Linux User Space

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May 13, 2024Episode 4:18: Open Source Isn't Safe!
Coming up in this episode
Does it do Passkeys tho?
So What Happened to Xz anyway?
How do we fix the internet?
The Video Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bN3PRmHJY
Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:36 Amazingly Self-Hosted
34:13 The History of Xz and the Hack*!
49:58 How to Fix Open Source
1:15:56 Next Time
1:20:42 Stinger
💻Self Hosting and Passkeys🔑
Audiobookshelf
Immich
Tailscale
What are Passkeys - Tom's Guide
Passkeys - FIDO Alliance
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📖The History of XZ🦜
LZMA
Andrey Markov
LZ77 and LZ78
7zip history
Slackels
LZMA in the form of the GCC compiled LZMA SDK
Tukanni Linux Project was officially gone
LZMA Utils was left behind in favor of the similarly LZMA-backed Xz Utils.
version 5.0 is the transition from LZMA to XZ.
Some distributions would eventually migrate to using Z Standard compression, including Arch in 2019 and Fedora and Ubuntu would make the switch in 2020.
A new face, Jigar Kumar, shows up.
January 7th, 2023, Jia Tan was finally able to merge their own commits to Xz on Github.
Jia tries to convince the OSS-Fuzz team to accept a patch that disabled Indrect Function.
Adding the test files which weren't test files at all.
Andres Freund's Mastodon post
On April 2nd, 2024, Collin adds a page to his tukaani.org domain.
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⚒️How To Fix Open Source🛠️
Heartbleed
I'm not a supplier
XKCD 2347
🔭Next Time🔭
We plan to explore your feedback and some other topics. Our final history episode of the season will be Gentoo.
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1h 22min
April 29, 2024Episode 4:17: We Ought to Know This By Now
Coming up in this episode
We put a hat on AI
The SecureBlue/ublue thing
The UNIX Wars part deux
0:00 Cold Open
1:49 Artificial Fedora
28:35 The ImmutaBlues
54:01 Feedback
55:20 Tane on Notes and Unix
59:28 Ian on Unix
1:02:33 Chris on Notes and Sync
1:10:22 A Quick Release Update
1:14:41 Next Time
1:18:03 Stinger
The Video Version!
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AI dons a hat 🤖🎩
Matthew Miller on AI in Fedora
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Course correction on Secureblue
We messed up but RoyalOughtness, the creator of Secureblue, set us straight.
Atomic Fedora is the start of the pipeline:
xkbcat
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Reverb Focus
Tane via Email
Tane uses Nextcloud Notes
Also Iotas
Unix Wars
[The terms of the Open Group](Open Group https://web.archive.org/web/20240205220954/https://unix.org/what_is_unix/single_unix_specification.html)
Current Open Group members
Ian via email
BSD, AIX, HP-UX and similar are all as UNIX as you can get these days. They started out as licensed UNIX Operating Systems with a direct IP license from AT&T and passed whatever requirements AT&T had at the time.
Chris via email
Obsidian is not FOSS.
Logseq is overwhelming at first but good now.
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🔭Next Time🔭
We plan to explore and provide the history of XZ Utils.
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1h 20min
April 15, 2024Episode 4:16: Super PCMan
Coming up in this episode
Themes Are More Global Than You Think
Kdenlive Does Some Layering
The History of LXDE
To Qt, or not to Qt?
Then, we call an audible
0:00 Cold Open
2:17 Theme of the Crop
16:22 The Lost Edit
28:11 The History of LXDE
55:51 How'd LXQt and LXDE Go?
1:24:28 Next Time
1:31:13 Stinger
The Video Version
https://youtu.be/Y8_rMTmnIXc
🔥Warm Up🔥 - AI on the Linux Desktop
KDE's Attack Surface?
Hackaday coverage
The Reddit Post
Kdenlive gave Leo a hard time
24.02.0 was hot off the press and Leo couldn't resist.
Thankfully 24.02.1 followed to hopefully resolve the issues.
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The History of LXDE (and some LXQt)
The LXDE mailing list goes back to 2008
Ubuntu Lite
later known as U-lite commited to using LXDE.
