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Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E67 - KDE by default for Fedora?
🕑 Added 2024-04-03 07:58:05 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
In this one, we have:
00:21 Mint 22 shakes things up
https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-devs-to-ship-thunderbird-as-a-native-deb-package-in-linux-mint-22
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/linux-mint-22-adopts-pipewire-hwe-kernels
03:24 Nitrux will leave KDE Plasma behind
https://linuxiac.com/nitrux-moves-to-maui-shell-bids-farewell-to-kde-plasma/
https://nxos.org/news/plasma-6-in-nitrux-when/
06:10 Linux gaming back at around 2%
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-March-2024
07:49 A proposal for Fedora to leave GNOME for KDE
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation
10:50 Thunderbird makes progress on Exchange support
https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-progresses-with-exchange-compatibility/
12:29 AMD will open source more docs and code
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-Hardware-Docs
Have a nice day!
Comments
The Linux Experiment
I think Mint really doesn't like these containerized formats all that much, they do support them, but I feel like they want to stick to deb packages as much as they can. I would personally prefer to see all default apps that are "official" shipped from the officially supported format, so Flatpak here!
Mohan
Mint should just ship Firefox and Thunderbird as flatpak apps!
UsernamesAreHard
It's a mouse and cat game that Linux Mint is playing with it's Ubuntu base, because on one hand you have Canonical removing Deb packages from their repository and on the other the Mint team reintroduces them in their repos. Given the path Ubuntu is taking with snaps, I think that Mint switching to LMDE completely wouldn't be a bad move but it would require some prep work, for example, I wish that the Linux Mint team would develop a driver utility tool to use with LMDE to replace Ubuntu drivers, Vanilla OS is developing such a tool called Ikaros.
