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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:34 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:55 The downfall of Google Search 04:28 US TikTok ban 06:59 Nvidia contributes to NVK 08:44 Ubuntu 24.04 is out 10:40 Fedora 40 is out 12:40 Gaming: NVK performance, Nintendo strikes again 15:46 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:49 Support the channel

The downfall of Google Search

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

The US really wants a TikTok ban

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1245594589/house-approves-bill-tiktok-ban

https://www.techradar.com/news/tiktok-ban-will-the-app-be-banned-in-the-us-and-how-would-that-work

Nvidia contributes to NVK

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-NVK-Conservative

Ubuntu 24.04 is out

https://youtu.be/LGIWeld3Zwc

Fedora 40 is out

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

https://linuxiac.com/slimbook-fedora-2-laptop/

Gaming: NVK performance, Nintendo strikes again

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Implicit-Pipeline-Caching

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-gets-more-enhancements/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/garrys-mod-forced-to-remove-nintendo-content-after-takedowns/

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:52 CentOS 03:19 Why is CentOS still so popular? 05:20 How prevalent is CentOS right now 06:46 The problem with CentOS 7 going end of life 07:55 Stay on CentOS without patches 11:23 Move to another distro: a challenge 14:21 Extended Lifecycle support 18:57 Parting thoughts 19:37 Support the channel

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CentOS is short for Community Enterprise Operating System, and it started as one of the first Red hat Enterprise Linux clones: it was built from RHEL sources, and was 100% binary compatible. The distro quickly became one of the most popular distros for servers, even overtaking the good old Debian in 2010, for a little while at least. In 2014, Red Hat announced they would sponsor the CentOS project, probably seeing the advantage in fostering an ecosystem around their own enterprise offering, to convert organizations to RHEL when they needed more support, and to make sure developers had a solid platform to target.

That's when Red Hat gained ownership of all the trademarks, and they basically employed most major CentOS contributors.

Unfortunately, at the end of 2020, Red Hat announced that CentOS would be discontinued, at least in its current "RHEL clone" form, and would now be distributed as CentOS Stream, which isn't really the same kind of distribution: instead of being a rebuild of RHEL, which is what people mostly used CentOS for, it's basically RHEL's upstream, from which the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be built. Stream is also a rolling release, meaning that it's likely not suitable for a lot of people who relied on CentOS.

With that, CentOS 8 was quickly discontinued, in December 2021, leaving CentOS 7 as the only version that is still supported. And CentOS 7 will now be end of life at the end of June 2024, meaning that if you want a full rebuild of RHEL, and CentOS Stream doesn't work for you, you have to find another solution.

And this isn't really like any other enterprise distro going end of life: in most cases, for these, you have a direct upgrade path, like with Ubuntu LTS, or a new RHEL version. In CentOS's case, you don't: you either move to Stream, or you switch to another distro. Or well, there's another option, which we'll discuss in a minute.

CentOS 7 is still a very, very popular distribution on servers. First, a worrying statistic: out of all current CentOS users in early 2024, more than half use CentOS 6 or 8, meaning they're using end of life distros. CentOS 7 is 48.4% of current CentOS users. Now, compared to other distributions, CentOS might not grab the lion's share for servers, but it's still a very prevalent operating system.

Now, the main reasons why organizations would stick to either unmaintained, end of life versions of CentOS, or to CentOS 7 as it is going end of life is very likely because there is no direct upgrade path: if you're on CentOS 8, you can't move to something else from CentOS. If you use CentOS 6, you could upgrade to 7, but migrating to a new distro that goes end of life in 2 months isn't necessarily worth it. And if you're on CentOS7, you can't upgrade to version 8, because it's also end of life.

Meaning that if your workflow or server depends on CentOS as a product, you're pretty much stuck, unless you want to move to another distributions that's also a RHEL clone, like AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:32 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 01:38 State of your battery 02:56 Hardware acceleration 06:30 TLP 09:42 Dual GPU setups 11:36 Other basic tips 13:34 Other tools and parting thoughts 14:43 Support the channel

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If you watch videos or stream movies and shows from your browser, check that it's actually using your GPU to accelerate that video decoding.

