Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 108"

We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What would we buy in this hypothetical situation? It turns out we all struggled to come up with anything and are pretty satisfied with the machines we already have.   … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 107"

Florian Beijers joins us again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.   Florian’s YouTube Channel Techy Twitch streams Accessible gaming Twitch streams fireborn’s blog posts about accessibility in Linux           Support us on Patreon and get … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 106"

We cover some of your emails, questions, and comments. A challenge suggestion of not using a package manager, donating old hardware, why we don’t use custom ROMs on our phones, whether low end laptops with soldered eMMC storage are worth buying (they aren’t), and tips for using Home Assistant with Apple gear and Jellyfin on … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 105"

Summer is officially over. As the nights draw in it’s time to hunker down and work on our technical debt. We all have Linuxy projects that we are planning, so we commit to doing them by Christmas – when we will record a follow-up episode. Docker Compose, Immich, Jellyfin, learning Python, moving away from Synology, … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 104"

It’s the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy a really nice Linux computer on a seriously low budget.   Check out part 1 and part 2 of the £50 challenge that we did previously. … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 103"

It’s our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly discussing our concerns about Canonical.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 102"

Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price he paid for it?         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 101"

It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware, our silly challenges, our move away from custom phone ROMs, our disappointment with Arm desktop Linux, composable/immutable distros, how we’ve changed as people, and more.       Support … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 100"

It’s part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we’ll actually use them for, and more.   Listen to part 1 here.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 99"

It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 98"

Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services, OSTree sucks, when you need to reboot Ubuntu is a mystery, stop hiding things from users, Chris needs an “I use Debian by the way” t-shirt, and more.   Zak’s post on Mastodon Luke Miani’s … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 97"

We recently talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to use as a daily desktop machine, but what about headless boxes? It turns out that it depends on what exactly it’s doing and to what extent we have to actively interact with it. Ultimately we could probably use slower hardware than we actually do … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 96"

What Linux and FOSS technology should Joe learn next? Is it a case of waiting for a problem to present itself before even trying?       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 95"

What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 94"

Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our inner Linux Luddites, but don’t really come up with any solutions.         Support us on Patreon and get … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 93"

We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.   2.5 Admins episode where Joe talks about his ZFS setup           Support us on Patreon … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 91"

It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got GhostBSD, and Chris got Haiku.   Haiku Package Management         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 90"

The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in … Continue reading "Linux After Dark – Episode 89"