Podcast Episodes

546: What You’re Missing about NixOS

Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to co…

2 years, 3 months ago

545: 3,062 Days Later

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how the…

2 years, 3 months ago

544: Half the Bits, Double the Pain

This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers.

We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we …

2 years, 3 months ago

543: Profoundly Prophetic Prognostications

We make our big Linux predictions for 2024, but first, we score how we did for 2023.

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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2 years, 4 months ago

542: 2023 Tuxies

It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023.

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2 years, 4 months ago

541: Out with a Bang

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter!

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.

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2 years, 4 months ago

540: Uncensored AI on Linux

We test two popular methods to run local language models on your Linux box. Then, we push the limits to see which language models will toe the line a…

2 years, 4 months ago

539: Rollback Required

This week, our embarrassment is your entertainment. Then, we check the age and health of all our disks with one app.

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2 years, 5 months ago

538: Surprisingly Smooth Transition

PipeWire hits 1.0, and Wim Taymans joins us to reflect on the smooth success of PipeWire. Plus the details on the first NixCon North America, and mor…

2 years, 5 months ago

537: This Makes Us Unemployable

Can we save an old Arch install? We'll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great.

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2 years, 5 months ago