Linux Lads

Episode 152: Speaking AI-rish with Máirín Duffy of Red Hat

Contributed by Lukas

Linux UX • Irish Language • Hardware setup • LLMs • Progress and society

Season 7 - Episode 19: A Look Back at 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GrapheneOS • Doom Emacs • Tailscale • Steam Deck • Asahi Linux • Mastodon

Episode 135: A New Hope

Contributed by Lukas

What do we look forward to in 2025

Episode 125: Zorin It to Win It

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Artyom Zorin, co-creator of Zorin OS

Episode 102: Interview with Chris from the Gio Project

Contributed by Lukas

Minus Conor • We talk more about Gio, this time with one of the maintainers

Season 1 - Episode 2

Contributed by Lukas

Only Ext4 for Dropbox, NextCloud on routers, Proton brings games to Linux, but most importantly - Oggcamp 18!

Podcast Postponement Post

Contributed by Lukas

No episode this week • New episode next week • Summer break after that • The game is afoot

Season 2 - Episode 8: Disco Delinquents

Contributed by Lukas

Librem 5 videos • Nextcloud 16 • Pinebook Pro/PinePhone streamcast • Disco Dingo is out • I am Groot_

Season 2 - Episode 7: Apt Install New User

Contributed by Lukas

Matrix hacked • Edge (maybe) on Linux • Linus dislikes social networks • Fedora likes Arm • UBPorts Foundation • Zorin close to new release ...

Season 2 - Episode 6: Convergent Solutions

Contributed by Lukas

EU passes Article 13, 19.04 Beta, Solus 4, Steam Redesign, KDE Connect Play Store woes, Google Stadia, Wine 4.5, Nextdock2, convergence discussion. Hu...

Season 2 - Episode 5: Binary Addition

Contributed by Lukas

With Mark from the Binary Times. Disco Dingo wallpaper • New Gnome • Nginx sold • Librem 5 kill switches • Maru OS new release • OS for the ...

Season 2 - Episode 4: Pine Fresh

Contributed by Lukas

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!

Season 2 - Episode 3: Average Joes

Contributed by Lukas

LibreOffice ribbonned up, the Pi Store, Fedora's new logo, Plasma's new release, Linux for the non-techies, the glass is half

Season 2 - Episode 2: Pining for Privacy

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Season 2 - Episode 1: A Pop at Windows

Contributed by Lukas

Gnome and Pop!\_OS, Windows, Fedora goes Deepin and Deepin goes all touchy, ChromeOS is getting Apt, DuckDuckGo finds Apple (Maps), Purism wants conv...

Season 1 - Episode 10

Contributed by Lukas

Konsole. Fedora on sabatical. Charity starts with open source projects and digital rights orgs. Is it me, you’re looking for?

Season 1 - Episode 9: Everything Is OSM

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Season 1 - Episode 8: Tea, father?

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Season 1 - Episode 7: DEspicable

Contributed by Lukas

Desktop environments. Do not dry clean.

Season 1 - Episode 6: It Was Just Resting in My Account

Contributed by Lukas

Plex, it’s 18.10 time, Flatpak, Etcher, Linus and the code of conduct, social networks, Microsoft, self-driving cars. Deeeelicious.

Season 1 - Episode 5: Cults of Personality

Contributed by Lukas

Small projects, bug reporting, media relations, cults of personality, cookies, advertising and alternatives, spying. Consult your therapist before lis...

Season 1 - Episode 4: Farnsworth

Contributed by Lukas

Desktop environments, software discoverability, graphics cards, Article13 and wobbly windows. Now with added sugar.

Season 1 - Episode 3: There's cocaine in it

Contributed by Lukas

Creativity tools, spreadsheets, desktop environments, choice, freedom, progress and the lameness of ‘e-government’. Tangent is the word.

Episode 160: Back It Up

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Backups • Game dev

Episode 159: Falling Back

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What if the industry goes to hell?

