of the way let's take a look at the new experimental whan session for cinnamon because that's the main event here so you can select that whan session from the login screen like you would select another desktop environment to start I tested this on a spare laptop that uses an Intel XE integrated GPU and also has a dedicated Nvidia GPU and I tried the whon session using both cards so at first glance everything seems to work okay we windows are displayed correctly the display resolution is set how it should be you don't get any screen tearing that I could see at least and the cinnamon desktop responds normally with its rightclick menus minimizing maximizing Edge styling and the like the performance also felt completely normal it even detected the 90 HZ refresh rate of my display video playback in Firefox and other applications worked with picture in picture as well all the audio Plumbing worked as well well multim monitor support seemed okay with both displays being recognized and things moving normally from One display to the other but it is an experimental session so not everything is finished just yet you didn't expect everything to be okay right it's Linux we're talking about and yeah a lot of things are still missing OBS for example doesn't even start using the de package the flat pack works but has no source for the display cinnamon doesn't see seem to support the screen sharing protocol through pipe wire so OBS has nothing to display here so that's the first main thing you will not be sharing your screen to anyone just yet not even in web browser based stuff like jitsy and no screen recorder I tried could capture anything either here neither simple screen recorder nothing works with that experimental Wayland session so these captures are mainly from a VM another issue I encountered is the lack of any pseudo graphical prompt anytime I needed to install a package or update the system I had to use the command line as the graphical app would not spawn a graphical password prompt and the task would just fail I also got some inconsistencies in the place where menus appeared for example when right- clicking certain notification tray icons their menus displayed in the wrong place some applets displayed their menu just fine but others didn't and opened like a window following the window placement that I defined this basic window positioning setting worked fine though I could set Windows to open centered as everyone should and it worked perfectly there and some applications behaved erratically the main one is steam it either got stuck on the login screen or it displayed a fully black window with nothing in there and generally it was unable to quit that was with the dab package the flat pack ran normally sometimes but not always taking very long long to display my library window but it did allow me to try out a game and see how it performed so keep watching to know how this went there were also a few things that I couldn't find like changing the keyboard layout in the whan session it doesn't seem possible the layout stab doesn't appear in the settings where it should be the gestures of cinnamon also don't work here for now you can enable them but they will not do anything and you know I love my gestures and whand is the best place to have G gesture so hopefully they will Implement them in a suitable way like one to one gestures where stuff moves As you move your fingers but for now it's not there the hot Corners did work though with their nice animations and features but there were some weird graphical things happening for example when trying to display all windows the windows moved in position they spread across the screen but you could still see them in the background as if cineman had taken a screenshot of the display before moving the windows into a expose mode some settings pages also seem to have some sort of infinite scroll and didn't stop at their own content which was a bit weird but xwayland seemed to work okay here since I could actually open a steam window and a game using the flatback dragging icons from the desktop also doesn't seem to work properly as the icon gets stuck a few pixel from the initial drag point and it doesn't move with the cursor although the dragging operation can still succeed so all in all it's really not bad but it is living up to its name it is an experimental session and that was all using the Intel integrated GPU I did try it with the Nvidia GPU as well so by default mint uses the novo drivers which obviously will not work all that well with the RTX 3050 TI I have on that laptop so I installed the proprietary drivers for that card at the version mint offers which is 535 so not the latest with all the whan fixes and then I rebooted after that I tried the whan session and all the problems I experienced previously were still there obviously they are all missing features in the experiment all session so there's no reason to expect them to work better on Nvidia but I also didn't get any other issue that I hadn't seen in the Wayland session with the Mesa drivers it just works exactly the same with Nvidia or Intel and before you start commenting furiously that whan plus Nvidia doesn't work yes yes it absolutely does I've been using Fedora and then tuxedo OS on hybrid graphics laptops with dedicated Nvidia gpus on hybrid mode I've been using full Nvidia on a desktop and I never encountered any major problems so yes it does work mostly because I had recent gpus but it does work now just as a little experiment I also decided to run a game in the whan session namely Warhammer 40K mechanicus because well I have have started a mechanicus army for the real tabletop game of 40K and I just got my butt kicked by a nekron playing friend this weekend so well I like 40K and I like the tech priest so suei I'm playing that game and yeah if you didn't understand a single word I just say don't worry it's not super relevant to this video so playing that game on the Wayland session actually worked well without the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed I could only manage 25 to 32 FPS in game which is is normal as even though that game isn't super demanding it is still too much for the poor XE Graphics