--- title: Linux News - EU ditches Google Search, Brave's Paid... description: A roundup of Linux and open source news covering: the EU Parliament switching its default search engine to Qwant as part of a broader tech sovereignty... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-news---eu-ditches-google-search-brave-s-paid-browser-ubuntu-makes-big-moves-qb7bnqwjw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux News - EU ditches Google Search, Brave's Paid browser, Ubuntu makes big moves | daily.dev og:description: A roundup of Linux and open source news covering: the EU Parliament switching its default search engine to Qwant as part of a broader tech sovereignty... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-news---eu-ditches-google-search-brave-s-paid-browser-ubuntu-makes-big-moves-qb7bnqwjw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qb7BnqwjW.png og:image:alt: Linux News - EU ditches Google Search, Brave's Paid browser, Ubuntu makes big moves og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux News - EU ditches Google Search, Brave's Paid browser, Ubuntu makes big moves **[The Linux Experiment](https://daily.dev/sources/linuxexp)** · 29 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A roundup of Linux and open source news covering: the EU Parliament switching its default search engine to Qwant as part of a broader tech sovereignty initiative; Brave launching a paid stripped-down browser called Brave Origin (free on Linux); Canonical taking over Flutter desktop maintenance and announcing Ubuntu's roadmap through 28.04 including AI-powered voice input via Whisper, a package-agnostic app center, and RISC-V support; KDE confirming X11 removal in Plasma 6.8 with 95% of current users already on Wayland; Acer unveiling a Debian-based Linux game streaming handheld; Microsoft adding Rust-based Linux core utilities to Windows; Microsoft deactivating purchased Office 2019/2021 licenses on Mac; Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping this summer; Proton Drive announcing a native Linux client in active development; and the UK ordering Google to add attribution and opt-out controls for AI search summaries. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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