LINUX Unplugged

651: Uptime Funk

January 25th, 2026  |  1 hr 2 mins

acme for nebula pki, actual budget, ad-blocking, automatic hostname resolution, dns, docker, enterprise-grade monitoring stack, flox, furilabs, grafana, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, linux phone, linux podcast, linux unplugged, local dns, magicdns, meetup, mesh network, mesh vpn, metrics, monitoring, nacme, nebula, nixos-router, ntfy, open source, pi-hole, pinephone, planet nix, prometheus, purism, richarch hyprvibe spin, scale, self-hosted, switchyard, tailscale, technitium, uptime-kuma, van automation, vpn, vps, wifiman, ynab

When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won’t ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.

599: Psycho Shower Linux Power

January 26th, 2025  |  1 hr 2 mins

aconfmgr, bazzite, birthday boost, chromium, debian, declarative, decman, ersatztv, freebsd challenge, iptv, jupiter broadcasting, liberux, liberux nexx, liberuxos, linux handheld, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lup 600, mecha comet, metapac, nixos, olivetin, open-tv, oscars, phosh, pinephone, replit, server monitoring, showerthoughts, steamos, supporters of chromium-based browsers, tuxies, wine

On the eve of episode 600, we introduce our next challenge and explore the new wave of Linux phones.

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.