Wes Payne
Co-Host of LINUX Unplugged
Inquisitive nonsense and other such things.
Wes Payne has hosted 582 Episodes.
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393: Perfecting Our Plasma
February 16th, 2021 | 56 mins 20 secs
1password, amplipi, arch, bitwarden, breeze twilight, centos stream, chef, coder radio, facebook, fedora, gpl condom, home audio, imdb, jupiter broadcasting, kde, keepass, keepassxc, kickoff menu, krunner, lastpass, linux audio, linux podcast, lts kernel, m.2, manjaro, microsoft, mpv, nvidia, oomd, opus, pass, password managers, philip muller, pi compute module, plasma 5.21, plex, raspberry pi, remote recording, robe, sonobus, ssd, the coder, tmdb, unplugged, ventoy, videolan, vlc 4.0, windows, windows refund day, youtube-dl
Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in.
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392: Dad's Deployments
February 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
14 inch screamer, almalinux, arch, asus zephyrus g14, backups, bottom, brian exelbierd, browser sync, btm, btrfs, canonical, centos, centos stream, desktop email, electron, email, endeavouros, enigmail, eversync, fddf, fedora, fosdem, gpg, ht, httpie, jupiter broadcasting, linux email, linux gaming, linux podcast, lts, mailspring, mailsync, manjaro, pat riehecky, pgp, redhat, rocky linux, rolling release, rust, ryzen, snap packages, snap-pac-grub, snapshots, tech support, thunderbird, top, ubuntu, unplugged, wayland, x11, xbrowsersync, xorg
Which distro is best for friends and family? We have a unique take on this common question.
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391: GNOME 40ified
February 2nd, 2021 | 59 mins 32 secs
allan day, bitcoin, browser wars, caleb connolly, carl george, chromium, cross platform, dart, desktop environments, dogecoin, epiphany, firefox, flutter, gamestop amc, gnome 40, google, gtk4, horizontal workspaces, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, martin wimpress, oneplus 6, oneplus 6+, sata, slim.ai, ssd, stocks, ticker, ubuntu desktop, ubuntu installer, ubuntu mate, unplugged, ventoy, videolan, vlc, wimpy, window management
We try out GNOME 40 and its new workspace layout. Who we think this works well for, and who might want to avoid it.
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390: Eating the License Cake
January 26th, 2021 | 44 mins
apache license, aws, chrome, chromium, du, dust, elastic, elasticsearch, fedora, free software, google, hacs, home assistant, i3, jellyfin, jonathan corbet, jupiter broadcasting, kernel maintainer, kibana, linux 5.12, linux podcast, lucene, lwn, ncdu, nintendo 64, open source, polybar, rust, search, security, server side public license, solr, tom callaway, unplugged, waybar, wayland
Successful open-source projects all seem to struggle with one major gorilla. Who it is, and what their options are now.
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389: Harder Butter Faster Stronger
January 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 37 secs
backups, btrfs, chmod, cloud, containers, database, dban, distro-hopping, exfat, filesystems, gpt, home directory, jupiter broadcasting, kde neon, ldap, linux 5.10.8, linux laptops, linux podcast, live cd, live usb, macos, mbr, nano 5.5, ntfs, object storage, opensuse, pghoard, plasma, postgresql, s3, security, system76, systemrescuecd, text editors, thinkpad x12, tuxies, ubuntu 21.04, uefi, unix permissions, unplugged, usb, ventoy, windows
We showcase a tool that will change your Linux game.
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388: Waxing On With Wendell
January 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
alpine, arch, btrfs, discrete graphics, fedora, gpu-viewer, gvt-g, igpu, intel oneapi, intel xe graphics, jeos, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter.tube, level1linux, level1techs, linux graphics, linux podcast, microos, obs, open source, opensuse, opensuse build service, opi, peertube, suse, ubuntu, unplugged, vfio, wendell wilson, yast
Wendell joins the show to cover the state of graphics on Linux, and what Intel has in store for the future.
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387: Tumbling Into the New Year!
