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25: The Right to Upgrade | DLN Xtend Jul 28, 2020

Show notes

On this weeks episode of DLN Xtend we talk about users having the ability and right to upgrade their technology when and where they see fit.

Topics
00:00 Introductions
09:24 Right to Repair
18:43 New PinePhone
24:09 Bad Product Experiences
39:20 Host Related Interests
45:56 Wrap Up

The Ugly Truth About Apple's Engineering . . . Glue, Glue Everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhB-95vKx8w New PinePhone for Convergence
https://frontpagelinux.com/news/new-pinephone-with-3gb-of-ram-and-usb-convergence-dock/

Matt
Project RIP

Wendy- Adventures in RawTherapee

www.rawtherapee.com

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24: Is Criticism Just Negativity? | DLN Xtend Jul 20, 2020

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In this episode of DLN Xtend we discuss criticism. Is it always negative? How do we take it as open-source projects, creators, or even as users of a project?

Topics:

00:00 Introductions
08:50 Community Feedback
10:37 Discussion of the Week: Is Criticism Negativity?
31:11 Host Related Interest
44:21 Wrap Up

Let’s discuss community feedback
-Episode 22
https://discourse.destinationlinux.network/t/dln-xtend-22-why-gaming-on-linux-matters-linux-mint-forbids-snaps/2242/8

Is Criticism Negativity?

-Torvalds Takes Time Off https://gizmodo.com/linux-founder-takes-some-time-off-to-learn-how-to-stop-1829105667

-Firefox + Mr Robot (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass)

-Ubuntu and Amazon Link

-Ubuntu and Unity

Host Related Interest

Matt

New version of Manjaro Webdad (Jade Desktop Environment) https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-community/storage/webdad/
Game recommendation - Tower of Time https://store.steampowered.com/app/617480/Tower_of_Time/

Wendy
- Exploring new software
https://discourse.destinationlinux.network/t/what-software-do-you-use/2284

Nate

Commodore 64 live stream, fail. OBS NDI Pluging works great. Wrap Up

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Matt (Twitter @MattDLN)
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Nate (cubiclenate.com)

23: Moving Targets | DLN Xtend Jul 13, 2020

Show notes

On this episode of DLN Xtend we talk about the future of communication, and the constant moving target as it relates to switching to any type of new or different platform.

Topics:
00:00 Introductions
06:43 Ask Noah: Privacy & Security Enhanced with Dr. Andy Yen
15:06 TuxDigital: Windows Users Can’t Seem to Blame Windows For Its Own Problems
20:10 What Applications are Missing in Linux
26:25 Frontpage Linux: Interview with Cassidy James of Elementary OS
31:20 Hosts Related Interests
42:31 Wrap Up

App Recommendations for natalx
--MiniGalaxy- https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy

What Applications are Missing in Linux (Comments from the Community)

https://discourse.destinationlinux.network/t/what-applications-are-missing-in-linux/1011

esbeeb says "We just probably need to hire great UX people to improve the workflow of the apps. Totally agree. UX means so very very much to overall success these days. But many Linux geeks seem to have this puzzlingly locked-on focus on super low level things, quibbling a little too much about totally revamping major low-level subsystems that unfortunately only make things just a little bit better, at the end of the day. If they took that same attention to detail to the UX, they would make 10x the impact on the world, IMHO.

jastombaugh says “@gabmus Absolutely perfectly worded!!! Thank you for posting this. Your point makes total sense, and I wish I had the power to point this out in so many other forums and on a host of podcasts. There is a huge need for Open Source UX designers. I just wish we had the ‘Designers Toolkit’ that could enable these people to ‘rearrange a programs ‘flowchart’ of operations’ or ‘grab an icon/window element’ and edit it. Obviously, I can’t begin to imagine what kind of a powerful program it would take to implement this. But if there was only some way that would enable OS UX Designers to apply ‘UX-Interfaces’ to applications in a similar way that themes can be applied to Desktop Environments. I can dream, can’t I?”

natalx says “I would like to see GOG Galaxy released on linux.”

