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Episode 93 of Linux Matters: Flatpak Stats vs. Snap Stats 🐧️🎙️ Mark spies on the postman, Alan spins up yet more websites, and Martin tailors his, and, possibly your git repo.

Episode 92 of Linux Matters: Shonky WonKey Donkey 🐧️🎙️ Martin makes some shonky software, Mark gets lightning fast 5G broadband, and Alan helps you find your next Linux machine.

Episode 91 of Linux Matters: Old man hands 🐧️🎙️ Alan does a job switcheroo, Martin does a notes switcheroo, and Mark does a backdrop switcheroo.

Episode 90 of Linux Matters: Ooh, you are nøughty 🐧️🎙️ Mark’s been colouring in his walls, Alan’s been reviving NøughtyLinux and Martin’s been chatting in herdr.

Episode 89 of Linux Matters: Peering into the Tube 🐧️🎙️ Martin connects a mouse and keyboard over Tailscale, Mark plays a recreation of an N64 classic, and Alan creates a PeerTube instance.

We have replaced the #YouTube embeds in our show pages with our #PeerTube hosted ones. We discuss this in Episode 89 of #Linux Matters, out later today! video.linuxmatters.net/c/linuxmatte...

Episode 88 of Linux Matters: Talking to my Computer 🐧️🎙️ Alan introduces a community insights tool called Canopy, Martin is chuntering from a sedentary position, and Mark plays The Last of Us Part II.

Episode 87 of Linux Matters: Herding online exams 🐧️🎙️ Mark find out how to run online exams, Alan migrates a shell script to Node, Martin finds a terminal multiplexer he likes.

Episode 86 of Linux Matters: Moodling the Fediverse in Europe 🐧️🎙️ Martin is on a break, Mark leaves the country to conduct experiments with Moodle, and Alan buys a portable gaming device (not that one).

Episode 85 of Linux Matters: Clearing the Decks 🐧️🎙️ Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit, Martin updates Jivetalking, and Mark is a fun guy.

Episode 84 of Linux Matters: DOSing about with games 🐧️🎙️ Mark plays DOS games, Martin discoveres a new editor (again), and Alan makes an events app

Episode 83 of Linux Matters: snap install flatpak 🐧️🎙️ Martin fixes Neovim, Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister, and Alan does something unspeakable with snaps and flatpak.

These are the user agents on hits to the #Linux Matters podcast RSS feed over last 30 days. @antennapod.org seems remarkably more used than any other... What do you use?

Episode 82 of Linux Matters: Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce 🐧️🎙️ Alan enjoys a particular kind of gaming, Martin consigns Grammarly to the bin, and Mark does some brewing with Kobo.

Episode 81 of Linux Matters: Cooking up a framework desktop 🐧️🎙️ Mark organises recipes, Alan tidies up an app, Martin builds a new desktop.

Episode 80 of Linux Matters: Passing the Gourd 🐧️🎙️ Martin pours out his last MATE, Mark boldly goes where he’s been before, and Alan gets himself an assistant.

Episode 79 of Linux Matters: Pouring out the Sidra 🐧️🎙️ Alan crafts another Snap website, Martin brews up some Sidre, and Mark saves a very small fortune on block storage.

Episode 78 of Linux Matters: VNC? No way! 🐧️🎙️ Mark runs commands on boot, Alan flexes his LXD muscles, and Martin uses remote desktops

Episode 77 of Linux Matters: Tailor Snaps for Big Iron 🐧️🎙️ Martin has been tailoring GitHub repository templates and settings, Mark has had Microserver woes, and Alan has been running Linux on Big Iron

Episode 76 of Linux Matters: The Smell of Git 🐧️🎙️ Mark explains the links between Linux and North Hampshire, Alan spring cleans hit GitHub profile, and Martin gets busy with lazy git.

Episode 75 of Linux Matters: Mark's Meshing About 🐧️🎙️ Alan builds a website (link soon), Martin reviews Zed Editor, and Mark joins the mesh life.

Alan discovers crypto malware in the Snap Store #linux #security linuxmatters.sh/74/

Episode 74 of Linux Matters: Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers 🐧️🎙️ Martin makes a software audio engineer, Mark creates a Roku remote and Alan accidentally becomes a security blogger.

