The Linux Experiment

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 5mo ago • 100%

Comparing Linux gaming distros performance (with Tuxedo Atlas S)

Go to https://ground.news/TLE to to know where your news is coming from. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access this month. 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: - a Daily Linux News show - a weekly patroncast for more personal thoughts - polls on the next topics I cover, - your name in the credits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 01:06 Sponsor: Ground News 02:47 Testbench: the Atlas S 06:38 Bazzite 10:20 Nobara 11:38 HoloISO 12:17 Chimera OS 14:01 Tuxedo OS 14:46 Conclusion 16:16 Support the channel #linuxgaming #gaming #linuxdistro Testbench: Tuxedo Atlas S: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Atlas-S-Gen1-Intel.tuxedo It's mini ITX, with 3 potential finishes: a jade green, a silver, and a matte black, which is the one they sent me. It comes with Intel 13th or 14th gen CPUs, up to an i9 14900, it can accommodate 2 M.2 SSDs and 2 SATA 3 drives, up to 24 terabytes in total. It can come with or without dedicated graphics, which can go up to a Radeon RX 7700XT, or an Nvidia RTX 4070. It can also get up to 96 gigs of DDR5 RAM, and it obviously has wifi and bluetooth, and it comes with Linux preinstalled, Tuxedo OS being the default. The model Tuxedo sent me has an i7 13700, 1TB of PCIe 3 SSD, 32 gigs of RAM, and the RX 7700XT with 12 gigs of VRAM. This video IS NOT sponsored by Tuxedo. Bazzite So, Bazzite is a weird one: it's based on Fedora Atomic, so it's an "immutable" distro, and it's built using universal blue, which is a build system that lets you create tailored distro images for plenty of purposes. I ran all the games at the native resolution of my monitor, so 3440x1440. Horizon is run using the latest version of Proton from Valve, the rest are native Linux games. Everything was ran at their max settings, at the native resolution, without any resolution scaling. Everything ran under Wayland, with all the latest updates applied. So, For Horizon Zero Dawn, running the benchmark gave me an average of 80 FPS at these maxed out settings. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 105 FPS on average in the benchmark, and for Total War Warhammer 3 on the battle benchmark, it reached 56.4 FPS and 52.5 FPS on the campaign benchmark. Nobara Next is Nobara. This isn't an immutable distribution, it's Fedora, plus a lot of kernel patches, addons, drivers and tools focused specifically on gaming and on improving performance In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 106 FPS on average in the benchmark. In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, I got 57 FPS on average, and 54.7 FPS on average for the campaign benchmark. In Horizon Zero Dawn, Nobara got 80 FPS on average. HoloISO I also gave a shot to HoloISO, in its new immutable form, but it never managed to give me a bootable system, no matter how hard I tried. Chimera OS Chimera OS is an arch based distribution, it's an atomic distro, so immutable, and includes a bunch of emulation tools as well as optimizations for gaming. It defaults to GNOME as its desktop, compared to KDE for the other distros I tested. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 102 FPS on average in the benchmark, similar to other distros I tested. In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, I got 55.3 FPS on average, and 51.1 FPS on average for the campaign benchmark. In Horizon Zero Dawn, Chimera OS got 73 FPS on average, strangely lower than other distributions. Tuxedo OS Just for fun, I decided to also run all of these games on the preinstalled Tuxedo OS, to see if these gaming distros offer improved performance compared to a "normal" system. Here are the results. In Horizon Zero Dawn, at the max resolution and max settings, with any upscaling, The Atlas S running Tuxedo OS got 81 FPS on average. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, at the max settings and resolution, Ubuntu 24.04 reached 106 FPS on average. In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, at the max settings and resolution, I got 57 FPS on average, and in the campaign benchmark, it reached 54.9 FPS

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 5mo ago • 100%

LINUX KERNEL variants explained: Zen, Xanmod, TKG, RealTime, Liquorix...

You can now subscribe to all TuxCare services online: KernelCare Online License Purchasing: https://tuxcare.com/enterprise-live-patching-services/?utm_campaign=The%20Linux%20Experiment&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=selfcheckout ELS Online License Purchasing: https://tuxcare.com/extended-lifecycle-support/?utm_campaign=The%20Linux%20Experiment&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=selfcheckout Enterprise Support for AlmaLinux Online License Purchasing: https://tuxcare.com/almalinux-enterprise-support/?utm_campaign=The%20Linux%20Experiment&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=selfcheckout Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: - a Daily Linux News show - a weekly patroncast for more personal thoughts - polls on the next topics I cover, - your name in the credits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #linuxkernel #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Sponsor: TuxCare 01:49 Linux Kernel 03:08 Generic Stable kernel 04:54 LTS Kernel 06:03 Libre Kernel 07:05 Hardened Kernel 08:09 Real Time / Low latency 09:48 Android kernel 11:05 Zen, Liquorix and Xanmod 13:00 TKG kernel 13:47 What should you use? 15:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:26 Support the channel The "official" Linux kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds and all the kernel developers, you generally see a new version every 2 to 2 and a half months. All stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme, so major number DOT minor number, but they also have really strange codenames. Some distros tend to modify these kernels with additional patches, or features that haven't been added yet, which is why you can see some kernel versions with a "-ubuntu" at the end for example. Certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS, meaning Long Term support. These are versions that will be supported for much longer, up to 6 years. The Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years. Since both the stable and LTS kernels ship with some non free firmware, there's the Kernel Libre project, which removes all of that, to only ship software and code that is completely free, as in freedom.. Next, we have the hardened kernel. It's not an "official" project per se, it's a kernel version that certain distros ship in their repos, like Arch Linux for example. It's the stable kernel, with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security-wise. Next, we have the realtime kernel. The goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU, and its execution, and it's mainly meant for industrial applications, or for audio production. This, in turn, makes it less efficient for multi tasking, and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient, and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this lower latency. The low latency kernel variants do the same thing, but at a lesser degree: it still lets you pre-empt CPU threads like the real time kernel, but it isn't as regular as the realtime kernel. The Android kernel is focused on supporting a specific category of devices, meaning that it has optimizations for these exact things. The Zen kernel applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for linux desktop users. It's also packaged as the Liquorix kernel for Ubuntu or Debian, and other distros, although Liquorix isn't exactly like the Zen kernel. Another version is the XanMod kernel, with sort of the same optimization as the Zen kernel, and a few more on top of that, with the same goal: improving the performance of Linux systems. Finally, we have the TKG kernels, and I'm saying kernels, because TKG isn't a specific Linux kernel you can download and use, it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with that.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 6mo ago • 0%

What would an ENSH*TTIFIED Linux distro look like?

