Late Night Linux

The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix.

First Impressions

We had a look at Regolith, a modern desktop environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for kwin.

Feedback

We mentioned Photopea.

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Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner.

News

Fairphone 4 review

10 Year Smartphone

Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them

News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile

Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 32 and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

KDE has a FOSS role going

KDE’s 25th birthday

How Gwenview got its name

Kalendar devblog 17 & 18

Krita 5.0 beta 2 is out and 5 will bring a price bump in the Mac/Windows stores

Crowdsec

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Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often.

First Impressions

We had a look at Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS.

Graham and the Pinephone

Graham’s phone broke recently so he decided to try using the Pinephone as his main phone. He tells us how it went. He mentioned Waydroid.

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Crowdsec

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Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family.

News

Linux After Dark has launched!

Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream

Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default

Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years

Steam Deck FAQ

Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

GOL

BattlEye to support the Steam Deck

GNOME 41 released

Building an Alternative Ecosystem

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 31

KDE Korner

KDE Window Rules

Get Drawing With Krita with this Book

Ever. So. Closer. And a beta test in October

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Entroware

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What we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and Bodhi Linux.

First Impressions

We had a look at GoboLinux, an alternative Linux distribution which

redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.

If we were in charge of the Linux desktop

What we’d do if if we were magically in charge of the Desktop teams of Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE.

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Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious to the long arm of the law, Bitcoin becomes an official currency in El Salvador, influential friends call it a day, and more.

News

Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?

Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon

ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy

Open source is selfish

Ubuntu Podcast is ending

Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python

El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 30

KDE Korner

Killing the dreaded hamburger menu and Tags are nearly there

NERC Space Geodesy Facility featured on Tom Scott

Crowdsec

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Félim is trolled about the cloud, our first impressions of elementary OS, your feedback, and more.

First Impressions

We had a look at elementary OS, the “thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS”.

Benefits of the cloud

Gary from LNL Extra joins us to wind Félim up.

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The kernel turns 30, flagship phones get even more locked down, great news for running Linux on M1 Macs, AMP looks to be exactly what we thought it was, KDE Korner, and more.

News

DebConf just wrapped up and there are videos available

Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years

LINUX is obsolete

Samsung will let you unlock your Z Fold 3’s bootloader, but at the cost of your cameras

State of Magisk: 2021

GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1

Resigning from the AMP advisory committee

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 29

KDE Korner

PineBook / PinePhone Review by Nico

KDE PIM Update especially Kalendar (New ToDo app) and a video of it on a PinePhone

Early days but Tokodon is a KDE mastodon client

WARNING: scam mails about krita and youtube coming from krita.io

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What we all thought about the open and federated Twitter alternative Mastodon, plus your feedback about the new user experience, and why Graham and Joe don’t use Linux for making music.

First Impressions

We had a look at Fostodon, a FOSS-focused Mastodon instance.

Feedback

We mentioned Going Linux.

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New releases from elementary OS and Debian, Apple causes a big privacy stink, KDE Korner, your feedback about Linux grifters, and some mid-summer silliness.

News

Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life

Child Safety

One Bad Apple

elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now

Debian 11 “bullseye” released

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 28

KDE Korner

KDE Apps 21.08

Along with KDEnlive 21.08

Ads for Elisa, Dolphin and Konsole

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