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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:39 Sponsor: Squarespace 01:40 Fedora wants to go all in on AI 04:25 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS beta 06:04 Explicit sync will fix Wayland on nvidia 08:20 Proton buys Standard Notes 09:43 DE updates to GNOME, KDE, elementary OS 12:05 Gaming: League of Legends is gone 15:09 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:22 Support the channel

Fedora wants to go all in on AI

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/strategy-2028-april-2024-update/

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS beta

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-beta-released

Explicit sync will fix Wayland on nvidia

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync.html

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Explicit-GPU-Sync-XWayland-Go

Proton buys Standard Notes

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/proton-acquires-standard-notes-to-add-another-tool-to-its-growing-portfolio/

DE updates to GNOME, KDE

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/05/this-week-in-kde-real-modifier-only-shortcuts-and-cropping-in-spectacle/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/04/twig-142/

Gaming: League of Legends is gone

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/riot-games-talk-vanguard-anti-cheat-for-league-of-legends-and-why-its-a-no-for-linux/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127545/discord-suyu-sudachi-server-shutdown-account-ban

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 01:34 A proposal for Fedora to leave GNOME for KDE 04:21 XZ backdoor repercussions 07:53 German state moves to Linux & FOSS 09:49 Mint 22 shakes things up 11:42 AMD will open source more docs and code 12:54 Exchange in Thunderbird & Snap package 15:3 Support the channel

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A proposal for Fedora to leave GNOME for KDE

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f42-change-proposal-fedora-plasma-workstation-system-wide/111343/60

XZ backdoor repercussions

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-beta-release-postponed-due-to-security-concerns/

https://linuxiac.com/after-a-recent-ssh-vulnerability-systemd-reduces-dependencies/

https://9to5linux.com/linux-firmware-update-utility-fwupd-will-use-zstd-compression-for-future-releases

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-xz-backdoor-scanner-detects-implant-in-any-linux-binary/

German state moves to Linux & FOSS

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

Germany wants to secure right to encryption

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/germany-seeks-to-make-encryption-a-legal-right

Mint 22 shakes things up

https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-devs-to-ship-thunderbird-as-a-native-deb-package-in-linux-mint-22 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/linux-mint-22-adopts-pipewire-hwe-kernels

AMD will open source more docs and code

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-Hardware-Docs https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Docs-And-Source-Code

Thunderbird Exchange support & Snap

https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-progresses-with-exchange-compatibility/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/thundersnap-why-were-helping-maintain-the-thunderbird-snap-on-linux/

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:47 Sponsor: Kasm 01:48 Disclaimer 02:49 Distributions 06:05 Desktop & tiling Wms 09:29 Wayland vs X11 10:22 Hardware & compatibility 14:15 Packaging formats & apps 16:50 Other tidbits 18:34 What I learned 19:49 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 20:57 Support the channel

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Arch and Arch based distros seem to represent 29% of answers, way higher than Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros, at 22% including Linux Mint, or 16% not including it. It's higher than Fedora at 19% of answers.

Another surprising number is NixOS, sitting at 7%. Final thing that surprised me is SteamOS: it only got 39 answers, meaning virtually no one seems to use their Steam Deck as their main computer.

89% of people who answered the survey said that they don't use an immutable distro.

Plasma is, on the surface, the most used DE out there, it sits at 30%.Vanilla GNOME sits at 14%, but if we tally up all GNOME implementations, we land on 35%, beating KDE pretty soundly.

Tiling WMs gathered up 21% of votes, meaning that they're actually the third thing used by people, far above any other DE than GNOME and KDE.

Hyprland seems to be very popular right now, at almost 48% of answers. We also have Sway, at 12%, i3 at 11%, and then a smattering of others, like AwesomeWM, bspwm, qtile, xmonad and more.

Speaking of which: Wayland got 66% of answers here, versus 34% for X11.

As per hardware, I asked people which kind of GPU and CPU they used. For CPUs, AMD and Intel are really evenly matched, at 50% for AMD and 49% for Intel, the last % being for ARM based CPUs.

As per GPUs, AMD takes the lead here, but not by much, we get to 39% of answers.

22% of people who answered only have an Nvidia GPU, so that's still pretty high, and if we add Nvidia GPUs as a hybrid configuration in a laptop, we land on 37%.

Pure Intel configurations, represent 22% of answers for integrated graphics, and 1% for dedicated Intel only, plus another % for people who run a hybrid config with a dedicated Intel GPU, so at most 24%.

As per the provenance of that hardware, a lot of people seem to build their own computers to run Linux on, at 44%. 40% of people who took the survey bought a PC from a major window manufacturer, with WIndows preinstalled, or no OS if the option was available.

Apart from that, only 4% said they used a computer from a Linux manufacturer, like TUxedo, System76, Slimbook, and the like, 2% use a mac, and, interestingly, 5% bought a computer from a major manufacturer with Linux preinstalled, so presumably from Dell or Lenovo, as these are the 2 main ones that have the option, AFAIK.

I paired that question with another one, asking how well Linux ran on people's computers, and overwhelmingly, it seems that hardware compatibility is great these days. 63% of respondents said they experienced 0 issues after installing Linux, and 23% said they did have small problems that they could fix. Only 13% said there's still hardware that doesn't work at all, and 1% said their computer performs pretty badly under Linux.

66% of people who answered use flatpaks mixed in with packages from other sources, and 6% only use this format, meaning we're at almost 3/4 of respondants that use Flatpaks daily.

The results are not as positive for other formats, with Snaps not being used at all by 84% of people who answered, and 54% of people not using APpImages at all.

