Flavours of Ubuntu 24.04, Proton 9.0, NVIDIA + Steam Deck & more Linux news

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Ubuntu Flavours of 24.04 LTS
07:37 Proton 9.0 Released
09:01 NVIDIA to support GeForce NOW on Steam Deck
10:11 Sponsored by Kolide
11:21 Golf With Your Friends' Speed Golf mode
12:31 EndeavourOS Gemini Released
13:56 systemd's "run0" is a sudo alternative
15:56 nano 8.0 Released
16:56 LibreELEC 12 Released
18:27 Amarok 3.0 Released
19:25 Announcement for TWIL next week
20:00 Outro
SHOW NOTES ►► thisweekinlinux.com/262
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- Destination Linux
- destinationlinux.net
- Ubuntu Flavours of 24.04 LTS
- ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours
- kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-24-0...
- lubuntu.me/noble-released/
- ubuntubudgie.org/2024/04/ubun...
- xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-24-0...
- ubuntustudio.org/2024/04/ubun...
- ubuntucinnamon.org/?p=1310
- ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-m...
- ubuntuunity.org/posts/ubuntu-...
- discourse.ubuntu.com/t/edubun...
- www.ubuntukylin.com/news/ubun...
- Proton 9.0 Released
- github.com/ValveSoftware/Prot...
- www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05...
- NVIDIA to support GeForce NOW on Steam Deck
- blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce...
- www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-...
- nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answe...
- www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05...
- Golf With Your Friends' Speed Golf mode
- store.steampowered.com/app/43...
- www.humblebundle.com/games/te...
- www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04...
- www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05...
- EndeavourOS Gemini Released
- endeavouros.com/news/plasma-6...
- systemd's "run0" is a sudo alternative
- mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112...
- www.phoronix.com/news/systemd...
- lwn.net/Articles/971745/
- outpost.fosspost.org/d/19-sys...
- Nano 8.0 Released
- www.nano-editor.org/news.php
- lwn.net/Articles/971980/
- LibreELEC 12 Released
- libreelec.tv/2024/05/01/libre...
- kodi.tv/article/kodi-21-0-ome...
- 9to5linux.com/libreelec-12-ad...
- Amarok 3.0 Released
- apps.kde.org/amarok/
- blogs.kde.org/2024/04/29/amar...
- www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/a...
- 9to5linux.com/amarok-3-0-open...
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[@mrnadra6843]

So the steam deck has reached critical mass to be worth supporting. Thats some good shit right there. 👀

[@xrafter]

No. Nvidia just wants to say we support arch btw. Another win for arch.

[@emlyndewar]

Ubuntu Studio 24.04 has been very smooth sailing so far.

[@kewnst]

heh just like i predicted. the steam deck is changing linux ofr hte better and with all the attention hand helds are getting esp steam deck its more benificial to nvidia to aknowledge linux .

[@Lumpology]

Looking forward to Ubuntu Lomiri, want my phone to match my desktop

[@guilherme5094]

Kubuntu for me, but i have to admit that Ubuntu kylin is so beautiful.

[@stephanhuebner4931]

The most surprising news was that they felt the need to make the Gollum-game compatible with Proton. is there actually somebody playing that one? 😀

[@esra_erimez]

I, for one, love systemd.

[@sydneyyourpal3403]

Linux desktop looking real good this year

[@xymaryai8283]

man, Unity still has so much nostalgia for me, i still have my sidebar setup like Ubuntu but i wish my Zorin OS menu was more like the Unity one tho i mostly had an extremely terrible experience with that menu at the time, that was because i was running it on a 90's laptop with no UI acceleration and on an IDE hard drive ^-^' i actually love how it looks once its loaded, after the (no joke) 5 minutes it took

[@whiskeylinux]

Love the outro!

[@ErickWhite-Gronok]

I love Amarok, though I'm usually in GNOME these days. I'll have to check out what's changed.

[@whiskeylinux]

I'm a fan of Ubuntu Cinnamon. It just works and requires minimal fuss to get it setup the way I like.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

Why not going Linux Mint, or Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) instead?

[@potatoes5829]

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 agree, linux mint is the best way to experience cinnamon imo

[@LeonisYT]

Yea I've never really understood Ubuntu cinnamon. Linux mint is already based on Ubuntu. Then Linux mint Debian edition is very good if you don't like the canonical stuff.

[@MrAlanCristhian]

Nano fan here.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

I still have my Macintosh Lisa, but AFAIK they were released in 1985 (which mine is) not 83.

