Linux After Dark

Linux After Dark – Episode 128 Aug 14, 2026 24:16 It’s a forced positivity episode! We all come up with some positive things to say about Linux and open source.                     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 127 Jul 31, 2026 24:02 We got a lot of feedback about choosing a distro for the friends and family we support, but a lot of suggestions didn’t make sense to us. We get into why we pick boring and safe choices instead of interesting and exciting ones.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes        

Linux After Dark – Episode 126 Jul 17, 2026 25:13 Having seen some technologies come to a definite end, Chris wonders if we should be willing to draw a line under open source software sometimes.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 125 Jul 3, 2026 26:49 Chris is struggling to decide which distro to install on his new work laptop, and he and Gary want to pick a new distro for the people they support. Plus Joe wonders what moving on from Xfce would look like.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for w

Linux After Dark – Episode 124 Jun 19, 2026 8:17 The most precious machine in our stack of laptops and PCs, excluding anything we actually use regularly. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 123 Jun 5, 2026 25:04 We revisit the topic of the dire situation with hardware prices, this time with a focus on getting the most out of machines with limited resources.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 122 May 22, 2026 25:13 We all seem to be moving away from Ubuntu, but there are still quite a few reasons to keep using it.   WG Tunnel PiVPN Charlie’s OggCamp talk about infrastructure as code                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe t

Linux After Dark – Episode 121 May 8, 2026 26:26 How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 120 Apr 24, 2026 25:12 Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get i

Linux After Dark – Episode 119 Apr 10, 2026 23:32 May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforward but finding the right laptop will be much harder.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subs

Linux After Dark – Episode 118 Mar 27, 2026 25:01 We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 117 Mar 12, 2026 21:21 May has actually been using her stack of laptops and learning that “legacy” distros make more sense, the Firefox flatpak performs better than other packages, Linux Mint is a fine distro, Linux has the best calculators, and GNOME’s scaling is really good now.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes &

Linux After Dark – Episode 116 Feb 27, 2026 25:03 The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux?           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 115 Feb 13, 2026 22:22 With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice?               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 114 Jan 30, 2026 23:51 How do you convince people to stop using unethical technology like generative AI?             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 113 Jan 16, 2026 23:15 We follow up on episode 104 from September last year when we promised to tackle some Linux projects including moving to Immich and Jellyfin, learning about Docker Compose and Python, and ditching Synology.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe

Linux After Dark – Episode 112 Jan 2, 2026 23:51 We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2025, and talk about what we want to happen in 2026.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 111 Dec 19, 2025 7:33 We tell stories from some of the tech support nightmares we’ve found ourselves in. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 110 Dec 5, 2025 22:18 Some of the Linux and open source tech from our past that inspired where we are today.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 109 Nov 21, 2025 25:25 How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 108 Nov 7, 2025 25:15 Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to

Linux After Dark – Episode 107 Oct 24, 2025 22:20 We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What would we buy in this hypothetical situation? It turns out we all struggled to come up with anything and are pretty satisfied with the machines we already have.   Note that this episode was recorded before we found out that Framework su

Linux After Dark – Episode 106 Oct 10, 2025 25:32 Florian Beijers joins us again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.   Florian’s YouTube Channel Techy Twitch streams Accessible gaming Twitch streams fireborn’s blog posts about accessibility in Linux           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes

Linux After Dark – Episode 105 Sep 26, 2025 23:49 We cover some of your emails, questions, and comments. A challenge suggestion of not using a package manager, donating old hardware, why we don’t use custom ROMs on our phones, whether low end laptops with soldered eMMC storage are worth buying (they aren’t), and tips for using Home Assistant with Apple gear and Jellyfin on Android.   The terrible laptop we mentioned    

Linux After Dark – Episode 104 Sep 12, 2025 22:38 Summer is officially over. As the nights draw in it’s time to hunker down and work on our technical debt. We all have Linuxy projects that we are planning, so we commit to doing them by Christmas – when we will record a follow-up episode. Docker Compose, Immich, Jellyfin, learning Python, moving away from Synology, Home Assistant, and more.             Sup

Linux After Dark – Episode 103 Aug 29, 2025 24:52 It’s the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy a really nice Linux computer on a seriously low budget.   Check out part 1 and part 2 of the £50 challenge that we did previously.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes

Linux After Dark – Episode 102 Aug 15, 2025 23:47 It’s our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly discussing our concerns about Canonical.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to

Linux After Dark – Episode 101 Aug 1, 2025 27:05 Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price he paid for it?         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 100 Jul 18, 2025 23:32 It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware, our silly challenges, our move away from custom phone ROMs, our disappointment with Arm desktop Linux, composable/immutable distros, how we’ve changed as people, and more.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free

Linux After Dark – Episode 99 Jul 4, 2025 28:59 It’s part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we’ll actually use them for, and more.   Listen to part 1 here.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 98 Jun 20, 2025 25:12 It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 97 Jun 6, 2025 22:15 Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services, OSTree sucks, when you need to reboot Ubuntu is a mystery, stop hiding things from users, Chris needs an “I use Debian by the way” t-shirt, and more.   Zak’s post on Mastodon Luke Miani’s video           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free

