Crypto scam on the Snap store, Warp on Linux, an API for RGB: Linux & Open Source news
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The Snap store has a scam problem
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Warp terminal comes to Linux
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Tuxedo proposes an API to handle RGB on Linux
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Fedora wants a Cosmic spin
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New hackfest planned for HDR & color management
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Firefox 123 adds a bunch of features
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Every crypto wallet app will ask you 12 pass phrases if you want to restore your wallet.
What they meant by writing "Exodus will never asks you those pass phrases" is that Exodus support team and workers will not ask you that not the app itself. Those phrases are needed to access the wallet.
@@stubaccount it's just common sense. how tf is a wallet app meant to give access to a wallet without user actually unlocking the wallet?
I thought something was off about what he said lol
Windows games aged like fine WINE under Linux.
The annual wine joke.
Thats a big brain pun
Ba dum ts!
The year of wine +1
actually, it's funny how wine already runs some windows games better than windows itself
@@qlx-i source?
On RGB, i think it's fine for the devs to want to make work easier for them, the outcome in this case matters more.
and warp looks cool, but needing an account at all times is more dystopian than being an electron app.
Being a mac first app is something to think about. No mac first app is good on foss side. If it was good on that front would not come to Linux as a second platform but a first
as a mac hater there is no news that makes me fall asleep faster than warp terminal
I regularly disagree with your takes on subjects, but I respect the fact you are out there saying it all the same. Keep it up.
Thanks a lot for the support! It’s rare to have people agreeing to disagree these days!
Would be looking forward for HDR on Firefox 👍
I believe the performance gains from the nt stuff in the kernel are over using stock wine, and that Proton does similar things already using fsync/esync wine patches, but that approach is too hacky and causes too many maintainance issues to add to upstream wine. The proposed additions to the kernel are supposed to solve this in a better way.
Yeah, although ntsync does bring minor performance improvements, I believe. But most importantly Ubisoft connect will now update correctly, among other weird things that have happened with fsync
The new NT driver in wine is actually huge. Wine team performing absolute magic again.
People should never use a snap or flatpak like that without verification from the respective company.
Yup, if something is going to handle something so sensitive as personal information or finances, only EVER use a version of the program that is endorsed (and ideally managed) by the original developers.
@@kabobawsomei agree, but it seems so obvious but we ourselves might fall for the same thing if we were in their position
@@furious_melons674If you are dabbling in crypto, you should absolutely know how to manage your own security, and should know not to install an unofficial version of financial software.
Also what???? If you talk to any one, ask about the downsides of Linux compared to Windows, one of the first things you will hear is having to manage your own security and the lack of a Windows Defender equivalent.
@@furious_melons674Welp, it's not like Windows is doing better in that regard.
@@furious_melons674Like if the other OSes were doing better in that regard lol
Seeing the very lacking checks and balances on the snap store worries me. I hope the Flathub folks saw this and decided to do a double check on their own systems, just to be safe.
Fedora looking to make spins with Cosmic is something I saw coming, but am still excited for. There's already a spin for pretty much all well known desktops, so Cosmic is a no brainer. Depending on how it comes out of the oven I might just leave Gnome behind for it.
Last year's HDR hackfest saw awesome results. The Steam Deck has a working HDR solution now. It's limited, but it works for gaming. Now it'll be cool if we can get a single standard in there.
Also, Zink is cool stuff. We might just have a future where we can do literally everything on Vulkan. Having a single, modern, incredibly high performance API would be wonderful.
for avoiding malware the best way is they put some build system themselves for the snap, the developer delivers the source code and the snap get created on ubuntu server.
No enterprise will give its code, never ever
@@mat2739 this works for free software apps, if you want to risk to use non free software apps you will never be safe.
Enterprise code is probably malware anyways.
That bars proprietary apps
@@fuseteamYou say that like it's a bad thing
as a solution to the verified apps, a build-system that could verify the source of the application, e.g. the offical Exodus app for linux has a checksum, a service that can verify that source and build a snap/flatpak would be ideal. How/why canonical ever allowed packages with unverified sources to make their way into it's offical app store is a mystery, a sandboxed phishing app is still a phishing app, marking an app as "safe" just because it can't harm the system seems exceptionally short-sighted.
