By The Linux Experiment
Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics.
This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops...
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2025-01-18 Facebook bans Fediverse Links, big Valve interview on SteamOS, Apple pulls their AI
2025-01-11 Linux Foundation endorses Chromium, SteamOS ISO is coming
2025-01-04 Github's fake stars, Nvidia's $700M open source bet, KDE looks healthy
2024-12-28 Open Source worth $7B, no Apple search, custom kernels no longer useful
2024-12-21 Lenovo will use SteamOS, EU investigates TikTok, Mozilla focuses on Ads and AI
2024-12-14 Flathub separates from GNOME, Arch gets 500K€, Firefox drops Do Not track
2024-12-07 KDE gets big donations, Discord supports Wayland, SteamOS devices coming
2024-11-30 Steam Controller 2 design leak, bcacheFS ban, Wayland in Wine
2024-11-23 Google breakup, bcacheFS acts like ReiserFS, Steam Controller 2
2024-11-16 Nvidia roadmap for Linux, Tuxedo Driver issue, Ubuntu 25.04
2024-11-09 KDE and GNOME OS, Manjaro telemetry & Mozilla layoffs
2024-11-02 AI isn't Open Source, Fedora 41, Apex blocks Linux
2024-10-26 Linux drops Russian maintainers, CoreBoot nonsense & Snap drivers
2024-10-19 Adblockers are dead, Valve talks Steam Deck 2, Nvidia wants better drivers
2024-10-12 GNOME has money issues, Linux malware & Nvidia driver progress
2024-10-05 Valve & Arch partnership, Nintendo kills Switch emulator, Thunderbird for Android is here
2024-09-21 Torvalds dismisses Rust haters, Mozilla kills their Mastodon instance, GNOME 47 is out
2024-09-14 KDE's 3 main goals, Plasma 6.2 beta, Square Enix invests in a Linux OS
2024-09-07 Linux grows again, KDE overspends (but it's fine), Ubuntu has upgrade problems
2024-08-31 New Linux Console, Rust and BcacheFS drama, KDE donations
2024-08-24 Microsoft broke Linux dual boots, Google coerces reviewers, GNOME 47 beta
2024-08-17 Could the US break up Google? Deepin 23, SteamOS for other devices
2024-08-10 Cosmic Alpha is out, elementary OS 8 in September, Nvidia scraped videos for its AI
2024-08-03 A few nice Cosmic reveals, Linux market share gains, macOS more vulnerable than Windows
2024-07-27 Firefox's Opt-out ad setting, AI tool pirated movies, SecureBoot broken
2024-07-20 3rd party Bug killed Windows PCs across the world, openSUSE needs to change its name
2024-07-13 Fedora 41 drops X11, Copilot lawsuit dismissed, GNOME 47 looks great
2024-07-06 Fedora Telemetry, Deepin AI, ChromeOS Flex is dead?
2024-06-29 Mozilla sued for discrimination, GNOME without X11, Performance boosts everywhere
2024-06-22 GNOME accent colors, the end of ad blockers and Plasma 6.1
2024-06-08 Mint disables unverified apps, Recall hacked already, KDE as ks for feedback
2024-06-01 GNOME has plans, EU investigates OpenAI for GDPR violations, Ubuntu Real Time
2024-05-25 GNOME's 5 year plan, Windows Recall is a nightmare, Qualcomm beats Apple?
2024-05-18 Firefox data collection, France bans TikTok (sort of), Google AI is scary
2024-05-11 Cosmic update, new attack bypasses VPNs, ClearLinux beats everything else?
2024-05-04 No, NixOS isn't dying. GNOME icon & funding issues, everyone hates Windows 11
2024-04-27 Why Google sucks now, US bans TikTok, Ubuntu 24.04 & Fedora 40
2024-04-20 Flatpak vulnerability, Gentoo refuses AI, Cosmic will theme apps
2024-04-13 Fedora wants AI, Nvidia + Wayland is fixed, US gains privacy
2024-04-06 Proposal for Fedora to use Plasma, XZ backdoor repercussions, German state moves to Linux
2024-03-30 Redis renounces FOSS, the future of Linux is bright, Fedora 40 beta
2024-03-23 USA sues Apple, Plasma themes can wipe your drive, GNOME 46
2024-03-16 Cosmic is delayed, French suffers massive data breach, EU won't regulate FOSS
2024-03-09 Linux at 4%, Fedora drops X11, Apple makes a mess of the EU's DMA
2024-03-02 Nintendo sues emulator, Nvidia thinks coding is dead, Plasma 6 is out
2024-02-24 Snap scam problem, Warp on Linux, an API for RGB
2024-02-17 Mozilla layoffs, Cosmic DE alpha, India bans ProtonMail
2024-02-10 Mozilla blunders and then gets a new CEO, Ubuntu makes some moves
2024-02-03 VSCode & MS Edge troubles, Fedora KDE might keep X11
2024-01-27 Apple really sucks, Mint's EDGE ISO, Wayland protocol drama
2024-01-20 OpenSUSE is going immutable, Snap creates problems, Fuchsia won't be Google's future
2024-01-13 Cosmic Alpha, Linux 6.7, more SteamOS devices & the Wayland saga continues
2024-01-06 Fedora & RHEL optimizing packages, Linux is at 4%, GNOME develops an extension
2023-12-30 X11 is a bad platform, More AI regulation, FOSS licenses aren't enough
2023-12-23 Open Source Nvidia drivers are good, Microsoft installs Linux for AI work, HDR support
2023-12-19 The CEO of Proton (Andy Yen) answers all your questions!