– MiniGalaxy- https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy “recommendation to Natalx gog galaxy request”

Host related interest (31:20-
Matt

Been trying out Nitrux for the weird distro
– https://nxos.org
Game recommendation - Congolomerte 451
– https://store.steampowered.com/app/1022710/Conglomerate_451/

Wendy

RawTherapee Lens Blur Recovery on v 5.8
-Gave it a go on an image I created over the 4th of July weekend.

Nate
-Virtual installation party for openSUSE Leap 15.2 live stream – more people there than I expected
Updated openSUSE Wiki docs
Ref: https://en.opensuse.org/User:Futureboy

Wrap Up

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22: Why Gaming on Linux Matters, Linux Mint Forbids Snaps? | DLN Xtend Jul 06, 2020

Show notes

On this episode of DLN Xtend, we introduce two new hosts. While also talking about how one area of Linux that might not interest us, can still have an affect on the parts we do care about. While also seeing what the hosts have been up too.

Topics:
00:00 Introduction
05:30 New DLN Podcast: Sudo Show
07:23 Why should I care about Linux gaming?
13:23 Front Page Linux Tutorial = Easily Install JACK Audio with Ubuntu Studio Installer
15:03 Linux Mint "forbids" Snaps. Is this Good or Bad?
29:21 Host Related Interests
42:38 Wrap Up

Why should I care about Linux gaming?

Denuvo Anti-Cheat to Work on Linux through Proton
Proton Release Notes
OpenRGB has some good tools for using the RGB of your motehrboard, RAM and other RGB peripherals. However, Piper adds great functionality to your gaming mouse.
Does better gaming expand the user base? What does that mean for non-gaming Linux users?

Comments from the Destination Linux Discourse about the Linux Mint vs Snaps discussion:

Ethanol says “…Personally I don’t mind what Mint is doing. It’s kind of like the whole telemetry debate. I’d rather my system presume non-consent until I explicitly give it. If Mint wants to forbid snapd from being automatically installed that’s peachy, since I already expect to have to manually install it when I want it anyways, like most things.”

BertN45 says “Basically I prefer snaps and if available I want to install them. But after installing LibreOffice in a snap, I detected that I lost access to the Dutch language libraries and installing it again did not work for the snap. So I had to delete the snap again. I’m interested how the snap people want to work with language dependencies. If they can’t solve this major issue, snaps are for the USA, UK and some other larger countries only!”

jastombaugh says “Well said. I agree with Clem’s approach and, in general, I totally understand and approve of the Mint philosophy on issues like this. It feels like we NEED both outlooks, like poles, in the linux-phere because of the innovation AND the safeguards they bring to the users.”

ak2020 says “Although I don’t use Linux Mint myself, I’ve generally thought of their team to be fairly in-touch with their community. Having watched this video I agree Linux Mint are overreacting and taking away choice from their community by making it so hard to install snaps. I still think if they want to become independent of Ubuntu for whatever reason, first-off they should base directly on Debian, secondly, yes, why don’t they have their own infrastructure if they want that much independence and control?”

Ulfnic says “It’s like Debian and Mint both saying… “hey man, we’re cool letting you have this but we want you to take a few extra steps to make sure you understand this goes outside of the ethics you chose us for and we’re just making sure you really know” and in Mint’s case, that step is a single terminal command.”

Matt:

Gaming Deal Recommendation- Dreamfall Chapters (https://store.steampowered.com/app/237850/Dreamfall_Chapters/)
Weird Distro to try Ubuntu Unity Education edition (Not avaiable directly on site yet) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m0LjZDeY-4Cj3vJX8Ymqls14b3gQVHEt?usp=sharing)

Wendy:
More info in DL episode 89 Kernel Poppin’ on what I use and why.
Still thinking this section out.

Nate:
openSUSE Leap 15.2

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Host Contact Info
Matt (Twitter @MattDLN)
Wendy (DestinationLinux.Network)
Nate (cubiclenate.com)

21: EndeavourOS is not Arch, Learning Computer Programming, ARM and x86 Meet in the Middle | DLN Xtend May 28, 2020

Show notes

Thanks for joining us for episode 21 of DLN Xtend. Nate talks about designing a roll out pantry in Fusion 360 and Eric tests the virtues of virtual machines, virtual environments and containers.

We received some listener feedback from ThatComputerKid about how he feels EndeavourOS is not Arch.