DesktopLinux.com coverage
Elemental Linux, MoonOS and WattOS followed with a commitment
A PCManFM review from 2008
The blog appears
December 2008 status update
Sidux adds an unofficial LXDE flavor
Mandriva adds LXDE
Fedora too
LXDE Translation project
PCMan asks the community for feedback
FOSDEM 2009
Lubuntu enters the chat
LXDE on android phones
LXDE on Solaris
LXDE in Centos
PCLXDE
First Lubuntu test ISO
Fedora success
OpenSUSE status update
Refactor time
Rewrite, and make it faster
Movable desktop icons
LXDE becomes an available Debian desktop
A Qt port begins
Diverse paths
PCMan develops a "Guide for Migrating from Gtk+ to Qt"
LXDE-QT preview
Razor-Qt
PCMan had this to say about Razor-Qt
A merger of LXDE-Qt and Razor-Qt
LXDE-Qt is not bloated
PCManFM-Qt was in a usable state
LXQt alpha is announced
shortly after it was announced.
Initial FreeBSD support for LXQt
Comparing Numbers
LXQt got “full” Qt5 support
LXQt 0.8 released
LXDE is still going
We say goodbye to Razor-qt
The 0.9 release was caught on snags but eventually released
LXQt 0.10 followed
LXQt 0.11 released
More stats
LXQt 0.12.0
LXQt 0.13.0
The end for GTK 2
Debian, at the time, set the death date
GTK 3 would end up being the target for LXDE
LXQt 0.17
LXQt 1.0.0 was released!
LXDE diehards are still keeping things alive for LXDE
LXQt 2.0 is planned to release in the usual April slot
Speaking of Wayland
Quick LXQt History
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Next Time
Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is Xz.
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1h 33min
March 18, 2024Episode 4:15: Fox, Socks, Inbox, Knox
Coming up in this episode
Telemetry helps us all
Immutability blues
A correction or two
And more feedback
📽️The video version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y04YTkEC5Y
0:00 Cold Open
1:34 The GOOD Telemetry
23:33 Gnome Classic & Friends
31:16 The Incredible Immutables
44:00 A Slight Correction
50:25 A Little Backstory
59:24 mintCast, CKP, FCWN & DHD
1:02:31 So Lightweight!
1:10:23 Another Dive into Notes
1:21:48 Fix GRUB, Add Color
1:29:49 Next Time
1:31:58 Stinger
🔥Warm up🔥
Dan Johansen in Matrix
pkgstats
Fun Stats
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Fragmentation? Not on My Watch!
Muesli from Matrix
Gnome Classic
Is it healthy co-opetition or fragmentation? Let us know.
Secureblue
beginning of the year
BlueBuild
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A quick correction
jensmander1223 on Youtube
OpenIndiana is Unix-Like but it's own thing
The history of Dan and Leo
visamp from Matrix
Leo and Dan both did Linux Spotlight Episodes with our former co-host Rocco. Dan's episode and Leo's
We plan to drop some more tidbits in the not too distant future.
Peter Jones
Thanks for the support and for listening.
Mintcast
Crowbar Kernel Panic
Full Circle Weekly
Emiliano from Argentina
Thanks for the message, the Spanish test and the support.
QOwnNotes & Joplin
Scott
Scott recommends QOwnNotes and not Joplin.
Another Vote for Obsidian. Then Anki, RemNote and LogSeq
DesertDoug
Doug searched long and hard recently for a note taking app too. Doug bumped into Obsidian, Anki, RemNote and Logseq.
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Gentoo Focus
Jensmander1223 sent some tips to help Dan with his bootloader issue. Dan will continue to keep working on that. Jensmander also sent along the tip to use colordiff which can highlight differences when changing config files. We plan to go over a few of these on an upcoming livestream.
🔭Next Time🔭
We plan to explore and provide the history of LXDE Desktop Environment.
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space
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1h 34min
March 04, 2024Episode 4:14: Spill the Tea
Coming up in this episode
The AI Revolution is Coming
The History of MATE
We Read the Tea Leaves
Then Look to Lighten the Load
The Video
https://youtu.be/rKEIwDb1R9Q
0:00 Cold Open
4:09 Embrace the AI Overlords
21:45 The History of MATE
42:22 How Is MATE?
