No, NixOS isn't dying. GNOME icon & funding issues, everyone hates Windows 11 Linux & Open Source News

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00:00 Intro

01:35 NixOS isn’t dying, but it’s not doing well

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-is-not-dying-please-dont-spread-fear-actively/44310

https://determinate.systems/posts/on-community-in-nix/

https://paste.shark-harmonic.ts.net/paste/abd339e0-2317-402b-8d8e-97e580537263/md

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing/

09:14 GNOME breaks non GNOME apps with Adwaita icons

https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288

15:33 GNOME needs some money

https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/

18:28 Windows 11 is very unpopular

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

21:18 Mint forks GNOME apps

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4675

26:50 Don’t upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 yet

https://linuxiac.com/do-not-try-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-at-this-time/

30:11 KDE Neon explains their failed Plasma 6 upgrade

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/04/29/kde-neon-post-plasma-6-updates-review/

32:30 More lawsuits against OpenAI

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/microsoft-openai-lawsuit-copyright-newspapers-alden-global

36:56 Proton 9.0 is out

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-1

38:57 Outro


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