Just for fun, I decided to try and imagine what a Linux distro would look like if it got hit by the enshittification stick that seems to affect every digital product of service these days. 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: - a Daily Linux News show - a weekly patroncast for more personal thoughts - polls on the next topics I cover, - your name in the credits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Big Tech Linux 02:48 Mandatory Account 03:41 Privacy Invasion 04:17 Ads are coming 05:38 Time for AI 06:39 Tiering up 08:54 Final steps 10:41 Parting Thoughts

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 6mo ago • 100%

US TikTok ban, Why Google sucks now, Nvidia contributes to NVK: Linux & Open Source News

Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: https://proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: - a Daily Linux News show - a weekly patroncast for more personal thoughts - polls on the next topics I cover, - your name in the credits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #linux #linuxnews #technews #opensource 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/

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 6mo ago • 100%

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Review: solid, unexciting release (+all flavors)

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: - a Daily Linux News show - a weekly patroncast for more personal thoughts - polls on the next topics I cover, - your name in the credits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:44 Sponsor: SquareSpace 01:42 Installer 04:00 GNOME 46 changes 08:29 Under the hood 11:13 Ubuntu Flavors 13:50 Parting Thoughts 14:58 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:05 Support the channel #ubuntu #ubuntu24.04 #linuxdistro #linuxdesktop The main event in Ubuntu 24.04 is GNOME 46, it you improved notifications, that can be expanded, or collapsed, and they'll now show a little symbolic icon next to their title. More interesting, you get experimental support for variable refresh rate. It's not enabled by default, you'll need to use dconf to turn it on. Fractional scaling also got better, with fonts now looking less blurry and properly aligned when using fractional scaling, and you can now login to a GNOME user through RDP, instead of having to remote into a session where someone was already logged in. Nautilus, the file manager, now finally lets you edit the file path by clicking on the path bar, it will also search faster, and through the entire filesystem by default now, file transfers are now moved to the sidebar, and you can also change a folder's icon from the properties panel of that folder. Finally, you also get a new option to change how dates are displayed. The main system Settings changed a bit as well, with a new "system" page, default apps have been merged into the main "apps" settings page, which also includes the default actions you can configure when you insert removable media. The mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you trigger the right click, and there's a new mouse test page to make sure these settings work for you. You can also turn off the touchpad when typing. The GNOME Online accounts also received some love for its backend: it now uses the default browser for authentication into accounts. You can also add a WebDAV account, or a Microsoft Personal Account as well, which will give you access to your OneDrive storage straight from Nautilus. Ubuntu 24.04 comes with the kernel 6.8, the latest available right now. The main thing in here is the new P state drivers, meaning your Intel CPUs will be able to hit their advertised boost speeds, but also that using it on laptops should yield better batter life, whether you have an AMD or Intel CPU, especially since Ubuntu 24.04 now uses better power profiles based on these new P State drivers. Ubuntu also moves to Netplan, a network management tool that shouldn't change anything for regular users that just connect to wifi, but will definitely improve the life of people who have to create complex network configurations. For gamers, you're also getting a better experience here: the virtual memory mapping limit was increased by a factor of 16 in 24.04, meaning that games that could crash at launch, or after a few hours of play time will no longer do so, at least if the crash was related to them trying to grab a lot of memory. It's a change that Arch also recently made. Another interesting change is that all services that are affected by a library update will automatically be restarted, to ensure that these services will be running with the latest security fixes apps one, there'slied. It's more important for servers than desktops, but it's a good change, that you can disable if you don't like it.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 7mo ago • 100%

THIS is what the LINUX COMMUNITY uses??

Try Kasm Workspaces to stream any desktop, app or OS to your web browser: https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC/releases/tag/v1.3.1 https://kasmweb.com/community-edition Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: - a Daily Linux News show - a weekly patroncast for more personal thoughts - polls on the next topics I cover, - your name in the credits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja 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 You can download all the raw data here, if you want to do some more deep diving: https://nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/index.php/s/QeYHbRAEzMJRcgm 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.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 8mo ago • 100%

Crypto scam on the Snap store, Warp on Linux, an API for RGB: Linux & Open Source news

Download a free report on Enterprise Linux and Open Source: https://tuxcare.com/enterprise-linux-open-source-landscape-report/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=nick&utm_campaign=IndustryYearReview2024 Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: - a Daily Linux News show - a weekly patroncast for more personal thoughts - polls on the next topics I cover, - your name in the credits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Sponsor: Enterprise Linux report 01:36 The Snap store has a scam problem 06:22 Warp terminal comes to Linux 08:10 Tuxedo proposes an API to handle RGB on Linux 09:30 Fedora wants a Cosmic spin 10:45 New hackfest planned for HDR & colour management 11:56 Firefox 123 adds a bunch of features 13:40 Gaming: NVK as default, NTSync driver... 17:46 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 19:04 Support the channel #Linux #OpenSource #TechNews #ubuntu #warp #rgb The Snap store has a scam problem https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-follow-up/ https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/ Warp terminal comes to Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/warp-terminal-official-linux-release Tuxedo proposes an API to handle RGB on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-API-Modern-RGB Fedora wants a Cosmic spin https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-COSMIC-SIG-Interest New hackfest planned for HDR & color management https://www.phoronix.com/news/2024-Linux-Display-Hackfest-May Firefox 123 adds a bunch of features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/mozilla-firefox-123-features Gaming: NVK as default, NTSync driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTSYNC-Linux-Update-February https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zink-NVK-For-NVIDIA-OpenGL https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-beta11 https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/218826/en-us/

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 9mo ago • 100%

OpenSUSE goes immutable? Snap creates issues, Fuchsia is dead? Linux & Open Source News

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The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 9mo ago • 50%

Ranking Linux Distributions for 2024: a tier list for my use case !

Get access to a suite of disposable online tools to protect your privacy with SquareX: https://sqrx.io/tle_yt Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Sponsor: SquareX 01:58 Ranking Criteria 02:44 Ubuntu 03:45 Linux Mint 04:31 Zorin OS 05:23 elementaryOS 05:58 Fedora 06:46 Debian Stable 07:45 OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 08:14 OpenSUSE Leap 08:50 Arch Linux 09:44 Manjaro 10:31 Tuxedo OS 11:40 Pop!_OS 12:32 Solus 13:19 Gentoo 13:51 KDE Neon 14:12 Asahi Linux / Fedora Asahi 14:46 NixOS 15:36 HoloISO 16:09 Nobara 16:39 Vanilla OS 17:06 ChromeOS Flex 17:41 Deepin 18:29 Sponsor: Tuxedo #Linux #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro #distribution #tierlist

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 10mo ago • 100%

RHEL drops older PCs? Linux is at 4%, Mozilla's AI pivot - Linux & Open Source News

Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #OpenSource #TechNews #LinuxNews Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:32 Support the channel 01:11 Fedora also wants more optimized packages 02:26 RHEL 10 might drop older CPUs 03:51 Linux desktop reaches 4% market share 05:32 Mozilla pivots towards AI 08:09 GNOME develops an official extension 10:17 GNOME weekly updates 11:10 Ubuntu might stop providing their source ISOs 12:52 Gaming: market share increase, ray tracing boost 15:12 Sponsor: Tuxedo 16:14 Outro Fedora also wants more optimized packages https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Faster-x86-64 RHEL 10 might drop older CPUs https://www.phoronix.com/news/RedHat-RHEL10-x86-64-v3-Explore Sponsor: Thunderbird https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak Linux desktop reaches 4% market share https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linux-hits-nearly-4-desktop-user-share-on-statcounter/ Mozilla pivots towards AI https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_privacy/ https://stateof.mozilla.org/# GNOME developing an official extension https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/gnomes-official-system-monitor-extension-for-gnome-shell https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/01/twig-129/ Ubuntu might stop providing their source ISOs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Discontinue-Source-ISOs Gaming: Linux beats its gaming market share record https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linux-use-on-steam-ends-2023-with-a-multi-year-high-thanks-steam-deck/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-Much-Faster-Mesa-24.0 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/steam-deck-officially-hits-over-13000-games-playable-and-verified/

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 10mo ago • 100%

Linux Graphics Drivers explained: AMD, NVIDIA, INTEL, Open Source and Proprietary

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #Drivers #Nvidia #AMD #Intel #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Sponsor: Squarespace 01:28 How Linux drivers work 03:56 NVIDIA: Nouveau FOSS driver 05:13 NVIDIA: NVK 06:09 NVIDIA: Official open source drivers 06:58 NVIDIA: proprietary drivers 09:09 AMD: open source drivers 10:33 AMD: proprietary drivers 11:36 Intel: Open source drivers 13:02 Parting thoughts 14:04 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 14:56 Support the channel

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 10mo ago • 100%

Wayland breaks everything? FOSS licenses aren't enough, more AI regulation: Linux & Open Source News

Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja 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

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 10mo ago • 100%

The CEO of PROTON answers YOUR questions! Drive, Linux support, Photos, features, and a lot more!

Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton (Mail, Drive, VPN, Pass...) answered a lot of the questions you, the community, asked, in an interview that covers basically everything! He discusses security, privacy, the origins of Proton, how they operate, Linux support, future projects, products and features, quantum computing, passkeys, and more! Proton Mail: https://proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP Proton VPN: https://protonvpn.com/TheLinuxEXP 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #vpn #privacy #proton #onlinesecurity #protonmail Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 01:16 How did Proton start? 03:24 Why start with email? 06:03 What is Proton's business model? 08:34 Why set up in Switzerland? 11:33 What data do you have on customers? 14:39 How is encryption important? 18:20 Do you always need to use a VPN? 20:47 Why focus on building an ecosystem? 24:55 Is an Office Suite planned? 26:29 What differentiates Proton from competitors? 30:26 Is Proton a viable alternative to big tech services? 33:31 Why expand to more products instead of finishing existing ones? 37:19 Does the general public care about privacy? 38:45 What's next for Proton services? 40:08 What are the plans for native Linux clients? 46:03 Will ProtonVPN offer dedicated IPs to everyone? 47:46 What's the environmental impact of Proton? 49:27 Proton on F-Droid, without Google Play notifications? 52:03 Why are code repos all separated and hard to find? 53:12 Why are addresses ending in ".me" ? 54:57 When will all apps reach feature parity? 56:24 Will SMTP relay be supported? 57:47 Will Proton focus more on businesses in the future? 59:50 Why put all your eggs in one basket with just Proton services? 01:01:00 Will Proton support passkeys? 01:03:21 Does E2E matter is the recipient isn't using it? 01:04:49 Will Proton disable port forwarding in VPN? 01:06:41 Is encryption enough to make email private? 01:09:06 What protects users from a change in Proton's code licensing? 01:11:14 How does Proton protect its infrastructure? 01:13:14 Impacts of Quantum Computing on privacy and security? 01:14:24 What's the future of Proton Bridge? 01:16:25 When will Proton photos be a thing? 01:17:17 Plans for Proton Notes? 01:18:20 Will VPN support the Apple TV? 01:21:12 Support the channel

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 10mo ago • 100%

Torvalds on Linux's future, Ubuntu drops old CPUs? Linux beats Windows: Linux & Open Source News

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #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

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 10mo ago • 100%

An honest look at the state of the Linux desktop going into 2024

Try out Proton VPN, it's free, it's open source, it's private, it's encrypted, and it's what I use: https://protonvpn.com/TheLinuxEXP Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja 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.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 11mo ago • 100%

EU regulates AI, huge Linux flaw, ZorinOS 17 & Linux BSOD: Linux & Open Source News

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #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

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 11mo ago • 100%

A Linux gaming Laptop isn't as crazy as it sounds: Slimbook Hero review

Make sure you're prepared for the End of Life of your CentOS 7 fleet right now: https://tuxcare.com/extended-lifecycle-support/centos-7-early-repo-access/?utm_campaign=The%20Linux%20Experiment%20-%20CentOS%207%20Early%20Access&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=TheLinuxExperimentCentOS7EA 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja 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 #Laptop #Gaming #Linux 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.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 11mo ago • 100%

Red Hat drops X11, KDE Plasma 6 Beta, big Linux desktop plans: Linux & Open Source News

Join a free webinar to help you plan your migration from CentOS 7: https://tuxcare.com/webinars/centos-7-end-of-life-strategy-security-for-today-years-into-the-future/?utm_campaign=TuxCare%20CentOS%207%20End-of-Life%20Security%20Webinar%202023&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja 00:00 Intro 00:43 Sponsor: Free webinar on extending CentOS 7's lifecycle 01:49 Red Hat will drop X11 in RHEL 10 03:36 Plasma 6 beta and new features 05:13 GNOME weekly update 06:32 Cool stuff coming to Fedora, and Linux in general 08:44 Budgie is looking for a new base for their future update 10:41 Peertube 6 is out with plenty of great features 12:12 Gaming: Mesa 23.3, Wine Wayland, Heroic Games 14:25 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 15:26 Support the channel #Linux #OpenSource #TechNews 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

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 11mo ago • 100%

Being anonymous is getting harder and harder

Regain control of your privacy with Proton (and enjoy their Black Friday / Cyber Week deals while they last!): VPN: https://protonvpn.com/blackfriday Mail: https://proton.me/mail/black-friday Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja 00:00 Intro 00:59 Sponsor: Proton 02:17 Data grabbing 05:07 Why this data matters 07:41 Laws make it worse 11:11 What you can do 14:04 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 15:07 Support the channel Playlist on how to De-Google your life: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqmbcbI8U55EfYUVdZfjrfyJyNHD-Bly8 #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.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 11mo ago • 100%

Youtube & Google's anti Adblock moves, Plasma 6, GNOME & COSMIC updates: Linux & Open Source News

Extend the life of your Debian 10 systems before migrating to another distribution: https://tuxcare.com/extended-lifecycle-support/debian-10-extended-support/?utm_campaign=The%20Linux%20Experiment%20-%20Debian%2010%20ELS&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_term=the-linux-experiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: Extend the life of Debian 10 01:47 Cosmic Updates 03:36 Plasma 6 and GNOME get even better 06:53 Youtube has a 5s delay against adblockers 08:24 Google moves forward with manifest v3 09:46 Linux outperforms Windows 11 11:10 Open Source Nvidia drivers now VUlkan compliant 12:14 Gaming: improved Steam, Wine 8.21, DX12 support 14:27 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 15:27 Support the channel #Linux #OpenSource #technews 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

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 11mo ago • 100%

What is SystemD, and why its getting so much hate online?

