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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Sponsor: SquareSpace
01:46 France starts their move to Linux
04:40 More distros speak on age verification
07:26 KDE’s Oxygen and Air themes almost fixed
09:07 Mesa says they’ll accept Ai generated code
11:20 New driver proposed to fight malicious USB devices
13:34 Cosmic update improves the file manager a lot
15:10 Google’s AI overview lies millions of times each hour
17:19 Anthropic donates 1.5M to Apache Foundation
18:56 Valve optimizes Linux for gaming with lower VRAM
21:22 Wine 11 revives Android support & fixes Mod support
23:04 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

France starts their move to Linux
https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/
https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/

More distros speak on age verification
https://getsol.us/2026/04/solus-and-age-verification/
https://forum.zorin.com/t/statement-about-age-verification-laws/61052
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/04/msg00001.html

KDE’s Oxygen and Air themes almost fixed
https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/halfway-there-to-6-7-updates-on-oxygen-and-air/

Mesa says they’ll accept Ai generated code
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Two-Gen-AI-Policies

New driver proposed to fight malicious USB devices
https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-driver-proposal-malicious-hid-devices/

Cosmic update improves the file manager a lot
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.9

Google’s AI overview lies millions of times each hour
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/

Anthropic donates 1.5M to Apache Foundation
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces-1-5m-donation-from-anthropic

Valve optimizes Linux for gaming with lower VRAM
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Better-Gaming-Low-vRAM

Wine 11 revives Android support & fixes Mod support
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/wine-11-6-is-an-exciting-release-to-make-modding-windows-games-on-linux-simpler/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.6-Released

#linuxdistro #linuxdesktop #linuxnews

  • ozoned@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    At this point countries outside of the US see this as a security vulnerability. The EU has mandated open formats. They’re all in on open source. They’re looking to spend more money in open source. Trump certainly did what I was hoping he would do, which was to show the world Big Tech can’t be trusted. They don’t be going back. They want software security, digital sovereignty.

    Keep up the food work y’all. We’re changing the course of history.