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Linux Mint, Wine, COSMIC, PulseAudio, OpenSUSE, KDE & more Linux news

On this episode of TWIL (249), Linux Mint has released a new version of their distro. KDE & GNOME have announced updates to the next version of their desktop environments. A new version of Wine is out. openSUSE released a roadmap to the next iteration of Leap and System76 released a roadmap to an Alpha release of their new COSMIC desktop. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!

SHOW NOTES ►► https://thisweekinlinux.com/249

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Linux Mint 21.3 Released
02:46 Wine 9.0 Released
04:46 KDE Plasma 6 Update: Wallpaper & Release Candidate
07:10 GNOME 46 Alpha Released
08:27 GNOME Foundation Software Engineer Job Post
10:12 LINBIT
11:37 PulseAudio 17.0 Released
12:26 COSMIC: The Road to Alpha Release
14:17 OpenSUSE Leap 16 is coming
15:29 VLC Banned from Unity Store
18:40 XOrg Server and Xwayland Security Vulnerabilities
19:28 Framework Data Breach
23:29 Open-Source Community keeping Flash Player alive
24:27 Outro

SHOW NOTES ►► https://thisweekinlinux.com/249

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Other Videos:
17 KDE Plasma Features That You Didn’t Know About: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPIwFC4qFs
Gamify Your Life with Habitica, A To-Do List RPG To Get Things Done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=231NecNTaSA
5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8
7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw
How To Use Firefox’s Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo

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by Michael Tunnell

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29 thoughts on “Linux Mint, Wine, COSMIC, PulseAudio, OpenSUSE, KDE & more Linux news

  • Why you said pipewire does use pulseaudio? Pipewire was started as connection of Jack and Pu;seaudio due to limitation of both projects, so this is logically, it cannot use any of these.

  • When Qualcomm announced the next generation of ARM chips that are high performance, I said that I believed that Linux will have better Windows compatibility on ARM than Windows will when the chips are released. With the WINE news, it looks like that might be the case.

    I can't wait for these chips and the outcome that will follow.

  • Not sure when you started with the camera angles, but it's a nice addition.

  • I'm not happy at all about double-click as the new default in Plasma 6.
    XFCE made enormous progress in last 10 years, now we have tabs in Thunar, for example.. and yet they kept defaults alone. IMHO, THAT'S GOOD WAY of progressing. Never change defaults!

  • Great video, I'll be subing to this channel! Do you have a PeerTube mirror? Also, pipewire doesn't sit on top of pulseaudio, it instead reimplements the pulseaudio interface but at it's core it's just pipewire.

  • Jokes in you michael, I knew Release candidates from minecraft.

  • The circumstances around Leap were so confusing for the longest time.
    I thought it was to be ditched and Slowroll to become its successor, which is what I have switched to onto my ThinkPad for work two weeks ago.
    I'm most interested in what COSMIC will be like, hopefully less of the mess that I consider GNOME3 is.

  • That KDE wallpaper looks like it's made with cheap outline filter. I guess laptop goes into "right" hands.

  • Is so nice and relaxing have a good YT channel that give good news about Linux withou BS and misleading takes.
    Thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • It's great that gnome is actually using the donated money for it's intended purpose, instead of misappropriating it like the Linux Foundation and Mozilla have been doing (see Bryan Lunduke's reporting for more info).

  • bug report:
    description: the viewport seems to randomly switch from side to front, seems quite random not sure what triggers it 🤔 will collect logs……..:P

  • The gnome job ad: its not a shift in culture, it’s because they have some money available. It’s amazing what some funding can do. If everyone in the Linux “community” just sent a dollar a month to a project they use there would be a lot more opportunities like this for developers.

  • You don't eed to use "Edge" MINT, just change the kernel after install in the software manager, then View -> Kernels.

  • Wow! Flash is now open source. I can remember when it was not and was one of, if not THE most insecure pieces of software on the net. It finally got shut down so that achievement could go to Acrobat Reader. 🤣

  • I would like to see Cosmic on a Slowroll base. I don't know that I would leave Plasma for it, but I think Slowroll could be one of the best bases to put it on and develop from.

  • I was stunned at the number of great choices for the Plasma default wallpaper contest. I didn't know we had so much talent hanging around the place. My hat is off to everyone who put in an entry.

  • ruffle is also written in rust, so security and privacy nerds rejoice!

  • 2:40 ~ If you want to use the 6.2 kernel, you can check out the Edge version. [sigh] You can also just install it and check the update ~ view ~ Linux Kernels and install it.
    "But by default, as installed in Mum & Dad boxes, unless you change something ~ "
    If you are technical enough to know you want a 6.2 kernel instead of a 5.15 kernel, then getting it is completely trivial. If you are not technical enough to know why that might be a good thing, then a 5.15 kernel is probably going to be a better choice for you anyway.
    There must be at least 15 or 20 people in the world who have technical children who bought them a latest gen Intel fracture-lake and then wiped windows off it and installed Mint, before giving it to their technically clueless parents, who still think a modem involves a Morse code key ~ but … I really don't think it's a problem which has befallen millions of users in the last 3 days alone.
    The sort of people who make a stream of videos with titles like "Linux use for dopey Windows Users" stumble up against this every time, and stand on the rooftops and holler to the four winds that Mint is old and dangerous because they use a kernel which is 8 ~ 12 months old. That's complete rubbish. They use a kernel which has a number like 5.15.317 which was compiled 5 ~ 21 days ago. Our video maker isn't completely sure what that means so he doesn't mention it, but he does mention the 'Dangerously old kernel' which was compiled in the last week, while most of the people he's talking to are running Microsoft with a kernel that was compiled a year ago. His target audience are all interested in computer security, in the way they're interested in winning the lottery. One in 300 of them have heard of Kali Linux or know what Penetration Testing actually is. Most would guess it involves PwnHub.

  • Sure Michael, you're going to love cosmic desktop so much you're going to leave KDE Plasma!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

    No you're not!!🤣

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