1:05:16 Next Time
1:07:51 Stinger
Preshow - The Computer Shopper
Dan is sitting on a gold mine with his collection of Computer Shoppers
🔥Warm Up🔥 - AI on the Linux Desktop
Deepin OS is working on adding AI in Another link
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The History of Mate
The first MATE org blogpost
The initial Arch Linux forum post
Perberos described the fork as...
Phoronix August 2011
ingeek 2011
Perberos attempted to grow the community on the Ubuntu forums and Linux Mint forums
Perberos, Clement Lefebvre, Stefano Karapetsas, and Steve Zesch were the founders.
The initial migration script
Salix had been one of the very first distributions to headline MATE
The GNOME team created GNOME Flashback
MATE University
GhostBSD features the Mate desktop
By the end of the year and into 2014, MATE was officially available in Arch, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Sabayon, Salix and Ubuntu.
Stefano Karapestas stepped up to lead the team.
Clem had his part-ownership of MATE removed. He had this to say
The big scoop MATE 1.28 and1.28.1 were recently released!
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Next Time
Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the LXDE Desktop Environment.
Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.
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Larry
LiNuXsys666
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Mark the Saigoneer
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1h 10min
February 05, 2024Episode 4:13: Passion with Compassion
Coming up in this episode
We add to the KDE saga
We search for the humans on the other end of the Internet
We pour over the Feedback
We focus on the Gentoo feedback
The Video Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALGS4Vtei0
Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:30 The KDE AMA
7:47 The Truth About KDE 4.0
19:46 AppImage Is Broken in Ubuntu
24:47 There Be Humans Out There
40:07 Reverb Focus!
41:33 Douglas (Old Mac, New Tricks)
49:29 Bruce (Well, Why Don't Ya?!)
55:12 Jayden (GNOME Syndrome)
1:04:15 The Care & Feeding of Gentoo (feat. Ryan)
1:15:51 Next Time!
1:20:32 Stinger
🔥Warm up🔥
There was an KDE AMA on Lemmy and on Reddit
Troy Unrau, a KDE dev, on the KDE History
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There are humans on the other end of that Internet
This conversation was sparked from this Tweet
Linus gets passionate sometimes
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Reverb Focus
Douglas Paul
Douglas does his own 12 step distro hop program.
Gnome, Fedora, with Extensions and Albert is the landing spot... at least for now.
Bruce Hankins on Why Don't You Use Linux (4:11)
Two categories of users, average users and power users.
Average users don't really tinker.
Power users like to tinker (this is where Leo and Dan fall as well as many of you) but there is a small amount of us.
Installation of the system and applications is not intuitive.
Jayden on Why Don't You Use Linux (4:11) AAAAAAND a Note Suggestion
Gnome with gestures and multi-touch are great.
A couple of note taking apps for Leo to chase - Xournal++ and Rnote
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Gentoo Focus
Kerneltux sent in his "care and feeding" notes for Gentoo. We plan to go over a few of these on an upcoming livestream.
🔭Next Time🔭
We plan to explore and provide the history of Mate Desktop Environment.
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space
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1h 23min
January 22, 2024Episode 4:12: Keep it Kool
Coming up in this episode
Notating the Notes
The History of KDE
And Plasma, Straight from the Tap
Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:44 A Note on Notes
22:52 The History of KDE
28:29 History: KDE 1
30:42 History: KDE 2
33:03 History: KDE 3
36:21 History: KDE 4
45:36 History: Plasma 5
51:34 History: Plasma 6
53:17 Plasma 6 Raw (hide)
1:20:49 Next Time: Topics, then MATE
1:27:37 Stinger
Watch the video
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🔥Warm Up🔥
Leo hits the books and learns about reference style links in markdown. Thanks go to Dominic and Furicle.
Eric mentioned MarkText and now the squirrels have Dan chasing that.
Leo tries settling on Vivaldi Notes.
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The History of KDE
The email on October 14, 1996 to start it all.