2023-12-16 Torvalds on Linux's future, Linux gaming beats windows, Ubuntu might drop older CPUs
2023-12-09 Zorin OS 17, huge flaw on all Linux system & Linux gets BSOD
2023-12-02 Red Hat drops X11, KDE Plasma 6 Beta, big Linux desktop plans
2023-11-26 Big Plasma 6, GNOME & COSMIC updates, Youtube's anti user moves
2023-11-19 Windows will be more open, AMD doubles down on FOSS, Big Peertube improvements
2023-11-12 GNOME gets €1 million, Amazon wants its own Linux, Steam Deck OLED, Immutable Ubuntu
2023-11-06 Fedora KDE drops X11, Huge Nvidia Wayland fixes, Web DRM is dead, Linux kernel 6.6
2023-10-29 Wayland on Mint, is Youtube's adblock blocker legal? Fedora 39 delayed
2023-10-21 Ubuntu broke deb installs, new GNOME director controversy, OpenSUSE new installer
2023-10-14 Will GNOME drop X11? Ubuntu 23.10, Mastodon is more popular than we thought
2023-10-08 elementary OS 7.1, Snap malware, France wants to ban VPNs
2023-09-30 Photoshop on the web, Mint + Debian, & COSMIC updates
2023-09-24 Nouveau maintainer resigns, Fedora might drop X11 entirely, LTS now 2 years only
2023-09-17 Another Linux tablet, HDR gaming & Linux malware
2023-09-09 Plasma 6 not before 2024, new Ubuntu App Store, GNOME breaks extensions
2023-09-02 Accent colors standard & kernel performance boosts
2023-08-27 Ubuntu desktop plans, NVIDIA BIOS lock broken, Budgie gets updates
2023-08-20 New Linux tablet, SUSE goes private, GNOME 45 beta
2023-08-12 New CPU flaws will lower performance, Linux enterprise shakeup, KDE Wayland support
2023-08-06 ChromeOS becomes a Linux distro, GNOME Activities changes, Mint 21.3
2023-07-22 EU's new law will hurt FOSS, Intel performance boost, repairable laptops
2023-07-15 SUSE takes on Red Hat, Mint 21.2 released & Thunderbird Supernova
2023-07-08 New Ubuntu Store promotes snap only, GNOME 45 alpha and France privacy breaches
2023-07-02 Kernel 6.4 boosts AMD, FOSS Nvidia Driver, GNOME gaming improvements
2023-06-29 Special: Interview with Tuxedo
2023-06-25 Red Hat vs open source, Mint Beta, Plasma 6 progress report
2023-06-18 Big Nextcloud improvements, PopOS Cosmic tiling changes, and Steam redesign
2023-06-10 France arrested people for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, better FOSS firmware
2023-06-03 Ubuntu goes immutable, big GNOME updates, Touchpad gestures on Mint
2023-05-27 Fedora KDE abandons X11, Android's giant security flaw, Meta gets EU'd again
2023-05-20 More HDR work for Linux, Ubuntu revamps PPAs, KeePass security breach
2023-05-13 AMD moves to FOSS firmware, COSMIC panel customization, & Plasma 6 changes
2023-05-06 HDR & VRR Linux support, AMD challenges Apple Silicon, Microsoft Edge abuse
2023-04-29 Flathub redesign, Linux 6.3 + Intel performance boost, EU vs big platforms
2023-04-22 Fedora 38, Ubuntu 23.04, Solus survives & big KDE app updates
2023-04-16 Solus is dying, OpenAI defamation suit, EU builds its own Google
2023-04-08 Linux Mint theme changes, System76 in house laptop, Google Drive backtracks
2023-04-02 Ubuntu 23.04 beta, Mobile Linux improvements, Italy blocks chatGPT
2023-03-26 Giant Nextcloud update, Twitter goes Open Source, Wayland screen sharing fixed
2023-03-18 Docker vs Open Source, Ubuntu wants less Python issues, Fedora 38 beta
2023-03-12 Meta in the Fediverse, Duck Duck Go works on AI, Flathub Roadmap
2023-03-05 HP gives up, Flathub & paid apps, companies are using FOSS wrong
2023-02-25 Ubuntu hates flatpak, Microsoft's anti consumer practices, GNOME 44 beta
2023-02-18 FOSS funding is broken, Mycroft shuts down, KDE Plasma 5.27
2023-02-12 Windows is spyware, Fedora adds Flathub, AI tool violates FOSS
2023-02-04 A peek at Cosmic DE's design, Mint + Wayland, elementary OS 7 released
2023-01-28 New EU law hurts FOSS, GNOME 44 alpha, Chrome beats Firefox
2023-01-21 Linux Foundation's metaverse, Stable Diffusion sued, KDE 5.27 Beta
2023-01-14 Apple isn't private, Mastodon loses users, Mozilla joins the fediverse
2023-01-07 Arch isn't N°1, X.org dying, Meta fined €390M: Linux & Open Source News
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