Ubuntu Flavours, Android running Linux apps, Inkscape, Rocky Linux from CIQ & more Linux news

[@AyaWetts]

Gaming on Linux is better than on macOS today... and I'd rather use Linux over macOS anyways.

Hasn't this always been the case though? Linux always had a community trying to make gaming working their platform, macOS on the other hand is a nightmare even for the developers themselves, not just due to lack of support but the licensing bullshit related to macOS environment like XCode and such.

[@MrAlanCristhian]

Inkscape is a good example of what you can achieve if you keep improving what is already there, instead of rewriting everything from scratch.

[@1videoshow]

Inkscape vector. GIMP Pixel Scribus DTP Publishing

[@kras_mazov]

@@1videoshow GIMP is an example of how not to do mentioned above.

[@Wkaelx]

@@kras_mazov Why? Im not really into professional graphics but it works just fine for me.

[@1videoshow]

Any software is as professional as you are :) so…

[@LeonisYT]

​@@1videoshow elegantly put

[@granite_planet]

The WinAmp story is a great example to show people whining "why don't you just make it open source." There's a LOT more involved in open sourcing large software than dumping code files onto a server. Which is actually good - going through the hassle of open sourcing means you're more likely committed to keeping it open, neat and usable.

[@michael_tunnell]

That is a good point, but I don’t think anyone asked them to do it since it was so stagnant for so long. The way they did it was kinds of pointless since the restrictions they placed were counter to the entire point of doing it. I agree with your point about people who do it correctly because it does take some effort to do that, you’re right on

[@Batwam0]

The problem is that they didn’t understand what Open Source means. What they do was make it Source Available since they didn’t intend to allow people to develop forks. At best they were hoping to get free contributions from the community.

[@NewmanOnGaming]

It would just make for more sense to just pay for RHEL licensing thank Rocky Linux from CIQ. Seems kinda of pointless.

[@PadhleBete]

Ubuntu was a legend in its unity era.

[@729usbow]

ubuntu is cooked fool

[@bluboxes]

I remember putting it on an old dual core dell when our vista install got so shitty. It felt so fast and light, even on low tier hardware with a slow spinning hard drive. still worked great when some of the ram went bad and we went down to just 1.5GB.

[@miavelvet]

Wow i cringed hard at the rocky linux part. It basically sounded like "Non profit is outdated! For-profit-self-imposed-non-profit public benefit corporations are the future! and i will be its sole leader! someone has to be and it will be me!" lol. Good episode

[@davemason2290]

I'm watching this on a Chromebook using Linux on developer mode. Works quite well

[@jamesvandamme7786]

I wiped mine completely and tried Gallium and Kubuntu, finally settled on Mint, which Just Works. My first machine that was never touched by Microsoft. Oh, and it's 11 years old.

[@davemason2290]

@@jamesvandamme7786 I'm tempted to do that but my laptop was a present so I'm very reluctant at the moment. The Chromebook's Linux integration works works ok for day to day use. It works great. I've used Gallium on an old Chromebook, it worked great. I use Linux mint on my main machines (LMDE6). I do have MX and antiX Linux installed on thumb drives. I do some work for a small charity and I use their computer, I boot into antiX to do my work. I've used Linux for a few years now and like you I have tried several distros, Mint is my favourite but I also like MX and antiX.

[@SapioiT]

CIQ seems like an LLC which is there to take money and pay the and quickly be outsourced to the rocky linux development company, so the LLC has as little cash to pay as possible, and people still have a legal entity legally liable, but if anything happens, very little money would go from the CIQ LLC to the ones asking for damages. And the price could be that high to have lawyers on-demand.

[@thingsiplay]

Linux apps on Android Is this thing similar to what WSL on Windows? I first thought its running Linux apps native without a virtual machine, more like WINE I thought. But looks like its similar to WSL.

[@desvendandoornasaude4127]

Amazing my friend! God bless! I am sorry for my english😅

[@GrishTech]

CIQ claiming to be not for profit but also registered as a profit company seems sketch. Also one guy owning everything. Not sure about how I would about this as a corporation.

[@afr5075]

If your an enterprise and need support you buy Red Hat, Suse, Canonical or Oracle.

[@potatoes5829]

10:13 AFAIK google intends to move chromOS to an android base sometime in the future.

[@guss77]

Google announced, back in June, that they started work to rebase ChromeOS on top of the Android kernel stack, and related Android technologies. This is why an Android app for ChromeOS makes sense

[@freaked25]

Or just make Android for desktops.

[@jonnyspeed8974]

Which version has a global app menu?

