Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

Developers should write and understand code, I know such a hot take but this is an actual discussion that had to happen within the Mesa project following an AI contribution

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Mastodon Thread: https://social.treehouse.systems/@gfxstrand/115220843956925235
Gitlab Thread: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items/13736
Document PR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/37233
Curl Thread: https://mstdn.social/@[email protected]/115241241272196497

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Recently there has been a bit of discourse about the addition of Rust into the Git project but how have we actually come to this and what issues are being faced by doing so, because there are some but maybe not the ones you've heard about

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Git RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/
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After a very long time we're finally seeing the release of the COSMIC desktop beta and today to get you ready for it we're going over what to expect from it and it's hybrid tiling and floating model

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COSMIC Website: https://system76.com/cosmic
COSMIC Repo: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch
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A few months back you may recall Fedora Linux trying to drop multilib and getting a lot of push back for doing so by developers and gamers alike most importantly because the Steam client itself is a 32 bit, but with Valve dropping support for 32 bit Windows 10, maybe there is finally hope.

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Fedora Change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Drop_i686_support
FEX: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
32 Bit Windows: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/49A1-B944-48B8-FF00
MacOS 32 Bit: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/743F-2E0E-C9A5-C375
WoW 64: https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-and-wine-staging/
CentOS Steam: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3518

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Every time some new tech comes along I keep witnessing the same arguments happening on Linux over and over again, whether it's Wayland, Systemd, Pulseaudio, and now with uutils the Rust rewrite of the GNU core utils.

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Issue 1: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/8573
Issue 2: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/8583
Uutils: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
Niche Issues: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/247
Wayland Bad: https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
LWN Article: https://lwn.net/Articles/299211/
Lennart Poettering Blog 1: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/jeffrey-stedfast.html
Lennart Poettering Blog 2: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pa-in-ubuntu.html

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Early this week it was announced that starting next term South Australian schools will have access to the government endorsed ChatGPT powered EdChat, and I'm sure nothing at all is going to go wrong with this.

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News Article: https://www.news.com.au/national/australias-public-education-systems-bans-chatbot/news-story/6360c35f7ba84da8c9f1263015a0da57
Edchat: https://www.education.sa.gov.au/parents-and-families/curriculum-and-learning/ai/edchat
Premier Article: https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/media-releases/news-archive/nation-leading-trial-in-sa-schools-to-focus-on-the-safe-use-of-ai
Trials: https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/media-releases/news-items/ai-tool-to-roll-out-to-all-public-high-schools
Trial Report: https://www.education.sa.gov.au/docs/ict/edchat-insights-report.pdf

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People keep asking me what can Wayland do that Xorg can't, well I think I've found the answer, can you make an terminal X11 environment

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About 2 years back I did a video on the absolute chaos that is the Linux kernel Github and now I think it's about time to do a follow up and see if anything at has changed.

Spoiler: It hasn't

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Github PR 1349: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1349
Github PR 1343: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1343
Github PR 1345: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1345
Github PR 1342: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1342
Github PR 1337: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1337
Github PR 1326: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1326
Github PR 1312: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1312
Github PR 1311: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1311
Github PR 1290: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1290
Github PR 1295: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1295
Github PR 1261: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1261
Github PR 1171: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1171
Github PR 1170: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1170
Github PR 1155: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1155
Github PR 1110: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1110
Github PR 1101: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1101

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Now that Bcachefs is marked as externally maintained, what does that mean for the project and the Linux kernel from now on

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Linux Kernel Email: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/yokpt2d2g2lluyomtqrdvmkl3amv3kgnipmenobkpgx537kay7@xgcgjviv3n7x/T/#u
Orphaned Package: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%231079375
OpenSUSE Listing: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/TOXF7FZXDRFPR356WO37DXZLMVVPMVHW/
Return The Tooling: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1080344

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Recently we saw the end of the AMDVLK drivers on Linux to be fully replaced by the RADV drivers in the Mesa project but what does this actually mean for you.

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AMDVLK Discussion: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/discussions/416
Mesa Repo: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa
Arch Wiki Vulkan: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan
AMDVLK Repo: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK
Dave Airlie Blogpost: https://airlied.blogspot.com/2025/09/radv-takes-over-from-amdvlk.html

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