January 5th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
btrfs, bucklespring, ecc, electron, elementary os, email, flatpak, fosdem, gnome 40, grub, ibm model m, intel, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linus torvalds, linux gaming, linux podcast, mailspring, matrix, mechanical keyboards, microsoft, nvidia, opensuse, outlook, planner, plasma, plasma system monitor, project monarch, snapshots, steam, todo apps, todoist, tumbleweed, tuxies, unplugged, valve, yast, zypper
We have some strong opinions about the state of openSUSE Tumbleweed. We've secretly been running it for the past week, and share our experience.
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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.
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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.
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384: Born To Run Fedora
December 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
2020 tuxies, academic tuxies, arch linux, arch server, btrfs, centos, centos stream, clipboard sharing, cloudlinux, dendrite, fedora, fractal, gentoo, glances, intel, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo, linux podcast, matrix, nheko, openzfs, pbgopy, project lenix, red hat, rust, snapper, synapse, system monitoring, thinkpad, this week in matrix, thunderbolt, top, unplugged, x1 carbon, zfs
It's light as a feather, fast as hell, and everything is upstream. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon ships with Fedora, and this week we put it to the test.
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383: Murder of a Distro
December 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
amd, apple m1, bashtop, bmc, bpytop, centos, centos 8, centos stream, egpu, fedora, hector martin, htop, ibm, ip-kvm, ipmi, jupiter broadcasting, linux hardware, linux podcast, microsoft kinect, nouveau, nvidia, pi-kvm, ps4, python, radeon, radeontop, raspberry pi, red hat, rhel, thunderbolt, top, tuxies, uma, unplugged, vnc
Red Hat just made big changes to how CentOS works, we breakdown the good, and the bad.
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382: A New Endeavour
December 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
antergos, apple silicon, arch, calamares, corsair, endeavouros, gallery-dl, gnome 40, gnome circle, haruna, hector martin, jupiter broadcasting, l2arc, linux laptops, linux podcast, m1, mpv, mutter, openzfs, pro1 x smartphone, reflector, rf headphones, terminal-centric distro, tuxies, unplugged, xda, xfce, zareason, zfs, zstandard
A problem that just kept getting worse and worse. What it was, and why it led us to "check in" on EndeavourOS.
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381: Secret Modem Sounds
November 24th, 2020 | 52 mins 56 secs
ansible, archive.org, asus, chromebook, chromeos, chromiumos, containers, dev fonts, digital audio, docker, fedora 34, flash, flat volume, fwupd, fydeos, gnome, guadec, homeassistant, i3, jack audio, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma aarch64, kstars, linux app summit, linux podcast, lvfs, modem, nasa, nixos, perseverance rover, pipewire, podify, proxmox, pulseaudio 14, richard hughes, rss, ruffle, rust, stellarsolver, ubuntu web remix, unplugged, wave-share, webrtc, youtube-dl
We have the coolest new retro tool of the year, that will turn you into a Linux powered spy.
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380: No Sur, No Thank You
November 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 10 mins
ai benchmark, containers, dell precision 5750 review, docker, gatekeeper, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux app summit 2020, linux gaming, linux podcast, lutris, macos big sur, ocsp, online certificate status protocol, seagl, ubuntu, unplugged, yacht
We review the Dell Precision 5750, a born and bred MacBook killer that runs Linux.
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379: Favorite Linux Tweaks
November 10th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
.local, active directory, allan mcrae, amd, arch conf 2020, arch linux, autojump, canonical, castnow, catt, chromecast, chromium, coreboot, fedora, firefox adwaita theme, fish shell, freeipa, fzf, gitea, gitlab, gpu-viewer, greg kroah-hartman, hypnotix, iptv, jump, jupiter broadcasting, ldap, linux mint, linux podcast, liquorix kernel, mkchromecast, openbmc, oreboot, osfc, pacman, pipewire, profile-sync-daemon, project x, satellite internet, smartcd, snap packages, snapcraft, spacex, starlink, tridactyl, ubuntu, unplugged, video trimmer, vimperator, x86, youtube-dl, zen, zentyal
We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great.
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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.