# Season 7, Episode 25. Episode ID 125
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What did we do in FOSS This Week?

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# Previous Year's Predictions

Prepare yourselves for the Jan 6th episode
[Season 7 Episode 1](https://www.youtube.com/live/QWWgSHdrDLE?si=r1i3jfHXwf-Sb0qK)

1. Matt
41:46 No Steam Deck 2
43:18 Tyler says god chance Matt is Right but it "might" happen.

2. Tyler
44:52 Web 3.0 Will see heavy regulation and be investigated by authorities and people will lose interest and not discuss it.
45:30 Matt says we'll still talk about it.

[Web3isGoingGreat.com](https://web3isgoinggreat.com/)

3. Matt
48:36 Microsoft will buy something big in Linux or Open Source this year
[list of acquisions according to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft#Acquisitions)

4. Tyler
50:02 Tyler will be streaming on YouTube single every day of 2023 for at least 4 hours each day.
  - Obviously failed at this
52:30 Matt wants the 0ad Streams back and says "I'll even play 0ad with you"

5. Matt
53:38 Classic Windows Managers will move to wayland or begin to move to wayland this year.
[Xmonad](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/xmonad-for-wayland-call-for-help/7812) is the only one if we're not counting qtile

6. Tyler
58:20 AI and Linux will become the big part of small business success

- In all honest;y it's debatable but to me it seems that big business invested more in AI than small business. 


# This Years Predictions:

Matt -

   1) Canonical will roll out the official Ubuntu Immutable Distro
   1) Plasma 6 will be buggy beyond belief, yet people will like it anyway.

Tyler -

   1) Hyprland will become the new Arch
   2) NixOS is what I will be using for the entire year

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# Fact of the Week:

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# Thingies of the Week

Matt - Better Discord

Tyler - Rofi-wayland