playing the same game on X11 with the same drivers and the same settings I got 32 to 37 FPS which is more stable and a little bit better with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed and running the game using the dedicated GPU I got 65 to 75 FPS on X11 and 60 to 65 on whan which is again in favor of X11 not surprising since the game is played using xwayland and this has a performance penalty so of course it is not super representative it's just one game but it does prove that xwayland works on that experimental session that proton works and that accelerated GPU rendering also works which is not bad for a first run of a session okay so now let's talk about the other changes in Linux Min 21.3 because Wayland isn't all that has been add added in terms of app updates hypnotics the TV watching app now lets you set channels as favorites and you can access all these favorites using the star icon on the home screen you can also create your own custom TV channels if you want by just adding a URL for a video stream and setting a name and icon and you'll be able to access it at any time from the app hypnotics will also now let you update the version of YouTube downloader that it uses to stream YouTube channels because the package in the repos just is not updated often enough to catch up with the changes YouTube makes cinamon will also let you download actions these are add-ons for the file manager that will appear in the rightclick context menu letting you do well custom actions like verifying an ISO file creating a bootable USB drive and more so in the actions window which you can find in the main menu you will now be able to download new context menu entries and to add them to Nemo the file manager warp inator the file sharing app now lets you connect to a device manually by just entering its IP address or scanning a QR code the sticky notes app can now be managed by debus meaning you can manage your notes using scripts and the bulk rename tool of mint now supports drag and drop and thumbnails so pretty small changes all around it's not going to change how you use your system or your Dro it's really minor updates as per the desktop itself you can now use 75 % fractional scaling on X11 if you want that you can also set key binds to change the window opacity again you can disable stylus buttons if you use that sort of hardware and gestures got a bit better with the ability to set a gesture to zoom in on the desktop again small changes it will not change how you use your system so if you already use mint to upgrade to 21.3 all you have to do is launch the update manager click the refresh button so you can get an update to the update manager itself and then click on the edit menu and then upgrade to Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia and that's it you're done after the download install and reboot you'll be using the latest mint version so obviously 21.3 is a minor version and mint has a habit of shipping big features in minor updates and this is the case because a full-on whand session even experimental is a pretty giant feature and it's honestly not that bad it is pretty cool to see that their first iteration of that session is already pretty damn complete apart from screen sharing and a few bugs here and there and a few missing features it's already working well mint expects whan to be fully baked in in 2026 and it won't be the default for the next major version mint 22 I would expect the Debian based version of mint to also support Wayland with the same capabilities and so it's good to see that mint despite taking their sweet time to get started on working on that Wayland session has done the brunt of the work in relatively little time and also it means that mint is now way more future proof because at some point obuntu and Debian will drop X11 from their repos so the sooner you have a fully working whand session the better you are prepared for that future that will come 2 years 5 years 10 years but it's coming and if you don't care about Wayland at all 21.3 is still a worthy update for any mint user and if you tried Linux Mint and it didn't quite work on your recent Hardware well you can wait for the edge ISO to drop to get a better Linux kernel and make sure that you can run that great experience that mint has on your new Linux computer and speaking of new Linux computers well let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers is based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and what they ship is Linux desktops laptops and no mean meaning that the hardware ships with Linux pre-installed and all that Hardware has been picked 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hey everyone this is Nick and it's your favorite time of the week the Linux and open source news time wait do you mean to say that there are better things in life than this surely not anyway this week we have the announcement of the cosmic desktop Alpha it will come just after plasma 6 releases we've got the Linux kernel 6.7 being one of the biggest releases in recent konel history we have a new Ste OS based device and it's not coming from valve and we have more stuff in the long series of whon breaks everything and by the way if you want these news in a daily format please consider checking out the patreon or becoming a YouTube member using a link in the description below and also please consider listening to the segue to our brand new sponsor this video is sponsored by inter next one of the best secure private and open-source solutions for cloud storage interex lets you safely store and share files and photos and you know that your data is protected from prying eyes because they prioritize your privacy with end to endend and zero access encryption meaning that only you have access to your own information plus they're very committed to comply with the gdpr so your data stays safe and secure they have IOS and Android apps to let you access your files on the go and you also get automatic photo uploads and you also have desktop clients for Linux Mac OS and windows so you can integrate internex into your daily workflow and on top of that you can start with up to 10 gigs of free storage and you can upgrade