On the topic of applications, Firefox seems to be the asbolute most poplar browser here, at 68%, with an extra 9% for Firefox derivatives like Librewolf.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: Squarespace 01:36 Desktop Improvements 04:59 Nautilus changes 06:47 New Settings 08:51 Apps changes 11:12 Parting Thoughts 13:33 Sponsor: Tuxedo 14:54 Support the channel

The main thing you'll enjoy here is some redesigned notifications. These will now show a header, to let you know which app spawned that notification, and they'll include a little symbolic icon as well. On top of that, notifications that are pretty long, or have action buttons can also be expanded, or collapsed.

Experimental support for variable refresh rate is here, it's turned off by default, and you'll have to use dconf to turn it on. Once you do that, you'll get a switch for that feature in the Display settings, provided your display supports it, with a "preferred refresh rate" list.

(gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['variable-refresh-rate']")

Another change is in how fonts are rendered using fractional scaling: they're now less blurry, and will look more consistent.

Other, smaller changes include the ability to press control + super and a number to launch the associated app from your dock. You also get remote login using RDP.

The file manager, Nautilus, got way better in this release. First, you can now click the path bar to edit the location manually, instead of having to press control + L to do so.

Next is search: it now performs much faster than it used to, and the search button now does a global search directly. When transferring files, the progress bar has been moved to the bottom of the sidebar. Changing a folder icon is now much easier as well, you can just open its properties, and you have a little edit icon.

In the settings, there's a new "system" page. The mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you trigger the right click. You can also turn off the touchpad when typing, or disable that setting if you don't like it.

The GNOME Online accounts also received some love, notably for its backend: it now uses the default browser for authentication into accounts. You can also add a WebDAV account to get access to contacts, calendars and files, and you can add a Microsoft Personal Account as well.

GNOME Software, the app store, now shows the Verified badges on Flathub applications that have them. GNOME Calendar gained performance improvements, which it sort of needed, and it now displays the current month a lot more visibly in the month view, so you always know where you are.

The image viewer, Loupe, now has a keyboard shortcut to permanently delete an image, it's shift + delete.

Epiphany, the web browser, now automatically retrieves app names and icons from websites using their progressive web apps manifests if they have one, so everything will already be nice and tidy when you create a web app from the browser. It also fixes some issues with how it syncs with your Firefox account, and it gained support for smart card authentication as well, meaning you can authenticate using USB devices while using Epiphany.

GNOME Maps moved their controls to the bottom of the application, and gained improvements to the vector map layer, although this one is still experimental. It also improved how favourite places work, with a default empty state explaining what favourites are.

Finally, GNOME Music has been ported to use the latest libadwaita widgets, and it removed support for Last.FM scrobbling, and the song list view. it also gained a preferences dialogue, which doesn't contain much, but still lets you set the repeat mode, enable replayGain, or inhibit suspend when playing music.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:53 Sponsor: Kasm Workspaces 01:44 General Linux Knowledge 05:05 Command Line resources 07:53 Desktop Environments 09:07 Customization 10:06 Linux Gaming 11:02 Linux News 13:04 Share your resources 13:31 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 14:30 Support the channel

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General Linux knowledge: Arch Wiki: https://archlinux.org/ Linux Journey: https://linuxjourney.com/ Linux From Scratch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Linux Foundation Courses: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/resources/?_sft_content_type=free-course

Learning the command line: Linux Survival: https://linuxsurvival.com/ Linux Command: https://linuxcommand.org LearnLinuxTV: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnLinuxTV Veronica Explains: https://www.youtube.com/@VeronicaExplains Terminus: https://web.mit.edu/mprat/Public/web/Terminus/Web/main.html Command Challenge: https://cmdchallenge.com/

Desktop Environments: KDE Userbase: https://userbase.kde.org/Welcome_to_KDE_UserBase Sway Wiki: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki i3 documentation: https://i3wm.org/docs/ Hyprland wiki: https://wiki.hyprland.org/

Customization: Linux Scoop: https://www.youtube.com/@linuxscoop

Linux Gaming: Gaming On Linux: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/ Lutris: https://lutris.net/ Heroic: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/ Bottles: https://usebottles.com/

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:39 Sponsor: Extend the life of your CentOS systems 02:16 Cosmic Alpha is delayed 04:44 France suffers a massive data breach 06:44 Kernel 6.8 is out 08:04 The EU's CRA law won't affect FOSS 09:54 The EU investigates itself for using Microsoft 365 12:09 OpenAI's ridiculous defence against the New York Times lawsuit 14:01 Gaming: Nintendo vs yuzu is harming emulation 16:12 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 17:29 Support the channel

Cosmic Alpha is delayed

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-more-alpha-more-fun https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-store-for-popos-unveiled/

France suffers a massive data breach

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/mega_data_breach_at_french/

Kernel 6.8 is out

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/linux-kernel-6-8-new-features https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Awesome-Changes

The EU's CRA law won't affect FOSS

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240312-01.fr.html

The EU investigates itself for using Microsoft 365

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/edps-microsoft-365/

OpenAI's ridiculous defence against the New York Times lawsuit

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-york-times-denies-openais-hacking-claim-copyright-fight-2024-03-12/

Nintendo vs yuzu is harming emulation in general

https://www.theverge.com/24098640/nintendo-emulator-yuzu-lawsuit-switch-aftermath

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:44 Sponsor: ProtonVPN 02:01 Linux passes 4% market share 04:44 Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session 06:17 Apple makes a mess of the EU's new laws 10:03 Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project 11:36 Big French company fined for violating the GPL 13:05 Gaming: x86 emulator, AMD & NVIDIA drivers 16:55 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 18:08 Support the channel

Linux passes 4% market share

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-why-desktop-linux-is-finally-growing-in-popularity/

Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-No-GNOME-Xorg-Install

Apple makes a mess of the EU's DMA

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/07/apple-epic-dev-account-dma/

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/google-announces-the-new-fees-that-come-with-its-play-stores-dma-compliance-plan/

