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/