Linux After Dark – Episode 96 May 23, 2025 23:19 We recently talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to use as a daily desktop machine, but what about headless boxes? It turns out that it depends on what exactly it’s doing and to what extent we have to actively interact with it. Ultimately we could probably use slower hardware than we actually do if it came to it.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-

Linux After Dark – Episode 95 May 9, 2025 20:39 What Linux and FOSS technology should Joe learn next? Is it a case of waiting for a problem to present itself before even trying?       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 94 Apr 25, 2025 23:47 What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 93 Apr 11, 2025 24:53 Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our inner Linux Luddites, but don’t really come up with any solutions.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes     &

Linux After Dark – Episode 92 Mar 28, 2025 27:09 We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 91 Mar 14, 2025 20:20 A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.   2.5 Admins episode where Joe talks about his ZFS setup           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       &nbsp

Linux After Dark – Episode 90 Feb 28, 2025 25:32 It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got GhostBSD, and Chris got Haiku.   Haiku Package Management         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.  

Linux After Dark – Episode 89 Feb 14, 2025 22:15 The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 88 Jan 31, 2025 23:35 When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop.   Boomstick Vesktop       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways

Linux After Dark – Episode 87 Jan 17, 2025 23:09 We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Microsoft passwords, building a PC over a video call, wireless access points that mostly just work, and more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes        

Linux After Dark – Episode 86 Jan 3, 2025 22:39 We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we want to happen in 2025.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 85 Dec 20, 2024 24:24 Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact p

Linux After Dark – Episode 84 Dec 6, 2024 27:56 Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins.   ncspot py-spy OggCamp Distrobox BoxBuddy audio-visualizer-python         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxafterda

Linux After Dark – Episode 83 Nov 22, 2024 25:35 We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT do”. Guess who won with this monstrosity.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app o

Linux After Dark – Episode 82 Nov 8, 2024 21:26 Where do we draw the line when it comes to being made to use software that we don’t want to at work? Plus why only half of us use Linux on the desktop.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 81 Oct 25, 2024 21:24 We revisit our home networking setups including using MoCa (network over coax), Chris searching for a unicorn, and relying on an Apple TV for home automation.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 80 Oct 11, 2024 25:30 Framework sent Joe a 13 DIY edition (for free and to keep) so we do our best to talk about it honestly. It’s a great machine, but you pay a premium for the ability to repair and upgrade it.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Suppor

Linux After Dark – Episode 79 Sep 27, 2024 22:43 Social media was a mistake that has caused polarisation through the spread of misinformation by grifters. We try to come up with some ideas for what to do about it. Dalton mentioned cohost to shut down at end of 2024.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

Linux After Dark – Episode 78 Sep 13, 2024 23:42 Is a proprietary games company driving all the innovation on the Linux desktop, and is that OK?       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxafterdark       See our contact pag

Linux After Dark – Episode 77 Aug 30, 2024 23:30 We need to talk about Ubuntu (again). The updates situation is a confusing mess, a lot of enthusiast users have had enough and are starting to move to other distros, but ultimately millions of normal users will quietly carry on and not care. Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   &nbsp

Linux After Dark – Episode 76 Aug 16, 2024 24:29 We once recorded an episode about GNOME that was so negative that we decided to delete our recordings and not publish it. Our opinions of GNOME have changed significantly since then so we explain why.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every de

Linux After Dark – Episode 75 Aug 2, 2024 21:04 How we learn, remember, and document new Linux and FOSS technologies.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 74 Jul 19, 2024 24:26 We all customise our phones and computers to one extent or another, but does it make sense to inflict our defaults on other people’s machines when we set them up? Or should we set them up with normal defaults on mainstream distros like Ubuntu?       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secu

Linux After Dark – Episode 73 Jul 5, 2024 20:47 Having been given an Asus Eee PC netbook back, Joe wonders what to do with this ancient 32-bit machine. Plus the oldest machines we currently have in production. Batocera       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 72 Jun 21, 2024 26:08 We are joined by Florian Beijers who is a full time screen reader user to talk about how the accessibility experience differs on various operating systems and Linux desktop environments, and what open source software devs could be doing better.   Florian’s links: Mastodon YouTube channel Twitch IC_Null Twitch LinkedIn       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS fee

Linux After Dark – Episode 71 Jun 7, 2024 Gary is organising OggCamp this year, so we wonder what makes the perfect Linux and open source event. Plus why we don’t use multiple partitions for home and swap etc. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 70 May 24, 2024 How we make our Web experiences better with various plugins, websites and services. Plus the ethics of blocking ads, bypassing paywalls, and supporting creators.   uBlock Origin archive.is Better Twitter Shut Up DF YouTube Youtube-shorts block Consent-O-Matic Privacy Guides Pi-hole Quad9 SponsorBlock         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t acce

