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This time, we have plenty of new hardware, including a modular laptop, a youtube music client for Linux, Brave buying a search engine, and Google trying to create a bigger monopoly on web ads.

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In a new blog post, the founder of Linux Mint, Clem Lefebvre, explained a few plans to try and make sure that Mint users actually do their updates. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4037

Ubuntu will use Flutter to build their own apps in the future. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-building-apps-with-flutter-in-future

A new GNOME blog post points out the various changes that are happening in GNOME 40, specifically to help extension developers adapt their apps to the new release. https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/03/12/gnome-40-your-extension/

Something that just reached me, but has been announced at the end of February: the framework laptop is an interesting hardware project: a sleek and good looking laptop, with decent specs, that will have a host of various modules to upgrade its functionality, including various ports, headphone amps, or even the whole mainboard, as upgrades are released. https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop

AMD announced their next GPU, based on the RDNA2 architecture: the Radeon RX 6700XT. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/03/the-next-amd-rdna-2-card-revealed-with-the-amd-radeon-rx-6700-xt

System76 announced a new entry in their Thelio line of desktops: the Thelio Mira. It slots in between the base Thelio, and the Thelio Major, and is intended to fulfill the role of a profesionnal desktop workstation. It ships with gen3 or 4 ryzen CPUs, Up to 128GB of RAM, up to 2 GPUs, and can be configured up to 36Gb of Storage. https://system76.com/desktops

Tuxedo also announced some new hardware, laptops specifically. The Tuxedo Book XP15 and XP17 embark Nvidia RTX 3000 series, or at least their Max Q design. https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/15-16-inch/TUXEDO-Book-XP15-Gen12.tuxedo

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