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Distrohoppers' Digest
by Dale, and Eric
We are two Blokes who love Linux and trying out new stuff, we thought it would be interesting to share our experience of trying new Linux and BSD distributions and how we found it trying to live with them as our daily driver for up to a Month at a time, by recording a podcast about how we got on.
Episodes
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61 – Odyssey
In episode 61, Dale flies solo while Majid is away and shares a month of Linux tinkering—starting with an unsuccessful attempt to install PicaOS on a Dell Inspiron 13. He also highlights useful discoveries, including LuckyLUKS for quickly opening encrypted containers, XFCE’s Docklike Taskbar, and...
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60 – Elementary OS 8.1, and Void Linux Base ISO
In this episode of Distrohoppers’ Digest, Dale and Majid dig into two very different Linux experiences: the stripped-down, do-it-yourself world of Void Linux Base ISO and the sleek but opinionated desktop of elementary OS 8.1. Along the way, they also share what they’ve been tinkering with…
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59 – Pika OS, MX LInux Plasma, Dale’s Server Farm, and Waydroid
We reviewed Pika OS and MX Linux Plasma Edition. Dale tends to the server farm and Majid takes on Waydroid. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Full Show Transcript
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58 – Puppy, TrixiePup, grub, and QEMU
Jim from mintCast joins us to review Puppy Linux TrixiePup 64 Wayland. Along with Jim’s grub issue and Dale’s adventure with QEMU/KVM. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Show Transcript
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57 – CachyOS, and Arch, BTW
Majid reviews CachyOS, Bill from mintCast, and Linux OTC joins us to talk about Arch Linux. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Full Show Transcript
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Episode 56
In this episode Dale uses his iPad as a laptop and Majid fights with Windows 11 and bought a new to him Lenovo Chromebook. We review Ubuntu Budgie 25.10 and Pop!_OS 24.04 with the new Cosmic Desktop. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Show Transcript
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Episode 55
This episode was recorded on the 20th of December, 2025. For this show, we will be reviewing Ultramarine Linux Plasma Edition and Ghost BSD. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Full Transcript
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Episode 54
The pod is being rebooted. We discuss our activities during the past year. Our experiences with Fedora, LMDE6, Debian 13, and more. Link To Full Show Transcript
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Episode 53
This month Eric reviews Bluefin Project and Dale reviews Archman. In Monthly Foibles, Dale had a productive month setting up Nextcloud, Pi-Hole, Ubuntu Server, and various other systems, while Eric discusses his experience setting up a drawing tablet for his wife using a Dell Active Pen and…
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Episode 52
Welcome to Distrohppers’ Digest Episode 52. In Monthly Foibles, Dale recounts a month of balancing rest and productivity, from exploring Linux Mint’s Backup Tool to diving into Sway customization. Eric shares his quest for the perfect headphones for podcast editing. Updates cover Solus’ vibrant...
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Episode 51
On this episode we talk server upgrades, WiFi woes, Xebian and Fedora fails, and review BunsenLabs Linux Boron and KDE neon User Edition featuring the recently released KDE Plasma 6.
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Episode 50
Moss and Dale are back for another episode. This month we are reviewing Sparky Linux 7.2 OpenBox/E25, and Zorin OS 17 PRO. Updates Solus, Redcore, Slackel, DeBodhi 32- and 64-bit, Ubuntu Beautiful failures OpenMandriva 5 ROCK
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Episode 49
We took a break from our reviews to do a year in review. We reflect on our favorite distros, activities, and what we look forward to in 2024.
