Episodes

1 October 2024
Episode 128

Arbitrary Concept of Sexiness

Gary talks about OggCamp • Programming languages • Adresilo • Game dev • Chat platforms
6 September 2024
Episode 127

From A to Zed

Zed editor • Mini PC • CachyOS
27 August 2024
Episode 126

Tangential Perfection

Chat with Liam Proven from The Register
14 August 2024
Episode 125

Zorin It to Win It

Interview with Artyom Zorin, co-creator of Zorin OS
29 July 2024
Episode 124

Politics After Eight

Linux-first ARM laptops • Tiling in Cinnamon • Politics in open source
26 June 2024
Episode 123

Cloudy with a Chance of Games

A new(ish) IDE from Eclipse • FOSS IPTV app from Linux Mint • Open source video games
4 June 2024
Episode 122

A Look Inside Our Drawers

Tech Hoarding
16 May 2024
Episode 121

Note to Self

LogSeq • Beeper and Standard Notes bought • Social networks
1 May 2024
Episode 120

VideoLads

Backdoor in xz • Chat with Vibhoothi from VideoLAN
24 April 2024
Episode 119

Boxing up a Distro

Fighting with Windows • Project Bluefin • Rocketbook • OnePlus Watch 2
7 April 2024
Episode 118

KDE Plasma 6 and the Future of AI Avatars

KDE 6 • Bluesky bridged with the fediverse • AI-generated avatars
6 March 2024
Episode 117

Read All About It

Conor is famous • NixOS • Time and Date • i3 Woes
18 February 2024
Episode 116

As Seen in Apt

Ubuntu advertising • Floorp browser • Hyprland
25 January 2024
Episode 115

This Episode Was (not) Generated By AI

Watt-Wise Game Jam • AI anti-vitriol • Interrogating Jake
27 December 2023
Episode 114

Ubuntu Summit 2023

Recorded at Ubuntu Summit • Interesting talks • Conference experience • Traffic lights and spiky sandals
19 November 2023
Episode 113

Something, Something Linux

Stereotypes • OneArmy
21 October 2023
Episode 112

Four Cs Thick

Altogether now • Conor's new console • Librem 5 • Phones and OSs
23 September 2023
Episode 111

Newsworthy Habits

Keeping up with the News • New client, new languages
7 September 2023
Episode 110

Shane's Planes

Half again • Planespotting update • Learning Go • Changing careers
23 August 2023
Episode 109

Trying Your Hat at Fedora

Asahi Fedora • Thunderbird makeover • Linux overtakes macOS
9 August 2023
Episode 108

Hare under the Willow

Amolith's Willow project • Hare programming language
26 July 2023
Episode 107

ARMed with Debian

Debian on a MacBook • Consuming Culture • Eavesdropping on Planes • Colour ereader
12 July 2023
Episode 106

The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight

Reddit's gone mad • What now then?
28 June 2023
Episode 105

And Now for Something Completely Different

Just the two of us • Board games • Video games • Electronics • Podcasts • Books • Gardening • Coffee • Even sports
12 June 2023
Episode 104

Desktop Lap Dance

Minus Amolith • The usefulness of desktops • Conor tries Nobara
24 May 2023
Episode 103

Fun Quail

Interview with Ciarán • Funkwhale and Open Podcast API
10 May 2023
Episode 102

Interview with Chris from the Gio Project

Minus Conor • We talk more about Gio, this time with one of the maintainers
25 April 2023
Episode 101

Gio Dudes

Chats and AI • Gio • Kombucha
12 April 2023
Episode 100

A Hundred Shenanigans

One Hundred! • Reminiscing • Feedback
29 March 2023
Episode 99

Off the Rails

Sports News • We command you • Masto-nag-bot • In Space • Towards the big 100
14 March 2023
Episode 98

Interview with Gabe Kangas, Creator of Owncast

Owncast is a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software.
6 March 2023
Episode 97

Lotsa FOSS

Cool projects we came across (and a bit of Linux news)
14 February 2023
Episode 96

An Outsider's Perspective

The lads chat with Mike's wife about Linux
30 January 2023
Episode 95

The Future is... Bright?

