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 and open source applications!
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episode 44: Fedora KDE drops X11, Huge Nvidia Wayland fixes, Web DRM is dead, Linux kernel 6.6
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Fedora KDE drops X11
https://linuxiac.com/fedora-40-to-offer-plasma-6-drops-x11-entirely/
04:18 Kwin gets HDR support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Initial-HDR-Gaming-MR
07:34 Nvidia drivers get huge wayland improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-545.29.02-Linux-Driver
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14:14 GNOME improves Wayland support
https://9to5linux.com/gnome-shell-and-mutter-45-1-released-with-xwayland-and-wayland-improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-GLAMOR-GL-GLES
16:43 Google abandons Web DRM API
https://9to5google.com/2023/11/02/google-chrome-web-integrity-api/
19:57 Linux kernel 6.6 has massive performance improvements
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/linux-kernel-6-6-new-features
24:14 Discord flatpak is now official
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/discord-for-linux-gets-flathub-verified/
27:57 Steam snap brings improvements to all snaps
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/steam-snap-status-improvements/39796
30:25 SystemD gets target storage mode
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-storagetm
33:24 Youtube doubles down on adblock blocking
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23940583/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-broadening
38:01 Gaming: Wine, War Thunder open sources engine
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/war-thunder-game-engine-dagor-engine-from-gaijin-now-open-source/
https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.19
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/steam-deck-officially-hits-over-12000-games-playable-and-verified/
41:5 Outro
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