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #Systemd #opensource 00:00 Intro 00:42 Sponsor: 10% off your first website 01:36 Init systems and SystemD 03:21 SystemD is bloated? 05:48 Everything depends on it now? 07:01 It's a Red Hat project? 08:44 It restricts choice and modularity? 09:51 It makes Linux less secure? 10:59 Why use systemD? 12:37 Parting thoughts 13:52 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 14:52 Support the channel 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.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 11mo ago • 100%

EU makes Windows open, Big Peertube update, AMD teases FOSS: Linux & Open Source News

Try the new version of Thunderbird (it's now my email & calendar client of choice!): https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #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/

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 11mo ago • 100%

Snaps vs Flatpaks vs Appimages vs Packages: benchmarks, missing features & differences

Try Proton VPN, my pick for a secure and private VPN: https://protonvpn.com/TheLinuxEXP Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #Flatpak #Snap #AppImage 00:00 Intro 00:47 Sponsor: Proton VPN 02:17 Quick summary of formats 05:52 Performance benchmarks 08:52 Sandboxing 11:41 Missing Features 15:24 Parting Thoughts 16:59 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 18:00 Support the channel 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.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

Ubuntu broke DEBs, GNOME hires a shaman? OpenSUSE installer: Linux & Open Source News

Learn more about the risks of running an End Of Life distro here: https://tuxcare.com/downloadables/the-dangers-of-running-end-of-life-linux/?utm_campaign=The%20Linux%20Experiment&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_term=end-of-life-danger Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #OpenSource #TechNews 00:00 Intro 00:46 Sponsor: Learn more about the risks of EOL distros 01:58 Ubuntu 23.10 broke graphical deb installs 04:00 New GNOME Director seems controversial 06:11 OpenSUSE working on a replacement to Yast installer 07:57 COSMIC and GNOME updates 09:51 Drivers and performance improvements 12:29 Gaming News: HDR, low latency & Lutris 15:12 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:19 Support the channel Ubuntu 23.10 broke graphical deb installs https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/install-deb-ubuntu-23-10-no-app-error New GNOME Director seems controversial https://linuxiac.com/gnome-projects-unexpected-ceo-choice/ OpenSUSE working on a replacement to Yast installer https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-agama-installer/ https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/PH7R3Q36KUBBBV4COQ5ZLDCTJNODHC6N/ COSMIC and GNOME updates https://blog.system76.com/post/locked-and-loaded-with-new-cosmic-de-updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/10/twig-118/ Drivers and performance improvements https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-GPUVM-Relicensed https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-XDC-2023 https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Ray-Tracing-2023 Gaming News: HDR, low latency & Nvidia wayland https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/nvidia-looking-to-hook-up-reflex-support-in-proton/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2023-AMD-Colors-HDR https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.14

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

PRIVACY-first, DE-GOOGLED Android smartphone: MURENA 2 first impressions

Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# Murena 2 campaign (not sponsored, no affiliate commission): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/murena/murena-2-switch-your-privacy-on 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #privacy #google #android 00:00 Intro 01:08 The Phone: Murena 2 02:36 Specifications 05:17 eOS on the Murena 2 10:46 Price and availability 13:03 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 14:08 Support the channel 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€.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

Quick tips to improve Linux Security on your desktop, laptop, or server (hardening for beginners)

Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: https://proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #security #cybersecurity 00:00 Intro 00:56 Sponsor: Proton Mail 02:32 Software and updates 04:04 Services and SSH 06:38 User management 10:10 Physical Security 11:35 SELinux, AppArmor, and firewall 14:04 Parting Thoughts 15:15 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:30 Support the channel Password complexity tips: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2726217/how-to-enforce-password-complexity-on-linux.html Tips to secure SSH: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-bsd-openssh-server-best-practices.html The more software you use, the larger the attack surface for your Linux install is. It's always good to take a look at all the installed applications, and libraries, and remove what you don't use anymore. You can also remove packages that aren't linked to anything else and aren't used by anything. On Debian or Ubuntu, for example, you can find these by running sudo apt autoremove And on a desktop, you probably already apply updates, or your distro has auto updates enabled. But on a server, it's easy to let things slide, and forget to log in regularly and make sure things are up to date. I'm guilty of that myself. And just like with packages, libraries, and apps, you should also make sure you only run the services you actually use. You can list all services running with: systemctl list-unit-files To stop a service you don't need, you can run systemctl stop SERVICE To stop the service from starting with the system, you can run systemctl disable SERVICE If you're on a server, the general rule of thumb is also NOT to run a graphical desktop on it. It will often be much more secure to use SSH to log in to the server remotely. But you might also need to secure SSH first. If you have multiple users, make sure only the ones who need it have SSH access. To do that, you can edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, and type AllowUsers then the names of the users that will actually have access to SSH. Now, something that might be useful in general, for a server or a desktop, is making sure all the users are correctly handled. The first thing will be to disable root login. If you decide to disable the root account, make sure at least one user has admin privileges though, or you'll have a system without any way to access any task with sudo. Once you're certain everything is ok, you can use the following method: Edit /etc/passwd, and change the first line, by replacing /bin/bash, or whatever other shell root currently logs into, by /sbin/nologin (or /usr/sbin/nologin depending on the distro) If you prefer, you can simply disable root login through SSH, so the account is still there if you want it locally, but remote attackers won't be able to login as root. To do so, you can edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and uncomment the PermitRootLogin line, and then set its value to no. Restart SSH with sytemctl restart sshd, and you're done. To remove the ability to use USB, Thunderbolt or Firewire, you can add the following lines to their respective files (create them if need be). To revert this, just remove the lines that have been added in the various files by the commands. Add: install usb-storage /bin/true to /etc/modprobe.d/disable-usb-storage.conf Add blacklist firewire-core to /etc/modprobe.d/firewire.conf Add blacklist thunderbolt to /etc/modprobe.d/thunderbolt.conf

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

OPEN SOURCE alternatives to the MOST POPULAR productivity apps!