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer-account

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-03-01/a-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-apples-lack-of-dma-compliance/

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161

Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project

https://liliputing.com/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-to-shut-down-pay-2-4-million-to-settle-lawsuit-from-nintendo/

Big French company fined for violating the GPL

https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/

Gaming: AMD changes, open source Nvidia drivers get good

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/amdgpu-driver-for-linux-67-enforces-lower-power-limits-from-vbios/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-r550-open

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:54 Sirius 16 Overview 02:00 Design and build quality 04:19 Performance & Battery life 07:03 Ports 08:21 Display 09:00 Touchpad & Keyboard 10:24 Speakers, mic & webcam 11:18 Price & configuration

Sirius 16: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Sirius-16-Gen1.tuxedo

The Sirius 16 is decidedly aimed at Linux gaming or workstation use cases. Its 16.1 inches with a 2K resolution of 2560x1440, so it's 16:9, better for gaming IMO than 16:10, but less good for other tasks.

It has a full aluminium chassis, an 80Wh battery, it can accomodate up to 96 gigs of RAM, 8 terabytes of PCIe 4 SSD, and it comes with USB 4, the latest HDMI 2.1 and Wifi 6E. But what matters is what's inside, and that's a ryzen 7 7840HS, and a radeon 7600M XT, with 8 gigs of DDR6 VRAM. The aluminium chassis really feels solid, and the whole laptop is pretty hefty, at 2.2 kilos, or 4.8 pounds.

The CPU is a ryzen 7 7840HS, it's 8 cores, 16 threads, running at a top speed of 5.1Ghz. In geekbench 6, it got 2640 in single core, and 12635 in multi core, so it's more powerful than the i7 13700H I use daily on my own laptop.

browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5180453

In terms of gaming, I ran the benchmark for horizon zero dawn. At the native resolution and max settings, the game got 77 FPS, perfectly playable with a very nice looking experience. Lowering that 1080p and using FSR on the quality setting, still at the max settings, I got 116 FPS. And at high details, 1080p with FSR on the quality settings, you reach 118 FPS, so you’ll be able to make use of that displays high refresh rate!

And all of this runs in hybrid graphics mode by default, at least on the preinstalled Tuxedo OS my review unit came with.

The laptop, running at half brightness with wifi on, playing videos in a loop, lasted for 6 hours.

On the left side, you have a USB 1 3.2 Gen 2 port, a headphone jack, and a separate mic jack. On the right, you have a fingerprint reader, which unfortunately, doesn't support Linux.

You also get a USB C port, 4.0 Gen 3x2, it supports power delivery and displayport 1.4, and it's hardwired to the integrated GPU, and on the right, you also have another USB A 3.2 Gen2.

On the back, you get a barrel charger, a gigabit ethernet port, an HDMI 2.1 port that supports freesync and is hardwired to the dedicated GPU, and a USB C 3.2 Gen 2x1 port, that supports display port, freesync, and is hardwired to the dedicated GPU as well.

The display can run up to 165hz, but can go down to 120, 96, 72 or 69hz. Viewing angles are perfect, and it covers 100% of sRGB, with a contrast ratio of 1000:1. it's 300 nits of brightness which isn't bad but it isn't the birghtest ever, and it supports AMD Freesync. It's 2K, so 2560 by 1440p.

The keyboard is a rubber membrane affair, that feels really good to type on. it's quiet, key travel is ok the keys don't get stuck they're stable, so you can press from a corner and activate them, and you get a numpad which is a personel preference. You also get a tux branded key, full size arrow keys that are slightly off compared to the rest of the keyboard, which I hated at first, but kinda like now, because it makes them really easy to find. They keyboard is RGB backlit, you can control that in the tuxedo control center, to change the color and the brightness to anything you like, or you can press function + space bar to turn it on or off.

The touchpad is really smooth and sturdy, it's big enough, it's really off center though, which some people like, but I don't, I like things centered. It produces a very reassuring solid click, it doesn't rattle at all, it's really nice, and works with gestures as well.

The Sirius 16 comes with 4 speakers, which sound really nice. The mic is nothing to write home about, it's ok for small chats. As per the webcam, it goes up to 1080p 30, which isn't bad, and it doesn't yield horrible results at all.

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Nintendo sues Yuzu Switch emulator

https://www.polygon.com/24085140/nintendo-totk-leaked-yuzu-lawsuit-emulator https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/how-strong-is-nintendos-legal-case-against-switch-emulator-yuzu/

Nvidia CEO thinks we should stop writing code

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jensen-huang-advises-against-learning-to-code-leave-it-up-to-ai https://socradar.io/every-1-of-3-ai-generated-code-is-vulnerable-exploring-insights-with-cyberseceval/

Plasma 6 is out

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/

EU investigates Apple dropping PWAs

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/26/24083511/apple-eu-investigation-web-app-support https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/apple-bows-to-developer-complaints-will-allow-web-apps-in-eu-with-a-catch

Open Source isn't sustainable?

https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/

HDMI spec refuses AMD open source drivers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

Gaming: NVK is stable, Wine on Wayland

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-Conformant https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-ESO-GPL-Support https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-NVIDIA-ReBAR https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Basic-OpenGL

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Plasma 6 moved to Qt6 entirely, and it's also the first version with fully complete wayland support, and Wayland is actually the default session. And that Wayland support is pretty flawless in my experience.

And this release also brings a few cool things, courtesy of Wayland: HDR is now supported, provided your display also support it. You can also set a color profile for each display individually, on Wayland as well. And finally, you also get color blindness correction filters in the settings.

First, the theme is now lighter on the eyes. They have removed a bunch of the blue borders that every single panel inside of an app had, so the whole feel of the desktop is similar, but also nicer, you don't have that many lines that draw your eyes. Highlighted items in list views are also different, now with rounded corners and a little bit of spacing.