This is absolutely correct! Totally agree. Way better solution than the bloated anti privacy options proposed
Video playback in Wine/Proton: the eternal struggle. Seriously, that issue feels like a mountain I can see we're climbing up, and yet the peak remains unseen. The fact that there is a game that put in an unskippable logo that's by-default unplayable on Proton/Wine unless you tweak the setting menu from *after* that logo, and it's made in recent years... man, video playback do feel insurmountable at times.
"RGB is a waste of battery life" - Amen!
I hope that we get a unified kernel interface for the only reason so that I can turn off the RGB nonsense!
I'd be very curious on an updated comparison between Snap and Flatpak - especially when it comes to sandboxing, security and portability, since these are the areas where Snap has had the most trouble lately.
On a side note: is everything okay ? I notice you've been posting much fewer videos, lately....
Yeah, everything is fine, I just missed one this week, since I was feeling a bit sick, but it will come next week instead :)
I did move to 2 videos per week instead of trying to do 3 as I tried (and often failed) to do in 2023, 3 full videos is just too much!
I've been looking into this for a while but haven't been able to find concrete answers on the specifics if AppArmor or bubblewrap (which provides flatpak's sandboxing) is stronger.
One thing I've noticed is that snaps tend to have wider filesystem access. Many have access to your home folder and all removable drives (Firefox, Chromium, and Steam for example). Whereas their flatpak counterparts request less (Firefox just asks for download folder, Chromium asks for home folder, Steam asks for pictures and music).
However, one major difference between snaps and flatpaks is that snaps block access to dot/hidden files/folders. Therefore, snap apps can't modify your .bashrc or .profile to do something malicious. Flatpak allows this if the app has home or host filesystem access.
Another major difference between snap and flatpak is that flatpak apps have very configurable sandboxes for filesystem access. An app can just request access to specific folders, which I don't think is possible with snap. So a flatpak app like Firefox can just request access to your downloads folder rather than your entire home.
However it's important to note that snap's malicious apps aren't due to poor/broken confinement. In this case, permissions were totally benign, but the app tricked the user into giving it the user's super secret password. Canonical could have prevented this attack by having each app be reviewed, in which they would have discovered that this wasn't Exodus's offical app.
@@TheLinuxEXP Take your time, man. We can keep watching as many videos as you can create, but that doesn't mean you need to knock yourself out. Better two good videos from happy Nic than three videos from knackered Nic.
To be clear, this problem is not technically a sandboxing issue. The sandbox didn't fail here because it didn't need to fail. This program did not retrieve information that it should not have had access to from the system; it asked the user for it directly, and the user supplied it.
The issue here is that the app was not vetted as trustworthy in any way. The approach the app took is basically the same thing as a phishing scam, but people who used the app thought of it as coming from a trustworthy repository. However, with no real vetting taking place, the repository can hardly be considered trustworthy.
I'm not really a fan of relying on sandboxing for security anyway. If your app isn't from a trustworthy source, it's not safe whether it's sandboxed or not. If your app is from a trustworthy source, then the app will be safe even if the sandbox is not completely effective. Of course, that doesn't mean sandboxing is completely useless, if it stops some apps from accessing information they shouldn't, then at least it did something.
COSMIC alpha was never said to be released in early march. It's been planned by the end of march, IF everything goes well and IF there will be no need to take more time.
The alpha was mentioned to release end of March, and the release at the end of summer.
Since it's rust based, it should be on track to release when they said. One really nice thing about rust is the reduced number of bugs.
@@MrGamelover23 yeah, but well, releasing a product built from ground up, might involve lots of unexpected things and need for more time, so... it's better to be prepared for that, just in case.
Oh no! Yet another reason not to use Snaps.
Did you even watch the video?
Lol
@@bokocchop Don't think why the opinion would differ if they'd watched the video. Snap fans did claim that snaps are better than flatpak due to the app review process but it looks like that was basically useless.
@@Bl4ckGuyYeah, it seems like the Snap review process is horrendous. I don't remember hearing about any such problems on Flathub.
Snap fan here; snaps has better snadboxing, flatpak has a better app review process.
