Notices by Nick @ The Linux Experiment (thelinuxexp@mastodon.social)

GIMP: makes incredible progress towards being an amazing image editing tool

People: « the name has a kinky or bad connotation in one language, and there are no screenshots, WTH.»

Priorities. They’re important.

As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes from #Thunderbird, on the whole #Mozilla and #Firefox terms of use situation.

We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what's happening at Mozilla, and what's changing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctg5QzSt5tg

@hellomiakoda @Infrapink @thelinuxexperiment_channel Yeah, I totally get that. And I’ll be honest: Indont miss Twitter at all. I had more followers there than here, but they interacted with me a lot less, and they were far more confrontational when they did.
I like things much better on Mastodon.

@Infrapink @hellomiakoda @thelinuxexperiment_channel Yeah, most people in the US would probably call me a communist.

I left Twitter as soon as Elon bought it, and will never move back to that hellhole until the nazis are kicked out.

I’ve been contacted by someone close to the #Mozilla story. They’ll gather some more info and we’ll record an interview to shed light on how this came to be, and what’s being done to try and improve things at Mozilla from the inside.

Stay tuned!

Wisdom teeth are all out! Currently recuperating in the hospital room, so obviously, no videos for the end of the week, and we’ll see what I can do for next week :)

Here is this week's #Linux & #OpenSource News video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7kafmrlm8

After a bunch of comments pointing out to the fact that my GNOME touch issues were linked to Ubuntu, I did another try, on Fedora, this time, and yeah, it's MUCH better.

I also gave a shot to Plasma Mobile (excellent), and Phosh (less excellent on a big screen):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSs4CbxZHk

Last week, I asked my community to rank #Linux distros, specifically desktop distros.

After compiling the results and editing things together, here are the results: the distros my community prefers, the ones they don't like, and judging from how many people ranked each distro, or didn't rank them, I also gave a measure of popularity, even though it's clearly imperfect statistically :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYVCcKvuO5I

Early video today, just because I didn't feel like waiting for the usual publishing time :)
In this #Linux and #OpenSource News video, we have the Freedesktop.org project (and all it hosts, so Mesa, X.org, Wayland, and more) looking for new, expensive hosting.

We also have #Debian leaving X/Twitter (congrats on that, btw), Facebook blocking links and mentions of Linux for a while, and more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7QDZpAR1Gc

OpenAI accusing DeepSeek, another AI model, of stealing their outputs to train their own model is the funniest thing I’ve read this year.

« This thing is stealing our work that we built by stealing other people’s work and paraphrasing it incorrectly ». Peak 2025.

Since a lot of people seem to have completely missed the instructions on my previous Poll and just voted willy nilly on distros they never used, thus skewing the results, I'm redoing the poll...

Sorry for people who already answered / shared, please consider voting again :D

https://nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/index.php/apps/forms/s/ZmLYxr3JA9wwTAbTmcKzL3Bf

@biloti All questions are optional, as mentioned in the text before the form :)

I'm running a small poll to let people rate various desktop #Linux distributions, so I can make a "reality check" video and see what the community really likes, and dislikes.

I'll turn the results into a video next week.

The poll is open until next Wednesday, don't hesitate to share it widely so it's as representative as possible ! It's also shared on my Community Page on Youtube!

https://nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/index.php/apps/forms/s/ffcyqeTZrxssMmCgtpQjBAyR

@killyourfm Excellent, congrats!
I’m glad you found your pace, creating content can be rough!

#Linux Mint 22.1 is now out, and I took a look at what's new in there, it's a bigger release than I expected:

- Updates to Cinnamon
- More options all around
- Better #Wayland session
- Entirely revamped tooling around apt and deb packages, which is going to help keep this format in a good state

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyq7PtFKzzs

Meta: « We don’t like moderation, we think it’s censorship, so we’re going to let everyone say what they want ».

People post link to Pixelfed as they leave the soon to be Twitter-like cesspool of fake information and hate.

Meta: « let’s censor links to other services like Pixelfed ».

Very coherent stance there, Zuck.

Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video!

It's my birthday today, so I'll leave you to it and go enjoy some free time :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JQGGQIVlxY

@gamingonlinux @BrodieOnLinux Haha yeah, we’ll see. Ergonomics isn’t an exact science; and doesn’t always work for everyone: AirPods fall out the ears of a fair few people, the PS4 controller was a nightmare for some, and some think the Xbox one controller isn’t good, the Duke managed to get into production, etc..

It can be an awesome controller for a bunch of people, and a nightmare for others :)

@BrodieOnLinux @gamingonlinux The deck is fine, because the grips are horizontal and straight, and the sticks very close to the sides of the device, so the thumb rotation is natural.
On that controller, it seems like the opposite