Another visual change is the floating panel by default.

The defaults have changed drastically First, single click to select is now the default, with double click to open. Tap to click on touchpads is also the default now, and they've disabled scrolling on the desktop to switch workspaces.

It's now way easier to change panel configuration. The previous messy pop-up was replaced by something much more visual, which will absolutely be a better experience. You get visual representations of the settings you're changing, with combo boxes to select what you want, and tou can now auto hide the panel.

Another big change is the combination of the overview and the present windows effect. It feels like the older overview, except, it looks a lot like GNOME's. What has changed is the touchpad gestures, and these are much, much better. You also get the desktop cube back.

Another change is the ability to just click inside of a scrollbar's area to move the content directly to that area. Finally, Krunner got faster, way faster, and now lets you reorder the various elements that it shows when you search for something.

Visually, the settings are less busy. Gone are the double rows of icons at the bottom of a page, they now mostly moved to the toolbar of the settings app, meaning that settings pages now look a bit nicer. They've also reduced the number of pages that were opened by clicking a button inside of another page, so things are easier to find, and the settings were reordered into other categories.

You get a new sound theme preference page, and, easier configuration of which app will open a broad category of file.

Dolphin received changes to its settings as well, reordering a bunch of things, and it gained kjeyboard shortcuts to access the toolbar buttons and the disk space usage bar that lives in the status bar. You can also now right click a folder to open it in split view.

Spectacle, the screen recorder, now shows a tray icon when it's recording your screen, you can click it to end the recording. It also support recording a part of your screen, and has new keyboard shortcuts to handle all of this. Everything will now be saved by default in the pictures screenshots directory, you can change that of course. It also support VP9 to record videos, and can be used using the CLI

Konsole has redesigned settings, and will use less ram. Text selection now works for chinese, korean or japanese, and every tab now uses a separate cgroup, meaning the entire app will no longer be killed if your system needs to kill a process to save somle resources

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So, our first recommendation will be homebrew, it's sort of a pre-requisite to get a lot of command line utilities that your distro might not have packaged.

You can install homebrew with one command line, and then you can get any CLI utility you want by running brew install, followed by the name of the tool you need.

Our second pick is FZF, for Fuzzy Find. It lets you search files extremely fast using their names, but it can also look through command history, processes, bookmarks, git commits, and more.

ATUIN thing replaces your shell history with a database you can search through super easily. Once it's installed with brew, press the up arrow key or control +r, and you'll get a search interface to look for all your commands.

CHEZMOI lets you manage your dotfiles. It lets you share these config files across devices by syncing them to a got repo, and it can interface with a very large variety of password managers to keep everything safe.

If you use a laptop, and you find Linux's batter life to be a bit subpar, maybe look at POWERTOP. Just run the command powertop, and you'll see all processes. Using tab, you can navigate to various statistics, but also to the "tunables" screen, which will show you what powertop identifies as a bad configuration for battery life.

If you'd like to tune these, you can rune powertop --auto-tune, and it will change all the settings to what it believes are "good" options for battery life saving, although it might impact the performance.

If you'd like to quickly analyze what uses a lot of disk space on your computer, or on a remote server, you might want to replace the du and df commands with DUST.

If you run a dual boot, and you're facing problems with accessing one of your installed systems, you can force GRUB to reboot into a specific system, just for the next boot, using the grub-reboot command, followed by the number of the grub entry for that system.

If you need to monitor for resource usage on your computer, you might be using top, or htop, but BTOP is a better option. It looks better than htop or top, and it's also more legible.

If you often use the cat command to read a file, maybe try BAT instead. It does the same thing, but it also has syntax highlighting for a bunch of files, and it communicates with git to show modifications in files, with the usual Plus and minuses symbols.

If man is too much for you and is too much reading, and if the --help option isn't enough, why not try TLDR? It gives you an abridged version of the contents of MAN for most of the available programs and commands, and it makes things more legible, and easier to parse at a glance.

If you like to split a terminal or a tty into multiple terminals, ZELLIJ is a nice alternative to things like tmux. It's basically a tiling window manager for your terminal workspace: you can define your own layout, it supports plugins, floating panes, and more.

You can run it by running the zellij command, and then you can create a new pane pressing alt + N, you can move a pane using control +h, or make it floating with Control + P, then W.

If you often use ls to list files in a directory, you might want to take a look at EZA. It does the same job, as in, it lists the contents of a directory, but it does it with way more details, and a more legible interface.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: 10% off your first ebsite with Squarespace 01:33 Linus Torvalds talks about the future of Linux 03:58 Ubuntu might drop older CPUs 06:57 LXQt working on Wayland as well 08:33 Cosmic gets more improvements 09:48 GNOME & KDE updates 11:45 Gaming: Linux beats Windows, No Fortnite on Linux 15:17 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:24 Support the channel

Linus Torvalds talks about the future of Linux

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-on-state-of-linux-today-and-how-ai-figures-in-its-future/

Ubuntu might drop older CPUs

https://ubuntu.com/blog/optimising-ubuntu-performance-on-amd64-architecture

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-LTS-Desktop-Plans

LXQt working on Wayland as well

https://lubuntu.me/noble-alpha-featureset/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lubuntu-24.04-LTS-Plans

https://lubuntu.me/noble-alpha-featureset/

Cosmic gets more improvements

https://blog.system76.com/post/the-spirit-of-cosmic-december-updates

GNOME & KDE updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/12/15/this-week-in-kde-un-flashy-important-stability-work/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/12/twig-126/

Gaming: Linux beats Windows, No Fortnite on Linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/fortnite-on-linux-steam-deck-not-until-tens-of-millions-of-users/

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/3860211327585452520

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-scores-dead-last-in-gaming-performance-tests-against-3-Linux-gaming-distros.778624.0.html

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#Linux #desktop #operatingsystem #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro

Unified theming between desktops is pretty much abandoned as a thing that should be pursued, but we're also seeing an accent colors standard emerge. And that's complimented by the work being done on portals. 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.

