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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 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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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I already looked at the state of Linux as a desktop at the end of 2023 and I felt it was on a solid path but still in a messy state in some crucial areas like packaging formats but since we're now in 2024 I felt it was cool to look at what I think will happen during this year to the Linux desktop and open source software in general obviously these are all predictions so feel free to let me know in the comments if you think I'm wrong if you think I'm right or if you have other areas that you think I've missed and of course we can't begin without something that is sure to happen in 2024 and that's 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 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 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session gnome has already started making that clear plasma gave a lot of signals that X11 wasn't where they would focus their efforts Linux Mint already said that they expect 2025 to see a fully working Wayland session for them but G11 will abandon X11 altogether xfc has already started their migration and Elementary OS 8 will use wh on top of that red hat Enterprise Linux will drop X11 entirely and Fedora KDE will drop it as well with Fedora 40 in April or May with the gnome Edition wondering if they should do the same too so I would be surprised if during 2024 obuntu didn't announce that starting in 2025 x.org is gone from auntu and with that we should see a bunch of other we well liked and ran distributions follow suit which will basically spell the end of X11 for most people starting in 2025 and if you think that it is way too soon just remember that this would leave an entire year to fix the few remaining problems in the apps that don't support Wayland well or in the Wayland protocol itself with the native Wayland support in wine that landed at the end of 2023 we can expect proton and Linux gaming to work natively without X whand and with chromium getting Hardware acceleration on Wayland as well that's two big hurdles gone the rest will absolutely be solved in 2024 since Red Hat will want to make sure they can provide their customers with the same quality they had when they used X1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 so for me in 2024 X11 is still going to be there and probably the default in a lot of places but we should see a lot of announcements that starting in 2025 x.org will get get the boot now the second thing I think we will see is a fully open- Source tack for NVIDIA being available for Linux users with the Linux kernel 6.7 bringing support for the GSP firmware which lets Nvidia gpus be relocked by the open source noo drivers and with nvk the Vulcan driver now part of Mesa and providing decent performance already I would say 2024 will be the year where Nvidia users can finally enjoy a good experience on Linux without anything extra to install at least on distros that aren't super stable or LS I would expect for example Fedora 40 in April or May to ship with the Linux kernel 6.7 and with the latest Mesa drivers meaning that by default for NVIDIA users it's going to be nvo plus nvk if your Hardware is supported the performance will probably not be there yet but it's going to happen and since the brunt of the work on nvk in 2024 will be focused on supporting more Vulcan extensions and on improving performance I would say that at the end of 2024 the tradeoff will be worth it and sure I would estimate you'll still be 15 to 20% slower at the end of the year than with the proprietary drivers but you will have perfect wellon support nothing to install no risk of your drivers breaking after a cural update and no proprietary drivers on your system for a lot of people I think it will be worth it although for comput tasks and stuff related to open CL and Cuda I would expect you will still need the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but on that note Nvidia seems to have realized that they do need to improve those and with the latest releases of their proprietary drivers it really shows that they do want to support Wayland xwayland and more recent stuff so hopefully these drivers will at least be good now in terms of market share we've seen some Healthy Growth in 2023 ending the year on a potentially anomalous 3.8% it's the highest the Linux desktop has ever been added to Chrome OS we generally land at about 7% market share and yes adding chrom OS in there makes sense since it's getting closer and closer to a regular Linux drro in terms of architecture just with a proprietary desktop on top of it in 2024 I would expect this trend to continue people don't seem to enjoy Windows 11 that much and they already did not enjoy Windows 10 all that much either and with Microsoft cramming more and more ads inside of their OS and desktop and potentially moving to a subscription based model for Windows 12 I would expect more people to give Linux a go especially since Linux as a desktop is now way more capable than it ever was gaming on Linux is absolutely a thing no doubt about it and for general purpose Computing like using a web browser an email client and an office suite Delux has been doing that for 10 years perfectly fine so there's no reason people trying out Linux wouldn't stick with it at least some of them we also have efforts like the steam deck that while gaming focused also introduced some people to a Linux desktop with the desktop mode although again it is probably seeing anecdotal Usage Now All In All I don't think the Linux desktop will jump to 8 or 10% market share in 20124 but I would be surprised if it didn't hit 5 or 6% before the end of the year with probably something around 10% if we add Chrome OS to that and since we mentioned gaming Linux also saw a solid progression over 2022 and 2023 mostly thanks to valve proton and the steam deck we're now above Mac OS in terms of gaming market share at least if the steam survey is an accurate representation of that but we're at about 2% which is still laughably small still we can play about 79% of the top up 1,000 Steam games in comfortable conditions which I would Define as being platinum or gold status on proton DB this percentage Rises to 90% if we include titles rated silver but these can have some sizable issues and require some work so I wouldn't count them 70% of the top 10 games are also playable under the same criteria so about 34 of the most played games on Steam are available and playable in one click on Linux and things will get even better than that with the steam deck there are still some holdouts mostly due to anti-che fortnite or destiny 2 for example refuse to support Linux for mysterious reason since it's a one-click operation in both cases and League of Legends is moving to a Cel level anti-che which will prevent Linux Gamers from accessing the game altogether it's the same anti-che valerant uses then again one might say that the Linux Community is toxic enough as it is and we don't need need to add these gaming communities on top of that maybe still no game retains popularity forever and so these games at some point will drop off and the newer ones will absolutely support the steam deck if it keeps growing so this is a temporary hold out but the end result is that in 2024 a lot of popular games will still not run on Linux or on the steam deck now I would also expect 2024 to see a standalone release of Steam OS for any computer with NVIDIA drivers improving and an open- Source stack to support Nvidia I don't think there's a blocker anymore for that I don't think we'll see other manufacturers using that to create dedicated consoles or handhelds just yet but I think we'll see a downloadable ISO from valve we can also expect full HDR support on Linux in 2024 which is going to bridge a gap for higher end Gamers so to conclude on gaming I think our market share on Steam will rise I would say we will probably hit 3 or 3.5% tops but a lot of big names will still be missing in 2024 won't be the year where everyone can move to Linux for gaming now let's talk about the things I feel will stay exactly the same in 2024 starting with packaging formats sure flat packs and snaps will get better they will support more portals more apps will use these formats we might even see support for paid apps on flathub or in the Snap Store but the general situation will still be a mess with multiple packaging formats to choose from and no real unified solution for a thirdparty developer to say oh that's the Linux format 2024 won't see enough improvements to any of these formats to change the minds of people who don't like them because generally people who don't like these formats dislike them for their very concept I also don't see auntu abandoning snaps I don't see app Images Dev saying you know what we're quitting and flat pack being pushed heavily by a lot of the major players in the Linux world it's not going anywhere either this Ro packages are still needed for a lot of stuff so they're also staying so no changes here what we might see is more distributions relying on the official snap or the official flat pack package instead of packaging certain applications like what red hat is doing with lib office where they're abandoning the packaging of this app themselves they're just using the official flatback that's normal it doesn't make sense to replicate that work at all and I think we'll see more of that but that won't change the status quo same thing for what we generally call immutable distributions I don't think they will gain that much popularity in 2024 because they are often linked to using either flatback or snap or NYX packages I can't forget about NYX because if I do I will get comments again and since we're not making these formats the only choice anytime soon I don't think this group of Linux distros will conquer the general Linux desktop audience either and to be clear immutable distributions is a terrible name because they are not immutable you can change everything in them it's just a different way of changing things now we will definitely see more stuff on that front though because obuntu wants to provide a desktop on that format where everything is provided as a snap including the kernel and the drivers which has plenty of advantages when you really think about it and if more gaming focused devices come out running Linux they will definitely use image-based systems as well just like valve and the steam deck and Steam OS so I don't think we'll see a shift towards those immutable distributions in 2024 they'll be refined they will get better but the general Linux desktop user is not moving to them as per app support that's another area where I feel we are not going to see much progress and I'm talking big name apps like office the Adobe suite AutoCAD and the like even if my predictions for Linux market share come true the potential revenue from supporting Linux is still low and will still be low compared to the effort of porting the app finding a packaging format that allows you to do everything you want and then supporting that version I don't expect 2024 to be the year where we have feature complete web-based versions of adobe's apps or of Microsoft Office and while we have seen stuff coming to Linux in 2023 like Studio 1 that's just one app and it's pretty much an experimental beta with plenty of missing features I mean if companies like proton don't find it easy enough to use flatpack to bring something like Proton Drive on Linux even though there's a pretty giant overlap between Linux users and privacy Enthusiast I don't think Microsoft or adobe are going to do it either now you will notice I have been pretty conservative in these predictions and that's because Linux as a desktop is in a state of flux these days we know where we're going but we're having a hard time embarking everyone on that boat which slows things down pipewire portals and Wayland are undeniably the new Linux desktop platform maybe with flat packs on top but not everyone is willing to accept that because it's easy to get hung up on what's currently missing and it's easy to miss the bigger picture of it is software and those problems will get fixed and so I think that what we will see in 2024 is finally moving all the pieces together to move towards this new more stable better integrated easier to support future that the Linux desktop is transitioning towards this is going to be the major change but at the end of 2024 we will still not be there yet I would expect all of this to gel together probably in 2025 with what I think will happen which is the abandonment of the X server by Major desktop disos which will probably help some people move forwards and will probably make some people stop using Linux altogether because they won't find a 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I already looked at the state of Linux as a desktop at the end of 2023 and I felt it was on a solid path but still in a messy state in some crucial areas like packaging formats but since we're now in 2024 I felt it was cool to look at what I think will happen during this year to the Linux desktop and open source software in general obviously these are all predictions so feel free to let me know in the comments if you think I'm wrong if you think I'm right or if you have other areas that you think I've missed and of course we can't begin without something that is sure to happen in 2024 and that's 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 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 Squarespace so they're your all-in-one platform to 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 the Linux experiment and you'll get 10% off your first website okay so my first prediction will not surprise anyone I think x.org is going to be even more deprecated than it already is I'm not saying every Dro will drop X11 during 2024 because that's not going to happen but I am expecting way more distributions and desktops to announce in 2024 that x.org won't be a supported platform anymore in 2025 or at the very least it won't be the default session gnome has already started making that clear plasma gave a lot of signals that X11 wasn't where they would focus their efforts Linux Mint already said that they expect 2025 to see a fully working Wayland session for them but G11 will abandon X11 altogether xfc has already started their migration and Elementary OS 8 will use wh on top of that red hat Enterprise Linux will drop X11 entirely and Fedora KDE will drop it as well with Fedora 40 in April or May with the gnome Edition wondering if they should do the same too so I would be surprised if during 2024 obuntu didn't announce that starting in 2025 x.org is gone from auntu and with that we should see a bunch of other we well liked and ran distributions follow suit which will basically spell the end of X11 for most people starting in 2025 and if you think that it is way too soon just remember that this would leave an entire year to fix the few remaining problems in the apps that don't support Wayland well or in the Wayland protocol itself with the native Wayland support in wine that landed at the end of 2023 we can expect proton and Linux gaming to work natively without X whand and with chromium getting Hardware acceleration on Wayland as well that's two big hurdles gone the rest will absolutely be solved in 2024 since Red Hat will want to make sure they can provide their customers with the same quality they had when they used X1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 so for me in 2024 X11 is still going to be there and probably the default in a lot of places but we should see a lot of announcements that starting in 2025 x.org will get get the boot now the second thing I think we will see is a fully open- Source tack for NVIDIA being available for Linux users with the Linux kernel 6.7 bringing support for the GSP firmware which lets Nvidia gpus be relocked by the open source noo drivers and with nvk the Vulcan driver now part of Mesa and providing decent performance already I would say 2024 will be the year where Nvidia users can finally enjoy a good experience on Linux without anything extra to install at least on distros that aren't super stable or LS I would expect for example Fedora 40 in April or May to ship with the Linux kernel 6.7 and with the latest Mesa drivers meaning that by default for NVIDIA users it's going to be nvo plus nvk if your Hardware is supported the performance will probably not be there yet but it's going to happen and since the brunt of the work on nvk in 2024 will be focused on supporting more Vulcan extensions and on improving performance I would say that at the end of 2024 the tradeoff will be worth it and sure I would estimate you'll still be 15 to 20% slower at the end of the year than with the proprietary drivers but you will have perfect wellon support nothing to install no risk of your drivers breaking after a cural update and no proprietary drivers on your system for a lot of people I think it will be worth it although for comput tasks and stuff related to open CL and Cuda I would expect you will still need the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but on that note Nvidia seems to have realized that they do need to improve those and with the latest releases of their proprietary drivers it really shows that they do want to support Wayland xwayland and more recent stuff so hopefully these drivers will at least be good now in terms of market share we've seen some Healthy Growth in 2023 ending the year on a potentially anomalous 3.8% it's the highest the Linux desktop has ever been added to Chrome OS we generally land at about 7% market share and yes adding chrom OS in there makes sense since it's getting closer and closer to a regular Linux drro in terms of architecture just with a proprietary desktop on top of it in 2024 I would expect this trend to continue people don't seem to enjoy Windows 11 that much and they already did not enjoy Windows 10 all that much either and with Microsoft cramming more and more ads inside of their OS and desktop and potentially moving to a subscription based model for Windows 12 I would expect more people to give Linux a go especially since Linux as a desktop is now way more capable than it ever was gaming on Linux is absolutely a thing no doubt about it and for general purpose Computing like using a web browser an email client and an office suite Delux has been doing that for 10 years perfectly fine so there's no reason people trying out Linux wouldn't stick with it at least some of them we also have efforts like the steam deck that while gaming focused also introduced some people to a Linux desktop with the desktop mode although again it is probably seeing anecdotal Usage Now All In All I don't think the Linux desktop will jump to 8 or 10% market share in 20124 but I would be surprised if it didn't hit 5 or 6% before the end of the year with probably something around 10% if we add Chrome OS to that and since we mentioned gaming Linux also saw a solid progression over 2022 and 2023 mostly thanks to valve proton and the steam deck we're now above Mac OS in terms of gaming market share at least if the steam survey is an accurate representation of that but we're at about 2% which is still laughably small still we can play about 79% of the top up 1,000 Steam games in comfortable conditions which I would Define as being platinum or gold status on proton DB this percentage Rises to 90% if we include titles rated silver but these can have some sizable issues and require some work so I wouldn't count them 70% of the top 10 games are also playable under the same criteria so about 34 of the most played games on Steam are available and playable in one click on Linux and things will get even better than that with the steam deck there are still some holdouts mostly due to anti-che fortnite or destiny 2 for example refuse to support Linux for mysterious reason since it's a one-click operation in both cases and League of Legends is moving to a Cel level anti-che which will prevent Linux Gamers from accessing the game altogether it's the same anti-che valerant uses then again one might say that the Linux Community is toxic enough as it is and we don't need need to add these gaming communities on top of that maybe still no game retains popularity forever and so these games at some point will drop off and the newer ones will absolutely support the steam deck if it keeps growing so this is a temporary hold out but the end result is that in 2024 a lot of popular games will still not run on Linux or on the steam deck now I would also expect 2024 to see a standalone release of Steam OS for any computer with NVIDIA drivers improving and an open- Source stack to support Nvidia I don't think there's a blocker anymore for that I don't think we'll see other manufacturers using that to create dedicated consoles or handhelds just yet but I think we'll see a downloadable ISO from valve we can also expect full HDR support on Linux in 2024 which is going to bridge a gap for higher end Gamers so to conclude on gaming I think our market share on Steam will rise I would say we will probably hit 3 or 3.5% tops but a lot of big names will still be missing in 2024 won't be the year where everyone can move to Linux for gaming now let's talk about the things I feel will stay exactly the same in 2024 starting with packaging formats sure flat packs and snaps will get better they will support more portals more apps will use these formats we might even see support for paid apps on flathub or in the Snap Store but the general situation will still be a mess with multiple packaging formats to choose from and no real unified solution for a thirdparty developer to say oh that's the Linux format 2024 won't see enough improvements to any of these formats to change the minds of people who don't like them because generally people who don't like these formats dislike them for their very concept I also don't see auntu abandoning snaps I don't see app Images Dev saying you know what we're quitting and flat pack being pushed heavily by a lot of the major players in the Linux world it's not going anywhere either this Ro packages are still needed for a lot of stuff so they're also staying so no changes here what we might see is more distributions relying on the official snap or the official flat pack package instead of packaging certain applications like what red hat is doing with lib office where they're abandoning the packaging of this app themselves they're just using the official flatback that's normal it doesn't make sense to replicate that work at all and I think we'll see more of that but that won't change the status quo same thing for what we generally call immutable distributions I don't think they will gain that much popularity in 2024 because they are often linked to using either flatback or snap or NYX packages I can't forget about NYX because if I do I will get comments again and since we're not making these formats the only choice anytime soon I don't think this group of Linux distros will conquer the general Linux desktop audience either and to be clear immutable distributions is a terrible name because they are not immutable you can change everything in them it's just a different way of changing things now we will definitely see more stuff on that front though because obuntu wants to provide a desktop on that format where everything is provided as a snap including the kernel and the drivers which has plenty of advantages when you really think about it and if more gaming focused devices come out running Linux they will definitely use image-based systems as well just like valve and the steam deck and Steam OS so I don't think we'll see a shift towards those immutable distributions in 2024 they'll be refined they will get better but the general Linux desktop user is not moving to them as per app support that's another area where I feel we are not going to see much progress and I'm talking big name apps like office the Adobe suite AutoCAD and the like even if my predictions for Linux market share come true the potential revenue from supporting Linux is still low and will still be low compared to the effort of porting the app finding a packaging format that allows you to do everything you want and then supporting that version I don't expect 2024 to be the year where we have feature complete web-based versions of adobe's apps or of Microsoft Office and while we have seen stuff coming to Linux in 2023 like Studio 1 that's just one app and it's pretty much an experimental beta with plenty of missing features I mean if companies like proton don't find it easy enough to use flatpack to bring something like Proton Drive on Linux even though there's a pretty giant overlap between Linux users and privacy Enthusiast I don't think Microsoft or adobe are going to do it either now you will notice I have been pretty conservative in these predictions and that's because Linux as a desktop is in a state of flux these days we know where we're going but we're having a hard time embarking everyone on that boat which slows things down pipewire portals and Wayland are undeniably the new Linux desktop platform maybe with flat packs on top but not everyone is willing to accept that because it's easy to get hung up on what's currently missing and it's easy to miss the bigger picture of it is software and those problems will get fixed and so I think that what we will see in 2024 is finally moving all the pieces together to move towards this new more stable better integrated easier to support future that the Linux desktop is transitioning towards this is going to be the major change but at the end of 2024 we will still not be there yet I would expect all of this to gel together probably in 2025 with what I think will happen which is the abandonment of the X server by Major desktop disos which will probably help some people move forwards and will probably make some people stop using Linux altogether because they won't find a Dro that still has the X server and works well for them so let me know what you think about all of these do you think I'm right do you think I'm wrong did I miss any important topic in there let me know down in the comments and in the meantime I'll let you know about our sponsor it's tuxi computers they make laptops desktops and no that run Linux out of the box they picked all the hardware specifically because it runs Linux well and in their testing if some stuff didn't quite work out they submit patches Upstream so everyone can benefit from these fixes so you can buy them with a selection of pre-installed dros or you can just slap your own in there and if it's relatively modern it's going to run just fine so all their laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded all the hardware is pretty customizable you can change most of the components you can have your own keyboard layout your own logo on the lid they have multiple colors for certain devices you can basically do exactly how you 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome to this New Year 2024 with the first Linux and open- Source news video of the year so this week we have more distributions working on optimizing their packages for newer CPUs some leaving older computers behind and some taking a more considerate approach we have Linux reaching about 4% market share on the desktop which is pretty huge and we have gnome working on an official extension that I will admit complet completely baffles me so let's dive in but first let me remind you that if you like the channel and you like these videos you can actually support it I have a patreon page and you have YouTube memberships as well both of them will give you the right to vote on the topics I cover on the channel you'll also get a weekly patreon cast where I talk about the channel the sponsors my ethics open source and Linux in general and you'll get a daily podcast about the Linux and open source news every day from Monday to Friday 5 to 10 minutes STS a little audio show to get you caught up without having to wait for the end of the week so if you're interested click the link in the description below and get started with supporting the channel and in the meantime let's talk Linux so in the same vein as obuntu looking at moving to the V3 of the x86 64 architecture it looks like Fedora has similar plans as well now it is still a proposal for now it hasn't been approved but the idea would be to provide optimized binary packages for recent CPUs when they support the required features this is already something that Intel's clear Linux is doing and it's generally considered a quite Speedy distribution or also it's done in open- Source tumble weed it would not inodora prevent older CPUs from getting access to packages it's just additional support specifically for newer CPUs which in my opinion is the best way of doing things because you get a fast two system if you have a more recent computer and you still get support if you want to use Fedora on an older PC so it's the best of both worlds and it's the path I hope auntu adopts as well if they want to go that round and it is always nice to make the most out of your very pricey recent Hardware so I hope we see binary packages optimized specifically for recent CPUs but I also do hope older computers don't get left behind because red hat is also eyeing a very similar move just like auntu or Fedora but this time it means that you would not be able to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux on computers older than 2015 in order to ensure better performance for newer computers Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is planned for early 2025 and it will already drop X11 in favor of Wayland meaning there will be a clear cut off with this version people with atom CPUs or older computers and people who abs absolutely cannot move to Wayland will be left behind by one of the most popular Enterprise dros out there red hat says that even if there are no major performance improvements in this shift they would still like to do it as it would mean various developers would only have one Baseline platform to handle without having to test if the CPU supports certain extensions and implementing the same features twice for those who have the extensions and for those who don't and it will be very interesting to see whether Ubuntu does it whether red hat does it and how and how Fedora will handle that as well because that's three very big distributions that could just say you know what older computers nah we don't want you anymore and that would be a shame for a lot of Linux users since one of the best use cases of Linux is to save an older computer from the junkyard now it looks like linux's desktop market share is still growing at least if stat counter is to be believed this is is a site that uses various analytics data from a pretty large sample of websites to provide statistics including the market share of various operating systems and in December 2023 it reported Linux as reaching about 4% this is not a big number but it's a huge progression compared to November because at that time it only reported Linux at 3.22% so this might be an anomaly but there's no denying that the market share of Linux has risen faster and faster over the years even though the total number for its market share is still pretty low and if we add Chrome OS to that number we reach around 6.24% which makes me think this might be an issue in how operating systems were counted because in November chrom OS had 3.71% market share and it dropped down to 2.42% in December meaning that the sum total of Chrome OS Plus Linux has actually dropped down compared to November now that's kind of surprising especially since the windows market share has also risen a lot and the Mac OS market share has dipped quite a bit so maybe it is just students going back home for the holidays and just not using their Chromebooks or Macs and using their Windows computers at home but it doesn't explain the rise in terms of Linux desktop market share so I'm not sure what happened here we'll have to see in the next month if this is confirmed or if it just goes back to where it was in November now we need to talk about Mozilla there's been a lot of stuff going around on their CEO's compensation I won't get into that because first I don't know what this type of job entails second it is not rare to see CEOs getting raises even when businesses aren't doing particularly well and third if I compare that to CEOs of other similarly sized organizations it doesn't feel crazy even though getting paid multiple million doll per year for any type of job has always been completely ridiculous whether you a football player a basketball player a TV host a CEO whatever this kind of money should never be the salary for one single person no matter your job now what I find more interesting about Modzilla is the fact that they seem to want to Pivot towards AI which well you know my stance on that obviously Firefox right now is not doing super well and while Modzilla has managed to increase revenue from other sources to not be solely dependent on Google The Tech Giant is still the biggest part of mozilla's Revenue and so the CEO now said that they want to be faster and make a bigger impact with Modzilla and this comes as apparently the Modzilla do social instance for the fediverse will not be moving beyond the current beta or experimental State it's in at least not in 2024 and they had already started work on an AI chatbot but they quickly put it on pause because it failed to be pertinent or accurate in testing so right now apparently Modzilla has 15 Engineers working on open-source large language models and they're working on use cases in healthcare specifically Mitchell Baker the CEO of Modzilla also said that they need more data to be able to prototype and launch new products but that they want to do that in a Modzilla way so hopefully with private in mind and I will admit I am a bit worried about Mozilla because Firefox is absolutely nose diving and the only product that seems to be doing really well for them these days is Thunderbird really had a nice Revival with the recent version and AI I'm not the biggest fan of if they do it in a intelligent way where it all runs locally and it's just an accelerator for your browsing for your own research and it doesn't give you pre-digested information that is often false then sure why not but it also kind of feels like they're just grasping at the latest Trend to try and stay relevant so I'm not sure where this is going now it looks like gnome is working on an official extension for The Gnome shell which is a resource monitor it just displays some stats for CPU usage memory swap upload and download speeds right next to the Quick Settings menu so it's nothing revolutionary but the fact that it's official extension developed by The Gnome project is interesting now the rational behind this is that they used to have this feature way back when gome 3 was introduced and that some dros apparently reimplement their own or the very old extension that existed before and so since there's apparently some demand for this feature they have developed their own extension which shouldn't have the same performance problems that the old version of the extension has this extension is optional it won't won't be shipped as part of the gnome shell but it will be available from The Gnome extensions base package or from the extensions manager probably as well and I will admit I am very confused by this because you already have a system monitor that shows resources and if people need more than this why make it an official extension why not make it a settings in The Gnome shell to let people turn that on or off Distributing this as an extension doesn't fix anything because there were already plenty of third party extensions that did that with more features more options and they weren't necessarily bad or badly optimized and if gnome is going to start working on new extensions because there's theand for it there's probably more demand for a lot of other stuff than a system monitor for example a system tray or a suitable replacement for that so I don't really know what's going on here but it feels kind of weird and I'm really baffled so let me know if you know know what this is all about now still on gome there is some solid progress being made on the various areas that benefited from the big influx of cash that gnome got including support for variable refresh rate more refactoring on the online accounts and revamped settings for the Ora screen reader there are also plenty of things being done on documentation and on improving The Gnome Shell theme and scroll bars and some work is planned to improve accessibility with screen reader on Wayland And with text to speech there were also plenty of updates to the wonderful gnome apps for example to parabolic Fred board fractal dinaro and a lot more and it's really cool stuff being worked on actually useful stuff that people requested so it's good to see that this money is being put to good use so gnome can be suitable for more people and can also be more accessible to a lot of people now vuntu might stop providing their Source isos in the future these images are distributed alongside the regular ISO that you use to install auntu and they contain all the source code for all the packages available for aventon they are just one way to ensure that everyone can get access to the source code but apparently they are annoying to build with the automated process breaking often and virtually no one ever downloads them since they are pretty huge and you can already get the source code of individual packages from The Source Repose of a Buon various obuntu flavors also do not have access to the source isos snap packages are not comprised in them and these images are a fixed snapshot meaning you don't even get the latest source code in them if you download them after the dro has been released so Ubuntu is now pondering discontinuing this isos and I am sure someone will find this unacceptable in one way or the other but I personally think we have moved past this distribution method a while ago if you use auntu or Linux in general you kind of need to have an internet connection if only to apply updates and if you do have access to an internet connection it's going to be way more efficient to download the source code for just the packages that you actually want from the source repos rather than downloading giant DVDs full of source that is outdated so I don't think these Source isos are needed and I think the source code from The Source repos just fully complies with the GPL so I don't think they're needed anymore of course there's probably one person somewhere that has a use case for those but honestly yeah just drop them and let's finish this with the gaming news so first Linux gaming has progressed insanely fast in 2023 and it ended the year on a high note by beating its highest market share ever by a tiny little bit Linux Now commands 1.97% of the steam gaming Market obviously thanks to the steam deck and that is still higher than what Ma o hat Steam OS is obviously the most used dis R here with 40% of the Linux piece of the pie that's still extremely low compared to Windows with its enormous 96.4% of steam users and we are very far from overtaking that operating system but the bigger we get the more game developers will have an interest in enabling anti-che for Linux and at least testing their game with proton to ensure things work on the deck meaning that they will ALS work on other Linux computers and honestly if people keep releasing their newer games on Mac OS right now with the very very small market share they have smaller than linuxes I'm pretty sure that if we pass three four or 5% we're going to see a lot more support from developers because if you support apple with half the market share you kind of have to support Linux if it makes sense in terms of money now we also have some good news for AMD users in Mesa 24 the performance for R tracing will get much much better using the radv driver this boost goes from 10% to 75% depending on the title on an RX 6700 XT but if you have a really recent AMD GPU like an RX 7900 XD then the performance boost can get up to 200% so yeah rate racing on AMD Hardware is definitely going to be much more usable on Linux pretty soon at the end of February probably and to conclude the steam deck now passed 13,000 titles verified or playable with about 2/3 being playable and 1/3 verified 3,720 games are also completely unsupported on deck and that's a sizable chunk of the steam library that you can't play but it is still amazing to see the size of the library we now have on the tech and on Linux as well since a lot of these unsupported games would play fine on a more generic Linux PC and speaking of a more generic Linux PC let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they make laptops desktops and KN that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware has been picked specifically because it is highly compatible with Linux so you can either pick a selection of popular dros or you can just install your own and it's going to work if they actually encounter problems when testing their devices they do submit patches Upstream to fix those so everyone can benefit all the devices can be customized with your own keyboard layout your own logo and picking the components inside and you can also open repair and upgrade all the laptops that they sell tuxedo computers is all I use these days to run the channel and to game with my Steam OS console being a tuxedo desktop PC a little Cube so if you need a new computer you want to support linux's development and you want to make sure your new pc runs Linux well click the link in the description and get yourself a computer from tuxedo so thanks everyone for watching the 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Graphics drivers on Linux are a perfect image of our Linux based systems yes we do have all the graphics drivers that you want but no they don't work in the same way as they do on Windows and yes they are weird so I thought we would start the new year with a little refresher and explainer on all these graphic drivers how they work and which one you should turn to depending on your hardware and I also thought we should start the new year with the segue to are 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various colors and themes and you're good to go and when you you want to move forward and 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licensing issue as in they're not compatible with the GPL or for other reasons and that's why you can find drivers for Linux that you have to install yourself for example for real Tech Bluetooth or Wi-Fi adapters or for certain gpus or for certain exotic pieces of Hardware these drivers are provided as kernel modules that are loaded dynamically without needing to recom compile a kernel with them that's why you will also see something called dkms which is short for dynamic kernel module support it's a tool that automatically rebuilds these kernel modules for you when your kernel gets an update and if you absolutely need to install a driver manually that is not in the Linux kernel always try to find a version that works with dkms because if you don't every time you have a kernel update chances are your Hardware will not work anymore and you're going to have to reinstall the driver manually every time now these kernel drivers are what lets your system communicate with the hardware and make it do stuff most of the time it's enough but for graphics drivers there are some additional components the drivers that let your GPU render things using various libraries like Vulcan openg GL or stuff used for video decoding these are generally called user space drivers and they're mostly contained in the Mesa Library for the open- source side of things which we talk about very often on this channel so contrary to most other drivers for graphics drivers we generally have two components we have one kernel driver which lets the konel know that this Hardware exists and how to talk to it and we have the user space drivers used for open GL Vulcan opencl video decoding and generally also used to make X1 and Wayland work correctly so let's start with the most complicated Nvidia Nvidia gpus out of the box are handled on most dros by the open source nvo driver nvo is French for new and it's a combination of multiple Parts it has a kernel driver to talk to the GPU drivers to handle 3D rendering and openl and a driver for x.org whand it's a reverse engineering project meaning that they had to recreate all the code from trial and error with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and what little document ation they could find this means that for older Nvidia gpus it will work fine or even really well but for newer cards like the GTX 1000 series or any RTX series card it is just not up to Snuff and it can basically just provide a display output with minimal 3D acceleration now to be noted these open- Source nvo drivers recently got a very important feature that lets them use the signed firmware that Nvidia provides meaning that all cards can now be relocked you can change the clock speed of the GPU meaning that you can theoretically reach normal performance levels with these if the driver was written for that which it isn't right now now working on top of the newvo kernel driver is a brand new open- source Vulcan driver called nvk this thing is part of Mesa as our all open source user space Graphics drivers and it uses Novo to talk to the hardware but it provides much better performance using Vulcan it's really really new and has just been added to Mesa and for now the performance is lower than the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but it's been moving very fast recently and can actually beat the proprietary drivers in certain tests so there is hope that it will become solid enough to be used by everyone in the near future now for now nvk is not the default on any dist that I know of it probably won't become that for a long long while but there is hope that at some point Novo plus nvk will become the fully open-source stack that most distributions will rely upon now Nvidia themselves do release an open-source kernel module for their gpus compatible with most of the cards that they make or made in the past unfortunately this driver isn't quite there yet and its code architecture just is not compatible with the Linux kernel which is why efforts like nvo and nvk are a safer bet still this code is useful to better understand how Nvidia gpus work and who knows maybe at some point this official open source driver will be refactored and will make it into the kernel itself basically with this one don't use it chances are it's not going to work at all even if you try to compile it nvo and nvk are a much safer bet if you want to wait for open source to catch up for NVIDIA which leads us to the final fin Nvidia related driver the proprietary driver from Nvidia this thing is obviously not open source and it is distributed by Nvidia directly although many distributions package it themselves and I cannot stress this enough do not install this driver from nvidia's website manually use the packages your distribution provides drro packaged this driver for a reason it is complicated and using your drro package will always be easier it will will be more stable and it will break less than a manual install now this proprietary driver is basically a binary blob that has a kernel module which needs to be recompiled with each kernel update and it also contains the user space drivers you need for 3D rendering using OPG Vulcan and more and also what you need to work with x.org and whand it's an all-in-one package if you have a semi- recent Nvidia GPU like a GTX 1000 or an RTX that's the the driver you want to use right now and while it is not perfect the latest version 545 is solid enough even for use with wh this is the driver I use to power my hybrid graphics Intel plus Nvidia laptop that I use to make all these videos render everything play most of the games that I play it works it really does work even on Wayland but some distributions do not package it correctly some users install it incorrectly from nvidia's website and so it has a very very bad reputation that still sticks to it and for older gpus you will probably be better served by the nvo drivers that will have faster performance now important to note only those proprietary drivers will give you access to Cuda which is something that you might need depending on what you do on your GPU so that's it for NVIDIA unless you have a very old Nvidia GPU you do need to use right now the proprietary Nvidia driver but there is some good hope with nvo and nvk that before the end of 2024 you might be able to get really decent performance without having to install anything else and without all the little issues that the proprietary driver has now let's move on to AMD the kernel driver for AMD gpus is called well AMD GPU it is open source and that's what handles the GPU itself like powering it on changing the clock speed and stuff like that if you use any Linux drro on AMD Hardware you are using this out of the box it's really solid you don't need to do anything on top of that you get the radon SI and radv drivers which are the user space components so all the libraries to use opengl and Vulcan this is part of Mesa and it needs the AMD GPU kernel driver to work and you do have two optional open- Source components as well AMD vlk and rocm AMD vlk is a new Vulcan driver for Linux it's based on the code of amd's proprietary driver which we'll talk about in a moment the second optional component is RM that's a library to let you use open CL and hip on the open- source AMD GPU driver not everyone will need any or both of these and generally for AMD cards you don't need to do anything you slot the card in your computer or you buy it with it pre-installed and you install your this and all the drivers are already there you don't need to look for drivers or anything everything is already in there and it works really really well but AMD does provide a proprietary driver called AMD GPU Pro it uses the AMD GPU kernel driver as the base but it replaces radiant SI and radv as the user space component to support Vulcan openg GL open CL and more it is meant either for LTS drro users that would never get updates to Mesa for example or for people using workstations or people depending on opencl because the rocm open source implementation we just talked about will not work with everything notably for example with da Vinci resolve now this AMD proprietary driver does not have great performance compared to the open source drivers so only use it if you use a workstation and you do compute tasks that aren't supported by the open source stack for most use cases for AMD don't bother you don't have to do anything install your drro you have the Mesa drivers and the kernel drivers in every single drro out there and it's going to work perfectly now as per Intel things are a bit weird first you have the I 915 driver this is what handles all integrated gpus from Intel as the kernel driver on top of that is I 965 which is the user space component with a terrible name it implements openg GL and that's bundled with Mesa as well and on top of that you have anv which is the Vulcan driver for Intel gpus which is also part of Mesa so that's the basics for Intel cards you generally don't need to do anything everything is in the Mesa drivers or in the Linux kernel and support is pretty good you don't have to do anything whatever the graphics card you have from Intel Intel though is also working on a new driver specifically for XC Graphics it aims to replace the kernel driver called I 915 with the user space bits remaining as they are with I 965 for openg andv for Vulcan this new XC driver hasn't been merged yet it's apparently not ready but we should probably see it in 2024 so for Intel it's just like with AMD you have nothing to do everything is in the Linux kernel or in the Mesa drivers or in both so your Dr provides that out of the box the only thing you might want is a newer version of these drivers if you use an old Dr and in that case you just use a more recent drro so it looks like a mess from the outside and it's definitely messier than on Windows where you would go to the website of the manufacturer click download and install that and you're done here you have everything that is provided out of the box by your distribution you have nothing specific to do and for NVIDIA gpus you probably want to install the proprietary drivers which you can do in just one click from any good disr package repository so it's very very easy to handle all you have to remember is that there is a kernel driver that talks to the hardware and a user space driver that's used to actually interact with the graphics apis like openg GL open CL Vulcan like rendering your games your windows and everything like that so this will be it for this video I hope you learned something if you watch this hopefully let me know down there in the comments if I missed anything let me know in the comments as well if I missed misunderstood something let me know in the comments as well and in the meantime I'll let you know about our sponsor since we're talking about graphics and Hardware we just have to talk about tuxedo our sponsor they're a Linux Hardware manufacturer 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome to this New Year 2024 with the first Linux and open- Source news video of the year so this week we have more distributions working on optimizing their packages for newer CPUs some leaving older computers behind and some taking a more considerate approach we have Linux reaching about 4% market share on the desktop which is pretty huge and we have gnome working on an official extension that I will admit complet completely baffles me so let's dive in but first let me remind you that if you like the channel and you like these videos you can actually support it I have a patreon page and you have YouTube memberships as well both of them will give you the right to vote on the topics I cover on the channel you'll also get a weekly patreon cast where I talk about the channel the sponsors my ethics open source and Linux in general and you'll get a daily podcast about the Linux and open source news every day from Monday to Friday 5 to 10 minutes STS a little audio show to get you caught up without having to wait for the end of the week so if you're interested click the link in the description below and get started with supporting the channel and in the meantime let's talk Linux so in the same vein as obuntu looking at moving to the V3 of the x86 64 architecture it looks like Fedora has similar plans as well now it is still a proposal for now it hasn't been approved but the idea would be to provide optimized binary packages for recent CPUs when they support the required features this is already something that Intel's clear Linux is doing and it's generally considered a quite Speedy distribution or also it's done in open- Source tumble weed it would not inodora prevent older CPUs from getting access to packages it's just additional support specifically for newer CPUs which in my opinion is the best way of doing things because you get a fast two system if you have a more recent computer and you still get support if you want to use Fedora on an older PC so it's the best of both worlds and it's the path I hope auntu adopts as well if they want to go that round and it is always nice to make the most out of your very pricey recent Hardware so I hope we see binary packages optimized specifically for recent CPUs but I also do hope older computers don't get left behind because red hat is also eyeing a very similar move just like auntu or Fedora but this time it means that you would not be able to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux on computers older than 2015 in order to ensure better performance for newer computers Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is planned for early 2025 and it will already drop X11 in favor of Wayland meaning there will be a clear cut off with this version people with atom CPUs or older computers and people who abs absolutely cannot move to Wayland will be left behind by one of the most popular Enterprise dros out there red hat says that even if there are no major performance improvements in this shift they would still like to do it as it would mean various developers would only have one Baseline platform to handle without having to test if the CPU supports certain extensions and implementing the same features twice for those who have the extensions and for those who don't and it will be very interesting to see whether Ubuntu does it whether red hat does it and how and how Fedora will handle that as well because that's three very big distributions that could just say you know what older computers nah we don't want you anymore and that would be a shame for a lot of Linux users since one of the best use cases of Linux is to save an older computer from the junkyard now it looks like linux's desktop market share is still growing at least if stat counter is to be believed this is is a site that uses various analytics data from a pretty large sample of websites to provide statistics including the market share of various operating systems and in December 2023 it reported Linux as reaching about 4% this is not a big number but it's a huge progression compared to November because at that time it only reported Linux at 3.22% so this might be an anomaly but there's no denying that the market share of Linux has risen faster and faster over the years even though the total number for its market share is still pretty low and if we add Chrome OS to that number we reach around 6.24% which makes me think this might be an issue in how operating systems were counted because in November chrom OS had 3.71% market share and it dropped down to 2.42% in December meaning that the sum total of Chrome OS Plus Linux has actually dropped down compared to November now that's kind of surprising especially since the windows market share has also risen a lot and the Mac OS market share has dipped quite a bit so maybe it is just students going back home for the holidays and just not using their Chromebooks or Macs and using their Windows computers at home but it doesn't explain the rise in terms of Linux desktop market share so I'm not sure what happened here we'll have to see in the next month if this is confirmed or if it just goes back to where it was in November now we need to talk about Mozilla there's been a lot of stuff going around on their CEO's compensation I won't get into that because first I don't know what this type of job entails second it is not rare to see CEOs getting raises even when businesses aren't doing particularly well and third if I compare that to CEOs of other similarly sized organizations it doesn't feel crazy even though getting paid multiple million doll per year for any type of job has always been completely ridiculous whether you a football player a basketball player a TV host a CEO whatever this kind of money should never be the salary for one single person no matter your job now what I find more interesting about Modzilla is the fact that they seem to want to Pivot towards AI which well you know my stance on that obviously Firefox right now is not doing super well and while Modzilla has managed to increase revenue from other sources to not be solely dependent on Google The Tech Giant is still the biggest part of mozilla's Revenue and so the CEO now said that they want to be faster and make a bigger impact with Modzilla and this comes as apparently the Modzilla do social instance for the fediverse will not be moving beyond the current beta or experimental State it's in at least not in 2024 and they had already started work on an AI chatbot but they quickly put it on pause because it failed to be pertinent or accurate in testing so right now apparently Modzilla has 15 Engineers working on open-source large language models and they're working on use cases in healthcare specifically Mitchell Baker the CEO of Modzilla also said that they need more data to be able to prototype and launch new products but that they want to do that in a Modzilla way so hopefully with private in mind and I will admit I am a bit worried about Mozilla because Firefox is absolutely nose diving and the only product that seems to be doing really well for them these days is Thunderbird really had a nice Revival with the recent version and AI I'm not the biggest fan of if they do it in a intelligent way where it all runs locally and it's just an accelerator for your browsing for your own research and it doesn't give you pre-digested information that is often false then sure why not but it also kind of feels like they're just grasping at the latest Trend to try and stay relevant so I'm not sure where this is going now it looks like gnome is working on an official extension for The Gnome shell which is a resource monitor it just displays some stats for CPU usage memory swap upload and download speeds right next to the Quick Settings menu so it's nothing revolutionary but the fact that it's official extension developed by The Gnome project is interesting now the rational behind this is that they used to have this feature way back when gome 3 was introduced and that some dros apparently reimplement their own or the very old extension that existed before and so since there's apparently some demand for this feature they have developed their own extension which shouldn't have the same performance problems that the old version of the extension has this extension is optional it won't won't be shipped as part of the gnome shell but it will be available from The Gnome extensions base package or from the extensions manager probably as well and I will admit I am very confused by this because you already have a system monitor that shows resources and if people need more than this why make it an official extension why not make it a settings in The Gnome shell to let people turn that on or off Distributing this as an extension doesn't fix anything because there were already plenty of third party extensions that did that with more features more options and they weren't necessarily bad or badly optimized and if gnome is going to start working on new extensions because there's theand for it there's probably more demand for a lot of other stuff than a system monitor for example a system tray or a suitable replacement for that so I don't really know what's going on here but it feels kind of weird and I'm really baffled so let me know if you know know what this is all about now still on gome there is some solid progress being made on the various areas that benefited from the big influx of cash that gnome got including support for variable refresh rate more refactoring on the online accounts and revamped settings for the Ora screen reader there are also plenty of things being done on documentation and on improving The Gnome Shell theme and scroll bars and some work is planned to improve accessibility with screen reader on Wayland And with text to speech there were also plenty of updates to the wonderful gnome apps for example to parabolic Fred board fractal dinaro and a lot more and it's really cool stuff being worked on actually useful stuff that people requested so it's good to see that this money is being put to good use so gnome can be suitable for more people and can also be more accessible to a lot of people now vuntu might stop providing their Source isos in the future these images are distributed alongside the regular ISO that you use to install auntu and they contain all the source code for all the packages available for aventon they are just one way to ensure that everyone can get access to the source code but apparently they are annoying to build with the automated process breaking often and virtually no one ever downloads them since they are pretty huge and you can already get the source code of individual packages from The Source Repose of a Buon various obuntu flavors also do not have access to the source isos snap packages are not comprised in them and these images are a fixed snapshot meaning you don't even get the latest source code in them if you download them after the dro has been released so Ubuntu is now pondering discontinuing this isos and I am sure someone will find this unacceptable in one way or the other but I personally think we have moved past this distribution method a while ago if you use auntu or Linux in general you kind of need to have an internet connection if only to apply updates and if you do have access to an internet connection it's going to be way more efficient to download the source code for just the packages that you actually want from the source repos rather than downloading giant DVDs full of source that is outdated so I don't think these Source isos are needed and I think the source code from The Source repos just fully complies with the GPL so I don't think they're needed anymore of course there's probably one person somewhere that has a use case for those but honestly yeah just drop them and let's finish this with the gaming news so first Linux gaming has progressed insanely fast in 2023 and it ended the year on a high note by beating its highest market share ever by a tiny little bit Linux Now commands 1.97% of the steam gaming Market obviously thanks to the steam deck and that is still higher than what Ma o hat Steam OS is obviously the most used dis R here with 40% of the Linux piece of the pie that's still extremely low compared to Windows with its enormous 96.4% of steam users and we are very far from overtaking that operating system but the bigger we get the more game developers will have an interest in enabling anti-che for Linux and at least testing their game with proton to ensure things work on the deck meaning that they will ALS work on other Linux computers and honestly if people keep releasing their newer games on Mac OS right now with the very very small market share they have smaller than linuxes I'm pretty sure that if we pass three four or 5% we're going to see a lot more support from developers because if you support apple with half the market share you kind of have to support Linux if it makes sense in terms of money now we also have some good news for AMD users in Mesa 24 the performance for R tracing will get much much better using the radv driver this boost goes from 10% to 75% depending on the title on an RX 6700 XT but if you have a really recent AMD GPU like an RX 7900 XD then the performance boost can get up to 200% so yeah rate racing on AMD Hardware is definitely going to be much more usable on Linux pretty soon at the end of February probably and to conclude the steam deck now passed 13,000 titles verified or playable with about 2/3 being playable and 1/3 verified 3,720 games are also completely unsupported on deck and that's a sizable chunk of the steam library that you can't play but it is still amazing to see the size of the library we now have on the tech and on Linux as well since a lot of these unsupported games would play fine on a more generic Linux PC and speaking of a more generic Linux PC let's talk about our sponsor tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they make laptops desktops and KN that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware has been picked specifically because it is highly compatible with Linux so you can either pick a selection of popular dros or you can just install your own and it's going to work if they actually encounter problems when testing their devices they do submit patches Upstream to fix those so everyone can benefit all the devices can be customized with your own keyboard layout your own logo and picking the components inside and you can also open repair and upgrade all the laptops that they sell tuxedo computers is all I use these days to run the channel and to game with my Steam OS console being a tuxedo desktop PC a little Cube so if you need a new computer you want to support linux's development and you want to make sure your new pc runs Linux well click the link in the description and get yourself a computer from tuxedo so thanks everyone for watching the 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Graphics drivers on Linux are a perfect image of our Linux based systems yes we do have all the graphics drivers that you want but no they don't work in the same way as they do on Windows and yes they are weird so I thought we would start the new year with a little refresher and explainer on all these graphic drivers how they work and which one you should turn to depending on your hardware and I also thought we should start the new year with the segue to are 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various colors and themes and you're good to go and when you you want to move forward and 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licensing issue as in they're not compatible with the GPL or for other reasons and that's why you can find drivers for Linux that you have to install yourself for example for real Tech Bluetooth or Wi-Fi adapters or for certain gpus or for certain exotic pieces of Hardware these drivers are provided as kernel modules that are loaded dynamically without needing to recom compile a kernel with them that's why you will also see something called dkms which is short for dynamic kernel module support it's a tool that automatically rebuilds these kernel modules for you when your kernel gets an update and if you absolutely need to install a driver manually that is not in the Linux kernel always try to find a version that works with dkms because if you don't every time you have a kernel update chances are your Hardware will not work anymore and you're going to have to reinstall the driver manually every time now these kernel drivers are what lets your system communicate with the hardware and make it do stuff most of the time it's enough but for graphics drivers there are some additional components the drivers that let your GPU render things using various libraries like Vulcan openg GL or stuff used for video decoding these are generally called user space drivers and they're mostly contained in the Mesa Library for the open- source side of things which we talk about very often on this channel so contrary to most other drivers for graphics drivers we generally have two components we have one kernel driver which lets the konel know that this Hardware exists and how to talk to it and we have the user space drivers used for open GL Vulcan opencl video decoding and generally also used to make X1 and Wayland work correctly so let's start with the most complicated Nvidia Nvidia gpus out of the box are handled on most dros by the open source nvo driver nvo is French for new and it's a combination of multiple Parts it has a kernel driver to talk to the GPU drivers to handle 3D rendering and openl and a driver for x.org whand it's a reverse engineering project meaning that they had to recreate all the code from trial and error with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and what little document ation they could find this means that for older Nvidia gpus it will work fine or even really well but for newer cards like the GTX 1000 series or any RTX series card it is just not up to Snuff and it can basically just provide a display output with minimal 3D acceleration now to be noted these open- Source nvo drivers recently got a very important feature that lets them use the signed firmware that Nvidia provides meaning that all cards can now be relocked you can change the clock speed of the GPU meaning that you can theoretically reach normal performance levels with these if the driver was written for that which it isn't right now now working on top of the newvo kernel driver is a brand new open- source Vulcan driver called nvk this thing is part of Mesa as our all open source user space Graphics drivers and it uses Novo to talk to the hardware but it provides much better performance using Vulcan it's really really new and has just been added to Mesa and for now the performance is lower than the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but it's been moving very fast recently and can actually beat the proprietary drivers in certain tests so there is hope that it will become solid enough to be used by everyone in the near future now for now nvk is not the default on any dist that I know of it probably won't become that for a long long while but there is hope that at some point Novo plus nvk will become the fully open-source stack that most distributions will rely upon now Nvidia themselves do release an open-source kernel module for their gpus compatible with most of the cards that they make or made in the past unfortunately this driver isn't quite there yet and its code architecture just is not compatible with the Linux kernel which is why efforts like nvo and nvk are a safer bet still this code is useful to better understand how Nvidia gpus work and who knows maybe at some point this official open source driver will be refactored and will make it into the kernel itself basically with this one don't use it chances are it's not going to work at all even if you try to compile it nvo and nvk are a much safer bet if you want to wait for open source to catch up for NVIDIA which leads us to the final fin Nvidia related driver the proprietary driver from Nvidia this thing is obviously not open source and it is distributed by Nvidia directly although many distributions package it themselves and I cannot stress this enough do not install this driver from nvidia's website manually use the packages your distribution provides drro packaged this driver for a reason it is complicated and using your drro package will always be easier it will will be more stable and it will break less than a manual install now this proprietary driver is basically a binary blob that has a kernel module which needs to be recompiled with each kernel update and it also contains the user space drivers you need for 3D rendering using OPG Vulcan and more and also what you need to work with x.org and whand it's an all-in-one package if you have a semi- recent Nvidia GPU like a GTX 1000 or an RTX that's the the driver you want to use right now and while it is not perfect the latest version 545 is solid enough even for use with wh this is the driver I use to power my hybrid graphics Intel plus Nvidia laptop that I use to make all these videos render everything play most of the games that I play it works it really does work even on Wayland but some distributions do not package it correctly some users install it incorrectly from nvidia's website and so it has a very very bad reputation that still sticks to it and for older gpus you will probably be better served by the nvo drivers that will have faster performance now important to note only those proprietary drivers will give you access to Cuda which is something that you might need depending on what you do on your GPU so that's it for NVIDIA unless you have a very old Nvidia GPU you do need to use right now the proprietary Nvidia driver but there is some good hope with nvo and nvk that before the end of 2024 you might be able to get really decent performance without having to install anything else and without all the little issues that the proprietary driver has now let's move on to AMD the kernel driver for AMD gpus is called well AMD GPU it is open source and that's what handles the GPU itself like powering it on changing the clock speed and stuff like that if you use any Linux drro on AMD Hardware you are using this out of the box it's really solid you don't need to do anything on top of that you get the radon SI and radv drivers which are the user space components so all the libraries to use opengl and Vulcan this is part of Mesa and it needs the AMD GPU kernel driver to work and you do have two optional open- Source components as well AMD vlk and rocm AMD vlk is a new Vulcan driver for Linux it's based on the code of amd's proprietary driver which we'll talk about in a moment the second optional component is RM that's a library to let you use open CL and hip on the open- source AMD GPU driver not everyone will need any or both of these and generally for AMD cards you don't need to do anything you slot the card in your computer or you buy it with it pre-installed and you install your this and all the drivers are already there you don't need to look for drivers or anything everything is already in there and it works really really well but AMD does provide a proprietary driver called AMD GPU Pro it uses the AMD GPU kernel driver as the base but it replaces radiant SI and radv as the user space component to support Vulcan openg GL open CL and more it is meant either for LTS drro users that would never get updates to Mesa for example or for people using workstations or people depending on opencl because the rocm open source implementation we just talked about will not work with everything notably for example with da Vinci resolve now this AMD proprietary driver does not have great performance compared to the open source drivers so only use it if you use a workstation and you do compute tasks that aren't supported by the open source stack for most use cases for AMD don't bother you don't have to do anything install your drro you have the Mesa drivers and the kernel drivers in every single drro out there and it's going to work perfectly now as per Intel things are a bit weird first you have the I 915 driver this is what handles all integrated gpus from Intel as the kernel driver on top of that is I 965 which is the user space component with a terrible name it implements openg GL and that's bundled with Mesa as well and on top of that you have anv which is the Vulcan driver for Intel gpus which is also part of Mesa so that's the basics for Intel cards you generally don't need to do anything everything is in the Mesa drivers or in the Linux kernel and support is pretty good you don't have to do anything whatever the graphics card you have from Intel Intel though is also working on a new driver specifically for XC Graphics it aims to replace the kernel driver called I 915 with the user space bits remaining as they are with I 965 for openg andv for Vulcan this new XC driver hasn't been merged yet it's apparently not ready but we should probably see it in 2024 so for Intel it's just like with AMD you have nothing to do everything is in the Linux kernel or in the Mesa drivers or in both so your Dr provides that out of the box the only thing you might want is a newer version of these drivers if you use an old Dr and in that case you just use a more recent drro so it looks like a mess from the outside and it's definitely messier than on Windows where you would go to the website of the manufacturer click download and install that and you're done here you have everything that is provided out of the box by your distribution you have nothing specific to do and for NVIDIA gpus you probably want to install the proprietary drivers which you can do in just one click from any good disr package repository so it's very very easy to handle all you have to remember is that there is a kernel driver that talks to the hardware and a user space driver that's used to actually interact with the graphics apis like openg GL open CL Vulcan like rendering your games your windows and everything like that so this will be it for this video I hope you learned something if you watch this hopefully let me know down there in the comments if I missed anything let me know in the comments as well if I missed misunderstood something let me know in the comments as well and in the meantime I'll let you know about our sponsor since we're talking about graphics and Hardware we just have to talk about tuxedo our sponsor they're a Linux Hardware manufacturer 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hey everyone this is Nick and welcome to the last episode of the Linux and open source news for 2023 obviously we're coming back next year don't worry and this week we have Nate Graham from KD basically dismantling the infamous whan breaks everything blog post and everything that's being built around it and he also explains why X11 is a terrible platform to try and build anything on we also have a look at why free and open- Source licenses are just not enough in the modern world and full of loopholes and we have more AI related regulation this time in the US asking for more transparency on the data being used to train those various models and we also have this segue to our sponsor if you're a Linux user and you're planning to replace your current computer whether it's a desktop or laptop stop buying devices from the bigname hardware manufacturers that only support Windows buy something from a manufacturer that actually supports Linux and contributes to its development like tuxedo our sponsor tuxedo has a very wide range of devices from laptops Ultra books gaming laptops desktops tows no everything everything is customizable you can have your own logo on the lid of your laptop you can choose the components you can have your own keyboard layout and basically you know that Linux is going to run on that because that's what it ships with you can pick from a selection of popular disos or you can just slap your own and just use your computer as is with the Dr of your choice and if toxedo encountered some problems during their testing they actually submit patches Upstream to try and fix all these issues plus all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer you're a Linux user and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a computer from tuxedo okay so Nate Graham of KD plasma Fame posted a blog post this week where he addresses concerns about Wayland and explains why X11 isn't something we can keep using and it's a very interesting read no matter on which side of the issue you're on so first he addresses the semi recent whan breaks everything blog post Infamous for containing plenty of false claims and a very strange perspective that boils down to whon should be a direct copy of X11 which obviously doesn't make sense Nate also addresses the recent GitHub repo created by the same person who wrote the blog post who is also one of the main Developers for app Images this repo has been set in place to try and add protocols for whand that would replicate features that X11 has but the Wayland protocol didn't Implement generally for security reasons now obviously this approach will never work as these new add-on protocols would not be part of the standard and so could not be relied upon by app developers since not everyone would have access to them it is something that is apparently pretty amusing to most Linux and desktop top related developers and if you want to know more about this and why it can never work and it's a terrible idea in terms of implementation bro Robertson has a video on that exact topic I left a link to it in the description of the video now obviously all of this work from the app image Dev is looking at things from the wrong end of the telescope they're thinking in terms of whan breaks everything instead of realizing that it is apps that need to support the new whon protocols and I'm saying new but most of those protocols aren't even new at all the APT comparison used in Nate's blog post is Linux breaks Photoshop which obviously no one thinks like that we all know it's a problem of adobe not porting Photoshop to Linux same goes for whan developers need to Port their apps whand is not a dropin replacement for X11 and it was never intended to be that Nate then moves to explaining why X11 was a bad platform to begin with with its own Terri able UI toolkits that broke things constantly and looked horrendous as well which led to the creation of cute and gtk which led to fragmentation in terms of how apps look and the conclusion of the post is that Linux is not the platform something I also pointed out in a video a while back no one develops a Linux app people develop a ky app a gnome app an elementary app based on a specific UI toolkit and framework the real underlying platform nowadays is whand pipewire and portals because they are the entire set of apis that provide all the features and application needs there are ways to interact safely with the file system to send notifications to print to drag and drop stuff to use the correct theme or the correct accent color plus the audio system and a way to display Windows desktops and to manage them and I think Nate is right on the money here like definitely this is the new platform that app developers are targeting and those that aren't should definitely start targeting that it's basically our Linux app development SDK and then you pick a toolkit that you prefer and you work with that and yes we also do need a specific name for this platform because pip wire plus whand Plus Portals is a mouthful I talked recently about ubuntu's plans to focus on a more recent feature set for their x86 architecture support which would exclude 8 to 10 year- old CPUs from being supported well bonics has the benchmarks to see if that cut off would be worth it for people who have newer CPUs that would potentially have better performance if everything was built using those more recent features and it looks like there are definitely performance benefits for at least server related use cases some workloads are absolutely much faster when using an auntu build made for the V3 of the x86 64 architecture but it's also limited to a small subset of use cases like when the CPU is under heavy load or when using graphical intensive tasks that aren't GPU accelerated and it remains to be seen what obuntu will actually do with that will they maintain a V3 version of all packages and a more backwards compatible version which would be a lot of work will they drop older CPUs will they keep things as they are right now we don't really know but while there are some performance gains I am not personally sure that they are big enough to justify cutting off people from having access to one of the most used dros and something that is also the base for a lot of other distributions now this week we also got the release of nobara 39 it's still Fedora based and it's still packs everything a gamer might want to have access to on Linux but it does have one major change it moved from gome as the default to KDE and the reasons are many first KD supports variable refresh rate and free sync natively while gnome needs patches for that KD also supports DRM leasing something required for VR Gaming and that gnome hasn't fully finished yet plus KD better supports fractional scaling and Steam OS uses KDE which means that in the future it might see gaming focused patches which gnome will not get now apart from that nobara gets the latest NVIDIA drivers they have a few new patches for their OBS studio version to better support whand the welcome app got some options to allow for adding fixes to the vure resolve and some Steam games the steam package should now yield better performance and better compatibility nobara moved to dnf 5 two versions earlier than what Fedora is planning to do which might introduce some stability problems and chromium is Now the default browser instead of Firefox which is one change I can't quite agree with in virtually every single performance test that has been done comparing no to other Linux dros or even nobara to Windows 11 nobara gets better performance with a lot of games compared to everything else and it does come with all the tools that you might want to get started with Linux gaming you don't have to research anything or download anything it's all there right of the bat so if you plan to game on Linux it's probably still your best bet and now with KDE you also get better support for some interesting features related to gaming now Gen 2 announced that they will now provide provide a lot more binary packages in their repost to be used with their Portage package manager if you don't know gen2 generally provides Source packages that you then compile with the various Flags you want that are best suited to your exact CPU so you can squeeze all the performance you have from your hardware and also to give you more control over what you install and of course this also means that generally installing packages on Gen 2 can take ages depending on the complexity and size of the app or the library you're installing and on the power you have access to on your computer and so Gen 2 already had a few binary packages but now they have more than 20 gigs of packages on their mirrors with stuff like Library office plasma gnome Docker and more so for giant apps or desktops or libraries that would take 8 to 24 hours to compile on your computer you can now save a lot of time at the expense of imization and a bit of control I think it's a very worthy tradeoff for a lot of less powerful hardware and a lot of big big projects like for example try to compile chromium good luck with that now it looks like Firefox will also get its own AI toolbox much like every other web browser is trying to but of course since it's Modzilla they're looking at it differently they're building something called memory cache which is an add-on for Firefox that uses private GPT this means that you're just training a local AI with your own browser history and other local files you might want to give to it like maybe your bookmarks or favorites or even PDFs everything is done locally nothing is shared to a big model or a giant cloud and the AI will use idle compute time to try and generate insights about what you've been reading it is an experimental project still it's still being worked on but it's an interesting take on the whole AI think instead of trying to replace search entirely with a bot that gives one single answer that is often insufficient or inaccurate this thing would maybe link you to more resources on a particular topic or help you sum up what you have read on this topic specifically everything looks like it's built to be private which is a nice plus because other AIS tend to be privacy nightmares the project is open source and I'm interested to see if it can be helpful to maybe summarize all the resarch search you're doing or to suggest other information sources to help you reach your own conclusions and it is always and I mean always better to research stuff yourself using multiple sources instead of relying on something like chat GPT to predigest an answer that is probably either completely inaccurate or insufficient for your purposes so I think this approach to AI is actually pretty cool although whether Modzilla should focus on trying to build an AI add-on or trying to make sure that Firefox actually survives the coming years is a different topic altogether and still on AI it looks like regulation is going to happen no matter what tech Bros seem to think about its usefulness as there's another proposed Bill happening in the US this one is called the AI Foundation model transparency act or a and it would basically require creators of AI models to disclose the sources of the training data they used so copyright holders can check if their stuff was used at that training stage they will also have to disclose how the data is being retained and saved and they also have to be clearer about the limitations or identified risks of their model and what computational power it's using to train the AI now the developers will also need to report on their efforts to prevent the model from spitting out inaccurate or harmful information notably about elections financial decision medical help and other things that are generally the source of very weird and dangerous conspiracy theories and misinformation this bill still has to be passed of course so nothing's for certain yet and it only affects the us obviously but it's still a step to try and check what information these tools will give to the general public as the one true answer and it's easy to look at this as a big push from copyright holders and lobbyists to try to squeeze every single scent they can from from every single new innovation but if we look at it from maybe the side of Open Source or artist we can see that GitHub copilot for example pilford open source repost sometimes just copy pastes entire Snippets of code from what it grabbed from these open source repos and it never gives any attribution or respects any of the licenses mid Journey or stable diffusion have the capacity to completely plagiarize an artist style and there's no attribution for all the art that they've ingested to be able to do that so it's not just copyright holders and lobbyists I really think that this needs to be regulated separately because current copyright load just cannot cope with all of these new technologies now that was an interesting look at open source and what comes after that as our licenses don't seem to be fully adapted to the current world Bruce parents one of the main impulsor of the open source movement discussed that specific issue saying that open- Source licenses are basically full of loopholes that are being exploited by many businesses one of the examples they give is red hat that sells open source software under the GPL without freely redistributing the source code and with license agreements putting restrictions on who can access or redistribute that source code which is forbidden under the GPL terms the other main issue is that open source failed to serve the general public parents says that most people use open source software through a proprietary OS and proprietary apps the infrastructure is based on open source but the means to access it and use it are not and in turn it means the common person isn't aware of open source of free software or of the freedoms that it guarantees them he then goes on to imagine what could be put in place to fix that with something he calls Post open this would imply a yearly compliance process that would check if the companies respect the principles of open source and it would make businesses pay a fair amount to use open source software for their commercial products that money then would be used to fund developers who write software targeted towards the general public now all of this is obviously just wishful thinking we don't really have any way to enforce any of that but it's true that our licenses are getting regularly abused or distorted or stuff is being built upon them to try and avoid complying with those and it's definitely probably time that we reassessed how these work or we updated them to handle stuff like AI using open source content or just being able to add a contract or license agreement on top of that license that restricts it I think we need to look at that in the future okay 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 or to write a comment and if you didn't like it there's always that dislike button and the comment section as well and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of links in the description to do just that for patreon liber pay PayPal YouTube memberships YouTube things whatever you know how all of this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
hey everyone and uh I guess leave a comment to tell me if you're actually there or if I'm talking to a sent sized void anyway this week in the Linux and open- Source news we have a first hard look at the open source NVIDIA drivers and they already do look pretty damn good we also have some more work on HDR and color management and we have Microsoft basically admitting that you do need Linux to do any sort of real Dev work and we have a lot more things like the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuxedo you probably already heard about them if you're a regular Watcher of the Channel all you have to know is that it's the only Hardware manufacturer that I use these days to run Linux they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed they have a big big range of devices that you can customize with your own keyboard layout your own logo on the lid the components you put inside all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded and well you know that Linux is 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1.0 conformant on top of that the base upon which nvk relies which is the novo kernel driver now supports the GSP firmware from Nvidia meaning the drivers can actually use the GPU correctly now and so with all of this it looks like EnV PK in its current beta form hits 40 to 60% of the proprietary drivers performance on a lot of games now it's still simply not as good but for a first Beta release it's actually not bad and it means that a bunch of games can actually be played at acceptable frame rates if you have a recent GPU apparently the nvk driver actually beats the proprietary one in one game called a hat in time reaching 210 10 FPS in their tests compared to 165 for the proprietary driver and so as per 2024 the goal is to support Vulcan 1.3 fully probably around March and this will mean the driver will be out of beta with everything needed to use it being available with the Linux kernel 6.7 which should release in early 2024 after that they will focus on performance obviously and on adding features to run directex 12 games through proton and they will try to add support for older architectures as well and that's really solid work here and I know 40 to 60% of the performance you could get with the proprietary drivers is just not acceptable right now but performance will absolutely be a focus later and so when it reaches 80 or 85 or 90% of the performance at that point the trade-off between not having problems related to the proprietary drivers and losing a bit of performance becomes way more more acceptable and I would be surprised if before the end of 2024 we didn't see at least one Dro shipping that stack as the default instead of providing the option for the Nvidia proprietary drivers now as per work on color management and HDR it looks like things are progressing fast as well at least on the KD side kwin now has support for ICC color profiles on Wayland meaning that you can set a profile for each display and the compositor will will adjust the colors as needed it's still limited to srgb but the color management protocol needed to support more color spaces is moving along and system 76 already has developed a Vulcan layer that uses it for HDR plasma 6 lets you enable it in the display settings and it also lets you set the brightness for SDR content as well as their color intensity to avoid things looking too dull compared to HDR content plasma 6 also shapes with an experimental implementation of full screen HDR support notably for playing games it does require you to jump through a few Hoops but it does work with a bunch of games for the next steps the goal is to simplify things so you don't have to turn to the command line and installing some unstable stuff from git and also to implement HDR screenshots and Screen recordings and that's pretty stellar work as well I have an ultra wide HDR display from LG and I was just not able to take advantage of the HDR support until now and so in 2024 I absolutely will be which is always a big plus now it looks like Microsoft knows that Linux is the best option for most Dev work as they just released their new AI studio tool for developers and this thing actually installs Linux on top of Windows to work this tool requires at least a 21 18.04 and and it runs locally on Linux using the windows subsystem for Linux and funnily enough it only works with Nvidia gpus for now while the tool is in beta so when you install this thing you're actually using Linux not Windows even though it seems to be packaged as a vs code extension which definitely has a Windows version now what this tool does is basically just compiling a bunch of AI related tools linked to Azure or hugging face to down load and use various models from these cataloges now it is pretty funny to see that even Microsoft cannot bring themselves to develop tools for their OS natively because why would you when Linux is objectively a much better choice for a lot of Dev work now KD plasma 6 got its second Beta release which includes all the bug fixes for a lot of stuff people have reported during the Alpha and the first beta testing phases at this point plasma 6 is still planned for the end of February which is cool as it's been a while since we got a new major plasma update it's still obviously not fully stable so use it at your own risk and it includes updates to all the default apps and the Frameworks and the desktop if you feel it's mature enough for you to try it you can give it a shot using KD neon unstable and there's also a new KD theme being worked on called Breeze yes Breeze just like the current Breeze theme but written with its French spelling b r i s e for now it's not much of a departure from the current KD theme although it does increase the Border radius a bit to have more rounded buttons and frames with a configuration option being available plus there are a few improvements in search Fields a new tab style that removes the colored accent from the active Tab and a new style for highlighted menu entries that remove the more opaque border around it it also unifies the height of all controls for now it's not very different to the existing Breeze theme and it will be coinall so you will be able to use both it's meant as a sort of testing ground for other changes before merging them into the default Breeze theme if they're considered good enough now I would love to see another take on Breeze in the future it's serviceable enough in terms of ux it's not bad at all but in terms of look and I know that's subjective it Trails behind Liber V the V might be too big and too padded but looks wise it's just way way more modern and nicer looking than the Bree theme for KD so at some point I would love to see a revamp not copying Liber V they can do their own thing but something more modern they're already working on that in terms of the icon theme so hopefully the default app Theme will also see a bit of change now if you use an apple silicon Mac and you want to run Linux on it but aahi Linux is a bit too bleeding edge for you you'll be happy to know that Fedora aahi 39 is now out it's basically Fedora but with all the drivers and Hardware work done by the aahi team to support recent Max it offers KD plasma as the default with a gnome variant available and they both default to whand as the aahi team definitely does not seem to have plans to support a pure X11 session it includes the recent open GL conformance driver and adds high quality audio support something that aahi fixed recently as well now obviously it is not perfect yet as there's no Vulcan driver yet and certain features just don't work like external displays through USBC or Thunderbolt or USB 4 or the onboard microphones or touch ID but the camera and speakers now work which is cool and you can stale output to a display using HDMI if your Mac has that I reviewed aahi Linux a few months ago and I found it okay but it was lacking too much of the hardware support but with the camera and the speakers now being supported maybe it's more decent so maybe I'll take a look at Fedora aahi let me know in the comments if you would like that now if you're about the same age as me you probably know about Flipboard it was older age back when smartphones began getting popular and it looks like they want to Pivot to support the fediverse this nice aggregate of various social networks and apps including masteron pixel fed or Pier Flipboard will actually replace all of its social backend with activity Pub the underlying standard that makes social networks talk to each other this means you'll be able to add posts from various Publications and individuals podcasts videos and more all in one single feed much like an RSS feed reader would do but with a nicer user interface it will also let you comment on various posts and these comments will show up under the relevant posts on masteron on threads and other apps that support or will support activity Pub so this should be fully enabled in April which is pretty neat and they apparently working in a considerate way with moderation being thought of and how they will avoid overwhelming smaller instances as well now if you add that to meta's threads app that is also starting to test their activity Pub implementation you end up having a nice path towards a more open internet at least in terms of social networks you won't be siloed anymore into a specific app and you will be able to interact with more people no matter the platform now personally I've gone all in with the fediverse I'm on masteron on Pixel fed all my videos are on peer tube I also have my own Linux and open source News podcast the audio version of this show hosted through Cod I love it it's the future of the open internet for social networks and I hope more companies will join in so everyone can actually interact with with everyone else no matter the app or the service they decided to use and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have a new release of proton experimental which adds a little hack to allow the steam overlay to be displayed when using easy antiche from the Epic online services this version also adds HDR support for Devil May Cry 5 and Tony Hawks Pro Skater one plus 2 on top of already supporting the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes re7 re Village plus Mass Effect legendary edition Hogwarts Legacy and more it also fixes a bunch of issues with various games as always and honestly at that point I would set proton experimental as the default for all the games you want to play on Linux and if you notice that there are some problems just put the version back to the latest stable one and you'll probably fix the issue but experimental has so many fixes and improvements that generally it's worth it using this instead of the stable version and we also got a new version of vkd3d proton the directx12 compatibility layer which implements a bunch of fixes again notably for NVIDIA gpus and also for rate tracing plus much better support for Microsoft's implementation of antialiasing indirect text which should improve performance all around and give better visual results so as always gaming on Linux just progresses forward bid by bid gaining market share bit by bit it's nice it's a good time to be a Linux game and this will conclude this 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 didn't like it there's always that thumbs down button and the comment section to let me know why I suck and if you really enjoyed the channel and you want to support it there are plenty of links in the description of the video don't hesitate to check them out uh to actually help me make more of these videos 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 last episode of the Linux and open source news for 2023 obviously we're coming back next year don't worry and this week we have Nate Graham from KD basically dismantling the infamous whan breaks everything blog post and everything that's being built around it and he also explains why X11 is a terrible platform to try and build anything on we also have a look at why free and open- Source licenses are just not enough in the modern world and full of loopholes and we have more AI related regulation this time in the US asking for more transparency on the data being used to train those various models and we also have this segue to our sponsor if you're a Linux user and you're planning to replace your current computer whether it's a desktop or laptop stop buying devices from the bigname hardware manufacturers that only support Windows buy something from a manufacturer that actually supports Linux and contributes to its development like tuxedo our sponsor tuxedo has a very wide range of devices from laptops Ultra books gaming laptops desktops tows no everything everything is customizable you can have your own logo on the lid of your laptop you can choose the components you can have your own keyboard layout and basically you know that Linux is going to run on that because that's what it ships with you can pick from a selection of popular disos or you can just slap your own and just use your computer as is with the Dr of your choice and if toxedo encountered some problems during their testing they actually submit patches Upstream to try and fix all these issues plus all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer you're a Linux user and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a computer from tuxedo okay so Nate Graham of KD plasma Fame posted a blog post this week where he addresses concerns about Wayland and explains why X11 isn't something we can keep using and it's a very interesting read no matter on which side of the issue you're on so first he addresses the semi recent whan breaks everything blog post Infamous for containing plenty of false claims and a very strange perspective that boils down to whon should be a direct copy of X11 which obviously doesn't make sense Nate also addresses the recent GitHub repo created by the same person who wrote the blog post who is also one of the main Developers for app Images this repo has been set in place to try and add protocols for whand that would replicate features that X11 has but the Wayland protocol didn't Implement generally for security reasons now obviously this approach will never work as these new add-on protocols would not be part of the standard and so could not be relied upon by app developers since not everyone would have access to them it is something that is apparently pretty amusing to most Linux and desktop top related developers and if you want to know more about this and why it can never work and it's a terrible idea in terms of implementation bro Robertson has a video on that exact topic I left a link to it in the description of the video now obviously all of this work from the app image Dev is looking at things from the wrong end of the telescope they're thinking in terms of whan breaks everything instead of realizing that it is apps that need to support the new whon protocols and I'm saying new but most of those protocols aren't even new at all the APT comparison used in Nate's blog post is Linux breaks Photoshop which obviously no one thinks like that we all know it's a problem of adobe not porting Photoshop to Linux same goes for whan developers need to Port their apps whand is not a dropin replacement for X11 and it was never intended to be that Nate then moves to explaining why X11 was a bad platform to begin with with its own Terri able UI toolkits that broke things constantly and looked horrendous as well which led to the creation of cute and gtk which led to fragmentation in terms of how apps look and the conclusion of the post is that Linux is not the platform something I also pointed out in a video a while back no one develops a Linux app people develop a ky app a gnome app an elementary app based on a specific UI toolkit and framework the real underlying platform nowadays is whand pipewire and portals because they are the entire set of apis that provide all the features and application needs there are ways to interact safely with the file system to send notifications to print to drag and drop stuff to use the correct theme or the correct accent color plus the audio system and a way to display Windows desktops and to manage them and I think Nate is right on the money here like definitely this is the new platform that app developers are targeting and those that aren't should definitely start targeting that it's basically our Linux app development SDK and then you pick a toolkit that you prefer and you work with that and yes we also do need a specific name for this platform because pip wire plus whand Plus Portals is a mouthful I talked recently about ubuntu's plans to focus on a more recent feature set for their x86 architecture support which would exclude 8 to 10 year- old CPUs from being supported well bonics has the benchmarks to see if that cut off would be worth it for people who have newer CPUs that would potentially have better performance if everything was built using those more recent features and it looks like there are definitely performance benefits for at least server related use cases some workloads are absolutely much faster when using an auntu build made for the V3 of the x86 64 architecture but it's also limited to a small subset of use cases like when the CPU is under heavy load or when using graphical intensive tasks that aren't GPU accelerated and it remains to be seen what obuntu will actually do with that will they maintain a V3 version of all packages and a more backwards compatible version which would be a lot of work will they drop older CPUs will they keep things as they are right now we don't really know but while there are some performance gains I am not personally sure that they are big enough to justify cutting off people from having access to one of the most used dros and something that is also the base for a lot of other distributions now this week we also got the release of nobara 39 it's still Fedora based and it's still packs everything a gamer might want to have access to on Linux but it does have one major change it moved from gome as the default to KDE and the reasons are many first KD supports variable refresh rate and free sync natively while gnome needs patches for that KD also supports DRM leasing something required for VR Gaming and that gnome hasn't fully finished yet plus KD better supports fractional scaling and Steam OS uses KDE which means that in the future it might see gaming focused patches which gnome will not get now apart from that nobara gets the latest NVIDIA drivers they have a few new patches for their OBS studio version to better support whand the welcome app got some options to allow for adding fixes to the vure resolve and some Steam games the steam package should now yield better performance and better compatibility nobara moved to dnf 5 two versions earlier than what Fedora is planning to do which might introduce some stability problems and chromium is Now the default browser instead of Firefox which is one change I can't quite agree with in virtually every single performance test that has been done comparing no to other Linux dros or even nobara to Windows 11 nobara gets better performance with a lot of games compared to everything else and it does come with all the tools that you might want to get started with Linux gaming you don't have to research anything or download anything it's all there right of the bat so if you plan to game on Linux it's probably still your best bet and now with KDE you also get better support for some interesting features related to gaming now Gen 2 announced that they will now provide provide a lot more binary packages in their repost to be used with their Portage package manager if you don't know gen2 generally provides Source packages that you then compile with the various Flags you want that are best suited to your exact CPU so you can squeeze all the performance you have from your hardware and also to give you more control over what you install and of course this also means that generally installing packages on Gen 2 can take ages depending on the complexity and size of the app or the library you're installing and on the power you have access to on your computer and so Gen 2 already had a few binary packages but now they have more than 20 gigs of packages on their mirrors with stuff like Library office plasma gnome Docker and more so for giant apps or desktops or libraries that would take 8 to 24 hours to compile on your computer you can now save a lot of time at the expense of imization and a bit of control I think it's a very worthy tradeoff for a lot of less powerful hardware and a lot of big big projects like for example try to compile chromium good luck with that now it looks like Firefox will also get its own AI toolbox much like every other web browser is trying to but of course since it's Modzilla they're looking at it differently they're building something called memory cache which is an add-on for Firefox that uses private GPT this means that you're just training a local AI with your own browser history and other local files you might want to give to it like maybe your bookmarks or favorites or even PDFs everything is done locally nothing is shared to a big model or a giant cloud and the AI will use idle compute time to try and generate insights about what you've been reading it is an experimental project still it's still being worked on but it's an interesting take on the whole AI think instead of trying to replace search entirely with a bot that gives one single answer that is often insufficient or inaccurate this thing would maybe link you to more resources on a particular topic or help you sum up what you have read on this topic specifically everything looks like it's built to be private which is a nice plus because other AIS tend to be privacy nightmares the project is open source and I'm interested to see if it can be helpful to maybe summarize all the resarch search you're doing or to suggest other information sources to help you reach your own conclusions and it is always and I mean always better to research stuff yourself using multiple sources instead of relying on something like chat GPT to predigest an answer that is probably either completely inaccurate or insufficient for your purposes so I think this approach to AI is actually pretty cool although whether Modzilla should focus on trying to build an AI add-on or trying to make sure that Firefox actually survives the coming years is a different topic altogether and still on AI it looks like regulation is going to happen no matter what tech Bros seem to think about its usefulness as there's another proposed Bill happening in the US this one is called the AI Foundation model transparency act or a and it would basically require creators of AI models to disclose the sources of the training data they used so copyright holders can check if their stuff was used at that training stage they will also have to disclose how the data is being retained and saved and they also have to be clearer about the limitations or identified risks of their model and what computational power it's using to train the AI now the developers will also need to report on their efforts to prevent the model from spitting out inaccurate or harmful information notably about elections financial decision medical help and other things that are generally the source of very weird and dangerous conspiracy theories and misinformation this bill still has to be passed of course so nothing's for certain yet and it only affects the us obviously but it's still a step to try and check what information these tools will give to the general public as the one true answer and it's easy to look at this as a big push from copyright holders and lobbyists to try to squeeze every single scent they can from from every single new innovation but if we look at it from maybe the side of Open Source or artist we can see that GitHub copilot for example pilford open source repost sometimes just copy pastes entire Snippets of code from what it grabbed from these open source repos and it never gives any attribution or respects any of the licenses mid Journey or stable diffusion have the capacity to completely plagiarize an artist style and there's no attribution for all the art that they've ingested to be able to do that so it's not just copyright holders and lobbyists I really think that this needs to be regulated separately because current copyright load just cannot cope with all of these new technologies now that was an interesting look at open source and what comes after that as our licenses don't seem to be fully adapted to the current world Bruce parents one of the main impulsor of the open source movement discussed that specific issue saying that open- Source licenses are basically full of loopholes that are being exploited by many businesses one of the examples they give is red hat that sells open source software under the GPL without freely redistributing the source code and with license agreements putting restrictions on who can access or redistribute that source code which is forbidden under the GPL terms the other main issue is that open source failed to serve the general public parents says that most people use open source software through a proprietary OS and proprietary apps the infrastructure is based on open source but the means to access it and use it are not and in turn it means the common person isn't aware of open source of free software or of the freedoms that it guarantees them he then goes on to imagine what could be put in place to fix that with something he calls Post open this would imply a yearly compliance process that would check if the companies respect the principles of open source and it would make businesses pay a fair amount to use open source software for their commercial products that money then would be used to fund developers who write software targeted towards the general public now all of this is obviously just wishful thinking we don't really have any way to enforce any of that but it's true that our licenses are getting regularly abused or distorted or stuff is being built upon them to try and avoid complying with those and it's definitely probably time that we reassessed how these work or we updated them to handle stuff like AI using open source content or just being able to add a contract or license agreement on top of that license that restricts it I think we need to look at that in the future okay 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 or to write a comment and if you didn't like it there's always that dislike button and the comment section as well and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of links in the description to do just that for patreon liber pay PayPal YouTube memberships YouTube things whatever you know how all of this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
hey everyone and uh I guess leave a comment to tell me if you're actually there or if I'm talking to a sent sized void anyway this week in the Linux and open- Source news we have a first hard look at the open source NVIDIA drivers and they already do look pretty damn good we also have some more work on HDR and color management and we have Microsoft basically admitting that you do need Linux to do any sort of real Dev work and we have a lot more things like the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuxedo you probably already heard about them if you're a regular Watcher of the Channel all you have to know is that it's the only Hardware manufacturer that I use these days to run Linux they make laptops desktops and no that ship with Linux pre-installed they have a big big range of devices that you can customize with your own keyboard layout your own logo on the lid the components you put inside all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded and well you know that Linux is 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1.0 conformant on top of that the base upon which nvk relies which is the novo kernel driver now supports the GSP firmware from Nvidia meaning the drivers can actually use the GPU correctly now and so with all of this it looks like EnV PK in its current beta form hits 40 to 60% of the proprietary drivers performance on a lot of games now it's still simply not as good but for a first Beta release it's actually not bad and it means that a bunch of games can actually be played at acceptable frame rates if you have a recent GPU apparently the nvk driver actually beats the proprietary one in one game called a hat in time reaching 210 10 FPS in their tests compared to 165 for the proprietary driver and so as per 2024 the goal is to support Vulcan 1.3 fully probably around March and this will mean the driver will be out of beta with everything needed to use it being available with the Linux kernel 6.7 which should release in early 2024 after that they will focus on performance obviously and on adding features to run directex 12 games through proton and they will try to add support for older architectures as well and that's really solid work here and I know 40 to 60% of the performance you could get with the proprietary drivers is just not acceptable right now but performance will absolutely be a focus later and so when it reaches 80 or 85 or 90% of the performance at that point the trade-off between not having problems related to the proprietary drivers and losing a bit of performance becomes way more more acceptable and I would be surprised if before the end of 2024 we didn't see at least one Dro shipping that stack as the default instead of providing the option for the Nvidia proprietary drivers now as per work on color management and HDR it looks like things are progressing fast as well at least on the KD side kwin now has support for ICC color profiles on Wayland meaning that you can set a profile for each display and the compositor will will adjust the colors as needed it's still limited to srgb but the color management protocol needed to support more color spaces is moving along and system 76 already has developed a Vulcan layer that uses it for HDR plasma 6 lets you enable it in the display settings and it also lets you set the brightness for SDR content as well as their color intensity to avoid things looking too dull compared to HDR content plasma 6 also shapes with an experimental implementation of full screen HDR support notably for playing games it does require you to jump through a few Hoops but it does work with a bunch of games for the next steps the goal is to simplify things so you don't have to turn to the command line and installing some unstable stuff from git and also to implement HDR screenshots and Screen recordings and that's pretty stellar work as well I have an ultra wide HDR display from LG and I was just not able to take advantage of the HDR support until now and so in 2024 I absolutely will be which is always a big plus now it looks like Microsoft knows that Linux is the best option for most Dev work as they just released their new AI studio tool for developers and this thing actually installs Linux on top of Windows to work this tool requires at least a 21 18.04 and and it runs locally on Linux using the windows subsystem for Linux and funnily enough it only works with Nvidia gpus for now while the tool is in beta so when you install this thing you're actually using Linux not Windows even though it seems to be packaged as a vs code extension which definitely has a Windows version now what this tool does is basically just compiling a bunch of AI related tools linked to Azure or hugging face to down load and use various models from these cataloges now it is pretty funny to see that even Microsoft cannot bring themselves to develop tools for their OS natively because why would you when Linux is objectively a much better choice for a lot of Dev work now KD plasma 6 got its second Beta release which includes all the bug fixes for a lot of stuff people have reported during the Alpha and the first beta testing phases at this point plasma 6 is still planned for the end of February which is cool as it's been a while since we got a new major plasma update it's still obviously not fully stable so use it at your own risk and it includes updates to all the default apps and the Frameworks and the desktop if you feel it's mature enough for you to try it you can give it a shot using KD neon unstable and there's also a new KD theme being worked on called Breeze yes Breeze just like the current Breeze theme but written with its French spelling b r i s e for now it's not much of a departure from the current KD theme although it does increase the Border radius a bit to have more rounded buttons and frames with a configuration option being available plus there are a few improvements in search Fields a new tab style that removes the colored accent from the active Tab and a new style for highlighted menu entries that remove the more opaque border around it it also unifies the height of all controls for now it's not very different to the existing Breeze theme and it will be coinall so you will be able to use both it's meant as a sort of testing ground for other changes before merging them into the default Breeze theme if they're considered good enough now I would love to see another take on Breeze in the future it's serviceable enough in terms of ux it's not bad at all but in terms of look and I know that's subjective it Trails behind Liber V the V might be too big and too padded but looks wise it's just way way more modern and nicer looking than the Bree theme for KD so at some point I would love to see a revamp not copying Liber V they can do their own thing but something more modern they're already working on that in terms of the icon theme so hopefully the default app Theme will also see a bit of change now if you use an apple silicon Mac and you want to run Linux on it but aahi Linux is a bit too bleeding edge for you you'll be happy to know that Fedora aahi 39 is now out it's basically Fedora but with all the drivers and Hardware work done by the aahi team to support recent Max it offers KD plasma as the default with a gnome variant available and they both default to whand as the aahi team definitely does not seem to have plans to support a pure X11 session it includes the recent open GL conformance driver and adds high quality audio support something that aahi fixed recently as well now obviously it is not perfect yet as there's no Vulcan driver yet and certain features just don't work like external displays through USBC or Thunderbolt or USB 4 or the onboard microphones or touch ID but the camera and speakers now work which is cool and you can stale output to a display using HDMI if your Mac has that I reviewed aahi Linux a few months ago and I found it okay but it was lacking too much of the hardware support but with the camera and the speakers now being supported maybe it's more decent so maybe I'll take a look at Fedora aahi let me know in the comments if you would like that now if you're about the same age as me you probably know about Flipboard it was older age back when smartphones began getting popular and it looks like they want to Pivot to support the fediverse this nice aggregate of various social networks and apps including masteron pixel fed or Pier Flipboard will actually replace all of its social backend with activity Pub the underlying standard that makes social networks talk to each other this means you'll be able to add posts from various Publications and individuals podcasts videos and more all in one single feed much like an RSS feed reader would do but with a nicer user interface it will also let you comment on various posts and these comments will show up under the relevant posts on masteron on threads and other apps that support or will support activity Pub so this should be fully enabled in April which is pretty neat and they apparently working in a considerate way with moderation being thought of and how they will avoid overwhelming smaller instances as well now if you add that to meta's threads app that is also starting to test their activity Pub implementation you end up having a nice path towards a more open internet at least in terms of social networks you won't be siloed anymore into a specific app and you will be able to interact with more people no matter the platform now personally I've gone all in with the fediverse I'm on masteron on Pixel fed all my videos are on peer tube I also have my own Linux and open source News podcast the audio version of this show hosted through Cod I love it it's the future of the open internet for social networks and I hope more companies will join in so everyone can actually interact with with everyone else no matter the app or the service they decided to use and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have a new release of proton experimental which adds a little hack to allow the steam overlay to be displayed when using easy antiche from the Epic online services this version also adds HDR support for Devil May Cry 5 and Tony Hawks Pro Skater one plus 2 on top of already supporting the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes re7 re Village plus Mass Effect legendary edition Hogwarts Legacy and more it also fixes a bunch of issues with various games as always and honestly at that point I would set proton experimental as the default for all the games you want to play on Linux and if you notice that there are some problems just put the version back to the latest stable one and you'll probably fix the issue but experimental has so many fixes and improvements that generally it's worth it using this instead of the stable version and we also got a new version of vkd3d proton the directx12 compatibility layer which implements a bunch of fixes again notably for NVIDIA gpus and also for rate tracing plus much better support for Microsoft's implementation of antialiasing indirect text which should improve performance all around and give better visual results so as always gaming on Linux just progresses forward bid by bid gaining market share bit by bit it's nice it's a good time to be a Linux game and this will conclude this 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 didn't like it there's always that thumbs down button and the comment section to let me know why I suck and if you really enjoyed the channel and you want to support it there are plenty of links in the description of the video don't hesitate to check them out uh to actually help me make more of these videos so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
a few years ago if you asked me what should I use to start with Linux I would have said zorin OS it was solid relatively up todate at the time of the release of zorinos S6 with a lot of good ideas well implemented and a NIC looking and customizable interface but with one of the slowest release schedules for a desktop Dro and a base that was aging and aging it became virtually impossible to keep recommending zorino S6 to New Commerce fortunately zorinos S7 is now available and the general Linux desktop ecosystem is very different making old bases not as much of a problem still there are a bunch of things that I feel are not optimal in here so today we'll look at what's new in zorinos S7 a bunch of things that it does to make it easier on Linux beginners and if it can get my seal of approval as D drro I would recommend for beginners for the next year just like I can only recommend our sponsor to you this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably already know them they are private 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gnome based obuntu based distribution but their implementation of this desktop is very very different and pretty good Zeno S7 does not use the very latest gnome it's based on gnome 43 not 45 which means you're giving up a few cool things you don't have the thumbnails in the file picker you don't get the security Center in the settings you don't get the much improved settings Pages overall you don't get the improvements to the Quick Settings menu although you do get that quick settings menu you don't get the new activities indicator you don't get the faster search the keyboard backlight settings or the New Image viewer app it's nothing that will make your day-to-day experience insane insanely better but you're still missing out on things that have been out for at least 6 months and sometimes more than a year on top of that you're getting gnome shell 43 but some of the apps aren't the ones from gnome 43 for example the software store is the one from gnome 45 so you do get all the cool changes that gnome developed but other apps like the image viewer or the file manager are from gnome 42 it's a mish mash of versions for various software that make it pretty difficult to judge in comparison with something else so let's just judge the whole package on its own merits what zorinos adds on top of this mismatched base is still those desktop layouts which let you change how your desktop looks and feels in one click the free version of zorinos starts with something akin to Windows 10 or KD plasma with a bottom taskar and you also get a more old windows style layout a more windows 11 inspired style taskbar or the general gnome style layout if you prefer that apparently they want to add a chrom OS layout and a gnome 2 inspired layout but in my testing in zorin OS core these are not available so either they haven't been added yet or they are limited to zorinos Pro which is the paid version that already has more layouts than the free zorinos core version now all this work is done using gnome extensions but they are all neatly packaged in a oneclick pre-built layout which makes all the hassle of setting things up yourself much much faster and it gives newcomers something familiar to get started with you also get a Zoran appearance app with accent colors dark mode support for other themes and a few other options to change how the interface looks and feels but that's all stuff zorin no6 already had in terms of new stuff the move to gnome 43 means you get quick settings that you didn't have before and they are much more usable and nicer with their little pill buttons you get improved performance in The Gnome shell you get access to power modes with power save balanced or performance mode the latter one only being available if you have a dedicated GPU and you get the new screenshot and screen recording app as per zorin specific changes the default zorin menu now gives you a search box to find anything you want it does use the gnome shell search back end so you can just enable or disable search providers in the set as normal you also gain an all apps category to see everything sorted alphabetically also zorinos seems to default to Wayland now at least on the laptop I used to try it out which means solid touchpad gestures to navigate in the desktop and some apps better responsiveness better smoothness so that's really nice and on top of that zorinos S7 gives you a few visual changes that looked pretty familiar to the old Linux user that I am basically it brings back some of the good old compis effects but a bit more Tastefully done first is the desktop Cube it can be enabled in the zorin appearance settings and it's triggered as a replacement for the activities view instead of this strip of desktops you get the desktop Cube you can turn it with touchpad gestures or keyboard shortcuts and windows are laid out on top of it with a nice Parallax effect floating over the desktop and honestly I was expecting to just blast that thing out of the way for being less usable than just a gimmick but in reality it's not less usable than the strip of desktop it just looks different because in the default strip of desktops you don't really see all your windows on all your desktops and that's also the case with the cube so you're not losing any usability the only weird thing is that well it's a cube but it's not because gnome has Dynamic desk desktops meaning they create a new One automatically and they remove desktops that have no windows which means your cube is never really consistent in terms of the number of desktops it displays and how it looks that's not an issue with the desktop strip because you only ever see one desktop at a time and a small bit of the other ones but with the cube it's always changing and since it's spatial and a 3D visualization it just messes with your brain when it's not always the same shape of number of desktops so it would probably have been better when you enable the cube to also enable a fixed number of desktops like for example four the alt tab window switcher can also be replaced with a more visual 3D version of the default and again it looks good but it's not more usable you don't see all windows as well as a basic alt tab stripe of thumbnails and icons and it makes it harder to actually get to what you're looking for because you don't have the full list of app icons visible all at once both of these features can be enabled or disabled individually in the zorin OS appearance app by default they are not on and honestly they're not that much less usable they're not really more usable they're just different and pretty now what does improve productivity though is the new Advanced tiling that zorinos added again it needs to be enabled in the zorin appearance settings and it gives you not only quarter tiling so you can just drag a window to a corner of your screen and it's going to occupy a quarter of your screen space but also a lot of other options for example when you tile a window to a screen Edge you get a little popup to fill the rest of the space with another open window and it creates tile groups meaning that bringing one of the window to the four will also bring the other one alongside it you can configure the gaps between Windows or the gaps with the screen edges and you have a few other options including keyboard shortcuts it basically looks and feels and works exactly like the extension that auntu added in 23.10 and it's probably the exact same thing but on top of that you also get a relatively hidden feature click the little info button and then Advanced and enable Advanced features and now you've got tiling layouts available they're not the best implemented tiling layouts I've ever seen they're not legible or easy to create you can't just place your windows how you want them and save that as a layout you have to enter relatively cryptic series of numbers to define the percentage of the display each Zone occupies but I'm sure some people more familiar with tiling will find this accessible it is obviously hidden for a reason it might be powerful and people using tiling window managers will probably just get used to that very easily but for a beginner this is just not accessible or legible at all which is probably why it's hidden behind a few clicks now under the hood zorinos s 17 is a 22204 LTS so you're getting packages that are close to being 2 years old zorinos does have their own repos on top of that for a few app updates for their theme and own apps and the like but the general base is relatively old nowadays though it's not that big of an issue if your desktop has all the features you need and you don't need the very latest libraries just the latest apps you can get that on Linux thanks to stuff like flat pack and fortunately zorin implements that out of the box with flathub enabled you also get snap enabled by default for apps that aren't on flathub or if you actually prefer snap for some reason I'm sure these reasons exist somewhere maybe so basically if you want the latest features of an app you can get them no problem and you're not that limited with the old LTS base but zorinos uses the Linux kernel 6.2 which as far as I know is end of life and has been since May 2023 so that's really not good and even after applying software updates it's still 6.2 and I wish they had updated that if only because you would get much better Hardware support and much better performance come on 6.6 l TS was just there it's a long-term support it will be supported for as long as your drro don't stick to an end of life konel you are also stuck at the NVIDIA drivers 535 so not 545 the latest ones that fix a lot of Wayland related issues and the Mesa drivers are 23.0 where 23.3 was released recently with a lot of improvements for recent Hardware so yes the older base is not an issue for apps because flatbacks snaps and app Images but if you have a brand new computer if you want to use the latest AMD GPU or an Intel Arc GPU then I'm not even sure zorinos s will actually support them and if it does it's not going to give you a good experience and same for NVIDIA if you actually want to use Nvidia on Wayland zorinos is not suitable cuz it doesn't have access to the versions of the drivers that actually fix the related issues now zorinos also still keeps the cool things that they use to add on the site first you get zorin connect which is KD connect and the GS connect extension for Gnome shell it's nice to have that out of the box to better integrate your Android or iOS device with your Linux computer you also get an easy oneclick install of wine called Windows app support it installs wine and play on Linux so you can try and run various Windows executables of course wine work has recently focused a lot more on playing games which is done much much better using proton and steam or the heroic launcher or lutrus but wine can still run a fair few Windows apps as per play on Linux it's been in maintenance mode for a while there hasn't been any official news on the website since 2022 and no new release published for a while their current repos are stopped at auntu Cosmic so 18.10 the version of wine zorin installs is wine 8.0.2 so pretty much a full year behind the latest updates as y 9.0 is almost there so zoran's Windows app support is a cool idea and I'm sure it will help a few people run a few specific things but it's also outdated as all hell and it will not run a bunch of the apps that people will actually try and run like a recent version of Microsoft Office of the Adobe suite I get that they skip the unstable releases but honestly with compatibility layers you do not want to use the stable versions those things move way too fast don't get stuck on a stable version install unstable wine and don't use play on Linux it's basically dead now finally zorino debloats the base install a little bit with the pre-installed games getting the boots and the maps and to-do apps aren't provided by default either zorino S7 will be supported until June une 2027 so as long as Aon 22204 LTS will be so are these updates enough for zorinos to reclaim the Linux beginner Crown well maybe but not really if you were a zorino s16 user there is no doubt that yes you want to upgrade you will get a much better experience all around so go ahead if you already know and use another Linux drro zorinos s does nothing that you could not replicate yourself with a tiny bit of extra work and you will probably also get a newer gnome desktop newer internals better drivers and less of a mish mash of app versions inside of gnow if you're a Linux beginner though what has been introduced in gome 44 and 45 won't be too big of a Miss for you you probably want a stable polished experience to avoid having to deal with tons of issues and get your bearings and zorinos does make that transition really easy you can replicate an OS you know in a few clicks at least superficially and everything is there to make your start with Linux as smooth and stable as possible but there remains one big issue with so many customizations and versions mismatch and themes and extensions basically the moment something breaks you're not going to be able to just apply an abunto tutorial because it's not going to fix your issue and you're going to have to resort to asking for help for zorin OS specifically which it is a popular drro but it's just not as big as Mint or auntu or Fedora so you might not get as much help or documentation or support and so yes it's easier to start but the moment you encounter a problem you might be stuck where you wouldn't on another less familiar Dro but better supported so right now I would recommend zorino to a lot of beginners but not to all of them if you're computer is really recent or you're just building a new one with modern components and you want to install Linux on it don't go for zorinos basically that's what I'm saying the base is too old the drivers are too old the konel is too old and you're not going to have good support or at least you're not going to have good performance for everyone else if you're a Linux beginner if your computer is two three or more years old then yes go ahead it's a fantastic first experience with Linux the work is just done for for you all along you have not much to think about the only issue is if you encounter a big problem you might not be able to fix it without asking for help specifically for zorinos and I'm not sure that the community is big enough to actually help you in a timely fashion and of course if you want to completely avoid Hardware related problems then you can also just buy a computer that was made to run Linux from our sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a Linux Hardware manufacturer they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world they ship laptops no and desktops with Linux pre-installed they specifically pick all the components because they run well with Linux and if they encounter a few bugs here 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a few years ago if you asked me what should I use to start with Linux I would have said zorin OS it was solid relatively up todate at the time of the release of zorinos S6 with a lot of good ideas well implemented and a NIC looking and customizable interface but with one of the slowest release schedules for a desktop Dro and a base that was aging and aging it became virtually impossible to keep recommending zorino S6 to New Commerce fortunately zorinos S7 is now available and the general Linux desktop ecosystem is very different making old bases not as much of a problem still there are a bunch of things that I feel are not optimal in here so today we'll look at what's new in zorinos S7 a bunch of things that it does to make it easier on Linux beginners and if it can get my seal of approval as D drro I would recommend for beginners for the next year just like I can only recommend our sponsor to you this video is sponsored by proton mail you probably already know them they are private 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gnome based obuntu based distribution but their implementation of this desktop is very very different and pretty good Zeno S7 does not use the very latest gnome it's based on gnome 43 not 45 which means you're giving up a few cool things you don't have the thumbnails in the file picker you don't get the security Center in the settings you don't get the much improved settings Pages overall you don't get the improvements to the Quick Settings menu although you do get that quick settings menu you don't get the new activities indicator you don't get the faster search the keyboard backlight settings or the New Image viewer app it's nothing that will make your day-to-day experience insane insanely better but you're still missing out on things that have been out for at least 6 months and sometimes more than a year on top of that you're getting gnome shell 43 but some of the apps aren't the ones from gnome 43 for example the software store is the one from gnome 45 so you do get all the cool changes that gnome developed but other apps like the image viewer or the file manager are from gnome 42 it's a mish mash of versions for various software that make it pretty difficult to judge in comparison with something else so let's just judge the whole package on its own merits what zorinos adds on top of this mismatched base is still those desktop layouts which let you change how your desktop looks and feels in one click the free version of zorinos starts with something akin to Windows 10 or KD plasma with a bottom taskar and you also get a more old windows style layout a more windows 11 inspired style taskbar or the general gnome style layout if you prefer that apparently they want to add a chrom OS layout and a gnome 2 inspired layout but in my testing in zorin OS core these are not available so either they haven't been added yet or they are limited to zorinos Pro which is the paid version that already has more layouts than the free zorinos core version now all this work is done using gnome extensions but they are all neatly packaged in a oneclick pre-built layout which makes all the hassle of setting things up yourself much much faster and it gives newcomers something familiar to get started with you also get a Zoran appearance app with accent colors dark mode support for other themes and a few other options to change how the interface looks and feels but that's all stuff zorin no6 already had in terms of new stuff the move to gnome 43 means you get quick settings that you didn't have before and they are much more usable and nicer with their little pill buttons you get improved performance in The Gnome shell you get access to power modes with power save balanced or performance mode the latter one only being available if you have a dedicated GPU and you get the new screenshot and screen recording app as per zorin specific changes the default zorin menu now gives you a search box to find anything you want it does use the gnome shell search back end so you can just enable or disable search providers in the set as normal you also gain an all apps category to see everything sorted alphabetically also zorinos seems to default to Wayland now at least on the laptop I used to try it out which means solid touchpad gestures to navigate in the desktop and some apps better responsiveness better smoothness so that's really nice and on top of that zorinos S7 gives you a few visual changes that looked pretty familiar to the old Linux user that I am basically it brings back some of the good old compis effects but a bit more Tastefully done first is the desktop Cube it can be enabled in the zorin appearance settings and it's triggered as a replacement for the activities view instead of this strip of desktops you get the desktop Cube you can turn it with touchpad gestures or keyboard shortcuts and windows are laid out on top of it with a nice Parallax effect floating over the desktop and honestly I was expecting to just blast that thing out of the way for being less usable than just a gimmick but in reality it's not less usable than the strip of desktop it just looks different because in the default strip of desktops you don't really see all your windows on all your desktops and that's also the case with the cube so you're not losing any usability the only weird thing is that well it's a cube but it's not because gnome has Dynamic desk desktops meaning they create a new One automatically and they remove desktops that have no windows which means your cube is never really consistent in terms of the number of desktops it displays and how it looks that's not an issue with the desktop strip because you only ever see one desktop at a time and a small bit of the other ones but with the cube it's always changing and since it's spatial and a 3D visualization it just messes with your brain when it's not always the same shape of number of desktops so it would probably have been better when you enable the cube to also enable a fixed number of desktops like for example four the alt tab window switcher can also be replaced with a more visual 3D version of the default and again it looks good but it's not more usable you don't see all windows as well as a basic alt tab stripe of thumbnails and icons and it makes it harder to actually get to what you're looking for because you don't have the full list of app icons visible all at once both of these features can be enabled or disabled individually in the zorin OS appearance app by default they are not on and honestly they're not that much less usable they're not really more usable they're just different and pretty now what does improve productivity though is the new Advanced tiling that zorinos added again it needs to be enabled in the zorin appearance settings and it gives you not only quarter tiling so you can just drag a window to a corner of your screen and it's going to occupy a quarter of your screen space but also a lot of other options for example when you tile a window to a screen Edge you get a little popup to fill the rest of the space with another open window and it creates tile groups meaning that bringing one of the window to the four will also bring the other one alongside it you can configure the gaps between Windows or the gaps with the screen edges and you have a few other options including keyboard shortcuts it basically looks and feels and works exactly like the extension that auntu added in 23.10 and it's probably the exact same thing but on top of that you also get a relatively hidden feature click the little info button and then Advanced and enable Advanced features and now you've got tiling layouts available they're not the best implemented tiling layouts I've ever seen they're not legible or easy to create you can't just place your windows how you want them and save that as a layout you have to enter relatively cryptic series of numbers to define the percentage of the display each Zone occupies but I'm sure some people more familiar with tiling will find this accessible it is obviously hidden for a reason it might be powerful and people using tiling window managers will probably just get used to that very easily but for a beginner this is just not accessible or legible at all which is probably why it's hidden behind a few clicks now under the hood zorinos s 17 is a 22204 LTS so you're getting packages that are close to being 2 years old zorinos does have their own repos on top of that for a few app updates for their theme and own apps and the like but the general base is relatively old nowadays though it's not that big of an issue if your desktop has all the features you need and you don't need the very latest libraries just the latest apps you can get that on Linux thanks to stuff like flat pack and fortunately zorin implements that out of the box with flathub enabled you also get snap enabled by default for apps that aren't on flathub or if you actually prefer snap for some reason I'm sure these reasons exist somewhere maybe so basically if you want the latest features of an app you can get them no problem and you're not that limited with the old LTS base but zorinos uses the Linux kernel 6.2 which as far as I know is end of life and has been since May 2023 so that's really not good and even after applying software updates it's still 6.2 and I wish they had updated that if only because you would get much better Hardware support and much better performance come on 6.6 l TS was just there it's a long-term support it will be supported for as long as your drro don't stick to an end of life konel you are also stuck at the NVIDIA drivers 535 so not 545 the latest ones that fix a lot of Wayland related issues and the Mesa drivers are 23.0 where 23.3 was released recently with a lot of improvements for recent Hardware so yes the older base is not an issue for apps because flatbacks snaps and app Images but if you have a brand new computer if you want to use the latest AMD GPU or an Intel Arc GPU then I'm not even sure zorinos s will actually support them and if it does it's not going to give you a good experience and same for NVIDIA if you actually want to use Nvidia on Wayland zorinos is not suitable cuz it doesn't have access to the versions of the drivers that actually fix the related issues now zorinos also still keeps the cool things that they use to add on the site first you get zorin connect which is KD connect and the GS connect extension for Gnome shell it's nice to have that out of the box to better integrate your Android or iOS device with your Linux computer you also get an easy oneclick install of wine called Windows app support it installs wine and play on Linux so you can try and run various Windows executables of course wine work has recently focused a lot more on playing games which is done much much better using proton and steam or the heroic launcher or lutrus but wine can still run a fair few Windows apps as per play on Linux it's been in maintenance mode for a while there hasn't been any official news on the website since 2022 and no new release published for a while their current repos are stopped at auntu Cosmic so 18.10 the version of wine zorin installs is wine 8.0.2 so pretty much a full year behind the latest updates as y 9.0 is almost there so zoran's Windows app support is a cool idea and I'm sure it will help a few people run a few specific things but it's also outdated as all hell and it will not run a bunch of the apps that people will actually try and run like a recent version of Microsoft Office of the Adobe suite I get that they skip the unstable releases but honestly with compatibility layers you do not want to use the stable versions those things move way too fast don't get stuck on a stable version install unstable wine and don't use play on Linux it's basically dead now finally zorino debloats the base install a little bit with the pre-installed games getting the boots and the maps and to-do apps aren't provided by default either zorino S7 will be supported until June une 2027 so as long as Aon 22204 LTS will be so are these updates enough for zorinos to reclaim the Linux beginner Crown well maybe but not really if you were a zorino s16 user there is no doubt that yes you want to upgrade you will get a much better experience all around so go ahead if you already know and use another Linux drro zorinos s does nothing that you could not replicate yourself with a tiny bit of extra work and you will probably also get a newer gnome desktop newer internals better drivers and less of a mish mash of app versions inside of gnow if you're a Linux beginner though what has been introduced in gome 44 and 45 won't be too big of a Miss for you you probably want a stable polished experience to avoid having to deal with tons of issues and get your bearings and zorinos does make that transition really easy you can replicate an OS you know in a few clicks at least superficially and everything is there to make your start with Linux as smooth and stable as possible but there remains one big issue with so many customizations and versions mismatch and themes and extensions basically the moment something breaks you're not going to be able to just apply an abunto tutorial because it's not going to fix your issue and you're going to have to resort to asking for help for zorin OS specifically which it is a popular drro but it's just not as big as Mint or auntu or Fedora so you might not get as much help or documentation or support and so yes it's easier to start but the moment you encounter a problem you might be stuck where you wouldn't on another less familiar Dro but better supported so right now I would recommend zorino to a lot of beginners but not to all of them if you're computer is really recent or you're just building a new one with modern components and you want to install Linux on it don't go for zorinos basically that's what I'm saying the base is too old the drivers are too old the konel is too old and you're not going to have good support or at least you're not going to have good performance for everyone else if you're a Linux beginner if your computer is two three or more years old then yes go ahead it's a fantastic first experience with Linux the work is just done for for you all along you have not much to think about the only issue is if you encounter a big problem you might not be able to fix it without asking for help specifically for zorinos and I'm not sure that the community is big enough to actually help you in a timely fashion and of course if you want to completely avoid Hardware related problems then you can also just buy a computer that was made to run Linux from our sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a Linux Hardware manufacturer they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world they ship laptops no and desktops with Linux pre-installed they specifically pick all the components because they run well with Linux and if they encounter a few bugs here and there in their testing they fix them Upstream so everyone can benefit their range is pretty wide you should find anything you want whatever the price point whatever the power level you can configure all devices you can open the laptops repair them upgrade them you can have your own keyboard layout on your laptop your own logo on the lid they're basically all I use nowadays my main laptop which is also my editing station from which I run all this Channel and my podcast it's all from toxedo my Steam OS console is a toxedo cube it's a PC from them it's all I use they're really good so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you also want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a computer from tuxedo they're really really solid so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you know to do there's a like button a subscribe button a little notification Bell a comment section do all of those things and this video should be more popular and if you didn't like it you can always click that dislike button and tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoy the channel and you want to support what I do where there are plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music]
