Linux After Dark

Dalton tells us about daily driving the Framework Laptop for the last 6 months.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

If you’re going to use proprietary software, why not just run it on a proprietary OS?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Where is the gate for the “Real Linux User”, and who’s keeping it?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Why Linux operating systems on small Arm devices almost all feel half-finished, and what we can do to improve things.   Links mentioned: Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi’s latest multi-distro demo image PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

At what point is the FOSS solution more hassle and time-consuming than it’s worth? We confess our various compromises with non-free hardware and software.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

What’s the best way to criticise FOSS projects?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

What we all want to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2022.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

What it’s really like to live with Fedora Silverblue on your main machine. The good, the bad, and why Dalton is still using it.   Kinoite London timezone bug Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite Distrobox, a way to use Toolboxes on other distros     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.  

What’s the ideal desktop Linux business model? As a loss-leader for your cloud offerings? Pay what you want? Bundled software? Hardware pre-installations? Something else?     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.  

Are distros like Fedora Silverblue with immutable filesystems the future of desktop Linux?   A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops Silverblue: pretty good family OS       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.