But, for now, we're not there yet. These standards are progressing, but they're not all encompassing, and they're not implemented equally across all desktops. The big ones, like GNOME and KDE, sure, but other smaller options aren't there yet.

Packaging formats, at the end of 2023, are in a bad state. Linux packaging has never been messier. As neither flatpak nor snap are fully ready for 100% of applications, some stuff simply can't be packaged using these, and they still have drawbacks that some users don't want to deal with. Which means a lot of app developers still can't say "hey, this is what we should be using now".

The display situation is much better though. X11 is now clearly abandonware, and work on Wayland has been stellar in 2023. Mostly all desktops now have plans for Wayland, everyone is in agreement.

Added to that, work on supporting HDR has moved by leaps and bounds, and we'll see a fully working implementation in 2024. 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.

As per drivers, we've seen some solid progress as well. AMD now has solid drivers on launch day for their GPUs, Intel has finished their Xe driver, Arc GPUs are now well supported, and nvidia drivers have progressed a lot. We're also seeing very strong efforts for open source nvidia drivers.

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 Chrome OS.

Gaming has been incredible in 2023. Not only did Linux pass macOS market share for Steam, but we've seen great support for the Steam Deck, which, in turn, means great support for Linux. Sure, it's all driven by Proton and Wine, it's not native Linux ports, but my opinion is that it doesn't matter: if you can click install, and then play, and run the game with the performance you'd expect, things are good.

Non steam gaming has also progressed immensely, with Heroic becoming a really fantastic launcher for Gog and EPic Games, and Lutris still handling most of the rest.

Now for app support, I'd say we haven't seen many improvements in 2023. 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 Office, Adobe apps, a lot of content creation software, or CAD software are still missing, with no indication that it will change.

The big challenge I can see is AI integration in the desktop. It's a move Microsoft is making with Windows 12, adding AI powered search, and automations throughout the desktop. Whether we should chase that trend on Linux, I'll let you decide, but what's certain is that once users have had a few years to get used to one click buttons that save 30 minutes, it will be hard to go back.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:34 Sponsor: 10% off your first website with Squarespace 01:31 Zorin OS 17 beta 03:49 Mint 21.3 brings Wayland support 05:03 Giant AI alliance forming 06:33 EU regulates AI 08:00 systemd brings blue screen of death 09:38 Giant security flaw affects most Windows and Linux systems 11:18 GNOME improves scaling & triple buffering 13:25 Gaming News: Steam Deck, wine on Wayland 15:23 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:27 Support the channel

Zorin OS 17 beta

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/12/04/a-sneak-peek-at-zorin-os-17/

https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-17-beta-unveiled-with-striking-improvements/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/zorin-os-17-beta-released7

Mint 21.3 brings Wayland support

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4604

Giant AI alliance forming

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/meta-ibm-assemble-open-source-ai-alliance

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-alliance-launches-international-community-leading-technology-developers-researchers-and-adopters-collaborating-together-advance-open-safe-responsible-ai

The EU regulates AI

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/eu-provisional-agreement-ai-act-regulate-artificial-intelligence

systemd brings blue screen of death

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-255

Giant security flaw affects most Windows and Linux systems

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/just-about-every-windows-and-linux-device-vulnerable-to-new-logofail-firmware-attack/

GNOME improves scaling + triple buffering

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Better-Text-Scaling

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/12/twig-125/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Triple-Buffering-Ready

Gaming News: Steam Deck, SteamOS, wine on Wayland

https://www.phoronix.com/review/steam-deck-oled-benchmarks

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#Laptop #Gaming #Linux

It's a 15 inch device, with a 1440p display that refreshes at 165 hertz, with an aluminium chassis, a 13th gen Intel i7 CPU, an RTX 4060 GPU, as much RAM as you could cram into a laptop, and very solid I/O.

So, this thing is chunky: it's not meant to be an ultrabook, it weighs 2.1 kilos, or 4.6 pounds, and it's pretty damn sturdy. Not much give or flex to this chassis, thanks to the aluminium.

The hinge is really solid as well, with minimal wobble when typing. It's a 16:9 form factor. Of course you can open the laptop, and access the 2 M.2 slots for SSDs, the 2 DDR5 RAM slots, and the battery, which is 62 Wh. You can also buy spare parts from Slimbook, including the bezel cover, touchpad, lid, battery, keyboard palm rest, display, and more.

Now, in terms of specs, this laptop is well equipped, with a core i7 13620H, and an Nvidia RTX 4060, with 8 gigs of VRAM.

You can spec the rest up to your liking, with up to 64 gigs of DDR 5 RAM, at 5200 Mhz, and up to 4TB of PCIE4 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 WASD keys, and you can pick any keyboard language you want.

As per I/O, on the left, you get a kensington lock, a USB 2.0 port, probably for a mouse, a mic jack, and a headphone jack. On the back, you have a mindisplay port, USB C 3.2 gen 2 with dusplayport support, HDMI 2.1, a gigabit ethernet port and the barrel charger, since charging this thing over USB would be a challenge. And on the right, there's an SD card reader, and 2 type A USB 3.2 ports.

On top of all that, you get Bluetooth 5.2, Wifi 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.

In terms of benchmarks, the CPU get a score of 2733 in single core and 11625 in multi core on Geekbench 6.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/3787232

Battery life is decent, with about 7h of generic office work with wifi on, 50% brightness, and using the silent mode.

In Horizon Zero Dawn, at the native 1440p resolution, without any upscaling, and at the ultra preset, the Slimbook Hero managed a super smooth 60 FPS.