hey everyone or at least hey everyone that is still watching YouTube videos as the end of the year approaches in this week's Linux and open source news video we have Linux tals talking about the future of Linux and he seems pretty chill about it we have auntu pondering maybe dropping older CPUs made before 2015 and also talking about their plans with moving to Wayland only and we have some performance benchmarks that seem to prove that Linux can actually beat windows for gaming and we also 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various colors and themes and you're 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proposing is solid enough and future prooof enough and then interact with other humans which as we all know can be pretty exhausting I mean I love you all but sometimes the comment section under my YouTube videos can be an exhausting place to look at and that's only YouTube comments I can barely imagine what it must be to review code that comes into one of the biggest open-source projects in the world now as as tools points out people relationships are the hard part especially since not all maintainers agree on where to go with specific issues and features and the other aspect of that is that a lot of the current top konel people will start hitting their 60s which means that at some point they might want to retire although toold seems to think a lot of them will still stick around but this is also addressed by implementing newer languages in the kernel with the addition of of rust support a lot of younger people were drawn in and that was also part of the decision to add rust support to the colonel it wasn't just a technical move although toval says it did make sense on that front as well he also talked about Ai and said it's inevitable that at some point some AI generated code will be submitted to the colonel and he's not worried about it he's saying it's just the next step in the road to Automation and that it's nothing new he even says it can be a great help to identify the stupid bugs which are the majority of bugs where the pattern is incorrect or you forgot a semicolon so he seems pretty chill about it funding is more than secure the Old Guard is still sticking around but can be replaced by newer people drawn in by newer languages an AI generated code will just be looked at as every other piece of code submitted so yeah it's nice to have something that is not all doom and gloom it's pretty cool now speaking of the kernel and drivers it looks like obuntu is experimenting with requiring a relatively recent x86 CPU for future releases by only supporting the x86 64 V3 feature level meaning that you'd need a CPU that supports the AVX extensions this would limit modern obuntu releases to CPUs released around 2015 and newer they're looking at how many people still use older CPUs and at the performance benefits of optimizing for just this newer subset of Hardware but if it goes through it means auntu and its official derivatives won't be a suitable option for older hardware and a lot of other diss that are based on it would either have to do some extra work to add back support for these or just abandon older Hardware as well interestingly red hat and soua have both decided to stick to V2 of the architecture and to keep supporting these previous generations of CPUs obuntu is thus offering an installer for this V3 only build and if you want to try it out you can report how much performance you gained if any if there were some broken things in there or if there are some regressions and it looks like they're taking a careful data supported route here which I think is the best approach I am all for having the best performance possible on my recent CPUs by dropping old code and by only using the recent extension that probably do result in better performance but also one of the main advantages of Linux is to save older Hardware from the inevitable Windows rot or from the inability to upgrade to a newer version and if we drop older CPUs we're also dropping this ability which would kind of suck now on top of that obuntu revealed their plans for 24.4 which is going to be their next LTS so they will upgrade their flutter engine used to build their own apps to use G gtk4 they will better handle translations to avoid a repeat of the 23.10 incident and they will add a network section in the security Center to let users be less visible on the local network or to enable the firewall they also talked about getting rid of X11 entirely but they will not do it for 24.4 they want to ensure that the Nvidia and whand combo works better before that although this is still something they're looking at so expect the future version of a to to ditch the old server now it is inevitable that this will happen at some point and it will have a ripple effect on all obun tobas dros which will have to build their own .org packages if they want to keep that server available for users but an LTS is obviously not the right place to do so I would expect that to happen in 24.10 or maybe 25.4 maybe at the same time as red hat Enterprise Linux does the same move now speaking of Wayland and it looks like users of LX cute will not miss that train the luntu developers this being the LX cute spin of auntu talked about their plans as well for the 24.4 release and they want to have an optional whand session available there although this will not be the default before the following release so it makes sense as 24.4 is an LTS and as such you only want the most stable and well tested stuff in there Alex cute has been working on boing their desktop from cute 5 to cute 6 in the same move that KD has been doing and they feel that in April 2024 their work will be in a good enough state that they can offer Wayland as an optional Choice luntu developers also have more plans on top of that like improving the calamares installer by adding the minimal install option that interestingly will not ship snap support they will also have an improved first boot screen they'll have a gooey for Bluetooth which they apparently lacked they will have a config tool to change the login screen settings so settings for sddm they will add new themes and there are a few other usability improvements planned as well and it's pretty interesting to see a relatively small spin of auntu and a relatively small desktop getting on that train maybe they're benefiting from the work plasma is doing since Alex cute is based on cute and some of the KD Frameworks but it does alleviate some of my concerns that smaller desktops would not be able to do this whan transition in time apparently they can now we got some updates on the cosmic desktop again this week this time with the ability to right click a title bar and get all the various options you might be used to but also the one for making a window float if you're in tiling mode the text editor was improved again now letting you double or triple click Text to select it and you can now search through a project to find files and you can also integrate git in your project with the current status and diffs multim monitor support has been improved as well to let you move entire workspaces to another display and windows can migrate between displays when you connect or disconnect an external monitor with Windows remembering their place they also fix some bugs for X whand support since Cosmic will be whand only on top of that the wallpaper settings are now complete you can now open multiple windows for the same app high resolution Mouse scrolling is implemented and there are some smaller improvements all around these are good improvements and it looks like they shifted to the Polish phase it doesn't look like they have major features to implement they're just adding smaller options here and there which means hopefully we might see a public alpha or beta really soon maybe early next year now as per KD and gnome first the plasma 6 bug fixing work progresses but they also added changes as always like merging the advanced power setting page of the settings into a sub page of the main energy settings page they're showing more devices in that same page with their battery levels and they will better handle various cursor scaling factors they also fixed 175 bugs which this time actually brought the number of bugs down despite the multiple reports from people testing the beta so that's a pretty good indication that things are moving forward there were also some performance improvements in the overview effect with smoother animations gnome also kept working at their various projects as work for grouping notifications is almost complete adaptive dialogues are starting to take shape and The Gnome online accounts got support for webdav and oo 2.0 this means you should be able to log in to various online accounts without having to generate app passwords and you can now more easily add stuff like nexcloud in these online accounts as well which is really cool on top of that Aviator an app to to encode videos in av1 got some big performance boosts dagger is a new app that lets you view and edit graph V Dot files there's prompt yet another terminal app this time focused on containers and immutable desktops and planify which used to be called planner got a big update now using libed Vita widgets everywhere and improving the look of the app and I used to use this app a lot back when it was called planner it was an Elementary OS app but it now moved to being a liit v app and if you ever use the mac and omn focus this is probably the closest thing we have on Linux to that it's a really solid app and even though I move to any type now I'm still pondering moving back to planner well planify because it still looks pretty damn good okay now let's finish this with the gaming news first if you're a fortnite player there are some bad news they clearly stated they have no plans to work on a Linux version or even to support the steam deck unless it has has as they say tens of millions of users team Sweeney the CEO of Epic said that he loves the steam deck Hardware note that he specified that maybe implying he doesn't love the software and he said he wishes they had tens of millions of users at which point it would make sense to support it now since valve apparently has around 3 million decks in the wild and we can probably add a few hundred, Linux desktop Gamers on top of that we are not there yet but I would be surprised if these numbers didn't go up soon and obviously this is probably just the usual BS from epic games because they actually did have a Mac Port of fortnite and you're not going to be able to convince me that there were more than three million potential Mac OS gamers in the world they actually stopped supporting that Mac OS build when they got into a spat with apple over the 30% commission and that's probably the issue here they don't want to bring fortnite to the steam deck because that would mean bringing it to steam and that would mean giving a juicy 30% to valve on any microtransaction or thing that they sold there that's the real issue not the number of users if they developed a Mac OS port for obviously Less Than 3 million people gaming on Max then they would obviously have a port for the steam deck if they were sure that they could make as much money as they wanted on this platform now we also got a new beta for steam notably improving performance when using remote play with Nvidia GP use and improving the scaling on the steam deck and they also redesigned the Steam Workshop a bit to make it easier to find mods to see the mods you subscribe to to sld them and find them more easily there were also a few Linux specific fixes notably fixing an issue where steam would download the windows version of a game instead of the Linux version when it was available and speaking of performance it looks like Windows is getting beaten by Linux when it comes to gaming at least in a recent performance test a German site called computer base tested Arch nobara and poos against Windows 11 across five recent games and found that nobara was the better performer overall and windows 11 was the least efficient OS for games the games tested were cyberpunk 2077 for spoken the latest Ratchet and Clank game Starfield and the tals principal 2 all of them pretty recent and none of them having native Linux version they all run using proton and Linux outperformed windows on every game but the average frame times were behind which means the experience was not as consistent and smooth as on Windows still it is a pretty interesting comparison it's 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so 2023 is almost over and I think it's time to look at how far our system of choice has come because it was a year full of progress and Improvement and it was a year which paved the way for an even better 2024 although for now we're still in the middle of the road situation where everything is aligning but nothing is completely There Yet now personally I published more than 120 videos plus about 50 episodes of the Linux and open source News podcast and about the same number of the patron cast but who cares what matters is the sort of weird situation we're stuck in at the end of 2023 so buckle up we're going to look at everything that has progressed during the year what we can look forward to in 2024 and the major challenges and problems we'll still have to face plus the segue to our awesome sponsor this video is sponsored by proton VPN you probably already know about proton mail one of the most secure and private email services out there but they also have their VPN service which is 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by clicking the link in the description below or they also have paid plans for more features and even more security so yeah click the link in the description to get started with protonvpn so first we've had a lot of efforts focused on trying to unify our various desktops and make them work better together Linux always had a problem of Standards things didn't always work together well preferences were not followed between desktops and apps and applications were packaged in tons of different formats with big discrepancies in terms of what features they actually support and I'll be blunt things are still a mess our desktops can still feel very disjointed at times especially when you mix and match gnome and KY applications things are improving but they're still a mess now unified theming between desktops is pretty much abandoned as a thing that should be pursued gnome moved towards liit V and almost no dist forces another theme onto every app you install that uses Liber V even Fedora decided not to theme cute apps inside of gnome anymore but we're also seeing an accent color standard emerge meaning that you'll be able to set an accent color in your desktop and have apps follow that setting no the toolkit it uses plasma already implements it Elementary OS Budgy cinnamon and even the upcoming Cosmic desktop all follow it gnome has plenty of merge requests open to implement it as well although it's not confirmed yet and it might seem like a small thing but having a preference you set at your desktop or Os level and that is followed by every single app in terms of the accent color that it uses does a lot to unify and bring together every app that you use now add that to the dark mode preference that is now followed by most desktops and apps and we're seeing a push for more consistency across desktops and that's also complemented by the work being done on Portals portals are these little tidbits of software that let sandboxed apps like flatbacks and snaps interact with your system in a secure way without needing you to fiddle too much with permissions and when they're implemented by desktops and apps they give you even more standardization and better integration for example if it uses the file Chooser portal an app designed for a specific desktop or toolkit or an app that's cross platform can display the right file picker for your chosen desktop instead of forcing The Gnome one or the KDE one with portals for settings screenshots remote desktops printing sending email creating shortcuts or transferring files there's now a solid abstraction layer between your desktop and the apps it runs which means that as more and more apps and desktops use these portals you'll see the correct interface all the time the correct settings panel open it will be better standardized and everything will work as it's supposed to and so the desktop will feel more cohesive but for now we are not there yet things are progressing and they're almost done but a lot of smaller desktops apart from gnome and KDE basically do not follow all of these and a lot of apps also haven't implemented them either so we're getting there but at the end of 202 three it's still kind of messy now packaging formats at the end of 2023 they're in a bad State not in terms of features because that's moving forwards pretty nicely but in terms of having one clear winner or option Linux packaging has never been Messier not only do we still have all the packaging formats of old like RPM Deb and all the others but we also now have flat pack app images and snaps and you can add NY packages and a few other on top of that and this situation is really starting to drag these recent packaging formats flat packs snaps and app Images were supposed to unify things and make it easier for users and for developers but in the end they're only easier for certain developers and for users they added a lot of confusion with missing features in certain versions of the apps and certain versions working better than others it's a mess as neither flatback nor snap are fully ready for 100% of some stuff simply cannot be packaged using these and they still have drawbacks that some users do not want to deal with like storage space or missing features and we're seeing some solid progress on flathub as a platform on flatback as a format and even on open 2 snaps with plenty of performance improvements and new features being added there's still a lot of missing stuff like Native Messaging that would let many password managers work with flatbacks and snap versions of web browsers so we're not ready to transition most Linux users to one single packaging format which also means that app developers cannot just say hey you know what we want to support Linux we're going to use this because that's what everyone uses and so our packaging problems are still not solved in 2023 now the display situation is much better though X11 is now clearly abandoned wear red hat won't be using it for rail 10 Fedora is dropping it for the next version with KDE and maybe for Gnome as well plasma recommends using whand instead starting with plasma 6 and gnome has merge request to start removing support for X11 now importantly X11 still works for a lot of people that still need it for a specific use case but there's a clear signal that Wayland is where we're going and work on that has been Stellar in 2023 it got support for remote desktops screen sharing with X whan apps was pretty much fixed with X whan Video Bridge and all major desktops improve their Wayland sessions by leaps and bounce although we will still need to wait for 2024 for a really good experience with plasma 6 mostly all desktops now have plans for whan including lxq cinnamon and xfc Cosmic will be Wayland only Elementary OS has an experimental session already and budgie will move to Wayland for Budgy 11 so everyone is in agreement now there still remained a few issues with whan notably for Nvidia users the proprietary NVIDIA drivers have made enormous progress especially with the very latest version fixing most of the remaining annoyances with Nvidia and whan but it's still not 100% yet now added to that work on supporting HDR has moved by Leaps and Bounds and we'll see a fully working implementation in 2024 with games already being able to run using hdr on Steam OS and on KD if you use the very latest beta drivers and plasma fractional scaling is now properly implemented on Wayland as well meaning we can finally do non blurry scaling with different scaling per Monitor and different refresh rates per monitor as well now on the display side of things everything has finally coalesced with a single vision and a single goal moving forward and it's really really solid at the end of 2023 the last few Kinks and problems will be ironed out at the beginning of 2024 so all good on that front as for drivers we've seen some solid progress as well AMD now has solid drivers on launch day for their new gpus Intel has finished their new XE driver that's now ready to be merged in the Linux kernel Arc gpus are now well supported and NVIDIA drivers have progressed immensely in terms of whand support screen tearing and general Linux support it is not a perfect experience if you don't have an RTX card though as Nvidia unfortunately seems to have pretty much abandoned the G GTX line of gpus with their Linux drivers we're also seeing very strong efforts for open- Source NVIDIA drivers with the newvo drivers finally being able to deliver decent performance thanks to supporting the GSP firmware and being able to change the GPU clock speed on recent Nvidia gpus plus the nvk Vulcan drivers are being added to Mesa and they're fully Vulcan 1.0 compliant Nvidia even dropped some open- source code for their own drivers although this is far from being usable right now in terms of graphic drivers we're in a really really good place in 2023 probably the best we've ever been on Linux and with the open- source Nvidia stack we'll probably see a first fully integrated version in 2024 although performance will probably not be good enough but I would expect 2025 to be the year where some dros start not offering the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and just rely on the open source stack as per firmware the Linux firmware vendor system or lvfs has also seen broad adoption letting you apply firmware updates on the Fly and easily this already supplied 100 million firmware updates and Google is even pushing manufacturers to support that for their own Linux based chromeos and we still have some driver issues mostly for fingerprint readers because those are not well supported on Linux and some USB Bluetooth or Wi-Fi dongles as well but generally the hardware support on Linux nowadays is really really good probably the best it's ever been it's very rare to end up on a piece of Hardware that doesn't support Linux at all now gaming has been incredible in 2023 not only did Linux pass Mac os's market share for steam but we've seen great support for the steam deck which in turn means great support for Linux and sure it's all driven by proton and wine it's not native Linux sports but my opinion is is that it doesn't matter if you can click install and then play and Run the game with a performance on the level that you'd expect things are good the steam deck has been so popular that it kickstarted a full category of handhelds and the steam deck is arguably the best and most successful of them right now with the most controller friendly interface compared to windows-based handhelds it even got a sequel in the form of the OLED steam deck non steam gaming has also progressed immensely with heroic becoming a really fantastic launcher for Gog and epic games really plug andplay and lutrus is still handling most of the rest pretty well and we gain support for R tracing for HDR for dlss for FSR meaning that we can play with all the nice tools that everyone else has access to we still have the major issue of some anti-che not working or certain game developers not wanting to enable antiche support for Linux or the steam deck but I'm pretty sure that as we're seeing these games slowly drop off in popularity and new games coming that do tend to support Linux and the steam deck this problem will solve itself now for app support I'd say we haven't seen many improvements in 2023 now sure our own open-source apps have progressed this year but The Usual Suspects are still missing that would let a lot more people move to Linux still no Microsoft Office still know Adobe apps a lot of content creation software or CAD software are still missing with no indication that it will change we are seeing a push from Adobe to bring at least Photoshop to the web which might mean Linux will get at least some form of that in the future but that's not much we've seen Studio 1 come to Linux a popular digital audio workstation but that's about it I'd say the only way we can improve this is by gaining market share on the desktop reaching 5 to 10% would probably be enough to get good support from many professional apps but we are far from that and we would also have to solve our whan migration because we need one single system for apps to support we need to solve all our little driver problems because if Nvidia or opencl or Cuda aren't well supported that's also a problem for certain professional apps and we would also need to solve our packaging problems because with tens of thousands of ways to package an app for many disos developers just don't want to expand the time so I'm not seeing this progress much further in 2024 either so the Linux desktop is in a weird place at the end of 2023 we finally know where we want to go which is Wayland And probably Sandbox Apps and portals but while the transition to Wayland and all the drivers is pretty much on the rails and it's really almost done for all major desktops all the packaging stuff the portal stuff the sandboxing stuff it's not catching up as fast or as well as it should should which means that there's still one big missing piece which is how do you distribute an app on Linux and at the end of 2023 we still have not solved that problem and there are some other challenges coming as well the big one I can see is AI integration in the desktop and the apps it's a move Microsoft is making with Windows 12 they're adding AI powered search and automations throughout the desktop this is only possible because first Microsoft has tons of data on their users because Windows is basically spyware and second because they have a big infrastructure that lets them combine Cloud powered Ai and locally run AI now whether we should chase that Trend or not that's for you to decide but what's for certain is that after four five or six years where users have context sensitive search that lets them find any file whether they remember the name the location who sent it or the app doesn't matter they can find it if they have the right apps opening at the right time or one click button that automates 30 or 40 minutes of work thanks to AI then they're never going back to apps and os's that don't have that now we'll have to see if AI is truly a transformative technology or not after all people were just as excited with AI assistance and from what I can see no one really cares about those anymore and no one really uses them for anything else than a reminder or timer in any case the Linux desktop has progressed a lot in 2023 but 2024 looks like it will be the year when things really come together not the year of the Linux desktop because that's nonsense but at least the year where there's a unified Vision a coherence a standardization of things maybe not in every area but at least offering a very solid stable experience for most users with a common path for most dros we will still have a lot of work to do but at least we'll be in a really good place to get that work done just like our sponsor is a really good place to get yourself a 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hey everyone or at least hey everyone that is still watching YouTube videos as the end of the year approaches in this week's Linux and open source news video we have Linux tals talking about the future of Linux and he seems pretty chill about it we have auntu pondering maybe dropping older CPUs made before 2015 and also talking about their plans with moving to Wayland only and we have some performance benchmarks that seem to prove that Linux can actually beat windows for gaming and we also 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various colors and themes and you're 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proposing is solid enough and future prooof enough and then interact with other humans which as we all know can be pretty exhausting I mean I love you all but sometimes the comment section under my YouTube videos can be an exhausting place to look at and that's only YouTube comments I can barely imagine what it must be to review code that comes into one of the biggest open-source projects in the world now as as tools points out people relationships are the hard part especially since not all maintainers agree on where to go with specific issues and features and the other aspect of that is that a lot of the current top konel people will start hitting their 60s which means that at some point they might want to retire although toold seems to think a lot of them will still stick around but this is also addressed by implementing newer languages in the kernel with the addition of of rust support a lot of younger people were drawn in and that was also part of the decision to add rust support to the colonel it wasn't just a technical move although toval says it did make sense on that front as well he also talked about Ai and said it's inevitable that at some point some AI generated code will be submitted to the colonel and he's not worried about it he's saying it's just the next step in the road to Automation and that it's nothing new he even says it can be a great help to identify the stupid bugs which are the majority of bugs where the pattern is incorrect or you forgot a semicolon so he seems pretty chill about it funding is more than secure the Old Guard is still sticking around but can be replaced by newer people drawn in by newer languages an AI generated code will just be looked at as every other piece of code submitted so yeah it's nice to have something that is not all doom and gloom it's pretty cool now speaking of the kernel and drivers it looks like obuntu is experimenting with requiring a relatively recent x86 CPU for future releases by only supporting the x86 64 V3 feature level meaning that you'd need a CPU that supports the AVX extensions this would limit modern obuntu releases to CPUs released around 2015 and newer they're looking at how many people still use older CPUs and at the performance benefits of optimizing for just this newer subset of Hardware but if it goes through it means auntu and its official derivatives won't be a suitable option for older hardware and a lot of other diss that are based on it would either have to do some extra work to add back support for these or just abandon older Hardware as well interestingly red hat and soua have both decided to stick to V2 of the architecture and to keep supporting these previous generations of CPUs obuntu is thus offering an installer for this V3 only build and if you want to try it out you can report how much performance you gained if any if there were some broken things in there or if there are some regressions and it looks like they're taking a careful data supported route here which I think is the best approach I am all for having the best performance possible on my recent CPUs by dropping old code and by only using the recent extension that probably do result in better performance but also one of the main advantages of Linux is to save older Hardware from the inevitable Windows rot or from the inability to upgrade to a newer version and if we drop older CPUs we're also dropping this ability which would kind of suck now on top of that obuntu revealed their plans for 24.4 which is going to be their next LTS so they will upgrade their flutter engine used to build their own apps to use G gtk4 they will better handle translations to avoid a repeat of the 23.10 incident and they will add a network section in the security Center to let users be less visible on the local network or to enable the firewall they also talked about getting rid of X11 entirely but they will not do it for 24.4 they want to ensure that the Nvidia and whand combo works better before that although this is still something they're looking at so expect the future version of a to to ditch the old server now it is inevitable that this will happen at some point and it will have a ripple effect on all obun tobas dros which will have to build their own .org packages if they want to keep that server available for users but an LTS is obviously not the right place to do so I would expect that to happen in 24.10 or maybe 25.4 maybe at the same time as red hat Enterprise Linux does the same move now speaking of Wayland and it looks like users of LX cute will not miss that train the luntu developers this being the LX cute spin of auntu talked about their plans as well for the 24.4 release and they want to have an optional whand session available there although this will not be the default before the following release so it makes sense as 24.4 is an LTS and as such you only want the most stable and well tested stuff in there Alex cute has been working on boing their desktop from cute 5 to cute 6 in the same move that KD has been doing and they feel that in April 2024 their work will be in a good enough state that they can offer Wayland as an optional Choice luntu developers also have more plans on top of that like improving the calamares installer by adding the minimal install option that interestingly will not ship snap support they will also have an improved first boot screen they'll have a gooey for Bluetooth which they apparently lacked they will have a config tool to change the login screen settings so settings for sddm they will add new themes and there are a few other usability improvements planned as well and it's pretty interesting to see a relatively small spin of auntu and a relatively small desktop getting on that train maybe they're benefiting from the work plasma is doing since Alex cute is based on cute and some of the KD Frameworks but it does alleviate some of my concerns that smaller desktops would not be able to do this whan transition in time apparently they can now we got some updates on the cosmic desktop again this week this time with the ability to right click a title bar and get all the various options you might be used to but also the one for making a window float if you're in tiling mode the text editor was improved again now letting you double or triple click Text to select it and you can now search through a project to find files and you can also integrate git in your project with the current status and diffs multim monitor support has been improved as well to let you move entire workspaces to another display and windows can migrate between displays when you connect or disconnect an external monitor with Windows remembering their place they also fix some bugs for X whand support since Cosmic will be whand only on top of that the wallpaper settings are now complete you can now open multiple windows for the same app high resolution Mouse scrolling is implemented and there are some smaller improvements all around these are good improvements and it looks like they shifted to the Polish phase it doesn't look like they have major features to implement they're just adding smaller options here and there which means hopefully we might see a public alpha or beta really soon maybe early next year now as per KD and gnome first the plasma 6 bug fixing work progresses but they also added changes as always like merging the advanced power setting page of the settings into a sub page of the main energy settings page they're showing more devices in that same page with their battery levels and they will better handle various cursor scaling factors they also fixed 175 bugs which this time actually brought the number of bugs down despite the multiple reports from people testing the beta so that's a pretty good indication that things are moving forward there were also some performance improvements in the overview effect with smoother animations gnome also kept working at their various projects as work for grouping notifications is almost complete adaptive dialogues are starting to take shape and The Gnome online accounts got support for webdav and oo 2.0 this means you should be able to log in to various online accounts without having to generate app passwords and you can now more easily add stuff like nexcloud in these online accounts as well which is really cool on top of that Aviator an app to to encode videos in av1 got some big performance boosts dagger is a new app that lets you view and edit graph V Dot files there's prompt yet another terminal app this time focused on containers and immutable desktops and planify which used to be called planner got a big update now using libed Vita widgets everywhere and improving the look of the app and I used to use this app a lot back when it was called planner it was an Elementary OS app but it now moved to being a liit v app and if you ever use the mac and omn focus this is probably the closest thing we have on Linux to that it's a really solid app and even though I move to any type now I'm still pondering moving back to planner well planify because it still looks pretty damn good okay now let's finish this with the gaming news first if you're a fortnite player there are some bad news they clearly stated they have no plans to work on a Linux version or even to support the steam deck unless it has has as they say tens of millions of users team Sweeney the CEO of Epic said that he loves the steam deck Hardware note that he specified that maybe implying he doesn't love the software and he said he wishes they had tens of millions of users at which point it would make sense to support it now since valve apparently has around 3 million decks in the wild and we can probably add a few hundred, Linux desktop Gamers on top of that we are not there yet but I would be surprised if these numbers didn't go up soon and obviously this is probably just the usual BS from epic games because they actually did have a Mac Port of fortnite and you're not going to be able to convince me that there were more than three million potential Mac OS gamers in the world they actually stopped supporting that Mac OS build when they got into a spat with apple over the 30% commission and that's probably the issue here they don't want to bring fortnite to the steam deck because that would mean bringing it to steam and that would mean giving a juicy 30% to valve on any microtransaction or thing that they sold there that's the real issue not the number of users if they developed a Mac OS port for obviously Less Than 3 million people gaming on Max then they would obviously have a port for the steam deck if they were sure that they could make as much money as they wanted on this platform now we also got a new beta for steam notably improving performance when using remote play with Nvidia GP use and improving the scaling on the steam deck and they also redesigned the Steam Workshop a bit to make it easier to find mods to see the mods you subscribe to to sld them and find them more easily there were also a few Linux specific fixes notably fixing an issue where steam would download the windows version of a game instead of the Linux version when it was available and speaking of performance it looks like Windows is getting beaten by Linux when it comes to gaming at least in a recent performance test a German site called computer base tested Arch nobara and poos against Windows 11 across five recent games and found that nobara was the better performer overall and windows 11 was the least efficient OS for games the games tested were cyberpunk 2077 for spoken the latest Ratchet and Clank game Starfield and the tals principal 2 all of them pretty recent and none of them having native Linux version they all run using proton and Linux outperformed windows on every game but the average frame times were behind which means the experience was not as consistent and smooth as on Windows still it is a pretty interesting comparison it's 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so 2023 is almost over and I think it's time to look at how far our system of choice has come because it was a year full of progress and Improvement and it was a year which paved the way for an even better 2024 although for now we're still in the middle of the road situation where everything is aligning but nothing is completely There Yet now personally I published more than 120 videos plus about 50 episodes of the Linux and open source News podcast and about the same number of the patron cast but who cares what matters is the sort of weird situation we're stuck in at the end of 2023 so buckle up we're going to look at everything that has progressed during the year what we can look forward to in 2024 and the major challenges and problems we'll still have to face plus the segue to our awesome sponsor this video is sponsored by proton VPN you probably already know about proton mail one of the most secure and private email services out there but they also have their VPN service which is equally as secure and private it's also based in Switzerland and it doesn't log any activity and it doesn't share any data with third parties of course it is fully encrypted so you can use it from any public Wi-Fi or at home to either change your location or just stay anonymous online on top of that protonvpn uses a 10 gigs per second Network plus a suite of VPN accelerators so so even when you're using it your browsing stays really fast protonvpn supports all your devices PC or mobile and they can even run on routers and they've just completely rebuilt their Linux desktop client for it as well complete with Advanced features like a DNS filter to block ads and trackers a kill switch to stop your internet connection if the VPN connection drops so your IP is never exposed plus secure core which provides a double VPN to provide a server located in a country where strong privacy laws apply I don't usually recommend VPN services but protonvpn is my pick of choice and you can use it for free by clicking the link in the description below or they also have paid plans for more features and even more security so yeah click the link in the description to get started with protonvpn so first we've had a lot of efforts focused on trying to unify our various desktops and make them work better together Linux always had a problem of Standards things didn't always work together well preferences were not followed between desktops and apps and applications were packaged in tons of different formats with big discrepancies in terms of what features they actually support and I'll be blunt things are still a mess our desktops can still feel very disjointed at times especially when you mix and match gnome and KY applications things are improving but they're still a mess now unified theming between desktops is pretty much abandoned as a thing that should be pursued gnome moved towards liit V and almost no dist forces another theme onto every app you install that uses Liber V even Fedora decided not to theme cute apps inside of gnome anymore but we're also seeing an accent color standard emerge meaning that you'll be able to set an accent color in your desktop and have apps follow that setting no the toolkit it uses plasma already implements it Elementary OS Budgy cinnamon and even the upcoming Cosmic desktop all follow it gnome has plenty of merge requests open to implement it as well although it's not confirmed yet and it might seem like a small thing but having a preference you set at your desktop or Os level and that is followed by every single app in terms of the accent color that it uses does a lot to unify and bring together every app that you use now add that to the dark mode preference that is now followed by most desktops and apps and we're seeing a push for more consistency across desktops and that's also complemented by the work being done on Portals portals are these little tidbits of software that let sandboxed apps like flatbacks and snaps interact with your system in a secure way without needing you to fiddle too much with permissions and when they're implemented by desktops and apps they give you even more standardization and better integration for example if it uses the file Chooser portal an app designed for a specific desktop or toolkit or an app that's cross platform can display the right file picker for your chosen desktop instead of forcing The Gnome one or the KDE one with portals for settings screenshots remote desktops printing sending email creating shortcuts or transferring files there's now a solid abstraction layer between your desktop and the apps it runs which means that as more and more apps and desktops use these portals you'll see the correct interface all the time the correct settings panel open it will be better standardized and everything will work as it's supposed to and so the desktop will feel more cohesive but for now we are not there yet things are progressing and they're almost done but a lot of smaller desktops apart from gnome and KDE basically do not follow all of these and a lot of apps also haven't implemented them either so we're getting there but at the end of 202 three it's still kind of messy now packaging formats at the end of 2023 they're in a bad State not in terms of features because that's moving forwards pretty nicely but in terms of having one clear winner or option Linux packaging has never been Messier not only do we still have all the packaging formats of old like RPM Deb and all the others but we also now have flat pack app images and snaps and you can add NY packages and a few other on top of that and this situation is really starting to drag these recent packaging formats flat packs snaps and app Images were supposed to unify things and make it easier for users and for developers but in the end they're only easier for certain developers and for users they added a lot of confusion with missing features in certain versions of the apps and certain versions working better than others it's a mess as neither flatback nor snap are fully ready for 100% of some stuff simply cannot be packaged using these and they still have drawbacks that some users do not want to deal with like storage space or missing features and we're seeing some solid progress on flathub as a platform on flatback as a format and even on open 2 snaps with plenty of performance improvements and new features being added there's still a lot of missing stuff like Native Messaging that would let many password managers work with flatbacks and snap versions of web browsers so we're not ready to transition most Linux users to one single packaging format which also means that app developers cannot just say hey you know what we want to support Linux we're going to use this because that's what everyone uses and so our packaging problems are still not solved in 2023 now the display situation is much better though X11 is now clearly abandoned wear red hat won't be using it for rail 10 Fedora is dropping it for the next version with KDE and maybe for Gnome as well plasma recommends using whand instead starting with plasma 6 and gnome has merge request to start removing support for X11 now importantly X11 still works for a lot of people that still need it for a specific use case but there's a clear signal that Wayland is where we're going and work on that has been Stellar in 2023 it got support for remote desktops screen sharing with X whan apps was pretty much fixed with X whan Video Bridge and all major desktops improve their Wayland sessions by leaps and bounce although we will still need to wait for 2024 for a really good experience with plasma 6 mostly all desktops now have plans for whan including lxq cinnamon and xfc Cosmic will be Wayland only Elementary OS has an experimental session already and budgie will move to Wayland for Budgy 11 so everyone is in agreement now there still remained a few issues with whan notably for Nvidia users the proprietary NVIDIA drivers have made enormous progress especially with the very latest version fixing most of the remaining annoyances with Nvidia and whan but it's still not 100% yet now added to that work on supporting HDR has moved by Leaps and Bounds and we'll see a fully working implementation in 2024 with games already being able to run using hdr on Steam OS and on KD if you use the very latest beta drivers and plasma fractional scaling is now properly implemented on Wayland as well meaning we can finally do non blurry scaling with different scaling per Monitor and different refresh rates per monitor as well now on the display side of things everything has finally coalesced with a single vision and a single goal moving forward and it's really really solid at the end of 2023 the last few Kinks and problems will be ironed out at the beginning of 2024 so all good on that front as for drivers we've seen some solid progress as well AMD now has solid drivers on launch day for their new gpus Intel has finished their new XE driver that's now ready to be merged in the Linux kernel Arc gpus are now well supported and NVIDIA drivers have progressed immensely in terms of whand support screen tearing and general Linux support it is not a perfect experience if you don't have an RTX card though as Nvidia unfortunately seems to have pretty much abandoned the G GTX line of gpus with their Linux drivers we're also seeing very strong efforts for open- Source NVIDIA drivers with the newvo drivers finally being able to deliver decent performance thanks to supporting the GSP firmware and being able to change the GPU clock speed on recent Nvidia gpus plus the nvk Vulcan drivers are being added to Mesa and they're fully Vulcan 1.0 compliant Nvidia even dropped some open- source code for their own drivers although this is far from being usable right now in terms of graphic drivers we're in a really really good place in 2023 probably the best we've ever been on Linux and with the open- source Nvidia stack we'll probably see a first fully integrated version in 2024 although performance will probably not be good enough but I would expect 2025 to be the year where some dros start not offering the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and just rely on the open source stack as per firmware the Linux firmware vendor system or lvfs has also seen broad adoption letting you apply firmware updates on the Fly and easily this already supplied 100 million firmware updates and Google is even pushing manufacturers to support that for their own Linux based chromeos and we still have some driver issues mostly for fingerprint readers because those are not well supported on Linux and some USB Bluetooth or Wi-Fi dongles as well but generally the hardware support on Linux nowadays is really really good probably the best it's ever been it's very rare to end up on a piece of Hardware that doesn't support Linux at all now gaming has been incredible in 2023 not only did Linux pass Mac os's market share for steam but we've seen great support for the steam deck which in turn means great support for Linux and sure it's all driven by proton and wine it's not native Linux sports but my opinion is is that it doesn't matter if you can click install and then play and Run the game with a performance on the level that you'd expect things are good the steam deck has been so popular that it kickstarted a full category of handhelds and the steam deck is arguably the best and most successful of them right now with the most controller friendly interface compared to windows-based handhelds it even got a sequel in the form of the OLED steam deck non steam gaming has also progressed immensely with heroic becoming a really fantastic launcher for Gog and epic games really plug andplay and lutrus is still handling most of the rest pretty well and we gain support for R tracing for HDR for dlss for FSR meaning that we can play with all the nice tools that everyone else has access to we still have the major issue of some anti-che not working or certain game developers not wanting to enable antiche support for Linux or the steam deck but I'm pretty sure that as we're seeing these games slowly drop off in popularity and new games coming that do tend to support Linux and the steam deck this problem will solve itself now for app support I'd say we haven't seen many improvements in 2023 now sure our own open-source apps have progressed this year but The Usual Suspects are still missing that would let a lot more people move to Linux still no Microsoft Office still know Adobe apps a lot of content creation software or CAD software are still missing with no indication that it will change we are seeing a push from Adobe to bring at least Photoshop to the web which might mean Linux will get at least some form of that in the future but that's not much we've seen Studio 1 come to Linux a popular digital audio workstation but that's about it I'd say the only way we can improve this is by gaining market share on the desktop reaching 5 to 10% would probably be enough to get good support from many professional apps but we are far from that and we would also have to solve our whan migration because we need one single system for apps to support we need to solve all our little driver problems because if Nvidia or opencl or Cuda aren't well supported that's also a problem for certain professional apps and we would also need to solve our packaging problems because with tens of thousands of ways to package an app for many disos developers just don't want to expand the time so I'm not seeing this progress much further in 2024 either so the Linux desktop is in a weird place at the end of 2023 we finally know where we want to go which is Wayland And probably Sandbox Apps and portals but while the transition to Wayland and all the drivers is pretty much on the rails and it's really almost done for all major desktops all the packaging stuff the portal stuff the sandboxing stuff it's not catching up as fast or as well as it should should which means that there's still one big missing piece which is how do you distribute an app on Linux and at the end of 2023 we still have not solved that problem and there are some other challenges coming as well the big one I can see is AI integration in the desktop and the apps it's a move Microsoft is making with Windows 12 they're adding AI powered search and automations throughout the desktop this is only possible because first Microsoft has tons of data on their users because Windows is basically spyware and second because they have a big infrastructure that lets them combine Cloud powered Ai and locally run AI now whether we should chase that Trend or not that's for you to decide but what's for certain is that after four five or six years where users have context sensitive search that lets them find any file whether they remember the name the location who sent it or the app doesn't matter they can find it if they have the right apps opening at the right time or one click button that automates 30 or 40 minutes of work thanks to AI then they're never going back to apps and os's that don't have that now we'll have to see if AI is truly a transformative technology or not after all people were just as excited with AI assistance and from what I can see no one really cares about those anymore and no one really uses them for anything else than a reminder or timer in any case the Linux desktop has progressed a lot in 2023 but 2024 looks like it will be the year when things really come together not the year of the Linux desktop because that's nonsense but at least the year where there's a unified Vision a coherence a standardization of things maybe not in every area but at least offering a very solid stable experience for most users with a common path for most dros we will still have a lot of work to do but at least we'll be in a really good place to get that work done just like our sponsor is a really good place to get yourself a 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so a few weeks ago I asked you all on masteron to send me all the questions you had for proton because I have interviewed the CEO of proton for proton male proton VPN proton pass and he has answered a lot of your questions there were a ton of those more than 150 so obviously in an hour and a half we could not answer all of them but I think we gave a very wide coverage of everything now small disclaimer this video is not sponsored by proton they are a regular sponsor of the channel but not of this video and this interview was conducted asking all your questions and mine as well so now we're going to jump right in and you can have all the answers that you never knew you wanted or that you actually wanted so hi Andy how are you yeah I'm doing very very well thanks for having me on the show today yeah thanks for for agreeing to to talk with me uh so you're the CEO of proton and uh you agreed to answer a bunch of questions from for my community which is really cool uh so we're not going to waste any time and we're going to jump right in so there's a mix of my own questions questions to introduce proton and questions that all of you the the audience asked previously uh so we're going to go right in uh the first question I have is how did uh proton start how did the company uh get its debut well actually it started a bit on accident uh and I think this is maybe a common thing with a lot of companies but the way that uh it began the very start was you know I was working at CERN as a physicist back in those days and that was around the time when you know kind of the Snowden leaks had come out right and a lot of the physicists at s were thinking well wow you know Snowden just revealed a massive government surveillance but actually the surveillance of big tech companies is uh much more massive and this is a much bigger problem that no one is talking about uh so the idea was can we build a solution that can address that uh starting with email because email is really online identity right it's it's it's the core of your online existence uh and it was open source project uh built at CERN uh the early testers and users were actually other CERN scientists and physicists like ourselves uh and then we said okay let's uh launch it and see what happens and the very interesting thing was within the first couple days of putting it out on the market as a service uh we had a received maybe 10,000 people signing up uh per day uh so it was really big a shock because it made it very clear that actually you know the kind of crazy idea that that we had there was really a demand for this um but of course I think you know having a demand uh isn't something that leads to a business or a product or service that can be sustainable and so often what you find in open source space is you know there's very cool projects but they don't actually get the full potential because it's very hard to keep growing them uh and what proton did I think differently and quite uniquely was soon after we uh put out the service to to the public domain uh we launched a community crowdfunding so it's very much a community focused uh product in that uh 10,000 people donated around uh 500,000 euros and that was really how the journey got started so it was something that was really born and endorsed out of the community uh and still to this day exist to serve that same Community okay well that's really really cool but uh the other question I had was why did you start specifically with email like when we talk about privacy and generally like big Tech being pretty invasive in terms of what data they collect why start with email instead of I don't know web browser or or something like yeah actually it seems like the least obvious place to start right because people say oh you know email no one even uses email anymore to communicate right uh and that's something that we heard actually even back in 2014 uh and it's because the approach is different the idea is how do you best undermine Google's massive Market power that allows them to dominate entire ecosystems and essentially internet as a result and if you look at uh you know uh Google after they made a search product the next product they built was actually the email uh and no one really you know asked the question of what is the value of you know uh Gmail to Google uh and some people say it's just you know a lost leader right something that they have uh because to to you know um attract users but actually I think in many ways Gmail is actually the Cornerstone or the Keystone of Google's entire ecosystem because the way that Google Business operates is they need to connect all the data they have you know on you and they're able to do that very easily because you're logged in Gmail and by being logged into Gmail the cookies from all the websites uh that you visit and all the websites around Google AdWords or even Google analytics which is actually 80% of the internet um all that information can be Associated to your logged in account and that loged account it's also your real life identity it is the essence of who you are they know who you are as a person so they can L at your profile and that allows them to monetize you as a person right so if you were to uh use proton mail instead of Gmail actually what you're actually doing is not just you know using different communication tool what you're really doing is you're removing your identity your profile you as an individual off of Google's platform uh and cutting off their ability to basically link your entire activity to you as a person one of the maor links that lets them build the profile itself like they have plenty of smalled bits of data from other services but they don't have like this big piece where you're absolutely going to log in there once every day yes and I think that's a power right because if you use proton mail uh you don't exist anymore to Google uh you know you are invisible to them because you're no longer in their system it's the most effective and fastest way to opt out of Google uh and uh and it's something as boring as email in the end yeah absolutely and so w with that uh what exactly is the business model for proton because obviously you you sell uh subscriptions to have more storage space more advanced features in terms of privacy and security is that all there is uh is it just monetizing through through added services and and bigger tiers or is there anything else yeah well you know uh in economic theory there's a saying which is you know there's no such thing as a free lunch right and when it comes to Big tech services that is defin true you know uh Gmail isn't free Google isn't free you know Facebook isn't free uh you're paying you're paying with your most internet sensitive and private information right um now that doesn't mean the alternative has to always be paid and I think uh proton through our Freeman business model you know uh strikes that balance because actually today the vast majority of people on proton uh don't pay us they use services for free and does everything that they that they need but if you want more advanced functionality if you want more features more storage or if you just want to support the project actually you can upgrade to a paid model and from a business perspective people will say well you know is that sustainable and it is because proton has gotten to where we are today actually you know we don't have any VC investors so it's maybe even more scalable and sustainable than Silicon Valley model that depends a lot on vure Capital financing yeah and you don't have to GED certain growth levels to get the next round of funding and you can't run out of Runway because well you're self-sufficient right now so if you don't grow you don't grow but but you're still operating a sustainable business yes and I think that's much more honest right because it's users who directly uh pay us for our services and as a result our incentives are fully aligned uh you know uh with the users and this is much different from Google's business model which if you break it down is actually a business model of deception but Google's business is essentially doing is I hope you don't read my privacy policy and see all the horrible things I'm doing and allow me to keep exploding your data right uh whereas for us our customers are paying us protected privacy and that is the thing that we're financially incentivized to do uh and I think that direct relationship is really healthier for the internet uh it will not be more profitable than ads ads always been more profitable uh but I do think long-term is more sustainable because it helps us build a society and you know um an internet ecosystem that is simply healthier since we're talking about privacy uh you you're in your marketing and on your website you're you're talking about the fact that you're based in Switzerland uh why is it important specifically to to be in Switzerland when we're talking about privacy yeah well you know privacy fundamentally comes from encryption and encryption is something that's based off the laws of mathematics right so uh theoretically it doesn't matter where we put the company you know we could be sitting in Russia for example and the laws of mathematics would be the same right uh now um of course if you go back from the hypothetical world into the real world uh well there needs to be people to operate these services so my encryption may be perfectly you know uh sound you know in Russia but I may have someone beating me over the head you know with a stick to do something bad right uh so I think from that perspective you need to be based in a country where you know there's a you know legal system and strong regulations uh that are protective of what you're trying to do and Switzerland uh of course there's no you know a jurisdiction that's perfect right uh but I do think Switzerland is a country where there is a strong tradition of privacy and security uh it is deeply ingrained in the culture uh and the rules and regulations that are in place today do allow you do many things that in other countries would be very difficult to do uh to give you the recent example uh we see now both in the UK uh in the European Union and also you know in the US proposals to potentially ban nen and this is something that in Switzerland doesn't even get proposed because of the culture so this is why I do think it is important but fundamentally the best protection needs to be from encryption and Mathematics yeah I think it's interesting because in the EU for a few years we had this Sort of hope well I live in France so I'm directly concerned with this but uh we had these hopes with the gdpr and just various laws that aim at not especially breaking up big tech companies but at least restraining the amount of power and Monopoly abuse that they can do and we had hopes that this was the right place for all of this but while they do seem to really want to let's say harm the data collection business model of various companies they don't really have that same approach to how governments approach the same kind of data so they don't want foreign companies collecting the data but when it's them collecting the data and monitoring what citizens do they don't have the same care and and and protection system which is I think why Switzerland which is not part of the EU it's in Europe the continent but not part of the EU for for people who don't really situate it on the map and uh I think that that might be important and since we're talking about like governments and data collection and this leads to law enforcement uh we often read that no matter how much data you have or how little data you have if if the law asks you to give it if if a country says hand it over we need to know what this does you have to comply so obviously you do have to comply with with Swiss law and what what kind of data do you have and what can you actually give them if they're asking for it yes yeah I think that's a very good point uh unless your business is based on you know about uh 20 kilm 30 kilometers offshore uh you're are subject to the regulations and laws of some country uh and I think in this regard the choice of Switzerland is also quite important because it is a particular country that you know has very good regulations of what you can and cannot request and there's very strong legal safeguards to prevent authorities from getting access to data you know um that they shouldn't have access to uh but of course uh there are regulations and what I find interesting about Switzerland also is if you look at proton overall the regulations that apply at our products is also very different uh to give you example uh you know email email is not a new technology it's been around for a long time it's something Regulators are very much aware of yeah so in the email space there's virtually no country in the world where email doesn't fall under some sort of telecommunications regulation right uh but something newer like uh you know our VPN service or our cry fall storage service um those are largely unregulated because you know um Regulators haven't caught up yet or don't understand that that uh you know those Services yet uh so uh it's interesting so if you look at protonvpn for example uh there is no obligation whatsoever to collect any data or log any data uh and it's actually a uniquely strong benefit in Switzerland that proton VPN also cannot be compelled to log in any data uh you know not at all uh but email being a Communication Service that's regulated under certain types of telecommunication laws actually you know um you are required in fact uh to you know be able to collect some information if there is a court order that is you know um uh approved by a judge uh and I think you know in the end of the day that is not me be not you know some people say oh that's not good for privacy but actually I think there has to be balance right you know um privacy doesn't mean that you have immunity from you know all law enforcement and can commit any crime that you want and even as you know a provider we also don't want our services to be used for you know um less than legal purposes because this actually harms the service and it actually also creates problems for legitimate uses of our services as well you don't want to be known as the company that hey they they can do whatever they want like and we know that it's being used for certain illegal purposes you don't want to have that reputation attached to your company because that's when governments start looking into what you're doing and try to compel you to to give them a bit of data yeah yeah so that balance is extremely important and uh so the right balance then is a question of what country you're based in and I think Switzerland you know um nobody's perfect uh but uh here in Switzerland we we do strike a balance that I think is much better than most countries in the world okay well that's uh that's interesting and so if we couple that with encryption because as you said like privacy comes from encryption uh how is encryption helping how would you describe it to someone that doesn't really understand how technology Works how Computer Works doesn't have the mathematical background to to see what this is yeah well I put it in the context of your you know last question um the purpose of encryption and what we use this end encryption is to really minimize the data that we have right uh if I cannot decrypt the data of uh the emails that people store on proton mail actually when the authorities come knocking in fact I can't even share that information so the fact that we have encryption uh end encryption and zero access encryption in proton in proton mail in particular uh that's actually very strong asset because yes the law can compel me to hand over certain data but if everything I have is already encrypted in a way that I cannot decrypt then actually there's no law enforcement agency that can you know get access that to the actual data itself because I myself don't have it but it goes beyond actually just the question of law enforcement and government requests right um let's take a hacking for example uh every service is going to get breached eventually someday proton will get breached as well right you know it's not a matter of uh you know um if it's really matter of when and if you are able ble to use strong encryption like you know we do on our services actually you minimize the damage from such a breach because the data that you know hacker can steal well quite frankly they can't steal from us something that we ourselves do not possess yeah uh and this is the value of encryption and this is why you know we're very rigorous on enforcing encryption in all of our products yeah they can they could theoretically steal or a government could request the data and any everything you could hand over or that could get stolen would be unusable without the decryption Keys yeah yes okay well that's uh I think that answers the next question I had which was uh why would someone use an encrypted email service uh I guess that's just to prevent like this data from being legible by anybody who might want to access it without it's a government or law enforcement agency or a hacker yeah but I think beyond that uh you would use it because you don't want Google uh abusing your data and you want to free yourself from Google's ecosystem so you know if you switch your Gmail with the proton mail uh you don't exist anymore to Google you are free from their ecosystem uh and I think uh that's something that is extremely powerful uh because that freedom means a lot right that freedom means that you are now for the first time maybe ever actually in control of your data and your identity online yeah uh you might still be using other services from from Google obviously if you move from Gmail to proton mail but you still have a Google account to watch YouTube videos you you're still contributing data to Google but if your only entry point was Gmail I guess yeah just switching to something that is encrypted means that yeah you you have separated that uh from what is collected about you but I say more than that as well right because uh you don't need to be logged in to actually watch YouTube you don't need to be logged in Google search so so in fact you can use all the Google services just be logged out and not have any of that information tied to your actual identity as long as you know you replace Gmail for Proto mail that's so I think that's actually the real I think that's the power of identity and this is why it's so important to really control your identity in the digital era you talked quickly about uh VPN proton VPN so VPN is often touted like this magic thing like you install it you connect to a VPN and then you're completely safe and nobody can grab anything about you no one knows anything uh so we obviously know that this isn't the case it's not a c bullet but it is interesting so could you just quickly describe for you at least the benefits of a VPN and is it something that you absolutely need to use to to regain privacy online I always go back to any security product it's about threat model right uh and what that means is you need to understand what you want to be protected against and if this product actually suits that mean or not uh and you know uh VPN there's actually a very wide range of you know um use cases but it's not a cure all it's not that you know you have a VPN and everything is good online everything is you know safe right um if we look at proton uh users of our VPN service there is a couple you know um POS possibilities right you know there's one cohort which is trying to get access to data that they cannot access uh in their country so this might be you know a user in Russia trying to get access to Wikipedia to find out the you know not governmen controlled source of information to understand the truth and this s proton represents probably tens of millions of of users not just in Russia but also in Iran turkey Saudi Arabia countries like that so from that perspective I think there's very very you know important use case uh there's also privacy use case right uh you know today if you don't use a VPN you're essentially trusting your internet service provider uh to safely guard your browsing history and I can tell you if you read the terms and conditions they're not doing that right actually they're collecting every single of your activity uh packaging that selling that uh and you know monetizing that data uh so you know using a VPN is one way to make sure that you know your browsing activity is uh is private it's actually kept safe uh and then I think of course there's also some real security use cases as well right you know if you're um in a public Wi-Fi in you know um a uh at a sketchy hotel somewhere in a uh you know not so free country uh you may want to be on that VPN before you connect to sensitive information sensitive accounts uh so you know these are some of the use cases but no you know VPN is not going to prevent you from getting viruses VPN is not going to you know um make you completely Anonymous hope with that but you know it's it's a it's it's not bulletproof as you know some people claim yeah it's part of your arsenal of tools that you can use and and depending on your current environment where you are what kind of network you're connected to it's it's important to use it or it's less important to use it another question I have is you started with proton mail and now you have built this up with Proton Drive with proton pass proton VPN so you have a a sort of Suite an ecosystem of services uh why are you focusing on building this sort of ecosystem if mail is basically like the Cornerstone the main thing you need to focus on yeah there's really a couple reasons for that right I think um the VPN why was VPN you know why do we get in VPN business actually we got the VPN business because in 2017 we anticipated that uh probably proton Mill would start to get banned in certain countries uh and it did happen right it happened in Russia it happened in Iran it's happening you know in numerous countries around the world where leadership doesn't want people to have freedom of expression freedom of speech uh and if you look at the VPN markets uh you know uh back in 2017 and looked at the free vpin options well they were all scans essentially yeah they were all selling your data uh you know uh they were selling privacy and then actually selling your data to advertisers um because that was how they they were making money so we built the VPN service because it actually was something that was necessary it was something that we actually needed to provide because there were no good options on the market uh and uh Drive well Proton Drive the story for that goes back to 2014 uh it is something that we promised to deliver to the users in our any go campaign you know almost 10 years ago uh so that was just keeping a promise uh and you know we we take that very seriously because those users that funded us uh you know in 2014 uh the reason this project exists today is because of you know um their faith and their belief right and I think because of that we do owe them to make good on the promises that we have made you know even though it's been many many years and there's no leg there's no legal obligation to do so uh I think we have a moral obligation to do so and in past well the past the newest product is quite interesting uh you know um past the product itself wasn't uh developed completely let's say you know um by the original proton Engineers uh what happened was in 2022 uh proton actually merged with a company called a simple login which is doing email aliases yeah uh and uh and that's actually a free service that every proton user can actually benefit from and what we realized when we look at email auses is you know when you think about a data breach uh you know are you really so concerned that your password got leaked uh actually your password that got leaked assuming they did it properly uh well probably it was hashed right yeah uh but even if it wasn't hashed if you follow good password practices uh the password was probably unique so you're not so concerned and after the leak it is not so difficult to go out and change that password but the other information that comes out in that leak uh your email will that kind of sucks right um you cannot change it very easily you're going to get fishing spam you know all sorts of impersonation uh that can come out of that uh that's a really dangerous piece of information that once out there uh is out there forever and you cannot change it uh so the idea of email aliases was really that in a data breach uh when I stand up because I'm afraid of data being hacked when I sign up for a new service I Don't Need Just A Unique strong password for that service it would also be good if I could have a you know a unique email Alias for that service so in the event of a data breach which is you know a matter of a when not if uh the information that leaked about me is actually quite controlled yeah so that's why you need a a password manager because you need a way to store all these unique email aliases because you can remember a few b a bunch of passwords maybe derivated from the same kind of Base but remembering 20 30 100 email addresses you're never going to be able to to retain combinations yeah and every single email Alias is actually associated with a login with a unique password so the password manager was actually a prerequisite in order to achieve the vision of you know pretending identity online uh through email aliases uh so it it wasn't such a crazy idea that we did it right uh once you think about kind of why it makes sense for the community yeah absolutely since we're on the topic of like building an ecosystem uh we have a question that that came really often from the community which is are you planning to add something like Google Docs Google Sheets Google Slides uh to to Proton Drive or do you plan to only remain on the storage uh side of things yeah well you know uh proton as a company exists because of the community uh you know we don't have any uh Venture Capital investors so all of our financing comes from the community uh and what it actually means is whoever the community wants uh they're going to get right because we literally work for them we have no choice actually uh and uh if enough people ask for it uh we are indeed going to do it and where I can tell you about you know documents sheets and you know things things of this nature uh it is a very common request uh we hear it a lot so I think the odds are good that we will eventually have to do it uh because given that we're Community Driven you know we have no choice right it's it's kind of you know insane right like if you tell Google I want this Google doesn't you know care right but you they're only going to work on what makes them the most money even yes yes but if you tell us you know uh hey you know proton please build this and many users want it actually we are obliged to do it yeah because you don't want to lose those users because that they are your only source of of Revenue because they pay our bills right whereas you know the Google user well the Google user actually is the you know it's not the customer right the Google user is the product that is being sold to the real customer which is the advertising most of them will not pay a cents to Google directly like from their own pocket so they they don't have to listen to you of course yeah yeah so now what would you say differentiates you from various competitors so we know what differentiates you from Big tech companies because obviously they're like their client is not the user their client is the person buying access to the data to to advertise uh but compared to smaller companies that there are a lot of other companies that Focus also on privacy on encryption what what differentiates proton from from those smaller competitors yeah and I think there are quite a few smaller ones in the space now I think that's actually a good thing uh and and the funny thing also is you know um we open source a lot of our uh encryption code right we we actually maintain open pbjs which is a most fly used open source you know encryption uh you know Library uh and if you look at the competition a lot of them actually use our our own code so you know in some sense we're subsidizing them right yeah um and actually I'm okay with that because I I think you know uh there's enough space for many players and the more people who are doing kind of you know um what we have pioneered the better it is for getting the message out right um I think proton is different though from the other companies in the space the smaller ones uh for probably two main reasons um first one is the experience right you know um being the first one in the space uh having you know now almost 10 years of you know history uh and having the track record of security and privacy for 10 years uh there's something to that you know uh as you get bigger and bigger as you uh you know uh scale the product the platform and the infrastructure uh there's so many challenges you can hit right whether it's a Dos attack whether it's you know infrastructure overload you know whether it's how do you handle you know spamming anti-abuse how do you handle account takeovers you know uh we have confronted uh survived and overcome most of those problems so this allows us I think to probably provide more reliability more stability uh and you know more safety for most users just because we've seen and confirming those problems uh the second major difference I think is most the other players have entered the space actually their VCB uh their investor back yeah and proton is maybe one of the only ones in the space today that even up to now uh you know is not beholden to venture capital investors and this allows us the freedom to always do what is best uh for the user as opposed to what the investors you know may require or demand yeah and there's just a lot of shortcuts you're Force to take right and things you cannot invest in and to be frank you know uh security security is expensive to do it right is very expensive and it's a bit like buying insurance right you know uh until something goes wrong uh you could have just ignored it and not made the Investments at all uh and uh I think you know what makes Pro different is we don't have investors uh where we have to go and say you know we have this profit margin you know uh and we've hit these metrics to raise the next round of financing so we're able to actually put a substantial amount of money uh you know uh towards projects features which enhance security uh but maybe don't enhance marketing I think you know a good example is the encryption key transparency project we did recently right which is a way to actually verify the encryption key that you're using is actually the right one uh you know can't Market it because it's too hard to explain to people um and cost a lot of money to do uh but it's a feature that probably only proton will have because we're the only company that is not VC you know uh backed and can actually you know afford to spend on things like this without getting in trouble with investing and I think that's a you know it's it's a subtle difference but over time it does add up I think to a more secure reliable product absolutely yeah having worked for the two kinds of companies I absolutely preferred working for a company that was already sustainable yeah it's just you have so much more freedom uh so now you're talking about proton offering an alternative to to to Google basically to to let users step out from Google's like let's call it Shadow but they data collecting Shadow let's say but is proton a viable alternative to Google why would you say thaton can replace today Google services well I think depend on what service right Google has probably you know hundreds of services and we're not there entirely and depending on how you use certain products even on the ones where we are there we may not also be a complete replacement either right uh because you know Google has you know hundreds of features that you know not we don't have all of them right um although on on the other hand we also have some features that they don't have either right so you know I think I think it kind of goes both ways um but what I think you know we are trying to do uh more and more is to get the products to a state where actually the experience is pretty comparable and if you were to use the mail product today and compared it to Gmail I would say for more than 90% of use cases uh it can actually meet your needs uh and you know other products are also getting up there as well uh so you know uh Google wasn't built uh you know a day right it was built over course of two decades um and you know uh Gmail I think has been around since 2003 2004 it's been almost 20 years right uh and you know we're not going to get there you know um immediately yeah but I think also we also building now in a space technology that's better right so what took Google maybe 10 years and a thousand people to do maybe can be done today in two or three years with you know 100 people right uh so from that perspective the Gap is Contin closing uh and I do think you know if you were to try the products today A lot of people are quite surprised actually this is kind of funny you know anecdote right um uh I think a few months ago we asked a journalist you know uh from uh wall I think Washington Post to try out proton and try switching right um and then you know she was like oh you know too much trouble a lot of work I don't want to do it um and then she actually used our easy switch tool and that's a tool that you switch from you know uh Gmail to proton and it was it was just a couple Clicks in fact you know you could you could switch and pull all your emails over and get completely onboarded in proton now from Gmail uh within probably two or three clicks and it was so easy in fact that uh she was so surprised she wrote an article about it uh so I think you know I think that's example of kind of um how with the advancement in in a technology uh with gdpr forcing Google to you know support data portability uh were're able to get to an experience for actually you know even people who are not Tex happy have no technical background don't know anything about you know uh encryption or you know software you know like grammar can use it now right yeah the barrier to entry is much much lower yeah you don't have to migrate like data files or email files that you might have exported to a various format that is now completely incompatible with something else it's yeah it's it's way easier but that that that goes back to another question that that got asked quite a lot uh on the on the question the the the community posted which is basically there seems to be a an impression that proton expands into a lot of different categories but never completely reaches a state where it is a viable alternative yeah uh so you said that now you're trying to bring every product to that state where you have like 90 95% of the features that most people will use uh can can you tell me a little bit more about this like do you agree with this statement like you're expanding fast but you don't necessarily have feature parity between platforms yeah yeah yeah yeah so I I I completely agree with the statement uh and I can also say that actually it's it's a intentional right uh and what is the reason behind that because it you know it doesn't make a lot of sense from the outside right uh the reason is because perfecting products takes a long time uh it's very difficult to do uh and it takes a lot of iterations and cycles and if I were to take each product to Perfection before launching the next one uh actually I would probably never launch the next product right uh it would just never uh happen and we know that doesn't work because Google uh you know uh Microsoft you know these Tech Giants they're ecosystem place so ecosystems is something that uh you know if users don't expect today they will expect in the future so you're have no choice F to build the ecosystem and that's why you have to start things you know um at this you know in parallel because you know it takes a long time to get to that completion stage and uh that's unfortunately the reality now I wish I could deliver a perfect product before the next product but if I know if I do that the next product would never come and this is and this is the situation uh I would also say that launching products early even when they're maybe not perfect there's also an advantage to this because it allows us to get feedback much faster yeah uh so we can then be much more responsive to user needs uh and then we can adapt and really follow the path of community wants us to follow uh and that is something that I believe in the long run does lead to better products even if it's maybe more frustrating for the early adopters yeah it's basically the the variant of what a startup would do which is like release often like the the famous Mantra like move fast break things it's it's kind of this verion but without all the the the Venture Capital funding which means that you have to take more time to build those uh but you do expand and you do progress you just cannot progress at the speed of someone who has like billions to throw out every year uh because they don't care about being like profitable yet yeah and I would say the typical startup uh they will probably go 100% full speed uh and you know um and and and and they don't care right and even a lot of the startups in the security privacity space uh they act that way because they have no choice because to get the next financing to be around next year uh they need to demonstrate a certain level of growth and that requires chasing features and only Futures right uh but proton philosophically that's not how we think um we can't think that way because actually we're in the security and privacy space you know there are certain mistakes that we're not allowed to make yeah uh and that's why you know we will always do things in a certain way um not the fastest way but in the way that we think is the most secure right and uh that often say oh you know proton you're so slow and uh well yes we are slow but we're slow because we must be careful yeah and we can afford to be careful because we don't have the VCS driving us to you know um ship XY andz and hit X Revenue by a certain period of time right and that allows us to have a much higher bar on security and privacy than others uh but it does come at a cost of speed you know there there's you know you can't get security for free right there's always a to pay uh and so since we're talking like you as you said you're in the security and privacy business do do you think that these are areas that the general public Minds do you think they care about it right now or or is it something that is growing or well when I first started in 2014 and I went off and you know uh talked to just friends family people out on the streets um probably one in 10 person could actually explain to me how uh Google and Facebook make money yeah uh today is not 10 out of 10 uh but it's probably four or five out of 10 uh and it's increasing a lot you know year-over-year and I think proton being able to get to we have 100 million accounts uh really shows that you know the concern is going mainstream and the easy way to think about this is if I were to asked you or anybody else in the world uh you know do you want more privacy and security uh no one's ever said no to that right the answer is always yes uh but the question is you know at what cost what do I give up what is it going to cost me uh and I think our mission as a company and what technology will enabled us to do is to make that cost really essentially zero over time and when you achieve that I don't see why there' be any reason why people wouldn't want to switch yeah absolutely if you have access to the same features if it's as easy to use if it's compatible with the same devices and why why would you pick something yeah and if it's free why why would you pick something that collects data compared to something that doesn't of course yeah and with that in mind now we've talked about the ecosystem we've talked about your various products how you how you approach them what's next uh let's say for the next two years do can can you share a little bit more about what you're trying to build what you want to focus on do you already have enough request that you want to fulfill for the community yeah well I think if you you know uh go look at the uh you know our reddits and what people are asking for right essentially what they're asking for is going to get built more or less if you go back to IND go campaign and what we said we're going to do you know all those things we're actually going to do right uh so um I would say uh you know um we are probably in the next immediate period going to be focused actually on uh consolidating existing products and makeing them bigger because uh if you think about it uh it wasn't so long ago that we launched pass and drive yeah and so we will be you know I think quite focused on improving those products in the next six or nine months uh but uh yeah near the end of next year we will for sure be you know looking at uh the different comments in the community and making sure that we meet the ones that are you know most demanded okay and since like this is for my channel the Linux experiment so we're going to talk a little bit about Linux support uh I know you you rebuilt the VPN client for Linux very recently I think it was reilt from scratch and uh so I've been using it because obviously I'm a I'm a consumer for proton so I have like the the I think it's the first tier uh but yeah it's a it's nice to have that cool experience but the the main thing is do you plan to have those same apps available for Linux for Proton Drive for proton pass uh do you have native clients planned for Linux for these two tools as well the answer is yes right you know we probably third of the company uses Linux I'm a Linux user myself so it is inevitable that we support Linux but the reality is Linux is not going to be the biggest Market it's not always you know when you ask people what they want what platform they want us to support it's never going to be the top of the list so if you look at Drive uh the first desktop C that went out was actually Windows uh why because it was just had the most votes right uh and then Mac OS came out a few weeks ago um because it was the obvious second one uh and Linux it's something that we will have to do it's it's inevitable um Linux is in many ways actually the hardest platform to build for because there are so many variants uh you know so many distributions uh so many little uh you know uh differences between different dists are causing a break uh it's extremely difficult to support so it's always going to take longer uh and what I can say is we're of course committed to Linux Linux users ourselves we must be committed to Linux uh you know our entire infrastructure runs on Linux right uh so so that is coming sooner or later and you know um I wish I could do it sooner but with the resources at hand uh it's always going to take longer than the other platforms and you know I I get what you're saying because obviously yes you have plenty of different dis but we have we nowaday we have uh three different packaging formats that support virtually all distributions which are flatback uh snaps and app Images so any one of these could theoretically serve everyone like of course if you do snaps then non aburn to dros but if you do flat you're you're going to work on everyone uh do do you know if there are like technical limitations that prevent you from using flat pack like maybe the sandbox prevents you from interacting with things yeah so it depends a lot on the product as well uh and let me give you you know a couple examples right um if I want to make a mail application uh on Linux that's actually pretty easy yeah uh and that's probably going to be coming sooner than you might imagine right um if I want to do a pass manager that's also relatively easy and in fact you can use proton pass you know on browsers already because there's a there's a browser extension right uh but if I go to something like uh VPN for example uh well VPN has to interface with a network staff uh and you know some op some uh Linux distributions have you know network manager some you know have you know IP tables other the set up right yeah you know even the kernels are different right and and you need kernel modules in order to interface the network stock right right uh that's that that's super complicated then you talk about uh Drive well even the file systems of different distributions are different right not everybody uses the same you know um file uh system uh and the way in which you interface you know um the chronol is different um the desktop experience is different as well right the way you browse files is different as well uh so uh depending on the level in which the you know um product sits whether it's very much you know can be abstracted away from the kernel or whether they're sitting directly off the kernel level uh the difficulty in supporting multiple distributions uh is varies quite a bit so uh VPN was a very difficult one that's why it took so many years to you know be able to put something out there uh and unfortunately Drive looks to be even harder okay well I guess that will answer uh I think that was the biggest question we got which was like okay when are the Linux apps coming so yeah you want to do them you you don't do you have a time frame that you could potentially share for drive on Linux or do do you not want to to put something out there oh you know I'm G to get in trouble for this interview now but what I can say is um having analyzed the problem uh you know uh quite a bit in the last six months uh kind of go back to what I said it's in fact harder than VN it's the fact going to be the hardest one to bring to Linux uh because the file systems you know act so differently right uh and the time frame in fact depends on the level of integration that we want to achieve because there are easier and harder Integrations in terms of how automated it is how it interfaces with a GUI Etc right so I can very easily see auntu version uh you know probably being able to arrive let's say you know in the next um prob 24 months right um but to get to a state where I can comfortably say Hey you know I've covered you know all the main distributions and Linux is you know um 90% supported uh that could take substantially longer yeah it also depends on the on the number of features you want to bring if it's a basic sync client which just uploads downloads might be easier to do than something that lets you decrypt on the fly or access or Mount your storage as as an additional like web da storage or yeah yeah if I want to support SMB or or or you or ldap or something like that then it gets very complicated right but if it's a simple a folder on the desktop or in the home directory that syncs with a cloud you know that's much easier to integrate right um and so so so depends on the feature set um but um yeah I do want to get something out there for Linux you know users in the next year or two uh this is something that you know um I think we should do yeah uh but uh it's it's quite difficult and you know uh if you know VPN wasn't so easy either uh but a drive looks to be a challenge but it is definitely planned well I I guess this will answer a lot of people then and and since we're still talking about features uh let's talk about proton VPN uh some people asked me if uh proton well ask you but through me uh if if protonvpn will offer dedicated IP addresses for non business users and in that case can you ensure the privacy of those users wow okay so uh this is I guess your community knows Pon very well because you know they know that we don't offer for consumers they know it's available for businesses so you know very specific question um but um the answer is yes uh I do want to offer dedicated IPS for uh you know uh consumers who don't need to get the business plan so that is for sure coming um now uh and okay I probably shouldn't say this because I'm going to end up undermining my own product right uh but you know um now now the question becomes if I'm a VPN user should I get the dedicated IP right yeah and you know I'll be completely honest uh because you know um because I'm a scientist I I can't help it right um if you after privacy don't get dedicated uh you know uh you'll pay us less actually to not have that feature uh but it's not more private because it's an IP address in which all your activity is linked to you because you have bought the IP right uh so um there is no privacy angle You know despite what the checkout on other VPN services are trying to tell you um there's no additional privacy getting dedicated IP yeah it's it's more a matter of of control than of privacy yeah yes yes now the benefit you might have is maybe you'll hit less captures right you know um so maybe uh you'll be able to go to various sites and encounter less problems because you're not on a shared IP so it's not to say that it's not beneficial uh but objectively speaking I cannot honestly tell you that you know dedicate IP won't Pro youry right despite what some of the other ads out there say it's not true it's not yeah and speaking of proton in general uh there's a question about the environmental impact of of proton like Proton Drive because obviously when you're starting to store a lot of data you have to have a lot of Compu computers of storage or maybe a data center somewhere so do you know generally what the environmental impact of the company is right now yes so we only buy uh servers from you know uh data center providers that are actually uh you know essentially carbon neutral so 100% renewable uh so we have today a facility in Switzerland that meets that criteria our uh you know German facility is also there and the next facility that we're building is actually in Norway we're going to Norway because the power costs are significantly lower and it's also outside the EU and that facility will also be you know running on green power as well okay uh so you know uh we do what we can to uh you know uh minimize the impact and actually we're financially incentivized to do so because power is one of the main costs especially here in Europe where it's quite expensive right uh and I think you know going to Germany the power isn't cheapest in Germany uh but it is pretty clean so you know we are paying more to ensure the green Energy Mix is you know um good in our products uh and it's something of course that we care a lot about as well within the company yeah well I guess when you're trying to be ethical in terms of data of privacy you have to care about those aspects as well they sort of go handy and even though they might not look like they are linked they they sort of are if you if you're trying to run a moral company yeah yes yes and and honestly it's software right it's it's writing the software as efficiently as possible uh to you know um just consume less CPU that's the main you know driver of electric power and another feature that is uh requested is implementing notifications on Androids that aren't using the Google Play services uh I guess to maybe also allow the app to be published on fdroid and other alternative stores that are like purely for open source apps do you have any plans uh to to work on that yeah it's a so the reason we're let's say um okay to some extent uh you know using Google Play services is because we actually ENT and encrypt the push notifications so even though notifications are going through you know Google Play services uh Google doesn't actually get any of the metadata in that notification because it's end encrypted so um that's why from a privacy standpoint it isn't exactly a massive burning fire right um now what is the uh you know issue with alternative notification systems well Google whether it's for you know any competitive reasons or because of the way they sell the platform um makees this so that the power efficiency of Google Play services is very good but if you were to use a separate system to do it actually battery life is going to suffer on you know Android devices uh and this is kind of the trade-off right uh where if I ask the vast majority of proton customers uh would you rather have you know um ditch Google Play services and have you know horse battery life or would you rather have you know Google Play services better battery life um considering the fact that notific are end encrypted yeah probably the most users would say you know I prefer the battery life right uh now there are going to be some users who would take a different stance on that uh and actually I'm one of those users as well so we do in the long run want to make the switch and it is something that is inevitably going to happen but we're going to have to leave both options you know all could it be an option inside the app is it manageable to do it this way like letting letting the user choose which back end they would prefer using like as an advanced option I think the way to do it is is uh the fdroid version will do it one way yeah and in the Google Play version would do it different way yeah so and and you saw the one that you want right but uh the cost of that is now you're forced to maintain two versions of the application yeah uh and you know um we already have complaints about we have complaints about platform parity about you know not developing fast enough not getting complete on all features so it's just about prioritizing all the different requests come in so it's on the list it hasn't got on the top of the list but you know it will eventually yeah uh there's also a question about the source code uh so some people seem to think that the the source code of your Android apps is pretty hard to find because there there seem to be a bunch of different GitHub accounts like they're not regrouped under a single umbrella yeah uh I have a very simple answer for this but it's GNA sound you know super stupid right um the person that owns you know github.com proton uh he doesn't want to give it up right and he got there first so it's his right so you know uh if someday you know we get it then we're going to consolidate right but but uh but it's it's a that's that's a reason really right um and we could do Proto something different right yeah you could put everything into proton mail and then have a male repo and then drive repo yeah yeah yeah so so you know probably eventually we'll do it uh but uh last time we tried uh we couldn't get the you know uh username that we wanted okay well yep that that happens it happened to our domain right you know ideally we get pro.com we can right it's it's a car company in in Malaysia so so we Pro me which which I think is also nice it's also very memorable yeah and I think I think that was a question as well uh for the email addresses one of the question was saying uh why proton do me because for a business it might not sound super professional and they would prefer have something like proton.com or yeah yeah well you can still get you can still use protonmail.com right that's Al that's still an option so you can pick which one you want um but uh you know um I actually I think there's a certain logic to the do me uh you know first of all uh because what is Proton really about at the end of the day uh it's about putting you in control of your data yeah right uh so it's about you as a person uh and I think you know the do me does reflect that in a way uh and it's pretty memorable you don't confuse it with something else right you know if we use CH they might say oh you know that's China right or you know um or or it doesn't sound quite right and it's a bit like a zoom zoom is a collaboration service right so Zoom uses zoom. us right us uh so I think the fixation on do is probably not the way that it used to be in the past uh and I think you know um you see more and more companies using other uh domains yeah and you know I like the fact that it ties in really with the mission of you know proton being about you uh and if you say it out loud you know uh you know proton me it's like yeah you know proton me right so so you know there's a logic to it and and this is also why um you know many years ago we also acquired a short domain called uh pm.me right and then and that was really like you know literally private message me right so yeah enforces that privacy thing yeah yeah exactly so so that's the reason why we settle on that one uh but yeah if we could have a doom I think you know we would have taken that of course right yeah in terms of other features there's another question about feature parody like for the mobile apps um this person specifically was talking about calendar search and mail filters uh so I guess it goes it circles back to those questions about feature parity like this is what you're trying to focus on right now like not necessarily launching 20 other different products but trying to bring all the products to the same Baseline so I think we answered this one unless you have a timeline specifically for for for these two features well I think that's interesting so uh so uh we have a philosophy and our philosophy at proton is um when it's ready on on one platform we're going to launch it yeah uh because the alternative is waiting for all the platforms to be ready uh but then a benefit that an Android User could have obtained um would have been artificially held back for maybe you know a week or two waiting for iOS to catch up or even longer right so you know um the launch and ready uh philosophy is to bring value to users as quickly as possible now uh this user asked about search and search is extremely difficult why because all of our data is encrypted yes so I cannot run the search queries on the server it has to be run client side so everything single thing that has to do with search is super complicated because we have to build software that can you know index the data and search it locally as opposed to using the server Side Library which means it has it built basically once on every single platform yeah uh and that unfortunately makes it harder so um it is coming we are going to get it on all platforms uh but that's the reason why you know it's not fli for switch and then and then we have search another feature some people were inquiring about is uh SMTP relay uh some people seem to think that this should be available more widely to more people yeah I would love to do it actually uh to make it you know available more widely but uh it's an anti-abuse issue uh because imagine a relay that wasn't properly you know controlled uh and you know uh monitored uh if an abuser got a hold of that uh and they could just send you know tons of emails uh through proton uh you know um it'd be a fast way to get IP blocked yeah so the reason it's pretty uh you know let's say more limited today is because it allows us to reduce the risk of the relay you know being abused in a way that we hurt proton's reputation for our IPS um as we scale expand and improve anti-us capabilities we will also be able to make available to more people but it's never going to be probably a free feature uh just because one of the best ways to cut down on abuse is to make sure that they have a valid credit card and they're actually legit user yeah the the person asking specifically what was asking about at least proton unlimited customers but yeah of course you can't give that for free cuz that's like a recipe for a disaster yeah yeah and I would say to answer the limited question uh it's probably a matter of time yeah okay now there there also some some concerns that of course you started with like the the the Privacy user the individual now you're expending to to business and Enterprise and so some people are wondering is that going to affect uh the feature set that individuals can can expect are the resources going to be shift more shifted towards more Enterprise and businesses or how how will you maintain that balance between the two yeah well as of today you know and I can't speak for the future but let's let's talk about today for now right um the request that businesses are asking for and the requests that uh consumer users are asking for actually if you look at those list of requests they're basically the same thing yeah right uh so uh everything we add for business is actually something that you know the regular user is also looking for okay so uh we don't really have a situation where we have to make that tradeoff yet um now to be completely honest I do anticipate eventually you know reaching a stage where we have to make a decision you know build the uh you know future for the consumer or build a future for the business uh but it hasn't happened yet today and we're probably still I think some ways off before we have to get to that you know stage yeah um proton at its heart because of our crowdfunding beginnings and you know how we got to we are today the soul of the company is probably always consumer yeah and you know um that's very hard to change but uh there is also very strong Enterprise demand for our products and that's something that you know we want to do more and more and I think it's actually not a bad thing for the consumer users as well because if we have more Enterprises paying for the services that actually means we can give more things away for free to the consumers yeah so you know so so in the in the end I think it's it's a mutually beneficial type of you know um Synergy that that we are in both markets yeah absolutely yeah you can sort of subsidize that's not the right word but subsidize the free accounts with more Enterprise accounts that will obviously have a little bit more money to to to to pay for these features yes and now there's there's one thing that uh since we're talking about ecosystems uh we we always hear this thing that don't put your eggs all in one basket like you have to diversify to use multiple services for individual things uh so why should we use use the complete proton ecosystem if the right thing to do would be to use Individual Services yeah well the situation right now is um you have uh you know uh many baskets uh and and most of the baskets are you know poor quality baskets that are very likely to get hacked or you know leaked or broken or you know just fail outright uh so one school thought could be um maybe it's better to have you know one really strong basket as opposed to you know um a dozen not so strong baskets that maybe that may get hacked may get breached may go of business Etc right uh so I think you know um that is uh you know U maybe one counterargument to that um at least when it comes to proton what people seem to object to and I completely understand the point they're making is you know I don't want to have one account for everything yeah right uh and uh there's a solution to that uh you know we don't prohibit you from having more than one proton account so there are some folks who you know have one account for Pro on pass one for proon mail and another one for pro VPN uh and that's privil acceptable you can do that right uh so I do I do think that is a solution uh but you know it's already so hard to protect accounts in general uh so I would rather have one account that I put you know tofa on SEL to you know um Safeguard against breaches and um just keep one account safe as opposed to secure you know a dozen accounts yeah of course and speaking of this uh the two Factor do you have any plans to support like passwordless login methods uh like we're saying Pass Key stuff like that happen key right yeah yeah um you know P key from a technology standpoint is um is actually probably sound right uh the difficulty is nobody has still managed to find an implementation that it's actually you know um what I would consider to be sufficiently user friendly so um I do think it's a step in the right direction but I'm not quite sure yet if it's actually going to be able to you know really change in G Mass adoption yeah uh and it is something that for example next year we're going to bring past keys to problem pass right okay uh and we're going to be actively involved in the space uh and we're going to do what we can to support it but uh it's still very uncertain whether or not um that's going to be something that everybody can adopt and this is why lot of I think a few months go we launched something called proton Sentinel right and proton Sentinel is a system that basically uses you know AI uh and also machine learning algorithms combine a human human analysts uh to try to spot malicious uh logins within our system because the thinking is your credentials are going to get stolen yeah it is almost inevitable uh so what SEL is actually trying to do is try to give safeguards and protection so that even if your credential is stolen even the attacker hash or password uh we can still detect that and still block that uh so I think that type of Defense uh is probably maybe better return on investment than something like uh you know past keys at this moment in time uh just because that's something I can roll out to anybody uh without any user interaction whereas path Keys require users to really change behavior and adopt new tools uh now there's someone asking about end to and encryption uh they said that it only works with emails between proton mail accounts uh and so saying if a lot of your contacts don't use prot on mail then is Email encryption all that important because obviously like you could request the emails from the person you send them to and then you have them unencrypted yeah I think it depends on your threat model right uh you know um if someone sends an email from Gmail to you uh actually that email is stored encrypted you know in your inbox yeah uh so uh it gives you Security in case your account you know uh gets breached you know it gives you uh you know uh Security in that uh you know we cannot abuse your privacy to monetize that data uh so you know there's still a lot of boundy there right um of course you know the police could potentially uh you know go to that person uh and you know ask them for that information but um I would say that's probably not most people's threat model right uh and a very good way to fix that is to just encourage everybody to come on proton right because then the network effect kicks in um but even if you don't care about email as communication I think email as an entity uh is huge so uh you know how often do you actually use email as communication tool I would say these days is probably quite rare uh so the fact that you know you are using proton mail and your identity is now separated from Google's host evidence system uh that I think is super valuable even if you don't care about any of the encryption at all uh the next question will be uh about VPN proton VPN uh a lot of VPN providers are restricting port forwarding because it's being very very much misused uh do do you think you will have to at some point also disable it and and if if you can explain just in simple terms why why this might be a problem for for people who might not understand this thing yeah so port forwarding is essentially uh you know um you sort of expose the port uh so that devices and other people outside the network uh can see your Port right uh and and um the use case where this is uh sometimes useful and I'm not I'm not condoning you know uh uh let's say piracy right but a lot of people who use bit you can use port forwarding you can get much faster speeds right uh and you know of course you're not allowed to use proton for illegal purposes so don't do that um but you know um P forwarding is a fature that we currently you know uh do support um and a lot of VN have canel it because they simply cannot handle the you know abuse parts that come with that we are in a fortunate position because uh email is a space that has tons of abuse so For Better or For Worse we have been forced to become very good at anti-abuse and the same technologies that we have used the same you know uh skills and techniques uh we have also been able to use to try to reduce abuse on proton VPN so as of today we're able to control the level of abuse on port forwarding where we can still keep the future available and I'm pretty optimistic that we'll be able to maintain this even when other people cannot uh simply because we have the different expertise that I think other VPN companies don't have yeah that's uh that's really nice I think the the person well the multiple persons who asked this question will be very happy about this uh the next one is generally about email in general uh email was never built to be a private tool of communication like the the protocol themselves that it relies upon are not private and they were never meant to be uh is is this really a a still a truth and and like is end to end encryption and zero access encryption sufficient to to fix uh let's say the this the designed yeah email is not uh designed you know with encryption in mind it's you know it's encryption is something that we have to retr on top of the email and that's been you know the case even from TLS many many years ago um but what is that what the P implication that right um why is email so hard to update and bring to the Modern Age it's so hard to bring the modern age because it's a Federated system yeah so all servers need to talk the same language and understand each other uh so that might seem like a major weakness but it's also my opinion a major strength because email is if you think about it truly maybe the most successful communication technique ever devised by mankind in the history of civilization uh there is nothing that is more ubiquitous uh and more easy to use and more accessible than email anybody can run a server anybody can get an account it's completely free you don't need to be beholden to any any single company to to to use it um it's a compl system and I think that value of email uh truly outweighs some of the downsides of the fact that that's Federated and then you cannot update it yeah so what we do at proton is we're trying to do what we can to make it as secure as possible yeah uh and we've actually gotten quite far with a lot of the work that we've done right it it is today you know legitimately quite secure if you use it in an ENT crypted way um well it be as something as secure as what you could achieve if you tore it all down and rebuilt it um probably not but if you did that you would also lose the ability of email to be a universal identifier and and your Universal passport uh online yeah that is I think the main power but yeah basically it's it's saying yes we know email is not like the most private thing it was never designed to be and and but people will still use it for private Communications and for stuff that they want to stay private so you might as well try and make that protocol safer instead of trying to reinvent something that will never have the same level of adoption yes exactly uh now the next question is uh what do you think about the following claim proton is open source but is working on their own Solutions instead of working on more Open Standards uh so basically the the question I think boils down to what protects your users and and the open source community in general from a a license change or from a change in business model yeah first of all on email side sntp IMAP you know these are standards that have been around forever you know um we cannot deviate and change on this right it's email is email uh so the question is probably more relevant towards open bgp uh and that standard uh which if you look at open pgp today that we use is completely different from open pgp of you know the early 9s you know it's been modernized it's been made more secure it's been you know completely revamped and and redeveloped to be modern crypto and uh from that perspective it has changed massively and actually proton has been one of the main drivers of that change because we've pushed through these changes over the past you know four or five years this is why if you use pgp you know even 10 years ago and look at what proton is doing today pbjs it's uh in some ways unrecognizable right yeah uh but what we have always done and I think this is something that maybe makes Pro quite unique is we don't do these changes unilaterally um we could actually because we're probably today the largest OB deployment in the world but all of our changes uh go through you know um rfc's uh they go through ietf uh we go through the bodies and it's a huge cost that we pay it's uh terribly painful you know very very slow um super annoying you want to kill yourself sometimes right uh but uh you know we have uh paid that cost because we're very committed to Open Standards uh and this is I think maybe something that comes from the fact that you know um I'm not a businessman at the end of the day right uh I'm a prodal physicist I'm a scientist you know I believe in standards in open source and open Communications in transparency uh and that's a cultural DNA of the company that I think is you know not going to change uh as long as you know um we're here and the community endorses us to take this path uh now the next question is about the infrastructure uh what save guards do you have in place uh to to ensure that users don't lose their data let's say in a data center fire or or if like I don't know a giant electromagnetic pulse wipes off everything yeah well um you know if there's a giant you know uh uh you know asteroid that hits you know Europe and destroys all of Europe uh I probably can't guarantee your data security that case but we we'll all probably have bigger problems than that yeah yeah but uh if if it's a you know obh being stupid and you know having bad cabling that burns down the DAT data center uh this I can secure against right right uh so what we do of course is we replicate data in multiple sites and this is why each of proton's you know Big Data Centers are in different countries okay you know uh some people really said hey proton everything everything should be in Switzerland but we said no no no we can't do that right because that's a that's that's a that's a um reliability risk yeah uh so the fact that it's you know Swiss German and Norwegian different facilities different vendors you know different suppliers in all locations uh this helps with that uh there's also offline backups that we make of all data uh so overall a lot of safeguards have been put in place uh and I think that's something that probably you know um we can do better than other companies because proton actually doesn't go to the cloud right you know um it's not an AWS it's not on Google Cloud it's not on Azure um we build our own infrastructure yeah and this allows us to provide you know more reliability and more security because it's actually our computer as our servers is our Hardware right you know um somebody at Amazon cannot make a decision to delete all of our instances and then and then you know on right uh so uh yeah it's not perfect there's nothing there's no such thing as 100% security uh but I do think we do a very reasonable job in the fact that we're not cloud-based uh you know gives digal layer protection there's another question about Quantum Computing and and whether you think this will change well obviously like Quantum Computing will give a lot more horsepower to specifically decrypt stuff uh so so will we need to invent something new at that point or will like the power of quantum computer allow us to build like way better encryption that needs something even better than a quantum computer yeah well we for sure have to invent something new uh and the good news I can share because we've actually published it now yet is that um we have invented something new already uh so if you look at uh our blog we recently announced uh you know an update open pgp that is post Quantum uh and so we've already done the work there's actually already at ietf a working group that you know uh we are participating in that is working on standardizing post Quantum encryption in open PTP so this is coming uh this work has already largely been done and uh you know we do know how to protect uh data in the quantum era and there is already the work that has been done to prepare for that uh personally I think it's still probably you know five 10 years out before we get the first quantum computers uh but uh when it happens proton is actually ready we have another question about uh proton male Bridge so this is the the technology that allows you to integrate your on mail account into like other apps like Thunderbird or Outlook uh will this work at some point with calendar and contacts and and will it be offered for Android as well so uh this is a controversial topic always even within proton um my personal opinion uh and you know and again my personal opinion is not the one that matters it's the community that matters right but you know um personally uh I don't like uh the path of bridge uh the reason I like the path the bridge is because you're completely dependent on the actions of a you know a third party application provider which could at any moment in time change the way they want to do things yeah I'll give you an example uh there's a new version of Outlook that uh you know Microsoft has rolled out in beta and on this version actually Microsoft has decided that they want to drop support uh for IMAP and and third party Integrations right uh so as hard as we try to make Bridge as good as possible ultimately whether or not this technology can continue to thrive is completely dependent on third parties that we have no control over um which actually in the future may not even be interested in continue to support you know um IMAP as opposed to just you know directly having apis right uh so the path forward I believe for proton and I hope the community will you know support us on this is actually to build desktop applications and roll those out so that's something that uh you can expect to see quite soon and uh you know we hope that it can be a replacement for bridge uh we don't know that it will automatically uh or right away but I do think it's kind of inevitable if you look at the direction that Microsoft is going with Outlook uh I do think that you know they're going to force everybody to their API and you know out supports IMAP and third party clients uh and third party Services uh this is probably going away sooner or later unfortunately uh do you have any plans to have like a separate segment of Proton Drive which would be a photo gallery like a lot of other storage options have that separated on the side so you could autosync your photos from your phone to your to your storage and have them in a separate space as well so uh Nick when are you publishing this interview uh it's going to be on YouTube and it's going to be on pier tube and on my audio podcast which is like but it's it's the next week right yeah yeah yeah it's gonna be on on the 15th probably uh of December yeah yeah so uh By the time uh you know viewers see this uh proton uh photos in Drive uh will be available already on one platform very nice I won't I won't say which one uh but uh you'll find out soon okay that's very cool that's very cool yeah so another question is uh do you think your you'll be able to work on a proton Notes app like a separate note storage that would also be encrypted and available for everyone yeah it's a very interesting question because uh today there is already uh you know notes uh built within uh proton pass so proton pass actually has encrypted notes so the basic functionality is already there uh then the question becomes does it make sense to do it as a separate application uh and if we do you know documents and drive is a part of that uh in the future and to be honest I don't know the answer to that so if you're proton user and this is something that's on your mind uh come on Reddit uh let us know what you think uh and let us know what direction we should actually take you know do we enhance the nose functionality in Prof pass do we build a separate application or do we just directly go to try to do documents in Drive uh you know I don't know the answer uh the community answer will be what we actually do okay uh and I think a final interesting one uh and this we have to to conclude uh for for the for the the interview is about VPN uh Apple recently announced that you could add VPN services on the Apple TV and on TV OS I think they already announced one but I'm not sure which one it is I think it might be expressvpn yeah do you have any plans to to work on a on a protonvpn app for Apple TV so this would I guess only really solve the the thing of trying to view content from a country where you're not supposed to watch it yeah I think now that Apple has proper support for it uh it's something that we will also add as well um it's uh you know there's demand for it and we know that today a lot of people use proton actually to get access to content and because of our let's say strong experience in networking and uh you know um and server infrastructure actually proton is very good at you know um making different streaming and different content uh systems work because it's a highly technical product and we are of course engineers and scientists at heart so you know when applied when we apply our let's say mathematical skills to that problem uh we do it a lot better than let's say the VPN who spend most of effort on marketing right uh so it is something that we do better than others today and I think we will want to bring that to Apple TV for sure yeah that's uh very nice to hear because I do own an Apple TV and I would love to have access to to like content that is only available in the US because in France we have some kind of weird restriction where something has to be out in movie theaters for like a year and a half before we can have it it's it's whole thing and it's super annoying for a lot of stuff uh so I think this will conclude uh this this this is all the time we have unfortunately so there were a lot of questions that unfortunately we could not look at because there just were way too many uh so thank you still for taking the time to answer all of this Andy it was really really nice of you to take the time to do so and uh I hope the audience will be satisfied with a lot of those answers and obviously if there are some some comments and some some things that uh that that maybe ask for follow-ups uh may maybe we'll do a follow-up for this video yeah and I think also you know for the for the different users and viewers out there um if you didn't like the answer uh well I work for you right uh so come on Reddit come on Twitter let us know you didn't like the answer and let us know what the answer should have been and then you know we'll discuss it yeah and if your question didn't get answered well uh come on social media find us and you know we'll answer your question yeah I think that's uh that's the best way you can ask for anything just just get get onto the place where you're supposed to and just ask for it and if people ask for it then it will be made because you know we're not Google right you know we actually work for the for the user so if you want it and you ask for it uh you know we actually have to respond so good and that's that's always the best way to do it so so thanks for coming in and uh and thank you all for watching the video and I guess you will see me in the next one and Andy I'm going to say goodbye yes thank you thank you so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it as always if you did don't hesitate to drop a like to subscribe to turn on notifications or to write a comment and if you didn't let me know why in the comments as well and if you like the channel and you like these sort of videos these take a lot of time to make if you want to support what I do I left plenty of links in the description to help me keep making those 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so a few weeks ago I asked you all on masteron to send me all the questions you had for proton because I have interviewed the CEO of proton for proton male proton VPN proton pass and he has answered a lot of your questions there were a ton of those more than 150 so obviously in an hour and a half we could not answer all of them but I think we gave a very wide coverage of everything now small disclaimer this video is not sponsored by proton they are a regular sponsor of the channel but not of this video and this interview was conducted asking all your questions and mine as well so now we're going to jump right in and you can have all the answers that you never knew you wanted or that you actually wanted so hi Andy how are you yeah I'm doing very very well thanks for having me on the show today yeah thanks for for agreeing to to talk with me uh so you're the CEO of proton and uh you agreed to answer a bunch of questions from for my community which is really cool uh so we're not going to waste any time and we're going to jump right in so there's a mix of my own questions questions to introduce proton and questions that all of you the the audience asked previously uh so we're going to go right in uh the first question I have is how did uh proton start how did the company uh get its debut well actually it started a bit on accident uh and I think this is maybe a common thing with a lot of companies but the way that uh it began the very start was you know I was working at CERN as a physicist back in those days and that was around the time when you know kind of the Snowden leaks had come out right and a lot of the physicists at s were thinking well wow you know Snowden just revealed a massive government surveillance but actually the surveillance of big tech companies is uh much more massive and this is a much bigger problem that no one is talking about uh so the idea was can we build a solution that can address that uh starting with email because email is really online identity right it's it's it's the core of your online existence uh and it was open source project uh built at CERN uh the early testers and users were actually other CERN scientists and physicists like ourselves uh and then we said okay let's uh launch it and see what happens and the very interesting thing was within the first couple days of putting it out on the market as a service uh we had a received maybe 10,000 people signing up uh per day uh so it was really big a shock because it made it very clear that actually you know the kind of crazy idea that that we had there was really a demand for this um but of course I think you know having a demand uh isn't something that leads to a business or a product or service that can be sustainable and so often what you find in open source space is you know there's very cool projects but they don't actually get the full potential because it's very hard to keep growing them uh and what proton did I think differently and quite uniquely was soon after we uh put out the service to to the public domain uh we launched a community crowdfunding so it's very much a community focused uh product in that uh 10,000 people donated around uh 500,000 euros and that was really how the journey got started so it was something that was really born and endorsed out of the community uh and still to this day exist to serve that same Community okay well that's really really cool but uh the other question I had was why did you start specifically with email like when we talk about privacy and generally like big Tech being pretty invasive in terms of what data they collect why start with email instead of I don't know web browser or or something like yeah actually it seems like the least obvious place to start right because people say oh you know email no one even uses email anymore to communicate right uh and that's something that we heard actually even back in 2014 uh and it's because the approach is different the idea is how do you best undermine Google's massive Market power that allows them to dominate entire ecosystems and essentially internet as a result and if you look at uh you know uh Google after they made a search product the next product they built was actually the email uh and no one really you know asked the question of what is the value of you know uh Gmail to Google uh and some people say it's just you know a lost leader right something that they have uh because to to you know um attract users but actually I think in many ways Gmail is actually the Cornerstone or the Keystone of Google's entire ecosystem because the way that Google Business operates is they need to connect all the data they have you know on you and they're able to do that very easily because you're logged in Gmail and by being logged into Gmail the cookies from all the websites uh that you visit and all the websites around Google AdWords or even Google analytics which is actually 80% of the internet um all that information can be Associated to your logged in account and that loged account it's also your real life identity it is the essence of who you are they know who you are as a person so they can L at your profile and that allows them to monetize you as a person right so if you were to uh use proton mail instead of Gmail actually what you're actually doing is not just you know using different communication tool what you're really doing is you're removing your identity your profile you as an individual off of Google's platform uh and cutting off their ability to basically link your entire activity to you as a person one of the maor links that lets them build the profile itself like they have plenty of smalled bits of data from other services but they don't have like this big piece where you're absolutely going to log in there once every day yes and I think that's a power right because if you use proton mail uh you don't exist anymore to Google uh you know you are invisible to them because you're no longer in their system it's the most effective and fastest way to opt out of Google uh and uh and it's something as boring as email in the end yeah absolutely and so w with that uh what exactly is the business model for proton because obviously you you sell uh subscriptions to have more storage space more advanced features in terms of privacy and security is that all there is uh is it just monetizing through through added services and and bigger tiers or is there anything else yeah well you know uh in economic theory there's a saying which is you know there's no such thing as a free lunch right and when it comes to Big tech services that is defin true you know uh Gmail isn't free Google isn't free you know Facebook isn't free uh you're paying you're paying with your most internet sensitive and private information right um now that doesn't mean the alternative has to always be paid and I think uh proton through our Freeman business model you know uh strikes that balance because actually today the vast majority of people on proton uh don't pay us they use services for free and does everything that they that they need but if you want more advanced functionality if you want more features more storage or if you just want to support the project actually you can upgrade to a paid model and from a business perspective people will say well you know is that sustainable and it is because proton has gotten to where we are today actually you know we don't have any VC investors so it's maybe even more scalable and sustainable than Silicon Valley model that depends a lot on vure Capital financing yeah and you don't have to GED certain growth levels to get the next round of funding and you can't run out of Runway because well you're self-sufficient right now so if you don't grow you don't grow but but you're still operating a sustainable business yes and I think that's much more honest right because it's users who directly uh pay us for our services and as a result our incentives are fully aligned uh you know uh with the users and this is much different from Google's business model which if you break it down is actually a business model of deception but Google's business is essentially doing is I hope you don't read my privacy policy and see all the horrible things I'm doing and allow me to keep exploding your data right uh whereas for us our customers are paying us protected privacy and that is the thing that we're financially incentivized to do uh and I think that direct relationship is really healthier for the internet uh it will not be more profitable than ads ads always been more profitable uh but I do think long-term is more sustainable because it helps us build a society and you know um an internet ecosystem that is simply healthier since we're talking about privacy uh you you're in your marketing and on your website you're you're talking about the fact that you're based in Switzerland uh why is it important specifically to to be in Switzerland when we're talking about privacy yeah well you know privacy fundamentally comes from encryption and encryption is something that's based off the laws of mathematics right so uh theoretically it doesn't matter where we put the company you know we could be sitting in Russia for example and the laws of mathematics would be the same right uh now um of course if you go back from the hypothetical world into the real world uh well there needs to be people to operate these services so my encryption may be perfectly you know uh sound you know in Russia but I may have someone beating me over the head you know with a stick to do something bad right uh so I think from that perspective you need to be based in a country where you know there's a you know legal system and strong regulations uh that are protective of what you're trying to do and Switzerland uh of course there's no you know a jurisdiction that's perfect right uh but I do think Switzerland is a country where there is a strong tradition of privacy and security uh it is deeply ingrained in the culture uh and the rules and regulations that are in place today do allow you do many things that in other countries would be very difficult to do uh to give you the recent example uh we see now both in the UK uh in the European Union and also you know in the US proposals to potentially ban nen and this is something that in Switzerland doesn't even get proposed because of the culture so this is why I do think it is important but fundamentally the best protection needs to be from encryption and Mathematics yeah I think it's interesting because in the EU for a few years we had this Sort of hope well I live in France so I'm directly concerned with this but uh we had these hopes with the gdpr and just various laws that aim at not especially breaking up big tech companies but at least restraining the amount of power and Monopoly abuse that they can do and we had hopes that this was the right place for all of this but while they do seem to really want to let's say harm the data collection business model of various companies they don't really have that same approach to how governments approach the same kind of data so they don't want foreign companies collecting the data but when it's them collecting the data and monitoring what citizens do they don't have the same care and and and protection system which is I think why Switzerland which is not part of the EU it's in Europe the continent but not part of the EU for for people who don't really situate it on the map and uh I think that that might be important and since we're talking about like governments and data collection and this leads to law enforcement uh we often read that no matter how much data you have or how little data you have if if the law asks you to give it if if a country says hand it over we need to know what this does you have to comply so obviously you do have to comply with with Swiss law and what what kind of data do you have and what can you actually give them if they're asking for it yes yeah I think that's a very good point uh unless your business is based on you know about uh 20 kilm 30 kilometers offshore uh you're are subject to the regulations and laws of some country uh and I think in this regard the choice of Switzerland is also quite important because it is a particular country that you know has very good regulations of what you can and cannot request and there's very strong legal safeguards to prevent authorities from getting access to data you know um that they shouldn't have access to uh but of course uh there are regulations and what I find interesting about Switzerland also is if you look at proton overall the regulations that apply at our products is also very different uh to give you example uh you know email email is not a new technology it's been around for a long time it's something Regulators are very much aware of yeah so in the email space there's virtually no country in the world where email doesn't fall under some sort of telecommunications regulation right uh but something newer like uh you know our VPN service or our cry fall storage service um those are largely unregulated because you know um Regulators haven't caught up yet or don't understand that that uh you know those Services yet uh so uh it's interesting so if you look at protonvpn for example uh there is no obligation whatsoever to collect any data or log any data uh and it's actually a uniquely strong benefit in Switzerland that proton VPN also cannot be compelled to log in any data uh you know not at all uh but email being a Communication Service that's regulated under certain types of telecommunication laws actually you know um you are required in fact uh to you know be able to collect some information if there is a court order that is you know um uh approved by a judge uh and I think you know in the end of the day that is not me be not you know some people say oh that's not good for privacy but actually I think there has to be balance right you know um privacy doesn't mean that you have immunity from you know all law enforcement and can commit any crime that you want and even as you know a provider we also don't want our services to be used for you know um less than legal purposes because this actually harms the service and it actually also creates problems for legitimate uses of our services as well you don't want to be known as the company that hey they they can do whatever they want like and we know that it's being used for certain illegal purposes you don't want to have that reputation attached to your company because that's when governments start looking into what you're doing and try to compel you to to give them a bit of data yeah yeah so that balance is extremely important and uh so the right balance then is a question of what country you're based in and I think Switzerland you know um nobody's perfect uh but uh here in Switzerland we we do strike a balance that I think is much better than most countries in the world okay well that's uh that's interesting and so if we couple that with encryption because as you said like privacy comes from encryption uh how is encryption helping how would you describe it to someone that doesn't really understand how technology Works how Computer Works doesn't have the mathematical background to to see what this is yeah well I put it in the context of your you know last question um the purpose of encryption and what we use this end encryption is to really minimize the data that we have right uh if I cannot decrypt the data of uh the emails that people store on proton mail actually when the authorities come knocking in fact I can't even share that information so the fact that we have encryption uh end encryption and zero access encryption in proton in proton mail in particular uh that's actually very strong asset because yes the law can compel me to hand over certain data but if everything I have is already encrypted in a way that I cannot decrypt then actually there's no law enforcement agency that can you know get access that to the actual data itself because I myself don't have it but it goes beyond actually just the question of law enforcement and government requests right um let's take a hacking for example uh every service is going to get breached eventually someday proton will get breached as well right you know it's not a matter of uh you know um if it's really matter of when and if you are able ble to use strong encryption like you know we do on our services actually you minimize the damage from such a breach because the data that you know hacker can steal well quite frankly they can't steal from us something that we ourselves do not possess yeah uh and this is the value of encryption and this is why you know we're very rigorous on enforcing encryption in all of our products yeah they can they could theoretically steal or a government could request the data and any everything you could hand over or that could get stolen would be unusable without the decryption Keys yeah yes okay well that's uh I think that answers the next question I had which was uh why would someone use an encrypted email service uh I guess that's just to prevent like this data from being legible by anybody who might want to access it without it's a government or law enforcement agency or a hacker yeah but I think beyond that uh you would use it because you don't want Google uh abusing your data and you want to free yourself from Google's ecosystem so you know if you switch your Gmail with the proton mail uh you don't exist anymore to Google you are free from their ecosystem uh and I think uh that's something that is extremely powerful uh because that freedom means a lot right that freedom means that you are now for the first time maybe ever actually in control of your data and your identity online yeah uh you might still be using other services from from Google obviously if you move from Gmail to proton mail but you still have a Google account to watch YouTube videos you you're still contributing data to Google but if your only entry point was Gmail I guess yeah just switching to something that is encrypted means that yeah you you have separated that uh from what is collected about you but I say more than that as well right because uh you don't need to be logged in to actually watch YouTube you don't need to be logged in Google search so so in fact you can use all the Google services just be logged out and not have any of that information tied to your actual identity as long as you know you replace Gmail for Proto mail that's so I think that's actually the real I think that's the power of identity and this is why it's so important to really control your identity in the digital era you talked quickly about uh VPN proton VPN so VPN is often touted like this magic thing like you install it you connect to a VPN and then you're completely safe and nobody can grab anything about you no one knows anything uh so we obviously know that this isn't the case it's not a c bullet but it is interesting so could you just quickly describe for you at least the benefits of a VPN and is it something that you absolutely need to use to to regain privacy online I always go back to any security product it's about threat model right uh and what that means is you need to understand what you want to be protected against and if this product actually suits that mean or not uh and you know uh VPN there's actually a very wide range of you know um use cases but it's not a cure all it's not that you know you have a VPN and everything is good online everything is you know safe right um if we look at proton uh users of our VPN service there is a couple you know um POS possibilities right you know there's one cohort which is trying to get access to data that they cannot access uh in their country so this might be you know a user in Russia trying to get access to Wikipedia to find out the you know not governmen controlled source of information to understand the truth and this s proton represents probably tens of millions of of users not just in Russia but also in Iran turkey Saudi Arabia countries like that so from that perspective I think there's very very you know important use case uh there's also privacy use case right uh you know today if you don't use a VPN you're essentially trusting your internet service provider uh to safely guard your browsing history and I can tell you if you read the terms and conditions they're not doing that right actually they're collecting every single of your activity uh packaging that selling that uh and you know monetizing that data uh so you know using a VPN is one way to make sure that you know your browsing activity is uh is private it's actually kept safe uh and then I think of course there's also some real security use cases as well right you know if you're um in a public Wi-Fi in you know um a uh at a sketchy hotel somewhere in a uh you know not so free country uh you may want to be on that VPN before you connect to sensitive information sensitive accounts uh so you know these are some of the use cases but no you know VPN is not going to prevent you from getting viruses VPN is not going to you know um make you completely Anonymous hope with that but you know it's it's a it's it's not bulletproof as you know some people claim yeah it's part of your arsenal of tools that you can use and and depending on your current environment where you are what kind of network you're connected to it's it's important to use it or it's less important to use it another question I have is you started with proton mail and now you have built this up with Proton Drive with proton pass proton VPN so you have a a sort of Suite an ecosystem of services uh why are you focusing on building this sort of ecosystem if mail is basically like the Cornerstone the main thing you need to focus on yeah there's really a couple reasons for that right I think um the VPN why was VPN you know why do we get in VPN business actually we got the VPN business because in 2017 we anticipated that uh probably proton Mill would start to get banned in certain countries uh and it did happen right it happened in Russia it happened in Iran it's happening you know in numerous countries around the world where leadership doesn't want people to have freedom of expression freedom of speech uh and if you look at the VPN markets uh you know uh back in 2017 and looked at the free vpin options well they were all scans essentially yeah they were all selling your data uh you know uh they were selling privacy and then actually selling your data to advertisers um because that was how they they were making money so we built the VPN service because it actually was something that was necessary it was something that we actually needed to provide because there were no good options on the market uh and uh Drive well Proton Drive the story for that goes back to 2014 uh it is something that we promised to deliver to the users in our any go campaign you know almost 10 years ago uh so that was just keeping a promise uh and you know we we take that very seriously because those users that funded us uh you know in 2014 uh the reason this project exists today is because of you know um their faith and their belief right and I think because of that we do owe them to make good on the promises that we have made you know even though it's been many many years and there's no leg there's no legal obligation to do so uh I think we have a moral obligation to do so and in past well the past the newest product is quite interesting uh you know um past the product itself wasn't uh developed completely let's say you know um by the original proton Engineers uh what happened was in 2022 uh proton actually merged with a company called a simple login which is doing email aliases yeah uh and uh and that's actually a free service that every proton user can actually benefit from and what we realized when we look at email auses is you know when you think about a data breach uh you know are you really so concerned that your password got leaked uh actually your password that got leaked assuming they did it properly uh well probably it was hashed right yeah uh but even if it wasn't hashed if you follow good password practices uh the password was probably unique so you're not so concerned and after the leak it is not so difficult to go out and change that password but the other information that comes out in that leak uh your email will that kind of sucks right um you cannot change it very easily you're going to get fishing spam you know all sorts of impersonation uh that can come out of that uh that's a really dangerous piece of information that once out there uh is out there forever and you cannot change it uh so the idea of email aliases was really that in a data breach uh when I stand up because I'm afraid of data being hacked when I sign up for a new service I Don't Need Just A Unique strong password for that service it would also be good if I could have a you know a unique email Alias for that service so in the event of a data breach which is you know a matter of a when not if uh the information that leaked about me is actually quite controlled yeah so that's why you need a a password manager because you need a way to store all these unique email aliases because you can remember a few b a bunch of passwords maybe derivated from the same kind of Base but remembering 20 30 100 email addresses you're never going to be able to to retain combinations yeah and every single email Alias is actually associated with a login with a unique password so the password manager was actually a prerequisite in order to achieve the vision of you know pretending identity online uh through email aliases uh so it it wasn't such a crazy idea that we did it right uh once you think about kind of why it makes sense for the community yeah absolutely since we're on the topic of like building an ecosystem uh we have a question that that came really often from the community which is are you planning to add something like Google Docs Google Sheets Google Slides uh to to Proton Drive or do you plan to only remain on the storage uh side of things yeah well you know uh proton as a company exists because of the community uh you know we don't have any uh Venture Capital investors so all of our financing comes from the community uh and what it actually means is whoever the community wants uh they're going to get right because we literally work for them we have no choice actually uh and uh if enough people ask for it uh we are indeed going to do it and where I can tell you about you know documents sheets and you know things things of this nature uh it is a very common request uh we hear it a lot so I think the odds are good that we will eventually have to do it uh because given that we're Community Driven you know we have no choice right it's it's kind of you know insane right like if you tell Google I want this Google doesn't you know care right but you they're only going to work on what makes them the most money even yes yes but if you tell us you know uh hey you know proton please build this and many users want it actually we are obliged to do it yeah because you don't want to lose those users because that they are your only source of of Revenue because they pay our bills right whereas you know the Google user well the Google user actually is the you know it's not the customer right the Google user is the product that is being sold to the real customer which is the advertising most of them will not pay a cents to Google directly like from their own pocket so they they don't have to listen to you of course yeah yeah so now what would you say differentiates you from various competitors so we know what differentiates you from Big tech companies because obviously they're like their client is not the user their client is the person buying access to the data to to advertise uh but compared to smaller companies that there are a lot of other companies that Focus also on privacy on encryption what what differentiates proton from from those smaller competitors yeah and I think there are quite a few smaller ones in the space now I think that's actually a good thing uh and and the funny thing also is you know um we open source a lot of our uh encryption code right we we actually maintain open pbjs which is a most fly used open source you know encryption uh you know Library uh and if you look at the competition a lot of them actually use our our own code so you know in some sense we're subsidizing them right yeah um and actually I'm okay with that because I I think you know uh there's enough space for many players and the more people who are doing kind of you know um what we have pioneered the better it is for getting the message out right um I think proton is different though from the other companies in the space the smaller ones uh for probably two main reasons um first one is the experience right you know um being the first one in the space uh having you know now almost 10 years of you know history uh and having the track record of security and privacy for 10 years uh there's something to that you know uh as you get bigger and bigger as you uh you know uh scale the product the platform and the infrastructure uh there's so many challenges you can hit right whether it's a Dos attack whether it's you know infrastructure overload you know whether it's how do you handle you know spamming anti-abuse how do you handle account takeovers you know uh we have confronted uh survived and overcome most of those problems so this allows us I think to probably provide more reliability more stability uh and you know more safety for most users just because we've seen and confirming those problems uh the second major difference I think is most the other players have entered the space actually their VCB uh their investor back yeah and proton is maybe one of the only ones in the space today that even up to now uh you know is not beholden to venture capital investors and this allows us the freedom to always do what is best uh for the user as opposed to what the investors you know may require or demand yeah and there's just a lot of shortcuts you're Force to take right and things you cannot invest in and to be frank you know uh security security is expensive to do it right is very expensive and it's a bit like buying insurance right you know uh until something goes wrong uh you could have just ignored it and not made the Investments at all uh and uh I think you know what makes Pro different is we don't have investors uh where we have to go and say you know we have this profit margin you know uh and we've hit these metrics to raise the next round of financing so we're able to actually put a substantial amount of money uh you know uh towards projects features which enhance security uh but maybe don't enhance marketing I think you know a good example is the encryption key transparency project we did recently right which is a way to actually verify the encryption key that you're using is actually the right one uh you know can't Market it because it's too hard to explain to people um and cost a lot of money to do uh but it's a feature that probably only proton will have because we're the only company that is not VC you know uh backed and can actually you know afford to spend on things like this without getting in trouble with investing and I think that's a you know it's it's a subtle difference but over time it does add up I think to a more secure reliable product absolutely yeah having worked for the two kinds of companies I absolutely preferred working for a company that was already sustainable yeah it's just you have so much more freedom uh so now you're talking about proton offering an alternative to to to Google basically to to let users step out from Google's like let's call it Shadow but they data collecting Shadow let's say but is proton a viable alternative to Google why would you say thaton can replace today Google services well I think depend on what service right Google has probably you know hundreds of services and we're not there entirely and depending on how you use certain products even on the ones where we are there we may not also be a complete replacement either right uh because you know Google has you know hundreds of features that you know not we don't have all of them right um although on on the other hand we also have some features that they don't have either right so you know I think I think it kind of goes both ways um but what I think you know we are trying to do uh more and more is to get the products to a state where actually the experience is pretty comparable and if you were to use the mail product today and compared it to Gmail I would say for more than 90% of use cases uh it can actually meet your needs uh and you know other products are also getting up there as well uh so you know uh Google wasn't built uh you know a day right it was built over course of two decades um and you know uh Gmail I think has been around since 2003 2004 it's been almost 20 years right uh and you know we're not going to get there you know um immediately yeah but I think also we also building now in a space technology that's better right so what took Google maybe 10 years and a thousand people to do maybe can be done today in two or three years with you know 100 people right uh so from that perspective the Gap is Contin closing uh and I do think you know if you were to try the products today A lot of people are quite surprised actually this is kind of funny you know anecdote right um uh I think a few months ago we asked a journalist you know uh from uh wall I think Washington Post to try out proton and try switching right um and then you know she was like oh you know too much trouble a lot of work I don't want to do it um and then she actually used our easy switch tool and that's a tool that you switch from you know uh Gmail to proton and it was it was just a couple Clicks in fact you know you could you could switch and pull all your emails over and get completely onboarded in proton now from Gmail uh within probably two or three clicks and it was so easy in fact that uh she was so surprised she wrote an article about it uh so I think you know I think that's example of kind of um how with the advancement in in a technology uh with gdpr forcing Google to you know support data portability uh were're able to get to an experience for actually you know even people who are not Tex happy have no technical background don't know anything about you know uh encryption or you know software you know like grammar can use it now right yeah the barrier to entry is much much lower yeah you don't have to migrate like data files or email files that you might have exported to a various format that is now completely incompatible with something else it's yeah it's it's way easier but that that that goes back to another question that that got asked quite a lot uh on the on the question the the the community posted which is basically there seems to be a an impression that proton expands into a lot of different categories but never completely reaches a state where it is a viable alternative yeah uh so you said that now you're trying to bring every product to that state where you have like 90 95% of the features that most people will use uh can can you tell me a little bit more about this like do you agree with this statement like you're expanding fast but you don't necessarily have feature parity between platforms yeah yeah yeah yeah so I I I completely agree with the statement uh and I can also say that actually it's it's a intentional right uh and what is the reason behind that because it you know it doesn't make a lot of sense from the outside right uh the reason is because perfecting products takes a long time uh it's very difficult to do uh and it takes a lot of iterations and cycles and if I were to take each product to Perfection before launching the next one uh actually I would probably never launch the next product right uh it would just never uh happen and we know that doesn't work because Google uh you know uh Microsoft you know these Tech Giants they're ecosystem place so ecosystems is something that uh you know if users don't expect today they will expect in the future so you're have no choice F to build the ecosystem and that's why you have to start things you know um at this you know in parallel because you know it takes a long time to get to that completion stage and uh that's unfortunately the reality now I wish I could deliver a perfect product before the next product but if I know if I do that the next product would never come and this is and this is the situation uh I would also say that launching products early even when they're maybe not perfect there's also an advantage to this because it allows us to get feedback much faster yeah uh so we can then be much more responsive to user needs uh and then we can adapt and really follow the path of community wants us to follow uh and that is something that I believe in the long run does lead to better products even if it's maybe more frustrating for the early adopters yeah it's basically the the variant of what a startup would do which is like release often like the the famous Mantra like move fast break things it's it's kind of this verion but without all the the the Venture Capital funding which means that you have to take more time to build those uh but you do expand and you do progress you just cannot progress at the speed of someone who has like billions to throw out every year uh because they don't care about being like profitable yet yeah and I would say the typical startup uh they will probably go 100% full speed uh and you know um and and and and they don't care right and even a lot of the startups in the security privacity space uh they act that way because they have no choice because to get the next financing to be around next year uh they need to demonstrate a certain level of growth and that requires chasing features and only Futures right uh but proton philosophically that's not how we think um we can't think that way because actually we're in the security and privacy space you know there are certain mistakes that we're not allowed to make yeah uh and that's why you know we will always do things in a certain way um not the fastest way but in the way that we think is the most secure right and uh that often say oh you know proton you're so slow and uh well yes we are slow but we're slow because we must be careful yeah and we can afford to be careful because we don't have the VCS driving us to you know um ship XY andz and hit X Revenue by a certain period of time right and that allows us to have a much higher bar on security and privacy than others uh but it does come at a cost of speed you know there there's you know you can't get security for free right there's always a to pay uh and so since we're talking like you as you said you're in the security and privacy business do do you think that these are areas that the general public Minds do you think they care about it right now or or is it something that is growing or well when I first started in 2014 and I went off and you know uh talked to just friends family people out on the streets um probably one in 10 person could actually explain to me how uh Google and Facebook make money yeah uh today is not 10 out of 10 uh but it's probably four or five out of 10 uh and it's increasing a lot you know year-over-year and I think proton being able to get to we have 100 million accounts uh really shows that you know the concern is going mainstream and the easy way to think about this is if I were to asked you or anybody else in the world uh you know do you want more privacy and security uh no one's ever said no to that right the answer is always yes uh but the question is you know at what cost what do I give up what is it going to cost me uh and I think our mission as a company and what technology will enabled us to do is to make that cost really essentially zero over time and when you achieve that I don't see why there' be any reason why people wouldn't want to switch yeah absolutely if you have access to the same features if it's as easy to use if it's compatible with the same devices and why why would you pick something yeah and if it's free why why would you pick something that collects data compared to something that doesn't of course yeah and with that in mind now we've talked about the ecosystem we've talked about your various products how you how you approach them what's next uh let's say for the next two years do can can you share a little bit more about what you're trying to build what you want to focus on do you already have enough request that you want to fulfill for the community yeah well I think if you you know uh go look at the uh you know our reddits and what people are asking for right essentially what they're asking for is going to get built more or less if you go back to IND go campaign and what we said we're going to do you know all those things we're actually going to do right uh so um I would say uh you know um we are probably in the next immediate period going to be focused actually on uh consolidating existing products and makeing them bigger because uh if you think about it uh it wasn't so long ago that we launched pass and drive yeah and so we will be you know I think quite focused on improving those products in the next six or nine months uh but uh yeah near the end of next year we will for sure be you know looking at uh the different comments in the community and making sure that we meet the ones that are you know most demanded okay and since like this is for my channel the Linux experiment so we're going to talk a little bit about Linux support uh I know you you rebuilt the VPN client for Linux very recently I think it was reilt from scratch and uh so I've been using it because obviously I'm a I'm a consumer for proton so I have like the the I think it's the first tier uh but yeah it's a it's nice to have that cool experience but the the main thing is do you plan to have those same apps available for Linux for Proton Drive for proton pass uh do you have native clients planned for Linux for these two tools as well the answer is yes right you know we probably third of the company uses Linux I'm a Linux user myself so it is inevitable that we support Linux but the reality is Linux is not going to be the biggest Market it's not always you know when you ask people what they want what platform they want us to support it's never going to be the top of the list so if you look at Drive uh the first desktop C that went out was actually Windows uh why because it was just had the most votes right uh and then Mac OS came out a few weeks ago um because it was the obvious second one uh and Linux it's something that we will have to do it's it's inevitable um Linux is in many ways actually the hardest platform to build for because there are so many variants uh you know so many distributions uh so many little uh you know uh differences between different dists are causing a break uh it's extremely difficult to support so it's always going to take longer uh and what I can say is we're of course committed to Linux Linux users ourselves we must be committed to Linux uh you know our entire infrastructure runs on Linux right uh so so that is coming sooner or later and you know um I wish I could do it sooner but with the resources at hand uh it's always going to take longer than the other platforms and you know I I get what you're saying because obviously yes you have plenty of different dis but we have we nowaday we have uh three different packaging formats that support virtually all distributions which are flatback uh snaps and app Images so any one of these could theoretically serve everyone like of course if you do snaps then non aburn to dros but if you do flat you're you're going to work on everyone uh do do you know if there are like technical limitations that prevent you from using flat pack like maybe the sandbox prevents you from interacting with things yeah so it depends a lot on the product as well uh and let me give you you know a couple examples right um if I want to make a mail application uh on Linux that's actually pretty easy yeah uh and that's probably going to be coming sooner than you might imagine right um if I want to do a pass manager that's also relatively easy and in fact you can use proton pass you know on browsers already because there's a there's a browser extension right uh but if I go to something like uh VPN for example uh well VPN has to interface with a network staff uh and you know some op some uh Linux distributions have you know network manager some you know have you know IP tables other the set up right yeah you know even the kernels are different right and and you need kernel modules in order to interface the network stock right right uh that's that that's super complicated then you talk about uh Drive well even the file systems of different distributions are different right not everybody uses the same you know um file uh system uh and the way in which you interface you know um the chronol is different um the desktop experience is different as well right the way you browse files is different as well uh so uh depending on the level in which the you know um product sits whether it's very much you know can be abstracted away from the kernel or whether they're sitting directly off the kernel level uh the difficulty in supporting multiple distributions uh is varies quite a bit so uh VPN was a very difficult one that's why it took so many years to you know be able to put something out there uh and unfortunately Drive looks to be even harder okay well I guess that will answer uh I think that was the biggest question we got which was like okay when are the Linux apps coming so yeah you want to do them you you don't do you have a time frame that you could potentially share for drive on Linux or do do you not want to to put something out there oh you know I'm G to get in trouble for this interview now but what I can say is um having analyzed the problem uh you know uh quite a bit in the last six months uh kind of go back to what I said it's in fact harder than VN it's the fact going to be the hardest one to bring to Linux uh because the file systems you know act so differently right uh and the time frame in fact depends on the level of integration that we want to achieve because there are easier and harder Integrations in terms of how automated it is how it interfaces with a GUI Etc right so I can very easily see auntu version uh you know probably being able to arrive let's say you know in the next um prob 24 months right um but to get to a state where I can comfortably say Hey you know I've covered you know all the main distributions and Linux is you know um 90% supported uh that could take substantially longer yeah it also depends on the on the number of features you want to bring if it's a basic sync client which just uploads downloads might be easier to do than something that lets you decrypt on the fly or access or Mount your storage as as an additional like web da storage or yeah yeah if I want to support SMB or or or you or ldap or something like that then it gets very complicated right but if it's a simple a folder on the desktop or in the home directory that syncs with a cloud you know that's much easier to integrate right um and so so so depends on the feature set um but um yeah I do want to get something out there for Linux you know users in the next year or two uh this is something that you know um I think we should do yeah uh but uh it's it's quite difficult and you know uh if you know VPN wasn't so easy either uh but a drive looks to be a challenge but it is definitely planned well I I guess this will answer a lot of people then and and since we're still talking about features uh let's talk about proton VPN uh some people asked me if uh proton well ask you but through me uh if if protonvpn will offer dedicated IP addresses for non business users and in that case can you ensure the privacy of those users wow okay so uh this is I guess your community knows Pon very well because you know they know that we don't offer for consumers they know it's available for businesses so you know very specific question um but um the answer is yes uh I do want to offer dedicated IPS for uh you know uh consumers who don't need to get the business plan so that is for sure coming um now uh and okay I probably shouldn't say this because I'm going to end up undermining my own product right uh but you know um now now the question becomes if I'm a VPN user should I get the dedicated IP right yeah and you know I'll be completely honest uh because you know um because I'm a scientist I I can't help it right um if you after privacy don't get dedicated uh you know uh you'll pay us less actually to not have that feature uh but it's not more private because it's an IP address in which all your activity is linked to you because you have bought the IP right uh so um there is no privacy angle You know despite what the checkout on other VPN services are trying to tell you um there's no additional privacy getting dedicated IP yeah it's it's more a matter of of control than of privacy yeah yes yes now the benefit you might have is maybe you'll hit less captures right you know um so maybe uh you'll be able to go to various sites and encounter less problems because you're not on a shared IP so it's not to say that it's not beneficial uh but objectively speaking I cannot honestly tell you that you know dedicate IP won't Pro youry right despite what some of the other ads out there say it's not true it's not yeah and speaking of proton in general uh there's a question about the environmental impact of of proton like Proton Drive because obviously when you're starting to store a lot of data you have to have a lot of Compu computers of storage or maybe a data center somewhere so do you know generally what the environmental impact of the company is right now yes so we only buy uh servers from you know uh data center providers that are actually uh you know essentially carbon neutral so 100% renewable uh so we have today a facility in Switzerland that meets that criteria our uh you know German facility is also there and the next facility that we're building is actually in Norway we're going to Norway because the power costs are significantly lower and it's also outside the EU and that facility will also be you know running on green power as well okay uh so you know uh we do what we can to uh you know uh minimize the impact and actually we're financially incentivized to do so because power is one of the main costs especially here in Europe where it's quite expensive right uh and I think you know going to Germany the power isn't cheapest in Germany uh but it is pretty clean so you know we are paying more to ensure the green Energy Mix is you know um good in our products uh and it's something of course that we care a lot about as well within the company yeah well I guess when you're trying to be ethical in terms of data of privacy you have to care about those aspects as well they sort of go handy and even though they might not look like they are linked they they sort of are if you if you're trying to run a moral company yeah yes yes and and honestly it's software right it's it's writing the software as efficiently as possible uh to you know um just consume less CPU that's the main you know driver of electric power and another feature that is uh requested is implementing notifications on Androids that aren't using the Google Play services uh I guess to maybe also allow the app to be published on fdroid and other alternative stores that are like purely for open source apps do you have any plans uh to to work on that yeah it's a so the reason we're let's say um okay to some extent uh you know using Google Play services is because we actually ENT and encrypt the push notifications so even though notifications are going through you know Google Play services uh Google doesn't actually get any of the metadata in that notification because it's end encrypted so um that's why from a privacy standpoint it isn't exactly a massive burning fire right um now what is the uh you know issue with alternative notification systems well Google whether it's for you know any competitive reasons or because of the way they sell the platform um makees this so that the power efficiency of Google Play services is very good but if you were to use a separate system to do it actually battery life is going to suffer on you know Android devices uh and this is kind of the trade-off right uh where if I ask the vast majority of proton customers uh would you rather have you know um ditch Google Play services and have you know horse battery life or would you rather have you know Google Play services better battery life um considering the fact that notific are end encrypted yeah probably the most users would say you know I prefer the battery life right uh now there are going to be some users who would take a different stance on that uh and actually I'm one of those users as well so we do in the long run want to make the switch and it is something that is inevitably going to happen but we're going to have to leave both options you know all could it be an option inside the app is it manageable to do it this way like letting letting the user choose which back end they would prefer using like as an advanced option I think the way to do it is is uh the fdroid version will do it one way yeah and in the Google Play version would do it different way yeah so and and you saw the one that you want right but uh the cost of that is now you're forced to maintain two versions of the application yeah uh and you know um we already have complaints about we have complaints about platform parity about you know not developing fast enough not getting complete on all features so it's just about prioritizing all the different requests come in so it's on the list it hasn't got on the top of the list but you know it will eventually yeah uh there's also a question about the source code uh so some people seem to think that the the source code of your Android apps is pretty hard to find because there there seem to be a bunch of different GitHub accounts like they're not regrouped under a single umbrella yeah uh I have a very simple answer for this but it's GNA sound you know super stupid right um the person that owns you know github.com proton uh he doesn't want to give it up right and he got there first so it's his right so you know uh if someday you know we get it then we're going to consolidate right but but uh but it's it's a that's that's a reason really right um and we could do Proto something different right yeah you could put everything into proton mail and then have a male repo and then drive repo yeah yeah yeah so so you know probably eventually we'll do it uh but uh last time we tried uh we couldn't get the you know uh username that we wanted okay well yep that that happens it happened to our domain right you know ideally we get pro.com we can right it's it's a car company in in Malaysia so so we Pro me which which I think is also nice it's also very memorable yeah and I think I think that was a question as well uh for the email addresses one of the question was saying uh why proton do me because for a business it might not sound super professional and they would prefer have something like proton.com or yeah yeah well you can still get you can still use protonmail.com right that's Al that's still an option so you can pick which one you want um but uh you know um I actually I think there's a certain logic to the do me uh you know first of all uh because what is Proton really about at the end of the day uh it's about putting you in control of your data yeah right uh so it's about you as a person uh and I think you know the do me does reflect that in a way uh and it's pretty memorable you don't confuse it with something else right you know if we use CH they might say oh you know that's China right or you know um or or it doesn't sound quite right and it's a bit like a zoom zoom is a collaboration service right so Zoom uses zoom. us right us uh so I think the fixation on do is probably not the way that it used to be in the past uh and I think you know um you see more and more companies using other uh domains yeah and you know I like the fact that it ties in really with the mission of you know proton being about you uh and if you say it out loud you know uh you know proton me it's like yeah you know proton me right so so you know there's a logic to it and and this is also why um you know many years ago we also acquired a short domain called uh pm.me right and then and that was really like you know literally private message me right so yeah enforces that privacy thing yeah yeah exactly so so that's the reason why we settle on that one uh but yeah if we could have a doom I think you know we would have taken that of course right yeah in terms of other features there's another question about feature parody like for the mobile apps um this person specifically was talking about calendar search and mail filters uh so I guess it goes it circles back to those questions about feature parity like this is what you're trying to focus on right now like not necessarily launching 20 other different products but trying to bring all the products to the same Baseline so I think we answered this one unless you have a timeline specifically for for for these two features well I think that's interesting so uh so uh we have a philosophy and our philosophy at proton is um when it's ready on on one platform we're going to launch it yeah uh because the alternative is waiting for all the platforms to be ready uh but then a benefit that an Android User could have obtained um would have been artificially held back for maybe you know a week or two waiting for iOS to catch up or even longer right so you know um the launch and ready uh philosophy is to bring value to users as quickly as possible now uh this user asked about search and search is extremely difficult why because all of our data is encrypted yes so I cannot run the search queries on the server it has to be run client side so everything single thing that has to do with search is super complicated because we have to build software that can you know index the data and search it locally as opposed to using the server Side Library which means it has it built basically once on every single platform yeah uh and that unfortunately makes it harder so um it is coming we are going to get it on all platforms uh but that's the reason why you know it's not fli for switch and then and then we have search another feature some people were inquiring about is uh SMTP relay uh some people seem to think that this should be available more widely to more people yeah I would love to do it actually uh to make it you know available more widely but uh it's an anti-abuse issue uh because imagine a relay that wasn't properly you know controlled uh and you know uh monitored uh if an abuser got a hold of that uh and they could just send you know tons of emails uh through proton uh you know um it'd be a fast way to get IP blocked yeah so the reason it's pretty uh you know let's say more limited today is because it allows us to reduce the risk of the relay you know being abused in a way that we hurt proton's reputation for our IPS um as we scale expand and improve anti-us capabilities we will also be able to make available to more people but it's never going to be probably a free feature uh just because one of the best ways to cut down on abuse is to make sure that they have a valid credit card and they're actually legit user yeah the the person asking specifically what was asking about at least proton unlimited customers but yeah of course you can't give that for free cuz that's like a recipe for a disaster yeah yeah and I would say to answer the limited question uh it's probably a matter of time yeah okay now there there also some some concerns that of course you started with like the the the Privacy user the individual now you're expending to to business and Enterprise and so some people are wondering is that going to affect uh the feature set that individuals can can expect are the resources going to be shift more shifted towards more Enterprise and businesses or how how will you maintain that balance between the two yeah well as of today you know and I can't speak for the future but let's let's talk about today for now right um the request that businesses are asking for and the requests that uh consumer users are asking for actually if you look at those list of requests they're basically the same thing yeah right uh so uh everything we add for business is actually something that you know the regular user is also looking for okay so uh we don't really have a situation where we have to make that tradeoff yet um now to be completely honest I do anticipate eventually you know reaching a stage where we have to make a decision you know build the uh you know future for the consumer or build a future for the business uh but it hasn't happened yet today and we're probably still I think some ways off before we have to get to that you know stage yeah um proton at its heart because of our crowdfunding beginnings and you know how we got to we are today the soul of the company is probably always consumer yeah and you know um that's very hard to change but uh there is also very strong Enterprise demand for our products and that's something that you know we want to do more and more and I think it's actually not a bad thing for the consumer users as well because if we have more Enterprises paying for the services that actually means we can give more things away for free to the consumers yeah so you know so so in the in the end I think it's it's a mutually beneficial type of you know um Synergy that that we are in both markets yeah absolutely yeah you can sort of subsidize that's not the right word but subsidize the free accounts with more Enterprise accounts that will obviously have a little bit more money to to to to pay for these features yes and now there's there's one thing that uh since we're talking about ecosystems uh we we always hear this thing that don't put your eggs all in one basket like you have to diversify to use multiple services for individual things uh so why should we use use the complete proton ecosystem if the right thing to do would be to use Individual Services yeah well the situation right now is um you have uh you know uh many baskets uh and and most of the baskets are you know poor quality baskets that are very likely to get hacked or you know leaked or broken or you know just fail outright uh so one school thought could be um maybe it's better to have you know one really strong basket as opposed to you know um a dozen not so strong baskets that maybe that may get hacked may get breached may go of business Etc right uh so I think you know um that is uh you know U maybe one counterargument to that um at least when it comes to proton what people seem to object to and I completely understand the point they're making is you know I don't want to have one account for everything yeah right uh and uh there's a solution to that uh you know we don't prohibit you from having more than one proton account so there are some folks who you know have one account for Pro on pass one for proon mail and another one for pro VPN uh and that's privil acceptable you can do that right uh so I do I do think that is a solution uh but you know it's already so hard to protect accounts in general uh so I would rather have one account that I put you know tofa on SEL to you know um Safeguard against breaches and um just keep one account safe as opposed to secure you know a dozen accounts yeah of course and speaking of this uh the two Factor do you have any plans to support like passwordless login methods uh like we're saying Pass Key stuff like that happen key right yeah yeah um you know P key from a technology standpoint is um is actually probably sound right uh the difficulty is nobody has still managed to find an implementation that it's actually you know um what I would consider to be sufficiently user friendly so um I do think it's a step in the right direction but I'm not quite sure yet if it's actually going to be able to you know really change in G Mass adoption yeah uh and it is something that for example next year we're going to bring past keys to problem pass right okay uh and we're going to be actively involved in the space uh and we're going to do what we can to support it but uh it's still very uncertain whether or not um that's going to be something that everybody can adopt and this is why lot of I think a few months go we launched something called proton Sentinel right and proton Sentinel is a system that basically uses you know AI uh and also machine learning algorithms combine a human human analysts uh to try to spot malicious uh logins within our system because the thinking is your credentials are going to get stolen yeah it is almost inevitable uh so what SEL is actually trying to do is try to give safeguards and protection so that even if your credential is stolen even the attacker hash or password uh we can still detect that and still block that uh so I think that type of Defense uh is probably maybe better return on investment than something like uh you know past keys at this moment in time uh just because that's something I can roll out to anybody uh without any user interaction whereas path Keys require users to really change behavior and adopt new tools uh now there's someone asking about end to and encryption