The Future of Gadgets with Linux
30 December 2022
Season 7 - Episode 19

A Look Back at 2022

GrapheneOS • Doom Emacs • Tailscale • Steam Deck • Asahi Linux • Mastodon
6 December 2022
Season 7 - Episode 18

Live from Ubuntu Summit

Out in Prague • Minus Conor Plus Gary • Content Creation on Linux • Publishing • Editing • Recording • Equipment • Research
29 November 2022
Season 7 - Episode 17

Matrix or Musk

Messaging • Musk • Mastodon
5 November 2022
Season 7 - Episode 16

Achtung!

The attention economy
9 October 2022
Season 7 - Episode 15

Rocking Like a Pro

Ubuntu Summit • Pinebook Pro • Terminals • Headscale • Arch dropped Python 2
25 September 2022
Season 7 - Episode 14

Actually Comical

Actual open sourced • Figma bought • Reading comics • Reading feeds • Firefox add-ons • A browser from scratch
5 September 2022
Season 7 - Episode 13

At One with Your Element

Minus Amolith • Self-host all the things? • Element One • Of keyboards and mice • Crystal and Garuda
17 August 2022
Season 7 - Episode 12

Reversed in the Nix of Time

GitLab to delete dormant repos then does a 180° • Gitea working on federation support • NixOS has a GUI installer
14 July 2022
Season 7 - Episode 11

Bitwigs on the Green

Thundering Matrix • Bitwig Studio • Godot • Vivaldi's email • Astrofox • Discord
27 June 2022
Season 7 - Episode 10

You Wouldn't Download a Radio

Interview with Bill, the ham radio guy
26 May 2022
Season 7 - Episode 9

Less Gapps than a Tesla

Shane's back • Battery drain • e-ink laptop
14 May 2022
Season 7 - Episode 8

Sailing New Waters

With Extra Adam • Pine64 • Sailfish OS • Terminals and Shells • Installing Software • Editors and IDEs • Smartwatches
29 April 2022
Season 7 - Episode 7

Snappy Jellyfish

22.04 is out • Asahi Linux • Razer Tensorbook • Framework Laptop • Digital Services Act • Pinetime Pull Request
19 April 2022
Season 7 - Episode 6

Mike's Mac Misadventures

Conor back from Cork • Mike on the Mac • Pixel-perfect Amolith • Fedora 36 • Asahi Linux alpha • Steam Deck updates • InfiniTime
23 March 2022
Season 7 - Episode 5

A Million Black Hearts

No Conor • Dirty Pipe • Is Linux More Secure • Flatpaks • Backfiring Protestware • Stand With Ukraine Bundle
14 March 2022
Season 7 - Episode 4

ELI5 BTC? KTHXBAI

Podcasting 2.0 • Crypto or crapto
27 February 2022
Season 7 - Episode 3

Shanes, Great Bunch of Lads

Shane's sabatical • More chatting about chatting • Not so meta now
10 February 2022
Season 7 - Episode 2

A Glitch in the Matrix

Shaneless • Matrix exploded • Chatting about chatting • Nifty Nuggets
19 January 2022
Season 7 - Episode 1

Money for Nothing and the Tux Is Free

With extra Amolith • Everyone runs something • Cosmic shots • Shops and helpers • Rust and Go • Fame is unfair • Cars • Bowling for Columbine • Distrobox • Game dev
27 December 2021
Season 6 - Episode 22

Yippie Ki Yay Mothertuxers

Wayne and Mark ex machina • Steam Deck • Use software responsibly • Driving detour • Supporting users • What community? • Favourite projects • Thank you for listening in 2021 and happy 2022 :-)
11 December 2021
Season 6 - Episode 21

Come and Play

Cyberdog • Blender 3.0 • Shane is on Ubuntu Studio • Game on!
23 November 2021
Season 6 - Episode 20

No, Not that Linus, the OTHER One

Unextended Gnome • New Endeavour • Audio • Challenging Linus • Are you talking to me?
3 November 2021
Season 6 - Episode 19

I CAN HAZ SERVICES?

