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Linux's biggest opportunity yet, New Linux Tablet, Google fined €4B - Linux Weekly News (tilvids.com)
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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:43 Sponsor: SquareSpace 02:15 Sony & Microsoft just handed Linux a major win 07:30 PS5 Linux project now works pretty well 08:45 New Linux tablet looks pretty nice 10:23 Google Fined 4 billion euros 13:00 Some cool GNOME apps released and updated 15:32 Unpatched vulnerability in KDE 6.7 17:20 Microsoft launches WSL containers 18:48 Canonical sponsors a Rust focused entity 20:53 Fedora revamps their Community process over AI desktop spin 24:18 Kernel devs want to drop the "assisted by AI" tag 26:11 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

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Sony & Microsoft just handed Linux a major win https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ryjyvjq41o https://www.techradar.com/gaming/sony-announces-that-the-ps3-and-vita-stores-are-going-offline-on-the-same-day-it-tells-us-we-wont-be-able-to-buy-physical-games-in-future-this-is-why-physical-media-matters https://www.techradar.com/streaming/entertainment/this-should-be-illegal-sony-is-deleting-over-500-movies-that-people-bought-from-their-digital-libraries-just-proving-further-why-4k-blu-rays-popularity-keeps-growing https://www.techradar.com/gaming/xbox-might-be-following-playstations-lead-as-new-reports-claim-microsoft-is-testing-a-new-disc-to-digital-game-feature-called-positron-and-the-next-gen-project-helix-console-wont-have-a-disc-drive

PS5 Linux project now works pretty well https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/playstation-5-linux-project-gets-upgraded-to-support-new-firmware-and-ps5-slim/

New Linux tablet looks pretty nice https://junocomputers.com/juno-tab-4-wifi/

Google Fined 4 billion euros https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/google-loses-final-appeal-to-overturn-41-billion-eu-fine/

Some cool GNOME apps released and updated https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/06/twig-255/

Unpatched vulnerability in KDE 6.7 https://blog.kimiblock.top/2026/07/01/arbitrary-code-execution-in-kde-plasma/

Microsoft launches WSL containers https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-container-is-now-available-for-public-preview/

Canonical sponsors a Rust focused entity https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-becomes-gold-sponsor-of-trifecta-tech-foundation https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995

Fedora revamps their Community process over AI desktop spin https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/O2ZTWWB4FWP2H5R2FHED2QTGCJSNJ53I/

Kernel devs want to drop the "assisted by AI" tag https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AI-Attribution-Again

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago

Another Linux Tablet Sweet. I have a Star Labs Starlite, running Manjaro KDE Plasma stable. It also comes with a detachable keyboard.When I was programming on Windows, my choice was to use Linux for non Windows development.My comment on the Windows Insider Forum, was that I prefer to use the real thing.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Also on PC on some digital game stores you can purchase software without DRM. So you can download it. And save it. And then you own it, and no company can remotely delete it. (I really don't get the hype around "physical media". M8 you can burn your own disc if you want to. Or save all your games on a big SSD. Or write them on to datasettes. And then share them with your friends. Nothing's stopping you if there's no DRM. (Which physical media can have as well.))

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

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    • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    A friend of mine had to use Linux for his dev environment of his thesis. Did all of that using WSL and is still on Windows I think

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    You forgot to mention how on PC, you have the GOG store which gives you offline installers. So, even if they de-list games, if you backed up your launchers then you can keep the game forever. There are people online who even used these installers to create physical versions of games.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I think WSL has rather the effect to make people on Windows more familiar with Linux. After using WSL for a while in 2023 I felt confident enough to try out a real Linux OS in a Dual Boot (Ubuntu). Six months later I dumped Windows entirely.

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