For Shadow of the Tomb Raider, also at 1440p without upscaling, and the ultra preset, I got 99 FPS on average, sometimes going down to about 80, or up to 120.

The display is really solid, it covers 100% of SRGB, it has a refresh rate up to 165hz, and it's 1440p.

The keyboard is solid enough. 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.

The touchpad is ok. It's smooth enough, and precise, although it's very off center, which I find annoying in day to day use.

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#Privacy #anonymity #private

Virtually everything online now collects data. And this data doesn't just stay at the company that collected it. This data is a giant repository for governments to use and track or monitor their citizens.

See, in a LOT of countries, governments have the right to ask a company to provide all the data they've collected on their users. Companies have no choice but to comply with these, which is also why using end to end, and zero access encrypted services is crucial.

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 ever country does this.

If you want even more scary numbers, in 2022, Meta, the parent company for Facebook, Instagram, or Whatsapp, got 827K requests for data. They complied with 76% of these requests.

https://www.globalsecuritymag.com/Meta-received-over-800k-user-data-requests-from-governments-in-2022.html

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 messaging apps, and prohibits the use of tools that would circumvent government censorship. This means that while VPNs aren't exactly banned, if they let people access banned websites, then they'll also be banned. This has happened to at least 15 VPNs, including NordVPN, ProtonVPN, and OperaVPN.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/08/01/russia-new-legislation-attacks-internet-anonymity

In Australia, in 2021, a law was proposed to force people to attach their real name to their social media posts, apparently to fight online trolls, bullying and harrassment. Users would have had to provide an ID before opening any social media account, which would obviously open the door to surveillance, monitoring, and censorship.

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2021/govt-wants-to-end-online-anonymity.html

In France, we have the recent SREN law. This thing would give the telecom watchdog powers to block websites, and require tools for age verification. On top of that, the law will give the government capabilities to demand web browsers and DNS providers block certain websites.

https://adguard.com/en/blog/france-web-browser-dns-blocking-law.html

in the UK, the Online Safety Bill of 2022 allows the regulatory agency Ofcom to force websites to collect people's personal data, and they'll be able to scan, restrict and remove content that is considered harmful. The bill also mandates online communication services to be moderated, which basically means end to end encryption can be enabled there anymore.

https://datainnovation.org/2022/05/the-uks-online-safety-bill-undermines-encryption-and-anonymity/

So, what can you do about this? For protecting your data, there are plenty of things you can do. First, 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 macOS, in Android and iOS. You can try using a degoogled, privacy focused Android ROM on your smartphone.

Leaving Chrome for a more private browser is also pretty much mandatory. Same goes for your online services: stop using Google as a search engine, Gmail, or stuff like Outlook, OneDrive, iCloud, and the like. Using a VPN is also a solid option to at least try and blur the lines.

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#Linux #OpenSource #technews

Cosmic Updates

https://blog.system76.com/post/a-cosmic-thanksgiving-2023

PLasma 6 and GNOME get even better

https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/24/this-week-in-kde-the-plasma-6-feature-freeze-approaches/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/11/twig-123/

Youtube has a 5s delay against adblockers

https://www.404media.co/youtube-says-new-5-second-video-load-delay-is-supposed-to-punish-ad-blockers-not-firefox-users/

https://www.techradar.com/computing/browsers/youtube-may-now-have-annoying-delays-if-you-use-an-ad-blocker-heres-why

Google moves forward with manifest v3

https://www.techradar.com/computing/chrome/chromes-ad-blocking-plan-could-be-a-privacy-disaster-and-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWCLhHrblE&pp=ygULbWFuaWZlc3QgdjM%3D

Linux outperforms Windows 11

https://www.phoronix.com/review/threadripper-7995wx-windows-linux

Open Source Nvidia drivers now VUlkan compliant

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-hits-vulkan-10-conformance/

Gaming: improved Steam, Wine 8.21, DX12 support

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/3823053915988527062

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/vkd3d-proton-211-released-with-directx-raytracing-enabled-by-default/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.21

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#Linux #Systemd #opensource

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All Linux based systems use an Init system, short for initialization: it's the first process that starts after you boot your OS, and it runs in the background while you're using your computer, to manage system services, and various processes. For many, many Linux distros, SystemD is this init system.

SYstem D is a relatively recent project, at the scale of Linux anyway, it started in 2010, and was spearheaded by Red Hat. Its goal was to replace the existing solutions, like SysV or Upstart, to make things faster and more resilient.

It quickly became the default on Fedora, obviously, then on Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, and many, many others.

The famous Bloat argument is one advanced most often. System D, as time went on, encompassed more and more features that were generally handled by individual services, not the init system itself, like device management, login, or network management and creating logs.

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.

What's certain is that most distros that implement it are general purpose distros, that need to provide as many systems as possible, and so they tend to use most of systemD's features and modules.

SystemD also "hides away" certain configurations with its own tools, like systemctl, instead of exposing everything as a config file. Whether these things are important or not, though, depend on the person.

Another criticism levelled 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: without SystemD, they can't work at all, or will have a limited featureset. This results in some extra work for distros that don't want to use systemD, as they have to use an alternative implementation of these features.

Another regular criticism of SystemD comes from the fact it's mainly a Red Hat project, or at least was started by Red Hat. The fact remains that while systemD was started at Red Hat, it IS an open source project, and it is receiving contributions from a lot of people that aren't at Red hat.

Another criticism of SystemD is that it's making Linux based systems uniform and that it restricts choice. I'd argue this isn't really true, since there ARE other alternatives, like OpenRC, Dinit, SysVInit and more.

One final problem people identify with SystemD is system security. First, there's the fact that having one single system that powers the init and service management of most distros is a security risk: an attacker can target many, many systems by targeting systemD.