Linux After Dark – Episode 69 May 10, 2024 23:55 Is Linux hard to use? It turns out the answer is both “yes, absolutely” and “not at all!”         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page fo

Linux After Dark – Episode 68 Apr 26, 2024 21:42 Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to l

Linux After Dark – Episode 67 Apr 12, 2024 26:41 We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you to build and deploy anything from the ultimate d

Linux After Dark – Episode 66 Mar 29, 2024 24:18 Ubuntu is nearly 20 years old so we wanted to see how the first versions compare with the upcoming LTS. Unfortunately installing Warty turned out to much harder than we thought it would be. Dalton talks us through his adventure with a turn of the century Mac, Gary had a much easier time with an x86 PC, Joe’s laptop wasn’t quite old enough, and Chris found some surprising aspects of vir

Linux After Dark – Episode 65 Mar 15, 2024 21:21 We wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 64 Mar 1, 2024 22:57 Gary’s recent (mostly) good experience with an Arm Chromebook makes us wonder about the current state of proper Linux on Arm laptops. Plus follow up on why the Wyse 5070 has some limitations, but is still a great little x86 box. Chris mentioned a FOSDEM talk         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta.

Linux After Dark – Episode 63 Feb 16, 2024 19:24 Gary’s recent trip to FOSDEM made him wonder if the type of Linux user who goes to FOSS events has changed. Has the demographic shifted more towards “normal” people who use Linux as a tool rather than something to tinker with? Plus more on planned obsolescence, and a quick prediction about the Apple Vision Pro.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t sec

Linux After Dark – Episode 62 Feb 2, 2024 21:57 We come up with our FOSS extremes. The funniest, the coolest, the cleverest, the most useful, the dullest, the most exciting, the most dangerous and problematic, the [something]est open source software. Projects we mentioned: alsamixer Glow Apache nginx HAProxy Redis VLC Kodi Nextcloud Coreutils Audacity Asahi Immich antennapod UniversalBlue       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a dev

Linux After Dark – Episode 61 Jan 19, 2024 23:49 How do we decide which devices and which software we trust?         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get i

Linux After Dark – Episode 60 Jan 5, 2024 22:42 We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2023, and talk about what we want to happen in 2024.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 59 Dec 22, 2023 20:21 The child’s toy that Chris hacked makes us remember the various other proprietary hardware and software that we’ve taken control of using free and open source software. Plus our mixed feelings about doing an accessibility challenge. Lunii       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 58 Dec 8, 2023 23:15 When the Raspberry Pi 5 was announced, we all said that most people would probably be better off repurposing an x86 thin client so we bought some dirt cheap new in box Dell Wyse 5070 machines to see if we were right. Spoiler: we were. Dalton’s post about trying to break Synology RAID Parky Towers   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   &

Linux After Dark – Episode 57 Nov 24, 2023 19:53 Our memories of early positive experiences show us how communities have changed over the years, and the best ways to keep the experience positive these days. Late Night Linux Family communities Practical ZFS   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux After Dark – Episode 56 Nov 10, 2023 20:22 Half of us constantly change our hardware and software setups, and the other half like to keep things as constant as possible. Are we changing things to avoid personal technical debt, or are we just bored? Plus more on locking down phones.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch

Linux After Dark – Episode 55 Oct 27, 2023 23:41 It’s the spinning rust challenge! We try installing and running our operating systems on mechanical hard drives and learn that Linux is much less painful than Windows on a spinning disk.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.  

Linux After Dark – Episode 54 Oct 13, 2023 22:36 The vast majority of desktop computer users in the world use a Windows-like interface, so why do all the major distros ship GNOME which is totally different? It can’t just be because of accessibility and inertia, can it? Plus more on government attacks on end to end encryption.     HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delive

Linux After Dark – Episode 53 Sep 29, 2023 19:42 Something has gone wrong with the timeline and all software is free and open source. What does that world look like? Plus more on biometrics and desktop scaling.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.  

Linux After Dark – Episode 52 Sep 15, 2023 24:58 What hardware we recommend for desktop Linux users in 2023. Is it really as simple as buying a 5 year old ThinkPad?       HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months at hellofresh.com/50linuxafterdark using the promo code 50linuxafterdark     See

Linux After Dark – Episode 51 Sep 1, 2023 23:10 Governments around the world are trying to undermine end-to-end encryption. Are they going to get away with forcing in backdoors, and what does it mean for open source? Plus what we stubbornly refuse to use our computers and phones for. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes.     Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minut

Linux After Dark – Episode 50 Aug 18, 2023 23:24 The bits of Linux and open source software that we regret putting off trying, and what made us wait. From the security and complexity of containers to the hype of ZFS and WSL. Plus why we still haven’t embraced Nix. Support us on Patreon for ad-free episodes that are sometimes a day or so early.     HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seaso

Linux After Dark – Episode 49 Aug 4, 2023 25:43 All four of us have been Ubuntu users for a long time but we’ve been dabbling with different distros to see how they compare. Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE all have their appeal, but are we likely to switch permanently? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes.     Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all y

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