Try the new Thunderbird release: https://www.thunderbird.net/ Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #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.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

ANOTHER Linux tablet, HDR gaming & GNOME 45 RC: Linux & Open Source News

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #OpenSource #TechNews 00:00 Intro 00:31 Sponsor: 10% off your first website 01:28 New Linux tablet from Purism 03:18 GNOME 45 RC is out 05:27 Plasma 6 and 5.27 updates 08:19 XFCE unveils a Wayland roadmap 09:58 New OpenSUSE rolling release distro, LMDE 6, and Ubuntu encryption 11:41 Gaming News: HDR gaming, Steam Deck sale 13:50 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 14:47 Support the channel New Linux tablet from Purism https://www.omglinux.com/purism-librem-11-linux-tablet/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-11/ GNOME 45 RC is out https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-release-candidate-arrives-with-last-minute-changes https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/new-gnome-45-features https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/2023/09/15/libadwaita-1-4/ Plasma 6 and 5.27 updates https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/15/this-week-in-kde-more-plasma-6-dev/ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-40-to-offer-kde-plasma-6-desktop/ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-27-8-improves-hybrid-sleep-and-monitoring-of-nvidia-gpus XFCE unveils a Wayland roadmap https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Wayland-Roadmap-2023 https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap New OpenSUSE rolling release distro, LMDE 6, and Ubuntu encryption https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/lmde-6-beta-available-to-download https://ubuntu.com/blog/tpm-backed-full-disk-encryption-is-coming-to-ubuntu Gaming News: HDR gaming, Steam Deck sale https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/dxvk-nvapi-064-out-now-expanding-hdr-support/ https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.16 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/valve-puts-the-steam-deck-and-dock-on-sale-again/ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3686804163591367815

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How good is Asahi now?

Stream any OS, app or desktop straight to your browser: Kasm Workspaces Community Edition – https://www.kasmweb.com/community-edition Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #asahi #macbook 00:00 Intro 00:44 Sponsor: Stream any OS or desktop to your browser 01:40 Asahi Linux 02:58 Install 05:15 Hardware support 07:55 Performance & Battery Life 09:33 GPU & Gaming 11:57 App support 13:04 Is it ready yet? 14:45 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 15:51 Support the channel You can't currently run any linux distro you want on Apple Silicon hardware, but thankfully, some insanely good developers have created Asahi Linux: it's Arch Linux with some super bleeding edge drivers to support the newest macbooks, and desktop macs, from M1 to M2. Installing Asahi Linux is a simple process: you just run a single terminal command. Asahi supports all M1 machines for now, except the mac Studio, and you'll need about 60 gigs of storage. Once the script has done its thing, you'll need to completely shut down the mac, then reboot it by pressing and holding the power button, until you see a volume list to boot on, where you can pick Asahi Linux. So, on my macbook pro, a lot of stuff works perfectly without anything to do on my part. The keyboard is perfectly recognized. Keyboard backlight also works out of the box. The touchpad works perfectly. The display is recognized with its full resolution although it doesn't support the high refresh rate that it should have, it's locked to 60 hertz. Wifi also worked immediately, but audio didn't. Bluetooth also works perfectly. Of course charging the laptop works, and in terms of ports, the USB C ports do work, but only as USB C, and USB 2 for now, not USB 3 and not thunderbolt either. The SD card slot also works, but the HDMI port doesn't. Your webcam also won't work here, and the onboard mic isn't detected for me either. What about CPU performance and battery life then? The M1 Pro under Linux got a single core score of 1718 and a multi core score of 10079. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21697738 Compare that to Geekbench 5 on macOS, where I got 1775 in single core, and 12521 in multi core. That's a difference of 3% for single core, and 24% for multi core, in favor of macOS. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21697762 In terms of battery life, though, it's WAY WORSE. With youtube videos playing in a loop in the background, Asahi barely lasted for about 5 hours. THe Asahi Linux team managed to write a fully conformant OpenGL driver for Apple SIlicon, something APple themselves doesn't have, because they only support their own graphics API, called Metal. You CAN install these GPU drivers, optionally, with a few commands. They will replace your current version of mesa, with one including these nice openGL drivers. And now, you DO get GPU acceleration, and it's now recommended you use Wayland, because the Asahi team said X11 wouldn't really be a supported target for their graphics drivers. As per gaming, don't expect much here. Steam won't run, because, well, it's ARM, and Steam on Linux doesn't have an ARM version. Even if it did, there are no Vulkan drivers yet, so stuff like DXVK wouldn't work, and there is no translation layer baked in to run x86 apps in there. And of course, we need to talk about app support. Asahi Linux is basically Arch + more drivers, so you do get the AUR and everything else Arch has access to. BUT it's also an OS running on ARM, which means some software just isn't available for that architecture.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

UBUNTU without the CONTROVERSIAL choices: try these 5 Linux distros!

Download Safing's Portmaster and take control of your network traffic: https://safing.io Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #Ubuntu #linuxdistro 00:00 Intro 00:51 Sponsor: Regain control of your network connection 01:49 Why not just use Ubuntu? 03:54 Debian (instant clickbait) 05:14 Linux Mint 06:19 Rhino Linux 07:37 Pop!_OS 09:18 Tuxedo OS 11:01 Why not these ones? 13:24 The LTS problem 14:23 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 15:28 Support the channel Generally, what people dislike about Ubuntu are the inclusion of Snaps, the proprietary backend of the Snap Store, the opt-out telemetry, and some questionable decisions over the years. But you could always disable all of that? That's just part of the story. If what you dislike is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, then disabling this doesn't really help. And we'll begin by immediately lying, as this one isn't Ubuntu based: it's actually the one Ubuntu is based on: Debian. If what you like about Ubuntu, and what you want to keep using, is apt, the package manager, the vast software repos, but you want a vanilla KDE or GNOME experience, and none of the Canonical projects and decisions, Debian might be a really solid bet. Mint is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS, and removes basically everything that makes Ubuntu, Ubuntu: snaps aren't there, some apps that don't have a debian package anymore in Ubuntu have on in Mint, like Chromium, and they don't use the GNOME desktop: you get Cinnamon, a desktop Mint developed themselves, once based on GNOME 3, but now pretty much its own thing. One you might want to try is Rhino Linux. It's also a relatively recent distro, and it moves away from the Ubuntu template by being a rolling release: it doesn't give you major upgrades, it's always updated in the background, especially the Linux kernel, and some important apps, like Firefox. Rhino Linux doesn't use the GNOME desktop by default, it uses its own vision of XFCE, that, let's be honest, feels very much like modern GNOME. You can use apt, but Rhino Linux also comes with a meta package manager, called Rhino-pkg, that lets you install debian packages from the repos, flatpaks, snaps, and it also lets you use pacstall, an equivalent to the Arch User repository for Ubuntu. Another Ubuntu based distro that has a few cool tricks up its sleeve is PopOS. PopOS has some updates on top of that base, notably for drivers and the Linux kernel, and has some applications that are provided in their own repo, so you're not stuck on very old versions of important apps. They also have some interesting tweaks to the GNOME desktop: they offer a different experience, with a dock by default, an app launcher, and auto tiling features that let you switch from floating windows to a tiling window manager at the press of a button, or with a keyboard shortcut. If you're more of a KDE user, then there's Tuxedo OS. It's Ubuntu based, with the latest KDE apps and desktop, plucked straight from KDE Neon's repositories: this means you get a semi rolling release model, with access to the repos for Ubuntu's latest LTS version, plus some extra repos on top of that for more recent kernel and drivers, and some applications that need to be more up to date. And now for a list of the distros I didn't really include, and the reasons why! The first one is Zorin OS: while it's a good take on Ubuntu, being basically exactly Ubuntu LTS, but with a customized desktop, pre made layouts, and support for virtually every packaging format out of the box, it's also based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and the Linux kernel 5.15. The second one is elementary OS. It's based on 22.04 LTS, and does have access to the full Ubuntu repos. While I personally think it's a really great option, the defaults won't fit everyone, including the removal of all debian based packages from their graphical app store. And then there are all the Ubuntu flavours: they're also now constrained by Canonical's decisions, like preventing them from shipping another packaging format than snap.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

