Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare

01:45 Flatpak gets half a million in funding

03:57 Omarchy gets 8 million dollars

06:05 Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation

08:16 GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships

09:34 Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements

11:10 BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster

13:09 Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support

14:35 Multikernel project has its first version

16:39 Asahi project now supports M3 macs

18:30 LibreOffice gets big improvements

20:42 Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app

23:26 Wine and Proton update

24:57 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

Flatpak gets half a million in funding

https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/

Omarchy gets 8 million dollars

https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-linux-distro-lands-a-massive-8m-boost/

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-takes-down-over-400-github-repositories-for-switch-emulators-in-one-go-relentless-dmca-strikes-tied-to-piracy-concerns-over-illegal-cryptographic-keys

GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships

https://linuxiac.com/grapheneos-support-is-coming-to-motorola-flagships-in-2027/

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730

Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-7-3-preview/

BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems/4

Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak

Multikernel project has its first version

https://linuxiac.com/multikernel-linux-releases-first-public-kernel-tree-based-on-linux-7-0/

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ao34RJ7aZ2BLd67S@pop-os.localdomain/

Asahi project now supports M3 macs https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/

LibreOffice gets big improvements

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/ill-just-use-google-maps-apple-maps-users-rebel-against-new-ads-that-you-cant-turn-off-even-with-an-icloud-subscription

Wine and Proton update

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.16

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-11-0-2-is-out-with-lots-of-gaming-fixes-for-linux-steamos-steam-deck-steam-machine/

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[–] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The distro is (reportedly - I'm not touching it) just arch + hyprland + dotfiles scripts, the main dev is the same dev behind hyprland (who's right-leaning to say the least), and the money comes from right-leaning-to-say-the-least entrepreneurs.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    The guy behind Omarchy is not the same as the guy behind Hyprland, but one is a literal neo-Nazi while the other is a Nazi apologist at best.

    https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

    https://drewdevault.com/blog/Hyprland-toxicity/

    They both have insane unhinged rants on the subject(s) on their own blogs as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Part of those 8 million do go into paying "the Hyprland guy" (Vaxry)'s salary, and he himself hasn't been very politically correct. DHH also is quite open about choosing "anti-woke" projects (i.e. without a CoC).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    I’m not a user or a fan of omarchy, but I think that description is a little reductive. Omarchy has its own fast cloudflare mirrors for packages and its own package management. Personally I think that’s not a good thing (just use pacman/aur/flatpak), but it’s worth pointing out that there’s more to this distro than the dotfiles, and while it was cosplaying as a distro before, with the release of quattro its getting closer to being an actual distro now.

    Crazy to think they just got 8 million dollars. Compared to half a million for flatpak!!! Totally backwards.

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