To check that in Firefox, type about:support in the URL bar, then search for "compositing" in the page. If it says "webrender", you're good.

To check if the GPU is used to decode videos, you can also search for "hardware_video_decoding". If it says "default available", you're good.

On Chromium based browsers, to check for that, type chrome://gpu in the URL bar.

On Firefox, to enable that, open the about:config page, then search for media.hardware-video-decoding.enabled. Double click the value to set it to true.

On any chrome based browser, you can just go to the settings, to "system", and toggle "use graphics acceleration when available". Provided your distro has the required packages, you should be good.

And, if you have an older chipset that isn't able to decode all formats using the GPU, like for example VP8 or VP9, you have browser extensions, called enhanced-h264ify for Firefox, or h264ify for Chrome, which will let you set h264 as the default codec on youtube.

One of the most useful tools here will be TLP. It's a command line only tool, but fear not, there's a graphical user interface that's much more user friendly here, called TLP UI.

Once installed, TLP will run automatically in the background after the first reboot. If you open TLP UI after that, you should see that it's enabled, and get access to all the various settings.

TLP documentation: https://linrunner.de/tlp/usage/index.html

Now, if your computer has 2 GPUs, an integrated one, and a dedicated one, you might also want to check which one you're using: when using your laptop unplugged, you might want to just use the integrated GPU, and when plugged in, the dedicated GPU.

The easiest way to do so is by staying in hybrid graphics mode. If you have an nvidia GPU, and the proprietary drivers you can just open th Nvidia settings app, and head over to the "prime profiles" tab, and select "Nvidia on demand".

If you really want the best savings though, then you'll need to completely disable the dedicated GPU, either by using "Intel (power saving mode) in the nvidia settings app, or by using the BIOS to set your GPU to integrated only.

And of course, there are the usual basic changes you can make: the usual screen brightness thing, this can save you a ton of battery. The display's refresh rate is also a factor, and variable refresh rate will let you save some battery.

The more recent your hardware is, the better the chances a more recent kernel and drivers will have better hardware support and better performance and battery life.

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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 00:58 Sponsor: Proton Mail 02:23 Package manager for CLI apps 03:18 Find files easily 04:23 Better terminal history 05:24 Save your dotfiles 06:50 Tweak your battery life 08:26 Analyze disk space usage 09:24 Reboot on a specific OS 10:08 Better system monitor 10:53 Better CAT 11:28 Quick CLI help 12:09 Tiling WM for your terminal 13:15 More legible file list 13:55 Recommend yours! 14:18 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 15:19 Support the channel

#Linux #terminal #commandline #linuxcommunity #linuxcommands #linuxcommands

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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00:00 Intro 00:35 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 01:32 Open Source Nvidia drivers are already pretty good 04:11 Color management and HDR work progress 05:39 Microsoft's AI studio runs on Linux only 06:54 Plasma 6 beta 2, and a new KDE theme 08:52 Fedora Asahi is out 10:10 Flipboard and Threads will move to ActivityPub and the Fediverse 12:03 Gaming: VkD3D and Proton Experimental 13:29 Support the channel

Open Source Nvidia drivers are already pretty good

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-holiday-update.html

Color management and HDR work progress

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/12/18/update-on-hdr-and-colormanagement-in-plasma.html

Microsoft's AI studio runs on Linux only

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsofts-new-windows-ai-studio-developer-tool-makes-you-install-linux-to-use-it

Plasma 6 beta 2, and a new KDE theme

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta2/

https://carlschwan.eu/2023/12/19/announcing-brise-theme/

Fedora Asahi is out

https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-asahi-remix-39/

Flipboard and Threads will move to AtivityPub and the Fediverse

https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-begins-to-federate-c56ec788feaa

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon

Gaming: VkD3D and Proton Experimental

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/proton-experimental-brings-more-hdr-steam-overlay-hack-for-easy-anti-cheat-from-eos/

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases/tag/v2.11.1

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Timecodes: 00:00 Introduction 01:07 Sponsor: Proton Mail 02:14 Weird, but good GNOME implementation 06:00 The "Spatial desktop" 08:17 Enhanced Tiling & layouts 10:03 Under the hood 12:26 Windows app support & other things 14:34 Does it regain the crown? 17:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 18:24 Support the channel

Zorin OS 17 doesn't use the very latest, it's based on GNOME 43, not 45. The Software store is the one from GNOME 45, but other apps are the version from GNOME 42, like the image viewer or the file manager.

