Episode 2:14: Carry on my Wayland Son

Linux User Space

English - January 03, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB
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0:00 Cold Open
2:28 Banter: Void Linux Bits
4:46 Feedback: Kyle S
17:26 DuckDuckGo Desktop Browser
21:35 DuckDuckGo Search Up 46%
24:45 Brave Browser Protects Network-State
29:44 Hold On, Ghostery Dawn?
36:49 No Manifest v3 For Me!
51:57 Audacity 50x Faster
57:31 Krita Gets New Features
1:03:12 Wayland Uses Less Energy Than X
1:08:37 Wayland Games Better Than X, Too!
1:13:20 Housekeeping
1:19:13 App Focus: Kid3, EasyTag
1:25:48 Next Time: NixOS
1:28:03 Stinger
Coming up in this episode
1. Browsers on Browsers
2. Manifest v3 is not for me
3. Audacity X50 speed
4. Krita sees a big release
5. So Far aWayland from me
6. Tag you're it
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Banter - Feedback
Void Linux bits (Thanks Duncaen) (https://www.reddit.com/user/Duncaen/)
Vanilla Linux (https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/ga99ok/did_you_know_void_linuxs_previous_name_was_vanilla/) - That was Void's original name.
xbps-src was originally called pkgfs (https://repo.or.cz/xbps.git/commit/5e52738f97edc0ff4a9e5de48a75834bf0916651)
And Juan P (Xtraeme) had some early ramblings (http://xtraeme.blogspot.com/) on Void and its upbringing!
Kyle's Email - Thanks for your feedback!
Some gdebi info (https://itsfoss.com/gdebi-default-ubuntu-software-center/)
If you are on a KDE plasma desktop, Discover can install .deb packages too. Like gdebi, just right click on the file and select Discover to open with.
General Github software download techniques.
Look for a releases section and download the binary release from there.
If you don't see that look for the code button and download the zip file. You can also use git (If you know how and have it installed) and just copy the git url in the code button too.
So you downloaded a shell script...
I try to keep it organized and place them in ~/bin
You can add that to your $PATH (perhaps a bit advanced) to make it easier to call.
You can give it the executable flag, (most file managers have this option). Or change mode on the command line - chmod +x FILENAME
To start your script: ./FILENAME.sh
While you may not understand all of the code, it is a good idea to glance at it.
$BROWSER Watch
Duck Duck Go Browser (https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-2021-review/)
DuckDuckGo Search Up by 46% (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-grew-by-46-percent-in-2021/)
Brave Browser Protects Network-State for Added Privacy (https://brave.com/privacy-updates/14-partitioning-network-state/)
Hold On, Ghostery Dawn? (https://www.ghostery.com/dawn)
And a search engine, too! Glow (https://www.ghostery.com/glow)
Privacy Watch
Manifest v3 (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/)
Mozilla 2019 announcement (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest-v3-faq/)
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening)
Mozilla doubles down (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-update/)
Audacity 3.1.3 is released.
Audacity 3.1.3 (https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_3.1.3)
The bold claim - Improved performance. Loading in projects especially should now be up to 50x faster compared to 3.1.0
Many bugfixes too.
Bigger question: Is Audacity still on everyone's no-install list?
Krita 5.0 is released.
Official release announcement (https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/)
Highlights:
It has a revamped animation system
A brand new storyboard editor
A session recorder that'll let you make videos out of your work
and tons more stuff
How can we benefit from Wayland?
Wayland uses less energy than X.org (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-Wayland-Power)
Wayland, more often than not, has better gaming performance (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=kde-gnome-wayland21&num=4)
Housekeeping
The Linux Experiment (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLinuxExperiment/)
Linux User Space subreddit (https://reddit.com/r/LinuxUserSpace/)
Email us - [email protected]
Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord)
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Support us at Patreon (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace)
Join us on Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram)
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/LinuxUserSpace)
Watch us on YouTube (https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube)
Check out our website (https://linuxuserspace.show)
App Focus
kid3 and EasyTAG
kid3 (https://kid3.kde.org)
EasyTAG (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG)
Next Time
We wrap up our thoughts on NixOS
NixOS (https://nixos.org)
Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space
Stay tuned on Twitter, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our new subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas.
We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support!
Contributor
Nicholas
CubicleNate
LiNuXsys666
Jill and Steve
WalrusZ
sleepyeyesvince
Paul
Curtis
Co-Producer
Donnie
Johnny
Producer
Bruno
John
Josh

Coming up in this episode

Browsers on Browsers
Manifest v3 is not for me
Audacity X50 speed
Krita sees a big release
So Far aWayland from me
Tag you're it

Join: Discord. Reddit. Telegram. Matrix. Twitter.

Sub: Youtube. Twitch.

Fund: Patreon.

Banter - Feedback

Void Linux bits (Thanks Duncaen)
Vanilla Linux - That was Void's original name.
xbps-src was originally called pkgfs
And Juan P (Xtraeme) had some early ramblings on Void and its upbringing!
Kyle's Email - Thanks for your feedback!

Some gdebi info
If you are on a KDE plasma desktop, Discover can install .deb packages too. Like gdebi, just right click on the file and select Discover to open with.
General Github software download techniques.

Look for a releases section and download the binary release from there.
If you don't see that look for the code button and download the zip file. You can also use git (If you know how and have it installed) and just copy the git url in the code button too.

So you downloaded a shell script...

I try to keep it organized and place them in ~/bin
You can add that to your $PATH (perhaps a bit advanced) to make it easier to call.
You can give it the executable flag, (most file managers have this option). Or change mode on the command line - chmod +x FILENAME
To start your script: ./FILENAME.sh
While you may not understand all of the code, it is a good idea to glance at it.

$BROWSER Watch

Duck Duck Go Browser

DuckDuckGo Search Up by 46%

Brave Browser Protects Network-State for Added Privacy
Hold On, Ghostery Dawn?

And a search engine, too! Glow

Privacy Watch

Manifest v3
Mozilla 2019 announcement
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening
Mozilla doubles down

Audacity 3.1.3 is released.

Audacity 3.1.3

The bold claim - Improved performance. Loading in projects especially should now be up to 50x faster compared to 3.1.0
Many bugfixes too.

Bigger question: Is Audacity still on everyone's no-install list?

Krita 5.0 is released.

Official release announcement
Highlights:

It has a revamped animation system
A brand new storyboard editor
A session recorder that'll let you make videos out of your work
and tons more stuff

How can we benefit from Wayland?

Wayland uses less energy than X.org
Wayland, more often than not, has better gaming performance

Housekeeping

The Linux Experiment
Linux User Space subreddit
Email us - [email protected]
Linux User Space Discord Server
Our Matrix room
Support us at Patreon
Join us on Telegram
Follow us on Twitter
Watch us on YouTube
Check out our website

App Focus

kid3 and EasyTAG

kid3

EasyTAG

Next Time

We wrap up our thoughts on NixOS

NixOS

Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space

Stay tuned on Twitter, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our new subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas.

We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support!

Contributor

Nicholas
CubicleNate
LiNuXsys666
Jill and Steve
WalrusZ
sleepyeyesvince
Paul
Curtis

Co-Producer

Donnie
Johnny

Producer

Bruno
John
Josh

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