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

👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 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 💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com