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Trouble for OpenSource Office Suites, Wayland fixes 2 major features & other Linux Weekly News

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    00:34 OnlyOffice accuses EuroOffice of breaking their license
    02:39 OnlyOffice suspends partnership with Nextcloud
    04:15 Trouble between Collabora and The Document Foundation
    07:06 Wayland session restore protocol is now official
    08:40 Wayland fractional scaling improvements
    09:43 Copilot slots ads into PRs and merge requests
    12:14 Ubuntu MATE loses its maintainer
    13:56 GNOME fully drops Google Drive support
    15:52 Linux passes 5% market share on Steam
    17:29 Nvidia's HDR & color management support in preview
    19:00 Wine could move to Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan
    20:27 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

    Links:

    OnlyOffice accuses EuroOffice of breaking their license

    https://github.com/Euro-Office/
    https://linuxiac.com/onlyoffice-accuses-euro-office-of-license-violations/

    OnlyOffice suspends partnership with Nextcloud

    https://www.neowin.net/news/onlyoffice-suspends-nextcloud-partnership-over-unapproved-euro-office-fork/

    Trouble between Collabora and The Document Foundation

    https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/

    Wayland session restore protocol is now official

    https://itsfoss.com/news/wayland-session-management/

    Wayland fractional scaling improvements

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/xx-fractional-scale-v2-MR-KWin

    Copilot slots ads into PRs and merge requests

    https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/
    https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-is-horrific-github-kills-copilot-pull-request-ads-after-user-backlash

    Ubuntu MATE loses its maintainer

    https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-mate-needs-new-maintainer

    GNOME fully drops Google Drive support

    https://itsfoss.com/news/gnome-drops-google-drive-support/

    Linux passes 5% market share on Steam

    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-smashes-past-5-percent-on-the-steam-survey-for-the-first-time/

    Nvidia's HDR & color management support in preview

    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-announce-a-preview-of-drm-per-plane-color-pipeline-api-support-on-linux-good-for-hdr/

    Wine could move to Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan

    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/a-future-wine-release-could-use-zink-to-run-opengl-via-vulkan/

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