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The Linux Cast — 230 episodes

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Episode 238: The Hardware Episode with CubicleNate

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Episode 237: Defend Yourself! Defend the Indfensible

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Episode 236: What Is Your Worst Tech Purchase Ever?

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Episode 235: $1000 for a Steam Machine?

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Episode 234: The Wheel of Doom Challenge - Part 2

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Episode 233: The Wheel of Doom Challenge - Part 1

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Episode 232: The Show About Nothing

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Episode 231: Do You Have Unixporn Addiction?

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Episode 230: Our Biggest Linux HOT TAKES!

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Episode 229: Linux and the Era of Age Verification with The Linux Experiment

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Episode 228: Manjaro and LibreOffice Have DRAMA!

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Episode 227: Arch Linux in 2026 - Still Worth It? - With DistroTube

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Episode 226: Most Underrated Linux Tools 2026

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Episode 225: What Is the Hardest Thing You've Done on Linux?

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Episode 224: Zed Editor Review

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Episode 223: Note Taking Apps Tier List

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Episode 222: Should "Old Tech" Make a Comeback?

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Episode 221: Wayland Window Managers and More with TheBlackDon ​

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Episode 220: What Should be Default on Linux?

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Episode 219: How to Use Linux on Old Hardware

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Episode 218: 2026 Linux Prediction Show

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Episode 217: 2025 TUXIE Awards

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Episode 216: Ask Us Anything

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Episode 215: The Everything for Everybody Episode

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Episode 214: How to Be A Linux Nerd

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Episode 213: Will a Logo Save Firefox?

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Episode 212: Who Should Start a Home Lab? With RaidOwl ​

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Episode 211: Switching to Linux Is Hard - With ReluctantAnarchist

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Episode 210: Don't Let The Bad Guys Win!

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Episode 209: Tools We Use For Our Linux Setups with Tony BTW

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Episode 208: This Episode Was NOT AI Generated

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Episode 207: What Makes the Perfect Linux Setup?

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Episode 206: Gnome 49 Keeps Xorg?... Kinda

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Episode 205: Firefox is SAVED! Yay?

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Episode 204: If Linux Sucked, Would You Use Windows?

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Episode 203: My Distro is Better Than Your Distro with The Linux Experiment

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Episode 202: AI Browsers: Are They The Future? With @Distrotube

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Episode 201: Ranking The Best Window Managers of ALL TIME

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Episode 200: TLC Does the News Episode 3

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Episode 199: Will PewDiePie Hurt or Help Linux?

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Episode 198: Is Void Linux Good? - With Jake@Linux

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Episode 197: The State of Wayland in 2025 With ⁨Brodie Robertson⁩

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Episode 196: Best Beginners Linux Distro - Tier List

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Episode 195: How to Become a Linux YouTuber

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Episode 194: Is Suckless Software Really That Good?

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Episode 193: What Are Your Favorite Accessories?

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Episode 192: Wezterm Review - Your Next Terminal?

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Episode 191: Arco Linux is Dead

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Episode 190: Is Choice Actually A Bad Thing?

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Episode 189: Is Open Source Safer?

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Episode 188: What Would You Change About Your Setup?

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Episode 187: What Makes the Perfect Linux Distro?

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Episode 186: The End of Humanity?

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Episode 185: The Biggest Linux Myths

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Episode 184: The Best Tech YouTubers 2025

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Episode 183: We All Like Windows! (Clickbait, for Sure)

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Episode 182: The Flawed Nature of Flatpaks With Jorge Castro

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Episode 181: Our Favorite Ways of Being Lazy

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Episode 180: 2025 Linux Predictions

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Episode 179: The Last Episode of 2024! - The Game

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Episode 178: The 2024 Tuxie Awards - The Year's Best of the Best

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Episode 177: The Ultimate Showdown! Ubuntu vs Pop!OS vs Debian

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Episode 176: Is Linux Still Too Hard to Use?

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Episode 175: Looking Towards The Future

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Episode 174: What Was Your First Linux Experience?

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Episode 173: Nobara Linux Review

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Episode 172: How Do You Take Notes on Linux?

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Episode 171: Living in the Terminal

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Episode 170: Rockstar Hates Linux, Manjaro Goes Immutable, Nextcloud 9 - TLC Does the News

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Episode 169: Nextcloud is AWESOME! Here's Why

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Episode 168: Linux Things We Can't Live Without...

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Episode 167: Should Your Mom Use Linux?

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Episode 166: Why Can't Firefox Win the Browser Wars?

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Episode 165: Do We Really Need Cosmic Desktop?

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Episode 164: Can You Really De-Google Yourself?

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Episode 163: Our Favorite Linux Hacks 2024

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Episode 162: Is Linux Too Much Like Windows?