Second, some people would say that since SystemD is huge and does a lot of things, it has a very large attack surface.

But why would you WANT to use it, exactly?

SystemD is a unified project, which means you don't have to learn 20 different programs if you need to interact with something: you learn how systemD works, and you can manage everything.

Compared to other init systems, it's also simpler, as it opens various sockets that services can plug into, and services can start in mostly any order. And finally, systemD is written in C, and isn't the usual compilation of bash scripts, so it tends to be faster and more efficient than many other init systems.

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#Linux #OpenSource #TechNews

00:00 Intro 00:47 Sponsor: Thunderbird 01:40 Microsoft has to open Windows 03:22 FSF calls to the EU for more open source 05:06 AMD is teasing some FOSS work around AI 06:36 Peertube's roadmap looks pretty awesome 08:21 Desktop Environment news 10:47 Kernel 6.7 is full of good stuff 12:39 Gaming: Deck OLED, SteamOS update, Wine on Wayland 15:40 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:36 Outro

Microsoft has to open Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23963579/microsoft-windows-11-eu-digital-markets-act-feature-changes

FSF calls to the EU for more open source

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.en.html

AMD is teasing some FOSS work around AI

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Advancing-AI-Open

Peertube's roadmap looks pretty awesome

https://framablog.org/2023/11/14/lets-regain-ground-on-the-toxic-web-framasofts-2023-report/

Desktop environment news

https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/17/this-week-in-kde-panel-intellihide-and-wayland-presentation-time/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/11/twig-122/

Kernel 6.7 is full of good stuff

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/linux-6-6-kernel-confirms-long-term-support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-rc1

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-USB-Thunderbolt

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-linux-67

Gaming: Deck OLED, SteamOS update, Wine on Wayland

https://9to5linux.com/steam-deck-oled-is-now-available-to-order-with-hdr-display-and-bigger-battery

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.5.5

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-HiDPI-Merged

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/wine-820-brings-directmusic-improvements-and-preparations-for-wine-90/

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#Linux #Flatpak #Snap #AppImage

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So, what we call "packages" are debs, for Debian and Ubuntu based distros, and RPMs for Red Hat and SUSE based distros. These packages can contain libraries, or apps, and all libraries are shared between applications.

We then have Flatpaks, which are distro-agnostic. Flatpaks are sandboxed, and while they share a lot of libraries through runtimes, they can use more space over time.

Snaps are basically the same concept as flatpaks, made by Ubuntu. There are a few technical differences with flatpaks, the big one being that Snaps are suitable for graphical apps, and for command line programs.

AppImages are a more portable format: the whole app is shipped inside a single file, with most, if not all of its libraries. This means you can copy/paste apps from a system to another, and they run on any distro that has access to FUSE2.

Now, let's look at some performance comparison between different packaging formats. I ran all these tests on the same Ubuntu 23.04 VM, with 16 gigs of RAM, 4 cores of my 13th gen i7 13700h.

Judging from the results, we can see that all packaging formats take longer to start than basic deb packages. It's especially visible with heavy apps that need to do some setup when they first open, like LibreOffice or GIMP. But we also notice that on subsequent openings of an app, all packaging formats are pretty close.

I ran the Speedometer test in all 4 versions of Firefox: the snap performs worse for jetstream, but much better for Speedometer, while flatpak performs on par for SPeedometer, but worse for jetstream. Deb packages perform well for jetstream, but worse for speedometer., and the Appimage is generally just a good performer.

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.

Regular packages aren't sandboxed by default: basically it means that you should only install these packages from sources you trust: either your distro's repos, or well vetted third party repos.

As per Flatpaks, they're 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'd find in Android or iOS apps.

Snaps can be sandboxed, but the sandbox isn't 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 anything weird. As per AppImages, they don't have a sandbox natively.

Now let's see what's missing in terms of features. Regular packages can access everything, so there are no missing features there.

Flatpaks 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: currently, no web browser packaged as flatpak or snap can interact with a third party password manager reliably.

Support for the system theme is also not perfect for snaps and flatpaks, or for AppImages.

As per various problems with these packaging formats, you also have the size of packages: while Snaps and Flatpaks do share libraries between apps, they don't share as much as regular packages, which means they can take up more space.

Snaps also have the added problem that they mount each app in its own virtual filesystem, that is decompressed on the fly: this can clutter your mount points, which can be annoying if you need to manage these regularly. The Snap Store backend is also proprietary, and it's centralized.

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#Linux #office #work

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The first thing is that Linux is everywhere and already used by professionals all around the world.

I could take the example of Android, which is the most popular smartphone OS in the world, and using a Linux kernel. I could turn to the absolute domination of Linux on the server space.

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. But it's not what people intend when talking about an OS. Generally, they mean that the Linux DESKTOP isn't ready for professionals.

The first obvious counter argument is developers. Linux is used by 47% of professional developers. That's higher than the market share of macOS among developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_C3pgc1Iho

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.

In terms of web browsers, there's no question, we have them all. For email clients, we do lack Outlook, 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.

LibreOffice might be a great option for a lot of people, but it does have some problems, let's face it. But LibreOffice isn't our only choice. For perfect compatibility, we have access to SoftMaker Office, now called FreeOffice, or to WPS Office.

Now, for media creation, Linux lacks all the Adobe programs. But that doesn't mean we don't have tools either. Davinci Resolve is a tool used by professionals and hollywood studios to edit videos, edit audio, and create virtual effects. It basically does what Audition, After Effects and Premiere do, in one single package. it's available on Linux.

We have Blender for VFX. 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 a beta for Linux. We have inkscape, Ardour, Krita - one of the most popular digital drawing apps- OBS, PDF Studio for editing PDF documents, Bitwig, and a lot more.

Whether you like AI or not, it's happening. And AI is a professional domain in which Linux is the standard.

