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00:00 Intro
00:43 Sponsor: Download the latest Linux Security Report for free
01:45 Fedora drops support for legacy BIOS
02:51 What’s new in KDE
03:56 Raspberry Pi OS gets big updates
05:01 Dash2Panel and Material Shell work with GNOME 42
06:04 Linux Mint 21
07:24 New Endeavour OS and MX Linux releases
08:23 OpenGL support through Vulkan with Zink
09:20 Nvidia drops open source drivers
10:16 LXQT 1.1.0
11:08 Shadowplay on Linux?
12:19 2100 Games on Deck, including Halo MCC and Back4Blood
13:27 Steam on ChromeOS details
14:35 Wine 7.6
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15:43 Support the channel

Fedora seems to be planning to drop support for legacy BIOS.
https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-drop-support-for-legacy-bios-systems/

Nate Graham keeps on publishing articles detailing what the KDE team is working on
https://pointieststick.com/2022/04/08/this-week-in-kde-a-feast-for-the-eyes/

Raspberry Pi OS is getting some big updates.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-bullseye-update-april-2022/

2 of the major GNOME extensions are now compatible with GNOME 42
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/dash-to-panel-now-supports-gnome-42
https://linuxiac.com/material-shell-gnome-extension/

Linux Mint 21 revealed itself in more detail
https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-21-vanessa-will-be-based-on-ubuntu-22-04-lts-new-upgrade-tool-in-the-works

Endeavour OS and MX Linux get new releases:
https://9to5linux.com/endeavouros-apollo-lands-with-worm-wm-improved-installation-experience-and-more

https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-21-1-released-with-linux-5-16-for-ahs-edition-based-on-debian-gnu-linux-11-3

Christian Schaller, the desktop lead at Red hat, posted a blog post detailing new things happening on Zink, which is an openGL implementation that runs on top of Vulkan
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/04/07/why-is-kopper-and-zink-important-aka-the-future-of-opengl/

Speaking of drivers, it looks like Nvidia is making another step towards open source.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Kernel-Driver-Source

The LXQT team published an article detailing changes to their next release, version 1.1.0
https://lxqt-project.org/blog/2022/03/31/lxqt-1.1.0-preview-second-part/

We might have a new solution for screen recording in the works, called GPU Screen recorder, a very descriptive name that aims to be the Shadowplay of Linux.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/a-developer-made-a-shadowplay-like-high-performance-recording-tool-for-linux/

The Steam Deck jounrey continues, with 2100 games now being certified, and Back 4 Blood and Halo MCC added EAC files to be playable on Linux and on Deck
https://boilingsteam.com/2100-games-on-the-steam-deck-metro-2033/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/back-4-blood-adds-experimental-support-for-linux-and-steam-deck/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/halo-the-master-chief-collection-broke-on-linux-and-steam-deck-heres-a-quick-fix/

Google detailed the inner workings of Steam on Chrome OS, and it’s quite interesting!
https://chromeos.dev/en/posts/bringing-steam-to-chromeos

And as always, there’s a new version of Wine out!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/wine-76-out-now-with-more-pe-conversion-work-mono-updated/

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