Choose Linux

Choose Linux enters indefinite hiatus.

Ell tells us about her first ever experience with Windows 10 and how it compares with Linux. Plus Drew has been using a Wayland-based i3-like tiling window manager called Sway.

Links:

• Windows 10
• Linux Unplugged 344: Our Week with Windows
• Sway — Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.
• Choose Linux 12: Regolith

We try out Solus and are all impressed by this independent distro. Then Ell and Drew sing the praises of Visual Studio Code - a text editor that's packed full of features.

Links:

• Solus — Solus is an operating system that is designed for home computing. Every tweak enables us to deliver a cohesive computing experience.
• Visual Studio Code — Code editing. Redefined. Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere.

We revisit some of the projects we have covered in previous episodes to see what we've stuck with and what we haven't.

Qubes OS and Tails, a handy Android app, building websites, easy Arch, the cloud, hardware hacking, and more.

Links:

• Qubes OS
• virt-manager
• Boxes
• Regolith
• Chris Tries i3 for the First Time... LIVE
• NewPipe
• Hugo
• Endeavour OS
• Endless OS

A confusing experience in Distrohoppers which raises deeper questions about the value and viability of smaller distros.

Links:

• Previous Episodes with Distrohoppers
• LinuxConsole.org

Valentine's Day is nearly here so it's time to talk about why we love Linux and open source. Nothing is perfect though, so we also touch on a few areas that we feel could be improved.

Distrohoppers serves up something very different in the form of desktop BSD, and we reveal how important freedom is to us all.

Links:

• GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
• Share wireless Internet connection through ethernet

Trying to explain what Linux and open source are can be tricky. We discuss our various approaches, and how they differ depending on the experience of who we are explaining them to.

Ultimate privacy in Distrohoppers, and the best ways to run other operating systems within your current Linux distro.

Links:

• Tails — Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB stick or a DVD. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.
• Installing KVM on Ubuntu
• Virtual machine manager — The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt.
• Boxes — Boxes is an application that gives you access to virtual machines, running locally or remotely. It also allows you to connect to the display of a remote computer.
• LINUX Unplugged episode about virtualization — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.

All three of us have different levels of experience with Linux but there are tons of things that we wish we'd learned earlier in our journey.

From gatekeeping to community culture, command line tricks to backups, and more.

Links:

• explainshell — Write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument
• Arch Linux — A simple, lightweight distribution
• EndeavourOS — An Arch-based distro with a dynamic and friendly community at its core.
• Regular expression — A regular expression is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern.
• Samba — Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
• Nextcloud — The self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in contro