LINUX Unplugged
An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 631
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
631: Offline By Default
Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.
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630: Google's Garden Lockdown
Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.
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629: Arch Enemies
Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.
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628: Don't Call it a Christro
When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.
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627: The 2 a.m. Rescue
Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.
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626: The Btrfs Blues
A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.
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625: They're Doing it Wrong!
A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.
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624: Tiny PC, Huge Problems
Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.
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623: 50 Days of Blue
Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?
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622: Omarchy Hits Different
Developers are abandoning their Macs for a new frontier: Arch Linux with Hyprland. We dive into Omarchy, and the broader trend fueling it.
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621: The Sunday Secret Sauce
We're highlighting several stories and reviews that never made it into the show. From GrapheneOS trouble, Asahi updates, Framework's desktop reveal, Starlink's Linux magic, and more.
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620: Brent Loves Building Things
Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
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619: The Trouble with TUIs
We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.
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618: TUI Challenge Kickoff
Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...
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617: The Disposable Server
Spin up, share, nuke. We each build a throwaway server, and then rate each others' setups.
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616: From Boston to bootc
Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What's luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.
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615: 25.05 Reasons to NixOS
With NixOS 25.05 around the corner, we sit down with a release manager to unpack what's new, what's changing, and what's finally getting easier. Spoiler: it's not just the tooling.
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613: Packets, Power, and Paulus
We chat with the founder of Home Assistant and then fire up Brent's Linux-powered rig.
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