LINUX Unplugged

385: The 2020 Tuxies

December 22nd, 2020  |  1 hr 24 mins

2020 tuxies, Btrfs, Jupiter Broadcasting, Plasma Desktop, Plex, Ubuntu, WireGuard, alpine, among us, best linux desktop of 2020, best linux distro of 2020, celeron, docker, ds920+, dsm, fedora, gnome shell, home assistant, intel, jellyfin, kde, linux kernel, linux podcast, nas, nate graham, pinephone, qt, rapsberry pi 4, server, synology, synology quickconnect, tuxies, unplugged, vim, virtual machines

We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies.

381: Secret Modem Sounds

November 24th, 2020  |  52 mins 56 secs

Ansible, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, NASA, archive.org, asus, chromebook, chromeos, chromiumos, containers, dev fonts, digital audio, docker, fedora 34, flash, flat volume, fwupd, fydeos, guadec, homeassistant, i3, jack audio, kde plasma aarch64, kstars, linux app summit, linux podcast, lvfs, modem, 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.

380: No Sur, No Thank You

November 17th, 2020  |  1 hr 10 mins

Jupiter Broadcasting, Ubuntu, ai benchmark, containers, dell precision 5750 review, docker, gatekeeper, linux, linux app summit 2020, linux gaming, linux podcast, lutris, macos big sur, ocsp, online certificate status protocol, seagl, unplugged, yacht

We review the Dell Precision 5750, a born and bred MacBook killer that runs Linux.

372: Distro Triforce

September 22nd, 2020  |  1 hr 41 secs

1secmail, AMD, Canonical, Coreboot, Jupiter Broadcasting, KVM, Raspbian, Red Hat, System76, TV, USB, Ubuntu, aberhosan, amazon, analytics, arch linux, broadband, bunsen labs, carl richell, cloud, cloud hypervisor, crosvm, deepin 20, desktop environments, devuan, docker, elementary OS, emacsconf2020, embedded controller, endeavouros arm, fedora, firecracker, google, graphs, heroku, i3, intel, let's encrypt, linux distributions, linux foundation, linux podcast, michael jones, mypaas, niche distros, open firmware, openpower, openreach, paas, power64 laptop, protonmail, raspberry pi 4, roberto innocenti, rust, rust-vmm, scsi, shazam, songrec, systemd, systemd-homed, tmpmail, traefik, trim, uasp, uefi, unplugged, virtualization, window managers

What would it really take to get you to switch Linux distributions? We debate the practical reasons more and more people are sticking with the big three.

370: PipeWire Progress

September 8th, 2020  |  51 mins 47 secs

Diversity, GStreamer, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, Lenovo, Red Hat, Video, WireGuard, active directory, akademy 2020, aleix pol, alpine, archive.org, audio, bigbluebutton, collabora, containers, debconf20, debian, docker, fedora 33, jack, jonathan carter, jono bacon, linux app summit, linux handheld, linux podcast, markdown, marketing, ncurses, openzfs, people powered book club, pipewire, present, pulseaudio, raspberry pi, sc-im, session manager, spreadsheets, ssh tunnel, terminal apps, ubuntu 20.10, unplugged, vpn, waybackmachine, wim taymans, wireplumber, yarh-io

We get an update from PipeWire developer Wim Taymans on the status of Linux's new audio and video subsystem.

359: Death of the Mac

June 23rd, 2020  |  47 mins 7 secs

AI, Adobe, Airdrop, Jupiter Broadcasting, Microsoft, a cloud guru, ampere, apple, arm, arm servers, artificial intelligence, bhyve, blender, bsd, chrome, cloud, containers, cooking, debian, docker, ffmpeg, final cut pro, freebsd, fujitsu, google, hackintosh, homebrew, ibm, japan, linux podcast, machine learning, macos 11, nearby share, nearby sharing, parallels, python, recipes, supercomputers, tensorflow, top500, unplugged, unsilence, xhyve

Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever.

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

June 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Btrfs, Falcon 9, Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, Librem 5, Purism, a cloud guru, accesibility, apple, checksums, containers, copy on write, cow, crew dragon, data integrity, disk layout, disk partitioning, disk space, docker, ext4, facebook, fedora, fedora workstation, filesystem, gimp, github, linux podcast, lvm, macos, master, matt ahrens, media production, mobile, nvme, phone, phosh, pine64, pinephone, pinetab, pipewire, postmarketos, preempt, proprietary software, 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.

346: The One-Click Trap

March 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 6 mins

Ansible, Jupiter Broadcasting, Microsoft, System76, Ubuntu, WSL, a cloud guru, automation, aws, backup, bitnami, borg, conferences, docker, duplicity, foss, gaming on linux, graphics, home assistant, lemur pro, linux laptop, linux mint, linux podcast, little snitch, mastodon, nouveau, nvidia, one-click apps, open source, powerpoint, sandstorm, security, turnkey linux, twitter, unplugged, windows

We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update.

344: Our Week with Windows

March 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 6 mins

Canonical, Denver, Jupiter Broadcasting, Ubuntu, WSL, Windows 10, a cloud guru, appcenterforeveryone, apt, chocolatey, containers, docker, elementary, elementaryos, google photos, hayden barnes, html5, kubernetes, linux podcast, macos, opensilver, package management, plasma, plasmoid, silverlight, snapshots, unplugged, windows, windows subsystem for linux, windows terminal, wslconf, zfs, zsys

We load up Windows 10 with WSL2, the new Terminal, and give it a go to see what it does better than Linux. Then we dive into the deep end and attend the first-ever WSLConf.

343: What Linux is Best At

March 3rd, 2020  |  57 mins 8 secs

Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, Pop!_OS, System76, Wayland, a cloud guru, apple, cattlinux podcast, desktop linux, docker, firefox, gaming, gaming on linux, gnome extension, gnome shell 3.36, javascript, linux, macos, power users, ripgrep, rust, stadia, steam, the silver searcher, tiling window manager, tiling windows, typescript, unplugged, windows wsl2

We try the Mac desktop for 30 days, find out what we think it does best, and where Linux will always have it beat.