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Episode 48
Synopsis Distrohoppers' Digest Episode48 Introductions Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams Monthly Foibles Updates: Slackel 7.7, Budgie Desktop Beautiful Failures: Reviews: Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 “Faye” New Releases Feedback Announcements
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Episode 47
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. The Reviews this Month are: Bodhi 7.0.0, Garuda Sway, Manjaro 23 "Uranos" Cinnamon Edition
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Episode 46
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss blend OS, Bodhi 7, OpenMandriva ROME 5, Regolith, Pardus, LMDE 6 Beautiful Failures: Rhino Linux, PCLinuxOS The Reviews this Month are: Linux Lite 4.4, Rhino Linux 1, Lubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
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Episode 45
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” Beautiful Failures: Surprisingly none this month The Reviews this Month are: peppermintOS, blend OS v 3, Pop!_OS 22.04 Cinnamon
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Episode 44
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Bodhi 7, Mint 21.2, BlendOS 3, Debian 12. Beautiful Failures: Debian 12 LXQt, Polydock, NotesNook The Reviews this Month are: Debian 12 Cinnamon, Debian 12 Mate, Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon
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Episode 43
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Blend OS, Bodhi, Solus, Void, Debian and Xero Linux. Beautiful Failures: blend OS, Jelly Comb trackball, Void The Reviews this Month are: ArchCraft, Feren OS and Kubuntu 23.04
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Episode 42
This Month Moss and Dale are Joined by Eric our new host and discuss BigLinux, OpenMandriva, ROME, Slackel, FreeBSD, Void, Voyger, Ubuntu Budgie and Xubuntu in updates. Reviews are Elementary OS7, Zinc 22.04.2 and Fedora 37
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Episode 41
We review Endless OS 5.0, PCLinuxOS. Updates on Ubuntu 22.04.2, Bodhi 7 alpha5, Mint, Trisquel, Garuda, Bluestar, openSUSE, Redcore, Xero, StormOS, Debian, Solus. Beautiful Failures on, BlendOS
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Episode 40
We review, CachyOS, BigLinux. Updates on OM “ROME”, Void, Bluestar, Debian, OpenSuse, Netrunner, XeroLinux, Storm-OS, Voyager, Ubuntu Budgie, Pardus. Beautiful Failures on. BigLinux, Armbian. New Releases and Feedback.
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Episode 39
Welcome to Distrohopper’s Digest, Episode 039, recorded on January 3, 2023. For this episode, we will be reviewing wattOS R12, Q4OS, and Garuda. By the end of 2022, Distrohoppers’ Digest had been downloaded (and, we hope, listened to) almost 31,000 times, according to statistics kept at Archive…
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Episode 38
Moss and Dale are back reviewing StormD OS and Titan Linux
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Episode 37
Moss, Dale and Josh are back talking about their Linux journey over the last few weeks. This time they review Pardus 21.3, KDE Neon user Edition and TrueNAS SCALE
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Episode 36
Moss, Dale and Josh are back talking about their Linux journey over the last few weeks. This time they review Regolith, Peppermint and Drauger Linux Distributions
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Episode 35
Moss, Dale and Tony are back. In updates we talk of Mint, Debian, Ubuntu 22.04.1 and Ghost BSD. Reviews are Spiral Linux and Makulu Shift.
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Episode 34
Moss, Dale and Josh are Back. For this show, we reviewed Xubuntu 22.04, OpenMandriva Rolling LXQt, and Ubuntu 22.04 (Gnome).
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Episode 33
Moss, Dale and Josh are back with reviews of some of the Ubuntu 22.04 flavors. Unity, Cinnamon and Studio.
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Episode 32
Moss, Dale, Josh and Tony are back discussing Linux Distro's. This month it's Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE 5) and Smart OS. We also have our usual Monthly Foibles and Beautiful Failures and Updates on Distro's we have reviewed before.
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Episode 31
Moss, Tony et al are back discussing all our favorite Linux stuff from the last month. Reviews of Slackware 15, Zorin OS 16 Professional and Chimera OS
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Episode 30
Moss, Tony, Dale, and Josh are back this month to talk about what we have been up to and reviews of: Gecko 999 Gnome Rolling, Gecko 153 Budgie Static, and Deepin OS
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Episode 29
Moss, Tony, Dale and special Guest Josh discuss updates to Mint 20.3, Bodhi 6.1, Solus, XeroLinux, Redcore and Debian and review Voyager 21.10, Archo Linux and Fedora 35
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Episode 28
Moss, Tony, Dale and special Guest Josh discuss what has been the highlights of their Linux year in 2021
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Episode 27
Moss, Dale and Tony discuss what has been going on and review Storm OS and Feren OS 2021.10
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Episode 26
Moss Bliss, Tony Hughes and Dale Miracle are back Talking about Zorin 16, Sparky Linux 6 LXQt, KaOS/Elementary dual-booting, Reviews: Xero Linux, Sparky Linux 6 Mate
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We are two Blokes who love Linux and trying out new stuff, we thought it would be interesting to share our experience of trying new Linux and BSD distributions and how we found it trying to live with them as our daily driver for up to a Month at a time, by recording a podcast about how we got on.
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We are two Blokes who love Linux and trying out new stuff, we thought it would be interesting to share our experience of trying new Linux and BSD distributions and how we found it trying to live with them as our daily driver for up to a Month at a time, by recording a podcast about how we got on.
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