Linux OTC
Episodes
71 – Compound Stupidity
02 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We start off talking about the non standard experience you get from one Linux distro to another. Majid talks about his experience transferring files. ...
70 – Make Linux Great Again
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After a poignant start, our new host Charlie joins us, as well as Dale from Distrohopper’s Digest for a conversation about all things spanning t...
69 – Welcome Back Charlie
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we welcome a new voice to the fold. Charlie, AKA Immutable Charlie joins us to talk Linux
68 – Streaming Drivers
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re all over the place on this episode. We start off with the abysmal state of media streaming. Majid and Eric get into a conversation about w...
67 – “Needs No Introduction”
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Yes friends, that time is finally here; episode “67.” Much of the conversation is about the relevance of older technology in a time when u...
66 – The Mountain Of Source
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Server rebuilds, Memory shortages, Energy prices, Compiling software, and the AUR. all that and way more!
65 – “Wine-ers Of The World Unite!”
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bill and Eric wax philosophical about technology and it’s users. They get into Ad blocking, anti-virus, and the like. The nature of “free&...
64 – The Eric Strikes Back
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Eric makes his triumphant return where we start off talking about some recent pc builds Bill had been working on during his time off. We get into some...
63 – Audio Antics and Arch Adventures: The 67 Chronicles
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this lively episode of Linux OTC, we kick off with some unexpected technical hiccups when Majid’s audio takes a turn for the bizarre, sparking a ...
62 – What Could Go Wrong?
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One hardware failure after another for these guys. Bill’s video card woes, Majid’s server issues. We even had a complete SATA controller f...
61 – Discord Woes
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bill's video card problems, we get into the new Steam hardware a bit, a little bit on Docker. Way more!
60 – Corporate Shills Return
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just Bill and Majid for this one. We get into all kinds of stuff including the evolution of content creation, distro hopping, and the like. We get int...
59 – Sponsored By Cosmic OTC
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We had a lot of fun making this one. After some off-topic discussion, we get into a recent purchase by Bill. We get into Pop!_OS in a big way! Somehow...
58 – Bill’s Klingon Nuts
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's another AI episode folks. We had a good conversation about it though. It's not all moaning, we promise. In the beginning, we're talking about som...
57 – Irritable Bill Syndrome
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A rather "in-depth" conversation about the nature of language, thought, and communication starts us off. We inevitably move on to AI. Those things and...
56 – Red Rag To A Bull
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI, Data Privacy, Technology in the Auto industry, Windows licenses, Bill's CHUWI. All of this and much more!
55 – ChatGPT! Get Off My Lawn!
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we use Arch? Should we really be trying to get new people to use Linux? These are the questions that have occupied the minds of man since the b...
54 – Magic Tuxpad
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No Bill this episode, but we have a great time none the less.
53 – Nonsense Nomenclature
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dev Opps, Majid's Snapdragon, Keyboard wins over Mouse, Cybersecurity, Gnome, Stand-by Time On Linux. Start up time, and Way More!
52 – Inplexification
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DNS, TikTok, Netflix, Plex and other drugs. We get into it in depth!
51 – And/or
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 con...
50 – Expressing The Glands
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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!
49 – Security, Reliability, Usability; Choose One
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
48 – “Only One Neck To Choke”
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
47 – Compartmentalizing Browsers
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Mozil...
46 – Just Enough Access To F*** It Up
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
45 – 100 Years of Ear Burning
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode - Tik Tok, Plex, Coffee, and ear hair. We're all over the place!
44 – Drag It Back To Linux
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
43 – Theatrical Linux
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Li...
42 – Dirty Old Linux Nerds
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 k...
41 – Thanksgiving Rants
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
40 – ASUS of Theseus
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 lit...
39 – AI and Bad Influence
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We start off Talking about Majid trying Fedora. We then get into Microsoft buying nuclear power facilities to provide for the monsterous energy needs...
38 – Linux For Literally Everything Else
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode we live streamed. We started with the Internet Archive outage, this leads to a conversation about passwords and the philosop...
37 – Cinnamon and Stealing Hardware
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
36 – Tenacious Turbans
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
35 – Suffer Engineers
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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!
34 – The Audacity Of Reaper
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Eric and Bill get into a conversation about proprietary alternatives to opensource software. It starts with us describing how we've both beg...
33 – Discord Bots are Better Than Linux
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Leo and Majid talk Discord, Bots, UI and even a little bit of Linux!
32 – “I Remember Audio Editing.”
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
31 – Linux Will Bend You To It’s Will!
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 thi...
30 – The Rice Is Burning!
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
29 – Endeavour to Fail
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
28 – Crypto Euphoria
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cryptocurrency, Block Chain, and the problems inherent to funding in Opensource. We solve the world's problems in one hour or less!
Announcement 4/19/24
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is just an announcement about some changes to the way we deliver the episodes
27 – A Hot Mess
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Bil...
26 – Kool Runnings
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Lin...
25 – Corporate Shills
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 thing...
24 – Don’t Prune Your Docker!
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
23 – Burn Your Keyboards!
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
22 – Truckloads of Linux
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 distribut...
21 – Linux Is A Mind-Altering Drug
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 con...
20 – Arcade Weirdos
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
VR, iphones, Retro games, and our decaying interest in Marvel movies. All of this and a whole lot more!
19 – Eric Has The Touch
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 rail...
18 – Make it Snappy
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, M...
17 – “He’s a Majid man”
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
“I borked episode 17”
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 expe...
17 – “He’s a Majid man”
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
16 – Bring Your Own Linux
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mobil...
15 – Bloat is Subjective
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
14 – Stand and Be Counted!
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
13 – Red Hat’s On A Roll!
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
12 – “Reddit & Twitter deserve each other”
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
11 – Oh Snap!
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 Hyprla...
10 – Immutable? Well… Sort Of
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
09 – “If Not For Nvidia”
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
08 – The Immutable Leo
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Window...
07 – Quick! Emu!
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
06 – TikTok Ya Don’t Stop
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
05 – What Is Linux?
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we go off the rails about Nextcloud again. Norbert installs and gets on with DAVx5. We talk about what we think "Linux is." As well as a who...
04 – Self-Hosting
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we start what we imagine will be a series on self-hosting. We go over some of the stuff we self-host and the methods we use. Norbert starts ...
03 – Our Future, In A Container
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we get into a bit of a discussion about where we are, and where we were - How much Linux has evolved and changed over the years, and perhaps...
02 – The Apt Contention
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we get into a discussion about Canonical possibly adding messages to the terminal when running apt. Conversations evolve into stuff like Cha...
01 – The Maiden Voyage
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our first installment of the Linux "Off The Cuff" series. In this episode we go off the rails about the future of technology, some predictions for 202...