You still get access to desktop layouts, which let you change how your desktop looks and feels in one click. You also get a Zorin 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 OS 16 already had.

As per Zorin specific changes, the default Zorin menu now gives you a search box, to find anything you want, it uses the GNOME shell search backend, so you can enable or disable providers in the settings. You also gain an "all apps" category to see everything sorted alphabetically.

Also, Zorin OS seems to default to Wayland now,

It brings back 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 the strip of desktops, you get the desktop cube. You can make it turn with touchpad gestures, and windows are laid out with a nice parallax effect, floating over the desktop.

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 strip 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.

Zorin OS added advanced tiling. Again, it needs to be enabled in the Zorin Appearance settings, and it gives you not only quarter tiling, but also a lot of other options. When you tile a window to a screen edge, you get a little pop-up 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 fore will also bring the other one alongside it.

You can also turn on tiling layouts. They're not the most legible or easy to create, as 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.

Under the hood, Zorin OS 17 is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so you're getting packages that are close to being 2 years old. It adds snap and flatpak, with flathub enabled.

Zorin uses the Linux kernel 6.2, which, ehhh well it's end of life, and has been since May 2023,

You're 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.

Zorin OS also still keeps the cool things they add on the side: first you get Zorin connect, which is KDE connect and the GS Connect extension for GNOME shell. You also get an easy one click install of Wine, called Windows app support. It installs Wine, and PlayOnLinux, so you can try and run various windows executables, but both of these are super outdated.

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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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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Sponsor: ProtonVPN 02:21 Standardization and cohesiveness 05:31 Packaging formats and app distribution 07:17 Display, Wayland, HDR, and scaling 09:27 Drivers, graphics and firmware 11:40 Gaming 13:06 App support 14:31 More challenges? 17:02 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 18:00 Support the channel

#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

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Relative-Mouse

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro Sponsor: Start securing your CentOS 7 fleet now 02:06 Slimbook Hero 03:32 Design & Build Quality 04:45 Specs and options 07:02 Performance & Gaming 09:25 Display 10:06 Keyboard & Mouse 11:20 Software Experience 12:36 Linux gaming laptop? 14:10 Support the channel

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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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Red Hat will drop X11 in RHEL 10

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RHEL10-Removing-X.Org

Plasma 6 beta and new features

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/

https://pointieststick.com/2023/12/01/this-week-in-kde-changing-the-wallpaper-from-within-system-settings/

GNOME weekly update

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/12/twig-124/

Cool stuff coming to Fedora, and Linux in general

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2023/11/29/fedora-workstation-39-and-beyond/

Budgie is looking for a new base for their future update

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/budgie_switches_wayland_approach/

Peertube 6 is out with plenty of great features

https://framablog.org/2023/11/28/peertube-v6-is-out-and-powered-by-your-ideas/

Gaming: Mesa 23.3, Wine Wayland, Heroic Games

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/mesa-233-is-out-now-with-the-nvk-vulkan-driver-for-nvidia/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Vulkan-Usable

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PCSX2-Disables-Wayland-Default

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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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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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#privacy #google #android

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This isn't the completely finalized design, so the back of the phone, and the protection that came in the box aren't completely final and might change a little.

The very point of the Murena 2 is to offer a privacy focused phone: it comes with /e/ OS, 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.

The connectivity switch is purely software, and will just turn on airplane mode and will mute your phone, so it's more a "big do not disturb" mode than a privacy switch.