[@michael_tunnell]

No idea, I found the info about 10 minutes prior to saying it 😎 so the source could be wrong for sure

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

@@michael_tunnell I can easily imagine, and good info is scarce on it, even apple kind of swept it under the rug and pretended it never existed for it's high price and performance compared to other systems. The groovy GUI didn't make up for it even being a first in the personal computer market. It does quack like a duck and all that though!🤪🤓 Does Jill have one, and does she want it? I'm not giving it away, and I know it needs to be shipped properly (It's very heavy), and some minor repair is needed: 1. a screen scan line adjustment which is done physically by turning the beam coils attached to the high voltage picture tube (Old school and dangerous) with it being something wrong with the tube or electron beam aiming coils a possibility but unlikely, and 2. a working hard drive with a compatible OS. I kept it maintained well, but one year the drive finally just crapped out on boot sector scan, and it can no longer find the OS on boot, but it still beeps post codes and the drive spins and clicks probing for it. Finding a compatible drive or way around using one is much harder than installing it or the OS, so I don't want collectors price but a fair price for such an archeological find so close to coming alive again.

[@TheClonerx]

In my experience LDAP is used a lot in enterprise, not having support for it might be a deal breaker.

[@ShaunakHub]

Proper names should be UUbuntu Mubuntu, Cubuntu, Bubuntu....

[@Hinipe]

Is there any distro planning on updating their LXQt version to 2.0 soon? I was hoping Lubuntu would, but of course the deadline, specially for an LTS, was too tight.

[@michael_tunnell]

All of the distros that ship it as default are planning on upgrading to 2.0 but it will likely take some time unless using a rolling release distribution because the timing of the release was less than stellar for many of them

[@thingsiplay]

The only problem with Nvidia GeForce NOW for me is, Firefox is not supported.

[@LevisRaju]

Lomiri will get there !

[@SirSomnolent]

No judgement but... gotta wonder about that hard core Ubuntu unity community.

[@marck0060]

The greatest desktop environment there is

[@gljames24]

Can't wait for Cosmic DE!

[@hiru92]

ubuntu 12.04 has unity when I used it , now it back again ?

[@michael_tunnell]

It’s not back in that way, it’s managed by a community effort in a flavour

[@petar0402]

@michael_tunnell Audio is perfect this time. Yay! 😄

[@bertnijhof5413]

Xubuntu is the best flavor.

[@garmar704]

For me as well!

[@Hinipe]

Is it too different from Linux Lite?

[@alexstone691]

Honestly systemd guys just be making banger tools and people keep yelling at them

[@nothingtoseeherelolkek]

My favorite Ubuntu flavor is openSUSE Tumbleweed

[@nothingtoseeherelolkek]

Or Debian. Droidian is nice so far.

[@chrismurphy2769]

Ubuntu 24.04 is very laggy for me, sometimes taking several seconds for each letter while typing. Volume control sometimes have to be set twice in a row before the change is accepted. Keys lag and are "sticky" when I try GTAV which basically always makes you turn hard and crash into walls. This is a problem without a known solution right now and apparently I'm not the only one who is experiencing significant lag and slowdown. Apps also load slow but supposedly that's because of their snap packages basically sandboxing prerequisites... Also, no EAC anticheat for Rust and other games. This needs addressing securely. If you can figure out you'd be a hero. All this has me believing I'm done with Ubuntu, but I haven't yet picked it's replacement. I'll probably either go with Linux mint Debian or steamos

[@sayanth4081]

Amarok looks outdated compared to Elisa

[@comesignotus9888]

Poetterinng is an opposite of the king Midas. Whatever he touches becomes definitely not gold. Keep him inside his Microsoft and don't let him out. That company fits him well. Only IBM would probably match his reverse-Midas attitude better, but IBM is too close to Linux unfortunately.

[@michael_tunnell]

Lennart used to work for Red Hat and he has been involved in so many important projects, I don’t get why he gets so much backlash

[@karls4948]

@@michael_tunnell He has the Microsoft attitude when he programs.

[@michael_tunnell]

I can understand someone disliking him for whatever reason but disliking him doesn’t mean his projects are bad. Though he has also received death threats from idiots over his work and that is just insane to me. 🤷‍♂️

[@cemery50]

I must admit that I am sooo sick of hidden options, key sequences, and fly outs from the lower left pixel and naming the same thing a gazziolon different things on different things to silo your app....omg....hopefully ai will be smarter than us and translate intentions into actions and sc*w the architecture, place , time, local and language....we've turned our world into a tower of babble to enrich the greedy It is all the same systems and concepts....mostly paid for by our government and created by students who paid to do it.

[@BanduTheGreat]

What's with the teeth?

[@KemalALKIN]

hi from Turkiye