Snaps has no review process for sandboxed apps, hence why this slipped through xd
I still see no compelling reason to believe a set of unified APIs, PipeWire, SystemD, and Wayland (if it ever works as advertised) wouldn't be enough for developers to be happy working with Linux with normal package distribution methods.
I mean flatpak does that but we cant force pepole to cerain formats
@@Ghfvhvfg Flatpak does support those APIs, but then so do normal packaging formats and distribution methods. The point is that those APIs much like the GNU Utils are agnostic with regards to distribution methods and formats. And the APIs are what's important from a development standpoint.
If your distribution wants to be able to use everything under the sun then it will use the GNU Utils, POSIX compliance to the degree that it is possible, PipeWire, SystemD, and, once it's ready for prime time, Wayland. If your system has all of those things then a developer doesn't need to do anything special to get his software working on your system. Just ship the code to the Distro maintainers so that it can be packaged for that distro's package manager. Flatpak doesn't add any extra comparability in that regard.
Now, if you're using LFS or Gentoo and you're using an alternative init system, have everything compiled with special flags, and are building half of the APIs yourself to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your hardware then clearly you're not too worried about broad compatibility.
Now, Flatpak is still cool. I use it for Chrome and other programs I don't trust. It's great for things like that.
Because normal package distribution methods are not completely controlled by the developer and each system's package can use different dependency versions. Developers probably don't want to deal with bugs that happen on Fedora (or openSUSE or Debian or Arch) but not Ubuntu when they possibly can't even fix it and it's someone else's job to deal with it for some reason.
Also, smaller apps may not have the budget to actively support multiple distros themselves or the popularity to have other people do it. No luck for proprietary apps either, but you might not care about that depending on your philosophy.
@@talos01252 to address the devolution responsibility, those distro-specific bugs are the responsibility of distro maintainers, not the program developers. I don't badger OBS for problems I have with it. I badger the Arch maintainers for shipping it broken. Because it is their responsibility. This also holds true for smaller teams. It isn't, for instance, MATE's responsibility to package Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu variants of their desktop. That devolves to the distro maintainers who want the package. All MATE has to do is push the source code and have people who are interested at the distro package it for distribution on their distro.
And, you're right about proprietary software. I do see that as a good usecase for Flatpak. A way to distribute software when the developer doesn't want to release his source code to a distribution team for packaging and redistribution. It is essentially what Steam does with games on it's platform after all.
I'm not against Flatpak as a whole. I just don't want normal open sourced software to be packaged that way on my system. It generally leads to interoperability and resource management problems. Like when Canonical decided it was a good idea to only ship Firefox as a Snap.
Oh my god, I can't believe that they finally fixed that VRR bug. I basically gave up trying to use vrr mode in linux nvidia because my monitor would constantly go black (X11). Now all I need is good nvidia vrr support in kwin wayland with older gtx 10 gpus and I'm all set :D
Excellent vidéo! Toujours content d'avoir les nouvelles de la communauté Linux si bien exposées. Keep up the good work - Excellent content! Cheers from Québec, Canada.
Thanks for your work dude, you are consistent and your content is great
Don't worry. Soon enough there will be a FOSS warp alternative with your own private local AI.
A Fedora spin with the Cosmic Desktop? Sign me up!
Glad to see signs of better directions for Firefox. Crossing my fingers for the future....
Personally I'm glad RGB integration in linux is happening, mainly because I use an RGB keyboard for visibility reasons.
I use Warp on my company Macbook and its real nice.
And also, I'm glad Mark Shuttleworth is stepping in to take care of the Snaps's scam problem. I'm not giving up on it.
I don't want RGB everywhere but i want to disable them. Currently i have to use separate solutions for Steelseries mouse and MSI motherboard to disable those.
Wondering if it would be good idea to only have a more difficult verification process for proprietary apps? It should be easier to verify if the repository belongs to a certain website right?
I saw the "Warp on Linux", and I though. wow, awesome...OS/2 Warp on Linux!! I haven't done OS/2 stuff in decades! Then my disappointment when it turned out to the a terminal program...
Why would it be though tbh
You are the best, thanks for the updates!
Sometimes I forget how old my PC is nowadays. Even if older NVIDIA GPU‘s got named, they are newer than mine. I have a GTX 960
My PC has a GT 210, it's new enough for me.
My GeForce GT 730 is the GOAT but the Linux NVIDIA Drivers can be a real PITA!
