Episode 4:05: The Time to Switch Is Now!

Coming up in this episode * You are so far aWAY from me * We are watching out for the browsers * A little reverb focus * Community and GenTOO Timestamps 0:00 Cold Open 1:40 The Wayland Soapbox 20:33 Browser Watch 46:27 Reverb Focus 1:12:02 Community Focus 1:14:46 Gentoo Focus 1:29:30 Next Time: CDE History! 1:31:50 Stinger Watch the Video! (https://youtu.be/ZIL1ssfGx9k) https://youtu.be/ZIL1ssfGx9k Social Soapbox - Wayland Nate Graham's blog post - So let's talk about this Wayland thing (https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/so-lets-talk-about-this-wayland-thing/) The Wayland Protocol (https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/) Wayland from the Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wayland) Wayland from the Gentoo Wiki (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland) Announcements This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 Browser Watch Vivaldi’s Open Letter — Microsoft DMA Compliance (https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldis-open-letter-microsoft-dma-compliance/) Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/browser-choice-screen-study/) It's time to ditch Chrome and fall in love with Firefox (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/) again. More Announcements Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [e-mail] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) Reverb Focus Stewie - Why GRUB? Gentoo Wiki - GRUB (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB) GRUB2 Gentoo Quick Start (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start) Dai - Telemetry Fedora considers adding telemetry (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/fedora_privacy_telemetry/) Fedora Wiki on the proposal (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Telemetry) Endless OS's optional telemetry (https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/05/endless-oss-privacy-preserving-metrics-system/) Ganome - Gentoo Switching to the Gnome Profile (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Profile_(Portage)) doesn't install Gnome (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/Guide#Installation) but it is an important step. emerge --ask gnome-base/gnome is what installs the desktop. Rene Wi-Fi Sheep (https://wifisheep.co.uk/) RISC OS Developments Ltd (https://www.riscosdev.com/) RISC OS Open (https://www.riscosopen.org/content/) RISC OS Info (https://www.riscos.info/index.php/RISC_OS) RISC OS at Distrowatch (https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=risc) Plan9 Foundation (https://p9f.org/) leepsvideo YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@leepspvideo) EasyOS (https://easyos.org/) Housekeeping Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show) * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids (https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids) Community Focus - Jorge Castro Jorge Castro (https://www.youtube.com/@JorgeCastro) Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org/) Jorge at GitHub (https://github.com/castrojo) Gentoo Focus Last time on LUS Streaming Live (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkyVxGRY9XYDGw82_Sg8Z9HL_X4fI9_r1) FYI we do these live on Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) the day after an episode is released. Gentoo MAKEOPTS jobs (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MAKEOPTS) Next Time W