It comes with a mediatek CPU, with 4 performance cores at 2.1Ghz and 4 efficiency cores at 2 Ghz, it has 8 gigs of RAM, 128 gigs of storage, plus a micro SD slot. It supports dual SIM, and the OLED screen is 6.43 inches and a resolution of 1080x2400, plus a hole punch cut out for the selfie camera, which is 25 megapixels.

On the back, you get 3 camera lenses, one is the standard lens, at 64 megapixels, one is an ultrawide, at 13 MP and one is a telephoto lens at 5 Megapixels.

It has a 4000 milliamp hour battery, with support for high speed charging at 18W, it supports Wifi ac and bluetooth 4.2, and it's 4G, not 5G.

They also say they have a 6 out of 10 on repairability, and they'll offer spare parts and schematics for easy repair. They'll provide 5 years of support for the software at least.

On the Murena 2, /e/ OS runs OK. It's not perfectly smooth, animations can sometimes jitter a bit, but generally, the experience is what you'd 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'll definitely notice stutters, like in the App Lounge when scrolling, but navigating the phone is good enough, and video playback and games run well.

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.

The 2 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 handling of that could be improved, as launching the camera app with the privacy toggle on, will spit out an error, instead of a smoother message indicating your privacy toggle is on.

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.

The cameras are pretty basic, the telephoto had a very hard time focusing on anything for me, but the other 2 worked fine, although you won't find the same kind of post processing you'll 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. 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 won't sound extremely crisp.

With the kickstarter, the phone is 399€, without it, it will be 499€.

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#Linux #OpenSource #apps

00:00 Intro 00:42 Sponsor: Try the new Thunderbird interface 01:35 Replace Obsidian 03:49 Replace Notion 06:40 Replace Teams and Slack 07:51 Replace Trello 09:24 Replace Acrobat Pro 10:33 Replace Visual Studio Code 11:47 Other alternatives 13:16 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 14:25 Support the channel

Obsidian offers the ability to link notes together, it uses markdown and plain text to store your notes, it has a plugin ecosystem, and the visual knowledge graph that lets you explore topics and the relationships between your notes. BUT it's proprietary, so we have Logseq. 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 data you entered in your notes.Logseq even offers their own syncing solution if you want that. It's available for Linux, as an AppImage, and for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.

Another really powerful app is Notion. While it's free of charge, it's also proprietary and doesn't have an official Linux version.

The closest thing you can find in the open source world will be AppFlowy, and while it's really close, it's not as feature complete just yet. You can create your own structure, with pages and subpages, and you have a few page types, like calendars, boards, tables, or documents. You also can mix these types on the same page, like having a 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.

If you want a more full featured app, there's AnyType instead. It's also open source, and has a Linux client and mobile apps, but the interface is a bit more involved and less clear to start with than AppFLowy.

Now this one, you might not have as much control over, generally, a company or project will impose Slack or Microsoft Teams on you. But if you have all the power, then you might want to take a look at Mattermost.

It's a fully open source Slack / MS Teams alternative, that you can self host. It lets you create channels, and chat, with side threads, 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 all you need to organize yourself is a board, you might use Trello. This one is pretty easy to replace: you can just use Focalboard. You can either self host it if you want to let multiple people access the same board, or you can just use it as a personal app, with a macOS, Windows and Linux application.

If you need to create and edit PDF documents, you might use Acrobat Pro, from Adobe. You can always open them in GIMP, Inkscape, of LibreOffice Draw, but these tend to either open a single page, or break the document's formatting. Libreoffice draw does a great job IF you have all the fonts used in the PDF 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.

Visual Studio Code's ... code is licensed under the MIT license, so it IS an open source / free software project, but the binary you can get from Microsoft isn't open source. The alternative, thus, is easy: VSCodium. It's built on the open source parts of VS Code, but removes all the tracking, telemetry and proprietary components. It's compatible with VS Code's plugins and extensions, and has the exact same interface and features, but in a nice open source form.

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#Linux #code #programming

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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. The real advantage is how you can setup and install all you need to start working with any of these languages.

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. You can install all of them in one fell swoop, either graphically, or with one single command line, which makes it way faster to get started than on any other operating system.

