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#Linux #linux2024 #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro #opensource

Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:41 Sponsor: Squarespace 01:42 Goodbye X11 04:00 Open Source Nvidia for everyone 05:52 10% market share with ChromeOS added 07:33 Gaming: more Linux gaming devices 10:11 Packaging formats: still messy 11:37 Immutable distros: not mainstream 12:51 App support: no changes 13:57 Parting thoughts 15:27 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:25 Support the channel

First, X.org will be even more abandoned. I'm not saying every distro will drop it entirely, but I'm expecting way more distributions and desktops to announce in 2024, that X.org won't be a supported platform anymore in 2025, or at the very least won't be the default session.

I would be surprised if, in 2024, Ubuntu didn't announce something similar for the following year.

The second thing I think we'll see is a fully open source stack for nvidia being available for Linux users. With the Linux kernel 6.7 bringing support for the GSP firmware, letting Nvidia GPUs be reclocked by the open source Nouveau drivers, and NVK now part of Mesa, and providing decent performance already, I'd say 2024 will be the year where Nvidia users can finally enjoy a good experience on Linux without anything extra to install.

In terms of market share, we've seen some healthy growth in 2023, ending the year on a potentially anomalous 3.8%, the highest the Linux desktop has ever been. In 2024, I'd expect this trend to continue: people don't seem to enjoy WIndows 11 that much, and they already didn't enjoy Windows 10 all that much either, and with Microsoft cramming more and more ads in their OS, and potentially moving to a subscription based model for Windows 12, I'd expect more people to give Linux a go, and mathematically, some of them will stick with it.

All in all, I don't think we'll jump to something like 8 or 10%, but I'd be surprised if the Linux desktop didn't reach 5 or 6% on its own, and about 10% combined with Chrome OS.

I would also expect 2024 to see a standalone release of SteamOS for any computer, and I'd say our market share will probably rise to about 3, maybe 3 and a half percent, but it won't be a major change, and the situation in terms of how many games we can play will be relatively stable, with major names still missing.

Now let's talk about the things I feel will stay exactly the same in 2024: starting with packaging formats. What we might see is more distros deciding to provide specific apps using the official snap or flatpak, like RHEL is doing with LibreOffice, because for some apps, it simply makes no sense to repackage them all the time, but that won't change the status quo.

Same thing for what we generally call Immutable distributions. I don't think they'll gain that much popularity in 2024, because they're often linked to using either flatpak or snap, or Nix packages, can't forget about Nix or I'll get comments again, and since we're not making these formats the only choice any time soon, I don't think this group of Linux distros will conquer the general Linux desktop audience either.

As per app support, that's another area where I feel we're not going to see much progress. And I'm talking big name apps, like Office, the Adobe Suite, Autocad, and the like. Even if my predictions for Linux market share come true, the potential revenue from supporting Linux is still low and will still be low, compared to the effort of porting the app, finding a packaging format that allows you to do everything you want, and then supporting that version.

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#Linux #Drivers #Nvidia #AMD #Intel #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:43 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 01:49 X11 is a bad platform, says KDE developer 05:16 Ubuntu's plans to drop older CPUs doesn't yield much benefits 06:39 Nobara moves to KDE 08:26 Gentoo provides more binary packages 09:42 Firefox is building its own local, private AI 11:34 The US moves forward on regulating AI 13:41 Open Source licenses aren't enough anymore 15:45 Support the channel

#Linux #OpenSource #Wayland #KDE #GNOME #AI #TechNews

X11 is a bad platform, says KDE developer

https://pointieststick.com/2023/12/26/does-wayland-really-break-everything/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjmt5WNl6g

Ubuntu's plans to drop older CPUs doesn't yield much benefits

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-x86-64-v3-benchmark

Nobara moves to KDE

https://linuxiac.com/nobara-linux-39-released/

Gentoo now provides more binary packages

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html

Firefox is building its own local, private AI

https://memorycache.ai/

The US moves forward on regulating AI

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/22/24012757/ai-foundation-model-transparency-act-bill-copyright-regulation

Open Source licenses aren't enough anymore

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/

Gaming: Steam Deck OLED might be underwhelming

https://boilingsteam.com/steam-deck-oled-impressions/index.html

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#Linux #OpenSource #TechNews #LinuxNews #linuxdesktop

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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#Linux #ZorinOS #distribution #linuxdistro #linuxdesktop

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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#Linux #OpenSource #TechNews #Ubuntu

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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#Linux #OpenSource #technews

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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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.