Facebook goes all Meta • Amolith is our guest • hosting makes us feel good
23 October 2021
Season 6 - Episode 18

Unscheduled Maintenance

Shane's still painting • Conor's browsing • PinePhone Pro • 25 years of KDE • 10 years of Jolla • Indri now, Jellyfish next year • Toxicity • Mozilla's VPN in Ireland • Not too shabby
20 September 2021
Season 6 - Episode 17

Frickin' Lasers

From freedom came new website (finally) • The end of Ubuntu Podcast • Leaked Fairphone • Linus's tech investment • Alphabet's Laser internet • Xiaomi and Facebook's glasses
6 September 2021
Season 6 - Episode 16

Linux is 0b11110

Linux is 30 • DIY works for Framework • Shane's server • We recommend
21 August 2021
Season 6 - Episode 15

Sweet Sixteen

3 years! • Zorin OS 16 • Shouldn't a 3-year-old be able to talk?
9 August 2021
Season 6 - Episode 14

Modular Mindset

KDE Connect on Windows • Steam Deck • Framework Laptop
17 July 2021
Season 6 - Episode 13

Unlucky for Some

Gnome on Ubuntu 21.10 • Pop!_OS • StreamPi • Firefox out and down • Ba dum tsss
3 July 2021
Season 6 - Episode 12

Nick Knacks

With extra Nick • New Pop!_OS • New RISC-V CPU • OSM-xit • Spice bags and cakes • Like AUR but for Debian
19 June 2021
Season 6 - Episode 11

The Three Sea Shells

Interview with Alex and Zlatan from Shells.com
4 June 2021
Season 6 - Episode 10

Adding Ammo Into The Mix

Freenode • Audacity • Tizen • From my cold, dead hands
22 May 2021
Season 6 - Episode 9

Betas Are Elementary

Review of elementary OS 6 Beta
1 May 2021
Season 6 - Episode 8

Craicin' Zorin

We test Zorin 16 Beta • Leave Britney alone!
19 April 2021
Season 6 - Episode 7

Linux Just Does It for Me

Discussion: Does desktop Linux do all we need it to do?
3 April 2021
Season 6 - Episode 6

The Episode of the Beast

Gnome 40 • RMS back in
27 March 2021

Podcast Postponement Post

No episode released this week • We'll release one next week
13 March 2021
Season 6 - Episode 5

Part of the Crowd

A chat with Philippe from CrowdSec
27 February 2021
Season 6 - Episode 4

Lockdown

Then We Get Up Again

There is no fun at the DMCA • Not just a pretty Plasma • Manjaro PinePhone • Firefox, pictures and cookies
13 February 2021
Season 6 - Episode 3

What Year Is It?

Ka-ching for Godot • Wimpy leaves Ubuntu • JingOS alpha • Gnome 40 • 🐈
30 January 2021
Season 6 - Episode 2

When Piggz Fly

A chat with Adam Pigg about mobile Linux
23 January 2021
Season 6 - Episode 1

Apples and Oranges

New season, new toys • Plasma with Wayland • Linux on the M1 • Now with 0 sea shanties
19 December 2020
Season 5 - Episode 6

Sign of the Times

With Mark and Wayne • MS worker metrics • Centos Stream • New Raspberry Pi OS is out • Competition redesign
28 November 2020
Season 5 - Episode 5

DMing about Conan

With an extra DM • YouTube-DL's back • Servo goes to Foundation • XDA Smartphone • Glimpse of Gimp • Competition!
6 November 2020
Season 5 - Episode 4

