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We have some strong opinions about the state of openSUSE Tumbleweed. We've secretly been running it for the past week, and share our experience. Plus Microsoft's path to dominating the Linux desktop becomes clear.Sponsored By:Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labsSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming MarketshareValve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported.Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to."Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web.Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHubTaking FOSDEM online via Matrix — FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org.KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Released as the Last in the Series, Update Now — The Plasma-NetworkManager applet received a fix for an issue with the password entry jumping to different networks when searching for Wi-Fi networks.KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Environment to Ship with a New System Monitor App — The Plasma System Monitor app promises not only a fancier and modern user interface, but also a simpler way for monitoring system resources on your KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution.Get openSUSESDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE WikiNew Core Contributor Promo Code: 2021Planner — Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀.AUR (en) - elementary-plannerTuxies FeedbackTuxies Voting SuggestionFeedback: Gnome 40 Changes

A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about.Sponsored By:Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Linux Action News 166 The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7 The Linux Kernel’s Scheduler Apparently Causing Issues For Google Stadia Game Developers Torvalds’ Comments On Linux Scheduler Woes: “Pure Garbage” Thanks Oracle! New Patches Pending Can Reduce Linux Boot Times Up To ~49% Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020 Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories Linux Action News 163 New Linux Features, Timely Hardware Support & More Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw A KVM Virtualization bug on Intel Processors because of Unfinished Code Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, and Timely New Open-Source GPU Support Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform – Blog.CentOS.org 2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004 Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month KDE Saw Its Wayland Support Stabilize Nicely In 2020, Much Polishing Throughout KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features LINUX Unplugged 385: The 2020 Tuxies GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development GNOME OS Is Taking Shape But Its To Serve For Testing The Desktop GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME” GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released

Alex reveals the culmination of five years of work into the Perfect Media Server. And we respond to a ton of feedback.Sponsored By:CloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDLinode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshA Cloud Guru: Develop the skills you need to write effective, powerful scripts and create command line tools using Python 3.Support Self-HostedLinks:Perfect Media Server — Alex's new site for the Perfect Media server.Serverbuilds.netMkDocs — MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration fileTP-Link AV1000 Powerline Starter Kitgroceri.esASRock J5040-ITX — QuickSync supporting Intel Quad-Core Pentium Silver Processor J5040 (up to 3.2 GHz) Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo - Newegg.com

Services and subscriptions get a bad wrap, so we flip the script and talk about the ones we're grateful to pay for.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderA Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.Support Coder RadioLinks:Variety-slideshow — A pan-and-zoom image slideshow in Python, using Clutter. Integrates nicely with Variety.JÄRVFJÄLLET Gunnared beige, white, Office chair with armrests - IKEA — All bodies are different. JÄRVFJÄLLET swivel chair is designed so that you can adjust the headrest, lumbar support and the seat height and depth.SaaS we happily pay for — We try to run a lean operation at Mailbrew, but we are suckers for great tools that improve our daily workflows, so we pay for quite a few of them each month.Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 — In February 2020 nearly 65,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.

Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, and Neal Gompa.Sponsored By:Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labsSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:LINUX Unplugged 281: 2019 PredictionsLINUX Unplugged 334: Particularly Poor PredictionsLINUX Unplugged 335: Practically Perfect Predictions

Our annual predictions episode kicks off with a review of what we got right and wrong for 2020, and then we speculate wildly about what could happen in 2021.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Support Linux Action NewsLinks:2018 Review / 2019 Predictions: Linux Action News 862019 Review / 2020 Predictions: Linux Action News 139

Mike details his favorite python tools and his tricks for performance concerns. Plus a bunch of workspace improvment ideas, feedback, and more.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderA Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.Support Coder RadioLinks:Mechanical Keyboards Matrix ChatThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II — The ThinkPad TrackPoint II Keyboard translates the ThinkPad notebook’s iconic typing experience into a stand-alone device.Gooseneck Tablet Holder — Flexible Arm Clip Tablet Stand Bed Desk Mount Compatible with iPad Pro Mini Air, Galaxy Tabs and MorePortable Monitor — UPERFECT 15.6" 100% DCI-P3, 99% Adobe RGB, 500 Nits Brightness, FHD 1920x1080 IPS ScreenChris’ WFH Setup Pics on InstagramWelcome to FlaskFastAPI — FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for productionQt for Python | The official Python bindings for Qt — Qt for Python is the project that provides the official set of Python bindings (PySide2) that will supercharge your Python applications. While the Qt APIs are world renowned, there are more reasons why you should consider Qt for Python. The first official release of the PySide2 module is available now!Pylance - Visual Studio Marketplace — Pylance is an extension that works alongside Python in Visual Studio Code to provide performant language support. Under the hood, Pylance is powered by Pyright, Microsoft's static type checking tool. Using Pyright, Pylance has the ability to supercharge your Python IntelliSense experience with rich type information, helping you write better code faster.pylance-release: Documentation and issues for Pylancemicrosoft/pyright: Static type checker for Python — Pyright is a fast type checker meant for large Python source bases. It can run in a “watch” mode and performs fast incremental updates when files are modified.Jeremy Soller on Twitter — "I can no longer let things like this go. While System76 has been a part of the process, this should not be interpreted as consent to the new GNOME Shell design. We will do whatever possible to improve Pop!_OS UX even if it breaks significantly from GNOME's defaults." Carl Richell on Twitter — Yes, we were involved but our involvement had no impact on the design. Our design ethos and reading of the research differs. We raised our concerns and proposed a different design. We’re continuing our research and building prototypes.GNOME on Twitter — System76 was part of the entire process: setting up the research, doing polls, evaluating the results, suggesting changesKDE Architecture — Human Interface Guidelines documentationPlasma/Architecture - KDE Community Wiki

