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

The 2 a.m. Rescue | LINUX Unplugged 627

10 August 2025

Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.

The Btrfs Blues | LINUX Unplugged 626

3 August 2025

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.

They're Doing it Wrong! | LINUX Unplugged 625

27 July 2025

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

Tiny PC, Huge Problems | LINUX Unplugged 624

20 July 2025

Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.

50 Days of Blue | LINUX Unplugged 623

13 July 2025

Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?

Omarchy Hits Different | LINUX Unplugged 622

6 July 2025

Developers are abandoning their Macs for a new frontier: Arch Linux with Hyprland. We dive into Omarchy, and the broader trend fueling it.

The Sunday Secret Sauce | LINUX Unplugged 621

29 June 2025

We're highlighting several stories and reviews that never made it into the show. From GrapheneOS trouble, Asahi updates, Framework's desktop reveal, Starlink's Linux magic, and more.

Brent Loves Building Things | LINUX Unplugged 620

22 June 2025

Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.

The Trouble with TUIs | LINUX Unplugged 619

15 June 2025

We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.

TUI Challenge Kickoff | LINUX Unplugged 618

8 June 2025

Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...

The Disposable Server | LINUX Unplugged 617

1 June 2025

Spin up, share, nuke. We each build a throwaway server, and then rate each others' setups.

From Boston to bootc | LINUX Unplugged 616

25 May 2025

Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What's luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.