uh they said that it only works with emails between proton mail accounts uh and so saying if a lot of your contacts don't use prot on mail then is Email encryption all that important because obviously like you could request the emails from the person you send them to and then you have them unencrypted yeah I think it depends on your threat model right uh you know um if someone sends an email from Gmail to you uh actually that email is stored encrypted you know in your inbox yeah uh so uh it gives you Security in case your account you know uh gets breached you know it gives you uh you know uh Security in that uh you know we cannot abuse your privacy to monetize that data uh so you know there's still a lot of boundy there right um of course you know the police could potentially uh you know go to that person uh and you know ask them for that information but um I would say that's probably not most people's threat model right uh and a very good way to fix that is to just encourage everybody to come on proton right because then the network effect kicks in um but even if you don't care about email as communication I think email as an entity uh is huge so uh you know how often do you actually use email as communication tool I would say these days is probably quite rare uh so the fact that you know you are using proton mail and your identity is now separated from Google's host evidence system uh that I think is super valuable even if you don't care about any of the encryption at all uh the next question will be uh about VPN proton VPN uh a lot of VPN providers are restricting port forwarding because it's being very very much misused uh do do you think you will have to at some point also disable it and and if if you can explain just in simple terms why why this might be a problem for for people who might not understand this thing yeah so port forwarding is essentially uh you know um you sort of expose the port uh so that devices and other people outside the network uh can see your Port right uh and and um the use case where this is uh sometimes useful and I'm not I'm not condoning you know uh uh let's say piracy right but a lot of people who use bit you can use port forwarding you can get much faster speeds right uh and you know of course you're not allowed to use proton for illegal purposes so don't do that um but you know um P forwarding is a fature that we currently you know uh do support um and a lot of VN have canel it because they simply cannot handle the you know abuse parts that come with that we are in a fortunate position because uh email is a space that has tons of abuse so For Better or For Worse we have been forced to become very good at anti-abuse and the same technologies that we have used the same you know uh skills and techniques uh we have also been able to use to try to reduce abuse on proton VPN so as of today we're able to control the level of abuse on port forwarding where we can still keep the future available and I'm pretty optimistic that we'll be able to maintain this even when other people cannot uh simply because we have the different expertise that I think other VPN companies don't have yeah that's uh that's really nice I think the the person well the multiple persons who asked this question will be very happy about this uh the next one is generally about email in general uh email was never built to be a private tool of communication like the the protocol themselves that it relies upon are not private and they were never meant to be uh is is this really a a still a truth and and like is end to end encryption and zero access encryption sufficient to to fix uh let's say the this the designed yeah email is not uh designed you know with encryption in mind it's you know it's encryption is something that we have to retr on top of the email and that's been you know the case even from TLS many many years ago um but what is that what the P implication that right um why is email so hard to update and bring to the Modern Age it's so hard to bring the modern age because it's a Federated system yeah so all servers need to talk the same language and understand each other uh so that might seem like a major weakness but it's also my opinion a major strength because email is if you think about it truly maybe the most successful communication technique ever devised by mankind in the history of civilization uh there is nothing that is more ubiquitous uh and more easy to use and more accessible than email anybody can run a server anybody can get an account it's completely free you don't need to be beholden to any any single company to to to use it um it's a compl system and I think that value of email uh truly outweighs some of the downsides of the fact that that's Federated and then you cannot update it yeah so what we do at proton is we're trying to do what we can to make it as secure as possible yeah uh and we've actually gotten quite far with a lot of the work that we've done right it it is today you know legitimately quite secure if you use it in an ENT crypted way um well it be as something as secure as what you could achieve if you tore it all down and rebuilt it um probably not but if you did that you would also lose the ability of email to be a universal identifier and and your Universal passport uh online yeah that is I think the main power but yeah basically it's it's saying yes we know email is not like the most private thing it was never designed to be and and but people will still use it for private Communications and for stuff that they want to stay private so you might as well try and make that protocol safer instead of trying to reinvent something that will never have the same level of adoption yes exactly uh now the next question is uh what do you think about the following claim proton is open source but is working on their own Solutions instead of working on more Open Standards uh so basically the the question I think boils down to what protects your users and and the open source community in general from a a license change or from a change in business model yeah first of all on email side sntp IMAP you know these are standards that have been around forever you know um we cannot deviate and change on this right it's email is email uh so the question is probably more relevant towards open bgp uh and that standard uh which if you look at open pgp today that we use is completely different from open pgp of you know the early 9s you know it's been modernized it's been made more secure it's been you know completely revamped and and redeveloped to be modern crypto and uh from that perspective it has changed massively and actually proton has been one of the main drivers of that change because we've pushed through these changes over the past you know four or five years this is why if you use pgp you know even 10 years ago and look at what proton is doing today pbjs it's uh in some ways unrecognizable right yeah uh but what we have always done and I think this is something that maybe makes Pro quite unique is we don't do these changes unilaterally um we could actually because we're probably today the largest OB deployment in the world but all of our changes uh go through you know um rfc's uh they go through ietf uh we go through the bodies and it's a huge cost that we pay it's uh terribly painful you know very very slow um super annoying you want to kill yourself sometimes right uh but uh you know we have uh paid that cost because we're very committed to Open Standards uh and this is I think maybe something that comes from the fact that you know um I'm not a businessman at the end of the day right uh I'm a prodal physicist I'm a scientist you know I believe in standards in open source and open Communications in transparency uh and that's a cultural DNA of the company that I think is you know not going to change uh as long as you know um we're here and the community endorses us to take this path uh now the next question is about the infrastructure uh what save guards do you have in place uh to to ensure that users don't lose their data let's say in a data center fire or or if like I don't know a giant electromagnetic pulse wipes off everything yeah well um you know if there's a giant you know uh uh you know asteroid that hits you know Europe and destroys all of Europe uh I probably can't guarantee your data security that case but we we'll all probably have bigger problems than that yeah yeah but uh if if it's a you know obh being stupid and you know having bad cabling that burns down the DAT data center uh this I can secure against right right uh so what we do of course is we replicate data in multiple sites and this is why each of proton's you know Big Data Centers are in different countries okay you know uh some people really said hey proton everything everything should be in Switzerland but we said no no no we can't do that right because that's a that's that's a that's a um reliability risk yeah uh so the fact that it's you know Swiss German and Norwegian different facilities different vendors you know different suppliers in all locations uh this helps with that uh there's also offline backups that we make of all data uh so overall a lot of safeguards have been put in place uh and I think that's something that probably you know um we can do better than other companies because proton actually doesn't go to the cloud right you know um it's not an AWS it's not on Google Cloud it's not on Azure um we build our own infrastructure yeah and this allows us to provide you know more reliability and more security because it's actually our computer as our servers is our Hardware right you know um somebody at Amazon cannot make a decision to delete all of our instances and then and then you know on right uh so uh yeah it's not perfect there's nothing there's no such thing as 100% security uh but I do think we do a very reasonable job in the fact that we're not cloud-based uh you know gives digal layer protection there's another question about Quantum Computing and and whether you think this will change well obviously like Quantum Computing will give a lot more horsepower to specifically decrypt stuff uh so so will we need to invent something new at that point or will like the power of quantum computer allow us to build like way better encryption that needs something even better than a quantum computer yeah well we for sure have to invent something new uh and the good news I can share because we've actually published it now yet is that um we have invented something new already uh so if you look at uh our blog we recently announced uh you know an update open pgp that is post Quantum uh and so we've already done the work there's actually already at ietf a working group that you know uh we are participating in that is working on standardizing post Quantum encryption in open PTP so this is coming uh this work has already largely been done and uh you know we do know how to protect uh data in the quantum era and there is already the work that has been done to prepare for that uh personally I think it's still probably you know five 10 years out before we get the first quantum computers uh but uh when it happens proton is actually ready we have another question about uh proton male Bridge so this is the the technology that allows you to integrate your on mail account into like other apps like Thunderbird or Outlook uh will this work at some point with calendar and contacts and and will it be offered for Android as well so uh this is a controversial topic always even within proton um my personal opinion uh and you know and again my personal opinion is not the one that matters it's the community that matters right but you know um personally uh I don't like uh the path of bridge uh the reason I like the path the bridge is because you're completely dependent on the actions of a you know a third party application provider which could at any moment in time change the way they want to do things yeah I'll give you an example uh there's a new version of Outlook that uh you know Microsoft has rolled out in beta and on this version actually Microsoft has decided that they want to drop support uh for IMAP and and third party Integrations right uh so as hard as we try to make Bridge as good as possible ultimately whether or not this technology can continue to thrive is completely dependent on third parties that we have no control over um which actually in the future may not even be interested in continue to support you know um IMAP as opposed to just you know directly having apis right uh so the path forward I believe for proton and I hope the community will you know support us on this is actually to build desktop applications and roll those out so that's something that uh you can expect to see quite soon and uh you know we hope that it can be a replacement for bridge uh we don't know that it will automatically uh or right away but I do think it's kind of inevitable if you look at the direction that Microsoft is going with Outlook uh I do think that you know they're going to force everybody to their API and you know out supports IMAP and third party clients uh and third party Services uh this is probably going away sooner or later unfortunately uh do you have any plans to have like a separate segment of Proton Drive which would be a photo gallery like a lot of other storage options have that separated on the side so you could autosync your photos from your phone to your to your storage and have them in a separate space as well so uh Nick when are you publishing this interview uh it's going to be on YouTube and it's going to be on pier tube and on my audio podcast which is like but it's it's the next week right yeah yeah yeah it's gonna be on on the 15th probably uh of December yeah yeah so uh By the time uh you know viewers see this uh proton uh photos in Drive uh will be available already on one platform very nice I won't I won't say which one uh but uh you'll find out soon okay that's very cool that's very cool yeah so another question is uh do you think your you'll be able to work on a proton Notes app like a separate note storage that would also be encrypted and available for everyone yeah it's a very interesting question because uh today there is already uh you know notes uh built within uh proton pass so proton pass actually has encrypted notes so the basic functionality is already there uh then the question becomes does it make sense to do it as a separate application uh and if we do you know documents and drive is a part of that uh in the future and to be honest I don't know the answer to that so if you're proton user and this is something that's on your mind uh come on Reddit uh let us know what you think uh and let us know what direction we should actually take you know do we enhance the nose functionality in Prof pass do we build a separate application or do we just directly go to try to do documents in Drive uh you know I don't know the answer uh the community answer will be what we actually do okay uh and I think a final interesting one uh and this we have to to conclude uh for for the for the the interview is about VPN uh Apple recently announced that you could add VPN services on the Apple TV and on TV OS I think they already announced one but I'm not sure which one it is I think it might be expressvpn yeah do you have any plans to to work on a on a protonvpn app for Apple TV so this would I guess only really solve the the thing of trying to view content from a country where you're not supposed to watch it yeah I think now that Apple has proper support for it uh it's something that we will also add as well um it's uh you know there's demand for it and we know that today a lot of people use proton actually to get access to content and because of our let's say strong experience in networking and uh you know um and server infrastructure actually proton is very good at you know um making different streaming and different content uh systems work because it's a highly technical product and we are of course engineers and scientists at heart so you know when applied when we apply our let's say mathematical skills to that problem uh we do it a lot better than let's say the VPN who spend most of effort on marketing right uh so it is something that we do better than others today and I think we will want to bring that to Apple TV for sure yeah that's uh very nice to hear because I do own an Apple TV and I would love to have access to to like content that is only available in the US because in France we have some kind of weird restriction where something has to be out in movie theaters for like a year and a half before we can have it it's it's whole thing and it's super annoying for a lot of stuff uh so I think this will conclude uh this this this is all the time we have unfortunately so there were a lot of questions that unfortunately we could not look at because there just were way too many uh so thank you still for taking the time to answer all of this Andy it was really really nice of you to take the time to do so and uh I hope the audience will be satisfied with a lot of those answers and obviously if there are some some comments and some some things that uh that that maybe ask for follow-ups uh may maybe we'll do a follow-up for this video yeah and I think also you know for the for the different users and viewers out there um if you didn't like the answer uh well I work for you right uh so come on Reddit come on Twitter let us know you didn't like the answer and let us know what the answer should have been and then you know we'll discuss it yeah and if your question didn't get answered well uh come on social media find us and you know we'll answer your question yeah I think that's uh that's the best way you can ask for anything just just get get onto the place where you're supposed to and just ask for it and if people ask for it then it will be made because you know we're not Google right you know we actually work for the for the user so if you want it and you ask for it uh you know we actually have to respond so good and that's that's always the best way to do it so so thanks for coming in and uh and thank you all for watching the video and I guess you will see me in the next one and Andy I'm going to say goodbye yes thank you thank you so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it as always if you did don't hesitate to drop a like to subscribe to turn on notifications or to write a comment and if you didn't let me know why in the comments as well and if you like the channel and you like these sort of videos these take a lot of time to make if you want to support what I do I left plenty of links in the description to help me keep making those 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hey everyone and welcome to this edition of come to the Linux side because we have some cool stuff and this week we have a giant AI Alliance being created by the likes of IBM Sony Intel AMD and a lot more but also the EU starting to regulate how AI is used and how transparent it can be we have the beta for Zoro S7 we have a major vulnerability that affects mostly every Linux and Windows computer and we have Linux getting the blue screen of death and we also have the 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 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 to 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 now zorinos S7 beta was released early this week if you don't know about it it's a seriously beefed up Ubuntu based drro that uses LTS releases but improves the desktop experience in a lot of ways including automatic layouts to have an experience closer to what you might know from another desktop or Os and a lot of preinstall tools zorinos S7 is based on auntu 22.4 but it upgrades it to to gnome 43 instead of gnome 42 it brings a lot of cool improvements on top of that the first being a very visual one called the spatial desktop it's basically the return of the desktop cube with a parallax effect on the windows and it looks really really cool although it might not be a giant usability Improvement compared to just a regular strip of desktops the alt tab switcher is also replaced with a 3D switcher and both features can be turned off in the appearance settings if you don't like them they also use gnome's horizontal desktop strip in the activities View and they have the touchpad gestures in place to use it properly on a laptop they improved window tiling as well with quarter tiling now available either by dragging Windows to corners of the screen or by using keyboard shortcuts and they have experimental settings to implement tiling layouts they also get all the new stuff from gnome that you didn't get in the older versions of zorinos but they also revamped their own menu with better search and they added an all apps category to browse the full list of installed software they also plan to add two new predefined layouts that let you move to a Chrome OS like desktop in one click or a gnome 2 inspired layout if you prefer that and zorinos 17 also reduces the bloat complaints by removing the to-do app the gome maps and the games out of the box and they also updated the theme to work better with gtk4 and liit V apps and it moved to the Linux kernel 6.2 which is not so great as 6.6 is out and it is an LTS and it brings plenty of performance improvements and better drivers you can already download the beta and give it a shot if you want but apparently the final release isn't too far away so maybe you won to wait for that I will probably have a video covering that on the channel now we also have mint 21.3 just around the corner and as always it's a minor upgrade but it brings some interesting stuff the first big one is is experimental whand support mint and cinnamon have started their path towards whand and 21.3 will be the first version that lets users test it out it won't replace X11 yet but they will start accepting bug reports on a dedicated GitHub repo that will gather all Wayland related problems whether they're for an application for cinnamon or for the drro itself Nemo the file manager will now support adding actions through a sort of repository letting you install remove and rate various actions that appear in the rightclick menu just like you can do with applets desk LS extensions and themes and there are a few other changes like hypnotics gaining the ability to favorite channels and to create custom ones plus a few fixes and improvements to the login screen the batch renaming tool and the image and video viewer there doesn't seem to be enough there for a dedicated video but I might do a battle of the beginner dros video comparing zorinos S7 to min2 21.3 since they should release at around the same time now if like me you think that the current AI craze sucks but that if AI has to exist then it has to be open then you might be happy to see that there is now something called the AI Alliance and it is backed by a lot of big companies including AMD Sony Red Hat IBM Oracle Intel the Linux Foundation the University of Berkeley Dale stability AI CERN and a lot of others their goal is to develop benchmarks and evaluation standards to make sure AI work is coherent with each other and they want to create open models they want to work on providing AI Hardware accelerators and generally just support AI development in the open it is an international organization and they seem to also want to focus on creating models that have an actual practical use case to solve big issues like climate education and more they will create working group groups to address each main topic and that have a board to establish the main guidelines and standards and I am sure people will find fault with any or all of these companies and entities that form these and it's probably just a move to make sure that they don't get passed by by the other Giants that aren't part of this group like Microsoft Google or Amazon but in the end I would much rather we have a general standards defining body that sort of forces people to work on AI in the open at least if this AI Alliance can manage to reach their goals and speaking about AI the EU once again takes the lead in making sure that this hype train doesn't go too far by just writing the AI act it's a provisional agreement which means it still needs to be ratified but since all member countries already agreed on this draft it should be considered as good as voted this law will prevent malicious applications of AI like using it to violate civil rights in the EU like predictive policing using it for facial recognition or to manipulate human behavior they will also Force general purpose AI like chat GPT and other chat Bots to be more transparent they will have to share technical documentation they will have to comply with copyright law in their data sets and they will have to provide detailed summaries of the content that they used to train the AI and this also applies to the AI models not just the resultant applications of it finds will will reach 7% of the revenue of companies that violate these regulations which is once again very unfortunately low still it is great to see this AI needs to be regulated and looked at because the impacts it could have on our societies with fake information with manipulation with being run by giant companies that have a very bad track record of privacy and how they handle content it just needs to be regulated so I'm glad the EU is taking the plunge and I hope other countries will will also follow suit now this one is pretty fun and it might give ammo to people who think Linux is turning into Windows or whatever other nonsense as system D got a new update which specifically brings the ability to display a blue screen of death when the system fails to boot this new component is called system D bsod for blue screen of death and it will Now display emergency log messages in full screen when there's a big failure during the boot sequence so users can better understand the error and it will also provide them with a QR code so they can get more information about the problem to try and fix it now that's not all this update brings though there's also storage TM which is a new component that exposes all storage devices for other computers to access similar to what Mac OS provides in Target mode and there's VM spawn which is a new tool to spawn virtual machines in the same way as systemd could spawn containers it uses qmu and it is still considered experimental for for now support for system V or system 5 service scripts has also now been deprecated which means it's no longer officially supported and will be removed in a later version and I get it people do not want Linux to turn into Windows that's normal I do not want that either but let's be honest the blue screen of death was only hated because during a certain period of Windows life it was something that users were confronted with very very often in terms of concept having a more Legend error message with help to try and fix it is much better than being stuck on a black screen with white lines of text that don't tell you at all what went wrong now there's an unfortunate new security vulnerability that affects virtually every windows and Linux user dubbed logo fail it's more of a combination of two dozen different flaws that have been there for a long while in UEFI implementations and they're applicable to Ami inside and Phoenix all three being bios or UEFI interface providers but also to Lenovo Dell HP and also to CPUs from Intel AMD and a lot of arm CPUs as well the way this thing works is by using the step where the manufacturer displays a logo at boot by replacing that logo with a similar looking one with some malicious code added on top when the system starts up and a bootable image is started it does bypasses any sort of system security and it controls the whole dis the memory and the OS that will be started this also means that with this set of vulnerabilities attackers can launch anything they want before the OS even boots and modify anything they want it can be exploited remotely and it can be started without storing any executable code on the hard drive meaning that it's very hard to detect that you're currently under attack with an antivirus and once there's actually something written to the dis once the logo image has been replaced even an OS reinstall won't fix the issue unless you also reflash the firmware so basically when you get a firmware or ufi update from your manufacturer either from lvfs or on Windows apply it right now it will fix the problem if you're already infected and if you're not it might help with not being infected which is good now we have some cool updates coming to gnome soon including one to fix how text and icons scale especially with the accessibility option that does exactly that basically they added conversion functions to turn pixels and points into em and they changed how padding works so it can scale properly icons and assets will also now scale alongside the text and the buttons in the panel will also scale to support these changes this means that if fractional scaling doesn't work well for you you can just increase the phone size by a factor of 10% or 25% and get what is pretty much the same result in any app that supports that which should be a bigger subset of apps than the ones that actually do scale well with fractional scaling on top of that work is progressing on the new USB portal on notification grouping in The Gnome shell and they're also working on better fractional scaling by first analyzing the various constraints and options they have to implement it well and they're also looking at the state of speech synthetizer on Linux to improve accessibility finally it looks like triple buffering is ready to be merged it's something that should improve the performance of gnome on integrated graphics and that auntu already added themselves but it looks like it's finally ready to be added to gnome as a whole for Gnome 46 maybe this font scaling thing might be a bigger deal than it looks because it means that you don't really need fractional scaling if all you're using is a laptop with a much too high resolution for the size of the display you can just scale the text and everything will be scaled elegantly and you won't use more power hour you won't have any blurriness it's probably a better way of solving the issue than fractional scaling which is much harder to implement and a lot of apps don't really follow well and triple buffering of course is a godsent for people who have older integrated gpus interestingly KD also implemented something just like that called dma fence deadline which should help with Intel integrated gpus on whand to have a much smoother experience and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have an interesting look at the performance and power consumption of the steam deck OLED if you were wondering if it was worth the upgrade in terms of performance don't expect a difference you will be able to grab a few FPS here and there but it will not push a 30fps game into 40 FPS territory or a 40 FPS game to 60 and that's a good thing to avoid the older LCD deck being abandoned by developers but in terms of battery life you're gaining 1 to 4 hours the depending on what you're playing and that's paired with a better display a better refresh rate and improved inputs as well so while I will not be upgrading personally because I don't play enough on my steam deck anymore to justify the expense if you already have a steam deck but you wish you had better battery life then the OLED might be a good choice and if you don't have a steam deck there is no doubt go for the OLED don't buy the LCD the OLED looks like it's a much much better deal and we have yet another wine release 8.22 which adds even more whand support this one adds Mouse look support and relative motion events which means that now firstperson Shooters and other games like that should be able to work properly when using the Wayland back end of wine this should basically Implement everything that is needed for a fully working experience apart of course from some specific bugs and performance issues so that's pretty freaking nice it means that we'll probably see wine fully working natively on Wayland in 2024 which probably also means that proton will follow suit relatively soon after that and this will mean better performance for every gamer on Linux whether you are using xland or X11 native Welling gaming will definitely provide better performance and today's sponsor will also provide you with a better computer to run Linux if your computer is due for a replacement whether it's a laptop a desktop or a knock and you plan to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that only support Windows officially buy something from our sponsor tuxedo they provide computers that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware has been picked specifically because it works well with Linux and if they encountered any issues during their testing or before shipping the computer they actually submit patchers Upstream to fix those problems for everyone they have a big range of computers that should fit basically every need and every price point every device is very customizable up to the keyboard layout your own logo and the components inside and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer click the link in the description below all I use nowadays are computers from tuxedo for editing all these videos for working for my billing for my invoicing for running this Channel and also for gaming as my Steam OS console is a computer from tuxedo as well so click the link in the description below and get started with a real Linux computer so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed 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hey everyone and welcome to this edition of come to the Linux side because we have some cool stuff and this week we have a giant AI Alliance being created by the likes of IBM Sony Intel AMD and a lot more but also the EU starting to regulate how AI is used and how transparent it can be we have the beta for Zoro S7 we have a major vulnerability that affects mostly every Linux and Windows computer and we have Linux getting the blue screen of death and we also have the 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 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 to 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 now zorinos S7 beta was released early this week if you don't know about it it's a seriously beefed up Ubuntu based drro that uses LTS releases but improves the desktop experience in a lot of ways including automatic layouts to have an experience closer to what you might know from another desktop or Os and a lot of preinstall tools zorinos S7 is based on auntu 22.4 but it upgrades it to to gnome 43 instead of gnome 42 it brings a lot of cool improvements on top of that the first being a very visual one called the spatial desktop it's basically the return of the desktop cube with a parallax effect on the windows and it looks really really cool although it might not be a giant usability Improvement compared to just a regular strip of desktops the alt tab switcher is also replaced with a 3D switcher and both features can be turned off in the appearance settings if you don't like them they also use gnome's horizontal desktop strip in the activities View and they have the touchpad gestures in place to use it properly on a laptop they improved window tiling as well with quarter tiling now available either by dragging Windows to corners of the screen or by using keyboard shortcuts and they have experimental settings to implement tiling layouts they also get all the new stuff from gnome that you didn't get in the older versions of zorinos but they also revamped their own menu with better search and they added an all apps category to browse the full list of installed software they also plan to add two new predefined layouts that let you move to a Chrome OS like desktop in one click or a gnome 2 inspired layout if you prefer that and zorinos 17 also reduces the bloat complaints by removing the to-do app the gome maps and the games out of the box and they also updated the theme to work better with gtk4 and liit V apps and it moved to the Linux kernel 6.2 which is not so great as 6.6 is out and it is an LTS and it brings plenty of performance improvements and better drivers you can already download the beta and give it a shot if you want but apparently the final release isn't too far away so maybe you won to wait for that I will probably have a video covering that on the channel now we also have mint 21.3 just around the corner and as always it's a minor upgrade but it brings some interesting stuff the first big one is is experimental whand support mint and cinnamon have started their path towards whand and 21.3 will be the first version that lets users test it out it won't replace X11 yet but they will start accepting bug reports on a dedicated GitHub repo that will gather all Wayland related problems whether they're for an application for cinnamon or for the drro itself Nemo the file manager will now support adding actions through a sort of repository letting you install remove and rate various actions that appear in the rightclick menu just like you can do with applets desk LS extensions and themes and there are a few other changes like hypnotics gaining the ability to favorite channels and to create custom ones plus a few fixes and improvements to the login screen the batch renaming tool and the image and video viewer there doesn't seem to be enough there for a dedicated video but I might do a battle of the beginner dros video comparing zorinos S7 to min2 21.3 since they should release at around the same time now if like me you think that the current AI craze sucks but that if AI has to exist then it has to be open then you might be happy to see that there is now something called the AI Alliance and it is backed by a lot of big companies including AMD Sony Red Hat IBM Oracle Intel the Linux Foundation the University of Berkeley Dale stability AI CERN and a lot of others their goal is to develop benchmarks and evaluation standards to make sure AI work is coherent with each other and they want to create open models they want to work on providing AI Hardware accelerators and generally just support AI development in the open it is an international organization and they seem to also want to focus on creating models that have an actual practical use case to solve big issues like climate education and more they will create working group groups to address each main topic and that have a board to establish the main guidelines and standards and I am sure people will find fault with any or all of these companies and entities that form these and it's probably just a move to make sure that they don't get passed by by the other Giants that aren't part of this group like Microsoft Google or Amazon but in the end I would much rather we have a general standards defining body that sort of forces people to work on AI in the open at least if this AI Alliance can manage to reach their goals and speaking about AI the EU once again takes the lead in making sure that this hype train doesn't go too far by just writing the AI act it's a provisional agreement which means it still needs to be ratified but since all member countries already agreed on this draft it should be considered as good as voted this law will prevent malicious applications of AI like using it to violate civil rights in the EU like predictive policing using it for facial recognition or to manipulate human behavior they will also Force general purpose AI like chat GPT and other chat Bots to be more transparent they will have to share technical documentation they will have to comply with copyright law in their data sets and they will have to provide detailed summaries of the content that they used to train the AI and this also applies to the AI models not just the resultant applications of it finds will will reach 7% of the revenue of companies that violate these regulations which is once again very unfortunately low still it is great to see this AI needs to be regulated and looked at because the impacts it could have on our societies with fake information with manipulation with being run by giant companies that have a very bad track record of privacy and how they handle content it just needs to be regulated so I'm glad the EU is taking the plunge and I hope other countries will will also follow suit now this one is pretty fun and it might give ammo to people who think Linux is turning into Windows or whatever other nonsense as system D got a new update which specifically brings the ability to display a blue screen of death when the system fails to boot this new component is called system D bsod for blue screen of death and it will Now display emergency log messages in full screen when there's a big failure during the boot sequence so users can better understand the error and it will also provide them with a QR code so they can get more information about the problem to try and fix it now that's not all this update brings though there's also storage TM which is a new component that exposes all storage devices for other computers to access similar to what Mac OS provides in Target mode and there's VM spawn which is a new tool to spawn virtual machines in the same way as systemd could spawn containers it uses qmu and it is still considered experimental for for now support for system V or system 5 service scripts has also now been deprecated which means it's no longer officially supported and will be removed in a later version and I get it people do not want Linux to turn into Windows that's normal I do not want that either but let's be honest the blue screen of death was only hated because during a certain period of Windows life it was something that users were confronted with very very often in terms of concept having a more Legend error message with help to try and fix it is much better than being stuck on a black screen with white lines of text that don't tell you at all what went wrong now there's an unfortunate new security vulnerability that affects virtually every windows and Linux user dubbed logo fail it's more of a combination of two dozen different flaws that have been there for a long while in UEFI implementations and they're applicable to Ami inside and Phoenix all three being bios or UEFI interface providers but also to Lenovo Dell HP and also to CPUs from Intel AMD and a lot of arm CPUs as well the way this thing works is by using the step where the manufacturer displays a logo at boot by replacing that logo with a similar looking one with some malicious code added on top when the system starts up and a bootable image is started it does bypasses any sort of system security and it controls the whole dis the memory and the OS that will be started this also means that with this set of vulnerabilities attackers can launch anything they want before the OS even boots and modify anything they want it can be exploited remotely and it can be started without storing any executable code on the hard drive meaning that it's very hard to detect that you're currently under attack with an antivirus and once there's actually something written to the dis once the logo image has been replaced even an OS reinstall won't fix the issue unless you also reflash the firmware so basically when you get a firmware or ufi update from your manufacturer either from lvfs or on Windows apply it right now it will fix the problem if you're already infected and if you're not it might help with not being infected which is good now we have some cool updates coming to gnome soon including one to fix how text and icons scale especially with the accessibility option that does exactly that basically they added conversion functions to turn pixels and points into em and they changed how padding works so it can scale properly icons and assets will also now scale alongside the text and the buttons in the panel will also scale to support these changes this means that if fractional scaling doesn't work well for you you can just increase the phone size by a factor of 10% or 25% and get what is pretty much the same result in any app that supports that which should be a bigger subset of apps than the ones that actually do scale well with fractional scaling on top of that work is progressing on the new USB portal on notification grouping in The Gnome shell and they're also working on better fractional scaling by first analyzing the various constraints and options they have to implement it well and they're also looking at the state of speech synthetizer on Linux to improve accessibility finally it looks like triple buffering is ready to be merged it's something that should improve the performance of gnome on integrated graphics and that auntu already added themselves but it looks like it's finally ready to be added to gnome as a whole for Gnome 46 maybe this font scaling thing might be a bigger deal than it looks because it means that you don't really need fractional scaling if all you're using is a laptop with a much too high resolution for the size of the display you can just scale the text and everything will be scaled elegantly and you won't use more power hour you won't have any blurriness it's probably a better way of solving the issue than fractional scaling which is much harder to implement and a lot of apps don't really follow well and triple buffering of course is a godsent for people who have older integrated gpus interestingly KD also implemented something just like that called dma fence deadline which should help with Intel integrated gpus on whand to have a much smoother experience and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have an interesting look at the performance and power consumption of the steam deck OLED if you were wondering if it was worth the upgrade in terms of performance don't expect a difference you will be able to grab a few FPS here and there but it will not push a 30fps game into 40 FPS territory or a 40 FPS game to 60 and that's a good thing to avoid the older LCD deck being abandoned by developers but in terms of battery life you're gaining 1 to 4 hours the depending on what you're playing and that's paired with a better display a better refresh rate and improved inputs as well so while I will not be upgrading personally because I don't play enough on my steam deck anymore to justify the expense if you already have a steam deck but you wish you had better battery life then the OLED might be a good choice and if you don't have a steam deck there is no doubt go for the OLED don't buy the LCD the OLED looks like it's a much much better deal and we have yet another wine release 8.22 which adds even more whand support this one adds Mouse look support and relative motion events which means that now firstperson Shooters and other games like that should be able to work properly when using the Wayland back end of wine this should basically Implement everything that is needed for a fully working experience apart of course from some specific bugs and performance issues so that's pretty freaking nice it means that we'll probably see wine fully working natively on Wayland in 2024 which probably also means that proton will follow suit relatively soon after that and this will mean better performance for every gamer on Linux whether you are using xland or X11 native Welling gaming will definitely provide better performance and today's sponsor will also provide you with a better computer to run Linux if your computer is due for a replacement whether it's a laptop a desktop or a knock and you plan to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that only support Windows officially buy something from our sponsor tuxedo they provide computers that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware has been picked specifically because it works well with Linux and if they encountered any issues during their testing or before shipping the computer they actually submit patchers Upstream to fix those problems for everyone they have a big range of computers that should fit basically every need and every price point every device is very customizable up to the keyboard layout your own logo and the components inside and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer click the link in the description below all I use nowadays are computers from tuxedo for editing all these videos for working for my billing for my invoicing for running this Channel and also for gaming as my Steam OS console is a computer from tuxedo as well so click the link in the description below and get started with a real Linux computer 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 didn't there's always that thumbs down button and the comment section below and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of links in the description of the video for Libra pay PayPal patreon YouTube memberships whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music] [Music] d he
if I tell you gaming laptop and then I tell you Linux you might look at me like I was a Windows user saying that my OS is the best for servers and still with the advances on gaming on Linux and millions of Linux gaming devices sold by Valve in the form of the steam deck buying a gaming laptop that runs Linux isn't a weird thing anymore it actually makes perfect sense and so that's what we have today the slimbook hero it's a Linux gaming laptop it's portable it's gamery without all the RGB tackiness it's solid It's relatively lightweight and so we're going to look at what it can do and also we're going to look at 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 Kernel life patching and additional support for end of life distributions speaking of which if you have systems running on sentos S7 you probably know it will reach end of life in June 2024 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're launching their extended life cycle support solution for sentos S7 in Early Access which will let you keep receiving security patches and updates to the core system and to a lot of critical packages living you with a lot more time to prepare to migrate to a newer distribution 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 numerous unresolved high and critical risk vulnerabilities in sentos S7 and these are gaps 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 of the video and secure your Centos S7 systems for now and for years in the future okay so let's start with an overview of the slimbook hero it's the most gamery laptop I've seen from most Linux manufacturers not because it has the traditional Christmas tree aesthetic of crazy RGB because it doesn't have that but because it clearly emphasizes gaming as its main purpose you've got slim book's gamified logo with the penguin in a badge or a shield on the lid of the laptop and on the super key and you have the W ASD and arrow keys highlighted in white on the keyboard so you see where you're supposed to place your fingers and if you place them on the arrow keys to game you're weird and your shoulder must hurt pretty badly apart from that though it's not too crazy you don't get alien wees Design Elements no light bar or garish color choices it's a laptop that you could absolutely use for anything else Al also you can get it without the gamer branding it's a 15-in device with a 1440p display that refreshes at 165 HZ with an aluminium chassis a 13th gen Intel i7 CPU an RTX 460 GPU as much RAM as you could cram into a laptop and very solid IO and of course it's sold with Linux pre-install you've got a choice between a bunch of popular dros but you can also just install your own especially a gamer focused Dro like nobara Chima Os or maybe even Holo ISO so this thing is chunky it's not meant to be an Ultrabook it weighs 2.1 kilos or 4.6 lb and it's pretty damn sturdy not much give or Flex to this chassis thanks to the aluminium it's all matte black but it's not entirely aluminium the bottom plate and the bezels around the display are made of plastic branding is decently minimal you still get a big slimbook gamer logo on the lid although you can ask them to not put it there or to laser Edge something else and once the laptop's opened the slim book logo under the display is dark gray on a black frame so it is not really jumping at you the hinge is really solid as well with minimal wobble when typing it's a 16x9 form factor which is sort of better for gaming in my opinion but a bit less good for productivity where 16x 10 is nicer bezels are pretty big on this thing and in the same form factor they could probably have fit a 16in 16 by10 display instead which I would have preferred very solid design it's no Ultrabook but it is chunky enough that it's going to give you plenty of cooling for long gaming sessions now in terms of specs this laptop is well equipped with a core i7 13620 H and an Nvidia RTX 460 with 8 gigs of vram as always before you flee before the green GPU V vender remember that NVIDIA drivers have made leaps on Linux and if you use a drro that packages them properly you will not experience any issues especially if you stick to X11 which you will probably want to do if you plan to game anyway seriously the horror stories related to Nvidia gpus are either on older Nvidia gpus that aren't well supported with the current drivers or they're related to wha but X11 and Nvidia there are no issues here now you can spec the rest of the laptop up to your liking with up to 64 gigs of ddr5 RAM at 5200 MHz and up to 4 tbyt of PCI for storage you can also choose to dispose with the gamer branding and use a more unified black keyboard instead of having the white accents on the W ASD keys and you can pick any keyboard language you want as per I/O on the left you get a kinct unlock a USB 2.0 Port probably for a mouse a mic Jack and a headphone jack on the back you have a mini display port USBC 3.2 Gen 2 with display port support HDMI 2.1 a gab ethernet port and the barrel charger since charging this thing over USBC would be a challenge and on the right there's an SD card reader and two type a USB 3.2 ports really solid I/O although I am always confused as to why USB 2 still exists on these types of laptops some people tell me it's because there are some incompatibilities with booty from USB devices with USB 3 and some tell me that it works better for some peripherals but I never encountered any of these problems now on top of that you get Bluetooth 5.2 Wi-Fi 6 a basic webcam and onboard mic that won't blow your socks off dual speakers that are pretty decent and a backlit keyboard with RGB because gamer now let's focus on the performance aspect because that's what most people will buy this device for in terms of benchmarks the CPU gets a score of 2733 in single core and 11,625 in multi-core on gig bench 6 which is really really good compared to my main editing device an Ultrabook with a core i7 13700 H this is 9% faster in single core and 16% faster in multicore surprising because in theory the 13700 H is faster than the one the slimbook hero has which is a 13620 h but since the laptop is bigger and has better cooling it manages to get better performance over long periods of time which I guess is really good battery life is decent with about 7 hours of generic office work with Wi-Fi on 50% brightness and using the silent mode which you can trigger by pressing the associate button of course while gaming you're getting about 3 hours at least for intensive AAA titles speaking of which I ran the Horizon zero Dawn Benchmark and the one in Shadow of the Tomb Raider as well in zero Dawn at the native 1440p resolution without any upscaling and at the ultra preset the slimo hero managed a super smooth 60fps often going above that and very rarely dipping below for shadow of the Tomb Raider also at 1440p without upscaling and at the ultra preset I got 999 FPS on average sometimes going down to about 80 to 81 or up to 120 and this was using slimbook OS which is basically a to LTS with the latest NVIDIA drivers you might get better performance with a more recent drro and more up-to-date Linux kernel and maybe even more upto-date NVIDIA drivers although from what I could see this thing has the latest installed gaming at Mac settings can get pretty noisy e here although it's not super problematic especially if you have headphones or a headset really really good performance here you'll be able to play anything and everything and you'll be able to enjoy the benefits of the high refresh rate of the display on less demanding titles or if you lower the resolution and the details a bit which is always cool because having a super high display refresh rate on a laptop when you can barely reach 60 is not super impressive now as you've seen in the video the display is really solid it covers 100% of srgb it has a refresh rate up to 165 HZ and it's 440p annoyingly though it's either 165 Herz or 40 HZ which means you can't really save battery life by lowering the refresh rate because 40 HZ is just too low for any type of use case still the viewing angles are great the colors are accurate and it's matte with an anti-glare coating which means Reflections are kept to a minimum of course it's 16 by 9 so it's better for gaming and watching videos than for office work and content creation but it's still really good the keyboard is solid enough it's not the best I've used this award goes to the laptop I'm using daily The Tuxedo infinti Book Pro 16 or it's equivalent at slimbook the executive 16 but on the hero it's still really good the keys are very stable and they have good travel they're quite clicky and the sound is pleasant and they bounce back super fast it's very nice to type on of course here it's a Spanish layout that I really struggle with but you can get any other layout you prefer there's a numpad which will be a plus for some and a drawback for others the whole keyboard is backlit with multiple colors you can pick from using the slimbook RGB keyboard app the touchpad is okay it's a bit small for my taste but I've been spoiled by the giant smartphone size touchpad on my laptop still this one is smooth enough it's precise although it is very off center which I find annoying in day-to-day use solid inputs here they are not the best I've ever used on a laptop but the keyboard will work very nicely for any form of office work or for gaming it's good enough and if you're going to game on that the touchpad will not be what you're going to use you're going to use a mouse but still if you need to use the touchpad it's good enough as well now my review unit came with slimbook OS which is aun 2 22.4 LTS with the latest NVIDIA drivers a few changes to the theme and a few pre-installed apps from slimbook to control the power profile of the laptop and the CPU either using the graphical app or with the dedicated button next to the power button you also get slimbook gestures that let you configure touchpad gestures even on X11 although they are not one to one and smooth like on whand the RGB keyboard app lets you change the brightness and color of the backlight as well as mentioned previously and that's about it there's no big piece of bloat Weare and all the these apps can of course be uninstalled if you don't want them and as per the general Linux gaming experience installing steam was as always a oneclick operation and then games just installed and played as they would on any other operating system without any additional setup or configuration Linux does make sense for gaming these days as proven by the steam deck you've got a lot of playable titles whether they own steam or using an alternative third party client like the heroic games launcher lutrus or something else you just install the game in one click you click play and it runs unless it needs a specific anti- cheat which might still not be supported so to finish on this device it's a gaming laptop that runs Linux it has all the nice things that you'd want like an Ethernet Jack for the best experience with online gaming a really good display a solid enough set of speakers a separate headphone and mic Jack for gaming with your friends and communicating it has great IO excellent performance and good inputs it's also openable repairable and upgradeable which is a plus it retails for €1,400 V8 included at least in France and you can pre-order it right now it will ship at the end of December the price seems fair if I compare it with other laptops available right now on Amazon in France they are all around ,400 with all added taxes as well and similar specs although with the slimbook you're only getting 250 gigs of SSD with the base config which will be small for gaming but compared to other available laptops you get better cooling because the laptop is actually thicker and has more heat pipes and you get a higher refresh rate on the display so if you want a gaming laptop and you're a Linux user the slimbook hero is actually a very good choice and gaming on Linux does make sense these days just on Steam you've got more than 12,000 games that are marked as officially compatible with the steam deck which means they will also run on any other Linux disres and some of these games that aren't certified on the deck will also run so you've got more than 12,000 games if your gaming is mostly on Steam Linux is really a solid option nowadays and this will conclude this 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 didn't like it there's always that dislike button and the comment section to tell me why and if you really enjoy the channel you can support it there are plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that from liay patreon PayPal YouTube memberships whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye he
if I tell you gaming laptop and then I tell you Linux you might look at me like I was a Windows user saying that my OS is the best for servers and still with the advances on gaming on Linux and millions of Linux gaming devices sold by Valve in the form of the steam deck buying a gaming laptop that runs Linux isn't a weird thing anymore it actually makes perfect sense and so that's what we have today the slimbook hero it's a Linux gaming laptop it's portable it's gamery without all the RGB tackiness it's solid It's relatively lightweight and so we're going to look at what it can do and also we're going to look at 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 Kernel life patching and additional support for end of life distributions speaking of which if you have systems running on sentos S7 you probably know it will reach end of life in June 2024 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're launching their extended life cycle support solution for sentos S7 in Early Access which will let you keep receiving security patches and updates to the core system and to a lot of critical packages living you with a lot more time to prepare to migrate to a newer distribution 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 numerous unresolved high and critical risk vulnerabilities in sentos S7 and these are gaps 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 of the video and secure your Centos S7 systems for now and for years in the future okay so let's start with an overview of the slimbook hero it's the most gamery laptop I've seen from most Linux manufacturers not because it has the traditional Christmas tree aesthetic of crazy RGB because it doesn't have that but because it clearly emphasizes gaming as its main purpose you've got slim book's gamified logo with the penguin in a badge or a shield on the lid of the laptop and on the super key and you have the W ASD and arrow keys highlighted in white on the keyboard so you see where you're supposed to place your fingers and if you place them on the arrow keys to game you're weird and your shoulder must hurt pretty badly apart from that though it's not too crazy you don't get alien wees Design Elements no light bar or garish color choices it's a laptop that you could absolutely use for anything else Al also you can get it without the gamer branding it's a 15-in device with a 1440p display that refreshes at 165 HZ with an aluminium chassis a 13th gen Intel i7 CPU an RTX 460 GPU as much RAM as you could cram into a laptop and very solid IO and of course it's sold with Linux pre-install you've got a choice between a bunch of popular dros but you can also just install your own especially a gamer focused Dro like nobara Chima Os or maybe even Holo ISO so this thing is chunky it's not meant to be an Ultrabook it weighs 2.1 kilos or 4.6 lb and it's pretty damn sturdy not much give or Flex to this chassis thanks to the aluminium it's all matte black but it's not entirely aluminium the bottom plate and the bezels around the display are made of plastic branding is decently minimal you still get a big slimbook gamer logo on the lid although you can ask them to not put it there or to laser Edge something else and once the laptop's opened the slim book logo under the display is dark gray on a black frame so it is not really jumping at you the hinge is really solid as well with minimal wobble when typing it's a 16x9 form factor which is sort of better for gaming in my opinion but a bit less good for productivity where 16x 10 is nicer bezels are pretty big on this thing and in the same form factor they could probably have fit a 16in 16 by10 display instead which I would have preferred very solid design it's no Ultrabook but it is chunky enough that it's going to give you plenty of cooling for long gaming sessions now in terms of specs this laptop is well equipped with a core i7 13620 H and an Nvidia RTX 460 with 8 gigs of vram as always before you flee before the green GPU V vender remember that NVIDIA drivers have made leaps on Linux and if you use a drro that packages them properly you will not experience any issues especially if you stick to X11 which you will probably want to do if you plan to game anyway seriously the horror stories related to Nvidia gpus are either on older Nvidia gpus that aren't well supported with the current drivers or they're related to wha but X11 and Nvidia there are no issues here now you can spec the rest of the laptop up to your liking with up to 64 gigs of ddr5 RAM at 5200 MHz and up to 4 tbyt of PCI for storage you can also choose to dispose with the gamer branding and use a more unified black keyboard instead of having the white accents on the W ASD keys and you can pick any keyboard language you want as per I/O on the left you get a kinct unlock a USB 2.0 Port probably for a mouse a mic Jack and a headphone jack on the back you have a mini display port USBC 3.2 Gen 2 with display port support HDMI 2.1 a gab ethernet port and the barrel charger since charging this thing over USBC would be a challenge and on the right there's an SD card reader and two type a USB 3.2 ports really solid I/O although I am always confused as to why USB 2 still exists on these types of laptops some people tell me it's because there are some incompatibilities with booty from USB devices with USB 3 and some tell me that it works better for some peripherals but I never encountered any of these problems now on top of that you get Bluetooth 5.2 Wi-Fi 6 a basic webcam and onboard mic that won't blow your socks off dual speakers that are pretty decent and a backlit keyboard with RGB because gamer now let's focus on the performance aspect because that's what most people will buy this device for in terms of benchmarks the CPU gets a score of 2733 in single core and 11,625 in multi-core on gig bench 6 which is really really good compared to my main editing device an Ultrabook with a core i7 13700 H this is 9% faster in single core and 16% faster in multicore surprising because in theory the 13700 H is faster than the one the slimbook hero has which is a 13620 h but since the laptop is bigger and has better cooling it manages to get better performance over long periods of time which I guess is really good battery life is decent with about 7 hours of generic office work with Wi-Fi on 50% brightness and using the silent mode which you can trigger by pressing the associate button of course while gaming you're getting about 3 hours at least for intensive AAA titles speaking of which I ran the Horizon zero Dawn Benchmark and the one in Shadow of the Tomb Raider as well in zero Dawn at the native 1440p resolution without any upscaling and at the ultra preset the slimo hero managed a super smooth 60fps often going above that and very rarely dipping below for shadow of the Tomb Raider also at 1440p without upscaling and at the ultra preset I got 999 FPS on average sometimes going down to about 80 to 81 or up to 120 and this was using slimbook OS which is basically a to LTS with the latest NVIDIA drivers you might get better performance with a more recent drro and more up-to-date Linux kernel and maybe even more upto-date NVIDIA drivers although from what I could see this thing has the latest installed gaming at Mac settings can get pretty noisy e here although it's not super problematic especially if you have headphones or a headset really really good performance here you'll be able to play anything and everything and you'll be able to enjoy the benefits of the high refresh rate of the display on less demanding titles or if you lower the resolution and the details a bit which is always cool because having a super high display refresh rate on a laptop when you can barely reach 60 is not super impressive now as you've seen in the video the display is really solid it covers 100% of srgb it has a refresh rate up to 165 HZ and it's 440p annoyingly though it's either 165 Herz or 40 HZ which means you can't really save battery life by lowering the refresh rate because 40 HZ is just too low for any type of use case still the viewing angles are great the colors are accurate and it's matte with an anti-glare coating which means Reflections are kept to a minimum of course it's 16 by 9 so it's better for gaming and watching videos than for office work and content creation but it's still really good the keyboard is solid enough it's not the best I've used this award goes to the laptop I'm using daily The Tuxedo infinti Book Pro 16 or it's equivalent at slimbook the executive 16 but on the hero it's still really good the keys are very stable and they have good travel they're quite clicky and the sound is pleasant and they bounce back super fast it's very nice to type on of course here it's a Spanish layout that I really struggle with but you can get any other layout you prefer there's a numpad which will be a plus for some and a drawback for others the whole keyboard is backlit with multiple colors you can pick from using the slimbook RGB keyboard app the touchpad is okay it's a bit small for my taste but I've been spoiled by the giant smartphone size touchpad on my laptop still this one is smooth enough it's precise although it is very off center which I find annoying in day-to-day use solid inputs here they are not the best I've ever used on a laptop but the keyboard will work very nicely for any form of office work or for gaming it's good enough and if you're going to game on that the touchpad will not be what you're going to use you're going to use a mouse but still if you need to use the touchpad it's good enough as well now my review unit came with slimbook OS which is aun 2 22.4 LTS with the latest NVIDIA drivers a few changes to the theme and a few pre-installed apps from slimbook to control the power profile of the laptop and the CPU either using the graphical app or with the dedicated button next to the power button you also get slimbook gestures that let you configure touchpad gestures even on X11 although they are not one to one and smooth like on whand the RGB keyboard app lets you change the brightness and color of the backlight as well as mentioned previously and that's about it there's no big piece of bloat Weare and all the these apps can of course be uninstalled if you don't want them and as per the general Linux gaming experience installing steam was as always a oneclick operation and then games just installed and played as they would on any other operating system without any additional setup or configuration Linux does make sense for gaming these days as proven by the steam deck you've got a lot of playable titles whether they own steam or using an alternative third party client like the heroic games launcher lutrus or something else you just install the game in one click you click play and it runs unless it needs a specific anti- cheat which might still not be supported so to finish on this device it's a gaming laptop that runs Linux it has all the nice things that you'd want like an Ethernet Jack for the best experience with online gaming a really good display a solid enough set of speakers a separate headphone and mic Jack for gaming with your friends and communicating it has great IO excellent performance and good inputs it's also openable repairable and upgradeable which is a plus it retails for €1,400 V8 included at least in France and you can pre-order it right now it will ship at the end of December the price seems fair if I compare it with other laptops available right now on Amazon in France they are all around ,400 with all added taxes as well and similar specs although with the slimbook you're only getting 250 gigs of SSD with the base config which will be small for gaming but compared to other available laptops you get better cooling because the laptop is actually thicker and has more heat pipes and you get a higher refresh rate on the display so if you want a gaming laptop and you're a Linux user the slimbook hero is actually a very good choice and gaming on Linux does make sense these days just on Steam you've got more than 12,000 games that are marked as officially compatible with the steam deck which means they will also run on any other Linux disres and some of these games that aren't certified on the deck will also run so you've got more than 12,000 games if your gaming is mostly on Steam Linux is really a solid option nowadays and this will conclude this 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 didn't like it there's always that dislike button and the comment section to tell me why and if you really enjoy the channel you can support it there are plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that from liay patreon PayPal YouTube memberships whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye he
how would you like to start the day with the Linux and open source news or maybe end the day I guess it depends on where you live where do you live exactly YouTube might know but I don't anyway this week red hat is now planning to officially drop X11 from the next version of red hat Enterprise Linux we also have the first beta of plasma 6 the KD gear compilation and the KD Frameworks and they still manag to slot in a few new features as well and we also have some big moves for the Linux desktop in general including better Wayland integration pipe wire secure boot on Nvidia and HDR support and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare they offer Solutions like kernel life patching and extended support for endof Life distributions so you can make sure your Linux server or workstation Fleet is always up todate and secure all while minimizing down time and this week they're inviting you to a webinar which should be especially interesting if you have machines running sentos S7 the webinar will only take 30 minutes of your time and it will tell you about all the risks of running an endof life drro as sentos S7 will reach that status next year and also currently has many unpatched vulnerabilities that you might not be aware of and since just telling you about the risks isn't enough they will also talk about solutions to resolve of these unpatch vulnerabilities and also solutions to securely use Centos S7 past its end of life in June 2024 until you're ready to upgrade this will happen this Wednesday on the 6th of December and it's entirely free so if you want to join and learn more about this I left the link in the description of the video so red hat Enterprise Linux is officially dropping X11 with their next version version 10 it's planned for 2025 so they are still a lot of time but X11 will be unsupported and the only traces of it that will be left is through X whand Red Hat Engineers basically said that yes there are still a few gaps and some apps that need updates but also that Wayland is mature enough and that by the time rail 10 is out they will have fixed all the blockers so rail 10 will not provide packages for X11 or the ability to run an X11 session this will also give them more time to work on hdr on better security on mixed DPI settings on GPU hot plugin on gestures and more as the burden of maintaining the Old Spaghetti code of X11 and packaging it will be removed this is yet another nail in x1's coffin and it's done relatively nicely as it leaves a full year to fix issues and to give a strong signal to app developers to start supporting the various portals needed to operate properly on Wayland And to support Wayland natively as well without X Wayland or X11 so Fedora already has plans to ditch X11 before rail 10 happens but this will probably also have a ripple effect on other distributions ra is the biggest Enterprise drro out there and I'm pretty sure others will follow suit because they won't want to keep the burden of maintaining X11 still I think it's done in a nice way it leaves plenty of time and it gives a strong deadline relatively long enough in the future for app developers to actually work on supporting Wayland now plasma 6 saw its first Beta release this week and this isn't just the desktop itself it's what they call a mega release and mega it is indeed since it contains not only plasma 6 but also the KD gear app compilation and the KD framework so basically the entire stack apps and desktop of course it is only many for testing purposes and they emphasize the fact that it is not ready for day-to-day use but if you want to give it a shot if you want to see what's new and if you want to help report some bugs then this is going to be a good time still the team managed to fit a few more features in in between bug fixes notably setting the wallpaper for any of your screens from a revamped settings page discover gained a new section in the homepage to Showcase new and updated apps for flatback or snaps the NightLight feature now shows you a timeline for when this blue light reduction mode will be active and there's a new optional effect to shake your cursor to make it bigger like in Mac OS for people who have difficulties finding it the archive manager now has an option to extract and delete the archive afterwards as well available straight from the rightclick menu there were also plenty of smaller ux improvements and 180 bug fixes the final release is getting closer and closer and while there aren't many big impactful visual changes it looks like it's packing so many smaller details and improvements that the video I'm going to have to make about it when it releases will be a very very long one now as per gnome there is more progress on the various things that their recent 1 million euro Grant helped fund webp is Now supported in The Gnome platform system D Home D is now better supported with initial work starting on using TP M chips for encrypting the user directory memory leaks are being identified and plugged in flatback and portals and there's some work being done on the new accessibility infrastructure the open withth dialogues are also being improved in Gnome and a few bugs were also fixed in The Gnome shell on top of that we have a bunch of updates to gnome apps Gaff for the modeling tool got a new version with plenty of usability improvements carbur tour an app to set up a tour proxy on your Des desktop or smartphone got a new version as well pods the app that helps you manage your pod man containers gain support for volumes and the interface has been refreshed with the latest Liber Vita widget and koua the screen recorder got a few ux improvements small changes this week but I guess a lot of people are just focused on bringing all the new cool projects that their 1 million euro Grant helped fun which is really nice because they won't just benefit gnow they will benefit the entire Linux desk toop ecosystem and that's always really nice to see now this week there was a lengthy blog post from Christian Scher going over the next areas of focus for Fedora after the release of Fedora 39 first is pipe wire with the release of pipewire 1.0 I will freely admit I thought this thing was pretty much complete and done with but it looks like there's still more work happening in there notably to support cameras in OBS from moving away from video for Linux or support in web RTC HDR is another thing they're focusing on with the first use case which is running a full screen HDR app being close to D having mixed SDR and HDR windows on the same screen is still a bit further away but Christian is expecting that for summer 2024 which is not that far for Wayland they're focusing on enabling remote login with a headless system and this should be ready for Gnome 46 on the well on front there's also work being done on input leap which lets you share the same input devices so mouse and keyboard between different computers like what barrier does for X11 there's also some work being done on NVIDIA drivers with plans to at some point use the open source stack for NVIDIA with nvk and the big updates that came to nvo recently they apparently have team members picking up the work on Novo since the main maintainer left the project recently but they still expect people to have to rely on the pro proprietary drivers for a while they're also looking at how they could enable secure boot with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but they're not making any promises for accessibility they will of course be relying on the new framework being worked on in Gnome and funded by the recent Grant but they also want to Port gnome software to dnf 5 for a faster experience plenty of good stuff happening and you'll notice that most of these changes are on Linux desktop projects not just on a specific drro or desktop which is a theme I'm starting to notice more and more a lot of the work is going into what furthers the Linux desktop as a hole we're starting to converge on a vision a stack and a path which feels really really nice finally now still on desktops it looks like budgie will not after all move to the enlightenment libraries to be the base of Budgy 11 they had expressed their plans to move away from a gnome based desktop as they had too much stuff to patch in to turn the gnome base and libraries into something that worked for them and they had set their sites on efl which are a set of libraries used to build the enlightenment desktop since budgie wants to turn to whand for the future though it looks like these might not be the best choice as efl only has experimental support for Wayland that is not deemed ready for end users as a result budgie is looking at how they can move forward with their plans to ditch gnome libraries and components especially looking at what xfce is doing since they've also announced their plans to move to Wayland in the future including a compatibility layer that Bridges the gap between X11 and whan to avoid breaking things and spending years to fix them to get back to the previous usability state without any benefit it's all interesting stuff but I also feel like we're starting to create a two-speed ecosystem for the Linux desktop on the one hand we have gnom and and Getty which are moving forward at full speed and just improving their own bases to support a modern Linux teack but on the other hand we have desktops that do rely on these base platforms that don't really have the manpower to Port all the stuff they built on these platforms to actually support Wayland And so we might end up with two big desktops that are super modern and efficient for everyone and a bunch of other desktops that are either stuck in limbo trying to Port their stuff with two three four years being late or just abandoning whand and all together and just sticking to an old stack that will be unmaintained I'm pretty afraid that this will mean some projects will die and we have less choice on Linux now peer tube users Rejoice peer tube 6 is now out with a lot of improvements for users for people who host instances and for Content creators as well first you can now upload password protected videos to make sure you share these only with the people you want you can set the password manually or you can manage them with the peer tube API in terms of the watching experience though you get little thumbnails when hovering over the timeline of a video so you know what's coming and where to click although this will only come to videos uploaded after the instance was updated to Pier tube 6 unless the instance's admin runs a command to generate these thumbnails for older videos something that will probably be very resource intensive you'll also get chapters for videos finally and they can also be imported from videos synced from YouTube creators can also now replace a video with another one something YouTube doesn't let you do unless you're a giant Channel like lonus techtips finally peer tube offers a stress test suite for admins to see which configuration will work best for your server and there are performance improvements as well plus some accessibility fixes and they removed support of web Torrent in favor of web RTC peer-to-peer a good bunch of changes here that should definitely improve the watching experience on peer tube I have no idea when my instance tds.com will update to pip 6 I'll check in with them to know if they have any plans and when that's coming and let's finish this with the gaming news Nvidia users can also rejoice as Mesa 23.3 dropped with the nvk driver to have fully op Source Vulcan 1.0 compliance drivers for NVIDIA gpus now obviously it is not going to work for every GPU and it will not deliver performance on par with the proprietary drivers yet but it is still a giant step forward to have that available for everyone to use and test easily there are also some new extensions added for the aahi graphics drivers notably which should make us think graphical acceleration on recent Max much better now the final part for Vulcan support on wine and whand has been added to Wine this work from labora means that you can actually now run some games on wine and whand natively if you use the latest source code from git obviously there are some issues notably with mouse input in firstperson titles but this will be fixed in the future that's really cool to see this whan transition has been really fast for wine and it's almost ready for day-to-day use which means it will also be ready in proton for the general Linux desktop and steam users relatively soon and that's always really really nice but not everyone is super keen on Wayland yet as the PS2 emulator pcsx2 just disabled their whan backend their support was apparently very broken and very buggy in every game and it was even more broken for Gnome users the developers posted a pretty scathing comment accompanying the merge request disabling that whand backend pointing out all the issues they encountered which means that for now X11 or xwayland will will be the only way to use this emulator unless you want to enable whon support back using flat seal if you install the emulator as a flatback and I do agree that there are some issues left with whand especially for gaming but the comment the developer posted was pretty weird because he clearly stated that there has been little progress on whan for a decade which is either completely untrue or very very misinformed now what is for certain though is that I can't end this video without the segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below stop buying devices that only ship with Windows pre-installed buy something that supports Linux out of the box from tuxedo our sponsor they have a big range of devices that will fit every price point and every need from laptops desktops n all power 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for a very long time being anonymous online was mostly a given at least if you wanted to you could create an account with any nickname any email address you wanted for any service data collection was relatively minimal before targeted ads swept over the internet and governments largely accepted they couldn't really do much about it unfortunately this is no longer the case being anonymous online is getting increasingly difficult most most big tech services guarantee you will never be fully Anonymous and a lot of countries are trying to or actively implementing laws that will make privacy and anonymity very hard or impossible to achieve so I thought today I would take a look at the most concerning developments on that front to make sure that everyone is suitably worried and I'm not the only one panicking sitting down in my office but to cheer you up I still have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton creators of the private endtoend encrypted Suite of services that 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in the description below and get started with proton so let's begin with data collection because this is the root of most anonymity problems as long as no one collects any data about who you are where you are and what you're doing you can be anonymous online no one knows what you're doing but when companies and governments start logging and storing and sharing data that's when the problems started virtually everything online now collects data big tech companies of course like Facebook Microsoft Google Apple and others but also many many websites that display ads whether they're big or small any website that implemented analytics to know how many views they get also collects data and if they use something like Google analytics this data also goes back to Google directly basically if you're using a website or the internet you can be sure that you're leaving a trail web browsers and even operating systems nowadays also collect data if you use Edge or Chrome or even Firefox if you didn't disable Telemetry you are giving away some amount of data large or small if you use Windows you're giving a lot of data to Microsoft if you use Mac OS you're giving data to Apple I documented this in a dedicated video a while back but it is also true of Android and iOS your device by default is not private and does collect information fortunately there are a lot of ways you can reduce all of this you can disable some amount of telemetry you can install tracker blockers in your web browser you can use privacy focused operating systems apps and services like Linux instead of Windows you can use another web browser or different service providers than Google or apple or Microsoft even with that though you might still be leaving enough information behind to be identified that's what we call fingerprinting with a bit of device related data like your OS its version your CPU model the amount of ram you have combined with the browser you use the hours you visit a website at the extensions you use It's relatively easy to identify you across websites anyway and to know that it's you they won't know much about you person personally but they can still know it's one single person visiting all these websites but if you're watching this video you probably already know all of this and you might be wondering why does it matter if these companies collect a lot of data about me it's generally to serve me targeted ads and if I have to see ads I probably prefer seeing ads that are tailored to what I actually like right and that's very very wrong because this data doesn't stay at the website or the company that collected it it is being shared it is a giant Silo of data that governments and other agencies can have access to see in a lot of countries governments have the right to ask a company to provide all the data they have collected on their users you might think oh this guy is talking about China but no that's the case with a lot of governments companies have no choice but to comply with these requests which is also why using endtoend and zero access encrypted service is crucial even if the company could identify and provide the data the government wants it is basically useless as the company cannot provide the means to decrypt it in terms of requests for example the US can request any company to give them data on a specific user they've done so more than any other country in 2020 but other countries do the exact same Germany Denmark South Korea France virtually every country does this which should make you immediately understand why giant tech companies collecting user data is a big problem if they don't have that data they can't share it with the government if they do have it they have no choice but to comply if you want even more scary numbers in 20122 meta the parent company for Facebook Instagram or Whatsapp got 127,000 requests for data and they complied with 76% of these requests this might not seem like a big deal though if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn't worry about your government requesting data about you right except this is a pretty weird argument to make because this data isn't just accessed one time it is being kept and your government in the future might use it to Target you with specific other laws or surveillance what you're doing right now might not be illegal but it could become so in the future and while what you've done in the past cannot be used against you in most cases it can still be used to put you on a watch list or to have mass surveillance about your activities just look at China's social credit system do you really think that such a system would not take into account past behaviors Based on data your government has access to all this data you're leaving behind is a ticking Time Bomb depending on whether your views political belief sexual orientation gender or religious beliefs align with the current or the future government of your country so this is already a big big problem but it is getting increasingly worse because governments don't just want to collect data they also want to pass laws that prohibit being anonymous online there are a lot of legal offensives being planned or already implemented in various countries so let's look at a few in Russia recent laws from 2017 banned Anonymous use of online messenging apps and prohibits the use of tools that would circumvent government censorship this means that while vpns were not exactly banned if they let people access banned websites then those vpns would also be banned in turn and the government maintains a registry of people who violated this law this has happened to at least 15 VPN providers including nordvpn proton VPN and Opera VPN not great but it is not limited to Russia and other admittedly authoritarian countries in Australia in 202 21 a law was proposed to force people to attach their real name to their social media posts apparently to fight online trolls bullying and harassment while the goal itself is laudable in theory because let's be honest being anonymous seems to give some people a weird form of disorder where they feel they can spread hate and be extremely nasty it is still a very worrying way of handling the problem users would have to provide an ID before opening any social media account which would obviously open the door to surveillance monitoring and censorship not great either and one might think this is not a problem in a democracy they will not abuse this power except there is no guarantee that a government will stay a democracy forever and democracies can also be authoritarian we have plenty of examples of that and these sort of laws generally never get repelled in France the country where I live we have the recent sren short for secur regul numeric or law aiming to secure and regulate the digital space this thing was voted on recently and passed by the assembly National it would give the Telecom Watchdog powers to block certain websites and it would require tools for age verification this is aimed at adult websites but it could easily now be extended to other spaces this thing still needs to be accepted by the Senate but there's little doubt it will be requiring age verification basically means providing an idea which means this is not Anonymous anymore on top of that the law will give the government capabilities to demand web browsers and DNS providers block certain websites so it is basically a nice little sensorship tool on top of being a surveillance one in the UK the Online safety bill of 2022 allows the regulatory agency ofcom to force websites to collect people's personal data allegedly to prevent harmful content to reach children or they will be able to scan to restrict and to remove content that is considered harmful the bill also mandates online communication services to be moderated which basically means endtoend encryption cannot be enabled there anymore which obviously means that this data is now more easily readable by the government if they request access to it and these are just a few examples with the ability to collect and Order access to data that is being collected by giant companies and the various laws that governments are trying to pass to actively prevent you from being anonymous online it is clear that they really really want to know what you're doing online so what can you do about this well fighting the anti- anonymity laws can only be done using the Democratic tools you have access to like voting for people who don't want to turn your country into even more of a surveillance State this is still reliant on the general politic Tendencies of your other countrymen though if everyone is easily swayed by threats of inside or outside intervention and fear and they want a surveillance State because they feel afraid then there's not much you can do about it you yourself alone but for protecting your data at least there are plenty of things you can do first you should stop using privacy invasive operating systems if you can't move to something like Linux try at least to disable all the Telemetry you can in Windows or Mac OS in Android and in iOS you can try using a de Googled privacy focused Android ROM on your smartphone for example leaving Chrome for a more private browser is also pretty much mandatory Alternatives like Firefox with Telemetry removed of course or things like brave are a relatively solid bet same goes for your online services you should stop using Google as a search engine stop using Gmail Outlook one drive iCloud and the like they are tons of options out there that are equally as user friendly and featureful and will not collect any data about you I have a full playlist of videos on how to degoogle your life from your operating systems to your search engines to your online services everything check it out in the link in the description below it's a good place to start using a VPN is also a solid option to at least try and blur the lines it is not a silver bullet but it does help and adding a Tracker blocker extension to your browser will also be a very nice addition as per your internet service provider the most you can do is to try and enforce https in your browser settings to at least encrypt what you transmit to the websites you visit but they will still be able to see the request you made to a DNS provider which can also be relatively revealing certain VPN providers will provide their own DNS Services which will prevent your ISP from seeing what you're trying to access but you also have to trust that VPN provider to not collect any data or logs it is pretty hard nowadays to be fully anonymous online as long as your government doesn't mandate you revealing your personal identity your real name or to communicate an ID to log to certain Services you can still limit a lot of the data that can be collected about you but it does require some time and effort in any case this is a pretty scary Direction the world is headed towards and I hope you're all 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how would you like to start the day with the Linux and open source news or maybe end the day I guess it depends on where you live where do you live exactly YouTube might know but I don't anyway this week red hat is now planning to officially drop X11 from the next version of red hat Enterprise Linux we also have the first beta of plasma 6 the KD gear compilation and the KD Frameworks and they still manag to slot in a few new features as well and we also have some big moves for the Linux desktop in general including better Wayland integration pipe wire secure boot on Nvidia and HDR support and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare they offer Solutions like kernel life patching and extended support for endof Life distributions so you can make sure your Linux server or workstation Fleet is always up todate and secure all while minimizing down time and this week they're inviting you to a webinar which should be especially interesting if you have machines running sentos S7 the webinar will only take 30 minutes of your time and it will tell you about all the risks of running an endof life drro as sentos S7 will reach that status next year and also currently has many unpatched vulnerabilities that you might not be aware of and since just telling you about the risks isn't enough they will also talk about solutions to resolve of these unpatch vulnerabilities and also solutions to securely use Centos S7 past its end of life in June 2024 until you're ready to upgrade this will happen this Wednesday on the 6th of December and it's entirely free so if you want to join and learn more about this I left the link in the description of the video so red hat Enterprise Linux is officially dropping X11 with their next version version 10 it's planned for 2025 so they are still a lot of time but X11 will be unsupported and the only traces of it that will be left is through X whand Red Hat Engineers basically said that yes there are still a few gaps and some apps that need updates but also that Wayland is mature enough and that by the time rail 10 is out they will have fixed all the blockers so rail 10 will not provide packages for X11 or the ability to run an X11 session this will also give them more time to work on hdr on better security on mixed DPI settings on GPU hot plugin on gestures and more as the burden of maintaining the Old Spaghetti code of X11 and packaging it will be removed this is yet another nail in x1's coffin and it's done relatively nicely as it leaves a full year to fix issues and to give a strong signal to app developers to start supporting the various portals needed to operate properly on Wayland And to support Wayland natively as well without X Wayland or X11 so Fedora already has plans to ditch X11 before rail 10 happens but this will probably also have a ripple effect on other distributions ra is the biggest Enterprise drro out there and I'm pretty sure others will follow suit because they won't want to keep the burden of maintaining X11 still I think it's done in a nice way it leaves plenty of time and it gives a strong deadline relatively long enough in the future for app developers to actually work on supporting Wayland now plasma 6 saw its first Beta release this week and this isn't just the desktop itself it's what they call a mega release and mega it is indeed since it contains not only plasma 6 but also the KD gear app compilation and the KD framework so basically the entire stack apps and desktop of course it is only many for testing purposes and they emphasize the fact that it is not ready for day-to-day use but if you want to give it a shot if you want to see what's new and if you want to help report some bugs then this is going to be a good time still the team managed to fit a few more features in in between bug fixes notably setting the wallpaper for any of your screens from a revamped settings page discover gained a new section in the homepage to Showcase new and updated apps for flatback or snaps the NightLight feature now shows you a timeline for when this blue light reduction mode will be active and there's a new optional effect to shake your cursor to make it bigger like in Mac OS for people who have difficulties finding it the archive manager now has an option to extract and delete the archive afterwards as well available straight from the rightclick menu there were also plenty of smaller ux improvements and 180 bug fixes the final release is getting closer and closer and while there aren't many big impactful visual changes it looks like it's packing so many smaller details and improvements that the video I'm going to have to make about it when it releases will be a very very long one now as per gnome there is more progress on the various things that their recent 1 million euro Grant helped fund webp is Now supported in The Gnome platform system D Home D is now better supported with initial work starting on using TP M chips for encrypting the user directory memory leaks are being identified and plugged in flatback and portals and there's some work being done on the new accessibility infrastructure the open withth dialogues are also being improved in Gnome and a few bugs were also fixed in The Gnome shell on top of that we have a bunch of updates to gnome apps Gaff for the modeling tool got a new version with plenty of usability improvements carbur tour an app to set up a tour proxy on your Des desktop or smartphone got a new version as well pods the app that helps you manage your pod man containers gain support for volumes and the interface has been refreshed with the latest Liber Vita widget and koua the screen recorder got a few ux improvements small changes this week but I guess a lot of people are just focused on bringing all the new cool projects that their 1 million euro Grant helped fun which is really nice because they won't just benefit gnow they will benefit the entire Linux desk toop ecosystem and that's always really nice to see now this week there was a lengthy blog post from Christian Scher going over the next areas of focus for Fedora after the release of Fedora 39 first is pipe wire with the release of pipewire 1.0 I will freely admit I thought this thing was pretty much complete and done with but it looks like there's still more work happening in there notably to support cameras in OBS from moving away from video for Linux or support in web RTC HDR is another thing they're focusing on with the first use case which is running a full screen HDR app being close to D having mixed SDR and HDR windows on the same screen is still a bit further away but Christian is expecting that for summer 2024 which is not that far for Wayland they're focusing on enabling remote login with a headless system and this should be ready for Gnome 46 on the well on front there's also work being done on input leap which lets you share the same input devices so mouse and keyboard between different computers like what barrier does for X11 there's also some work being done on NVIDIA drivers with plans to at some point use the open source stack for NVIDIA with nvk and the big updates that came to nvo recently they apparently have team members picking up the work on Novo since the main maintainer left the project recently but they still expect people to have to rely on the pro proprietary drivers for a while they're also looking at how they could enable secure boot with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but they're not making any promises for accessibility they will of course be relying on the new framework being worked on in Gnome and funded by the recent Grant but they also want to Port gnome software to dnf 5 for a faster experience plenty of good stuff happening and you'll notice that most of these changes are on Linux desktop projects not just on a specific drro or desktop which is a theme I'm starting to notice more and more a lot of the work is going into what furthers the Linux desktop as a hole we're starting to converge on a vision a stack and a path which feels really really nice finally now still on desktops it looks like budgie will not after all move to the enlightenment libraries to be the base of Budgy 11 they had expressed their plans to move away from a gnome based desktop as they had too much stuff to patch in to turn the gnome base and libraries into something that worked for them and they had set their sites on efl which are a set of libraries used to build the enlightenment desktop since budgie wants to turn to whand for the future though it looks like these might not be the best choice as efl only has experimental support for Wayland that is not deemed ready for end users as a result budgie is looking at how they can move forward with their plans to ditch gnome libraries and components especially looking at what xfce is doing since they've also announced their plans to move to Wayland in the future including a compatibility layer that Bridges the gap between X11 and whan to avoid breaking things and spending years to fix them to get back to the previous usability state without any benefit it's all interesting stuff but I also feel like we're starting to create a two-speed ecosystem for the Linux desktop on the one hand we have gnom and and Getty which are moving forward at full speed and just improving their own bases to support a modern Linux teack but on the other hand we have desktops that do rely on these base platforms that don't really have the manpower to Port all the stuff they built on these platforms to actually support Wayland And so we might end up with two big desktops that are super modern and efficient for everyone and a bunch of other desktops that are either stuck in limbo trying to Port their stuff with two three four years being late or just abandoning whand and all together and just sticking to an old stack that will be unmaintained I'm pretty afraid that this will mean some projects will die and we have less choice on Linux now peer tube users Rejoice peer tube 6 is now out with a lot of improvements for users for people who host instances and for Content creators as well first you can now upload password protected videos to make sure you share these only with the people you want you can set the password manually or you can manage them with the peer tube API in terms of the watching experience though you get little thumbnails when hovering over the timeline of a video so you know what's coming and where to click although this will only come to videos uploaded after the instance was updated to Pier tube 6 unless the instance's admin runs a command to generate these thumbnails for older videos something that will probably be very resource intensive you'll also get chapters for videos finally and they can also be imported from videos synced from YouTube creators can also now replace a video with another one something YouTube doesn't let you do unless you're a giant Channel like lonus techtips finally peer tube offers a stress test suite for admins to see which configuration will work best for your server and there are performance improvements as well plus some accessibility fixes and they removed support of web Torrent in favor of web RTC peer-to-peer a good bunch of changes here that should definitely improve the watching experience on peer tube I have no idea when my instance tds.com will update to pip 6 I'll check in with them to know if they have any plans and when that's coming and let's finish this with the gaming news Nvidia users can also rejoice as Mesa 23.3 dropped with the nvk driver to have fully op Source Vulcan 1.0 compliance drivers for NVIDIA gpus now obviously it is not going to work for every GPU and it will not deliver performance on par with the proprietary drivers yet but it is still a giant step forward to have that available for everyone to use and test easily there are also some new extensions added for the aahi graphics drivers notably which should make us think graphical acceleration on recent Max much better now the final part for Vulcan support on wine and whand has been added to Wine this work from labora means that you can actually now run some games on wine and whand natively if you use the latest source code from git obviously there are some issues notably with mouse input in firstperson titles but this will be fixed in the future that's really cool to see this whan transition has been really fast for wine and it's almost ready for day-to-day use which means it will also be ready in proton for the general Linux desktop and steam users relatively soon and that's always really really nice but not everyone is super keen on Wayland yet as the PS2 emulator pcsx2 just disabled their whan backend their support was apparently very broken and very buggy in every game and it was even more broken for Gnome users the developers posted a pretty scathing comment accompanying the merge request disabling that whand backend pointing out all the issues they encountered which means that for now X11 or xwayland will will be the only way to use this emulator unless you want to enable whon support back using flat seal if you install the emulator as a flatback and I do agree that there are some issues left with whand especially for gaming but the comment the developer posted was pretty weird because he clearly stated that there has been little progress on whan for a decade which is either completely untrue or very very misinformed now what is for certain though is that I can't end this video without the segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below stop buying devices that only ship with Windows pre-installed buy something that supports Linux out of the box from tuxedo our sponsor they have a big range of devices that will fit every price point and every need from laptops desktops n all power 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hey everyone and Happy Thanksgiving weekend to my American audience for everyone else I guess you could still eat a bird and be thankful for other things like for example the Linux and open source news because this week we have some interesting updates to Cosmic Po's future desktop environment but also some really cool things coming to plasma 6 gnome putting down one million euro fund to good use and also the latest moves from Google to act harm the consumer by trying to fight ads or you could also give thanks to this segue for our sponsor thanks to tux scare for sponsoring this video tuck scare is the solution to ensure your Linux Fleet is kept up todate and secure with as little downtime as possible they offer life patching of the Linux kernel and they also provide extended support for endof Life distributions like for example Debian 10 Debian 10 will be end of life in June 2024 which means that you will have to either move to a newer version of Debian to stay secure or you will have to migrate to another Dro if Debian 11 or 12 don't suit your needs and if you need more time to plan that migration you can have it thanks to tux Scar's extended life cycle support for Debian 10 you will get patches for all high and critical vulnerabilities in Debian 10 plus updates to a lot of essential server packages so you can stay safe and compliant while you decide what to use next and all that is required is a simple script to migrate to tux skilles repos and get all these patches so if you're interested and you need more time with Debian 10 click the link in the description below and get started so we got some more news about Cosmic system 76s desktop environment that will replace gnome in poos first they've decided to open Windows in the incorrect way so not fully centered as the first window will be centered but the other ones will be offset by a range of 48x 48 pixels to leave the previous windows header visible I am joking obviously I do prefer all my windows to open centered on my display because I've got some kind of weird compulsion but I know it's not the most efficient way now the team also added some new widgets for apps to pick colors to pick images and to have separators and headers in drop- down lists the text editor they're working on is progressing as well with support for tabs a directory tree to navigate projects syntax highlighting and Vim style editing and shortcuts Cosmic will also support the empress standard to control audio and video playback from the desktop itself and they have fixed their workspaces implementation and improved the compositor quite a bit it now supports custom themes it now works with the NVIDIA drivers it supports entering text in Chinese and Japanese through IM and a lot more and it also looks like they're also thinking of implementing HDR using the same work that has been done in KDE to which apparently they contributed so very good progress here and it's also interesting to see that they're actually working on their own set of basic apps like a text editor I would be very surprised if in the future they didn't cover all the essentials like a file manager maybe a media music player video player stuff like that I imagine it's sort of like Elementary OS where there's the desktop and the essential Suite of apps and then you can install anything else that you want now in other desktop environment news we have some news about plasma 6 and G no so on the KD side it looks like all the planned features for plasma 6 are done now and so the team is in full polishing mode and they're fixing bugs left and right since people are now testing the alpha and Reporting issues in terms of other changes they managed to fix two of the three Wayland showstoppers the first one being asking the users to save their changes in various files before restarting the computer and the other being enabling bounce keys on whan the third showstopper is sticky keys and it's currently being worked on there were also some more minor improvements like being more reactive in displaying a change in your user picture or new files being created on the desktop they will also display more clearly which widgets are no longer compa able since the update will require widgets to be ported to plasma 6 specifically they will let you reboot without applying updates and they will also reorganize stuff in the various Outlets of the notification tray by separating brightness into the same applet as NightLight and out of the battery applet they also fix 221 bugs in a single week which is absolutely nuts so everything seems to be moving according to plan and it all looks really really great especially since they did manage to slot in some UI and ux improvements along the way as per gnome they have shared some progress on the various areas they've been working on thanks to the recent 1 million euro Grant they got this includes encrypting the user home directory by implementing system D Home D which is Now supported or they also added a new USB portal to handle USB devices and they're improving existing ones meaning you can now drag and drop files to and from certain sandboxed applications other areas of improvement include supporting CSS variables in gtk some profiling work for Gnome shell and mutter that will result in improved performance better notifications with per app grouping or improving The Gnome online accounts to support cdav and carddav and using O2 to login with your default browser instead of a web view finally accessibility is being improved and there are Hardware related improvements coming like Hardware accelerated screencasts in terms of apps two new apps join The Gnome Circle Switcheroo which is an image converter and decibels which is an audio player gyrn the Plex client was updated to support more Liber V widgets and fractal The Matrix client got a giant update it's a full rewrite of the app using Liber vit The Matrix rust SDK and more and it adds endtoend encryption it lets you send your current location as a message you can now reply to specific messages you can react to them with Emojis you can edit your messages you can see who read them and it also supports multiple accounts it is really cool to see the wave of stuff gnome gets to work on thanks to that huge donation and it's also going to benefit other projects because improvements to accessibility gtk and portals will definitely have an effect on other desktops which is nice now there was some concern that YouTube was implementing an extra 5c delay specifically for Firefox users before playing a video and chrome users were not seeing that delay but it apparently is not meant to punish Firefox users it's to punish users of ad blockers in the recent series of moves from YouTube to combat this type of extension this translates in the page staying blank for a while and Google definitely isn't getting the benefit of the doubt on this one as things are pretty confusing just changing the user agent in fire Fox to Chrome seems to solve the issue Modzilla says that they don't think it's a Firefox specific issue but it still feels pretty weird that only Firefox users can reproduce this Behavior it seems like it might be because YouTube doesn't block in-house trackers that do exist in Chrome but it does so with firefox's trackers to compound that this delay isn't like a popup or a timer that the user can see it's just an artificial delay so it's not like any random user would know why this is happening or could take any action to solve the problem it is all very weird and anti-consumer behavior and I think it's counterproductive like if you really want people to subscribe to premium or to disable their ad blocker they should probably lean onto the blocking ads will harm this video's Creator angle instead of just trying to make the experience worse for people and in the same vein Google apparently will be moving forward with their plans to deprecate browser extensions using the Manifest V2 extension which will undeniably harm tracker blockers and of course add blockers as well while Google has revised the number of rules they will let extensions apply the limit they implemented is still not enough for any decent ad blocker which means that starting in June 2024 Chrome will be a terrible browser for not only blocking ads but also for privacy in general for example you new block origin needs about 300,000 rules to block ads from various sources where the new manifest V3 API only allows for 30,000 fortunately other browsers whether chromium based or not will let extensions work as intended and will not enforce this new API which in turn is sure to damage the market share of chrome at least among tech savvy people so while this is a sucky move for Chrome users it might be a good thing for the web in general as more and more people will learn that they can actually have a better experience on other browsers and they will leave Chrome at least some of them might if you want to learn more about manifest V3 and why it's a big problem for extensions I have a dedicated video I left a link in the description of this one now this week we also have a nice little reminder that while Linux isn't the most popular OS for PCs it definitely isn't because it is lacking in performance AMD recently released their brand new thread Ripper CPUs based on the Zen 4 architecture and these processors deliver much much better performance on Linux than on Windows 11 apparently for ronx benchmarked a bunch of use cases with the Linux colal 6.5 so not even the very latest with a new scheduler and Linux namely UB 22310 was about 20% faster than Windows 11 Pro whether it was using blender encoding video or just running CPU bound benchmarks Linux trounced windows at every turn and it's not even a matter of driver support as one could argue that Windows drivers might not have been updated yet because the tests were using the kernel 6.5 on Linux which also doesn't necessarily have the very latest driver support for this CPU so it's a true Apples to Apples comparison and it really shows Linux can outperform Windows for some serious workloads and real world use cases just a bit of Feelgood confirmation bias for us Linux users we might not be the most popular OS on the desktop but at least we're blazing fast now the open- source Vulcan drivers for NVIDIA gpus are making good progress and they're now fully conformant with Vulcan 1.0 this means that it passes the entire test suite and it can now claim it officially supports the Vulcan API and in terms of how it works it means that that the driver should now just work bar some app specific bugs and issues there's of course some more work to be done to support up to Vulcan 1.3 and also to support older gpus with this driver and the new compiler they recently merged also needs some extra work but it's good to at least have a fully functional Vulcan driver that supports every necessary extension I am willing to bet that 2024 is the year where we have a finally turnkey open-source solution for all Nvidia GP well all modern Nvidia gpus at least that's a lot of conditions but yeah the performance might not be as good as proprietary drivers but at least out of the box we'll have a driver that is capable of doing more than just turn your display on and let's finish this with the gaming news first it looks like valve is adding some information on Steam to let you find games that support various controllers including Xbox and PlayStation controllers individual Pages for games also now show the exact controllers they support and you now have per controller type filters vkd3d proton also got an update this week this thing is what lets you run directex 12 games on Linux by translating them in Vulcan and this new version brings direct tex rate racing by default you don't need a launch argument anymore if the game uses rate racing it will work directex ultimate is also supported on rdna2 and touring Graphics or newer and this thing is a feature set that includes rate tracing variable rate shading mesh shading or sampler feedback there were also a bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements it's really nice to see Linux Bridging the Gap for gaming cuz we already can play the vast majority of Steam games but we can also now play them in very good conditions which is awesome and wine 8.21 was released this week as well with the recent whand patches to enable High DPI support and Vulcan support wine 8.21 also brings initial support for arm 64 EC which is a new application binary interface for Windows 11 apps for arm CPUs wine gets the first pieces needed to support these binaries and while virtually no one uses Windows 11 on arm it might change in the future as hardware and software matures so it is good to have support planned for that there were also 29 bucks fixed for get games like Port Royale 2 Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition or death stranding and there were also fixes on the whand driver and for 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for a very long time being anonymous online was mostly a given at least if you wanted to you could create an account with any nickname any email address you wanted for any service data collection was relatively minimal before targeted ads swept over the internet and governments largely accepted they couldn't really do much about it unfortunately this is no longer the case being anonymous online is getting increasingly difficult most most big tech services guarantee you will never be fully Anonymous and a lot of countries are trying to or actively implementing laws that will make privacy and anonymity very hard or impossible to achieve so I thought today I would take a look at the most concerning developments on that front to make sure that everyone is suitably worried and I'm not the only one panicking sitting down in my office but to cheer you up I still have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton creators of the private endtoend encrypted Suite of services that 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in the description below and get started with proton so let's begin with data collection because this is the root of most anonymity problems as long as no one collects any data about who you are where you are and what you're doing you can be anonymous online no one knows what you're doing but when companies and governments start logging and storing and sharing data that's when the problems started virtually everything online now collects data big tech companies of course like Facebook Microsoft Google Apple and others but also many many websites that display ads whether they're big or small any website that implemented analytics to know how many views they get also collects data and if they use something like Google analytics this data also goes back to Google directly basically if you're using a website or the internet you can be sure that you're leaving a trail web browsers and even operating systems nowadays also collect data if you use Edge or Chrome or even Firefox if you didn't disable Telemetry you are giving away some amount of data large or small if you use Windows you're giving a lot of data to Microsoft if you use Mac OS you're giving data to Apple I documented this in a dedicated video a while back but it is also true of Android and iOS your device by default is not private and does collect information fortunately there are a lot of ways you can reduce all of this you can disable some amount of telemetry you can install tracker blockers in your web browser you can use privacy focused operating systems apps and services like Linux instead of Windows you can use another web browser or different service providers than Google or apple or Microsoft even with that though you might still be leaving enough information behind to be identified that's what we call fingerprinting with a bit of device related data like your OS its version your CPU model the amount of ram you have combined with the browser you use the hours you visit a website at the extensions you use It's relatively easy to identify you across websites anyway and to know that it's you they won't know much about you person personally but they can still know it's one single person visiting all these websites but if you're watching this video you probably already know all of this and you might be wondering why does it matter if these companies collect a lot of data about me it's generally to serve me targeted ads and if I have to see ads I probably prefer seeing ads that are tailored to what I actually like right and that's very very wrong because this data doesn't stay at the website or the company that collected it it is being shared it is a giant Silo of data that governments and other agencies can have access to see in a lot of countries governments have the right to ask a company to provide all the data they have collected on their users you might think oh this guy is talking about China but no that's the case with a lot of governments companies have no choice but to comply with these requests which is also why using endtoend and zero access encrypted service is crucial even if the company could identify and provide the data the government wants it is basically useless as the company cannot provide the means to decrypt it in terms of requests for example the US can request any company to give them data on a specific user they've done so more than any other country in 2020 but other countries do the exact same Germany Denmark South Korea France virtually every country does this which should make you immediately understand why giant tech companies collecting user data is a big problem if they don't have that data they can't share it with the government if they do have it they have no choice but to comply if you want even more scary numbers in 20122 meta the parent company for Facebook Instagram or Whatsapp got 127,000 requests for data and they complied with 76% of these requests this might not seem like a big deal though if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn't worry about your government requesting data about you right except this is a pretty weird argument to make because this data isn't just accessed one time it is being kept and your government in the future might use it to Target you with specific other laws or surveillance what you're doing right now might not be illegal but it could become so in the future and while what you've done in the past cannot be used against you in most cases it can still be used to put you on a watch list or to have mass surveillance about your activities just look at China's social credit system do you really think that such a system would not take into account past behaviors Based on data your government has access to all this data you're leaving behind is a ticking Time Bomb depending on whether your views political belief sexual orientation gender or religious beliefs align with the current or the future government of your country so this is already a big big problem but it is getting increasingly worse because governments don't just want to collect data they also want to pass laws that prohibit being anonymous online there are a lot of legal offensives being planned or already implemented in various countries so let's look at a few in Russia recent laws from 2017 banned Anonymous use of online messenging apps and prohibits the use of tools that would circumvent government censorship this means that while vpns were not exactly banned if they let people access banned websites then those vpns would also be banned in turn and the government maintains a registry of people who violated this law this has happened to at least 15 VPN providers including nordvpn proton VPN and Opera VPN not great but it is not limited to Russia and other admittedly authoritarian countries in Australia in 202 21 a law was proposed to force people to attach their real name to their social media posts apparently to fight online trolls bullying and harassment while the goal itself is laudable in theory because let's be honest being anonymous seems to give some people a weird form of disorder where they feel they can spread hate and be extremely nasty it is still a very worrying way of handling the problem users would have to provide an ID before opening any social media account which would obviously open the door to surveillance monitoring and censorship not great either and one might think this is not a problem in a democracy they will not abuse this power except there is no guarantee that a government will stay a democracy forever and democracies can also be authoritarian we have plenty of examples of that and these sort of laws generally never get repelled in France the country where I live we have the recent sren short for secur regul numeric or law aiming to secure and regulate the digital space this thing was voted on recently and passed by the assembly National it would give the Telecom Watchdog powers to block certain websites and it would require tools for age verification this is aimed at adult websites but it could easily now be extended to other spaces this thing still needs to be accepted by the Senate but there's little doubt it will be requiring age verification basically means providing an idea which means this is not Anonymous anymore on top of that the law will give the government capabilities to demand web browsers and DNS providers block certain websites so it is basically a nice little sensorship tool on top of being a surveillance one in the UK the Online safety bill of 2022 allows the regulatory agency ofcom to force websites to collect people's personal data allegedly to prevent harmful content to reach children or they will be able to scan to restrict and to remove content that is considered harmful the bill also mandates online communication services to be moderated which basically means endtoend encryption cannot be enabled there anymore which obviously means that this data is now more easily readable by the government if they request access to it and these are just a few examples with the ability to collect and Order access to data that is being collected by giant companies and the various laws that governments are trying to pass to actively prevent you from being anonymous online it is clear that they really really want to know what you're doing online so what can you do about this well fighting the anti- anonymity laws can only be done using the Democratic tools you have access to like voting for people who don't want to turn your country into even more of a surveillance State this is still reliant on the general politic Tendencies of your other countrymen though if everyone is easily swayed by threats of inside or outside intervention and fear and they want a surveillance State because they feel afraid then there's not much you can do about it you yourself alone but for protecting your data at least there are plenty of things you can do first you should stop using privacy invasive operating systems if you can't move to something like Linux try at least to disable all the Telemetry you can in Windows or Mac OS in Android and in iOS you can try using a de Googled privacy focused Android ROM on your smartphone for example leaving Chrome for a more private browser is also pretty much mandatory Alternatives like Firefox with Telemetry removed of course or things like brave are a relatively solid bet same goes for your online services you should stop using Google as a search engine stop using Gmail Outlook one drive iCloud and the like they are tons of options out there that are equally as user friendly and featureful and will not collect any data about you I have a full playlist of videos on how to degoogle your life from your operating systems to your search engines to your online services everything check it out in the link in the description below it's a good place to start using a VPN is also a solid option to at least try and blur the lines it is not a silver bullet but it does help and adding a Tracker blocker extension to your browser will also be a very nice addition as per your internet service provider the most you can do is to try and enforce https in your browser settings to at least encrypt what you transmit to the websites you visit but they will still be able to see the request you made to a DNS provider which can also be relatively revealing certain VPN providers will provide their own DNS Services which will prevent your ISP from seeing what you're trying to access but you also have to trust that VPN provider to not collect any data or logs it is pretty hard nowadays to be fully anonymous online as long as your government doesn't mandate you revealing your personal identity your real name or to communicate an ID to log to certain Services you can still limit a lot of the data that can be collected about you but it does require some time and effort in any case this is a pretty scary Direction the world is headed towards and I hope you're all 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are the Linux world the only Community where people have an opinion on any and every system component including the init system that starts stuff on your computer on many disos system D is that init system but this thing hasn't been widely accepted or liked by everyone and you might be wondering why after all if you've encountered any form of comment on any social platform you might have seen someone criticizing SST D for one reason or another so today we'll look at what systemd is how it works why it's getting so much criticism online and at why it's taken so long for me to reach this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and if you need a website but you don't know how to get started or you don't have any technical knowledge then Squarespace will be your go-to platform they have pre-made templates for every kind of website and you can completely customize the these by just adding or removing blocks and reordering them on the page graphically you can change the 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environment access to the internet and more and for many many Linux distributions systemd is that in its system system D is a relatively recent project at the scale of Linux anyway it started in 2010 and it was spearheaded by Red Hat with the prolific Leonard puttering at the helm its goal was to replace the existing Solutions like cisv or upstart to add more parallel processing to speed up boot times and to reduce the amount of resources the shell uses in the background it quickly became the default on Fedora obviously then on Arch Linux Debian obuntu soua and many many others adoption was helped by the fact that other init systems were getting pretty old hard to maintain and dros just did not want to expand any time patching them to keep them alive and so system D basically conquered the Linux world as far as in it systems go a few distributions still don't use it like Alpine Linux MX Linux void Linux artics and a few others but why is that why is systemd not used by everything like the Linux kernel is the famous bloat argument is the one Advanced most often system d as time went on encompassed more and more features that were generally handled by Individual Services before not the init system itself like device management login or network management creating logs and stuff like that this can be perceived as going against the Unix philosophy where a piece of software is supposed to do just one thing and to communicate well with other small systems and this is definitely somewhat true systemd has grown to do stuff that were generally not the perview of an in its system it does more than just starting the various system services that you need but also it is very modular system D is more of an umbrella project that has plenty of mini binaries that do different things instead of being just one giant model ethic executable in that regard it still kind of follows the Unix philosophy basically how bloated it is depends on how the Dr you use implements it what is certain is that most disos that implement it are general purpose distrs that need to provide as many systems as possible and so they tend to use most of system D features and modules which results in system D looking to be always a big monolithic thing system D is also a well-maintained project so it gets updates regularly and it gains new features which means it gets bigger and will use a bit more space and resources than other in it systems some people want to rip out every every single thing they don't use and they want a system that's one kilobyte leaner if they can and with system D it's harder to do so system D also hides away certain configurations behind its own tools like system CTL instead of exposing everything as a config file in practice it doesn't change a thing you can still change the settings and tweak things but some people really like having text files they can edit manually and system D doesn't let them do that as much so it's hard to argue that systemd isn't getting bigger and bigger than previous in it systems and it's also hard to argue that systemd is moving away a bit from the Unix philosophy but whether that's important to you as the user depends on how customizable you want your device to be another criticism leveled at system D is the fact that it has become so pervasive that a lot of other components are created with a hard dependency on it with without system D they can't work at all or they will have a limited feature set stuff like logging into to a graphical session or managing a network connection often uses systemd components out of Simplicity more than anything else it doesn't mean it can't be done without it but since it's there it's being used and this results in a bit of extra work for dros that don't want to implement system d as they have to find and provide and maintain solutions that replace these implementations it it's a case of most people use one thing so people who don't want it have to put in some extra work of course it's hard to blame applications desktop environments and other projects for using those system DC components because they're stable they're here most drrs use them they're reliable and they're wellmaintained so why would you go out of your way to invent something else if you give me a toaster that also Butters my toast I am not inventing a new machine that specifically Butters the toast because I want much modularity I'm not that special another regular criticism of system D comes from the fact it's mainly a red hat project or at least it was started by Red Hat no one had any issue with that when Red Hat was its own thing but now it belongs to IBM and we've seen a few changes in how the company handles its Community mainly with access to rail's source code the fact that systemd is a red hat project leaves some people wondering if it doesn't give too much control to one single entity over how Linux systems are started and managed added to that is the fact that systemd was started as a project at around the same time as auntu started upstart another in it system that had the same goals and is now unmaintained so obviously people jump to the conclusion that red hat was trying to sabotage aun to's project instead of using orams razor and realizing that the Linux Community always does this we always create three different projects and around the same time that do the exact same thing and in the end only one or two survive in this case it was systemd because it was objectively better than upstart the fact remains that while system D was started at Red Hat it is an open- source project and it is receiving contributions from a lot of people that don't work at red hat and for now there haven't been any signs I could find that the people managing that project restrict things in a way that would only benefit red hat but you never know things might change and that's why you can do Forks in the open source Community which would result in basically every single disr using a fork and not using system D and leaving Red Hat completely isolated so I don't see this happening anytime soon another criticism of systemd is that it's making linux-based systems uniform and that it restricts Choice since systemd is pretty much ubiquitous it restricts the amount of interest there is in other projects and so you don't have have the usual amount of choice you would find on Linux and I would argue that compared to other arguments this one doesn't really have any truth to it because you do have alternative projects like open RC SSV in it or D in it and they all provide a fully functional experience and they all have their own advantages and disadvantages just because there is one major project used by a lot of people doesn't mean that other projects cannot exist because they actually do still with systemd growing in scope and it's components being used more and more by Major projects I can understand the argument that it's harder to not use it nowadays but it is still possible and one could say the same thing about the cup sprinting drivers or the Linux kernel or the Mesa drivers there's really just one solution here and it basically killed the other alternative and I don't see anyone complaining about that one final problem people identify with system D is system Security First there's the fact that having one one single system that powers the init and service management of most disos is a security risk an attacker can Target many many systems by just targeting system D second some people would say that sin system D is huge and does a lot of things it has a very large attack surface which well okay I'm no security expert but if system D didn't do all of these things another project would have to do them so the attack surface would be the exact same it is true however that having one unified system across dros makes it easier to attack all dros at the same time but also would you rather trust a big project with contributions from most major Linux players or a cobble together Suite of scripts that do the same thing but is maintained by three people personally I'll stick to the big one I've got nothing against smaller projects but for something as crucial as starting my system I want something reliable and well maintained so most of these issues aren't just complete nonsensical hate they are rooted in reality and real life concerns some are just overblown but some aren't so there are reasons why you would not want to use system D but why would you want to use that thing specifically system D might be a compilation of multiple systems and services but it is a unified project which means you don't have to learn 20 different programs and scripts if you need to interact with something you can can learn how systemd works and you can then manage everything in a way while the project itself is complex it makes managing your system less so compared to other init systems systemd is also simpler because it opens various sockets that Services can plug into and services can start in mostly any order other systems tend to require precise configuration to start all services in the right order which might result in broken systems if you're not sure how to handle things system D is also well integrated in the Linux kernel using cgroups to organize processes and to better manage resources used to run these processes and finally system D is written in C and it isn't the usual compilation of bash scripts so it tends to be faster and more efficient than many other in it systems and of course if you tailored your own way of starting your system with your own scripts that you minutely edited each one by one you might have a faster system than with system D but for the general purpose of a general purpose Dro then system D is generally going to be way faster in the end systemd is just one component of a Linux based system like every other component it has its detractors and its users it's the same kind of deal as with Wayland And X11 each has advantages and drawbacks and each has its own crowd of supporters and they I say haters for most users though you should should not care in the slightest just use what your dis row provides if it's system D and that's very likely then you've got a competent easy to learn fast in its system if that's not systemd then you've got an equivalent alternative that works really well and you're probably closely aligned to the Unix philosophy personally I don't care at all I use systemd and I know how it works but it's mostly because the diss I actually want to run on my Hardware all use systemd if this changes and I start being interested in something else that doesn't use systemd then I won't use systemd I don't care it's up to the disc through to provide a coherent experience that actually works is manageable is reliable and stable if that's with system D I know how to use it it's no problem if that's not with systemd but the experience is still good I don't care either my life isn't any 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hey everyone and Happy Thanksgiving weekend to my American audience for everyone else I guess you could still eat a bird and be thankful for other things like for example the Linux and open source news because this week we have some interesting updates to Cosmic Po's future desktop environment but also some really cool things coming to plasma 6 gnome putting down one million euro fund to good use and also the latest moves from Google to act harm the consumer by trying to fight ads or you could also give thanks to this segue for our sponsor thanks to tux scare for sponsoring this video tuck scare is the solution to ensure your Linux Fleet is kept up todate and secure with as little downtime as possible they offer life patching of the Linux kernel and they also provide extended support for endof Life distributions like for example Debian 10 Debian 10 will be end of life in June 2024 which means that you will have to either move to a newer version of Debian to stay secure or you will have 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centered on my display because I've got some kind of weird compulsion but I know it's not the most efficient way now the team also added some new widgets for apps to pick colors to pick images and to have separators and headers in drop- down lists the text editor they're working on is progressing as well with support for tabs a directory tree to navigate projects syntax highlighting and Vim style editing and shortcuts Cosmic will also support the empress standard to control audio and video playback from the desktop itself and they have fixed their workspaces implementation and improved the compositor quite a bit it now supports custom themes it now works with the NVIDIA drivers it supports entering text in Chinese and Japanese through IM and a lot more and it also looks like they're also thinking of implementing HDR using the same work that has been done in KDE to which apparently they contributed so very good progress here and it's also interesting to see that they're actually working on their own set of basic apps like a text editor I would be very surprised if in the future they didn't cover all the essentials like a file manager maybe a media music player video player stuff like that I imagine it's sort of like Elementary OS where there's the desktop and the essential Suite of apps and then you can install anything else that you want now in other desktop environment news we have some news about plasma 6 and G no so on the KD side it looks like all the planned features for plasma 6 are done now and so the team is in full polishing mode and they're fixing bugs left and right since people are now testing the alpha and Reporting issues in terms of other changes they managed to fix two of the three Wayland showstoppers the first one being asking the users to save their changes in various files before restarting the computer and the other being enabling bounce keys on whan the third showstopper is sticky keys and it's currently being worked on there were also some more minor improvements like being more reactive in displaying a change in your user picture or new files being created on the desktop they will also display more clearly which widgets are no longer compa able since the update will require widgets to be ported to plasma 6 specifically they will let you reboot without applying updates and they will also reorganize stuff in the various Outlets of the notification tray by separating brightness into the same applet as NightLight and out of the battery applet they also fix 221 bugs in a single week which is absolutely nuts so everything seems to be moving according to plan and it all looks really really great especially since they did manage to slot in some UI and ux improvements along the way as per gnome they have shared some progress on the various areas they've been working on thanks to the recent 1 million euro Grant they got this includes encrypting the user home directory by implementing system D Home D which is Now supported or they also added a new USB portal to handle USB devices and they're improving existing ones meaning you can now drag and drop files to and from certain sandboxed applications other areas of improvement include supporting CSS variables in gtk some profiling work for Gnome shell and mutter that will result in improved performance better notifications with per app grouping or improving The Gnome online accounts to support cdav and carddav and using O2 to login with your default browser instead of a web view finally accessibility is being improved and there are Hardware related improvements coming like Hardware accelerated screencasts in terms of apps two new apps join The Gnome Circle Switcheroo which is an image converter and decibels which is an audio player gyrn the Plex client was updated to support more Liber V widgets and fractal The Matrix client got a giant update it's a full rewrite of the app using Liber vit The Matrix rust SDK and more and it adds endtoend encryption it lets you send your current location as a message you can now reply to specific messages you can react to them with Emojis you can edit your messages you can see who read them and it also supports multiple accounts it is really cool to see the wave of stuff gnome gets to work on thanks to that huge donation and it's also going to benefit other projects because improvements to accessibility gtk and portals will definitely have an effect on other desktops which is nice now there was some concern that YouTube was implementing an extra 5c delay specifically for Firefox users before playing a video and chrome users were not seeing that delay but it apparently is not meant to punish Firefox users it's to punish users of ad blockers in the recent series of moves from YouTube to combat this type of extension this translates in the page staying blank for a while and Google definitely isn't getting the benefit of the doubt on this one as things are pretty confusing just changing the user agent in fire Fox to Chrome seems to solve the issue Modzilla says that they don't think it's a Firefox specific issue but it still feels pretty weird that only Firefox users can reproduce this Behavior it seems like it might be because YouTube doesn't block in-house trackers that do exist in Chrome but it does so with firefox's trackers to compound that this delay isn't like a popup or a timer that the user can see it's just an artificial delay so it's not like any random user would know why this is happening or could take any action to solve the problem it is all very weird and anti-consumer behavior and I think it's counterproductive like if you really want people to subscribe to premium or to disable their ad blocker they should probably lean onto the blocking ads will harm this video's Creator angle instead of just trying to make the experience worse for people and in the same vein Google apparently will be moving forward with their plans to deprecate browser extensions using the Manifest V2 extension which will undeniably harm tracker blockers and of course add blockers as well while Google has revised the number of rules they will let extensions apply the limit they implemented is still not enough for any decent ad blocker which means that starting in June 2024 Chrome will be a terrible browser for not only blocking ads but also for privacy in general for example you new block origin needs about 300,000 rules to block ads from various sources where the new manifest V3 API only allows for 30,000 fortunately other browsers whether chromium based or not will let extensions work as intended and will not enforce this new API which in turn is sure to damage the market share of chrome at least among tech savvy people so while this is a sucky move for Chrome users it might be a good thing for the web in general as more and more people will learn that they can actually have a better experience on other browsers and they will leave Chrome at least some of them might if you want to learn more about manifest V3 and why it's a big problem for extensions I have a dedicated video I left a link in the description of this one now this week we also have a nice little reminder that while Linux isn't the most popular OS for PCs it definitely isn't because it is lacking in performance AMD recently released their brand new thread Ripper CPUs based on the Zen 4 architecture and these processors deliver much much better performance on Linux than on Windows 11 apparently for ronx benchmarked a bunch of use cases with the Linux colal 6.5 so not even the very latest with a new scheduler and Linux namely UB 22310 was about 20% faster than Windows 11 Pro whether it was using blender encoding video or just running CPU bound benchmarks Linux trounced windows at every turn and it's not even a matter of driver support as one could argue that Windows drivers might not have been updated yet because the tests were using the kernel 6.5 on Linux which also doesn't necessarily have the very latest driver support for this CPU so it's a true Apples to Apples comparison and it really shows Linux can outperform Windows for some serious workloads and real world use cases just a bit of Feelgood confirmation bias for us Linux users we might not be the most popular OS on the desktop but at least we're blazing fast now the open- source Vulcan drivers for NVIDIA gpus are making good progress and they're now fully conformant with Vulcan 1.0 this means that it passes the entire test suite and it can now claim it officially supports the Vulcan API and in terms of how it works it means that that the driver should now just work bar some app specific bugs and issues there's of course some more work to be done to support up to Vulcan 1.3 and also to support older gpus with this driver and the new compiler they recently merged also needs some extra work but it's good to at least have a fully functional Vulcan driver that supports every necessary extension I am willing to bet that 2024 is the year where we have a finally turnkey open-source solution for all Nvidia GP well all modern Nvidia gpus at least that's a lot of conditions but yeah the performance might not be as good as proprietary drivers but at least out of the box we'll have a driver that is capable of doing more than just turn your display on and let's finish this with the gaming news first it looks like valve is adding some information on Steam to let you find games that support various controllers including Xbox and PlayStation controllers individual Pages for games also now show the exact controllers they support and you now have per controller type filters vkd3d proton also got an update this week this thing is what lets you run directex 12 games on Linux by translating them in Vulcan and this new version brings direct tex rate racing by default you don't need a launch argument anymore if the game uses rate racing it will work directex ultimate is also supported on rdna2 and touring Graphics or newer and this thing is a feature set that includes rate tracing variable rate shading mesh shading or sampler feedback there were also a bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements it's really nice to see Linux Bridging the Gap for gaming cuz we already can play the vast majority of Steam games but we can also now play them in very good conditions which is awesome and wine 8.21 was released this week as well with the recent whand patches to enable High DPI support and Vulcan support wine 8.21 also brings initial support for arm 64 EC which is a new application binary interface for Windows 11 apps for arm CPUs wine gets the first pieces needed to support these binaries and while virtually no one uses Windows 11 on arm it might change in the future as hardware and software matures so it is good to have support planned for that there were also 29 bucks fixed for get games like Port Royale 2 Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition or death stranding and there were also fixes on the whand driver and for Microsoft Office 2021 and a lot more and this should be the last 8.x version of wine before having the stable wine 9.0 release on which proton should be rebased it means a lot of these bug fixes and performance improvements will make their way to proton and make the experience better for every Linux gamer just like our sponsor can make the experience better for every Linux user tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box all the components inside are picked because they are compatible with Linux and if tuxedo encountered a few qus or bugs here and there they submit patches Upstream to fix them for everyone they have a big range of devices that you can just slap your own Linux dis r on it or you can pick from a selection of very popular dis Ros that tuxedo can pre-install all the devices are very customizable you can pick the components you can change the keyboard layout on laptops you can have your own logo engraved on the lid and they should suit every price 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are the Linux world the only Community where people have an opinion on any and every system component including the init system that starts stuff on your computer on many disos system D is that init system but this thing hasn't been widely accepted or liked by everyone and you might be wondering why after all if you've encountered any form of comment on any social platform you might have seen someone criticizing SST D for one reason or another so today we'll look at what systemd is how it works why it's getting so much criticism online and at why it's taken so long for me to reach this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and if you need a website but you don't know how to get started or you don't have any technical knowledge then Squarespace will be your go-to platform they have pre-made templates for every kind of website and you can completely customize the these by just adding or removing blocks and reordering them on the page graphically you can change the 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environment access to the internet and more and for many many Linux distributions systemd is that in its system system D is a relatively recent project at the scale of Linux anyway it started in 2010 and it was spearheaded by Red Hat with the prolific Leonard puttering at the helm its goal was to replace the existing Solutions like cisv or upstart to add more parallel processing to speed up boot times and to reduce the amount of resources the shell uses in the background it quickly became the default on Fedora obviously then on Arch Linux Debian obuntu soua and many many others adoption was helped by the fact that other init systems were getting pretty old hard to maintain and dros just did not want to expand any time patching them to keep them alive and so system D basically conquered the Linux world as far as in it systems go a few distributions still don't use it like Alpine Linux MX Linux void Linux artics and a few others but why is that why is systemd not used by everything like the Linux kernel is the famous bloat argument is the one Advanced most often system d as time went on encompassed more and more features that were generally handled by Individual Services before not the init system itself like device management login or network management creating logs and stuff like that this can be perceived as going against the Unix philosophy where a piece of software is supposed to do just one thing and to communicate well with other small systems and this is definitely somewhat true systemd has grown to do stuff that were generally not the perview of an in its system it does more than just starting the various system services that you need but also it is very modular system D is more of an umbrella project that has plenty of mini binaries that do different things instead of being just one giant model ethic executable in that regard it still kind of follows the Unix philosophy basically how bloated it is depends on how the Dr you use implements it what is certain is that most disos that implement it are general purpose distrs that need to provide as many systems as possible and so they tend to use most of system D features and modules which results in system D looking to be always a big monolithic thing system D is also a well-maintained project so it gets updates regularly and it gains new features which means it gets bigger and will use a bit more space and resources than other in it systems some people want to rip out every every single thing they don't use and they want a system that's one kilobyte leaner if they can and with system D it's harder to do so system D also hides away certain configurations behind its own tools like system CTL instead of exposing everything as a config file in practice it doesn't change a thing you can still change the settings and tweak things but some people really like having text files they can edit manually and system D doesn't let them do that as much so it's hard to argue that systemd isn't getting bigger and bigger than previous in it systems and it's also hard to argue that systemd is moving away a bit from the Unix philosophy but whether that's important to you as the user depends on how customizable you want your device to be another criticism leveled at system D is the fact that it has become so pervasive that a lot of other components are created with a hard dependency on it with without system D they can't work at all or they will have a limited feature set stuff like logging into to a graphical session or managing a network connection often uses systemd components out of Simplicity more than anything else it doesn't mean it can't be done without it but since it's there it's being used and this results in a bit of extra work for dros that don't want to implement system d as they have to find and provide and maintain solutions that replace these implementations it it's a case of most people use one thing so people who don't want it have to put in some extra work of course it's hard to blame applications desktop environments and other projects for using those system DC components because they're stable they're here most drrs use them they're reliable and they're wellmaintained so why would you go out of your way to invent something else if you give me a toaster that also Butters my toast I am not inventing a new machine that specifically Butters the toast because I want much modularity I'm not that special another regular criticism of system D comes from the fact it's mainly a red hat project or at least it was started by Red Hat no one had any issue with that when Red Hat was its own thing but now it belongs to IBM and we've seen a few changes in how the company handles its Community mainly with access to rail's source code the fact that systemd is a red hat project leaves some people wondering if it doesn't give too much control to one single entity over how Linux systems are started and managed added to that is the fact that systemd was started as a project at around the same time as auntu started upstart another in it system that had the same goals and is now unmaintained so obviously people jump to the conclusion that red hat was trying to sabotage aun to's project instead of using orams razor and realizing that the Linux Community always does this we always create three different projects and around the same time that do the exact same thing and in the end only one or two survive in this case it was systemd because it was objectively better than upstart the fact remains that while system D was started at Red Hat it is an open- source project and it is receiving contributions from a lot of people that don't work at red hat and for now there haven't been any signs I could find that the people managing that project restrict things in a way that would only benefit red hat but you never know things might change and that's why you can do Forks in the open source Community which would result in basically every single disr using a fork and not using system D and leaving Red Hat completely isolated so I don't see this happening anytime soon another criticism of systemd is that it's making linux-based systems uniform and that it restricts Choice since systemd is pretty much ubiquitous it restricts the amount of interest there is in other projects and so you don't have have the usual amount of choice you would find on Linux and I would argue that compared to other arguments this one doesn't really have any truth to it because you do have alternative projects like open RC SSV in it or D in it and they all provide a fully functional experience and they all have their own advantages and disadvantages just because there is one major project used by a lot of people doesn't mean that other projects cannot exist because they actually do still with systemd growing in scope and it's components being used more and more by Major projects I can understand the argument that it's harder to not use it nowadays but it is still possible and one could say the same thing about the cup sprinting drivers or the Linux kernel or the Mesa drivers there's really just one solution here and it basically killed the other alternative and I don't see anyone complaining about that one final problem people identify with system D is system Security First there's the fact that having one one single system that powers the init and service management of most disos is a security risk an attacker can Target many many systems by just targeting system D second some people would say that sin system D is huge and does a lot of things it has a very large attack surface which well okay I'm no security expert but if system D didn't do all of these things another project would have to do them so the attack surface would be the exact same it is true however that having one unified system across dros makes it easier to attack all dros at the same time but also would you rather trust a big project with contributions from most major Linux players or a cobble together Suite of scripts that do the same thing but is maintained by three people personally I'll stick to the big one I've got nothing against smaller projects but for something as crucial as starting my system I want something reliable and well maintained so most of these issues aren't just complete nonsensical hate they are rooted in reality and real life concerns some are just overblown but some aren't so there are reasons why you would not want to use system D but why would you want to use that thing specifically system D might be a compilation of multiple systems and services but it is a unified project which means you don't have to learn 20 different programs and scripts if you need to interact with something you can can learn how systemd works and you can then manage everything in a way while the project itself is complex it makes managing your system less so compared to other init systems systemd is also simpler because it opens various sockets that Services can plug into and services can start in mostly any order other systems tend to require precise configuration to start all services in the right order which might result in broken systems if you're not sure how to handle things system D is also well integrated in the Linux kernel using cgroups to organize processes and to better manage resources used to run these processes and finally system D is written in C and it isn't the usual compilation of bash scripts so it tends to be faster and more efficient than many other in it systems and of course if you tailored your own way of starting your system with your own scripts that you minutely edited each one by one you might have a faster system than with system D but for the general purpose of a general purpose Dro then system D is generally going to be way faster in the end systemd is just one component of a Linux based system like every other component it has its detractors and its users it's the same kind of deal as with Wayland And X11 each has advantages and drawbacks and each has its own crowd of supporters and they I say haters for most users though you should should not care in the slightest just use what your dis row provides if it's system D and that's very likely then you've got a competent easy to learn fast in its system if that's not systemd then you've got an equivalent alternative that works really well and you're probably closely aligned to the Unix philosophy personally I don't care at all I use systemd and I know how it works but it's mostly because the diss I actually want to run on my Hardware all use systemd if this changes and I start being interested in something else that doesn't use systemd then I won't use systemd I don't care it's up to the disc through to provide a coherent experience that actually works is manageable is reliable and stable if that's with system D I know how to use it it's no problem if that's not with systemd but the experience is still good I don't care either my life isn't any 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hey everyone and if you've had a full month and a half of pure rain like I did in Britany then you might be in need of the Linux and open source news just to cheer you up so here we go so this week we have the EU forcing Microsoft to open Windows just a little bit more and let users do what they actually want to do on their systems using the services that they actually want to use we also have AMD teasing some interesting stuff about AI open source and Hardware in general we have a nice big road map for peer tube which should fix most remaining issues with that platform and we also have the usual slew of stuff for gaming for the colonel for KY for Gnome and we also have 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 allinone 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 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 there is a change coming for proprietary operating systems or at least for Windows Microsoft will have to let users of Windows 11 disable Bing remove Microsoft Edge and add custom web search provider to the OS search feature the eu's digital market app act will come into effect on March 2024 and it regulates Gatekeepers or companies that have a sizable market share big user numbers and generally just have the capability to prevent other companies from entering certain markets by bundling various apps and services together and restricting what users can or can't do on their own devices this obviously includes Microsoft and windows since they basically have a monopoly on the PC operating system system market and they regularly use this to force their own apps and services onto their users so Microsoft will now have to be more interoperable and let users remove pre-installed apps and change default settings Microsoft will also let users uninstall the camera app Cortana and the photos app and they will finally follow the users default browser preference to open all links unfortunately these changes won't propagate outside of the the EU although they will also come to Windows 10 in the future apparently and I really wish Microsoft would just give up all these monopolistic abuses and practices everywhere not just in the EU but at least that's something that US citizens of the European Union will be able to enjoy if we ever decide to go back to Windows which is not happening for me now in the same vein the free software Foundation Europe wrote an open letter to the EU to try and push that to give people more freedom on their devices the letter was signed by 147 different organizations and 3,000 people which admittedly at the scope of the EU is very small and it asks four main things first letting people choose freely the operating system and the software that's running on their devices second choosing freely their services providers to connect to the internet but also to run their email calendar and everything else third making sure that all devices are interoperable and compatible with Open Standards and finally publishing the code for drivers tools and interfaces needed to operate or repair a device all of that under a Libra license the goal is to obviously break down the silos that are created by software and or Hardware manufacturers and to let people use their Hardware exactly how they see fit without any arbitrary limitation and I am all for it and the the EU is probably the place to ask for stuff like that but I personally doubt all of this will be followed by any real measures we already got advances on right to repair and on breaking down what the EU calls Gatekeepers which will result in side loing being possible on iOS devices and in various big Services becoming more interoperable but I doubt the EU will force manufacturers to develop everything as open source or to leave boot loaders unlocked still interest interesting push interesting letter and I hope it will result in something good fingers crossed but I am not holding my breath now AMD is planning something teasing Open Standards and open-source work for their advancing AI event this thing is planned for December the 6th and on Twitter they posted something talking about Open Standards open source and generally looks like they want to make sure AI work is open this could just mean that AMD would add Lin support and open- Source ryzen AI a dedicated AI engine included in the latest AMD CPUs for laptop which would be cool in and of itself even for non air related tasks as a co-processor can always be useful for various things even if it's optimized for just one task but there are also suppositions that this could be a bit bigger than just Ai and could mean that rocm would support a lot more of amd's devices rocm being a complete software stack which is open source and lets you use way more of your GPU for compute tasks this could be more than just a supposition since AMD already said that more Hardware would support rocm later in the year in all cases if it's open source it's good news I don't personally much care about AI but if it's going to be the next big thing which unfortunately it looks like it is then at least having good support for all Hardware accelerators for these Technologies on Linux would be a boon for our platform and if it's related to any other kind of Hardware then all the better and I'm all for it now I covered framasoft in a video a while back they are French Collective working to try and degoogle internet through free software and a bunch of services including peer tube which they develop they've published a nice road map for what's coming next to their tools and there are some good things peer tube notably is bound to become a lot more user friendly with support for video chapters thumbnails in the progress bar replacing a video with an updated one for creators stress tests for instance managers and password protected videos all of this coming before the end of November 2023 but for 2024 they also have big plans with the ability to Import and Export your account between instances to moderate comments directly for creators or through key words to separate the audio and video streams to let people only listen to the audio but they also plan a ux redesign after an audit a showcase instance of perer tube plus an official peer Tube mobile app for Android and iOS letting people have a much better experience with perer tube of course it will be left to each individual instance to update to this new version but seeing that these are so good in terms of improvements for users I doubt any instance will not update to peer tube 6 at the end of November and will not follow the next updates coming all along 2024 I really like peer tube I'm on it there's a link in the description below to follow me there if you want to and fasoft also updated a lot of their other services and offerings you'll find all the details in the link in the description of the video now let's talk desktop environments first with KDE and it looks like the plasma 6 Alpha has the Developers kind of swamped in bug reports which is a good thing since it means the final release is way more likely to be polished if all these bugs are identified early and fixed on top of this plasma panels gained the ability to intelligently Auto Hide also called they can dodge Windows when the panel is dodged by a window it hides away and if not it stays visible this is a Behavior I got used to with a gnome dock extension at the time and I can't wait to get it back in plasma because autohide by itself sucks kwin also now supports whan's presentation time protocol which will ensure Smooth video playback and good audio and video sync cute widgets based apps will now look much better with less borders inside the app and a more consistent appearance with menus and lists more icons were created for the symbolic icon set as well to ensure a better looking notification tray the default Bree theme for console now uses more legible colors the whand session should open apps faster now and there were a lot of smaller ux and usability fixes to streamline how the apps the dialogues and the settings Pages look and feel as per gnome it's as always all about the apps workbench got a big update letting you now use Python to prototype gnome apps and it also now supports blueprint formatting and the offline documentation viewer is now split into a separate app app called biblioteca there are also updates to halftone the app that lets you turn your photos into pixel art to fragments the torent client that now stops uploading and downloading when switching to a metered connection to dosage the app to help you follow and take your medication and to parabolic the video downloader app now available for Windows as well Denaro the personal finance manager got some bug fixes and now uses the latest Liber Vitter style and the quality assessment infrastructure to automate tests in Gnome is now closer to being open to all gnome apps it's really cool stuff for plasma and for the gnome app ecosystem I say this all the time but it's so exciting to see all these changes every week to our major desktops it's a good time to use these things and now let's talk about the Linux kernel 6.6 which is going to be this year's LTS version with three years of support but also 6.7 and yes I said three years of support not two the shortened support period isn't apparently happening yet but yeah let's talk about 6.7 it's a pretty big future update the first release candidate has been published and it brings a lot of stuff first there's initial Nvidia GSP support for the novo driver meaning these drivers will get the ability to reclock Nvidia gpus after Boot and does get much much better performance this is also an important piece of the puzzle for the NV K drivers to get a fully open-source stack to run on Nvidia gpus 6.7 will also remove support for the Intel itanium architecture as it's basically unused and unmaintained support for handling out mode through display port was also added to the USB type-c driver and the bcash fs file system has landed as well this is a new file system that aims to compete with better fs and ZFS with snapshots compression and a lot more now initial tests by fonx seem to show slightly lower performance with bcash FS than with other file systems in a lot of cases but it's still the first time it's merged in the Linux kernel so things might get better before the official release now personally I am very excited by everything happening around Nvidia and open source and I can't wait to run all my Nvidia devices with a fully open-source stack even though I'm pretty sure the performance will be much lower than with the proprietary drivers I might make a video comparing those two when the new version of the kernel is actually out and the newvo drivers are updated as well and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have the release of the steam deck OLED I mentioned it in the previous episode and it basically replaces the higher end skes of the LCD steam deck it has an OLED display that refreshes at 90 HZ it is a bit bigger than the previous one and it supports HDR but it's it's not just that there are a lot of updates to the joysticks to the inputs but also to the Apu it's still AMD but it's 6 nomer now and the battery has been increased from 40 W hour to 50 W hour so in the end it's about 30 to 40% more battery life for the steam deck you can already buy it from valve's website provided it wasn't sculpt to Oblivion by idiots of course and to support this we also got a stable update to Steam OS so of course it now supports W the OLED model but it also brings HDR settings when an external display that supports it is connected the LCD version of the steam deck now emulates the srgb color gamut and you can enable variable refresh rate if the external display your connected to supports it Additionally the deck now disables compositing in some scenarios to improve performance and the latency has been improved as well the firmware of the deck was also updated bringing voltage offset settings and the steam deck docks firmware also got an update to support variable refresh rate and if you use the desktop mode on your steam deck you will also get an update to the Arch Linux Bas and the KD desktop it's a nice big update for the steam deck whether you use the old one like me or the new OLED model well worth the upgrade now the wine whan driver is still making good progress with improved High DPI support this new part of whon support in wine now adds support for scaled displays although it is not per monitor yet and it seems like it has to be set in the wine settings themselves the next part is already underway with Vulcan support being enabled for Wayland and wine with all of this native Wayland support for wine looks to be in pretty good shape which means we might soon be able to get rid of x whand to play games or even to get rid of X11 all together for some people and benefit from a nice performance boost in the process and speaking of of wine wine 8.20 is out with more direct music work and protocol associations now being exported to the desktop there were 20 bucks fixed as well including for max pain for Warframe never window ICE 2 on Gog and more wine 9.0 should be next which should also mean that proton 9 should come out with a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements based on all that work in wine now wine and proton have been moving so fast they're in a great state these days and with whand support coming probably in 2024 then I think most of our problems with Linux gaming are out of the way except maybe for some anti-che now what won't be a problem is running Linux on our sponsors devices tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box the devices are made to run Linux not Windows and why is that important you might ask well it's because it saves you all the hassle and all the hand hand work and all the manual labor of trying to retrofit Linux onto a computer that only officially supports Windows tuxedo has a big range of devices that will cover all your needs and all the price points they're all customizable all the laptops are openable repairable and upgradeable and you can customize them pretty heavily with your keyboard layout your own logo and a bunch of different components I only use tuxedo devices these days my laptop which is also my editing station is from tuxedo my Steam OS console is from tuxedo they are really good devices so click the link in the description below if you need a new device and you want to make sure Linux runs on 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 to write a comment and if you didn't like the video there's always that dislike button and you can tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoy the channel you can well support it there are plenty of links in the description to do just that as well so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