And this ease of access and installation means that it's also way 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 could also just write a bash script, so anyone who starts working on the project can just run that script, and get setup automatically.

For web development, using Linux is also a no brainer. The vast majority of servers you website or webapp will run on in production is using a Linux distro.

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 webapp will actually 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 macOS, if you haven't installed something like homebrew and all the tools you want to use.

Linux also has built in support for SSH.

Now, this isn't necessarily an advantage of Linux over WIndows or macOS, but it's a solid point nonetheless: most IDEs you'd want to use are on Linux. You get access to all the big ones: VS Code, Android Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Zend, PHStorm, all text editors you might like, the only big one missing might be XCode, which is just on macOS.

Linux also has very high availability. Most distributions are completely free of charge. 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 MS put in place, or of macOS, which doesn't just install in a VM.

Linux is also available through WSL, 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, namely, Windows.

Linux offers choice. Whatever language you want to use, on whatever device, there's a distro optimized for that. And Linux is the only OS that lets you do that with your desktop experience as well. From the choice of desktop environment, to the customization available with themes, extensions, widgets, docks, panels, tiling window managers, and more, you WILL have the exact working environment you prefer, or you'll build one that suits you.

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.

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#Linux #OpenSource #TechNews

00:00 Intro 00:32 Sponsor: 10% off your first website with Squarespace 01:29 Ubuntu shared their plans for the desktop 03:28 NVIDIA Bios lock has been broken 05:42 Asahi Linux has an OpenGL conformant driver 07:01 KDE & GNOME updates 09:33 Budgie received a big update 11:30 Gaming News: Apex bans players, Roblox Linux support... 14:06 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 15:13 Support the channel

Ubuntu shared their plans for the desktop

https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-desktop-charting-a-course-for-the-future

NVIDIA Bios lock has been broken

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Lock-Broken

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/nvidia-posts-nvapi-core-software-development-kit-on-github/

Asahi Linux has an OpenGL conformant driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-GLES-3.1-AGX-M1-M2

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.html

KDE & GNOME updates

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.0/

https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/25/this-week-in-kde-tap-to-click-by-default/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/08/twig-110/

Budgie received a big update

https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10.8-released

https://linuxiac.com/budgie-desktop-10-8-released/

Gaming News: Apex bans players, Roblox Linux support...

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#Linux #GNOME #ricing

00:00 Intro 00:33 Sponsor: Stream any app, desktop, or OS to your browser 01:29 Fly Pie: system menu 03:01 Forge: Tiling window manager 04:02 Gradience: colorful desktop 05:59 Just Perfection: tweak everything 07:27 Advanced Alt Tab Window Switcher 08:39 Custom Hot Corners Extended 09:47 Login Manager 10:34 Pano: visual clipboard 11:32 Misc Extensions 12:59 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 13:56 Support the channel

FLy Pie is a circular menu you invoke with the mouse. 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 + space to open that, but you can change that shortcut. It also works on Wayland, you just need to create a custom keyboard shortcut that launches the command:

gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/shell/extensions/flypie --method org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.flypie.ShowMenu 'YOURMENU'

If you like tiling your windows, but GNOME's options are too limited, there Forge. 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 use a long list of keyboard shortcuts to do the same thing.

Gradience lets you apply color palettes to the default Adwaita theme of GNOME: it won't change the shape of buttons and controls, but it will tint everything with colors of your choosing. 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.

Just Perfection 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. It 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 sped of animations, the size of dash icons, the position of notification banners, the on screen display elements position, and more.

If the default Alt tab window switcher doesn't work for you, then there's AATWS, for Advanced Alt Tab Window switcher.

This thing is the just perfection of ALt tab. It changes how the window switcher AND the app switcher works. You can choose the position of each, at the center, bottom, or top of the screen, choose on which monitor this switcher appears, and how everything looks.

But if you prefer using your mouse to do stuff, then maybe you're lamenting the lack of hot corner functionality in GNOME. Thankfully you have CHC E, 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, of when you do that while holding COntrol, or while clicking any of the buttons, or while scrolling the mouse wheel.

