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Mozilla's gotten itself a new CEO, and the outlook seems much the same, with an emphasis on AI being baked into the browser. While most folks on the ethical side of the argument (like Waterfox and the derivatives) lean towards no, the more pragmatic might find this as a net positive.

Overall, the focus is on growth, and the fundamentals, at least, seem good.

Where do you stand?

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The new CEO's blog post

John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.

Tim LePés, --verbose, MarshMan, Rotted Mood

Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, Metal.Smurf, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, EwokEmpire, Musical Coder, Hausken, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Blackshift6090, Jefferson Lotspeich, Amanita, Matt Miller

Eduardo PH, Kyle, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan, Winter

System76 and the Cosmic desktop are making all the right moves with it's full release by solving problems that Linux distros and desktops don't usually solve. Normal people problems. In this case specifically, sync. That's file sync, config sync, the kitchen sync. And with the desktop being so usable, even on other distros, it might gain some decent adoption quickly. Oh... it's also their first real attempt at a desktop all their own?

Impressive.

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The Blog announcement

John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.

Tim LePés, --verbose, MarshMan, Rotted Mood

Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, Metal.Smurf, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, EwokEmpire, Musical Coder, Hausken, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Blackshift6090, Jefferson Lotspeich, Amanita, Matt Miller

Eduardo PH, Kyle, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan, Winter

The KDE team has announced that X11 will soon (2027) be unsupported on Plasma and become Wayland-only rather than Wayland-first. Steam Deck is already there for the most part with Gamescope, and between normal installs of newer Plasma, Steam Deck, Kubuntu and Bazzite, Plasma is growing by the minute. Wayland is inevitable!

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If you don't want Wayland at all, neither Gnome or KDE Plasma with be right for you (outside of Long Term Support Linuxes), so Xfce, Lxqt, and tiling window managers will be your only refuge.

John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.

Tim LePés, --verbose, MarshMan, Rotted Mood

Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, Metal.Smurf, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, EwokEmpire, Musical Coder, Hausken, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Blackshift6090, Jefferson Lotspeich, Amanita, Matt Miller

Eduardo PH, Kyle, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan, Winter

KDE blog post

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It was actually hacking prevention by throwing the whole Wordpress away. Especially after seeing how Wordpress got Xubuntu pwned. The one thing we wish we had gotten during that whole process was a little heads up. 😉

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Gaming on Linux noticed on Mastodon

John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.

Tim LePés, --verbose, MarshMan, Rotted Mood

Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, Metal.Smurf, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, EwokEmpire, Musical Coder, Hausken, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Blackshift6090, Jefferson Lotspeich, Amanita, Matt Miller

Eduardo PH, Kyle, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan, Winter

In a weird turn of events, FreeRDP and WinBoat take a ton of flak for something they weren't responsible for, and by now, have mostly recovered. What actually happened, was WinBoat, a container tech that shoves Windows into a VM inside of a container, was being used by someone that exposed their machine directly to the internet. And if there's one thing we know about OSes being directly connected to the internet... it's that they'll be pwned sooner or later. Probably sooner... as we can see.

On the bright side, WinBoat has (likely not from Dan, but) taken Dan's suggestion to just listen locally in case someone really does stick it out on the internet.

Unfortunately, we can't directly blame Windows for this one. Shame, really. 😉

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OMG Ubuntu article

John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.

Tim LePés, --verbose, MarshMan, Rotted Mood

Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, Metal.Smurf, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, EwokEmpire, Musical Coder, Hausken, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Blackshift6090, Jefferson Lotspeich, Amanita, Matt Miller

Eduardo PH, Kyle, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan, Winter

A little while ago we played with the Cosmic Desktop Beta in Pop OS for a couple hours. We couldn't believe just how good it was, and it's not even released!

Now, with the 1.0 release just around the corner, we'll drop this here to remind us just how far the desktop's come when we upgrade. We'll also circle back and see what's changed in another video.

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LUS Live Stream Episode - The B-side

John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.

Tim LePés, --verbose, MarshMan, Rotted Mood

Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, Metal.Smurf, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, EwokEmpire, Musical Coder, Hausken, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Blackshift6090, Jefferson Lotspeich, Amanita, Matt Miller

Eduardo PH, Kyle, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan, Winter

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Fedora 43 was released on October 28th and the rollout is going quite good thanks to the new and improved Anaconda installer on the spins (Workstation had it a little while ago) and Gnome is now Wayland-only, the first desktop to do so.

But starting about a month ago, a new policy was brewing that would allow AI contributions into Fedora, and subsequently, anything that relies on Fedora as an upstream. The ticket was first introduced in early October, and finally got its "official" release, a few days before 43.

How will this ultimately go? Time will tell, but it seems like folks have already made up their minds.

Fedora 43 Release Announcement

Gaming On Linux Coverage

John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.

Tim LePés, --verbose, MarshMan, Rotted Mood

Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, Metal.Smurf, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, EwokEmpire, Musical Coder, Hausken, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Blackshift6090, Jefferson Lotspeich, Amanita, Matt Miller

Eduardo PH, Kyle, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan, Winter

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In a stunning turn that absolutely no one saw coming, Google makes yet another move to cut off what little freedom Android users have these days. First with undercutting custom ROM developers access to Pixel device information back in July, and now by requiring all developers, even ones that don't want anything to do with Google, to get their apps blessed by Google themselves, leaving little room for F-Droid and other alternative stores on the platform.

Time to pick your Walled Garden.

AOSP is hanging on by a thread

John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.

Tim LePés, --verbose, MarshMan, Rotted Mood

Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, Metal.Smurf, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, EwokEmpire, Musical Coder, Hausken, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Blackshift6090, Jefferson Lotspeich, Amanita, Matt Miller

Eduardo PH, Kyle, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan, Winter

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YaST is officially OUT of OpenSUSE Leap 16, but have no fear! Cockpit and Myrlyn are here to carry the torch. Also, Agama (the new installer) gets a mention and might just be the savior Leo needs to pick up the pieces from a dead Anaconda installer.

🧙‍♂️Myrlyn will cast the spells now🦎

AI summaries are OK most of the time, and it's annoying when they're just flat out wrong, but whether you think they're the best thing ever, hate them with a passion, or somewhere in between, they're going to change how we browse forever. Search companies are making sure of that.

More worrisome, what happens to ads (for the people that don't block them, of course) and what about browsing statistics when folks just skim the summary and move on?

Neither of us are very fond of AI, but we still need to stay on top of all of this which means we need to at least test things out. So, which is the better AI searcher?