hey everyone and if you've had a full month and a half of pure rain like I did in Britany then you might be in need of the Linux and open source news just to cheer you up so here we go so this week we have the EU forcing Microsoft to open Windows just a little bit more and let users do what they actually want to do on their systems using the services that they actually want to use we also have AMD teasing some interesting stuff about AI open source and Hardware in general we have a nice big road map for peer tube which should fix most remaining issues with that platform and we also have the usual slew of stuff for gaming for the colonel for KY for Gnome and we also have 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 allinone 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 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 there is a change coming for proprietary operating systems or at least for Windows Microsoft will have to let users of Windows 11 disable Bing remove Microsoft Edge and add custom web search provider to the OS search feature the eu's digital market app act will come into effect on March 2024 and it regulates Gatekeepers or companies that have a sizable market share big user numbers and generally just have the capability to prevent other companies from entering certain markets by bundling various apps and services together and restricting what users can or can't do on their own devices this obviously includes Microsoft and windows since they basically have a monopoly on the PC operating system system market and they regularly use this to force their own apps and services onto their users so Microsoft will now have to be more interoperable and let users remove pre-installed apps and change default settings Microsoft will also let users uninstall the camera app Cortana and the photos app and they will finally follow the users default browser preference to open all links unfortunately these changes won't propagate outside of the the EU although they will also come to Windows 10 in the future apparently and I really wish Microsoft would just give up all these monopolistic abuses and practices everywhere not just in the EU but at least that's something that US citizens of the European Union will be able to enjoy if we ever decide to go back to Windows which is not happening for me now in the same vein the free software Foundation Europe wrote an open letter to the EU to try and push that to give people more freedom on their devices the letter was signed by 147 different organizations and 3,000 people which admittedly at the scope of the EU is very small and it asks four main things first letting people choose freely the operating system and the software that's running on their devices second choosing freely their services providers to connect to the internet but also to run their email calendar and everything else third making sure that all devices are interoperable and compatible with Open Standards and finally publishing the code for drivers tools and interfaces needed to operate or repair a device all of that under a Libra license the goal is to obviously break down the silos that are created by software and or Hardware manufacturers and to let people use their Hardware exactly how they see fit without any arbitrary limitation and I am all for it and the the EU is probably the place to ask for stuff like that but I personally doubt all of this will be followed by any real measures we already got advances on right to repair and on breaking down what the EU calls Gatekeepers which will result in side loing being possible on iOS devices and in various big Services becoming more interoperable but I doubt the EU will force manufacturers to develop everything as open source or to leave boot loaders unlocked still interest interesting push interesting letter and I hope it will result in something good fingers crossed but I am not holding my breath now AMD is planning something teasing Open Standards and open-source work for their advancing AI event this thing is planned for December the 6th and on Twitter they posted something talking about Open Standards open source and generally looks like they want to make sure AI work is open this could just mean that AMD would add Lin support and open- Source ryzen AI a dedicated AI engine included in the latest AMD CPUs for laptop which would be cool in and of itself even for non air related tasks as a co-processor can always be useful for various things even if it's optimized for just one task but there are also suppositions that this could be a bit bigger than just Ai and could mean that rocm would support a lot more of amd's devices rocm being a complete software stack which is open source and lets you use way more of your GPU for compute tasks this could be more than just a supposition since AMD already said that more Hardware would support rocm later in the year in all cases if it's open source it's good news I don't personally much care about AI but if it's going to be the next big thing which unfortunately it looks like it is then at least having good support for all Hardware accelerators for these Technologies on Linux would be a boon for our platform and if it's related to any other kind of Hardware then all the better and I'm all for it now I covered framasoft in a video a while back they are French Collective working to try and degoogle internet through free software and a bunch of services including peer tube which they develop they've published a nice road map for what's coming next to their tools and there are some good things peer tube notably is bound to become a lot more user friendly with support for video chapters thumbnails in the progress bar replacing a video with an updated one for creators stress tests for instance managers and password protected videos all of this coming before the end of November 2023 but for 2024 they also have big plans with the ability to Import and Export your account between instances to moderate comments directly for creators or through key words to separate the audio and video streams to let people only listen to the audio but they also plan a ux redesign after an audit a showcase instance of perer tube plus an official peer Tube mobile app for Android and iOS letting people have a much better experience with perer tube of course it will be left to each individual instance to update to this new version but seeing that these are so good in terms of improvements for users I doubt any instance will not update to peer tube 6 at the end of November and will not follow the next updates coming all along 2024 I really like peer tube I'm on it there's a link in the description below to follow me there if you want to and fasoft also updated a lot of their other services and offerings you'll find all the details in the link in the description of the video now let's talk desktop environments first with KDE and it looks like the plasma 6 Alpha has the Developers kind of swamped in bug reports which is a good thing since it means the final release is way more likely to be polished if all these bugs are identified early and fixed on top of this plasma panels gained the ability to intelligently Auto Hide also called they can dodge Windows when the panel is dodged by a window it hides away and if not it stays visible this is a Behavior I got used to with a gnome dock extension at the time and I can't wait to get it back in plasma because autohide by itself sucks kwin also now supports whan's presentation time protocol which will ensure Smooth video playback and good audio and video sync cute widgets based apps will now look much better with less borders inside the app and a more consistent appearance with menus and lists more icons were created for the symbolic icon set as well to ensure a better looking notification tray the default Bree theme for console now uses more legible colors the whand session should open apps faster now and there were a lot of smaller ux and usability fixes to streamline how the apps the dialogues and the settings Pages look and feel as per gnome it's as always all about the apps workbench got a big update letting you now use Python to prototype gnome apps and it also now supports blueprint formatting and the offline documentation viewer is now split into a separate app app called biblioteca there are also updates to halftone the app that lets you turn your photos into pixel art to fragments the torent client that now stops uploading and downloading when switching to a metered connection to dosage the app to help you follow and take your medication and to parabolic the video downloader app now available for Windows as well Denaro the personal finance manager got some bug fixes and now uses the latest Liber Vitter style and the quality assessment infrastructure to automate tests in Gnome is now closer to being open to all gnome apps it's really cool stuff for plasma and for the gnome app ecosystem I say this all the time but it's so exciting to see all these changes every week to our major desktops it's a good time to use these things and now let's talk about the Linux kernel 6.6 which is going to be this year's LTS version with three years of support but also 6.7 and yes I said three years of support not two the shortened support period isn't apparently happening yet but yeah let's talk about 6.7 it's a pretty big future update the first release candidate has been published and it brings a lot of stuff first there's initial Nvidia GSP support for the novo driver meaning these drivers will get the ability to reclock Nvidia gpus after Boot and does get much much better performance this is also an important piece of the puzzle for the NV K drivers to get a fully open-source stack to run on Nvidia gpus 6.7 will also remove support for the Intel itanium architecture as it's basically unused and unmaintained support for handling out mode through display port was also added to the USB type-c driver and the bcash fs file system has landed as well this is a new file system that aims to compete with better fs and ZFS with snapshots compression and a lot more now initial tests by fonx seem to show slightly lower performance with bcash FS than with other file systems in a lot of cases but it's still the first time it's merged in the Linux kernel so things might get better before the official release now personally I am very excited by everything happening around Nvidia and open source and I can't wait to run all my Nvidia devices with a fully open-source stack even though I'm pretty sure the performance will be much lower than with the proprietary drivers I might make a video comparing those two when the new version of the kernel is actually out and the newvo drivers are updated as well and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have the release of the steam deck OLED I mentioned it in the previous episode and it basically replaces the higher end skes of the LCD steam deck it has an OLED display that refreshes at 90 HZ it is a bit bigger than the previous one and it supports HDR but it's it's not just that there are a lot of updates to the joysticks to the inputs but also to the Apu it's still AMD but it's 6 nomer now and the battery has been increased from 40 W hour to 50 W hour so in the end it's about 30 to 40% more battery life for the steam deck you can already buy it from valve's website provided it wasn't sculpt to Oblivion by idiots of course and to support this we also got a stable update to Steam OS so of course it now supports W the OLED model but it also brings HDR settings when an external display that supports it is connected the LCD version of the steam deck now emulates the srgb color gamut and you can enable variable refresh rate if the external display your connected to supports it Additionally the deck now disables compositing in some scenarios to improve performance and the latency has been improved as well the firmware of the deck was also updated bringing voltage offset settings and the steam deck docks firmware also got an update to support variable refresh rate and if you use the desktop mode on your steam deck you will also get an update to the Arch Linux Bas and the KD desktop it's a nice big update for the steam deck whether you use the old one like me or the new OLED model well worth the upgrade now the wine whan driver is still making good progress with improved High DPI support this new part of whon support in wine now adds support for scaled displays although it is not per monitor yet and it seems like it has to be set in the wine settings themselves the next part is already underway with Vulcan support being enabled for Wayland and wine with all of this native Wayland support for wine looks to be in pretty good shape which means we might soon be able to get rid of x whand to play games or even to get rid of X11 all together for some people and benefit from a nice performance boost in the process and speaking of of wine wine 8.20 is out with more direct music work and protocol associations now being exported to the desktop there were 20 bucks fixed as well including for max pain for Warframe never window ICE 2 on Gog and more wine 9.0 should be next which should also mean that proton 9 should come out with a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements based on all that work in wine now wine and proton have been moving so fast they're in a great state these days and with whand support coming probably in 2024 then I think most of our problems with Linux gaming are out of the way except maybe for some anti-che now what won't be a problem is running Linux on our sponsors devices tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box the devices are made to run Linux not Windows and why is that important you might ask well it's because it saves you all the hassle and all the hand hand work and all the manual labor of trying to retrofit Linux onto a computer that only officially supports Windows tuxedo has a big range of devices that will cover all your needs and all the price points they're all customizable all the laptops are openable repairable and upgradeable and you can customize them pretty heavily with your keyboard layout your own logo and a bunch of different components I only use tuxedo devices these days my laptop which is also my editing station is from tuxedo my Steam OS console is from tuxedo they are really good devices so click the link in the description below if you need a new device and you want to make sure Linux runs on 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 to write a comment and if you didn't like the video there's always that dislike button and you can tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoy the channel you can well support it there are plenty of links in the description to do just that as well so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
uh the good old Linux packaging format Wars we had devs and RPMs and other esoteric things and more recently we added flatback snaps and app Images to the mix and now all we have is a big bag of confusion different feature sets advantages drawbacks and limitations but apart from ideological preferences and from personal preferences I think it's interesting to look at the performance of each format and what's actually missing still from each format so today we'll dive into exactly that we'll look at performance differences between various packaging formats but also what's missing from each of them and the major differences and we'll also look at the segue from our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton VPN you probably already know about proton mail one of the most secure and private email Services out there but they also have their VPN service which is equally as secure and private it's also based in Switzerland and it doesn't log any activity and it doesn't share any data with 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the link in the description to get started with protonvpn okay so first let's start with a very quick recap of what each packaging format actually is and does so what we call packages are what most disos use these days the most well-known are Debs for Debian and auntu based dros and RPMs for red hat and Souza based dros but you also have Arch packages NYX packages and a bunch of others apart from NYX they're generally not compatible between dros they don't Implement any specific sandboxing or security model and they are distributed through repositories whether official or third party these packages can contain libraries or apps and all libraries are shared between application which saves space but also means an app that needs a newer Library might not be able to work on an older Dr then we have flat packs which are what most dros generally add on top of their regular packages they are drro agnostics so if your Dro supports flat pack it can run the exact same package as any other dro the developer packages their app once and it runs on everything no need to duplicate packaging work flat packs are sand by boxed which means they offer less security holes for potential attackers and while they share a lot of libraries through run times which are flat packs that contain a lot of libraries that many apps rely upon they can also ship their own libraries in the package which means they can use more space over time flat packs are mostly distributed through flathub and online repo but you can also create your own repo since everything is open source Snaps are basically the exact same concept as flat packs but for auntu there are a few technical differences with flat packs especially regarding how apps are opened and mounted onto the system but they work in the same way you have run times that ship libraries needed by multiple apps and then applications that can use these run times snaps can be sandboxed but it's not mandatory so some aren't and they're distributed exclusively through the snap store run by canonical and that specific back end is not open- source Snaps are packaged once and the same snap can be used by any dro provided it supports the format another big difference is that Snaps are suitable not only for graphical apps but also for command line programs server side applications or even the kernel the desktop environment the boot loader or drivers finally app Images are a more portable format similar to what Mac OS does the whole app is shipped inside a single file with most if not all of its libraries this means you can c copy paste apps from a system to another and they run on any drro that has access to fuse which is what app Images use to run app Images are not sandboxed at all although you can do that manually with something like fire jail and they sometimes rely on system libraries that you dis through ships as regular packages which means certain app Images might not work on certain systems that don't have the required Library they're generally distributed from the developers website or from App image Hub app Images don't automatically create entries in your system menu unless you use a specific demon that runs in the background now that's about it for the basics of each format they're all suitable to run applications and generally you can use whichever one you prefer or whichever one works best for you but there are performance differences so let's look at that so I ran all these tests on the same obuntu 23.04 virtual machine with all updates applied installing apps in all packaging formats the VM has access to 16 gigs of RAM four cores of my 13th gen i7 13 700h using software rendering now obviously this is not meant to represent real Hardware it's just meant to have a single comparison point between various formats that you can use to run your applications so I installed Firefox libary office and using all four packaging formats I mentioned previously all using the very latest version of each app and I measured the time it took for their first opening and subsequent runs so judging from these results we can clearly see a few things first all packaging formats other than regular packages take longer to start than basic de packages it's especially visible with heavy apps that need to do some setup when they first open like lib office or you can double the time it takes for the first open of an app but we also noticed that on subsequent opening of an application all packaging formats are really really close apart from the snap of lib office they are all either faster equally as fast or really really close to the Deb package this also highlights a specific issue with snaps optimizations can be applied per package and not to the whole packaging format now let's see in app performance with some bench marks inside Firefox I ran the speedometer test in all four versions of Firefox and also to the Jetstream Benchmark so here are all the results and bigger numbers are better so from these benchmarks we can see that there are some counterintuitive results the snap performs worse for jet stream but much better for speedometer while flat pack performs on par for speedometer but worse for jet stream dep packages perform well for Jetstream but worse for speedometer and the app image is generally just a good performer I'm not sure what's happening here I could reproduce these differences reliably by running the benchmarks multiple times I guess the underperformance of sandboxed formats for Jetstream comes from the fact they have to request access to certain resources through the sandbox which might slow them down periodically but I am not certain also do remember that these numbers are probably way lower than what you would get on real Hardware that just meant to provide a comparison Point by running everything on the same system now in conclusion on benchmarks sandboxed formats like flat packs and snaps will generally take a bit longer to open an app on a cold boot but they perform normally afterwards and they'll generally be a bit less Speedy in certain tasks at least while web browsing it is not necessarily noticeable in day-to-day use but the difference is there and needs to be mentioned now let's look at some other issues first is the sandbox a sandboxed application runs in its own environment with very few ways to access things outside of that sandbox this is similar to how web browsers run each Tab in a separate process that can't access the main browser thread or the other tabs regular packages are not sandboxed by default they install in the file system they require root privileges to install which means that if the package has some malicious post install scripts that it runs you have given it free reign over your system and any app you installed through packages can access anything your user can your entire slome directory for example or other app settings files basically it means that you should only install these packages from sources you trust either your dros repos or well veted third party repos and you also have to believe that all those packages in these official sources have been well tested well audited and haven't been modified to add anything malicious as per flat packs they are all sandboxed the sandbox isn't 100% bulletproof nothing is but it does limit what the app can access this is all managed through app permissions much like what you would find in Android or iOS apps you can give apps permissions to access specific files and folders or specific system services and components this is all generally handled through desktop portals which means the app doesn't really access the file or the folder it opens a portal which is what accesses the required resource and passes it to the application this is obviously much more secure than regular packages but it also limits what the app can actually access or do and it does force you to interact with permissions if the package hasn't set the correct permissions we'll see what's missing in a minute now snaps can be sandboxed but the sandbox is not mandatory developers can decide to not use it although this triggers a manual review of The Snap app when it's uploaded to the Snap Store to check if it does any anything weird the sandbox is heavily linked to app armor profiles which are a Buu's way of securing applications and restricting or monitoring what they can access and what they can share with other applications if they are sandboxed snaps can be just as secure as flat packs and are more secure than regular de packages and if you know how app armor works then it's also very easy to manage everything that they can do and to restrict what they can do as per app Images they do not have a sandbox natively so they are just as insecure as regular packages like regular packages you can sandbox them using something like fire jail but it will be a manual operation for every application now let's see what's missing in terms of features for each format regular packages can access everything so there is no missing feature here they are the Baseline they can talk with other apps they can access the system theme they can do screen sharing they can access any file your user can access there's nothing to mention here flatbacks and snaps have more restrictions the main missing piece is Native Messaging support this is what lets an app communicate with another and one main use case is for password managers and web browsers and sometimes VPN apps you can force it by poking holes in the sandbox but it destroys the security model of these packaging formats so it's definitely not recommended Native Messaging has been implemented in the snap package for fire Fox but it still has issues with certain password managers app Images don't have any issues with this as they are not sandboxed now this is the biggest hole that has yet to be plugged and it does mean that these packaging formats snaps and flat packs can be unsuitable for certain use cases now support for the system theme is also not perfect for snaps and flatbacks or for app images for flat packs and snaps if your current theme is available as a snap or a flat pack it will be downloaded automatically and applied to the app provided the app itself can follow that theme so for example liit V apps will not use it if your chosen theme is not available in the flatback remote or the snap store though the app will use the default theme for the toolkit it uses so Breeze or advit for flat packs you can force theming by giving permissions to the app itself to access your config files but for snaps you will have to use an environment variable which might definitely break things images might follow your system themee or they might not depending on how the app has been packaged and if the app forces the use of a theme it bundles generally if you want the best system integration with your theme with your Global menu and stuff like that regular packages are the way to go flat packs can be coerced into using your theme but they do require some manual work as per other various problems with these packaging formats you also have the size of packages while snaps and flat packs do sh share libraries between apps they don't share as much as regular packages which means they can take up more space especially if you use them to mix and match apps from different toolkits or apps that use different versions of gnome or of the KD platforms because you will download plenty of run times for different versions of gnome and different versions of KDE and those do take up some space app Images tend to be pretty large as well because they do not share anything between applications so each app has the entire set of the toolkit and the platform that it might need or it will rely on the one your system has but in that case it's not truly portable snaps also have the added problem that they mount each app in its own virtual file system that is decompressed on the Fly this generally results in slower startup times for SNAP apps and can clutter your Mount points which can be annoying if you need to manage these regularly the Snap Store back end is also proprietary and it is centralized which is something that isn't generally viewed as coherent with the ethos of Open Source and Linux in general now these are the major pain points and limitations with these packaging formats in terms of features what they can do and what they can access now there might be other smaller problems but these are the main ones but do remember this is all software these problems can and probably all will be fixed in time in the end the differences are pretty minor and all these packaging formats will give you a very similar experience unless you really want easy theming of your system or you need to use something like a third-party password manager in which case regular good old packages might be your best bet but my general advice is use whatever your drro provides they will generally result in the exact same experience and if something doesn't work try another packaging format I do hope that in the future we'll be able to settle on a unified single packaging format for graphical applications my bet would be on flatback because well Snaps are mostly maintained by canonical themselves and if they ever decide they don't want to spend the time on this format anymore this thing is dead app Images are still just not as well distributed or integrated and while they have their use I feel like they're the least interesting option of the more recent three formats and regular packages will probably always have their place at least for all the underlying system time will tell if we're moving towards more unification where a packaging format really dominates the graphical app scene or if someone will invent something entirely new it's all pretty confusing for beginners Advanced users will know what they prefer they will know the differences and they will know how to install 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hey everyone and if you like using a desktop environment then this week's Linux and open source news video is going to be for you because we have gnome receiving a huge cash investment to work on their desktop but also a lot of other projects we have some big changes coming to plasma 6 as the alpha was just released but we also have the release of the steam deck OLED well at least its announcement we have Amazon working on their own Linux based OS and we have some more detail on obuntu immutable drro and we also have 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 custom 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 gnome just got a sizable investment from The Sovereign Tech fund of €1 million this takes the form of a grant from a funding organism supported by the German Ministry for economic Affairs and climate action with this huge sum of money gnome will work on its new accessibility stack to ensure gnome can be used by everyone they will work on providing an encryption feature for individual home user directories gnome will also increase the range and the quality of of its Hardware support which might mean better Nvidia support as I don't see what's missing for Gnome specifically or maybe mobile devices touch screens and tablets as well gnome will also invest in quality assurance and developer experience to make sure that the desktop is better for users and to draw more developers in and they will also help expand the free desktop apis which is nice because these are used by most other Linux desktops as well other areas include system D the Linux kernel webkit gtk The Gnome shell and its compositor flatback gdm gtk and the online accounts for Gnome and a lot more now the timing of this might make it seem like the new executive director is doing a stellar job but I guess this sort of deal takes a bit longer to Broker Than the time Holly million has been at gnome and the project gave special recognition to Tobias Bernard and Sonny Pierce two prolific gnome contributors so it's probably more happen stance that this deal happens at the same time as the arrival of the new executive director anyway it doesn't matter this is great news for Gnome and for the Linux desktop in general I'm not sure what this German Ministry and its funding organism want with gnome but since Germany and a bunch of its cities and Lander have generally have an on and off relationship with Linux and open source maybe they just want to fund a project that they actually want to use themselves now Amazon is apparently looking to build a replacement for Android for their line of smart TVs displays and other devices that aren't tablets and this new OS code named vega would be based on Linux Amazon has apparently tasked hundreds of people in their device OS group to build this thing including a former Modzilla engineer sources say that most of the operating systems development is already done and it's expected to share ship on TVs early next year along with an SDK for developers to build apps because well a smart TV without any video streaming service is pretty much useless now apps will be built using react native so with JavaScript and it's probably a good choice just because a lot of developers are already using it to build web apps and of course this thing is only meant for their Smart TVs and smart monitors it's not meant to replace Android on their Fire tablet because good luck with that if you don't have all the app Library even though Amazon only uses their own app store and not the Google Play Store but it's still another use of Linux for Pure consumer driven products which is cool now let's talk plasma 6 and it is still full of surprises as it might also get on top of all the other features we have talked about again and again it might also get a revamped icon theme the main focus seems to be on folder icons for now with folder icons being less square and looking a bit like the Kora icons with more rounded Corners the default blue color is still there with horizontal stripes and icons materializing the role of specific folders like the desktop pictures movies and more for now it only seems to Target folders but I would be surprised if the rest of the icons didn't get refinements along the life of plasma 6 KD seems to always proceed by incremental refinements instead of giant changes and this is still just a proposal that will be discussed this method does result in smaller changes every time and a slower Pace than complete redesigns but it's also a sure way to ensure that the community isn't pissed off by giant changes and it's probably better for a project with as many options as KD has now still on plasma 6 the alpha is now out with the complete feature freeze being planned for the 29th of November which means developers still have about 2 weeks to to add things before only bug fixes are accepted now the alpha is still obviously full of issues but it's apparently pretty stable already probably because it is not a complete redesign if you want to try it out you can using KD neon the Developer Edition although I would still personally recommend not to use it on a production system yet just in case the major things you will experience are whand by default color management being implemented under whand only unification of a bunch of widget Styles the desktop Cube effect is back there's a better panel configuration user interface there's merging of the overview effect and the desktop grid there's a much improved Discover app store a reorganized sidebar in the settings there are color blindness correction filters support for HDR in certain games floating panels by default and a lot more there's only a bit more than 3 months to wait before plasma 6 is officially out in its stable form and I cannot wait to use it I will probably try and move to a beta when that's possible but we're not done with desktop environments and plasma 6 and we also have some gnome updates in this segment so for plasma 6 the breeze theme is also getting a small revamp with borders within applications being removed you won't get separators lined with an internal border for each frame of the application for example in dolphin in the folder view there is no no additional accented colored lining around everything which makes things a lot cleaner now spectacle the screen recording tool also gained the ability to record rectangular screen regions the printer settings page now integrates all configurations within the page without tons of dialogue Windows opening over one another and the plasma panel settings dialogue is now completely unified and looks much nicer and much more legible than before you will also be able to entire L disabled notification sounds from the system sound settings flma startup time has been cut down by a few seconds and 146 bugs were fixed in a week which bodess well for the final release as per gnome we have an update to impression which is a very nice looking tool to create bootable USBS and DVDs with the ability to download isos automatically for you there's notify a native client for notify Dosh which lets you send notifications from your own devices automatically through scripts and get these on other devices now including your gnome desktop there's also Kaa an app to learn Japanese haagas and katakan fractal The Matrix client has a new RC out with a new liad powered look there's better read receipts and confirmation dialogues for destructive actions and there's also an update to footage which is a small app to trim flip rotate and crop your video clips so it's cool things all around a lot of nicely well-designed updates for plasma 6 and the usual slew of app updates and new applications for Gnome it's a good time to be a Linux user obuntu revealed a bunch of details on their upcoming immutable distribution using snaps instead of the usual flatbacks like they say it is not meant to be a replacement for the current obuntu desktop it will coexist with it what auntu core desktop is is just a graphical edition of auntu core which is is meant to run on Internet of Things devices the benefits are the same as with all immutable dis Ros so better stability as it's way harder to mess up your system with a bad library or package since the file system is readon and system services and apps are confined and sandboxed it's also more manageable as the system is updated through complete images so all systems are basically the same and easier to manage when you have plenty of devices to handle and since updates are automic and roll backs are easy it's also pretty much impossible to have a non bootable system after an update on top of these base advantages a two core desktop does a few unique things notably using snaps instead of flatback which is what most other immutable dros use the drro is split into five main layers the kernel the bootloader and encryption layer plus snapd then the minimal bootable system called boot base followed by the desktop session using whand and gnome and then an additional base like applications and all they need to run everything seems provided as a snap including the kernel and bootloader and that includes kernels that ship with NVIDIA drivers and you can replace the whole desktop session by a beta or an edge Channel without replacing anything else it also embarks the recent beta TPM backed full dis encryption and it will integrate with lxd containers another canonical project to allow for software development on aun 2 core desktop support for auntu landscape the Fleet Management tool of canonical and for Microsoft active directory are also in the cards and this looks like a wellth thought out offering if you don't have anything against snaps and you want to see what an immutable disc R could be but you also like obuntu I think auntu core desktop might not be a bad choice it's not ready yet there's still a bunch of stuff to iron out they say should be available in five or 6 month they have problems with creating an ISO with booting an ISO and there's virtually no documentation yet so it's not done yet but it looks like an interesting project if you don't hate snaps okay so let's finish this video with the gaming news first we have valve announcing a revamped steam Deck with an OLED display it's still 800p but it's 7.4 in instead of the 7 in LCD of the current deck so the bezels are probably a bit slimmer it also supports HDR which is pretty freaking awesome and it goes up to 90 HZ now so expect even smoother game playay on not too demanding titles the Apu is still Zen 2 with four cores and rdna 2 graphics but the Apu is now using a 6 nanometer process instead of the seven nanometers of the previous one so it should come with a bit less power consumption it also updates the deck to Wi-Fi 6E and the battery is now 50 W hour instead of 40 it will ship beginning November 16th and the 512 gigs model starts at 569 basically you can still buy the higher end LCD versions of the deck while stocks last but once that's done only the entry level model will have the LCD and every upgrade on the capacity will also give you the new LCD and the new Apu now personally I will not be upgrading because I don't game all that much on my steam deck I much prefer using my relatively brand new Steam OS console that I made but it's still a fantastic device and it's still works well so there's no reason for me when it dies sure I'll move up to the OLED model but for now I don't see a reason if you don't have a steam deck yet though I would recommend you Splurge for the OLED model because you're going to get probably much better battery life and since the display was really the weak spot for the original deck then I think the OLED version might fix every issue that I had with the device and we also have the release of basite phase 2 a fedora and Universal blue based distribution with solid Hardware support and a strong gaming Focus it's basically an alternative to Steam OS for regular computers and or for the steam deck it comes with NVIDIA drivers pre-installed if you want them as well as all the drivers for Xbox controllers it also brings W Droid for Android app support although this doesn't work with Nvidia drivers it has options for the Nyx and the home brew package managers and a lot more software and optimizations for gaming and it looks like a very nice option for people who want to replicate The Experience they get on the steam deck but with a more regular Dro that they can actually use to do other things than just playing games so yeah it looks like an interesting option maybe I'll give it a shot on a spare gaming laptop that I have lying around just to see how well it works and if it could replace Holo ISO on my Steam OS console oh and on that note my Steam OS console has been built using a device from our sponsor tuxedo tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware in their devices has been picked specifically because it works well with Linux and that's pretty important because it spares you all the hassle of buying a Windows Focus device and then retrofitting Linux on it and hoping that everything will run well but you're not 100% sure when you buy from tuxedo you you know that Linux will work because even in their testing if they encountered bugs or quirks they submit patches Upstream so the issue can be fixed for everyone they provide a selection of popular disres but you can also just slap your own and call it a day it just works really well they have a big range of devices that should fit every price point and every need whether you need a small affordable laptop or a giant Tower workstation they have everything in between all devices are very customizable including your own logo go on the lid of your laptop your own custom keyboard layout and you can also open repair and upgrade all the laptops yourself including the battery the ram the SSD and sometimes even the wireless card so if you need a new computer stop looking at devices that only ship with Windows buy something that officially supports Linux from the link in the description below so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't 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hey everyone and if you like using a desktop environment then this week's Linux and open source news video is going to be for you because we have gnome receiving a huge cash investment to work on their desktop but also a lot of other projects we have some big changes coming to plasma 6 as the alpha was just released but we also have the release of the steam deck OLED well at least its announcement we have Amazon working on their own Linux based OS and we have some more detail on obuntu immutable drro and we also have 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 custom 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 gnome just got a sizable investment from The Sovereign Tech fund of €1 million this takes the form of a grant from a funding organism supported by the German Ministry for economic Affairs and climate action with this huge sum of money gnome will work on its new accessibility stack to ensure gnome can be used by everyone they will work on providing an encryption feature for individual home user directories gnome will also increase the range and the quality of of its Hardware support which might mean better Nvidia support as I don't see what's missing for Gnome specifically or maybe mobile devices touch screens and tablets as well gnome will also invest in quality assurance and developer experience to make sure that the desktop is better for users and to draw more developers in and they will also help expand the free desktop apis which is nice because these are used by most other Linux desktops as well other areas include system D the Linux kernel webkit gtk The Gnome shell and its compositor flatback gdm gtk and the online accounts for Gnome and a lot more now the timing of this might make it seem like the new executive director is doing a stellar job but I guess this sort of deal takes a bit longer to Broker Than the time Holly million has been at gnome and the project gave special recognition to Tobias Bernard and Sonny Pierce two prolific gnome contributors so it's probably more happen stance that this deal happens at the same time as the arrival of the new executive director anyway it doesn't matter this is great news for Gnome and for the Linux desktop in general I'm not sure what this German Ministry and its funding organism want with gnome but since Germany and a bunch of its cities and Lander have generally have an on and off relationship with Linux and open source maybe they just want to fund a project that they actually want to use themselves now Amazon is apparently looking to build a replacement for Android for their line of smart TVs displays and other devices that aren't tablets and this new OS code named vega would be based on Linux Amazon has apparently tasked hundreds of people in their device OS group to build this thing including a former Modzilla engineer sources say that most of the operating systems development is already done and it's expected to share ship on TVs early next year along with an SDK for developers to build apps because well a smart TV without any video streaming service is pretty much useless now apps will be built using react native so with JavaScript and it's probably a good choice just because a lot of developers are already using it to build web apps and of course this thing is only meant for their Smart TVs and smart monitors it's not meant to replace Android on their Fire tablet because good luck with that if you don't have all the app Library even though Amazon only uses their own app store and not the Google Play Store but it's still another use of Linux for Pure consumer driven products which is cool now let's talk plasma 6 and it is still full of surprises as it might also get on top of all the other features we have talked about again and again it might also get a revamped icon theme the main focus seems to be on folder icons for now with folder icons being less square and looking a bit like the Kora icons with more rounded Corners the default blue color is still there with horizontal stripes and icons materializing the role of specific folders like the desktop pictures movies and more for now it only seems to Target folders but I would be surprised if the rest of the icons didn't get refinements along the life of plasma 6 KD seems to always proceed by incremental refinements instead of giant changes and this is still just a proposal that will be discussed this method does result in smaller changes every time and a slower Pace than complete redesigns but it's also a sure way to ensure that the community isn't pissed off by giant changes and it's probably better for a project with as many options as KD has now still on plasma 6 the alpha is now out with the complete feature freeze being planned for the 29th of November which means developers still have about 2 weeks to to add things before only bug fixes are accepted now the alpha is still obviously full of issues but it's apparently pretty stable already probably because it is not a complete redesign if you want to try it out you can using KD neon the Developer Edition although I would still personally recommend not to use it on a production system yet just in case the major things you will experience are whand by default color management being implemented under whand only unification of a bunch of widget Styles the desktop Cube effect is back there's a better panel configuration user interface there's merging of the overview effect and the desktop grid there's a much improved Discover app store a reorganized sidebar in the settings there are color blindness correction filters support for HDR in certain games floating panels by default and a lot more there's only a bit more than 3 months to wait before plasma 6 is officially out in its stable form and I cannot wait to use it I will probably try and move to a beta when that's possible but we're not done with desktop environments and plasma 6 and we also have some gnome updates in this segment so for plasma 6 the breeze theme is also getting a small revamp with borders within applications being removed you won't get separators lined with an internal border for each frame of the application for example in dolphin in the folder view there is no no additional accented colored lining around everything which makes things a lot cleaner now spectacle the screen recording tool also gained the ability to record rectangular screen regions the printer settings page now integrates all configurations within the page without tons of dialogue Windows opening over one another and the plasma panel settings dialogue is now completely unified and looks much nicer and much more legible than before you will also be able to entire L disabled notification sounds from the system sound settings flma startup time has been cut down by a few seconds and 146 bugs were fixed in a week which bodess well for the final release as per gnome we have an update to impression which is a very nice looking tool to create bootable USBS and DVDs with the ability to download isos automatically for you there's notify a native client for notify Dosh which lets you send notifications from your own devices automatically through scripts and get these on other devices now including your gnome desktop there's also Kaa an app to learn Japanese haagas and katakan fractal The Matrix client has a new RC out with a new liad powered look there's better read receipts and confirmation dialogues for destructive actions and there's also an update to footage which is a small app to trim flip rotate and crop your video clips so it's cool things all around a lot of nicely well-designed updates for plasma 6 and the usual slew of app updates and new applications for Gnome it's a good time to be a Linux user obuntu revealed a bunch of details on their upcoming immutable distribution using snaps instead of the usual flatbacks like they say it is not meant to be a replacement for the current obuntu desktop it will coexist with it what auntu core desktop is is just a graphical edition of auntu core which is is meant to run on Internet of Things devices the benefits are the same as with all immutable dis Ros so better stability as it's way harder to mess up your system with a bad library or package since the file system is readon and system services and apps are confined and sandboxed it's also more manageable as the system is updated through complete images so all systems are basically the same and easier to manage when you have plenty of devices to handle and since updates are automic and roll backs are easy it's also pretty much impossible to have a non bootable system after an update on top of these base advantages a two core desktop does a few unique things notably using snaps instead of flatback which is what most other immutable dros use the drro is split into five main layers the kernel the bootloader and encryption layer plus snapd then the minimal bootable system called boot base followed by the desktop session using whand and gnome and then an additional base like applications and all they need to run everything seems provided as a snap including the kernel and bootloader and that includes kernels that ship with NVIDIA drivers and you can replace the whole desktop session by a beta or an edge Channel without replacing anything else it also embarks the recent beta TPM backed full dis encryption and it will integrate with lxd containers another canonical project to allow for software development on aun 2 core desktop support for auntu landscape the Fleet Management tool of canonical and for Microsoft active directory are also in the cards and this looks like a wellth thought out offering if you don't have anything against snaps and you want to see what an immutable disc R could be but you also like obuntu I think auntu core desktop might not be a bad choice it's not ready yet there's still a bunch of stuff to iron out they say should be available in five or 6 month they have problems with creating an ISO with booting an ISO and there's virtually no documentation yet so it's not done yet but it looks like an interesting project if you don't hate snaps okay so let's finish this video with the gaming news first we have valve announcing a revamped steam Deck with an OLED display it's still 800p but it's 7.4 in instead of the 7 in LCD of the current deck so the bezels are probably a bit slimmer it also supports HDR which is pretty freaking awesome and it goes up to 90 HZ now so expect even smoother game playay on not too demanding titles the Apu is still Zen 2 with four cores and rdna 2 graphics but the Apu is now using a 6 nanometer process instead of the seven nanometers of the previous one so it should come with a bit less power consumption it also updates the deck to Wi-Fi 6E and the battery is now 50 W hour instead of 40 it will ship beginning November 16th and the 512 gigs model starts at 569 basically you can still buy the higher end LCD versions of the deck while stocks last but once that's done only the entry level model will have the LCD and every upgrade on the capacity will also give you the new LCD and the new Apu now personally I will not be upgrading because I don't game all that much on my steam deck I much prefer using my relatively brand new Steam OS console that I made but it's still a fantastic device and it's still works well so there's no reason for me when it dies sure I'll move up to the OLED model but for now I don't see a reason if you don't have a steam deck yet though I would recommend you Splurge for the OLED model because you're going to get probably much better battery life and since the display was really the weak spot for the original deck then I think the OLED version might fix every issue that I had with the device and we also have the release of basite phase 2 a fedora and Universal blue based distribution with solid Hardware support and a strong gaming Focus it's basically an alternative to Steam OS for regular computers and or for the steam deck it comes with NVIDIA drivers pre-installed if you want them as well as all the drivers for Xbox controllers it also brings W Droid for Android app support although this doesn't work with Nvidia drivers it has options for the Nyx and the home brew package managers and a lot more software and optimizations for gaming and it looks like a very nice option for people who want to replicate The Experience they get on the steam deck but with a more regular Dro that they can actually use to do other things than just playing games so yeah it looks like an interesting option maybe I'll give it a shot on a spare gaming laptop that I have lying around just to see how well it works and if it could replace Holo ISO on my Steam OS console oh and on that note my Steam OS console has been built using a device from our sponsor tuxedo tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware in their devices has been picked specifically because it works well with Linux and that's pretty important because it spares you all the hassle of buying a Windows Focus device and then retrofitting Linux on it and hoping that everything will run well but you're not 100% sure when you buy from tuxedo you you know that Linux will work because even in their testing if they encountered bugs or quirks they submit patches Upstream so the issue can be fixed for everyone they provide a selection of popular disres but you can also just slap your own and call it a day it just works really well they have a big range of devices that should fit every price point and every need whether you need a small affordable laptop or a giant Tower workstation they have everything in between all devices are very customizable including your own logo go on the lid of your laptop your own custom keyboard layout and you can also open repair and upgrade all the laptops yourself including the battery the ram the SSD and sometimes even the wireless card so if you need a new computer stop looking at devices that only ship with Windows buy something that officially supports Linux from the link in the description below 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 then you can also click the dislike button and tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoyed the channel I left plenty of links to support it write down in the video description so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music]
uh the good old Linux packaging format Wars we had devs and RPMs and other esoteric things and more recently we added flatback snaps and app Images to the mix and now all we have is a big bag of confusion different feature sets advantages drawbacks and limitations but apart from ideological preferences and from personal preferences I think it's interesting to look at the performance of each format and what's actually missing still from each format so today we'll dive into exactly that we'll look at performance differences between various packaging formats but also what's missing from each of them and the major differences and we'll also look at the segue from our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton VPN you probably already know about proton mail one of the most secure and private email Services out there but they also have their VPN service which is equally as secure and private it's also based in Switzerland and it doesn't log any activity and it doesn't share any data with 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the link in the description to get started with protonvpn okay so first let's start with a very quick recap of what each packaging format actually is and does so what we call packages are what most disos use these days the most well-known are Debs for Debian and auntu based dros and RPMs for red hat and Souza based dros but you also have Arch packages NYX packages and a bunch of others apart from NYX they're generally not compatible between dros they don't Implement any specific sandboxing or security model and they are distributed through repositories whether official or third party these packages can contain libraries or apps and all libraries are shared between application which saves space but also means an app that needs a newer Library might not be able to work on an older Dr then we have flat packs which are what most dros generally add on top of their regular packages they are drro agnostics so if your Dro supports flat pack it can run the exact same package as any other dro the developer packages their app once and it runs on everything no need to duplicate packaging work flat packs are sand by boxed which means they offer less security holes for potential attackers and while they share a lot of libraries through run times which are flat packs that contain a lot of libraries that many apps rely upon they can also ship their own libraries in the package which means they can use more space over time flat packs are mostly distributed through flathub and online repo but you can also create your own repo since everything is open source Snaps are basically the exact same concept as flat packs but for auntu there are a few technical differences with flat packs especially regarding how apps are opened and mounted onto the system but they work in the same way you have run times that ship libraries needed by multiple apps and then applications that can use these run times snaps can be sandboxed but it's not mandatory so some aren't and they're distributed exclusively through the snap store run by canonical and that specific back end is not open- source Snaps are packaged once and the same snap can be used by any dro provided it supports the format another big difference is that Snaps are suitable not only for graphical apps but also for command line programs server side applications or even the kernel the desktop environment the boot loader or drivers finally app Images are a more portable format similar to what Mac OS does the whole app is shipped inside a single file with most if not all of its libraries this means you can c copy paste apps from a system to another and they run on any drro that has access to fuse which is what app Images use to run app Images are not sandboxed at all although you can do that manually with something like fire jail and they sometimes rely on system libraries that you dis through ships as regular packages which means certain app Images might not work on certain systems that don't have the required Library they're generally distributed from the developers website or from App image Hub app Images don't automatically create entries in your system menu unless you use a specific demon that runs in the background now that's about it for the basics of each format they're all suitable to run applications and generally you can use whichever one you prefer or whichever one works best for you but there are performance differences so let's look at that so I ran all these tests on the same obuntu 23.04 virtual machine with all updates applied installing apps in all packaging formats the VM has access to 16 gigs of RAM four cores of my 13th gen i7 13 700h using software rendering now obviously this is not meant to represent real Hardware it's just meant to have a single comparison point between various formats that you can use to run your applications so I installed Firefox libary office and using all four packaging formats I mentioned previously all using the very latest version of each app and I measured the time it took for their first opening and subsequent runs so judging from these results we can clearly see a few things first all packaging formats other than regular packages take longer to start than basic de packages it's especially visible with heavy apps that need to do some setup when they first open like lib office or you can double the time it takes for the first open of an app but we also noticed that on subsequent opening of an application all packaging formats are really really close apart from the snap of lib office they are all either faster equally as fast or really really close to the Deb package this also highlights a specific issue with snaps optimizations can be applied per package and not to the whole packaging format now let's see in app performance with some bench marks inside Firefox I ran the speedometer test in all four versions of Firefox and also to the Jetstream Benchmark so here are all the results and bigger numbers are better so from these benchmarks we can see that there are some counterintuitive results the snap performs worse for jet stream but much better for speedometer while flat pack performs on par for speedometer but worse for jet stream dep packages perform well for Jetstream but worse for speedometer and the app image is generally just a good performer I'm not sure what's happening here I could reproduce these differences reliably by running the benchmarks multiple times I guess the underperformance of sandboxed formats for Jetstream comes from the fact they have to request access to certain resources through the sandbox which might slow them down periodically but I am not certain also do remember that these numbers are probably way lower than what you would get on real Hardware that just meant to provide a comparison Point by running everything on the same system now in conclusion on benchmarks sandboxed formats like flat packs and snaps will generally take a bit longer to open an app on a cold boot but they perform normally afterwards and they'll generally be a bit less Speedy in certain tasks at least while web browsing it is not necessarily noticeable in day-to-day use but the difference is there and needs to be mentioned now let's look at some other issues first is the sandbox a sandboxed application runs in its own environment with very few ways to access things outside of that sandbox this is similar to how web browsers run each Tab in a separate process that can't access the main browser thread or the other tabs regular packages are not sandboxed by default they install in the file system they require root privileges to install which means that if the package has some malicious post install scripts that it runs you have given it free reign over your system and any app you installed through packages can access anything your user can your entire slome directory for example or other app settings files basically it means that you should only install these packages from sources you trust either your dros repos or well veted third party repos and you also have to believe that all those packages in these official sources have been well tested well audited and haven't been modified to add anything malicious as per flat packs they are all sandboxed the sandbox isn't 100% bulletproof nothing is but it does limit what the app can access this is all managed through app permissions much like what you would find in Android or iOS apps you can give apps permissions to access specific files and folders or specific system services and components this is all generally handled through desktop portals which means the app doesn't really access the file or the folder it opens a portal which is what accesses the required resource and passes it to the application this is obviously much more secure than regular packages but it also limits what the app can actually access or do and it does force you to interact with permissions if the package hasn't set the correct permissions we'll see what's missing in a minute now snaps can be sandboxed but the sandbox is not mandatory developers can decide to not use it although this triggers a manual review of The Snap app when it's uploaded to the Snap Store to check if it does any anything weird the sandbox is heavily linked to app armor profiles which are a Buu's way of securing applications and restricting or monitoring what they can access and what they can share with other applications if they are sandboxed snaps can be just as secure as flat packs and are more secure than regular de packages and if you know how app armor works then it's also very easy to manage everything that they can do and to restrict what they can do as per app Images they do not have a sandbox natively so they are just as insecure as regular packages like regular packages you can sandbox them using something like fire jail but it will be a manual operation for every application now let's see what's missing in terms of features for each format regular packages can access everything so there is no missing feature here they are the Baseline they can talk with other apps they can access the system theme they can do screen sharing they can access any file your user can access there's nothing to mention here flatbacks and snaps have more restrictions the main missing piece is Native Messaging support this is what lets an app communicate with another and one main use case is for password managers and web browsers and sometimes VPN apps you can force it by poking holes in the sandbox but it destroys the security model of these packaging formats so it's definitely not recommended Native Messaging has been implemented in the snap package for fire Fox but it still has issues with certain password managers app Images don't have any issues with this as they are not sandboxed now this is the biggest hole that has yet to be plugged and it does mean that these packaging formats snaps and flat packs can be unsuitable for certain use cases now support for the system theme is also not perfect for snaps and flatbacks or for app images for flat packs and snaps if your current theme is available as a snap or a flat pack it will be downloaded automatically and applied to the app provided the app itself can follow that theme so for example liit V apps will not use it if your chosen theme is not available in the flatback remote or the snap store though the app will use the default theme for the toolkit it uses so Breeze or advit for flat packs you can force theming by giving permissions to the app itself to access your config files but for snaps you will have to use an environment variable which might definitely break things images might follow your system themee or they might not depending on how the app has been packaged and if the app forces the use of a theme it bundles generally if you want the best system integration with your theme with your Global menu and stuff like that regular packages are the way to go flat packs can be coerced into using your theme but they do require some manual work as per other various problems with these packaging formats you also have the size of packages while snaps and flat packs do sh share libraries between apps they don't share as much as regular packages which means they can take up more space especially if you use them to mix and match apps from different toolkits or apps that use different versions of gnome or of the KD platforms because you will download plenty of run times for different versions of gnome and different versions of KDE and those do take up some space app Images tend to be pretty large as well because they do not share anything between applications so each app has the entire set of the toolkit and the platform that it might need or it will rely on the one your system has but in that case it's not truly portable snaps also have the added problem that they mount each app in its own virtual file system that is decompressed on the Fly this generally results in slower startup times for SNAP apps and can clutter your Mount points which can be annoying if you need to manage these regularly the Snap Store back end is also proprietary and it is centralized which is something that isn't generally viewed as coherent with the ethos of Open Source and Linux in general now these are the major pain points and limitations with these packaging formats in terms of features what they can do and what they can access now there might be other smaller problems but these are the main ones but do remember this is all software these problems can and probably all will be fixed in time in the end the differences are pretty minor and all these packaging formats will give you a very similar experience unless you really want easy theming of your system or you need to use something like a third-party password manager in which case regular good old packages might be your best bet but my general advice is use whatever your drro provides they will generally result in the exact same experience and if something doesn't work try another packaging format I do hope that in the future we'll be able to settle on a unified single packaging format for graphical applications my bet would be on flatback because well Snaps are mostly maintained by canonical themselves and if they ever decide they don't want to spend the time on this format anymore this thing is dead app Images are still just not as well distributed or integrated and while they have their use I feel like they're the least interesting option of the more recent three formats and regular packages will probably always have their place at least for all the underlying system time will tell if we're moving towards more unification where a packaging format really dominates the graphical app scene or if someone will invent something entirely new it's all pretty confusing for beginners Advanced users will know what they prefer they will know the differences and they will know how to install 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hey everyone this is Nick and I know this video is late and so we have a lot to talk about we have Fedora agreeing to drop X11 entirely for the next release of Fedora KDE we have the Linux Colonel version 6.6 we have Google's web DRM API being abandoned and we have a lot of big fixes for the Nvidia proprietary drivers and wh and since I am late with this video there are a lot of other topics that I just could not fit inside this video but they did fit in the audio version of the podcast which yes is a thing that exists you can listen to it by using the link in the description below or by looking for Linux and open source news in your podcast client of choice what this video doesn't lack though is the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuare they provide services and tools to ensure your Linux servers and workstations are always up toate and secure and to reduce down time to a minimum thanks to life patching of the Linux kernel and what interests us today extended life cycle support for end of life distributions and if you use sentos stream 8 you should know that you only have until the end of May 2024 after that the drro will not get any new security update if you're not ready to migrate to another Linux distribution or to upgrade your system tuare will provide support for Santo stream 8 with security updates for critical and high-risk vulnerabilities for up to 4 years and updates to a lot of essential server packages as well and all you have to do is to add the tux scare repo with a super simple script so to give yourself more time and plan your migration from Santo stream 8 click the link in the description below and get started with tux Scar's extended life cycle support okay so it is now confirmed the KD spin of Fedora will drop X11 entirely as they move to plasma 6 for Fedora 40 the proposal has been accepted wholeheartedly by the steering committee which means that in April 2024 X11 is done on Fedora at least for KD users while some members had some reservations proposing to leave X11 as an option they also remarked that it would create maintenance costs and additional complexity there's always the option to add the X11 related packages back in case a major problem breaks out during the beta phase the equivalent proposal for Fedora gnome to drop X11 as well hasn't been accepted yet and is still debated but I would be surprised if it wasn't accepted as well after the KD related one was adopted so easily so well that's done yet another nail in X11 scoffin but more importantly a big test bed of users for Wayland at least on KDE which means more users and so more changes of actually fixing the remaining issues that Wayland has and speaking of KDE kwin the window manager/ compositor has received some merge requests to enable HDR games to run on KDE this contains the first bricks of the whan color management protocol and an implementation for KDE it's barebones for now since it just targets HDR for games and it requires some pretty recent Vulcan extensions and a git build of the gamescope compon repositor as well the thing valve uses in Steam OS of course your monitor will also need to support HDR apparently some games are already working with this like cyberpunk 2077 but others don't since they require a check to see if the monitor actually handles HDR by parsing their edid file and this part isn't implemented just yet but it's still a nice start to this HDR thing and I guess they're starting with games because it's one of the major use cas for HDR apart from movies and TV shows and also probably trying to enable HDR support in a full screen thing is easier than already starting with mixed HDR and SDR content in the same display and now we have a big update to the proprietary NVIDIA drivers version 54529 point0 2 this one provides support for 10 bits per component over HDMI a bunch of new Vulcan extensions but more important some huge whand improvements these drivers now support the NightLight and Night Color features of gnome and KD they support VR displays if the whan compositor supports DRM leasing they support variable refresh rate they support VDP Au on X whand so videos and media can be decoded using the GPU under X whand and Prime render offload for Vulcan apps under Wayland is Now supported as well meaning these Vulcan apps will work correctly in hybrid graphics mode on top of that the open- source kernel modules that Nvidia publishes now considered GeForce gpus and workstation gpus certified in terms of quality and there's also experimental support for runtime D3 power management for desktop gpus so they will be able to go to sleep using way less power but without turning them off entirely and there's also experimental support for frame buffer consoles provided by the NVIDIA drivers these new drivers seem to basically fix every remaining issue with Nvidia or Wayland or at least every major one there probably will still be bugs and some small things missing but it's a huge leap forward for NVIDIA users on wh so it's great to see them actually supporting our modern desktop stack I'm very happy about this now let's talk desktop environments we have some updates to gnome KD and Elementary OS so let's start with gnome first there's has an update to gnome terminal which is finally moving to gtk4 the transition is planned for Gnome 46 and VTE the library that powers a lot of these gtk based terminal emulators will no longer be capped at 40 FPS which should make terminal work just a bit smoother on top of that there's a new release of override a Bluetooth peripheral management app there's a release of f the mobile shell developed for the Lim 5 with a new lock screen plugin that lets you spawn apps without unlocking the phone for example for media players there's also a new welcome to gnome web page on their website that lets people get started with contributing to gnow there are also updates to whether or not a shell extension that displays the weather in the top bar for KDE the alpha of plasma 6 is now planned for this week on the 8th of November with the soft feature freeze in effect so no new big feature should land apart from what's already planned and merged in terms of new stuff you can expect there's a new presentation for app ratings in discover with the rating being accompanied by various quotes that reflect this rating the search has also been improved and should return results more in line with your query which has been a big issue with this discover the energy saving settings page has been Rewritten which fixes all open Bug reports and looks much nicer there's a new cool looking style for grouped tasks in the taskbar and dialog windows will not spawn an entry in the taskbar on Wayland anymore there were also 98 bugs fixed this week I am pretty excited to see plasma 6 getting closer and closer to its official release it's going to be a giant update and it's going to improve a lot on my current workflow so I cannot wait to use it now for Elementary OS they have started work on Elementary OS 8 7.1 will still get security updates and maybe some minor features and all flatback apps will keep receiving updates as well but the new features will be released with os8 a few months after obon 22404 lands next year the big things planned are whand by default including a new Doc since the current one is based on very old code and can't work properly with Wayland the migration to gtk4 is also a big Focus here and is also necessary to make everything Wayland ready as well and it should bring better app design and more responsive applications plus better multi-touch J your support the settings will also be a big focus in os8 but maybe not right at release more during the life cycle of the dro with a quick settings menu in the panel and a redesign of a lot of settings pages to be more adaptive they're also experimenting with shipping an immutable OS but that's not necessarily something that will happen for OS 8 and there are other potential changes like moving to pipe wire replacing the onscreen keyboard and more backend related things it will probably be more of a transition release without giant new features but mostly moving to gtk4 and Wayland and the rest of the new features will be built upon that Foundation during the life cycle of os8 since this is a semi- rolling release now Google decided not to move forward with their much maligned web integrity API also called Web DRM by most people this API would have meant that websites could refuse to serve users of certain browsers or devices or operating systems depending on a specific token that could also very well have been used to identify individual users and their devices the stated goal was to filter out Bots traffic to detect fishing campaigns cheating in games compromised devices and the like but it would also have opened the door to basically blocking certain users from using certain websites Google stated that this API is no longer being considered by the Chrome team meaning it's pretty much abandoned since no one else wanted anything to do with that although there is a new Android web view media Integrity API that will do the exact same thing but for web views embedded in Android apps used to play video and audio it is a big win for the open web because this API had so much potential for user tracking Mass surveillance and just restricting what you can do on your devices so it's nice that it's finally dead now the Linux kernel 6.6 is now out with a lot of cool performance updates for our systems first the new CPU scheduler has landed and should reduce latency and provide much better performance especially on CPUs with multiple caches however there might be cases where the new scheduler is slower than the old one the Linux developer team said they would fix these regressions as they are reported there's a new event FS subsystem as well that should improve memory efficiency when reporting kernel events and AMD users will get sizable improvements with support for dynamic boost control to get the best performance out of some CPU cores While others are left to sleep so better battery life as well there's also support for amdp States via CPU power in the same line of improving battery life on AMD devices there's also support for Intel Shadow stack a feature that improves Security on Intel but also on AMD CPUs against recent attacks their support for rumble with the stadia controller the Nvidia Shield controller can now report its battery life there's more Lenovo laptop keyboard support and there are a lot of fixes and improvements to file systems and IO so if your Dro is not an LTS you will probably get this update relatively soon if your drro is an LTS you will have to wait for the next major update to benefit from this there are always some ways to install other kernels than the official ones that your distal ships but it's potentially a problem it could break some stuff so you decide whether you want to do that or not and let's finish this video with the gaming news first we have the 3D engine used in the game War Thunder being open sourced this engine named dagor belongs to the Gin entertainment company and is now under the BSD 3 Clause license it's early steps as there is no documentation yet and there are only build instructions for Windows but it will now be open to being used on other operating systems if people have the interest and the skills to do so it's a pretty solid engine at least visually War Thunder can be very pretty and it's probably not pure abandoned wear either as the game itself is still very popular on Steam now wine 8.19 is out with an updated mono engine to Run net applications and more work on the direct music Apon it also brings 44 Buck fixes including for games like never winter nights 2 serious s the random encounter Dungeon Keeper 2 Rise of Nations m 5 or Unreal 2 and the steam deck now hits 12,000 games either playable or verified that's more than 4,000 verified titles that will play perfectly on Steam deck and by extension on any Linux drro and more than 8,000 games marked as playable so they will play decently on the deck and probably perfectly on any Linux Dr and there are now 3500 unsupported games that will definitely not run on the deck but some of them might work on a more General Linux Dr and this is a pretty huge library of games for this little handheld but by extension for Linux as well I remember the bad old days when you had to run every single game using wine on its own prefix because it would break everything else if not and generally nothing really ran that well or at all so it's insane to me that in just a few years we've moved from Linux cannot game to Linux is actually the second most most popular platform for gaming on PC absolutely fantastic fantastic like our sponsors devices tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box all the hardware has been picked specifically because it is compatible with Linux and if they encountered some quirks or problems during testing they submit bug fixes Upstream so everyone can benefit from the improved compatibility and why would you want a device that ships with Linux out of the box well it's because it removes all the hassle of trying to install your favorite Dro on Hardware that was never designed to run Linux at all but designed to run probably Windows tuxedo has a big range of devices that should fit every need and every price point for laptops no and desktops you can pick a lot of the components inside of your computer you can customize the keyboard layout or the logo on the lid of your laptop and they just have something for everyone so if you're interested in devices that you can open repair and upgrade because that's the case with all of their devices and if you want to support linux's development and make sure that your new computer actually runs Linux well click the link in the description below and get yourself a 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hey everyone this is Nick and I know this video is late and so we have a lot to talk about we have Fedora agreeing to drop X11 entirely for the next release of Fedora KDE we have the Linux Colonel version 6.6 we have Google's web DRM API being abandoned and we have a lot of big fixes for the Nvidia proprietary drivers and wh and since I am late with this video there are a lot of other topics that I just could not fit inside this video but they did fit in the audio version of the podcast which yes is a thing that exists you can listen to it by using the link in the description below or by looking for Linux and open source news in your podcast client of choice what this video doesn't lack though is the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuare they provide services and tools to ensure your Linux servers and workstations are always up toate and secure and to reduce down time to a minimum thanks to life patching of the Linux kernel and what interests us today extended life cycle support for end of life distributions and if you use sentos stream 8 you should know that you only have until the end of May 2024 after that the drro will not get any new security update if you're not ready to migrate to another Linux distribution or to upgrade your system tuare will provide support for Santo stream 8 with security updates for critical and high-risk vulnerabilities for up to 4 years and updates to a lot of essential server packages as well and all you have to do is to add the tux scare repo with a super simple script so to give yourself more time and plan your migration from Santo stream 8 click the link in the description below and get started with tux Scar's extended life cycle support okay so it is now confirmed the KD spin of Fedora will drop X11 entirely as they move to plasma 6 for Fedora 40 the proposal has been accepted wholeheartedly by the steering committee which means that in April 2024 X11 is done on Fedora at least for KD users while some members had some reservations proposing to leave X11 as an option they also remarked that it would create maintenance costs and additional complexity there's always the option to add the X11 related packages back in case a major problem breaks out during the beta phase the equivalent proposal for Fedora gnome to drop X11 as well hasn't been accepted yet and is still debated but I would be surprised if it wasn't accepted as well after the KD related one was adopted so easily so well that's done yet another nail in X11 scoffin but more importantly a big test bed of users for Wayland at least on KDE which means more users and so more changes of actually fixing the remaining issues that Wayland has and speaking of KDE kwin the window manager/ compositor has received some merge requests to enable HDR games to run on KDE this contains the first bricks of the whan color management protocol and an implementation for KDE it's barebones for now since it just targets HDR for games and it requires some pretty recent Vulcan extensions and a git build of the gamescope compon repositor as well the thing valve uses in Steam OS of course your monitor will also need to support HDR apparently some games are already working with this like cyberpunk 2077 but others don't since they require a check to see if the monitor actually handles HDR by parsing their edid file and this part isn't implemented just yet but it's still a nice start to this HDR thing and I guess they're starting with games because it's one of the major use cas for HDR apart from movies and TV shows and also probably trying to enable HDR support in a full screen thing is easier than already starting with mixed HDR and SDR content in the same display and now we have a big update to the proprietary NVIDIA drivers version 54529 point0 2 this one provides support for 10 bits per component over HDMI a bunch of new Vulcan extensions but more important some huge whand improvements these drivers now support the NightLight and Night Color features of gnome and KD they support VR displays if the whan compositor supports DRM leasing they support variable refresh rate they support VDP Au on X whand so videos and media can be decoded using the GPU under X whand and Prime render offload for Vulcan apps under Wayland is Now supported as well meaning these Vulcan apps will work correctly in hybrid graphics mode on top of that the open- source kernel modules that Nvidia publishes now considered GeForce gpus and workstation gpus certified in terms of quality and there's also experimental support for runtime D3 power management for desktop gpus so they will be able to go to sleep using way less power but without turning them off entirely and there's also experimental support for frame buffer consoles provided by the NVIDIA drivers these new drivers seem to basically fix every remaining issue with Nvidia or Wayland or at least every major one there probably will still be bugs and some small things missing but it's a huge leap forward for NVIDIA users on wh so it's great to see them actually supporting our modern desktop stack I'm very happy about this now let's talk desktop environments we have some updates to gnome KD and Elementary OS so let's start with gnome first there's has an update to gnome terminal which is finally moving to gtk4 the transition is planned for Gnome 46 and VTE the library that powers a lot of these gtk based terminal emulators will no longer be capped at 40 FPS which should make terminal work just a bit smoother on top of that there's a new release of override a Bluetooth peripheral management app there's a release of f the mobile shell developed for the Lim 5 with a new lock screen plugin that lets you spawn apps without unlocking the phone for example for media players there's also a new welcome to gnome web page on their website that lets people get started with contributing to gnow there are also updates to whether or not a shell extension that displays the weather in the top bar for KDE the alpha of plasma 6 is now planned for this week on the 8th of November with the soft feature freeze in effect so no new big feature should land apart from what's already planned and merged in terms of new stuff you can expect there's a new presentation for app ratings in discover with the rating being accompanied by various quotes that reflect this rating the search has also been improved and should return results more in line with your query which has been a big issue with this discover the energy saving settings page has been Rewritten which fixes all open Bug reports and looks much nicer there's a new cool looking style for grouped tasks in the taskbar and dialog windows will not spawn an entry in the taskbar on Wayland anymore there were also 98 bugs fixed this week I am pretty excited to see plasma 6 getting closer and closer to its official release it's going to be a giant update and it's going to improve a lot on my current workflow so I cannot wait to use it now for Elementary OS they have started work on Elementary OS 8 7.1 will still get security updates and maybe some minor features and all flatback apps will keep receiving updates as well but the new features will be released with os8 a few months after obon 22404 lands next year the big things planned are whand by default including a new Doc since the current one is based on very old code and can't work properly with Wayland the migration to gtk4 is also a big Focus here and is also necessary to make everything Wayland ready as well and it should bring better app design and more responsive applications plus better multi-touch J your support the settings will also be a big focus in os8 but maybe not right at release more during the life cycle of the dro with a quick settings menu in the panel and a redesign of a lot of settings pages to be more adaptive they're also experimenting with shipping an immutable OS but that's not necessarily something that will happen for OS 8 and there are other potential changes like moving to pipe wire replacing the onscreen keyboard and more backend related things it will probably be more of a transition release without giant new features but mostly moving to gtk4 and Wayland and the rest of the new features will be built upon that Foundation during the life cycle of os8 since this is a semi- rolling release now Google decided not to move forward with their much maligned web integrity API also called Web DRM by most people this API would have meant that websites could refuse to serve users of certain browsers or devices or operating systems depending on a specific token that could also very well have been used to identify individual users and their devices the stated goal was to filter out Bots traffic to detect fishing campaigns cheating in games compromised devices and the like but it would also have opened the door to basically blocking certain users from using certain websites Google stated that this API is no longer being considered by the Chrome team meaning it's pretty much abandoned since no one else wanted anything to do with that although there is a new Android web view media Integrity API that will do the exact same thing but for web views embedded in Android apps used to play video and audio it is a big win for the open web because this API had so much potential for user tracking Mass surveillance and just restricting what you can do on your devices so it's nice that it's finally dead now the Linux kernel 6.6 is now out with a lot of cool performance updates for our systems first the new CPU scheduler has landed and should reduce latency and provide much better performance especially on CPUs with multiple caches however there might be cases where the new scheduler is slower than the old one the Linux developer team said they would fix these regressions as they are reported there's a new event FS subsystem as well that should improve memory efficiency when reporting kernel events and AMD users will get sizable improvements with support for dynamic boost control to get the best performance out of some CPU cores While others are left to sleep so better battery life as well there's also support for amdp States via CPU power in the same line of improving battery life on AMD devices there's also support for Intel Shadow stack a feature that improves Security on Intel but also on AMD CPUs against recent attacks their support for rumble with the stadia controller the Nvidia Shield controller can now report its battery life there's more Lenovo laptop keyboard support and there are a lot of fixes and improvements to file systems and IO so if your Dro is not an LTS you will probably get this update relatively soon if your drro is an LTS you will have to wait for the next major update to benefit from this there are always some ways to install other kernels than the official ones that your distal ships but it's potentially a problem it could break some stuff so you decide whether you want to do that or not and let's finish this video with the gaming news first we have the 3D engine used in the game War Thunder being open sourced this engine named dagor belongs to the Gin entertainment company and is now under the BSD 3 Clause license it's early steps as there is no documentation yet and there are only build instructions for Windows but it will now be open to being used on other operating systems if people have the interest and the skills to do so it's a pretty solid engine at least visually War Thunder can be very pretty and it's probably not pure abandoned wear either as the game itself is still very popular on Steam now wine 8.19 is out with an updated mono engine to Run net applications and more work on the direct music Apon it also brings 44 Buck fixes including for games like never winter nights 2 serious s the random encounter Dungeon Keeper 2 Rise of Nations m 5 or Unreal 2 and the steam deck now hits 12,000 games either playable or verified that's more than 4,000 verified titles that will play perfectly on Steam deck and by extension on any Linux drro and more than 8,000 games marked as playable so they will play decently on the deck and probably perfectly on any Linux Dr and there are now 3500 unsupported games that will definitely not run on the deck but some of them might work on a more General Linux Dr and this is a pretty huge library of games for this little handheld but by extension for Linux as well I remember the bad old days when you had to run every single game using wine on its own prefix because it would break everything else if not and generally nothing really ran that well or at all so it's insane to me that in just a few years we've moved from Linux cannot game to Linux is actually the second most most popular platform for gaming on PC absolutely fantastic fantastic like our sponsors devices tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box all the hardware has been picked specifically because it is 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I don't usually make videos about Fedora because I generally like to look at the changes in the desktop experience and well fedora's experience is gnome's experience and I already have a video about gnome 45 but this time around there's a device involved the Fedora slim book and so with this sort of official hardware for Fedora I thought it would be cool to look at the dro and add the hardware you can get to run it so let's take a look at Fedora 39 at the fedora slimbo an excellent laptop for Fedora users and at this excellent 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 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 what you will get under the hood with Fedora 39 first the installer is still the old Anaconda not the new one work is progressing fast but it wasn't done just yet so you will get it at most in Fedora 40 second you're getting the Linux kernel 6.5 which notably improves boot times on xon and epic CPUs so mostly for servers but it also has performance improvements for X4 and better FS it has has better Rumble support for Xbox controllers it has AMD free sync being enabled by default and better power management on Intel CPUs Fedora 39 also drops the modular repos as most users didn't use them and this should speed up the dnf package manager as it no longer has to check these repos speaking of dnf you're not getting dnf 5 yet it just wasn't ready for this release and since it also wasn't ready for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 it's now been pushed to Bora 41 other changes include dropping the custom theming for cute apps KD applications launched in Gnome won't use a gnome lookalike theme that tended to break apps they will use the default cute theme which doesn't look too good Fedora 39 also changes the default color of the terminal with the base prompt being green which should help legibility when typing long commands to better notice where your command begins finally there is a new spin of Fedora silver blue the immutable disc but this time with budgie as its desktop it's called Fedora Onyx and it joins silver blue and Kino white in the lineup of immutable spins of Fedora plenty of changes to the back end of the drro and plenty of missed deadlines as well for the new installer and for dn5 but I guess it's better to push these to a future release than to ship them in a heal broken State now of course the biggest changes to your experience on Fedora will be with gnome 45 I already covered it in a lot of detail in its dedicated video but here is a small recap of everything you can expect so the first change will be to activities with the new work spaces indicator when you click it it opens the activities view but visually it now shows your current virtual desktop as an elongated pill and the other virtual desktops as small circle it is very helpful to let you know where you are in this strip of virtual desktops although it won't tell you which apps are on which desktop you can also SC scroll over it to move between virtual desktops now the application name menu also disappeared from the top bar in the process this menu only included pretty redundant actions so it got the boot but it still makes it a little bit harder to know which app is currently in focus in the quick settings you now get the ability to control keyboard backlight on supported devices you can click the button to turn that on or off or expand it to select the brightness level you can also open the Quick Settings menu by pressing super plus s and you can now click a background app to open its window and you'll also get a small indicator when Closing one of these background apps finally in the top bar you will get a new webcam activity indicator when an app is accessing your webcam through pipe wire you will see a small icon in there gome 45 very slightly revamps the mouse cursors but the changes are very very subtle and there is also a True Light theme available although you will have to enable it using Decon or through an extension it makes the top bar and all the shell elements light themed apart from that there's a new split header bar look that reached the few apps like the settings the calendar or the file manager it cuts the header bar in two for apps that have a sidebar and it does look pretty good so basically not a lot of visual or functional changes to the whole desktop experience it's still gnome it still looks like AIT which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on whether you like it or not I personally think it looks absolutely great now in terms of applications Nautilus gained a way faster search tracker the searge back end has been improved and can cash query results which means it's noticeably faster and once you have completed a search you can also get a search everywhere button that lets you search the whole file system not just the current folder and its subd directories you also get a nicer experience in nautulus when changing which columns you want to see in the list view with the ability to app apply these changes to the current folder or to all directories gome 45 also brings a new image viewer called Loop it looks really good and it supports touchpad and touchscreen gestures to move between images and to zoom in and out it has all the usual features you would expect from an image viewer as well cheese the camera app is replaced with snapshot a simpler but better performing application and gnome calendar gained infinite scrolling in the month view and a revamped event dialogue gnome console got a new preference item to customize fonts gnome Maps gained a new experimental vector-based stle set and the connections app which is used to handle remote desktops now supports copying text files and images through the RDP protocol the gome Fone viewer simple scan and the bowab dis usage analyzer also got ported to gtk4 and finally the calculator app now handles more currencies and more currency conversions so that's a lot of small updates to the four apps of gnome the base experience is unchanged but everything got a little bit better or faster as per gnome software you can now clear all the user data associated with a flatback app when you uninstall it and you will see messages in the search results and app Details page to let you know if a flatback is end of life and hasn't received updates in a long time and for gnome's back end you will get improvements to the m compositor it now supports the yuv color space and it supports the recent whan fractional scaling protocol for things to not be too blurry and also way more power efficient the mouse pointer is also handled in its own thread of the compositor which means less latency and smoother movement when your device is under load and finally in terms of settings you gain a new about page with more information about your device you can close all popups by pressing escape and you can customize the clock in the top bar so that's gome 45 if you want to learn more about every single change you can click the link in the description of the video to see all the changes to gnome 45 but on Fedora it feels super smooth super fast and responsive and especially on Wayland it is a wonderful experience but now let's talk Hardware the Fedora slimbook this is a partnership between Fedora and you guessed it slimbook the Linux Hardware manufacturer based in Spain it is a 16in laptop that only weighs 1.5 kilos or 3.3 lb and thanks to small bezels it basically occupies the same space as a traditional 15-in laptop it has a 2k 16 by10 display at 2560 x600 so that fractional scaling support in gome 45 might come in handy and it refreshes at 90 HZ it supports 100% of srgb and it has a brightness of 400 nits and an anti-glare coating the contrast ratio is also pretty high it is a very very nice panel to use the laptop also has some cool Fedora branding with a Super Key using the Fedora logo and you also get a fedora logo with some text on the top left corner of the laptop although you also get a slim book logo on the top right as well which might be a bit too much branding for some people I would personally have preferred just the Fedora logo in the middle of the lid instead of the Dual branding with text which looks kind of off to me the chassis is a magnesium and aluminium alloy pretty durable and very lightweight it's sort of a middle point between aluminium and plastic in terms of feel it's less sturdy than aluminium but it is way more robust and premium feeling than basic plastic I used a lot of laptops using this kind of material and they do hold up pretty well over time they have a nice feel they don't start creaking or moving around like plastic can do and they scratch less easily than plastic although you don't want to put your keys in the same bag as this because yes it's going to show Scrat scratches in terms of specs you get an Intel i7 12 700h which is a 14 core CPU with six performance cores and eight efficiency cores that can go up to 4.7 GHz it is paired with an Nvidia RTX 3050 TI with 4 gigs of RAM this might surprise you as Fedora is generally more on the open source side of things and here again they sort of did that as well you don't have the NVIDIA drivers pre-installed on this device it's using the novo drivers so you will have to enable third party repos at first start and then you will have to install the NVIDIA drivers from gnome software by default it's using the nvo drivers and of course the Mesa drivers for the integrated Intel GPU I didn't have any problems using the laptop with just the novo drivers although if you really want to use the most out of your Nvidia GPU you're going to have to use the proprietary drivers they're not pre-installed by default because well Fedora doesn't ship these drivers by default so they want wanted a vanilla experience still once you install those NVIDIA drivers in my experience it's really really solid even using Wayland multim monitor works perfectly I encountered no weird bugs or compatibility problems Everything feels smooth and very nice just like on any laptop I use with an Nvidia GPU and goo the preconceived notion that Nvidia really doesn't work well on Linux or really doesn't support Wayland is just that a preconceived notion it's not 100% perfect in all use cases but in Gnome it works really really well I've been using Nvidia gpus and Linux and Wayland and either Gom moreti for a long while and I have not encountered a lot of problems and for people who really do not want to use this they can always switch to X11 now on top of that you get to pick between 16 32 or 64 gigs of RAM running at 3200 MHz it's not soldered so you can upgrade it yourself down the line and as per storage you get 500 gigs of SSD by default with the ability to fill two m.2 slots with up to 4 tabt in total in terms of I/O the laptop comes with two usba a ports which are 3.2 gen 1 it comes with one USBC 3.2 Gen 2 Port that supports display port 1.4 and also one Thunderbolt 4 Port that supports charging and display port but it's hardwired to the integrated Intel GPU there's also an HDMI Port wired to the Nvidia GPU a headphone jack and an SD card slot plus a barrel charger port you'll get Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 and an 82w hour battery that in my experience gives you about 6 to 7 hours of regular use so web browsing writing watching the occasional video over wi-fi at Mid brightness finally it has two speakers that are solid enough and have decent sound and base a 1080p webcam that isn't terrible but also not that great and a mic that's really mediocre and if you're thinking I've seen this laptop before then yes you have because it's the executive 16 or the equivalent tuxedo Infiniti Book Pro 16 which are both laptops I reviewed on this same channel which means that it also has a wonderful feeling keyboard with well separated super stable keys that I really really love typing on it has a giant touchpad which feels absolutely fantastic to use it's the best touchpad I used on any laptop including a recent MacBook Pro especially for all the gestures that gnome has to navigate the desktop and the apps the only thing some people might not like is the numpad I personally really love having one but I know some people don't you can also disable half of the touchpad by double pressing its top right corner if you feel like it's too big it is a really fantastic laptop well built nice looking powerful great keyboard great touchpad really good screen it's a wonderful device I like the form factor so much that after using one for a year a slimbook executive 16 I moved to the equivalent at tuxedo with a bit more powerful internals but it's the exact same form factor keyboard and touchpad because I just don't want to use another laptop now this laptop goes for ,700 for the 16 gigs of RAM 500 gigs of SSD configuration which is pretty decent if you compare it with offerings from Dell or Samsung for the same specs the same form factor and the same build quality you're generally paying a bit more with Dell or Samsung and you're not getting the dedicated GPU at least that's what I found when trying to find equivalent devices on Amazon in France with all the V8 apply because that's ,700 with vat included and 3% of the sales go to The Gnome Foundation to help fund the development of gnome and in turn to help improve Fedora so Fedora 39 is is a very solid update to Fedora 38 I can't see any reason you might not want to upgrade it missed a few interesting changes like dnf 5 to finally have a relatively Speedy package manager and the new installer which is definitely needed as the current one has really bad ux with buttons in all the wrong places and a hub design that is hard to understand at first and it's also nice that it now has its own laptop to shine on the Fedora slimbook is a really good device I've been using the exact same thing without the Fedora branding for more than a year and the experience is wonderful even with Wayland And Invidia and if you want to support Fedora and gnome and you want a new nice big 16-in laptop that is welld designed and works really well then there's the Fedora slimbook I left a link to it in the description below they did not sponsor this video by the way 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 or to write a comment and if you didn't like it well you can always click that dislike button and tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoyed the channel I left plenty of links in the description to support the channel from Libra pay patreon PayPal YouTube memberships YouTube thanks whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
I don't usually make videos about Fedora because I generally like to look at the changes in the desktop experience and well fedora's experience is gnome's experience and I already have a video about gnome 45 but this time around there's a device involved the Fedora slim book and so with this sort of official hardware for Fedora I thought it would be cool to look at the dro and add the hardware you can get to run it so let's take a look at Fedora 39 at the fedora slimbo an excellent laptop for Fedora users and at this excellent 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 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 what you will get under the hood with Fedora 39 first the installer is still the old Anaconda not the new one work is progressing fast but it wasn't done just yet so you will get it at most in Fedora 40 second you're getting the Linux kernel 6.5 which notably improves boot times on xon and epic CPUs so mostly for servers but it also has performance improvements for X4 and better FS it has has better Rumble support for Xbox controllers it has AMD free sync being enabled by default and better power management on Intel CPUs Fedora 39 also drops the modular repos as most users didn't use them and this should speed up the dnf package manager as it no longer has to check these repos speaking of dnf you're not getting dnf 5 yet it just wasn't ready for this release and since it also wasn't ready for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 it's now been pushed to Bora 41 other changes include dropping the custom theming for cute apps KD applications launched in Gnome won't use a gnome lookalike theme that tended to break apps they will use the default cute theme which doesn't look too good Fedora 39 also changes the default color of the terminal with the base prompt being green which should help legibility when typing long commands to better notice where your command begins finally there is a new spin of Fedora silver blue the immutable disc but this time with budgie as its desktop it's called Fedora Onyx and it joins silver blue and Kino white in the lineup of immutable spins of Fedora plenty of changes to the back end of the drro and plenty of missed deadlines as well for the new installer and for dn5 but I guess it's better to push these to a future release than to ship them in a heal broken State now of course the biggest changes to your experience on Fedora will be with gnome 45 I already covered it in a lot of detail in its dedicated video but here is a small recap of everything you can expect so the first change will be to activities with the new work spaces indicator when you click it it opens the activities view but visually it now shows your current virtual desktop as an elongated pill and the other virtual desktops as small circle it is very helpful to let you know where you are in this strip of virtual desktops although it won't tell you which apps are on which desktop you can also SC scroll over it to move between virtual desktops now the application name menu also disappeared from the top bar in the process this menu only included pretty redundant actions so it got the boot but it still makes it a little bit harder to know which app is currently in focus in the quick settings you now get the ability to control keyboard backlight on supported devices you can click the button to turn that on or off or expand it to select the brightness level you can also open the Quick Settings menu by pressing super plus s and you can now click a background app to open its window and you'll also get a small indicator when Closing one of these background apps finally in the top bar you will get a new webcam activity indicator when an app is accessing your webcam through pipe wire you will see a small icon in there gome 45 very slightly revamps the mouse cursors but the changes are very very subtle and there is also a True Light theme available although you will have to enable it using Decon or through an extension it makes the top bar and all the shell elements light themed apart from that there's a new split header bar look that reached the few apps like the settings the calendar or the file manager it cuts the header bar in two for apps that have a sidebar and it does look pretty good so basically not a lot of visual or functional changes to the whole desktop experience it's still gnome it still looks like AIT which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on whether you like it or not I personally think it looks absolutely great now in terms of applications Nautilus gained a way faster search tracker the searge back end has been improved and can cash query results which means it's noticeably faster and once you have completed a search you can also get a search everywhere button that lets you search the whole file system not just the current folder and its subd directories you also get a nicer experience in nautulus when changing which columns you want to see in the list view with the ability to app apply these changes to the current folder or to all directories gome 45 also brings a new image viewer called Loop it looks really good and it supports touchpad and touchscreen gestures to move between images and to zoom in and out it has all the usual features you would expect from an image viewer as well cheese the camera app is replaced with snapshot a simpler but better performing application and gnome calendar gained infinite scrolling in the month view and a revamped event dialogue gnome console got a new preference item to customize fonts gnome Maps gained a new experimental vector-based stle set and the connections app which is used to handle remote desktops now supports copying text files and images through the RDP protocol the gome Fone viewer simple scan and the bowab dis usage analyzer also got ported to gtk4 and finally the calculator app now handles more currencies and more currency conversions so that's a lot of small updates to the four apps of gnome the base experience is unchanged but everything got a little bit better or faster as per gnome software you can now clear all the user data associated with a flatback app when you uninstall it and you will see messages in the search results and app Details page to let you know if a flatback is end of life and hasn't received updates in a long time and for gnome's back end you will get improvements to the m compositor it now supports the yuv color space and it supports the recent whan fractional scaling protocol for things to not be too blurry and also way more power efficient the mouse pointer is also handled in its own thread of the compositor which means less latency and smoother movement when your device is under load and finally in terms of settings you gain a new about page with more information about your device you can close all popups by pressing escape and you can customize the clock in the top bar so that's gome 45 if you want to learn more about every single change you can click the link in the description of the video to see all the changes to gnome 45 but on Fedora it feels super smooth super fast and responsive and especially on Wayland it is a wonderful experience but now let's talk Hardware the Fedora slimbook this is a partnership between Fedora and you guessed it slimbook the Linux Hardware manufacturer based in Spain it is a 16in laptop that only weighs 1.5 kilos or 3.3 lb and thanks to small bezels it basically occupies the same space as a traditional 15-in laptop it has a 2k 16 by10 display at 2560 x600 so that fractional scaling support in gome 45 might come in handy and it refreshes at 90 HZ it supports 100% of srgb and it has a brightness of 400 nits and an anti-glare coating the contrast ratio is also pretty high it is a very very nice panel to use the laptop also has some cool Fedora branding with a Super Key using the Fedora logo and you also get a fedora logo with some text on the top left corner of the laptop although you also get a slim book logo on the top right as well which might be a bit too much branding for some people I would personally have preferred just the Fedora logo in the middle of the lid instead of the Dual branding with text which looks kind of off to me the chassis is a magnesium and aluminium alloy pretty durable and very lightweight it's sort of a middle point between aluminium and plastic in terms of feel it's less sturdy than aluminium but it is way more robust and premium feeling than basic plastic I used a lot of laptops using this kind of material and they do hold up pretty well over time they have a nice feel they don't start creaking or moving around like plastic can do and they scratch less easily than plastic although you don't want to put your keys in the same bag as this because yes it's going to show Scrat scratches in terms of specs you get an Intel i7 12 700h which is a 14 core CPU with six performance cores and eight efficiency cores that can go up to 4.7 GHz it is paired with an Nvidia RTX 3050 TI with 4 gigs of RAM this might surprise you as Fedora is generally more on the open source side of things and here again they sort of did that as well you don't have the NVIDIA drivers pre-installed on this device it's using the novo drivers so you will have to enable third party repos at first start and then you will have to install the NVIDIA drivers from gnome software by default it's using the nvo drivers and of course the Mesa drivers for the integrated Intel GPU I didn't have any problems using the laptop with just the novo drivers although if you really want to use the most out of your Nvidia GPU you're going to have to use the proprietary drivers they're not pre-installed by default because well Fedora doesn't ship these drivers by default so they want wanted a vanilla experience still once you install those NVIDIA drivers in my experience it's really really solid even using Wayland multim monitor works perfectly I encountered no weird bugs or compatibility problems Everything feels smooth and very nice just like on any laptop I use with an Nvidia GPU and goo the preconceived notion that Nvidia really doesn't work well on Linux or really doesn't support Wayland is just that a preconceived notion it's not 100% perfect in all use cases but in Gnome it works really really well I've been using Nvidia gpus and Linux and Wayland and either Gom moreti for a long while and I have not encountered a lot of problems and for people who really do not want to use this they can always switch to X11 now on top of that you get to pick between 16 32 or 64 gigs of RAM running at 3200 MHz it's not soldered so you can upgrade it yourself down the line and as per storage you get 500 gigs of SSD by default with the ability to fill two m.2 slots with up to 4 tabt in total in terms of I/O the laptop comes with two usba a ports which are 3.2 gen 1 it comes with one USBC 3.2 Gen 2 Port that supports display port 1.4 and also one Thunderbolt 4 Port that supports charging and display port but it's hardwired to the integrated Intel GPU there's also an HDMI Port wired to the Nvidia GPU a headphone jack and an SD card slot plus a barrel charger port you'll get Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 and an 82w hour battery that in my experience gives you about 6 to 7 hours of regular use so web browsing writing watching the occasional video over wi-fi at Mid brightness finally it has two speakers that are solid enough and have decent sound and base a 1080p webcam that isn't terrible but also not that great and a mic that's really mediocre and if you're thinking I've seen this laptop before then yes you have because it's the executive 16 or the equivalent tuxedo Infiniti Book Pro 16 which are both laptops I reviewed on this same channel which means that it also has a wonderful feeling keyboard with well separated super stable keys that I really really love typing on it has a giant touchpad which feels absolutely fantastic to use it's the best touchpad I used on any laptop including a recent MacBook Pro especially for all the gestures that gnome has to navigate the desktop and the apps the only thing some people might not like is the numpad I personally really love having one but I know some people don't you can also disable half of the touchpad by double pressing its top right corner if you feel like it's too big it is a really fantastic laptop well built nice looking powerful great keyboard great touchpad really good screen it's a wonderful device I like the form factor so much that after using one for a year a slimbook executive 16 I moved to the equivalent at tuxedo with a bit more powerful internals but it's the exact same form factor keyboard and touchpad because I just don't want to use another laptop now this laptop goes for ,700 for the 16 gigs of RAM 500 gigs of SSD configuration which is pretty decent if you compare it with offerings from Dell or Samsung for the same specs the same form factor and the same build quality you're generally paying a bit more with Dell or Samsung and you're not getting the dedicated GPU at least that's what I found when trying to find equivalent devices on Amazon in France with all the V8 apply because that's ,700 with vat included and 3% of the sales go to The Gnome Foundation to help fund the development of gnome and in turn to help improve Fedora so Fedora 39 is is a very solid update to Fedora 38 I can't see any reason you might not want to upgrade it missed a few interesting changes like dnf 5 to finally have a relatively Speedy package manager and the new installer which is definitely needed as the current one has really bad ux with buttons in all the wrong places and a hub design that is hard to understand at first and it's also nice that it now has its own laptop to shine on the Fedora slimbook is a really good device I've been using the exact same thing without the Fedora branding for more than a year and the experience is wonderful even with Wayland And Invidia and if you want to support Fedora and gnome and you want a new nice big 16-in laptop that is welld designed and works really well then there's the Fedora slimbook I left a link to it in the description below they did not sponsor this video by the way 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 or to write a comment and if you didn't like it well you can always click that dislike button and tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoyed the channel I left plenty of links in the description to support the channel from Libra pay patreon PayPal YouTube memberships YouTube thanks whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
hey everyone this is Nick and it's time for a small rant today I keep seeing people saying that the Linux desktop isn't ready or the usual year of the Linux desktop in 2050 sort of meme or that Linux isn't for professionals but just for hobbyists and enthusiasts so I thought I would make a quick video about the topic just to dispel this very obviously wrong notion and I thought I would include this 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various colors and themes and you're good to go and when you want to move forward and enrich your website with a bunch of other features you can add a video gallery an online store with online payments or even a members only area and a lot more and if you need a logo or you need a domain name Squarespace can also help you with that so if you need a new website and you don't know how to get started just click the link in the description below or head over to squarespace.com thee Linux experiment and you'll get 10% off your first purchase now the first thing is that very obviously Linux is already every everywhere and used by professionals every day I could take the example of Android which is the most popular smartphone OS in the world definitely used by professionals every day and using a Linux kernel sure it's heavily modified but it's still Linux but this isn't Linux Linux it's not what we mean when we're talking about Linux based operating systems for computers so I could instead turn to the absolute domination of Linux on the server space Linux runs 96% of the top 1 million web servers that's 960,000 out of a million servers if running a server isn't a professional task I don't know what is and by extension all these servers have to be administered by you guessed it professionals I could also point to every Nas out there generally using a Linux kernel if we look at iot and small appliances Linux also dominates the space running virtually all smart home gadgets and devices used by you guessed it professionals and enthusiasts alike to Monitor and interact with a lot of systems but here again that's not exactly what people mean people mean that the Linux desktop isn't ready for desktop use so let's look at why this opinion is pretty much wrong the first obvious counterargument is developers Linux is used by 47% of professional developers that's higher than the market share of Mac OS among developers if close to half of of them use and prefer Linux then I think it's safe to say Linux is pretty much ready for at least this category of professionals and it's no surprise you can get the same sort of experience and tools on windows with WSL or on Mac OS with Homebrew but running Linux you're one step closer to the OS that your website or web app will actually run on at least for web developers and you also avoid a lot of unnecessary steps to actually set up and install the tools you'll need which are generally easier to set up and install on Linux than on Windows or mic OS I won't spend too much time on developers because I already covered why Linux is better for most developers in a dedicated video which you can find in the description of this video but professionals aren't just developers right a professional can be anyone just using a computer whether it's for office work for working with AI for media creation or a lot of other things so let's look at these use cases as well if we take the vast majority of people who will interact with a computer what do they truly need in their day-to-day job a web browser an email client an office suite and a usable interface on that specific front Linux has all that's needed whether it's KDE for an interface closer to Windows or gnome for the simplest thing to use possible the Linux desktop is one of the most usable out there it's super legible super easy to use on installed and it can be configured in any way necessary it's easier to install programs there since they're all in one single store and updated from the same place it has fantastic window management tools it has great systemwide search it doesn't interrupt you for updates or to display ads in programs or a start menu it doesn't make your computer obsolete after an update and it lets you change all the default apps you use whether you personally enjoy using Linux as a desktop or not or whether it works on your Hardware or not which is another problem that can be solved by buying Linux Hardware instead of Windows hardware and trying to run Linux on it whatever you think of the Linux desktop one cannot say that it is not ready for the general use case of an office worker in terms of web browsers there's no question we have them all Chrome Edge Firefox Brave Vivaldi the only one that is not on Linux is Safari and Well if you really wanted to use that you have gnome web that uses the same engine if you do most of your work in a web browser Linux is ready for email clients we do not have Outlook which is used by a lot of people but the web interface might be enough for most people's needs and if not we have awesome clients that can replace Outlook Evolution and Thunderbird they're both compatible with exchange whether natively or through a plugin and they offer all the features you might want or need to manage your email calendar invites tasks and more Linux has has these tools it virtually always had them but what about office suites lib office might be a great option for a lot of people but it does have some compatibility issues with Microsoft formats and some ux problems let's face it but Li office isn't our only choice here for perfect compatibility we have access to commercial software soft maker office now called free office or WS office they're both proprietary but they run on Linux they have an interface that is as close as possible to Microsoft Office and they have near 100% compatibility with Microsoft formats we also have access to online Microsoft Office which again is more than enough for most people's needs with an office suite so the office suite barrier really doesn't exist in reality we have open- Source tools that will work for most people and if they don't we have commercial and proprietary offerings that will definitely work now for media cre creation Linux might not seem like an obvious choice we do lack all of the Adobe programs no Photoshop no audition no Premiere but that doesn't mean we don't have tools either I use the vinture resolve to edit videos it's a tool used by professionals and Hollywood Studios to edit videos to edit audio and to create visual effects it basically does what audition After Effects and Premier do in one single package and it's available on Linux we have blender for VFX it's open source and used by professionals all around the world Houdini a tool used by VFX artists for simulations it's on Linux Maya it's on Linux Studio One a professional digital audio workstation just released the beta for Linux we have inkscape ow cret one of the most popular digital drawing apps OBS PDF studio for editing PDF documents bitwig and a lot more these might not be the tools that 100% of professionals use out there but they are professional tools or they are even industry standards we have these tools so it's not a matter of Linux not being ready for professionals it's a matter of some professionals being loged into a tool and not being able to move to another one whether you like AI or not and I personally don't not until the copyright and intellectual property issues are addressed whether you like it or not it's happening and AI is a professional domain in which Linux is the standard you need hundreds of devices to process large language models or insanely powerful servers and these run Linux not Windows or Mac OS most models and deep learning libraries are designed to run on Linux IBM's AI whatson runs on Linux Amazon's Lex runs on Linux open AI chat GPT runs on Linux Deep Mind runs on Linux there is no AI without Linux today and AI is professional work and that that's the tip of the iceberg cyber Security Professionals mostly use Linux Almost 100% of supercomputers used for any specific domain run Linux the whole Space industry runs on Linux a bunch of military systems run Linux Linux is already being used by thousands maybe millions of professionals all around the world and this is only progressing in the right way which means Linux gains market share as time goes on the market share of Linux on the desktop is low there there is no denying that it's listed at barely 3% far below Mac OS or Windows but this doesn't include another operating system Chrome OS and I know what you'll say Chrome OS is not a real Linux drro except it is now it's running a Mainline Linux kernel the g tools and a desktop environment recent changes in Chrome OS actually made it more like a regular Linux drro as it now uses separate processes for the desktop and the browser the desktop you're using isn't tied to Chrome anymore and chromeos moved to using the regular Mesa drivers as well Chrome OS is in any sense of the word a Linux distribution it just doesn't run a desktop environment that we usually associate with Linux distr and chrom Os has 3.89% market share on the desktop combine that with linux's 3% and you're close to 7% it's still way lower than Mac OS or Windows which is even way higher than this but it's a lot of users and computers being used every day by professionals as well as enthusiasts and the perspectives are good with the rise of Linux gaming thanks to valve proton and the steam deck more and more people will move to Linux for their personal use especially when confronted with the frankly baffling choices Microsoft makes for Windows like potentially turning it into a subscription service in Windows 12 or including more and more ads and taking control away from the the user as more individuals use Linux for their own Computing they will also push Linux at the companies they work at slowly but surely and as this market share Rises more and more companies will bring their software over to Linux it's just the normal law of supply and demand if there's a market they're going to address it now that doesn't mean that Linux is ready for every professional out there if you absolutely need certain software that is not available then l will not work for you the best use case is Adobe if you need to use Adobe product specifically then you're on your own although since they've recently started moving a lot of the features of Photoshop to the web there is hope for a fully web based version that would be completely OS independent if you need AutoCAD you won't find it and alternatives on Linux don't seem as fully fledged generally if you're a professional tied to a specific piece of software that absolutely cannot move move to either one of our open source Alternatives or one of the commercial offerings available then sure Linux will not be ready for you but I would argue that this isn't necessarily a Linux problem in most cases it has the tools that would let you do your professional work it's more a case of you not being able to or not being willing to move to an alternative piece of software professionals all around the world already use Linux daily whether they're developers VFX artists or whether they need to render 3D scenes Hollywood runs most of their 3D renders on Linux by the way or whether you're just doing office work you're a student you're a media Creator you're working with AI Linux has the tools they might not be the tools you prefer or the tools you're used to or the tools you're allowed to use but it has these tools it can do the same job you're doing right now at least in most cases and that's not even counting all the ways Linux is actually a better operating system than proprietary offerings it's faster it's leaner on system resources it gives you more control it's more customizable it gives you choices it doesn't make your Hardware obsolete overnight it doesn't force you to apply updates it doesn't collect personal information it doesn't display ads it's actually a more productive operating system so the next time you see someone saying that Linux isn't for professionals or that it will stay a hobbyist project then you can either quietly laugh at their outdate opinion or you can empathize with them for not being able to move to the tools that Linux has to offer that would be able to do the same job that they're doing but in both cases you will know that they are wrong just like it would be wrong to not tell you about a sponsor tuxedo tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box solving the very simple problem of Linux doesn't run well on my Hardware well then stop buying Hardware design to run Windows and buy Hardware design to run Linux all the components are picked specifically because they are very compatible with Linux and if they encountered any quirks or bugs they submit patches Upstream to fix those issues for everyone they have a big range of laptops desktops and kns that will basically fit every need and every price point you can customize most of the components inside you can have your own logo on the lid of your laptop your own keyboard layout you decide how your device looks and how it works and all their laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes even the wireless card 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 get yourself a 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hey everyone this is Nick and it's time for a small rant today I keep seeing people saying that the Linux desktop isn't ready or the usual year of the Linux desktop in 2050 sort of meme or that Linux isn't for professionals but just for hobbyists and enthusiasts so I thought I would make a quick video about the topic just to dispel this very obviously wrong notion and I thought I would include this 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various colors and themes and you're good to go and when you want to move forward and enrich your website with a bunch of other features you can add a video gallery an online store with online payments or even a members only area and a lot more and if you need a logo or you need a domain name Squarespace can also help you with that so if you need a new website and you don't know how to get started just click the link in the description below or head over to squarespace.com thee Linux experiment and you'll get 10% off your first purchase now the first thing is that very obviously Linux is already every everywhere and used by professionals every day I could take the example of Android which is the most popular smartphone OS in the world definitely used by professionals every day and using a Linux kernel sure it's heavily modified but it's still Linux but this isn't Linux Linux it's not what we mean when we're talking about Linux based operating systems for computers so I could instead turn to the absolute domination of Linux on the server space Linux runs 96% of the top 1 million web servers that's 960,000 out of a million servers if running a server isn't a professional task I don't know what is and by extension all these servers have to be administered by you guessed it professionals I could also point to every Nas out there generally using a Linux kernel if we look at iot and small appliances Linux also dominates the space running virtually all smart home gadgets and devices used by you guessed it professionals and enthusiasts alike to Monitor and interact with a lot of systems but here again that's not exactly what people mean people mean that the Linux desktop isn't ready for desktop use so let's look at why this opinion is pretty much wrong the first obvious counterargument is developers Linux is used by 47% of professional developers that's higher than the market share of Mac OS among developers if close to half of of them use and prefer Linux then I think it's safe to say Linux is pretty much ready for at least this category of professionals and it's no surprise you can get the same sort of experience and tools on windows with WSL or on Mac OS with Homebrew but running Linux you're one step closer to the OS that your website or web app will actually run on at least for web developers and you also avoid a lot of unnecessary steps to actually set up and install the tools you'll need which are generally easier to set up and install on Linux than on Windows or mic OS I won't spend too much time on developers because I already covered why Linux is better for most developers in a dedicated video which you can find in the description of this video but professionals aren't just developers right a professional can be anyone just using a computer whether it's for office work for working with AI for media creation or a lot of other things so let's look at these use cases as well if we take the vast majority of people who will interact with a computer what do they truly need in their day-to-day job a web browser an email client an office suite and a usable interface on that specific front Linux has all that's needed whether it's KDE for an interface closer to Windows or gnome for the simplest thing to use possible the Linux desktop is one of the most usable out there it's super legible super easy to use on installed and it can be configured in any way necessary it's easier to install programs there since they're all in one single store and updated from the same place it has fantastic window management tools it has great systemwide search it doesn't interrupt you for updates or to display ads in programs or a start menu it doesn't make your computer obsolete after an update and it lets you change all the default apps you use whether you personally enjoy using Linux as a desktop or not or whether it works on your Hardware or not which is another problem that can be solved by buying Linux Hardware instead of Windows hardware and trying to run Linux on it whatever you think of the Linux desktop one cannot say that it is not ready for the general use case of an office worker in terms of web browsers there's no question we have them all Chrome Edge Firefox Brave Vivaldi the only one that is not on Linux is Safari and Well if you really wanted to use that you have gnome web that uses the same engine if you do most of your work in a web browser Linux is ready for email clients we do not have Outlook which is used by a lot of people but the web interface might be enough for most people's needs and if not we have awesome clients that can replace Outlook Evolution and Thunderbird they're both compatible with exchange whether natively or through a plugin and they offer all the features you might want or need to manage your email calendar invites tasks and more Linux has has these tools it virtually always had them but what about office suites lib office might be a great option for a lot of people but it does have some compatibility issues with Microsoft formats and some ux problems let's face it but Li office isn't our only choice here for perfect compatibility we have access to commercial software soft maker office now called free office or WS office they're both proprietary but they run on Linux they have an interface that is as close as possible to Microsoft Office and they have near 100% compatibility with Microsoft formats we also have access to online Microsoft Office which again is more than enough for most people's needs with an office suite so the office suite barrier really doesn't exist in reality we have open- Source tools that will work for most people and if they don't we have commercial and proprietary offerings that will definitely work now for media cre creation Linux might not seem like an obvious choice we do lack all of the Adobe programs no Photoshop no audition no Premiere but that doesn't mean we don't have tools either I use the vinture resolve to edit videos it's a tool used by professionals and Hollywood Studios to edit videos to edit audio and to create visual effects it basically does what audition After Effects and Premier do in one single package and it's available on Linux we have blender for VFX it's open source and used by professionals all around the world Houdini a tool used by VFX artists for simulations it's on Linux Maya it's on Linux Studio One a professional digital audio workstation just released the beta for Linux we have inkscape ow cret one of the most popular digital drawing apps OBS PDF studio for editing PDF documents bitwig and a lot more these might not be the tools that 100% of professionals use out there but they are professional tools or they are even industry standards we have these tools so it's not a matter of Linux not being ready for professionals it's a matter of some professionals being loged into a tool and not being able to move to another one whether you like AI or not and I personally don't not until the copyright and intellectual property issues are addressed whether you like it or not it's happening and AI is a professional domain in which Linux is the standard you need hundreds of devices to process large language models or insanely powerful servers and these run Linux not Windows or Mac OS most models and deep learning libraries are designed to run on Linux IBM's AI whatson runs on Linux Amazon's Lex runs on Linux open AI chat GPT runs on Linux Deep Mind runs on Linux there is no AI without Linux today and AI is professional work and that that's the tip of the iceberg cyber Security Professionals mostly use Linux Almost 100% of supercomputers used for any specific domain run Linux the whole Space industry runs on Linux a bunch of military systems run Linux Linux is already being used by thousands maybe millions of professionals all around the world and this is only progressing in the right way which means Linux gains market share as time goes on the market share of Linux on the desktop is low there there is no denying that it's listed at barely 3% far below Mac OS or Windows but this doesn't include another operating system Chrome OS and I know what you'll say Chrome OS is not a real Linux drro except it is now it's running a Mainline Linux kernel the g tools and a desktop environment recent changes in Chrome OS actually made it more like a regular Linux drro as it now uses separate processes for the desktop and the browser the desktop you're using isn't tied to Chrome anymore and chromeos moved to using the regular Mesa drivers as well Chrome OS is in any sense of the word a Linux distribution it just doesn't run a desktop environment that we usually associate with Linux distr and chrom Os has 3.89% market share on the desktop combine that with linux's 3% and you're close to 7% it's still way lower than Mac OS or Windows which is even way higher than this but it's a lot of users and computers being used every day by professionals as well as enthusiasts and the perspectives are good with the rise of Linux gaming thanks to valve proton and the steam deck more and more people will move to Linux for their personal use especially when confronted with the frankly baffling choices Microsoft makes for Windows like potentially turning it into a subscription service in Windows 12 or including more and more ads and taking control away from the the user as more individuals use Linux for their own Computing they will also push Linux at the companies they work at slowly but surely and as this market share Rises more and more companies will bring their software over to Linux it's just the normal law of supply and demand if there's a market they're going to address it now that doesn't mean that Linux is ready for every professional out there if you absolutely need certain software that is not available then l will not work for you the best use case is Adobe if you need to use Adobe product specifically then you're on your own although since they've recently started moving a lot of the features of Photoshop to the web there is hope for a fully web based version that would be completely OS independent if you need AutoCAD you won't find it and alternatives on Linux don't seem as fully fledged generally if you're a professional tied to a specific piece of software that absolutely cannot move move to either one of our open source Alternatives or one of the commercial offerings available then sure Linux will not be ready for you but I would argue that this isn't necessarily a Linux problem in most cases it has the tools that would let you do your professional work it's more a case of you not being able to or not being willing to move to an alternative piece of software professionals all around the world already use Linux daily whether they're developers VFX artists or whether they need to render 3D scenes Hollywood runs most of their 3D renders on Linux by the way or whether you're just doing office work you're a student you're a media Creator you're working with AI Linux has the tools they might not be the tools you prefer or the tools you're used to or the tools you're allowed to use but it has these tools it can do the same job you're doing right now at least in most cases and that's not even counting all the ways Linux is actually a better operating system than proprietary offerings it's faster it's leaner on system resources it gives you more control it's more customizable it gives you choices it doesn't make your Hardware obsolete overnight it doesn't force you to apply updates it doesn't collect personal information it doesn't display ads it's actually a more productive operating system so the next time you see someone saying that Linux isn't for professionals or that it will stay a hobbyist project then you can either quietly laugh at their outdate opinion or you can empathize with them for not being able to move to the tools that Linux has to offer that would be able to do the same job that they're doing but in both cases you will know that they are wrong just like it would be wrong to not tell you about a sponsor tuxedo tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box solving the very simple problem of Linux doesn't run well on my Hardware well then stop buying Hardware design to run Windows and buy Hardware design to run Linux all the components are picked specifically because they are very compatible with Linux and if they encountered any quirks or bugs they submit patches Upstream to fix those issues for everyone they have a big range of laptops desktops and kns that will basically fit every need and every price point you can customize most of the components inside you can have your own logo on the lid of your laptop your own keyboard layout you decide how your device looks and how it works and all their laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes even the wireless card 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 get yourself a device from tuxedo now thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you know what to do there's a like button a little bell you can click for notifications a subscribe button and a comment section and if you didn't like the video you're free to tell me why in the comments and click that dislike button as well and if you really enjoy the channel there are plenty of ways to support it I left links in the description of the video just for that so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