We Elected Not To Do a Title

Raspberry Pi 400 • Mint builds Chromium • YouTube-DL takedown • New Ubuntu • Future new Ubuntu • UK bans carrier lock • HBO back on Linux
23 October 2020
Season 5 - Episode 3

M'lady

It's all about the Fedoras, baby • 33 is a magic number
12 October 2020
Season 5 - Episode 2

M-powered

AweSim • Empowerment • Wait, what?
25 September 2020
Season 5 - Episode 1

A BRAND new season

Nvidia buys Arm • RISC-V on desktop • Microsoft releases kernel source • Hardware with Linux reloaded • Tabs, Not Spaces • It's all a wicked game
24 July 2020
Season 4 - Episode 15

Ryzen and Fallin'

COVID app for Linux Foundation • PinePhone improved... • ...and with Android 10 • Olive editor • LibreOffice: it's not personal • We're out for summer
13 July 2020
Season 4 - Episode 14

Missing the Mark

Minus Shane • Plus Mark • Serpent OS • Barclays fail • Volla phone • Rolling Rhino • Mark's Father's Day surprise • Alacritous Alacritty • Circle back and reverse
3 July 2020
Season 4 - Episode 13a

Not That Kind of Blue Shell 2

Shell Harder

Interview with DM from PowerShellOnLinux.com • Geronimo!
26 June 2020
Season 4 - Episode 13

Not That Kind of Blue Shell

WIth extra DM • Attack on encryption • 20.04 on XPS • Plasma goes icons only • PinePhone CE • Mint snaps out • Not a Mac • Allons-y, Alonso!
12 June 2020
Season 4 - Episode 12

We Can't Be Arsed Thinking of Something

Blender LTS • Microsoft mis-steps • Linux market share • PineTab ready to go • Lenovo for Linux • You should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky...
29 May 2020
Season 4 - Episode 11

Wins and Losses

Gnome settles with a troll • EU recommends open source • Trump fact checked • Munich sees the light again • Microsoft's new terminal • GUI apps in WSL • Who dis?
15 May 2020
Season 4 - Episode 10

Lucid Lutris

Interview with Mathieu, the Lutris developer • Short and sweet.
1 May 2020
Season 4 - Episode 9

Fosa Fornication

Fosa in Focus • Fresh Fedora • Viva Vivaldi • Modernized Manjaro • Organized in OnlyOffice • Ready RetroPie • I'll stop now...
17 April 2020
Season 4 - Episode 8

Wrapped in Ethernet Cables

The return of the Heron • QT - fork it, maybe? • Phosh so big and pure • Foliate your ebooks • Deepin in beta • Lightly Lemur • Support Joe • Stay safe and eat scones
3 April 2020
Season 4 - Episode 7

Rocco's Modern Life

Rocco is not Shane • Linux journey • Desktops • Best tool for the job • Rocco's channels • Distros • Gear • Community • Social networks • Browsers • Doom Hypothetical • Barracuda!
20 March 2020
Season 4 - Episode 6

Profound Isolation

Stay safe • Goodies from System 76 • Alyx on Linux • Flåtpakked Fireføx • Librem Mini • Working from home • This is an Easter egg.
9 March 2020
Season 4 - Episode 5

Zorin's Treasure

Support Debian • Facebook sponsors OBS • New LibreOffice • Collabora on Android • Unity8 renamed to Lomiri • Interview with Artyom Zorin • Wally's right here.
21 February 2020
Season 4 - Episode 4

Sentiment and Sediment

Korea might switch to Linux • App Center for everyone • OpenShot updated • No more Essential • UKUI switched to QT • Linux-only game store • How the podcast is made • Linux Gangnam Style
7 February 2020
Season 4 - Episode 3

Flotsam and FOSDEM

Support the Document Foundation • Pine64 at FOSDEM • Regolith 1.3 • Manjaro and Kubuntu laptops • Godot gets paid • Zorin Grid • Wireguard in the kernel • Thunderbird under MZLA • Ubi Linux, ibi patria, ibi libertas
24 January 2020
Season 4 - Episode 2

