Visit http://linode.com/linuxexperiment for a 20$ credit on your new Linode account! Microsoft has made openings towards the open source and Linux communities lately. They’ve started acknowledging Linux as something that actually exists and that people want to use. But is this strategy really a turning point for Microsoft, or do they want to apply their usual embrace, extend, extinguish strategy? I don’t know, but here is my opinion on the matter. Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Follow me on Twitter : http://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP My Gaming on Linux Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaw_Lz7oifDb-PZCAcZ07kw Follow me on LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@TheLinuxExperiment:e Ok, so MS doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to open source, and Linux users. They’ve been the champion of proprietary software for a long time, and some of their previous CEOs have been opposed to Linux, with comments like “Linux is a cancer”. They have not been friendly to our platforms, have generally avoided porting any of their important software to Linux, and have shied away from open source. They are also known for their embrace, extend extinguish strategy. This basically means they had an internal policy of embracing new technologies that they don’t possess, add their own stuff to it to make sure people are locked down with MS products, and then extinguish the competition by just preventing them from accessing these bits that everyone got used to. This paints a very dark picture of that company, one that can probably never be redeemed. And still, today’s Microsoft seems different somehow. First, they are now focused on selling their services: Office 365, Azure, and, to an extent, Windows 10, which has a rolling release model and is sold like an always updated service, that you have little control over. They’re not just pushing windows and some apps, they’re pushing for people to use microsoft services, any of them, and try to extend their reach by integrating these services tightly with one another. Microsoft is also making some openings towards Linux and the open source community, although they are small ones. They open sourced some very small applications, like their terminal and their calculator, and they started offering some of their programs on Linux, like MS teams, VS Code, or in the near future, their chromium based Edge browser. They have ported their exFAT driver to the Linux kernel as well. But then came WSL. The badly names Windows subsystem for Linux allows developers to run a linux distro inside of a VM in Windows, and use its command line to run any Linux program they want, without even having to leave windows 10 itself. Microsoft ships a Linux kernel, that they update throu ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VowHByyLqYs

Visit http://linode.com/linuxexperiment for a 100$ credit on your new Linode account! This time, we've got Ubuntu addressing a very nasty bug, KDE firing on all cylinders with plasma mobile and their own edition of the pinephone, a big System76 sale, and some new releases of very good stuff for Linux gaming. 00:00 Intro 01:26 Linux News 02:46 Open Source News 06:32 Apps News 07:58 Hardware News 10:00 Gaming News Join this channel to get access to a monthly patroncast and vote on the next topics I'll cover: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UAwBUum7CPN5buc-_N1Fw/join Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Follow me on Twitter : http://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP My Gaming on Linux Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaw_Lz7oifDb-PZCAcZ07kw Follow me on LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@TheLinuxExperiment:e The Linux Experiment merch: get your goodies there! https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/the-linux-experiment Ubuntu fixed a nasty series of bugs that allowed standard users to become root in their latest LTS, 20.04. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/ubuntu-fixes-bugs-that-standard-users-could-use-to-become-root/ Ubuntu published a blog post with the most popular snaps that various distributions use. https://ubuntu.com//blog/popular-snaps-per-distro-2020-edition The FSF wants to update its list of high priority projects. That list hasn't evolved since 2017, but they want people to give them feedback on what should be considered high priority in terms of free software for the years to come. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FSF-High-Priority-Projects-2021 Mint added Chromium back to their repos, as a regular package. Mint had lost easy access to Chromium when Ubuntu transitioned it to a snap package, since Mint refused to ship any snaps, or Snapd, and even prevented its installation. https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-introduces-its-own-take-on-the-chromium-web-browser/ Dell is working on a hardware privacy driver for the Linux kernel. Beginning in their 2021 laptops, they'll ship physical buttons to disable the mic and the camera, and since Dell ships some laptops with Linux preinstalled, they're also working on the necessary driver to handle these switches. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-Hardware-Privacy-Linux In a move that will probably make some people mad for no well explained reason, Dolphin, the KDE file browser, will add opt in telemetry. https://eang.it/user-feedback-dolphin-announce/ A member of the KDE team published a very interesting article on the Wayland migration, and it has interesting insight. http://www.bivouak.fr/wayland-status-plasma-5-20/ Getting Things GNOME is working on fixing the biggest annoyance people had wi ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM0tJu1BMjE

