Trouble for OpenSource Office Suites, Wayland fixes 2 major features & other Linux Weekly News

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:34 OnlyOffice accuses EuroOffice of breaking their license
02:39 OnlyOffice suspends partnership with Nextcloud
04:15 Trouble between Collabora and The Document Foundation
07:06 Wayland session restore protocol is now official
08:40 Wayland fractional scaling improvements
09:43 Copilot slots ads into PRs and merge requests
12:14 Ubuntu MATE loses its maintainer
13:56 GNOME fully drops Google Drive support
15:52 Linux passes 5% market share on Steam
17:29 Nvidia’s HDR & color management support in preview
19:00 Wine could move to Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan
20:27 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

OnlyOffice accuses EuroOffice of breaking their license
https://github.com/Euro-Office/
https://linuxiac.com/onlyoffice-accuses-euro-office-of-license-violations/

OnlyOffice suspends partnership with Nextcloud
https://www.neowin.net/news/onlyoffice-suspends-nextcloud-partnership-over-unapproved-euro-office-fork/

Trouble between Collabora and The Document Foundation
https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/

Wayland session restore protocol is now official
https://itsfoss.com/news/wayland-session-management/

Wayland fractional scaling improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/xx-fractional-scale-v2-MR-KWin

Copilot slots ads into PRs and merge requests
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/
https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-is-horrific-github-kills-copilot-pull-request-ads-after-user-backlash

Ubuntu MATE loses its maintainer
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-mate-needs-new-maintainer

GNOME fully drops Google Drive support
https://itsfoss.com/news/gnome-drops-google-drive-support/

Linux passes 5% market share on Steam
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-smashes-past-5-percent-on-the-steam-survey-for-the-first-time/

Nvidia’s HDR & color management support in preview
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-announce-a-preview-of-drm-per-plane-color-pipeline-api-support-on-linux-good-for-hdr/

Wine could move to Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/a-future-wine-release-could-use-zink-to-run-opengl-via-vulkan/

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@thelinuxexperiment almost sounds like #Microsoft knew there may be backlash against #adinjection like that in #github but did it anyway to see the reaction... More evidence in support of #FOSS

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@thelinuxexperiment@tilvids.com Oh boy, another drama. This time with Office suites... ​:fernshake:​

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That’s annoying about Google drive support. It was useful but did some stupid things too like giving files random names.

I currently use syncthing and an always on Windows box to share select parts of Google Drive to my linux machines, and it works well, but isn’t an ideal solution.

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@thelinuxexperiment did you miss the news that outlook crashed on the Artemis II Mission? And ppl were trolling them hard 🤣🤣

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@Alejandro_P

Actually, I am wondering why they were using Outlook in the first place.

@thelinuxexperiment

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@vartak @thelinuxexperiment 🤷

An image / meme from the TV show "Space Force", where Dr. Adrian Mallory (played by John Malkovich) screams "Fuck Microsoft".

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The 0 64bit and 64bit on Steams hardware survey are maybe 64bit clients. Linux gaming is growing much faster (1.8% in 3 months) than Windows 11 gaming (0.2% in 3 months) at this point of time.
NVidia does definitely not just push AI code to Linux, I would bet everything I own that they are using it on their proprietary Windows drivers, too.

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Just a couple days ago I've been trying and failing to spin up an OnlyOffice container and now I hear this drama lmao

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I know Microsoft was bad but jeez... Did they really think they could get away with the Ad thing?

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Microsoft do this sort of thing, walk it back, then introduce it later in a more insidious manner. I do not use GitHub, because I could see this sort of thing happening. Not exactly this, of course, but this IS Microsoft we are talking about.

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Alert: There's some FOSS code here, but there are licensing, marketing or transparency issues.
https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/onlyoffice/

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Is there a good reason, why peertube is not mentioned in the description?

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