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Episode 161: Is Debian the Default LINUX Distro?

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Episode 160: What's That on Your Face?

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Episode 159: Do You Need a Home Lab?

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Episode 158: Is Linux Mint Really That Good? - Linux User Group 6/27/24

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Episode 157: Is Linux Really That Secure?

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Episode 156: How the Steam Deck Has Changed Linux

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Episode 155: Computers Should Get Smaller

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Episode 154: The Cure for Subscription Fatigue

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Episode 153: Is Ubuntu Still the Default Linux Distro?

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Episode 152: Color Scheme Tier List

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Episode 151: Should You Use systemd?

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Episode 150: What is the BEST Distro Logo? And More Questions!

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Episode 149: One Distro to Rule Them All?

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Episode 148: Why Do We Hop?

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Episode 147: Is Arch Linux Still a Good Distro?

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Episode 146: Linux Distro Tier List - Which Distro is at the Top?

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Episode 145: Content Creation on Linux - Good or Bad?

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Episode 144: NixOS - The Benefits of Being Different?

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Episode 143: 2024 Predictions

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Episode 142: Linux Horror Stories

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Episode 141: Making Linux Work Better?

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Episode 140: The Importance of the Manual

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Episode 139: A Containerized Future

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Episode 138: Is NixOS Overrated?

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Episode 137: Our Essential Apps - 2023

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Episode 136: GNOME VS KDE - FIGHT!

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Are Corporate Backed Distros Good?

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Episode 134: Wayland: Good or Bad?

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Episode 133: Shocker: Corporations Do Evil

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Episode 132: Is Linux Too Popular?

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Episode 131: Is Linux Really About Choice?

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Episode 130: Linux Mega Corp?

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Episode 129: Gnome Reinvents Itself

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Episode 128: Linux Rules the World?

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Episode 127: Ubuntu Goes Full Snap, Minimal Installs Blasted, and Solus 4.4

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Episode 126: More Red Hat Fallout, New Linux Kernel, More News

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Episode 125: What Is Going on With Redhat?

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Episode 124: Firefox Embraces Pipewire and Steam Makes Things WAY Better

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Episode 123: Crunchbang++ Challenge (and Many Tangents)

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Episode 122: Microsoft Linux? Fedora Kills Off LibreOffice and Ubuntu Has a New Project

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Episode 121: Microsoft Courts Firefox, 32 Bit Dies, and ASUS Comes for the Steam Deck!

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Episode 120: Fedora Going Wayland Only? - Mozilla Takes Over the Fediverse

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Episode 119: What's Wrong with Artificial Intelligence?

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Episode 118: Fedora 38 is Here, Solus is Back from the Dead, Microsoft Loves Steam?

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Episode 117: Red Hat Turns 30, Steam Deck is Popular, and More Linux News!

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Episode 116: Ubuntu Cinnamon is Official, KDE Has Updates, and April Fools

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Episode 115: New Ubuntu, Mozilla AI, and Gnome is good?

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Episode 114: Matt-Less (The Linux Cast - Season 7 Ep 8)

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Episode 113: Vanilla OS Ditches Ubuntu, Linus Takes Out the Trash, and Bad Steam Deck News

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Episode 112: Ubuntu Hates on Flatpaks, Linus Does Linus Things, and KDE Gets Better (again)

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Episode 111: Fedora 38 and Flathub, Logitech Nerfed, and Fedora on Mac

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Episode 110: KDE Plasma 6, Wayland XFCE, and Budgie 10.7

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Episode 109: Linux Foundation Metaverse, Wine 8, and EA Comes to the Steam Deck

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Episode 108: Fedora 38 Improves, Nvidia Does Its Thing, and Flatpak is #WINNING

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Episode 107: 2023 Linux Prediction Show

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Episode 106: New Steam Controller? KDE Tiling Window Manager? DEATH! To Google Maps

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Episode 105: Eufy Security Problems and Mozilla in the Metaverse

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Episode 104: Pop!OS Cosmic Desktop, Steam Deck is Winning, and Wins for the Fediverse

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Episode 103: Fedora 37 Delayed, Zorin OS 16.2, and Steam Deck is More Awesome

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Episode 102: Ubuntu Pro, Firefox View Sucks, and PaperDE

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Episode 101: Is The Linux Community Necessary?

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Episode 100: Why Do People Love AppImages So Much?

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Episode 99: Is The Command Line Still Relevant?

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Episode 98: Has The Steam Deck Been a Success?

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Episode 96: Is a Mac the Perfect Linux Machine?

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Episode 95: What's a Window Manager, Bro?

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Episode 94: Vanilla Arch vs Arch Based Distros

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Episode 93: Best Desktop Environment for Linux

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Episode 92: Is Linux Too Customizable?

