Late Night Linux

A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.

Discoveries

Pandas (10mins to pandas)

WLED

XSuspender

subnetcalc

Quickemu and Quickgui

Feedback

French Keyboard bug in KDE

asus-linux.org

GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

protondb

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The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.

News

One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi

Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android

Steam Deck review: it’s not ready

Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

Qualcomm’s new PC chips are good, but they still can’t match Apple’s M1

Admin

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KDE Korner

Fix all the things

Kate Improvements coming soon

SoK Flathubbing

It’s Normal and it Works

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Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac.

Discoveries

Python Rich

Sweethome 3D

react-wordle

wordle in under 50 lines of bash

Bismuth

Kröhnkite

KWin-Tiling

Mandelbulber2

Feedback

fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer

jo

Unofficial LNL Matrix room

Samson mic

Podcastage

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Slackware 15 released

Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)

Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review

Network install beta test

Update on Firefox Reality

Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising

Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted, but it might show up in your Peloton

Inside Google’s Plan to Salvage Its Stadia Gaming Service

Early Steam Deck previews are out – and battery life is causing concern

Steam Deck CAD files now available

Twitter thread about the Deck’s size

Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck

Admin

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KDE Korner

Plasma 5.24 (Nico has a video) & Bug fixes coming with some improvements too

Kalendar 1.0 is out

Plasma Mobile Gear 22.01 is out

5.25 starts: Discover redesign begins & Navigate panels with the keyboard

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Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap and Flatpak, and more.

Links mentioned:

Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store

Termux and Android 10

AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison

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The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner.

News

Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th

Farewell, G-Suite Legacy

The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains

A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator

Discoveries

Jq

Vital synth

Admin

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KDE Korner

Falkon 3.2.0

15 Minute bug initiative and progress (plus some upcoming features)

Runner help

Linux App Summit

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Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternative to Sonos.

Discoveries

HiFi Berry OS

Ceefax lives!

NimBLE ESP32

iPlayer probably runs on 32-bit Linux

Why use Mint over Ubuntu?

Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released!

New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition

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Entroware

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A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.

News

JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up

New year, new Signal CEO

Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations

Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web

Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity

Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days

Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.24 Beta out

KVer Graphics & Dev Videos

Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager

KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out

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A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire.

Discoveries

Barrier

rdfind

A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer

Feedback

CalyxOS and a site to check which apps will work with de-Googled Android

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Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more.

News/discussion

Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects

UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere

Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About Mozilla VPN?!

Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz lays some smack down

Canonical Seeks Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager 

In 2022, security will be priority number one for Linux and open-source developers

Discoveries

ts – Prefix any line with the current timestamp

The Rockstar Language Specification

KDE Korner

Highlights of 2021 and a Roadmap for 2022

Krita 5.0 released!

A new browser from kMobile

KDE Art Stream

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