@@MauiWauiPineappleExpresswasnt 730 shite even when it released . Also same for 1030. Like htye are good for office pc but nothing more XD
I'm still rocking a GTX 970 (since 2015). I don't work with video editing and most of the games I play are low spec ones and retrogames, so to me it's fine.
@@enkeiie GT730 is very good. I do everything with it for over 8 years now but their will always be haters i guess!
I use Ubuntu server and I ignore snaps as much as possible.
this has nothing to do with snaps. If somebody download malicious deb or rpm, they will have same consequence.
@@prakhars962 Maybe so, but the most distro’s default repos have a vetting and moderation processes to make sure nothing goes awry. Meanwhile, anyone can publish a snap. I guess the same applies to PPA/COPR, but you’d have to go out of your way to enable/install those.
@@prakhars962Malware aside, I dislike snaps as a packaging format.
@@burnin8orable I am okay with snaps.
Man, i remember how there was a talk to snap everything and rule out the packagers. Turns out it's better to have actual people checking everything and compiling packages rather than using snaps that aren't even reviewed by anyone.
hey Nick! You need an intro.
Looking forward for a Manjaro Cosmic edition, I really want to use their tilling window manager
Just remembered that KDE Plasma 6 will soon come out next week! Hopefully the release will be real smooth, can't wait to try it out!
Let's hope it not a KDE4 2.0!
Fedora silverblue with cosmic would be perfection
*fedora cosmic atomic
Fedora silverblue is the name for the gnome variant xd
There's already been a Fedora SIG proposed for Cosmic and discussions about an atomic version of Cosmic.
Immutable cosmic sounds really good.
Thanks Nick! ❤
Windows has also just started to unify RGB so nice to see if Linux kernel can have an API for it and thereby make it easier to unify.
Do you have a special Linux distribution to use on the Le Potato and Rock devices? How to to have one to run best using a light weight desktop
okay a fedora cosmic spin would be soooooooooo badass
Thanks for the information :)
God, it's so rare and refreshing to hear someone being correct about RGB being dumb
Been using Warp for a couple days and it's really cool! The only gripe I've got with it is that I get connection refused errors while connected to an SSH session.
I remember you once saying that the snap backend was proprietary, but maybe I misunderstood. Someone pointed out to me that most if not all of the snap system components are open source.
The software on the server that hosts the snap store is proprietary.
Yep!
12:16 this has been in Firefox for years...
Ok, I'm officially a boomer. I saw "Warp on Linux" and first thing I thought of was some kind of OS/2 Warp emulator or something like that.
Dude .. Warp offers all the formats ... including rpm and .zst for Arch. :D
Another point for the incompetence of Canonical. They should have figured out ALL OF THIS long before even launching snaps. AT THE VERY LEAST don't use misleading labeling like "safe", it's the same crap Apple pulls.
I’m really hyped for COSMIC.
I like seeing Linux heading in a good direction.
I think I'll look into using a sandbox when installing apps in Linux mint in the future. 🤔
Thanks Nick.
well, it was bound to happen. Having a community check packages is one of the obvious benefits of distro repos with a maintainer validation process. It's also one of the obvious benefits of FOSS :/ Having anyone able to push their code in a repo, even worth as closed source, is the opposite of what made the success of our OS. Sure it's not perfect, even Debian had some security issues, but it's far better.
Which is better to say to your mother-in-law : "you can install anything using this program, it's most probably safe, don't worry you're not using Windows anymore", or "call me before installing anything, I'll check and tell you if it's probably safe. I can't be sure it will be, but I will guess." ?
Maybe create an identity information server (iis) which is now needed to use the internet at all, and check against that?
Code it into the kernel that without it, you can't get on the internet.
I am sooooo (Excuse my french here) FREAKING EXCITED to see cosmic on fedora! I was hoping to see a spin of it eventually but so soon I would have not dreamed about.
Finally got a cheap sub $100 used laptop to use just as a Linux laptop. I have to use windows for work so it's nice to be back on Linux. I went with kubuntu since it's a dell with official Ubuntu support and I wanted as little friction as possible.
then gentoo is the way!
@mchi2214 ha! Well I ran sabayon for many years as a sodtware developer, but anything gentoo based for this laptop was right out.
