DNS, TikTok, Netflix, Plex and other drugs. We get into it in depth!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

As we state early on in the show – This is our official Windows 11 episode! Majid has some technical difficulties which brings up some interesting conversations about the evolution of a Linux user’s troubleshooting skills. We get our nerd on talking about Star Wars. All of this and way more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

We’re all over the place on this one. VPN’s, ARM hardware and multimedia are the most noteworthy topics. Those and so much more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

We start off with Bill describing his experience at a recent trade show. Somehow this leads to a discussion on Arch and it’s place in the eco-system. We “flow” into a discussion about cloud providers and the state of their encryption. We get into the browser world briefly. All of this and way more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

We start by waxing philosophical, then we lead to a conversation about AI in the workplace. We get into Manifest V-3. We get into Mozilla, and their recent decisions. We get into browsers and we think the future may influence our decisions moving forward.By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

We start off talking about our beginnings in podcasting, this leads to the different ways people build and maintain websites. We then go hard on Mozilla. All of this and so much moreBy Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

We start off talking about wearables, more specifically smart watches. We get into a discussion about a re-imagining of the infrastructure of Majid’s other show “Atypical Doctor Podcast.” All of this stuff and so much more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

On this episode – Tik Tok, Plex, Coffee, and ear hair. We’re all over the place!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we start off waxing philosophical, but eventually we get into a discussion about how long our servers would last should something happen to us nerds of the house. We get into Docker, Synology, HD Homerun, and Apple. All of this, and so much more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

Just Bill and Majid this week. It all starts a bit rough with a little back and forth between the blokes, but gets better with a conversation about Linux for “normal” people. Is there more than one kind of “normal” user? We get into a conversation about Apple, family movie night, and “planned obsolescence.” All of this and way more!…

This week we point out the nature of kindness in the world. We get into a discussion about the challenges of religion and philosophy with regards to keeping up with technology. Perhaps we've given up too much to our devices. Majid works with Elementry OS 8 a little during the recording. Dual-booting becomes the "meat and potatoes" of this episode, …

This week it all starts with a rather brooding little discussion about religion. We get into why we use Linux, and why many people may use Linux. This rolls into a discussion about smart phones, smart watches and the like. Eric talks about his new Pixel watch. Majid shares a story about playing Badminton. We round it off with a discussion about ear…

This week Majid and Bill talk about their PC builds - the good, bad and just plain wrong. Majid describes devolving from restoring old PC parts to literally building his "Ship of Theseus" from new parts. Installing Arch somehow becomes part of the conversation; everything from installing, to how packages are handled on the distro. We then talk abou…

We start off Talking about Majid trying Fedora. We then get into Microsoft buying nuclear power facilities to provide for the monsterous energy needs of AI. Majid shares some interesting uses of AI in the healthcare industry. We get into the latest in the Internet Archive saga. All of this and way more!…

This is the first episode we live streamed. We started with the Internet Archive outage, this leads to a conversation about passwords and the philosophies around changing passwords. We move on to Thunderbird and the new Beta currently in testing for Android, and some of the pitfalls of email on the various email apps. Linux on tablets - Majid plann…

This week we start off talking about Leo's latest episode of Linux User Space. In episode 5:02, Leo and Dan go over a history of the Cinnamon desktop, and how tightly it's tied to Linux Mint it's self. We then morphed into a conversation about Windows 8, Windows on the command line, and how Gnome 3 seemed to come along about the same time. Desktop …

Bill, Leo, Majid, and Joe get together this week to talk about Audacity, Tenacity, Git, Redbox, media servers, and Majid's silly new phone.You're not going to believe this, but AI does come up in the conversation.All of this and so, so much more.And by the way, Leo was kidding - Tenacity definitely does not suck.…

This week Eric, and Majid return, along with Leo and Joe to talk about Linux in schools, LLM's AI, the new XPS, and so much more. It was a blast!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week Eric and Bill get into a conversation about proprietary alternatives to opensource software. It starts with us describing how we've both begun using Reaper instead of Audacity for editing the audio for our shows. Let us know what your think. What, if any proprietary software are you using on Linux. Is it just enough that the developers ma…

Eric Leo and Majid talk Discord, Bots, UI and even a little bit of Linux!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

We're joined by Joe from mintCast fame. The discussion starts off about audio editing and just spins out of control from there. Joe and Leo get into a few discussions about some games available on Steam. We talk a little about the Steam Deck. The Texas heat is a topic. That leads to ideas about how to mitigate the heat in the home. AI in the home, …

Bill records the show using Arch, Leo advocates for the virtues of atomic distros, and Majid wants to build a NAS, or perhaps just buy one. All of this and so much more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we're joined by Alan Pope of "Linux Matters" fame, among others. The conversation starts off with Snaps, Flatpaks, and the like - leading us into atomic desktops, and some shows we've been watching lately. Oh, and of course AI. All of this and a whole lot more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we start out on Majid's not so great experience with Endeavour OS. This spirals out of control into a back and forth with Bill dying on the Arch Linux hill. We have discussions about Snaps, Flatpaks, Atomic Desktops, and a whole lot more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

Cryptocurrency, Block Chain, and the problems inherent to funding in Opensource. We solve the world's problems in one hour or less!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This is just an announcement about some changes to the way we deliver the episodesBy Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