And that's the tip of the iceberg. Cybersecurity 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 sytems run Linux.

The market share of Linux on the desktop is low, there's no denying that: it's listed at barely 3%, far below macOS or Windows. But this doesn't include another system: Chrome OS. And chrome OS has 3.9% market share on the desktop. Combined with non Chrome OS Linux ssytems, taht's almost 7%. it's still lower than proprietary OSes, but that's a LOT of computers running a Linux system.

Now, that doesn't mean Linux is ready for every professional out there. If you absolutely need certain software that's not available, then Linux won't work for you. But I'd argue that it's not necessarily a Linux problem: it has the tools needed to do the same job in most cases. It's just not the tools you're allowed to use, or want to use.

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Iodé is Android, but with all Google software removed. It uses Lineage OS as a base, but adds a built-in ad and tracker blocker that runs at all times, locally on the device.

The ROM itself will be familiar if you ever used a Pixel. On the Pixel 5, Iodé OS 4 was preinstalled, and it's based on Android 13. The latest security update was on January 5th 2023. The Iodé team told me they provide security updates every 2 months, and every month for beta users.

The default experience is as close to stock as can be: you have either the 3 button layout of Android, or the gestures, a dock of apps at the bottom, an app drawer by swiping up, and a few preset widgets.

In terms of apps, Iodé ships with a Firefox fork by default, which disables telemetry, trackers and enables alternative search engines right out of the box. The default email client is Pretty Easy privacy, or pEp. It's a simple email client with an easy interface, that adds end to end encryption capabilities to any mail account.

For Maps, you get Magic Earth, which is also open source, and uses OpenStreet Map. The keyboard is OpenBoard, the camera app is OpenCamera, which, while very powerful, has a terrible user interface and looks pretty bad.

Iodé comes with a tracker blocker built in. This thing works using a man in the middle attack style: the OS intercepts all communications and requests that go out of your phone, and blocks everything that's part of the blocklists. These blocklists are collaboratively sourced, and include a LOT of adblock and tracker blocker related things. This system is based on Energized Protection, which is an open source project licensed under the MIT license.

To complement this, there's a preinstalled app that lets you check out how many requests you've blocked to how many recipients.

Iodé OS relies on 2 app stores: you get F Droid for all your open source app needs, and you get the Aurora Store. Installing apps works very well, I encountered 0 problems here.

Where you'll have issues is running apps that depend on Google services. I tried installing the Youtube app, and it never opened. Other Google apps got me the same experience, like the youtube studio app. Stuff like Google Maps or Google Photos worked, but were unable to use the already added Google account in micro G.

After reaching out to the Iodé team, they told me they have identified the issue, which is fixed in the beta, and will be patched in the next OTA release.

Interestingly, stuff like my banking app worked immediately on Iodé, letting me use the phone as my secure device to authenticate purchases online, something that is usually blocked because the device doesn't pass SafetyNet checks. Here, it all worked perfectly for me.

Compared to Lineage OS, it adds all these tracker and ad blocking capabilities. You could probably replicate that yourself on Lineage, but at least here, it's setup right out of the box.

Compared to something like /e/, the latter has more advanced privacy features, with the ability to scramble your location at the press of a button, and more complete privacy controls.

But /e/ also deviates a lot from stock Android, with their own launcher, their own forks of open source apps, and generally an experience that won't appeal to everyone.

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#mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia

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Fediverse is a contraction of Federated Universe. It's basically a very large network of servers that form, well, a social network. But contrary to the ones you might be used to, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others, the Fediverse is composed of different services.

The more well known are Mastodon, a Twitter-like microblogging service, PeerTube, a youtube-like platform, or PixelFed, an Instagram-like social network, but there are a TON of others.

Each service is also decentralized, which means there is not one big server farm where everything is hosted: each service is split into instances, basically independent servers, with different goals.

ActivityPub is an open standard, that lets all services on the Fediverse talk to each other. How does that work? Well, in practice, it means you can use your Mastodon app to follow a Peertube channel, or someone that posts pictures on PixelFed, or see new articles from a Wordpress website.

And this goes a bit further: for example, if I comment on Mastodon on a post from Peertube, that comment will also appear on Peertube underneath the video.

Let's start with Mastodon. Mastodon is basically Twitter, but open source and decentralized. It lets you post messages with up to 500 characters, it supports images, videos, polls, content warnings, animated avatar pictures, emojis, links, mentions, hashtags, anything you're used to on Twitter. Mastodon has 1.5 million active users, which might seem small compared to Twitter, but it's more than enough to have interesting conversations with a lot of cool people.

To join Mastodon, all you need to do is pick a server, also called an instance. You can pick any server you like, and it will let you interact with everyone else on any other server.

And then, you can use Mastodon on the web, by typing the address of your instance in your browser, for example, for me, it's mastodon.social, or you can use a mobile app.

Now let's talk about PeerTube. It's a Youtube alternative, although it's much, much smaller. Peertube is also decentralized, being split into different servers, that are federated together, so you can follow people from different instances and still have a complete subscription feed. It also supports ActivityPub, which means you could subscribe to my peerTube channel from a mastodon account, and have a post in your timeline every time I publish a video.

And as a creator, it also lets you sync your youtube channel to it, so you can auto-publish all your videos to Peertube in a few clicks, which is also a great help.

To watch peertube, just type the address of your instance in your browser's URL, for me it's tilvids.com.

Another cool service on the Fediverse is PixelFed. It's basically Instagram, without all the crap they tacked on lately, like reels, or lives. It's just pictures and videos. It's free software, it also uses the ActivityPub standard, so you can follow PixelFed users on Mastodon, for example, and it's ad-free.

It also lets you add filters, just like Instagram, or crop, resize, adding alt text, and you can use hashtags, locations, or create collections, basically photo albums.