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This time, we have The Pine 64 announcing the PinePhone PRO, Firefox putting ads in the suggestions bar, and a study confirming that Android gathers a LOT of data on their users, on top of major Ubuntu and KDE releases.
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00:00 Intro
01:36 Linux News
04:16 Hardware News
06:25 Apps News
08:24 Gaming News
10:50 Privacy News
Linux
Christian Schaller, the Director for the Desktop at Red Hat, posted another article about PipeWire and the Linux video capture stack.
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/10/01/pipewire-and-fixing-the-linux-video-capture-stack/
GNOME 42 will bring the "dark style" preference to all users, without the need for GNOME Tweaks.
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/10/04/dark-style-preference/
Ubuntu 21.10 was released, bringing with it GNOME 40 and its horizontal workspaces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXfpbsCXUmE
KDE Plasma 5.23 was released, also dubbed Plasma 25th anniversary edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kzggGR2OHo&t=77s
Hardware
Tuxedo announced their new InfinityBook Pro 14.
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/10-14-inch/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen6.tuxedo#
Valve published a video, opening up the Steam Deck and showing how it's laid out inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxnr2FAADAs
The Pine64 announced the PinePhone Pro, the more powerful successor to the PinePhone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar8JdKj5Yv8
Apps
Firefox 93 was released, supporting the AVIF image format. Firefox introduces Firefox Suggest, and fancy name to describe ads in the suggestion bars. These aren't rolled out to everyone, and are turned on by default, although you'll be able to disable them in the settings.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/
The onlyoffice desktop editors have been updated to version 6.4.
https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2021/10/onlyoffice-desktop-editors-v6-4-with-improved-arm-support-and-conditional-formatting/
Slimbook updated their Slimbook battery app.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/10/slimbook-battery-4-released
Gaming
The Linux market share is still progressing according to the Steam Survey, as it's been 3 months that it hover over 1%.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/for-a-third-month-in-a-row-linux-remains-above-1-on-the-steam-hardware-survey
DLSS already worked on DirectX12 titles through proton, but Proton Experimental is bringing that support to DirectX 11 titles as well.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/proton-experimental-expands-nvidia-dlss-support-on-linux-to-directx-11-titles
GamingOnLinux, one of my primary sources for these Linux gaming news, has compiled a list of the top 100 Steam games, and how many work on Linux already (75%)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/a-look-at-the-top-100-steam-games-and-how-many-will-work-on-linux-and-the-steam-deck
WIne 6.19 was released.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/6.19
Privacy
Twitch suffered a massive leak, including source code and user payout information.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/
A study revealed what most of us already knew: Android smartphones are spying devices that constantly snoop on their users.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/13/android_os_vendor_variants_transmit/