Another app, not an extension, is Login Manager settings. This one lets you tweak, as its name implies, the login screen of GNOME.

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.

Search light gives you a launcher / spotlight equivalent.

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 round.

If you're missing these awful desktop icons, you can also add them back, with Desktop Icons NG. it's super customizable, and it restores that functionality if that's something you enjoy.

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#privacy #security #mythbusting

00:00 Intro 00:27 Security = Privacy 01:51 Sponsor: Private and secure email with Proton Mail 02:52 Telemetry is evil 05:18 Tor is a honeypot 06:52 Big Companies are more secure 08:58 Incognito mode is private 09:55 VPNs are the only tool you need 11:02 Privacy is impossible 12:07 I have nothing to hide 13:27 Always research yourself 14:09 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux

Security = privacy

This one is obviously not true. Security and privacy aren't linked in any way. The general best practice is to find the services you need that have a good reputation for security, and among these services, try and find one that is private enough for your needs.

Telemetry is always bad

This is simply not true. Telemetry isn't always bad. The image we have of telemetry is that of Windows or macOS, but there are plenty of other ways to do telemetry.

In itself telemetry is a very useful thing: it lets projects or companies identify what is important, what they should fix first. It doesn't mean this data is used to profile you, or being sold to anyone.

If the company or project is something you trust, and that has no current business in data collection, or advertising, then it's probably not a problem.

Tor is an NSA honeypot

TOR is regularly accused of being a honeypot for the NSA. 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, mostly. The code, however, is open source, and audited.

Is Tor entirely safe? Of course not. It's not a silver bullet, nothing is, and it can be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks or to specific types of monitoring, but it's not an NSA project that's designed to trap you.

Big companies are more secure

This statement is debatable. It's true in some cases. A recent report shows that smaller firms are 3 times more likely to be attacked than big businesses. 60% of cyberattacks seem to target smaller companies. But that's likelihood to be attacked, not necessarily successful attacks.

What is also true is that not all big tech companies are very good on the security front. So, while yes, bigger companies can be more secure than smaller ones, it's 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.

Incognito mode is private

It isn't. What incognito mode does, is make you private locally, on your device, as it doesn't store data on what you've visited, your credentials, and the like.

Incognito mode doesn't, however, prevent websites from tracking you, or fingerprinting you.

VPNs are the only privacy tool you need

VPNs aren't a magical thing that instantly makes you private. Using a VPN will change your IP address and 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. If you log into a service or website while using a VPN, it still knows it's you, obviously.

Privacy is impossible

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. It will never be 100% perfect, but you can limit immensely what is known or collected about you.

I have nothing to hide

This is complete bogus. First, if you think you have nothing to hide, you're 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.

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#Linux #OpenSource #TechNews

00:00 Intro 00:44 Sponsor: Gain control of your internet connection 01:42 Google wants to add DRM to the web 04:20 GNOME has a new way of managing windows 06:31 Plasma 6 removes a few features 08:30 Canonical drops LXD maintainers 09:46 FOSS Nvidia vulkan drivers land in Mesa 11:29 Linux drivers speed boost 12:46 Gaming news: Blizzard games on Steam & Heroic update 14:20 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 15:14 Support the channel

Google wants to add DRM to the web

https://www.techradar.com/pro/googles-new-plan-for-the-future-of-the-web-has-a-lot-of-people-worried-heres-why

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/

GNOME has a new way of managing windows

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/

Plasma 6 removes a few features

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/26/what-we-plan-to-remove-in-plasma-6

Canonical drops LXD maintainers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-Maintainership-Canonical

FOSS Nvidia vulkan drivers land in Mesa

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Merge-Request-Mesa

Linux drivers speed boost & battery life improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPU-Perf-Boost

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-anv-mod-boost

Gaming news: Blizzard games on Steam & Heroic update

https://linuxgameconsortium.com/blizzard-games-are-coming-to-steam/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/heroic-games-launcher-29-out-now-with-amazon-games-support/