Today we have Nate Graham back on the show again, this time to talk about of course KDE Plasma 6, my experience with it and everything else surrounding the launch of the desktop. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson ==========Guest Links========== KDE Website: https://kde.org/ KDE Fundraiser: https://kd...
May 03, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 218
The last time he was on Dark Xero was still developing his distro Xero Linux but since then he decided to drop it and instead shift over to being a post install config script for Arch which is probably much healthier for the project. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson ==========Guest Links========== W...
Apr 26, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 217
It's been a while in the making but today it's finally happening, today the one and only Jay LaCroix better known online as Learn Linux TV, who you may know for his countless tutorial videos or even his book Mastering Ubuntu Server. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson ==========Guest Links========== To...
Apr 19, 2024•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 216
Today we have the one and only Tytan652 on the show, who you probably know from his famous AUR package or maybe packaging every even remotely useful OBS plugin on Arch. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson ==========Guest Links========== Today we have the one and only Tytan652 on the show, who you proba...
Apr 12, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 215
After it being delayed for a very long time we now finally have the developer of Distrobox, Luca Di Maio on the show to chat about how the project came to be, it's use on various types of distros and all manner of other things. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson ==========Guest Links========== Github:...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 214
Recently Plasma 6 dropped so it was time to bring some KDE people back on but then there was also the Global Theme situation and who better to discuss that than the man who wrote the first response blog David Edmundson. =========Guest Links========== KDE Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/ KDE Website: https://kde.org/ Blog: http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/ Github: https://github.com/davidedmundson ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► ...
Mar 29, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 213
Today we have Rudra Saraswat on the show, the kid behind both BlendOS, Ubuntu Unity and a ton of other really cool distro projects, I don't know how he has the time for it all even at his age. =========Guest Links========== BlendOS: https://blendos.co/ Ubuntu Unity: https://ubuntuunity.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudraSaraswat1 ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://a...
Mar 22, 2024•2 hr 16 min
Whilst it might be kind of a challenge to solve certain software problems the real challenge is dealing with people not only people like you within your project but people from different cultures, with different goals from all around the world. =========Guest Links========== Website: https://cassidyjames.com/ Blog: https://cassidyjames.com/blog/ Elementary OS: https://elementary.io/ Endless OS: https://www.endlessos.org/ ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bro...
Mar 15, 2024•2 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 211
The linux kernel is something we all use but have you ever thought about what goes into it, well today we've got David Vernet on the show who has spent quite a bit of time focusing on one aspect, that being the scheduler. =========Guest Links========== Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Byte_Lab Kernel Recipes 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAcnNVSAdI LSF 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXejs4KGAro BPF: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/bpf/about/ Sched_ext Repo: https://github.com/sched-...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 210
Today we have the developer of Xenia Linux on the show an immutable Gentoo based distro, yes gentoo of all things, this started as a complete joke but has since then evolved into an actual serious project. =========Guest Links========== Wiki: https://wiki.xenialinux.com/en/latest/ Website: https://xenialinux.com/ Blog: https://blog.xenialinux.com/ Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/xenia-group/xenia-linux ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: h...
Mar 01, 2024•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 209
Today we have a game developer on the show called Ritchie, he's legally blind so I was curious what that experience is like as a game dev, what sort of software he relies on and the difference between the various operating systems. =========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AcidicLight Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/c/AcidicLight Website: https://acidiclight.dev/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidiclight Socially Distant: https://sociallydistantgame.com/ TrixelCreativ...
Feb 23, 2024•2 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 208
Today we have The Evil Skeleton back on once again to talk about flatpaks, the future of the Linux desktop and some other random topics as tends to happen on this show. =========Guest Links========== Blog: https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/blog Github: https://github.com/TheEvilSkeleton Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@TheEvilSkeleton ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/...
Feb 16, 2024•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Once again Matt from The Linux Cast is back on the show and of course he's here to talk about some of comments he's been making about the adoption of Wayland. =========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLinuxCast Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelinuxcast Podcast: https://anchor.fm/thelinuxcast ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ►...
Feb 09, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 206
Today we have the one of the 2 founders of System76 and current CEO of the company Carl Richell on the show to chat about the history of the company, how we got here and some of the cool stuff they've got in store. =========Guest Links========== Website: https://system76.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/system76 Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlrichell ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertson...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 205
Today we're talking to the one and only ThePrimeagen, software engineer, HTMX shill and most importantly the man who spends way too much time telling you why Vim is the greatest text editor. =========Guest Links========== YouTube 1: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeagen YouTube 2: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen YouTube 3: https://www.youtube.com/@TheVimeagen Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen ==========Support The Show========== ► Patr...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 204
Linux gaming has really only been in a good state since post 2018 and even then it was a bit rough, only now after the Steam Deck can we really say it's good but Mathieu has been around a lot longer than that with the Lutris project since 2009 closing in on 15 years of development. =========Guest Links========== Website: https://lutris.net/ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@lutris Github: https://github.com/lutris Mathieu Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@mathieucomandon ==========Support The Show...
