June 28, 2025

317: Steam Summer Sale, Fedora 32-Bit Controversy, Fairphone 6, KDE Korner, & more Linux news

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This week in Linux is packed! It's an extra long episode. So if you were wanting more and more TWIL, then you're going to get it this week because Steam Summer Sale is here and it is torching bank accounts. Fedora developers are talking about getting rid of 32-bit support and there's a little bit of controversy around that. We're going to break all of that down. Also, Fairphone 6 has been announced and it comes with kernel patches, an upstream Linux kernel on day one. Firefox 140 has arrived as the new ESR, and there's also some exciting news coming in the next release of Firefox as well. And later in the show, KDE's Wayland wave is continuing to grow to about 70% of users these days. Kubuntu drops X11 by default, and KDE is working on a slick first run wizard. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:06 Steam Summer Sale 2025, here's some Steam Deck ready bargains

03:12 Fedora’s Controversial 32-Bit Proposal (Could this kill Bazzite?)

09:23 Fairphone 6 Announced: Modular, Repairable, Linux-Ready

14:54 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]

16:40 Firefox 140 ESR lands with Tab Unloading & Vertical Pinned Zone

19:41 KDE Korner: Wayland Surges in Usage, Kubuntu Dropping X11, New Initial Setup Wizard

25:27 Flathub Hits 3 Billion Downloads

27:36 Destination Linux podcast for more great content

28:38 2K Classics Humble Bundle with BioShock & Mafia (90% Discount!)

31:24 ONLYOFFICE 9.0 Released: AI Tools, Visio Viewer & Fresh UI!

34:15 Lyon Goes Open Source (France’s Third-Largest City)

36:31 Outro

Links:

Steam Summer Sale 2025, here's some Steam Deck ready bargains

https://store.steampowered.com/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-summer-sale-2025-is-live-heres-some-top-picks-all-under-20/

Fedora’s Controversial 32-Bit Proposal (Could this kill Bazzite?)

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/bazzite-would-shut-down-if-fedora-goes-ahead-with-removing-32-bit/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedora-linux-devs-discuss-dropping-32-bit-packages-potentially-bad-news-for-steam-gamers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lj9e00/fedora_43_change_proposal_drop_i686_support/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ljo24p/bazzite_founder_might_shutdown_whole_project_if/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1lj9oqw/fedora_linux_devs_discuss_dropping_32bit_packages/

Fairphone 6 Announced: Modular, Repairable, Linux-Ready

https://www.fairphone.com/

https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/06/25/switch-to-the-new-fairphone-gen-6/

https://murena.com/murena-fairphone-gen-6-is-here-the-most-ethical-smartphone-unveiled/

Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]

https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly

Firefox 140 ESR lands with Tab Unloading & Vertical Pinned Zone

Firefox 140:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/140.0/releasenotes/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/firefox_140_esr/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/firefox-140-new-features-update

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-140

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-esr-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new

Firefox 141

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-141-promises-to-use-less-memory-on-linux-systems-beta-out-now

https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-141-linux-ram

Mozilla discontinues DeepSpeech

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/mozilla-deepfake-ai-detector-closing-down

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

KDE Korner: Wayland Surges in Usage, Kubuntu Dropping X11, New Initial Setup Wizard

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kde-initial-setup-tool-kiss-development-progress

https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-1-released-with-various-improvements-and-bug-fixes

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1lipt42/kde_plasma_will_continue_having_an_x11_session_as/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/kde-plasma-will-continue-having-an-x11-session-as-kubuntu-switches-to-wayland-by-default/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kubuntu-25-10-drops-x11-session

https://lwn.net/Articles/1026552/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Is-The-Future

Flathub Hits 3 Billion Downloads

https://flathub.org/statistics

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lgaz5z/flathub_has_passed_3_billion_downloads/

Destination Linux podcast for more great content

https://destinationlinux.net/

Latest Interviews

Carl Richell of System76 = https://destinationlinux.net/416

Craig Rowland of Sandfly Security = https://destinationlinux.net/409

Artyom Zorin of Zorin OS = https://destinationlinux.net/395

2K Classics Humble Bundle with BioShock & Mafia (90% Discount!)

https://humblebundleinc.sjv.io/09zAMM

ONLYOFFICE 9.0 Released: AI Tools, Visio Viewer & Fresh UI!

https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2025/06/meet-onlyoffice-desktop-editors-v9-0

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/onlyoffice-9-0-desktop-new-features-ai

Lyon Goes Open Source (France’s Third-Largest City)

https://www.lyon.fr/actualite/action-municipale/la-ville-de-lyon-renforce-sa-souverainete-numerique

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/lyon_leaving_microsoft/

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