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Massive funding for Linux projects, Nintendo nukes emulation, Graphene Comes to more phones - The Linux Experiment (www.youtube.com)
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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare

01:45 Flatpak gets half a million in funding

03:57 Omarchy gets 8 million dollars

06:05 Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation

08:16 GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships

09:34 Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements

11:10 BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster

13:09 Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support

14:35 Multikernel project has its first version

16:39 Asahi project now supports M3 macs

18:30 LibreOffice gets big improvements

20:42 Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app

23:26 Wine and Proton update

24:57 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

Flatpak gets half a million in funding

https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/

Omarchy gets 8 million dollars

https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-linux-distro-lands-a-massive-8m-boost/

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-takes-down-over-400-github-repositories-for-switch-emulators-in-one-go-relentless-dmca-strikes-tied-to-piracy-concerns-over-illegal-cryptographic-keys

GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships

https://linuxiac.com/grapheneos-support-is-coming-to-motorola-flagships-in-2027/

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730

Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-7-3-preview/

BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems/4

Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak

Multikernel project has its first version

https://linuxiac.com/multikernel-linux-releases-first-public-kernel-tree-based-on-linux-7-0/

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ao34RJ7aZ2BLd67S@pop-os.localdomain/

Asahi project now supports M3 macs https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/

LibreOffice gets big improvements

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/ill-just-use-google-maps-apple-maps-users-rebel-against-new-ads-that-you-cant-turn-off-even-with-an-icloud-subscription

Wine and Proton update

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.16

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-11-0-2-is-out-with-lots-of-gaming-fixes-for-linux-steamos-steam-deck-steam-machine/

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[–] 61 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Great news for open source all around, except for Omarchy. Fuck Omarchy

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    There's the Nintendo one also bad

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (8 children)

    Why fuck Omarchy?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    The distro is (reportedly - I'm not touching it) just arch + hyprland + dotfiles scripts, the main dev is the same dev behind hyprland (who's right-leaning to say the least), and the money comes from right-leaning-to-say-the-least entrepreneurs.

    errata: read the reply below

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The guy behind Omarchy is not the same as the guy behind Hyprland, but one is a literal neo-Nazi while the other is a Nazi apologist at best.

    https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

    https://drewdevault.com/blog/Hyprland-toxicity/

    They both have insane unhinged rants on the subject(s) on their own blogs as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I’m not a user or a fan of omarchy, but I think that description is a little reductive. Omarchy has its own fast cloudflare mirrors for packages and its own package management. Personally I think that’s not a good thing (just use pacman/aur/flatpak), but it’s worth pointing out that there’s more to this distro than the dotfiles, and while it was cosplaying as a distro before, with the release of quattro its getting closer to being an actual distro now.

    Crazy to think they just got 8 million dollars. Compared to half a million for flatpak!!! Totally backwards.

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    • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Why not link to his official Peertube channel? https://tilvids.com/w/8wMTpekSgUu9iaLc8S5Qc3

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    • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Summaries with links associated and everything, plus video timestamps! I appreciate the work you put into this post.

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    • [–] 20 points 2 months ago

    The Omacom Foundation (Omarchy) contributors listed are:

    Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell, Block co-founder Jack Dorsey, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, 37signals CEO Jason Fried, and Hansson himself.

    Matthew Prince has in the past removed nazis from Cloudflare, maybe it's worth bringing his attention to DHH's support for Tommy Robinson and anti-immigrant protests in the UK. The rest of them seem at least sympathetic to, if not part of, the far right.

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    [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    BTRFs, which has advanced filesystems features like snapshots, data integrity checks, and scrubbing, is a less performant filesystem for databases than filesystems that don't have these features, like EXT4, F2FS and XFS. No shit, Sherlock. At least compare it to ZFS or something.

    If you are storing files that you care about, use a filesystem with integrity checks. If you require high database performance, it'll probably be happier using a whole partition, if not just a whole pile of disks, and be allowed to get on with it. If you are driving nails into a wall, do not compare the performance of different screwdrivers for the task. And so on.

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    [–] 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    He's on the fediverse btw and the fediverse video is here.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Dude peertube is so weird.

    I have an account on a different instance than tilvids. So I can't like or subscribe to his channel?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    You absolutely can subscribe, comment, and like videos from his channel from your Tilvids instance, you just need to navigate to his channel within your own instance.

    I believe if you put his channel URL into Tilvid's search box, the two instances should federate and his content should show up for you to interact with.

    I also found this video which shows how to subscribe to channels from other instances: https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/51a189cf-3372-4f97-9ff7-b5982dce4c9e

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Honestly the weirdness is from it being federated, and I'm not sure there's a way to make this more seamless without some serious downsides. Peertube also uses the ActivityPub protocol like Lemmy (although currently there's no connectivity between the two like we have with Mastodon) and Lemmy can do some weird stuff too - assuming you're not on an app, I can link to this post on my instance, and you won't be able to interact with it.

    (A "view this post on another instance" option might be a nice thing to have, I wonder if there's enough interest for me to try to implement one?)

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I ain’t buying more games from Nintendo.

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