COSMIC will be customizable, AMD's FOSS firmware & Plasma 6 changes: Linux & Open Source News

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00:00 Intro
00:34 Sponsor: 100$ free credit for your Linux or Gaming laptop
01:34 AMD moves to open source firmware
03:06 COSMIC will be heavily customizable
04:54 KDE Plasma 6 will change the defaults
07:37 GNOME Weekly Updates
09:28 Microsoft to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox?
10:31 Thunderbird is thriving, and working on an iOS app
11:56 Gaming News: no more Roblox, Steam client scaling, Mesa drivers
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AMD moves to open source firmware

https://linuxiac.com/amd-opensil-firmware/

COSMIC will be heavily customizable

https://blog.system76.com/post/may-flowers-spring-cosmic-showers

KDE Plasma 6 will change the defaults

https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/11/plasma-6-better-defaults/

GNOME Weekly Updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/05/twig-95/

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/announcement-gnome-will-be-mentoring-9-new-contributors-in-google-summer-of-code-2023/15232

Microsoft to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/microsoft-wants-firefox-to-ditch-google-switch-to-bing

Thunderbird is thriving, and working on an iOS app

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-financial-report/

Gaming News: no more Roblox, Steam client scaling, Mesa drivers

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/goodbye-to-roblox-on-linux-with-their-new-anti-cheat-and-wine-blocking/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/steam-will-now-scale-better-with-kde-and-gnome/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.1-Released