We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies. We've tallied the audince votes for the best open source projects, desktops, distros, editors, games, and much much more.Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Nate Graham.Sponsored By:Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labsSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Adventures in Linux and KDEDS920+ — Scalable NAS with SSD cache acceleration capability.find.synology.comSynology QuickConnect — Synology QuickConnect allows you to access your Synology NAS anytime, anywhere, from any device and browser, without having to set up port forwarding.All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows

Another Google project meets an untimely demise, but we find the silver lining. Plus new Matrix goodies, why AWS is investing in Blender, and more.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Google kills Android Things, its IoT OS, in January — Google announced it had basically given up on the project as a general-purpose IoT operating system in 2019, but now there's an official shutdown date thanks to a new FAQ page detailing the demise of the OS.Android Things Shutdown FAQRon Amadeo on Twitter — Oof, Google promised three years of updates when Android Things launched in May 2018, the actual support it delivered? One year, three months. Google, Qualcomm partner to bring 4 OS Android updates to new chipsets — The new plan is three years of major OS updates and four years of security updates. Qualcomm promises three years of Android updates for its entire SoC lineup Google acquires CloudReady OS to make PCs Chromebooks — Neverware lets you turn old PCs and Macs into Chromebook-esque devices through its CloudReady OS. While primarily aimed at schools and enterprises, a free “Home” edition for everyone is available. Google has now acquired Neverware and CloudReady with plans to integrate it with Chrome OS. Native Steam (Borealis) on Chrome OS likely arriving mid-2021 GTK 4.0 Officially Released After More Than 4 Years of Development — The GTK development officially released today the next generation of the GTK toolkit, GTK 4.0, after being in development for more than four years. GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released GTK 4.0 – GTK Development Blog Matrix.to: Reloaded — A challenge we regularly face is all the factors which make Matrix flexible and powerful as an open, secure decentralised protocol also increase the difficulty of getting started. Introducing Cerulean — Alongside all the normal business-as-usual Matrix stuff, we’ve found some time to do a mad science experiment over the last few weeks - to test the question: "Is it possible to build a serious Twitter-style decentralised microblogging app using Matrix?" Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play — Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages technology, known as AMP among web publishers, took a beating this week as an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Attorney General of Texas charged that the ad biz used AMP to hinder competition. I have resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee – Terence Eden’s Blog — I remain convinced that AMP is poorly implemented, hostile to the interests of both users and publishers, and a proprietary & unnecessary incursion into the open web. AWS joins the Blender Development Fund — AWS committed to a period of three years, specifically to support character animation tools development.

Chris discovers a networking miracle, Alex has been playing with electrics, and we review the Wyze Cam 3.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshCloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDA Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comSupport Self-HostedLinks:Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries — Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue. Pictures of Chris' new Server Cupboard — Just finished my new spot for networking equipment in my RV Lady Jupiter.Aeotec Multisensor 6 — 6-in-1 Z-Wave Plus MultiSensor: motion, humidity, temperature, light lux, UV, vibration sensor.TP-Link AV1000 Powerline Starter Kit — HomePlug AV2 Standard - high-speed data transfer rates of up to 1000 Mbps, supporting all your online needsPCI(e) Passthrough - Proxmox VE — PCI(e) passthrough is a mechanism to give a virtual machine control over a PCI device from the host. This can have some advantages over using virtualized hardware, for example lower latency, higher performance, or more features (e.g., offloading).Home Assistant Conference 2020 - Home Assistant — The Home Assistant Conference is an online event to celebrate the community. It’s where the Home Assistant community will share their ideas, creations and major milestones. The event will take place on December 13, 2020.Home Assistant Blue! — We challenged ourselves: what would the perfect home automation hub look like. Not just software, but also hardware and looks.Automate with Blueprints! — Say hello; to the major new feature of Home Assistant 2020.12: Blueprints!Latest Blueprints Exchange topics - Home Assistant CommunityWyze Cam v3iGD/GPU Passthrough with Intel - GPU HANG: ecode, hang on vecs0