Episode 656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us

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We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander. Support Core Contributor Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS: Explain how to install the tailscale client on an immutable desktop OS xuars/kdelinux-tailscale: Tailscale install script for KDE Linux® Nix - KDE Community Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images. Nebula Commander DEMO Nebula Commander Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks. Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control : 7 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects! Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux. Launcher Studio on Flathub Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy

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