Hey everyone!
Today, we have:
- 00:05 Mozilla has a new CEO
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-2024
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-new-chapter-for-mozilla-laura-chambers-expanded-role/
- 04:02 Apple doubles...
2024-02-09 09:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Today, we have:
- 00:06 Ubuntu moves Thunderbird to a snap
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/thunderbird-snap-in-ubuntu-24-04
- 02:24 Ubuntu Core Desktop looks interesting
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FOSDEM-2024-Snaps
- 06:06 ...
2024-02-08 09:05:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
In today's episode, we have:
- 00:06 Meta tags AI content, but trains on user posts
Hey everyone!
For today, we have:
- 00:06 VS Code will support Ubuntu 18.04 again
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-recovery-update-for-ubuntu-18-04
- 03:32 Kubuntu 24.04 won't use Plasma 6
2024-02-06 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
It's me again, and this time, we have:
- 00:10 Wine + DXVK on Android, but it's closed source
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cassia-Windows-Games-Android
- 02:49 Microsoft tries out "sudo"' for Windows
Hey everyone!
I hope you had a great week! Here is the latest episode of the Patroncast!
In this one, I talk about:
- 00:41 My current and returning sponsors, better compliance with French law on sponsored segments, and selling a bunch of computers that I still owned
- 09:11 Finishing a book series that has been with me for most of my adult life, the Horus heresy. The last chapter dropped last week, I finished it in a day and a half, and I wanted to re...
2024-02-05 10:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Today, we have:
- 00:06 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40
- 04:10 VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without notice
Hey everyone!
Today, we have:
- 00:06 Details about Mint 22
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4639
- 02:12 Mesa Drivers 24 are here
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released
- 04:58 Libreoffice 24.2 brings a ton of features
...
2024-02-01 06:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
In this episode, we have:
-00:08 Wayland gets a new protocol
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag
-01:51 Wine on Wayland has a roadmap
Hey everyone!
In this one, we have:
- 00:08 Thunderbird revamping the app, and adding Exchange support
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/
- 02:54 Purism wants to go public for 75 million dollars
Hey everyone again!
For today's news, we have:
- 00:23 Ubuntu plans to tweak their kernels
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Low-Lat-Generic-Kernel
- 02:50 Wayland support for Wine gets better
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emu...
2024-01-29 12:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I hope you had a good weekend, here is your weekly episode of the Patroncast to start the week with more questions and ranting!
In this one, I talk about:
- 01:07 Using an iPhone as a Linux user, and how it's perfectly functional, but makes me feel like a hypocrite, and how the Fairphone 5 might be the device I was waiting for
- 15:17 My first real problem with Nvidia drivers, and how I now understand the complaints about these
I...
2024-01-29 12:02:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Here is what I'll be working on in February, and what you can vote on!
So, we'll have:
- Linux News: every Saturday, as always, so there will be 4 in February
- Plasma 6 review: the next version of KDE will be published at the end of the month, so obviously you can expect a big video covering everything!
- Tiling managers: are they worth the effort? I'll finally give my opinion on tiling window managers, since a lot of...
2024-01-28 09:53:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
In today's episode, we have:
- 00:09 Apple opens up iOS a LOT more
Hey everyone,
Today, we have:
- 00:08 Philips uses Linux to cram ads on their TVs
https://www.whathifi.com/news/philips-is-ditching-goolge-tv-but-not-on-its-oleds
- 01:46 Nvidia beta drivers bring cool fixes
Hey everyone!
Today, we have:
- 00:15 Kernel patches give enormous gaming boost
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux
- 03:47 Bazzite 2.2 is now out
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/20...
2024-01-24 11:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
In this one, we have:
- 00:08 Mint's Edge ISO is now available
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4635
- 01:18 A unified way of playing Windows games on Linux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/unified-...
2024-01-23 11:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
In this one, we have:
- 00:08 Plasma 6 gains more features as the release nears
- 03:30 Wayland protocols gain better remote desktop support
- 05:36 Huawei won't support Android apps at all anymore
2024-01-22 12:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I hope you had a great week-end! Personally, I hosted all 4 of my girlfriend's nieces and nephews on Saturday and Sunday, aged 7 to 12, and while it was really fun, it was also exhausting :D
So, in this new episode of the patroncast, we'll talk about:
- 00:34 The channel, how it's doing, potential new sponsors, and trying to let things go to focus on more user funding for the channel
- 12:05 Immutable distros, and whether th...
2024-01-22 12:37:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
In today's episode, we have:
- 00:09 Bing Chat isn't the success Microsoft wanted it to be
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-market-share-chatgpt-36751.html
- 02:08 The Hangover Project brings Wine to ARM devices
2024-01-19 09:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Today, we have:
- 00:08 The Snap package for Steam generates tons of bug reports for Valve, and they don't want to deal with that
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recommend-ubuntu-steam-snap
- 02:20 Flathub wants higher quality app listings
Hey everyone!
In this one, we have:
- 00:08 Chrome making it clear Incognito mode doesn't really help privacy
- 01:55 Wine 9.0 being released, a stable version with Wayland support and 32 bit on 64 bit improvements
- 03:57 More improvements coming to Plasma 6, notably for fractional scaling
Have a nice day!
2024-01-17 10:25:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Today, we have:
- 00:08 Google pretty much giving up on Fuschia as a system for the general public
- 02:03 Ubuntu planning to patch some gaps in GNOME shell and Mutter
- 04:12 OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be an image-based OS, apparently no longer meant for the general desktop user
Have a nice day!
2024-01-16 13:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
In this episode, we have:
- 00:09 Fedora wants ROCm by default
- 02:07 Interesting proposal for AI content identification
- 05:53 GNOME 4 Alpha
- 08:19 KDE is hiring
- 10:00 Ayaneo isn't using the official SteamOS
I hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a nice day!
2024-01-15 10:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I hope you're all doing well :)
In this episode of the patroncast, I talk about
- 00:40 The channel, and wondering how I could bring the longer news podcast to Youtube without it being weird for subscribers (who would get 2 formats of the same content on the same day)
- 10:43 Should the Linux desktop platform constrain app design, as in "Wayland can limit how apps work and are designed, should we do that, or let desktops decide?". Spoi...
2024-01-15 09:56:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
In this episode, we have:
- 00:09 another answer on the long "Wayland breaks everything" saga
- 06:36 Mesa 24 bringing a bunch of improvements to our drivers
- 08:43 The Cosmic Alpha being on its way
I hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a nice day!
Hey everyone!
Today, we have:
- 00:08 A New Linux malware that installs cryptominers
- 02:08 The first Release Candidate for Plasma 6
- 03:46 Ayaneo announcing a new handheld running SteamOS
- 05:54 Mint 21.3 being released with an experimental Wayland session
I hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a nice day!
2024-01-11 08:44:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
In this one, we have:
- 00:09 Some cool new mockups for GNOME apps
- 03:31 Apple's AirDrop being cracked by Chinese authorities
- 06:49 Unity laying 1800 people off, and NVK getting a shader cache
I hope you'll enjoy, and have a nice day!
Hey everyone!
In this one, we have:
- 00:09 GTK gaining a new unified GPU rendered
- 02:15 Heroic Launcher getting a nice update to make playing games easier
- 04:40 Other smaller news, including a new version of Solus, and AMD getting a 10to 18% performance boost for OpenGL
Have a nice day!
2024-01-09 13:14:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
In this episode, we have:
- 00:12 The Linux kernel 6.7 being released
- 04:33 Chromium gaining hardware accelerate video decoding on Wayland
- 06:44 Some cool stuff coming to GNOME 46 and beyond