[@michael_tunnell]

Ubuntu Unity has one, it’s technically possible to do it with Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, and I think regular Ubuntu but Ubuntu Unity is the only one that comes with it by default

[@EricOliverFlores]

The CIQ baffles me!

[@freaked25]

I wish the Android-Linux integration comes to older Android versions too.

[@the_miro8303]

the linux by ciq thing kinda is just enterprise support. i work in tech maintanance, it falls under the same category as rhel

[@michael_tunnell]

it doesnt fall under the same category because Red Hat actually makes RHEL. Rocky Linux is just trying to be a carbon copy of RHEL. Plus Red Hat doesn't claim to be a not-for-profit at all. CIQ claims Rocky Linux is a "self-imposed not for profit" which is not a thing. It is a for-profit company. There are big differences between the two because CIQ claims to be one thing and arent and Red Hat is up front about what they do

[@MrMysticphantom]

Rocky Linux is basically prepping for ITAR (thus the US stuff)

[@prezlamen]

It is a shame that sound on KDE is lowest quality on Linux, I try many desktops and for now seems like Cinnamon on newest kernel sound best.

[@michael_tunnell]

What do you mean sounds is bad on KDE? I’ve used KDE for years and sound works just fine

[@satyamevajayate7263]

When Gimp 3 will be released, Inkscape will also be Inkscape 3. 🤪

[@STONE69_]

Inkscape is really good, I gave up on GIMP soon after trying it. Its to hard to figure out.

[@satyamevajayate7263]

Nope Gimp is like photoshop cc. It’s release cycle is just really slow. You can try Gimp with Krista. Krista has Ai diffusion.

[@NoCommentaryGameplay_ID]

Ubuntu "cute edition" Budgie is my first gate after migrating to Linux... I think i gonna stay in this flavour for long time as long canonical not do unacceptable things like Microsoft do.

[@SoremLeverung]

I think android 16 will be used for replace actual ChromeOS

[@Fellintr]

I'd love to see a video about why Affinity doesn't support Linux.

[@michael_tunnell]

That’s interesting idea, I think I’ll add it to the list

[@CyborgZeta]

Google developing a Terminal app for Android is kind of interesting.

[@progressivemominc]

Yeah now they need to willingly give you root access

[@prezlamen]

Icons form unity 8 are the best! Ubuntu should use that instead of yaru.

[@fuseteam]

If android adopts wayland imma freak out

[@mattvisaggio]

Why doesn't Affinity support Linux?

[@michael_tunnell]

The original reason they gave was because n of the complexity of the packaging, which they were correct about at the time they said it but this was prior to Flatpaks and Snaps but since then they haven’t given any reason that I can find even though many people, including me, informed them of both formats existing. We do have Photopea though so for me, I’m good. Photopea is great

[@PadhleBete]

I like rocky linux but i think i have to switch to alma linux.

[@guilherme5094]

👍!

[@acubley]

Brain's getting Swiss cheesy. Had to look up Ubuntu Unity and went *duh*.

[@elalemanpaisa]

Isn't that guy also the guy who sold centos?

[@michael_tunnell]

this is a good question but the answer is a lot more complicated than a yes or no. The short answer is No because Greg wasn't the founder of CentOS. 1. Greg Kurtzer was **not** the "founder of CentOS". This is something he claims but it simply is not true. In fact, when the project was being discussed his comment at the time was saying that he didn't care what Red Hat was doing and would rather do something else. 2. He never owned CentOS in any way. Initially, CentOS was built by a group of people in a scattered organic creation and Greg offered his foundation as a place to put it. So yes, he was involved but calling him "the Founder" is false. 3. CentOS left Greg's foundation so Greg's involvement ended in March 2005 and Greg had nothing to do with it since. Greg claims he left due to a threat of a lawsuit from Red Hat but this is false because he didnt leave, CentOS left him. There is a lot of drama around it which most dont want to go on record about. 4. CentOS was sold to Red Hat by the then development team but this was not really a "selling out" but rather a "bailing out" by Red Hat. Many CentOS devs at the time said that CentOS was on the verge of collapse and asked Red Hat to buy the project so it wouldnt die. Red Hat agreed. This was 9 years after Greg was no longer involved at all. In fact, Greg was out of the picture before CentOS ever gained any real traction and way before it became the big player that it eventually did. Ultimately, Greg likes to claim all kinds of stuff about his involvement and honestly it just comes across to me as an attempt to seem important. If he wanted to claim "one of the founders" then it would be easier for him to say that since he was involved to a degree. Instead he calls himself "The Founder" but that's just not true. He didn't come up with the name, Greg himself says Lance Davis came up with the name. Greg didnt start the idea on the mailing list, that was Michael Redinger. Russ Herrold was the first to have started working on a rebuild. All of these are not Greg.