As for verification - easiest is to prove company website ownership via DNS or other auth means. It won't cover all cases as some apps might not have websites, but can be one of the options. Overall there should be multiple ways of multi factor authentications.
18:48 What OS are you using on that Cube?
HoloISO for now!
Here's a bright idea: Make the verification and submitting process open source and publicly viewable.
How Arch would address the issue of scam software in the Snap Store in four simple steps:
1. Mandate all developers to release the source code.
2. Establish a forum page for discussing potential malware and deciding on removal.
3. Clearly state that usage of any item in the store is always at one's own risk.
4. Dismiss concerns about security in the store by emphasizing the importance of checking the source code, and refraining from derogatory remarks towards those expressing concerns, and calling the people stupid
Cosmic desktop look promising. But cosmic rust toolkits have a lot potential, technically it's much better and modern then mature/old toolkit like GTK and KDE framework. Cosmic desktop and toolkit will probably be bit buggy and lacks certain feature in the beginning, that's expected. For developer try to build quality software for multiple os and platforms by 2024 standard, rust base (in the early day) and flutter is the most promising tookit moving forward. More competitions and innovations is always good, no matter it's OSS or proprietary os/software.
I've already seen a couple people making third party applications with libcosmic. There's been a lot of people commenting about interest in building applications from the Rust subreddit, Pop subreddit, and in personal messages.
I don't LOVE rgb but if its already there I would prefer to have the ability to configure it. As is the case for many high end motherboards these days.
I found OpenRGB, and it works amazing for almost any RGB hardware. I don't like RGB too much either, but my keyboard uses it, and it keeps doing a weird rainbow wave thing unless I can set the colour every time I log in...
not the OS/2 Warp you were expecting ....
The TV commercials were so bad
maybe do the more extreme verification for apps that are related to crypto. one size does not fit all
Their have been some discussions to ban crypto apps since this happened and that all financial apps should be reviewed.
Won't have a choice in the UK next year under the Online Safety Act - if it isn't "safe for kids" - ie, it has an age restriction, you will have to implement age/ID verification from next year or refuse service to the UK. Problem is, other countries are following suit. The UK's preferred option is both Government Photo ID and live (ongoing) facial recognition. Tinder has also just announced they're implementing ID verification for the UK and a few other countries.
Warp terminal haha, good effin luck getting Linux users like that.
*FYI:* In general Zink works great with Nvidia proprietary! (although Nvidia's GL is still faster) Unfortunately there was a regression in Mesa 24, which completely broke it on that driver, hopefully it'll get fixed soon.
On the other hand, Nouveau with GSP enabled is now functional on my GPU, and in certain games Zink+NVK outperforms Nouveau GL by *a lot*
Fedora cosmic spin is best news. Hope fedora keeps doing what it does best and improves on other small minor things.
I just switched to KDE after using mac for like 5 years. I wished I switched sooner it’s amazing. Though I’ve grown to really dislike snap as I’ve encountered many issues with it and I prefer using apt to install apps. Idk if that’s the norm but that’s what I’ve come to understand after setting my computer up
this is the first time i've heard of warp and now i'm in love
What the hell happened to dirt 3, that with that new implementation of Windows driver it runs 700% better?
It would be very interesting how this snap store scam would have been on flathub. What would have been different? What would have been the same? Is there a team behind flathub that can do the same things that the Canonical employees can?
And how does Android handle these kind of problems. The App store could be a good guideline since it more than likely is a much bigger value target than snaps and flatpacks combined.
I’m pretty sure it would have played out the same way
Flathub reviews each new app and every time an app changes its permissions. It's unlikely that this app would have been accepted because the reviewer would (hopefully) contact Exodus to make sure it was their app or realize that the app is different from the one Exodus makes.
I will check the 550 nvidia driver in wayland hoping that there's no more glitches in chrome based apps and Steam for exemple.
I tried Tuxedo OS but did not like it. Find it too heavy. Back to KDE Neon...
And Warp has a .rpm package too! Yaaaay!
If crypto or credit was involved in the code, human validation is absolutely necessary.
I unfortuanetly have nevwr figured out openrgb, i hope to oneday see an easy to use api in kde plasma like their bluetooth manager!