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Episode 91: Are Containers the Future of Linux?

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Episode 90: Is Canonical Evil?

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Episode 89: Is the AUR Overrated?

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Episode 88: Do We Even Want Linux to Win?

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Episode 87: Best Window Manager for Beginners?

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Episode 86: Are There Too Many Distros?

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Episode 85: Is Electron Really All That Bad?

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Episode 84: Desktop Environment or Window Manager - Which is Better?

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Episode 83: The Right to Repair

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Episode 82: FOSS EVERYWHERE!

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Episode 81: Does Linux Need App Parity?

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Episode 80: Linux From Scratch?

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Episode 79: Linux Sucks And So Does Everything Else

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Episode 78: Should You Use a Firewall on Linux?

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Episode 77: Why is Rust So Popular?

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Episode 76: Is Gentoo The Future of Linux?

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Episode 75: Is Brave a Good Browser - Or Crypto Nonsense?

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Episode 74: Are Linux Users Toxic?

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Episode 73: Why is NVIDIA So Anti-Linux?

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Episode 72: Can KDE Beat Gnome?

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Episode 71: How to Switch To Linux (Best Practices)

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Episode 70: 6 Predictions for Linux in 2022

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Episode 69: Our Last Podcast...Of the Year

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Episode 68: Tickle My Nerd Gland

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Episode 67: Can Linux Be Better for New Users?

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Episode 66: Are Snaps the Future?

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Episode 65: Do You Know These 10 Rare Linux Apps?

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Episode 64: What's The Most Underrated Linux Distro?

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Episode 63: GitLab Challenge

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Episode 62: Our Favorite Apps and Color Schemes

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Episode 61: Linux Makes Everything Better

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Episode 60: Too Sexy For Your Distro

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Episode 59: Duplication of Effort on Linux - Good or Bad?

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Episode 58: Does Linux Have a Future?

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Episode 57: Is Native Linux Gaming Dead?

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Episode 56: 5 Things We Love About Linux, 5 Things We Hate

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Episode 55: Elementary Woes

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Episode 54: Bash Challenge - Matt VS Tyler

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Episode 53: Is Federated Social Media the Future?

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Episode 52: The Future of Gaming on Linux

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Episode 51: Is Telemetry Okay?

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Episode 50: Would You Use Windows if it Was Open Source?

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Episode 49: Why Isn't Linux Popular in the USA - Or Is It?

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Episode 48: Is ARM the Future of Computing?

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Episode 47: Is Pipewire Ready for Prime Time?

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Episode 46: Does Google Care About Linux Security?

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Episode 45: Does Linux Need Anti-Virus Software?

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Episode 44: Linux Mint VS Ubuntu - Which is Better for New Users?

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Episode 43: Are Automatic Updates Good for Linux?

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Episode 42: Can Firefox Be Relevant Again?

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Episode 41: Is Proprietary Software Bad for Linux?

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Episode 40: Retro Gaming on Linux

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Episode 38: Backing Up is Important - What are Your Options?

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Episode 37: The Issues With Linux Fragmentation

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Episode 36: Firewalls and Security on Linux

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Episode 35: GTK vs QT With a Side of the Browser Wars

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Episode 34: A Brief Look at Linux File Systems

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Episode 33: Are Themes Bad for Linux?

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Episode 32: End of Year Recap - 2020

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Episode 31: Is System76 Worth The Price?

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Episode 30: The Supposed Superiority of Arch Linux

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Episode 29: Should You Dual Boot?

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Episode 28: Linux Permissions are Dumb

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Episode 27: The Perils of Linux Elitism

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Episode 26: NVIDIA and ARM - Bad for Linux?

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Episode 23: WSL - Is it a Threat to Linux?

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Episode 22: AUR for the Win!

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Episode 21: Snaps - For Good or Evil?

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Episode 20: What Will it Take for Linux to go Mainstream?

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Episode 19: The Merits of Tiling Window Managers

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Episode 18: Pros and Cons of Ubuntu

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Episode 17: Is Dual Booting Dead?

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Episode 16: 5 Reasons to Use Arch Linux

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Episode 15: Elementary OS Review

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Episode 14: ZSH vs Fish for Noobs

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Episode 13: The Art of Theming (Podcast)

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Episode 12: An Overview of Ubuntu 18.04 (Podcast)

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Episode 11: The Pros and Cons of GNOME (Podcast)

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Episode 10: GTK vs QT (Podcast)

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Episode 9: Linux vs Windows (Podcast)

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Episode 8: Flatpacks vs Snaps (Podcast)

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Episode 6: Package Managers (Podcast)

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Episode 5: Manjaro Budgie Review (Podcast)

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Episode 4: The Linux Cast #4 – Why Hasn’t Linux Gone Mainstream?