Episode 158: Learning about Learning

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How to make learn new things

Episode 157: Mikeless Misadventures

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

OggCamp • Game development • Interesting videos • Learning Rust • Making a browser extension

Episode 156: Jelly AI

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jellyfin • The Future of LLMs

Episode 155: Pour Féliciter 2026

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Projects for days off

Episode 154: The Steam Room

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New Steam hardware • YunoHost • Conor's new router • Games Co-Op • Living abroad

Episode 153: Crushing Ubuntu Summit

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu Summit • Agentic tooling • Simple authentication • Shane's project

Episode 151: About Game Dev With Pierre

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An interview with a game dev • Games • Graphics • Music • And more

Episode 150: AMA Special

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The origins • Blender video editing • Self-hosting • No screens • Cooking • Windows software • OTA broadcast • End of Windows

Episode 149: Routing for Routers

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shane's fibre • Coolify • OpenWrt One • Meshtastic

Episode 148: The End of 10 Is Nigh

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chat with Carolina and Joseph from the End of 10 campaign.

Episode 147: Whitely Nightly

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chat with Félim • Fairubds XL • Fiber internet • Shane's game • Bluefin • ThinkPad • CachyOS • LLMs • Kids and tech

Episode 146: Just the Two of Us

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shane's streaming • Offline chatting • Steam machine

Episode 145: Depends on How You Frame It

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

E Ink phones • Framework 13

Episode 144: Out of Pocket

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pocket • Linux Format • Asset Forge • Mudita Kompakt

Episode 143: Fairly De-Googled

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fairphone 5 • Fairbuds XL

Episode 142: Bro!

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Broligarchs • Organize • AI in open source • Readeck • Shane's game

Episode 141: Thunder, Thunder, Thundermail!

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Framework Laptop 12 Price • Thundermail • Zorin switches to Brave

Episode 140: Hardware Humbugs

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pixelfed vulnerability • Our hardware setup

Episode 139: Questionable Choices

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When should kids get a connected device • Muffins or cupcakes • Immutable OSs • Replacement OSs • The weather

Episode 138: Wake Up, A New Font Has Dropped

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fonts • New Framework Gadgets • Old Games • Mozilla

Episode 137: Resistance Is Federated

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Federated communities • Improving ActivityPub • Network effect woes • RSS goodness

Episode 136: Let Them Run Boxes

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Experiences with and Opinions on Self Hosting

Episode 134: Shut Up and Take My Money!

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What would we spend 2K on?

Episode 133: App-y Old Year

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our favourite projects of the year.

Episode 132: Ogg Glamping

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

epub2tts • Server distros • OggCamp

Episode 131: Small Size, Big Game

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New Dublin Linux Meetup • Bot making • Password managers • Murena • Fantasy consoles

Episode 130: With a Little Help from My Home

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Home Assistant • Asahi Linux • EpubPress • eow

Episode 129: Summarising the Open Source Summit

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Karla Nieminen about Open Source Summit Europe 2024

Episode 128: Arbitrary Concept of Sexiness

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gary talks about OggCamp • Programming languages • Adresilo • Game dev • Chat platforms

Episode 127: From A to Zed

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Zed editor • Mini PC • CachyOS

Episode 126: Tangential Perfection

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chat with Liam Proven from The Register

Episode 124: Politics After Eight

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Linux-first ARM laptops • Tiling in Cinnamon • Politics in open source

Episode 123: Cloudy with a Chance of Games

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A new(ish) IDE from Eclipse • FOSS IPTV app from Linux Mint • Open source video games

Episode 122: A Look Inside Our Drawers

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tech Hoarding

Episode 121: Note to Self

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

LogSeq • Beeper and Standard Notes bought • Social networks

Episode 120: VideoLads

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Backdoor in xz • Chat with Vibhoothi from VideoLAN

Episode 119: Boxing up a Distro

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fighting with Windows • Project Bluefin • Rocketbook • OnePlus Watch 2

Episode 118: KDE Plasma 6 and the Future of AI Avatars

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

KDE 6 • Bluesky bridged with the fediverse • AI-generated avatars

Episode 117: Read All About It

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Conor is famous • NixOS • Time and Date • i3 Woes

Episode 116: As Seen in Apt

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu advertising • Floorp browser • Hyprland

Episode 115: This Episode Was (not) Generated By AI

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Watt-Wise Game Jam • AI anti-vitriol • Interrogating Jake