could the Linux and open- Source news be any cooler sorry only 30 year olds or more will get this reference and then they will be sad anyway this week we have the Linux Mint team working on whan finally although it's going to take a long while before you can use it as a daily driver we have YouTube's ad blog blocker being challenged by a privacy Advocate at least in the EU and we have Fedora 39 being delayed twice and we also have a lot more stuff including a new accessibility framework that maybe will finally fix accessibility on Linux and I'm fixing the lack of sponsor in this video thanks to this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton they are your privacy focused online Suite complete with an email address an online storage space a VPN a calendar and a password manager all of it is protected with end to end and zero access encryption so not even even proton can access what you store or write there and they have a ton of security and privacy focused features 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keep it as the default for mint 22 cinamon 6 will be the first release of the desktop to have those first experimental bricks of whon support and it should release before the end of the year with mint 21.3 so other dros will also be able to to offer access to that session as well the men's team has a Trello board with the list of issues they need to tackle if you're interested in looking at them or better in fixing them they're basically giving themselves 2 years to fix all issues and they expect whon support to be fully ready for mint 23 so in 2026 that's far away but at least they're working on it in other mint news they now have an unstable mint version for people who want to test various releases before their official launch this release is code named Romeo and you can enable it in the software sources of mint of course it will not be stable and it shouldn't be used in production but if you have a spare computer to live on the edge you can and why Romeo well Linux Mint usually has names associated with women and as they put it there's always a Romeo ready to break their heart in this case pretty literally it looks like YouTube's ad blog blocker is going unchallenged as a privacy Advocate has now filed a complaint with the Irish data protection commission which oversees mostly all big tech companies in the EU as they're all based in Ireland thanks to pretty big tax cuts the complaints basis is that Google doesn't ask for the users's consent for checking with their browser if they're actually blocking ads or not the question then is whether a website should get consent before interrogating the browser on its cas capabilities or extensions and it looks like the European commission answered positively and said that yes the website should get consent the Irish data protection commission also seems to not disagree and they reached out to YouTube YouTube actually added to their terms of service that using an ad blocker violates said terms of service but it looks like this might not be considered a valid Clause as EU citizens have a right to use their equipment as they like and these checks would VI that we'll have to see where it goes and if this mechanism to block ad block is actually legal at least in the EU I'm pretty sure that even if the European commission rules that you should not and cannot legally do that YouTube will keep doing it everywhere else in the world and they probably will find another less invasive way to do the exact same thing even in the EU now if you were eagerly awaiting the release of Fedora 39 to benefit from a newer kernel newer internals G 45 and more then you will have to be a bit more patient the release was initially planned for this week on the 24th but it's now been pushed as is often the case with Fedora it should now be released early next week on the 31st or wait no it's been pushed another week and it's now planned for November 7th the Fedora team discovered some last minute bugs that they wanted to fix before pushing the new version out with four active blockers remaining the first one is a motor problem that breaks the net install there's a problem with EFI that prevents the drro from booting on certain hardware and there are two Raspberry Pi 4 related problems that make it impossible to install Fedora on this Hardware it's not a long wait and Fedora usually pushes their release date after their first go or noo meeting so it's not unusual to see and if you're waiting for Fedora 39 I'll have a treat for you next week I should receive the official Fedora slim book laptop so I'll be looking at what's new in Fedora 39 but also at the laptop itself which will support the Fedora project and the g project when you buy it now it looks like open Souza is getting rid of the green chameleon that served as its logo for a while now the drro and its Community announced a contest to design a fresh new logo for the whole Community but also for the various dros it includes so tumble weed the rolling release leap the fixed release release and slow roll the rolling release but more stable the reasons behind this change is that first open soua apparently experienced a surge in user numbers in recent years and an expansion in terms of the number of variants of the dro that they offer they want to unify their brand and products within a new visual brand and second they want to differentiate themselves from Souza linux's old logo to really Mark the difference between the commercial offering and the open source one and finally the current logo is hard to use at small sizes because it's mixing an image and some text so if you're an artist and you have ideas you can help and offer a concept for a logo for the whole project and all its various products there are a few specifications like using the soua green colar as the primary color not using third party material and a few other Common Sense related things I was never a fan of the current look of that green chameleon it's sort of cute but it's also sort of derpy I think they should keep that Reptile Theme but maybe stylize it a bit more to make it a bit more modern and a bit more less Derpy now for our desktop related news first we have a big update on KDE and plasma 6 the developers have now implemented color profiles on a per screen basis which means you can have a different ICC color profile for each of your display this only works with WH of course and will be exported to X Wayland in the future but probably will not support X11 they' have also added the good old desktop Cube effect back in the KD plasma add-ons package the screenshot tool can now also take screenshots without Shadows under the windows discover got a bunch of improvements with better visual alignment and fixes to how information is displayed for flatback apps the app Details page also got a better screenshot viewer there were also some styling fixes to make all settings dialogues look the same plus a lot of bug fixes 220 across the past 2 weeks as per gnome there's now a new website to present desktop portals to developers workbench now supports python to let you experiment with gnome Technologies in the language of your choice and there's a new release of Celeste a file sync program that can connect to nexcloud Google Drive Dropbox pcloud and now also Proton Drive The Gnome Foundation also planned a meet and greet with their new executive director so you can submit your questions until November the 7th hopefully this will alleviate some concerns that people had regarding this nomination and maybe we'll learn more about Holly million the new executive director still pretty nice to see that plasma 6 is still implementing some really cool features and progressing along very nicely and while the Linux desktop is getting its ducks in a row bit by bit to move to a new stack including pack and whand there's one duck that sat abandoned and that's accessibility while adding accessibility features in X1 was relatively easy since it doesn't really have a good security model it's just easy to inject code in various processes whand and sandboxed apps make it a lot harder and so a new accessibility framework is being worked on the basic design is taking a page from the book of web browsers like chromium with a push based architect Ure where the app pushes its accessibility tree to the accessibility API that can then use this information to enable things like screen readers and other accessibility focused features it won't completely revamp the fundamentals everything is still based on the tree of information that the accessibility API uses so developers can expect their current work on the subject to still be relevant so over the next year they will be experimenting with a prototype for this new architecture and hopefully it will solve all the little accessibility problems that we've had on the Linux desktop for a long long while but are kind of being reinforced by the new Sandbox Apps metaphor and whan now for roundup of performance improvements we're going to start with some gnome stuff zero copy support for dedicated gpus is being worked on for matter The Gnome compositor meaning that you will be able to pass through what the dedicated GPU renders to the integrated GPU that's used to power the display without latency or at least with much reduced latency in an example given by the developer latency went from 6.9 milliseconds to 0.8 milliseconds for now patches are only working for the novo drivers and the method used might not work for AMD or Intel dedicated gpus as they don't work in the same way but it's still pretty nice it basically means you'll get a lot more performance when using hybrid graphics on gnome with an Nvidia device with the newvo drivers hopefully it will also at some point support the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but for now it hasn't really been announced and we also have the Mesa drivers version 23.3 around the corner with a lot of Vulcan improvements for AMD Raspberry Pi 5 support and a lot of work in the Intel Arc drivers it also brings rust ICL for open CL support zinc for bringing open GL support to devices that only have Vulcan drivers and the aahi graphicss drivers have also been much improved all of this should release before the end of November so we can expect some really nice performance improvements at least for those of us who use gpus with open- Source drivers this should give a nice solid boost to my Steam OS console and to my steam deck so I'll keep an eye on the release of these drivers and not a performance Improvement specifically but the latest framework laptop using an AMD CPU now works with Linux thanks to a bios update there was a bios regression for the CPU they use the ryzen 77840 U which created problems with the integrated GPU flashing the new bios using firmware update should fix the problem and make these laptops work nicely with any Linux drro and the flashing process is made really easy by the fact that framework supports the Linux firmware vendor service which means that one command line gets you all up to date you reboot and you're done and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have the stable release of steam VR 2.0 it brings the latest Steam client and features with a revamped keyboard Steam Chat and steam voice chat baked in and a much better store experience plus easier access to your notifications the interface looks like it took some cues from the steam Deck with the same sort of theme and look to the interface and there are a bunch of other changes including some Linux specific ones to use the latest Steam Linux run time there were also updates to the steam desktop client and Steam OS but the release notes are very very long they fixed a ton of bugs for remote play for steam input and more and a few Linux specific fixes also made their way in notably improving screen reader support and fixing the in-game overlay keyboard input Ino that looks very good and if the rumors are true we might actually see a new VR related device from valve probably running steam o and steam VR2 and I would be very interested in testing that and if you tend to emulate games notably the 3DS you might be familiar with the Citra emulator and after their recent move to using Vulcan there's now a nice big boost to performance on Linux and the steam deck the latest development release seems to give a 20 to 30% performance Improvement on Linux which is sure to please a lot of people not me though because Nintendo games from me or no not my thing what is my thing though is the devices from our sponsor tuxedo if you're a Linux user and you need to replace your computer with something else you should probably start looking at devices that support Linux out of the box from our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed and all the hardware has been picked specifically because it runs really well with Linux and if they encountered any issues or 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could the Linux and open- Source news be any cooler sorry only 30 year olds or more will get this reference and then they will be sad anyway this week we have the Linux Mint team working on whan finally although it's going to take a long while before you can use it as a daily driver we have YouTube's ad blog blocker being challenged by a privacy Advocate at least in the EU and we have Fedora 39 being delayed twice and we also have a lot more stuff including a new accessibility framework that maybe will finally fix accessibility on Linux and I'm fixing the lack of sponsor in this video thanks to this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by proton they are your privacy focused online Suite complete with an email address an online storage space a VPN a calendar and a password manager all of it is protected with end to end and zero access encryption so not even even proton can access what you store or write there and they have a ton of security and privacy focused features 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keep it as the default for mint 22 cinamon 6 will be the first release of the desktop to have those first experimental bricks of whon support and it should release before the end of the year with mint 21.3 so other dros will also be able to to offer access to that session as well the men's team has a Trello board with the list of issues they need to tackle if you're interested in looking at them or better in fixing them they're basically giving themselves 2 years to fix all issues and they expect whon support to be fully ready for mint 23 so in 2026 that's far away but at least they're working on it in other mint news they now have an unstable mint version for people who want to test various releases before their official launch this release is code named Romeo and you can enable it in the software sources of mint of course it will not be stable and it shouldn't be used in production but if you have a spare computer to live on the edge you can and why Romeo well Linux Mint usually has names associated with women and as they put it there's always a Romeo ready to break their heart in this case pretty literally it looks like YouTube's ad blog blocker is going unchallenged as a privacy Advocate has now filed a complaint with the Irish data protection commission which oversees mostly all big tech companies in the EU as they're all based in Ireland thanks to pretty big tax cuts the complaints basis is that Google doesn't ask for the users's consent for checking with their browser if they're actually blocking ads or not the question then is whether a website should get consent before interrogating the browser on its cas capabilities or extensions and it looks like the European commission answered positively and said that yes the website should get consent the Irish data protection commission also seems to not disagree and they reached out to YouTube YouTube actually added to their terms of service that using an ad blocker violates said terms of service but it looks like this might not be considered a valid Clause as EU citizens have a right to use their equipment as they like and these checks would VI that we'll have to see where it goes and if this mechanism to block ad block is actually legal at least in the EU I'm pretty sure that even if the European commission rules that you should not and cannot legally do that YouTube will keep doing it everywhere else in the world and they probably will find another less invasive way to do the exact same thing even in the EU now if you were eagerly awaiting the release of Fedora 39 to benefit from a newer kernel newer internals G 45 and more then you will have to be a bit more patient the release was initially planned for this week on the 24th but it's now been pushed as is often the case with Fedora it should now be released early next week on the 31st or wait no it's been pushed another week and it's now planned for November 7th the Fedora team discovered some last minute bugs that they wanted to fix before pushing the new version out with four active blockers remaining the first one is a motor problem that breaks the net install there's a problem with EFI that prevents the drro from booting on certain hardware and there are two Raspberry Pi 4 related problems that make it impossible to install Fedora on this Hardware it's not a long wait and Fedora usually pushes their release date after their first go or noo meeting so it's not unusual to see and if you're waiting for Fedora 39 I'll have a treat for you next week I should receive the official Fedora slim book laptop so I'll be looking at what's new in Fedora 39 but also at the laptop itself which will support the Fedora project and the g project when you buy it now it looks like open Souza is getting rid of the green chameleon that served as its logo for a while now the drro and its Community announced a contest to design a fresh new logo for the whole Community but also for the various dros it includes so tumble weed the rolling release leap the fixed release release and slow roll the rolling release but more stable the reasons behind this change is that first open soua apparently experienced a surge in user numbers in recent years and an expansion in terms of the number of variants of the dro that they offer they want to unify their brand and products within a new visual brand and second they want to differentiate themselves from Souza linux's old logo to really Mark the difference between the commercial offering and the open source one and finally the current logo is hard to use at small sizes because it's mixing an image and some text so if you're an artist and you have ideas you can help and offer a concept for a logo for the whole project and all its various products there are a few specifications like using the soua green colar as the primary color not using third party material and a few other Common Sense related things I was never a fan of the current look of that green chameleon it's sort of cute but it's also sort of derpy I think they should keep that Reptile Theme but maybe stylize it a bit more to make it a bit more modern and a bit more less Derpy now for our desktop related news first we have a big update on KDE and plasma 6 the developers have now implemented color profiles on a per screen basis which means you can have a different ICC color profile for each of your display this only works with WH of course and will be exported to X Wayland in the future but probably will not support X11 they' have also added the good old desktop Cube effect back in the KD plasma add-ons package the screenshot tool can now also take screenshots without Shadows under the windows discover got a bunch of improvements with better visual alignment and fixes to how information is displayed for flatback apps the app Details page also got a better screenshot viewer there were also some styling fixes to make all settings dialogues look the same plus a lot of bug fixes 220 across the past 2 weeks as per gnome there's now a new website to present desktop portals to developers workbench now supports python to let you experiment with gnome Technologies in the language of your choice and there's a new release of Celeste a file sync program that can connect to nexcloud Google Drive Dropbox pcloud and now also Proton Drive The Gnome Foundation also planned a meet and greet with their new executive director so you can submit your questions until November the 7th hopefully this will alleviate some concerns that people had regarding this nomination and maybe we'll learn more about Holly million the new executive director still pretty nice to see that plasma 6 is still implementing some really cool features and progressing along very nicely and while the Linux desktop is getting its ducks in a row bit by bit to move to a new stack including pack and whand there's one duck that sat abandoned and that's accessibility while adding accessibility features in X1 was relatively easy since it doesn't really have a good security model it's just easy to inject code in various processes whand and sandboxed apps make it a lot harder and so a new accessibility framework is being worked on the basic design is taking a page from the book of web browsers like chromium with a push based architect Ure where the app pushes its accessibility tree to the accessibility API that can then use this information to enable things like screen readers and other accessibility focused features it won't completely revamp the fundamentals everything is still based on the tree of information that the accessibility API uses so developers can expect their current work on the subject to still be relevant so over the next year they will be experimenting with a prototype for this new architecture and hopefully it will solve all the little accessibility problems that we've had on the Linux desktop for a long long while but are kind of being reinforced by the new Sandbox Apps metaphor and whan now for roundup of performance improvements we're going to start with some gnome stuff zero copy support for dedicated gpus is being worked on for matter The Gnome compositor meaning that you will be able to pass through what the dedicated GPU renders to the integrated GPU that's used to power the display without latency or at least with much reduced latency in an example given by the developer latency went from 6.9 milliseconds to 0.8 milliseconds for now patches are only working for the novo drivers and the method used might not work for AMD or Intel dedicated gpus as they don't work in the same way but it's still pretty nice it basically means you'll get a lot more performance when using hybrid graphics on gnome with an Nvidia device with the newvo drivers hopefully it will also at some point support the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but for now it hasn't really been announced and we also have the Mesa drivers version 23.3 around the corner with a lot of Vulcan improvements for AMD Raspberry Pi 5 support and a lot of work in the Intel Arc drivers it also brings rust ICL for open CL support zinc for bringing open GL support to devices that only have Vulcan drivers and the aahi graphicss drivers have also been much improved all of this should release before the end of November so we can expect some really nice performance improvements at least for those of us who use gpus with open- Source drivers this should give a nice solid boost to my Steam OS console and to my steam deck so I'll keep an eye on the release of these drivers and not a performance Improvement specifically but the latest framework laptop using an AMD CPU now works with Linux thanks to a bios update there was a bios regression for the CPU they use the ryzen 77840 U which created problems with the integrated GPU flashing the new bios using firmware update should fix the problem and make these laptops work nicely with any Linux drro and the flashing process is made really easy by the fact that framework supports the Linux firmware vendor service which means that one command line gets you all up to date you reboot and you're done and let's finish this with the gaming news first we have the stable release of steam VR 2.0 it brings the latest Steam client and features with a revamped keyboard Steam Chat and steam voice chat baked in and a much better store experience plus easier access to your notifications the interface looks like it took some cues from the steam Deck with the same sort of theme and look to the interface and there are a bunch of other changes including some Linux specific ones to use the latest Steam Linux run time there were also updates to the steam desktop client and Steam OS but the release notes are very very long they fixed a ton of bugs for remote play for steam input and more and a few Linux specific fixes also made their way in notably improving screen reader support and fixing the in-game overlay keyboard input Ino that looks very good and if the rumors are true we might actually see a new VR related device from valve probably running steam o and steam VR2 and I would be very interested in testing that and if you tend to emulate games notably the 3DS you might be familiar with the Citra emulator and after their recent move to using Vulcan there's now a nice big boost to performance on Linux and the steam deck the latest development release seems to give a 20 to 30% performance Improvement on Linux which is sure to please a lot of people not me though because Nintendo games from me or no not my thing what is my thing though is the devices from our sponsor tuxedo if you're a Linux user and you need to replace your computer with something else you should probably start looking at devices that support Linux out of the box from our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed and all the hardware has been picked specifically because it runs really well with Linux and if they encountered any issues or 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hello X11 fans and today might be a sad day for you if you use gnome as there's the first merge request that will start the process of removing support for X11 from gnome we also have the release of aun 22310 which is a fantastic release and we have good news from Mastodon which it turns out is way more popular than everyone thought plus we have updates to plasma 6 to gnome applications and a new way to run Windows software on Linux that's coming and we also have the 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 a new merge request was opened in The Gnome project proposing to end X11 support in the desktop environment moving to a whand only model gnome already Embraces Wayland and the more modern whand portals and flatback stack but X1 support is still there for now for those who prefer it but this might not last for long the merge request would only be the first step removing the ability to start an X11 session from the login manager by just removing the desktop file associated with it the argument is that gnome has been defaulting to whand since 2016 although dros shipping gnome might not have done so themselves and also X11 is basically abandoned wear at this point there's just a few security fixes but no new features are being planned or being worked on this change in Gnome would be easily reverted for now as you could just manually add that X11 session file but for the next cycle it is proposed to completely remove all the X11 session code from gnome which would make it impossible to start an X11 session entirely unless someone creates a patched version this is not unexpected as Fedora 40 already had a proposal to drop X11 regardless of gnome's support and plasma 6 is also going all in on whan making it their default option as well of course it's just a merge request for now it still has has to be accepted and there is obviously some debate pointing out a few remaining bugs in the whan session and some missing features notably accessibility related ones obviously this will not go down smoothly as people who do not like whand or for whom whan doesn't really work just yet will fight tooth and nail to prevent this from happening even if it's just a removal of one session file that's easily reverted but it's more of a signal that gnome sends to app developers and to desktop developers as well that yes X11 is dead and Wayland is the only way forward that we have but 2 23.10 was released this week and then quickly pulled preventing users from downloading it the reason is that some ill intentioned idiots decided to use their access to translations in various languages to slip some hateful stuff in the installer of the drro so this also affects all flavors that use the new obuntu installer that was apparently ly a lot of pretty provocative political stuff added in relative to the current events in Ukraine and Israel which obviously had nothing to do with the abutu installer but still slipped unnoticed still isos might already be out again without the offending data and it's a wonderful release all things considered I have a dedicated video about it you can check it out from the link in the description but here is a small recap of what changed first there's a new tiling extension added that supports quar tiling and using half of the height of the display to tile a window there's a brand new app store that supports snaps and Debian packages and it's much much faster and better looking than the horrible outdated Fork of gnome software open to used previously there's a new firmware update tool the default install method will now ship less applications out of the box although the full install is also available and you can use an experimental encryption feature using the TPM chip of your computer if it has one although it has a lot of restrictions and it can't be used with dual boots or with Nvidia proprietary drivers there are also all the features of gome 45 like the new workspaces indicator improvements to background apps the new keyboard backlight indicator in the Quick Settings the new split header bar design better Nautilus search improved settings and a lot more it is a really really good release for auntu users of course it's not an LTS so it's only going to get nine more months of support and it's too bad that this release was marred by some imbecile who thought that an installer for Linux drro was the right platform to spew their hate it looks like Mastodon is actually a lot more popular than everyone thought they've been undercounting their users by an enormous margin since it turns out Mastodon has 400,000 more monthly active users than previously thought and 2.3 million more registered users over 727 servers that were previously uncounted the statistics on joinmod don. org were Incorrect and so the actual total is 1.8 million monthly active users and 10,000 active servers which represents an increase of 5% for month over Monon users and 12% in terms of the number of servers so Mastodon is not only an alternative to proprietary social networks it's also a relatively fast growing one especially compared to stuff like threads from Facebook that keeps losing users month after month or Twitter sorry I'm never calling that thing X that is slowly declining although let's be fair Twitter is still the largest platform in its category with more than 245 million daily active users I actually deactivated my Twitter account this week because I hadn't been posting anything for probably a year or so and I had no plans of going back to it as long as it continues on its absolutely horrendous trajectory it looks like plasma 6 still has some features we were not expecting first in terms of accessibility it will join the likes of elementaryos by providing color filters for the whole screen for people with color blindness including various settings to accommodate the differences in color perception Kate kite and any other text editing app using the K text editor module will now support speech to text and smooth scrolling is finally making an appearance in cute quick based software panel launcher icons will now be disabled by default when you have a task manager since pinning apps to the task manager does the same thing in a less confusing way this behavior is configurable of course since it's KDE and finally you will also gain the ability to flip the display under the whan session as per gnome cartridges the games Library app now supports searching for games straight from the desktop just like you would search search for a file or an app there's a new app called dosage that lets you track your medication with notifications inventory tracking and various frequencies you can set wildcard the regx creation app now has a references panel to quickly test common patterns and fretboard the guitar chords reference app now supports left and right-handed guitar types and gained a bunch of translations it is really cool to see that plasma 6 still has some stuff that we haven't seen or talked about yet especially accessibility related stuff for color blindness because this seems to be something that really affects a lot of people now if you know and use the bottles app to run various Windows games or programs on Linux you might be happy to learn there's an even more advanced project in the works called bottles next it's not an update or an evolution of the current bottles app it's a complete new thing it's written in go instead of python and it will also be available to Mac OS users not just for us Linux users the goal is to simplify the use compared to bottles with no individual bottle management apps will still be isolated in their own prefixes and environment and still get all the settings you might want for dxvk FSR and various variables but all apps will be collected in a single view to be more intuitive to use and the users won't have to manage the bottles themselves a more controversial change is the move to an electron-based user interface which is sure to prove less popular than the very nice liid v/ gnome interface of bottles I guess this is to allow support for Mac OS and Linux more easily but fear not there will be a second separate front end using libad V for people who prefer that but the new interface will support the steam deck as well and you will be able to share your bottles with friends you will be able to back them up and restore them in one click and you will be able to switch from the classic Mode the same kind of interface as you might use already and the next mode which simplifies things a lot bottles next will also support Community installers so it's easier for users to get something running these will apparently be more complex to create than lutrus installers though the app isn't available just yet it's in early stages and Bottles the current APP will keep receiving updates and small features but the focus will obviously be on the new improved app and it's an exciting change the addition of community installers and the removal of the barrier to entry that was learning about virtual SE drives prefixes and bottles for newcomers is actually really really good so I can't wait to start using this thing and see how well it works and let's finish this episode with the gaming news first the steam deck has now dropped from the top sellers list on Steam at least from the top 10 list after consistently being in there for more than a year and a half it finally dropped to the 11th Place it's still pretty high as that's a global ranking for all steam sales it's not super surprising to see that as competition is now more intense in this space and the deck is the exact same Hardware as when it released so there's bound to be some people opting to buy something else instead and the deck might slowly reach saturation for its intended target as well wine 8.18 was released with more improvements to the direct music API more effect support for direct X10 but more importantly more work being done to support Wayland and handle displaying and managing native Wayland Windows an important step to get rid of xwayland and X11 as well for gaming 44 bugs were also fixed including for titles like Unreal Tournament 2004 patrici 4 Sniper Elite 5 and a lot more and finally it's Now official Counter Strike 2 will not come to MOS as valve said they have made a conscious decision to First not support older Hardware that only supported directx9 or 32bit and also not to support Mac OS as all these computers combined were less than 1% of all active CSO players CS2 being delivered as an update to CS goo I guess it made no sense to keep supporting such a small platform which if you think about it is pretty fun because Linux has a way smaller market share on the desktop than Mac OS but for gaming it's actually higher and so valve decided to pull game to Linux and not to Mac OS but also if you think about it porting a game to Mac OS is a nightmare you've got that game porting toolkit but that's still decidedly a beta and it's more intended to test your game than to give you tools to actually Port it and also you have to use metal as an API if you want to write a native game client which kind of sucks because 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if you've been following the channel for a while you will know I'm a big proponent for whan whether it works for you right now or not there is no debate that X11 is dying or dead already but if we're all going to have to use whand at some point or another I think it's important to take a look at where it is right now and what it's still missing whether it's from the protocol itself or the implementation of Wayland in desktops and applications so let's look at whand what works what will never work and what we can expect to work in the future and let's look at 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 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 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has a few advantages like Network transparency meaning that a program can run on one computer but display its window on another but X11 is virtually unmaintained now it was never designed to support Modern Hardware and Modern Hardware configurations like HDR variable refresh rates DPI between different monitors and stuff like that the code is also considered pretty nightmarish to work with with a lot of potential vulnerabilities and it's basically impossible to refactor it to include all the features that it doesn't support right now and so that's why whand was started in 2008 the goal was to have a much simpler display model with less code less risks of vulnerabilities and something that could be evolved to support all the things X11 could never support in terms of advantages the latency between a user action and its result on screen is much reduced it basically eliminates screen tearing it lets you have multiple monitors with different refresh rates and different scaling factors and while it doesn't support HDR yet it's currently being worked on other advantages include better security on X11 any app can access any keystroke or any any click you make not so on whand basically X11 has zero key logger protection and one such protection can not be implemented due to how X11 is designed and there are other smaller things like good support for touchscreen and touchpad gestures whan being able to rotate a window or X11 not being able to start a screen saver or lock screen if you have a menu open another main difference is that in X11 the X server handles most of the operations so the window manager that actually lets you interact with your windows can be pretty minimal on whand the window manager also called compositor has to implement a lot of the protocols which means developing a whand compositor is a lot more work although there are solid implementations like WL roots that you can base your work on but it also meant that the whole Linux desktop stack had to be adapted from Graphics drivers to toolkits to desktops to Windows to Applications everything had to be reworked a bit to support the whan protocols instead of X11 which is why Wayland isn't the only thing we're using right now so let's look at the state of Wayland in 2023 so first the Wayland protocol the set of instructions you can use in your window manager doesn't support everything X11 does the main offender being Network transparency whand doesn't support running a program on a computer and displaying it on another that's a relatively Niche use case but if you rely on it and remote desktop protocols or VNC don't work for you then whan can't work for you some stuff also isn't supported yet on Wayland or on X11 for example HDR Linux desktops are a bit late to the party on that front and even though there's a first implementation in Steam OS with the game scope compositor developed by Valve a complete implementation of color profiles color management and hdr on our Linux desktops is a few years away support for fractional scaling so scaling your display size to 125% for example has just recently been added and isn't fully supported by all major Linux desktops and toolkits just yet Wayland also doesn't support Global shortcuts by default which means an app running in the background can't receive specific short shortcuts if it is not in Focus now there is a desktop portal for that portals being basically the implementation of stuff that were baked inside of the X server before but that have really no place being in the display server and should be handled externally so portals are basically bringing back some features that X11 had and that the Wayland protocols don't really have natively now we need to look at desktop environments and window managers gnome is probably the one with the more robust whon support available right now it's not the most feature complete but it is the most solid mutter the gome compositor works perfectly with whand these days it's stable it supports one to1 touchpad and touchcreen gestures plus gestures inside of applications to go back and forward thanks to gtk4 also supporting Wayland well fractional scaling support was merged in gtk in early 2023 although fractional scaling is still considered experimental in gnome and has to be enabled manually or by the drro itself generally whand on gnome is a really solid experience on KDE whon support is a bit less solid in my experience plasma 5.27 is decent enough but real complete whan support will come to plasma 6 in February 2024 nothing seems to be missing right now as you also get good gestures fractional scaling and Rel relatively smooth experience but stability isn't fully there yet notably with kwin the compositor when it crashes under whand it will kill all your currently open apps this should be fixed in plasma 6 but for now it is a real issue it doesn't happen often but when it does it really hurts so for now I would say wayand on KDE is okay but not as good as on G know as per other desktop environments work has either just started or hasn't started at all well just as I was editing this video today Linux Mint released a blog post indicating that they have actually started work for Wayland And that an experimental session will be coming soon although it will not become the default for a long long while xfc has published a road map of the things that already work and the things that need to be worked on Pantheon the desktop for Elementary OS has an experimental Wayland session that is for now not really usable and deepin doesn't seem to have any plans yet budgie will move to Wayland only with Budgy 11 but that's probably a few years away so for now to use whand it's either gnome or KDE or a tiling Window Manager you can use sway which is basically I3 but made for whand with support for I3 config files you have hyperland based on the WL routs implementation that seems to be the fastest moving tiling Window Manager for Wayland or stuff like wfire and a few others but they seem less feature complete for now and now we need to talk about your GPU because the brand of GPU that you have will Define if Wayland can work for you or not see gpus need drivers insane I know and these drivers can support Wayland well or not well if you use open source drivers like the Mesa drivers for Intel and amdg use or the novo driver for NVIDIA you're all good these support everything you need and work well with whan just as well as on .org but then there are the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and to be fair they do work with wha it took a long while but it works I've been using them on hybrid graphics laptops on gnome and KDE and on a desktop running Fedora for a long one and it works but it's also not the best experience for example VAR a able refresh rates aren't supported yet using the NVIDIA drivers on whand nor is VR related stuff changing the gamma of the display or even the Nvidia control panel which offers virtually no features on whand g-sync works but not for apps using X whand which we'll talk about in a minute so you can still use those drivers even on hybrid graphics devices and it will work but it is not as stable as with x.org yet now generally on Linux unless you absolutely need to use an Nvidia GPU for example for Cuda or for some open CL support and stuff like that then you should stay away from Nvidia and you should use an AMD or an Intel GPU but if you want to use whan then definitely do not use Nvidia it works but it is not the best experience and since we're talking about gpus let's talk about gaming gaming on Wayland basically relies on .org with something called X whand it's an X11 server running inside of whand this is necessary because most gaming on Linux relies on wine and proton today by running the windows version of the app through a compatibility layer and proton and wine don't support whand natively X whand works really well and it's really transparent you will never notice that you're not running the game natively but there is a small performance impact depending on the game it's not huge but it's there so if you're struggling to keep a smooth 60fps x.org will be better this is notably true with NVIDIA drivers which do not handle X whan very well now native whand support is being worked on right now for wine so in the future we won't need xwayland at all and it's going to work much better but for now it's a necessity and it can create some small performance problems especially for Nvidia gpus on AMD you shouldn't really notice anything but there's still the issue of vsync for now most implementations of Wayland in Gnome or KDE enforce vsync everywhere unless your monitor has adaptive sync so stuff like g-sync or freesync if you don't have that then vsync is for now mandatory and this means added latency and input lag in games this will also get fixed soon with patches for various compositors that let full screen disabled vsync but for now vsync is mandatory so yeah you can game under wh and I personally do it with a g-sync compatible Monitor and it works relatively well but it's not the best experience some benchmarks seem to point to the fact that when Wayland is supported natively by wine proton and Linux games then performance will surpass the one on X1 but for now you're going to take a small performance hit and so if you're an avid gamer and you want the best experience experience you should stick to x.org and finally we have application support because yes not every app supports whand well it all depends on the toolkit or framework they use the toolkit needs to support whand itself every modern app using a recent version of gtk or cute will support whan perfectly all the latest kirami apps for KDE or relatively recent cute 5 or cute 6 apps will handle whand well and they will handle all the portals that they need to interact with other applications with screen sharing and the like electron apps using a recent version of electron will also support Wayland And portals but a lot of electron apps still use an old version that doesn't support it properly and will run under X whand which locks them out of a few features notably screen sharing and older apps using gtk2 or older versions of cute also will not board Wayland for example still uses gtk2 and as such can only run using X whand 3 will support whan natively though and it shouldn't be that far off some web browsers also don't run natively with whan Firefox by default will run using X whan but you can force it to run under whan natively with a variable same for chromium based browsers now to be clear this doesn't mean that apps that don't support whand will not run they will run and they will work mostly perfectly using X wh but some features will not be supported most importantly screen sharing unless you use the X whand Video Bridge developed by some KD developers that let you basically pass through the screen sharing from X whand to whand so it kind of fixes the issue but there might be some other small problems here and there which leads us to the end of this video I will not ask the usual question is wh and ready because it all depends on what you do on your device if you rely on x1's network transparency then no it's not ready and it will never be if you use NVIDIA drivers it works but it's not the best if you use anything other than sway hyperland gnome or KDE then no it's not ready for you if you need the absolute best performance in games then no it's not ready but if you just want to use your computer and sometimes you're okay with fixing a issue once to make sure that the app runs as it's supposed to work then yes whand will work for you personally I've been using whand only for more than a year on Fedora gnome and now on tuxedo OS with KDE with Nvidia gpus AMD gpus and all the small issues I encountered I could fix in one command line so for me it is ready the small issues I have encountered and fixed were to me a small price to pay for low latency desktop use for better battery life for touchpad gestures for avoiding screen tearing problems and for the knowledge that I'm using what everyone will use in the future because whether Wayland is ready for your use case right now or not there is no world in which any Dev team picks up X11 and starts fixing it or maintaining it or adding new features and there is no world in which the major Linux desktops don't drop X11 support at some point in the future basically the Linux desktop will rely on Wayland exclusively at some point or another now whether that point is now or later only depends on you and it only depends on me to tell you about our sponsor if you're planning to replace your current computer and you want to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that only come with Windows printall and crossing your fingers and hoping that your favorite Dro will run well and wasting lots of time fixing issues buy some something that supports Linux out of the box from our sponsor 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if you've been following the channel for a while you will know I'm a big proponent for whan whether it works for you right now or not there is no debate that X11 is dying or dead already but if we're all going to have to use whand at some point or another I think it's important to take a look at where it is right now and what it's still missing whether it's from the protocol itself or the implementation of Wayland in desktops and applications so let's look at whand what works what will never work and what we can expect to work in the future and let's look at 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 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 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has a few advantages like Network transparency meaning that a program can run on one computer but display its window on another but X11 is virtually unmaintained now it was never designed to support Modern Hardware and Modern Hardware configurations like HDR variable refresh rates DPI between different monitors and stuff like that the code is also considered pretty nightmarish to work with with a lot of potential vulnerabilities and it's basically impossible to refactor it to include all the features that it doesn't support right now and so that's why whand was started in 2008 the goal was to have a much simpler display model with less code less risks of vulnerabilities and something that could be evolved to support all the things X11 could never support in terms of advantages the latency between a user action and its result on screen is much reduced it basically eliminates screen tearing it lets you have multiple monitors with different refresh rates and different scaling factors and while it doesn't support HDR yet it's currently being worked on other advantages include better security on X11 any app can access any keystroke or any any click you make not so on whand basically X11 has zero key logger protection and one such protection can not be implemented due to how X11 is designed and there are other smaller things like good support for touchscreen and touchpad gestures whan being able to rotate a window or X11 not being able to start a screen saver or lock screen if you have a menu open another main difference is that in X11 the X server handles most of the operations so the window manager that actually lets you interact with your windows can be pretty minimal on whand the window manager also called compositor has to implement a lot of the protocols which means developing a whand compositor is a lot more work although there are solid implementations like WL roots that you can base your work on but it also meant that the whole Linux desktop stack had to be adapted from Graphics drivers to toolkits to desktops to Windows to Applications everything had to be reworked a bit to support the whan protocols instead of X11 which is why Wayland isn't the only thing we're using right now so let's look at the state of Wayland in 2023 so first the Wayland protocol the set of instructions you can use in your window manager doesn't support everything X11 does the main offender being Network transparency whand doesn't support running a program on a computer and displaying it on another that's a relatively Niche use case but if you rely on it and remote desktop protocols or VNC don't work for you then whan can't work for you some stuff also isn't supported yet on Wayland or on X11 for example HDR Linux desktops are a bit late to the party on that front and even though there's a first implementation in Steam OS with the game scope compositor developed by Valve a complete implementation of color profiles color management and hdr on our Linux desktops is a few years away support for fractional scaling so scaling your display size to 125% for example has just recently been added and isn't fully supported by all major Linux desktops and toolkits just yet Wayland also doesn't support Global shortcuts by default which means an app running in the background can't receive specific short shortcuts if it is not in Focus now there is a desktop portal for that portals being basically the implementation of stuff that were baked inside of the X server before but that have really no place being in the display server and should be handled externally so portals are basically bringing back some features that X11 had and that the Wayland protocols don't really have natively now we need to look at desktop environments and window managers gnome is probably the one with the more robust whon support available right now it's not the most feature complete but it is the most solid mutter the gome compositor works perfectly with whand these days it's stable it supports one to1 touchpad and touchcreen gestures plus gestures inside of applications to go back and forward thanks to gtk4 also supporting Wayland well fractional scaling support was merged in gtk in early 2023 although fractional scaling is still considered experimental in gnome and has to be enabled manually or by the drro itself generally whand on gnome is a really solid experience on KDE whon support is a bit less solid in my experience plasma 5.27 is decent enough but real complete whan support will come to plasma 6 in February 2024 nothing seems to be missing right now as you also get good gestures fractional scaling and Rel relatively smooth experience but stability isn't fully there yet notably with kwin the compositor when it crashes under whand it will kill all your currently open apps this should be fixed in plasma 6 but for now it is a real issue it doesn't happen often but when it does it really hurts so for now I would say wayand on KDE is okay but not as good as on G know as per other desktop environments work has either just started or hasn't started at all well just as I was editing this video today Linux Mint released a blog post indicating that they have actually started work for Wayland And that an experimental session will be coming soon although it will not become the default for a long long while xfc has published a road map of the things that already work and the things that need to be worked on Pantheon the desktop for Elementary OS has an experimental Wayland session that is for now not really usable and deepin doesn't seem to have any plans yet budgie will move to Wayland only with Budgy 11 but that's probably a few years away so for now to use whand it's either gnome or KDE or a tiling Window Manager you can use sway which is basically I3 but made for whand with support for I3 config files you have hyperland based on the WL routs implementation that seems to be the fastest moving tiling Window Manager for Wayland or stuff like wfire and a few others but they seem less feature complete for now and now we need to talk about your GPU because the brand of GPU that you have will Define if Wayland can work for you or not see gpus need drivers insane I know and these drivers can support Wayland well or not well if you use open source drivers like the Mesa drivers for Intel and amdg use or the novo driver for NVIDIA you're all good these support everything you need and work well with whan just as well as on .org but then there are the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and to be fair they do work with wha it took a long while but it works I've been using them on hybrid graphics laptops on gnome and KDE and on a desktop running Fedora for a long one and it works but it's also not the best experience for example VAR a able refresh rates aren't supported yet using the NVIDIA drivers on whand nor is VR related stuff changing the gamma of the display or even the Nvidia control panel which offers virtually no features on whand g-sync works but not for apps using X whand which we'll talk about in a minute so you can still use those drivers even on hybrid graphics devices and it will work but it is not as stable as with x.org yet now generally on Linux unless you absolutely need to use an Nvidia GPU for example for Cuda or for some open CL support and stuff like that then you should stay away from Nvidia and you should use an AMD or an Intel GPU but if you want to use whan then definitely do not use Nvidia it works but it is not the best experience and since we're talking about gpus let's talk about gaming gaming on Wayland basically relies on .org with something called X whand it's an X11 server running inside of whand this is necessary because most gaming on Linux relies on wine and proton today by running the windows version of the app through a compatibility layer and proton and wine don't support whand natively X whand works really well and it's really transparent you will never notice that you're not running the game natively but there is a small performance impact depending on the game it's not huge but it's there so if you're struggling to keep a smooth 60fps x.org will be better this is notably true with NVIDIA drivers which do not handle X whan very well now native whand support is being worked on right now for wine so in the future we won't need xwayland at all and it's going to work much better but for now it's a necessity and it can create some small performance problems especially for Nvidia gpus on AMD you shouldn't really notice anything but there's still the issue of vsync for now most implementations of Wayland in Gnome or KDE enforce vsync everywhere unless your monitor has adaptive sync so stuff like g-sync or freesync if you don't have that then vsync is for now mandatory and this means added latency and input lag in games this will also get fixed soon with patches for various compositors that let full screen disabled vsync but for now vsync is mandatory so yeah you can game under wh and I personally do it with a g-sync compatible Monitor and it works relatively well but it's not the best experience some benchmarks seem to point to the fact that when Wayland is supported natively by wine proton and Linux games then performance will surpass the one on X1 but for now you're going to take a small performance hit and so if you're an avid gamer and you want the best experience experience you should stick to x.org and finally we have application support because yes not every app supports whand well it all depends on the toolkit or framework they use the toolkit needs to support whand itself every modern app using a recent version of gtk or cute will support whan perfectly all the latest kirami apps for KDE or relatively recent cute 5 or cute 6 apps will handle whand well and they will handle all the portals that they need to interact with other applications with screen sharing and the like electron apps using a recent version of electron will also support Wayland And portals but a lot of electron apps still use an old version that doesn't support it properly and will run under X whand which locks them out of a few features notably screen sharing and older apps using gtk2 or older versions of cute also will not board Wayland for example still uses gtk2 and as such can only run using X whand 3 will support whan natively though and it shouldn't be that far off some web browsers also don't run natively with whan Firefox by default will run using X whan but you can force it to run under whan natively with a variable same for chromium based browsers now to be clear this doesn't mean that apps that don't support whand will not run they will run and they will work mostly perfectly using X wh but some features will not be supported most importantly screen sharing unless you use the X whand Video Bridge developed by some KD developers that let you basically pass through the screen sharing from X whand to whand so it kind of fixes the issue but there might be some other small problems here and there which leads us to the end of this video I will not ask the usual question is wh and ready because it all depends on what you do on your device if you rely on x1's network transparency then no it's not ready and it will never be if you use NVIDIA drivers it works but it's not the best if you use anything other than sway hyperland gnome or KDE then no it's not ready for you if you need the absolute best performance in games then no it's not ready but if you just want to use your computer and sometimes you're okay with fixing a issue once to make sure that the app runs as it's supposed to work then yes whand will work for you personally I've been using whand only for more than a year on Fedora gnome and now on tuxedo OS with KDE with Nvidia gpus AMD gpus and all the small issues I encountered I could fix in one command line so for me it is ready the small issues I have encountered and fixed were to me a small price to pay for low latency desktop use for better battery life for touchpad gestures for avoiding screen tearing problems and for the knowledge that I'm using what everyone will use in the future because whether Wayland is ready for your use case right now or not there is no world in which any Dev team picks up X11 and starts fixing it or maintaining it or adding new features and there is no world in which the major Linux desktops don't drop X11 support at some point in the future basically the Linux desktop will rely on Wayland exclusively at some point or another now whether that point is now or later only depends on you and it only depends on me to tell you about our sponsor if you're planning to replace your current computer and you want to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that only come with Windows printall and crossing your fingers and hoping that your favorite Dro will run well and wasting lots of time fixing issues buy some something that supports Linux out of the box from our sponsor tuxedo they have a big range of devices from laptops to Nu to towers for gaming for office work whatever you need all devices have Hardware specifically picked for its compatibility with Linux and if there were some quirks or some problems on these devices they submit patches ofst stream to fix those issues for everyone not just them they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and all their laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded and you have a bunch of customization options like having your own custom keyboard layout your own custom logo on the lid of your laptop and more I only use tuxedo devices right now my laptop my editing station uh which are the same device is a tuxedo laptop and my Steam OS console is a tuxedo Cube Tower PC so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it click the link in the description below and get yourself a PC from tuxedo so than thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't 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I've been using KD plasma as my only desktop environment for more than a month now and in the process I found a bunch of cool stuff that I use to improve my productivity so it's only right that I give them some time in the spotlight well relatively speaking it's not like I get millions of views on each of these videos so it's a Linux sized Spotlight now obviously if you have other recommendations don't hesitate to leave them in the comments but for this video from productivity apps to various sort of hidden settings and tricks to widgets there's a lot to unpack here including the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by collabora online collabora online is an open-source private online office suite based on lib office it supports all the features you would expect from an online office suite like real-time collaboration file syncing and sharing with any solution you prefer it supports all the major document format formats and it covers word processing spreadsheets presentations 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tricks that you can use to improve your productivity in KD plasma now personally I use the Wayland session of plasma and mostly flatback apps which means that sometimes the taskar won't correctly associate the running app with its shortcut for example here but I also had the problem with d Vinci resolve or qo notes some of them even just display the Wayland icon and not the apps icon it is a nitpick but it is not tidy and I like my stuff tidy except for my cable management under my desk but I will not show you that because I'm ashamed of it so to fix the issue there's a simple solution you open the app you right click its title bar and you select more actions then configures special application settings here you can add a new property and search for desktop and you can then add the desktop file name property in the text field you can just just type the name of the dot desktop file the app uses to run if you don't know what it is you can just open your app launcher find the app you have a problem with right click it and select edit application in the point two field of the little preferences window you just grab the name of the file without the do desktop and you paste that in the desktop file name property and you're done close the window relaunch it and it should now correctly be linked with your task manager yes app developers should ensure that the do desktop files and their applications are correctly linked but for those who don't at least you can fix it the second trick I use is to open krunner by pressing just the super key I don't use a launcher I just start apps with the taskbar or using krunner so to use the Super Key only you can type this command in a terminal and to apply it immediately you can type this one as well now if you want to use the super key for or anything else than krunner you can also get the full list of the things you can trigger with this command and then you can run this other command replacing the last part with the name of the thing you want to trigger that you obtain by running the previous command line so for example you could set the overview effect to open by pressing just the Super Key just like a gnome experience that's heresy oh and also all the commands I displayed are in the description of the video obviously now yet another trick is for Windows that do not have a title bar I ran into this problem with d Vin resolve for example you can force kwin to add a title bar by going to the settings then window rules and creating a new rule you can click the detect window properties button and click the app that doesn't have a title bar for now so you can get the property you want to base your rule on for that window like the title of the window or the window class then you can click add property and select no title bar and frame you select force in the drop down and click no close the app and reopen it and voila you have a title bar there are plenty of other things you can do with this like changing the color scheme of the title bar for a specific app make a window impossible to close or always on top or not use compositing it is very powerful stuff to customize how you use every single app and how it will appear and how you interact with it on your desktop another cool trick I use all the time by default if you hold the super key or the Windows key on most keyboards and you just hold the rightclick mouse button you can drag from anywhere in a window to resize it from the closest Edge or corner without aiming for the exact window border you can also change this to use the middle Mouse button instead of the right click since that's how it works in Gnome and that's how I'm used to do it you can also use the mouse wheel to increase or reduce a Windows opacity if you want which is pretty cool the Reise thing I just cannot live without anymore I learned about it when using gnome and it's so much easier than just aiming for a one pixel window border and the reducing opacity trick for inactive windows or when you just scroll over one is just super handy if you're lazy like me and you want to peek at your desktop without actually having to go click a specific button for that now you could also just go to desktop effects and enable translucency and configure it to have all your inactive windows be semi-transparent or you can also apply that to menus dialogues whatever you want something I recently discovered as well is the ability to zoom in the desktop itself using the Super Key plus the equal key or the super and the minus key to zoom out you can pan around the desktop by just moving the mouse it is pretty handy at times now this other one you can Mark as gnome user discovers a real desktop and that's the clipboard manager while it is not as visually appealing as Pano which is an excellent gnome extension KD has a native clipboard manager that you can open with super plus v and it will show all the text you previously copied letting you copy it again by just clicking it okay one last trick I said I don't use a launcher but I sort of lied sometimes I use this menu I just middle click on my desktop and I get a full application launcher useful when I forgot the name of an app and I don't know what to type in krunner now how did I get this you just right click on the desktop select configure desktop and wallpaper and go to Mouse actions here in Middle click select application launcher in the dropdown and hit apply and you're done unless you actually use desktop icons and you need to use middle click to paste stuff in there in which case you are a monster then this should be a very handy trick and okay okay one final trick when you select some text in an app you can just create a small sticky note on your desktop by dragging that text to your desktop and boom you get a small reminder or a little list of stuff you like and it works with links as well okay now onto an application for KD the first one I started using when I moved to KD and that I completely fell in love with and that's qo notes the name is terrible and the default interface is super busy but once you get to grips with it it's actually a very cool not taking app as with most KD apps it is very customizable you can change all the buttons in all the tool bars you can show or hide certain panels you can change the colors in the editor you can have a live preview of your markdown notes and you even have Community plugins you can add to enhance the app it also works with nextcloud and owncloud to sync your notes with their Notes app and you can even install a nextcloud app for the qo notes API so the desktop version can access notes versions and history as well personally I just use the app to create markdown files that are stored in my nextcloud notes folder which then just gets synced with the desktop client of nexcloud I tuned the interface to only display what I need so the folder list the notes list the editor and the very basic toolbars I need I also decided not to use the built-in dark mode which makes everything orange and weird and I added the note stats script to have a count of the number of characters in my notes so yeah it's the opposite of the KD Mantra it's not simple by default powerful when you need it it's more like very powerful by default but simple if you need that now let's make a detour towards plasma widgets the default selection is Handy enough I personally added the places widgets to my taskbar so I get quick shortcuts to all my favorite folders and I added a keyboard shortcut to activate it since you can do that with virtually all plasma widgets the sticky notes widget is also pretty cool as are all the system monitors you can add for any part of your system but the really cool thing is the community Repose of widgets since I'm not a native English speaker sometimes I need to look up the translation of a word and there's a widget for that called translator it can use Google Translate or other engines and it supports a lot of languages I added it to my taskbar with a keyboard shortcut to activate it as well so I have no excuse for using the wrong word in a sentence now feel free to point out all my mistakes in the comments I also use the server status widget which lets me get a bird's eye view of my two instances nextcloud and my podcast it just checks for an HTTP 200 code to see if the page is available so I know at all times if something is wrong with anything I need to work you can also just ping any URL or even try and run a command periodically I also added the day and night switcher which so I can switch from a light theme to a dark theme in just one click this is not something KD provides by default unless you open the settings you also can't really do it dynamically depending on the time of day there's the dynamic theme switcher widget for that but it was a bit clunky and finally another interesting one I use is the KD connect device widget it lets you simply drag and drop files or links to your device paired with KD connect so you don't have to open the KD Connect app itself to send files to your phone speaking of which let's talk about KD connect this is a gem for KD but it also works in Gnome with the GS connect extension it basically lets you share files links or your clipboard between your computer and your phone sort of like airdrop and some features of continuity on Apple devices but it also does a lot more it's pre-installed on KDE and you'll need to install the mobile app for iOS or andro Android the Android version does support more features like notification sync replying to text messages from your desktop and keeping the connection alive even when the app is closed on the phone so it's much much better on Android than on iOS but it's still super neat to send a file from your phone to your PC or vice versa you can also use your phone as a touchpad for your PC you can control slideshows from your phone you can send commands control media playback and more it is a truly amazing application you will probably need to open a port in the firewall of your drro see the KD connect help for that uh I had to run a console command on my new computer to open that port and make it work but once it's done it's just fantastic super well integrated with the system as well for example in Dolphin you can just right click a file and select send via KD connect and it's going to send the file to your phone immediately now you also cannot stop this video without mentioning a few cool tricks for the default KD apps for for example to stamp a PDF for example with a handwritten signature that you just want to paste onto a document you can use ocular the default PDF reader for KDE you just click the stamp button in the toolbar then configure annotations here you can add a new stamp by selecting stamp in the drop down then click the little file button next to the stamp symbol field and select the image you want to use click okay then apply and you will now be able to just click the stamp you want drag the area where you want it to also select its size and boom your PDF is stamped or signed or whatever else you can even move the stamp afterwards in Dolphin the file manager you can just drag and drop text or images from any other app to save them in the current directory you don't need to rightclick and create a new text file or copy and paste you can just drag and drop you can also save images to a different format by copying them from your web browser then right clicking in dolphin and selecting paste clipboard contents you'll be able to select between different formats and the image will be converted automatically for you this has saved me a lot of time especially when just copying pictures for the news videos that are in formats that the Venture resolve doesn't support like avif or webp you can also save a search if you need to use it often you click the search button you set all the filters and parameters you want and you can then click the little save icon next to the search field it will add an entry in the favorites bar so you can always always go back to it you can also access your file browsing history by holding the left click on the previous or next button to see a list of all directories you visited finally the system monitor is entirely customizable you can edit pages to add or remove widgets and show exactly what you want and you can even create pages that will appear in the sidebar when you can choose to monitor whatever you need it's super powerful and it looks really good too of course that's just all the stuff I use this doesn't even begin to scratch the desktop Rising itch with all the custom app launchers panels and widgets and themes you can use for that my setup is relatively simple but you can make something either way more complex or way more toned down and in terms of apps I still need to take a deeper look at what's available but what I found is that the default apps have so many features that I don't need as many small utilities and tools to manage my day-to-day tasks the default have everything I need so let me know if you want me to cover more KD applications tools tips tricks or widgets and if you have certain things that you just cannot live without in KY let me know down there in the comments as well and in the meantime I'll let you know about our sponsor if you're a Linux user and you need to change computers you should probably start looking at devices that ship with Linux pre-installed instead of devices that ship with Windows and one suchar place is tuxedo our sponsor they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware and the components have been picked specifically for its compatibility with Linux and if there were some problems to fix they actually submit patches Upstream to fix the hardware compatibility for everyone not just for them so they actively contribute to the development of Linux they have a wide range of devices from laptops to NOS to desktops all the power levels all the price points you might want so there's something for everyone in there all the devices I use daily right now my Steam OS console and my laptop that's also my editing station come from tuxedo and I'm super happy with these devices so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support linux's development and also you want something that you can open repair and upgrade cuz you can do that with tuxedo laptops then 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 didn't you can always click the dislike button and tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoy the channel and you want to support it I left plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that so thanks for watching and I guess 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hello X11 fans and today might be a sad day for you if you use gnome as there's the first merge request that will start the process of removing support for X11 from gnome we also have the release of aun 22310 which is a fantastic release and we have good news from Mastodon which it turns out is way more popular than everyone thought plus we have updates to plasma 6 to gnome applications and a new way to run Windows software on Linux that's coming and we also have the 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 a new merge request was opened in The Gnome project proposing to end X11 support in the desktop environment moving to a whand only model gnome already Embraces Wayland and the more modern whand portals and flatback stack but X1 support is still there for now for those who prefer it but this might not last for long the merge request would only be the first step removing the ability to start an X11 session from the login manager by just removing the desktop file associated with it the argument is that gnome has been defaulting to whand since 2016 although dros shipping gnome might not have done so themselves and also X11 is basically abandoned wear at this point there's just a few security fixes but no new features are being planned or being worked on this change in Gnome would be easily reverted for now as you could just manually add that X11 session file but for the next cycle it is proposed to completely remove all the X11 session code from gnome which would make it impossible to start an X11 session entirely unless someone creates a patched version this is not unexpected as Fedora 40 already had a proposal to drop X11 regardless of gnome's support and plasma 6 is also going all in on whan making it their default option as well of course it's just a merge request for now it still has has to be accepted and there is obviously some debate pointing out a few remaining bugs in the whan session and some missing features notably accessibility related ones obviously this will not go down smoothly as people who do not like whand or for whom whan doesn't really work just yet will fight tooth and nail to prevent this from happening even if it's just a removal of one session file that's easily reverted but it's more of a signal that gnome sends to app developers and to desktop developers as well that yes X11 is dead and Wayland is the only way forward that we have but 2 23.10 was released this week and then quickly pulled preventing users from downloading it the reason is that some ill intentioned idiots decided to use their access to translations in various languages to slip some hateful stuff in the installer of the drro so this also affects all flavors that use the new obuntu installer that was apparently ly a lot of pretty provocative political stuff added in relative to the current events in Ukraine and Israel which obviously had nothing to do with the abutu installer but still slipped unnoticed still isos might already be out again without the offending data and it's a wonderful release all things considered I have a dedicated video about it you can check it out from the link in the description but here is a small recap of what changed first there's a new tiling extension added that supports quar tiling and using half of the height of the display to tile a window there's a brand new app store that supports snaps and Debian packages and it's much much faster and better looking than the horrible outdated Fork of gnome software open to used previously there's a new firmware update tool the default install method will now ship less applications out of the box although the full install is also available and you can use an experimental encryption feature using the TPM chip of your computer if it has one although it has a lot of restrictions and it can't be used with dual boots or with Nvidia proprietary drivers there are also all the features of gome 45 like the new workspaces indicator improvements to background apps the new keyboard backlight indicator in the Quick Settings the new split header bar design better Nautilus search improved settings and a lot more it is a really really good release for auntu users of course it's not an LTS so it's only going to get nine more months of support and it's too bad that this release was marred by some imbecile who thought that an installer for Linux drro was the right platform to spew their hate it looks like Mastodon is actually a lot more popular than everyone thought they've been undercounting their users by an enormous margin since it turns out Mastodon has 400,000 more monthly active users than previously thought and 2.3 million more registered users over 727 servers that were previously uncounted the statistics on joinmod don. org were Incorrect and so the actual total is 1.8 million monthly active users and 10,000 active servers which represents an increase of 5% for month over Monon users and 12% in terms of the number of servers so Mastodon is not only an alternative to proprietary social networks it's also a relatively fast growing one especially compared to stuff like threads from Facebook that keeps losing users month after month or Twitter sorry I'm never calling that thing X that is slowly declining although let's be fair Twitter is still the largest platform in its category with more than 245 million daily active users I actually deactivated my Twitter account this week because I hadn't been posting anything for probably a year or so and I had no plans of going back to it as long as it continues on its absolutely horrendous trajectory it looks like plasma 6 still has some features we were not expecting first in terms of accessibility it will join the likes of elementaryos by providing color filters for the whole screen for people with color blindness including various settings to accommodate the differences in color perception Kate kite and any other text editing app using the K text editor module will now support speech to text and smooth scrolling is finally making an appearance in cute quick based software panel launcher icons will now be disabled by default when you have a task manager since pinning apps to the task manager does the same thing in a less confusing way this behavior is configurable of course since it's KDE and finally you will also gain the ability to flip the display under the whan session as per gnome cartridges the games Library app now supports searching for games straight from the desktop just like you would search search for a file or an app there's a new app called dosage that lets you track your medication with notifications inventory tracking and various frequencies you can set wildcard the regx creation app now has a references panel to quickly test common patterns and fretboard the guitar chords reference app now supports left and right-handed guitar types and gained a bunch of translations it is really cool to see that plasma 6 still has some stuff that we haven't seen or talked about yet especially accessibility related stuff for color blindness because this seems to be something that really affects a lot of people now if you know and use the bottles app to run various Windows games or programs on Linux you might be happy to learn there's an even more advanced project in the works called bottles next it's not an update or an evolution of the current bottles app it's a complete new thing it's written in go instead of python and it will also be available to Mac OS users not just for us Linux users the goal is to simplify the use compared to bottles with no individual bottle management apps will still be isolated in their own prefixes and environment and still get all the settings you might want for dxvk FSR and various variables but all apps will be collected in a single view to be more intuitive to use and the users won't have to manage the bottles themselves a more controversial change is the move to an electron-based user interface which is sure to prove less popular than the very nice liid v/ gnome interface of bottles I guess this is to allow support for Mac OS and Linux more easily but fear not there will be a second separate front end using libad V for people who prefer that but the new interface will support the steam deck as well and you will be able to share your bottles with friends you will be able to back them up and restore them in one click and you will be able to switch from the classic Mode the same kind of interface as you might use already and the next mode which simplifies things a lot bottles next will also support Community installers so it's easier for users to get something running these will apparently be more complex to create than lutrus installers though the app isn't available just yet it's in early stages and Bottles the current APP will keep receiving updates and small features but the focus will obviously be on the new improved app and it's an exciting change the addition of community installers and the removal of the barrier to entry that was learning about virtual SE drives prefixes and bottles for newcomers is actually really really good so I can't wait to start using this thing and see how well it works and let's finish this episode with the gaming news first the steam deck has now dropped from the top sellers list on Steam at least from the top 10 list after consistently being in there for more than a year and a half it finally dropped to the 11th Place it's still pretty high as that's a global ranking for all steam sales it's not super surprising to see that as competition is now more intense in this space and the deck is the exact same Hardware as when it released so there's bound to be some people opting to buy something else instead and the deck might slowly reach saturation for its intended target as well wine 8.18 was released with more improvements to the direct music API more effect support for direct X10 but more importantly more work being done to support Wayland and handle displaying and managing native Wayland Windows an important step to get rid of xwayland and X11 as well for gaming 44 bugs were also fixed including for titles like Unreal Tournament 2004 patrici 4 Sniper Elite 5 and a lot more and finally it's Now official Counter Strike 2 will not come to MOS as valve said they have made a conscious decision to First not support older Hardware that only supported directx9 or 32bit and also not to support Mac OS as all these computers combined were less than 1% of all active CSO players CS2 being delivered as an update to CS goo I guess it made no sense to keep supporting such a small platform which if you think about it is pretty fun because Linux has a way smaller market share on the desktop than Mac OS but for gaming it's actually higher and so valve decided to pull game to Linux and not to Mac OS but also if you think about it porting a game to Mac OS is a nightmare you've got that game porting toolkit but that's still decidedly a beta and it's more intended to test your game than to give you tools to actually Port it and also you have to use metal as an API if you want to write a native game client which kind of sucks because 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I've been using KD plasma as my only desktop environment for more than a month now and in the process I found a bunch of cool stuff that I use to improve my productivity so it's only right that I give them some time in the spotlight well relatively speaking it's not like I get millions of views on each of these videos so it's a Linux sized Spotlight now obviously if you have other recommendations don't hesitate to leave them in the comments but for this video from productivity apps to various sort of hidden settings and tricks to widgets there's a lot to unpack here including the segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by collabora online collabora online is an open-source private online office suite based on lib office it supports all the features you would expect from an online office suite like real-time collaboration file syncing and sharing with any solution you prefer it supports all the major document format formats and it covers word processing spreadsheets presentations and diagrams it integrates with various digital workspaces like nexcloud oncloud and a lot more and it is very easy to plug everything together so you can access collabora online from your existing environment the suite works on any desktop web browser but also on mobile it has apps for iOS for Android and for Windows Mac OS and Linux and you can try it for free using collabora online online development Edition either with an online demo or by self-hosting it easily of course collabora also has partners that provide access to it out of the box with a complete online workspace and collabora offers commercial support if you need it for your organization and since it's fully open source you can always contribute code to help improve it so whether you need an online Office Suite for your personal needs for a small company or a big organization collabora has solutions for everyone you you can check them out using the link in the description below okay so let's start with a few little useful tricks that you can use to improve your productivity in KD plasma now personally I use the Wayland session of plasma and mostly flatback apps which means that sometimes the taskar won't correctly associate the running app with its shortcut for example here but I also had the problem with d Vinci resolve or qo notes some of them even just display the Wayland icon and not the apps icon it is a nitpick but it is not tidy and I like my stuff tidy except for my cable management under my desk but I will not show you that because I'm ashamed of it so to fix the issue there's a simple solution you open the app you right click its title bar and you select more actions then configures special application settings here you can add a new property and search for desktop and you can then add the desktop file name property in the text field you can just just type the name of the dot desktop file the app uses to run if you don't know what it is you can just open your app launcher find the app you have a problem with right click it and select edit application in the point two field of the little preferences window you just grab the name of the file without the do desktop and you paste that in the desktop file name property and you're done close the window relaunch it and it should now correctly be linked with your task manager yes app developers should ensure that the do desktop files and their applications are correctly linked but for those who don't at least you can fix it the second trick I use is to open krunner by pressing just the super key I don't use a launcher I just start apps with the taskbar or using krunner so to use the Super Key only you can type this command in a terminal and to apply it immediately you can type this one as well now if you want to use the super key for or anything else than krunner you can also get the full list of the things you can trigger with this command and then you can run this other command replacing the last part with the name of the thing you want to trigger that you obtain by running the previous command line so for example you could set the overview effect to open by pressing just the Super Key just like a gnome experience that's heresy oh and also all the commands I displayed are in the description of the video obviously now yet another trick is for Windows that do not have a title bar I ran into this problem with d Vin resolve for example you can force kwin to add a title bar by going to the settings then window rules and creating a new rule you can click the detect window properties button and click the app that doesn't have a title bar for now so you can get the property you want to base your rule on for that window like the title of the window or the window class then you can click add property and select no title bar and frame you select force in the drop down and click no close the app and reopen it and voila you have a title bar there are plenty of other things you can do with this like changing the color scheme of the title bar for a specific app make a window impossible to close or always on top or not use compositing it is very powerful stuff to customize how you use every single app and how it will appear and how you interact with it on your desktop another cool trick I use all the time by default if you hold the super key or the Windows key on most keyboards and you just hold the rightclick mouse button you can drag from anywhere in a window to resize it from the closest Edge or corner without aiming for the exact window border you can also change this to use the middle Mouse button instead of the right click since that's how it works in Gnome and that's how I'm used to do it you can also use the mouse wheel to increase or reduce a Windows opacity if you want which is pretty cool the Reise thing I just cannot live without anymore I learned about it when using gnome and it's so much easier than just aiming for a one pixel window border and the reducing opacity trick for inactive windows or when you just scroll over one is just super handy if you're lazy like me and you want to peek at your desktop without actually having to go click a specific button for that now you could also just go to desktop effects and enable translucency and configure it to have all your inactive windows be semi-transparent or you can also apply that to menus dialogues whatever you want something I recently discovered as well is the ability to zoom in the desktop itself using the Super Key plus the equal key or the super and the minus key to zoom out you can pan around the desktop by just moving the mouse it is pretty handy at times now this other one you can Mark as gnome user discovers a real desktop and that's the clipboard manager while it is not as visually appealing as Pano which is an excellent gnome extension KD has a native clipboard manager that you can open with super plus v and it will show all the text you previously copied letting you copy it again by just clicking it okay one last trick I said I don't use a launcher but I sort of lied sometimes I use this menu I just middle click on my desktop and I get a full application launcher useful when I forgot the name of an app and I don't know what to type in krunner now how did I get this you just right click on the desktop select configure desktop and wallpaper and go to Mouse actions here in Middle click select application launcher in the dropdown and hit apply and you're done unless you actually use desktop icons and you need to use middle click to paste stuff in there in which case you are a monster then this should be a very handy trick and okay okay one final trick when you select some text in an app you can just create a small sticky note on your desktop by dragging that text to your desktop and boom you get a small reminder or a little list of stuff you like and it works with links as well okay now onto an application for KD the first one I started using when I moved to KD and that I completely fell in love with and that's qo notes the name is terrible and the default interface is super busy but once you get to grips with it it's actually a very cool not taking app as with most KD apps it is very customizable you can change all the buttons in all the tool bars you can show or hide certain panels you can change the colors in the editor you can have a live preview of your markdown notes and you even have Community plugins you can add to enhance the app it also works with nextcloud and owncloud to sync your notes with their Notes app and you can even install a nextcloud app for the qo notes API so the desktop version can access notes versions and history as well personally I just use the app to create markdown files that are stored in my nextcloud notes folder which then just gets synced with the desktop client of nexcloud I tuned the interface to only display what I need so the folder list the notes list the editor and the very basic toolbars I need I also decided not to use the built-in dark mode which makes everything orange and weird and I added the note stats script to have a count of the number of characters in my notes so yeah it's the opposite of the KD Mantra it's not simple by default powerful when you need it it's more like very powerful by default but simple if you need that now let's make a detour towards plasma widgets the default selection is Handy enough I personally added the places widgets to my taskbar so I get quick shortcuts to all my favorite folders and I added a keyboard shortcut to activate it since you can do that with virtually all plasma widgets the sticky notes widget is also pretty cool as are all the system monitors you can add for any part of your system but the really cool thing is the community Repose of widgets since I'm not a native English speaker sometimes I need to look up the translation of a word and there's a widget for that called translator it can use Google Translate or other engines and it supports a lot of languages I added it to my taskbar with a keyboard shortcut to activate it as well so I have no excuse for using the wrong word in a sentence now feel free to point out all my mistakes in the comments I also use the server status widget which lets me get a bird's eye view of my two instances nextcloud and my podcast it just checks for an HTTP 200 code to see if the page is available so I know at all times if something is wrong with anything I need to work you can also just ping any URL or even try and run a command periodically I also added the day and night switcher which so I can switch from a light theme to a dark theme in just one click this is not something KD provides by default unless you open the settings you also can't really do it dynamically depending on the time of day there's the dynamic theme switcher widget for that but it was a bit clunky and finally another interesting one I use is the KD connect device widget it lets you simply drag and drop files or links to your device paired with KD connect so you don't have to open the KD Connect app itself to send files to your phone speaking of which let's talk about KD connect this is a gem for KD but it also works in Gnome with the GS connect extension it basically lets you share files links or your clipboard between your computer and your phone sort of like airdrop and some features of continuity on Apple devices but it also does a lot more it's pre-installed on KDE and you'll need to install the mobile app for iOS or andro Android the Android version does support more features like notification sync replying to text messages from your desktop and keeping the connection alive even when the app is closed on the phone so it's much much better on Android than on iOS but it's still super neat to send a file from your phone to your PC or vice versa you can also use your phone as a touchpad for your PC you can control slideshows from your phone you can send commands control media playback and more it is a truly amazing application you will probably need to open a port in the firewall of your drro see the KD connect help for that uh I had to run a console command on my new computer to open that port and make it work but once it's done it's just fantastic super well integrated with the system as well for example in Dolphin you can just right click a file and select send via KD connect and it's going to send the file to your phone immediately now you also cannot stop this video without mentioning a few cool tricks for the default KD apps for for example to stamp a PDF for example with a handwritten signature that you just want to paste onto a document you can use ocular the default PDF reader for KDE you just click the stamp button in the toolbar then configure annotations here you can add a new stamp by selecting stamp in the drop down then click the little file button next to the stamp symbol field and select the image you want to use click okay then apply and you will now be able to just click the stamp you want drag the area where you want it to also select its size and boom your PDF is stamped or signed or whatever else you can even move the stamp afterwards in Dolphin the file manager you can just drag and drop text or images from any other app to save them in the current directory you don't need to rightclick and create a new text file or copy and paste you can just drag and drop you can also save images to a different format by copying them from your web browser then right clicking in dolphin and selecting paste clipboard contents you'll be able to select between different formats and the image will be converted automatically for you this has saved me a lot of time especially when just copying pictures for the news videos that are in formats that the Venture resolve doesn't support like avif or webp you can also save a search if you need to use it often you click the search button you set all the filters and parameters you want and you can then click the little save icon next to the search field it will add an entry in the favorites bar so you can always always go back to it you can also access your file browsing history by holding the left click on the previous or next button to see a list of all directories you visited finally the system monitor is entirely customizable you can edit pages to add or remove widgets and show exactly what you want and you can even create pages that will appear in the sidebar when you can choose to monitor whatever you need it's super powerful and it looks really good too of course that's just all the stuff I use this doesn't even begin to scratch the desktop Rising itch with all the custom app launchers panels and widgets and themes you can use for that my setup is relatively simple but you can make something either way more complex or way more toned down and in terms of apps I still need to take a deeper look at what's available but what I found is that the default apps have so many features that I don't need as many small utilities and tools to manage my day-to-day tasks the default have everything I need so let me know if you want me to cover more KD applications tools tips tricks or widgets and if you have certain things that you just cannot live without in KY let me know down there in the comments as well and in the meantime I'll let you know about our sponsor if you're a Linux user and you need to change computers you should probably start looking at devices that ship with Linux pre-installed instead of devices that ship with Windows and one suchar place is tuxedo our sponsor they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed all the hardware and the components have been picked specifically for its compatibility with Linux and if there were some problems to fix they actually submit patches Upstream to fix the hardware compatibility for everyone not just for them so they actively contribute to the development of Linux they have a wide range of devices from laptops to NOS to desktops all the power levels all the price points you might want so there's something for everyone in there all the devices I use daily right now my Steam OS console and my laptop that's also my editing station come from tuxedo and I'm super happy with these devices so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support linux's development and also you want something that you can open repair and upgrade cuz you can do that with tuxedo laptops then 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 didn't you can always click the dislike button and tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoy the channel and you want to support it I left plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye
hey everyone and I can finally publish something this week if you want to know why I didn't look at my left eye massive debilitating allergies so this week we have local graphical de package installation being broken in auntu 23.10 and it might look like a small thing but it's actually a huge problem for beginners we also have the new gnome Foundation executive director raising some eyebrows although I personally cannot understand why and we have yet another installer Tool uh something that open Souza is working on to replace the venerable yast and speaking of venerable if you use an old end of life Dro you might want to listen to this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare your all-in-one solution to ensure your Linux server and workstation Fleet is secure and up to date thanks to Kernel life patching and extended life cycle support for a variety of Linux distributions this week they're providing you with a free data sheet to tell you a bit more about the dangers of running an endof life Linux distribution we all know that it can be daunting and timec consuming to plan a migration to a newer version of a Linux drro let alone to another Dro entirely while limiting downtime and compatibility issues but sticking to an end of life Dro isn't the solution either your support costs will rise with the number of compatibility reliability and security problems you will face and you might even incur legal risks by not taking action to ensure an adequate level of security so to learn more about the risks of running an endof life Linux distribution and about the steps you can take to limit these risks and stay up to date while you plan your migration click the link in the description below and download the free data sheet so a bunch of 2 23.10 might be a pretty nice release for Aon 2 users but it did come with one significant regression that I failed to catch in my review with its brand new app center it simply cannot out of the box install Deb packages you downloaded from the internet at least not graphically this might seem like a nonissue Until you realize that Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Discord or steam all provides Deb packages that you're supposed to download locally and install with a double click a behavior that has been possible since virtually the first release of auntu of course you can still use the command line but the new app center doesn't support installing de packages from anywhere other than the auntu repost which is in my opinion a huge problem all software that has an auntu compatible download from their website will simply not be able to be installed graphically out of the box on 23.10 which is going to be a very bad experience for beginners the solution is obviously to install a tool that can do that either something like gnome software or G de I the latter one being just a graphical Deb package installer this is definitely not a good look for auntu but also for the general Linux desktop most newcomers come from Windows and there's a big fat chance that they're going to start with auntu on windows they're used to downloading an installer online double clicking it to run it and install their app if they try the same behavior on auntu which is normally possible they're going to hit a brick wall and they're going to have to Google or look online for how to install a program which is something that you should not have to look up so yeah not a great look I hope ubon 2 can fix that in the App Center or every single software distributor will have to include some command line tutorials to install their app which kind of sucks The Gnome Foundation has their new executive director and the choice has been making a few waves in the community they picked Holly million someone who has a solid background in leading various nonprofits but also in film making writing and teaching she notably created the nonprofit Artist United and worked for the biobricks foundation a nonprofit in the biotechnology sector what is sort of striking is that she apparently doesn't have any experience in software projects or in it this seems to be raising questions in the community about the selection process but I personally don't think this is such an issue the executive director of The Gnome Foundation isn't expected to review code or to collaborate on software they're expected to be the face of the foundation to improve communication to work on fundraising and Partnerships and as such an experience in management and leading nonprofits is way more valuable than the ability to write code would it be nice if the person selected had worked on software projects sure but also someone who doesn't have a background in that specific space might have more diverse ideas and another approach to creating these Partnerships and raising funds they might look at avenues that someone working in it might not think about so I personally don't think this is a big deal at all nor is Holly's background in Shamanism because yes apparently that's something she has dabbled in I don't think a personal passion or believe should preclude you from working in different sectors or maybe me being a YouTuber right now would make me unsuitable to work in any other industry later down the road I really cannot understand the negative reactions that I've seen around the community about this nomination if you think that an executive level position requires experience in the exact specific industry that you're working on you probably never failed an executive position or maybe never even talked to an executive before when I worked in real estate most of our Executives came from the telecommunication sector and they did an excellent job nonetheless so yeah welcome Holly and I hope you can do a good job looks like every Dro needs to have their own installer these days as obuntu released their own six months ago and Fedora is working on a complete UI revamp of anaconda well open Souza also wants another one to replace yast which while it is very complete and Powerful also looks straight out of the windows 998 era the new agama installer would accompany the new Alp open sua releases and it focuses on being reusable presumably to let other disr use it on integration with third party applications and on letting developers create the interface they want to showcase the install options they need apparently yast has a lot of technical debt and it isn't easy to contribute to since it uses its own UI library that people have to learn so so a new installer makes sense if they want to evolve things a bit a few mockups have been shared which look pretty neat but I'm not sure I like the long scrollable page design they showed here it also doesn't look anything like any Linux desktop but I guess that's not an issue for an installer especially one that lets you pick a desktop environment they want the install workflow to be simpler than yast which will definitely be a better experience for newcomers and they're looking for feedback from the open Souza community to create something that everyone will like installers are the first point of contact a newcomer will have with your Dro so the more legible the easier to understand they are the better and also installing a system on your own device can be super scary if you've never done it before so if it looks friendly if it's reassuring it's all the better so old interfaces from the '90s they're super powerful but they're also not what we need for newcomers now for our round of updates to various Linux desktops and let's start with Cosmic first they unveil their lock screen which puts every important item in a sort of card floating above your wallpaper it looks pretty nice it has all the features you might want including a session switcher to use other desktops than Cosmic and it will support color schemes to customize it the tiling applet has also been developed contributed by the community apparently and letting you get all the features you know from the auto tiling extension of the current iteration of poos Cosmic now supports using a single key as a shortcut like for example super to open the launcher plus they implemented pointer constraints to log the mouse pointer inside certain Windows like for games and they also added dma buff support to let tools like OBS work better on multiple GPU devices like hybrid graphics their UI libraries also now support grid layouts to make building apps easier very good progress here and judging from from the components that they're now working on and sharing I would say there couldn't be far off from an alar release of cosmic and on The Gnome side they improve the performance of VTE which is the library used to build terminal emulator apps like The Gnome console app it uses a better compression algorithm and a lot of code has been optimized as well so it should perform better tracker the indexer tool that powers gnome search has also received improvements to its sandbox and in terms of apps there's override a new app to handle Bluetooth devices and let you send and receive files authenticate support multiple bluetooth adapters and more it's a smaller week than usual on the gome side not that many app updates but also it's good to see them working on the actual back end of the desktop it's not just apps it's also what's used to make gnome run and now it's time for our weekly update on drivers and performance improvements first we have a nice change to the direct rendering manager drivers or DRM but the good kind of DRM not the stuff that locks everything down these drivers will get a few improvements in the Linux kernel 6.7 but what's more interesting is that they're getting relicensed with a dual license the gplv2 and the MIT license the goal is to let these drivers be implemented in other non GPL systems like various bsds for example however to prevent abuse from certain manufacturers hello Nvidia the kernel symbols used by these drivers will be kept GPL only so non GPL drivers cannot take advantage of them something Nvidia has tried to do repeatedly in the past we also have some progress on the open source Nvidia Vulcan driver nvk the Linux kernel 6.6 will add the user space API that nvk needs and the initial nvk code has been merged for Mesa 23.3 that should release before the end of the year on top of that developers are trying to land as many Vulcan extensions and improvements they can to make sure that the first release is solid of course as the developer puts it if you plan to buy an Nvidia GPU because there's that driver coming then you probably shouldn't as it won't be very usable before another year or two they're also working on a rust based Shader compiler that will be crucial to ensure good performance in the future so things are looking good with now the ability to reclo the Nvidia gpus thanks to the nvo drivers update plus the nvk drivers landing and the Linux kernel getting all the apis needed there's a very real future in which there's a complete open-source nvds tag that sure will not catch up with the proprietary drivers in terms of performance for a while but will at least give you a usable experience on your devices and for AMD we also have some progress on raate tracing apparently it reached a point where Gamers can expect it to just work on new titles some issues remain especially for The Witcher 3 and cyber Punk but the general expectation is that rate tracing should now just work of course performance isn't Stellar yet as it still lags a bit behind the official AMD Vulcan drivers performance so this will be the main focus for this work now still rate racing on open source AMD drivers is basically there which is pretty nice for people who sold one of their kidneys to buy one of those new pricey gpus and let's finish this episode with the gaming news first we have Nvidia wanting to help with proton an Nvidia engineer has sent pool requests to the various components of proton including dxvk and vkd3d and the goal is to add support for reflex and low latency in proton this specific piece of software is here to let you enable a low latency mode that will give you a much more reactive gaming experience at least when you pair it with a g-sync compatible display and a compatible Mouse and you're playing at high refresh rates still it's nice to see Nvidia working with valve to bring a better gaming experience to the people who can afford such a setup at the x.org developer conference xdc 2023 there's been two talks about how well HDR and color management support is progressing the first one was from Melissa W from igalia and the second from Joshua Ashton from valve they specific specifically talked about the work they've already done to improve car management and to lend the first bits of HDR support on the steam deck which is going to be available for steo 3.5 there's apparently a lot more work needed to bring HDR support to the general Linux desktop as the protocols in Wayland aren't fully defined yet there's still no proper color management API for Linux and various whan compositors will need to implement support for all of that once it's all properly laid out at least there's a plan and there's a first implementation for the steam deck on our Linux desktops the general use case of HDR is still a few years away but yeah it's being worked on it's good and we also have a new release of lutris which comes with a steam account switcher to let you handle multiple steam accounts from the same interface you also get tags that you can use to sort your games there's support for downloading wine G updates when lutus starts there's exper mental support for flatback based Runners so lutus should get even more compatible with game sources and it also now supports a newer version of gamescope the Steam OS compositor there's also EA integration through the EA app and you can import your origin saves to the new EA prefix that lutrus will create so you don't lose any progress in the migration solid update here but also apparently lutrus is sort of in trouble financially as donations have slowly dried up it's something they only shared on patreon so I won't say more until they talk about it more publicly but if you use and if you rely on lutrus please consider donating or supporting them to make sure that they can actually keep working on the application and please consider listening to this segueway to our sponsor if your PC is due for an upgrade and you plan to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that ship with Windows pre-installed by something that actually supports linux's development from our sponsor tuxedo they make lab tops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box and they pick all the hardware specifically because it runs well with Linux and if there are some quirks or some issues to fix they submit patches Upstream to make sure that everyone can benefit from their work they also have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point from the smallest laptops the most affordable Ultra books to the highest powered gaming laptops or Towers they have it all all my devices that I use daily personally are from tuxedo my Steam OS console and my main laptop which is my editing device as well so if you need a new computer and you want to make sure that Linux runs well on it and you want to support linux's development you want something that is openable repairable and upgradeable click the link in the description below and get yourself a device 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 to write a comment and if you didn't there's always that dislike button and the comment section as well and if you want to support the channel I left plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye he
hey everyone and I can finally publish something this week if you want to know why I didn't look at my left eye massive debilitating allergies so this week we have local graphical de package installation being broken in auntu 23.10 and it might look like a small thing but it's actually a huge problem for beginners we also have the new gnome Foundation executive director raising some eyebrows although I personally cannot understand why and we have yet another installer Tool uh something that open Souza is working on to replace the venerable yast and speaking of venerable if you use an old end of life Dro you might want to listen to this message from our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare your all-in-one solution to ensure your Linux server and workstation Fleet is secure and up to date thanks to Kernel life patching and extended life cycle support for a variety of Linux distributions this week they're providing you with a free data sheet to tell you a bit more about the dangers of running an endof life Linux distribution we all know that it can be daunting and timec consuming to plan a migration to a newer version of a Linux drro let alone to another Dro entirely while limiting downtime and compatibility issues but sticking to an end of life Dro isn't the solution either your support costs will rise with the number of compatibility reliability and security problems you will face and you might even incur legal risks by not taking action to ensure an adequate level of security so to learn more about the risks of running an endof life Linux distribution and about the steps you can take to limit these risks and stay up to date while you plan your migration click the link in the description below and download the free data sheet so a bunch of 2 23.10 might be a pretty nice release for Aon 2 users but it did come with one significant regression that I failed to catch in my review with its brand new app center it simply cannot out of the box install Deb packages you downloaded from the internet at least not graphically this might seem like a nonissue Until you realize that Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Discord or steam all provides Deb packages that you're supposed to download locally and install with a double click a behavior that has been possible since virtually the first release of auntu of course you can still use the command line but the new app center doesn't support installing de packages from anywhere other than the auntu repost which is in my opinion a huge problem all software that has an auntu compatible download from their website will simply not be able to be installed graphically out of the box on 23.10 which is going to be a very bad experience for beginners the solution is obviously to install a tool that can do that either something like gnome software or G de I the latter one being just a graphical Deb package installer this is definitely not a good look for auntu but also for the general Linux desktop most newcomers come from Windows and there's a big fat chance that they're going to start with auntu on windows they're used to downloading an installer online double clicking it to run it and install their app if they try the same behavior on auntu which is normally possible they're going to hit a brick wall and they're going to have to Google or look online for how to install a program which is something that you should not have to look up so yeah not a great look I hope ubon 2 can fix that in the App Center or every single software distributor will have to include some command line tutorials to install their app which kind of sucks The Gnome Foundation has their new executive director and the choice has been making a few waves in the community they picked Holly million someone who has a solid background in leading various nonprofits but also in film making writing and teaching she notably created the nonprofit Artist United and worked for the biobricks foundation a nonprofit in the biotechnology sector what is sort of striking is that she apparently doesn't have any experience in software projects or in it this seems to be raising questions in the community about the selection process but I personally don't think this is such an issue the executive director of The Gnome Foundation isn't expected to review code or to collaborate on software they're expected to be the face of the foundation to improve communication to work on fundraising and Partnerships and as such an experience in management and leading nonprofits is way more valuable than the ability to write code would it be nice if the person selected had worked on software projects sure but also someone who doesn't have a background in that specific space might have more diverse ideas and another approach to creating these Partnerships and raising funds they might look at avenues that someone working in it might not think about so I personally don't think this is a big deal at all nor is Holly's background in Shamanism because yes apparently that's something she has dabbled in I don't think a personal passion or believe should preclude you from working in different sectors or maybe me being a YouTuber right now would make me unsuitable to work in any other industry later down the road I really cannot understand the negative reactions that I've seen around the community about this nomination if you think that an executive level position requires experience in the exact specific industry that you're working on you probably never failed an executive position or maybe never even talked to an executive before when I worked in real estate most of our Executives came from the telecommunication sector and they did an excellent job nonetheless so yeah welcome Holly and I hope you can do a good job looks like every Dro needs to have their own installer these days as obuntu released their own six months ago and Fedora is working on a complete UI revamp of anaconda well open Souza also wants another one to replace yast which while it is very complete and Powerful also looks straight out of the windows 998 era the new agama installer would accompany the new Alp open sua releases and it focuses on being reusable presumably to let other disr use it on integration with third party applications and on letting developers create the interface they want to showcase the install options they need apparently yast has a lot of technical debt and it isn't easy to contribute to since it uses its own UI library that people have to learn so so a new installer makes sense if they want to evolve things a bit a few mockups have been shared which look pretty neat but I'm not sure I like the long scrollable page design they showed here it also doesn't look anything like any Linux desktop but I guess that's not an issue for an installer especially one that lets you pick a desktop environment they want the install workflow to be simpler than yast which will definitely be a better experience for newcomers and they're looking for feedback from the open Souza community to create something that everyone will like installers are the first point of contact a newcomer will have with your Dro so the more legible the easier to understand they are the better and also installing a system on your own device can be super scary if you've never done it before so if it looks friendly if it's reassuring it's all the better so old interfaces from the '90s they're super powerful but they're also not what we need for newcomers now for our round of updates to various Linux desktops and let's start with Cosmic first they unveil their lock screen which puts every important item in a sort of card floating above your wallpaper it looks pretty nice it has all the features you might want including a session switcher to use other desktops than Cosmic and it will support color schemes to customize it the tiling applet has also been developed contributed by the community apparently and letting you get all the features you know from the auto tiling extension of the current iteration of poos Cosmic now supports using a single key as a shortcut like for example super to open the launcher plus they implemented pointer constraints to log the mouse pointer inside certain Windows like for games and they also added dma buff support to let tools like OBS work better on multiple GPU devices like hybrid graphics their UI libraries also now support grid layouts to make building apps easier very good progress here and judging from from the components that they're now working on and sharing I would say there couldn't be far off from an alar release of cosmic and on The Gnome side they improve the performance of VTE which is the library used to build terminal emulator apps like The Gnome console app it uses a better compression algorithm and a lot of code has been optimized as well so it should perform better tracker the indexer tool that powers gnome search has also received improvements to its sandbox and in terms of apps there's override a new app to handle Bluetooth devices and let you send and receive files authenticate support multiple bluetooth adapters and more it's a smaller week than usual on the gome side not that many app updates but also it's good to see them working on the actual back end of the desktop it's not just apps it's also what's used to make gnome run and now it's time for our weekly update on drivers and performance improvements first we have a nice change to the direct rendering manager drivers or DRM but the good kind of DRM not the stuff that locks everything down these drivers will get a few improvements in the Linux kernel 6.7 but what's more interesting is that they're getting relicensed with a dual license the gplv2 and the MIT license the goal is to let these drivers be implemented in other non GPL systems like various bsds for example however to prevent abuse from certain manufacturers hello Nvidia the kernel symbols used by these drivers will be kept GPL only so non GPL drivers cannot take advantage of them something Nvidia has tried to do repeatedly in the past we also have some progress on the open source Nvidia Vulcan driver nvk the Linux kernel 6.6 will add the user space API that nvk needs and the initial nvk code has been merged for Mesa 23.3 that should release before the end of the year on top of that developers are trying to land as many Vulcan extensions and improvements they can to make sure that the first release is solid of course as the developer puts it if you plan to buy an Nvidia GPU because there's that driver coming then you probably shouldn't as it won't be very usable before another year or two they're also working on a rust based Shader compiler that will be crucial to ensure good performance in the future so things are looking good with now the ability to reclo the Nvidia gpus thanks to the nvo drivers update plus the nvk drivers landing and the Linux kernel getting all the apis needed there's a very real future in which there's a complete open-source nvds tag that sure will not catch up with the proprietary drivers in terms of performance for a while but will at least give you a usable experience on your devices and for AMD we also have some progress on raate tracing apparently it reached a point where Gamers can expect it to just work on new titles some issues remain especially for The Witcher 3 and cyber Punk but the general expectation is that rate tracing should now just work of course performance isn't Stellar yet as it still lags a bit behind the official AMD Vulcan drivers performance so this will be the main focus for this work now still rate racing on open source AMD drivers is basically there which is pretty nice for people who sold one of their kidneys to buy one of those new pricey gpus and let's finish this episode with the gaming news first we have Nvidia wanting to help with proton an Nvidia engineer has sent pool requests to the various components of proton including dxvk and vkd3d and the goal is to add support for reflex and low latency in proton this specific piece of software is here to let you enable a low latency mode that will give you a much more reactive gaming experience at least when you pair it with a g-sync compatible display and a compatible Mouse and you're playing at high refresh rates still it's nice to see Nvidia working with valve to bring a better gaming experience to the people who can afford such a setup at the x.org developer conference xdc 2023 there's been two talks about how well HDR and color management support is progressing the first one was from Melissa W from igalia and the second from Joshua Ashton from valve they specific specifically talked about the work they've already done to improve car management and to lend the first bits of HDR support on the steam deck which is going to be available for steo 3.5 there's apparently a lot more work needed to bring HDR support to the general Linux desktop as the protocols in Wayland aren't fully defined yet there's still no proper color management API for Linux and various whan compositors will need to implement support for all of that once it's all properly laid out at least there's a plan and there's a first implementation for the steam deck on our Linux desktops the general use case of HDR is still a few years away but yeah it's being worked on it's good and we also have a new release of lutris which comes with a steam account switcher to let you handle multiple steam accounts from the same interface you also get tags that you can use to sort your games there's support for downloading wine G updates when lutus starts there's exper mental support for flatback based Runners so lutus should get even more compatible with game sources and it also now supports a newer version of gamescope the Steam OS compositor there's also EA integration through the EA app and you can import your origin saves to the new EA prefix that lutrus will create so you don't lose any progress in the migration solid update here but also apparently lutrus is sort of in trouble financially as donations have slowly dried up it's something they only shared on patreon so I won't say more until they talk about it more publicly but if you use and if you rely on lutrus please consider donating or supporting them to make sure that they can actually keep working on the application and please consider listening to this segueway to our sponsor if your PC is due for an upgrade and you plan to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that ship with Windows pre-installed by something that actually supports linux's development from our sponsor tuxedo they make lab tops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box and they pick all the hardware specifically because it runs well with Linux and if there are some quirks or some issues to fix they submit patches Upstream to make sure that everyone can benefit from their work they also have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point from the smallest laptops the most affordable Ultra books to the highest powered gaming laptops or Towers they have it all all my devices that I use daily personally are from tuxedo my Steam OS console and my main laptop which is my editing device as well so if you need a new computer and you want to make sure that Linux runs well on it and you want to support linux's development you want something that is openable repairable and upgradeable click the link in the description below and get yourself a device 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 to write a comment and if you didn't there's always that dislike button and the comment section as well and if you want to support the channel I left plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] bye he
has it been 6 months already okay well I guess it's time to talk about Aon 2 again 23.10 code named Mantic minor is either already out or will be in a few hours and for once it's a big update to auntu with a lot of cool new features so without further Ado let's just look at all the changes plus the changes in all the official flavors if you're just not a gnome person this can happen so we'll begin with the auntu spe specific features while the desktop will look the same as in 23.04 you will get the whole new tiling assistant extension added right out of the box it expands on the edge styling that gnome already brings by letting you do quarter tiling so you have more flexibility in how you organize your workspace you can simply drag a window to a corner of the screen and it will automatically resize to use a quarter of the available space of course resizing a window window will automatically scale all others to adapt you can also scale a window to use half of your screen's height by dragging it to the bottom Edge or to the top Edge this in my opinion creates a small usability issue as when you're dragging a window up you generally want to maximize it which it will still do if you drop the window fast enough if you linger a bit too long at the top Edge then it will only be half scaled which might end up being confusing when diing a window to a half of the screen you will also get a little popup showing your currently open apps that could occupy the free space that's left you're free to either select one or click anywhere else to dismiss that popup finally you will get what they call tile groups meaning that if you tile two windows side by side when you click one of these windows the other one will also be placed to the Forefront of the display not just the tiled window you clicked for example here I have a floating Nautilus window overlapping two tiled apps if I click on one of these both are raised and none are covered by my file manager window these features are pretty handy you can disable them all together if you don't want them from the Ubuntu desktop settings or you can just disable tile groups or you can just disable that little popup when you have free space that could be filled with another app I'm not a big fan of the half of the vertical height scaling of the windows taking the place of the maximized window if you're not fast enough but maybe that's just me now obuntu 23.10 also comes with a brand new obuntu app store called the app center yes just like in elementary us I guess there aren't a 100 ways to name an app store so yeah it's App Center again it's a really well-designed application made with flutter the let's call it official toolkits to build Aon two apps while it is a snap first App Store It Won't Stop you from installing apps from the Ubuntu repos since Debian packages are supported after all there was some doubt that they would but they're still here for how long who knows because the future is definitely snap for auntu so you better get used to Debian packages taking a back seat more and more now this app is no longer a fork of gnome software and it opens blazingly fast now it handles app installs and uninstalls plus app updates graph ly it looks really nice with a nice set of categories on the left although there aren't many of them with just productivity development and games the list views are nice and fast the app pages still lack some info though compared to gnome software or discover you won't get many links to access the code the documentation or the help you don't get release notes you can't see written reviews just votes made with thumbs up or down and you can't see permissions either definitely a lot less information than what you would get on a flatback first App Center like gnome software or discover I don't know if that's because snap does not support those features or if they just didn't want to include them also if an app is available as a snap and as a Deb it will only show you the snap version in the app details you can still install the Debian package version though when searching for the app there's a drop- down menu in the search results where you can choose to display de packages instead once you've selected that all your future searches will display Debian packages first until you close the app center at which point you will have to select Debian packages from the drop down again in all aspects this is an upgrade from the bad Fork of gnome software auntu used previously it looks better it's much faster and you don't really lose any options here it is a very good change in my opinion and it doesn't phase out their packages which I was worried it would although let's all be honest in the future snaps will be the only way to get graphical apps on auntu I don't know how long deian packages have but they're going the way of the dodo at some point now aun 2 23.10 also comes with a new firmware updator application also written using flutter it uses the Linux vendor firmware Service as a back end of course so it's basically just a graphical user interface for the FW upd demon this was previously handled by the auntu App Store but I think it's better to have a separate app here and also it's better for performance because you don't have to have the App Store running in the background all the time to check for these updates it's a simple app it shows your devices that firmware update can handle and it will tell you if something has updates available and it lets you run these updates graphically and I know that you drro Hub basically every month I I see you I know what you did so yeah you're going to have to deal with the obuntu installer so let's talk about that the installer is still the new one that they introduced recently and it's still very good looking fast and very smooth but it now defaults to a new install method with just the essentials you will only get a few system utilities a web browser a text editor an image and PDF viewer the App Store the file manager and that's it if you want the full complement of apps open to usually ships then you will have to select the full install option instead they haven't introduced the new screen that they wanted that would let you pick and choose each app you want to install specifically so I guess this will be pushed for maybe the next LTS 24.4 there's also a new experimental full dis encryption option that uses the TPM chip of your computer if it has one it's not the default because well it is still experimental and it will not work if you don't have secure boot enabled or proprietary NVIDIA drivers or a TPM 2.0 chip or in certain dual boot boot cases the main advantage of this new method is to provide encryption without needing a passphrase to decrypt the computer the TPM chip will handle the decryption instead in the future it will probably be good better than the traditional encryption that ask you to type something every time you unlock your computer but for now I would recommend you don't use it unless you have a spare computer lying around which you don't care about and of course Aon 2 23.10 ships with gnome 45 I already covered all those changes in a dedicated video there's a link to it in the description but still here is a recap of the main changes that you can enjoy in auntu 23.10 first the activities button has been replaced with a workspaces indicator that shows you how many virtual desktops you have to the left and to the right of the current one you can also scroll over it to move to the previous or next workspace clicking it just brings the activities view like before background apps have been improved in the quick settings with the ability to click them to open a window and a little indicator when closing an app still in the quick settings you will get a keyboard backlight toggle that lets you turn that feature on or off or select the brightness level you prefer and in the panel you will get a camera indicator when an app is accessing your webcam so you know you're currently being seen by an application in terms of apps there's a new split header bar design for apps like Nautilus and the settings which looks pretty good and not it has gained improved search it's way faster and there's now a button to search the whole system and not just the directory you're in and its subdirectories some people will say that this feature should have been there from the beginning and some people all right in the settings you will get a new system dialogue with more information about your computer and an easily clickable button to copy all that information you can close it by pressing escape just like you now can for every other popup up dialogue in the settings there's also a new privacy page better designed and a few other Pages have been touched up like with virtually every release of every desktop environment like seriously they cannot leave the settings alone finally the compositor mutter gain support for yuv color space so it should handle certain movies and shows much better and it now has a separate thread to handle the mouse pointer under whand which will result in a lot less lag and input DeLay So that that's a big Improvement under the hood 23.10 will now use a more secure method to add PPA and it ships with the Linux kernel 6.5 so you should get the latest Hardware support and a bunch of performance improvements app armor was improved now letting you require an app armor profile to use software that accesses unprivileged username spaces so it's basically applications that interact with the Linux kernel without requiring rout access this is the source of a lot of security vulnerabilities so if you need some extra security you can enable this new feature and all the software that wants to access the kernel interfaces will now need to have an app armor profile setup to run app armor being a system that lets you either monitor or restrict what a process can do on your computer it's basically like SE Linux but for auntu Mantic minor will be supported for 9 months as it's not an LTS release so it's only suitable if you don't mind running big upgrades regularly so this is it for the regular version The Gnome based version of obun 220 3.10 and it's a fantastic release it's great to see auntu finally moving forward with their own vision for the desktop it's still gnome underneath but they're iterating on it again and now they have their own apps to support their packaging format and ecosystem I think it's a good sign to see that auntu is now ready to focus on the death desktop again and if you like obon 2 then it's a no-brainer update it's obon 2 at its best now let's look at the flavors the one with the most changes is auntu budgie which updates to budgie 10.8 this has a new trash applet there's the new Mac Pi compositor to better support X11 while budgie plans its transition to being whand only there's a new dialogue to get super user permissions their support for performance profiles in the power applet Plus some theme refinements with a green accent color by default and a lot of smaller changes to the control center the applets their support for Raspberry Pi more themes being bundled out of the box and more it's definitely a big update from 23.10 but the major changes to budgie will probably come with budgie 11 which is still a long way away and will be whand only open to Cinnamon moves to Cinnamon 5.8.4 which will give you touchpad and touch tou screen gestures with a lot of configuration options for what these can do and how to trigger them there's the new Global dark mode setting there's better support for desktop portals and flat pack apps although flat pack is not enabled by default here as in all AB to Flavors you get the new Styles feature which lets you change the whole theme in one click plus accent colors for the styles that support it the tool tips are redesigned and use the accent color now the file manager performs better at generating thumbnails and it's now possible to run apps with the dedicated GPU using hybrid graphics systems it is a great update as well with a bunch of improvements that Linux Mint users have enjoyed for a few months now definitely worthwhile to click that upgrade button for KU 2 there's not much new it's KD 527.020 of course flatback is not enabled by default same for obuntu Studio it uses the same KD version as kubuntu and the only really notable change is the removal of the option to enable the backport PPA at install because it is deprecated for non-lts releases obun 2 mate is still on mate 1.26 with the latest bug fixes and improved support for desktop portals for zon 2 23.10 you get the latest xfc 4.18 so nothing changes from 23.04 apart from the kernel and Library version changes that auntu 23.10 brings finally Lun 22310 is also a very light update moving back to calamares for the installer but without any updates to the desktop environment I couldn't find any info on Aon unity 23.10 and I did not notice any changes to the desktop from 23.04 while trying out the beta although maybe I just missed those changes because I am not the most familiar with obuntu unity these days so basically for the flavors there's not much new unless you're a budgie or a cinnamon user I would expect kbuntu and auntu Studio to have way bigger releases for 24.4 because this should bring plasma 6 and I will bring this segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a new computer stop looking at devices that come with Windows pre-installed and crossing your fingers to hope that your Linux drro of voice will run perfectly on it grab a computer that was made to support Linux from the link in the description from our sponsor tuxedo all my computers are now from tuxedo my Steam OS console which is a tuxedo Q PC and my laptop which is also my editing station which is an infinti Book Pro 16 those are amazing but they have a way bigger range than that that should cover all your needs and all the price points from an Ultra Book to a knock to a giant Tower whether it's for gaming for office work they have it all all the devices are very customizable for the laptops you can even pick your own custom keyboard layout or have your own logo and graved on the LD and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux and you want to support linux's development because tuxedo actually contributes patches Upstream to fix the various issues they have when they start testing new hardware well if you want all of that click the link in the description below and buy yourself a PC from tuxedo there 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 the comment and if you didn't there's always that dislike button and you can tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoy the channel there are plenty of links in the description of the video to support 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has it been 6 months already okay well I guess it's time to talk about Aon 2 again 23.10 code named Mantic minor is either already out or will be in a few hours and for once it's a big update to auntu with a lot of cool new features so without further Ado let's just look at all the changes plus the changes in all the official flavors if you're just not a gnome person this can happen so we'll begin with the auntu spe specific features while the desktop will look the same as in 23.04 you will get the whole new tiling assistant extension added right out of the box it expands on the edge styling that gnome already brings by letting you do quarter tiling so you have more flexibility in how you organize your workspace you can simply drag a window to a corner of the screen and it will automatically resize to use a quarter of the available space of course resizing a window window will automatically scale all others to adapt you can also scale a window to use half of your screen's height by dragging it to the bottom Edge or to the top Edge this in my opinion creates a small usability issue as when you're dragging a window up you generally want to maximize it which it will still do if you drop the window fast enough if you linger a bit too long at the top Edge then it will only be half scaled which might end up being confusing when diing a window to a half of the screen you will also get a little popup showing your currently open apps that could occupy the free space that's left you're free to either select one or click anywhere else to dismiss that popup finally you will get what they call tile groups meaning that if you tile two windows side by side when you click one of these windows the other one will also be placed to the Forefront of the display not just the tiled window you clicked for example here I have a floating Nautilus window overlapping two tiled apps if I click on one of these both are raised and none are covered by my file manager window these features are pretty handy you can disable them all together if you don't want them from the Ubuntu desktop settings or you can just disable tile groups or you can just disable that little popup when you have free space that could be filled with another app I'm not a big fan of the half of the vertical height scaling of the windows taking the place of the maximized window if you're not fast enough but maybe that's just me now obuntu 23.10 also comes with a brand new obuntu app store called the app center yes just like in elementary us I guess there aren't a 100 ways to name an app store so yeah it's App Center again it's a really well-designed application made with flutter the let's call it official toolkits to build Aon two apps while it is a snap first App Store It Won't Stop you from installing apps from the Ubuntu repos since Debian packages are supported after all there was some doubt that they would but they're still here for how long who knows because the future is definitely snap for auntu so you better get used to Debian packages taking a back seat more and more now this app is no longer a fork of gnome software and it opens blazingly fast now it handles app installs and uninstalls plus app updates graph ly it looks really nice with a nice set of categories on the left although there aren't many of them with just productivity development and games the list views are nice and fast the app pages still lack some info though compared to gnome software or discover you won't get many links to access the code the documentation or the help you don't get release notes you can't see written reviews just votes made with thumbs up or down and you can't see permissions either definitely a lot less information than what you would get on a flatback first App Center like gnome software or discover I don't know if that's because snap does not support those features or if they just didn't want to include them also if an app is available as a snap and as a Deb it will only show you the snap version in the app details you can still install the Debian package version though when searching for the app there's a drop- down menu in the search results where you can choose to display de packages instead once you've selected that all your future searches will display Debian packages first until you close the app center at which point you will have to select Debian packages from the drop down again in all aspects this is an upgrade from the bad Fork of gnome software auntu used previously it looks better it's much faster and you don't really lose any options here it is a very good change in my opinion and it doesn't phase out their packages which I was worried it would although let's all be honest in the future snaps will be the only way to get graphical apps on auntu I don't know how long deian packages have but they're going the way of the dodo at some point now aun 2 23.10 also comes with a new firmware updator application also written using flutter it uses the Linux vendor firmware Service as a back end of course so it's basically just a graphical user interface for the FW upd demon this was previously handled by the auntu App Store but I think it's better to have a separate app here and also it's better for performance because you don't have to have the App Store running in the background all the time to check for these updates it's a simple app it shows your devices that firmware update can handle and it will tell you if something has updates available and it lets you run these updates graphically and I know that you drro Hub basically every month I I see you I know what you did so yeah you're going to have to deal with the obuntu installer so let's talk about that the installer is still the new one that they introduced recently and it's still very good looking fast and very smooth but it now defaults to a new install method with just the essentials you will only get a few system utilities a web browser a text editor an image and PDF viewer the App Store the file manager and that's it if you want the full complement of apps open to usually ships then you will have to select the full install option instead they haven't introduced the new screen that they wanted that would let you pick and choose each app you want to install specifically so I guess this will be pushed for maybe the next LTS 24.4 there's also a new experimental full dis encryption option that uses the TPM chip of your computer if it has one it's not the default because well it is still experimental and it will not work if you don't have secure boot enabled or proprietary NVIDIA drivers or a TPM 2.0 chip or in certain dual boot boot cases the main advantage of this new method is to provide encryption without needing a passphrase to decrypt the computer the TPM chip will handle the decryption instead in the future it will probably be good better than the traditional encryption that ask you to type something every time you unlock your computer but for now I would recommend you don't use it unless you have a spare computer lying around which you don't care about and of course Aon 2 23.10 ships with gnome 45 I already covered all those changes in a dedicated video there's a link to it in the description but still here is a recap of the main changes that you can enjoy in auntu 23.10 first the activities button has been replaced with a workspaces indicator that shows you how many virtual desktops you have to the left and to the right of the current one you can also scroll over it to move to the previous or next workspace clicking it just brings the activities view like before background apps have been improved in the quick settings with the ability to click them to open a window and a little indicator when closing an app still in the quick settings you will get a keyboard backlight toggle that lets you turn that feature on or off or select the brightness level you prefer and in the panel you will get a camera indicator when an app is accessing your webcam so you know you're currently being seen by an application in terms of apps there's a new split header bar design for apps like Nautilus and the settings which looks pretty good and not it has gained improved search it's way faster and there's now a button to search the whole system and not just the directory you're in and its subdirectories some people will say that this feature should have been there from the beginning and some people all right in the settings you will get a new system dialogue with more information about your computer and an easily clickable button to copy all that information you can close it by pressing escape just like you now can for every other popup up dialogue in the settings there's also a new privacy page better designed and a few other Pages have been touched up like with virtually every release of every desktop environment like seriously they cannot leave the settings alone finally the compositor mutter gain support for yuv color space so it should handle certain movies and shows much better and it now has a separate thread to handle the mouse pointer under whand which will result in a lot less lag and input DeLay So that that's a big Improvement under the hood 23.10 will now use a more secure method to add PPA and it ships with the Linux kernel 6.5 so you should get the latest Hardware support and a bunch of performance improvements app armor was improved now letting you require an app armor profile to use software that accesses unprivileged username spaces so it's basically applications that interact with the Linux kernel without requiring rout access this is the source of a lot of security vulnerabilities so if you need some extra security you can enable this new feature and all the software that wants to access the kernel interfaces will now need to have an app armor profile setup to run app armor being a system that lets you either monitor or restrict what a process can do on your computer it's basically like SE Linux but for auntu Mantic minor will be supported for 9 months as it's not an LTS release so it's only suitable if you don't mind running big upgrades regularly so this is it for the regular version The Gnome based version of obun 220 3.10 and it's a fantastic release it's great to see auntu finally moving forward with their own vision for the desktop it's still gnome underneath but they're iterating on it again and now they have their own apps to support their packaging format and ecosystem I think it's a good sign to see that auntu is now ready to focus on the death desktop again and if you like obon 2 then it's a no-brainer update it's obon 2 at its best now let's look at the flavors the one with the most changes is auntu budgie which updates to budgie 10.8 this has a new trash applet there's the new Mac Pi compositor to better support X11 while budgie plans its transition to being whand only there's a new dialogue to get super user permissions their support for performance profiles in the power applet Plus some theme refinements with a green accent color by default and a lot of smaller changes to the control center the applets their support for Raspberry Pi more themes being bundled out of the box and more it's definitely a big update from 23.10 but the major changes to budgie will probably come with budgie 11 which is still a long way away and will be whand only open to Cinnamon moves to Cinnamon 5.8.4 which will give you touchpad and touch tou screen gestures with a lot of configuration options for what these can do and how to trigger them there's the new Global dark mode setting there's better support for desktop portals and flat pack apps although flat pack is not enabled by default here as in all AB to Flavors you get the new Styles feature which lets you change the whole theme in one click plus accent colors for the styles that support it the tool tips are redesigned and use the accent color now the file manager performs better at generating thumbnails and it's now possible to run apps with the dedicated GPU using hybrid graphics systems it is a great update as well with a bunch of improvements that Linux Mint users have enjoyed for a few months now definitely worthwhile to click that upgrade button for KU 2 there's not much new it's KD 527.020 of course flatback is not enabled by default same for obuntu Studio it uses the same KD version as kubuntu and the only really notable change is the removal of the option to enable the backport PPA at install because it is deprecated for non-lts releases obun 2 mate is still on mate 1.26 with the latest bug fixes and improved support for desktop portals for zon 2 23.10 you get the latest xfc 4.18 so nothing changes from 23.04 apart from the kernel and Library version changes that auntu 23.10 brings finally Lun 22310 is also a very light update moving back to calamares for the installer but without any updates to the desktop environment I couldn't find any info on Aon unity 23.10 and I did not notice any changes to the desktop from 23.04 while trying out the beta although maybe I just missed those changes because I am not the most familiar with obuntu unity these days so basically for the flavors there's not much new unless you're a budgie or a cinnamon user I would expect kbuntu and auntu Studio to have way bigger releases for 24.4 because this should bring plasma 6 and I will bring this segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a new computer stop looking at devices that come with Windows pre-installed and crossing your fingers to hope that your Linux drro of voice will run perfectly on it grab a computer that was made to support Linux from the link in the description from our sponsor tuxedo all my computers are now from tuxedo my Steam OS console which is a tuxedo Q PC and my laptop which is also my editing station which is an infinti Book Pro 16 those are amazing but they have a way bigger range than that that should cover all your needs and all the price points from an Ultra Book to a knock to a giant Tower whether it's for gaming for office work they have it all all the devices are very customizable for the laptops you can even pick your own custom keyboard layout or have your own logo and graved on the LD and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux and you want to support linux's development because tuxedo actually contributes patches Upstream to fix the various issues they have when they start testing new hardware well if you want all of that click the link in the description below and buy yourself a PC from tuxedo there 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 the comment and if you didn't there's always that dislike button and you can tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoy the channel there are plenty of links in the description of the video to support it from Liber pay PayPal patreon YouTube thanks YouTube memberships you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music]
I've talked about EOS in the past it's my favorite D Googled Android rum they remove most Google related things that lineage leaves in and they have their own set of open-source apps with a coherent design language and they also offer to replace your Google account with an account on the nextcloud instance they host if you want that but compatibility for these alternative Android ROMs has always been an issue chances are your current phone can't run this at all which is why e or Marina as their parent not for-profit Foundation is now called introduced their own smartphone that runs slos out of the box they already had Partnerships with fairphone and they sold refurbished smartphones as well but now they're building their own so I have a pre-production sample right here that they sent me to test and I'm going to give you my thoughts on it and to be noted this video is not sponsored by Marine they didn't pay me anything I have to send back this pre-production unit once I'm done with it so yeah not sponsored these thoughts are my own so this is the marina 2 this isn't the completely finalized design so the back of the phone and the prodection that came in the Box aren't completely final and might change a little as evidenced by the fact that both privacy switches don't have a cutout in the rubber case for now the very point of the marina 2 is to offer a privacy focused phone it comes with/ EOS which we'll talk about in a minute and it has a privacy switch to disconnect the cameras and microphone and another switch to completely shut off any connectivity the phone has the first switch for the camera and mic is a physical one it completely shuts off the connection to the camera and the mic and no software action can bring them back as long as the switch is toggled the connectivity switch is purely software and will just turn on airplane mode and will mute your phone so it's more of a big do not disturb mode than a privacy switch Marina told me that they're improving how this switch Works to make sure that you can't disable airplane mode while the switch is toggled on and they're also trying to add customization options so you can pick which software action this switch does so think of it as a iPhone 15 like action button or a better bigb button but honestly any button is a better button than the Big B button so that's the basics but what does the phone actually do it comes with a mediatech CPU with four performance scores at 2.1 GHz and four efficiency cores at 2 GHz it has 8 gigs of RAM 128 gigs of storage plus a Micro SD card slot it supports dual SIM and the OLED screen is 6.43 3 in with relatively slim bezels and a resolution of 1080x 2400 plus a hole punch cut out for the selfie camera which is 25 megapixels on the back you get three camera lenses one is your standard lens at 64 megapixels one is an ultra wide at 13 mapel and one is a telephoto lens at 5 megapixel it has a 4,000 mAh battery with support for high-speed charging at 18 ws and it's supports Wi-Fi AC and Bluetooth 4.2 and it's 4G not 5G and this might prove an issue for some people for me personally I live in France 5G is completely useless and virtually non-existent so I do not care but depending on where you live this might be a problem and so the phone isn't completely future proof 4G is relatively Global and should work on every carrier in the EU Canada and the US although in the the US it doesn't work with Verizon and they recommend using T-Mobile so that's pretty mid-range Hardware with a focus on privacy the design is nice enough it's basically an iPhone like squared brick with a nice grippy plastic back it weighs 182 G and it feels really well built it has a USBC port for charging of course and while it's a bit bigger than what I usually prefer using it fits nicely in the hand it also comes with a finger print sensor under the power button which works perfectly and also there is no headphone jack here which I am sure will annoy some people better get used to that though this is basically a dead feature on every new phone coming out I'm not saying I like it but it's a fact Marina also say they have a 6 out of 10 on repairability and they will offer spare parts and schematics for easy repair it's not fair phone level repairability but it's still something that thinking about so that's nice they will provide 5 years of support for the software at least and they say it will probably be more as they are still supporting 10-year-old Hardware with/ EOS speaking of which let's see how well this specific ROM runs on this specific phone so/ e is now at version 1.15 it's based on Android 13 now and it still comes with its own launcher and set of apps which are all open- Source Forks of other open- source apps modified to better integrate with the/ e account you can decide to create even though it's completely optional and also all these apps share a visual design language that most other aosb based ROMs can't quite reach of course it's still Android so you can replace any of that by whatever you want on the marina 2 EOS runs okay it's not perfectly smooth animations can sometimes Jitter a bit bit but generally the experience is what you would expect from a mid-range Android smartphone it's not high refresh rate buttery smoothness but it's definitely not annoying in some apps you will definitely notice these stutters like in the app Lounge when scrolling but navigating the phone is good enough and video playback and games run well at least Subway Surfers and asphal 9 do and we all know that there are no other Android games are there the haptics don't seem to be perfectly configured yet as typing on the keyboard provides a very tiny sort of clicky rattle instead of a nice vibration and going back using gestures also doesn't feel super tactile but that's probably because it's a pre-production model generally I cannot say what will or won't be fixed on the final Hardware what I've got is a pre-production model some things might be fixed in the hardware side of things some things might be fixed on the software side of things and some things might not be fixed at all the two privacy switches work perfectly with the one on the right toggling airplane mode and do not disturb and the one on the left shutting down the camera and the mic both have a little LED as well to indicate that these switches are on although the handling of them could be improved as for example launching the camera app with the Privacy toggle on will spit out an error instead of a smoother message indicating that your privacy toggle is on again pre-production issues Marina told me that they're working to fix how well these switches work apart from that it's the/ EOS experience I remember you get that iOS like launcher with a grid of apps you get widgets with a swipe right and you get the app Lounge which gives you access to virtually every single app in the Play Store including paid ones if you decide to use a Google account although some reports in the past seem to indicate that Google sometimes Bans accounts that use alternative app stores it looked like the Bann accounts were mostly dummy ones that weren't used for a while and so were purged by Google but it's not 100% confirmed so if you want to download paid apps or buy stuff on the app Lounge you probably should create an account specifically for that and not use your very own Google account although you also should not use a Google account at all on these kinds of devices because that's sort of the goal to degoogle your life app Lounge still has the Privacy ratings the list of permissions and trackers and it lets you filter apps to only show open- Source ones or pwas only it's still a really good alternative app store testing the phone further the screen is really nice and bright with very Vivid colors it feels pretty damn nice to use but that's probably because it's OLED OLED screens are always nice the cameras are pretty basic the telephoto had a very hard time focusing on anything for me but the other two worked fine although you won't find the same kind of postprocessing you will get on most Android phones so your pictures might not look as sharp or well balanced as on say a pixel or even a Samsung a series phone the front-facing camera though is pretty solid and produces nice pictures all things considered the speakers are decent enough for a phone they won't blow you away or anything but they get pretty loud without distorting too much or at all [Music] they are bottom firing there's no stereo speaker using the earpiece of the phone the microphone isn't great though your vocal messages and phone calls will not sound extremely crisp apart from that you get the usual e experience the advanced privacy settings that let you block tracker system wide in every app or hide your location and IP address at the Press of a switch straight from the widget screen and the ability to manage each app's permission and see The Trackers that were blocked you get the marina account as I said optional that gives you a next cloud account for free with 1 gig of storage and paid plans for more plus a free email address email hiding features and Marina office which is only office integrated with the next Cloud instance all of this comes with no ads no tracking and Marina says that they cannot read the contents of your email they don't have an ad business so they have virtually no single interest in reading or parsing or tracking you around all of this basically it's a free complete replacement with one single account for your Google account or your iCloud account except it's hosted in the EU and it's based on open source technology now for the drawback this is all funded through Kickstarter but before you close the video let me just point out a few things first with the kickstarter the phone is €3.99 without it it will be $499 which is a bit steep for the specs second this is coming from a not for-profit that has already successfully run a Kickstarter campaign and the campaign is already fully funded it reached its goal in 24 hours admittedly that goal wasn't very high at €25,000 because they don't do this to fund the entire project they just needed it to make sure they have the minimum order quantity with their Hardware partner so what you're doing is basically pre-ordering the phone and if you do so it's supposed to be shipping in December 2023 all the way to January 2024 and it will be available for everyone to buy in the first quarter of 2024 as with all Kickstarter campaigns I am not recommending that you buy or that you do not buy this thing it's your money it's your decision personally I really like Marina I think they're trustworthy they've been created by the person who created mandre Linux I think they've only done good things and/ e is a very good software product that I got to try on my own phones and on a fair phone 4 I actually used it for a full year in the past but ultimately it's your decision to make it's your money and you decide who you want to trust personally while I like the phone it is not suitable for my needs it is not smooth enough in navigation and I am too used to high refresh rates to go back to 60 HZ while SL EOS is definitely mature enough for my needs I will not move back to it until they support at least my Galaxy S21 that's currently sitting in a drawer at that point I will happily jump back since all the apps I need are supported as for the marina 2 it's a solid mid-range phone it's really well built it feels really good in hand but it does feel a bit underpowered sometimes and whether the price is good or not will depend on your own financial situation so if you're interested I left a link to their Kickstarter campaign in the descript of the video so you can back that already backed project if you want to and I also left a link to our sponsor tuxedo tuxedo sells laptops and desktops but not smartphones yet pre-installed with Linux they specifically pick the hardware so that it works really well with Linux and if there were some quirks or Kinks to iron out they generally submit patches Upstream to fix that issue for everyone not just their own computers they have a Sol range of devices that should cover all needs and all price points whether you need an Ultrabook an affordable laptop something super powerful something for gaming a tower a knock a smaller form fter desktop they have it all all the devices have a lot of customization options for the hardware inside but also for the keyboard layout of the laptop for your logo on the lead of your laptop and everything in between and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the battery the SSD and sometimes the the wireless carard so if you need a new computer click the link in the description below and buy yourself something from tuxedo they're the only computer brand that I use these days and they're really good so thanks everyone for watching the video as always 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hey everyone this is Nick and it's time for the Linux and open source news and this week is all about the desktop because first we've got the release of Elementary OS 7.1 which might seem like it's a small version number bump but it has a lot of small torches to the entirety of the operating system we also have some malware sneaking its way onto the Snap Store although some might argue that snap is the malware itself and we also have France wanting to ban vpns or maybe at least make them pretty useless what's not useless though is the 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 Allin 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 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 Elementary OS 7.1 was released and while it's a minor version bump it still packs a lot of small improvements to the distribution its desktop and its apps first you now get integration with the background and auto start portal so you can view and disable apps that want to start with your computer calendar mail and tasks now use the background apps portal as well and the location services now uses portal also so everything should be up to Snuff the app center will now let you know which permissions apps can access including location notifications background and auto start Behavior accessing various folders reading and writing system settings or Escaping The Sandbox the side load app that lets you install flat packs from outside the Elementary OS remote will also display this information there are new settings to tweak the color through display filters for people with vision disabilities like for example being color blind with multiple choices of colar pairings there's also a grayscale filter now to reduce distraction keyboard navigation has been improved letting you now switch between Windows of the same apps and custom keyboard shortcuts can now access a wider range of keys in the process the keyboard settings have been completely revamped with new settings for bounce slow and sticky keys all these settings but also the mouse and touchpad settings will be matched now on the login screen the feedback app got a search field to let you find the topic you want to report a bug against and the app center first start screen will now more prominently explain how you can add other flatback remotes like flath Hub apps from flathub and other flatback remotes also won't be separated from elementary apps in the category views either still no flath Hub by default though and still no easy oneclick button to add it you still have to go download a flatback REV file from flathub and install it manually first the installer now lets you select whether you want to install proprietary drivers and the base of the drro now includes the hardware enablement stack from Aon 2 LTS so new hardware should be better supported the mail client now better detects the spam and archive folders of your email account you can also rename folders and you can use touch gestures to delete or archive conversations you can you can also add inline attachments like images to your emails and you can create multiple custom signatures the file manager gains some new icons in its app menu like zoom and undo and redo and some view settings are directly accessible there like showing hidden files you can also now bulk rename files and share files to other devices using Bluetooth the music and videos apps have a more modern appearance the notifications indicator of the desktop now supports showing buttons for missed notifications notifications from a specific app can be folded together so they don't use that much space and the panel has the better networks indicator with controls for vpns airplane mode and more as icons and not as small little toggles and also various pages in the system settings have been redesigned as well all in all it's nothing revolutionary but it's a lot of smaller improvements to virtually every single part of the elementary experience I think it brings it on bar with something like gnome for example even though it still Trails far behind for the app ecosystem compared to G you can download Elementary OS 7.1 right now from their website as an ISO it looks like Linux app stores aren't spared by malware as malicious apps made their way into the auntu Snap Store a bunch of reports started appearing stating that fake crypto apps landed in the Snap Store recently which prompted canonical to put restrictions in place for uploading apps to their platform these malicious apps reportedly stole users cryptocurrencies and the offending snaps have now been removed canonical stated that you will now have to request a reserved name when you upload a brand new snap to the store which will then manually be checked to see if you should get that exact name it won't affect existing snaps and it might not be a long-term thing but they say they're investigating the incident as well and this is why you do need manual reviews on App Stores whether it's the snap store or whether it's flathub or whether it's your disr repos if someone human doesn't check those applications then yes you're going to let users download some malware if Apple and Google have to implement processes to deal with that we're going to have to do this as well and it could be tricky because we probably do not have the revenue and the manpower to actually get to check all of this and now we have yet another terrible law in France it looks like we're really trying to be the worst at handling the internet these days so we've got this new sren bill that has been recently introduced and it's basically an internet censorship law it would require web browsers to block certain websites directly but now VPN Services might also be banned due to some new Amendment ments being added to that proposed law about 30 lawmakers from political parties that support the current government want to prohibit Apple and Google from offering VPN type apps that wouldn't be subject to French and European laws so basically they would ban all vpns that would help circumvent the censorship they're trying to implement and so vpns would become completely useless at least on phones using Android and iOS but that's not all VPN providers ERS also wouldn't be allowed to provide access to servers outside of the EU thus making them unsuitable for avoiding geob blocking and making sure everything that you do using that VPN is still subject to various French or european laws the French digital Communications Authority would also gain some pretty big Powers uh they could notify internet service providers and DNS providers of vpns that violate that rule and these actors would have to block users from being able to connect to those vpns with a 48h hour delay now they also had previously proposed to force social networks to ban users that were using a VPN but only for posting content not for viewing it so it was obviously a ploy to stop anonymity on the internet now thankfully they withdrew this specific ban but the new ones they want are worrying to say the least the srn bill also proposes to force internet service providers to block websites blacklisted by the government and it also adds the the police can now spy on citizen phones if they're just suspected of something law as well it is dystopian to say the least it's crazy to me that France which is the country I currently live in and I grew up in now Implement stuff that you only saw in totalitarian authoritarian regimes like Russia China or North Korea that's a list of name of countries that you do not want to be associated with now back to our Linux desktops for Less horrifying news in gnomeland there are plenty of app updates as well fragments the torrent client finally got a very important feature the ability to select files you want to download inside of a torrent workbench the sandbox to learn gnome development gained a visual refresh and a new window to explain how to install SDK extensions and there's also a new release of paper C which is a PDF metadata editing app that now uses the latest Liber vit widgets and now supports multiple windows there's also a new app called decibels that just plays audio files there's Warehouse a new app that manages flat packs their user data and the remotes they come from and it lets you batch and install flat packs it lets you sort them by remote it lets you find user data and remove it and it lets you manage all your flatback remotes carburetor an app that lets you connect to the tour network from your gnome desktop also got an update to use liit Vita widgets Turtle the git management app that integrates with Nautilus now supports tags and the for mobile shell got some bug fixes and a way to reorder lock screen items now you can insert the usual comment about the gnome app ecosystem here it's still crazy to me how many great applications are being developed for Linux these days it's just awesome as per KDE the Vel opers have started reordering the settings once again for plasma 6 categories have been tweaked and changed with an appearance and style category that now includes fonts a new apps and windows category for default apps notifications window management and activities a security and privacy category and a system category basically you will find all the panels you already know but they've been grouped differently and these new categories seem like they make sense and that they split things up more evenly as well on Wayland screen arrangements so multim monitor layouts will now be handled by kwin instead of K screen this means that there's less communication between different tools which means less chance of something going wrong and things are more centralized so it should prove more robust in the end this change already fixes three existing bugs and it means K screen will not see any more work which in turn means that the multim monitor implementation for X11 will not see any more work in the future spectacle the screen recorder also gains support for Hardware accelerated screen recording using vp9 and you will be able to change the default location where these recordings are saved on top of that there were 91 bucks fixed some of which will land in KD 5.27.18 wait for plasma 6 it looks like it's going to fix a bunch of annoyances and usability issues that I have with Kitty so yeah bring it on can't wait for February when it releases and speaking of gaming let's finish this with the gaming news first proton 8.0 D4 was released now adding support for Everquest 2 Oddworld Strangers Wrath HD Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 or the longest journey these were already supported in proton experimental but now they're supported by the main inline stable version of proton a bunch of bugs were also fixed notably for OverWatch 2 for Battle.net for the EA desktop app for the BOS Gate 3 launcher or for Street Fighter 6 Nvidia support is also improved for a lot of titles including dark tide which should mean better support for dlss and other things like that and the underlying components of proton all received updates like vkd3d proton dxvk nvapi dxvk and mono as always you don't have anything to do to benefit you can just get the update Straight from Steam linux's market share for gaming seems to be dropping again though as does Mac OS market share to the benefit of Windows Linux market share on Steam is now at 1.63% with Windows moving back up at 96.9% Steam OS is also losing ground to other distributions with Arch and auntu gaining a bit steo is still one if not the most popular platform for Linux gaming though at 43% of Linux users and of course AMD CPUs and gpus keep dominating as that's what the steam deck uses and the steam deck seems to be almost half of the Linux gaming Market at least according to the steam survey as always these numbers only talk about Steam and gaming on Steam but on Linux steam gaming and Linux gaming are pretty much synonymous I don't think there are many people that game a lot on Linux and don't use Steam for that and I don't think there are many Linux users That Should Skip on this message from our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that were made to run Linux all the components inside are picked because they are compatible with Linux and they run well and if there were any sort of compatibility issues or problems tuxedo generally writes paches and submits them Upstream so the issue can be fixed for everyone not just their computers they have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point from laptops to desktops to kns with any performance level than any use case you can customize all the components inside you can have your own keyboard layout on the laptop you can have your own logo laser engraved on the lid of your laptop you can basically pick everything you want and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the battery the SSD and sometimes even the wireless card so if you need a new computer and you want want to run Linux on it and you want to actually support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a laptop or desktop from toxedo so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to click the like button 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hey everyone this is Nick and it's time for the Linux and open source news and this week is all about the desktop because first we've got the release of Elementary OS 7.1 which might seem like it's a small version number bump but it has a lot of small torches to the entirety of the operating system we also have some malware sneaking its way onto the Snap Store although some might argue that snap is the malware itself and we also have France wanting to ban vpns or maybe at least make them pretty useless what's not useless though is the 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 Allin 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 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 Elementary OS 7.1 was released and while it's a minor version bump it still packs a lot of small improvements to the distribution its desktop and its apps first you now get integration with the background and auto start portal so you can view and disable apps that want to start with your computer calendar mail and tasks now use the background apps portal as well and the location services now uses portal also so everything should be up to Snuff the app center will now let you know which permissions apps can access including location notifications background and auto start Behavior accessing various folders reading and writing system settings or Escaping The Sandbox the side load app that lets you install flat packs from outside the Elementary OS remote will also display this information there are new settings to tweak the color through display filters for people with vision disabilities like for example being color blind with multiple choices of colar pairings there's also a grayscale filter now to reduce distraction keyboard navigation has been improved letting you now switch between Windows of the same apps and custom keyboard shortcuts can now access a wider range of keys in the process the keyboard settings have been completely revamped with new settings for bounce slow and sticky keys all these settings but also the mouse and touchpad settings will be matched now on the login screen the feedback app got a search field to let you find the topic you want to report a bug against and the app center first start screen will now more prominently explain how you can add other flatback remotes like flath Hub apps from flathub and other flatback remotes also won't be separated from elementary apps in the category views either still no flath Hub by default though and still no easy oneclick button to add it you still have to go download a flatback REV file from flathub and install it manually first the installer now lets you select whether you want to install proprietary drivers and the base of the drro now includes the hardware enablement stack from Aon 2 LTS so new hardware should be better supported the mail client now better detects the spam and archive folders of your email account you can also rename folders and you can use touch gestures to delete or archive conversations you can you can also add inline attachments like images to your emails and you can create multiple custom signatures the file manager gains some new icons in its app menu like zoom and undo and redo and some view settings are directly accessible there like showing hidden files you can also now bulk rename files and share files to other devices using Bluetooth the music and videos apps have a more modern appearance the notifications indicator of the desktop now supports showing buttons for missed notifications notifications from a specific app can be folded together so they don't use that much space and the panel has the better networks indicator with controls for vpns airplane mode and more as icons and not as small little toggles and also various pages in the system settings have been redesigned as well all in all it's nothing revolutionary but it's a lot of smaller improvements to virtually every single part of the elementary experience I think it brings it on bar with something like gnome for example even though it still Trails far behind for the app ecosystem compared to G you can download Elementary OS 7.1 right now from their website as an ISO it looks like Linux app stores aren't spared by malware as malicious apps made their way into the auntu Snap Store a bunch of reports started appearing stating that fake crypto apps landed in the Snap Store recently which prompted canonical to put restrictions in place for uploading apps to their platform these malicious apps reportedly stole users cryptocurrencies and the offending snaps have now been removed canonical stated that you will now have to request a reserved name when you upload a brand new snap to the store which will then manually be checked to see if you should get that exact name it won't affect existing snaps and it might not be a long-term thing but they say they're investigating the incident as well and this is why you do need manual reviews on App Stores whether it's the snap store or whether it's flathub or whether it's your disr repos if someone human doesn't check those applications then yes you're going to let users download some malware if Apple and Google have to implement processes to deal with that we're going to have to do this as well and it could be tricky because we probably do not have the revenue and the manpower to actually get to check all of this and now we have yet another terrible law in France it looks like we're really trying to be the worst at handling the internet these days so we've got this new sren bill that has been recently introduced and it's basically an internet censorship law it would require web browsers to block certain websites directly but now VPN Services might also be banned due to some new Amendment ments being added to that proposed law about 30 lawmakers from political parties that support the current government want to prohibit Apple and Google from offering VPN type apps that wouldn't be subject to French and European laws so basically they would ban all vpns that would help circumvent the censorship they're trying to implement and so vpns would become completely useless at least on phones using Android and iOS but that's not all VPN providers ERS also wouldn't be allowed to provide access to servers outside of the EU thus making them unsuitable for avoiding geob blocking and making sure everything that you do using that VPN is still subject to various French or european laws the French digital Communications Authority would also gain some pretty big Powers uh they could notify internet service providers and DNS providers of vpns that violate that rule and these actors would have to block users from being able to connect to those vpns with a 48h hour delay now they also had previously proposed to force social networks to ban users that were using a VPN but only for posting content not for viewing it so it was obviously a ploy to stop anonymity on the internet now thankfully they withdrew this specific ban but the new ones they want are worrying to say the least the srn bill also proposes to force internet service providers to block websites blacklisted by the government and it also adds the the police can now spy on citizen phones if they're just suspected of something law as well it is dystopian to say the least it's crazy to me that France which is the country I currently live in and I grew up in now Implement stuff that you only saw in totalitarian authoritarian regimes like Russia China or North Korea that's a list of name of countries that you do not want to be associated with now back to our Linux desktops for Less horrifying news in gnomeland there are plenty of app updates as well fragments the torrent client finally got a very important feature the ability to select files you want to download inside of a torrent workbench the sandbox to learn gnome development gained a visual refresh and a new window to explain how to install SDK extensions and there's also a new release of paper C which is a PDF metadata editing app that now uses the latest Liber vit widgets and now supports multiple windows there's also a new app called decibels that just plays audio files there's Warehouse a new app that manages flat packs their user data and the remotes they come from and it lets you batch and install flat packs it lets you sort them by remote it lets you find user data and remove it and it lets you manage all your flatback remotes carburetor an app that lets you connect to the tour network from your gnome desktop also got an update to use liit Vita widgets Turtle the git management app that integrates with Nautilus now supports tags and the for mobile shell got some bug fixes and a way to reorder lock screen items now you can insert the usual comment about the gnome app ecosystem here it's still crazy to me how many great applications are being developed for Linux these days it's just awesome as per KDE the Vel opers have started reordering the settings once again for plasma 6 categories have been tweaked and changed with an appearance and style category that now includes fonts a new apps and windows category for default apps notifications window management and activities a security and privacy category and a system category basically you will find all the panels you already know but they've been grouped differently and these new categories seem like they make sense and that they split things up more evenly as well on Wayland screen arrangements so multim monitor layouts will now be handled by kwin instead of K screen this means that there's less communication between different tools which means less chance of something going wrong and things are more centralized so it should prove more robust in the end this change already fixes three existing bugs and it means K screen will not see any more work which in turn means that the multim monitor implementation for X11 will not see any more work in the future spectacle the screen recorder also gains support for Hardware accelerated screen recording using vp9 and you will be able to change the default location where these recordings are saved on top of that there were 91 bucks fixed some of which will land in KD 5.27.18 wait for plasma 6 it looks like it's going to fix a bunch of annoyances and usability issues that I have with Kitty so yeah bring it on can't wait for February when it releases and speaking of gaming let's finish this with the gaming news first proton 8.0 D4 was released now adding support for Everquest 2 Oddworld Strangers Wrath HD Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 or the longest journey these were already supported in proton experimental but now they're supported by the main inline stable version of proton a bunch of bugs were also fixed notably for OverWatch 2 for Battle.net for the EA desktop app for the BOS Gate 3 launcher or for Street Fighter 6 Nvidia support is also improved for a lot of titles including dark tide which should mean better support for dlss and other things like that and the underlying components of proton all received updates like vkd3d proton dxvk nvapi dxvk and mono as always you don't have anything to do to benefit you can just get the update Straight from Steam linux's market share for gaming seems to be dropping again though as does Mac OS market share to the benefit of Windows Linux market share on Steam is now at 1.63% with Windows moving back up at 96.9% Steam OS is also losing ground to other distributions with Arch and auntu gaining a bit steo is still one if not the most popular platform for Linux gaming though at 43% of Linux users and of course AMD CPUs and gpus keep dominating as that's what the steam deck uses and the steam deck seems to be almost half of the Linux gaming Market at least according to the steam survey as always these numbers only talk about Steam and gaming on Steam but on Linux steam gaming and Linux gaming are pretty much synonymous I don't think there are many people that game a lot on Linux and don't use Steam for that and I don't think there are many Linux users That Should Skip on this message from our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that were made to run Linux all the components inside are picked because they are compatible with Linux and they run well and if there were any sort of compatibility issues or problems tuxedo generally writes paches and submits them Upstream so the issue can be fixed for everyone not just their computers they have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point from laptops to desktops to kns with any performance level than any use case you can customize all the components inside you can have your own keyboard layout on the laptop you can have your own logo laser engraved on the lid of your laptop you can basically pick everything you want and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the battery the SSD and sometimes even the wireless card so if you need a new computer and you want want to run Linux on it and you want to actually support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a laptop or desktop from toxedo so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to click the like button the Subscribe button the little notification Bell the comments whatever you know how this works and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of links in the description below for Libra pay patreon PayPal YouTube memberships whatever else you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye
