LINUX Unplugged

An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.

Your Hosts

Brent Gervais

Chris Fisher

Wes Payne

Portably Predictable Productivity | LINUX Unplugged 553

10 March 2024

We each bring surprise topics, a mix of hardware and software, as we prepare to hit the road for NixCon and SCaLE.

Plasma's Perfect Play | LINUX Unplugged 552

3 March 2024

Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.

AI Under Your Control | LINUX Unplugged 551

25 February 2024

Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

Ready Player Linux | LINUX Unplugged 550

18 February 2024

Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

Will it Nixcloud? | LINUX Unplugged 549

11 February 2024

Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

Uncomfortable Linux Truths | LINUX Unplugged 548

4 February 2024

Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix?

Behind the Shelves | LINUX Unplugged 547

28 January 2024

Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.

What You’re Missing about NixOS | LINUX Unplugged 546

21 January 2024

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 come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.

3,062 Days Later | LINUX Unplugged 545

14 January 2024

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 they've solved the RAID write hole.

Half the Bits, Double the Pain | LINUX Unplugged 544

7 January 2024

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

Profoundly Prophetic Prognostications | LINUX Unplugged 543

31 December 2023

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

2023 Tuxies | LINUX Unplugged 542

24 December 2023

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