Levelling up Your EXP

With an extra Nick • Support Mozilla • Apps streaming • Apps leaving • Mozilla layoffs • Nextcloud Hub • Non! Au contraire! Nous descendons!
10 January 2020
Season 4 - Episode 1

Negative in the Librem Dimension

Linux in 2020 • Tech in 2020 • Librem 5 • Office snap • The toilet roll always falls the sunny side down
30 December 2019
Season 3 - Episode 7

Festive Bonus

Night before Christmas
10 December 2019
Season 3 - Episode 6

Seasonal Shenanigans

2+3=00000101 • Windows 7 is dead (soon), long live Linux • The Linux product • All our single boards • A hardware named desire • Ctrl-Alt-Delete-Repeat
25 November 2019
Season 3 - Episode 5

A Glimpse at Joe

Minus Shane but plus Joe • GIMP's fork Glimpse hits 0.1 • Nextcry • Tesla Cybertruck • Slimbook Pro X 15 • System76 "home-grown" laptops • PinePhones and Pinebook Pros shipping • Google Stadia on Linux • A chat with Joe Ressington • Look, behind you!
11 November 2019
Season 3 - Episode 4

Pinebooks Don't Grow On Trees

Kdenlive is all snappy • Tomb Raider is all Tuxy • Edge coming to Linux (not the guitar player) • Indian masses switching to Mastodon • Mike is moving podcasts houses
28 October 2019
Season 3 - Episode 3

Ain't No Wimp

With extra Wimpy • OggCamp 19 • United against trolls • Death of Linux on Dex • The Beeb on Tor • Ubuntu 19.10 and beyond • Inconceivable!
14 October 2019
Season 3 - Episode 2

Diplomatic Community

Matrix and Blender get paid • Same old GNU • System 76 Coreboot Laptops • Linus not anti Microsoft • Open Libra • Projects to support if we won lottery • Warren 2020
30 September 2019
Season 3 - Episode 1

KDE Konundrum

This time with an extra Michael • RMS stays at GNU • Patent trolls after Gnome • Zorin 15 Education out • XFCE 4.14 out • Librem 5 (kinda) shipping • a giant KDE Plasma discussion • I have one hand in my pocket and the other one is using KDE Plasma
29 July 2019
Season 2 - Episode 14

A Break in Tradition

Facebook fined • Blender supported • Windows KDEConnect-ed • Android scrcopied • Pinebook demoed • OnlyOffice updated • Linux on an old laptop • Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
22 July 2019

Podcast Postponement Post

No episode this week • New episode next week • Summer break after that • The game is afoot
8 July 2019
Season 2 - Episode 13

Contrasting Chinwag

Pinebook Pro preorders • MintBox 3 • 10 Years of Zorin • The Linux apps we know and love • Eating ice cream in the name of
24 June 2019
Season 2 - Episode 12

Minty Mask of Zorin

Facebook's Crypto • Mint vs Win • 32-bit on 19.10 • Pinebook Pro spec bump • GNOME Shell theme improved • Clear Linux for the all of us • Mint or Zorin? • As seen on radio
15 June 2019
Season 2 - Episode 11

Feck It, We're Doing It Live

FOSS Talk Live • CLI - What is it good for? • What do you miss in Linux like the deserts miss the rain? • Deus ex cake
27 May 2019
Season 2 - Episode 10

Huawei or the Highway?

