Episodes
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32: Windows as a Linux User + Sway Window Manager
April 2nd, 2020 | 29 mins 38 secs
a cloud guru, discovery, foss, i3, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux academy, podcast, regolith, sway, tiling, wayland, window manager, windows 10
Ell tells us about her first ever experience with Windows 10 and how it compares with Linux. Plus Drew has been using a Wayland-based i3-like tiling window manager called Sway.
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31: Solus + Visual Studio Code
March 19th, 2020 | 29 mins 53 secs
a cloud guru, budgie, discovery, distrohoppers, flatpak, gnome, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linux academy, mate, microsoft, plasma, podcast, snap, solus, text editor, visual studio code, vs code
We try out Solus and are all impressed by this independent distro. Then Ell and Drew sing the praises of Visual Studio Code - a text editor that's packed full of features.
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30: Project Catch Up
March 5th, 2020 | 29 mins 1 sec
a cloud guru, android, arch, boxes, discovery, endeavour os, endless os, foss, hardware hacking, html, hugo, i3, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux academy, markdown, newpipe, podcast, qubes os, regolith, the cloud, ubuntu, virt-manager, virtualization, website, wysiwyg, youtube
We revisit some of the projects we have covered in previous episodes to see what we've stuck with and what we haven't.
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29: Linux Console + Boutique Distros
February 20th, 2020 | 30 mins 8 secs
a cloud guru, boutique distros, cannonical, discovery, distrohoppers, fedora, foss, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux academy, linux console, podcast, red hat, small, ubuntu
A confusing experience in Distrohoppers which raises deeper questions about the value and viability of smaller distros.
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28: What We Love About Linux
February 6th, 2020 | 28 mins 26 secs
command line, discovery, diversity, flatpak, flexibiility, foss, hacker, installation, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linux, love, podcast, problem solving, rdp, satisfaction, snap, speed, standardization, terminal
Valentine's Day is nearly here so it's time to talk about why we love Linux and open source. Nothing is perfect though, so we also touch on a few areas that we feel could be improved.
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27: GhostBSD + Freedom vs Pragmatism
January 23rd, 2020 | 28 mins 32 secs
bsd, copyleft, desktop, discovery, distrohoppers, foss, free software, freedom, ghostbsd, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linux, open source, permissive, podcast, pragmatism, proprietary
Distrohoppers serves up something very different in the form of desktop BSD, and we reveal how important freedom is to us all.
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26: Explaining Linux and Open Source as Concepts
January 9th, 2020 | 29 mins 30 secs
community, conferences, discovery, explaining, foss, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linux, operating system, os, podcast, rhel, ubuntu
Trying to explain what Linux and open source are can be tricky. We discuss our various approaches, and how they differ depending on the experience of who we are explaining them to.
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25: Tails + Virtualization
December 26th, 2019 | 29 mins 47 secs
boxes, discovery, distrohoppers, foss, gnome, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, kvm, libvert, linux, podcast, privacy, qemu, security, tails, virt-manager, virtualization, vm
Ultimate privacy in Distrohoppers, and the best ways to run other operating systems within your current Linux distro.
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24: What We Wish We'd Known Earlier
December 12th, 2019 | 29 mins 26 secs
arch, command line, discovery, endeavouros, foss, gatekeeping, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, learning, lessons, linux, nextcloud, podcast, regex, regular expressions, samba, terminal
All three of us have different levels of experience with Linux but there are tons of things that we wish we'd learned earlier in our journey.
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23: Void Linux + Contributing to Open Source
November 28th, 2019 | 26 mins 26 secs
advocacy, bug reports, code, contributing, design, discovery, distrohoppers, documentation, donations, foss, git, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, learning, linux, linux hardware, mentoring, open source, podcast, qa, testing, translation, void linux
A chance to learn some Linux fundamentals in Distrohoppers, and the numerous ways we can all contribute to Linux and open source.
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22: Finding Your Community
November 14th, 2019 | 28 mins 20 secs
community, conference, discord, discovery, forum, foss, irc, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linux, lug, meetup, podcast
We talk about the best ways to get involved in open source communities, finding like-minded people, conference strategies, community hubs, and what happened to all the LUGs.
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21: KaOS + How We Install Software
October 31st, 2019 | 29 mins 3 secs
appimage, aur, copr, discovery, flatpak, foss, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, kaos, kde, linux, podcast, ppa, snap, software, webapp
There are numerous ways to install software on a modern Linux system and we each have a different approach.
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20: Single Board Computers
October 17th, 2019 | 26 mins 17 secs
banana pi, discovery, foss, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linux, orange pi, pine64, podcast, raspberry pi, raspbian, rock64, rockpro64, sbc, single board computers
We are joined by special guest Chz who is a long-time user of single board computers to talk about how we use boards like the Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, and ROCKPro64.
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19: Android-x86 + First Steps into the Cloud
October 3rd, 2019 | 28 mins 13 secs
android, android-x86, aws, cloud, digitalocean, discovery, distrohoppers, foss, headless, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, linode, linux, mobile, plex, podcast, self-hosting, server, ssh, wordpress
We have three different approaches to using the cloud, so we discuss various ways to expand your Linux knowledge beyond the desktop.
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18: Introducing New People to Linux
September 19th, 2019 | 31 mins 7 secs
choice, converting, discovery, fedora, foss, it's okay to be new, jupiter broadcasting, korora, laptop, linux, podcast, ram, success, switching, thinkpad, ubuntu, xubuntu
There's lots to consider when setting someone up with Linux for the first time. User needs and expectations, distro choice, hardware, and so much more.