Season 1 - Episode 7: DEspicable
Linux Lads
Shownotes Transcript
Discussion
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Red Hat) was bought) by IBM) for $34 billion. Hopefully Fedora), Gnome), Centos) and other Red Hat supported projects won’t be hurt by this. We are still smarting from the Oracle Sun acquisition).
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Canonical) published some stats) collected by their installer (via OMG! Ubuntu!)). No concrete numbers, only percentages. Trusting Canonical with stats collection.
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Ubuntu Mate) is now available) for the GPD Pocket2). Now in correct resolution and the right way up. Download from here). The device reminds us of something)…
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Mozilla) is gonna trial partnership) with Proton VPN) to help us keep safe online (via Joey Falon)). Good source of income for the browser maker. Proton are known for their email service). Secure, reliable and easy-to-use VPN is good for all of us.
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Solus) posted about the current situation of the project. The first post) was followed by the second one) and by an open letter) from Ikey Doherty after the recording of this episode. Looks like Solus braved the stormy seas and is sailing into calmer waters with a good crew on board. Transparency is important and the bus factor) is something to be aware of.
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There might be a new Linux based phone) next year! The folks at Pine64) are hoping to offer us a Plasma Mobile) based alternative to the horrors of Android) and iOS). It should be much cheaper than the Librem 5). We yearn for a phone that is not restricted by the vendor, so 2019 might be the year of decent mobiles. In the mean time LineageOS) and Replicant) might help, if you happen to have the right device for it.
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The amount of Windows games avaiable on Linux through Proton) is over 2,600, according to ProtonDB) - a great source of information, if you want to know what games work and how well. You can log in with your Steam account and check the games you own too. Similar to the Wine Application Database). Fair play to Valve) for hugely contributing to gaming on Linux! Let’s spread the word about how awesome our OS is these days. Related technologies: DXVK), Vulkan) and DirectX)
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Desktop environments): Check them out on YouTube:
KDE)
LXQT)
Mate)
XFCE) (4.12 is current, 4.13 dev branch, 4.14 will be the GTK3 release)
KDE timeline) with screenshots.
Why some people love Cinnamon).
LXQT landed in Lubuntu) 18.10. replacing LXDE). They are keeping the 32bit builds) when most others have dropped them).
Use compositors) for desktop effects, if you have the resources. Meanwhile Gnome) is doing its own thing - who needs legacy icons) anyway? The extension has been unmaintained) for a year now. They might even do away with shell themes).
Gnome’s ploughing forward makes people spin off their own GTK) based desktops:
Cinnamon),
Budgie),
Mate),
Pantheon).
Ubuntu) uses their own implementation of Gnome, go to Fedora) for the stock experience. What do we want from a destkop environments? Use XFCE) if stability is your thing.
Elementary OS’s Design Philosophy).
Adwaita) is not popular here.
Linux boners:
Mike: Termux)
Shane: LMMS), Ardour), Reaper), PulseAudio), ALSA)
Conor: Thunderbird), ProtonMail IMAP bridge), K-9 Mail), Kmail), Mailspring), OfflineIMAP), Mutt), Alpine), Claws Mail)
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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq) which was released under the CC BY NC SA License).