Late Night Linux – Episode 218

Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner.   News Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults NASA and open-source software 10 years ago Steam released for Linux M$ Edge inserts ads on Chrome download page My daughter’s school took over my personal Microsoft account   KDE Korner KDE Switches to QT6 Nicco looks at theme & shows 6 “hidden” features of Plasma Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0 Stop shouting How to add flatpaks on Kubuntu/Neon Nate’s regular updates Two very last minute tools in Neon & two apps in unstable             Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.               See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here