Season 1 - Episode 4: Farnsworth

Discussion

• Gnome 3.30 comes with improved performance on low power devices (any chance this being connected to the Librem 5?), a new Podcast app and UI improvements. Contributions welcome.

• KDE released Plasma 5.14 Beta. Discover can now use fwupd for firmware updates.

• Canonical’s going for a Software Center revamp

• Software centers are important, Ubuntu Mate’s Software Boutique hits the spot.

• How do we discover software? Mostly word of mouth, a podcast or an article. There is a very useful alternativeTo website where you can find Linux alternatives to software from other platforms.

• AMD beats Nvidia in kernel contributions but Intel still contributes more. Hopefully Intel’s discrete GPUs will arrive soon and will work better than the one Linus Tech Tips got their hands on. It looks like AMD might be on the verge of Linux dominance because of better driver support.

• The EU voted on Article 13.

  • See how your MEPs voted here (pages 38 and 39).
  • Next EU parliamentary elections are next year. Discussion about MEPs.
  • What’s gonna happen next? If this becomes a law, content delivery platforms might take some desperate measures, like relying 100% on content filters to identify copyright infringements - and those are rubbish
  • XKCD: difference between easy and hard in CS.
  • Should copyright be abolished completely? Brian Lunduke‘s interview with RMS

• Wobbly windows are coming back. Haven’t times and trends change, though?

Linux Boners

• Mike: Qutebrowser - browser with Vim-like keybindings
• Shane: Irish open data - the government got this right.
• Conor: qBittorrent - qt re-implementation of utorrent

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