S. Korea to switch to Linux • Huawei on the naughty step • Firefox on speed • adios Antergos • One does not Simply Red
13 May 2019
Season 2 - Episode 9

Drop the Mike

New webstore helps you find apps • Librem is talking One long look at the cloud • Redhat has a new hat and it's, well, red • WSL getting a gnu slash kernel • Ubuntu gets a new name • Is this Mike I see before me?
29 April 2019
Season 2 - Episode 8

Disco Delinquents

Librem 5 videos • Nextcloud 16 • Pinebook Pro/PinePhone streamcast • Disco Dingo is out • I am Groot_
15 April 2019
Season 2 - Episode 7

Apt Install New User

Matrix hacked • Edge (maybe) on Linux • Linus dislikes social networks • Fedora likes Arm • UBPorts Foundation • Zorin close to new release • How to get people into Linux • Mobilis in mobili.
1 April 2019
Season 2 - Episode 6

Convergent Solutions

EU passes Article 13, 19.04 Beta, Solus 4, Steam Redesign, KDE Connect Play Store woes, Google Stadia, Wine 4.5, Nextdock2, convergence discussion. Hurray for pizza day!
18 March 2019
Season 2 - Episode 5

Binary Addition

With Mark from the Binary Times. Disco Dingo wallpaper • New Gnome • Nginx sold • Librem 5 kill switches • Maru OS new release • OS for the Pinebook Pro • Discussion on user interfaces. Make carrots, not sticks.
4 March 2019
Season 2 - Episode 4

Pine Fresh

It's pine time! One *awesome* interview with Lukasz from Pine64 about the company and their upcoming laptop, phone and tablet. This sucker is nuclear!
18 February 2019
Season 2 - Episode 3

Average Joes

LibreOffice ribbonned up, the Pi Store, Fedora's new logo, Plasma's new release, Linux for the non-techies, the glass is half
4 February 2019
Season 2 - Episode 2

Pining for Privacy

VPN discount, PineTab and PineBook Pro to launch this year, more news from Purism, Steam Play even better for the 0.82%, Lutris works with GOG games, new shiny Kodi, Gnome speed boost, Firefox decorated, designer Akira, update your boxen, HP supports LVFS. Ice cream, therefore I am.
21 January 2019
Season 2 - Episode 1

A Pop at Windows

Gnome and Pop!\_OS, Windows, Fedora goes Deepin and Deepin goes all touchy, ChromeOS is getting Apt, DuckDuckGo finds Apple (Maps), Purism wants convergence. No parking on Wednesdays.
17 December 2018
Season 1 - Episode 10

Konsole. Fedora on sabatical. Charity starts with open source projects and digital rights orgs. Is it me, you’re looking for?
3 December 2018
Season 1 - Episode 9

Everything Is OSM

Kernel slowdown, Ubuntu for a decade, give back to the community, Intel based Odroid, Amazon on Arm, control a dildo from Emacs, Necuno Linux mobile, but most importantly an interview with Tad from OpenStreetMap Ireland. Peace, love, liberty and strawberry cheesecake.
19 November 2018
Season 1 - Episode 8

Tea, father?

Samsung’s Dex, oooh new Deepin, Mycroft raising, Purism about to start shifting dev kits, Macs and Linux, going open source only. You can leave your hat on.
5 November 2018
Season 1 - Episode 7

DEspicable

Desktop environments. Do not dry clean.
22 October 2018
Season 1 - Episode 6

It Was Just Resting in My Account

Plex, it’s 18.10 time, Flatpak, Etcher, Linus and the code of conduct, social networks, Microsoft, self-driving cars. Deeeelicious.
8 October 2018
Season 1 - Episode 5

Cults of Personality

before listening.
24 September 2018
Season 1 - Episode 4

Farnsworth

Desktop environments, software discoverability, graphics cards, Article13 and wobbly windows. Now with added sugar.
10 September 2018
Season 1 - Episode 3

There's cocaine in it

Creativity tools, spreadsheets, desktop environments, choice, freedom, progress and the lameness of ‘e-government’. Tangent is the word.
27 August 2018
Season 1 - Episode 2

Only Ext4 for Dropbox, NextCloud on routers, Proton brings games to Linux, but most importantly - Oggcamp 18!
13 August 2018
Season 1 - Episode 1

Ubuntu 18.04 as a base, ubuntufied Gnome, QT-based DEs, graphics cards, Windows as a service, ownership, designer Mozilla, Kai OS, discovery stories