Plasma 6 release date, new Ubuntu App Store, GNOME breaks extensions: Linux & Open Source News

Give a try to the brand new redesign of Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #OpenSource #TechNews 00:00 Intro 00:29 Sponsor: Thunderbird 01:23 Plasma 6 has a release date, and it's far away 03:42 The new Ubuntu App Center looks like a regression 05:45 GNOME 45 will break all extensions 07:14 Linux drivers and performance updates 08:45 The EU won't force Apple to use RCS for now 10:24 Chrome gets its new tracking tech 12:06 Gaming News: market share, new Valve devices... 15:09 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:11 Support the channel Plasma 6 has a release date, and it's far away https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/06/september-plasma-6-update/ https://cullmann.io/posts/kf6-release-plan/ https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/08/this-week-in-kde-power-management-galore/ The new App Center landed in Ubuntu 23.10 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/ubuntu-app-center-app-arrives GNOME 45 will break all extensions https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2023/09/02/extensions-in-gnome-45/ Linux drivers and performance updates https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-MSAA-Compute-Queue https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Input https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Optimize-Lacking-ERMS The EU won't force Apple to use RCS for now https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/eu-apple-imessage-gatekeeper-ruling Chrome gets its new tracking tech https://gizmodo.com/google-privacy-sandbox-now-on-every-chrome-browser-1850812404 Gaming News: market share, new Valve devices... https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-continues-rising-above-3-desktop-user-share-on-statcounter/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-user-share-remains-above-macos-in-the-latest-steam-survey/ https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3684558162504860651 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-updates-tease-valve-galileo-and-sephiroth-steam-deck-refresh-or-new-vr/

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

Ubuntu desktop plans, NVIDIA BIOS lock broken, Apple Silicon GPU driver: Linux & Open Source News

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #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... https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-players-getting-banned-on-apex-legends-again/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/roblox-support-is-coming-back-to-wine-on-linux/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/over-11000-games-now-rated-steam-deck-playable/

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

New Linux tablet, GNOME 45 beta, COSMIC theming, SUSE goes private: Linux & Open Source News

Download your free issue of Admin magazine thanks to Tuxcare: https://bit.ly/43XnjhT Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja #Linux #OpenSource #TechNews 00:00 Intro 00:28 Sponsor: Get a free issue of Admin Magazine 01:29 StarLabs launches a Microsoft Surface equivalent 03:16 COSMIC theming options 04:49 SUSE is going private 06:05 GNOME 45 beta is out, with some nice features 08:19 More Plasma 6 changes 10:16 Gaming News: AMD ray tracing and mitigation performance 12:39 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 13:33 Support the channel StarLabs launches their Microsoft Surface equivalent https://linuxiac.com/starlite-5-linux-tablet/ COSMIC showcases theming options https://blog.system76.com/post/customizing-cosmic-theming-and-applications SUSE is going private https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/suse_delisting/ GNOME 45 is getting a cool feature, plus the beta is out https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-adds-keyboard-backlight-control/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/gnome_45_beta/ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-beta-released-heres-whats-new https://mastodon.social/@tbernard/110917789015402671 More Plasma 6 changes https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/12/how-all-this-icon-stuff-is-going-to-work-in-plasma-6/ https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/18/this-week-in-kde-double-click-by-default/ Gaming News: AMD ray tracing and mitigation performance https://www.winehq.org//announce/8.14 https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Batch-Accel-RT https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-kernel-gets-an-amd-zenbleed-fix-for-the-steam-deck-apu/ https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

What are immutable distros, and are they the future of Linux?

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/XMuQrcYd #Linux #immutable #linuxdistro 00:00 Intro 00:33 Sponsor: 10% off your first website with Squarespace 01:26 What is an Immutable Distro? 03:30 Advantages 05:16 Installing software 07:44 Updating software 10:48 The Complexity problem 12:01 Are they the future? 13:26 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 14:29 Support the channel They are linux based operating systems that are designed to be read-only and not easily modifiable. Most of these immutable distros still let you install apps and packages on top of the system, through flatpaks, snaps or appimages, or with a specific layer of packages, that is kept when rebooting and updating. Some immutable distros give you easy access to containers so you can still use a full system with full write access. And there are a BUNCH of immutable distros: Fedora Silverblue, and Fedora Kinoite are basically Fedora Workstation, with GNOME or KDE, but with an immutable base. Vanilla OS is an Ubuntu based, soon to be debian based immutable distro that gives you access to any packaging format through containers. BLendOS does the same thing, but based on Arch. SteamOS, the linux distribution that powers the steam deck, and also my Linux gaming console / PC is also immutable. You could also say that NixOS is an immutable distribution, since you only install things and modify configurations through a declarative config file that is used to build the system. And there are a lot more, like microOS from openSUSE, endlessOS, and more! So in terms of advantages, immutable distros are just way more secure. Since you, the user can't modify the base system, and since the super user can't do it either, it also means any third party programs also can't modify that base system. Another advantage is reliability. Since you can't tinker with the system files, you also have a much smaller chance of actually destroying your system. And in terms of maintenance, since you only use an updated system after a reboot, there is no risk of breaking something by updating it while it's running. But how do I install anything if I can't write to the system? Most immutable distros work around that using universal packaging formats like flatpaks, snaps and appimages. But that's not the only way to install stuff to an immutable distro. A lot of them actually still let you install packages to the system, in a dedicated layer. That's called "layering". WHat this means is that you still have access to the distro's repos of packages, and you can still elect to install some, but you won't use the usual package manager, but another dedicated tool. Some immutable distributions also use containers, generally with something like distrobox. Another difference that can be considered a drawback is updating. Updates on immutable distros are never applied in place. When an update is available, they'll build another system image. So you end up with 2 systems; the one you're currently using, and the updated one, which is not currently active. And you only get the updates after you reboot onto that new system image. Another drawback is the complexity of these systems. Everything you try to do is different: installing a package doesn't use your usual package manager. Applying updates isn't the same command, or requires you to reboot to actually use the updated system. Immutable distros are a different sort of system, with different tools to interact with things you might already know how to do. Are they the future? Probably not. For servers, they make a lot of sense. For regular users, they do have a lot of advantages, but they also have a bunch of limitations that require the use of workarounds. And so I don't think immutable distros will replace regular distros. They'll grow, and occupy a space next to let's call them "mutable" systems, but they'll probably never be the default thing most people use.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

8 PRIVACY & security MYTHS that need to die!

Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: https://proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP Get a PC that supports Linux perfectly: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/XMuQrcYd #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.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

FLATPAK EXPLAINED: Theming, permissions, command line, browser installs...

