Late Night Linux

We answer your questions including the last new distro we tried, what distro we’d switch to if ours went away, whether we should limit our computer use, our vision for the Linux desktop, and our unpopular Linux opinions.               Tailscale Tailscale is a modern, secure, zero-trust connectivity platform. Tailscale’s personal plan will be free forever for up to 6 users and unlimited devices! No credit card required. Go to tailscale.com/lnl to get started. If you’d like to bring Tailscale to work, use code latenightlinux for three free months of any paid plan.             Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Audacity’s new major release makes it more like a proper digital workstation, Debian finally gets off the genAI fence and disappoints some of us, California exempts Linux from terrible age verification laws, and Asahi boots on M3 Macs. With guest host Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.   News Audacity 4 Debian Votes To Allow “Responsible Use Of Generative AI” Results for LLM usage in Debian Retiring from the Project (vv221) California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3)                       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

KDE has a new proper LTS and Joe is very interested, the Steam Frame is (really) nearly here, the Epic Games Store is coming to Linux, Nintendo continues to play whack-a-mole with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s serious scaling issues are getting ridiculous.   News/discussion What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04 Kubuntu Focus, Techpaladin Software, and KDE e.V. Announce the ‘bullet-proof’ KDE Software Initiative New Frame welcome videos pushed to Steam Store assets Epic Games Store Will Support Linux “Soon” Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera! The August 17 GitHub outage, and the work ahead                 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news.   Plugs Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   9.5 years of good news Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report (May 2023) Asking for donations in Plasma (Aug 2024) I think the donation notification works (Dec 2024) Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions (Jun 2025) An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal (Jun 2025) GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” (Nov 2025) KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (Nov 2025) Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive (Sept 2018) KDE Linux Alpha has been released (Sept 2025) Introducing a new version of Steam Play (Aug 2018) Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022 Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve (Nov 2025) Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX (Jan 2026) Announcing WSL 2 (May 2019) How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide (Apr 2024) Linux has made it to Mars (Feb 2021) Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more (Jan 2024)                   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show tell Joe and Félim about bootc desktop Linux distros, how they build, deploy, and update them, and why this modern approach is so powerful. Plus another system information tool, cutting edge upscaling on the Steam Deck, and why Chris has switched to the KDE Plasma desktop.   Bootc desktops bootc Using Bootc to Manage Ubuntu Hosts ubuntu-summit-26-demo ubuntu-bootc  Mono repository for all bootcrew images How Steam Play/Proton makes Gaming on Linux Awesome   Discoveries HWall ProtonPlus KDE Plasma desktop             Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here