Linux After Dark

Epizodes

• Linux After Dark – Episode 125 03.07.2026 26min

  Chris is struggling to decide which distro to install on his new work laptop, and he and Gary want to pick a new distro for the people they support. Plus Joe wonders what moving on from Xfce would look like.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 124 19.06.2026 8min

  The most precious machine in our stack of laptops and PCs, excluding anything we actually use regularly. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 123 05.06.2026 25min

  We revisit the topic of the dire situation with hardware prices, this time with a focus on getting the most out of machines with limited resources.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 122 22.05.2026 25min

  We all seem to be moving away from Ubuntu, but there are still quite a few reasons to keep using it.   WG Tunnel PiVPN Charlie’s OggCamp talk about infrastructure as code                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 121 08.05.2026 26min

  How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 120 24.04.2026 25min

  Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 119 10.04.2026 23min

  May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforward but finding the right laptop will be much harder.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 118 27.03.2026 25min

  We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 117 12.03.2026 21min

  May has actually been using her stack of laptops and learning that “legacy” distros make more sense, the Firefox flatpak performs better than other packages, Linux Mint is a fine distro, Linux has the best calculators, and GNOME’s scaling is really good now.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 116 27.02.2026 25min

  The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux?           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 115 13.02.2026 22min

  With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice?               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 114 30.01.2026 23min

  How do you convince people to stop using unethical technology like generative AI?             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 113 16.01.2026 23min

  We follow up on episode 104 from September last year when we promised to tackle some Linux projects including moving to Immich and Jellyfin, learning about Docker Compose and Python, and ditching Synology.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 112 02.01.2026 23min

  We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2025, and talk about what we want to happen in 2026.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 111 19.12.2025 7min

  We tell stories from some of the tech support nightmares we’ve found ourselves in. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 110 05.12.2025 22min

  Some of the Linux and open source tech from our past that inspired where we are today.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 109 21.11.2025 25min

  How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 108 07.11.2025 25min

  Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
• Linux After Dark – Episode 107 24.10.2025 22min

  We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What would we buy in this hypothetical situation? It turns out we all struggled to come up with anything and are pretty satisfied with the machines we already have.   Note that this episode was recorded before we found out that Framework supports problematic projects.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.    
• Linux After Dark – Episode 106 10.10.2025 25min

  Florian Beijers joins us again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.   Florian’s YouTube Channel Techy Twitch streams Accessible gaming Twitch streams fireborn’s blog posts about accessibility in Linux           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.