We thank DigitalOcean for sponsoring DLN Xtend. DigitalOcean offers the simplest, most developer-friendly cloud platform. It's optimized to make managing and scaling apps easy with an intuitive API, multiple storage options, integrated firewalls, load balancers and so much more. You can get all this plus access to their world-class customer support for as low as $5 per month. DigitalOcean also has 2,000 cloud-agnostic tutorials to help you stay up to date with the latest open source software, languages, and frameworks. Get started on Digital Ocean for 2 Months FREE with a $100 credit by going to do.co/dln.

In the DLN Community segment, there was a post in the Destination Linux Network Discourse forum about learning computer programming, specifically which languages are worth learning. Eric ignores all that and focuses on the process of actually learning to code and how it's been a series of stops and starts for him.

In case you haven't heard, Linux++ is now on Front Page Linux. Linux++ is a weekly dive into the major topics, events, and headlines throughout the Linux world published by Eric Londo. Eric is an environmental engineer with a passion in software development, the open-source software community, and especially the GNU/Linux OS. His take on the events of the week are in-depth, concise and well researched. It's an excellent resource for all things Linux and Open Source and we highly recommend checking it out.

On Hardware Addicts episode 8 they discuss new AMD laptop processors featuring a lower TDP (thermal design power) which promises lower heat output and better battery life. This gets us thinking about the race to the middle that the ARM and x86 CPU architectures seem to be engaged in.

Also on Hardware Addicts episode 8, the topic of USB audio devices was discussed which led Nate to wonder if having a hardware solution for audio is a better choice than controlling things in software with the likes of PulseAudio.

That's all for this episode. Be sure to stop by DLN's Discourse, Telegram, Mumble and Discord servers to continue the discussion. More information about this show and other Destination Linux Network shows and creators (like Eric and Nate for example) is available at destinationlinux.network.

Until next time, see yas!

20: Testing Ubuntu, Deepin and EndeavourOS, Updating openSUSE, PinePhone Plunge, Right to Repair, Art of Troubleshooting | DLN Xtend Apr 22, 2020

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On DLN Xtend Episode 20, Eric tests some new distribution releases including Ubuntu 20.04, Deepin 20, and EndeavourOS. He also provides another thrilling update on the closet studio project. Nate talks about updating a very out of date copy of openSUSE and decides to take the plunge on the PinePhone.

Destination Linux had Vinzenz Vietzke of Tuxedo Computers as a guest who explained their stance on consumer's right to repair. We are firm believers in this right and delve into this as well as planned obsolescence common in many electronics.

The Destination Linux Network launched a new website recently called Front Page Linux. This is a news and commentary site focused on Linux, Open Source, community and more. Eric has already published several articles and Nate is planning to do so soon.

The Ask Noah Show recently discussed the art of troubleshooting and what's involved with being an effective problem solver. We touch on how troubleshooting has played a big part in our lives and how we are passing it on to our children.

That's all for this week. Be sure to stop by DLN's Discourse, Telegram, Mumble and Discord servers to continue the discussion. More information about this show and other Destination Linux Network shows and creators (like Eric and Nate for example) is available at destinationlinux.network.

Until next time, see yas!

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:40 Eric's Week - Ubuntu 20.04 Flavors, Deepin 20, EndeavourOS, Closet Studio Upgrade
00:22:46 Nate's Week - Updating openSUSE, PinePhone Plunge
00:33:43 DLN Xtend is sponsored by DigitalOcean
00:34:39 Right to Repair
00:49:06 Front Page Linux
00:53:40 The Art of Troubleshooting
01:08:17 Outro

19: OBS Plugins, Video Editors, Folding@Home, Limiting Internet Usage for Children, Linux Mint Debian Edition | DLN Xtend Apr 06, 2020

Show notes

Thanks for joining us. On DLN Xtend Episode 19, Nate spent time trying out some plugins for OBS Studio and Eric continues the hunt for the ideal video editor.

In our Listener Feedback segment, we have a follow up on Folding@Home.

We thank DigitalOcean for sponsoring DLN Xtend. DigitalOcean offers the simplest, most developer-friendly cloud platform. It’s optimized to make managing and scaling apps easy with an intuitive API, multiple storage options, integrated firewalls, load balancers and so much more. You can get all this plus access to their world-class customer support for as low as $5 per month. DigitalOcean also has 2,000 cloud-agnostic tutorials to help you stay up to date with the latest open source software, languages, and frameworks. Get started on Digital Ocean for 2 Months FREE with a $100 credit by going to do.co/dln.

