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  <itunes:subtitle>The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/unplugged">Linode Cloud Hosting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/unplugged">A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. </a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitwarden.com/linux">Bitwarden</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitwarden.com/linux">Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2022/flathub-codethink-collaboration/">New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming</a> &mdash; [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase.</li><li><a title="Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/">Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux</a> &mdash; I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.</li><li><a title="The Offending glibc Commit" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6051#issuecomment-1206888814">The Offending glibc Commit</a></li><li><a title="A glibc Bug" rel="nofollow" href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29456">A glibc Bug</a></li><li><a title="The ABI status of ELF hash tables" rel="nofollow" href="https://lwn.net/Articles/904892/">The ABI status of ELF hash tables</a> &mdash; If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now.</li><li><a title="Jupiter JPL Meetup Form" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/JPL">Jupiter JPL Meetup Form</a></li><li><a title="JB Meetups" rel="nofollow" href="http://meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting">JB Meetups</a></li><li><a title="West Coast Crew Matrix Room" rel="nofollow" href="https://bit.ly/westcoastcrew">West Coast Crew Matrix Room</a></li><li><a title="Endless OS" rel="nofollow" href="https://endlessos.com/">Endless OS</a> &mdash; The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect.</li><li><a title="Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS" rel="nofollow" href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/522822/different-methods-to-run-a-non-nixos-executable-on-nixos">Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS</a> &mdash; What are the different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS? I'd like to see also the manual methods.</li><li><a title="nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Mic92/nix-ld">nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS</a></li><li><a title="vscode with extensions nix package" rel="nofollow" href="https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.05&amp;show=vscode-with-extensions&amp;from=0&amp;size=50&amp;sort=relevance&amp;type=packages&amp;query=vscode">vscode with extensions nix package</a></li><li><a title="vscode FHS compatible" rel="nofollow" href="https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.05&amp;show=vscode-fhs&amp;from=0&amp;size=50&amp;sort=relevance&amp;type=packages&amp;query=vscode">vscode FHS compatible</a></li><li><a title="toolbox-vscode" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/owtaylor/toolbox-vscode">toolbox-vscode</a> &mdash; Toolbox Visual Studio Code integration</li><li><a title="Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory" rel="nofollow" href="https://selfhosted.show/67">Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory</a> &mdash; Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.</li><li><a title="Podcasting 2.0 Apps" rel="nofollow" href="https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&amp;elements=Value">Podcasting 2.0 Apps</a> &mdash; Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and boost into the show.</li><li><a title="Heroic Games Launcher" rel="nofollow" href="https://heroicgameslauncher.com/">Heroic Games Launcher</a> &mdash; Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the Steam Deck!</li><li><a title="Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub" rel="nofollow" href="https://beta.flathub.org/apps/details/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl">Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/unplugged">Linode Cloud Hosting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/unplugged">A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. </a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitwarden.com/linux">Bitwarden</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitwarden.com/linux">Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2022/flathub-codethink-collaboration/">New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming</a> &mdash; [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase.</li><li><a title="Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/">Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux</a> &mdash; I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.</li><li><a title="The Offending glibc Commit" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6051#issuecomment-1206888814">The Offending glibc Commit</a></li><li><a title="A glibc Bug" rel="nofollow" href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29456">A glibc Bug</a></li><li><a title="The ABI status of ELF hash tables" rel="nofollow" href="https://lwn.net/Articles/904892/">The ABI status of ELF hash tables</a> &mdash; If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now.</li><li><a title="Jupiter JPL Meetup Form" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/JPL">Jupiter JPL Meetup Form</a></li><li><a title="JB Meetups" rel="nofollow" href="http://meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting">JB Meetups</a></li><li><a title="West Coast Crew Matrix Room" rel="nofollow" href="https://bit.ly/westcoastcrew">West Coast Crew Matrix Room</a></li><li><a title="Endless OS" rel="nofollow" href="https://endlessos.com/">Endless OS</a> &mdash; The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect.</li><li><a title="Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS" rel="nofollow" href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/522822/different-methods-to-run-a-non-nixos-executable-on-nixos">Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS</a> &mdash; What are the different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS? I'd like to see also the manual methods.</li><li><a title="nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Mic92/nix-ld">nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS</a></li><li><a title="vscode with extensions nix package" rel="nofollow" href="https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.05&amp;show=vscode-with-extensions&amp;from=0&amp;size=50&amp;sort=relevance&amp;type=packages&amp;query=vscode">vscode with extensions nix package</a></li><li><a title="vscode FHS compatible" rel="nofollow" href="https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.05&amp;show=vscode-fhs&amp;from=0&amp;size=50&amp;sort=relevance&amp;type=packages&amp;query=vscode">vscode FHS compatible</a></li><li><a title="toolbox-vscode" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/owtaylor/toolbox-vscode">toolbox-vscode</a> &mdash; Toolbox Visual Studio Code integration</li><li><a title="Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory" rel="nofollow" href="https://selfhosted.show/67">Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory</a> &mdash; Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.</li><li><a title="Podcasting 2.0 Apps" rel="nofollow" href="https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&amp;elements=Value">Podcasting 2.0 Apps</a> &mdash; Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and boost into the show.</li><li><a title="Heroic Games Launcher" rel="nofollow" href="https://heroicgameslauncher.com/">Heroic Games Launcher</a> &mdash; Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the Steam Deck!</li><li><a title="Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub" rel="nofollow" href="https://beta.flathub.org/apps/details/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl">Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub</a></li></ul>]]>
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