to plans offering up to 10 terab and right now their lifetime plans are 50% off with just one single payment so click the link in the description below and get started with a secure private and open-source cloud storage solution for all your stuff so Cosmic is on track for an alpha releasee there apparently in the final stretch for that and the alpha will come at the end of March now what's remaining to fix is apparently linked to customization options and fine-tuning the look and feel of the desktop they're apparently planning to publish a pop OS 24.4 release over the summer with a stable version of cosmic included now on top of that Cosmic now has its terminal app with GPU rendering desktop theme syntax highlighting support for left to right and right to left languages and more they also have a custom command line utility to configure displays under Wayland And this command line utility will be the backend for their graphical settings as well in terms of features being worked on they're building a screenshot applet they're working on adding hybrid graphic support to the desktop on the ability to apply a frosted glass transparency effect and they're improving the tiling Outlets to bring the auto tiling features that popos users are already familiar with other things include designing the onscreen display elements new wallpapers the lock and login screen and adding a bunch of settings so the alpha should come at the end of March if everything goes right and I will absolutely cover that in a dedicated video because I think Cosmic could be either a very interesting new offering in the vast sea of Linux desktops or it could be just yet another thing that does the exact same thing that we already have so it will be interesting to look at now if you remember the recent post from KY team member Nate Graham that pointed out that whan doesn't in fact break everything but that ABS didn't support it well well there's a new entry in that Saga this time from mathas Clump a Debian developer and KD and gnome member currently working for purism in a blog post he points out that yes Wayland is inevitable and yes it does remove features that arguably should not exist in a compositor but he also points out that Wayland is used to try and force applications to work and to be designed in a specific way and to work within a desktop specific philosophy I guess he's talking about gnome here but is not naming names he also has an interesting point which is that porting an app to Linux is currently not the hard part it's supporting that app that is but that if developers have to choose between designing their app exactly how they want but being forced to use X11 because it's the only one that has the features or using whand but not being able to build the app that they want then they're probably not going to bother at all which means that porting the app to Linux becomes the hard part and not supporting it Maas then lists the missing pieces like window positioning and window position saving and restoring individual window icons are also missing but it's something I don't feel is really important as a window from an app should use the app's icon it should not spawn a new icon for each window for legibility and Clarity purposes the general conclusion is that whand forces applications to work in a specific way and constrains their ux for example by not letting them position Windows exactly how they want so how do we solve this because Wayland is what we will all be using at some point and if we want more and better apps we need to address these concerns so we have two ways of looking at this either we say that yes whan should constrain applications we want apps on Linux to work in a specific way and in that case we have to accept that some app developers will just not bother with Linux or we're saying we want as many apps as possible and we want to leave the freedom to developers to make their apps look and feel exactly how they want and in this case we need to implement the missing Wayland protocols but not in the same way as X did them because that was insecure and terribly written so we need to find another way of doing this that works well within wh it's an interesting reflection I think it just expands the comprehension of how whan works and the issues with it now the Linux kernel 6.7 was released this week and it's a big big one not only by Comet size even though it's one of the biggest set of changes but also in terms of features first there's a brand new file system called bcash FS which is meant to be very robust and very reliable with support for encryption snapshots low latency replication and copy on right like better FS or ZFS it's still experimental and I'm expecting for ronx to Benchmark the hell out of it to see how it compares to other options better FS also gain some improvements courtesy of valve 6.7 also brings the much awaited Nvidia GSP firmware support which lets the novo drivers change the clock speed of Nvidia gpus also enabling NV K the open source Vulcan driver to perform adequately you can also now disable 32-bit emulation on 64-bit kernels if you don't need that and the kernel dropped the Intel itanium ia64 architecture since basically no one uses that and it's pretty much unmaintained there are also plenty of improvements to KVM for virtualizing more architectures including risk 5 there are improvements to Logitech input device support their support for AMD seamless boot on more hardware and a lot more smaller improvements so this is the Kern old version that should let people start playing around with nvk and a fully open- Source Nvidia stack which is something I'm looking forward to so as soon as that's available I will definitely cover it in a video Linux Min 21.3 was released yesterday with its headline feature being the new experimental whan session the first one available for cinnamon and mint there are also a few interesting additions like like rightclick context menu actions that can be downloaded from an online repo to extend the features of the file manager there are better power and sound applets there support for more image formats there are new touchpad gestures for zooming in on your desktop they support