Wine and Nvidia on Wayland, Ubuntu Pro goes Google, and THAT Firefox redesign - Linux News June

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In this one, we have Firefox's new redesign, Nvidia Drivers getting ready to better support Wayland, and a lot of desktop environment related news.

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PopOS 21.04 saw the release of its beta version, featuring the first installment of its Cosmic desktop. https://blog.system76.com/post/648371526931038208/cosmic-to-arrive-in-june-release-of-popos-2104

Kde Plasma 5.22 was released, with a particular focus on Wayland and making sure things are all working correctly, including the Plasma Activities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKrVnUzxL08

Another day, another desktop environment, as Cutefish sees the light of Day. Cutefish, which is the default on Cutefish OS, a new distro, seems to blend a GNOME like look with more Mac OS inspired elements. It's based on Qt5, Plasma, and the KDE Frameworks. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/06/cutefish-new-linux-desktop-environment

Ubuntu announced Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud, an Ubuntu server ISO with a host of services that runs on Google's cloud. https://ubuntu.com//blog/introducing-ubuntu-pro-for-google-cloud

WIne 6.10 was released https://www.winehq.org/announce/6.10

Speaking of Wine, it looks like the day is close, where it will run windows apps on wayland without the need to run an Xserver inside of Wayland, what is called XWayland. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/collabora-continue-enhancing-wine-for-wayland-now-with-vulkan-and-multi-monitor-support

And yet another smooth segway here, as the Nvidia drivers are moving to better support VR games on Linux. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/nvidia-driver-470-for-linux-to-include-support-for-async-reprojection

Slimbook has released their Slimbook AMD Ryzen controller, a simple app that lets you tweak the power profile of your AMD Ryzen CPU. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/06/amd-ryzen-ubuntu-user-check-out-this-new-app-from-slimbook

Something that just didn't make the cut for the last video: Firefox got i ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TurnINAeNmc