Season 4 - Episode 11: Wins and Losses

Gnome settles with a troll • EU recommends open source • Trump fact checked • Munich sees the light again • Microsoft's new terminal • GUI apps in WSL • Who dis?

Chitchat

Mike: I've been playing 👨‍💻 with Julia

Shane: I am reaching convergence ☯ nirvana in my workspace.

Conor: I installed ➡ Ubuntu 20.04 on my Win 2, then wiped it and put on ➡ Manjaro Gnome. Also I went from Manjaro Cinnamon to ➡ KDE to ➡ Budgie to ➡ Mate (clean install each time).

PPSSPP PlayStation Portable Emulator 🎮

News

Gnome and patent troll 🤝 settled

The $150K 💰 could have gone into filing fees (via Slashdot, in the comments)

EU 🇪🇺 Parliament recommends open source (via It's FOSS)

Trump fact-checked by Twitter, so he wants to regulate 🟠👎🐦 (via The Guardian)

Munich 🔙 going back to open source. (via ZDNet)

Microsoft released version 1.0 of their open source terminal 💻 (via omg! ubuntu!)

Linux GUI apps run in WSL (via It's FOSS)

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.