Download Safing's Portmaster and take control of your network traffic: https://safing.io Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/XMuQrcYd #Flatpak #Linux #software 00:00 Intro 00:33 Sponsor: Regain control of your network connection 01:31 Flatpak explained 03:30 Installing and setting up Flatpak 04:57 Theming Flatpak applications 08:41 Managing Permissions 10:43 Installing from the browser 11:21 Command Line basics 13:54 Sponsor: Get a PC that was made to run Linux 14:52 Support the channel Flatpak is a method of packaging applications for ALL linux distros with one single package. Flatpaks mostly don't use your shared libraries, they ship their own. Flatpak also brings better security with a sandbox that doesn't let the app access all your system when it doesn't need to, and a permissions system. Flatpak also uses repositories, called remotes, the biggest one is of course Flathub. So, most distros out there should have flatpak preinstalled, but if you run Ubuntu or an official Ubuntu flavor, Debian, or Arch, you might want to install it yourself. On Ubuntu or Debian: sudo apt install flatpak For any distro: https://flathub.org/setup But this only gives you command line access to flatpak. If you're a more graphical sort of person, you might want to add support for your app store: FOr GNOME software, the package is often called gnome-software-plugin-flatpak, and for Discover on KDE, it's generally plasma-discover-flatpak. Next, you'll need to add a repo to be able to install flatpaks easily, without downloading a file manually each time. The biggest one everyone should use is FLathub, it has virtually every flatpak ever made. sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo THEMING: There are a bunch of themes available on Flathub, that you can find typing flatpak search theme If the theme you use is in there, you can just install it from here, then, you select it in GNOME Tweaks, and you run: flatpak update If your theme isn't available from Flathub, though, you'll need to tell flatpak it needs to use your specific theme. To do this, you can either run a command, or use a graphical application. sudo flatpak override --env=GTK_THEME=NAME OF YOUR THEME. But that's not enough, we also need to give flatpak access to the directory where your themes are located, namely the .themes directory: sudo flatpak override --filesystem=$HOME/.themes For GTK4/Libadwaita apps, open your .bash-profile file in your home directory. At the end, add this line: export GTK_THEME=NAMEOFYOURTHEME Save the file, and then log out and log back in for all the changes we made to be applied. All your GTK apps should now use the right theme, whether they're using libadwaita, flatpak, or both. PERMISSIONS Now let's see how you can change permissions. To manage them, you can use Flatseal on GNOME and KDE, but KDE also has a permissions page in the settings. Generally, permissions are correctly set, but if you feel an app shouldn't have access to something, you can toggle that thing off, and if you feel an app SHOULD have access to something, you can toggle it ON. BROWSER INSTALL Installing flatpaks is just a one click operation from your graphical app store, but if you like to browse for apps in your web browser, you can also start an install straight from there. There's an extension for Firefox and CHromium based browsers called Flatline. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flatline-flatpak/?ref=itsfoss.com https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flatline/cpbniogoilfagmcoipghkgnpmdglfmjm COMMAND LINE BASICS: install: flatpak install APPNAME Uninstall: flatpak remove APPNAME Update: flatpak update Cleanup: flatpak uninstall --unused List installed flatpaks: flatpak list Search for flatpaks: flatpak search Run an app: flatpak run COMPLETE_APPNAME Kill an app: flatpak kill COMPLETE_APPNAME Repair: flatpak repair

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

ChromeOS becomes a Linux distro, GNOME Activities changes, Mint 21.3: Linux & Open Source News

Get a free guide to avoid writing vulnerabilities in your code, or to help spot the most common ones: https://bit.ly/3s0Do99 Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/XMuQrcYd #Linux #OpenSource #technews 00:00 Intro 00:45 Sponsor: Free guide on spotting vulnerabilities in your code 01:47 Chrome OS becomes a real Linux distro 03:54 GNOME is working on a replacement for the Activities button 05:52 Mint outlines their plans for 21.3 and Debian Edition 07:58 Fedora Asahi Linux brings Fedora to Apple Silicon 09:18 Plasma 6 progress report 10:37 GNOME improves performance 12:03 Battery life focused driver updates 13:25 Gaming News: Linux passes macOS in Steam market share 15:01 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:04 Support the channel Chrome OS becomes a real Linux distro https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/google-is-finally-separating-chrome-from-chromeos-for-easier-updates/ GNOME is working on a replacement for the Activities button https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-test-activities-button-replacement/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/227 Mint outlines their plans for 21.3 and Debian Edition https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/linux-mint-21-3-plans Fedora Asahi Linux brings Fedora to Apple Silicon https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/ Plasma 6 progress report https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/03/august-plasma-6-progress-update/ https://blog.neon.kde.org/2023/08/04/announcing-kde-neon-experimental/ GNOME improves performance https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/08/twig-107/ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2023/08/04/more-sysprofing/ Battery life focused driver updates https://9to5linux.com/mesa-23-2-brings-opengl-3-1-opengl-es-3-0-support-on-asahi-new-radv-features https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-cpupower Gaming News: Linux passes macOS in Steam market share https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Stats-July-2023 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/ubisoft-connect-broke-again-but-valve-fixed-it-in-proton-experimental/

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

Access your PCs from ANYWHERE with REMOTE DESKTOPS (Linux, Mac, and Windows)