Our Community Focus discusses ways to limit internet usage for children, particularly the focus on education and alternative activities.

On This Week in Linux, Michael covered the fourth edition of Linux Mint Debian Edition and we discuss using Debian as a desktop OS.

Until next time, see yas!

Chapters:

00:41 Nate's Week - OBS Plugins
08:57 Eric's Week - Video Editors
17:21 Listener Feedback - Folding@Home
19:11 DLN Xtend Sponsored by DIgitalOcean
20:16 Community Focus - Limiting Internet Usage for Children
27:35 This Week in Linux - Linux Mint Debian Edition
33:12 Outro

18: Home Studio, LeoCAD, LibreOffice Feedback, Folding@Home, Clonezilla Live | DLN Xtend Mar 23, 2020

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Welcome to DLN Xtend Episode 18. In this episode, Eric finds a new home studio/office space and Nate tells us about using LeoCAD with his kids. LeoCAD lets you design virtual models with LEGO® bricks.

On This Week in Linux, Michael mentioned Folding@Home as a way to help with COVID-19 research. They have a blog post describing what they are doing and how you can help.

Also on This Week in Linux, there is a new release of Clonezilla live, a partition and disk imaging/cloning program. We discuss the benefits of using this type of software to create full snapshots of disks and partitions.

Until next time, see yas!

Chapters:

00:42 Eric's Week - New Studio / Office
08:30 Nate's Week - LeoCAD
13:05 Listener Feedback - LibreOffice
17:02 This Week in Linux - Folding@Home
20:49 This Week in Linux - Clonezilla Live
27:44 Outro

17: FreeOffice, Kdenlive, AMD Vulnerability, Opensource.Builders, L4E Alan Pope Interview | DLN Xtend Mar 15, 2020

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On DLN Xtend Episode 17, Nate tests FreeOffice and Eric spends some time with Kdenlive.

Destination Linux talked about the open source document viewer KOReader which peaked Nate's interest and leads to a discussion on e-readers.

Ask Noah brings up the recent news of an AMD vulnerability discovered as part of a study funded by Intel and also the excellent Opensource.Builders website which showcases open source alternatives to common proprietary software.

Jason Evangelho of Linux for Everyone recently interviewed Alan Pope of Canonical and asked some interesting questions. We break down a few of the more interesting aspects of their conversation.

On the DasGeek YouTube channel, Ryan covered using the El Gato Streamdeck Mini with Linux which led Eric to wonder if there was a way to use a general-purpose tablet to do the same thing rather than buying dedicated hardware. Turns out, there is a very easy way to accomplish this with obs-websocket and OBS Tablet Remote. Thanks to Venn Stone of LinuxGameCast for the tutorial.

Until next time, see yas!

16: Ubuntu 20.04, KDE Plasma 5.18, Manjaro 19.0, Lispy Snake | DLN Xtend Mar 07, 2020

Show notes

Welcome to DLN Xtend Episode 16. Eric tests Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. Nate looks at KDE Plasma 5.18 and the Calligra office suite.

In this week's community focus, there was a great discussion on KDE Plasma 5.18 and we get the warm fuzzies from a comment in Telegram.

Stuart Langridge guest hosted on Destination Linux and their guest was Ikey Doherty discussing his latest project, Lispy Snake, an independent game studio.

On This Week in Linux, Michael Tunnell covered the Manjaro 19.0 release which I made a video about and also Facebook becoming a sponsor of the OBS Studio project.

Until next time, see yas!

Chapters:

00:51 Eric's Week - Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa
05:38 Nate's Week - KDE Plasma 5.18 and Calligra Office
14:38 DLN Xtend is Sponsored by DigitalOcean
15:34 Community Focus - KDE Plasma 5.18 Discussion and Warm Fuzzies
28:33 Destination Linux - Stuart Langridge and Ikey Doherty
36:35 This Week in Linux - Manjaro 19.0
44:41 This Week in Linux - Facebook Donates to OBS Studio
49:43 Outro

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