I've talked about EOS in the past it's my favorite D Googled Android rum they remove most Google related things that lineage leaves in and they have their own set of open-source apps with a coherent design language and they also offer to replace your Google account with an account on the nextcloud instance they host if you want that but compatibility for these alternative Android ROMs has always been an issue chances are your current phone can't run this at all which is why e or Marina as their parent not for-profit Foundation is now called introduced their own smartphone that runs slos out of the box they already had Partnerships with fairphone and they sold refurbished smartphones as well but now they're building their own so I have a pre-production sample right here that they sent me to test and I'm going to give you my thoughts on it and to be noted this video is not sponsored by Marine they didn't pay me anything I have to send back this pre-production unit once I'm done with it so yeah not sponsored these thoughts are my own so this is the marina 2 this isn't the completely finalized design so the back of the phone and the prodection that came in the Box aren't completely final and might change a little as evidenced by the fact that both privacy switches don't have a cutout in the rubber case for now the very point of the marina 2 is to offer a privacy focused phone it comes with/ EOS which we'll talk about in a minute and it has a privacy switch to disconnect the cameras and microphone and another switch to completely shut off any connectivity the phone has the first switch for the camera and mic is a physical one it completely shuts off the connection to the camera and the mic and no software action can bring them back as long as the switch is toggled the connectivity switch is purely software and will just turn on airplane mode and will mute your phone so it's more of a big do not disturb mode than a privacy switch Marina told me that they're improving how this switch Works to make sure that you can't disable airplane mode while the switch is toggled on and they're also trying to add customization options so you can pick which software action this switch does so think of it as a iPhone 15 like action button or a better bigb button but honestly any button is a better button than the Big B button so that's the basics but what does the phone actually do it comes with a mediatech CPU with four performance scores at 2.1 GHz and four efficiency cores at 2 GHz it has 8 gigs of RAM 128 gigs of storage plus a Micro SD card slot it supports dual SIM and the OLED screen is 6.43 3 in with relatively slim bezels and a resolution of 1080x 2400 plus a hole punch cut out for the selfie camera which is 25 megapixels on the back you get three camera lenses one is your standard lens at 64 megapixels one is an ultra wide at 13 mapel and one is a telephoto lens at 5 megapixel it has a 4,000 mAh battery with support for high-speed charging at 18 ws and it's supports Wi-Fi AC and Bluetooth 4.2 and it's 4G not 5G and this might prove an issue for some people for me personally I live in France 5G is completely useless and virtually non-existent so I do not care but depending on where you live this might be a problem and so the phone isn't completely future proof 4G is relatively Global and should work on every carrier in the EU Canada and the US although in the the US it doesn't work with Verizon and they recommend using T-Mobile so that's pretty mid-range Hardware with a focus on privacy the design is nice enough it's basically an iPhone like squared brick with a nice grippy plastic back it weighs 182 G and it feels really well built it has a USBC port for charging of course and while it's a bit bigger than what I usually prefer using it fits nicely in the hand it also comes with a finger print sensor under the power button which works perfectly and also there is no headphone jack here which I am sure will annoy some people better get used to that though this is basically a dead feature on every new phone coming out I'm not saying I like it but it's a fact Marina also say they have a 6 out of 10 on repairability and they will offer spare parts and schematics for easy repair it's not fair phone level repairability but it's still something that thinking about so that's nice they will provide 5 years of support for the software at least and they say it will probably be more as they are still supporting 10-year-old Hardware with/ EOS speaking of which let's see how well this specific ROM runs on this specific phone so/ e is now at version 1.15 it's based on Android 13 now and it still comes with its own launcher and set of apps which are all open- Source Forks of other open- source apps modified to better integrate with the/ e account you can decide to create even though it's completely optional and also all these apps share a visual design language that most other aosb based ROMs can't quite reach of course it's still Android so you can replace any of that by whatever you want on the marina 2 EOS runs okay it's not perfectly smooth animations can sometimes Jitter a bit bit but generally the experience is what you would expect from a mid-range Android smartphone it's not high refresh rate buttery smoothness but it's definitely not annoying in some apps you will definitely notice these stutters like in the app Lounge when scrolling but navigating the phone is good enough and video playback and games run well at least Subway Surfers and asphal 9 do and we all know that there are no other Android games are there the haptics don't seem to be perfectly configured yet as typing on the keyboard provides a very tiny sort of clicky rattle instead of a nice vibration and going back using gestures also doesn't feel super tactile but that's probably because it's a pre-production model generally I cannot say what will or won't be fixed on the final Hardware what I've got is a pre-production model some things might be fixed in the hardware side of things some things might be fixed on the software side of things and some things might not be fixed at all the two privacy switches work perfectly with the one on the right toggling airplane mode and do not disturb and the one on the left shutting down the camera and the mic both have a little LED as well to indicate that these switches are on although the handling of them could be improved as for example launching the camera app with the Privacy toggle on will spit out an error instead of a smoother message indicating that your privacy toggle is on again pre-production issues Marina told me that they're working to fix how well these switches work apart from that it's the/ EOS experience I remember you get that iOS like launcher with a grid of apps you get widgets with a swipe right and you get the app Lounge which gives you access to virtually every single app in the Play Store including paid ones if you decide to use a Google account although some reports in the past seem to indicate that Google sometimes Bans accounts that use alternative app stores it looked like the Bann accounts were mostly dummy ones that weren't used for a while and so were purged by Google but it's not 100% confirmed so if you want to download paid apps or buy stuff on the app Lounge you probably should create an account specifically for that and not use your very own Google account although you also should not use a Google account at all on these kinds of devices because that's sort of the goal to degoogle your life app Lounge still has the Privacy ratings the list of permissions and trackers and it lets you filter apps to only show open- Source ones or pwas only it's still a really good alternative app store testing the phone further the screen is really nice and bright with very Vivid colors it feels pretty damn nice to use but that's probably because it's OLED OLED screens are always nice the cameras are pretty basic the telephoto had a very hard time focusing on anything for me but the other two worked fine although you won't find the same kind of postprocessing you will get on most Android phones so your pictures might not look as sharp or well balanced as on say a pixel or even a Samsung a series phone the front-facing camera though is pretty solid and produces nice pictures all things considered the speakers are decent enough for a phone they won't blow you away or anything but they get pretty loud without distorting too much or at all [Music] they are bottom firing there's no stereo speaker using the earpiece of the phone the microphone isn't great though your vocal messages and phone calls will not sound extremely crisp apart from that you get the usual e experience the advanced privacy settings that let you block tracker system wide in every app or hide your location and IP address at the Press of a switch straight from the widget screen and the ability to manage each app's permission and see The Trackers that were blocked you get the marina account as I said optional that gives you a next cloud account for free with 1 gig of storage and paid plans for more plus a free email address email hiding features and Marina office which is only office integrated with the next Cloud instance all of this comes with no ads no tracking and Marina says that they cannot read the contents of your email they don't have an ad business so they have virtually no single interest in reading or parsing or tracking you around all of this basically it's a free complete replacement with one single account for your Google account or your iCloud account except it's hosted in the EU and it's based on open source technology now for the drawback this is all funded through Kickstarter but before you close the video let me just point out a few things first with the kickstarter the phone is €3.99 without it it will be $499 which is a bit steep for the specs second this is coming from a not for-profit that has already successfully run a Kickstarter campaign and the campaign is already fully funded it reached its goal in 24 hours admittedly that goal wasn't very high at €25,000 because they don't do this to fund the entire project they just needed it to make sure they have the minimum order quantity with their Hardware partner so what you're doing is basically pre-ordering the phone and if you do so it's supposed to be shipping in December 2023 all the way to January 2024 and it will be available for everyone to buy in the first quarter of 2024 as with all Kickstarter campaigns I am not recommending that you buy or that you do not buy this thing it's your money it's your decision personally I really like Marina I think they're trustworthy they've been created by the person who created mandre Linux I think they've only done good things and/ e is a very good software product that I got to try on my own phones and on a fair phone 4 I actually used it for a full year in the past but ultimately it's your decision to make it's your money and you decide who you want to trust personally while I like the phone it is not suitable for my needs it is not smooth enough in navigation and I am too used to high refresh rates to go back to 60 HZ while SL EOS is definitely mature enough for my needs I will not move back to it until they support at least my Galaxy S21 that's currently sitting in a drawer at that point I will happily jump back since all the apps I need are supported as for the marina 2 it's a solid mid-range phone it's really well built it feels really good in hand but it does feel a bit underpowered sometimes and whether the price is good or not will depend on your own financial situation so if you're interested I left a link to their Kickstarter campaign in the descript of the video so you can back that already backed project if you want to and I also left a link to our sponsor tuxedo tuxedo sells laptops and desktops but not smartphones yet pre-installed with Linux they specifically pick the 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after 2 years of writing and editing these videos on the exact same hardware and using gnome for almost that entire time period it was time for a change so I have replaced both my day-to-day laptop and my editing and gaming desktop with just one single device that is going to have to do everything from now on no more setting up syncing that is bound to fail at some point no more copy pasting my settings and my stock footage and music library between computers no more planning when I'm going on holidays the ultimate lazy bastards dream and since changing Hardware isn't quite enough I also decided to move from gome to KDE in the process and to change the drro I use as well so let's look at the whole new setup how I configured KDE how I used this device and how it compares to the previous setup to be noted this new setup was made possible by tuxedo they sponsored this video and they gave me the laptop to make this new setup possible so thanks tuxedo for sponsoring the video and for making my content creation process more efficient stick around if you want to learn more about them so to begin with here is what I was working with first a slimbook executive 16 laptop with an 11th gen i7 16 gigs of RAM and an RTX 3050 TI good enough for day-to-day tasks but definitely not enough for video editing on a daily basis resolve choked on the 4 gigs of vram and that led to crashes and performance problems second I used the desktop PC with 32 gigs of RAM a ryzen 7 5800 X and an RTX 3070 definitely good for gaming and for editing but also not all that good because video editing is taxing when importing any clip recorded at higher than 1080p I got some bad stuttering while resolve tried to render the thumbnails and even after that switching from One Clip to the other in the preview it wasn't fast and every time I wanted to edit videos outside or fix a small issue in a video or go on holiday I had to copy my entire Clips sound effects music and more from the desktop to the laptop and recreate all my resolve settings because for some reason even copying the entire resolve settings folder didn't bring everything over and no unfortunately I could not sync all of this using nexcloud because it's upwards of 300 gigs of data and material so it's just not an option for me and also I wanted something faster for video editing because having constant stutters and multiple second long pauses when you're trying to preview something is a big annoyance which takes me to the new setup this one laptop it's the tuxedo Infiniti Book Pro 16 and it's basically the same form fact as my previous executive 16 but in black and with a lot more power under the hood so when I'm writing scripts and doing some thankless administrative tasks hey taxes and invoicing aren't my favorite okay when I have to do these things I can do that wherever I want and when I want to edit a video I can also either do it anywhere in my flat or outside or I can do it plugged in at my desk with all the nice comfort of an ultra wide display a Bluetooth mouse a solid keyboard and also getting access to my mic my webcam and some external hard drives basically I can edit the a roll what I'm currently recording face to face with the camera from my local cafe from my sun room from my couch and once I'm done I can move back to the office plug into my whole setup with just a few cables and get started all my library of effects of stock footage of musics and Transitions and resolve settings are in the same place all always accessible no copy pasting needed and the minute I need to go somewhere else on holiday or for the weekend I have my editing station ready at all times and I'm able to work now to be noted this Infiniti Book Pro 16 is not necessarily meant to be a desktop replacement it's a thin and light it's meant to strike a balance between power and portability and it does fulfill the desktop replacement role perfectly for me but if you want a really beefy system that will hold even more performance for longer periods of time you probably should turn your attention to other products from tuxedo the Stellaris range is one I reviewed extensively on the Channel with the 15 16 and 17in models I left links to these videos in the description as a matter of fact my girlfriend uses a Stellaris 15 for most of her tasks and for playing the Batman Arham games tuxedo also have the Polaris and Gemini lines to fill different needs for more CPU intensive tasks or for more power efficiency you can check these out on tuxedo website for which there's obviously a link in the description so let's look at the laptop itself the Infiniti Book Pro 16 Generation 8 it's a 16 in just like my previous one which is a minimum for me for video editing it's 2560 x600 so a 16x 10 ratio it uses an Intel i7 13700 H coupled with 32 gigs of ddr5 Ram at 4800 MHz plus an Nvidia RTX 4060 with 8 gigs of vram it has a 500 gigs SSD to a Samsung 980 Pro using PCI E4 it's the same awesome chassis I loved on my previous laptop it's lightweight at 1.6 kilos it's less than 2 cm in height and it packs a lot of ports super important to me is the SD card reader because that's what I use to record video so no adapter needed but it also has us USBC with display port plugged into the Nvidia GPU it has tunder bolt 4 linked to the integrated Intel GPU with power delivery plus two usba a ports an HDMI 2.0 port and a headphone jack all of that is in a sturdy magnesium chassis I picked the Black Version but there's a silver one as well it has a splendid hinge the best touchpad I ever used on the laptop period and a very very good chicklet keyboard that I really love typing on honestly I would love to just type on that keyboard even when the laptop is closed and plugged in at my desk but maybe that's because my external keyboard is a very old sort of mechanical Apple keyboard just maybe the display is fantastic as well with a high enough resolution for 16 in although I do use 125% scaling on KDE to make things a bit more legible and it runs at up to 240 HZ although I generally only use it at 60 to save back battery life speaking of which it embarks an 80w hour battery which gives me about 8 hours of battery life when I use my power saving power profile and about 3 and 1 half hours of video editing when going at Full Tilt which is generally more than what I can do in one sitting when I'm not at my desk the only let Downs here are the usual speaker webcam and microphone combo which are me not terrible not great they're the usual fair for any laptop basically I learn to accept that in short It's a Wonderful device the form factor is perfect for me the performance is awesome the port selection is almost perfect we'll see why in a minute and it generally just does everything I need it to and as we'll see in terms of performance faster than any of my previous devices now I run this laptop using tuxedo OS the default drro tuxedo installs on their devices it's basically a to LTS plus a rolling release model model for drivers kernels and for the KD desktop plus a very nicely done Control Center and their tter utility which automatically installs any patchers or drivers you might need to improve Hardware support I reviewed this dis R recently I left a link to that video in the description but all you need to know is that it's the dro I recommend if you want to use KD on an ubun 2 base so the first way I use this laptop is as a laptop insane I know in this mode I applied a few tweaks and configurations the first one is creating a suitable power profile I used the tuxedo control center which is pre-installed in the OS to create a profile named scripting it basically drops the screen brightness to 35% enough when using the laptop inside even in a brightly lit room and it changes the fan profile to quiet so no noise I also tweaked the CPU in this mode limiting it to four logical cores and limiting the clock speed to 1.4 GHz it might seem low but it's the sweet spot for what I do writing scripts and researching things online isn't very taxing and these settings are the ones that gave me good performance where I don't notice any stutters and where I get excellent battery life using this profile I lose about 12% of battery life per hour which means that the laptop lasts for about 8 and 1 half hours of full real life work and that's in hybrid graphics mode the dedicated GPU is still available if I need it I created a KD activity for this Mode called Laptop in which I have a nice colorful wallpaper and the widgets I need when I'm writing scripts the first one is the weather as it lets me plan my day and see if I should do what I have to do outside right now or later down the week the second one is a sticky note widget where I can jot down a few ideas and things as I'm working on something else before adding them back to my to-do list app or another script I also have a dis usage monitor so I can see if I need to upload some old footage to my external hard drives before I start a new project the last widget is a tracker for my nextcloud instance and my podcast just showing me if they're currently working all right they refresh every 3 minutes and they check for an HTTP 200 code to see if the page they host is actually accessible I had a few instances in which the podcast website went down so instead of waiting for someone to call me out on this on Mastodon I thought I would just add that to my screen and be alerted in almost real time I use touchpad gestures to navigate with a four fingers down swipe to open the present Windows effect I wish I could remap these gestures to three fingers up instead and make that open the overview with virtual desktops and krunner integrated I have two virtual desktops on this activity that I can switch to and from using some swipes on the touchpad because yes I do use whand on this device with an Nvidia GPU so I guess we could look at the issues I had with that I used Wayland on gnome on both my laptop and my desktop both with Nvidia gpus and in hybrid graphics mode on the laptop and I can safely say the experience was perfect not so on KDE which might be why tuxed OS moved to X11 as the default but I don't like using the default and I want my damn touchpad gestures so I switched to whand so the whand session on KD isn't bad but it also has a bunch of issues first it crashes I don't have a recording of it but I encountered a bunch of kwin crashes that took down all the open apps with it not good second some apps aren't linked to their task manager entry properly stuff like or qo notes opening a new icon and sometimes that icon is just a Wayland icon and not the app itself it's not a big deal but it's not great I could figure fix that by adding custom app properties in the KD settings but I really should not have to do that Windows also remember their sizes and positions weirdly they will remember their last size and position but apparently not for each specific display which means when I unplug my laptop from my monitor my web browser generally floats somewhere in the top part of the screen and it is simply huge now at least the crashes have virtually disappeared since the KD 5.2 27.8 update on tuxedo OS but the other issues can be a bit annoying it's not a deal breaker but it's definitely not as smooth as the Welling session in goo which leads me to my editing setup for this I created another Power profile in tuxedo control center called editing this one basically cranks everything up to the max the CPU cores the max clock speeds the display brightness everything and the fan profile is set to cool so it is allowed to Make Some Noise to keep things running smoothly this profile automatically triggers when the laptop is charging otherwise it goes back to the scripting profile so I can use that profile to edit on the go but I also tend to use it at my desk at that point I connect two cables to the laptop a USB C1 and a headphone jack now the ideal setup for me would have been to just use the one USBC cable going out of my display this would charge the laptop carry the signal for every USB device plugged into my monitor carry the display port signal and the audio signal and it works except the Thunderbolt Port is hardwired to the Intel GPU which means that while the Nvidia GPU can run applications like games or resolve it has to pass the generated frames to the Intel GPU to display them and so the bandwidth just isn't good enough for that so FPS is generally around 30 with which means I had to use a USBC dock namely the steam deck dock here to which I gave a haircut so the little rubber adapter would fit well into the laptop even when closed hey don't judge me the steam deck is never seeing any kind of use from that dock because I already have a steam o console which I made out of a tuxedo Cube which is one of their Tower PC in a relatively smaller form factor and running Holo ISO in that USBC dock I have ethernet plugged in plus an HDMI cable to the display plus the various USB peripherals some of them using a USB hub plus a USBC cable plugged into a wall socket to give power delivery as well the one thing I still have to figure out is the headphone jack for now I have to plug my speakers in my laptop directly because if I plug them in through the display they're not detected as an audio device through the dock and the HDMI cable there has to be a solution for that I'll look into it as time goes on so in terms of the Ki setup for editing I have a dedicated activity with different widgets it's titled editing and it has a black and white wallpaper to avoid being distracting when editing plus some performance monitors one for the CPU one for the Ram one for the dis space and one for the Nvidia GPU vram these are pretty important because when you edit if your vram gets full resolve can choke and sometimes even crash so you're going to lose some unsaved work and for the GPU and the ram they're also important because when you're recording something using OBS you want to make sure that your CPU isn't tax to the max or your recording is going to be all stuttery and unusable and you're going to have to do it again I also have a folder view widget to display the contents of my video folder so I can get quick access this is all complemented by my plasma panel which has that show desktop button at the bottom left so I can quickly peek at the sensors complete with a Hot Corner to do the same thing I have have a places widget so I can access my favorite folders easily then I have a centered taskbar which is only centered because on an ultra wide display you don't want these stuck all the way to the left and having to Crane your neck to see these icons and then to the right I have the notifications the clock and a user applet to log out and restart the computer and yes I don't use a menu I mapped krunner to the super key so I just hit super type what I want press enter and it opens since I don't have my trusty gestures when my laptop is closed and plugged into my display I mapped the thumb button of my mouse to the KD overview so I can see all my virtual desktops too in this case and all my open windows or just to start typing and launching something the taskar isn't the best here as it can't use in teh hiide I would like it to be always visible except when the window covers it but all it can do is Auto Hide which means it's going to hide every time even if it's not not covered or Windows can cover which isn't exactly the same thing because sometimes it doesn't pop back up from under a window and sometimes you get this weird half mask taskbar as well other changes I've made include moving to super plus middle Mouse drag to resize Windows to follow what I was used to in gnow I enabled all the Telemetry because I would love to help the KD project get some data and I also changed the Firefox config to use the KD file picker instead of the gtk file picker I left the instructions on how to do that in the description if you encounter the same problem I also changed the alt tab switcher to a grid of thumbnails because the default sidebar is too out of the way on an ultra wide display now let's talk performance because it's all well and good to replace some previous computers but it also has to perform the same task better so how does it do for video editing and for some light gaming well I'm happy to report it's actually faster than my desktop STP at video editing it's probably a combination of the faster Ram the newer generation Nvidia GPU the way faster CPU and the way faster PCI E4 storage but all in all thumbnails in the timeline are generated extremely fast resolve never struggles to load any clip or to preview it or to scrub it and rendering takes less time as well for example the latest news video rendered in 2 minutes and 45 seconds for an almost 16 minutes long video my previous desktop generally took four to five minutes to render a news video of the same time in terms of gaming the only games I played on the desktop were dark tide and Total War Warhammer 3 as I said I play everything else on my Steam OS console which as I said is also a computer from tuxedo you can't accuse me of not dog fooding my own sponsors the total war Warhammer 3 Benchmark gave me 60 FPS at medium settings and the n resolution of the laptop which is better performance than what I got on my editing PC since Warhammer 3 is more CPU intensive with all the units and models visible on screen I guess the faster CPU gives me better performance here dark tide doesn't have an integrated Benchmark but in the ship that serves as a hub and in a mission at the native resolution of the display at medium graphics with the LSS on balanced I get a pretty stable 60fps this is the same level of performance I got on the desktop the more powerful CPU and faster RAM and SSD seem to compensate nicely for the relatively weaker GPU so in the end not only do I have a more streamlined setup with just one device but it's also actually faster at doing all the things that I did on two different devices so this is my new editing setup you might be thinking so what the guy discovered production laptops and Thunderbolt and sure you might be right but also look at this thing it's super thin and light it's smaller and it weighs less than a MacBook Pro and it's more powerful than some of them and it can run Linux perfectly and it can game and it lets me edit videos faster than a desktop that's only 2 years old and was pretty damn powerful at the time now like I said my own use case is covered perfectly with this laptop but it doesn't mean it's intended for a desktop replacement depending on your needs you might be better served by other product lines from tuxedo like the Stellaris the Gemini or the Polaris and if you don't need a dedicated GPU and you just need a laptop you might also want to look at the other product Rangers from tuxedo since they have basically something that covers everything so thanks to tuxedo for sponsoring the video as you might have gathered they make laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box they have a big range of devices for virtually every need and every price point and they ship to most countries in the world all the laptops like the one I use now can be opened repaired and upgraded and you have a lot of customization options all my day-to-day computers are from tuxedo now my Steam OS console and my one single laptop setup the Infiniti Book Pro 16 Generation 8 so check the link in the description of the video if you want to learn more or if you want to find your next computer and in the meantime thank you all for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you can always like subscribe click the notification Bell write a comment if you didn't like the video as always that thumbs down button and a comment section as well and if you really enjoy the channel you can support it with all the links in the description of the 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is Linux more secure than Windows the default answer is pretty much no the security of Linux comes from the fact it tends to be less targeted on personal computers than Windows but on servers it's an appetizing Target but Linux can be more secure than Windows if you want it or if you need it to distrolls always have to strike a compromise between security and usability the more secure you make your system the more friction you can encounter as you use it so here are a bunch of things you can do to make your Linux server or your desktop more secure you can pick and choose what you need and what you don't depending on your use case and your distro might already Implement some of these and of course if you have other important tips don't hesitate to share them in the comments so everyone can benefit and speaking of security there's also our sponsor if you are interested in increasing the secure already of your Linux system you should also take a broader look of everything that you use and 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means you will want to make sure everything you run is up to date apply your software updates if you're coming from the windows world you might view software updates with a bit of distrust because they can be very annoying they can interrupt your work and they sort of often break things or add features and tracking that you've never asked for on Linux this is not the case and on a desktop you probably already apply updates or your distro might even have auto updates enabled but on a server it's easy to let things slide and to forget to log in regularly or automate things to make sure that things are up to date I am guilty of that myself so don't be lazy and make sure your updates are applied regularly and just like with packages libraries and apps you should also make sure you only run the services you actually use by Services I mean stuff like cups the printing server or alsa for older audio programs Bluetooth firmware update for for more updates VPN services and the like most distros should handle these services using system D and you can list all services running with systemctl list Dash unit Dash files and of course if when you heard the word system D you made a mini barf in your mouth then maybe you already know how to handle all of these Services now stay long system D though to stop a service you don't need you can run systemctl stop followed by the name of the service you might need admin privileges here so you might need to use sudo to stop the service from starting with the system you can also run system CTL disable followed by the name of the service for example most servers will not need Bluetooth for printing so you could disable that and make sure they don't run at all times it will also save a few system resources in the process get it process okay moving on if you run Linux on a server the general rule of thumb is also not to run a graphical desktop on it it will use a lot of resources for something you don't access most of the time and it adds a lot of software that could then be used by attackers it will often be much more secure to use SSH to log into the server remotely but you might also need to secure SSH first if you have multiple users make sure only the ones who need it have SSH access to do that you can edit the slash Etc SSH slash sshd underscore config file and type allow users then the names of the users that will actually have access to SSH you might also want to authenticate using a public key instead of a password the user that logs into the server with SSH will have to have a key that matches what is on the device being accessed through SSH this is much more secure than just a password that could be Brute Force you can also turn on two-factor authentication for SSH and use an authenticator app for even more security there are a lot of tutorials online on how to do this I left links in the description for some of these I would love to include them in the video but I also don't want it to take 45 minutes and we still have a lot to cover now something that might be useful in general for a server or a desktop is making sure all the users are correctly handled the first thing will be to disable root login root is the super user the one that has access to virtually everything on the system if an attacker manages to log in as root your system is toast so it's better to not have root as a user but use administrator privileges instead now do note that some people think that having the root user is more secure than using sudo for every admin user because as you only have one user that can do everything and if it has a very strong password then it's more secure but personally I disagree with that the root user will always be the obvious attack choice because it has access to everything so that's the one attackers might try to Brute Force into and also admin accounts that have access to sudo you can limit what they can actually do using sudo so they might not have all the Privileges over all the system now if you do decide to disable the root account make sure that at least one user still has full admin privileges though or you will have a system without any way to access certain administrator tasks once you're certain everything is okay you can use the following method which will redirect routes login from bash to no login so the root account will still be here but it won't be able to access anything to do so you can edit slash Etc password and you can change this line by replacing slash bin slash bash or whatever other shell root currently logs into by slash S bin slash no login now if you want to keep the root account locally but you want to disable any remote access to it through SSH you can also do that and it's a good way to mitigate security risks without compromising the efficiency of you actually using your device to do so you can edit the slash Etc SSH slash sshd underscore config file and uncomment the permit root login line then set its value to no restart SSH with systemctl restart sshd and you're done on top of that your regular users should have some limits in place while you can set up password aging as in users will have to change their passwords after a certain amount of time I think it's generally not that great as a lot of users might just end up writing their password down somewhere which is obviously not secure what you can do instead is enforcing strong passwords with a variety of rules for length and complexity you can set these in slash Etc pam.d slash common Dash password on Debian based systems or in slash Etc security slash PW quality.com on red hat based distros again I left a link on how to do that in the description of the video because explaining all the various options and rules that you can set up would take its entire video you can also lock users out after multiple login values to ensure Brute Force attacks cannot be executed you will need the Pam underscore fail lock module which will probably be pre-installed on most distros after that you can edit the slash Etc security slash faillock.com file and add a few lines to set how many failed attempts can have happen and the time before the locked account is unlocked you can also try to improve the physical security of your device you know in case it gets stolen or somebody puts their greasy pause on it so of course full disk encryption will be pretty useful for that once your disk is encrypted unless the attacker manages to guess or Brute Force the passphrase they won't be able to just plug a USB drive and siphon the whole contents of your hard drive most distros offer an encryption option at install just make sure to use a passphrase that you can remember because if you lose it you lose your files you can also lock the BIOS with a password so an attacker couldn't change the boot priority to boot a live USB and grab your files this can be done in the Bios or UEFI interface of your computer and if your device doesn't ever need to have anything plugged into it you can also completely disable USB and Thunderbolt in your Linux system so even if someone manages to get in the system and access your account they won't be able to just grab a USB drive and copy stuff although admittedly if they have access to your session they could also just zip the whole files that they need and send them over using the internet even using the command line now still if you want to disable that you can type the commands I left in the description of the video for USB firewire and Thunderbolt to revert this just remove the lines that have been added in the various files by these commands and finally we have two more big topics the first one is the firewall most distributions come with a firewall installed like firewall D or ufw for uncomplicated firewall but it's often not configured or not even enabled firewalls are an entire separate topic and you will have to know which protocols and which ports you need to open or close depending on what your devices do so I can't really cover it in here if you want to see a video on how to configure your firewall for various use cases drop me a comment in the description below and I'll see what I can do now if you need a graphical user interface to explore what these firewalls can do you can get one there's gufw for uncomplicated firewall it's in the Ubuntu repos and for Fedora or red hat based distros you have firewall config to configure firewall d the second big topic is SE Linux or app armor depending on the distro both are what we call mandatory Access Control Systems and they let you grant or deny access to various resources and systems in the Linux kernel basically they let you create security profiles or policies that apply to various things that you can do on your system up armor is generally used on Ubuntu and Debian based distros and SC Linux is a red hat thing so mostly used on red hat based distros they do work in very different ways but they do try to accomplish the same goal they are pretty complicated and again they would require their own videos because they are completely use case dependent now what you need to know is that se Linux is more complex and has a steeper learning curve but it is generally considered a more secure option because it supports multi-level security which app armor doesn't app armor on the other hand is much simpler to set up and to use and to understand but since it creates security profiles based on file path you have to duplicate profiles for certain apps that can have multiple paths to access them which creates potential vulnerabilities and also it tends to take longer to start than SC Linux as I said these are pretty complex tools that are really really dependent on your use case what you want to do how many users have access to your device and what the role of the device is so again if you want a dedicated video on these tools drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do and so this will do for this video a bunch of quick tips and tricks to improve the default security of your Linux install depending on how well the video does I might dive deeper into various topics like configuring the firewall app armor SC Linux let me know if you'd like to see this on the channel there are plenty of other things you can do as well like setting this quotas for users configuring kernel parameters setting up logging and audits to detect weird behaviors or intrusions and you can also secure various parts of a server like Apache PHP and Jinx and more but of course I can't cover everything in one single video it's long enough as it is depending on the use case the device its physical location how many people have access to it and your thread model there are plenty of things you can do to make Linux more secure than it already is and more secure than most other operating systems do remember to backup your system before applying any major change though because if you break something you'll be very happy to have a full system backup to go back to and just making backups is a general good rule for security and for peace of mind and if you want peace of mind when buying a new computer and running Linux on it then there's our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box the hardware is picked specifically inside these devices because it works well with Linux and generally they have submitted patches Upstream to make sure that everything that they pack in is supported well and so everybody can benefit not just them on their devices whatever your needs and the price point you have they're gonna have something to match that whether it's an affordable laptop a Nook a tower something for gaming something for office something super powerful for video editing or 3D modeling they have it all and all their devices are very customizable with your own custom keyboard layout on the keyboards of your laptop if you want your own custom logo on the lid of your laptop you have a nice big selection of components you can pick you can select from a variety of distros you have pre-installed or you can just install your own and also all their laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes the wireless car 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 get yourself a device from tuxedo they're really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you know what to do there's a like button a big Bell that you can ring a subscribe button a comment section where you can tell me everything you want and if you didn't like it there's always that thumbs down button and the comment section as well and if you really enjoy the channel and you want to support it there are plenty of links in the description for virtually any system you want to use to contribute so you know what to do thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me 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is Linux more secure than Windows the default answer is pretty much no the security of Linux comes from the fact it tends to be less targeted on personal computers than Windows but on servers it's an appetizing Target but Linux can be more secure than Windows if you want it or if you need it to distrolls always have to strike a compromise between security and usability the more secure you make your system the more friction you can encounter as you use it so here are a bunch of things you can do to make your Linux server or your desktop more secure you can pick and choose what you need and what you don't depending on your use case and your distro might already Implement some of these and of course if you have other important tips don't hesitate to share them in the comments so everyone can benefit and speaking of security there's also our sponsor if you are interested in increasing the secure already of your Linux system you should also take a broader look of everything that you use and 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means you will want to make sure everything you run is up to date apply your software updates if you're coming from the windows world you might view software updates with a bit of distrust because they can be very annoying they can interrupt your work and they sort of often break things or add features and tracking that you've never asked for on Linux this is not the case and on a desktop you probably already apply updates or your distro might even have auto updates enabled but on a server it's easy to let things slide and to forget to log in regularly or automate things to make sure that things are up to date I am guilty of that myself so don't be lazy and make sure your updates are applied regularly and just like with packages libraries and apps you should also make sure you only run the services you actually use by Services I mean stuff like cups the printing server or alsa for older audio programs Bluetooth firmware update for for more updates VPN services and the like most distros should handle these services using system D and you can list all services running with systemctl list Dash unit Dash files and of course if when you heard the word system D you made a mini barf in your mouth then maybe you already know how to handle all of these Services now stay long system D though to stop a service you don't need you can run systemctl stop followed by the name of the service you might need admin privileges here so you might need to use sudo to stop the service from starting with the system you can also run system CTL disable followed by the name of the service for example most servers will not need Bluetooth for printing so you could disable that and make sure they don't run at all times it will also save a few system resources in the process get it process okay moving on if you run Linux on a server the general rule of thumb is also not to run a graphical desktop on it it will use a lot of resources for something you don't access most of the time and it adds a lot of software that could then be used by attackers it will often be much more secure to use SSH to log into the server remotely but you might also need to secure SSH first if you have multiple users make sure only the ones who need it have SSH access to do that you can edit the slash Etc SSH slash sshd underscore config file and type allow users then the names of the users that will actually have access to SSH you might also want to authenticate using a public key instead of a password the user that logs into the server with SSH will have to have a key that matches what is on the device being accessed through SSH this is much more secure than just a password that could be Brute Force you can also turn on two-factor authentication for SSH and use an authenticator app for even more security there are a lot of tutorials online on how to do this I left links in the description for some of these I would love to include them in the video but I also don't want it to take 45 minutes and we still have a lot to cover now something that might be useful in general for a server or a desktop is making sure all the users are correctly handled the first thing will be to disable root login root is the super user the one that has access to virtually everything on the system if an attacker manages to log in as root your system is toast so it's better to not have root as a user but use administrator privileges instead now do note that some people think that having the root user is more secure than using sudo for every admin user because as you only have one user that can do everything and if it has a very strong password then it's more secure but personally I disagree with that the root user will always be the obvious attack choice because it has access to everything so that's the one attackers might try to Brute Force into and also admin accounts that have access to sudo you can limit what they can actually do using sudo so they might not have all the Privileges over all the system now if you do decide to disable the root account make sure that at least one user still has full admin privileges though or you will have a system without any way to access certain administrator tasks once you're certain everything is okay you can use the following method which will redirect routes login from bash to no login so the root account will still be here but it won't be able to access anything to do so you can edit slash Etc password and you can change this line by replacing slash bin slash bash or whatever other shell root currently logs into by slash S bin slash no login now if you want to keep the root account locally but you want to disable any remote access to it through SSH you can also do that and it's a good way to mitigate security risks without compromising the efficiency of you actually using your device to do so you can edit the slash Etc SSH slash sshd underscore config file and uncomment the permit root login line then set its value to no restart SSH with systemctl restart sshd and you're done on top of that your regular users should have some limits in place while you can set up password aging as in users will have to change their passwords after a certain amount of time I think it's generally not that great as a lot of users might just end up writing their password down somewhere which is obviously not secure what you can do instead is enforcing strong passwords with a variety of rules for length and complexity you can set these in slash Etc pam.d slash common Dash password on Debian based systems or in slash Etc security slash PW quality.com on red hat based distros again I left a link on how to do that in the description of the video because explaining all the various options and rules that you can set up would take its entire video you can also lock users out after multiple login values to ensure Brute Force attacks cannot be executed you will need the Pam underscore fail lock module which will probably be pre-installed on most distros after that you can edit the slash Etc security slash faillock.com file and add a few lines to set how many failed attempts can have happen and the time before the locked account is unlocked you can also try to improve the physical security of your device you know in case it gets stolen or somebody puts their greasy pause on it so of course full disk encryption will be pretty useful for that once your disk is encrypted unless the attacker manages to guess or Brute Force the passphrase they won't be able to just plug a USB drive and siphon the whole contents of your hard drive most distros offer an encryption option at install just make sure to use a passphrase that you can remember because if you lose it you lose your files you can also lock the BIOS with a password so an attacker couldn't change the boot priority to boot a live USB and grab your files this can be done in the Bios or UEFI interface of your computer and if your device doesn't ever need to have anything plugged into it you can also completely disable USB and Thunderbolt in your Linux system so even if someone manages to get in the system and access your account they won't be able to just grab a USB drive and copy stuff although admittedly if they have access to your session they could also just zip the whole files that they need and send them over using the internet even using the command line now still if you want to disable that you can type the commands I left in the description of the video for USB firewire and Thunderbolt to revert this just remove the lines that have been added in the various files by these commands and finally we have two more big topics the first one is the firewall most distributions come with a firewall installed like firewall D or ufw for uncomplicated firewall but it's often not configured or not even enabled firewalls are an entire separate topic and you will have to know which protocols and which ports you need to open or close depending on what your devices do so I can't really cover it in here if you want to see a video on how to configure your firewall for various use cases drop me a comment in the description below and I'll see what I can do now if you need a graphical user interface to explore what these firewalls can do you can get one there's gufw for uncomplicated firewall it's in the Ubuntu repos and for Fedora or red hat based distros you have firewall config to configure firewall d the second big topic is SE Linux or app armor depending on the distro both are what we call mandatory Access Control Systems and they let you grant or deny access to various resources and systems in the Linux kernel basically they let you create security profiles or policies that apply to various things that you can do on your system up armor is generally used on Ubuntu and Debian based distros and SC Linux is a red hat thing so mostly used on red hat based distros they do work in very different ways but they do try to accomplish the same goal they are pretty complicated and again they would require their own videos because they are completely use case dependent now what you need to know is that se Linux is more complex and has a steeper learning curve but it is generally considered a more secure option because it supports multi-level security which app armor doesn't app armor on the other hand is much simpler to set up and to use and to understand but since it creates security profiles based on file path you have to duplicate profiles for certain apps that can have multiple paths to access them which creates potential vulnerabilities and also it tends to take longer to start than SC Linux as I said these are pretty complex tools that are really really dependent on your use case what you want to do how many users have access to your device and what the role of the device is so again if you want a dedicated video on these tools drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do and so this will do for this video a bunch of quick tips and tricks to improve the default security of your Linux install depending on how well the video does I might dive deeper into various topics like configuring the firewall app armor SC Linux let me know if you'd like to see this on the channel there are plenty of other things you can do as well like setting this quotas for users configuring kernel parameters setting up logging and audits to detect weird behaviors or intrusions and you can also secure various parts of a server like Apache PHP and Jinx and more but of course I can't cover everything in one single video it's long enough as it is depending on the use case the device its physical location how many people have access to it and your thread model there are plenty of things you can do to make Linux more secure than it already is and more secure than most other operating systems do remember to backup your system before applying any major change though because if you break something you'll be very happy to have a full system backup to go back to and just making backups is a general good rule for security and for peace of mind and if you want peace of mind when buying a new computer and running Linux on it then there's our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box the hardware is picked specifically inside these devices because it works well with Linux and generally they have submitted patches Upstream to make sure that everything that they pack in is supported well and so everybody can benefit not just them on their devices whatever your needs and the price point you have they're gonna have something to match that whether it's an affordable laptop a Nook a tower something for gaming something for office something super powerful for video editing or 3D modeling they have it all and all their devices are very customizable with your own custom keyboard layout on the keyboards of your laptop if you want your own custom logo on the lid of your laptop you have a nice big selection of components you can pick you can select from a variety of distros you have pre-installed or you can just install your own and also all their laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes the wireless car 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 get yourself a device from tuxedo they're really good so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you know what to do there's a like button a big Bell that you can ring a subscribe button a comment section where you can tell me everything you want and if you didn't like it there's always that thumbs down button and the comment section as well and if you really enjoy the channel and you want to support it there are plenty of links in the description for virtually any system you want to use to contribute so you know what to do thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me 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after 2 years of writing and editing these videos on the exact same hardware and using gnome for almost that entire time period it was time for a change so I have replaced both my day-to-day laptop and my editing and gaming desktop with just one single device that is going to have to do everything from now on no more setting up syncing that is bound to fail at some point no more copy pasting my settings and my stock footage and music library between computers no more planning when I'm going on holidays the ultimate lazy bastards dream and since changing Hardware isn't quite enough I also decided to move from gome to KDE in the process and to change the drro I use as well so let's look at the whole new setup how I configured KDE how I used this device and how it compares to the previous setup to be noted this new setup was made possible by tuxedo they sponsored this video and they gave me the laptop to make this new setup possible so thanks tuxedo for sponsoring the video and for making my content creation process more efficient stick around if you want to learn more about them so to begin with here is what I was working with first a slimbook executive 16 laptop with an 11th gen i7 16 gigs of RAM and an RTX 3050 TI good enough for day-to-day tasks but definitely not enough for video editing on a daily basis resolve choked on the 4 gigs of vram and that led to crashes and performance problems second I used the desktop PC with 32 gigs of RAM a ryzen 7 5800 X and an RTX 3070 definitely good for gaming and for editing but also not all that good because video editing is taxing when importing any clip recorded at higher than 1080p I got some bad stuttering while resolve tried to render the thumbnails and even after that switching from One Clip to the other in the preview it wasn't fast and every time I wanted to edit videos outside or fix a small issue in a video or go on holiday I had to copy my entire Clips sound effects music and more from the desktop to the laptop and recreate all my resolve settings because for some reason even copying the entire resolve settings folder didn't bring everything over and no unfortunately I could not sync all of this using nexcloud because it's upwards of 300 gigs of data and material so it's just not an option for me and also I wanted something faster for video editing because having constant stutters and multiple second long pauses when you're trying to preview something is a big annoyance which takes me to the new setup this one laptop it's the tuxedo Infiniti Book Pro 16 and it's basically the same form fact as my previous executive 16 but in black and with a lot more power under the hood so when I'm writing scripts and doing some thankless administrative tasks hey taxes and invoicing aren't my favorite okay when I have to do these things I can do that wherever I want and when I want to edit a video I can also either do it anywhere in my flat or outside or I can do it plugged in at my desk with all the nice comfort of an ultra wide display a Bluetooth mouse a solid keyboard and also getting access to my mic my webcam and some external hard drives basically I can edit the a roll what I'm currently recording face to face with the camera from my local cafe from my sun room from my couch and once I'm done I can move back to the office plug into my whole setup with just a few cables and get started all my library of effects of stock footage of musics and Transitions and resolve settings are in the same place all always accessible no copy pasting needed and the minute I need to go somewhere else on holiday or for the weekend I have my editing station ready at all times and I'm able to work now to be noted this Infiniti Book Pro 16 is not necessarily meant to be a desktop replacement it's a thin and light it's meant to strike a balance between power and portability and it does fulfill the desktop replacement role perfectly for me but if you want a really beefy system that will hold even more performance for longer periods of time you probably should turn your attention to other products from tuxedo the Stellaris range is one I reviewed extensively on the Channel with the 15 16 and 17in models I left links to these videos in the description as a matter of fact my girlfriend uses a Stellaris 15 for most of her tasks and for playing the Batman Arham games tuxedo also have the Polaris and Gemini lines to fill different needs for more CPU intensive tasks or for more power efficiency you can check these out on tuxedo website for which there's obviously a link in the description so let's look at the laptop itself the Infiniti Book Pro 16 Generation 8 it's a 16 in just like my previous one which is a minimum for me for video editing it's 2560 x600 so a 16x 10 ratio it uses an Intel i7 13700 H coupled with 32 gigs of ddr5 Ram at 4800 MHz plus an Nvidia RTX 4060 with 8 gigs of vram it has a 500 gigs SSD to a Samsung 980 Pro using PCI E4 it's the same awesome chassis I loved on my previous laptop it's lightweight at 1.6 kilos it's less than 2 cm in height and it packs a lot of ports super important to me is the SD card reader because that's what I use to record video so no adapter needed but it also has us USBC with display port plugged into the Nvidia GPU it has tunder bolt 4 linked to the integrated Intel GPU with power delivery plus two usba a ports an HDMI 2.0 port and a headphone jack all of that is in a sturdy magnesium chassis I picked the Black Version but there's a silver one as well it has a splendid hinge the best touchpad I ever used on the laptop period and a very very good chicklet keyboard that I really love typing on honestly I would love to just type on that keyboard even when the laptop is closed and plugged in at my desk but maybe that's because my external keyboard is a very old sort of mechanical Apple keyboard just maybe the display is fantastic as well with a high enough resolution for 16 in although I do use 125% scaling on KDE to make things a bit more legible and it runs at up to 240 HZ although I generally only use it at 60 to save back battery life speaking of which it embarks an 80w hour battery which gives me about 8 hours of battery life when I use my power saving power profile and about 3 and 1 half hours of video editing when going at Full Tilt which is generally more than what I can do in one sitting when I'm not at my desk the only let Downs here are the usual speaker webcam and microphone combo which are me not terrible not great they're the usual fair for any laptop basically I learn to accept that in short It's a Wonderful device the form factor is perfect for me the performance is awesome the port selection is almost perfect we'll see why in a minute and it generally just does everything I need it to and as we'll see in terms of performance faster than any of my previous devices now I run this laptop using tuxedo OS the default drro tuxedo installs on their devices it's basically a to LTS plus a rolling release model model for drivers kernels and for the KD desktop plus a very nicely done Control Center and their tter utility which automatically installs any patchers or drivers you might need to improve Hardware support I reviewed this dis R recently I left a link to that video in the description but all you need to know is that it's the dro I recommend if you want to use KD on an ubun 2 base so the first way I use this laptop is as a laptop insane I know in this mode I applied a few tweaks and configurations the first one is creating a suitable power profile I used the tuxedo control center which is pre-installed in the OS to create a profile named scripting it basically drops the screen brightness to 35% enough when using the laptop inside even in a brightly lit room and it changes the fan profile to quiet so no noise I also tweaked the CPU in this mode limiting it to four logical cores and limiting the clock speed to 1.4 GHz it might seem low but it's the sweet spot for what I do writing scripts and researching things online isn't very taxing and these settings are the ones that gave me good performance where I don't notice any stutters and where I get excellent battery life using this profile I lose about 12% of battery life per hour which means that the laptop lasts for about 8 and 1 half hours of full real life work and that's in hybrid graphics mode the dedicated GPU is still available if I need it I created a KD activity for this Mode called Laptop in which I have a nice colorful wallpaper and the widgets I need when I'm writing scripts the first one is the weather as it lets me plan my day and see if I should do what I have to do outside right now or later down the week the second one is a sticky note widget where I can jot down a few ideas and things as I'm working on something else before adding them back to my to-do list app or another script I also have a dis usage monitor so I can see if I need to upload some old footage to my external hard drives before I start a new project the last widget is a tracker for my nextcloud instance and my podcast just showing me if they're currently working all right they refresh every 3 minutes and they check for an HTTP 200 code to see if the page they host is actually accessible I had a few instances in which the podcast website went down so instead of waiting for someone to call me out on this on Mastodon I thought I would just add that to my screen and be alerted in almost real time I use touchpad gestures to navigate with a four fingers down swipe to open the present Windows effect I wish I could remap these gestures to three fingers up instead and make that open the overview with virtual desktops and krunner integrated I have two virtual desktops on this activity that I can switch to and from using some swipes on the touchpad because yes I do use whand on this device with an Nvidia GPU so I guess we could look at the issues I had with that I used Wayland on gnome on both my laptop and my desktop both with Nvidia gpus and in hybrid graphics mode on the laptop and I can safely say the experience was perfect not so on KDE which might be why tuxed OS moved to X11 as the default but I don't like using the default and I want my damn touchpad gestures so I switched to whand so the whand session on KD isn't bad but it also has a bunch of issues first it crashes I don't have a recording of it but I encountered a bunch of kwin crashes that took down all the open apps with it not good second some apps aren't linked to their task manager entry properly stuff like or qo notes opening a new icon and sometimes that icon is just a Wayland icon and not the app itself it's not a big deal but it's not great I could figure fix that by adding custom app properties in the KD settings but I really should not have to do that Windows also remember their sizes and positions weirdly they will remember their last size and position but apparently not for each specific display which means when I unplug my laptop from my monitor my web browser generally floats somewhere in the top part of the screen and it is simply huge now at least the crashes have virtually disappeared since the KD 5.2 27.8 update on tuxedo OS but the other issues can be a bit annoying it's not a deal breaker but it's definitely not as smooth as the Welling session in goo which leads me to my editing setup for this I created another Power profile in tuxedo control center called editing this one basically cranks everything up to the max the CPU cores the max clock speeds the display brightness everything and the fan profile is set to cool so it is allowed to Make Some Noise to keep things running smoothly this profile automatically triggers when the laptop is charging otherwise it goes back to the scripting profile so I can use that profile to edit on the go but I also tend to use it at my desk at that point I connect two cables to the laptop a USB C1 and a headphone jack now the ideal setup for me would have been to just use the one USBC cable going out of my display this would charge the laptop carry the signal for every USB device plugged into my monitor carry the display port signal and the audio signal and it works except the Thunderbolt Port is hardwired to the Intel GPU which means that while the Nvidia GPU can run applications like games or resolve it has to pass the generated frames to the Intel GPU to display them and so the bandwidth just isn't good enough for that so FPS is generally around 30 with which means I had to use a USBC dock namely the steam deck dock here to which I gave a haircut so the little rubber adapter would fit well into the laptop even when closed hey don't judge me the steam deck is never seeing any kind of use from that dock because I already have a steam o console which I made out of a tuxedo Cube which is one of their Tower PC in a relatively smaller form factor and running Holo ISO in that USBC dock I have ethernet plugged in plus an HDMI cable to the display plus the various USB peripherals some of them using a USB hub plus a USBC cable plugged into a wall socket to give power delivery as well the one thing I still have to figure out is the headphone jack for now I have to plug my speakers in my laptop directly because if I plug them in through the display they're not detected as an audio device through the dock and the HDMI cable there has to be a solution for that I'll look into it as time goes on so in terms of the Ki setup for editing I have a dedicated activity with different widgets it's titled editing and it has a black and white wallpaper to avoid being distracting when editing plus some performance monitors one for the CPU one for the Ram one for the dis space and one for the Nvidia GPU vram these are pretty important because when you edit if your vram gets full resolve can choke and sometimes even crash so you're going to lose some unsaved work and for the GPU and the ram they're also important because when you're recording something using OBS you want to make sure that your CPU isn't tax to the max or your recording is going to be all stuttery and unusable and you're going to have to do it again I also have a folder view widget to display the contents of my video folder so I can get quick access this is all complemented by my plasma panel which has that show desktop button at the bottom left so I can quickly peek at the sensors complete with a Hot Corner to do the same thing I have have a places widget so I can access my favorite folders easily then I have a centered taskbar which is only centered because on an ultra wide display you don't want these stuck all the way to the left and having to Crane your neck to see these icons and then to the right I have the notifications the clock and a user applet to log out and restart the computer and yes I don't use a menu I mapped krunner to the super key so I just hit super type what I want press enter and it opens since I don't have my trusty gestures when my laptop is closed and plugged into my display I mapped the thumb button of my mouse to the KD overview so I can see all my virtual desktops too in this case and all my open windows or just to start typing and launching something the taskar isn't the best here as it can't use in teh hiide I would like it to be always visible except when the window covers it but all it can do is Auto Hide which means it's going to hide every time even if it's not not covered or Windows can cover which isn't exactly the same thing because sometimes it doesn't pop back up from under a window and sometimes you get this weird half mask taskbar as well other changes I've made include moving to super plus middle Mouse drag to resize Windows to follow what I was used to in gnow I enabled all the Telemetry because I would love to help the KD project get some data and I also changed the Firefox config to use the KD file picker instead of the gtk file picker I left the instructions on how to do that in the description if you encounter the same problem I also changed the alt tab switcher to a grid of thumbnails because the default sidebar is too out of the way on an ultra wide display now let's talk performance because it's all well and good to replace some previous computers but it also has to perform the same task better so how does it do for video editing and for some light gaming well I'm happy to report it's actually faster than my desktop STP at video editing it's probably a combination of the faster Ram the newer generation Nvidia GPU the way faster CPU and the way faster PCI E4 storage but all in all thumbnails in the timeline are generated extremely fast resolve never struggles to load any clip or to preview it or to scrub it and rendering takes less time as well for example the latest news video rendered in 2 minutes and 45 seconds for an almost 16 minutes long video my previous desktop generally took four to five minutes to render a news video of the same time in terms of gaming the only games I played on the desktop were dark tide and Total War Warhammer 3 as I said I play everything else on my Steam OS console which as I said is also a computer from tuxedo you can't accuse me of not dog fooding my own sponsors the total war Warhammer 3 Benchmark gave me 60 FPS at medium settings and the n resolution of the laptop which is better performance than what I got on my editing PC since Warhammer 3 is more CPU intensive with all the units and models visible on screen I guess the faster CPU gives me better performance here dark tide doesn't have an integrated Benchmark but in the ship that serves as a hub and in a mission at the native resolution of the display at medium graphics with the LSS on balanced I get a pretty stable 60fps this is the same level of performance I got on the desktop the more powerful CPU and faster RAM and SSD seem to compensate nicely for the relatively weaker GPU so in the end not only do I have a more streamlined setup with just one device but it's also actually faster at doing all the things that I did on two different devices so this is my new editing setup you might be thinking so what the guy discovered production laptops and Thunderbolt and sure you might be right but also look at this thing it's super thin and light it's smaller and it weighs less than a MacBook Pro and it's more powerful than some of them and it can run Linux perfectly and it can game and it lets me edit videos faster than a desktop that's only 2 years old and was pretty damn powerful at the time now like I said my own use case is covered perfectly with this laptop but it doesn't mean it's intended for a desktop replacement depending on your needs you might be better served by other product lines from tuxedo like the Stellaris the Gemini or the Polaris and if you don't need a dedicated GPU and you just need a laptop you might also want to look at the other product Rangers from tuxedo since they have basically something that covers everything so thanks to tuxedo for sponsoring the video as you might have gathered they make laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box they have a big range of devices for virtually every need and every price point and they ship to most countries in the world all the laptops like the one I use now can be opened repaired and upgraded and you have a lot of customization options all my day-to-day computers are from tuxedo now my Steam OS console and my one single laptop setup the Infiniti Book Pro 16 Generation 8 so check the link in the description of the video if you want to learn more or if you want to find your next computer and in the meantime thank you all for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did you can always like subscribe click the notification Bell write a comment if you didn't like the video as always that thumbs down button and a comment section as well and if you really enjoy the channel you can support it with all the links in the description of the 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hey everyone this is Nick and forgive the weird crackly voice if you can hear it cuz yeah I'm sick it's the usual end of summer dreaded man flu thing so anyway this week we have Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 being released we have photoshop on the web which might be a good thing for future Linux desktop adoption and we have some more updates about the cosmic desktop environment and we also have the usual gnome and plasma 6 news and we also have some updates to the open source NVIDIA drivers and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare they offer a range of solutions to ensure that your Linux Fleet stays up to-date secure and with minimal downtime thanks to Kernel life patching and extended life cycle support and this week they're offering you another free guide if you're using Centos s you're probably aware that it is end of life for version 8 and nearing the same stage for Centos S7 and you might be looking at what you could migrate to and so tux scare has a free guide to help you migrat to Alma Linux it's free of charge it's Community Driven and it's supported financially by tux scare and it is of course based on red hat Enterprise Linux in the guide you will get step-by-step instructions to migrate to Alma Linux and some details on the Enterprise grade support you might need and other tools you can use to automate maintenance so head over to the link in the description of the video and download your free guide okay so Linux mins Debian Edition 6 is now officially out after a very short beta period it's based on Debian 12 Bookworm with a very nice set of updates to all the packages in the repost compared to Linux Min Debian Edition 5 and maybe even compared to Linux Min 21.2 which is based on aun 22204 so the new version of lmde offers the same version of the cinnamon desktop as the regular Linux Mint based on obuntu as it's still some sort of side project to offer a solid base in case Ubuntu disappeared or for people who really don't want the Ubuntu base at all the system requirements are the same unsurprisingly as the regular edition of mint and you can download the new ISO from mint's website you can also upgrade directly from lmd E5 to 6 by running Pudo apt update then pseudo appt install mint upgrade then running the whole new graphical upgrade tool that mint added to its recent versions like they say it's a major update and it can take a long while to apply so don't start that at the beginning of the work day I guess unless you want to have a good excuse to not actually work if Windows users can use that its updating excuse then maybe us Linux users also should photoshop on the Web launched this week after 2 years in beta limited to a few customers and countries the whole time why am I talking about this here well it's because Photoshop is probably the tool people mention the most when listing what's missing on Linux for them to switch so having a web version of that tool is definitely a good thing for Linux in general unfortunately this is not the full Photoshop experience while it does come with a bunch of Photoshop score tools including generative fill and expand the ability to remove the background or spot healing and layers it still lacks a few things like the pen tool the patch tool or smart object support Adobe says they're coming soon so it looks like they want to expand the feature set of the app on the web but they're not here for now now this web version still requires a Creative Cloud subscription it is not a free-to-play Photoshop but this at least gives an option for people who just need the basics of Photoshop and don't want to use Windows or Mac OS it integrates with a Creative Cloud account to keep editing files on the web after starting them locally and I really hope Adobe will bring the full version of Photoshop to the web if you think about it it would actually be better for them and for their customers because you could use Photoshop from any device and they would only have one version to maintain instead of a Windows version and a Mac OS version which don't really integrate with the system very well anyways on any of these platforms now we also got some more details about Cosmic the popos desktop environment apparently the cosmic team now uses it daily which might indicate it's relatively close to seeing a first beta for people to try out so first they have worked on Swap mode which lets you select a tiled window by holding super plus X and then moving that tiled window with the arrow keys to swap its position with another tiled window this should bring more keyboard interaction in the auto tiling mode which is pretty cool text inputs and search Fields have now been implemented in Cosmic as well complete with symbolic icons that match the accent color and styling the user has set touchpad gesture support has also been added allowing for pinch to zoom or navigating the desktop using a touchpad or a touchcreen the dock and panel now have settings as well with the ability to change their own screen position to adjust the size the opacity the margins the light or dark mode of each panel individually and they both have Auto height if you want that as well you will also be able to hide or show various applets from the top panel and this paints a nice picture of something really simple looking and simple to use but with plenty of customization options to really have the layout that you want and it it also alleviates my fears that it would just be like a rewrite of gnome plus extensions it does look sufficiently different and it does look like it's going to have enough features to justify being a separate desktop environment and in other de news on the plasma 6 front the devs merg the overview and the desktop grid effect in a single effect which decidedly looks very Mac OS mission control like there's only one set of touchpad gestures or One keyboard shortcut to get to all your virtual desktops and open Windows it looks pretty good and it should get you the same kind of workflow as The Gnome activities view which is really good they also added a camera indicator in the system tray in the whon session and they added Shadows to floating panels popups from floating panels like for example when you click on a notification tray icon will also float now complete with rounded corners and so floating panels are now the the default on plasma 6 there was also a lot of work to clarify some options to board some settings panels to a newer style and they fixed 127 bucks as per gnome the system monitor app is now ported to gtk4 and there's a new app called ticket booth that lets you track a watch list of TV shows and movies with all the latest info on them using tmdb as the backend there's also a new app called Snoop which lets you search through your files content and it can integrate with nautulus so you can start a search from a folder and there are also updates to a lot of gnome apps like parabolic flat seal login manager settings upscaler ey dropper bavard and a lot more apps so basically a big focus on the desktop itself on the KD side and a big focus on the apps on the gnome side always nice to see now we have some news about the open- source Nvidia Vulcan driver nvk this week with more work planned to land in Mesa 23.3 notably pipeline caching support this is important to improve gaming performance and to reduce in-game starters due to Shader compilation this should combine nicely with the recent work on the newvo drivers that enables reclocking on recent Nvidia gpus and the combination of the two should start to provide a decent experience for people who really want an open source driver even though this still won't make that stack competitive with the proprietary driver yet and still on drivers Mesa 23.2 point1 was released this week with a bunch of improvements to most open-source Graphics drivers rate tracing support is now enabled by default for AMD gpus at least for rdna 2 and 3 architectures the recent rust ICL opencl implementation should now work much better which hopefully means the V resolve might be easier to run on AMD gpus in the future there's a much better zinc driver to provide open GL capabilities to Vulcan only devices and there's also the new open GL driver from aahi Linux to support the integrated GPU of Apple silicon there's h265 decoding for Intel through Vulcan and the usual bunch of Vulcan extensions added including a few that should make gaming on Linux even smoother and it's always nice to see some good driver updates for Linux now as always you should wait for your Dro to package that new version to enjoy these benefits or you could use a third party repo if you want but do that at your own risk as single board computer fans you can rejoice as the Raspberry Pi 5 is now announced and it looks pretty damn powerful for what it is it follows in the footsteps of the pi 4 which was released 4 years ago and it's stated to be two to three times faster than its predes processor what's also interesting is that it's using its own CPU designed specifically for it it's based on a broadcom arm platform with four cores running at 2.4 GHz coupled with a video core 7 GPU capable of 4K 6D decoding plus four or 8 gigs of RAM the pi5 now also supports power over ethernet and it has Wi-Fi AC and Bluetooth 5 and in terms of new iio it has two micro HDMI ports that support up to 4K 60 and HDR it's available for pre-order at relatively affordable prices $60 for the 4 gigs model and $80 for the 8 gig and these things are really starting to look pretty decent for day-to-day Computing I know some people already used a Raspberry Pi as their daily computer but honestly looking at the results online and how smooth and fast it was I would say it's not usable for day-to-day use for most people but this one really looks like it might be and let's finish the video with the gaming news first there's a nice tool called tux clocker with its first 1.0 release what this thing does is let you overclock your Nvidia GPU on Linux with a nice cute based graphical interface it lets you change the fan speed and fan mode it lets you change the memory clock the core clock and the power limit to eek every bit of performance out of your GPU AMD and Intel gpus aren't supported yet but they should come later and the tool supports NVIDIA GTX 600 and later and it also comes with a debus API so other tools could make use of that as well now we also have wine 8.17 this week with a new version of vkd3d that better supports the directex 12 games now note that this is win's implementation of the DirectX 12 to Vulcan translation layer it is generally less up toate than the one shipped in proton they also merged their initial window management code for Wayland and wine also got improved support for the direct music API there were also 19 bug fixes including for Oblivion for CMU Dwarf Fortress or recor and steam VR is finally getting some love with steam VR 2.0 which has a big Improv to the whole interface you can already try it by opting into the steam client beta and the steam VR beta as well this new update includes features from the steam deck including an interface that looks like modern steam integration of Steam Chat and voice chat and a better store that puts the focus on VR games and this sort of seems to confirm that one of the new recently leaked devices at least their code names were leaked at least one of these two is linked to VR because you wouldn't do a complete upgrade to the whole VR stack if your plan was to just keep selling the relatively outdated valve index and not release anything else it's just not worth the investment so yeah maybe we're going to see something really cool from valve and link to VR which I would love to try because I finally have a PC in my living room powerful enough to play VR gam so yeah excited for that and also excited about our sponsor tuxedo makes computers that ship with Linux pre-install they pick the hardware specifically for its Linux compatibility and in their testing if they encounter any issues or driver problems they submit patches Upstream so everyone can benefit they have a wide range of devices that should cover virtually every price point and every need whether you're looking for an affordable laptop to a high-powered workstation something for gaming anything in between they have it all the devices have a lot of choices for components for keyboard layouts you can have your own logo on the lid of your laptop change the super key it's really configurable all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes even the wireless card and Tuxedo is based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you also want to support a company that actually contributes to Linux development click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC okay thanks for watching the video If you enjoyed it you know what to do there's that like button subscribe button that notification Bell the comment section whatever helps push this video through YouTube's weird algorithm and if you didn't like the video you can also click that thumbs down button and let me know why in the comments and if you really like the channel and you want to support it I left plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that from Libra patreon YouTube whatever everything is there you know what to do so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music]
hey everyone this is Nick and forgive the weird crackly voice if you can hear it cuz yeah I'm sick it's the usual end of summer dreaded man flu thing so anyway this week we have Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 being released we have photoshop on the web which might be a good thing for future Linux desktop adoption and we have some more updates about the cosmic desktop environment and we also have the usual gnome and plasma 6 news and we also have some updates to the open source NVIDIA drivers and we also have this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare they offer a range of solutions to ensure that your Linux Fleet stays up to-date secure and with minimal downtime thanks to Kernel life patching and extended life cycle support and this week they're offering you another free guide if you're using Centos s you're probably aware that it is end of life for version 8 and nearing the same stage for Centos S7 and you might be looking at what you could migrate to and so tux scare has a free guide to help you migrat to Alma Linux it's free of charge it's Community Driven and it's supported financially by tux scare and it is of course based on red hat Enterprise Linux in the guide you will get step-by-step instructions to migrate to Alma Linux and some details on the Enterprise grade support you might need and other tools you can use to automate maintenance so head over to the link in the description of the video and download your free guide okay so Linux mins Debian Edition 6 is now officially out after a very short beta period it's based on Debian 12 Bookworm with a very nice set of updates to all the packages in the repost compared to Linux Min Debian Edition 5 and maybe even compared to Linux Min 21.2 which is based on aun 22204 so the new version of lmde offers the same version of the cinnamon desktop as the regular Linux Mint based on obuntu as it's still some sort of side project to offer a solid base in case Ubuntu disappeared or for people who really don't want the Ubuntu base at all the system requirements are the same unsurprisingly as the regular edition of mint and you can download the new ISO from mint's website you can also upgrade directly from lmd E5 to 6 by running Pudo apt update then pseudo appt install mint upgrade then running the whole new graphical upgrade tool that mint added to its recent versions like they say it's a major update and it can take a long while to apply so don't start that at the beginning of the work day I guess unless you want to have a good excuse to not actually work if Windows users can use that its updating excuse then maybe us Linux users also should photoshop on the Web launched this week after 2 years in beta limited to a few customers and countries the whole time why am I talking about this here well it's because Photoshop is probably the tool people mention the most when listing what's missing on Linux for them to switch so having a web version of that tool is definitely a good thing for Linux in general unfortunately this is not the full Photoshop experience while it does come with a bunch of Photoshop score tools including generative fill and expand the ability to remove the background or spot healing and layers it still lacks a few things like the pen tool the patch tool or smart object support Adobe says they're coming soon so it looks like they want to expand the feature set of the app on the web but they're not here for now now this web version still requires a Creative Cloud subscription it is not a free-to-play Photoshop but this at least gives an option for people who just need the basics of Photoshop and don't want to use Windows or Mac OS it integrates with a Creative Cloud account to keep editing files on the web after starting them locally and I really hope Adobe will bring the full version of Photoshop to the web if you think about it it would actually be better for them and for their customers because you could use Photoshop from any device and they would only have one version to maintain instead of a Windows version and a Mac OS version which don't really integrate with the system very well anyways on any of these platforms now we also got some more details about Cosmic the popos desktop environment apparently the cosmic team now uses it daily which might indicate it's relatively close to seeing a first beta for people to try out so first they have worked on Swap mode which lets you select a tiled window by holding super plus X and then moving that tiled window with the arrow keys to swap its position with another tiled window this should bring more keyboard interaction in the auto tiling mode which is pretty cool text inputs and search Fields have now been implemented in Cosmic as well complete with symbolic icons that match the accent color and styling the user has set touchpad gesture support has also been added allowing for pinch to zoom or navigating the desktop using a touchpad or a touchcreen the dock and panel now have settings as well with the ability to change their own screen position to adjust the size the opacity the margins the light or dark mode of each panel individually and they both have Auto height if you want that as well you will also be able to hide or show various applets from the top panel and this paints a nice picture of something really simple looking and simple to use but with plenty of customization options to really have the layout that you want and it it also alleviates my fears that it would just be like a rewrite of gnome plus extensions it does look sufficiently different and it does look like it's going to have enough features to justify being a separate desktop environment and in other de news on the plasma 6 front the devs merg the overview and the desktop grid effect in a single effect which decidedly looks very Mac OS mission control like there's only one set of touchpad gestures or One keyboard shortcut to get to all your virtual desktops and open Windows it looks pretty good and it should get you the same kind of workflow as The Gnome activities view which is really good they also added a camera indicator in the system tray in the whon session and they added Shadows to floating panels popups from floating panels like for example when you click on a notification tray icon will also float now complete with rounded corners and so floating panels are now the the default on plasma 6 there was also a lot of work to clarify some options to board some settings panels to a newer style and they fixed 127 bucks as per gnome the system monitor app is now ported to gtk4 and there's a new app called ticket booth that lets you track a watch list of TV shows and movies with all the latest info on them using tmdb as the backend there's also a new app called Snoop which lets you search through your files content and it can integrate with nautulus so you can start a search from a folder and there are also updates to a lot of gnome apps like parabolic flat seal login manager settings upscaler ey dropper bavard and a lot more apps so basically a big focus on the desktop itself on the KD side and a big focus on the apps on the gnome side always nice to see now we have some news about the open- source Nvidia Vulcan driver nvk this week with more work planned to land in Mesa 23.3 notably pipeline caching support this is important to improve gaming performance and to reduce in-game starters due to Shader compilation this should combine nicely with the recent work on the newvo drivers that enables reclocking on recent Nvidia gpus and the combination of the two should start to provide a decent experience for people who really want an open source driver even though this still won't make that stack competitive with the proprietary driver yet and still on drivers Mesa 23.2 point1 was released this week with a bunch of improvements to most open-source Graphics drivers rate tracing support is now enabled by default for AMD gpus at least for rdna 2 and 3 architectures the recent rust ICL opencl implementation should now work much better which hopefully means the V resolve might be easier to run on AMD gpus in the future there's a much better zinc driver to provide open GL capabilities to Vulcan only devices and there's also the new open GL driver from aahi Linux to support the integrated GPU of Apple silicon there's h265 decoding for Intel through Vulcan and the usual bunch of Vulcan extensions added including a few that should make gaming on Linux even smoother and it's always nice to see some good driver updates for Linux now as always you should wait for your Dro to package that new version to enjoy these benefits or you could use a third party repo if you want but do that at your own risk as single board computer fans you can rejoice as the Raspberry Pi 5 is now announced and it looks pretty damn powerful for what it is it follows in the footsteps of the pi 4 which was released 4 years ago and it's stated to be two to three times faster than its predes processor what's also interesting is that it's using its own CPU designed specifically for it it's based on a broadcom arm platform with four cores running at 2.4 GHz coupled with a video core 7 GPU capable of 4K 6D decoding plus four or 8 gigs of RAM the pi5 now also supports power over ethernet and it has Wi-Fi AC and Bluetooth 5 and in terms of new iio it has two micro HDMI ports that support up to 4K 60 and HDR it's available for pre-order at relatively affordable prices $60 for the 4 gigs model and $80 for the 8 gig and these things are really starting to look pretty decent for day-to-day Computing I know some people already used a Raspberry Pi as their daily computer but honestly looking at the results online and how smooth and fast it was I would say it's not usable for day-to-day use for most people but this one really looks like it might be and let's finish the video with the gaming news first there's a nice tool called tux clocker with its first 1.0 release what this thing does is let you overclock your Nvidia GPU on Linux with a nice cute based graphical interface it lets you change the fan speed and fan mode it lets you change the memory clock the core clock and the power limit to eek every bit of performance out of your GPU AMD and Intel gpus aren't supported yet but they should come later and the tool supports NVIDIA GTX 600 and later and it also comes with a debus API so other tools could make use of that as well now we also have wine 8.17 this week with a new version of vkd3d that better supports the directex 12 games now note that this is win's implementation of the DirectX 12 to Vulcan translation layer it is generally less up toate than the one shipped in proton they also merged their initial window management code for Wayland and wine also got improved support for the direct music API there were also 19 bug fixes including for Oblivion for CMU Dwarf Fortress or recor and steam VR is finally getting some love with steam VR 2.0 which has a big Improv to the whole interface you can already try it by opting into the steam client beta and the steam VR beta as well this new update includes features from the steam deck including an interface that looks like modern steam integration of Steam Chat and voice chat and a better store that puts the focus on VR games and this sort of seems to confirm that one of the new recently leaked devices at least their code names were leaked at least one of these two is linked to VR because you wouldn't do a complete upgrade to the whole VR stack if your plan was to just keep selling the relatively outdated valve index and not release anything else it's just not worth the investment so yeah maybe we're going to see something really cool from valve and link to VR which I would love to try because I finally have a PC in my living room powerful enough to play VR gam so yeah excited for that and also excited about our sponsor tuxedo makes computers that ship with Linux pre-install they pick the hardware specifically for its Linux compatibility and in their testing if they encounter any issues or driver problems they submit patches Upstream so everyone can benefit they have a wide range of devices that should cover virtually every price point and every need whether you're looking for an affordable laptop to a high-powered workstation something for gaming anything in between they have it all the devices have a lot of choices for components for keyboard layouts you can have your own logo on the lid of your laptop change the super key it's really configurable all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes even the wireless card and Tuxedo is based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you also want to support a company that actually contributes to Linux development click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC okay thanks for watching the video If you enjoyed it you know what to do there's that like button subscribe button that notification Bell the comment section whatever helps push this video through YouTube's weird algorithm and if you didn't like the video you can also click that thumbs down button and let me know why in the comments and if you really like the channel and you want to support it I left plenty of links in the description of the video to do just that from Libra patreon YouTube whatever everything is there you know what to do so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see see me in the next one [Music] bye [Music]
and just when I was starting to think that the Linux space might settle down a bit we get the Nuvo maintainer resigning we get LTS Linux kernels moving from six years of support to two years and we get Fedora proposing to ditch X11 entirely not just for KD but for Gnome as well oh and also gnome 45 is out Ubuntu 223.10 has a beta and volcanon Linux is getting massive performance improvements and you're getting this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Chasm workspaces which is a great tool to stream any operating system desktop or application straight to your web browser they just released version 1.14 which adds translations for 243 languages along with a completely redesigned administrator user interface to streamline administrative workflows additional updates include support for local webcams and Printers Plus the ability to persist your data to cloud storage drives like Google Drive next cloud or OneDrive along with saving your persistent profile to S3 block storage these updates make it easier than ever to host on-demand access to your desktops and applications the chasm workspaces Community Edition can be self-hosted or they also have a cloud SAS subscription so to learn more about Chasm workspaces click the link in the description below so potential bad news for NVIDIA users on Linux the primary maintainer for the Nuvo project has now resigned Nuvo is the open source kernel driver for NVIDIA gpus that while not really usable as a daily driver for newer cards is perfectly fine for older Nvidia gpus and also a crucial part for all the work currently happening with the open source Vulcan Nvidia driver called nvk so Ben's kegs worked for red hat and has contributed to Nuvo for more than 10 years and he posted his last patch this week to indicate he was resigning from Red Hat and from Nuvo development he says he's leaving things in a good State now that the GSP firmware work has been merged which should make supporting newer Hardware easier than it was when he started working on this driver and while there's a lot of development happening on the opengl and Vulcan front for NVIDIA gpus to get a solid open source driver going they still all need the Nuvo kernel driver to handle the Base Hardware which means the departure of Ben is a big blow still Ben merged the necessary patches for enabling good performance for nvk with support for the GSP firmware that lets RTX Series gpus be re-clocked and thus provide adequate performance while this isn't enabled by default it can be turned on with a kernel option and this work might be upstreamed in the Linux kernel 6.7 so let's hope other contributors will be willing to pick up where Ben left off but one cannot blame a developer for working for 10 years on something like Nuvo and wanting to do something else now so congrats to Ben thanks for all the hard work and here's hoping that Nuvo can continue being developed now we have some big changes for the Linux kernel in terms of organization at least as the long-term support versions will no longer be supported for a very long term previous LTS kernels were supported for six years but they will move to two years instead the change was announced at open source Summit and the rationale behind this is that no one uses very old kernel versions anyway so there's no point backboarding fixes and security patches to these as an aside the currently supported LTS versions go all the way back to 4.14 released in 2017 which I'm pretty sure isn't used much nowadays apart from a few select servers this combines with the fact that kernel developers are apparently burning out on this kind of work although supporting rust in the kernel is expected to bring in some new blood so the currently supported kernel versions will run their course ending their support in at most three years in December 2026 but all new LTS kernels will only get a two-year support window which is pretty fair since most LTS distros get a new version every two years anyway and a lot of them already moved to the latest LTS kernel version during their life cycle and I can't say I am opposed to this change because yeah LTS distributions that are virtually the only ones to use LTS kernels already tend to move to a newer LTS version mid-cycle because you can't really keep the same Linux kernel for six or eight years depending on how long your distro is supported and of course it might impact some use cases but how many big deployments are still on 4.14 these days now of course this week we also got the release of grown 145 it brings a lot of small changes from the new activities button which is also a workspace indicator that you can scroll over to switch between virtual desktops to a new quick setting toggle to handle keyboard backlight Improvement to background app support a revamped cursor theme although very slightly revamped the new split header bar design that brings an updated look to Nautilus the settings and a bunch of other apps plus big improvements to the compositor and Wayland notably handling the mouse cursor in its own thread to reduce latency and a lot of improvements to the default apps there's also a new image viewer that is way nicer to use with touchpad gestures a new camera app the calendar gained infinite scroll in the month view gnome web got a new tab overview grid there's an experimental light theme you can turn on in d-conf Gnome software better handles flat pack uninstalls and warns you of outdated unmaintained apps and the settings gained a new privacy Hub more Wi-Fi settings and a brand new about page with more information about your Hardware that you can copy easily to the clipboard on the less good side of things it also breaks all extensions since gnome moved to a new spec for JavaScript in the shell and while a lot of extensions have already been ported some might not beep just yet still it is a very solid release that I obviously made a dedicated video about so go check that out if you haven't watched it already it's like two videos before this one or something it's it's it was published this week now other cool gnome related changes include the release of news flash 3.0 the excellent gnome app for reading RSS feeds it got a complete redesign plus support for drag and drop to move feeds into categories a better mobile experience and it should also be way faster to load articles to sync feeds and to Mark stuff as red it will also remember its window state it can open images from articles into a big window and it better handles article thumbnails and RSS is still the best way to get your news your videos your podcasts in all one place without any algorithmic BS and you can add virtually anything and most clients will now convert any website to an RSS feed even though the website might not have one by default and there are also new releases for Railway a gnome app that lets you plan your travels using public transport jogger a fitness tracker for no mobile a massive update to workbench which is a must-have app if you want to learn to develop gnome apps a new update to Turtle get repo manager that plugs into Nautilus and a new version of Letterpress the app that lets you create ASCII art Now The Gnome ecosystem is as vibrant as ever maybe even more vibrant than it was previously and that's something I really miss now that I moved to KDE because caddy apps might be good but they are not as good and they are not as many as the ones you can find on Chrome and it's something that is really striking now that I use KDE every day now in other distro related news Fedora 39 got a beta they moved to gnome 45 in its most vanilla configuration they also use the latest Linux kernel and they ship with the latest versions of Firefox and LibreOffice and all their official spins are also available with the latest versions of their respective desktop so plasma 5.27.8 xfce 4.18 budgie 10.8 cinnamon 5.8 and lxq 1.3 no big changes are planned to Fedora specific software like dnf or the installer the nf5 still apparently isn't ready for Fedora 39 and the new Anaconda installer isn't either so they've been pushed back to at least Fedora 40. and speaking of which it looks like Fedora 40 might bring another change that will prove to be more controversial than the others while the KDE spin already proposed to ditch X11 from the install the gnome Edition also now has a similar proposal since Wayland is the default for the standard version of Fedora and has been for a few releases and considering X11 isn't being tested and requires some effort to maintain they're considering dropping it and compiling matter The Gnome compositor without X11 support of course as with all proposal for Fedora it still needs to be approved by the steering committee now it would be very interesting to have a major distro like Fedora completely drop support for X11 if only because Fedora is the exact kind of distro to do these kind of changes on and also because it would mean that a lot of issues could be reported for Weyland which would accelerate development because if you have X11 as a fallback you might not even report the issue and just move back to X11 if you're stuck on Weyland then you're going to report the issue and the developers will sort of have to fix it because there's no fallback now Ubuntu 23.10 is set to release in a few weeks and the beta just dropped it also brings ground 45 of course with all the new stuff I mentioned previously apart from some of the default apps that Ubuntu doesn't ship and with their usual customizations and changes it will also default to the minimal install option now which comes with just the essentials Firefox a terminal a text editor and a store you can still get the usual roster of apps by selecting expounded installation instead and of course if you upgrade from an earlier version your apps won't be removed there's also the new app store called App Center which seems like he definitely added back support for Debian packaged and apps from the repos which is good there's a new firmware updater tool written using flutter like most Ubuntu specific apps and Ubuntu 223.10 uses the Linux kernel 6.5 so the light is currently available finally you'll be able to use disk encryption with the TPM chip your computer probably has although it's experimental and it won't work if you dual boot or use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers so all in all it looks like a solid non-controversial release like it's good that the App Store gains support for their packages back because just having snaps would be extremely limiting so yeah expect a dedicated video when it releases I think it's on October the 12th and let's finish on the gaming news first gaming possible and is definitely currently helping Linux gain more adoption but it looks like they're actually a way bigger contributor than I thought at open source Summit there was a talk from igalia which is a prolific contributor to a lot of parts of the open source stack and they pointed out a lot of valve's contributions through Steam OS they not only fund proton and wine development working with code Weavers but they also found some Linux kernel work like the futex API they helped solve case insensitive support for X4 for better Windows app compatibility they contributed to the AMD or ADV drivers to the ACO compiler for shaders or to Vulcan to better support video playback and they are also helping the currently ongoing work to support HDR to better handle GPU resets and they support flat pack through Steam OS they developed the game scope compositor and a lot more and of course a lot of this work is related to stuff that directly benefits well because because it helps them sell more steam deck and gain more independence from Windows and Microsoft which is their goal but in the end the whole Linux Community benefits from that because it's open source work and it's exactly how stuff should work between the community and a company and I think they've set a very good example here now the Weyland driver for wine also got some improvements with a new set of patches posted for review this time it enables window management including resizing Windows moving them around using the right cursors when hovering over stuff closing windows to the compositor by clicking the little x button and other basic window management things and it might seem like it's really simple stuff but it's definitely needed to ensure that games running through wine on Whalen natively work normally so at some point all of this has to be implemented it's not just fancy Vulcan work and Hardware acceleration sometimes you also have to implement the very base Basics and we can also look forward to some nice performance improvements for gaming Mike blumencons working at valve on the Linux graphics driver team has managed to optimize the code for Vulcan up to a thousand percent faster for certain Vulcan operations on AMD gpus and up to 5 000 on Arc gpus so of course it won't translate into that kind of FPS increase in game but it should definitely make our gaming experience faster at least when using Mesa drivers so with an AMD or Intel GPU and we also finally have a merge request to implement the Weyland color management protocol in Western which is the reference Weyland compositor now to make things clearer it simply means that we have the first implementation for specifying the color space and the HDR data on Linux it's still missing a few parts but it's a big big step for HDR support on Linux so yeah this thing is happening and I have no idea how well it links with the support for HDR and gaming that steam baked into gamescope but yeah HD on Linux it should not be too far off just like this segue to our sponsor is right there if you need a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it you should probably stop looking at devices that come with Windows pre-installed and you should buy a computer from a company that actually supports linux's development 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and just when I was starting to think that the Linux space might settle down a bit we get the Nuvo maintainer resigning we get LTS Linux kernels moving from six years of support to two years and we get Fedora proposing to ditch X11 entirely not just for KD but for Gnome as well oh and also gnome 45 is out Ubuntu 223.10 has a beta and volcanon Linux is getting massive performance improvements and you're getting this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Chasm workspaces which is a great tool to stream any operating system desktop or application straight to your web browser they just released version 1.14 which adds translations for 243 languages along with a completely redesigned administrator user interface to streamline administrative workflows additional updates include support for local webcams and Printers Plus the ability to persist your data to cloud storage drives like Google Drive next cloud or OneDrive along with saving your persistent profile to S3 block storage these updates make it easier than ever to host on-demand access to your desktops and applications the chasm workspaces Community Edition can be self-hosted or they also have a cloud SAS subscription so to learn more about Chasm workspaces click the link in the description below so potential bad news for NVIDIA users on Linux the primary maintainer for the Nuvo project has now resigned Nuvo is the open source kernel driver for NVIDIA gpus that while not really usable as a daily driver for newer cards is perfectly fine for older Nvidia gpus and also a crucial part for all the work currently happening with the open source Vulcan Nvidia driver called nvk so Ben's kegs worked for red hat and has contributed to Nuvo for more than 10 years and he posted his last patch this week to indicate he was resigning from Red Hat and from Nuvo development he says he's leaving things in a good State now that the GSP firmware work has been merged which should make supporting newer Hardware easier than it was when he started working on this driver and while there's a lot of development happening on the opengl and Vulcan front for NVIDIA gpus to get a solid open source driver going they still all need the Nuvo kernel driver to handle the Base Hardware which means the departure of Ben is a big blow still Ben merged the necessary patches for enabling good performance for nvk with support for the GSP firmware that lets RTX Series gpus be re-clocked and thus provide adequate performance while this isn't enabled by default it can be turned on with a kernel option and this work might be upstreamed in the Linux kernel 6.7 so let's hope other contributors will be willing to pick up where Ben left off but one cannot blame a developer for working for 10 years on something like Nuvo and wanting to do something else now so congrats to Ben thanks for all the hard work and here's hoping that Nuvo can continue being developed now we have some big changes for the Linux kernel in terms of organization at least as the long-term support versions will no longer be supported for a very long term previous LTS kernels were supported for six years but they will move to two years instead the change was announced at open source Summit and the rationale behind this is that no one uses very old kernel versions anyway so there's no point backboarding fixes and security patches to these as an aside the currently supported LTS versions go all the way back to 4.14 released in 2017 which I'm pretty sure isn't used much nowadays apart from a few select servers this combines with the fact that kernel developers are apparently burning out on this kind of work although supporting rust in the kernel is expected to bring in some new blood so the currently supported kernel versions will run their course ending their support in at most three years in December 2026 but all new LTS kernels will only get a two-year support window which is pretty fair since most LTS distros get a new version every two years anyway and a lot of them already moved to the latest LTS kernel version during their life cycle and I can't say I am opposed to this change because yeah LTS distributions that are virtually the only ones to use LTS kernels already tend to move to a newer LTS version mid-cycle because you can't really keep the same Linux kernel for six or eight years depending on how long your distro is supported and of course it might impact some use cases but how many big deployments are still on 4.14 these days now of course this week we also got the release of grown 145 it brings a lot of small changes from the new activities button which is also a workspace indicator that you can scroll over to switch between virtual desktops to a new quick setting toggle to handle keyboard backlight Improvement to background app support a revamped cursor theme although very slightly revamped the new split header bar design that brings an updated look to Nautilus the settings and a bunch of other apps plus big improvements to the compositor and Wayland notably handling the mouse cursor in its own thread to reduce latency and a lot of improvements to the default apps there's also a new image viewer that is way nicer to use with touchpad gestures a new camera app the calendar gained infinite scroll in the month view gnome web got a new tab overview grid there's an experimental light theme you can turn on in d-conf Gnome software better handles flat pack uninstalls and warns you of outdated unmaintained apps and the settings gained a new privacy Hub more Wi-Fi settings and a brand new about page with more information about your Hardware that you can copy easily to the clipboard on the less good side of things it also breaks all extensions since gnome moved to a new spec for JavaScript in the shell and while a lot of extensions have already been ported some might not beep just yet still it is a very solid release that I obviously made a dedicated video about so go check that out if you haven't watched it already it's like two videos before this one or something it's it's it was published this week now other cool gnome related changes include the release of news flash 3.0 the excellent gnome app for reading RSS feeds it got a complete redesign plus support for drag and drop to move feeds into categories a better mobile experience and it should also be way faster to load articles to sync feeds and to Mark stuff as red it will also remember its window state it can open images from articles into a big window and it better handles article thumbnails and RSS is still the best way to get your news your videos your podcasts in all one place without any algorithmic BS and you can add virtually anything and most clients will now convert any website to an RSS feed even though the website might not have one by default and there are also new releases for Railway a gnome app that lets you plan your travels using public transport jogger a fitness tracker for no mobile a massive update to workbench which is a must-have app if you want to learn to develop gnome apps a new update to Turtle get repo manager that plugs into Nautilus and a new version of Letterpress the app that lets you create ASCII art Now The Gnome ecosystem is as vibrant as ever maybe even more vibrant than it was previously and that's something I really miss now that I moved to KDE because caddy apps might be good but they are not as good and they are not as many as the ones you can find on Chrome and it's something that is really striking now that I use KDE every day now in other distro related news Fedora 39 got a beta they moved to gnome 45 in its most vanilla configuration they also use the latest Linux kernel and they ship with the latest versions of Firefox and LibreOffice and all their official spins are also available with the latest versions of their respective desktop so plasma 5.27.8 xfce 4.18 budgie 10.8 cinnamon 5.8 and lxq 1.3 no big changes are planned to Fedora specific software like dnf or the installer the nf5 still apparently isn't ready for Fedora 39 and the new Anaconda installer isn't either so they've been pushed back to at least Fedora 40. and speaking of which it looks like Fedora 40 might bring another change that will prove to be more controversial than the others while the KDE spin already proposed to ditch X11 from the install the gnome Edition also now has a similar proposal since Wayland is the default for the standard version of Fedora and has been for a few releases and considering X11 isn't being tested and requires some effort to maintain they're considering dropping it and compiling matter The Gnome compositor without X11 support of course as with all proposal for Fedora it still needs to be approved by the steering committee now it would be very interesting to have a major distro like Fedora completely drop support for X11 if only because Fedora is the exact kind of distro to do these kind of changes on and also because it would mean that a lot of issues could be reported for Weyland which would accelerate development because if you have X11 as a fallback you might not even report the issue and just move back to X11 if you're stuck on Weyland then you're going to report the issue and the developers will sort of have to fix it because there's no fallback now Ubuntu 23.10 is set to release in a few weeks and the beta just dropped it also brings ground 45 of course with all the new stuff I mentioned previously apart from some of the default apps that Ubuntu doesn't ship and with their usual customizations and changes it will also default to the minimal install option now which comes with just the essentials Firefox a terminal a text editor and a store you can still get the usual roster of apps by selecting expounded installation instead and of course if you upgrade from an earlier version your apps won't be removed there's also the new app store called App Center which seems like he definitely added back support for Debian packaged and apps from the repos which is good there's a new firmware updater tool written using flutter like most Ubuntu specific apps and Ubuntu 223.10 uses the Linux kernel 6.5 so the light is currently available finally you'll be able to use disk encryption with the TPM chip your computer probably has although it's experimental and it won't work if you dual boot or use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers so all in all it looks like a solid non-controversial release like it's good that the App Store gains support for their packages back because just having snaps would be extremely limiting so yeah expect a dedicated video when it releases I think it's on October the 12th and let's finish on the gaming news first gaming possible and is definitely currently helping Linux gain more adoption but it looks like they're actually a way bigger contributor than I thought at open source Summit there was a talk from igalia which is a prolific contributor to a lot of parts of the open source stack and they pointed out a lot of valve's contributions through Steam OS they not only fund proton and wine development working with code Weavers but they also found some Linux kernel work like the futex API they helped solve case insensitive support for X4 for better Windows app compatibility they contributed to the AMD or ADV drivers to the ACO compiler for shaders or to Vulcan to better support video playback and they are also helping the currently ongoing work to support HDR to better handle GPU resets and they support flat pack through Steam OS they developed the game scope compositor and a lot more and of course a lot of this work is related to stuff that directly benefits well because because it helps them sell more steam deck and gain more independence from Windows and Microsoft which is their goal but in the end the whole Linux Community benefits from that because it's open source work and it's exactly how stuff should work between the community and a company and I think they've set a very good example here now the Weyland driver for wine also got some improvements with a new set of patches posted for review this time it enables window management including resizing Windows moving them around using the right cursors when hovering over stuff closing windows to the compositor by clicking the little x button and other basic window management things and it might seem like it's really simple stuff but it's definitely needed to ensure that games running through wine on Whalen natively work normally so at some point all of this has to be implemented it's not just fancy Vulcan work and Hardware acceleration sometimes you also have to implement the very base Basics and we can also look forward to some nice performance improvements for gaming Mike blumencons working at valve on the Linux graphics driver team has managed to optimize the code for Vulcan up to a thousand percent faster for certain Vulcan operations on AMD gpus and up to 5 000 on Arc gpus so of course it won't translate into that kind of FPS increase in game but it should definitely make our gaming experience faster at least when using Mesa drivers so with an AMD or Intel GPU and we also finally have a merge request to implement the Weyland color management protocol in Western which is the reference Weyland compositor now to make things clearer it simply means that we have the first implementation for specifying the color space and the HDR data on Linux it's still missing a few parts but it's a big big step for HDR support on Linux so yeah this thing is happening and I have no idea how well it links with the support for HDR and gaming that steam baked into gamescope but yeah HD on Linux it should not be too far off just like this segue to our sponsor is right there if you need a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it you should probably stop looking at devices that come with Windows pre-installed and you should buy a computer from a company that actually supports linux's development like our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box they pick the hardware specifically to run well with Linux and if they detect various compatibility problems they submit patches Upstream to fix them for everyone and they have a big range of devices that should cover every price point and every need whether you're looking for a small laptop a giant gaming laptop a tower a Nook for office for productivity for video editing thing they have it or all the devices are very customizable all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded so if you need a new computer and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a computer from tuxedo they are 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 didn't there's always that dislike button and you can tell me why in the 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replace photoshop with or Microsoft's office with LibreOffice we have all heard or in some cases said these words and they are good recommendations but they are a bit overplayed but what about a lot of other very popular proprietary apps like obsidian notion Microsoft teams or slack acrobat editor vs code Trello and more well I do have some good open source Alternatives that I want to recommend in this video and if you have other Alternatives don't hesitate to share them down in the comment in the comment section below so everyone can benefit and speaking of Open Source tools how about 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 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 one app that everyone talked about for a while is Obsidian and it's great it offers the ability to link notes together bi-directionally so links go both ways it uses markdown and plain text to store your notes it has a plug-in ecosystem and the visual Knowledge Graph that lets you explore topics and the relationships between your notes is awesome but it's proprietary so if you prefer your apps to be free software then let's look at logsack this one is published under the new age GPL and it does everything obsidian does it takes notes as markdown files it has more than 150 plugins and a bunch of themes it has mobile apps it's private and it does have the same linking features and Knowledge Graph it even lets you create queries to generate tables with all the information you need based on the links and the data you entered in your notes what this means is that like obsidian it can be used for simple note-taking or for Ultra evolved workflows research projects and knowledge bases something that if you're like me you always wanted to do but never took the time or never really actually had a use for now logsack even offers their own thinking solution if you want that although since notes are stored as plain text files you can also just sync them using whatever cloud storage solution you prefer they also have a new whiteboard feature to let you place your thoughts on a canvas and organize things before writing a fully detailed note it's available for Linux as an app image and for Mac OS Windows IOS and Android and of course logsack isn't a complete drop-in replacement for obsidian as some of their features don't work in the same way and obsidian still has more plugins so some use cases probably won't be covered entirely but I can confidently say that most obsidian users should be able to move to logsack without too much trouble well apart from actually migrating your obsidian Vault of nodes to logsack which might take a little bit of time another really powerful app is notion in a way it sort of feels the same role as obsidian but in a more visual way you can create notes to-do lists Stables boards wikis and anything in between with a lot of templates and while it's free of charge it's proprietary and doesn't have an official Linux version now granted it's a web app so you can always use it in your web browser but again if you're like me using an app in a web browser just doesn't cut it it just doesn't feel right the closest thing you can find in the open source world will be either app flowy or any type app flowy is really close but it's not as feature complete just yet it's open source it's available for Linux from Flat Hub you can create your own structure with pages and sub pages and you have a few page types like calendars boards tables or documents you can also mix these types on the same page like having board with cards that you can also present in a table or on a calendar but you won't get as many templates as what notion offers your text notes can have a lot of formatting with headers images checkboxes lists quotes code blocks and equations tables can use a large variety of column types like dates selectors URLs check boxes and more and Boards handle statuses dates and all the properties you can add in a table as well it also lets you use open AI if you want to write drafts that you can edit later yay more AI stuff so cool but app flowy also doesn't have mobile apps yet they're being worked on and it doesn't quite let you build wikis although you can link page with one another if you want if you want a more full featured app there's any type instead it's also open source and it has a Linux client and mobile apps but the interface is a bit more involved and less clear to start with than app flowing they have a very solid road map for what's coming in 2024 as well and it already supports everything that app flowy does and a bit more now app flowy lets you work completely locally without an account and doesn't have native sync capabilities while any type lets you work offline or sync online using encrypted peer-to-peer syncing basically if you use notion for very simple single type pages that app flowy is probably good enough and simple enough if you use notion in very involved ways then any type is probably going to to work better for you also their website uses the old Apple font which for some old Nerd Like Me is actually pretty fun not that it has any bearing on the quality of the app itself anyways now for this one you might not have as much control over because generally a company or a project will impose slack or Microsoft teams on you and you can't really change that but if you have all the power to make the decisions then you might want to take a look at matter most it's a fully open source slack slash Microsoft teams alternative that you can self-host easily using Docker or any other method you prefer it lets you create channels and chat with side threads it has file sharing screen sharing and audio calls it can be integrated with a bunch of developer tools to automate things you can format messages with markdown or code Snippets and all messages can be archived with full history search if you don't want to self-host they also have plans you can pay for as well with added professional support and a few more advanced Enterprise features the only thing it lacks really is video calls you will have to plug something else in like jitsi or big blue button but there are Integrations available to make that transition completely seamless while you use matter most now if all you need to organize yourself or your project is a board you might choose Trello and this one is pretty easy to replace you can just use focal board you can either self-host it if you want to let multiple people access the same boards or you can just use it as a personal app with a Mac OS windows and Linux application focalboard has plenty of templates for projects for Content planning for road maps for meetings and more and it supports real-time collaboration with comments on cards mentions and permissions it is fully open source of course and you can present things as boards lists calendars or galleries it lets you create an unlimited number of boards for free you can have your own custom attributes in each board it supports backup And archiving and file sharing in cards as well so you could theoretically use it as a replacement for notion as well if you use notion with boards and tables mostly but but I personally always saw it more as a Trello replacement focal boards does lack a few things compared to Trello notably mobile apps Integrations with other services and apps and it also has less templates but if you don't mind creating your own boards from scratch and you don't care about Integrations and mobile focalboard is probably the best thing out there apart from the fact that I'm probably pronouncing this name wrong all the time and it sounds like something else entirely but I also don't know how to say it any other way now if you need to create and edit PDF documents you might use Acrobat Pro from Adobe and if all you need is to create PDFs then you do not need a dedicated app just for that make your document in whatever app you're comfortable with and Export it as a PDF but if you need to modify PDF documents then you might be starved for high quality apps you can always open them in in inkscape or Library office draw but these tend to either open a single page or break the documents formatting LibreOffice draw does a great job if you have all the fonts used in the PDF that are also installed on your system but editing text is generally handled in a line per line basis instead of recognizing things as paragraphs which can be a pain to deal with and of course PDF is not a format that you're supposed to edit so in most cases your best bet is to actually edit the original version of the document if you created it or to ask the person who sent it to you to send you an editable format but in some cases that's just not an option now Visual Studio codes code is licensed under the MIT license so it is an open source slash free software project but the binary you can get from Microsoft isn't open source and it includes some Telemetry and some tracking the alternative this is easy it's vs kodia it's built on the open source parts of vs code but it removes all the tracking the Telemetry and the proprietary components it's compatible with vs code's plugins and extensions and it has the exact same interface and features but in a nice open source format it's available for Windows for Mac OS and for Linux as a Dev and RPM or on flat Hub it does have a few restrictions compared to vs code notably for specific Microsoft extensions that cannot run outside of vs code itself it also uses another extension store that isn't the one Microsoft uses since this one is proprietary but you should be able to find most of what you would actually want to use in there unless you work with specific Microsoft Technologies you'll find the exact same interface and the exact same plugins but in open source format it's a no-brainer and now for a few other recommendations for nice open source apps and services to replace your proprietary software with to begin with there's the good old next Cloud it's your fully open source replacement for stuff like Office 365 or Google workspace it handles file storage and sharing collaboration chat and video calls it can integrate with open source office suites like collabora online and only office and it has a ton of additional apps that you can add to it it is what I use every day to run this Channel and accomplish all the work related to actually publishing these videos it's great it receives updates really often and it's super modular I can't recommend it enough which you might have noticed since I talk about it in almost every video If you use outlook for email take a look at Thunderbird the new interface is now wonderful and it handles tasks calendars and emails really really well and if you need to plug into an exchange server there's a plugin for that as well out just like for virtually anything you would want to do in the app like sticky notes adding links to next cloud files templates and more yes they are this video sponsor but they're also my email client of choice that I use every day the new version is really really good if you have other cool alternatives to all these apps or to other proprietary apps that a lot of people use don't hesitate to let us know 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replace photoshop with or Microsoft's office with LibreOffice we have all heard or in some cases said these words and they are good recommendations but they are a bit overplayed but what about a lot of other very popular proprietary apps like obsidian notion Microsoft teams or slack acrobat editor vs code Trello and more well I do have some good open source Alternatives that I want to recommend in this video and if you have other Alternatives don't hesitate to share them down in the comment in the comment section below so everyone can benefit and speaking of Open Source tools how about 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 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 one app that everyone talked about for a while is Obsidian and it's great it offers the ability to link notes together bi-directionally so links go both ways it uses markdown and plain text to store your notes it has a plug-in ecosystem and the visual Knowledge Graph that lets you explore topics and the relationships between your notes is awesome but it's proprietary so if you prefer your apps to be free software then let's look at logsack this one is published under the new age GPL and it does everything obsidian does it takes notes as markdown files it has more than 150 plugins and a bunch of themes it has mobile apps it's private and it does have the same linking features and Knowledge Graph it even lets you create queries to generate tables with all the information you need based on the links and the data you entered in your notes what this means is that like obsidian it can be used for simple note-taking or for Ultra evolved workflows research projects and knowledge bases something that if you're like me you always wanted to do but never took the time or never really actually had a use for now logsack even offers their own thinking solution if you want that although since notes are stored as plain text files you can also just sync them using whatever cloud storage solution you prefer they also have a new whiteboard feature to let you place your thoughts on a canvas and organize things before writing a fully detailed note it's available for Linux as an app image and for Mac OS Windows IOS and Android and of course logsack isn't a complete drop-in replacement for obsidian as some of their features don't work in the same way and obsidian still has more plugins so some use cases probably won't be covered entirely but I can confidently say that most obsidian users should be able to move to logsack without too much trouble well apart from actually migrating your obsidian Vault of nodes to logsack which might take a little bit of time another really powerful app is notion in a way it sort of feels the same role as obsidian but in a more visual way you can create notes to-do lists Stables boards wikis and anything in between with a lot of templates and while it's free of charge it's proprietary and doesn't have an official Linux version now granted it's a web app so you can always use it in your web browser but again if you're like me using an app in a web browser just doesn't cut it it just doesn't feel right the closest thing you can find in the open source world will be either app flowy or any type app flowy is really close but it's not as feature complete just yet it's open source it's available for Linux from Flat Hub you can create your own structure with pages and sub pages and you have a few page types like calendars boards tables or documents you can also mix these types on the same page like having board with cards that you can also present in a table or on a calendar but you won't get as many templates as what notion offers your text notes can have a lot of formatting with headers images checkboxes lists quotes code blocks and equations tables can use a large variety of column types like dates selectors URLs check boxes and more and Boards handle statuses dates and all the properties you can add in a table as well it also lets you use open AI if you want to write drafts that you can edit later yay more AI stuff so cool but app flowy also doesn't have mobile apps yet they're being worked on and it doesn't quite let you build wikis although you can link page with one another if you want if you want a more full featured app there's any type instead it's also open source and it has a Linux client and mobile apps but the interface is a bit more involved and less clear to start with than app flowing they have a very solid road map for what's coming in 2024 as well and it already supports everything that app flowy does and a bit more now app flowy lets you work completely locally without an account and doesn't have native sync capabilities while any type lets you work offline or sync online using encrypted peer-to-peer syncing basically if you use notion for very simple single type pages that app flowy is probably good enough and simple enough if you use notion in very involved ways then any type is probably going to to work better for you also their website uses the old Apple font which for some old Nerd Like Me is actually pretty fun not that it has any bearing on the quality of the app itself anyways now for this one you might not have as much control over because generally a company or a project will impose slack or Microsoft teams on you and you can't really change that but if you have all the power to make the decisions then you might want to take a look at matter most it's a fully open source slack slash Microsoft teams alternative that you can self-host easily using Docker or any other method you prefer it lets you create channels and chat with side threads it has file sharing screen sharing and audio calls it can be integrated with a bunch of developer tools to automate things you can format messages with markdown or code Snippets and all messages can be archived with full history search if you don't want to self-host they also have plans you can pay for as well with added professional support and a few more advanced Enterprise features the only thing it lacks really is video calls you will have to plug something else in like jitsi or big blue button but there are Integrations available to make that transition completely seamless while you use matter most now if all you need to organize yourself or your project is a board you might choose Trello and this one is pretty easy to replace you can just use focal board you can either self-host it if you want to let multiple people access the same boards or you can just use it as a personal app with a Mac OS windows and Linux application focalboard has plenty of templates for projects for Content planning for road maps for meetings and more and it supports real-time collaboration with comments on cards mentions and permissions it is fully open source of course and you can present things as boards lists calendars or galleries it lets you create an unlimited number of boards for free you can have your own custom attributes in each board it supports backup And archiving and file sharing in cards as well so you could theoretically use it as a replacement for notion as well if you use notion with boards and tables mostly but but I personally always saw it more as a Trello replacement focal boards does lack a few things compared to Trello notably mobile apps Integrations with other services and apps and it also has less templates but if you don't mind creating your own boards from scratch and you don't care about Integrations and mobile focalboard is probably the best thing out there apart from the fact that I'm probably pronouncing this name wrong all the time and it sounds like something else entirely but I also don't know how to say it any other way now if you need to create and edit PDF documents you might use Acrobat Pro from Adobe and if all you need is to create PDFs then you do not need a dedicated app just for that make your document in whatever app you're comfortable with and Export it as a PDF but if you need to modify PDF documents then you might be starved for high quality apps you can always open them in in inkscape or Library office draw but these tend to either open a single page or break the documents formatting LibreOffice draw does a great job if you have all the fonts used in the PDF that are also installed on your system but editing text is generally handled in a line per line basis instead of recognizing things as paragraphs which can be a pain to deal with and of course PDF is not a format that you're supposed to edit so in most cases your best bet is to actually edit the original version of the document if you created it or to ask the person who sent it to you to send you an editable format but in some cases that's just not an option now Visual Studio codes code is licensed under the MIT license so it is an open source slash free software project but the binary you can get from Microsoft isn't open source and it includes some Telemetry and some tracking the alternative this is easy it's vs kodia it's built on the open source parts of vs code but it removes all the tracking the Telemetry and the proprietary components it's compatible with vs code's plugins and extensions and it has the exact same interface and features but in a nice open source format it's available for Windows for Mac OS and for Linux as a Dev and RPM or on flat Hub it does have a few restrictions compared to vs code notably for specific Microsoft extensions that cannot run outside of vs code itself it also uses another extension store that isn't the one Microsoft uses since this one is proprietary but you should be able to find most of what you would actually want to use in there unless you work with specific Microsoft Technologies you'll find the exact same interface and the exact same plugins but in open source format it's a no-brainer and now for a few other recommendations for nice open source apps and services to replace your proprietary software with to begin with there's the good old next Cloud it's your fully open source replacement for stuff like Office 365 or Google workspace it handles file storage and sharing collaboration chat and video calls it can integrate with open source office suites like collabora online and only 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gnome is my favorite Linux desktop environment so when it gets an update I'm obviously going to check it out and I was expecting it on 45 to be a relatively small uninteresting upgrade but they kept adding stuff to it as time went on and it ended up being a pretty sizable release so today we'll dive into all the changes to the Shell the look the apps the settings the compositor and most of them are really really good just like this Segway to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuck scare your all-in-one solution to ensure that your Linux server and workstation Fleet stays secure with minimal downtime this week they are letting you win a free pass to Super Computing conference the International Conference for high performance Computing networking storage and Analysis it will happen from November the 12th to November 17th in Denver Colorado that's in the USA if you were wondering tax care is hosting a giveaway which you can enter for free and you'll get a chance to win a guest pass to the exhibition floor plus a free trial for a tax care security product for your company and a tux care gift bag as well anyone who's working for an organization that uses Alma Linux and hosts 21 and older can enter the giveaway so click the link in the description below and try to win this free pass okay back to gnome 45 the first change you will notice is the activities button functionally it's the same you click it it opens the activities view but visually it's now more useful it shows your current virtual desktop as a pill and the other available virtual desktops has small circles so you know where you are in your strip of desktops now it doesn't give you any view of the number of apps or which apps on which desktop but it's still a cool reminder of where you are currently you can also now scroll over this button to move to the previous or next desktop although I would say it's still more efficient to use touchpad gestures or keyboard shortcuts I guess if you're on the laptop and you're using X11 for some reason then maybe it's more efficient than moving your hands to the keyboard for using a keyboard shortcut but anyways it's good to have another way of doing the same thing this change also comes with the removal of the app menu from the top bar you won't see the name of the currently focused application in there anymore now this menu was pretty used less it had a few controls that you already had either in the dock when right clicking the app icon or just some window controls but it does mean that if your theme has poor contrast between active and inactive windows then you might have a harder time knowing which window is currently in Focus I would say it's not a problem for the default advice or advaita dark theme but depending on how good or poor your vision is it might be your problem still generally I like this whole new set of changes now the Quick Settings also got a few tweaks first you now get the ability to control keyboard backlight from this little menu on supported Hardware you will now get a small pill button that you can click to enable or disable the backlight and you can unfold it using the little arrow to select the exact light level you want depending on what your keyboard actually supports of course you can also open the Quick Settings menu with a keyboard shortcut now which is super plus s and that's going to be very useful if you have a big Ultra wide display to avoid throwing your mouse in the top right corner all the time in the top bar next to these Quick Settings you will also get a new webcam activity indicator when an app is accessing your webcam through pipe wire you will see a small icon in there just like the previous icons for microphone access or for screen recording now these are small torches but they do make your desktop a bit more efficient and they do make you a bit more aware of what's currently being accessed or used which is always good the background apps feature hasn't really gotten more useful since it still doesn't give you a context menu but at least when you hit the close button you will see a small spinner to indicate that it's actually being closed Magnum 45 doesn't change much in terms of look and feel the advaita cursor theme has changed a tiny bit with a longer stem for the main mouse cursor and revamped cursors for dragging stuff and hovering over clickable links but the changes are really minor there is also a True Light theme available although you will have to enable it using d-conf or through an extension it makes the top bar and all the shell elements light themed when the default-like theme is in reality mixed apps are light but the Shell theme itself is dark The Gnome team wants to explore how things will look and work in this mode so that's why it's not the default but you can still enable it if you really want that apart from that there is a new split header bar look that reached a few applications like the settings the calendar or the file manager it basically makes all the panels of the app full height instead of being split horizontally by the header bar it looks less heavy and nicer but it also makes certain apps a bit less space efficient for example in Nautilus the back and forward buttons and the path bar were aligned to the left of the window now they're aligned to the left of their panel which means the path bar is a lot shorter even though the main menu move to the left part of the app so if you navigate to Long file paths you actually lose space with the new design and you didn't gain vertical space either it is not a huge deal you can always just make the window a bit bigger and that's gonna solve the problem but it does feel like a change made for the sake of Aesthetics instead of being made for the sake of usability it doesn't affect any other app in the same way though so in the end it doesn't really matter there were a lot of changes to the gnome apps as well in Chrome 45 first is Nautilus with the aforementioned split header bar design but it also gained a way faster search tracker The Surge back-end has been improved and can cache query results which means it's noticeably faster to return stuff once a search has completed you also get a search everywhere button that now lets you search the whole file system not just the current folder and its subdirectories so that should please a lot of people selecting columns in the list view is now a bit nicer looking with more recent lipid Vitae components you can move the columns around to change the order and you can apply the changes to all folders or just the one you're viewing small changes but definitely welcome Nautilus always felt a bit Bare Bones and a bit slow so I guess now it's fixed now there's also a brand new image viewer for gnome called Loop which is the French word for magnifying glass it replaces the old eye of known viewer and functionally it's pretty much the same but it's much more in line with modern gnome apps it supports touchpad and touchscreen gestures to move to the previous or next image you can zoom in with a two finger pinch it can display the image's metadata it can copy the image to the clipboard or delete it it lets you print it or set it as a background and it's nicely animated and it just looks like a modern gnome app on the other hand the old gnome photos app is no longer a core app for Chrome because it's pretty much unmaintained other core app changes are snapshot the new camera app that replaced cheese as the default in Gnome it's a basic camera app it lets you record a video or take a picture of your face using your webcam the Dome calendar also gained a lot of cool stuff in Chrome 45 notably infinite scrolling in the month view scrolling up or down will move you to the next or previous month which is really useful the events dialog has also been revamped using libid Vitae components and looks more in line with modern genome apps you can also now press F5 to sync all online calendars or Control Alt plus M to manage all available calendars gnome console got a new preference item to customize fonts gnome Maps gained a new experimental vector-based tile set and the connections app for handling remote desktops now supports copying text files and images through RDP Epiphany also known as gnome web got the tab overview which lets you preview all your web browser tabs in a visual grid this looks pretty good and it's really helpful to find the website you're looking for The Gnome font viewer simple scan and The Baobab disk usage analyzer also got ported to gdk4 this time around so there shouldn't be much that still gtk3 now and finally the calculator app now handles more currencies and currency conversions and of course gnome software got some small updates as well first you'll get an OS upgrade indicator that will let you know when your system needs to be updated and when it's up to date it will also show you a notification when updates to the core system are downloaded and waiting for a reboot to be installed for flat pack apps you will also get the option to clear the app storage when you uninstall it basically you'll remove all the data associated with the app similar to what KD added recently in this cover flatback apps that are end of life as in they will not receive updates anymore will be marked as such in the app page in genome software and in the installed apps list as well that's a nice little touch to let you know that something that you use is currently completely unmaintained or something that you wanted to install is also completely unmaintained now this is harder to show here but the window manager and compositor called mutter has gotten much better in Chrome 45. first it now supports yuv or yav color space which is generally used for video and image processing the compositor can now convert yav to rgba accurately and this will improve performance for playing certain video files and so battery life should get better as well fractional scaling underway lands now is also so officially supported which means the compositor won't render at 2X and then scale down to 125 for example it will render at 125 directly so stuff should be less blurry and more energy efficient on top of that the compositor now handles the mouse cursor's movement in its own thread which means it won't be impacted as much by anything else needing to be rendered and the mouse cursor will move much more smoothly with much less latency the rest of the compositor will also perform better due to that change these are Big background changes that will definitely make the genome experience smoother and faster for everyone and in terms of settings Chrome 45 brings the usual changes like every version First the settings app gained the new split header bar design the about page gained a new system details dialog that will give you a bit more information with a copy button to quickly share these when you have to write to bug report or something along those lines I am not sure why they didn't just add this information and the copy button straight to the about page instead of putting it in the dialogue but yeah still nice I guess in the settings you can also now close any pop-up dialog by pressing escape which will make navigating these a lot easier a few options from good home tweaks also made their way to the date and time settings where you can now customize the way the clock in the top bar looks with the ability to display weekdays the dates seconds and week numbers in the calendar pop-up and there are smaller changes as well like the ability to remove a Wi-Fi network with a dedicated icon a confirmation dialog to verify you actually wanted to remove that Wi-Fi network the sharing page lost its Global toggle since it didn't really make much sense and searching through the settings has been improved with more keywords available to find various Pages now what isn't there in the settings in Chrome 45 is the proposed change to display fractional scaling options by default with a more Mac OS inspired design where you could preview the size of the text for each scaling Factor accent colors were discussed and they are now a standard that KDE already implemented but there is no implementation in Gnome 45 either there was also a screen sharing button planned for the quick settings in Chrome 45 but I could not find it anywhere either now I was expecting gnome 45 to be a really small and minor upgrade but instead what I got is a lot of small minor upgrades no big changes to the core experience of gnome but a lot of small tweaks here and there the new image viewer the slightly revamped cursors the more efficient activities button the admittedly not always perfect split header bar design the merge improved calendar app the faster file manager and generally more keyboard shortcuts and more settings and options make it a must-have if you use gnome of course you will also lose some extensions as gnome 45 broke compatibility with all of them and while a lot of extensions are already updated to support gnome45 some might not be by the time you upgrade there is also no support for the accent color standard although it was just agreed upon so maybe they just didn't have enough time to implement it now they better add it for Chrome 46 though there are zero value reasons to refuse implementing accent colors it doesn't break anything you can choose the colors you want so it doesn't break legibility either it is not confusing for users and it's already been adopted by virtually every single operating system out there bite the bullet and add it now as always how and when you'll get these changes depends on the distro you're using Fedora 39 will get it Ubuntu 23.10 will get parts of it but not all the applications rolling releases should have it relatively soon but if you use Debian stable or an LTS distro chances are you'll not get to enjoy all the new stuff that it brings but at least you'll get to enjoy this segue to our 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gnome is my favorite Linux desktop environment so when it gets an update I'm obviously going to check it out and I was expecting it on 45 to be a relatively small uninteresting upgrade but they kept adding stuff to it as time went on and it ended up being a pretty sizable release so today we'll dive into all the changes to the Shell the look the apps the settings the compositor and most of them are really really good just like this Segway to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tuck scare your all-in-one solution to ensure that your Linux server and workstation Fleet stays secure with minimal downtime this week they are letting you win a free pass to Super Computing conference the International Conference for high performance Computing networking storage and Analysis it will happen from November the 12th to November 17th in Denver Colorado that's in the USA if you were wondering tax care is hosting a giveaway which you can enter for free and you'll get a chance to win a guest pass to the exhibition floor plus a free trial for a tax care security product for your company and a tux care gift bag as well anyone who's working for an organization that uses Alma Linux and hosts 21 and older can enter the giveaway so click the link in the description below and try to win this free pass okay back to gnome 45 the first change you will notice is the activities button functionally it's the same you click it it opens the activities view but visually it's now more useful it shows your current virtual desktop as a pill and the other available virtual desktops has small circles so you know where you are in your strip of desktops now it doesn't give you any view of the number of apps or which apps on which desktop but it's still a cool reminder of where you are currently you can also now scroll over this button to move to the previous or next desktop although I would say it's still more efficient to use touchpad gestures or keyboard shortcuts I guess if you're on the laptop and you're using X11 for some reason then maybe it's more efficient than moving your hands to the keyboard for using a keyboard shortcut but anyways it's good to have another way of doing the same thing this change also comes with the removal of the app menu from the top bar you won't see the name of the currently focused application in there anymore now this menu was pretty used less it had a few controls that you already had either in the dock when right clicking the app icon or just some window controls but it does mean that if your theme has poor contrast between active and inactive windows then you might have a harder time knowing which window is currently in Focus I would say it's not a problem for the default advice or advaita dark theme but depending on how good or poor your vision is it might be your problem still generally I like this whole new set of changes now the Quick Settings also got a few tweaks first you now get the ability to control keyboard backlight from this little menu on supported Hardware you will now get a small pill button that you can click to enable or disable the backlight and you can unfold it using the little arrow to select the exact light level you want depending on what your keyboard actually supports of course you can also open the Quick Settings menu with a keyboard shortcut now which is super plus s and that's going to be very useful if you have a big Ultra wide display to avoid throwing your mouse in the top right corner all the time in the top bar next to these Quick Settings you will also get a new webcam activity indicator when an app is accessing your webcam through pipe wire you will see a small icon in there just like the previous icons for microphone access or for screen recording now these are small torches but they do make your desktop a bit more efficient and they do make you a bit more aware of what's currently being accessed or used which is always good the background apps feature hasn't really gotten more useful since it still doesn't give you a context menu but at least when you hit the close button you will see a small spinner to indicate that it's actually being closed Magnum 45 doesn't change much in terms of look and feel the advaita cursor theme has changed a tiny bit with a longer stem for the main mouse cursor and revamped cursors for dragging stuff and hovering over clickable links but the changes are really minor there is also a True Light theme available although you will have to enable it using d-conf or through an extension it makes the top bar and all the shell elements light themed when the default-like theme is in reality mixed apps are light but the Shell theme itself is dark The Gnome team wants to explore how things will look and work in this mode so that's why it's not the default but you can still enable it if you really want that apart from that there is a new split header bar look that reached a few applications like the settings the calendar or the file manager it basically makes all the panels of the app full height instead of being split horizontally by the header bar it looks less heavy and nicer but it also makes certain apps a bit less space efficient for example in Nautilus the back and forward buttons and the path bar were aligned to the left of the window now they're aligned to the left of their panel which means the path bar is a lot shorter even though the main menu move to the left part of the app so if you navigate to Long file paths you actually lose space with the new design and you didn't gain vertical space either it is not a huge deal you can always just make the window a bit bigger and that's gonna solve the problem but it does feel like a change made for the sake of Aesthetics instead of being made for the sake of usability it doesn't affect any other app in the same way though so in the end it doesn't really matter there were a lot of changes to the gnome apps as well in Chrome 45 first is Nautilus with the aforementioned split header bar design but it also gained a way faster search tracker The Surge back-end has been improved and can cache query results which means it's noticeably faster to return stuff once a search has completed you also get a search everywhere button that now lets you search the whole file system not just the current folder and its subdirectories so that should please a lot of people selecting columns in the list view is now a bit nicer looking with more recent lipid Vitae components you can move the columns around to change the order and you can apply the changes to all folders or just the one you're viewing small changes but definitely welcome Nautilus always felt a bit Bare Bones and a bit slow so I guess now it's fixed now there's also a brand new image viewer for gnome called Loop which is the French word for magnifying glass it replaces the old eye of known viewer and functionally it's pretty much the same but it's much more in line with modern gnome apps it supports touchpad and touchscreen gestures to move to the previous or next image you can zoom in with a two finger pinch it can display the image's metadata it can copy the image to the clipboard or delete it it lets you print it or set it as a background and it's nicely animated and it just looks like a modern gnome app on the other hand the old gnome photos app is no longer a core app for Chrome because it's pretty much unmaintained other core app changes are snapshot the new camera app that replaced cheese as the default in Gnome it's a basic camera app it lets you record a video or take a picture of your face using your webcam the Dome calendar also gained a lot of cool stuff in Chrome 45 notably infinite scrolling in the month view scrolling up or down will move you to the next or previous month which is really useful the events dialog has also been revamped using libid Vitae components and looks more in line with modern genome apps you can also now press F5 to sync all online calendars or Control Alt plus M to manage all available calendars gnome console got a new preference item to customize fonts gnome Maps gained a new experimental vector-based tile set and the connections app for handling remote desktops now supports copying text files and images through RDP Epiphany also known as gnome web got the tab overview which lets you preview all your web browser tabs in a visual grid this looks pretty good and it's really helpful to find the website you're looking for The Gnome font viewer simple scan and The Baobab disk usage analyzer also got ported to gdk4 this time around so there shouldn't be much that still gtk3 now and finally the calculator app now handles more currencies and currency conversions and of course gnome software got some small updates as well first you'll get an OS upgrade indicator that will let you know when your system needs to be updated and when it's up to date it will also show you a notification when updates to the core system are downloaded and waiting for a reboot to be installed for flat pack apps you will also get the option to clear the app storage when you uninstall it basically you'll remove all the data associated with the app similar to what KD added recently in this cover flatback apps that are end of life as in they will not receive updates anymore will be marked as such in the app page in genome software and in the installed apps list as well that's a nice little touch to let you know that something that you use is currently completely unmaintained or something that you wanted to install is also completely unmaintained now this is harder to show here but the window manager and compositor called mutter has gotten much better in Chrome 45. first it now supports yuv or yav color space which is generally used for video and image processing the compositor can now convert yav to rgba accurately and this will improve performance for playing certain video files and so battery life should get better as well fractional scaling underway lands now is also so officially supported which means the compositor won't render at 2X and then scale down to 125 for example it will render at 125 directly so stuff should be less blurry and more energy efficient on top of that the compositor now handles the mouse cursor's movement in its own thread which means it won't be impacted as much by anything else needing to be rendered and the mouse cursor will move much more smoothly with much less latency the rest of the compositor will also perform better due to that change these are Big background changes that will definitely make the genome experience smoother and faster for everyone and in terms of settings Chrome 45 brings the usual changes like every version First the settings app gained the new split header bar design the about page gained a new system details dialog that will give you a bit more information with a copy button to quickly share these when you have to write to bug report or something along those lines I am not sure why they didn't just add this information and the copy button straight to the about page instead of putting it in the dialogue but yeah still nice I guess in the settings you can also now close any pop-up dialog by pressing escape which will make navigating these a lot easier a few options from good home tweaks also made their way to the date and time settings where you can now customize the way the clock in the top bar looks with the ability to display weekdays the dates seconds and week numbers in the calendar pop-up and there are smaller changes as well like the ability to remove a Wi-Fi network with a dedicated icon a confirmation dialog to verify you actually wanted to remove that Wi-Fi network the sharing page lost its Global toggle since it didn't really make much sense and searching through the settings has been improved with more keywords available to find various Pages now what isn't there in the settings in Chrome 45 is the proposed change to display fractional scaling options by default with a more Mac OS inspired design where you could preview the size of the text for each scaling Factor accent colors were discussed and they are now a standard that KDE already implemented but there is no implementation in Gnome 45 either there was also a screen sharing button planned for the quick settings in Chrome 45 but I could not find it anywhere either now I was expecting gnome 45 to be a really small and minor upgrade but instead what I got is a lot of small minor upgrades no big changes to the core experience of gnome but a lot of small tweaks here and there the new image viewer the slightly revamped cursors the more efficient activities button the admittedly not always perfect split header bar design the merge improved calendar app the faster file manager and generally more keyboard shortcuts and more settings and options make it a must-have if you use gnome of course you will also lose some extensions as gnome 45 broke compatibility with all of them and while a lot of extensions are already updated to support gnome45 some might not be by the time you upgrade there is also no support for the accent color standard although it was just agreed upon so maybe they just didn't have enough time to implement it now they better add it for Chrome 46 though there are zero value reasons to refuse implementing accent colors it doesn't break anything you can choose the colors you want so it doesn't break legibility either it is not confusing for users and it's already been adopted by virtually every single operating system out there bite the bullet and add it now as always how and when you'll get these changes depends on the distro you're using Fedora 39 will get it Ubuntu 23.10 will get parts of it but not all the applications rolling releases should have it relatively soon but if you use Debian stable or an LTS distro chances are you'll not get to enjoy all the new stuff that it brings but at least you'll get to enjoy this segue to our 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see I knew you would get bored on Sunday so I decided to make this video today and this week we have a brand new Linux tablet this time from purism although he doesn't look as interesting as the one we talked about previously especially in the pricing Department we also have the gnome 45 release candidate we have HDR gaming on Linux if you run a steam deck or Steam OS and we have the first steps to xfce's Wayland transition and we also have this transition 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various colors and themes and you're good to go and when when you want to move forward and enrich your website with a bunch of other features you can add a video gallery an online store with online payments or even a members only area and a lot more and if you need a logo or you need a domain name Squarespace can also help you with that so if you need a new website and you don't know how to get started just click the link in the description below or head over to squarespace.com the Linux experiment and you'll get 10 off your first purchase so on top of the previously announced Surface Pro like tablet from Star Labs there's yet another one this time from purism makers of the Librium phone it's an 11 inch device with purism pure OS a Linux distro based on Debian the display is 2560x1600 running at 60 hertz and it comes with a very low power Intel n5100 which is a quad core CPU running at 1.1 gigahertz so not a Speed Demon it comes with eight gigabytes of soldered RAM and one terabyte of nvme storage it will feature two USB C ports a headphone jack a Micro SD card reader and a fingerprint reader although it looks like it isn't yet supported under Linux you will also get Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 dual cameras and a keyboard and stylus are also included in the box and that keyboard doesn't use Bluetooth it charges off the battery of the device with a hardwired connection and then there's the price which will deter a lot of people from even looking at it 999 US Dollars without shipping if you compare that to the recently announced Starlight Mark V which has a bigger display with a better resolution a more recent and more powerful CPU more RAM and more ports and it costs 200 less with the full keyboard pen and tablet bundle and I'm pretty sure most people would prefer the Star Labs device although it is always nice to have more Choice especially in the Linux power tablet department where options are very scarce I think this device has a big pricing problem at a thousand dollars for eight gigs of non-upgradable RAM a two and a half year old CPU I just don't see the value here now kadam 45 is now very close it will release early next week and so we got a new release candidate with a bunch of last minute changes included in there you will be able to dismiss notifications by pressing backspace now and the new activities button has been added as well you will also be able to switch workspaces by just scrolling over that button the Quick Settings menu got some kind of API that lets extensions Place buttons in the menu which is nice x-wayland support was also improved three finger swipes on touchscreens should now work more reliably good home software has an improved search feature Gloom calendar got a redesigned month view with infinite scroll to get to past or future month and it got a new event editor dialogue as well Nautilus gained its new full height sidebar the settings were mostly all ported to newer libid Vita components the orcas screen reader should perform better and will let you filter redundant descriptions of items on screen and gnome Maps gained an experimental vector-based tile set and a lot more has changed in the release candidate than I was expecting I really thought non 45 would be a very minor update but it does look like it's going to be pretty big so stay tuned I'll have a dedicated video about gnome45 next week so you can see all the new features and everything that's changed now we also have a new release of libid Vita 1.4 which introduces breakpoints just like for web pages developers can specify specific size to change the UI of their apps to better adapt to the screen size there's also a new navigation view letting developers create stacks of pages in their app apps that you can navigate using gestures or back buttons there's a new split view with a full height sidebar and content panel and there are a bunch of widgets to make lists of switches spin buttons properties all with a nice unified Style a bunch of components also receive changes to make them look better or handle more use cases generally what this means is that gnome apps will look better work better and be easier to develop so it's all good now we obviously also have some more plasma 6 news this week with more improvements to cursor responsiveness on Wayland And way better latency especially for games a bunch of Windows that use the menu bar will now better follow the unified header style of KDE for Less heavy look and the devs have created a new kirigami component and ported a bunch of lists and grid views throughout plasma to use that new component as part of the work to better unify the look and feel of the desktop there were also 109 19 bugs fixed last week which is huge now interestingly Fedora 40 is planning to use plasma 6 in its KDE spin this is still a proposal as plasma 6 will release in February and for dollar 40 should be out in April so depending on the state of plasma 6 this proposal might be rejected now this would also mean deprecating X11 entirely for the KDE Spin and moving to Weyland completely The Proposal would also mean dropping support for X11 in older versions of plasma as well so basically Fedora KDE would completely ditch X11 and I think that's the right thing to do Fedora has always been on the Forefront of these new technologies plasma 6 said they want to focus exclusively on Weyland or at least favor Wayland extensively in terms of development so Fedora seems like the right place to give that a shot and completely drop the aging and unsupported X11 but since plasma 6 is still a few more away Katie is still getting other updates KD 5.27.8 was released this week and it comes with a bunch of nice improvements and fixes first the accent color standard is Now supported which means that any app that supports it will look right with the right color in KDE hybrid sleep was also improved and Nvidia gpus can once again be monitored in plasma system monitor Nightcore will now properly deactivate after resuming from sleep if it was turned off automatically and X11 users also get a better experience with the screenshot app there was also a fix for multi-monitor setups where the desktop used to crash or really slow down when you regularly disconnected and reconnected external monitors for Waylon the window manager should be more robust and has some fixes for alt tab switching and there are also some fixes for flat back apps and steamos in discover the title bars and the toolbars should now look better on high DPR screen and there were a lot of fixes for various crashes and of course it's nothing groundbreaking but it is still pretty good to see updates to the current version of KDE plasma while we wait for plasma 6. and yes I'm saying we because I moved to KDE a week and a half ago and I've been having a pretty great time with it now if you're an xfce user you might want to use Weyland at some point and thankfully the xfce devs have shared a roadmap for that now don't get too excited there still isn't a firm date or version for that support to be complete but the goal is to bring a complete native Wayland experience without needing xyland at all xfce would use WL Roots as the base for their compositor which should let them avoid re-implementing everything themselves in the short term for xfc 4.18 they want to have all their apps working decently under Weyland but in the long term they want to drop X settings entirely and they want to keep the modularity of xfc as well with the ability to run XF desktop and the xfc panel independently they're also discussing keeping backwards compatibility with X11 until Nvidia has fully open source drivers in the current state of things the xfce panel and the XF desktop Don don't run under Weyland although both components already have a completed Port waiting to be merged once the various other issues are fixed a lot of their apps already work natively on Wayland like the terminal or task manager but the screenshot tool doesn't yet the xfc devs have a complete list of the current status of various apps plugins and components if you want to check on that or if you want to give them a hand I left a link to it in the video description and it is pretty cool to see xfc moving forward with Whalen now if the cinnamon mate and Pantheon developers could do the same it would be great come on guys don't let xfc beat you to it now in terms of distro news first we have the release of open Souza slow roll a new variant based on tumbleweed it is still a rolling release but with a slower release schedule than Tumbleweed with updates every one or two months and of course security and Bug fixes more regularly than that it's experimental for now but you can either download an ISO or upgrade to it from Tumbleweed by just replacing the repos we also have Linux Mint Debian Edition version 6 in beta a few months after the release of the ubuntu-based version of mint it uses Debian 12 as its base and it still packs the latest cinnamon desktop that you might already enjoy it means 21.2 you can get that beta from the mint website right now if you don't like the Ubuntu base but you like the mint experience and speaking of Ubuntu it looks like 23.10 that will be released next month will have a full disk encryption option in its installer using the TPM chips you might have in your devices if you don't know a TPM chip stands for trusted platform module and it's basically just another chip on your motherboard that is used for various security related features like encryption the advantage compared to the traditional Lux disc encryption setup is that you don't need to type a passphrase at boot but it also means that Ubuntu will ship the kernel and bootloader assets as snaps instead of dab packages it's an interesting approach probably a bit seamless and maybe even more secure but tying this with snaps will probably not be very well received now the option to use Lux will still be there though for the time being at least okay so let's finish this with the gaming news first we have an update to dxvk NV API the implementation of the Nvidia API for the xvk which comes with support for HDR gaming interestingly this support only works with AMD gpus for now if you have the relevant kernel patches these team Os game scope compositor and the latest version of the xvk NV API so most people won't be able to use it just yet still it's a good step to enable HDR support for more people which is going to be awesome as I do have an HDR TV and I mainly game on my steamos console so I do have gamescope and an AMD GPU now wine 8.16 was also released with the beginnings of the implementation of the direct music API which is a deprecated API part of all the versions of DirectX but it might still help with supporting older games there were also 33 bugs fixed including 4 Roblox and a bunch of various non-game specific things are linked to various dlls and finally we have some steamed related news with the deck and its dock going back on sale with this from 10 percent from the base model up to 20 for the most expensive one we also have the preview build of steamos 3.5 with support for color vibrancy and temperature and the ability to undervolt the steam decks Apu to save battery life HDR can now be enabled on external displays and variable refresh rate is also supported the whole Arch Linux base has also been updated and the KD plasma desktop of the desktop mode as well going to the latest 5.27 version Graphics drivers also saw an update with fixes for Starfield and there were a bunch of other smaller things as well you can move to it using the preview channel in your steam deck if you want to give it a shot and that's the update I will need to install on my steamos console I've just tried it yesterday on the Holo ISO and it completely botched my install so I had to reinstall a newer version of hollow ISO so maybe I'll wait for the stable release before I really try this out but you shouldn't wait to try our sponsor out tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-install they are based in Germany but the ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices with Hardware specifically picked because it runs really well under Linux they also do their own testing and when they detect that something still has some quirks they write patches and they submit them Upstream so everyone can benefit from these improvements they have a lot of choices whether you're looking for a laptop a Nook a tower something for gaming something for office work they have it all older devices have plenty of customization options for the hardware for your own logo for the keyboard layout and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the battery the ram the SSD and sometimes even the wireless car so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you 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see I knew you would get bored on Sunday so I decided to make this video today and this week we have a brand new Linux tablet this time from purism although he doesn't look as interesting as the one we talked about previously especially in the pricing Department we also have the gnome 45 release candidate we have HDR gaming on Linux if you run a steam deck or Steam OS and we have the first steps to xfce's Wayland transition and we also have this transition 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various colors and themes and you're good to go and when when you want to move forward and enrich your website with a bunch of other features you can add a video gallery an online store with online payments or even a members only area and a lot more and if you need a logo or you need a domain name Squarespace can also help you with that so if you need a new website and you don't know how to get started just click the link in the description below or head over to squarespace.com the Linux experiment and you'll get 10 off your first purchase so on top of the previously announced Surface Pro like tablet from Star Labs there's yet another one this time from purism makers of the Librium phone it's an 11 inch device with purism pure OS a Linux distro based on Debian the display is 2560x1600 running at 60 hertz and it comes with a very low power Intel n5100 which is a quad core CPU running at 1.1 gigahertz so not a Speed Demon it comes with eight gigabytes of soldered RAM and one terabyte of nvme storage it will feature two USB C ports a headphone jack a Micro SD card reader and a fingerprint reader although it looks like it isn't yet supported under Linux you will also get Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 dual cameras and a keyboard and stylus are also included in the box and that keyboard doesn't use Bluetooth it charges off the battery of the device with a hardwired connection and then there's the price which will deter a lot of people from even looking at it 999 US Dollars without shipping if you compare that to the recently announced Starlight Mark V which has a bigger display with a better resolution a more recent and more powerful CPU more RAM and more ports and it costs 200 less with the full keyboard pen and tablet bundle and I'm pretty sure most people would prefer the Star Labs device although it is always nice to have more Choice especially in the Linux power tablet department where options are very scarce I think this device has a big pricing problem at a thousand dollars for eight gigs of non-upgradable RAM a two and a half year old CPU I just don't see the value here now kadam 45 is now very close it will release early next week and so we got a new release candidate with a bunch of last minute changes included in there you will be able to dismiss notifications by pressing backspace now and the new activities button has been added as well you will also be able to switch workspaces by just scrolling over that button the Quick Settings menu got some kind of API that lets extensions Place buttons in the menu which is nice x-wayland support was also improved three finger swipes on touchscreens should now work more reliably good home software has an improved search feature Gloom calendar got a redesigned month view with infinite scroll to get to past or future month and it got a new event editor dialogue as well Nautilus gained its new full height sidebar the settings were mostly all ported to newer libid Vita components the orcas screen reader should perform better and will let you filter redundant descriptions of items on screen and gnome Maps gained an experimental vector-based tile set and a lot more has changed in the release candidate than I was expecting I really thought non 45 would be a very minor update but it does look like it's going to be pretty big so stay tuned I'll have a dedicated video about gnome45 next week so you can see all the new features and everything that's changed now we also have a new release of libid Vita 1.4 which introduces breakpoints just like for web pages developers can specify specific size to change the UI of their apps to better adapt to the screen size there's also a new navigation view letting developers create stacks of pages in their app apps that you can navigate using gestures or back buttons there's a new split view with a full height sidebar and content panel and there are a bunch of widgets to make lists of switches spin buttons properties all with a nice unified Style a bunch of components also receive changes to make them look better or handle more use cases generally what this means is that gnome apps will look better work better and be easier to develop so it's all good now we obviously also have some more plasma 6 news this week with more improvements to cursor responsiveness on Wayland And way better latency especially for games a bunch of Windows that use the menu bar will now better follow the unified header style of KDE for Less heavy look and the devs have created a new kirigami component and ported a bunch of lists and grid views throughout plasma to use that new component as part of the work to better unify the look and feel of the desktop there were also 109 19 bugs fixed last week which is huge now interestingly Fedora 40 is planning to use plasma 6 in its KDE spin this is still a proposal as plasma 6 will release in February and for dollar 40 should be out in April so depending on the state of plasma 6 this proposal might be rejected now this would also mean deprecating X11 entirely for the KDE Spin and moving to Weyland completely The Proposal would also mean dropping support for X11 in older versions of plasma as well so basically Fedora KDE would completely ditch X11 and I think that's the right thing to do Fedora has always been on the Forefront of these new technologies plasma 6 said they want to focus exclusively on Weyland or at least favor Wayland extensively in terms of development so Fedora seems like the right place to give that a shot and completely drop the aging and unsupported X11 but since plasma 6 is still a few more away Katie is still getting other updates KD 5.27.8 was released this week and it comes with a bunch of nice improvements and fixes first the accent color standard is Now supported which means that any app that supports it will look right with the right color in KDE hybrid sleep was also improved and Nvidia gpus can once again be monitored in plasma system monitor Nightcore will now properly deactivate after resuming from sleep if it was turned off automatically and X11 users also get a better experience with the screenshot app there was also a fix for multi-monitor setups where the desktop used to crash or really slow down when you regularly disconnected and reconnected external monitors for Waylon the window manager should be more robust and has some fixes for alt tab switching and there are also some fixes for flat back apps and steamos in discover the title bars and the toolbars should now look better on high DPR screen and there were a lot of fixes for various crashes and of course it's nothing groundbreaking but it is still pretty good to see updates to the current version of KDE plasma while we wait for plasma 6. and yes I'm saying we because I moved to KDE a week and a half ago and I've been having a pretty great time with it now if you're an xfce user you might want to use Weyland at some point and thankfully the xfce devs have shared a roadmap for that now don't get too excited there still isn't a firm date or version for that support to be complete but the goal is to bring a complete native Wayland experience without needing xyland at all xfce would use WL Roots as the base for their compositor which should let them avoid re-implementing everything themselves in the short term for xfc 4.18 they want to have all their apps working decently under Weyland but in the long term they want to drop X settings entirely and they want to keep the modularity of xfc as well with the ability to run XF desktop and the xfc panel independently they're also discussing keeping backwards compatibility with X11 until Nvidia has fully open source drivers in the current state of things the xfce panel and the XF desktop Don don't run under Weyland although both components already have a completed Port waiting to be merged once the various other issues are fixed a lot of their apps already work natively on Wayland like the terminal or task manager but the screenshot tool doesn't yet the xfc devs have a complete list of the current status of various apps plugins and components if you want to check on that or if you want to give them a hand I left a link to it in the video description and it is pretty cool to see xfc moving forward with Whalen now if the cinnamon mate and Pantheon developers could do the same it would be great come on guys don't let xfc beat you to it now in terms of distro news first we have the release of open Souza slow roll a new variant based on tumbleweed it is still a rolling release but with a slower release schedule than Tumbleweed with updates every one or two months and of course security and Bug fixes more regularly than that it's experimental for now but you can either download an ISO or upgrade to it from Tumbleweed by just replacing the repos we also have Linux Mint Debian Edition version 6 in beta a few months after the release of the ubuntu-based version of mint it uses Debian 12 as its base and it still packs the latest cinnamon desktop that you might already enjoy it means 21.2 you can get that beta from the mint website right now if you don't like the Ubuntu base but you like the mint experience and speaking of Ubuntu it looks like 23.10 that will be released next month will have a full disk encryption option in its installer using the TPM chips you might have in your devices if you don't know a TPM chip stands for trusted platform module and it's basically just another chip on your motherboard that is used for various security related features like encryption the advantage compared to the traditional Lux disc encryption setup is that you don't need to type a passphrase at boot but it also means that Ubuntu will ship the kernel and bootloader assets as snaps instead of dab packages it's an interesting approach probably a bit seamless and maybe even more secure but tying this with snaps will probably not be very well received now the option to use Lux will still be there though for the time being at least okay so let's finish this with the gaming news first we have an update to dxvk NV API the implementation of the Nvidia API for the xvk which comes with support for HDR gaming interestingly this support only works with AMD gpus for now if you have the relevant kernel patches these team Os game scope compositor and the latest version of the xvk NV API so most people won't be able to use it just yet still it's a good step to enable HDR support for more people which is going to be awesome as I do have an HDR TV and I mainly game on my steamos console so I do have gamescope and an AMD GPU now wine 8.16 was also released with the beginnings of the implementation of the direct music API which is a deprecated API part of all the versions of DirectX but it might still help with supporting older games there were also 33 bugs fixed including 4 Roblox and a bunch of various non-game specific things are linked to various dlls and finally we have some steamed related news with the deck and its dock going back on sale with this from 10 percent from the base model up to 20 for the most expensive one we also have the preview build of steamos 3.5 with support for color vibrancy and temperature and the ability to undervolt the steam decks Apu to save battery life HDR can now be enabled on external displays and variable refresh rate is also supported the whole Arch Linux base has also been updated and the KD plasma desktop of the desktop mode as well going to the latest 5.27 version Graphics drivers also saw an update with fixes for Starfield and there were a bunch of other smaller things as well you can move to it using the preview channel in your steam deck if you want to give it a shot and that's the update I will need to install on my steamos console I've just tried it yesterday on the Holo ISO and it completely botched my install so I had to reinstall a newer version of hollow ISO so maybe I'll wait for the stable release before I really try this out but you shouldn't wait to try our sponsor out tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-install they are based in Germany but the ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices with Hardware specifically picked because it runs really well under Linux they also do their own testing and when they detect that something still has some quirks they write patches and they submit them Upstream so everyone can benefit from these improvements they have a lot of choices whether you're looking for a laptop a Nook a tower something for gaming something for office work they have it all older devices have plenty of customization options for the hardware for your own logo for the keyboard layout and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the battery the ram the SSD and sometimes even the wireless car so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC 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 didn't there's always that dislike button and the comment section to tell me why I suck and if you really like the channel there are also plenty of links in the description below to support it you know how this works so thanks everyone for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye thank you [Music] foreign [Music]