I need an online account to use a freaking terminal?
What's next? An online account to use a calculator?
Snap touts itself as more secure than Flathub. I was a bit sceptical of this myself and I still can't see why you'd use it over Flathub.
Why aren’t Snap apps signed by the official vendor so users can easily see a “verified publisher” badge and throw a warning when it is not? (Maybe they already do this?)
Yes, they do, and flathub does that too
A good application or api for RGB, will eventually be good for stationary computers, sure there are applications for controlling it in linux already, but to have ALL and EVERY RGB light controlled from one place sounds almost too good to be true. Would be nice if mice, keyboards, lights and computer components can all be controlled from that application regardless of who made the device. Maybe being able to shut down RGB entirely. ^^
Its 4am at the moment but once I wake up Im going to try and see if that new nvidia driver will finally allow me to use Nobara with my 1080TI. I been debating replacing the 1080TI with an AMD card but if the new driver helps then I can save a few hundred bucks.
now need arch linux with the cosmic de
Waiting for FF to support pen pressure on Windows... and VR, and WebGPU. And Ink on Android...
I'd rather use /dev/tty3 than a terminal that requires logging in.
Firefox, what about HDR videos support?
Most excited about the NVK news as I have a Nvidia GPU and want to ditch the proprietary driver.
Why do you want to ditch the proprietary driver? Just curious, I also use it but wondering why?
@Scranny Although the proprietary driver is dirt simple to install and is convenient, it's also just a black box and a proprietary blob on my system. Steam is also a proprietary blob but less critical than the entire backbone of the graphics pipeline. That's my perspective anyway but I can't fault anyone who does use the proprietary driver - hell, I still do because I'm lazy lol
@@zeckma OK, I thought it was because some anti-nvidia sentiment or maybe privacy issues since it's closed source. At the end of the day, what matters is the driver's performance, right? So I'll switch to whichever performs better whenever that will be.
@@Scranny It’s not even about performance. Getting a first-party driver upstreamed significantly streamlines the experience for all users, and allows for different APIs to be added and modified freely in a unified fashion (I.e. we would have had better GBM support sooner, and there wouldn’t be a need for end users/third parties to build drivers for every kernel they have/maintain anymore)
Ironic since exodus keeps their UI proprietary and open sourced their back end to prevent this type of scam
Warp... log in to a proprietary server "will probably deter a few of you"... ya think?
the whole point of RGB is so you are forced to install the driver software to control it, so the manufacturer can collect your personal data. AND it looks awful and wastes power etc.
I would love it if you could ask Tuxedo to send you the all AMD gaming laptop so that you could make a review on it. Its quite a unique laptop, or at least, I cannot find an all AMD laptop on the PC stores here in Norway.
i can't understand the RGB craze it is so tacky - i miss the good old days of just plain beige boxes. I don't need to see inside my computer and all the lights . Other than the glow of my monitor, I don't need or like RGB.
THIS
nah, I was getting so tired of shit black or grey boxes back in the day that I'm a big fan of lighting nowadays, I like the new ways of customizing PCs, there's nothing wrong with RGB
@@mihairomulus2488 i'd rather just spend my money on specs rather than dumb lights but thats just me.
@@mihairomulus2488 i'll just stick with shit black or grey and focus on specs rather than useless lights but you do you
@@breadmoth6443 unless you're buying Asus components with diamonds glued to them then there's *hardly* a difference between rgb and non rgb components, if anything non rgb is getting more expensive, if I'm going to use a PC often I might as well have it easier on my eyes
AI integration, funnily enough, is probably why their server component is staying closed source. I'm not sure what LLM they're using, but it's probably a paid service that they aren't allowed to just share the API components of.
I bet they didn't consider open sourcing parts of their client until they already finished the AI parts of the server component and it's too heavily integrated to separate it from other parts to open source.
Gnome RGB lighting panel
i wonder why we need to login for using terminal
Canoical got caught not doing their due diligence screening apps. All the more reason to steer clear of them. No snap or flatpak for me until they can be better vetted.
Can i install capcut desktop like native on ubuntu or another linux without wine or from capcut web??
there is no native capcut app on linuxc
Fedora cosmic would be so amazing.
ooooh RGB-API I will use it disable RGB! :D