LINUX Unplugged

435: Desktop Burnout

December 7th, 2021  |  58 mins 50 secs

ai, audapolis, audio editing, btrfs, centos stream 9, cryptocurrency, descript, epel 9, firefox 91, flatpak, fragmentation, gnome 40, ingenuity, jpl, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, leap, linux podcast, linux unplugged, machine learning, nasa, nebula, opensuse, popcorn pocket computer, raid, scale, slackware, snap, ssd, suse, tim canham, tumbleweed, yast, zypper

This was not the year of the Linux Desktop. We’ve been slacking on the mailbag, so we go on a feedback frenzy and answer some hard questions about desktop Linux.

428: Pi for the People

October 19th, 2021  |  55 mins 47 secs

almalinux migration tool, apple, arch linx, asahi, battery, boringtun, btrfs, centos converter, charging, cinnamon, endeavour os, garuda, hector martin, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linus tech tips, linux podcast, linux unplugged, m1 max, m1 pro, macbook, manjaro, motd, onetun, pop server, pop!_os 21.10, port forwarding, quickemu, raspberry pi, rhel, rust, rust-motd, sd card, snapshots, spacecadetpinball, ssd, steam deck verified, system76, timeshift, tlp, utm, valve, ventoy, wireguard, ytcc

We try out POP!_OS on the Raspberry Pi 4, and chat with its creator Jeremy Soller from System76.

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.

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.

375: Wrong About Pop!

October 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 5 mins

amd radeon, amdgpu, antennapod, arm, auto tiling, autotier, canonical, chromebooks, code quality, defined networking, dell precision, education, esxi, esxi-arm, extended attributes, fedora, free software, fuse, gnome shell, google, gpu, graphics drivers, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma 5.20, linux 5.9, linux for kids, linux gaming, linux podcast, manjaro arm 20.10, nebula, networking, nfs, notifications, nvme, open source, podcasting apps, pop shell, pop shop, pop!_os, power management, powertop, raspberry pi, ryan huber, slack, ssd, steam, storage, system76, system76 keyboard, task manager, tiling window manager, tlp, ubuntu, unplugged, virtualization, vmware flings, vpn, vsphere, wayland, wifi

We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery.

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.

285: Pain the APT

January 22nd, 2019  |  1 hr 19 mins

akira, apt, apt-get, aws, azure, azure sphere, benchmarks, canonical, circonus, design, documentdb, ebgp, elementary, freemium, gpg, gtk, https, io, jupiter broadcasting, kafka, kernel, lfnw, linux, linux podcast, man in the middle, metrics, mitm, mongodb, multipass, native apps, oggcamp, open source business models, powershell, rce, redis, scale, scheduler, security, sequeler, sketch, ssd, taxi, texas linux fest, ubuntu, ui, unplugged, ux, vala, windows, windows 10, windows core

An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux.