LINUX Unplugged

An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.

Your Hosts

Brent Gervais

Chris Fisher

Wes Payne

AI Under Your Control | LINUX Unplugged 551

25 February 2024

Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

Ready Player Linux | LINUX Unplugged 550

18 February 2024

Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

Will it Nixcloud? | LINUX Unplugged 549

11 February 2024

Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

Uncomfortable Linux Truths | LINUX Unplugged 548

4 February 2024

Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix?

Behind the Shelves | LINUX Unplugged 547

28 January 2024

Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.

What You’re Missing about NixOS | LINUX Unplugged 546

21 January 2024

Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.

3,062 Days Later | LINUX Unplugged 545

14 January 2024

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.

Half the Bits, Double the Pain | LINUX Unplugged 544

7 January 2024

This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers.

Profoundly Prophetic Prognostications | LINUX Unplugged 543

31 December 2023

We make our big Linux predictions for 2024, but first, we score how we did for 2023.

2023 Tuxies | LINUX Unplugged 542

24 December 2023

It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023.

Out with a Bang | LINUX Unplugged 541

17 December 2023

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter! Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

Uncensored AI on Linux | LINUX Unplugged 540

10 December 2023

We test two popular methods to run local language models on your Linux box. Then, we push the limits to see which language models will toe the line and which won't.