Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Linux Downtime – Episode 51

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Martin and Hayden explain what it’s actually like to use GitHub Copilot, and why they think it’s going to have a positive impact open source softw...

Late Night Linux – Episode 185

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A modern alternative to the watch command, automating lights, and hacking routers, using FOSS to make installing Windows easier. Plus our thoughts on ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 21

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We all tried to live with a touch-only experience on x86-64 devices. It turns out that Linux is very close to offering a great experience.       Se...

Late Night Linux – Episode 184

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The community gets angry about GitHub Copilot, Félim gets angry about email, Firefox continues to improve, drawers fill up with more Raspberry Pis, K...

Linux Downtime – Episode 50

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss the nuances of gatekeeping in the Linux community, and why he thinks we inadvertently engaged in it on the last e...

Late Night Linux – Episode 183

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Will buys a cheap mouse, Félim thinks he’s a meteorologist, Graham hacks his TV, and Joe complains about YouTube.   Discoveries libratbag & piper ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 20

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do we use Linux to avoid being locked into proprietary systems and services, or is that just as possible using any OS? Plus we bully Dalton for making...

Late Night Linux – Episode 182

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thumbs up for Mozilla and KDE, mixed reaction to mobile Thunderbird and Microsoft, AI definitely isn’t sentient, and more.   News Our Plans For Thu...

Linux Downtime – Episode 49

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle joins us again, along with Hayden Barnes to answer the question: what exactly is a Linux distribution these days? The rise of immutable filesyste...

Late Night Linux – Episode 181

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arch is really easy to install now, Graham uses his keyboard as a mouse, replacing expensive security platforms with FOSS, silly AI pictures, and Will...

Linux After Dark – Episode 19

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of the challenge to do something useful with our lowest-end hardware, and two polar opposite customer support experiences.       Vultr High-...

Late Night Linux – Episode 180

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom...

Linux Downtime – Episode 48

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Martin and Joe are joined by Kyle Fazzari to reimagine the Linux desktop. What we’d do differently if we were starting over today, who we’d aim it...

Late Night Linux – Episode 179

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

FOSS alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex, Alexa automation made easy, Thunderbird is in great health, plus your feedback about all sorts including an ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 18

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The first part of our challenge to do something useful with the lowest-end hardware that we own, and whether forking really is as much of an open sour...

Late Night Linux – Episode 178

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We break with tradition and talk about some of the things we love about Linux and FOSS. Plus overhyped NVIDIA news, Google relents on free custom emai...

Linux Downtime – Episode 47

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you progress your career as a FOSS enthusiast?     Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the...

Late Night Linux – Episode 177

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardw...

Linux After Dark – Episode 17

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A new release of Lineage OS is out and we give it a go. Installing and running it, some of the issues we came across, why it’s getting more complica...

Late Night Linux – Episode 176

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether ...

Linux Downtime – Episode 46

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam tries to sell Fedora to Joe and Martin, two Ubuntu (flavour) users.       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 175

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further tho...

Linux After Dark – Episode 16

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dalton tells us about using a Steam Deck for a month, and Chris has a solution for Joe’s Python problem.   audio-visualizer-python distrobox     ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 174

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, K...

Linux Downtime – Episode 45

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate. Governance and finances, the benefits of be...

Late Night Linux – Episode 173

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus you...

Linux After Dark – Episode 15

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We need to talk about Ubuntu. The future, the present, the staff departures, slow snaps, and so much more.     Vultr High-performance cloud compute,...

Late Night Linux – Episode 172

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the ...

Linux Downtime – Episode 44

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast to talk about what and why Alex self-hosts, the hardware and software he uses, and how ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 171

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridge...

Linux After Dark – Episode 14

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dalton tells us about daily driving the Framework Laptop for the last 6 months.       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Late Night Linux – Episode 170

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE kor...

Linux Downtime – Episode 43

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe and Gary from Linux After Dark talk about installing and running the first alpha of Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini and Macbook Air, as both a deskt...

Late Night Linux – Episode 169

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 13

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re going to use proprietary software, why not just run it on a proprietary OS?       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Late Night Linux – Episode 168

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us hap...

Linux Downtime – Episode 42

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Stuart Langridge to talk about Open Web Advocacy, a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to adv...

Late Night Linux – Episode 167

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether b...

Linux After Dark – Episode 12

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Where is the gate for the “Real Linux User”, and who’s keeping it?       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Late Night Linux – Episode 166

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better...

Linux Downtime – Episode 41

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Adam Pigg, a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones.   A thread with some of Adam’s history J...

Late Night Linux – Episode 165

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON,...

Linux After Dark – Episode 11

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why Linux operating systems on small Arm devices almost all feel half-finished, and what we can do to improve things.   Links mentioned: Pine64 shoul...

Late Night Linux – Episode 164

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.   News Slackware 15 releas...

Linux Downtime – Episode 40

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Joey Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! to talk about how Ubuntu and its community have changed over the years, snaps, GNOME, Flutter, WSL, an...

Late Night Linux – Episode 163

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap...

Linux After Dark – Episode 10

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At what point is the FOSS solution more hassle and time-consuming than it’s worth? We confess our various compromises with non-free hardware and sof...

Late Night Linux – Episode 162

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, a...

Linux Downtime – Episode 39

29 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Jorge Castro to talk about distros with immutable filesystems like Fedora Silverblue, and Flatpak and Flathub.   Jorge mentioned: Hi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 161

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternat...

