Linux After Dark

Windows is much better and so much worse than Joe remembers, and it makes him very grateful for desktop Linux. Plus what preparation (if any) we’ve made for our untimely demise.

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As companies tighten their belts during these uncertain times, could there be a silver lining for open source and self-hosting? Plus our brief thoughts on workspaces.

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A year on from our episode about Ubuntu, we still have concerns about the direction of the project. Or should we just call it a product at this point? Plus your feedback about challenges, and Raspberry Pi alternatives.

Our previous episode about Ubuntu

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We are joined by Jorge Castro to talk about immutable filesystem Linux distros.

Check out his project uBlue and his YouTube Channel.

Corrections from Jorge: “I mentioned hyperreal when I really meant to say Hyprland, and one is a person working on a ublue, the other is a wayland compositor.”

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What counts as a boutique distro, and do we recommend them? Plus Gary tells us about his experiences at the recent Fosdem conference.

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It’s the nested virtualisation challenge! How many levels of VMs can we get running at once? Plus we get the inside story from Lenovo about running Linux on their Arm ThinkPad.

Challenge

Red Hat article about nested virtualisation

Linux on Lenovo’s Arm ThinkPad

Mark Pearson from Lenovo joins us to talk about running Linux on their X13s ThinkPad.

Lenovo forum Linux section

Instructions for flashing and installing the Debian installer on the X13s

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Who has the most compute cores, how many are we actually using, and how many of them are running Linux? We finally find out who has the biggest stack of laptops in our core index challenge. Plus Dalton tells us about hacking a Wii U with open source software.

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We look back at what we wanted to happen in 2022, and look forward to what we want to see in 2023.

Episode 8 where we talked about our 2022 hopes

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It’s almost impossible to buy a Raspberry Pi for a reasonable price at the moment so we talk about alternatives, why a lot of Pi users would be better off with a cheap low-power x86 machine, and why sometimes the Pi makes the most sense.

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With the holiday season upon us, we talk about all the tech that we have to have with us when we travel.

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