so I've had this MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro CPU for a while now and apart from daily driving it for a month and a half showing how mid Mac OS is as an operating system I haven't really used it all that much but of course the real goal of getting this very expensive device was to see how well Linux could run on it which brings us to today's video we're going to install azahi Linux on this thing and see what works what doesn't work yet and how usable it is in its current state so grab a cup of your favorite beverage and let's see if modern Apple Hardware can be a good choice to run Linux in 2023 and let's see if today's sponsor can be of use to you as well this video is sponsored by Chasm workspaces which is a great tool to stream any operating system desktop or application straight to your web browser they just released version 1.14 which adds translations for 200 and 43 languages along with a completely redesigned administrator user interface to streamline administrative workflows additional updates include support for local webcams and Printers Plus the ability to persist your data to cloud storage drives like Google Drive next cloud or OneDrive along with saving your persistent profile to S3 block storage these updates make it easier than ever to host on-demand access to your desktops and applications the chasm workspaces Community Edition can be self-hosted or they also have a cloud SAS subscription so to learn more about Chasm workspaces click the link in the description below so first the distro it's azahi Linux you can't currently run any Linux distro you want on Apple silicon Hardware while basic support for the CPU is baked in recent Linux kernel versions most of the hardware in a Mac isn't supported yet but thankfully some ins insanely Goods developers have created azahi Linux it's Arch Linux with some super bleeding edge drivers to support the newest MacBooks and desktop Max from M1 to M2 and of course there's also Fedora azaki remix which is Fedora plus all the patches and drivers from Asahi inside but I thought I would give a shot to the source material first if you want a dedicated video about Fedora azahi let me know and I plan that for next month now what's interesting is that azaki Linux is just a reverse engineering effort Apple doesn't publish specifications or open source code on how their stuff works they haven't locked the bootloader on recent Max but they also don't really officially support installing any other OS than Mac OS so the Mad azahi devs have taken upon themselves to reverse engineer everything and they've managed it pretty well already so let's see exactly how well now installing azahili Linux is a simple process you just run a single terminal command there is no ISO to download or graphical installer you just run a command in the Mac OS terminal what it will do is download an install script and run it it will actually create a dual boot and it won't completely replace Mac OS so you can try it without worrying too much about making your Mac unusable although your Mac probably runs Mac OS right now which I would argue makes it unusable but maybe that's just me Asahi supports all M1 machines for now except the Mac Studio and you will need about 60 gigs of storage because Mac OS requires a lot of free space for future updates and Asahi leaves that available so you're not stuck in the future it gives you a choice for the desktop you want you get the default azahi desktop which is Arch Linux for arm with plasma but you can also get a minimal OS without a graphical environment or a minimal UEFI environment so you can try any other Linux distro although as I said previously none really have good support but maybe from Fedora azaki remix you also get to pick the size of the partition of course and then the installer starts resizing it and we'll start the install proper it will also ask a few questions along the way like the name of the US and the space you want to use in the newly resized partition it is really easy if you're not afraid of using the terminal but it's really guided but also if you're not afraid of using Alpha quality software because yes azahi isn't in beta or stable it's Alpha so you will encounter some problems once the script has done its thing you will need to completely shut down the Mac then reboot it by pressing and holding the power button until you see a volume list to boot on where you can pick Asahi Linux you will also have to disable system Integrity protection it's all guided with the azahi installer by just typing your Mac OS username and password and then you will be dropped into azahili Linux proper with a first run setup to create your user after that the default boot option will be Asahi not Mac OS to use Mac OS you will need to restart by holding the power button until you get the volume selection and you can pick Mac OS so let's look at what works out of the box on this M1 Pro MacBook Pro yes Apple's naming scheme is now just as bad as Microsoft's with the Xbox so on my MacBook Pro a lot of stuff works perfectly without anything to do on my part the keyboard is recognized perfectly with the function keys mapped to some KDE features like the search key opening K Runner all the mission control key opening the KD overview keyboard backlight also works fine out of the box the touchpad is also fully functional in tap to click with the normal click with the usual vibration that Mac touchpads have and two finger scrolling and tapping also works the display is recognized with its full resolution although it doesn't support the high refresh rate that it should have it's locked to 60 hertz Wi-Fi also worked immediately but audio didn't with the default audio interface being turned off and turning it on didn't do anything for me Bluetooth also works perfectly charging the laptop as well and in terms of ports the USB C ports do work but only as USBC and USB 2 for now not USB 3 and not Thunderbolt either so basically you get the same transfer speeds as what Apple gives you on the iPhone if it's fine for a phone it's fine for a computer isn't it now this won't prevent you from plugging in some peripherals like a USB stick but you won't get charging and plugging into a display at the same time with one cable for example external displays also do not work through these Sports the display lights up it detects something is there but no image ever carries through the SD card slot also works but the HDMI port doesn't the audio jack is also not supported but it's probably because the whole audio system isn't also the webcam won't work the onboard mic is detected but doesn't record anything and sleep doesn't completely work it can go into S2 idle but not deep sleep so while the device will use less power than if it was on it won't save as much power as in Mac OS and the support is a bit broken for example if you have USB peripherals plugged in they might not wake up with the computer so for now you get something relatively usable the the Basic Hardware that you really absolutely need works but it is not optimized and a lot of stuff isn't available yet what's really missing for me is the speaker and audio output I don't care about the mic the webcam the USB speeds I do everything with like Wi-Fi transfers anyway but yeah no sound kind of a bummer now what about CPU performance and battery life then well it was a bit tough to test here because geekbench's default executable for Linux isn't supported on arm they have an experimental version but it failed to run for me I managed to find a geekbench 5 version for arm and Linux which Ran So I will at least have some comparison point the M1 Pro under Linux got a single goal score of 1718 and a multi-core score of 10079 compare that to geekbench 5 on Mac OS where I got 1775 in single core and 12 521 in multi-core that's a difference of three percent for single core and 24 for multi-core in favor of Mac OS which means that CPU support on this MacBook Pro isn't bad under Linux you do get a little bit less Max performance out of it but it's still very reasonable and it's probably due to better supporting the efficiency cores and the the performance scores in terms of battery life though it is way worse with YouTube videos playing in the loop in the background Asahi barely lasted for about four and a half hours compare that to Mac OS well the same test gave me about 13 hours not exactly the same is it so you're still getting really solid performance and probably better performance than a lot of x86 laptops that go for the same price as these MacBook Pros but you're still not taking full advantage of the hardware and the battery life is really bad which is probably due to the GPU so let's talk about that by default the GPU isn't really used for anything inazaki but the developers managed to write a fully conformant opengl driver for Apple silicon something Apple themselves doesn't have because they only support their own Graphics API called metal now this driver isn't fully enabled yet by default so you're not getting graphical acceleration in the Window Manager you're not getting animations and you're not getting GPU accelerated video decoding either the system runs with llvm pipe which means software rendering so no vsync no smooth window movement no Waylon no gestures no smooth animations except you can very easily install the new GPU drivers with just a few command lines and that's what I did now I do get GPU acceleration and it is now recommended that I use Weyland because the azaki team said X11 wouldn't really be a supported Target for their Graphics drivers and also the battery life got way better thanks to these drivers it reached 8 to 9 hours of video playback in a loop which is much better than the four and a half to five hours I got without the drivers it's still not close to Mac OS but it's very usable and also kind of better than most x86 laptops at the same price range as per gaming don't expect much here steam will not run because well it's arm and steam on Linux doesn't have an armed version even if it did there are no Vulcan drivers yet so stuff like dxvk wouldn't work and there is no translation layer baked into azaki to run x86 apps you can run a few Linux native games here like super tuck scart at very good frame rates but you won't really be gaming on this thing I guess you could try something like box 86 but without Vulcan drivers your gaming experience is gonna be virtually non-existent so basically exactly like on Mac OS because they don't have games either now Jokes Aside once there's a Vulcan driver available I'm pretty sure you'll be able to run Steam with box 86 which seems to give decent performance and probably game on that thing although it will always be hackier and slower than just using a supported architecture to run the same thing still they've done a great job and in day-to-day use the new opengl drivers are actually really good for just using your desktop now of course we also need to talk about app support Asahi Linux is basically Arch plus more drivers so you do get the Aur and everything else Arch has access to but the OS is running on an RM CPU which means some software just is not available for that architecture there's no OBS Studio there's no steam now to be fair most of what I use personally was available can own boxes LibreOffice Firefox audacity next Cloud they were all there if you use mostly free and open source software you will probably be fine for third-party proprietary apps that people package that's flat packs or snaps though you will probably not be able to run them which means it is very important before you decide to jump in and buy your Mac to run Linux or switch your Mac over from Mac OS to Linux just check if the software you really need runs for me personally no OBS studio and no Dev insurance resolve is a deal breaker I would never be able to run this laptop as my main device as it is right now so the question is is azahi Linux ready and that's the question that absolutely depends on your use case if you just need the Base Hardware decent performance and decent battery life then yes I would say go try it it is still Alpha quality so you will face some problems not all apps have an armed version so you won't be able to run everything and GPU support is really Bare Bones even with the new drivers there's the lack of audio the lack of webcam the like of the microphone on the laptop which are big bummers but it's currently being worked on and the lack of external display support is also a deal breaker for me personally but if you don't care about any of this and you're not a gamer then yes Asahi Linux in a day-to-day use case is fine already but also Macs are very expensive and if you want to take advantage of every single Hardware feature you paid for to the maximum of its abilities then no azahi Linux is not ready yet your battery life won't be as good you won't have access to a lot of GPU related stuff some of the the ports and some of the hardware flat out doesn't work including Thunderbolt which is the main advantage of these devices it all depends on your own use case basically so I hope this video gave you a good look at what azahi Linux can and can't do currently for me personally it wouldn't work there's too many stuff missing too much of the hardware isn't working and some software I absolutely need just doesn't run on arm but for you it might be different now if you want to see how well Fedora azahi runs on the same device leave me a comment in the description below and in the meantime I'll leave you with this segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a device to run Linux specifically you might be better off looking at our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed and all the hardware has been picked specifically because it runs well under Linux and if there are a few Kinks to iron out they generally submit patches Upstream to fix all of these issues they have a big range of devices that should treat every need and every price point if you wanted something like a Mac you can find stuff that is just as well built and a little bit less expensive and if you want an Ultra Book a Nook or Tower a gaming laptop they also have all of this all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD and also the battery and sometimes even the wireless card and there are a lot of customization options you can bring your own keyboard layout you can have your own logo engraved on the lid of the laptop you can change the look of the super key it's just very customizable so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it don't play around with a Mac if you really need something productive click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo laptop or desktop so thanks everyone for watching the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to 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so I've had this MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro CPU for a while now and apart from daily driving it for a month and a half showing how mid Mac OS is as an operating system I haven't really used it all that much but of course the real goal of getting this very expensive device was to see how well Linux could run on it which brings us to today's video we're going to install azahi Linux on this thing and see what works what doesn't work yet and how usable it is in its current state so grab a cup of your favorite beverage and let's see if modern Apple Hardware can be a good choice to run Linux in 2023 and let's see if today's sponsor can be of use to you as well this video is sponsored by Chasm workspaces which is a great tool to stream any operating system desktop or application straight to your web browser they just released version 1.14 which adds translations for 200 and 43 languages along with a completely redesigned administrator user interface to streamline administrative workflows additional updates include support for local webcams and Printers Plus the ability to persist your data to cloud storage drives like Google Drive next cloud or OneDrive along with saving your persistent profile to S3 block storage these updates make it easier than ever to host on-demand access to your desktops and applications the chasm workspaces Community Edition can be self-hosted or they also have a cloud SAS subscription so to learn more about Chasm workspaces click the link in the description below so first the distro it's azahi Linux you can't currently run any Linux distro you want on Apple silicon Hardware while basic support for the CPU is baked in recent Linux kernel versions most of the hardware in a Mac isn't supported yet but thankfully some ins insanely Goods developers have created azahi Linux it's Arch Linux with some super bleeding edge drivers to support the newest MacBooks and desktop Max from M1 to M2 and of course there's also Fedora azaki remix which is Fedora plus all the patches and drivers from Asahi inside but I thought I would give a shot to the source material first if you want a dedicated video about Fedora azahi let me know and I plan that for next month now what's interesting is that azaki Linux is just a reverse engineering effort Apple doesn't publish specifications or open source code on how their stuff works they haven't locked the bootloader on recent Max but they also don't really officially support installing any other OS than Mac OS so the Mad azahi devs have taken upon themselves to reverse engineer everything and they've managed it pretty well already so let's see exactly how well now installing azahili Linux is a simple process you just run a single terminal command there is no ISO to download or graphical installer you just run a command in the Mac OS terminal what it will do is download an install script and run it it will actually create a dual boot and it won't completely replace Mac OS so you can try it without worrying too much about making your Mac unusable although your Mac probably runs Mac OS right now which I would argue makes it unusable but maybe that's just me Asahi supports all M1 machines for now except the Mac Studio and you will need about 60 gigs of storage because Mac OS requires a lot of free space for future updates and Asahi leaves that available so you're not stuck in the future it gives you a choice for the desktop you want you get the default azahi desktop which is Arch Linux for arm with plasma but you can also get a minimal OS without a graphical environment or a minimal UEFI environment so you can try any other Linux distro although as I said previously none really have good support but maybe from Fedora azaki remix you also get to pick the size of the partition of course and then the installer starts resizing it and we'll start the install proper it will also ask a few questions along the way like the name of the US and the space you want to use in the newly resized partition it is really easy if you're not afraid of using the terminal but it's really guided but also if you're not afraid of using Alpha quality software because yes azahi isn't in beta or stable it's Alpha so you will encounter some problems once the script has done its thing you will need to completely shut down the Mac then reboot it by pressing and holding the power button until you see a volume list to boot on where you can pick Asahi Linux you will also have to disable system Integrity protection it's all guided with the azahi installer by just typing your Mac OS username and password and then you will be dropped into azahili Linux proper with a first run setup to create your user after that the default boot option will be Asahi not Mac OS to use Mac OS you will need to restart by holding the power button until you get the volume selection and you can pick Mac OS so let's look at what works out of the box on this M1 Pro MacBook Pro yes Apple's naming scheme is now just as bad as Microsoft's with the Xbox so on my MacBook Pro a lot of stuff works perfectly without anything to do on my part the keyboard is recognized perfectly with the function keys mapped to some KDE features like the search key opening K Runner all the mission control key opening the KD overview keyboard backlight also works fine out of the box the touchpad is also fully functional in tap to click with the normal click with the usual vibration that Mac touchpads have and two finger scrolling and tapping also works the display is recognized with its full resolution although it doesn't support the high refresh rate that it should have it's locked to 60 hertz Wi-Fi also worked immediately but audio didn't with the default audio interface being turned off and turning it on didn't do anything for me Bluetooth also works perfectly charging the laptop as well and in terms of ports the USB C ports do work but only as USBC and USB 2 for now not USB 3 and not Thunderbolt either so basically you get the same transfer speeds as what Apple gives you on the iPhone if it's fine for a phone it's fine for a computer isn't it now this won't prevent you from plugging in some peripherals like a USB stick but you won't get charging and plugging into a display at the same time with one cable for example external displays also do not work through these Sports the display lights up it detects something is there but no image ever carries through the SD card slot also works but the HDMI port doesn't the audio jack is also not supported but it's probably because the whole audio system isn't also the webcam won't work the onboard mic is detected but doesn't record anything and sleep doesn't completely work it can go into S2 idle but not deep sleep so while the device will use less power than if it was on it won't save as much power as in Mac OS and the support is a bit broken for example if you have USB peripherals plugged in they might not wake up with the computer so for now you get something relatively usable the the Basic Hardware that you really absolutely need works but it is not optimized and a lot of stuff isn't available yet what's really missing for me is the speaker and audio output I don't care about the mic the webcam the USB speeds I do everything with like Wi-Fi transfers anyway but yeah no sound kind of a bummer now what about CPU performance and battery life then well it was a bit tough to test here because geekbench's default executable for Linux isn't supported on arm they have an experimental version but it failed to run for me I managed to find a geekbench 5 version for arm and Linux which Ran So I will at least have some comparison point the M1 Pro under Linux got a single goal score of 1718 and a multi-core score of 10079 compare that to geekbench 5 on Mac OS where I got 1775 in single core and 12 521 in multi-core that's a difference of three percent for single core and 24 for multi-core in favor of Mac OS which means that CPU support on this MacBook Pro isn't bad under Linux you do get a little bit less Max performance out of it but it's still very reasonable and it's probably due to better supporting the efficiency cores and the the performance scores in terms of battery life though it is way worse with YouTube videos playing in the loop in the background Asahi barely lasted for about four and a half hours compare that to Mac OS well the same test gave me about 13 hours not exactly the same is it so you're still getting really solid performance and probably better performance than a lot of x86 laptops that go for the same price as these MacBook Pros but you're still not taking full advantage of the hardware and the battery life is really bad which is probably due to the GPU so let's talk about that by default the GPU isn't really used for anything inazaki but the developers managed to write a fully conformant opengl driver for Apple silicon something Apple themselves doesn't have because they only support their own Graphics API called metal now this driver isn't fully enabled yet by default so you're not getting graphical acceleration in the Window Manager you're not getting animations and you're not getting GPU accelerated video decoding either the system runs with llvm pipe which means software rendering so no vsync no smooth window movement no Waylon no gestures no smooth animations except you can very easily install the new GPU drivers with just a few command lines and that's what I did now I do get GPU acceleration and it is now recommended that I use Weyland because the azaki team said X11 wouldn't really be a supported Target for their Graphics drivers and also the battery life got way better thanks to these drivers it reached 8 to 9 hours of video playback in a loop which is much better than the four and a half to five hours I got without the drivers it's still not close to Mac OS but it's very usable and also kind of better than most x86 laptops at the same price range as per gaming don't expect much here steam will not run because well it's arm and steam on Linux doesn't have an armed version even if it did there are no Vulcan drivers yet so stuff like dxvk wouldn't work and there is no translation layer baked into azaki to run x86 apps you can run a few Linux native games here like super tuck scart at very good frame rates but you won't really be gaming on this thing I guess you could try something like box 86 but without Vulcan drivers your gaming experience is gonna be virtually non-existent so basically exactly like on Mac OS because they don't have games either now Jokes Aside once there's a Vulcan driver available I'm pretty sure you'll be able to run Steam with box 86 which seems to give decent performance and probably game on that thing although it will always be hackier and slower than just using a supported architecture to run the same thing still they've done a great job and in day-to-day use the new opengl drivers are actually really good for just using your desktop now of course we also need to talk about app support Asahi Linux is basically Arch plus more drivers so you do get the Aur and everything else Arch has access to but the OS is running on an RM CPU which means some software just is not available for that architecture there's no OBS Studio there's no steam now to be fair most of what I use personally was available can own boxes LibreOffice Firefox audacity next Cloud they were all there if you use mostly free and open source software you will probably be fine for third-party proprietary apps that people package that's flat packs or snaps though you will probably not be able to run them which means it is very important before you decide to jump in and buy your Mac to run Linux or switch your Mac over from Mac OS to Linux just check if the software you really need runs for me personally no OBS studio and no Dev insurance resolve is a deal breaker I would never be able to run this laptop as my main device as it is right now so the question is is azahi Linux ready and that's the question that absolutely depends on your use case if you just need the Base Hardware decent performance and decent battery life then yes I would say go try it it is still Alpha quality so you will face some problems not all apps have an armed version so you won't be able to run everything and GPU support is really Bare Bones even with the new drivers there's the lack of audio the lack of webcam the like of the microphone on the laptop which are big bummers but it's currently being worked on and the lack of external display support is also a deal breaker for me personally but if you don't care about any of this and you're not a gamer then yes Asahi Linux in a day-to-day use case is fine already but also Macs are very expensive and if you want to take advantage of every single Hardware feature you paid for to the maximum of its abilities then no azahi Linux is not ready yet your battery life won't be as good you won't have access to a lot of GPU related stuff some of the the ports and some of the hardware flat out doesn't work including Thunderbolt which is the main advantage of these devices it all depends on your own use case basically so I hope this video gave you a good look at what azahi Linux can and can't do currently for me personally it wouldn't work there's too many stuff missing too much of the hardware isn't working and some software I absolutely need just doesn't run on arm but for you it might be different now if you want to see how well Fedora azahi runs on the same device leave me a comment in the description below and in the meantime I'll leave you with this segue to our sponsor if you're looking for a device to run Linux specifically you might be better off looking at our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that ship with Linux pre-installed and all the hardware has been picked specifically because it runs well under Linux and if there are a few Kinks to iron out they generally submit patches Upstream to fix all of these issues they have a big range of devices that should treat every need and every price point if you wanted something like a Mac you can find stuff that is just as well built and a little bit less expensive and if you want an Ultra Book a Nook or Tower a gaming laptop they also have all of this all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD and also the battery and sometimes even the wireless card and there are a lot of customization options you can bring your own keyboard layout you can have your own logo engraved on the lid of the laptop you can change the look of the super key it's just very customizable so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it don't play around with a Mac if you really need something productive click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo laptop or desktop 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 it well there's that dislike button as well and just leave me a comment down below to tell me why and if you want to support the channel I left plenty of links in the description below just for that liberape patreon YouTube thanks PayPal whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye foreign [Music] [Music]
like it or not Ubuntu is still the face of desktop Linux a lot of people might not know what Linux is exactly although they will very likely have heard about Ubuntu but in recent years Ubuntu and canonical their parent company have made a bunch of controversial decisions which didn't already go well with parts of the Linux community so what can you do if you like the Ubuntu base its package repos and tools but you don't agree with the various decisions and changes Ubuntu and canonical make well you can use an Ubuntu based distro that doesn't follow every single decision Ubuntu makes so today we'll look at the most interesting Ubuntu based distribution so you can keep using what you know without using what you don't like and what you will like is also this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by safing and their portmaster app portmaster lets you Monitor and control every connect action your system or your applications make to the internet and it also gives you a lot of tools to improve your security and privacy with built-in system-wide ad tracker and malware blockers and a lot more portmaster is free of charge and it's fully open source but if you want more features they offer portmaster plus which will give you the ability to record Network history for each app or the whole system and data on the bandwidth used by each connection and for even more privacy they have portmaster Pro which will give you the SPN on top of that that being a supercharged VPN that gives you multiple identities for every connection of every application so click the link in the description below and start taking control of your internet connection now okay now why would you not just use Ubuntu and remove the things that you don't like in it generally what people dislike about Ubuntu or the inclusion and let's be frank Force feeding of snap packages for desktop applications there's also the proprietary back end of The Snap Store the opt out Telemetry and some questionable decisions over the years like always trying to go their own way instead of working with the rest of the community but these are pretty much details right you could always uninstall snap disable the Telemetry and decide to use the community develop tools instead of what Ubuntu is trying to push instead well yes you could but that's just part of the story if what you dislike is canonical the company behind Ubuntu and their decisions then disabling all of this doesn't really help in recent years canonical has made some questionable moves the most recent of which is grabbing back their lxd project and getting rid of every maintainer that wasn't an employee of canonical there's also their refusal to open up the store backend for snaps which makes a lot of people distress the format there was also the old Amazon problem where the Ubuntu desktop by default send search queries to Amazon to return some products in the desktop itself there were also some questionable trademark disputes and more so basically what you might not like is the generic corporate side of Ubuntu canonical it's a company and if you prefer your Linux distros to be Community ran then it might not fit the bill so if you know how Ubuntu works if you like the Debian packaging format apt as a package manager and the general tools and architecture of Ubuntu then you might want to keep using that but without the hassle of removing everything you don't want and without supporting the official product of a company you don't trust so let's look at ubuntu-based distributions that offer a familiar environment but get rid of everything you might not like and we will Begin by immediately lying as this one isn't Ubuntu based it's actually the one Ubuntu is based on it's Debian if what you like about Ubuntu and what you want to keep using is apt the package manager and the vast software repos but you want a vanilla KD organome experience and none of the canonical projects and decisions Debian might be a really solid bet if you're an Ubuntu LTS user Debian stable will give you a similarly stabled experience with older well-tested packages and the vanilla version of all the desktops you want and nothing prevents you from replicating the Ubuntu variant of The Gnome desktop by installing the yaru theme and icons the dock and desktop icons if you're more of a non-lts Ubuntu user Debian testing might offer the experience you prefer it's got more up-to-date packages with more risk of breakage though it might be a little less stable than Ubuntu in some cases as problems might not get fixed very quickly and it is a rolling release you will get continuous updates to the system without major version upgrades some people call Ubuntu Debian plus some BS and while that's a pretty reductive way of looking at what Ubuntu does if what you really want is just the APT repos and you don't want any of the canonical decisions then Debian is actually a pretty good choice okay now with that out of the way let's look at some actually Ubuntu based distributions and we can't start this list without talking about mint mint is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS and removes basically everything that makes Ubuntu Ubuntu snaps aren't there some apps that don't have a Debian package anymore in Ubuntu have one in mint like chromium and they don't use the gnome desktop you get cinnamon a desktop mint developed themselves once based on gnome 3 but now pretty much its own thing now since you also get access to ubuntu's repos you can always install the genome desktop and all the customization Ubuntu makes to it with the package Ubuntu gnome desktop or you can go with a generic section without all the Ubuntu stuff with the vanilla gnome desktop package basically mint can replicate the Ubuntu LTS experience without anything that you might not like from Ubuntu and you also get an excellent Suite of graphical tools that Min developed to handle virtually anything you might want although if you're not an LTS user and you prefer intermediate Ubuntu releases then mint doesn't have that when you might want to try is Rhino Linux it's a relatively recent distro and it moves away from the Ubuntu template by being a rolling release it doesn't give you major upgrades it's always updated in the background especially the Linux kernel and some important apps like Firefox Rhino Linux doesn't use the gnome desktop by default it uses its own vision of xfce that let's be honest feels a lot like modern gnome with an activities view that shows your virtual desktops and app windows and an app grid if you prefer the Ubuntu desktop experience though you still have access to it through the repos you can use apt but Rhino Linux also comes with a meta package manager called Rhino package that lets you install Debian packages from the repos flat packs snaps and it also lets you use pack stall an equivalent to the arch user repo for Ubuntu pakistol is actually how Rhino Linux distributes updates to the Ubuntu Base by grabbing stable snapshots of the current development release of Ubuntu it is probably the biggest departure on this list from the normal Ubuntu model and it's a relatively recent distro so you might not trust it as much but it definitely deserved a spot on this list because it's Ubuntu but it does something different another Ubuntu based distro that has a few cool tricks up its sleeve is popovas it used to have a new release for each new Ubuntu version so you had the choice of an LTS or a more up-to-date version but since system 76 the developers of Pop os are currently working on their own Cosmic desktop that will not be genome-based they have stuck to the latest Ubuntu LTS 22.04 if that's a problem for you know that pop OS also has some updates on top of that base notably for drivers and a Linux kernel and it has some applications that are provided in their own repo so you are not stuck on very old versions of important apps they also have some interesting tweaks to The Gnome desktop they offer a different experience with a dock by default an app launcher a specific theme and auto tiling features that let you switch from floating windows to a tiling window manager at the Press of a button or with a keyboard shortcut it's the distro system 76 ships to their customers as they sell laptops and desktops with pop OS pre-installed so it is well maintained and tested and of course you don't need system 76 Hardware to run it they remove snaps from the install and they ship with flat pack and flat Hub out of the box instead if you are okay with an Ubuntu LTS base but you still want to use something like genome then pop OS is probably a very good choice now whether they will update it to 24.04 the next Ubuntu LTS or whether they will wait until their own Cosmic desktop is developed I don't quite know but for now it's still a pretty decent choice if you want to keep using Ubuntu but you don't want to use Ubuntu now if you're more of a KDE user but kubuntu doesn't really float your boat then there's tuxedo OS it's a relatively new entry but it offers something interesting it's Ubuntu based with the latest KD apps and desktop plugged straight from KD neon's repos this means you get a semi-rolling release model with access to the repos for ubuntu's latest LTS version plus some extra repos on top of that for more recent kernel and drivers and some applications that need to be more up to date tuxedo OS is made by tuxedo unsurprisingly a company that sells devices that run Linux out of the box they are a sponsor of the channel you can learn more about them if you wait until the end of the video now what's really interesting is that this is the distro that they ship by default on their devices as well so you know like pop OS it's well tested and well maintained it is also the distribution I used to make this whole video from writing the script to editing it compare out to kubuntu you get the benefits of having the latest KD desktop and apps as soon as they're released without needing a major version upgrade but you do lose the intermediary releases it's only giving you access to the LTS repos here compared to KDE neon you get a more up-to-date kernel and drivers and some extra repos for more up-to-date applications and you still get the semi-rolling release model That Neon has it can be a very good compromise if you want the latest KD desktop and apps and you don't really mind having older packages in the repo since you also have flat Hub and flat pack enabled out of the box so you can get the latest versions of virtually every app and now for a list of the distros I didn't really include and the reasons why the first one is zorian OS while it is a good take on Ubuntu being basically exactly Ubuntu LTS but with a customized desktop pre-made layouts and support for virtually every packaging format out of the box it is also based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the Linux kernel 5.15 it might not be a problem for many people but this space is more than three years old by now and this means that if you want to get your apps or desktops from the Ubuntu repos you're getting very very old versions older than the ones the current release of Debian stable has I personally think this doesn't make it suitable for a desktop at least until they move to a newer base if they did that it would instantly make zorinois jump back to the top of my Ubuntu based districts list but right now it's just way too old for a test desktop the second one is Elementary OS it's based on 22.04 LTS and it does have access to the full Ubuntu repos but their added value is their desktop environment Pantheon while I personally think it's a really great option it is also very very opinionated with defaults that won't fit everyone including the removal of all Debian based packages from their graphical App Store meaning that you can only install apps from the Elementary OS flat back remote by default graphically and flat Hub apps if you add that yourself to install any Debian packages you will need to use the command line and I am not sure that's what an Ubuntu user would be looking for if that's not an issue for you though the experience is well worth a try Elementary OS is a distro I absolutely love and I love what they're doing with Polish and their own desktop but it is not for everyone and then there are all the in two flavors sure they are more Ubuntu than any other distro on this list but they're also now constrained by canonical's decisions like preventing them from Shipping another packaging format than snap future decisions will probably also apply to these distros as well so if you're leaving Ubuntu because of canonical they're probably not very suitable and now you might have noticed a recurring theme most of these are based on Ubuntu LTS and unfortunately yes that's the case most of these distros use the LTS bass probably because they are mostly Community Based and porting all their tools extensions and utilities to a new base every 6 months is just too much work it can still be a problem if you prefer using non-lts versions of Ubuntu at which point your best bet is probably to just use either one of the Rolling variants presented in the video like tuxedo Os or Rhino Linux another option if you don't have a problem with canonical as a company but just with snaps and Telemetry is to keep using Ubuntu and just disable Telemetry and remove all the snaps uninstalled what you what you actually want to use just know that Ubuntu has clearly marked their future as being with snaps so if you don't like that you're probably better off leaving the train right now but if what you want is a new computer you can get on board our sponsor strain right now tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box they are based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that are made to support Linux the hardware is specifically picked because it runs Linux really well and if there were 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like it or not Ubuntu is still the face of desktop Linux a lot of people might not know what Linux is exactly although they will very likely have heard about Ubuntu but in recent years Ubuntu and canonical their parent company have made a bunch of controversial decisions which didn't already go well with parts of the Linux community so what can you do if you like the Ubuntu base its package repos and tools but you don't agree with the various decisions and changes Ubuntu and canonical make well you can use an Ubuntu based distro that doesn't follow every single decision Ubuntu makes so today we'll look at the most interesting Ubuntu based distribution so you can keep using what you know without using what you don't like and what you will like is also this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by safing and their portmaster app portmaster lets you Monitor and control every connect action your system or your applications make to the internet and it also gives you a lot of tools to 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over the years like always trying to go their own way instead of working with the rest of the community but these are pretty much details right you could always uninstall snap disable the Telemetry and decide to use the community develop tools instead of what Ubuntu is trying to push instead well yes you could but that's just part of the story if what you dislike is canonical the company behind Ubuntu and their decisions then disabling all of this doesn't really help in recent years canonical has made some questionable moves the most recent of which is grabbing back their lxd project and getting rid of every maintainer that wasn't an employee of canonical there's also their refusal to open up the store backend for snaps which makes a lot of people distress the format there was also the old Amazon problem where the Ubuntu desktop by default send search queries to Amazon to return some products in the desktop itself there were also some questionable trademark disputes and more so basically what you might not like is the generic corporate side of Ubuntu canonical it's a company and if you prefer your Linux distros to be Community ran then it might not fit the bill so if you know how Ubuntu works if you like the Debian packaging format apt as a package manager and the general tools and architecture of Ubuntu then you might want to keep using that but without the hassle of removing everything you don't want and without supporting the official product of a company you don't trust so let's look at ubuntu-based distributions that offer a familiar environment but get rid of everything you might not like and we will Begin by immediately lying as this one isn't Ubuntu based it's actually the one Ubuntu is based on it's Debian if what you like about Ubuntu and what you want to keep using is apt the package manager and the vast software repos but you want a vanilla KD organome experience and none of the canonical projects and decisions Debian might be a really solid bet if you're an Ubuntu LTS user Debian stable will give you a similarly stabled experience with older well-tested packages and the vanilla version of all the desktops you want and nothing prevents you from replicating the Ubuntu variant of The Gnome desktop by installing the yaru theme and icons the dock and desktop icons if you're more of a non-lts Ubuntu user Debian testing might offer the experience you prefer it's got more up-to-date packages with more risk of breakage though it might be a little less stable than Ubuntu in some cases as problems might not get fixed very quickly and it is a rolling release you will get continuous updates to the system without major version upgrades some people call Ubuntu Debian plus some BS and while that's a pretty reductive way of looking at what Ubuntu does if what you really want is just the APT repos and you don't want any of the canonical decisions then Debian is actually a pretty good choice okay now with that out of the way let's look at some actually Ubuntu based distributions and we can't start this list without talking about mint mint is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS and removes basically everything that makes Ubuntu Ubuntu snaps aren't there some apps that don't have a Debian package anymore in Ubuntu have one in mint like chromium and they don't use the gnome desktop you get cinnamon a desktop mint developed themselves once based on gnome 3 but now pretty much its own thing now since you also get access to ubuntu's repos you can always install the genome desktop and all the customization Ubuntu makes to it with the package Ubuntu gnome desktop or you can go with a generic section without all the Ubuntu stuff with the vanilla gnome desktop package basically mint can replicate the Ubuntu LTS experience without anything that you might not like from Ubuntu and you also get an excellent Suite of graphical tools that Min developed to handle virtually anything you might want although if you're not an LTS user and you prefer intermediate Ubuntu releases then mint doesn't have that when you might want to try is Rhino Linux it's a relatively recent distro and it moves away from the Ubuntu template by being a rolling release it doesn't give you major upgrades it's always updated in the background especially the Linux kernel and some important apps like Firefox Rhino Linux doesn't use the gnome desktop by default it uses its own vision of xfce that let's be honest feels a lot like modern gnome with an activities view that shows your virtual desktops and app windows and an app grid if you prefer the Ubuntu desktop experience though you still have access to it through the repos you can use apt but Rhino Linux also comes with a meta package manager called Rhino package that lets you install Debian packages from the repos flat packs snaps and it also lets you use pack stall an equivalent to the arch user repo for Ubuntu pakistol is actually how Rhino Linux distributes updates to the Ubuntu Base by grabbing stable snapshots of the current development release of Ubuntu it is probably the biggest departure on this list from the normal Ubuntu model and it's a relatively recent distro so you might not trust it as much but it definitely deserved a spot on this list because it's Ubuntu but it does something different another Ubuntu based distro that has a few cool tricks up its sleeve is popovas it used to have a new release for each new Ubuntu version so you had the choice of an LTS or a more up-to-date version but since system 76 the developers of Pop os are currently working on their own Cosmic desktop that will not be genome-based they have stuck to the latest Ubuntu LTS 22.04 if that's a problem for you know that pop OS also has some updates on top of that base notably for drivers and a Linux kernel and it has some applications that are provided in their own repo so you are not stuck on very old versions of important apps they also have some interesting tweaks to The Gnome desktop they offer a different experience with a dock by default an app launcher a specific theme and auto tiling features that let you switch from floating windows to a tiling window manager at the Press of a button or with a keyboard shortcut it's the distro system 76 ships to their customers as they sell laptops and desktops with pop OS pre-installed so it is well maintained and tested and of course you don't need system 76 Hardware to run it they remove snaps from the install and they ship with flat pack and flat Hub out of the box instead if you are okay with an Ubuntu LTS base but you still want to use something like genome then pop OS is probably a very good choice now whether they will update it to 24.04 the next Ubuntu LTS or whether they will wait until their own Cosmic desktop is developed I don't quite know but for now it's still a pretty decent choice if you want to keep using Ubuntu but you don't want to use Ubuntu now if you're more of a KDE user but kubuntu doesn't really float your boat then there's tuxedo OS it's a relatively new entry but it offers something interesting it's Ubuntu based with the latest KD apps and desktop plugged straight from KD neon's repos this means you get a semi-rolling release model with access to the repos for ubuntu's latest LTS version plus some extra repos on top of that for more recent kernel and drivers and some applications that need to be more up to date tuxedo OS is made by tuxedo unsurprisingly a company that sells devices that run Linux out of the box they are a sponsor of the channel you can learn more about them if you wait until the end of the video now what's really interesting is that this is the distro that they ship by default on their devices as well so you know like pop OS it's well tested and well maintained it is also the distribution I used to make this whole video from writing the script to editing it compare out to kubuntu you get the benefits of having the latest KD desktop and apps as soon as they're released without needing a major version upgrade but you do lose the intermediary releases it's only giving you access to the LTS repos here compared to KDE neon you get a more up-to-date kernel and drivers and some extra repos for more up-to-date applications and you still get the semi-rolling release model That Neon has it can be a very good compromise if you want the latest KD desktop and apps and you don't really mind having older packages in the repo since you also have flat Hub and flat pack enabled out of the box so you can get the latest versions of virtually every app and now for a list of the distros I didn't really include and the reasons why the first one is zorian OS while it is a good take on Ubuntu being basically exactly Ubuntu LTS but with a customized desktop pre-made layouts and support for virtually every packaging format out of the box it is also based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the Linux kernel 5.15 it might not be a problem for many people but this space is more than three years old by now and this means that if you want to get your apps or desktops from the Ubuntu repos you're getting very very old versions older than the ones the current release of Debian stable has I personally think this doesn't make it suitable for a desktop at least until they move to a newer base if they did that it would instantly make zorinois jump back to the top of my Ubuntu based districts list but right now it's just way too old for a test desktop the second one is Elementary OS it's based on 22.04 LTS and it does have access to the full Ubuntu repos but their added value is their desktop environment Pantheon while I personally think it's a really great option it is also very very opinionated with defaults that won't fit everyone including the removal of all Debian based packages from their graphical App Store meaning that you can only install apps from the Elementary OS flat back remote by default graphically and flat Hub apps if you add that yourself to install any Debian packages you will need to use the command line and I am not sure that's what an Ubuntu user would be looking for if that's not an issue for you though the experience is well worth a try Elementary OS is a distro I absolutely love and I love what they're doing with Polish and their own desktop but it is not for everyone and then there are all the in two flavors sure they are more Ubuntu than any other distro on this list but they're also now constrained by canonical's decisions like preventing them from Shipping another packaging format than snap future decisions will probably also apply to these distros as well so if you're leaving Ubuntu because of canonical they're probably not very suitable and now you might have noticed a recurring theme most of these are based on Ubuntu LTS and unfortunately yes that's the case most of these distros use the LTS bass probably because they are mostly Community Based and porting all their tools extensions and utilities to a new base every 6 months is just too much work it can still be a problem if you prefer using non-lts versions of Ubuntu at which point your best bet is probably to just use either one of the Rolling variants presented in the video like tuxedo Os or Rhino Linux another option if you don't have a problem with canonical as a company but just with snaps and Telemetry is to keep using Ubuntu and just disable Telemetry and remove all the snaps uninstalled what you what you actually want to use just know that Ubuntu has clearly marked their future as being with snaps so if you don't like that you're probably better off leaving the train right now but if what you want is a new computer you can get on board our sponsor strain right now tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box they are based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that are made to support Linux the hardware is specifically picked because it runs Linux really well and if there were some Kings to iron out they generally submit patches Upstream so everyone can benefit from the Improvement they have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point from laptops to desktops to nux to gaming devices whatever you want and all their laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes even the wireless card all the devices are also very customizable in terms of the components your logo on the lid of the laptop your own custom keyboard layout whatever you want 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's development then click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC 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 enjoyed the channel and you want to support it there are 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are you waiting for plasma 6 well you're gonna have to wait a little bit longer because we have the release date and more details about the features and it's not happening before early 2024. this week we also have some news about the new Ubuntu App Center which still doesn't support installing Debian packages and we also have gnome45 breaking all extensions for real this time for real black how really good this Segway to our sponsor is 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 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 if you're a KDE user you will be glad to know that plasma 6 finally has a release date but you might be less glad to know that it is planned for February 2024 which might seem far into the future but it is probably best to ensure that this is the best version of KDE that it can be the exact day isn't set yet but this leaves them five more months to finish the work which is progressing nicely they've switched some components for newer kirigami ones which should reduce code duplication and thus should also make things more stable and easier to develop they also have included all the recent work like custom reordering of K Runner results double click and tap to click by default better icon theme support and more the list of currently open issues is also going down with 75 open at the time I'm recording this and only 15 of these are Big blocking issues there are still some features that they want to include but that they haven't started on yet so they might not make it into plasma 6's initial version and this includes bringing sddm into the KDE project list accentuating the color of the title bars using your accent color removing some duplicated notification settings and splitting the brightness and Battery widgets into separate entities the KD framework 6 and KD gear compilation using q6 and the Frameworks version 6 will also see their release in February with the first Alpha in November betas and release candidates until January and the release that's at the same time as the plasma 6 desktop other changes include added support for the accent color standard which will also land in KD 5.27 there's also so more work to improve cursor responsiveness and power usage for plasma 6 and 5.27 will also get some fixes to high DPI support personally I don't really have an issue with them taking all the time they need to make sure that it's as polished and as stable as it can be 5.27 is a pretty good place to be stuck on for a few months unless you're using Weyland and Nvidia because I started doing that on a new laptop for a new project and it is not good but X11 works really well on it now Ubuntu 23.10 is right around the corner and it got its new app store replacing their old Fork of godom software that was really worse than the original application the new front end is built with flutter like their recent new installer it's called app center and it looks like it's definitely better optimized than its predecessor feeling more responsive and using less Ram according to OMG Ubuntu I must say the app looks good in screenshots with a simple UI a sidebar with categories nicely laid out app pages and big screenshots with the ability to view them in a larger format it also handles snap updates it lets you see a list of your installed snap apps and of course it lets you perform installs and uninstalls now the big drawback with this one is that you can't find any app from the Ubuntu repos anything that is provided as a dab doesn't show up pretty much like what Elementary OS does in their store also called App Center there is a pull request to add that feature back in so maybe it's just temporary but seeing as this new store is based on a community project that does support Dev installs out of the box it feels a bit intentional to not have that included of course this new store doesn't support flat pack and probably never will which means that if you want to add that to Ubuntu and get a graphical app store for flat packs you will have two stores gnome software for flat and the Ubuntu app center for snaps and I'm not sure how I feel about this thing like sure it looks like a good app and if they do end up adding back support for Debian packaged applications then it's all good but if they leave that out I think it's a big big mistake it was one on Elementary iOS admittedly it's a smaller one on Ubuntu because they have more snaps than Elementary iOS has dedicated apps but you're still missing out on a lot and forcing users to use snaps or to use the command line to install applications not good now Canon 45 will be released this month in about two weeks but while it does look like it's going to be a very solid release it also comes with one big drawback it's going to break every single extension not like the meme that gnome always breaks all extensions no for real they're intentionally breaking all extensions glum 45 changed how they handle JavaScript Imports which is how extensions work you import new new JavaScript code to change the JavaScript code of The Gnome shell as gnome moves to standard JavaScript modules or esm extension developers will need to Port their extensions or they will not work at all the gnome team released a boarding guide to explain the new syntax that has to be used and it doesn't look like it's a huge amount of work although as always some extensions will be more effective than others developers will also have to maintain two versions of their extensions one for Gnome 44 and earlier and one for Gnome 45 and they will have to upload two versions of these extensions on The Gnome portal and that's a pretty big bummer because I'm pretty sure a lot of extensions will not have been ported in two weeks when gnome45 actually releases and also extension developers if they really want to support every single gnome user will have to keep backboarding bug fixes and new features to the old version of the extension and develop them on the new one which is some extra work that I don't really think they wanted now the Linux performance and Driver train keeps going this week as well with first some updates to the Intel Arc GPU drivers the latest patches should improve Vulcan performance for all Intel Arc users notably for games like Dota 2 strange Brigade Borderlands 3 or formula 122. all these patches will make it into Mesa 23.3 so they should land pretty soon the new Intel XE graphics driver still hasn't made it into the current cycle for the kernel 6.6 but when it drops it should also bring much better performance for these integrated gpus than the Aging i-915 drivers we also have some updates to the expat driver for game controllers that will land in the kernel 6.6 this should improve support for Xbox like third-party controllers to make them work like a 360 pad basically as per performance improvements we have some optimizations for certain AMD CPUs that don't have erms which is a feature that allows to move memory around more efficiently some recent AMD CPUs do not have access to this and so there's a patch for the kernel 6.6 to improve performance for these CPUs up to 14 faster memory related operations and as always when you're using Linux as the base for your operating system with each update you get better performance better stability better battery life it's just good and you can't say that of most other operating systems and their kernels now it looks like the EU will be backing off when trying to impose a unified messaging standard iMessage is not listed as a gatekeeper for the purposes of the new law on interoperability that would have made Apple obligated to open up iMessage to work properly with other phone operating systems through the RCs standard instead the EU is launching an investigation into iMessages market share to see if it fits the definition of a gatekeeper under that law and apple is still listed as a gatekeeper for iOS for Safari and for the App Store along with Google meta or Microsoft with a lot of their products the argument for iMessage is that it's too small in the EU and it doesn't really control the messaging space like it can do in other countries like the US for example the investigation will last for 5 months and determine whether it should be included as a core platform service or not if the EU decided that it does indeed qualify Apple will have until August 2024 to make iMessage compatible with RCS which would actually be really good to make sure Communications are entirely interoperable when it comes to text messages and apple is still affected by a bunch of relatively recent EU laws like they're gonna have to use USBC and not the awful lightning which is a great thing they're gonna have to offer user serviceable batteries in all their devices which also really good but I really wish RCS would become the universal standard so everyone can just communicate whatever the app with all the features that they want it's just a standard it's better and on the topic of privacy we have the latest Google novelty Landing in all Chrome browsers the so-called privacy sandbox this is Google's attempt at replacing third-party cookies since these are now pretty useless for ads and tracking and they're generally blocked everywhere as a matter of fact third party cookies will be entirely disabled by default in Chrome in 2024 so the Privacy sandbox will now store ad topics instead they will keep track of all websites you visited and sort them in two categories and all of this will happen locally in the browser and be stored on your device and websites that want to display ads will only have access to the categories you're interested in to personalize the ads based on that it will of course be accompanied by an ad measurement tool to let companies know what ads you clicked on and how well they're performing and on paper it's a really good change instead of being based on Purely personal information and full-on tracking it's much more toned down and is limited to your local device which should make it easier to block it if you don't like it on the other hand it's a mechanism that is browser dependent which means it gives Google extra control over the ad market and reinforces their quasi Monopoly on digital ads if they decide they don't like the way other people want to do ads they can refuse to implement these changes to this system they could not really do that with cookies because that would break their own stuff and obviously anything that would make Google more powerful on the web browser side of thing or on the internet in general should be looked at with a lot of Suspicion and not greeted with Applause and let's finish this with the gaming news Linux market share is still riding high at 3.18 on the desktop at the end of August a nice big upwards trend since June on the gaming side though Linux saw a small drop back at 1.82 percent but still higher than Mac OS which sits at 1.57 and these are small numbers but they still put Linux in the second spot for the most popular PC operating system for gaming which means that game developers will probably look at Linux instead of looking at porting their game to Mac OS especially since sporting your game to Linux with proton is really easy compared to porting it to using metal on Mac OS in other news steam will now show better indicators for game controllers notably for DualShock and dual sense when looking at the controller icon in a games page you will now see if the game supports PlayStation controllers and how well they do that valve says that they're seeing a big increase in PC Gamers using controllers with about 27 of people who do use a controller using your PlayStation controller and I would personally also use one if games actually just played the PlayStation symbols inside of their games because I really like the Dual sense but when a game asks me to press X I'm gonna press X not Square so if you don't display PlayStation symbols I will stick to the Xbox controller and we also have some interesting possibilities for valve Hardware recent additions to Linux kernel 6.6 in the case support for devices from valve codenamed Galileo and sephiroth we don't know what they are yet but they're added under Jupiter devices this being the code name for Steam OS since the current system on a chip on the steam deck is codename aerith which is another Final Fantasy character and that's this specific character was brutally killed by another character called sephiroth it's not too unlikely that sephiroth might actually be a new soc for the steam deck either a refresh or a new device entirely and it's all speculation but what's certain is that valve has more Hardware planned whether they are small refreshes of the deck or an entirely new devices what certain is that they're gonna run Steam OS and what's certain is that if you want to run Linux then you should take a look at our sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box all the hardware they use is picked specifically because it runs really well under Linux and if there are some Kinks or quirks to iron out they generally submit patches Upstream so everyone can benefit from these fixes even other computer manufacturers they're based in 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I already made a little video about what you probably should get a Nas but since then I've really been using this thing a lot more and I found a cool few users and apps that I use now on my day-to-day work to actually get stuff done so in this video we will look at everything I run on my Nas and of course if you have suggestions or recommendations I'll gladly take them and I'll also gladly give you this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tax care they offer a range of services to make sure your Linux server or workstation Fleet is secure and well maintained thanks to Kernel life patching and extended lifecycle support for end-of-life distributions this time they're inviting you to a webinar to help you automate how you manage your data centers they will talk about the Orca Rhino platform that lets you automate host deployments configurations vulnerability patches and more but that's not all you will also learn about life patching for your system so they can stay up to date and secure without rebooting and without any downtime and they will explain the types of organizations that would benefit from these approaches so if you're interested the webinar will happen on the 20th of September and you can already register by clicking the link in the description of the video okay so to begin with the nas I'm using is a Synology ds1522 plus it's set up with five four terabyte drives all grouped into one single storage pool with one drive being used for data recovery in case of a problem it's running the not quite open source disk station manager from Synology which does use some open source components but the system itself isn't fully open source unfortunately and I will definitely need to look into free and open source Nas operating systems in the future even if it means creating my own with a Mini PC and a bunch of external drives the Nas is sitting comfortably in my living room it's plugged through Ethernet Ethan straight into my is C's router and enter terms of the energy it consumes I can't say I've seen a difference in my bail since I got it saying as I always have at least one way more powerful computer running either for gaming or for video editing so it really does not make a difference and of course depending on where you live and the prices of energy there your mileage may vary also important to note this video is not sponsored by Synology they did not give me any hardware or any money for this video they don't even know I'm making it now the first thing I recently started doing on the Nas is virtual machines I use these very often to try out certain distros before testing them on real Hardware or just to grab a few quick screen recordings for various videos the issue is since virtual machines can use a lot of disk space I tend to delete them after I'm done which leads me to reinstall a lot of ubuntu's or a lot of Windows 11s just for the quick screen recording which is not super efficient so I installed virtual machine manager and it is pretty easy to use you just create a VM you select how many CPU cores and how much RAM you want you create a virtual disk and you select an ISO from the nas storage and you're good to go and of course performance is not the best it's a Nas not a very powerful 8 or 16 core CPU and also there's a bit of latency even when viewing the VM through the local network but it it's good enough for my needs it's a pretty easy thing to use and now I don't need to keep VMS on various laptops or desktops and waste a bunch of storage space for stuff I only use from time to time it's better to waste space on the multi-terabyte storage device than on your active daily driver although I guess I could also just create the virtual hard drive for my local VMS on my computers in the nas storage through Samba but yeah I decided to use this app instead another thing I run is Plex you probably know what that is it's not very original it's a media server I store movies and TV shows in there and I play these from my TV with the Plex app it works really well it's free of charge it automatically grabs metadata and posters for movies and it remembers where you left off it lets you move on to the next episode of a show it's just really good like you have your very own streaming service where there isn't a lot of super low quality filler and of course all movies are ethically sourced and of the best quality like for example this movie that I've never completed because it was so good or this one that I just haven't watched yet but got some very interesting reviews I really like Plex but I do need to try jellyfin I'm hearing some good things about it and I could also run that on my Nas using Docker at some point I will take the time to look at it in the meantime Plex was available as a one-click install from the package Center of Synology disk station manager and I I've already had a Black's account and another server running on my own PC so I knew about it and I knew how it worked I also use my Nas to run my own VPN vpns are a tricky thing because if you use one from a company then you have to trust that company to not keep logs do not collect data to encrypt everything and that's something I always had a hard time with so I decided to host mayo and of course you do lose access to foreign IPS because of course you're running the thing at home so you can't bypass Geo blocking for example and also the IP address that you will use through your Nas and through the VPN will probably be the same as what your computer would have had in your home because well it's always transiting through your isp's router so you've got one single IP address now I use the VPN server app from the nasus package manager and I used openvpn setting things up was very easy I just had to export the config file and import it in Gnome settings after modifying the file to add the domain name that my Nas uses as the IP and I also had to open the relevant ports in my router config of course so yeah it's not the most powerful use case for a VPN because yes I do share the same IP address when I use it at home than what my computer would have had anyways but at least the traffic is encrypted my ISP can't easily know everything I'm doing and when I'm on a public Wi-Fi network or someone else's Network then at least I'm a little bit safer now another thing I use my Nas for is to stop paying for cloud photo and video storage I use Synology photos here it's a nice little app that you can run on your Nas and on your mobile devices what it does is basically the same thing as Apple photos or Google Drive you open the app it backs everything up from your phone to your Nas and you can access them from any web browser or manage albums which I am really not good at I really need to save some time and actually start putting stuff in albums because right now it's a big giant mess you also get face recognition if a people album that lets you tag who everyone is and it's doing a pretty good job at it too apart from recognizing as a person this sort of creepy ceramic phase that one of my friends made please don't be a person ceramic thingy please no but to be fair she also does make some really cool non-creepy ceramic stuff now I used to back up everything including my photos to my next Cloud instance but since I hosted on a VPS storage space can be a bit costly so I decided to use all the terabytes of storage I have at home instead and I can sync these photos back to my computers by using the Synology Drive client and creating a sync task so let's talk about that the most original use case for a Nas file storage and backups so yeah of course like everyone else with a Nas I store files and backups on it to do that I use the Synology Drive client which is available on Linux on on Fedora I had to add a copper repo to do so but it works perfectly I use this app to create a backup of my slash home directory to my Nas storage it's powerful enough you just check the directories you want to backup and uncheck what you don't want you can add rules to ignore certain types of files and it will store everything in a folder of your choosing I also created a sync task to sync the photos that came from my phone to my Nas to my computer although unfortunately it doesn't sync them using a directory for each album which is a bit annoying I would prefer if it just created one folder per album it would make reorganizing these photos a lot easier now for now I have a backup for my two daily driver computers the laptop and the desktop but since I'm experimenting with replacing that setup with just one laptop that does everything I will probably be able to just have the one backup and the one sync task I also use my Nas as a file Exchange change share of thingy when I record something on a test laptop for a video I store all the recordings on the Nas and I download them back from the computer I will do the editing on I also use it to share files with other people as you can share a public link to a file or folder I use that during my ill-fated experiment with a video production company for example the first thing that it wasn't going to work out should have been that they only had a free 15 gig Google Drive account for me to store all the footage from four videos used to use This Cloud for that and I and I still do for a lot of small files but for multi-gig screen recordings it's really not suitable as I don't have enough storage on the VPS I run next Cloud on and upgrading that would be way too costly when I can just use the nas all the storage is also accessible through Samba so I can connect to it easily from my local network from any computer and what I'm not at home I just log in to the webpage for my Nas for that instead now there are a few things I want to try but I did not get around to just yet the first one is next cloud and as I said I currently hosted only node it's absolutely fine but I would like to use next Cloud to store everything without worrying about storage space and a VPS can be relatively expensive for that so what I'm planning to do is to use the container manager app to use Docker and install nexcloud with that on the nas I'm expecting a few complications because my ISP doesn't allow loopbacks so I will probably have to set up Dynamic DNS but it should not be too hard and then I will need to migrate everything that's on my current next Cloud instance to the new one which is also not going to be very fun and will take a one but as an added benefit I won't have to use Synology photos or Synology Drive anymore which are proprietary applications I would much rather use next Cloud for everything it will be all open source and much better another thing I would like to do is automating a download of the latest videos from my YouTube subscription feed and to create an RSS feed for that so I can just use any podcast client or app to watch just these videos and avoid being sucked into YouTube and spend hours watching stuff that I'm only vaguely interested in instead of doing cooler stuff like painting my Warhammer minis of course it's cool it's nerdy but it's cool I could probably do all of that using the built-in task scheduler on the nas running a custom script because that thing can run bash scripts I would just have to whip up something with YouTube downloads to get the videos and store them and find a way to build an RSS feed in the process but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be too tricky or I could just save the videos to various folders in my Plex Media Server and use that to watch them another thing I would like to try is to set up Chasm workspaces it's a self-hostable solution to run desktops operating systems or apps remotely and stream them to a web browser I'm pretty sure I can install that using Docker on the Nas and replace the virtual machines manager that Synology offers with something open source it probably won't change my workflow all that much but open source Solutions are just more my jam and it's a fun project to try and Tackle also it will be Docker in Docker because Chasm uses Docker images to run its operating systems or applications that you then stream so it's probably going to go very smoothly and I will probably learn nothing doing all of that and finally the various settings I use for the nas first I set up a power schedule when I'm sleeping I don't need the nas running so I set it to shutdown at 11 PM every day and to start back up at 7 30 am when I get out of bed this way I don't get any noise or energy consumption while I'm not using it and if I ever need it anyway I can just disable that temporarily or I can just get off my ass and actually turn it on or I could enable Wake On LAN so it would wake up automatically when I try to access it I also enabled disk hibernation after 20 minutes of inactivity to reduce power consumption a bit as well I set the fan speed to quiet mode because it's in my living room and I don't want something making more noise than it has to although when using VMS it might help performance to set it to cool mode or full speed mode I also reduce the brightness of the LEDs to the minimum apart from being completely off because these things go way too bright otherwise and that's about it for now I feel like I've only scratched the surface of what's possible with this thing especially using Docker and I am very excited to start trying next cloud or building my own scripts to really use that storage to the maximum and of course if you have an ass and you use it for a lot of cool stuff that I don't use mine Fork don't hesitate to let me know in the comments and I won't hesitate to let you know about our sponsor tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box the hardware is picked specifically to run well with and if there are some Kings to Iron Out tuxedo actually contributes Upstream to fix these issue so any other provider or distro or anyone else basically can benefit from these improvements they have a big range of devices from nux Ultrabooks giant gaming laptops or workstations gaming Towers you name it you have a solid choice for the components you want to put in your device but also for the keyboard layout for the logo on the lid of your laptop and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded especially for the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes the wireless card so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually contributes to linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC they're really really good so thanks everyone for watching the video as always you can subscribe like turn on notifications or you can dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of links in the description for patreon Libra Bay PayPal YouTube things whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess 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I already made a little video about what you probably should get a Nas but since then I've really been using this thing a lot more and I found a cool few users and apps that I use now on my day-to-day work to actually get stuff done so in this video we will look at everything I run on my Nas and of course if you have suggestions or recommendations I'll gladly take them and I'll also gladly give you this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by tax care they offer a range of services to make sure your Linux server or workstation Fleet is secure and well maintained thanks to Kernel life patching and extended lifecycle support for end-of-life distributions this time they're inviting you to a webinar to help you automate how you manage your data centers they will talk about the Orca Rhino platform that lets you automate host deployments configurations vulnerability patches and more but that's not all you will also learn about life patching for your system so they can stay up to date and secure without rebooting and without any downtime and they will explain the types of organizations that would benefit from these approaches so if you're interested the webinar will happen on the 20th of September and you can already register by clicking the link in the description of the video okay so to begin with the nas I'm using is a Synology ds1522 plus it's set up with five four terabyte drives all grouped into one single storage pool with one drive being used for data recovery in case of a problem it's running the not quite open source disk station manager from Synology which does use some open source components but the system itself isn't fully open source unfortunately and I will definitely need to look into free and open source Nas operating systems in the future even if it means creating my own with a Mini PC and a bunch of external drives the Nas is sitting comfortably in my living room it's plugged through Ethernet Ethan straight into my is C's router and enter terms of the energy it consumes I can't say I've seen a difference in my bail since I got it saying as I always have at least one way more powerful computer running either for gaming or for video editing so it really does not make a difference and of course depending on where you live and the prices of energy there your mileage may vary also important to note this video is not sponsored by Synology they did not give me any hardware or any money for this video they don't even know I'm making it now the first thing I recently started doing on the Nas is virtual machines I use these very often to try out certain distros before testing them on real Hardware or just to grab a few quick screen recordings for various videos the issue is since virtual machines can use a lot of disk space I tend to delete them after I'm done which leads me to reinstall a lot of ubuntu's or a lot of Windows 11s just for the quick screen recording which is not super efficient so I installed virtual machine manager and it is pretty easy to use you just create a VM you select how many CPU cores and how much RAM you want you create a virtual disk and you select an ISO from the nas storage and you're good to go and of course performance is not the best it's a Nas not a very powerful 8 or 16 core CPU and also there's a bit of latency even when viewing the VM through the local network but it it's good enough for my needs it's a pretty easy thing to use and now I don't need to keep VMS on various laptops or desktops and waste a bunch of storage space for stuff I only use from time to time it's better to waste space on the multi-terabyte storage device than on your active daily driver although I guess I could also just create the virtual hard drive for my local VMS on my computers in the nas storage through Samba but yeah I decided to use this app instead another thing I run is Plex you probably know what that is it's not very original it's a media server I store movies and TV shows in there and I play these from my TV with the Plex app it works really well it's free of charge it automatically grabs metadata and posters for movies and it remembers where you left off it lets you move on to the next episode of a show it's just really good like you have your very own streaming service where there isn't a lot of super low quality filler and of course all movies are ethically sourced and of the best quality like for example this movie that I've never completed because it was so good or this one that I just haven't watched yet but got some very interesting reviews I really like Plex but I do need to try jellyfin I'm hearing some good things about it and I could also run that on my Nas using Docker at some point I will take the time to look at it in the meantime Plex was available as a one-click install from the package Center of Synology disk station manager and I I've already had a Black's account and another server running on my own PC so I knew about it and I knew how it worked I also use my Nas to run my own VPN vpns are a tricky thing because if you use one from a company then you have to trust that company to not keep logs do not collect data to encrypt everything and that's something I always had a hard time with so I decided to host mayo and of course you do lose access to foreign IPS because of course you're running the thing at home so you can't bypass Geo blocking for example and also the IP address that you will use through your Nas and through the VPN will probably be the same as what your computer would have had in your home because well it's always transiting through your isp's router so you've got one single IP address now I use the VPN server app from the nasus package manager and I used openvpn setting things up was very easy I just had to export the config file and import it in Gnome settings after modifying the file to add the domain name that my Nas uses as the IP and I also had to open the relevant ports in my router config of course so yeah it's not the most powerful use case for a VPN because yes I do share the same IP address when I use it at home than what my computer would have had anyways but at least the traffic is encrypted my ISP can't easily know everything I'm doing and when I'm on a public Wi-Fi network or someone else's Network then at least I'm a little bit safer now another thing I use my Nas for is to stop paying for cloud photo and video storage I use Synology photos here it's a nice little app that you can run on your Nas and on your mobile devices what it does is basically the same thing as Apple photos or Google Drive you open the app it backs everything up from your phone to your Nas and you can access them from any web browser or manage albums which I am really not good at I really need to save some time and actually start putting stuff in albums because right now it's a big giant mess you also get face recognition if a people album that lets you tag who everyone is and it's doing a pretty good job at it too apart from recognizing as a person this sort of creepy ceramic phase that one of my friends made please don't be a person ceramic thingy please no but to be fair she also does make some really cool non-creepy ceramic stuff now I used to back up everything including my photos to my next Cloud instance but since I hosted on a VPS storage space can be a bit costly so I decided to use all the terabytes of storage I have at home instead and I can sync these photos back to my computers by using the Synology Drive client and creating a sync task so let's talk about that the most original use case for a Nas file storage and backups so yeah of course like everyone else with a Nas I store files and backups on it to do that I use the Synology Drive client which is available on Linux on on Fedora I had to add a copper repo to do so but it works perfectly I use this app to create a backup of my slash home directory to my Nas storage it's powerful enough you just check the directories you want to backup and uncheck what you don't want you can add rules to ignore certain types of files and it will store everything in a folder of your choosing I also created a sync task to sync the photos that came from my phone to my Nas to my computer although unfortunately it doesn't sync them using a directory for each album which is a bit annoying I would prefer if it just created one folder per album it would make reorganizing these photos a lot easier now for now I have a backup for my two daily driver computers the laptop and the desktop but since I'm experimenting with replacing that setup with just one laptop that does everything I will probably be able to just have the one backup and the one sync task I also use my Nas as a file Exchange change share of thingy when I record something on a test laptop for a video I store all the recordings on the Nas and I download them back from the computer I will do the editing on I also use it to share files with other people as you can share a public link to a file or folder I use that during my ill-fated experiment with a video production company for example the first thing that it wasn't going to work out should have been that they only had a free 15 gig Google Drive account for me to store all the footage from four videos used to use This Cloud for that and I and I still do for a lot of small files but for multi-gig screen recordings it's really not suitable as I don't have enough storage on the VPS I run next Cloud on and upgrading that would be way too costly when I can just use the nas all the storage is also accessible through Samba so I can connect to it easily from my local network from any computer and what I'm not at home I just log in to the webpage for my Nas for that instead now there are a few things I want to try but I did not get around to just yet the first one is next cloud and as I said I currently hosted only node it's absolutely fine but I would like to use next Cloud to store everything without worrying about storage space and a VPS can be relatively expensive for that so what I'm planning to do is to use the container manager app to use Docker and install nexcloud with that on the nas I'm expecting a few complications because my ISP doesn't allow loopbacks so I will probably have to set up Dynamic DNS but it should not be too hard and then I will need to migrate everything that's on my current next Cloud instance to the new one which is also not going to be very fun and will take a one but as an added benefit I won't have to use Synology photos or Synology Drive anymore which are proprietary applications I would much rather use next Cloud for everything it will be all open source and much better another thing I would like to do is automating a download of the latest videos from my YouTube subscription feed and to create an RSS feed for that so I can just use any podcast client or app to watch just these videos and avoid being sucked into YouTube and spend hours watching stuff that I'm only vaguely interested in instead of doing cooler stuff like painting my Warhammer minis of course it's cool it's nerdy but it's cool I could probably do all of that using the built-in task scheduler on the nas running a custom script because that thing can run bash scripts I would just have to whip up something with YouTube downloads to get the videos and store them and find a way to build an RSS feed in the process but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be too tricky or I could just save the videos to various folders in my Plex Media Server and use that to watch them another thing I would like to try is to set up Chasm workspaces it's a self-hostable solution to run desktops operating systems or apps remotely and stream them to a web browser I'm pretty sure I can install that using Docker on the Nas and replace the virtual machines manager that Synology offers with something open source it probably won't change my workflow all that much but open source Solutions are just more my jam and it's a fun project to try and Tackle also it will be Docker in Docker because Chasm uses Docker images to run its operating systems or applications that you then stream so it's probably going to go very smoothly and I will probably learn nothing doing all of that and finally the various settings I use for the nas first I set up a power schedule when I'm sleeping I don't need the nas running so I set it to shutdown at 11 PM every day and to start back up at 7 30 am when I get out of bed this way I don't get any noise or energy consumption while I'm not using it and if I ever need it anyway I can just disable that temporarily or I can just get off my ass and actually turn it on or I could enable Wake On LAN so it would wake up automatically when I try to access it I also enabled disk hibernation after 20 minutes of inactivity to reduce power consumption a bit as well I set the fan speed to quiet mode because it's in my living room and I don't want something making more noise than it has to although when using VMS it might help performance to set it to cool mode or full speed mode I also reduce the brightness of the LEDs to the minimum apart from being completely off because these things go way too bright otherwise and that's about it for now I feel like I've only scratched the surface of what's possible with this thing especially using Docker and I am very excited to start trying next cloud or building my own scripts to really use that storage to the maximum and of course if you have an ass and you use it for a lot of cool stuff that I don't use mine Fork don't hesitate to let me know in the comments and I won't hesitate to let you know about our sponsor tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box the hardware is picked specifically to run well with and if there are some Kings to Iron Out tuxedo actually contributes Upstream to fix these issue so any other provider or distro or anyone else basically can benefit from these improvements they have a big range of devices from nux Ultrabooks giant gaming laptops or workstations gaming Towers you name it you have a solid choice for the components you want to put in your device but also for the keyboard layout for the logo on the lid of your laptop and all the laptops can be opened repaired and upgraded especially for the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes the wireless card so if you need a new computer and you want to run Linux on it and you want to support a company that actually contributes to linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC they're really really good so thanks everyone for watching the video as always you can subscribe like turn on notifications or you can dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and if you want to support the channel there are plenty of links in the description for patreon Libra Bay PayPal YouTube things whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] foreign [Music]
hey everyone this is Nick and it is time again for your weekly dose of Linux and open source news this week we have accent colors being brought as a Linux standard through the xdg desktop portals we have the release of the Linux kernel 6.5 with some nice performance improvements and a lot of details about what's gonna happen in 6.6 which is going to be a major performance Improvement as well and we also have some more details about gnome 45 and even some stuff about gnome 46 so let's get started right after I tell you about 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 there you're 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 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color for the toolkit it uses or to caller the app developer has set for now it doesn't seem like any desktop environment supports this but since the merge request and its inclusion in the portals was acknowledged by gnome budgie KDE Cosmic and even Elementor iOS I'm pretty sure we'll see all of this happening pretty soon the new xdg desktop portal also adds a clipboard portal so apps can read from the clipboard safely with permissions and there's also a new input capture portal for an app to capture the mouse or keyboard input like in a VM or video game and that's great news for accent colors you will just be able to select one accent color for example in genome and all your gnome KDE Elementary Cosmic whatever else apps will follow the same accent color it's still not the same theme but at least it's much better desktop integration than trying to change that manually for each toolkit or desktop you use now the Linux kernel 6.5 was released this week and it's a big update to the base of our operating systems ryzen CPUs on the Zen 2 architecture so 3000 to 5000 series and some threadripper models should get better performance and better power efficiency thanks to the new p-stage driver being turned on by default for servers with a lot of CPUs there's also the ability to initialize these in parallel which can reduce the time this takes by a factor of 10. it shouldn't affect us regular desktop or laptop users though for Intel users 12th gen and upwards should also have better load balancing between performance cores and efficiency cores which should improve power efficiency and performance AMD freesync is now also supported by default by the kernel and midi 2.0 and USB 4 V2 support has also started support for risk 5 is improved with acpi and Vector extensions Wi-Fi 7 got some work as well and Nvidia Shield devices are Now supported by the mainline kernel on top of that Xbox controllers are better supported especially in the rumble Department the X4 format got faster direct i o better FS got some performance improvements and the NTFS driver also got some love it is a very nice update that you should get soon if you don't run an LTS or super focused on stability distro and personally I should be able to take advantage of both the ryzen improvements and the Intel 12 gen improvements which should be cool and for the kernel 6.6 we can also expect a lot of cool stuff first developers managed to clean up the sys CTL space reducing the space used by each array by 64 bytes which means that not only the build time of the kernel will be reduced but the RAM consumption of the kernel will also be lower on top of that we should get some nice improvements to i o performance an improvement described by the developer as pretty juicy and pretty juicy it does look indeed from 4.5 faster speeds up to 37 faster a new scheduler should make its way to the kernel as well replacing the older CFS it should bring back cluster scheduling for Intel hybrid CPU so 12th gen and upwards and the majority of workloads should be improved as well but developers are also expecting some performance regressions which they said they would fix as soon as they were identified and 6.6 should also introduce AMD Dynamic Boost Plus a manager for virtual addresses for gpus which should improve vulcan's support and some more control over Intel Graphics that could yield up to 15 better performance the kernel will also have additional protections against the illicit behaviors of the NVIDIA drivers the Nvidia proprietary drivers do some weird stuff to be able to use GPL only symbols in their drivers even though these are not provided under the GPL and so the kernel will be raising additional protections against that and as per 6.7 yes we can already talk about that we might see some better overclocking support for AMD gpus AMD is developing some new interfaces for overdrive which will let people develop tools graphical or otherwise to overclock their gpus although AMD doesn't provide their own GUI for that on Linux these new interfaces will let users manipulate the fan curve the target temperature and the acoustic threshold for fans they will only Target rdna3 graphics and later though older gpus won't benefit from that it is very exciting stuff and I love all the performance work we've been seeing in the recent kernel versions it's a really really good time to be a Linux user now we have more details about changes coming together first in ground 45 Nautilus will land a new look with a better looking sidebar it will now use the entire window height instead of stopping right under the header bar and it gains a little title places the various indicators for file transfers or archive extractions will also live in this sidebar now instead of being sandwiched between other header bar buttons now it does look better but also you're not gaining any space in terms of height because the title occupies the same height as the header bar did and you're also losing some space on the breadcrumbs bar or the path bar because it's now moved to the right of the sidebar so in terms of navigating your file system I'm not sure that's really an improvement next the settings will receive some love not all changes for Gnome 45 though now what will land in Chrome 45 though is the new privacy Hub which regroups a few options that were disseminated throughout various panels like screen lock location station file history and the camera and mic permissions ingrown 46 the settings will land a new system Hub as well and a new network and internet panel which both should be big reworks of the current UI it's cool stuff at least if you like settings which I do sometimes I just open the settings app just to look at what's available and see if I could change anything just for fun now in KDE land K Runner got some love in preparation for plasma 6 with the ability to manually configure results to be displayed in the order you want you will be able to reorder them in the settings so you always get what you usually look for first this little tool also got some performance improvements and gained the option to start hybrid sleep if your system supports it okay when the window manager slash compositor should perform better as well and won't repaint layers of the screen that haven't changed which should result in more power efficiency as well and various parts of plasma and the settings will also gain a little performance boost opening a few hundreds of milliseconds faster on top of that the previews for HDR images viewed in apps that don't support HDR are now converted to srgb so they will not look weird anymore and console now puts each process in its own C group when using system D so you can find each process individually in the system monitor there were also more than a hundred bug fixes this week including for a crash when switching Global themes in plasma and I didn't think you could still add anything to K Runner because it's already pretty freaking awesome but apparently I was wrong and also it's good to see some more performance improvements coming to plasma it's gonna make plasma 6 into a more interesting release okay now in the my country sucks more and more each day series France now has yet another internet censorship block called sren which is a way to regulate online content this law would require DNS resolvers and web browsers to block websites directly if they are part of a government blacklist for any infringement they decided upon according to experts this is a very slippery slope that could have impacts on privacy and on freedom of expression any authoritarian government could abuse this to prevent French citizens from accessing certain pieces of information and this would bypass most censorship evasion tools as the browser would just plain refuse to display the website Mozilla already said that this is a big problem and I would expect other browsers to follow suit in terms of privacy it's also a problem as browsers could be pushed to collect more user data to be able to block these websites this bill is also being fast tracked through an accelerated procedure as the French government has regularly done recently so discussions amendments and Analysis will be very limited so basically it's yet another nightmare censorship law with enormous potential for abuse and I'm getting very tired of the way my country handles these issues recently it's pretty awful and let's finish this with the gaming news first as I reported last week Roblox now supports Linux again through wine it was only doable through the beta Channel last week and now it's in the stable Channel as well so you can run it with wine or with vinegar which is a wine wrapper for Roblox wine 8.15 was also released with support for the text print processor which as its name implies is here to convert print jobs into a format that can be sent to a printer there were also more improvements to wow 64. the emulator that lets 32-bit apps run under 64-bit windows or in this case 64-bit wine 19 bugs were also fixed including for trackmania Nations forever chess base 11 Forza Horizon 4 Colin McRae Rally 2 and more the steam deck also got two new stable updates version 3.4.9 and 3.4.10 the first one implemented a fix for the GPU drivers specifically for Starfield Pierre Lu Griffey one of the major Developers for proton and valve said that there was still an issue with the game and so valve release used another update 3.4.10 to steamos to fix that very issue so basically when Starfield officially releases out of Early Access which people have access to if they paid for the game more or earlier not sure when it officially releases you can expect to play it on your steam day whether the performance will be good enough I don't know but it should be a pretty cool experience nonetheless and weyland's support for wine also progresses nicely as the sixth part of that effort has now been submitted as a merge request for wine this part adds support for Mouse events like cursor movement the cursor entering or leaving the window and updating the cursor image as it hovers over elements in a window something that is generally pretty useful for video games the code is under review and there are apparently some issues to fix but this is a major step for wine to not need X Weyland anymore it is very nice to see this work progressing nicely it's one major barrier that is going to be lifted probably not before 2024 though what you can get before 2024 though is one of our sponsors devices tuxedo ships laptops and desktops that run with Linux out of the box the hardware has been specifically picked to run Linux well and if there are some compatibility issues tuxedo generally fixes stuff and pushes that Upstream so everyone can benefit they have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point whether you're looking for a laptop big or small a Nook a desktop tower for just office work or for I don't know video editing 3D modeling they have it all the devices are very customizable including the keyboard layout the logo on the lid of the laptop the components and all the laptops are openable repairable and upgradable so if you need a new device and you want to support Linux and you want to support linux's development then click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC they are really really good so thanks everyone for watching 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 didn't like the video there's always that dislike button and you can tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoyed the channel and you want to support it there are plenty of links in the description below that you can click for Libra pay patreon PayPal YouTube memberships whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye foreign
hey everyone this is Nick and it is time again for your weekly dose of Linux and open source news this week we have accent colors being brought as a Linux standard through the xdg desktop portals we have the release of the Linux kernel 6.5 with some nice performance improvements and a lot of details about what's gonna happen in 6.6 which is going to be a major performance Improvement as well and we also have some more details about gnome 45 and even some stuff about gnome 46 so let's get started right after I tell you about 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 there you're 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 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color for the toolkit it uses or to caller the app developer has set for now it doesn't seem like any desktop environment supports this but since the merge request and its inclusion in the portals was acknowledged by gnome budgie KDE Cosmic and even Elementor iOS I'm pretty sure we'll see all of this happening pretty soon the new xdg desktop portal also adds a clipboard portal so apps can read from the clipboard safely with permissions and there's also a new input capture portal for an app to capture the mouse or keyboard input like in a VM or video game and that's great news for accent colors you will just be able to select one accent color for example in genome and all your gnome KDE Elementary Cosmic whatever else apps will follow the same accent color it's still not the same theme but at least it's much better desktop integration than trying to change that manually for each toolkit or desktop you use now the Linux kernel 6.5 was released this week and it's a big update to the base of our operating systems ryzen CPUs on the Zen 2 architecture so 3000 to 5000 series and some threadripper models should get better performance and better power efficiency thanks to the new p-stage driver being turned on by default for servers with a lot of CPUs there's also the ability to initialize these in parallel which can reduce the time this takes by a factor of 10. it shouldn't affect us regular desktop or laptop users though for Intel users 12th gen and upwards should also have better load balancing between performance cores and efficiency cores which should improve power efficiency and performance AMD freesync is now also supported by default by the kernel and midi 2.0 and USB 4 V2 support has also started support for risk 5 is improved with acpi and Vector extensions Wi-Fi 7 got some work as well and Nvidia Shield devices are Now supported by the mainline kernel on top of that Xbox controllers are better supported especially in the rumble Department the X4 format got faster direct i o better FS got some performance improvements and the NTFS driver also got some love it is a very nice update that you should get soon if you don't run an LTS or super focused on stability distro and personally I should be able to take advantage of both the ryzen improvements and the Intel 12 gen improvements which should be cool and for the kernel 6.6 we can also expect a lot of cool stuff first developers managed to clean up the sys CTL space reducing the space used by each array by 64 bytes which means that not only the build time of the kernel will be reduced but the RAM consumption of the kernel will also be lower on top of that we should get some nice improvements to i o performance an improvement described by the developer as pretty juicy and pretty juicy it does look indeed from 4.5 faster speeds up to 37 faster a new scheduler should make its way to the kernel as well replacing the older CFS it should bring back cluster scheduling for Intel hybrid CPU so 12th gen and upwards and the majority of workloads should be improved as well but developers are also expecting some performance regressions which they said they would fix as soon as they were identified and 6.6 should also introduce AMD Dynamic Boost Plus a manager for virtual addresses for gpus which should improve vulcan's support and some more control over Intel Graphics that could yield up to 15 better performance the kernel will also have additional protections against the illicit behaviors of the NVIDIA drivers the Nvidia proprietary drivers do some weird stuff to be able to use GPL only symbols in their drivers even though these are not provided under the GPL and so the kernel will be raising additional protections against that and as per 6.7 yes we can already talk about that we might see some better overclocking support for AMD gpus AMD is developing some new interfaces for overdrive which will let people develop tools graphical or otherwise to overclock their gpus although AMD doesn't provide their own GUI for that on Linux these new interfaces will let users manipulate the fan curve the target temperature and the acoustic threshold for fans they will only Target rdna3 graphics and later though older gpus won't benefit from that it is very exciting stuff and I love all the performance work we've been seeing in the recent kernel versions it's a really really good time to be a Linux user now we have more details about changes coming together first in ground 45 Nautilus will land a new look with a better looking sidebar it will now use the entire window height instead of stopping right under the header bar and it gains a little title places the various indicators for file transfers or archive extractions will also live in this sidebar now instead of being sandwiched between other header bar buttons now it does look better but also you're not gaining any space in terms of height because the title occupies the same height as the header bar did and you're also losing some space on the breadcrumbs bar or the path bar because it's now moved to the right of the sidebar so in terms of navigating your file system I'm not sure that's really an improvement next the settings will receive some love not all changes for Gnome 45 though now what will land in Chrome 45 though is the new privacy Hub which regroups a few options that were disseminated throughout various panels like screen lock location station file history and the camera and mic permissions ingrown 46 the settings will land a new system Hub as well and a new network and internet panel which both should be big reworks of the current UI it's cool stuff at least if you like settings which I do sometimes I just open the settings app just to look at what's available and see if I could change anything just for fun now in KDE land K Runner got some love in preparation for plasma 6 with the ability to manually configure results to be displayed in the order you want you will be able to reorder them in the settings so you always get what you usually look for first this little tool also got some performance improvements and gained the option to start hybrid sleep if your system supports it okay when the window manager slash compositor should perform better as well and won't repaint layers of the screen that haven't changed which should result in more power efficiency as well and various parts of plasma and the settings will also gain a little performance boost opening a few hundreds of milliseconds faster on top of that the previews for HDR images viewed in apps that don't support HDR are now converted to srgb so they will not look weird anymore and console now puts each process in its own C group when using system D so you can find each process individually in the system monitor there were also more than a hundred bug fixes this week including for a crash when switching Global themes in plasma and I didn't think you could still add anything to K Runner because it's already pretty freaking awesome but apparently I was wrong and also it's good to see some more performance improvements coming to plasma it's gonna make plasma 6 into a more interesting release okay now in the my country sucks more and more each day series France now has yet another internet censorship block called sren which is a way to regulate online content this law would require DNS resolvers and web browsers to block websites directly if they are part of a government blacklist for any infringement they decided upon according to experts this is a very slippery slope that could have impacts on privacy and on freedom of expression any authoritarian government could abuse this to prevent French citizens from accessing certain pieces of information and this would bypass most censorship evasion tools as the browser would just plain refuse to display the website Mozilla already said that this is a big problem and I would expect other browsers to follow suit in terms of privacy it's also a problem as browsers could be pushed to collect more user data to be able to block these websites this bill is also being fast tracked through an accelerated procedure as the French government has regularly done recently so discussions amendments and Analysis will be very limited so basically it's yet another nightmare censorship law with enormous potential for abuse and I'm getting very tired of the way my country handles these issues recently it's pretty awful and let's finish this with the gaming news first as I reported last week Roblox now supports Linux again through wine it was only doable through the beta Channel last week and now it's in the stable Channel as well so you can run it with wine or with vinegar which is a wine wrapper for Roblox wine 8.15 was also released with support for the text print processor which as its name implies is here to convert print jobs into a format that can be sent to a printer there were also more improvements to wow 64. the emulator that lets 32-bit apps run under 64-bit windows or in this case 64-bit wine 19 bugs were also fixed including for trackmania Nations forever chess base 11 Forza Horizon 4 Colin McRae Rally 2 and more the steam deck also got two new stable updates version 3.4.9 and 3.4.10 the first one implemented a fix for the GPU drivers specifically for Starfield Pierre Lu Griffey one of the major Developers for proton and valve said that there was still an issue with the game and so valve release used another update 3.4.10 to steamos to fix that very issue so basically when Starfield officially releases out of Early Access which people have access to if they paid for the game more or earlier not sure when it officially releases you can expect to play it on your steam day whether the performance will be good enough I don't know but it should be a pretty cool experience nonetheless and weyland's support for wine also progresses nicely as the sixth part of that effort has now been submitted as a merge request for wine this part adds support for Mouse events like cursor movement the cursor entering or leaving the window and updating the cursor image as it hovers over elements in a window something that is generally pretty useful for video games the code is under review and there are apparently some issues to fix but this is a major step for wine to not need X Weyland anymore it is very nice to see this work progressing nicely it's one major barrier that is going to be lifted probably not before 2024 though what you can get before 2024 though is one of our sponsors devices tuxedo ships laptops and desktops that run with Linux out of the box the hardware has been specifically picked to run Linux well and if there are some compatibility issues tuxedo generally fixes stuff and pushes that Upstream so everyone can benefit they have a big range of devices that should cover every need and every price point whether you're looking for a laptop big or small a Nook a desktop tower for just office work or for I don't know video editing 3D modeling they have it all the devices are very customizable including the keyboard layout the logo on the lid of the laptop the components and all the laptops are openable repairable and upgradable so if you need a new device and you want to support Linux and you want to support linux's development then click the link in the description below and get yourself a tuxedo PC they are really really good so thanks everyone for watching 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 didn't like the video there's always that dislike button and you can tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoyed the channel and you want to support it there are plenty of links in the description below that you can click for Libra pay patreon PayPal YouTube memberships whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye foreign
Linux is a very popular choice among developers in 2022 45% of professional devs used Linux based operating systems which places it on par with Mac OS something we can't say of the general desktop use of Linux which just passed 3% Microsoft also acknowledges that as they've been working hard on implementing WSL a way to run Linux directly on Windows specifically for developers but what makes Linux so appealing for programming and what makes it a better choice than Windows or Mac OS for a lot of developers well we'll try to answer that in this video and we'll also try to tell you about our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare your all-in-one solution to make sure your Linux server or workstation Fleet is secure and up to date they offer a range of services like colel life patching or extended support for distributions that have gone end of life now this week they're partnering with admin magazine to give you the 2023 special edition of the magazine it's titled 10 terrific tools for the busy admin and it contains as the name implies a bunch of great utilities that will help you maintain your dot files and manage configuration changes shape your network traffic to share the bandwidth in the office scan your system to discover hidden processes that you might not be aware of using a Bastian server to communicate with remote host securely plus a Roundup of the best SSH frontend every tool is of course well explained to let you know what they can do and how to use them so if you want to up your admin game click the link in the description below and get your free issue of admin magazine so the first thing is programming language support and ease of installation Linux works with virtually every programming language whether you're working with PHP JavaScript C or C++ C Ruby python Java you can write and execute almost anything but that's not necessarily an advantage right like Windows and Mac OS can also do all of that where Linux has the edge is with their package managers Linux distributions have package managers built in and these give you access to anything you need to write in these languages you don't need to install a package manager yourself or hunt for installers to download and then for the extra libraries and modules you might need in your repos are all of the things you'll need for any of these languages you get other more specific package managers like pip X or node you get libraries you get development headers and you can install all of them in one fail swoop either graphically or with one single command line which makes it way faster to get started than on any other operating system and sure Mac OS has Homebrew and windows has winget but the first one you have to download and install yourself and winget is not as well stocked as virtually any dros repos and this ease of access and installation means that it's also easier to write documentation and guides to help other people collaborate on your project and setting up their development environment so they can get started as fast as possible you can just write the list of packages they'll need to install or you can give them the exact command line they'll need to run to install all of them at once especially the person you're on boarding is using the same drro as you on Windows or Mac OS you would have to give them links to Homebrew or installers and various modules that they need to add and then the command lines they might want to run to actually install the stuff and depending on the versions of Windows or Mac OS the instructions might even be different you could also just write a bash script so anyone who starts working on the project can just run that script and get set up automatically for example installing a specific specific IDE that your company might enforce setting up all the environment variables creating the databases automatically creating the testing environment starting a local server getting all the files from git populating a test environment with a set of fake data and this for any dro as you could add some conditions in the script to detect the dro and adapt the commands to it your coworker could just run one file and get the exact same development environment and save a lot of time in the process for configuring everything that they need and even better if you run something like NYX OS you could just share your config file with your coworker and they can reproduce your entire system with one file and one command it's just way more efficient than on any other OS for web development using Linux is also a no-brainer the vast majority of servers your website or web app will run on in production is using a Linux drro when you're coding your website using Linux the way you're setting up your environment the way you interact with your system they're all extremely similar to the OS the website or web app will actually run on the file system structure will be the same the libraries will generally be named the same and everything you've learned while developing the website the errors you've encountered they're all also helping you fix future problems when they occur in production and if your server runs the exact same drro as your development environment then it's even easier it's just good Common Sense your system that you're writing the code on runs the same operating system as the server your code will run on next thing is the command line utilities out of the box these are simply better on Linux than on Windows or even on Mac OS if you haven't installed something like Homebrew and all the tools that you might need to use these tools are here by default you don't need to install anything else or a new shell to run commands in the experience is excellent out of the box but if you want something more you can also install other shells like fish or zsh which offer more cool stuff like Auto suggestions or syntax highlighting in your terminal or a different admittedly easier Syntax for scripting in the case of fish and sure Powershell isn't terrible anymore and its syntax might admittedly be easier to learn than bash because it's like a little bit more natural to work with and if you deploy stuff to an Azure Cloud platform then Powershell has better tools to work with that but bash is still the de facto standard although Powershell is also available on Linux if you want that and Bash is available on Windows through WL but at that point you're actually using Linux to do the work not Windows Linux also has built-in support for SSH so nothing to install there to access your servers generally the Linux kernel and the g tools were created and are worked on by Developers for their own use they were thought right from the start to be good development and system management tools because the people who made them made them for themselves first not to try and sell a bunch of commercial products or subscriptions now this isn't necessarily an advantage specific to Linux over windows or Macos but it's still an important Point all the idees you might want are on Linux it Bears mentioning because that's not necessarily the case for other Industries if you rely on Photoshop AutoCAD Microsoft Office or other various industry standards you're probably used to Linux not having access to them only offering Alternatives that will not work for everyone for programming that's not the case you get access to all the big ones vs code Android Studio Eclipse intj Zen PHP storm all the text editors you might like the only big one missing might be X code which is just on Mac OS so yeah not an advantage specific to Linux but still an important Point everything you know or might want to use is on Linux Linux also has very high availability most distributions are completely free of charge which means anyone can download them and install them without bothering with a license or owning a specific device to run the OS all the tools they need anyone can get Linux whatever their financial situation and and on top of that if Linux doesn't really work for you as your main OS you cannot install it on your main device but you still want to have access to its benefits it's really easy to run it on any other OS Linux Works beautifully in Virtual machines something that can't be said of Windows 11 which might require a trip to the registry to bypass the TPM checks and locks Microsoft put in place or of Mac OS which doesn't just install in a VM like that and also it would be illegal to do so as you are not legally allowed to run Mac OS on any non-apple device so virtual machines are not authorized Linux is also available through W USL so you can still use bash and a lot of Linux programs and tools including graphical ones on an OS you might be more familiar with or you might be stuck with namely Windows Linux dis Ros will also run on virtually anything chances are your current device can run Linux perfectly probably with better performance than the OS it came with if all you have is a very affordable low powerered Mini PC or a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi Linux is also your best option especially since Linux comes in many shapes and sizes which brings us to our next Point flexibility Linux offers Choice whatever language you want to write your code in on whatever device there's a Dr optimized for that some offer very easily integrated containers some are designed to use the least amount of system resources possible some will offer older but very stable libraries and packages to develop something Rock Solid other dros will give you the very latest versions of everything you might want to use in your app so you have access to the latest features and methods there is a Linux drro for every purpose and this makes Linux a better choice than any other OS because one size fits all never works for everyone it's better to have your OS being tailor made to the use case you want it for and Linux is the only OS that lets you do that with your desktop experience as well chances are if you're a developer you might also be a power user that's not a universal rule but from personal experience developers tend to like setting up their desktop exactly as they like Linux lets you do that no other system does at least not to the same extent from the choice of desktop environment to the customization available with themes extensions widgets docks panels tiling Window Man managers and more you will have the exact working environment you prefer or you will build one that suits you now this also creates the unfortunate risk of spending all your time finding the perfect environment instead of actually coding Linux also won't force you to update in the middle of your work and it won't nag you with ads in its menu or default apps something that can't be said of other operating systems it also won't make your Hardware obsolete by denying it access to the latest OS upgrade Linux gives you complete control which is what developers generally need now of course the title of the video says that Linux is better for most developers because yeah it's not perfect nothing truly is if you're working on an app for Mac OS or iOS Linux might not be the best choice xcode is not available on Linux you could always write the code on a Linux system and Pull It build it on an Apple device and run it there but not everyone needs or can afford such a setup other platform specific languages like net will also be easier to work with on the OS they were originally designed for for example Windows you do have net core on Linux and some idees let you work fine with it like Ryder but net is a Microsoft product first and windows might give the best experience here and of course some people just can't use Linux if your company provided you with a specific device chances are you're stuck on Windows or on Mac OS you cannot install Linux on your machine or maybe they use software that isn't available on Linux for other things but for people who can install Linux It generally has a lot of advantages for development now that doesn't mean that Linux is perfect for everyone but is still a better choice for most developers just like our sponsor is a better choice for most Linux users if you're looking for a new device to run Linux on for code or anything else click the link in the description below and check out tuxedo computers they're based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and what they ship is laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box the hardware is picked specifically because it runs well under Linux and if it didn't they generally submitted patches Upstream to fix the various issues they have a big range of devices that will cover every use case and every price point whether you're looking for a laptop a desktop a nug something affordable something powerful they got it all their devices are very customizable in terms of logo in terms of keyboard layout you can change the Super Key you can customize the components inside and all 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The Gnome experience is very very simple by default too simple some people would argue but that doesn't mean it has to be this way gnome not only has the best app ecosystem on Linux right now but it also has an insane set of extensions so today we'll look at the best gnome extensions I could find that can completely transform how you use your gnome desktop and of course if I missed something that you use and love don't hesitate to let me know down in the comments and I won't hesitate to let you know about our sponsor this video is sponsored by Chasm workspaces which is a great tool to stream any operating system desktop or application straight to your web browser they just released version 1.14 which adds translations for 243 languages along with a completely redesigned administrator user interface to streamline administrative workflows additional updates include support for local webcams and Printers Plus the ability to persist your data to cloud storage drives like Google Drive next cloud or OneDrive along with saving your persistent profile to S3 block storage these updates make it easier than ever to host on-demand access to your desktops and applications the chasm workspaces Community Edition can be self-hosted or they also have a cloud SAS subscription so to learn more about Chasm workspaces click the link in the description below if you use the keyboard a lot gnome has tons of keyboard shortcuts but what if you're a mouse user first then you have fly pie it's a circular menu that you can use exclusively with your mouse you can completely customize it as a matter of fact you kinda have to how it works is just moving your mouse into general direction of an item and clicking to expand it each item can contain sub items so you can use it to launch commands applications go to the next audio track switch between apps move between workspaces close the active window whatever you want you can also just maintain the click to select items and sub items with gestures and as you get familiar with it you end up memorizing these gestures you move your mouse in specific patterns to launch specific things by default you can press control plus space to open it but you can change that shortcut it also works on Wayland but you will need to create a custom keyboard shortcut that launches the the command I left in the description of the video the menu is entirely customizable in terms of appearance colors size of elements and structure that thing even has achievement I'm I'm not joking it really has them so it's a fun way to interact with your system with your mouse I think it helps building muscle memory to launch certain things or commands and for accessibility purposes it's probably pretty good as well oh and to install it you just need to look for it in extensions manager the app that lets you install gnome extensions in just one click now if you like tiling your windows but gnomes options are too limited there is Forge if you're familiar with pop os's Auto tiling extensions it does pretty much the same thing each new window opens in a new tile and you can either drag and drop them using the mouse to reposition them and create your layout or you can use a long list of keyboard shortcuts to do the same thing which is sort of the point of a tiling Window Manager how many people use these things things with their Mouse Forge also adds a highlight around the currently focused window and it also supports floating windows for smaller preferences that would look weird if they were tiled you can tweak the gaps between Windows the colors of the various hints when moving a window or the hint for the focused one it's a really powerful extension and since popo has a set of extensions might not be fully compatible with Canon 44 and will probably get entirely discontinued when they release their own Cosmic desktop I think Forge is the next best thing okay now this one is not an extension it's an application but it is solely focused on changing the look of your desktop if you're okay with the default advita theme in Gnome but you would like it to be more colorful or if you're just a fan of material U on Android then there is gradients this app lets you apply color palettes to the default advice theme of gnome it won't change the shape of the buttons or the controls but it will tint everything with colors of your choosing which means you can get something that looks really nice or something absolutely garish depending on your tastes or lack thereof you can install gradients from flath Hub and it lets you either pick each color yourself or you can let it create a color palette from an image it will apply all these changes to all your gtk4 and gtk3 apps provided you have the ADW gtk3 theme installed it can even apply an advita theme for Firefox in the process so the browser can follow your color scheme as well there are a few drawbacks like needing to log out and log back in for the changes to be applied and once you've set your color palette switching from light to dark mode will definitely break contrast but it is still a nice way to give your desktop some personality without breaking your applications with a theme that will never be able to work on every single app flawlessly since gradients only changes the colors of the libid Vita theme then it means the worst that can happen is that contrast is poor and applications are not very legible but you can't break the layout of entire applications you can also save your presets to switch to them more easily and move back to the default color scheme if you want as presets already exist for them gradients will also theme your flat pack apps if you have the necessary overrides in flat seal it won't change the colors for the gnome shell itself though now if what you're looking for isn't necessarily a complete transformation of your desktop but more a bunch of small tweaks here and there to improve how it looks and how it works then what you need is the just perfection extension it comes with a few profiles to reduce the size of the top bar or get rid of it entirely but you can also have complete control over everything you can hide the top panel you can hide the activities button the app menu the clock menu you can hide various indicators or the Quick Settings entirely you can hide the icons inside of the quick settings or the items that appear in the clock menu or even how the window picker looks you can hide various icons throughout the interface or even change how things behave like removing the this application is ready notification or starting gnome on the desktop instead of the overview you can also enable wrap around for workspaces and a lot more finally just perfection lets you change a lot of various variables like the panel size the panel icon size the padding between indicators the position of the clock menu the speed of the shell animations the size of Dash icons the position of notification banners the on-screen display elements position and more basically if there's any detail you do not like in Gnome you can change it and tweak it with just perfection now of course if you don't like gnome at all then this won't help but if that's the case then why are you watching this video now if the default alts tab window switcher doesn't work for you then there's aatws for advanced alt tab window switcher this thing is the just perfection but for alt tab it changes how the window switcher and the application switcher works you can choose the position of each at the center bottom or top of the screen choose on which monitor they appear and how everything looks you can then further customize the window switcher and the app switcher for example you can group open windows by application hide minimize windows and only display the windows for the current monitor it basically gives you complete control over how you switch between your windows or between your open applications and their Windows seriously it's like KD level of preferences here you also get a hot Edge that you can Define to show the switcher and it can double as your dock you don't even need something like Dash to dock if you have this extension it even has its own keyboard shortcuts to search through open window those or apps and filter what is being displayed it is a really really cool extension if you want to use gnome with a more keyboard focused workflow you won't need to touch your mouse to switch between anything here but if you prefer using your mouse to do stuff then maybe you're lamenting the lack of Hot Corner functionality in Grown thankfully you have chce for custom hot Corners extended it lets you define actions for pushing your mouse in any corner of the screen including with modifiers you can define an action for when you just place your mouse in the top right corner or when you do that while holding Ctrl or while clicking any of the buttons or while scrolling the mouse wheel the list of actions is insanely long from window management to workspaces switching Windows changing window opacity or even system features like toggling the magnifier displaying the on-screen keyboard moving to the next audio track or even displaying custom menus of your choosing these are figured directly in the extension settings and you can basically create a context menu with a bunch of actions from the same list as what your hard Corners can trigger this is super powerful stuff you could probably create a layout where you don't even have a dock or a top panel or anything and do everything using custom menus in each corner now another app not an extension is login manager settings this one lets you tweak as its name implies the login screen of gnome it gives you options to theme it to change the background image the phones or change a few options for the top panel you can change the sound theme enable a few Mouse related features like disabling pointer acceleration or turning on night light you can even display a welcome message you can disable the user accounts list you can remove the restart button you can change the behavior of the power button and of automatic suspend and you can even export your settings to a file to import them back into another device or when you reinstall it is a very nice tool to just have a coherent Behavior between your gnome desktop and the login screen you use to access it now if you need a clipboard manager to keep track of everything you copy Pano is probably the best looking one it's an extension that lets you display all the elements you copied in a visual manner as a strip at the bottom of your screen it does require you to install two small libraries left GDA and lib GDA sqlite but after that all you have to do is press shift super and V and you'll see that nice little strip at the bottom you can customize how that strip looks like and it supports links text emojis files images code Snippets and color values all of them having their own display style to be identified easily you can change these Styles independently as well through the extension's preferences it even has an exclusion list to avoid displaying elements from specific apps like password managers for example it is a really really nice extension that will definitely improve your workflow I know it improved mine a lot okay let's finish this video with a few miscellaneous extensions that aren't as powerful but still add a few cool tweaks first is Searchlight if you like The Gnome shell search but you wish it didn't go into full screen then Searchlight gives you just that it's a launcher or Spotlight equivalent you can change the keyboard shortcut and the appearance of the search box and the results then you have rounded window Corners which will round every corner of every window even for apps that aren't gtk4 and aren't natively rounded it even gives you control over the radius or if you want to keep rounded Corners in full screen or not and if certain apps don't react well to that you can always Blacklist them as well I use this one on every single device I run gnomon it does wonders to unify the look of every single app that you run now if you're missing these awful desktop icons then you can also add them back with desktop icons and G it's super customizable and it restores that functionality if that's something you enjoy it's actually the extension Ubuntu ships by default to get their desktop icons and that's about it for this video these are just a subset of all the available gnome extensions that you can use to really transform your desktop they're just the ones that grabbed my attention the most and of course if you use something else don't hesitate to let me know down there in the comments and I won't hesitate to let you know about our sponsor if you've ever had Linux Hardware compatibility problems and you're planning a new purchase to replace your current computer and you still plan to run Linux on it stop buying devices that only support Windows Out of the Box buy 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Linux is a very popular choice among developers in 2022 45% of professional devs used Linux based operating systems which places it on par with Mac OS something we can't say of the general desktop use of Linux which just passed 3% Microsoft also acknowledges that as they've been working hard on implementing WSL a way to run Linux directly on Windows specifically for developers but what makes Linux so appealing for programming and what makes it a better choice than Windows or Mac OS for a lot of developers well we'll try to answer that in this video and we'll also try to tell you about our sponsor this video is sponsored by tux scare your all-in-one solution to make sure your Linux server or workstation Fleet is secure and up to date they offer a range of services like colel life patching or extended support for distributions that have gone end of life now this week they're partnering with admin magazine to give you the 2023 special edition of the magazine it's titled 10 terrific tools for the busy admin and it contains as the name implies a bunch of great utilities that will help you maintain your dot files and manage configuration changes shape your network traffic to share the bandwidth in the office scan your system to discover hidden processes that you might not be aware of using a Bastian server to communicate with remote host securely plus a Roundup of the best SSH frontend every tool is of course well explained to let you know what they can do and how to use them so if you want to up your admin game click the link in the description below and get your free issue of admin magazine so the first thing is programming language support and ease of installation Linux works with virtually every programming language whether you're working with PHP JavaScript C or C++ C Ruby python Java you can write and execute almost anything but that's not necessarily an advantage right like Windows and Mac OS can also do all of that where Linux has the edge is with their package managers Linux distributions have package managers built in and these give you access to anything you need to write in these languages you don't need to install a package manager yourself or hunt for installers to download and then for the extra libraries and modules you might need in your repos are all of the things you'll need for any of these languages you get other more specific package managers like pip X or node you get libraries you get development headers and you can install all of them in one fail swoop either graphically or with one single command line which makes it way faster to get started than on any other operating system and sure Mac OS has Homebrew and windows has winget but the first one you have to download and install yourself and winget is not as well stocked as virtually any dros repos and this ease of access and installation means that it's also easier to write documentation and guides to help other people collaborate on your project and setting up their development environment so they can get started as fast as possible you can just write the list of packages they'll need to install or you can give them the exact command line they'll need to run to install all of them at once especially the person you're on boarding is using the same drro as you on Windows or Mac OS you would have to give them links to Homebrew or installers and various modules that they need to add and then the command lines they might want to run to actually install the stuff and depending on the versions of Windows or Mac OS the instructions might even be different you could also just write a bash script so anyone who starts working on the project can just run that script and get set up automatically for example installing a specific specific IDE that your company might enforce setting up all the environment variables creating the databases automatically creating the testing environment starting a local server getting all the files from git populating a test environment with a set of fake data and this for any dro as you could add some conditions in the script to detect the dro and adapt the commands to it your coworker could just run one file and get the exact same development environment and save a lot of time in the process for configuring everything that they need and even better if you run something like NYX OS you could just share your config file with your coworker and they can reproduce your entire system with one file and one command it's just way more efficient than on any other OS for web development using Linux is also a no-brainer the vast majority of servers your website or web app will run on in production is using a Linux drro when you're coding your website using Linux the way you're setting up your environment the way you interact with your system they're all extremely similar to the OS the website or web app will actually run on the file system structure will be the same the libraries will generally be named the same and everything you've learned while developing the website the errors you've encountered they're all also helping you fix future problems when they occur in production and if your server runs the exact same drro as your development environment then it's even easier it's just good Common Sense your system that you're writing the code on runs the same operating system as the server your code will run on next thing is the command line utilities out of the box these are simply better on Linux than on Windows or even on Mac OS if you haven't installed something like Homebrew and all the tools that you might need to use these tools are here by default you don't need to install anything else or a new shell to run commands in the experience is excellent out of the box but if you want something more you can also install other shells like fish or zsh which offer more cool stuff like Auto suggestions or syntax highlighting in your terminal or a different admittedly easier Syntax for scripting in the case of fish and sure Powershell isn't terrible anymore and its syntax might admittedly be easier to learn than bash because it's like a little bit more natural to work with and if you deploy stuff to an Azure Cloud platform then Powershell has better tools to work with that but bash is still the de facto standard although Powershell is also available on Linux if you want that and Bash is available on Windows through WL but at that point you're actually using Linux to do the work not Windows Linux also has built-in support for SSH so nothing to install there to access your servers generally the Linux kernel and the g tools were created and are worked on by Developers for their own use they were thought right from the start to be good development and system management tools because the people who made them made them for themselves first not to try and sell a bunch of commercial products or subscriptions now this isn't necessarily an advantage specific to Linux over windows or Macos but it's still an important Point all the idees you might want are on Linux it Bears mentioning because that's not necessarily the case for other Industries if you rely on Photoshop AutoCAD Microsoft Office or other various industry standards you're probably used to Linux not having access to them only offering Alternatives that will not work for everyone for programming that's not the case you get access to all the big ones vs code Android Studio Eclipse intj Zen PHP storm all the text editors you might like the only big one missing might be X code which is just on Mac OS so yeah not an advantage specific to Linux but still an important Point everything you know or might want to use is on Linux Linux also has very high availability most distributions are completely free of charge which means anyone can download them and install them without bothering with a license or owning a specific device to run the OS all the tools they need anyone can get Linux whatever their financial situation and and on top of that if Linux doesn't really work for you as your main OS you cannot install it on your main device but you still want to have access to its benefits it's really easy to run it on any other OS Linux Works beautifully in Virtual machines something that can't be said of Windows 11 which might require a trip to the registry to bypass the TPM checks and locks Microsoft put in place or of Mac OS which doesn't just install in a VM like that and also it would be illegal to do so as you are not legally allowed to run Mac OS on any non-apple device so virtual machines are not authorized Linux is also available through W USL so you can still use bash and a lot of Linux programs and tools including graphical ones on an OS you might be more familiar with or you might be stuck with namely Windows Linux dis Ros will also run on virtually anything chances are your current device can run Linux perfectly probably with better performance than the