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ADDITIONAL INFO: regarding the Apple & Epic topic, it looks like Apple committed to reinstate Epic’s developer account, right after the EU announced they’d look into it. I didn’t have time to record a new segment for the podcast to add the correction in audio form. 👏 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 01:26 Linux passes 4% market share https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-why-desktop-linux-is-finally-growing-in-popularity/ 07:01 Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-No-GNOME-Xorg-Install 09:18 Apple makes a mess of the EU’s DMA https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/07/apple-epic-dev-account-dma/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/google-announces-the-new-fees-that-come-with-its-play-stores-dma-compliance-plan/ https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer-account https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-03-01/a-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-apples-lack-of-dma-compliance/ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161 17:39 GTK 4.14 fixes font rendering, GNOME 46 gets VRR https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-RC https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/ 20:38 Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project https://liliputing.com/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-to-shut-down-pay-2-4-million-to-settle-lawsuit-from-nintendo/ 23:14 Big French company fined for violating the GPL https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/ 25:35 Windows ditches Android support https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Dropping-WSA 28:43 Zorin OS 17.1 brings Wine improvements https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/zorin-os-17-1-released-debuts-new-education-edition 32:09 Gaming: x86 emulator, AMD & NVIDIA drivers https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2403-Released https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/amdgpu-driver-for-linux-67-enforces-lower-power-limits-from-vbios/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1 https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-r550-open 39:42 Outro 👏 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

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