Late Night Linux – Episode 309

Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.

Discoveries

pup

8bitworkshop

20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2

BlinkenLights

European Alternatives

WisBlock Smart Cube Companion

Graham’s cubes

Joe’s battery test data

Tailscale

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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