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Episode 179: Destination Linux 179: Ask Us Anything + Why Linux Gaming Should Matter to Everyone

Jun 24, 2020
01:28:57

https://destinationlinux.org/episode-179 - Hosted by Michael, Ryan & Noah

Coming up on this week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re covering community feedback, CentOS newest release, Windows Updates break again (does this mean more Linux users?), tips/tricks and our famous software pick, plus a very special ask us anything Q&A from our Discourse forums.

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Full Show Notes (for links and such)
https://destinationlinux.org/episode-179

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:53 Host Introductions
00:01:24 What Michael has been up to
00:03:45 What Noah has been up to
00:05:45 What Ryan has been up to
00:13:24 Sponsored by Digital Ocean ( https://do.co/dln )
00:14:34 Community Feedback: In Defense of Rolling Release by Nice Micro
00:15:21 Excerpts from Nice Micro's Video
00:18:15 Our Responses to Nice Micro
00:23:48 How To Send Us Community Feedback
00:23:58 CentOS 8.2 Released & Noah Explains Why This Is Important
00:25:11 Fedora getting updated Mesa drivers
00:25:19 Discussion: Is Red Hat becoming more focused on the Desktop?
00:35:41 Windows' Fresh Start Tool Breaking Windows
00:37:35 Discussion: Why we're talking about Windows & WSL
00:38:57 Discussion: Windows Users seem to never blame Windows even while aware of its problems
00:40:34 Michael's story about helping someone who said Linux was slow when comparing a Brand New Laptop to a 10 Year Old Laptop
00:42:34 Main Topic: Ask Us Anything from the DLN Forum
00:43:25 Q: Why doesn't Noah have a beard?
00:44:03 Q: Thoughts about Blender being used as a Video Editor?
00:49:34 Q: What's Your Favorite Guilty Pleasure Music or Movie?
00:51:14 Q: Do any of you listen to offline / local music?
00:52:03 Noah offers a simple way industries could eliminate piracy
00:54:24 Ryan's Answer to offline music (turns out he's a hipster lol)
00:56:08 Q: Microsoft buys Canonical what do you do?
00:56:36 Noah plays devil's advocate on Microsoft buying Canonical
00:59:55 "it's been this long since . . . "
01:00:08 Q: Which superhero would you be?
01:00:50 Q: Why did you make your own Network instead joining a network?
01:03:47 Q: Are there any Microsoft products you guys would actually prefer to use if it were available on linux?
01:05:10 What non-tech-related hobbies do you guys have?
01:05:37 How often does @dasgeek have to replace/refill the bottles behind his monitor?
01:06:20 Do you guys read fiction and if so what are some of your favorite books/series?
01:07:58 Q: you are given a choice for all of your computers to be completely replaced with Windows 8.0 or Linux Mint 19.3 on BTRFS?
01:09:26 Q: What old media-format would you bring back to have it somehow popularized today?
01:10:15 Noah's dream for a new media format
01:11:45 Gaming: System Shock Reboot
01:12:31 Michael tells his story about finding PC Gaming
01:13:36 Our response to viewers who skip the Gaming section and why you should care about Linux Gaming
01:19:26 Software Spotlight: Photopea (photoshop alternative webapp)
01:24:17 Tip of the Week: fzf (command line search)
01:26:04 Outro
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01:26:51 Join Us in the DLN Community (we gave Noah a silly script on this outro and it was totally gold!)
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01:28:24 the Journey Itself . . .
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