Crowbar Kernel Panic
certainly entertaining and hopefully helpful we strive to cover the topics at the heart of the Linux gamer. From Proton to Vulkan, from Linux native to voiding the warranty. We discuss news and updates from the Linux community, our gaming habits and wanderings along with reviewing a game each week.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 71 minutes
- Episodes
- 58
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Episode 38: Planning a game with AI and struggling with the ARC A770
This episode was short prepped and spontaneous. It's been a little while since our last show and we've both had several life events holding us up from doing show prep. We didn't want to keep prolongi…
Episode 37: ARC A770 Graphics Card - What Linux Gamers Need to Know!
In this episode Josh and I both test out our new ARC A770 GPU, While it's not easily compatible with Linux just yet, this card has some exciting potential because of it's performance and cost.
We d…
Episode 36: Gaming on Debian or LMDE
linuxgaming #Debian #pcgaming
This week we review some news items we missed in the last few weeks as well as come to our conclusion on the Debian challenge.
Topic Links
Geforce RTX 4070
https://w…
Episode 35: Debian Cold Turkey
This episode we discuss the Mutalk, the new Proton, remembering Unity, Open Source Nvidia Vulkan driver, and would you believe Mozilla is changin the face of social media? We end the episode with our…
Episode 34: HDR on Linux and Debian Challenge
This episode was a bit of a recap of 2022 and a discussion of what we want to see in 2023. We discuss the exciting potential for true HDR on Proton and we plan our debian challenge for the beginning …
Episode 33: Two Linux Nerds Discuss The Game Awards
News Links
Adwaita for Steam - https://github.com/tkashkin/Adwaita-for-Steam
Linux Mint 21.1 Beta - https://blog.linuxmint.com
RDNA 3 is looking good compared in price - https://www.techradar.com/new…
Episode 32: AM5 PC build and Scalpers holding the bag
News
Scalpers are pissed bro - https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/341279-as-rtx-4080-scalpers-struggle-to-sell-their-cards-newegg-halts-refunds
Greg Salazar RIP Graphics Card Scalpers - https://youtu…
Episode 31: Fedora 37 is for lovers
We review this weeks news stories on the HOT topic of Nvidia cards, CAMM, and Intel ARC cards main lining kernel 6.2. After the news we cover Fedora 37 how well it's treating our workflow.
News link…
Episode 30: Retro Gaming, GPUs and Black Friday: Is it time to reinstate the CRT monitor?
linuxgaming #podcast #radeon
Our first live episode in a little while, we're going to talk about Josh's retro gaming setup and how Bo plans to max out his credit card on Black Friday.
In this episo…
Episode 29: EVGA and 90s era survival horror
This week we're talking the latest Nvidia news / progress on my game idea and how learning Unity is going / drawing inspiration from 90s Konami and Capcom
Episode 28: Stray discussions
We've been away for a little while to move and catch up on other life projects but we found the time to get together and record this discussion. Life has been busy but not so busy that we haven't pla…
Episode 27: We promise not to say F@d*ra
News
Linux 5.20 to support XP Pen Deco - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.20-XP-PEN-Deco-L
Selaco now has demo on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592280/Selaco/
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Episode 26: Nobara Project and The Stanley Parable
NEWS
Gnome new governance and other updates - https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/05/twig-43/
Nvidia moved many features behind firmware before opensourcing it’s kernel - https://www.pcgamer.com/nv…
Episode 25: Fedora 36 and Nvidia Open Source
It could literally be the apocalypse. Nvidia has a road map to fully open source the gpu driver by the end of year. Up next, flying pigs and a frozen purgatory!
Episode 24: 700 Mile Fedora Install
Josh drives down the east coast to visit me, we intended to install Fedora and review it but instead we played board games.
NEWS
https://9to5linux.com/proton-7-0-2-makes-more-games-playable-on-linu…
Episode 23: My Steam Deck finally came in!!!!
My Steam Deck finally came in and in this episode I review it in detail.
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News
- New version of edge mad…
Episode 22: The sound of prices dropping
This episode we have Steam Deck, NFT, GPU prices, Master Chief's face, and the Nobara Project!
Steam Next Fest Feb 21-28th
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
Still waiting to purchase my s…
Episode 21: Amazon Luna and Distro testing marathon
This episode we discuss the latest news of possible Activision Blizzard purchase, Amazon Luna testing, and which Linux distro is the easiest out of the box for game performance.
News
Humble Bundle …
Episode 19: Distro Tier List
00:00 - Intro
03:55 - Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
https://playwonderlands.2k.com
09:14 - Square-Enix suspends sales of ffxiv
https://www.techspot.com/news/92660-square-enix-suspends-sales-final-fantasy…