KDE ONE
K Desktop Environment first real beta release.
Beta 1 Screenshots
KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998.
1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
KFM turned into Konqueror.
Konqi
KDE 2.0
KDE 2.1
In April of 2002, KDE 3.0 was released.
2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
2004 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy".
2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
April 8, 2005 Kubuntu.
KDE 3.5
KDE Four Core Meeting
KDE 4
Oxygen
2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
KDE hit the 1,000,000 commit
Starting from 4.3.4, is a "software compilation".
November 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE, now.
Fork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environment.
KDE SC 4.5.
October 2010, an official split from KOffice
Plasma Active
KDE Manifesto
December 2012, a redesigned Konqi.
KDE release structure changed.
KDE SC 4.14 the last in the series.
Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5
2015 Wayland enters the room.
Plasma Mobile
Plasma Bigscreen
KDE Neon
Slimbook
KDE Plasma is chosen for the Steam Deck when in Desktop Mode!
The development and chat platforms move to Gitlab and Matrix.
The first release candidate for Plasma 6
Plasma 6's release date is planned for February 28th of 2024.
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Next Time
Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the Mate Desktop Environment.
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1h 29min
January 08, 2024Episode 4:11: Why Don't You Use Linux?
Coming up in this episode
The Linux Desktop is the best!
There are humans on the other end of the Internet.
We do some Browser spectating.
Gentoo loses its mind.
0:00 Cold Open
1:43 Why Not Linux?
25:39 Browser Watch!
55:47 Reverb Focus
1:10:18 Community Focus: DB Tech
1:15:03 Gentoo Focus
1:24:26 Next Time: KDE History
1:26:31 Stinger
Watch the video version:
https://youtu.be/P6irQ0xyv-U
So, why don't you use Linux?
The Mastodon post that sparked our conversation.
It also got posted to Reddit and this was one reply 🚨Warning NSFW language🚨
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Browser Watch
Firefox 120 came with some great new features.
Firefox 121 got Wayland by default with a fallback to XWayland
Vivaldi 6.5 introduces the Sessions Panel, improved syncing, and improved notes.
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Reverb Focus
Ian
Don't forget about Enlightenment which had a recent release.
Vidar
Big thanks for binging all the back episodes, we hope you stay tuned for more. We might make it to a BSD episode someday.
Zgembo121
Too many Gnome extensions is too much. Vanilla is the way.
Spacelem
Started with Gnome 2.4 then jumped to Cinnamon. Gnome is really different from other desktop environments.
Housekeeping
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Community Focus - DB Tech
DB Tech Links
DB Tech Web Site
DB Tech YouTube
Gentoo Focus
Last time on LUS Streaming Live
FYI we do these live on Twitch the day after an episode is released.
Gentoo Going Binary Thanks Bikhu for the reminder
Next Time
We plan to explore and provide the history of KDE Plasma Desktop.
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space
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We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support!
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John
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Tim
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December 11, 2023Episode 4:10: GNOME in the Home
Coming up in this episode
The Browser Watch Leftovers
The History of GNOME
And Why Gnome is the best desktop
And a little holiday break
Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:29 Riding the Lightning
16:45 GNOME History: Pre-GNOME
23:01 GNOME History: GNOME 1.x
25:58 GNOME History: GNOME 2.x
33:22 GNOME History: GNOME 3.x
41:31 GNOME History: GNOME 40 and Beyond
48:01 How'd GNOME Go?
1:15:39 Next Time: Topics & KDE
1:26:18 Stinger
Watch the Video!
https://youtu.be/PxDELH497Ro
Mini Browser Watch
October 30, Mozilla announces the nightly Deb packages
November 30, Mozilla announces the developer and beta Deb packages
Announcements
This program was made possible by:
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The History of Gnome
The email in 1997 to start it all
Development snapshot 0.13 announcement
GNOME 1.0 release
GUADEC
GNOME OG website
GNOME revamped website
HP's HP/UX and Sun's Solaris announce they would be using GNOME as their default desktops.
GNOME Foundation
GNOME 2.0 release
Ubuntu 4.10 ships GNOME 2.8
GNOME no longer part of GNU
GNOME was no longer an acronym.
