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Welcome to the new year! News is lighter this go around. Feel free to share with your friends! I hope you all have a great start to the year. Linux market share is rising! There are more and more people using Linux daily, and we can see that in various metrics. This first one - though undoubtedly biased - is in StackOverflow’s developer survey. Since they’re done every year, we can use them to see the trend in Linux usage. In the past five years, it has always been around 25% (again, amongst developers, which is not representative of the general population). This year that number has skyrocketed to 40.23%. Even better, this doesn’t consider people using WSL or Linux VMs. ...

MAJOR investments, new hardware, huge updates, and more in this week of the TechHut Newsletter. First, in some TechHut news, this is a reminder to everyone that soon we will be shutting down our Patreon in favor for this platform. If you’re interested in supporting you can do so directly though our newsletter/website. Coming New Year we will start publishing monthly exclusive content for those members. With that onto the news! ...

Welcome to the 6th edition of the TechHut Newsletter. There is some huge news this week in tech and open source! Asahi Linux brings Hardware Acceleration to Linux on Apple Silicon Asahi has announced their first release of Apple Silicon GPU drivers. This project has been under work for years and has finally reached an alpha status, where it’s good enough to power “a smooth desktop experience and some games”. More specifically, this brings OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 support for all M-series. ...

Welcome to the fifth edition of the TechHut Newsletter. Big thank you to all that has signed up. We are quickly approaching 300 subscribers! I’m glad you all are enjoying it and if you have any feedback feel free to email me directly at brandon@techhut.tv. Also, our first paid member newsletter will be out in a few weeks! With all that, here is what’s happing. GTK looks native in MacOS with these draft patches Paul Rouget, a former Mozilla employee, is currently working on some patches that will make GTK look amazing when used in MacOS. GTK already supports that platform, but the current look is the same that you’d find on GNOME, which won’t feel native at all to Mac users. With these patches applied, a variety of features are supported: MacOS native controls are supported (e.g. minimize, maximize, and close buttons), vibrancy’s supported (which allows for pretty translucent sidebars), the accent color is supported (meaning that it will be following the systemwide colorscheme), and the titlebar merges with the content nicely as shown in the image. Of course, dark mode is supported as well. ...

Thunderbird teases “Supernova” Massive Update In its latest announcement, the Thunderbird team has teased a “Supernova” update for 2023. This will come with a complete redesign, but big features too. The most interesting one is Firefox Sync, which will allow you to cloud sync email accounts, calendars, the address book, your RSS feed, and so on. This will become particularly useful with the upcoming release of Thunderbird for Android - also coming in 2023 - based on K9 mail. ...

Lots of interesting things over the last two weeks. We have some major releases, applications going open source, some more Xbox news and more. This is our 3rd edition and talk you all so much for being apart of this. We are almost at 200 subscribers so make sure you share this with your friends! Ubuntu 22.10 is here! Everybody’s favorite Linux distro, Ubuntu, just came out with it’s new 22.10 release. The biggest feature from this release was GNOME 43, which adds things like a redesign of the control center (and looks a lot like macOS). GNOME 43 also finally adds audio input and output to the quick settings. Canonical also updated the Ubuntu system settings to the latest version based on Libadwaita instead of the settomgs app from GNOME 40, and Ubuntu now contains the Gtk4 version of Nautilus which is smoother, and contains much better grid and list views. Finally, Pipewire is now the default audio engine in Ubuntu which is great. ...

Machines running an Intel GPU could face damages due to a Linux kernel bug, Valve accidentally shows something they shouldn’t have, new Xbox Streaming device, and more in this edition of the Weekly! Linux kernel bug could be breaking displays Some Linux users have reported seeing white flashes on their Intel laptop displays after upgrading to Linux kernel version 5.19.12, leading to warnings that the bug may damage displays. Syrjä, Intel Linux kernel engineer, recommended immediate reversion of the Linux Kernel to an older version to avoid causing hardware damage, “no one using laptops with Intel GPUs run 5.19.2”. When you boot your system you should see a few kernel options on grub. If you don’t see the option on Grub, press and hold the “Shift” button on your keyboard while booting. There has been a release since giving users a newer version to jump to. ...

Welcome to the first newsletter! This is a roundup of the big stories that we’ve seen this week. This newsletter will grow and develop to serve the tech community as a whole. We are always open to suggestions. With that let’s get into some things that happened this week. Fedora Dropping GPU Support for Popular Video Codecs Something that had the Linux community in a buzz this last week was the decision from Fedora that they’re going to be dropping support for H.264. The initial reaction was met with correction as this will only affect Video Acceleration API support for H.264, H.265, and VC-1 codecs. This is due to legal worry as there could be push back from patent holders. This will primarily affect AMD GPU users and any user who uses open-source graphics drivers, preventing them from using GPU acceleration to play video content that requires these codecs. ...