Linux After Dark – Episode 09

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the best way to criticise FOSS projects?       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Late Night Linux – Episode 160

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO sta...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 38

16 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Neal return to talk about Google’s mysterious open source operating system Fuchsia.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch....

Late Night Linux – Episode 159

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predicti...

Linux After Dark – Episode 08

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What we all want to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2022.       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Late Night Linux – Episode 158

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Kor...

Late Night Linux – Episode 157

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2021 predictions, and make some new ones for 2022.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 07

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What it’s really like to live with Fedora Silverblue on your main machine. The good, the bad, and why Dalton is still using it.   Kinoite London ti...

Late Night Linux – Episode 156

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs.   2021 Linux year in review Mar...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 37

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Chris from Linux After Dark and Fedora user Adam Dean to discuss using GNOME and why we shouldn’t bash it so often. Adam wrote a bo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 155

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Achieving the dream of mobile and desktop convergence turns out to be pretty easy. Plus a serious contender for the best Arch-based distro, and your f...

Linux After Dark – Episode 06

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the ideal desktop Linux business model? As a loss-leader for your cloud offerings? Pay what you want? Bundled software? Hardware pre-installa...

Late Night Linux – Episode 154

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nextcloud and friends go after Microsoft, modern packaging comes under fire, whether we should be targeting less advanced users, a new old Raspberry P...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 36

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Allan Jude from the 2.5 Admins and BSD Now podcasts to talk about FreeBSD. Allan mentioned his company Klara.     CBT Nuggets This ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 153

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections...

Linux After Dark – Episode 05

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are distros like Fedora Silverblue with immutable filesystems the future of desktop Linux?   A list of resources for people who want to investigate i...

Late Night Linux – Episode 152

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards rig...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 35

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Carl George, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, to discuss Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Linux, and CentOS Stream. Carl is a regular in...

Late Night Linux – Episode 151

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email...

Linux After Dark – Episode 04

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly is desktop Linux? Does Chrome OS count? What about Ubuntu Touch?     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux vi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 150

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring polic...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 34

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe and Alex from the Self-Hosted podcast discuss DockerSlim and Slim AI with Martin Wimpress. Martin mentioned SlimDevOps on Twitch.     CBT Nugget...

Late Night Linux – Episode 149

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We are all impressed by an obscure open source OS. Plus your feedback about duplicated effort by app devs, ignoring the modern web, Flathub confusion,...

Linux After Dark – Episode 03

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What it means for Linux to “win” and whether we even want that to happen, and why we talk about Arm so much.       Linode Simplify your cloud i...

Late Night Linux – Episode 148

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, an...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 33

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Btrfs advocate Neal Gompa and ZFS advocate Jim Salter (from 2.5 Admins) to discuss Jim’s recent criticism of Btrfs.     CBT Nugge...

Late Night Linux – Episode 147

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor...

Linux After Dark – Episode 02

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not a great idea to wipe someone’s only laptop, install Linux on it, and then leave them to it. We talk about the responsible ways to get peo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 146

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 32

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Gary Kramlich, the Pidgin project maintainer. Gary mentioned the contributing page, and the upcoming State of the Bird event which wi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 145

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 144

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, a...

Linux After Dark – Episode 01

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of a brand new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux family, Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe speculate about what will happen t...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 31

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe is joined by Alyssa Rosenzweig, a graphics developer who’s passionate about software freedom and leads the Panfrost and Asahi graphics drivers, ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 143

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and...

Late Night Linux – Episode 142

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 30

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dalton gives us his first impressions of the Framework laptop, why we didn’t talk about AMD mobile CPUs when the M1 came up, and what we do when the...

Late Night Linux – Episode 141

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Félim is trolled about the cloud, our first impressions of elementary OS, your feedback, and more.   First Impressions We had a look at elementary O...

Late Night Linux – Episode 140

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The kernel turns 30, flagship phones get even more locked down, great news for running Linux on M1 Macs, AMP looks to be exactly what we thought it wa...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 29

29 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe discuss reporting bugs, why we don’t always do it, and why we really should.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsore...

Late Night Linux – Episode 139

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What we all thought about the open and federated Twitter alternative Mastodon, plus your feedback about the new user experience, and why Graham and Jo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 138

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

New releases from elementary OS and Debian, Apple causes a big privacy stink, KDE Korner, your feedback about Linux grifters, and some mid-summer sill...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 28

15 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gary, Chris, and Joe are joined by Dalton to discuss whether platforms really matter in an age where they all offer so much choice with Virtualization...

Late Night Linux – Episode 137

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Our first impressions of a relatively unusual distro. Plus your feedback about Syncthing, GitHub Copilot, and advice for a new Linux user.   First Im...

Late Night Linux – Episode 136

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whether GNOME is meant to be used in its default state, why open source doesn’t need to conquer the world to succeed, emulating ancient Windows vers...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 27

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gary, Chris, and Joe cover some of your feedback about why we use traditional GTK desktops rather than Plasma or a tiling window manager, why we don’...

Late Night Linux – Episode 135

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting joins us to discuss Syncthing, feedback about whether Silverblue is the future, and how the FOSS community migh...

Late Night Linux – Episode 134

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Steam Deck is probably the best news for Linux gaming since Proton, the Mars helicopter has over-delivered, whether Windows 11 is a good opportuni...

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 26

18 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe talks to Chris and Gary about their homelab setups, their use of the cloud, and how it all ties together with WireGuard.     CBT Nuggets This ep...

Late Night Linux – Episode 133

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A quick look at Fedora Silverblue, your feedback including scanning and iOS vs Android, and FOSS devs actually making money with guest Daniel Foré.  ...