KDE is firing on all cylinders, Brave says they’re the best browser, CERN moves to Debian

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:44 Sponsor: TuxCare
01:45 Brave say they outperform every other major browser
04:49 Firefox 155 should load pages faster
06:36 CERN leaves Red Hat for Debian
09:42 Debian says yes to AI
12:14 GNOME 51 will improve hybrid GPU support
13:52 Plasma 6.8 adds more accessibility features to Wayland
15:19 KDE’s theme engine supports more KDE apps now
16:39 Artix drops XLibre after it pushes a maintainer to resign
18:59 KDE Connect redesign ready for testing
20:29 FOSS Minecraft Luanti taken down by Microsoft
23:25 KDE Linux makes more progress towards its beta
25:24 Grab bag of gaming news
28:45 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

Brave say they outperform every other major browser
https://brave.com/blog/brave-outperforms-other-browsers/

Firefox 155 should load pages faster
https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-155-faster-page-loads/

CERN leaves Red Hat for Debian
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL

Debian says yes to AI
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00005.html

GNOME 51 will improve hybrid GPU support
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/5219
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-RC

Plasma 6.8 adds more accessibility features to Wayland

Wayland pain points – Dwell Clicker

KDE’s theme engine supports more KDE apps now
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/28/this-week-in-plasma-qtwidgets-apps-join-the-union/

Artix drops XLibre after it pushes a maintainer to resign
https://artixlinux.org/news.php#XLibre_support_discontinued
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,10283.msg61637.html

KDE Connect redesign ready for testing
https://tintotint.eu/programming/kde-connect2/

FOSS Minecraft Luanti taken down by Microsoft
https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/

Project VEGA

KDE Linux makes more progress towards its beta
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/31/this-month-in-kde-linux-august-2026/

Grab bag of gaming news
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/game-launcher-launchbox-should-get-a-linux-version-in-2027/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/

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