Gnome 3.0 arrives
Linus Torvalds noted
Linus Torvalds, originally critical, returned to using GNOME for his day to day work, but noted that
Groupon, the couponing company, decided that they would make a tablet and name it... GNOME.
Again, the target of litigation
Rothschild Patent Imaging was stripped of its patent rights
Gnome 40
The Gnome 40 announcement
The Gnome 45 announcement
Original GNOME introduction (~99)
The Evolution of the GNOME Project
Using GNOME gmc (GNOME Midnight Commander)
"A Brief History of GNOME" Presentation Notes
"A Brief History of GNOME" Video
GNOME 2.0 - 40 Release Notes
More Announcements
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Housekeeping
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Next Time
Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.
We are taking a mini-holiday 🎄 pause, we will see you in the new year. ☃️ We wish you a happy holiday season! ❄️
Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.
We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support!
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Dave
John
Johnny
Co-Producer
Tim
GrouchyM
Super User
A.J.
Advait
CubicleNate
Eduardo S.
Hausken
Jill and Steve
Larry
LiNuXsys666
Livet
Musical Coder
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Nick
sleepyeyesvince
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1h 28min
November 27, 2023Episode 4:09: Giddy Up
Coming up in this episode
Leo makes me a LUSsh 🍻
Official standings for a browser
We strum some reverberations
Focus on the HQ
Focus on the sounds
Forecast the future
Watch the video!
https://youtu.be/-b1gHt0v4q8
Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
2:05 Go to lus.sh
8:38 Fed Up with Ubuntu?
14:20 * Forced Snaps
21:24 * Ads in the Terminal
27:00 * Telemetry?!
29:42 * Ubuntu is Anti-Freedom?
32:21 * Maybe use Linux Mint
34:43 Browser Watch
34:57 * The Vivaldi Flatpak
39:49 * Vivaldi on iOS
42:54 * iOS May Go WebKit Free
47:53 Reverb Focus
48:05 * Ian
53:13 * Dan!
58:26 * TeamLinux01
1:03:16 Community Focus: SteamDeckHQ
1:10:54 Gentoo Focus #5
1:23:46 Next Time: Gnome History
1:26:54 Stinger
lus.sh
.sh is a common Shell Script file extension
.sh is the first two letters in "show" like its bigger domain name brother
.sh is also the first two letters in "short"
Announcements
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Why Do We Still Use Ubuntu?
TLDR we(Leo and Dan) don't mind some of the choices Ubuntu has made but we can appreciate that there are good alternatives for those that want to go a different way.
More Announcements
Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
Browser Watch!
Vivaldi on Flatpak is Officially Unofficial
Vivaldi Flatpak on Flathub
OMGUbuntu coverage
Vivaldi is also on iOS
Vivaldi is on iOS
It has great features
The Chromium devs are developing a Blink version for iOS
Firefox devs are developing a Gecko version for iOS
Housekeeping
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Reverb Focus
Ian comments on YouTube about Ed
You can see the comments on this video
Dan commented about Xfce history, Manjaro and KDE Plasma
You can watch our Xfce history on YouTube Or TILvids
TeamLinux01 wants to hear about Valve's Linux journey
Thanks for the feedback. I think this might just be the push we needed to look into the history of Steam and Linux. We're both big fans so it makes sense.
Community Focus - Steamdeck HQ
Main Website - Steamdeck HQ
Steamdeck HQ YouTube channel
Steamdeck HQ on Mastodon
Gentoo Focus
Last time on LUS Streaming Live
FYI we do these live on Twitch the day after an episode is released.
Next Time
We plan to explore and provide the history of Gnome Desktop Environment.
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space
Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.
We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support!
Producer
Bruno
Dave
John
Johnny
Co-Producer
Tim
GrouchyM(New Member🎉)
Super User
A.J.
Advait
CubicleNate
Eduardo S.
Hausken
Jill and Steve
Larry
LiNuXsys666
Livet
Musical Coder
Nicholas
Nick
sleepyeyesvince
The Saigoneer
Tobias
Support Linux User Space
...more
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