Jan 19, 2024•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 203
I've spoken quite a bit about multi window apps on Wayland and today we have the Matthias Klumpp the man himself who is trying to solve exactly this problem to discuss the journey he's taken to get here. =========Guest Links========== Github: https://github.com/ximion Twitter: https://twitter.com/matxpp Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@matk Blog: https://blog.tenstral.net/ ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/Br...
Jan 12, 2024•2 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 202
Today we have Ryan Sipes the Business Development & Community Manager of Thunderbird on the show who was crucial to the recent funding increases seen by the project but has also been involved in the project for a couple years more than that and has a lot to say on the project. =========Guest Links========== Thunderbird Website: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/ Ryan Sipes Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanleesipes Ryan Sipes Website: https://ryanleesipes.me/ Ryan Sipes Mastodon: https://mast...
Jan 05, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 201
There's a program you've probably never heard of called KDE Networks which aims to build local KDE communities with local members around the world and today we have a member of the Australian branch on to talk about it. =========Guest Links========== The KDE Network: https://community.kde.org/The_KDE_Network KDE Get Involved: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRoberts...
Dec 29, 2023•2 hr 1 min
Livakivi is back on the show again, originally we planned to talk about his recent endeavours playing around with Linux again but that didn't happen at the start as we got a bit side tracked with some language learning but it is what it is. =========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Livakivi Twitter: https://twitter.com/Livakivi Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Livakivi ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://w...
Dec 22, 2023•2 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 199
Whilst the users might be a fan of Invidious YouTube themselves certainly aren't and today we have one of the Project Managers on the show by the name of The Frenchy Ghost to explain all in the ins and outs of the project. =========Guest Links========== Website: https://invidious.io/ Repo: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious Gitea: https://gitea.invidious.io/iv-org Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidious ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierob...
Dec 15, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 198
We're getting very close to the release of Plasma 6 so I decided to bring Nicco Love Linux back on the show to chat about all things KDE Plasma. =========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://youtube.com/niccolove Twitter: https://twitter.com/veggero Instagram: https://instagram.com/veggero Tiktok: https://tiktok.com/@niccolovespoetry Github: https://github.com/veggero/ Chess Challenges: https://lichess.org/niccolove ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodie...
Dec 08, 2023•2 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 197
Today we have 10leej otherwise known as Joshua Lee back on the show, he originally mentioned he bought a bunch of Intel Arc cards so I had to find out why plus it's always fun to just chat a bit with Josh ==========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@10leej Website: https://10leej.com/ ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Method...
Dec 01, 2023•2 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 196
Today we have Karol Herbst on the show who you may know from his work on projects like nouveau, NVK and starting the RustiCL project bringing much better OpenCL support than before. He's been in this space for a long time and has a lot to say about driver development. ==========Guest Links========== Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@karolherbst Github: https://github.com/karolherbst Gitlab: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/karolherbst NVK: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/nvk.html Nouveau: https://no...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 195
Mirko Brombin the developer of Bottles is back on the show this time to talk about the new interface that's in the works with Bottles Next along with a bunch of awesome new features coming to the project. ==========Guest Links========== Github: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles Website: https://usebottles.com/ Bottles Next: https://usebottles.com/blog/bottles-next-a-new-chapter/ ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.pay...
Nov 17, 2023•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Today the one and only Georges Stavracas is here, you may know him from his frequent commits to GNOME, Wayland, XDG Portals or even ending the GNOME file picker meme but he's got a lot to say and we didn't even touch on OBS ==========Guest Links========== Blog: https://feaneron.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Qw7uMu8_QMJHBw3mQJ62w Github: https://github.com/GeorgesStavracas GNOME Gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/feaneron Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/feaneron ==========Support The Sh...
Nov 10, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 193
Today we have another big name in the KDE space, the only and only Nate Graham who you may recognise from his blog Adventures in Linux and KDE along his general contributions to the overall project. ==========Guest Links========== Season Of KDE: https://dot.kde.org/2022/12/14/join-season-kde-2023 KDE Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/ KDE Website: https://kde.org/ Blog: http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/ Github: https://github.com/davidedmundson ==========Support The Show========== ► Patr...
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 49 min
It's been a while since I last did a solo episode and today I'm here to discuss the recent adblocking situation of youtube a bit of Linux driver nonsense and of course some gaming stuff, namely the big Activision Blizzard King acquisition. ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson =========Video Platforms======...
Oct 27, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 191
Today we have the one and only David Edmundson a frequent KDE Plasma and QT contributor who's been responsible for things like the XwaylandVideoBridge and the recent KDE robustness changes. ==========Guest Links========== Season Of KDE: https://dot.kde.org/2022/12/14/join-season-kde-2023 KDE Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/ KDE Website: https://kde.org/ Blog: http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/ Github: https://github.com/davidedmundson ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: http...
Oct 20, 2023•2 hr 5 min
Joshua Strobl once involved in Solus project then not involved then involved again but more importantly the Budgie desktop is here to talk about the current state of the project, where it's going with Wayland support and we get a bit sidetracked with MMO discussions. ==========Guest Links========== Budgie Website: https://buddiesofbudgie.org/ Budgie Github: https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie Budgie Twitter: https://twitter.com/BuddiesOfBudgie Budgie Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@buddiesofbudg...
Oct 13, 2023•2 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 189
