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
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.