OS it came with if all you have is a very affordable low powerered Mini PC or a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi Linux is also your best option especially since Linux comes in many shapes and sizes which brings us to our next Point flexibility Linux offers Choice whatever language you want to write your code in on whatever device there's a Dr optimized for that some offer very easily integrated containers some are designed to use the least amount of system resources possible some will offer older but very stable libraries and packages to develop something Rock Solid other dros will give you the very latest versions of everything you might want to use in your app so you have access to the latest features and methods there is a Linux drro for every purpose and this makes Linux a better choice than any other OS because one size fits all never works for everyone it's better to have your OS being tailor made to the use case you want it for and Linux is the only OS that lets you do that with your desktop experience as well chances are if you're a developer you might also be a power user that's not a universal rule but from personal experience developers tend to like setting up their desktop exactly as they like Linux lets you do that no other system does at least not to the same extent from the choice of desktop environment to the customization available with themes extensions widgets docks panels tiling Window Man managers and more you will have the exact working environment you prefer or you will build one that suits you now this also creates the unfortunate risk of spending all your time finding the perfect environment instead of actually coding Linux also won't force you to update in the middle of your work and it won't nag you with ads in its menu or default apps something that can't be said of other operating systems it also won't make your Hardware obsolete by denying it access to the latest OS upgrade Linux gives you complete control which is what developers generally need now of course the title of the video says that Linux is better for most developers because yeah it's not perfect nothing truly is if you're working on an app for Mac OS or iOS Linux might not be the best choice xcode is not available on Linux you could always write the code on a Linux system and Pull It build it on an Apple device and run it there but not everyone needs or can afford such a setup other platform specific languages like net will also be easier to work with on the OS they were originally designed for for example Windows you do have net core on Linux and some idees let you work fine with it like Ryder but net is a Microsoft product first and windows might give the best experience here and of course some people just can't use Linux if your company provided you with a specific device chances are you're stuck on Windows or on Mac OS you cannot install Linux on your machine or maybe they use software that isn't available on Linux for other things but for people who can install Linux It generally has 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The Gnome experience is very very simple by default too simple some people would argue but that doesn't mean it has to be this way gnome not only has the best app ecosystem on Linux right now but it also has an insane set of extensions so today we'll look at the best gnome extensions I could find that can completely transform how you use your gnome desktop and of course if I missed something that you use and love don't hesitate to let me know down in the comments and I won't hesitate to let you know about our sponsor this video is sponsored by Chasm workspaces which is a great tool to stream any operating system desktop or application straight to your web browser they just released version 1.14 which adds translations for 243 languages along with a completely redesigned administrator user interface to streamline administrative workflows additional updates include support for local webcams and Printers Plus the ability to persist your data to cloud storage drives like Google Drive next cloud or OneDrive along with saving your persistent profile to S3 block storage these updates make it easier than ever to host on-demand access to your desktops and applications the chasm workspaces Community Edition can be self-hosted or they also have a cloud SAS subscription so to learn more about Chasm workspaces click the link in the description below if you use the keyboard a lot gnome has tons of keyboard shortcuts but what if you're a mouse user first then you have fly pie it's a circular menu that you can use exclusively with your mouse you can completely customize it as a matter of fact you kinda have to how it works is just moving your mouse into general direction of an item and clicking to expand it each item can contain sub items so you can use it to launch commands applications go to the next audio track switch between apps move between workspaces close the active window whatever you want you can also just maintain the click to select items and sub items with gestures and as you get familiar with it you end up memorizing these gestures you move your mouse in specific patterns to launch specific things by default you can press control plus space to open it but you can change that shortcut it also works on Wayland but you will need to create a custom keyboard shortcut that launches the the command I left in the description of the video the menu is entirely customizable in terms of appearance colors size of elements and structure that thing even has achievement I'm I'm not joking it really has them so it's a fun way to interact with your system with your mouse I think it helps building muscle memory to launch certain things or commands and for accessibility purposes it's probably pretty good as well oh and to install it you just need to look for it in extensions manager the app that lets you install gnome extensions in just one click now if you like tiling your windows but gnomes options are too limited there is Forge if you're familiar with pop os's Auto tiling extensions it does pretty much the same thing each new window opens in a new tile and you can either drag and drop them using the mouse to reposition them and create your layout or you can use a long list of keyboard shortcuts to do the same thing which is sort of the point of a tiling Window Manager how many people use these things things with their Mouse Forge also adds a highlight around the currently focused window and it also supports floating windows for smaller preferences that would look weird if they were tiled you can tweak the gaps between Windows the colors of the various hints when moving a window or the hint for the focused one it's a really powerful extension and since popo has a set of extensions might not be fully compatible with Canon 44 and will probably get entirely discontinued when they release their own Cosmic desktop I think Forge is the next best thing okay now this one is not an extension it's an application but it is solely focused on changing the look of your desktop if you're okay with the default advita theme in Gnome but you would like it to be more colorful or if you're just a fan of material U on Android then there is gradients this app lets you apply color palettes to the default advice theme of gnome it won't change the shape of the buttons or the controls but it will tint everything with colors of your choosing which means you can get something that looks really nice or something absolutely garish depending on your tastes or lack thereof you can install gradients from flath Hub and it lets you either pick each color yourself or you can let it create a color palette from an image it will apply all these changes to all your gtk4 and gtk3 apps provided you have the ADW gtk3 theme installed it can even apply an advita theme for Firefox in the process so the browser can follow your color scheme as well there are a few drawbacks like needing to log out and log back in for the changes to be applied and once you've set your color palette switching from light to dark mode will definitely break contrast but it is still a nice way to give your desktop some personality without breaking your applications with a theme that will never be able to work on every single app flawlessly since gradients only changes the colors of the libid Vita theme then it means the worst that can happen is that contrast is poor and applications are not very legible but you can't break the layout of entire applications you can also save your presets to switch to them more easily and move back to the default color scheme if you want as presets already exist for them gradients will also theme your flat pack apps if you have the necessary overrides in flat seal it won't change the colors for the gnome shell itself though now if what you're looking for isn't necessarily a complete transformation of your desktop but more a bunch of small tweaks here and there to improve how it looks and how it works then what you need is the just perfection extension it comes with a few profiles to reduce the size of the top bar or get rid of it entirely but you can also have complete control over everything you can hide the top panel you can hide the activities button the app menu the clock menu you can hide various indicators or the Quick Settings entirely you can hide the icons inside of the quick settings or the items that appear in the clock menu or even how the window picker looks you can hide various icons throughout the interface or even change how things behave like removing the this application is ready notification or starting gnome on the desktop instead of the overview you can also enable wrap around for workspaces and a lot more finally just perfection lets you change a lot of various variables like the panel size the panel icon size the padding between indicators the position of the clock menu the speed of the shell animations the size of Dash icons the position of notification banners the on-screen display elements position and more basically if there's any detail you do not like in Gnome you can change it and tweak it with just perfection now of course if you don't like gnome at all then this won't help but if that's the case then why are you watching this video now if the default alts tab window switcher doesn't work for you then there's aatws for advanced alt tab window switcher this thing is the just perfection but for alt tab it changes how the window switcher and the application switcher works you can choose the position of each at the center bottom or top of the screen choose on which monitor they appear and how everything looks you can then further customize the window switcher and the app switcher for example you can group open windows by application hide minimize windows and only display the windows for the current monitor it basically gives you complete control over how you switch between your windows or between your open applications and their Windows seriously it's like KD level of preferences here you also get a hot Edge that you can Define to show the switcher and it can double as your dock you don't even need something like Dash to dock if you have this extension it even has its own keyboard shortcuts to search through open window those or apps and filter what is being displayed it is a really really cool extension if you want to use gnome with a more keyboard focused workflow you won't need to touch your mouse to switch between anything here but if you prefer using your mouse to do stuff then maybe you're lamenting the lack of Hot Corner functionality in Grown thankfully you have chce for custom hot Corners extended it lets you define actions for pushing your mouse in any corner of the screen including with modifiers you can define an action for when you just place your mouse in the top right corner or when you do that while holding Ctrl or while clicking any of the buttons or while scrolling the mouse wheel the list of actions is insanely long from window management to workspaces switching Windows changing window opacity or even system features like toggling the magnifier displaying the on-screen keyboard moving to the next audio track or even displaying custom menus of your choosing these are figured directly in the extension settings and you can basically create a context menu with a bunch of actions from the same list as what your hard Corners can trigger this is super powerful stuff you could probably create a layout where you don't even have a dock or a top panel or anything and do everything using custom menus in each corner now another app not an extension is login manager settings this one lets you tweak as its name implies the login screen of gnome it gives you options to theme it to change the background image the phones or change a few options for the top panel you can change the sound theme enable a few Mouse related features like disabling pointer acceleration or turning on night light you can even display a welcome message you can disable the user accounts list you can remove the restart button you can change the behavior of the power button and of automatic suspend and you can even export your settings to a file to import them back into another device or when you reinstall it is a very nice tool to just have a coherent Behavior between your gnome desktop and the login screen you use to access it now if you need a clipboard manager to keep track of everything you copy Pano is probably the best looking one it's an extension that lets you display all the elements you copied in a visual manner as a strip at the bottom of your screen it does require you to install two small libraries left GDA and lib GDA sqlite but after that all you have to do is press shift super and V and you'll see that nice little strip at the bottom you can customize how that strip looks like and it supports links text emojis files images code Snippets and color values all of them having their own display style to be identified easily you can change these Styles independently as well through the extension's preferences it even has an exclusion list to avoid displaying elements from specific apps like password managers for example it is a really really nice extension that will definitely improve your workflow I know it improved mine a lot okay let's finish this video with a few miscellaneous extensions that aren't as powerful but still add a few cool tweaks first is Searchlight if you like The Gnome shell search but you wish it didn't go into full screen then Searchlight gives you just that it's a launcher or Spotlight equivalent you can change the keyboard shortcut and the appearance of the search box and the results then you have rounded window Corners which will round every corner of every window even for apps that aren't gtk4 and aren't natively rounded it even gives you control over the radius or if you want to keep rounded Corners in full screen or not and if certain apps don't react well to that you can always Blacklist them as well I use this one on every single device I run gnomon it does wonders to unify the look of every single app that you run now if you're missing these awful desktop icons then you can also add them back with desktop icons and G it's super customizable and it restores that functionality if that's something you enjoy it's actually the extension Ubuntu ships by default to get their desktop icons and that's about it for this video these are just a subset of all the available gnome extensions that you can use to really transform your desktop they're just the ones that grabbed my attention the most and of course if you use something else don't hesitate to let me know down there in the comments and I won't hesitate to let you know about our sponsor if you've ever had Linux Hardware compatibility problems and you're planning a new purchase to replace your current computer and you still plan to run Linux on it stop buying devices that only support Windows Out of the Box buy 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and it's this time of the week again Linux and open source news time so this week we have the Ubuntu team sharing their vision and their plans for the Ubuntu desktop we have the Nvidia bios lock being broken and bypassed which could mean some good thing for free and open source drivers on Linux for NVIDIA gpus and we have azahi Linux dropping a fully conformant opengl GPU driver and I'm dropping this fully conformant Segway 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various Scholars and themes and you're good to go and when you want to move forward and enrich your website with a 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that are related to each other or related to a wider goal a vision further down the line so what's the vision then well it is unclear they talked about the values mostly like Choice quality support enjoyment performance privacy and security or seamless integration and they listed a few things that they're working on for each like having full disk encryption as an option in the installer bringing netplan to the Ubuntu desktop to make it easier to manage Ubuntu fleets or new permission prompts for apps that require punctual permissions or the new graphical app store they are planning for Ubuntu 223.10 they also mentioned the new Ubuntu core desktop which is an immutable distro using snaps to provide their applications so I'm not sure I'm seeing a grand strategy here but it's difficult to to create one of those when you don't fully control all the software and since Ubuntu is still being based on gnome they don't have full control over what features are coming and what might be removed that they want to use still it's good to see that they have a plan it's a criticism I have leveled against Ubuntu for a while now that they kind of feel directionless and you don't feel like they know where they're going themselves so them defining the outlines of what they want to be is pretty cool now one of the main reasons open source driver support for relatively recent Nvidia gpus is so spotty and frankly bad is because Nvidia uses checks for certain bios signatures to ensure people don't flash weird bioses onto their graphics cards but this also means that you can't really take advantage of all the power of the GPU if you can't pass these checks which open source drivers pretty much can't but this bios log has now been broken buy tools developed for Windows which let users flash new bios images on their Nvidia gpus raise power limits on older gpus like the 900 series and control voltages and fan curves so this work might end up being useful to the Nuvo driver developers to at least understand how to defeat or better how to pass these boot checks and finally to get access to all the power and the higher clock speeds for recent Nvidia gpus because as long as you haven't passed these checks the gpus run at their boot up clock speed which are really really low it's still a legal gray area though now I really hope they will be able to learn something from these tools but apparently for now the code used to defeat that log hasn't been made public and even if it had you probably could not use it as is it's probably illegal to do so but you could at least look at it and understand how the BIOS Lock Works or how to bypass it and this could make its way into an open source driver for Linux still on any we have now released the source code for their developer toolkit and the API on GitHub this should help up a few projects like dxvk NV API to take advantage of Nvidia specific features for these gpus some libraries are still provided as binary files though but it is still pretty good to see Nvidia opening up more stuff and look yeah they are still a terrible company with very bad commercial practices and a really bad track record for open source but they look like they're starting to really be more open to this kind of stuff which I guess is good now still on the topic of drivers azahi Linux the distro that is steadily reverse engineering drivers for Apple silicon Max now has an opengl yes 3.1 conformant driver it officially conforms to the specifications made by the Kronos Group which is the entity that manages opengl and so this driver passes the entire test Suite which is something that can't be said about Mac OS for example because they don't support opengl and they don't have a confirm and driver so a team of volunteers basically has made something that Apple decided or could not do it themselves now this support works for M1 and M2 CPUs and the update is already available to all azai Linux users or on Fedora azahi remakes as well the driver will of course be upstreamed in the future so any version of the Linux kernel can have it but it still needs the Apple DRM kernel driver to be merged as well so it's a little ways off so what this means is that M1 and M2 Max will finally have a solid GPU driver for Linux at least which is really good and if you're interested in azaki or Fedora azahi or how Linux runs on these new devices I'll have a video about this next month now on the KDE side of things this week they have decided to go with tap to click being enabled by default for touchpads on plasma 6. something that I think is a really good choice they also have brought the usual improvements to the yet unreleased version of plasma like text being copied in X Weyland apps staying in the clipboard even after you close the app a Rewritten printer settings panel to be more coherent with the current style of settings and better looking icons in Dolphin when using fractional scaling Katie gear 23.08 was also released in this update to most of KD's apps there's calendar now called mercuro since it doesn't just handle calendars anymore not a huge fan of that new name though really not descriptive at all they are also planning to add email capabilities to that app making it into the new KDE personal information manager to replace the old kmail Suite tokodon the Mastodon client got a redesign looking a lot better and the timeline is now a lot smoother as well it also now has tools to manage the users and the instances you want to Federate with if you host your own Mastodon instance Kate the text editor now supports glsl as a programming language and includes the option for a qml language server when using q6 the screenshot manager also now lets you select annotations you've made more easily to move them around and generally change how you're editing your screenshots and as per gnome the developers finally shared the porting guide for extensions to work in ground 45 as this version moves to esm and will necessitate all extensions to be at least repackaged or partially Rewritten it's shared a month before the release of the new version let's hope that is enough time for extension developers there's also a new gnome app called ASCII draw letting you draw shapes diagrams or charts in ASCII Style with a lot of pre-made shapes and fonts and lines you can use parabolic the video downloader can now split chapters of a video into different files and it can also use sponsor block to avoid downloading a sponsored mansion in a video and I truly truly hope that this is the last time gnome developers break everything extensions related settle on a freaking API for those things and improve it instead of recreating it or breaking it with every release and budgie also got a new release version 10.8 it's still ground-based although budgie 11 will probably move away from that in the future this is the first release that includes Magpie which is budgie's own window manager and future Weyland compositor this lets them break away from mutter which is the gnome compositor that require a lot of work to adapt to the changes budgie makes especially for X11 support So Magpie is a soft Fork of mutter from gnome 43 not 44 and is in a temporary state to cater to budgie's X11 support when budgie 11 drops a new code base will be used that will drop X11 support to go all in on Wayland on top of that budgie 10.8 brings more details to the password prompts to let you know what app actually opened the prompt which is really good you can now control Power profiles in the battery indicator and the system tray is now based on the status Notifier specification which means tray icons should look better and should scale better with high DPI displayed the default theme now uses a very light green instead of blue and the app menu was reorganized in terms of how apps are placed in various categories the trash applet which previously was third party is now part of the desktop officially as well and it is cool to see budgie getting some more updates I personally think it will be more interesting when budgie 11 drops with its own style and its own applications and it won't be based on gnome anymore because what I want to see for Linux is desktops that aren't just slight or even medium or major modifications of each other I want to see stuff that has its own stack its own Vision so stuff like Cosmic Kenny gnome Unity maybe budgie in the future stuff that isn't really based on the exact same Technologies everywhere okay now let's finish this with the gaming news first we have reports of people being banned on apex Legends when playing on Linux this game uses the easy anti-cheat anti-cheat software which is supposed to be supported on Linux but some Linux players are still apparently getting banned this had already happened early this year and most bands were overturned by EA but this time it looks like the bands are sticking EA answered to a lot of comments saying that no they did take the correct action in Banning these accounts and this really sucks like you can't really have your cake and eat it too if you turn down support for Linux in the easy anti-cheat services portal you check that checkbox you're shipping that file then you can't ban people for playing on the platform that you support and if you want that verified compatibility check on the steam deck then just as well you can't ban people who are playing your game on the steam deck so yeah it's probably just EA doing more EA things with problems in internal Communications or whatever it sucks now for Roblox players though it looks like you're going to be able to play on Linux again through wine developers have been working to update the game since the new client broke the game on Linux and they shared a screenshot of that running on Manjaro they will make an official announcement when everything is ready to be published to the stable version of the game but if you or your kids enjoy Roblox then it's all good news I've never played this game it kind of looked like a way to make kids spend their appearance money but I guess the whole sandbox thousands of mini games can be appealing and it looks like this steam deck now has 11 000 games officially playable that's 7254 with the playable rating and 3753 with the verified rating plus 3296 marked as unsupported so they don't run at all as a reminder this doesn't cover every single game some haven't been reviewed yet and of course some titles marked playable or verified still have some big problems that valve might not have seen during testing but that's still an enormous amount of games and it probably makes the steam deck into the console with the biggest library probably of all time especially if you start including emulation which isn't officially supported games but it's still an enormous number of titles that you can play on this thing probably the best value for money if you're looking for a handheld right now but if what you're looking for is a PC 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most of the software I use day to day is open source from my computer and server operating systems to most of my apps and what I actually run on my servers well excluding on my phone because most of the apps that you will run on a phone are proprietary unfortunately maybe there's a video in there we'll look at that in the future so today we'll take a look at all the open source software I use on a daily basis for my personal life and for the channel and this includes today's sponsors application this video is sponsored by savings portmaster portmaster is an all-in-one tool to easily take your privacy to the next level and it's a tool I use myself on all of my Linux devices portmaster lets you automatically block all trackers and malware in every application you run on your computer not just your web browser but everything you run it's easy to use with defaults already in place that lets you just set it and forget it but if you like to configure every Rule and every app you also can portmaster is completely free and open source and also free of charge as it's funded by users that subscribe to the SPN a super powered VPN that gives you multiple identities for every connection of every application so if you want to easily improve the privacy of your system whatever the Linux distro you use or even on Windows click the link in the description below and download the portmaster for free so let's begin with the operating systems the stuff that actually lets me use these computers my laptop and my desktop run Fedora workstation 38 with gnome44 I won't spend too much time on that I have a dedicated video on my workflow for each of these devices and for the extensions I added suffice it to say it's very stable it's easy to use it's perfect on a laptop with a touchpad and it does everything I needed to I might replace that with NYX OS in the future probably when plasma 6 releases and is a available in NYX and if you're wondering why it's because replicating my entire system with just one config file on any other computer is exactly what I need as I very often Test new devices and Hardware now for my servers I have one running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS it's used for my next Cloud Server it's hosted on lenode and it's the backbone of all my digital life and the channel why Ubuntu and y20.04 well it was the LTS release when I created that server and I picked Ubuntu because installing nexcloud as a snap is extremely easy with just one command line yes I don't like snaps on the desktop but for Server stuff man are they easy and yes I am a lazy bastard my other server is used to host my podcast the Linux and open source News podcast if you don't know it's like the Linux and open source News videos that I make but more detailed with more topics in audio form the link is in the description This Server is hosted on linode and it runs Debian 11 because 12 wasn't out yet when I created the server and because I like Debian and I'm familiar with how it works I will generally also have a bunch of other distros that I run at any given time on spare laptops but these are just for testing purposes for what I use day to day these are the operating systems that I use oh wait I forgot I also run Holo ISO on the PC in my living room that serves as my Linux gaming console I also have a video about it if you want to see what I used and how well it runs I will have to update my servers at some point to move to a more recent Ubuntu LTS or to Debian 12 but I will probably only do that when support ends or when it becomes impossible to apply updates to the software I run on these servers so let's talk about exactly that what I run on these servers and yeah don't worry we'll talk about desktop apps in a minute the first thing is nexcloud as I said it is installed as a snap and it works beautifully I don't get the updates as soon as nexcloud publishes them but when I do get them they're very well tested and I've never had any issues with that I'm currently on version 26.0.4 so next Cloud Hub 4 not 5. I personally don't care about all the AI related stuff that nexcloud added in Hub 5 so I'm not in a hurry to update apart from the nerdy part of me that wants to use the latest thing all the time I mostly use nexcloud as the platform to handle all my online accounts it hosts my calendars contacts tasks photos notes RSS feeds passwords and I also use it to share files with sponsors or to share the link to the weekly Patron cast I make for patrons and YouTube members it is secured with an authentication app passwords or end-to-end encrypted and accessed through a browser extension and generally I don't use the web interface much everything is access through various desktop or mobile apps which we will all cover in a minute my other server hosts my podcast using why you know host and their casterboard app what you know host is a very simple graphical dashboard to run one or multiple server applications it basically just simplifies hosting stuff and it has pre-packaged apps to install stuff in one click do you notice the theme here I'm lazy and I don't want to install stuff manually now the only app that runs on this thing is castopod it's a fediverse enabled podcast platform that gives you a full website for your podcast the RSS feed you need to publish it to other platforms detailed anonymized statistics and a lot of other features and you get an admin dashboard to publish new episodes It's really really good and it uses the activity Pub standard which means that you can follow the podcast for example on Mastodon and get each new episode as opposed on your Mastodon app or more soon you will be able to follow it on the threads app from meta just kidding don't use that thing now to access these servers I use SSH and the Black Box terminal app it's a relatively recent one for Gnome but it looks good and it does what I need it to now to interact with next Cloud related stuff I use a few apps the first one is iota's it's a gtk application that plugs into next Cloud notes and lets you take well notes in simple distraction free markdown it doesn't have all the features the new next Cloud Notes app has like a what you see is what you get editor but it's more than enough for me for RSS feeds I used news flash which is another gtk app they're actually going to release a new version soon but the current one is great maybe I will move my RSS feeds into Thunderbird but I sort of like having an app for each task as much as possible true Unix philosophy here I also of course use the next Cloud desktop client to sync all my files to and from my Computers Plus the Nautilus next Cloud integration so I can generate a shared link for any file straight from the file manager and I would really like this integration to work with the flat pack version of the next Cloud desktop client but for now it doesn't support it for tasks I use Endeavor it's pretty basic but it's enough for my needs and it also syncs with next Cloud tasks so I can get these on any device I use and on my phone I also use the next Cloud app to send all my photos automatically from my phone to a folder that is then synced to all my computers and I use the official nexcloud note app to have access to my scripts while I'm recording tasks are accessed to the reminders app contacts and calendars through the default apps of the phone as well it is a very easy setup it's just as convenient as using the Google or Apple's ecosystem except you have to enter your login information into multiple apps because for some reason some don't use the next Cloud online accounts that I set up in Gnome now for what I use to make videos and the podcast for audio I use audacity it looks like crap it's very old but it does the trick it has the three effects I need a noise reduction tool a compressor and a normalizing tool if you have simpler more modern looking apps that do the same thing I am open to suggestions for editing videos I used to use PTV and then Caden live but they were just too slow they were not Hardware accelerated and Kaden live started crashing a lot so I moved to resolve which unfortunately is not open source so we will not talk about it here for my thumbnails it is obviously it has a bad reputation among people who are familiar with Photoshop but as I've never used that proprietary thing is really easy to use for me although I'll freely admit that my thumbnails are far from being works of art so maybe I'm the exception here lets me handle layers gradients removing shapes from my usual white cutouts Place some tags draw some Shadows or outlines it's just very simple and I'm used to it is the name stupid yes does the program work also yes and for recording my screen it's OBS on every device it's very powerful it lets me record in a format resolve can use it uses my Nvidia gpus and NV Inc to avoid completely destroying the CPU while I'm recording it's just good I don't use most of its features I don't stream I don't use plugins but for basic recordings it just works really well and I also use a few utilities to make video editing a little bit easier when I happen upon an image I want to use that uses a format resolve doesn't support like webp or avif I use converter to convert it to PNG it's a simple gnome utility that just converts images either just one or multiple ones for converting video files I use ffmpeg in a terminal I started using handbrake for a while but it was just too cluttered compared to the good old command line and what I need to re-download one of my old videos that I didn't backup I use parabolic previously tube downloader you just paste the URL set the quality in format and it downloads it it's easy as pie and that's about it for video and audio production I wish I could replace resolve with an open source video editing tool but for now I have yet to find one that suits my needs now for a few smaller utilities for virtual machines I generally run them using gnome boxes because it's really simple it automatically changes the resolution when you resize the window and it just runs really well I also use virtualbox on my desktop because for some reason gnome boxes stopped working there after an update the create button for virtual machines stays grayed out all the time and I could not find a way to fix it on that computer if you have a solution I will gladly take it I much prefer gnome boxes to virtualbox for my backups I use PC our backup it's a small tool you can exclude files and folders but it's just meant for personal file backups not a whole system restoration I don't use anything for that but at least I have two backups of my personal files one on next cloud and one on an external drive I also use saving sportmaster which you will know about if you listen to the sponsor segment of this video I will not present it again it's a wonderful open source tool to analyze the connections leaving your computer and even to toggle a system-wide Tracker or ad blocker for editing text I generally just use Nano in a terminal time to let me know I should use Vim or emacs instead which I want I love Nano I'm a nano guy it's really great for music I use YTM music because I pay for YouTube premium to avoid ads on my TV and it comes with a music streaming service so I might as well use it the app itself is open source but it's also just a wrapper for YouTube music's website which isn't open source as far as I know so I'm not sure it counts and now for productivity apps I won't talk much about the web browser it's Firefox everywhere even on my phone it's fast it has all the extensions I want I rarely happen upon a website that doesn't work with it and I can theme it with this really nice lip advisor theme so it looks like a gnome app I love it it's the only browser to use to fight Google's Monopoly on rendering engines and I use almost no extensions apart from the next Cloud password manager an ad in tracker blocker which is ublock origin and the ecosia search extension for my office suite I use LibreOffice everyone knows about it it's great for my needs especially with the tabbed interface it looks decent on gnome and it does all I need from it although admittedly that's not much because I don't work well I do work I make these videos but I don't work in an office I don't need to exchange documents back and forth with other people so compatibility is very low on my list of priorities so LibreOffice has all the features that I actually need for email and calendar I moved to Thunderbird saying as version 115 is absolutely wonderful and very well designed I switched it to cards view for more legibility I went to a lower information density and I removed all the buttons I didn't need from the header bar and I also hit most of the panels that I didn't need I applied this libid Vita theme that makes Thunderbird blend a lot more in my desktop environment as well I'm still waiting for the Sync features to land to actually use tags and filters because I don't want to have to do this on every computer I use look I'm not recreating all my filters on two different computers and recreating and re-tagging every email on two different computers I do YouTube which should tell you that I don't really like to work I plugged my next Cloud account in there so I get all my calendars and contacts synced on every device and my email address is provided by the registrar for my website and so that's about it for all the open source software I run on a daily basis there are a bunch of smaller utilities that I use varying frequently to help me do a few things like manage PDF documents or convert other file formats but on a day-to-day basis these are all the things that I use and I also use today's sponsors devices on a daily basis tuxedo is a Linux Hardware manufacturer which means that they create laptops desktops nooks and whatever else that runs Linux out of the box the hardware is specifically picked to run well with Linux and if there are a few incompatibilities they actually 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and it's this time of the week again Linux and open source news time so this week we have the Ubuntu team sharing their vision and their plans for the Ubuntu desktop we have the Nvidia bios lock being broken and bypassed which could mean some good thing for free and open source drivers on Linux for NVIDIA gpus and we have azahi Linux dropping a fully conformant opengl GPU driver and I'm dropping this fully conformant Segway 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 Squarespace just lets you get started in no time you pick a template you drag and drop the various blocks you want you customize them with the various Scholars and themes and you're good to go and when you want to move forward and enrich your website with a 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that are related to each other or related to a wider goal a vision further down the line so what's the vision then well it is unclear they talked about the values mostly like Choice quality support enjoyment performance privacy and security or seamless integration and they listed a few things that they're working on for each like having full disk encryption as an option in the installer bringing netplan to the Ubuntu desktop to make it easier to manage Ubuntu fleets or new permission prompts for apps that require punctual permissions or the new graphical app store they are planning for Ubuntu 223.10 they also mentioned the new Ubuntu core desktop which is an immutable distro using snaps to provide their applications so I'm not sure I'm seeing a grand strategy here but it's difficult to to create one of those when you don't fully control all the software and since Ubuntu is still being based on gnome they don't have full control over what features are coming and what might be removed that they want to use still it's good to see that they have a plan it's a criticism I have leveled against Ubuntu for a while now that they kind of feel directionless and you don't feel like they know where they're going themselves so them defining the outlines of what they want to be is pretty cool now one of the main reasons open source driver support for relatively recent Nvidia gpus is so spotty and frankly bad is because Nvidia uses checks for certain bios signatures to ensure people don't flash weird bioses onto their graphics cards but this also means that you can't really take advantage of all the power of the GPU if you can't pass these checks which open source drivers pretty much can't but this bios log has now been broken buy tools developed for Windows which let users flash new bios images on their Nvidia gpus raise power limits on older gpus like the 900 series and control voltages and fan curves so this work might end up being useful to the Nuvo driver developers to at least understand how to defeat or better how to pass these boot checks and finally to get access to all the power and the higher clock speeds for recent Nvidia gpus because as long as you haven't passed these checks the gpus run at their boot up clock speed which are really really low it's still a legal gray area though now I really hope they will be able to learn something from these tools but apparently for now the code used to defeat that log hasn't been made public and even if it had you probably could not use it as is it's probably illegal to do so but you could at least look at it and understand how the BIOS Lock Works or how to bypass it and this could make its way into an open source driver for Linux still on any we have now released the source code for their developer toolkit and the API on GitHub this should help up a few projects like dxvk NV API to take advantage of Nvidia specific features for these gpus some libraries are still provided as binary files though but it is still pretty good to see Nvidia opening up more stuff and look yeah they are still a terrible company with very bad commercial practices and a really bad track record for open source but they look like they're starting to really be more open to this kind of stuff which I guess is good now still on the topic of drivers azahi Linux the distro that is steadily reverse engineering drivers for Apple silicon Max now has an opengl yes 3.1 conformant driver it officially conforms to the specifications made by the Kronos Group which is the entity that manages opengl and so this driver passes the entire test Suite which is something that can't be said about Mac OS for example because they don't support opengl and they don't have a confirm and driver so a team of volunteers basically has made something that Apple decided or could not do it themselves now this support works for M1 and M2 CPUs and the update is already available to all azai Linux users or on Fedora azahi remakes as well the driver will of course be upstreamed in the future so any version of the Linux kernel can have it but it still needs the Apple DRM kernel driver to be merged as well so it's a little ways off so what this means is that M1 and M2 Max will finally have a solid GPU driver for Linux at least which is really good and if you're interested in azaki or Fedora azahi or how Linux runs on these new devices I'll have a video about this next month now on the KDE side of things this week they have decided to go with tap to click being enabled by default for touchpads on plasma 6. something that I think is a really good choice they also have brought the usual improvements to the yet unreleased version of plasma like text being copied in X Weyland apps staying in the clipboard even after you close the app a Rewritten printer settings panel to be more coherent with the current style of settings and better looking icons in Dolphin when using fractional scaling Katie gear 23.08 was also released in this update to most of KD's apps there's calendar now called mercuro since it doesn't just handle calendars anymore not a huge fan of that new name though really not descriptive at all they are also planning to add email capabilities to that app making it into the new KDE personal information manager to replace the old kmail Suite tokodon the Mastodon client got a redesign looking a lot better and the timeline is now a lot smoother as well it also now has tools to manage the users and the instances you want to Federate with if you host your own Mastodon instance Kate the text editor now supports glsl as a programming language and includes the option for a qml language server when using q6 the screenshot manager also now lets you select annotations you've made more easily to move them around and generally change how you're editing your screenshots and as per gnome the developers finally shared the porting guide for extensions to work in ground 45 as this version moves to esm and will necessitate all extensions to be at least repackaged or partially Rewritten it's shared a month before the release of the new version let's hope that is enough time for extension developers there's also a new gnome app called ASCII draw letting you draw shapes diagrams or charts in ASCII Style with a lot of pre-made shapes and fonts and lines you can use parabolic the video downloader can now split chapters of a video into different files and it can also use sponsor block to avoid downloading a sponsored mansion in a video and I truly truly hope that this is the last time gnome developers break everything extensions related settle on a freaking API for those things and improve it instead of recreating it or breaking it with every release and budgie also got a new release version 10.8 it's still ground-based although budgie 11 will probably move away from that in the future this is the first release that includes Magpie which is budgie's own window manager and future Weyland compositor this lets them break away from mutter which is the gnome compositor that require a lot of work to adapt to the changes budgie makes especially for X11 support So Magpie is a soft Fork of mutter from gnome 43 not 44 and is in a temporary state to cater to budgie's X11 support when budgie 11 drops a new code base will be used that will drop X11 support to go all in on Wayland on top of that budgie 10.8 brings more details to the password prompts to let you know what app actually opened the prompt which is really good you can now control Power profiles in the battery indicator and the system tray is now based on the status Notifier specification which means tray icons should look better and should scale better with high DPI displayed the default theme now uses a very light green instead of blue and the app menu was reorganized in terms of how apps are placed in various categories the trash applet which previously was third party is now part of the desktop officially as well and it is cool to see budgie getting some more updates I personally think it will be more interesting when budgie 11 drops with its own style and its own applications and it won't be based on gnome anymore because what I want to see for Linux is desktops that aren't just slight or even medium or major modifications of each other I want to see stuff that has its own stack its own Vision so stuff like Cosmic Kenny gnome Unity maybe budgie in the future stuff that isn't really based on the exact same Technologies everywhere okay now let's finish this with the gaming news first we have reports of people being banned on apex Legends when playing on Linux this game uses the easy anti-cheat anti-cheat software which is supposed to be supported on Linux but some Linux players are still apparently getting banned this had already happened early this year and most bands were overturned by EA but this time it looks like the bands are sticking EA answered to a lot of comments saying that no they did take the correct action in Banning these accounts and this really sucks like you can't really have your cake and eat it too if you turn down support for Linux in the easy anti-cheat services portal you check that checkbox you're shipping that file then you can't ban people for playing on the platform that you support and if you want that verified compatibility check on the steam deck then just as well you can't ban people who are playing your game on the steam deck so yeah it's probably just EA doing more EA things with problems in internal Communications or whatever it sucks now for Roblox players though it looks like you're going to be able to play on Linux again through wine developers have been working to update the game since the new client broke the game on Linux and they shared a screenshot of that running on Manjaro they will make an official announcement when everything is ready to be published to the stable version of the game but if you or your kids enjoy Roblox then it's all good news I've never played this game it kind of looked like a way to make kids spend their appearance money but I guess the whole sandbox thousands of mini games can be appealing and it looks like this steam deck now has 11 000 games officially playable that's 7254 with the playable rating and 3753 with the verified rating plus 3296 marked as unsupported so they don't run at all as a reminder this doesn't cover every single game some haven't been reviewed yet and of course some titles marked playable or verified still have some big problems that valve might not have seen during testing but that's still an enormous amount of games and it probably makes the steam deck into the console with the biggest library probably of all time especially if you start including emulation which isn't officially supported games but it's still an enormous number of titles that you can play on this thing probably the best value for money if you're looking for a handheld right now but if what you're looking for is a PC then there's today's sponsor tuxedo they make laptops and that's stops that ship with Linux pre-installed which means that all the hardware has been picked specifically because it runs well with Linux and if there were some compatibility Corps they actually develop fixes and patches that they Upstream so that everyone else can have access to them which is really nice they have a huge range of devices from the smallest Ultrabooks nugs giant workstations gaming laptops like desktop Replacements whatever there are all super customizable in terms of internals but also in terms of the keyboard layout you can have your own logo on the lid you can change how the Super Key looks and stuff like that and all the laptops can be opened they can be repaired and they can be upgraded including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes even the wireless card so if you need a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it and you also want to support linux's development by buying from a company that 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most of the software I use day to day is open source from my computer and server operating systems to most of my apps and what I actually run on my servers well excluding on my phone because most of the apps that you will run on a phone are proprietary unfortunately maybe there's a video in there we'll look at that in the future so today we'll take a look at all the open source software I use on a daily basis for my personal life and for the channel and this includes today's sponsors application this video is sponsored by savings portmaster portmaster is an all-in-one tool to easily take your privacy to the next level and it's a tool I use myself on all of my Linux devices portmaster lets you automatically block all trackers and malware in every application you run on your computer not just your web browser but everything you run it's easy to use with defaults already in place that lets you just set it and forget it but if you like to configure every Rule and every app you also can portmaster is completely free and open source and also free of charge as it's funded by users that subscribe to the SPN a super powered VPN that gives you multiple identities for every connection of every application so if you want to easily improve the privacy of your system whatever the Linux distro you use or even on Windows click the link in the description below and download the portmaster for free so let's begin with the operating systems the stuff that actually lets me use these computers my laptop and my desktop run Fedora workstation 38 with gnome44 I won't spend too much time on that I have a dedicated video on my workflow for each of these devices and for the extensions I added suffice it to say it's very stable it's easy to use it's perfect on a laptop with a touchpad and it does everything I needed to I might replace that with NYX OS in the future probably when plasma 6 releases and is a available in NYX and if you're wondering why it's because replicating my entire system with just one config file on any other computer is exactly what I need as I very often Test new devices and Hardware now for my servers I have one running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS it's used for my next Cloud Server it's hosted on lenode and it's the backbone of all my digital life and the channel why Ubuntu and y20.04 well it was the LTS release when I created that server and I picked Ubuntu because installing nexcloud as a snap is extremely easy with just one command line yes I don't like snaps on the desktop but for Server stuff man are they easy and yes I am a lazy bastard my other server is used to host my podcast the Linux and open source News podcast if you don't know it's like the Linux and open source News videos that I make but more detailed with more topics in audio form the link is in the description This Server is hosted on linode and it runs Debian 11 because 12 wasn't out yet when I created the server and because I like Debian and I'm familiar with how it works I will generally also have a bunch of other distros that I run at any given time on spare laptops but these are just for testing purposes for what I use day to day these are the operating systems that I use oh wait I forgot I also run Holo ISO on the PC in my living room that serves as my Linux gaming console I also have a video about it if you want to see what I used and how well it runs I will have to update my servers at some point to move to a more recent Ubuntu LTS or to Debian 12 but I will probably only do that when support ends or when it becomes impossible to apply updates to the software I run on these servers so let's talk about exactly that what I run on these servers and yeah don't worry we'll talk about desktop apps in a minute the first thing is nexcloud as I said it is installed as a snap and it works beautifully I don't get the updates as soon as nexcloud publishes them but when I do get them they're very well tested and I've never had any issues with that I'm currently on version 26.0.4 so next Cloud Hub 4 not 5. I personally don't care about all the AI related stuff that nexcloud added in Hub 5 so I'm not in a hurry to update apart from the nerdy part of me that wants to use the latest thing all the time I mostly use nexcloud as the platform to handle all my online accounts it hosts my calendars contacts tasks photos notes RSS feeds passwords and I also use it to share files with sponsors or to share the link to the weekly Patron cast I make for patrons and YouTube members it is secured with an authentication app passwords or end-to-end encrypted and accessed through a browser extension and generally I don't use the web interface much everything is access through various desktop or mobile apps which we will all cover in a minute my other server hosts my podcast using why you know host and their casterboard app what you know host is a very simple graphical dashboard to run one or multiple server applications it basically just simplifies hosting stuff and it has pre-packaged apps to install stuff in one click do you notice the theme here I'm lazy and I don't want to install stuff manually now the only app that runs on this thing is castopod it's a fediverse enabled podcast platform that gives you a full website for your podcast the RSS feed you need to publish it to other platforms detailed anonymized statistics and a lot of other features and you get an admin dashboard to publish new episodes It's really really good and it uses the activity Pub standard which means that you can follow the podcast for example on Mastodon and get each new episode as opposed on your Mastodon app or more soon you will be able to follow it on the threads app from meta just kidding don't use that thing now to access these servers I use SSH and the Black Box terminal app it's a relatively recent one for Gnome but it looks good and it does what I need it to now to interact with next Cloud related stuff I use a few apps the first one is iota's it's a gtk application that plugs into next Cloud notes and lets you take well notes in simple distraction free markdown it doesn't have all the features the new next Cloud Notes app has like a what you see is what you get editor but it's more than enough for me for RSS feeds I used news flash which is another gtk app they're actually going to release a new version soon but the current one is great maybe I will move my RSS feeds into Thunderbird but I sort of like having an app for each task as much as possible true Unix philosophy here I also of course use the next Cloud desktop client to sync all my files to and from my Computers Plus the Nautilus next Cloud integration so I can generate a shared link for any file straight from the file manager and I would really like this integration to work with the flat pack version of the next Cloud desktop client but for now it doesn't support it for tasks I use Endeavor it's pretty basic but it's enough for my needs and it also syncs with next Cloud tasks so I can get these on any device I use and on my phone I also use the next Cloud app to send all my photos automatically from my phone to a folder that is then synced to all my computers and I use the official nexcloud note app to have access to my scripts while I'm recording tasks are accessed to the reminders app contacts and calendars through the default apps of the phone as well it is a very easy setup it's just as convenient as using the Google or Apple's ecosystem except you have to enter your login information into multiple apps because for some reason some don't use the next Cloud online accounts that I set up in Gnome now for what I use to make videos and the podcast for audio I use audacity it looks like crap it's very old but it does the trick it has the three effects I need a noise reduction tool a compressor and a normalizing tool if you have simpler more modern looking apps that do the same thing I am open to suggestions for editing videos I used to use PTV and then Caden live but they were just too slow they were not Hardware accelerated and Kaden live started crashing a lot so I moved to resolve which unfortunately is not open source so we will not talk about it here for my thumbnails it is obviously it has a bad reputation among people who are familiar with Photoshop but as I've never used that proprietary thing is really easy to use for me although I'll freely admit that my thumbnails are far from being works of art so maybe I'm the exception here lets me handle layers gradients removing shapes from my usual white cutouts Place some tags draw some Shadows or outlines it's just very simple and I'm used to it is the name stupid yes does the program work also yes and for recording my screen it's OBS on every device it's very powerful it lets me record in a format resolve can use it uses my Nvidia gpus and NV Inc to avoid completely destroying the CPU while I'm recording it's just good I don't use most of its features I don't stream I don't use plugins but for basic recordings it just works really well and I also use a few utilities to make video editing a little bit easier when I happen upon an image I want to use that uses a format resolve doesn't support like webp or avif I use converter to convert it to PNG it's a simple gnome utility that just converts images either just one or multiple ones for converting video files I use ffmpeg in a terminal I started using handbrake for a while but it was just too cluttered compared to the good old command line and what I need to re-download one of my old videos that I didn't backup I use parabolic previously tube downloader you just paste the URL set the quality in format and it downloads it it's easy as pie and that's about it for video and audio production I wish I could replace resolve with an open source video editing tool but for now I have yet to find one that suits my needs now for a few smaller utilities for virtual machines I generally run them using gnome boxes because it's really simple it automatically changes the resolution when you resize the window and it just runs really well I also use virtualbox on my desktop because for some reason gnome boxes stopped working there after an update the create button for virtual machines stays grayed out all the time and I could not find a way to fix it on that computer if you have a solution I will gladly take it I much prefer gnome boxes to virtualbox for my backups I use PC our backup it's a small tool you can exclude files and folders but it's just meant for personal file backups not a whole system restoration I don't use anything for that but at least I have two backups of my personal files one on next cloud and one on an external drive I also use saving sportmaster which you will know about if you listen to the sponsor segment of this video I will not present it again it's a wonderful open source tool to analyze the connections leaving your computer and even to toggle a system-wide Tracker or ad blocker for editing text I generally just use Nano in a terminal time to let me know I should use Vim or emacs instead which I want I love Nano I'm a nano guy it's really great for music I use YTM music because I pay for YouTube premium to avoid ads on my TV and it comes with a music streaming service so I might as well use it the app itself is open source but it's also just a wrapper for YouTube music's website which isn't open source as far as I know so I'm not sure it counts and now for productivity apps I won't talk much about the web browser it's Firefox everywhere even on my phone it's fast it has all the extensions I want I rarely happen upon a website that doesn't work with it and I can theme it with this really nice lip advisor theme so it looks like a gnome app I love it it's the only browser to use to fight Google's Monopoly on rendering engines and I use almost no extensions apart from the next Cloud password manager an ad in tracker blocker which is ublock origin and the ecosia search extension for my office suite I use LibreOffice everyone knows about it it's great for my needs especially with the tabbed interface it looks decent on gnome and it does all I need from it although admittedly that's not much because I don't work well I do work I make these videos but I don't work in an office I don't need to exchange documents back and forth with other people so compatibility is very low on my list of priorities so LibreOffice has all the features that I actually need for email and calendar I moved to Thunderbird saying as version 115 is absolutely wonderful and very well designed I switched it to cards view for more legibility I went to a lower information density and I removed all the buttons I didn't need from the header bar and I also hit most of the panels that I didn't need I applied this libid Vita theme that makes Thunderbird blend a lot more in my desktop environment as well I'm still waiting for the Sync features to land to actually use tags and filters because I don't want to have to do this on every computer I use look I'm not recreating all my filters on two different computers and recreating and re-tagging every email on two different computers I do YouTube which should tell you that I don't really like to work I plugged my next Cloud account in there so I get all my calendars and contacts synced on every device and my email address is provided by the registrar for my website and so that's about it for all the open source software I run on a daily basis there are a bunch of smaller utilities that I use varying frequently to help me do a few things like manage PDF documents or convert other file formats but on a day-to-day basis these are all the things that I use and I also use today's sponsors devices on a daily basis tuxedo is a Linux Hardware manufacturer which means that they create laptops desktops nooks and whatever else that runs Linux out of the box the hardware is specifically picked to run well with Linux and if there are a few incompatibilities they actually submit patches Upstream to fix all of those they have a wide range of devices that should cover basically every need and every price point whether you're looking for a small affordable Ultrabook or a very high-end workstation or a gaming laptop a tower a Nook whatever they have it they have a bunch of customization options for all the components but also for your own logo or for your own keyboard layout on your laptop other laptops are also openable repairable and upgradable including the ram the SSD the battery and sometimes even the wireless card so if you need a new computer stop supporting manufacturers that don't support Linux start supporting manufacturers that actually contribute to linux's growth click the link in the description below and buy yourself a tuxedo PC 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 didn't like the video there's that down facing 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hey everyone this is Nick and yes I did get back into Warhammer 40K but no this doesn't have anything to do with this news video so this week we have a nice Microsoft Surface equivalent that runs Linux out of the box from Star Labs we also have a look at the theming and customization options for the cosmic desktop and we have the release of gnome45 with a nice few extra changes but what will never change is how I handle my Segways to my sponsors this video is sponsored by talk scare your all-in-one solution to make sure your Linux server or workstation Fleet is secure and up to date they offer a range of services like kernel life patching or extended support for distributions that have gone end of life now this week they are partnering with admin magazine to give you the 2023 special edition of the magazine it's titled 10 terrific tools for the busy admin and it contains as the name implies a bunch of great utilities that will help you maintain your dot files and manage configuration changes shape your network traffic to share the bandwidth in the office scan your system to discover hidden processes that you might not be aware of using a Bastion server to communicate with remote hosts securely plus a Roundup of the best SSH front-end every tool is of course well explained to let you know what they can do and how to use them so if you want to up your admin game click the link in the description below and get your free issue of admin magazine so starlabs a Linux Hardware manufacturer just introduced a refresh of their entry-level laptop The Starlight and it's not just a spec bump it's a complete form factor change the device is now a Microsoft surface-like tablet with a kickstand and detachable keyboard that runs Linux it's powered by a low power Intel n200 that's a quad core one gigahertz CPU that can turbo boost up to 3.7 gigahertz it has 16GB gigs of ddr5 RAM 512 gigs of SSD with options to push that to 2 terabytes and it has a 12.5 inch touchscreen running at 2880 by 1920. the battery should provide around 12 hours of screen on time and it has two USBC ports front and rear cameras Wi-Fi 5 a micro HDMI port for some reason a Micro SD card slot and a headphone jack now this tablet starts at around 500 with the backlit keyboard costing an additional hundred dollars and it comes with either UK or us English layout or French German Nordic or Spanish keyboards the device uses core boots and Force runs Linux with a choice of pre-installed distros but looking at the hardware there shouldn't be any issue installing anything else on it it doesn't look like there's any digitizer or stylus support though and on paper this looks like a really really cool device for the price now the CPU is obviously not a beast by any means but we're solely lacking in these two in one tablet form factors that run regular standard Linux distributions so this is very very welcome I reached out to them to see if I could get a review unit I'll keep you posted now something I missed last week system 76 shared some details about how they will allow you to customize the look and feel of their Cosmic desktop so of course you will get the usual accent colors and light and dark modes but they go beyond that you will be able to change the application background color The Tint of the text and even the corner radius and the interface density for Cosmic applications so When selecting your colors you will get something akin to material U other colors for the UI will be derived from the ones you picked to ensure everything has some nice contrast Cosmic will also have an application API to let developers create apps and widgets for Cosmic and that includes support for the theming options for Wayland and a widget Library they also showcased how tiling Windows using your mouse will work with indicators showing you how things will be placed before you drop the window in place and it gets tiled finally they showed their notification center that won't live in the date and time panel in the new version of cosmic it has its own indicator and the implemented password prompts when an action requires super user rights and it all looked pretty good in screenshots and I really like the customization aspect and how they've approached it but I'm afraid that this will make every other app that is currently available for Linux look completely out of place on a cosmic desktop so I hope they find a way to address that and maybe automatically recolor other windows for example libid Vita ones or KDE ones it would be a lot better in terms of user experience now Souza will stop being a publicly traded company just two years after it was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange they announced that their majority shareholders intends to take the company private by merging it with another entity Souza is currently majorly owned by a subsidiary of an investment firm which will of course still retain control after the move Souza's CEO said it's a strategic opportunity probably meaning it gives them more leeway to focus on what they actually want to work on instead on focusing on trying to please shareholders in the short term even if it goes against long-term business goals granted they're still a company with the purpose of making money but at least they won't have to focus on trying to raise the share price just on getting some good business this plan to make Sousa private should conclude at the end of 2023 and it's interesting to look at the direction major Linux Enterprise companies are going you've got Souza going private on the one hand you've got canonical still planning for their IPO in the future and you've got red hat owned by IBM and doing some really weird anti-community behavior that really makes people think that it's IBM and the shareholders that make red hat turn into a worse company than it was before now we've got some more details about gnome 45 with another interesting feature coming to it which is managing the keyboard backlight from the Quick Settings a new keyboard button will be added and clicking it turns on or off the backlight of your keys while clicking the little arrow will reveal a slider that lets you change the intensity of that backline of course you can generally just use your keyboard's keys to adjust this but not all keyboards or laptops have these some Linux manufacturers actually had to add that stuff back in their own control centers like slim book RGB for slim book or tuxedo control center for tuxedo so these types of quality of life improvements in gonomar always nice to see like not everyone will have a use for it but if you don't have keyboard backlight keys on your keyboard then it's better than ringing up some kind of script and creating a custom shortcut the Chrome 45 beta is also now out with a bunch of input compositor will now handle display Hardware in its own thread which should result in smoother Mouse and window movement on screen and mutter also added support for the yav color model yuv gnome web got a tab overview Loop is Now the default image viewer for Gnome snapshot replaced cheese as the camera utility and there are improvements to the file manager the disk usage analyzer and the phone viewer were ported to jdk4 and chrome software will apparently Force the use of its own software sources dialog instead of the ones distros have been adding on top of it and there are more improvements all around to the settings and the default apps and while this isn't in the beta just yet the new activities indicator has also been finalized as a clean implementation and will apparently be included in gdome 45 when it releases I like that change I think it looks good it gives more indication about your virtual desktops than just having the activities text so that's good and features that are often mentioned in relation to gnome 45 but that I couldn't confirm were actually implemented are support for accent colors and the new presentation for fractional scaling which kind of looks like what Mac OS is doing I'll obviously take a look at gnome 45 when it releases next month and I'll make a dedicated video about it now we have more details about changes we can expect in plasma 6 this week starting with icon themes on Linux icon themes provide multiple sizes for each icon so they can look right at any size the issue is that they often change the entire style of the icon at smaller sizes for example a 16 by 16 pixel icon will generally be monochrome and symbolic this created a problem in plasma widgets automatically adapted the icon size they used and could move to full color versions in some cases and keep monochrome icons in other cases resulting in a bit of a disjointed look and feel in Getty 5 they solve the issue by adding plasma specific icon but this made theming a bit of a mess so in plasma 6 they adopted the same Convention as in Canon they will use only the icons from the Icon theme and look for symbolic icons specifically where they need them and since Linux is clever if a symbolic version doesn't exist it will automatically fall back to the non-symbolic version instead and this is a great change because developers and theme creators don't really have anything to do to make sure that everything works especially if they already had like a gnome version of their icon theme but it will make theming on plasma look much much better like resizing your panels was always a gamble in terms of what results you would get in terms of icons now other changes in plasma 6 include switching to a double click to open files and folders by default that's now implemented there's a revamped bug reporting tool that looks simpler and easier to use you now have the ability to see startup logs in the auto start settings page to debug when things aren't working normally you get an overhauled Dolphin settings page and the addition of a search box in the settings of many cute apps just some good General quality of life improvements that should really make plasma 6 a super polished experience I can't wait to start using it okay and let's finish this video with the gaming news this week we have the release of wine 8.14 with support for dumping Windows registry files in wine dump and fixes for the 64-bit implementation it also comes with 30 bug fixes notably for Dirt 2 the settlers 2 freelancer Warframe steam Yuzu civilization 6 or Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions and as always you can expect all these fixes and improvements to land in the next version of proton now we also have some progress on the AMD or ADV driver to improve Ray tracing performance the code Improvement seems to Triple performance in Hitman 3 with less impressive but still very good results in other games the coach would probably land in Mesa 23.3 for everyone to enjoy which is really cool I currently never use Ray tracing even on my Nvidia gpus which technically could support it with proton because I feel that the difference in how the game looks doesn't really justify the big performance hit you take but if performance gets better then sure why not I'll enjoy the pretty lighting effects now the Linux kernel also got a fix for the Zen bleed vulnerability that affects the AMD Apu the steam deck uses whether a valve will decide to shift the fix or not we'll have to see as it comes with performance penalties as all CPU mitigations tend to do but I do hope it won't have too much of an impact the deck already struggles with some AAA titles and losing even one or two FPS on average will make a big difference in how good the gaming experience can be and speaking of performance hit for Onyx Benchmark the performance impact of the recent AMD Inception vulnerability mitigation patches on Linux and it looks like it won't be too bad for most users people using databases might see some noticeable performance loss in some cases but us regular users on our desktops shouldn't really see anything and that's really good because when you paid enormous amounts of cash to buy a powerful CPU it's always pretty annoying to lose 5 to 10 performance with one fail swoop so of course you can disable these mitigation patches because it's Linux you can do whatever you want but yeah you're risking the security of your device in exchange for keeping the performance you bought which is never a fantastic idea what is a fantastic idea though is this segue to our sponsor if you're in the market for a new computer whether it's a laptop a Nook a tower or whatever else and you're planning to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that only ship windows out of the box buy something from a manufacturer that supports Linux tuxedo does just that they're based in Germany but the ship to most countries in the world and they actually contribute to Linux Hardware support by creating these devices and they have a big range that should cover every price point and every need whether you want an Ultra Book or a gaming laptop or a super powerful workstation or a Nook they have it all the devices are very customizable all the laptops are openable repairable and upgradable so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and get yourself a PC 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 and to write a comment and if you didn't there's always that dislike button but you can always tell me why in the comments as well and if you really enjoyed the channel and you want to support it there are plenty of links in the description Libra pay PayPal patreon YouTube thanks YouTube memberships whatever you know how this works so thanks for watching and I guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] thank you
hey everyone this is Nick and yes I did get back into Warhammer 40K but no this doesn't have anything to do with this news video so this week we have a nice Microsoft Surface equivalent that runs Linux out of the box from Star Labs we also have a look at the theming and customization options for the cosmic desktop and we have the release of gnome45 with a nice few extra changes but what will never change is how I handle my Segways to my sponsors this video is sponsored by talk scare your all-in-one solution to make sure your Linux server or workstation Fleet is secure and up to date they offer a range of services like kernel life patching or extended support for distributions that have gone end of life now this week they are partnering with admin magazine to give you the 2023 special edition of the magazine it's titled 10 terrific tools for the busy admin and it contains as the name implies a bunch of great utilities that will help you maintain your dot files and manage configuration changes shape your network traffic to share the bandwidth in the office scan your system to discover hidden processes that you might not be aware of using a Bastion server to communicate with remote hosts securely plus a Roundup of the best SSH front-end every tool is of course well explained to let you know what they can do and how to use them so if you want to up your admin game click the link in the description below and get your free issue of admin magazine so starlabs a Linux Hardware manufacturer just introduced a refresh of their entry-level laptop The Starlight and it's not just a spec bump it's a complete form factor change the device is now a Microsoft surface-like tablet with a kickstand and detachable keyboard that runs Linux it's powered by a low power Intel n200 that's a quad core one gigahertz CPU that can turbo boost up to 3.7 gigahertz it has 16GB gigs of ddr5 RAM 512 gigs of SSD with options to push that to 2 terabytes and it has a 12.5 inch touchscreen running at 2880 by 1920. the battery should provide around 12 hours of screen on time and it has two USBC ports front and rear cameras Wi-Fi 5 a micro HDMI port for some reason a Micro SD card slot and a headphone jack now this tablet starts at around 500 with the backlit keyboard costing an additional hundred dollars and it comes with either UK or us English layout or French German Nordic or Spanish keyboards the device uses core boots and Force runs Linux with a choice of pre-installed distros but looking at the hardware there shouldn't be any issue installing anything else on it it doesn't look like there's any digitizer or stylus support though and on paper this looks like a really really cool device for the price now the CPU is obviously not a beast by any means but we're solely lacking in these two in one tablet form factors that run regular standard Linux distributions so this is very very welcome I reached out to them to see if I could get a review unit I'll keep you posted now something I missed last week system 76 shared some details about how they will allow you to customize the look and feel of their Cosmic desktop so of course you will get the usual accent colors and light and dark modes but they go beyond that you will be able to change the application background color The Tint of the text and even the corner radius and the interface density for Cosmic applications so When selecting your colors you will get something akin to material U other colors for the UI will be derived from the ones you picked to ensure everything has some nice contrast Cosmic will also have an application API to let developers create apps and widgets for Cosmic and that includes support for the theming options for Wayland and a widget Library they also showcased how tiling Windows using your mouse will work with indicators showing you how things will be placed before you drop the window in place and it gets tiled finally they showed their notification center that won't live in the date and time panel in the new version of cosmic it has its own indicator and the implemented password prompts when an action requires super user rights and it all looked pretty good in screenshots and I really like the customization aspect and how they've approached it but I'm afraid that this will make every other app that is currently available for Linux look completely out of place on a cosmic desktop so I hope they find a way to address that and maybe automatically recolor other windows for example libid Vita ones or KDE ones it would be a lot better in terms of user experience now Souza will stop being a publicly traded company just two years after it was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange they announced that their majority shareholders intends to take the company private by merging it with another entity Souza is currently majorly owned by a subsidiary of an investment firm which will of course still retain control after the move Souza's CEO said it's a strategic opportunity probably meaning it gives them more leeway to focus on what they actually want to work on instead on focusing on trying to please shareholders in the short term even if it goes against long-term business goals granted they're still a company with the purpose of making money but at least they won't have to focus on trying to raise the share price just on getting some good business this plan to make Sousa private should conclude at the end of 2023 and it's interesting to look at the direction major Linux Enterprise companies are going you've got Souza going private on the one hand you've got canonical still planning for their IPO in the future and you've got red hat owned by IBM and doing some really weird anti-community behavior that really makes people think that it's IBM and the shareholders that make red hat turn into a worse company than it was before now we've got some more details about gnome 45 with another interesting feature coming to it which is managing the keyboard backlight from the Quick Settings a new keyboard button will be added and clicking it turns on or off the backlight of your keys while clicking the little arrow will reveal a slider that lets you change the intensity of that backline of course you can generally just use your keyboard's keys to adjust this but not all keyboards or laptops have these some Linux manufacturers actually had to add that stuff back in their own control centers like slim book RGB for slim book or tuxedo control center for tuxedo so these types of quality of life improvements in gonomar always nice to see like not everyone will have a use for it but if you don't have keyboard backlight keys on your keyboard then it's better than ringing up some kind of script and creating a custom shortcut the Chrome 45 beta is also now out with a bunch of input compositor will now handle display Hardware in its own thread which should result in smoother Mouse and window movement on screen and mutter also added support for the yav color model yuv gnome web got a tab overview Loop is Now the default image viewer for Gnome snapshot replaced cheese as the camera utility and there are improvements to the file manager the disk usage analyzer and the phone viewer were ported to jdk4 and chrome software will apparently Force the use of its own software sources dialog instead of the ones distros have been adding on top of it and there are more improvements all around to the settings and the default apps and while this isn't in the beta just yet the new activities indicator has also been finalized as a clean implementation and will apparently be included in gdome 45 when it releases I like that change I think it looks good it gives more indication about your virtual desktops than just having the activities text so that's good and features that are often mentioned in relation to gnome 45 but that I couldn't confirm were actually implemented are support for accent colors and the new presentation for fractional scaling which kind of looks like what Mac OS is doing I'll obviously take a look at gnome 45 when it releases next month and I'll make a dedicated video about it now we have more details about changes we can expect in plasma 6 this week starting with icon themes on Linux icon themes provide multiple sizes for each icon so they can look right at any size the issue is that they often change the entire style of the icon at smaller sizes for example a 16 by 16 pixel icon will generally be monochrome and symbolic this created a problem in plasma widgets automatically adapted the icon size they used and could move to full color versions in some cases and keep monochrome icons in other cases resulting in a bit of a disjointed look and feel in Getty 5 they solve the issue by adding plasma specific icon but this made theming a bit of a mess so in plasma 6 they adopted the same Convention as in Canon they will use only the icons from the Icon theme and look for symbolic icons specifically where they need them and since Linux is clever if a symbolic version doesn't exist it will automatically fall back to the non-symbolic version instead and this is a great change because developers and theme creators don't really have anything to do to make sure that everything works especially if they already had like a gnome version of their icon theme but it will make theming on plasma look much much better like resizing your panels was always a gamble in terms of what results you would get in terms of icons now other changes in plasma 6 include switching to a double click to open files and folders by default that's now implemented there's a revamped bug reporting tool that looks simpler and easier to use you now have the ability to see startup logs in the auto start settings page to debug when things aren't working normally you get an overhauled Dolphin settings page and the addition of a search box in the settings of many cute apps just some good General quality of life improvements that should really make plasma 6 a super polished experience I can't wait to start using it okay and let's finish this video with the gaming news this week we have the release of wine 8.14 with support for dumping Windows registry files in wine dump and fixes for the 64-bit implementation it also comes with 30 bug fixes notably for Dirt 2 the settlers 2 freelancer Warframe steam Yuzu civilization 6 or Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions and as always you can expect all these fixes and improvements to land in the next version of proton now we also have some progress on the AMD or ADV driver to improve Ray tracing performance the code Improvement seems to Triple performance in Hitman 3 with less impressive but still very good results in other games the coach would probably land in Mesa 23.3 for everyone to enjoy which is really cool I currently never use Ray tracing even on my Nvidia gpus which technically could support it with proton because I feel that the difference in how the game looks doesn't really justify the big performance hit you take but if performance gets better then sure why not I'll enjoy the pretty lighting effects now the Linux kernel also got a fix for the Zen bleed vulnerability that affects the AMD Apu the steam deck uses whether a valve will decide to shift the fix or not we'll have to see as it comes with performance penalties as all CPU mitigations tend to do but I do hope it won't have too much of an impact the deck already struggles with some AAA titles and losing even one or two FPS on average will make a big difference in how good the gaming experience can be and speaking of performance hit for Onyx Benchmark the performance impact of the recent AMD Inception vulnerability mitigation patches on Linux and it looks like it won't be too bad for most users people using databases might see some noticeable performance loss in some cases but us regular users on our desktops shouldn't really see anything and that's really good because when you paid enormous amounts of cash to buy a powerful CPU it's always pretty annoying to lose 5 to 10 performance with one fail swoop so of course you can disable these mitigation patches because it's Linux you can do whatever you want but yeah you're risking the security of your device in exchange for keeping the performance you bought which is never a fantastic idea what is a fantastic idea though is this segue to our sponsor if you're in the market for a new computer whether it's a laptop a Nook a tower or whatever else and you're planning to run Linux on it stop looking at devices that only ship windows out of the box buy something from a manufacturer that supports Linux tuxedo does just that they're based in Germany but the ship to most countries in the world and they actually contribute to Linux Hardware support by creating these devices and they have a big range that should cover every price point and every need whether you want an Ultra Book or a gaming laptop or a super powerful workstation or a Nook they have 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if you're a Linux nerd like me you probably heard the terms immutable distribution os3 or image based operating system and you might be wondering what the fuss is about why are so many people obsessed with them and why is everyone painting them as the future of the Linux desktop something I have been guilty of as well so today we're going to look at immutable distros how they work what are their advantages if they are the future of Linux but also what their drawbacks are because as always nothing is perfect not even this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and if you need a website but you don't know how to get started or you don't have any technical knowledge then Squarespace will be your go-to platform they have pre-made templates for every kind of website and you can completely customize these by just adding or removing blocks and reordering them on the page graphically you can change the phones the colors the visuals everything and when you want to start 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immutable distributions have systems in place so people can still actually use their computer most of these immutable distros still let you install apps and packages on top of the system through flat packs snaps or app images or with a specific layer of packages that is kept when rebooting and updating some immutable distros give you easy access to Containers so you can still use a full system with full right access and they are a bunch of immutable distros Fedora silver blue and Fedora kinoite are basically Fedora workstation with no more KDE but with an immutable bass vanilla OS is an Ubuntu based soon to be Debian based immutable distro that gives you access to any packaging format on Linux through containers blend os does the same thing but based on Arch Steam OS the Linux distribution that powers the steam deck and also my Linux gaming console PC is also immutable you could also say that NYX OS is an immutable distribution since you only install things and modify configurations through a declarative config file that is used to build the system and there are a lot more like micro Os from open Susa and less OS and more but why would you want to use something like this and be forced into workarounds when you could just use a normal system a question that I now realize Windows users might be asking of Linux in general so in terms of advantages immutable distros are just way more secure since you the user can't modify the base system and since the super user can't do it either it also means any third-party programs also can't modify That Base system so viruses Trojans ransomware and the like can't write to any of your system files and directories even if a hacker manages to get access to your system they won't be able to write or modify anything and if the system allows some changes to be made they will generally be lost after a reboot it is not full security your personal files in your home directory could still be accessed and downloaded or stolen or encrypted by some kind of ransomware but it's still way more secure than a regular Linux distribution and there's infinitely more secure than a Windows PC another Advantage is reliability since you can't Tinker with the system files you also have a much smaller chance of actually destroying your system third-party programs also can't botch a modification or replace your system libraries with something else or erase something you need for your system to run and also you can't fall for that pseudo rm-rf asterisk joke that you find online because well the command just won't run and in terms of maintenance since you only use an updated system after a reboot there is no risk of breaking something by updating it while it's running and there's less risk of dependency hell and all of this might make you think that immutable distros are targeting servers but that's not necessarily the case there are a lot of them focused on the desktop still they do have some drawbacks as well a big one is how do I install anything if I can't write to the system because a lot of Linux distros install programs and libraries through packages and these are written to the system not to the user directory and most most immutable distros work around that using Universal packaging formats like flat packs snaps and app Images these don't require access to the whole file system they also don't need to install libraries to the system because they come with their own and of course if you don't like flat packs or snaps or app Images you probably will not like immutable distros either those things go hand in hand but that's not the only way to install stuff onto an immutable distro a lot of them actually still let you install packages to the system in a dedicated layer that's called layering what this means is that you still have access to the distros repos of packages and you can still choose to install some of them but you won't use the usual package manager but another dedicated tool instead these layered packages are kept whenever the system is updated and they're added to the new image that you will boot on after reboot this lets you install apps that are not available as flat pack for example you can install drivers you can install libraries basically whatever you need and if you install them from your distros repos the security risks are minimal some immutable distributions also use containers generally with something like distro box the idea is that you're supposed to keep the Linux distro installed on your Hardware safe and clean in its immutable form but you can install any other distro in a container with near native performance and thus you get access to a system you can completely write to like any other normal Linux distro a good example of that is vanilla OS which uses containers relatively seamlessly to let you install any application from any packaging format it will just create the relevant container and install the app there and give you a menu shortcut for it this can be very very useful for third-party programs that aren't in the distros repos or that want to install to the system directly for example DaVinci Resolve the idea is to give you all all the power of any regular Linux distro while keeping the OS installed to Bare Metal as safe and secure as possible but it is obviously not as easy as just using a regular Linux distro another difference that could be considered a drawback is updating updates on immutable distros are never applied in place in a regular Linux distro your package manager downloads the new packages their dependencies and replaces the files for each of them in place while the system is running while this means there is no need to reboot after most updates it also means sometimes stuff doesn't work and you still need to reboot anyway and it creates potential points of failure by potentially breaking your current system while it is being updated which is also why some normal Linux distros require you to reboot to actually install updates like Fedora immutable distros do not work like that when an update is a available they will build another system image they will only download what they need not the full system but they will use these new packages to create a separate bootable system so you end up with two systems the one you're currently using and the updated one which is not currently active if you decided to layer packages on your install they will also be added to the new bootable image and so you only get your updates after you rebooted your computer so yes updates require a reboot just like on Windows and that's not great to be fair it also comes with advantages if after rebooting you find out that the updated system doesn't work properly you still have the older non-updated system you can reboot to to get back to the previous usable State you're never really stuck into a completely broken system and immutable distros in pure Linux fashion have invented a bunch of ways to apply these updates some of them create H2 system partitions like vanilla OS one partition is your current system the other one is getting the updates when you reboot onto the updated system you're actually rebooting into another slash partition with your slash home folder being handled in a separate partition some distros only have one system partition but use something akin to get each new update is a commit while the previous version of the updated file is also kept and a list of commits is used to build a system image when you reboot you can pick the system image you want and it will load the right files for that system image that's how Fedora silver blue or endless OS Works some immutable distros make a copy of your current better FS snapshot and install updates to that so you can reboot to it afterwards micro OS the immutable distro from Souza Works in this way and actually also uses this same system to install packages instead of using a layer so as a user installing updates on an immutable distro is pretty seamless you open your app store you click update and then you have to reboot which is not as simple as most Linux distros which don't require you to reboot but that method is also safer and more stable so I guess things even out now another drawback is the complexity of the systems once you're used to them they're actually really easy to use but when you're coming from a traditional Linux distro or Worse from Windows or Mac OS it can be very tricky to understand everything you try to do is different installing a package doesn't use your usual package manager applying updates is in the same command or requires you to reboot to actually use the updated system running containers for specific applications is pretty counter-intuitive you need to install a whole other distro just to launch one app that isn't available as a flat pack that's not the easiest thing to accept if you want to manually edit a config file you might not be able to do so at all depending on where it's located most distros leave slash Etc as a writable directory but if what you need to change is somewhere else you're going to have a hard time immutable distros are a different way of approaching a Linux distribution with different ways of doing stuff that you already know how to do on regular systems which makes them pretty complex to approach at first so are these immutable distros the future of Linux probably not for servers they make a lot of sense and they're a natural evolution of the containers most big deployments already use for regular users they do have a lot of advantages especially for systems that are supposed to be appliances and aren't meant to be customized or tweaked like the steam deck for example but they also have a bunch of limitations and they require some worker ramps to do pretty simple stuff and that's why I think they will never replace Place regular Linux systems for most people you can already roll back to a previous version of a package or your entire system even without using for example with better FS you can already decide to only install flat packs and use containers on a normal Linux distro if you find benefit from that if the added security and reliability isn't something you value more than the ability to access any file at any time or updating without rebooting then immutable distros will probably never appeal to you and so I don't think immutable distros will replace normal regular Linux distributions they will grow and occupy your space next to them but I think the limitations make them unsuitable for a lot of people they are an alternative another way of doing things which can be better for some use cases and some people but worse for others unlike today's sponsor which is better for everyone if you're looking to buy a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it stop buying devices that were made to support Windows and might or might not work well with Linux buy something that supports Linux 6 out of the box tuxedo does just that 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when you're talking about digital privacy and security there are a lot of statements being thrown around some of them actually useful and true and some of them complete bogus which makes it really hard to know what is true and what isn't and which apps and services are really secure So today we're going to look at a bunch of preconceived notions and myths and general statements about privacy and security and see how true they actually are the first one you will often see is that using a secure service also gives you privacy because stealing your data is harder I I guess this one is obviously not true security and privacy aren't really linked in any way you can have a very secure cloud storage solution that parses the contents of your files or collects a bunch of personal data about you you can use an end-to-end encrypted email service that doesn't have zero access encryption and thus leaves your email accessible by the company itself you can have a very private service that doesn't collect any data about their users but is riddled with holes and easy to hack into security and privacy are two different things what is true here is that something secure is less likely to suffer from unintentional data related leakage stemming from malicious actions also called as being hacked I should really work in corporate PR but it doesn't mean that the company will respect your privacy and the general best practice is to find the services you need that have a good reputation for security and among these shortlist try and find one that is private enough for your needs if you can only have one between security and privacy you should definitely always go to a service that is relatively secure first but of course you can have both privacy and security especially for your email thanks to today's sponsor protonmail their unencrypted email service based in Switzerland that focuses on keeping your email as private as can be not only do they have end to end and zero access encryption meaning no one but you can view the contents of your email but they also have a plethora of privacy related features you're protected from email trackers so advertisers don't know when you open their emails or if you even read them you can also use email aliases so you don't have to give your real email address to anyone on top of that protonmail is free and open source when you sign up you also get a VPN an encrypted calendar cloud storage and a password manager and if you need more storage or Advanced features you can upgrade at any time so if you're concerned about security and privacy click the link in the description below and give protonmail a shot our second statement is that Telemetry is always bad and always privacy invasive this is simply not true Telemetry isn't always bad the image we have of telemetry is that of Windows or Mac OS which are very invasive but there are plenty of other ways to do Telemetry in itself it is a very useful thing it lets projects or companies identify what is important what they should fix first and what they should focus on projects like gnome or KDE on Linux definitely benefit from Telemetry it lets their developers know what their users actually use and how and they can invest their relatively limited time on what matters to the majority of their users Telemetry is a crucial tool in my 12 years as a project manager product owner or whatever other similar thing there is not a single website or app that I launched without some kind of anonymized tracking tool installed which means that yes I track users for years and this is why I am mindful of privacy now I know what they can collect and it's all lot it doesn't mean that this data is used to profile you or being sold to anyone when a project adds Telemetry the first thing is to look at what they're collecting if there are no IP addresses or personal data then it's not very invasive if it's opt out and not opt in then it's also fine but even technical data or specifications of your device can be used to fingerprint you so how bad is it if the company or project is something you trust and that has no current business in data collection or advertising then it is probably not a problem when Google or Microsoft collect data about you from chrome or Windows or whatever other service you know it's personal data because these companies have big advertising businesses that are fueled by this data collection when it's KDE or Fedora doing the collecting what do you think they're going to do with this anonymized data sell it to IBM oh wait no now seriously there isn't enough Fedora users or KDE users to justify selling this data to anyone and what they collect is not useful enough either and none of these projects have an ad business or an ad server or links to data collection so you can probably trust them if you look at what they collect and it's fine with you now for a statement about a specific service Tor and the statement is tor is an NSA Honeypot so a Honeypot is basically a trap it's a service that looks legit but is actually controlled by an organization that uses it to either collect data bait attackers or other things by making the service look really really appealing and Tor is regularly accused of being an NSA Honeypot something that is completely false as far as anyone knows yes Tor is based on code developed by the US Navy funding for Tor also came from the US government initially the code however is open source and audited and has been tweaked and changed so much that it basically retains little of the initial open source drop Tor is probably the most audited piece of Code by security and privacy experts because it's virtually the only tool that could let you be completely anonymous online each store entirely safe of course not plenty of notes can be badly configured can have no encryption can be out of date or with crappy plugins but Tor was designed from the ground up to resist being invaded by governments and actors that might want to grab data or monitor users so basically no Tor is not an NSA Honeypot it is not 100 secure nothing really is it's not a silver bullet for privacy but it is not the property of the NSA and they're not invading it to try and monitor you they might be trying to though but there are no signs that they have succeeded another common statement is big companies are more secure so I'm never moving from Google or Microsoft or whatever else and this statement is debatable it's true that bigger companies tend to be more secure than smaller companies in some cases a relatively recent report shows that smaller firms are three times more likely to be attacked than big businesses especially through social engineering attacks where people masquerade as something they're not through emails or phone calls to try and get credentials to access any data the company might store sixty percent of cyber attacks seem to be targeting smaller companies and it is true that these smaller companies probably have less I.T Personnel less cyber security training and generally less focus on security of the data they store what is also true is that a lot of bigger companies like Google Microsoft Facebook or apple subcontract work two smaller companies that might be more vulnerable and not all big tech companies are excellent on the security front recent findings show that OneDrive the cloud storage service from Microsoft has serious ransomware vulnerabilities the OneDrive logs contain session tokens that can be used to easily access the storage and edit create or modify files Apple a few years back started showing iCloud user pictures from other iCloud users by mistake Google on the other hand has a very good reputation for security not to say that they're perfect but they seem too rarely fall victim to Giant data leaks or maybe they just team up with a shadowy organization of Puppet Masters to try and hide this fact I forgot my tinfoil hat so I don't remember so while yes bigger companies can be more secure than smaller ones it is not a one size fits-all thing and what you need to look for is what kind of security the company you're interested in for a specific service or app has put in place as always it's better to steer clear from these kind of generalizations and actually look into what security processes these companies have in place another misconception is that incognito mode makes you private online it doesn't what incognito mode does is make you private locally on your device as it does install data on what you have visited your credentials and the like incognito mode doesn't however prevent websites from tracking you or fingerprinting you which means that your browser in incognito mode has exactly the same tracking as when you browse normally basically incognito mode is useful if your computer is accessed by other people like your mom now sorry I meant your mom is accessing your computer not the you get it still the websites and Services you access during your incognito browsing session will all be able to track you and fingerprint you especially if you log into them Incognito is a badly named tool you're not Incognito you're not private you're just limiting the data you're leaving behind on the computer you're using it on now let's talk vpns unlike what most people would like you to believe on the internet especially due to some very very misleading sponsored segments about major VPN providers vpns aren't a magical thing that instantly makes you anonymous online using a VPN will change your IP address and will make you harder to track online that's true they're a good tool but you need to make sure that the company that provides the VPN service doesn't log everything you do and doesn't give these logs to various other actors and even with that a VPN isn't the Privacy Silver Bullet if you log into a service or website while using a VPN it still knows it's you obviously so yeah a VPN is a great tool to be more private online but it is not as anything a silver bullet be wary of grand claims made by VPN companies that will tell you you're going to be completely Anonymous they are untrue if you want to do your research about this I recommend the tech law Channel they are really focused on privacy and they are generally very transparent about everything another common myth is that privacy is impossible nowadays just give up and use Google apple or Microsoft this one has to be the most nefarious myth ever privacy is not impossible it's not easy but it's not impossible generally this statement just betrays a lack of motivation why would I waste time trying to protect my data when I don't think it's even that valuable and I would lose the convenience of using a complete ecosystem of services this is the wrong way of approaching privacy if you don't care about being private online then cool use whatever you want but don't discourage other people from trying to limit the data that they're leaking everywhere online total online privacy is extremely hard but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try at all to be private you can still have a good private Digital Life it will never be 100 perfect but you can limit immensely what is known or collected about you it's not black or white completely private or not at all you can have something in the middle and for the final most egregious statement I have nothing to hide I know someone will have commented something along those lines by now this is complete bogus first if you think you have nothing to hide you are wrong everyone has something that might not be illegal but might be deemed immoral or unacceptable by someone else second you might feel this way now but circumstances change and the data collected about you doesn't go away by leaving all these tidbits of data stored everywhere you're basically giving ammunition To The Future and the future is pissed if your government changes all the Law changes what you think is okay now could be illegal tomorrow looking at what's happening in the U.S or even the entire world right now it's clear that civil liberties and think we took for granted can be made illegal pretty quickly the data you left behind can be used in the future to harm you so even if you think you're not doing anything wrong today it doesn't mean that what you're doing now won't be considered wrong tomorrow the only way to protect you from that is to try and limit the amount of data that you're leaving behind in the hands of companies that will have no choice but to give it to the government when it requests them to so there are a lot of other statements being thrown around online about specific companies services or general practices too many to debunk what's certain is that you should always avoid getting one single opinion from one single source and this includes this specific video always try to look online for more information about the company or the services that you're interested into security and 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when you're talking about digital privacy and security there are a lot of statements being thrown around some of them actually useful and true and some of them complete bogus which makes it really hard to know what is true and what isn't and which apps and services are really secure So today we're going to look at a bunch of preconceived notions and myths and general statements about privacy and security and see how true they actually are the first one you will often see is that using a secure service also gives you privacy because stealing your data is harder I I guess this one is obviously not true security and privacy aren't really linked in any way you can have a very secure cloud storage solution that parses the contents of your files or collects a bunch of personal data about you you can use an end-to-end encrypted email service that doesn't have zero access encryption and thus leaves your email accessible by the company itself you can have a very private service that doesn't collect any data about their users but is riddled with holes and easy to hack into security and privacy are two different things what is true here is that something secure is less likely to suffer from unintentional data related leakage stemming from malicious actions also called as being hacked I should really work in corporate PR but it doesn't mean that the company will respect your privacy and the general best practice is to find the services you need that have a good reputation for security and among these shortlist try and find one that is private enough for your needs if you can only have one between security and privacy you should definitely always go to a service that is relatively secure first but of course you can have both privacy and security especially for your email thanks to today's sponsor protonmail their unencrypted email service based in Switzerland that focuses on keeping your email as private as can be not only do they have end to end and zero access encryption meaning no one but you can view the contents of your email but they also have a plethora of privacy related features you're protected from email trackers so advertisers don't know when you open their emails or if you even read them you can also use email aliases so you don't have to give your real email address to anyone on top of that protonmail is free and open source when you sign up you also get a VPN an encrypted calendar cloud storage and a password manager and if you need more storage or Advanced features you can upgrade at any time so if you're concerned about security and privacy click the link in the description below and give protonmail a shot our second statement is that Telemetry is always bad and always privacy invasive this is simply not true Telemetry isn't always bad the image we have of telemetry is that of Windows or Mac OS which are very invasive but there are plenty of other ways to do Telemetry in itself it is a very useful thing it lets projects or companies identify what is important what they should fix first and what they should focus on projects like gnome or KDE on Linux definitely benefit from Telemetry it lets their developers know what their users actually use and how and they can invest their relatively limited time on what matters to the majority of their users Telemetry is a crucial tool in my 12 years as a project manager product owner or whatever other similar thing there is not a single website or app that I launched without some kind of anonymized tracking tool installed which means that yes I track users for years and this is why I am mindful of privacy now I know what they can collect and it's all lot it doesn't mean that this data is used to profile you or being sold to anyone when a project adds Telemetry the first thing is to look at what they're collecting if there are no IP addresses or personal data then it's not very invasive if it's opt out and not opt in then it's also fine but even technical data or specifications of your device can be used to fingerprint you so how bad is it if the company or project is something you trust and that has no current business in data collection or advertising then it is probably not a problem when Google or Microsoft collect data about you from chrome or Windows or whatever other service you know it's personal data because these companies have big advertising businesses that are fueled by this data collection when it's KDE or Fedora doing the collecting what do you think they're going to do with this anonymized data sell it to IBM oh wait no now seriously there isn't enough Fedora users or KDE users to justify selling this data to anyone and what they collect is not useful enough either and none of these projects have an ad business or an ad server or links to data collection so you can probably trust them if you look at what they collect and it's fine with you now for a statement about a specific service Tor and the statement is tor is an NSA Honeypot so a Honeypot is basically a trap it's a service that looks legit but is actually controlled by an organization that uses it to either collect data bait attackers or other things by making the service look really really appealing and Tor is regularly accused of being an NSA Honeypot something that is completely false as far as anyone knows yes Tor is based on code developed by the US Navy funding for Tor also came from the US government initially the code however is open source and audited and has been tweaked and changed so much that it basically retains little of the initial open source drop Tor is probably the most audited piece of Code by security and privacy experts because it's virtually the only tool that could let you be completely anonymous online each store entirely safe of course not plenty of notes can be badly configured can have no encryption can be out of date or with crappy plugins but Tor was designed from the ground up to resist being invaded by governments and actors that might want to grab data or monitor users so basically no Tor is not an NSA Honeypot it is not 100 secure nothing really is it's not a silver bullet for privacy but it is not the property of the NSA and they're not invading it to try and monitor you they might be trying to though but there are no signs that they have succeeded another common statement is big companies are more secure so I'm never moving from Google or Microsoft or whatever else and this statement is debatable it's true that bigger companies tend to be more secure than smaller companies in some cases a relatively recent report shows that smaller firms are three times more likely to be attacked than big businesses especially through social engineering attacks where people masquerade as something they're not through emails or phone calls to try and get credentials to access any data the company might store sixty percent of cyber attacks seem to be targeting smaller companies and it is true that these smaller companies probably have less I.T Personnel less cyber security training and generally less focus on security of the data they store what is also true is that a lot of bigger companies like Google Microsoft Facebook or apple subcontract work two smaller companies that might be more vulnerable and not all big tech companies are excellent on the security front recent findings show that OneDrive the cloud storage service from Microsoft has serious ransomware vulnerabilities the OneDrive logs contain session tokens that can be used to easily access the storage and edit create or modify files Apple a few years back started showing iCloud user pictures from other iCloud users by mistake Google on the other hand has a very good reputation for security not to say that they're perfect but they seem too rarely fall victim to Giant data leaks or maybe they just team up with a shadowy organization of Puppet Masters to try and hide this fact I forgot my tinfoil hat so I don't remember so while yes bigger companies can be more secure than smaller ones it is not a one size fits-all thing and what you need to look for is what kind of security the company you're interested in for a specific service or app has put in place as always it's better to steer clear from these kind of generalizations and actually look into what security processes these companies have in place another misconception is that incognito mode makes you private online it doesn't what incognito mode does is make you private locally on your device as it does install data on what you have visited your credentials and the like incognito mode doesn't however prevent websites from tracking you or fingerprinting you which means that your browser in incognito mode has exactly the same tracking as when you browse normally basically incognito mode is useful if your computer is accessed by other people like your mom now sorry I meant your mom is accessing your computer not the you get it still the websites and Services you access during your incognito browsing session will all be able to track you and fingerprint you especially if you log into them Incognito is a badly named tool you're not Incognito you're not private you're just limiting the data you're leaving behind on the computer you're using it on now let's talk vpns unlike what most people would like you to believe on the internet especially due to some very very misleading sponsored segments about major VPN providers vpns aren't a magical thing that instantly makes you anonymous online using a VPN will change your IP address and will make you harder to track online that's true they're a good tool but you need to make sure that the company that provides the VPN service doesn't log everything you do and doesn't give these logs to various other actors and even with that a VPN isn't the Privacy Silver Bullet if you log into a service or website while using a VPN it still knows it's you obviously so yeah a VPN is a great tool to be more private online but it is not as anything a silver bullet be wary of grand claims made by VPN companies that will tell you you're going to be completely Anonymous they are untrue if you want to do your research about this I recommend the tech law Channel they are really focused on privacy and they are generally very transparent about everything another common myth is that privacy is impossible nowadays just give up and use Google apple or Microsoft this one has to be the most nefarious myth ever privacy is not impossible it's not easy but it's not impossible generally this statement just betrays a lack of motivation why would I waste time trying to protect my data when I don't think it's even that valuable and I would lose the convenience of using a complete ecosystem of services this is the wrong way of approaching privacy if you don't care about being private online then cool use whatever you want but don't discourage other people from trying to limit the data that they're leaking everywhere online total online privacy is extremely hard but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try at all to be private you can still have a good private Digital Life it will never be 100 perfect but you can limit immensely what is known or collected about you it's not black or white completely private or not at all you can have something in the middle and for the final most egregious statement I have nothing to hide I know someone will have commented something along those lines by now this is complete bogus first if you think you have nothing to hide you are wrong everyone has something that might not be illegal but might be deemed immoral or unacceptable by someone else second you might feel this way now but circumstances change and the data collected about you doesn't go away by leaving all these tidbits of data stored everywhere you're basically giving ammunition To The Future and the future is pissed if your government changes all the Law changes what you think is okay now could be illegal tomorrow looking at what's happening in the U.S or even the entire world right now it's clear that civil liberties and think we took for granted can be made illegal pretty quickly the data you left behind can be used in the future to harm you so even if you think you're not doing anything wrong today it doesn't mean that what you're doing now won't be considered wrong tomorrow the only way to protect you from that is to try and limit the amount of data that you're leaving behind in the hands of companies that will have no choice but to give it to the government when it requests them to so there are a lot of other statements being thrown around online about specific companies services or general practices too many to debunk what's certain is that you should always avoid getting one single opinion from one single source and this includes this specific video always try to look online for more information about the company or the services that you're interested into security and privacy are areas where fanboyism or loyalty to a company just doesn't pay a company that is doing awesome right now could be painted tomorrow so you need to stay up to date on every single privacy or security tool your interested in or that you're currently using and speaking of tools how about you check out today's sponsors for your Computing needs tuxedo is a company based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and what they ship is laptops and desktop that run Linux out of the box which is much better than buying a device that runs windows out of the box because you know that the hardware will be compatible with Linux they have a big range of devices from Ultrabooks to laptops to gaming laptops to workstations and giant towers for gaming or productivity nux you name it they have everything all their devices are very customizable in terms of the specs and the components but also for the laptops with your own logo on the lid engraved with a laser or your own keyboard 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if you're a Linux nerd like me you probably heard the terms immutable distribution os3 or image based operating system and you might be wondering what the fuss is about why are so many people obsessed with them and why is everyone painting them as the future of the Linux desktop something I have been guilty of as well so today we're going to look at immutable distros how they work what are their advantages if they are the future of Linux but also what their drawbacks are because as always nothing is perfect not even this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by Squarespace and if you need a website but you don't know how to get started or you don't have any technical knowledge then Squarespace will be your go-to platform they have pre-made templates for every kind of website and you can completely customize these by just adding or removing blocks and reordering them on the page graphically you can change the phones the colors the visuals everything and when you want to start 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immutable distributions have systems in place so people can still actually use their computer most of these immutable distros still let you install apps and packages on top of the system through flat packs snaps or app images or with a specific layer of packages that is kept when rebooting and updating some immutable distros give you easy access to Containers so you can still use a full system with full right access and they are a bunch of immutable distros Fedora silver blue and Fedora kinoite are basically Fedora workstation with no more KDE but with an immutable bass vanilla OS is an Ubuntu based soon to be Debian based immutable distro that gives you access to any packaging format on Linux through containers blend os does the same thing but based on Arch Steam OS the Linux distribution that powers the steam deck and also my Linux gaming console PC is also immutable you could also say that NYX OS is an immutable distribution since you only install things and modify configurations through a declarative config file that is used to build the system and there are a lot more like micro Os from open Susa and less OS and more but why would you want to use something like this and be forced into workarounds when you could just use a normal system a question that I now realize Windows users might be asking of Linux in general so in terms of advantages immutable distros are just way more secure since you the user can't modify the base system and since the super user can't do it either it also means any third-party programs also can't modify That Base system so viruses Trojans ransomware and the like can't write to any of your system files and directories even if a hacker manages to get access to your system they won't be able to write or modify anything and if the system allows some changes to be made they will generally be lost after a reboot it is not full security your personal files in your home directory could still be accessed and downloaded or stolen or encrypted by some kind of ransomware but it's still way more secure than a regular Linux distribution and there's infinitely more secure than a Windows PC another Advantage is reliability since you can't Tinker with the system files you also have a much smaller chance of actually destroying your system third-party programs also can't botch a modification or replace your system libraries with something else or erase something you need for your system to run and also you can't fall for that pseudo rm-rf asterisk joke that you find online because well the command just won't run and in terms of maintenance since you only use an updated system after a reboot there is no risk of breaking something by updating it while it's running and there's less risk of dependency hell and all of this might make you think that immutable distros are targeting servers but that's not necessarily the case there are a lot of them focused on the desktop still they do have some drawbacks as well a big one is how do I install anything if I can't write to the system because a lot of Linux distros install programs and libraries through packages and these are written to the system not to the user directory and most most immutable distros work around that using Universal packaging formats like flat packs snaps and app Images these don't require access to the whole file system they also don't need to install libraries to the system because they come with their own and of course if you don't like flat packs or snaps or app Images you probably will not like immutable distros either those things go hand in hand but that's not the only way to install stuff onto an immutable distro a lot of them actually still let you install packages to the system in a dedicated layer that's called layering what this means is that you still have access to the distros repos of packages and you can still choose to install some of them but you won't use the usual package manager but another dedicated tool instead these layered packages are kept whenever the system is updated and they're added to the new image that you will boot on after reboot this lets you install apps that are not available as flat pack for example you can install drivers you can install libraries basically whatever you need and if you install them from your distros repos the security risks are minimal some immutable distributions also use containers generally with something like distro box the idea is that you're supposed to keep the Linux distro installed on your Hardware safe and clean in its immutable form but you can install any other distro in a container with near native performance and thus you get access to a system you can completely write to like any other normal Linux distro a good example of that is vanilla OS which uses containers relatively seamlessly to let you install any application from any packaging format it will just create the relevant container and install the app there and give you a menu shortcut for it this can be very very useful for third-party programs that aren't in the distros repos or that want to install to the system directly for example DaVinci Resolve the idea is to give you all all the power of any regular Linux distro while keeping the OS installed to Bare Metal as safe and secure as possible but it is obviously not as easy as just using a regular Linux distro another difference that could be considered a drawback is updating updates on immutable distros are never applied in place in a regular Linux distro your package manager downloads the new packages their dependencies and replaces the files for each of them in place while the system is running while this means there is no need to reboot after most updates it also means sometimes stuff doesn't work and you still need to reboot anyway and it creates potential points of failure by potentially breaking your current system while it is being updated which is also why some normal Linux distros require you to reboot to actually install updates like Fedora immutable distros do not work like that when an update is a available they will build another system image they will only download what they need not the full system but they will use these new packages to create a separate bootable system so you end up with two systems the one you're currently using and the updated one which is not currently active if you decided to layer packages on your install they will also be added to the new bootable image and so you only get your updates after you rebooted your computer so yes updates require a reboot just like on Windows and that's not great to be fair it also comes with advantages if after rebooting you find out that the updated system doesn't work properly you still have the older non-updated system you can reboot to to get back to the previous usable State you're never really stuck into a completely broken system and immutable distros in pure Linux fashion have invented a bunch of ways to apply these updates some of them create H2 system partitions like vanilla OS one partition is your current system the other one is getting the updates when you reboot onto the updated system you're actually rebooting into another slash partition with your slash home folder being handled in a separate partition some distros only have one system partition but use something akin to get each new update is a commit while the previous version of the updated file is also kept and a list of commits is used to build a system image when you reboot you can pick the system image you want and it will load the right files for that system image that's how Fedora silver blue or endless OS Works some immutable distros make a copy of your current better FS snapshot and install updates to that so you can reboot to it afterwards micro OS the immutable distro from Souza Works in this way and actually also uses this same system to install packages instead of using a layer so as a user installing updates on an immutable distro is pretty seamless you open your app store you click update and then you have to reboot which is not as simple as most Linux distros which don't require you to reboot but that method is also safer and more stable so I guess things even out now another drawback is the complexity of the systems once you're used to them they're actually really easy to use but when you're coming from a traditional Linux distro or Worse from Windows or Mac OS it can be very tricky to understand everything you try to do is different installing a package doesn't use your usual package manager applying updates is in the same command or requires you to reboot to actually use the updated system running containers for specific applications is pretty counter-intuitive you need to install a whole other distro just to launch one app that isn't available as a flat pack that's not the easiest thing to accept if you want to manually edit a config file you might not be able to do so at all depending on where it's located most distros leave slash Etc as a writable directory but if what you need to change is somewhere else you're going to have a hard time immutable distros are a different way of approaching a Linux distribution with different ways of doing stuff that you already know how to do on regular systems which makes them pretty complex to approach at first so are these immutable distros the future of Linux probably not for servers they make a lot of sense and they're a natural evolution of the containers most big deployments already use for regular users they do have a lot of advantages especially for systems that are supposed to be appliances and aren't meant to be customized or tweaked like the steam deck for example but they also have a bunch of limitations and they require some worker ramps to do pretty simple stuff and that's why I think they will never replace Place regular Linux systems for most people you can already roll back to a previous version of a package or your entire system even without using for example with better FS you can already decide to only install flat packs and use containers on a normal Linux distro if you find benefit from that if the added security and reliability isn't something you value more than the ability to access any file at any time or updating without rebooting then immutable distros will probably never appeal to you and so I don't think immutable distros will replace normal regular Linux distributions they will grow and occupy your space next to them but I think the limitations make them unsuitable for a lot of people they are an alternative another way of doing things which can be better for some use cases and some people but worse for others unlike today's sponsor which is better for everyone if you're looking to buy a new computer and you plan to run Linux on it stop buying devices that were made to support Windows and might or might not work well with Linux buy something that supports Linux 6 out of the box tuxedo does just that 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flat pack is the future of application Distribution on Linux it will never replace every package on every distro especially for the underlying system but for graphical applications no questions there this is where most distros are heading towards but it is not a perfect solution so here is a complete guide to what flat pack is and how you can solve a bunch of issues like theming handling permissions the command line use case installing from your browser cleaning up all that good stuff good stuff like this application made by our sponsor this video is sponsored by savings portmaster portmaster is an all-in-one tool to easily take your privacy to the next level and it's a tool I use myself on all of my Linux devices portmaster lets you automatically block all trackers and malware in every application you run on your computer not just your web browser but everything you run it's easy to use with defaults already in place that lets you just set it and forget it but if you like to configure 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or app Images aims to have a package once distribute everywhere approach this means flat packs mostly don't use your shared libraries they ship their own either through or runtime which is a form of shared library that multiple flat packs can use to avoid having giant downloads for each app and wasting space or by bundling other libraries directly within the app so they don't depend on the version the system uses and you don't have to worry about dependency hell or incompatibilities this does result in a bit more space being used but if you compare a flat pack and its run time with a distro package and all the libraries it needs generally you'll end up with almost the same exact space stop fat shaming flat packs they are just a little bit thicker now flatback also brings better security with a Sandbox that doesn't let the app access all your system when it doesn't need to and a permission system that lets you configure what the app can or cons do and flat pack also uses repositories that they call remote the biggest one is flat Hub which hosts virtually every flat pack ever made but there are others like for example the Elementary OS flat back repo most distributions ship with flat pack pre-installed and flat Hub enabled but on those who don't you generally can install it very easily so let's look at that so most distros out there should have flat back pre-installed Fedora Manjaro open Sousa Linux Mint most Ubuntu derivatives they all have it but if you run Ubuntu or an official Ubuntu flavor if you run Debian or Arch you might want to install it yourself and this is pretty easy you just look for the flat pack package and install that on Ubuntu or Debian for example in a terminal you can run sudo apt installed flat pack but this only gives you command line access to Flat pack if you're a more graphical type of person then you want to add the relevant plugins to your graphical app store for Gnome software the package is often called gnome software plug-in flat pack and for discover on KDE it's generally plasma discover flat pack next you'll need to add a repo to be able to install flat packs easily without downloading a file manually each time the biggest one everyone should use is flat Hub it has virtually every flat pack ever made to add it you can either run a command line displayed here or you can simply head over to flathhub.org download any app you want and open the flat pack ref file you downloaded as you install the app through your software store it will also add flat Hub as a repo and that's it and most of these steps are totally unnecessary on most distributions because they pre-install flat pack and flat Hub the good ones do at least now when you open your flat back app you might notice that it's not following your current theme whether you're on gnome or KDE that's because there is no theming API on Linux that flatback apps could use since they run in a sandbox they don't really know what theme you're using and they probably don't have access to the themes files either but of course it's Linux so there's a way to force anything to do something you want whether you should do it or not that's another question so there are a bunch of themes available on flat Hub that you can find by die being flat back search theme if the theme you use is in there you can just install it from here for example if I want to install the yaru theme I can just type flat pack install yaru it will offer all the variants I just type the number for the one I want after that I can select that theme using gnome tweaks to make sure it's set as my default theme and then to apply to all flatback apps I can run flat pack update in a terminal and then if I restart my flat pack app it will use the right thing not super simple I wish there was a toggle or a button in Gnome tweaks to do all of that automatically for you note that also sometimes you might need to log out and log back in for the theme to be applied which kinda sucks if your theme is not available from Flat Hub though you will need to tell flatback it needs to use your specific theme to do this you can either run a command or use a graphical application the command is sudo flat back override on equals gtk underscore theme equals the name of your theme for the simpler graphical way you can install flat seal it's an app we'll look into more details in a minute you open it you click all applications and in the environment section you can type gtk underscore theme equals the name of your theme but that's not quite enough we still need to tell flat pack that it has access to the folder where your themes are stored you can't give it access to slash user slash share slash themes so you will have to copy your themes into the dot themes folder in your home directory to give flat pack access to it you can run another command sudo flat back override dash dash file system equals dollar home slash dot themes or you can use flat seal again and in the all applications tab in the persistent section you can add A New Path namely dollar home slash dot themes this should apply your theme to all your gtk and applications well mostly all of them gtk4 and libid Vita apps will still not use that theme so we'll need to add another override for them specifically to do so you can open your dot bash Dash profile file in your home directory at the end you add this line export gtk underscore theme equals name of your theme you can save that file and then log out and log back in for all the changes we made to be applied all your gtk apps should now use the right theme whether they're using lipid Vita flat pack none of that or both of them for KDE you can install themes in the same way they have some on flat Hub it also works with Quantum you can just install the quantum theme engine with flat pack and you can select the theme you want from the KD settings directly it should switch all KD flat packs automatically gtk apps on KDE will require the steps I described previously so yeah it's not a simple click the theme experience it's sort of convoluted good and I wish it was easier but it is doable and if you want to revert all these changes you can just use flat seal to delete all the overrides you added and remove the line from your bash profile file now let's see how you can change permissions flatback apps sort of work like apps on your phone they have permissions to access specific things like the webcam microphone Bluetooth specific directories and more to manage them you can use flat seal on gnome or on KDE but KD also has a permissions page in their settings to manage that directly let's look at flatsia it will give you an entry for each flatback app plus a tab for all applications so you can grant all your apps specific permissions don't do that though it's better to set permissions on a per app basis apart from the overrides we added through theming of course now generally permissions are correctly set here but if you feel that an app shouldn't have access to something you can toggle that thing off and if you feel an app should have access to something you can toggle it on the biggest use case I found was to allow apps to access specific directories that they currently count for example Discord out of the box only has access to your downloads pictures and videos folders but if you often upload files from other directories you might want to give it access to that so you can actually drag and drop files to Discord from that folder to do so in flat seal you can just click the Discord app and then go to the file system section and in the other file segment click the little plus folder icon and select the directory you want to add to the list of stuff this Discord can access or you can give it access to your full home directory or even the full file system but don't do that it kind of defeats the purpose of the flat pack sandbox and here I think we have one big potential Improvement for flat packs ask the user if they want to Grant permission as they do the action for example you drop a file from a folder the app doesn't have access to instead of just failing you could just display a pop-up saying do you want to Grant access to Discord to this specific file or folder and you could do that permanently temporarily or deny that would be much more simple now installing flat packs is just a one-click operation from your graphical App Store but if you like to browse for apps in your web browser you can also start an install straight from there there's an extension for Firefox and chromium based browsers called Flatline it will let you click on an install button from the flat Hub website and will ask you if you want to open that link with your app store granted that permission and you're done you won't have to download a flat back ref file then go double click it to open it you can start the install immediately and no more files to clean up afterwards so you don't have to live the miserable life of a Windows user but if you prefer the command line flat pack has a bunch of tools they have the reputation of being relatively annoying to use but that's not completely true anymore so let's look at a few commands to install an app it's easy you just type flat pack install and the name of the app you don't need to type the complete reference like io.github dot whatever.developer name you just type the name of the app and flatback will do its best to match it and offer choices that fit same goes for uninstalling you type flat pack remove and the name of the app and it will offer the best match from what you have installed on your system to update your flat pack apps you can just run flat pack update to clean up unused runtimes you can run flat pack uninstall dash dash unused it will offer to remove the things that are not used by any app anymore you can also list all installed flat packs with flat pack list or search for something to install with flat pack search to run an app with flat pack using the command line you can type flat pack run and the name of the app although in this case you do need to type the complete name of the application which is kind of annoying to see all the available installed apps you can type flat pack run then hit tab twice and you will get a list of the complete app names for all your installed apps and I wish they had the shorter app name shortcut here as they do for flat pack install for example I don't know why they force you to type the complete app name they could still offer choices if multiple apps fit what you're trying to do now to kill an unresponsive app you can type flat pack kill followed by the complete name with all the com.org.io stuff although here as well a double tap of the Tab Key will display everything that is currently running and if your flatback installs are broken runtimes are missing or apps fail to start you can run flat pack repair it will remove all unused runtimes any invalid object and reinstall anything that's missing for your apps to run there are plenty of other other commands but these should be your bread and butter if you want to interact with flat pack using the terminal so hopefully this cleared up some misconceptions about flat pack or maybe just taught you a few things about this packaging format it is in my opinion the best packaging format we have on Linux and the only real shot we have at having a universal packaging format for all Linux districts it is not perfect no packaging format is on any operating system but it's still pretty damn great just like our sponsor tuxedo if your computer is due for a replacement and you plan to run Linux on it stop buying devices that ship with Windows pre-install start buying devices that ship with Linux print stock tuxedo does just that they have laptops and desktops that ship with Linux and all the hardware inside has been picked specifically to run with Linux and if it doesn't run perfectly they submitted patches Upstream so that everything is well 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flat pack is the future of application Distribution on Linux it will never replace every package on every distro especially for the underlying system but for graphical applications no questions there this is where most distros are heading towards but it is not a perfect solution so here is a complete guide to what flat pack is and how you can solve a bunch of issues like theming handling permissions the command line use case installing from your browser cleaning up all that good stuff good stuff like this application made by our sponsor this video is sponsored by savings portmaster portmaster is an all-in-one tool to easily take your privacy to the next level and it's a tool I use myself on all of my Linux devices portmaster lets you automatically block all trackers and malware in every application you run on your computer not just your web browser but everything you run it's easy to use with defaults already in place that lets you just set it and forget it but if you like to configure 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or app Images aims to have a package once distribute everywhere approach this means flat packs mostly don't use your shared libraries they ship their own either through or runtime which is a form of shared library that multiple flat packs can use to avoid having giant downloads for each app and wasting space or by bundling other libraries directly within the app so they don't depend on the version the system uses and you don't have to worry about dependency hell or incompatibilities this does result in a bit more space being used but if you compare a flat pack and its run time with a distro package and all the libraries it needs generally you'll end up with almost the same exact space stop fat shaming flat packs they are just a little bit thicker now flatback also brings better security with a Sandbox that doesn't let the app access all your system when it doesn't need to and a permission system that lets you configure what the app can or cons do and flat pack also uses repositories that they call remote the biggest one is flat Hub which hosts virtually every flat pack ever made but there are others like for example the Elementary OS flat back repo most distributions ship with flat pack pre-installed and flat Hub enabled but on those who don't you generally can install it very easily so let's look at that so most distros out there should have flat back pre-installed Fedora Manjaro open Sousa Linux Mint most Ubuntu derivatives they all have it but if you run Ubuntu or an official Ubuntu flavor if you run Debian or Arch you might want to install it yourself and this is pretty easy you just look for the flat pack package and install that on Ubuntu or Debian for example in a terminal you can run sudo apt installed flat pack but this only gives you command line access to Flat pack if you're a more graphical type of person then you want to add the relevant plugins to your graphical app store for Gnome software the package is often called gnome software plug-in flat pack and for discover on KDE it's generally plasma discover flat pack next you'll need to add a repo to be able to install flat packs easily without downloading a file manually each time the biggest one everyone should use is flat Hub it has virtually every flat pack ever made to add it you can either run a command line displayed here or you can simply head over to flathhub.org download any app you want and open the flat pack ref file you downloaded as you install the app through your software store it will also add flat Hub as a repo and that's it and most of these steps are totally unnecessary on most distributions because they pre-install flat pack and flat Hub the good ones do at least now when you open your flat back app you might notice that it's not following your current theme whether you're on gnome or KDE that's because there is no theming API on Linux that flatback apps could use since they run in a sandbox they don't really know what theme you're using and they probably don't have access to the themes files either but of course it's Linux so there's a way to force anything to do something you want whether you should do it or not that's another question so there are a bunch of themes available on flat Hub that you can find by die being flat back search theme if the theme you use is in there you can just install it from here for example if I want to install the yaru theme I can just type flat pack install yaru it will offer all the variants I just type the number for the one I want after that I can select that theme using gnome tweaks to make sure it's set as my default theme and then to apply to all flatback apps I can run flat pack update in a terminal and then if I restart my flat pack app it will use the right thing not super simple I wish there was a toggle or a button in Gnome tweaks to do all of that automatically for you note that also sometimes you might need to log out and log back in for the theme to be applied which kinda sucks if your theme is not available from Flat Hub though you will need to tell flatback it needs to use your specific theme to do this you can either run a command or use a graphical application the command is sudo flat back override on equals gtk underscore theme equals the name of your theme for the simpler graphical way you can install flat seal it's an app we'll look into more details in a minute you open it you click all applications and in the environment section you can type gtk underscore theme equals the name of your theme but that's not quite enough we still need to tell flat pack that it has access to the folder where your themes are stored you can't give it access to slash user slash share slash themes so you will have to copy your themes into the dot themes folder in your home directory to give flat pack access to it you can run another command sudo flat back override dash dash file system equals dollar home slash dot themes or you can use flat seal again and in the all applications tab in the persistent section you can add A New Path namely dollar home slash dot themes this should apply your theme to all your gtk and applications well mostly all of them gtk4 and libid Vita apps will still not use that theme so we'll need to add another override for them specifically to do so you can open your dot bash Dash profile file in your home directory at the end you add this line export gtk underscore theme equals name of your theme you can save that file and then log out and log back in for all the changes we made to be applied all your gtk apps should now use the right theme whether they're using lipid Vita flat pack none of that or both of them for KDE you can install themes in the same way they have some on flat Hub it also works with Quantum you can just install the quantum theme engine with flat pack and you can select the theme you want from the KD settings directly it should switch all KD flat packs automatically gtk apps on KDE will require the steps I described previously so yeah it's not a simple click the theme experience it's sort of convoluted good and I wish it was easier but it is doable and if you want to revert all these changes you can just use flat seal to delete all the overrides you added and remove the line from your bash profile file now let's see how you can change permissions flatback apps sort of work like apps on your phone they have permissions to access specific things like the webcam microphone Bluetooth specific directories and more to manage them you can use flat seal on gnome or on KDE but KD also has a permissions page in their settings to manage that directly let's look at flatsia it will give you an entry for each flatback app plus a tab for all applications so you can grant all your apps specific permissions don't do that though it's better to set permissions on a per app basis apart from the overrides we added through theming of course now generally permissions are correctly set here but if you feel that an app shouldn't have access to something you can toggle that thing off and if you feel an app should have access to something you can toggle it on the biggest use case I found was to allow apps to access specific directories that they currently count for example Discord out of the box only has access to your downloads pictures and videos folders but if you often upload files from other directories you might want to give it access to that so you can actually drag and drop files to Discord from that folder to do so in flat seal you can just click the Discord app and then go to the file system section and in the other file segment click the little plus folder icon and select the directory you want to add to the list of stuff this Discord can access or you can give it access to your full home directory or even the full file system but don't do that it kind of defeats the purpose of the flat pack sandbox and here I think we have one big potential Improvement for flat packs ask the user if they want to Grant permission as they do the action for example you drop a file from a folder the app doesn't have access to instead of just failing you could just display a pop-up saying do you want to Grant access to Discord to this specific file or folder and you could do that permanently temporarily or deny that would be much more simple now installing flat packs is just a one-click operation from your graphical App Store but if you like to browse for apps in your web browser you can also start an install straight from there there's an extension for Firefox and chromium based browsers called Flatline it will let you click on an install button from the flat Hub website and will ask you if you want to open that link with your app store granted that permission and you're done you won't have to download a flat back ref file then go double click it to open it you can start the install immediately and no more files to clean up afterwards so you don't have to live the miserable life of a Windows user but if you prefer the command line flat pack has a bunch of tools they have the reputation of being relatively annoying to use but that's not completely true anymore so let's look at a few commands to install an app it's easy you just type flat pack install and the name of the app you don't need to type the complete reference like io.github dot whatever.developer name you just type the name of the app and flatback will do its best to match it and offer choices that fit same goes for uninstalling you type flat pack remove and the name of the app and it will offer the best match from what you have installed on your system to update your flat pack apps you can just run flat pack update to clean up unused runtimes you can run flat pack uninstall dash dash unused it will offer to remove the things that are not used by any app anymore you can also list all installed flat packs with flat pack list or search for something to install with flat pack search to run an app with flat pack using the command line you can type flat pack run and the name of the app although in this case you do need to type the complete name of the application which is kind of annoying to see all the available installed apps you can type flat pack run then hit tab twice and you will get a list of the complete app names for all your installed apps and I wish they had the shorter app name shortcut here as they do for flat pack install for example I don't know why they force you to type the complete app name they could still offer choices if multiple apps fit what you're trying to do now to kill an unresponsive app you can type flat pack kill followed by the complete name with all the com.org.io stuff although here as well a double tap of the Tab Key will display everything that is currently running and if your flatback installs are broken runtimes are missing or apps fail to start you can run flat pack repair it will remove all unused runtimes any invalid object and reinstall anything that's missing for your apps to run there are plenty of other other commands but these should be your bread and butter if you want to interact with flat pack using the terminal so hopefully this cleared up some misconceptions about flat pack or maybe just taught you a few things about this packaging format it is in my opinion the best packaging format we have on Linux and the only real shot we have at having a universal packaging format for all Linux districts it is not perfect no packaging format is on any operating system but it's still pretty damn great just like our sponsor tuxedo if your computer is due for a replacement and you plan to run Linux on it stop buying devices that ship with Windows pre-install start buying devices that ship with Linux print stock tuxedo does just that they have laptops and desktops that ship with Linux and all the hardware inside has been picked specifically to run with Linux and if it doesn't run perfectly they submitted patches Upstream so that everything is well supported they have a big range of devices from the small Ultrabooks to knocks to Giant desktop workstations gaming laptops anything in between they have a bunch of configuration options for the internals but also for a logo on the lid of your laptop or your keyboard layout or what you want to pre-install on the system and all their laptops are openable repairable and upgradable so if you need a new computer you want to run Linux on it and you want to support linux's development click the link in the description below and buy a computer from tuxedo they are really really good okay so thanks for watching 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 didn't well there's always that thumbs down button and the comment section to tell me why and if you really enjoy the channel there are plenty of links in the description to help support it you know how this works so thanks everyone for watching and I 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hey everyone remember how I was excited in a previous episode for all the performance improvements coming to our CPUs on Linux well this week we will lose some of the benefits of all that work because there are two new vulnerabilities that will once again require mitigation patches that will once again Lower the performance of our CPUs we also have Souza and Oracle teaming up to take on red Hat's anti-community practices and guaranteeing access to the source code to the community for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and we have some cool new features and updates about plasma 6 but also known 45 45 like the number of characters in this sponsor Segway this video is sponsored by Chasm workspaces the container streaming platform that lets you stream any OS desktop or app to your web browser and they've been working on implementing one of the most Community requested features translations now it's a developer preview for now and Chasm would like you to give it a shot and provide feedback on how 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Hardware registers to the software mitigation patches are already underway and can have a performance impact of up to 50 percent although Intel claims most workloads will only see minimal performance loss for AMD the floor is called Inception and it is similar to the Specter flaws we already had to deal with a few years back it's only exploitable locally apparently so it should be less severe than the Intel problem and it affects the third and fourth Zen generation so basically most currently used ryzen and epic CPUs here again mitigation patches have been submitted although I could not find numbers for how much performance will be lost here and that's unfortunate as these mitigation patches are sort of mandatory if you want to keep your computer secure and they tend to really reduce the performance of our already kidney priced devices now there's something brewing in the Enterprise Linux World Oracle Souza and ciq the company behind Rocky Linux banded together to form the open Enterprise Linux Association or open Ela with the goal to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux Downstream distributions notice who is absent from the foundation Red Hat that's because this New Foundation has a simple purpose making sure that source code is freely available for all Downstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux based distributions focusing on versions 8 and 9 with plans to also support version 7. they clearly state that this is the result of the recent moves from Red Hat to limit access to their source code to paying customers and of their customer licensing agreements that prevent customers from using all their GPL rights if they want to remain Red Hat customers they also say they welcome other organizations and community members to join the foundation and to contribute which potential would include Alma Linux but since they decided to move to being ABI compatible and not fully one-to-one compatible with red hat I would say they probably won't join in the near future the open Ela will only provide source code not a full distro and they will also add guidelines for Downstream distros to test their bills a branding kit some documentation and some security related data and it's an interesting move because it means that if Red Hat doubles down on anti-community Behavior or locks down more source code or access to their software then we have one organization uniquely placed to actually Define the new Enterprise Linux distro standard now of course I also need to praise Red Hat when they do good stuff like their plans to improve boot loaders on Linux the company is now hiring for their display team which basically works on everything desktop related from packaging to desktop environments and now bootloaders the work will be focused on grab 2 and UEFI support of course working with Upstream to fix bugs to add features to the bootloader that most Linux distros use on top of that the position will also include maintaining and enhancing how grub2 is implemented in all red hat distros so red hat Enterprise Linux sent to a stream and Fedora the work will also apparently include collaboration with computer and Hardware manufacturers something that might have a positive impact on how well Linux is supported on various devices so if you know C grub and the UEFI boot process you can apply to this position now I left a link to it in the description of the video now we have some more details about this state of Weyland support on plasma 6 and also some cool new features so while wealand on plasma 6 is not completely perfect yet it looks like a solid improvement over what we got in KD 5.27 notably the fact that all apps will now survive a restart of the Waylon compositor namely K win in this case previously if the compositor crashed it would take down all open apps with it which really sucked in plasma 6 this won't be an issue anymore they're also fixing the draggable toolbars and docks that Getty apps often use on Weyland when you drag them out of the window they just pop out and they aren't placed in a smooth fashion as soon as you drag them out of the main window they just appear as a small window and you don't get to place them where you won't immediately developers created the xdg top level drag protocol to handle this which should restore smooth operations on KDE for dragging tabs out of browsers and toolbars and docs out of Windows those on top of that KD developers are working on implementing remote desktop using RDP over Weyland the current supported way for remote desktops on KDE is VNC which is honestly your worst technology as it sends uncompressed images over the network which results in high latency and poor performance RDP on the other hand can use h.264 to compress this however RDP is a Microsoft Technology which fortunately has an open implementation called free RDP which is what KDE will use they will also use Hardware encoding with VA API and it will use the remote desktop portal although this will need some more work to support more features there's already an alpha version available as a flat pack bundle if you want to test things out on top of that KDE developers made most tray icons monochrome on the desktop now so things should look tidier in there bluetooth-based internet connections got a new icon to differentiate them in the network applet the open Button in most apps got a small arrow pointing down to let you quickly open a recent document and there are a lot more smaller changes being worked on and if you want to learn more about remote desktops and the various protocols I made a video about this I left a link to it in the description below and I'm also very happy to see that plasma 6 still has some big features being worked on it's not just a boarding job with a few adjustments there are some big improvements in there as for Gnome it looks like ground 45 will have some nice features first with Native screencasting support it was a Google summer of code project which aimed to let users cast their screens to other devices straight from the Quick Settings menu there's a new small button next to the screenshot icon and clicking it brings a list of Miracast or chromecast compatible devices to which you can just cast your screen in one click it supports mirroring the display but it also supports extending it and positioning it wherever you want just like a physically connected external display now you could already do that in Gnome using a third-party app called Network display but having it baked into the desktop itself might mean some apps would integrate it directly especially video players audio players and the like now on top of that we have some gnome app updates for ground 45 like Loop the new image viewer it's now confirmed as being the default image viewer in gnome45 we have Maps now having a vector layer still in the experimental phase though org Dome contacts for Gnome 45 which will use newer gtk components that will significantly decrease the memory consumption of the app gjs The Gnome JavaScript engine that powers gnome shell also got some performance improvements for Gnome 45 and gtk 4.12 is also released with an improved Vulcan renderer and a lot of fixes for accessibility related features and this should make drone 45 a pretty interesting release I was afraid that they wouldn't have anything significant showcase this time around but it looks like I was wrong the fans of rolling releases can rejoice as there's a new one Rhino Linux is now out of beta and it is the continuation of the Rolling Rhino project which was a set of scripts to turn Ubuntu into a rolling release so this distro comes with a lot of cool stuff like pack stall which is an aur-like package manager for Ubuntu it is used to ship all the customization in Rhino Linux and the default apps and the Rhino Linux repo is handled as a community repo where anyone can submit a package on top of that there's rpk which is a package manager that lets you install through apt backstole flat pack and snap with one single UI Rhino Linux uses their own desktop called Unicorn it's based on xfce but it does look a lot better than the vanilla version of that desktop and it implements you launcher an upgrade and a dashboard that looks like an older gnome activities View and they also have a nice looking theme they also have a setup wizard so that you configure and customize your system after install and something called the Rhino drop which lets you send files to other computers on the network much like airdrop on Mac OS and it does look like a nice distribution I can't attest to its stability or functionality I would have to give it a shot so if you want me to review this leave some comments down there and I'll see if there's enough interest for that okay let's finish this with the gaming news first it looks like valve will now offer refurbished steam Decks at significantly lower prices the entry level 64 gigs model is 319 dollars eighty dollars less than a brand new model and the 512 gigs unit with its anti-reflective display is 519 dollars more than a hundred dollars less than the brand new model all these refurbished units should basically function as brand new devices as they've been tested thoroughly but they might have a few cosmetic issues like minor scratches they also come with the full warranty that a brand new device would have so if you wanted a steam deck but it felt a bit too expensive I think that's a great way of getting your hands on one if you're okay with a few blemishes on the outer shell of the device and OverWatch 2 Lander good on Steam as blizzard promised some of their games would and it is immediately working on Linux and the steam deck proton experimental actually included a fix before the release so it's all nice and supported you do need a Battle.net account of course and since there is no pre-built shade or cash you will get some stutters when loading into a new map but the game seems to work on medium on the deck according to gaming on Linux and that's pretty nice to see but OverWatch 2 I personally don't care at all about just like any competitive multiplayer shooter I do not play those things they are super boring to me but what I want to see is Diablo 2 remastered Diablo 3 and maybe Diablo 4 coming on Steam maybe that will get me to bite and play it as all my friends have already completed it in all the difficulty settings and I'm gonna play alone great great like today's sponsors computers tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that ship with Linux out of the box and the reason you might want that over any other manufacturer that ships with Windows is that well you know that the hardware will work with Linux tuxedo actually submits patches Upstream to enable Hardware support on all of their devices if stuff isn't already working perfectly out of the box they offer a variety of free install distros but you can just slap your own and it will work they have a wide range of devices that should fit every price 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