Linux & Open Source News

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

2024-09-28 9.9 out of 10 severity flaw on Linux, ARM64 & Android support in proton, Valve devs want faster Wayland progress

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

2023-07-29 Google's new nightmare plan for the web, GNOME's new windowing system, Plasma 6 removes features

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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