Episode 114: Ubuntu Summit 2023

27 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at Ubuntu Summit • Interesting talks • Conference experience • Traffic lights and spiky sandals

Episode 113: Something, Something Linux

19 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stereotypes • OneArmy

Episode 112: Four Cs Thick

21 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Altogether now • Conor's new console • Librem 5 • Phones and OSs

Episode 111: Newsworthy Habits

23 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Keeping up with the News • New client, new languages

Episode 110: Shane's Planes

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Half again • Planespotting update • Learning Go • Changing careers

Episode 109: Trying Your Hat at Fedora

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Asahi Fedora • Thunderbird makeover • Linux overtakes macOS

Episode 108: Hare under the Willow

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amolith's Willow project • Hare programming language

Episode 107: ARMed with Debian

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Debian on a MacBook • Consuming Culture • Eavesdropping on Planes • Colour ereader

Episode 106: The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Reddit's gone mad • What now then?

Episode 105: And Now for Something Completely Different

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just the two of us • Board games • Video games • Electronics • Podcasts • Books • Gardening • Coffee • Even sports

Episode 104: Desktop Lap Dance

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Minus Amolith • The usefulness of desktops • Conor tries Nobara

Episode 103: Fun Quail

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Ciarán • Funkwhale and Open Podcast API

Episode 101: Gio Dudes

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chats and AI • Gio • Kombucha

Episode 100: A Hundred Shenanigans

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One Hundred! • Reminiscing • Feedback

Episode 99: Off the Rails

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sports News • We command you • Masto-nag-bot • In Space • Towards the big 100

Episode 98: Interview with Gabe Kangas, Creator of Owncast

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 97: Lotsa FOSS

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cool projects we came across (and a bit of Linux news)

Episode 96: An Outsider's Perspective

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The lads chat with Mike's wife about Linux

Episode 95: The Future is... Bright?

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Future of Gadgets with Linux

Season 7 - Episode 18: Live from Ubuntu Summit

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Out in Prague • Minus Conor Plus Gary • Content Creation on Linux • Publishing • Editing • Recording • Equipment • Research

Season 7 - Episode 17: Matrix or Musk

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Messaging • Musk • Mastodon

Season 7 - Episode 16: Achtung!

05 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The attention economy

Season 7 - Episode 15: Rocking Like a Pro

09 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu Summit • Pinebook Pro • Terminals • Headscale • Arch dropped Python 2

Season 7 - Episode 14: Actually Comical

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Actual open sourced • Figma bought • Reading comics • Reading feeds • Firefox add-ons • A browser from scratch

Season 7 - Episode 13: At One with Your Element

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Minus Amolith • Self-host all the things? • Element One • Of keyboards and mice • Crystal and Garuda

Season 7 - Episode 12: Reversed in the Nix of Time

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GitLab to delete dormant repos then does a 180° • Gitea working on federation support • NixOS has a GUI installer

Season 7 - Episode 11: Bitwigs on the Green

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thundering Matrix • Bitwig Studio • Godot • Vivaldi's email • Astrofox • Discord

Season 7 - Episode 10: You Wouldn't Download a Radio

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Bill, the ham radio guy

Season 7 - Episode 9: Less Gapps than a Tesla

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shane's back • Battery drain • e-ink laptop

Season 7 - Episode 8: Sailing New Waters

14 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With Extra Adam • Pine64 • Sailfish OS • Terminals and Shells • Installing Software • Editors and IDEs • Smartwatches

Season 7 - Episode 7: Snappy Jellyfish

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

22.04 is out • Asahi Linux • Razer Tensorbook • Framework Laptop • Digital Services Act • Pinetime Pull Request

Season 7 - Episode 6: Mike's Mac Misadventures

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Conor back from Cork • Mike on the Mac • Pixel-perfect Amolith • Fedora 36 • Asahi Linux alpha • Steam Deck updates • InfiniTime

Season 7 - Episode 5: A Million Black Hearts

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

No Conor • Dirty Pipe • Is Linux More Secure • Flatpaks • Backfiring Protestware • Stand With Ukraine Bundle

Season 7 - Episode 4: ELI5 BTC? KTHXBAI

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Podcasting 2.0 • Crypto or crapto