Sysadmin Chris, cloud consultant Gary, and developer/admin May join Joe to talk about their recent Linux-related experiences, and discuss some of the more philosophical aspects of being a Linux user.
23 min
The first open source software that we used, and the FOSS that we have most recently started using regularly. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
Some of our hot Linux takes including software bloat, ChromeOS being the best set and forget system, touch screen Linux still not being quite there, and Xfce being (nearly) dead to us. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
How do we recapture the passion we once had for computers and technology? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
23 min
The first open source software that we used, and the FOSS that we have most recently started using regularly. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
Some of our hot Linux takes including software bloat, ChromeOS being the best set and forget system, touch screen Linux still not being quite there, and Xfce being (nearly) dead to us. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
How do we recapture the passion we once had for computers and technology? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
It’s the FreeBSD challenge! We all get it running on a laptop and it’s great. Honest. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
26 min
Chris needs a solution for his family to watch ripped media while travelling, and Gary has a complex but cool travel network setup. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
27 min
It’s the ten year old computer challenge! Can we daily drive a desktop or laptop from 2016? There’s only one way to find out! Mike’s shitpost Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
24 min
It’s a forced positivity episode! We all come up with some positive things to say about Linux and open source. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
24 min
We got a lot of feedback about choosing a distro for the friends and family we support, but a lot of suggestions didn’t make sense to us. We get into why we pick boring and safe choices instead of interesting and exciting ones. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
Having seen some technologies come to a definite end, Chris wonders if we should be willing to draw a line under open source software sometimes. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
26 min
Chris is struggling to decide which distro to install on his new work laptop, and he and Gary want to pick a new distro for the people they support. Plus Joe wonders what moving on from Xfce would look like. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
8 min
The most precious machine in our stack of laptops and PCs, excluding anything we actually use regularly. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
We revisit the topic of the dire situation with hardware prices, this time with a focus on getting the most out of machines with limited resources. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
We all seem to be moving away from Ubuntu, but there are still quite a few reasons to keep using it. WG Tunnel PiVPN Charlie’s OggCamp talk about infrastructure as code Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
26 min
How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
23 min
May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforward but finding the right laptop will be much harder. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest. 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.
21 min
May has actually been using her stack of laptops and learning that “legacy” distros make more sense, the Firefox flatpak performs better than other packages, Linux Mint is a fine distro, Linux has the best calculators, and GNOME’s scaling is really good now. 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.
25 min
The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with 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 touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
22 min
With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice? 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.
23 min
How do you convince people to stop using unethical technology like generative AI? 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.
23 min
We follow up on episode 104 from September last year when we promised to tackle some Linux projects including moving to Immich and Jellyfin, learning about Docker Compose and Python, and ditching Synology. 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.
23 min
We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2025, and talk about what we want to happen in 2026. 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.
7 min
We tell stories from some of the tech support nightmares we’ve found ourselves in. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period. 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.
22 min
Some of the Linux and open source tech from our past that inspired where we are today. 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.
25 min
How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location. 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.
25 min
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 with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
22 min
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. Note that this episode was recorded before we found out that Framework supports problematic projects. 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.
25 min
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 an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
23 min
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 Android. The terrible laptop we mentioned 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.
22 min
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, Home Assistant, and more. 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.
24 min
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. 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.
23 min
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 See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
27 min
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 our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
23 min
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 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.
28 min
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 contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
25 min
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 get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
22 min
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 video 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.
23 min
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 if it came to it. 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.
20 min
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. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
23 min
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 in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
24 min
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 an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
27 min
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.
20 min
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 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.
25 min
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 touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
22 min
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 touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
23 min
When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop. Boomstick Vesktop 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.
23 min
We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Microsoft passwords, building a PC over a video call, wireless access points that mostly just work, and more. 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.
22 min
We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we want to happen in 2025. 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.
24 min
Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested. 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.
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