Episode 73 of Linux Matters: Points of You 🐧️🎙️ We round up listener feedback and discuss HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket, Kazeta, FossFLOW, Toniebox Reverse Engineering, Tonuino and Yarg-lang.

Episode 72 of Linux Matters: Lets get Trippy 🐧️🎙️ Mark revisits the classic Timesplitters game. Alan has entered a coding contest he can’t win. Martin gets trippy with network diagnostics.

Happy new year (if you celebrate it). Trying out this shorts thing... www.youtube.com/shorts/f6x9b... #ffmpeg

Episode 71 of Linux Matters: Give me the Aux 🐧️🎙️ Alan discovers new music on Spotify with a shonky Python script. Martin makes a Go module for ffmpeg. Mark slices up his monitor with Tiling Assistant.

Episode 70 of Linux Matters: Grummaging Gophers & Gods 🐧️🎙️ Martin writes an MP3 encoder using Go. Mark has been playing the fast-paced rogue-like Hades II, and Alan has another Grummage.

Episode 69 of Linux Matters: He's a very nøughty boy 🐧️🎙️ Mark’s been buying audiobooks, Martin’s discusses Nøughty Linux, and Alan’s been streaming again!

Episode 68 of Linux Matters: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes 🐧️🎙️ Alan dusts off his newsletter, Martin encrypts his new Framework laptop, and Mark noodles with Moodle tools.

What's worth another look? Which past Linux Matters topics need a 2025 update, in a future episode?

A wild subreddit has appeared. reddit.com/r/LinuxMatte...

Episode 67 of Linux Matters: Panache, for Men 🐧️🎙️ Alan has been using Nix, Martin has been adding panache to his terminal, and Mark’s been playing Rimworld Odyssey.

Episode 66 of Linux Matters: Terminal Full of Sparkles 🐧️🎙️ Martin found a fancy alternative to apt, Mark debugged his car charger, and Alan moved from Plex to Jellyfin.

Episode 65 of Linux Matters: MacOS Made Me Snap! 🐧️🎙️ Alan has been manifesting Snaps, Martin snapped, and migrated from MacOS to Linux, and Mark found family snaps in Immich.

Episode 64 of Linux Matters: Ethical Retro Gaming 🐧️🎙️ Mark’s been retro gaming, Martin’s been syncing, and Alan’s been Gryping.

Episode 63 of Linux Matters: Running Linux on an IPad 🐧️🎙️ Martin runs Linux on an iPad, Alan has been to an AI hackathon, and Mark has a new phone running GrapheneOS

Episode 62 of Linux Matters: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles 🐧️🎙️ Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo], Martin sidesteps complexity with Just, and Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.

Episode 61 of Linux Matters: Coding in My Pants 🐧️🎙️ Martin has a fancy GitHub profile, Alan is busy with maintenance, and Mark retired a project.

Episode 60 of Linux Matters: Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework 🐧️🎙️ Martin overrides default browser behaviour, Alan automates GitHub using gh, and Mark creates a monster using Ubuntu Server and his Framework laptop!

Episode 59 of Linux Matters: Old Man Yells at GMail 🐧️🎙️ Alan continues his Nerdy cloud-native journey, Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new laptop, and Martin moves GMail to the junk folder.

Episode 58 of Linux Matters: The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐧️🎙️ Martin gets his Linux all rusty, Alan continues day trippin’, and Mark makes a timelapse.

Episode 57 of Linux Matters: Nerdy Day Trips 🐧️🎙️ Martin heists disk space from GitHub. Alan reboots a very nerdy website. Mark has been punishing his Steam Deck.

Been somewhere nerdy this weekend? Share it so others can enjoy on #nerdydaytrips nerdydaytrips.org

Episode 56 of Linux Matters: Python A-Go-Go 🐧️🎙️ Alan uses all the models, Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy from Go to Python, and Martin completes his GotoSocial migration.

Episode 55 of Linux Matters: Thoccing Heavy 🐧️🎙️ Mark builds his first Bookshelf Buddy, Alan makes bots that pretend not to be bots, and Martin builds a very heavy keyboard.