[@breadmoth6443]

if i could get a proper linux phone with binary/abi compatibility with android, i would so ditch android.

[@alexstone691]

At this point i think the opposite is more likely as google does not want you to run waydroid with arm emulation

[@breadmoth6443]

@@alexstone691 i see, - honestly also i am finding less and less reasons to have a smartphone , if i didn't need my authenticator/MFA app for some platforms and even for work, i probably would have just gone back to a dumb flipphone . I was really hoping the purism and pinephone thing would have panned out, but seems it will never be viable anyhow. also - the further copying of apple , no headphone jack, removal of microsd slot , and of course the battery not being removable , i really have no reason to still have a smartphone, but again if it weren't for my job and somethings , yea i would have just gone back already.

[@xrafter]

​@alexstone691 Well if google broke up from that illegal monopoly case, then this could be possible.

[@fuseteam]

If you only need mfa, and it's just TOTP ubuntu touch has a 2 mfa authenticator apps :D

[@PadhleBete]

Better use custom android roms. Way better and more privacy and also independent of stupid manufacturer update cycle which suddenly decide to rip your phone.

[@breadmoth6443]

i can't code worth anything, but im rather glad i was able to snag the winamp source; just something interesting to peruse.

[@TrustJesusToday]

It was nice to see the Tauon player on Flathub for my Fedora PCs and Tauon-music-box on AUR for my Arch PC. With that said, I would be very interested in reviewing the various Winamp forks that may surface. Tauon is terrific and a Linux polished Winamp would be a curiosity.

[@michael_tunnell]

I don’t think a new WinAmp will come with the forks because it’s not allowed by the license and they would be sued from it. Though you might find one somewhere lol but you could also check out Qmmp which is like a Winamp inspired music player

[@Tracing0029]

It would be amazing if I could just use my phone for actual development. Just imagine the possibilities. No PC needed.

[@riufq]

You can game on MacOs without Linux. Didn't you know that?

[@michael_tunnell]

You can but the experience is not great since most games don’t support it, this adds proton in the mix

[@riufq]

@@michael_tunnell sorry. I'm talking about crossover.

[@riufq]

@@michael_tunnell does crossover not good enough?

[@michael_tunnell]

Crossover is made by the same team as Wine and Proton so it’s kind of the same thing. I don’t have any interest in gaming on a Mac personally. I already have Linux for that so no need for me. I don’t know if crossover is good enough because I’ve not tried it on a Mac. This news is interesting because of how far a reverse engineering effort has come

[@riufq]

@@michael_tunnell yeah. Cause the newest macbook pro can run warhammer space marine 2. I guess it worth the price.

[@SecretlySeven]

They need to go back to focusing on Xorg and forget wayland. There's so many wayland issues from games on Nvidia to keyboard shortcuts in OBS not working.

[@fuseteam]

Xorg is dead, if there are issues on wayland those should be solved Keyboard shortcuts should work in obs using the global shortcuts portal

[@AyaWetts]

That's just crazy talk... Wayland is so much better designed. They are just progressing it too slow because of the few people who control it, which they are trying to address. Wayland today actually runs just fine. I play all my games on KDE using Wayland and nvidia. There are very few major problems left.

[@SecretlySeven]

@@fuseteam On x11 they work. No fiddling no bologna. Real hard to get people to take Linux serious when you gotta do tricks just to get hotkeys to work for a popular program. Wayland is the one thing that could force me back to Windows. It's the only pain point I've had on Linux at all.

[@nou712]

@@fuseteam Wayland is a non starter, can't even screen record on either gnome or kde even with the desktop portals and pipewire. If xorg is dead and wayland never worked and never will work, then desktop linux is over. Wayland only focuses on 3 big GPU's with proprietary hardware accelerated drivers, no open source drivers and firmware. Mesa drivers and llvmpipe don't work on wayland. No VGA framebuffer on wayland either. You either use nvidia, intel, amd ... or you don't use wayland. No mali GPU's or broadcom, no old gpu's which have open source firmware and drivers now. Are you for free and open source? Or do you just want to use a more customizeable proprietary OS? Choose one, you can't have both.

[@miavelvet]

​@@nou712 first time hearing that mesa and open source drivers dont work under wayland. Are you suree? sound like a bs tbh. like this statement is too much. I guess you just meant it has some current problems which will be solved later? I mean if its true i agree with you i see too many people today who dont really care about open source and are fine with proprietary and i hate that