I ain't gonna lie folks - this one's a train wreck, and you'll see for your self. We did get into a pretty cool conversation about game emulation. Bill ordered one of those little Linux based personal game pads which comes pre-installed with a staggering number of games. That erodes into a back and forth about stuff like D&D as well as Magic The Ga…

Bill, Leo, and Majid get into first impressions of KDE Plasma 6. That conversation. We talk a little about the best (in our opinion) launchers for Linux desktops. We talk a little about our memories of Windows Vista, 7, and 8. Leo, and Majid hash it out over touchpad gestures. We get into an article on OMG Ubuntu about UXPlay, a tool for mirroring …

Just Bill and Majid this go-around. This week we get into a little bit of what has inevitably brought us back to stable distros. What we make of things like Arch and Manjaro. This all leads to a hypothetical discussion about packaging formats and big business. These things, and a whole lot more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

Well gee wiz we start by talking about food, and Bill's new medication. That morphs into a discussion about Docker, and Bill's recent experience with the Collabora CODE server image. We end up getting into the up-comming Plasma 6 release and some of the things we expect from the KDE desktop.By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we're joined by a special guest. Dave Hart from 3 Fat Truckers joins us for a discussion about the future of technology in general, and how we interact with our devices.By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

It's just Eric and Bill for this one. From tech used in the trucking industry to a discussion about packaging formats and the culture around distributions like Arch Linux, this episode is all over the place. We had a good time though!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we get into the fun and frustrations of audio editing. We discuss some of the strategies and pitfalls specific to editing podcasts. That conversation somehow segways into mobile devices, AI, and other emerging technologies. All of that, and a whole lot more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

VR, iphones, Retro games, and our decaying interest in Marvel movies. All of this and a whole lot more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we get into Majid's Feren OS. We talk a little about Plasma on Wayland. We reminisce about Windows Phone, and Blackberry. We go off the rails about Fedora, Gnome and the like. All of this as well as the usual banter!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

It's Bill, Eric, and Leo this week. We get into some ideas about how to improve our Linux podcasts. We get into a a discussion about Snaps, the AUR, Markdown editors, and so much more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

Ok -- Let's try this again; No Norbert again this episode, but we get into all kinds of stuff. We talk about streaming platforms, ads on podcasts. We talk about stuff like super hero shows, dissecting the concept of the multiverse. We go back and forth over the value of using distros like Arch or Gentoo. We get into the time-honored conversation ab…

this is just a short clip to let everyone know I screwed up episode 17. I'm going to re-do it and re-release. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Be expecting the new episode within the next 24 hoursBy Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

No Norbert again this episode, but we get into all kinds of stuff. We talk about streaming platforms, ads on podcasts. We talk about stuff like super hero shows, dissecting the concept of the multiverse. We go back and forth over the value of using distros like Arch or Gentoo. We get into the time-honored conversation about convergence. All of this…

This week Norbert couldn't make the show but we were joined by Majid, and Eric from mintCast fame. We get into discussions about bloat, Linux on mobile, user interfaces, and a whole lot more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we get into some feedback as well as a discussion about system bloat, getting rid of it; and should we get rid of it. We get into Distrobox a little and discuss why it's different from other containerized application solutions. All of that and a whole lot more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we're a man short, but we soldier on none the less. We continue our conversation about Red Hat's decision to limit access to their source code, and the impact that will no doubt have on the enterprise space. We also get into Fedora's recent "announcement" that they are considering working on building a frame work for "ethical telemetry." …

This week we get into Red Hat's recent announcement that they're no longer going to provide direct access to their source code, potentially creating a problem for clones of Red Had Enterprise Linux, such as Alma Linux, or Rocky Linux.By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we're completely "off the cuff." We get into Lemmy, a federated alternative to Reddit - which leads to a discussion about the fedaverse in general. We talk a little about Docker. We do a call-out to the community for some feedback on possible methods to support the show. We then get into some feedback from previous episodes, and a whole l…

"Off the rails" would be one way to describe this episode. We start off with a discussion about the progression of Wayland, which leads us into Hyprland, and Wlroots. We then evolve back into containerization and immutability - all of that and a whole lot moreBy Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we get into "immutable:" Linux distributions a bit. We talk a little about Fedora's Silverblue, and Kinoite projects, as well as a community spin that enables some additional functionality. A little feedback, and a whole lot more!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week we get into some of our Nvidia woes. Bill has to switch to Arch (at least temporarily) Leo and Norbert may build a Gentoo system in the near future. We also get into a short discussion about a recent article in Ars Technica describing Google's desire to retire the "Https" padlock in the Chrome browser.…

This week we talk a little about the new flathub.org as well as the winbtrfs project which brings the advantages of the Btrfs filesystem to the Windows world. We also get into the state of things with Wayland as well as Fedora, and so much more.By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

To call this episode an exercise in derailment is an understatement, but there you go. We go off about Cryptocurrency, Antenna TV, and Quickemu. We had a lot of fun. Don't forget to hit those "like" and "subscribe" buttons!By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

This week it's all about TikTok... just kidding. We get into the emotional rollercoaster that is the decisions by Docker inc. We also go nuts about the new 16 inch Frameworks laptop that is in the works for the future. Oh and we talk a bit about TikTok.By Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric