Linux After Dark

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.

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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 access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.

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Is Linux hard to use? It turns out the answer is both “yes, absolutely” and “not at all!”

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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.

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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 developer workstation to a basic Chromebook-like experience for a non-technical relative.

Bazzite

Universal Blue

Project Bluefin

Install Collector on Linux

Project Bluefin and the future of operating systems

CNCF Landscape

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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 virtualising it.

Dalton’s blog post about installing Warty on an ancient Mac

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We wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback.

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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

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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.

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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

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