LINUX Unplugged

423: What Makes a Linux User?

September 14th, 2021  |  40 mins 10 secs

age of empires, android, apple, apps, arm, baseband, codeweavers, easy anti-cheat, exploit, facepunch, firmware, firmware updates, flathub, flatpak, flatseal, foss, free software, gamingonlinux, garry newman, google, halo, ios, iphone 13, jupiter broadcasting, libre, librem 5, linux gaming, linux on mobile, linux phones, linux podcast, linux unplugged, m1, mac, microsoft, mobile, modem, open-source, osi, permissions, phil spencer, pinephone, proton, purism, re-logic, rust, sandboxing, security, snap, solaris, steam deck, terraria, ubuntu podcast, usb, valve, what makes a linux user, wsl, xbox

Why it might be time to re-think who is and who is not a Linux user, plus we do a reality check on the state of Linux phones.

386: Perilously Precocious Predictions

December 29th, 2020  |  57 mins 45 secs

2020, 2021, amd, apple, arch, arm, best buy, canonical, centos, dnf, drm, endlessos, fedora, fuschia, geekbench, gnome, hector martin, intel xe, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kubernetes, linus, linux, linux podcast, m1, manjaro, microsoft, pinephone, plasma, predictions, rancher, raspberry pi, rhel, risc-v, rocky linux, rust, suse, system76, ubuntu, unplugged, vmware, xfce

Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future.

385: The 2020 Tuxies

December 22nd, 2020  |  1 hr 24 mins

2020 tuxies, alpine, among us, best linux desktop of 2020, best linux distro of 2020, btrfs, celeron, docker, ds920+, dsm, fedora, gnome shell, home assistant, intel, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linux kernel, linux podcast, nas, nate graham, pinephone, plasma desktop, plex, qt, rapsberry pi 4, server, synology, synology quickconnect, tuxies, ubuntu, unplugged, vim, virtual machines, wireguard

We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies.

378: All in One Pi

November 3rd, 2020  |  1 hr 6 mins

anti-cheat, arm, c#, collabora, drm, fedora 33, feed reader, feedly, gabriel krisman bertazi, gentoo, gnome 40, linux graphics, manjaro nibia, native linux app, newsflash, nvidia, opensuse, pinephone, raspberry pi 400, raspberry pi keyboard, rss, snapcraft, state of linux gaming, uno platform, vim, vim plugins, vim-mario, windows calculator, winui, write once run everywhere, xaml

Why we think the new Raspberry Pi 400 is just the beginning.

365: There's a Hole in my Boot!

August 4th, 2020  |  53 mins 49 secs

a cloud guru, airpods, amd, amdgpu, arm, bluetooth, boothole, corsair void rgb elite, debian, dolphin, earbuds, emulator, gamecube, gaming on linux, grub2, jabra elite active 65t, jupiter broadcasting, linux audio, linux kernel 5.8, linux podcast, logitech mx570, microphones, mobile, mx linux, nokia n900, nvidia, physical keyboard, pine64, pinephone, proton, pulseaudio, rsi, secure boot, security, shure, sm58, standing desk, steam, tony wasserka, trackball, uefi, unplugged, valve, vertical mouse, wii, wine, wireless headphone, wireless headset, zoom

We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets.

364: Linux Arm Wrestling

July 28th, 2020  |  52 mins 42 secs

10nm, 14nm, 7nm, a cloud guru, acorn, acpi, amd, apple, apple newton, arch, arm, bbc micro, chromeos terminal 2.0, crostini, debian, ebbr, fedora, google, graviton, intel, jonathon fernyhough, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, manjaro, microsoft, pci, philip mueller, pine64, pinebook pro, pinephone, powerpc, raspberry pi, risc-v, s-tui, sbbr, serverready, softbank, system76, terminal phase, tuptime, ubports, ubuntu touch, uefi, unplugged, uptime, windows

The past, present and future of Linux on Arm. The major challenges still facing full Linux support, and why ServerReady might be a solution to unify Arm systems.

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

June 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

a cloud guru, accesibility, apple, btrfs, checksums, containers, copy on write, cow, crew dragon, data integrity, disk layout, disk partitioning, disk space, docker, ext4, facebook, falcon 9, fedora, fedora workstation, filesystem, flatpak, gimp, github, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, linux podcast, lvm, macos, master, matt ahrens, media production, mobile, nvme, phone, phosh, pine64, pinephone, pinetab, pipewire, postmarketos, preempt, proprietary software, purism, python, redis, rich bowen, ruby, snapshots, spacex, ssd, starlink, unplugged, welcoming nomenclature, windows, xfs, zfs

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

354: Microsoft FINALLY Gets It

May 19th, 2020  |  1 hr 34 secs

a cloud guru, ad blocking, amd, brad smith, build, craig loewen, directx, dns-ftl, dnsmasq, gpu, graphics, jupiter broadcasting, linux mint, linux podcast, manjaro, manjarobook, microsoft, multi-boot usb, open source, openbsd, pi-hole 5, pine64, pinephone, pinetab, raspberry pi, ryzen, ubports, ubuntu, ubuntu touch, unplugged, ventoy, windows package manager, windows subsystem for linux, windows terminal, winget, wireguard, wsl, xps

Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback.

337: Mystical Users

January 21st, 2020  |  58 mins 26 secs

a cloud guru, benchmarks, cloud, containers, coreos, dell, dell xps 13, developer laptop, doing things that scale, fedora, fedore coreos, flatcar container linux, focal fossa, free desktop, glow, jupiter broadcasting, kinvolk, linux desktop, linux laptop, linux podcast, mac os, macification, markdown, open source, picks, pine64, pinephone, software development, ubuntu, ubuntu 20.04, uefi, unplugged, wifi 6, xps 13, yaru, yaru theme

We make an appeal to keep Linux powerful and avoid the Macification of the desktop, and review the latest developer-focused XPS 13.

330: 'Tis the SSHession

December 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 3 mins

5.1, 6tunnel, adguard, backuppc, cassidy james blaede, elementary os, freedombox, gift giving, gifts, hass.io, hera, holiday gifts, homeassistant, ipv6, jellyfin, juno, jupiter broadcasting, kodi, lakka, librem 5, linux gifts, linux podcast, odroid go, open media vault, openssh, orange pi, osmc, pihole, pinephone, purism, raspberry pi, retroarch, sbc, self-hosted, snapcast, ssh, strobe audio, unplugged, veeam, vpn

Give the gift of remote support with our neat SSH trick. Also, Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss what's great about their new release.