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Make sure your PHP applications stay relevant for longer: https://bit.ly/3djMBCj Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux:https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# ? SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UAwBUum7CPN5buc-_N1Fw/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp?locale.x=fr_FR ? MORE VIDEOS FROM ME Linux news in Shorts format: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZp0mK9IBrpS2-jNzMZmoA Gaming on Linux: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaw_Lz7oifDb-PZCAcZ07kw I'm also on ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheLinuxExperiment:e ? FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Twitter : http://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick_thelinuxexp/ Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick This video is distributed under the Creative Commons Share Alike license. #youtube #fixyoutube #linux 00:00 Intro 00:43 Sponsor: Extend the life of your PHP applications with TuxCare 01:32 Why would you want to "fix" youtube? 03:30 Alternative websites 05:54 Unofficial Youtube websites and apps 07:36 Browser Extensions 09:32 Build your own subscription feed with RSS 10:57 Combine RSS + video downloads with a script to watch on a TV 11:53 Support your creators 12:50 Final Thoughts 13:33 Sponsor: Get a device that runs Linux perfectly 14:51 Support the channel In the free of charge department, you have Odysee and peertube. These platforms are basically like youtube, but not controlled by a big company. Of course, their major issue is that they're not exhaustive: you're not going to find everything that's on youtube on these platforms. Then you have paid alternatives, like nebula or floatplane. These offer high quality content, from big channels and creators, and while you have to pay to view your videos, it helps support craetors a lot more than depending on ad revenue. But these also suffer from the same problem: they don't have everything. Another way would be to use alternative websites and applications that access youtube content, but don't belong to Google. As such, they can let you watch videos offline, remove ads, sometimes even sponsored segments, and more. For mobile, you have applications like newpipe, Tubemaster, or Mytube, and a lot of others. They all offer a lot of things, including some youtube premium features, like letting you download videos for offline viewing, watch in picture in picture mode, better privacy, and more. If you mostly watch youtube on your laptop or desktop, though, you're stuck with the youtube website. Some alternatives exist, but they're either super slow, don't work at all, or don't have all the videos you might want. Next you have browser extensions. The big one will be Youtube UNHOOK. This one is meant to let you watch what you want, and just what you want. It's on chrome and firefox, and it lets you hide the "related videos" youtube displays next to the one you're watching, you can remove the comments if these annoy you or you don't want to be tempted to engage in yet another flamewar, the suggestions will also vanish, just like the homepage recommendations, the trending tab, and more. Then there's the very famous return youtube disklibe button, if you want to see this almighty ratio for the videos you watch. And of course, you can also just use any adblocker or tracker blocker to remove the annoying ads you don't want to see, and stay as private as can be. ANd there's something called sponsorblock, which crowdsources the time codes for sponsored segments and let you skip them automatically during video playback. But what if you really don't want to use the youtube website? Well, you have a simpler way, a way that transcends the ages and lets you get your new videos in any client of your choice, through the magic of RSS feeds. Every channel URL that has an ID in it is also an RSS feed, which means you can add it to any RSS client, like Feedly, or a desktop client like NewsFlash for GNOME, or THunderbird. And if you like watching youtube videos on your TV, but don't want to use the youtube app, there's a convoluted way, but that will work nicely once it's setup. Basically what you can do is write a script that pulls each new video from your subsciption feed that you recreated using the magic of RSS, downloads them with youtube download, and then stores them in a directory that's used by your plex server or local media center. With that script running as a cron task reglarly, you can do that in the background of your home server, and have access to all your videos when you come home, waiting for you. https://github.com/darkenvy/youtube-dlp-subscriptions ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_vmXq_TbQ4