Stream any OS, desktop, or app to your browser, now with translations: https://kasmweb.com/docs/develop/developers/builds.html Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/XMuQrcYd #remotedesktop #vnc #rdp How does a remote desktop work? Essentially, it mirrors the contents of one PC onto the display of another PC, either through a dedicated app, a web browser, or the native capabilities of your operating system. There are two primary protocols: RDP, or Remote Desktop Protocol, and VNC, or Virtual Network Computing. Let's start with KasmVNC. It's open source, free of charge, and you can download the server component from their GitHub page. It's packaged for various Linux distributions including Alpine Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Kali Linux, or Oracle Linux, all for ARM or x86 CPUs. It doesn’t have a server component for Windows or macOS though, so it’s Linux only. Once the server component is installed on the PC you want to remote into, you'll need to use the command line. Simply run 'vncserver', and you'll be prompted to create a user that you’ll use to login to your remote desktop. Then, add your user to the ssl-cert group with the command displayed in your terminal. Then go to your client PC, open a web browser, type the IP address of the server followed by the port number indicated when you ran the 'vncserver' command. You'll be asked to enter your login and password for the user you created, then you're in. You'll get a nice sidebar with options to tailor performance, frame rate, compression, and more. And if you want to really get into the details, there’s a YAML configuration file you can edit either in /etc/kasmvnc, or you can have your own config file for your user in .vnc. If you want to remote into a Linux PC, most desktop environments have settings that let you enable remote desktop. In GNOME, for example, you go to the sharing page, then 'remote desktop', and enable remote control. KDE has the 'krfb' app that allows you to share your desktop. On the client side, all you need is either an RDP or VNC client. The 'Connections' app in GNOME and 'KRDC' in KDE are probably the best integrated apps, or you can use 'Remmina'. "If you want to remote into a Windows PC, your best bet is the in-built Remote Desktop Protocol or RDP. To enable it on Windows 11 Pro (home doesn't support it), simply open the Settings app, click 'System', then 'Remote Desktop', and toggle it on. A pop-up will ask for confirmation, just click 'Confirm', and voila - you're done with the server-side setup. On the client, you'll need an RDP client. For Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, you have Microsoft's Remote Desktop app. And for Linux users, there's Remmina - a free, open source tool available on any distro through Flathub. If your server is a Mac, the process is quite similar. First, open System Settings, navigate to General, and then to the 'Sharing' page. Here, enable 'Remote Management'. Next up, you need a VNC client on the client PC. Just input the IP address and the username of your Mac's user. However, one thing to keep in mind is that performance can vary. Since the resolution on Macs can be quite high, you might find it's not as fast as you'd like. Some virtual machine clients can let you remote into a VM, for example, in Virtualbox, you have a remote display tab in the “display settings” of your VM. Now to make sure this works, you’ll need to install the Virtualbox Extension pack, which you can download for free from Virtualbox’s website. https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.8/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.0.8.vbox-extpack Then, in Virtualbox, you can click the tools tab, the the little list button, and then extensions. Here, click install, then select the extension pack, and you’re done. Now you can enable remote display in the VML’s Display settings.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

I used a MAC for 30 days, and I’m glad it’s over

Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: https://proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/XMuQrcYd #macOS #macbook #laptop 00:00 Intro 00:49 Sponsor: Proton Mail, the secure and private email service 02:22 macOS: sub par software 07:49 The Apple Ecosystem: not useful to me 09:35 macbook Pro: top notch hardware, but... 12:24 M1 Pro CPU: powerhouse with one crucial flaw 13:20 Performance & Battery Life: no equal 14:30 Why it's just not for me 16:04 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:59 Support the channel MacOS sucks as an operating system. No going around that, it's designed for mono tasking, or full keyboard use. No window tiling, dock can't minimize apps by clicking on them, the green button puts everything full screen... The Global menu is great though, I wish it was well supported on Linux. No cut and paste for files and folders in the file manager is completely insane, and dragging files to other folders, or even to an open app is SO SLOW. Installing apps was OK once you get used to it. The app store is pretty useless, as everything I wanted to use wasn't in it: resolve, firefox, GIMP, rectangles, an app for nextcloud notes, obs, steam, none of them are in the app store. Virtual desktops are ok: gestures are good, but I'd argue GNOME does them better now: three fingers up in macOS doesn't show the virtual desktops, you also have to move the pointer towards the top of the screen to reveal them, or create a new one You also can't just swipe right with 3 fingers to get to a new virtual desktop and start opening apps there. Clicking on a window only focuses it, it doesn't select what you want, which is also annoying to get used to. Font rendering is absolutely great, though, especially compared to font rendering on Linux. Now in terms of hardware, there's very little that's wrong with this macbook pro: - The display is pretty great, high res, color accurate, high refresh rate, it's very good, bUT it's also covered in super reflective glass, without a matte coating. The keyboard took me a while to get used to, no numpad on such a big laptop is annoying. The webcam, mic and speakers are insanely good, and trounce everything I have ever used with Windows or Linux. But, in the end, I still prefer using my Slimbook Executive 16. Why? First, while the build quality of this mac is undeniably better, it's also extremely heavy. 1.5 kilos for the executive 16, 2.1 kilos for the Macbook The ports on the mac are far less useful as well, lacking any USB A port. In terms of trackpad, I'm not super convinced by the one on the macbook. It's huge and precise and gestures work really well, but the click is just so unsatisfying. M1 is a cool architecture, but it also has trouble running VMs for operating systems that aren't ARM based, which means it's basically unsuitable for my day to day work where I need to test distros, on a VM first, and then on actual hardware. On geekbench, It scores 2038 in single core score, which isn't bad, and 12636 in multi core, which is among the highest I've ever reviewed on a laptop, and it was on battery, not plugged in. Battery life is insane, with 14 to 16h of light work, and 6 to 8h of video editing, compared to 7 or 8h on the executive, and about 3 to 4h of editing. In the end, I have more fun using my Executive 16. It feels solid enough, although it does scratch more easily, it weighs less, I like its keyboard and display just as much, and I actually prefer the touchpad on the Executive The mic, speakers and webcam aren't super important to me, so I don't really mind the downgrade, but I have to admit the ones on the executive are just way below the ones the macbook ships with. On top of that, my Executive can run a full blown Linux distro, and VMs, which this mac can't, yet. Of course I'll try Asahi on it at some point, but for now, it looks far from ready.

The Linux Experiment thelinuxexperiment • 1y ago • 100%

EU threatens FOSS, 10% Intel boost & repairable laptops: Linux & Open Source News

Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/XMuQrcYd #Linux #OpenSource #TechNews 00:00 Intro 00:29 Sponsor: 10% off your first website with Squarespace 01:27 The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act is a nightmare for Open Source 04:45 The Framework 16 can be preordered 06:27 Lenovo also wants a repairable device 08:06 Plasma 6 new features 09:32 Threads is not working out for Meta 11:30 Gaming News: Intel performance boost, New Proton... 14:04 Sponsor: Get a PC that was made to run Linux The UE's Cyber Resilience Act is a nightmare for Open Source https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/save-open-source-the-impending-tragedy-of-the-cyber-resilience-act https://cnll.fr/news/le-cnll-alerte-sur-les-dangers-du-cyber-resilience-act-pour-la-fili%C3%A8re-du-logiciel-libre-en-europe/ The Framework 16 can be preordered with a removable GPU module https://frame.work/fr/en/products/laptop16-amd-7040/configuration/edit Lenovo also wants a repairable device https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/lenovos-tiers-of-sustainability/#dt-heading-futuristic-design https://www.techradar.com/computing/laptops/lenovos-aurora-project-repairable-laptops-could-be-a-major-breakthrough-in-the-war-on-e-waste Plasma 6 New Features https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/21/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-features/ Threads is not working out for Meta https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/threads-week/ Gaming News: Intel performance boost, Nvidia drivers https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/valve-adds-ability-to-see-steam-deck-verification-in-desktop-steam/ https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.13 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-8.0-3c https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-10p-faster https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-More-Gaming-Perf 15:05 Support the channel