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
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
Wine and Proton update
Why fuck Omarchy?
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.
errata: read the reply below
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.
Woa :-O Definitely avoiding such people and their nazty environment/ecosystem… Thanks for info…
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).
Thanks for the correction!
Well gawd damn it… it looked cool until I heard this. I’ll steer clear of it until there is a non-fascist backed option. Thanks for the heads up.
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.
It’s a vanity project. You know how Notch bought a Bugatti, this is the software equivalent.
Notch’s Bugatti is far less likely to spontaneously combust (because it was made by professionals, not AI), and if it did, it wouldn’t affect as many people. Omarchy claims to be an easy version of Arch, when in reality, it’s just doing what every beginner would be doing, including all of the accidental security holes, and then adds some more weakpoints through the unchecked shell scripts.
Nazis