Late Night Linux
Episodes
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 – 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...
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 ...
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 – 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...
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 – 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...
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 – 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...
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 – 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,...
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 – 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...
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 – 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...
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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. ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 132
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
GitHub might put coders out of a job and piss them off in the process, Audacity’s owners cause more drama, IBM’s surprising management announcemen...
Late Night Linux – Episode 131
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our long-awaited look at RebeccaBlackOS and how it drove us over the edge, and your feedback about Arch, Firefox, and loud dogs. Then a shocking revel...
Late Night Linux – Episode 130
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Berners-Lee jumps the shark, Chrome OS is 10, KDE Korner, good things about all sorts of projects, our Linux frustrations, Android or iOS, and mor...
Late Night Linux – Episode 129
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A replacement for CentOS that seems identical so far, and your feedback about IRC, laptop marketing, Arch, alternatives to Windows terminal servers, l...
Late Night Linux – Episode 128
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new Firefox design annoys Félim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more. ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 127
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A quick look at a powerful distro that deserves a lot more time, your feedback, and Graham finally tries out a Pinephone. First Impressions We had ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 126
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drama in the IRC world, the Framework modular laptop pre-orders are live, good and bad Android news, rare praise for Mozilla, the usual distaste for t...
Late Night Linux – Episode 125
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The perfect offline distro, and your feedback about WSLg, Plasma issues, our terrible artwork, some app suggestions, and more. First Impressions We...
Late Night Linux – Episode 124
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news. News Audacity & Mu...
Late Night Linux – Episode 123
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KD...
Late Night Linux – Episode 122
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more. News ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 121
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 120
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out i...
Late Night Linux – Episode 119
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The lengths that we’ve all been to for a smooth home media setup, your feedback about SUSE and NFTs, and we hear from some actual young people who u...
Late Night Linux – Episode 118
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone deliver...
Late Night Linux – Episode 117
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts. A new ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 116
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more. Ne...
Late Night Linux – Episode 115
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more. RISC OS with the Pi 400 Wi...
Late Night Linux – Episode 114
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS pr...
Late Night Linux – Episode 113
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks. Messaging Overload Our t...
Late Night Linux – Episode 112
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and...
Late Night Linux – Episode 111
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an...
Late Night Linux – Episode 110
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web s...
Late Night Linux – Episode 109
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 108
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Kor...
Late Night Linux – Episode 107
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more. Home mo...
Late Night Linux – Episode 106
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 105
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typica...
Late Night Linux – Episode 104
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE K...
Late Night Linux – Episode 103
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on...
Late Night Linux – Episode 102
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s...
Late Night Linux – Episode 101
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the...
Late Night Linux – Episode 100
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the u...
Late Night Linux – Episode 99
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machin...
Late Night Linux – Episode 98
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumbli...
Late Night Linux – Episode 97
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bad news for Mozilla, divided opinion on modular phones, AI takes over aviation, whether Canonical is on the right path, and plenty of great developme...
Late Night Linux – Episode 96
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How a Windows user views desktop Linux, some ask us anything questions, and Félim’s attempts to solve his RSI problem. Kyle the Windows user We ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 95
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner. Lineage Love-in On...
Late Night Linux – Episode 94
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been an unusually busy couple of summer weeks so we dig into the news including Canonical teaming up with Google, more updates from Pine64, and...
Late Night Linux – Episode 93
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Great mobile Linux news, dispelling myths about desktop market share, the beginning of the end for BIOS booting, KDE Korner, and some more of your ask...
Late Night Linux – Episode 92
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will reminisces about netbooks, Joe has a new Pinebook Pro, Facebook’s complex morals, Bountysource worries the community, and KDE Korner. News F...
Late Night Linux – Episode 91
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Linux audio tips, upgrade vs nuke and pave, smartwatches, a new Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Mint drama, and the shortest KDE Korner ever. News 8GB ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 90
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The deeper implications of all of Microsoft’s recent announcements, good news for Munich, GNOME, and KDE, and mixed news for VR on Linux. News Li...
Late Night Linux – Episode 89
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Good news for Linux phones and Raspberry Pi users, an embarrassing security incident, Keybase bought by Zoom, KDE Korner, some feedback, and more. ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 88
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released so we have a good look at the distro that will be around for 10 years. Plus good news for email, relative stability...
Late Night Linux – Episode 87
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including good news for UBports, changes to Firefox, Microsoft’s new LSM, potentially bad news for KD...
Late Night Linux – Episode 86
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The impacts of Coronovirus on Linux and open source, KDE Korner, and whether we are seeing the second big split in the FOSS world. Linux and the vi...