for 75% fractional scaling and more the mint apps also got a few updates but nothing groundbreaking mint also now has a new repo that lets you move to an unstable version of mint so you can test things more easily and there's a new Edge ISO that is planned but not out yet that will Embark a newer Linux kernel so you can use mint on newer Hardware since the basic version of mint is based on an old LTS that might not run all that well on a brand new device so I'll give mint 21.3 a shot in a video next week and I'll mainly focus on the new whan session since that's the biggest change there and I think it will be interesting to see how well it works already and what is still missing now Fedora aahi the dro aimed at Apple silicon devices has gained a lot of good upgrades recently you're now getting full support for HDMI output on any M1 and M2 device and you're also gaining compatibility with h264 and DRM protected content meaning you can play stuff from Spotify or Netflix the GPU drivers have improved by Leaps and Bounds as well now supporting openg GL es 3.1 meaning a lot more apps and games will now be supported although we're still waiting on Vulcan support for better compatability Wi-Fi 6 and 6E are also Now supported as is the touch bar on MacBook Pros that have these the webcam and speakers now work as well including support for Apple specific features for the webcam so you can use it to its full potential battery life also got better thanks to better scheduling on the various scores of the CPU and for the the future their goal is to implement Hardware video decoding plus support for 3D acceleration in Virtual machines so you could try and game on these devices and also implementing support for Thunderbolt and display port alt mode this is really impressive progress I guess with the speakers and the cameras now being supported you could use Fedora aahi as a daily driver you're still not taking full advantage of the full potential of this device notably with Thunderbolt and Vulcan Drive is missing but honestly it's not far from being usable by virtually anyone a g 46 should land in about 2 and a half months and so we saw the release of the alpha for this desktop you can expect a bunch of improvements notably support for RDP in the login manager so you can log in from a remote computer or the file manager now asking to confirm the password when creating protected zip archives the system monitor is now ported to gtk4 gnome tracker the index in service that powers the shell search got some performance improvements and there are plenty of other minor changes on top of that the window manager/ compositor called mutter gained better profiling so the team can identify more areas that need work to improve performance they have simplified their X11 code they have improved drawing tablet support by better supporting various pressure levels and obviously there are a slew of Wayland fixes and improvements since that's obviously going to be the focus of gnome going forward and in The Gnome shell there's improved icon and text scaling with buttons icons and other shell elements now scaling alongside the phone scaling settings application search has been optimized for better results the on-screen display elements were refined the extensions app got a few improvements as well and there are plenty of performance improvements and Bug fixes and I find the scaling improvements really interesting because it means that by just changing the phone on scaling Factor you could completely bypass the need to actually use fractional scaling in a lot of cases which means less GPU usage less battery usage and less blurriness it's all better probably and M also received some work to support variable refresh rate it's still experimental for now and some things need work to have a smooth experience but we could see variable refresh rate Landing in gome 47 I think which means less screen tearing and less latency when playing games KD already supports that pretty well so it's good to see that gnome is also working at it to give a better experience to most people and let's finish this with the gaming news so first the Steam OS devices are coming aano announced their new next light handheld and it will run Steam OS or at least a customized version of Holo ISO That's The Unofficial ISO that lets you get the exact same experience as you would get on the steam deck but on any computer it's what I currently use for my own gaming console so IO apparently tweaked a few things to support the hardware but we don't know yet what other customizations they have applied it's interesting because IO announced a while back they were working on their own OS called IO OS it's a Linux based thing but either they have canned that project or it's just far from being ready and they needed something that wasn't Windows since the device doesn't seem super powerful it will come with a ryzen 5 4500 U or ryzen 7 4800 U which aren't bad but are definitely not super powerful and a full-blown Windows 11 install would probably not only increase the cost but also decrease the performance the device will start at $299 when it releases but we don't know when that will be yet and that's pretty exciting it's not as good as if it was an official partnership with valve to bring Steam OS to more devices but it's still good because Steam OS has absolutely the potential to be the best operating system for any gaming Appliance it has the biggest library of any console it has less backwards compatibility problems than consoles usually face and it's just super welld designed for controller input and also its open source so I hope we'll see Ste OS gaining market share and more devices implementing it although it would be cool if it was an official partnership with valve now we also got an update to the open source nvk drivers this week and these are getting a new pipeline Shader cache this means the driver will be able to reuse the shaders that were compiled instead of having to recompile them every time which obviously will reduce load times and stutters when entering new areas of a game or just resuming a gaming session in synthetic drawing tests it 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